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Coached and advised CEOs of fast-growing Silicon Valley technology companies to increase product innovation, revenue and accelerate enterprise value. Led CEO forums and one-on-one sessions, leveraging individual and collective wisdom. Co-authored the Revenue Engine, a book to help CEOs drive sustainable growth through customer-centric, data-driven strategies. Built and provided access to a set of business decision frameworks tailored to company-specific leadership, strategy and execution.

Founded the first SaaS company to commercialize software development in the cloud to enable global enterprises to collaboratively develop and deliver software applications. Drove consistent growth while adjusting strategy, teams, products, and business models in response to changing market conditions. Led multiple strategic acquisitions, equity and debt rounds, ultimately growing to $70M of revenue and an exit to Vector Capital in January of 2014. Sold again to TPG in 2019.Pioneered innovative multi-channel approach including PLG SaaS and open source business models augmented by a Challenger oriented sales team and Global Systems Integrator Partnerships. Rolled out on-premise, privately managed, and public cloud implementations of CollabNet’s TeamForge platform. Founded open source Subversion, industry’s leading tool for software configuration management and its multi-million member developer community.

San Jose, California, Us

Executive Team MemberInvited by the Cadence CEO to transform the company from a functional product organization to focused, solutions-oriented business units. This shift improved business line strategy, product innovation, client satisfaction, and revenue growth, leading the company to record growth rates and revenues exceeding $1.2B.Senior VP of Custom IC BusinessLed multiple business units, fostered company collaboration, and partnered with strategic customers to drive innovation. Grew the IC Business Unit to over $500M, making it more than half of Cadence’s revenues and accounting for most of the overall corporate revenue growth and profit.Senior VP of Worldwide Consulting ServicesTransformed the organization by setting clear goals, plans, and new packaged service offerings, leveraging Cadence’s sales, marketing, and product assets. Achieved 25% annualized growth, with fully burdened margins nearing 20% and global revenues surpassing $350M.

Executive Staff Member and Board ParticipantResponsible for sales, strategy, marketing, business development, product definition, and channel partnerships. Key member of the turnaround team that transformed CCT from a 7-year-old, $7M revenue Printed Circuit Board Tools Company to a high-growth industry leader in the integrated circuit place and route tools market. Contributed to the S1 content, filing process, and IPO road show, leading to an IPO with annualized revenues exceeding $37M at exit.Strategic Partnerships and InvestmentsIdentified and negotiated a $10M investment and go-to-market partnership with Synopsys, as well as a research partnership with Synopsys and Sematech to fund and accelerate company execution. Established strategic Electronic Design Automation vendor relationships, culminating in the acquisition of CCT by Cadence Design Systems for over $440M.

Executive LeadershipLed strategy, sales, product, and services, propelling Zycad, a provider of special-purpose supercomputers for digital simulation of semiconductors and systems, to a successful IPO and revenues exceeding $50M.Global Sales and Services TeamsRecruited and trained global sales, technical, and services teams through IPO. Utilized “Challenger” business techniques to establish a strategic relationship with the Advanced Tactical Fighter Program Office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, transforming US weapon systems avionics development. Leveraged services contracts to found and grow Zycad’s professional services BU to over $20M in 3 years, achieving fully allocated margins exceeding 30%.

Leadership and vision led to the selection by General Instrument's President to act as the engineering lead on the executive management team to help test and deliver new semiconductor processes to the development organization. Designed chips across a range of applications and markets including embedded PMOS and NMOS flash memory devices and network controllers. Responsible for all aspects of high-level design and simulation, detailed design and layout, test pattern generation, final QA, testing and release.