All Web Leads is a fast-growing online lead generation company that provides sales leads to top insurance producers. Founded in 2005, the company has grown to a $100 million on the strength of its people and technology platform that together deliver the highest quality connections between insurance producers and consumers who are actively searching online for insurance products.All Web Leads has been named to the ABJ's "Fast 50" as one of the fastest growing companies in Austin for five years in a row. No other Austin company has accomplished this in the past five years.

Side by Side Kids is a faith-based, afterschool and mentoring program anchored in East Austin’s St. John community. We journey side-by-side with kids from kindergarten to high school, encouraging and equipping them to reach their highest God-given potential as everyday leaders and heroes of tomorrow.We have served in the St. John community, one of the poorest in Austin, TX, for more than 10 years. We are supported by area churches and caring partners that offer time and resources to people who need to know the love of God expressed in tangible ways.

Acquired by Quest Software in 2010, Surgient was the market leader in private cloud automation.Surgient was the visionary behind the movement to private cloud and virtual machine management beginning in 2003 and introduced some of the first virtualization applications to the market.

Served as a director from 2000 until 2006. SoloMio was acquired by Openwave Systems, Inc. in December, 2006.

Served as a member of the Thayer School Board of Overseers. Founded in 1867 by Dartmouth alumnus Sylvanus Thayer, Thayer School is one of the country's oldest professional schools of engineering. General Thayer believed that engineering in the context of a liberal arts education could provide the single best preparation for addressing the world's problems. This wisdom remains at the core of Thayer School's educational mission.

(Acquired by OpenText June 2009)Vignette was the leading provider of content management applications. By combining content management with integration and analysis applications, Vignette enabled organizations to deliver personalized information wherever it is needed, integrate online and enterprise systems and provide real-time analysis of the on-line customer experience. Vignette grew from $3.5 million in 1997 to $16 million in 1998, $89 million in 1999, and $367 million in 2000, making it one of the fastest growing software companies in history. During that time, Vignette's customer base grew from 150 to 1,400. Vignette's growth was fueled in part by a series of four acquisitions between 1999 and 2000, including the acquisition of OnDisplay for $1.7 billion in mid-2000.From 2000-2002, conceived, created, and led organization to deliver packaged business applications utilizing Vignette's content management and personalization engines, delivering three packaged business applications to the market within first year.From 1998-2000, led technology, product, and corporate strategy functions and was responsible for conceiving and bringing to market all new Vignette products, including building the teams to do so. Briefed large shareholders and analysts at investment banks as chief strategy executive. Responsible for product marketing, product management, and engineering for all of Vignette's products. During this period, Vignette's product portfolio grew from two to fourteen and total products group headcount grew to 700+. Also responsible for business development and product strategy - conceived and executed on four acquisitions (Diffusion, DataSage, Engine 5, and OnDisplay) and numerous significant relationships with partners (IBM, Sun, BEA, Rational, etc.). During this time, Vignette had a wildly successful IPO.

Wallop was an internet software company focused on providing software and service solutions to businesses creating and managing complex web sites. Wallop was named to Upside's "Hot 100 Private Companies" in April of 1998 and as the "Best Short-term Potential" by Red Herring in December, 1997. Wallop was acquired by IBM in 1998 and Wallop's product became IBM's WebSphere Studio - WebSphere's integrated development environment for web-based applications.; With co-founder, conceived and implemented Wallop's business plan, including raising private funds and venture capital from both Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.Built organization from 0 to 100+ professionals, successfully recruiting technical, marketing, and sales professionals in an aggressively competitive environment. Secured first two enterprise-wide licensing deals from Fortune 500 customers.

Datis was a venture-funded, high growth company providing information products and services to the health care industry. Revenues grew from $200K to $12 million annual run rate in six years.Developed and implemented successful business model that facilitated national expansion of client base from 200 to 1500 general, acute care hospitals. Built organization from 10 to 150+ professionals, successfully partnering with entrepreneurial founder and CEO. Datis was acquired by a public company

Mozart Systems was a sub-chapter S corporation developing PC-based middleware products for the PC-to-mainframe connectivity and application "facelift" markets. (NOTE: In 2000, Mozart was acquired by SAIC, a large public government-focused systems integrator.); Responsible for all sales and marketing, including all revenue generation, direct/indirect sales channels, marketing programs, and customer support operations.Grew revenues from $0 to $1,000,000 annual run rate in 18 months.

Oracle is the second largest software company in the U.S. and is the leading supplier of relational database management system software worldwide. Oracle experienced a very successful IPO in 1986.Grew OEM business from $0.5 million to $7.5 million annual run rate (200+ % annual growth). Successfully closed largest single ORACLE RDBMS product sale in the corporation's history (1800+ licenses - US Army MINIS Project). Consistently ranked in top 10% of sales organization based on quota achievement.

Fortune Systems developed and marketed the first multi-user UNIX desktop systems. After initial success, including an IPO in 1983, an Alabama-based systems company (SCI) acquired the company in 1986.Directed worldwide quality operations for all Fortune Systems hardware and software products, improving product quality levels nine-fold. Responsible for turn around at several major accounts (Ford Motor, Bell Atlantic) based on personal intervention with key customer contacts.

During the '80's, Verbatim was the leading manufacturer of floppy disk magnetic media products for the computer industry. Verbatim was acquired by Eastman Kodak in 1985.

Polaroid invented the instant photography business. During the late '70's, Polaroid was growing very rapidly and had an active college recruiting program at most of the Ivy League colleges. Recruited by Polaroid for entry level position in high volume automated assembly operation for manufacturing Polaroid's SX-70 film. Quickly rose from engineer to supervisor; recruited, hired, and trained 35 employees.