Angus Macdonald Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

United States

Platform as a Service for embedding real-time communications in applications. Makes it simple for devs to incorporate rich engagement into their apps. Huge demand from app devs in healthcare, financial services, customer care, social media and gaming.

Palo Alto, CA

Leading provider of IOT solutions for Global Carriers and Logistics. Advising on business strategy, funding and alliances.

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for leading Guavus' IOT Business Unit.Guavus is the leading provider of Big Data Analytics and Operational Intelligence for Telecoms service providers around the world.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Software Company focused on building a product to improve data center and enterprise infrastructure efficiency leveraging unique technology developed for applying real-time, event driven, analytics to Big.
• With product Beta release, 5 paid Proof-of-Concept projects with $MM upside
• Drove new enterprise marquee customer deals in manufacturing, financial services and energy
• Identified and validated $5B target market potential for new solution offering
• Delivering 9, paid and unpaid, POC projects to G1000 corporations, 80% of which progressed to request proposals for full solutions by building highly effective engagement team
• Recruited leading integrators to invest resources to build solutions based on Starview

San Francisco Bay Area

• Semiconductor industry Professional Services and Custom Software development company specializing in High Speed Data Analytics and Control Systems. Venture funded by Softbank.Reported to CEO. Chartered to build revenue.
• $MM Services Agreements. Additionally sold 2 paid POC projects in 2 new vertical markets.
• Built multiple project teams delivering mission critical solutions to customers in US, Asia and Europe.
• Stopped a customer engagement which could not deliver revenue.
• Defined requirements set and scheduling solution that could be sold repeatedly into Semiconductor industry selling 2 deals to build solution prototypes.

• Chain of Custody of documentation Software solution targeting Financial Services firms regulatory requirements. Recruited by Founder. Company had invested heavily in developing innovative technology, but lacked a clear.
• Raised first round of funding from a leading hedge fund
• In 1st 6-months after product release, booked license revenue from 3 Financial institutions, and secured a POC project with a 4th.
• Hired Executives with deep domain expertise for Product Engineering, Solution Deployment and Sales.
• Negotiated an LOI for the acquisition of the Company.

Greater San Diego Area

• eBay for news organizations. Used by news and content companies to monetize media assets beyond their local markets (e.g., stories about Elvis in Las Vegas that are now available to other publishers around the.
• Secured $MM strategic customer, and used customer funding to develop market leading solution
• Hired a team of 15 Engineering, Sales and Support personnel

• Enterprise middleware software. Spun off from Reuters in 1997, IPO in 1999. Now over $1B in revenue. Multiple roles: Product Management, Project Management, Direct & Channel Sales, Business DevelopmentHired into team.
• Reorganized failing customer project; increased deal size by 100% and successfully delivered on scope.
• Top direct Sales Exec for 2-years running, also built highly profitable Channel Sales force.
• Launched BusinessWorks – industry leading Process Automation tool.
• Built Business Development organization, increased effectiveness of Sales team.

San Francisco Bay Area

Consilium (acquired by Applied Materials) provided a MES (Manufacturing Execution System) Software package used by Semiconductor, Electronics and Pharmaceutical companies to manage their Manufacturing operations. Manufacturing ConsultantHired into Consilium because of Semiconductor Manufacturing experience. While working on my Ph.D. I had gained extensive.

Ph.D., Microelectronics

Awarded Paper of the Year from the IEEE for the paper published in the journal 'IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing'.

Software Product Marketing & Management

Bsc Hons, Electronics And Electrical Engineering