Creator and co-lecturer of "Startup Academy" -- and executive education class.

Member of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard - LISH - team. Serving as an advisor, meeting with student entrepreneurs and collaborating with faculty and laboratory members on events, cases, courses, research, and other activities. Organised the "AI in the Enterprise" monthly web conferences and taught the "Startups & Advisors" seminar series.

The trusted authority in software and file security.

A world-leader in data labeling and advisory services for AI projects.

FiVerity provides consumer lending institutions with cyber fraud defense to combat a dangerous and growing threat - the convergence of fraud-related theft with sophisticated, high-volume cyber-attacks. To identify these evolving threats, FiVerity combines machine learning with the expertise of each institution’s fraud analysts. FiVerity’s Cyber Fraud Network further strengthens each user’s defense by responding to fraudulent activity detected throughout the company’s partnerships with banks, credit unions, regulators and law enforcement agencies.

FiVerity provides consumer lending institutions with cyber fraud defense to combat a dangerous and growing threat - the convergence of fraud-related theft with sophisticated, high-volume cyber-attacks. To identify these evolving threats, FiVerity combines machine learning with the expertise of each institution’s fraud analysts. FiVerity’s Cyber Fraud Network further strengthens each user’s defense by responding to fraudulent activity detected throughout the company’s partnerships with banks, credit unions, regulators and law enforcement agencies.

SWIRL develops and markets SWIRL AI Connect - secure, cross-silo Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) infrastructure software that uses data from internal enterprise data platforms, generative AIs, SaaS applications and information services without the need to first relocate all of it. For more information, visit https://swirlaiconnect.com.

Dowsers (www.dowsers.finance) builds trust in digital assets by offering advanced cybersecurity solutions specifically designed for cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and smart contracts.

iCustomer is a company specializing in Decision Intelligence to enhance go-to-market (GTM) strategies by offering solutions in audience targeting, marketing analytics, data quality, RevOps orchestration, and customer 360 views, all designed to drive sustainable growth.

Stynt is an innovative, technology driven healthcare staffing platform. It is a marketplace that enables clinicians and hiring facilities to connect and transact directly without a staffing agency. Stynt simplifies healthcare staffing and credentialing by replacing antiquated methods with an elegant and efficient process. The platform, makes staffing quick, transparent, and substantially less expensive.

StormForge, formerly Carbon Relay, brings together world-class data scientists and software engineers to enable businesses to drive breakthrough IT and operations efficiency. The StormForge Platform is set apart by its unwavering focus on building AI-powered software products that are designed to help people, not replace them. The Platform is built to help DevOps teams release with confidence and IT leaders to realize the promise of cloud-native – faster innovation with higher quality, resiliency, scalability, and efficiency.

Prescient Devices empowers enterprises to build sensor-to-cloud digital twins using IoT, edge computing and machine learning. The company's low-code distributed design automation platform is based on an agile development model that provides remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, and performance optimizations for physical products and processes.

Boston-based Mendoza Ventures invests in early stage AI, FinTech, and Cybersecurity companies that are targets for early acquisition. Mendoza Ventures is minority and women owned.

A venture-backed student funding platform that offers an end-to-end platform for outcomes-driven funding (e.g., ISAs, DTAs) across higher education and upskilling / reskilling programs.

A material science company that develops and sells thin and thick dry film for the semiconductor, MEMS, microfluidics and other industries.

A material science company that develops and sells thin and thick dry film for the semiconductor, MEMS, microfluidics and other industries.

Taught classes during summer term on entrepreneurship, leadership, marketing and startup finance.

An all-in-one property, location, and spatial information solution for governments.

Wabbi's Secure DevOps platform enables application security programs to scale across software development teams, to deliver more secure code without sacrificing agility or velocity. Recognized as a 2021 RSA Innovation Sandbox finalist.

Provides seed funding for student-initiated entrepreneurship ideas, mentoring from within MIT and a broad network of committed partners.

MIT Venture Mentoring Service http://vms.mit.edu/

Acquired by Terminus. A cognitive customer Intelligence platform that helps omni-channel marketers to clean, combine and automate data and produces metrics. As a MIT technology spinout the Company uses deep-learning to produce real time insights and integrates with your marketing automation systems to produce truly cognitive results.

TechCXO is a professional services firm that provides experienced, C-Suite professionals that deliver strategic and functional consulting services for technology companies.

Founding Date: December 27, 2002. Sole Founder. Served as the company's CEO for its first seven years. Created the company's first and subsequent business and technology plans and brand Black Duck; architected and managed software development and product management; initially self-financed the company and later, in conjunction with VC, through multiple rounds. The company was acquired by Synopsys in December 2017.

Served on the Board of Directors from inception through 2012.

Served as the company's CEO from inception through September 2009. Awarded "CEO of the Year" in 2007 by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. Today over 2000 organizations worldwide trust Black Duck to secure and manage open source software in their applications and containers. The company was acquired by Synopsys for $565 million in December 2017 - the 4th largest acquisition among Boston area companies in 2017.

IPO: October 2014

MassVentures is a venture capital firm focused on expanding the Massachusetts innovation economy by funding early-stage, high-growth Massachusetts startups as they move from concept to commercialization.

Part time startup advisor in residence at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. Instructor of popular IAP course "Viral Marketing".

Enomaly, founded in 2004, developed a virtualization and cloud computing management platform. Acquired by VirtuStream in 2012 and subsequently, EMC, in July 2015.

An interactive entertainment software company that developed, publisheed, and distributeed social games for Facebook.

Provides open source enterprise search application built with Apache Solr and Apache Lucene with website search strategies. I was responsible for company startup, product launch, initial fundraising, BOA and BOD formation, etc.

Acquired by NMS Communications (2002)Responsible for the company's strategic direction and day-to-day management of all departments. (Assumed position by request of the company's Board and venture capitalists). Also, served as a member of the Board of Directors.

Responsible for the day-to-day operations of business development, sales, marketing, product management and finance.

Acquired by Progress Software (2000)Responsible for day-to-day management of the company - except for engineering - and determining the long-term business strategy of the company. Served on the Board of Directors.

Acquired by Progress Software (2000).Formulated and executed the first business plan, established first partnerships and customers, and managed marketing, hiring, finance and ASP operations. Served on the Board of Directors.

Founder and President of a management consulting firm that provided strategic, business and technical assistance for a wide variety of startups, emerging companies and establised companies needing redirection. Created new business models, identified new markets, formulated strategy and assisted in the financing of these businesses, and performed a wide variety of business development activities, often as an interim executive.

Set strategy and managed corporate sales force of 65 sales managers, representatives, systems engineers and multiple marketing groups for Microsoft Germany (Munich, Germany)

Head of corporate licensing initiatives for Microsoft's (non-OEM products). Established the Enterprise & Vertical Marketing and Enterprise Licensing Groups and managed 14 marketing managers and other personnel (Redmond).

Managed a team of 12 representatives and engineers and carried a $14 million quota based on sales of the Microsoft Office Suite (Los Angeles).

Responsible for all field level activities related to the introduction and product management (including field engineering) of Excel for Windows 1.0, Windows 3.0, OS/2 1.0 and Word for Windows 1.0 in the US southwest (Los Angeles & Redmond).

Western regional sales manager. Ninth employee of the company. First sales guy hired and last one let go by the company before the company closed.

Responsible for multiple accounts, including ITT Printers, AT&T, and several small software companies.

Third party vendor on the Macintosh Development Team. Responsible for all operations of the company including finance, accounting, sales, marketing, inventory and production.

Built micro-economic models for Fortune 500 companies considering investments in Puerto Rico.