We help governments and commercial partners transform how they use energy. As trusted advocates, eliminating technology & vendor bias in favor of doing what is technically and commercially sensible is everything. Morris Chang wisely said "Without strategy, execution is aimless. Without execution, strategy is useless." We take this to heart.

In Aotearoa New Zealand, I serve the indigenous Māori Iwi (tribes) in them leading the development of Green Hydrogen market opportunities and facilitating the broader transition to a regenerative society and economy. I have been a key contributor to the conceptualization and founding of Murihiku Regeneration and its ongoing success. Moving forward, I am dedicated to supporting the Antarctic Treaty and the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources CCAMLR… Show more In Aotearoa New Zealand, I serve the indigenous Māori Iwi (tribes) in them leading the development of Green Hydrogen market opportunities and facilitating the broader transition to a regenerative society and economy. I have been a key contributor to the conceptualization and founding of Murihiku Regeneration and its ongoing success. Moving forward, I am dedicated to supporting the Antarctic Treaty and the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources CCAMLR, ensuring that Antarctica is used solely for peaceful purposes, and that the Southern Ocean is effectively protected. Murihiku Regeneration’s Southern Ocean - Murihiku ki te Tonga initiative, the first indigenous-led scientific expeditions to Antarctica, focuses on understanding, protecting, and sustainably managing the Southern Ocean, from Murihiku to Antarctica, and aligns with the goals of the Antarctic Treaty and CCAMLR. Show less

Accelerating economic evolution to regenerate people and planet

Nori is a blockchain-based marketplace to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The NORI token works as a medium of exchange for Carbon Removal Certificates (CRCs).

Special Advisor to the Clean Energy Moonshot in US, charged with also evangelizing the Moonshot in Oceania and Asia Pacific and charged with bringing whole-system vision and leadership to creating joint social ventures to share and scale the Academy’s thought leadership and relationships in accelerating the adoption of a Zero Carbon Economy. See http://worldbusiness.org/bob-beth/

Mission: Catalyzing Cross Sector Transformation and Inspiring Personal Mastery.Interspersed along with my own startups, I have helped colleagues with key initiatives in their companies, ranging from turning around failed development projects to defining market position and strategy and much more. Highlights are broken out in their own sections below.

The Charter for Compassion was born when Karen Armstrong received the TEDPrize in 2008 and was incubated within TED. In 2012, we moved the Charter into its own non-profit. I was responsible for collaboratively envisioning and implementing creative, inventive, yet lean and pragmatic, uses of technology and social media to rapidly scale and evolve an emergent global network or movement consisting of everyday people committed to learning to practice compassionate action and to sharing their… Show more The Charter for Compassion was born when Karen Armstrong received the TEDPrize in 2008 and was incubated within TED. In 2012, we moved the Charter into its own non-profit. I was responsible for collaboratively envisioning and implementing creative, inventive, yet lean and pragmatic, uses of technology and social media to rapidly scale and evolve an emergent global network or movement consisting of everyday people committed to learning to practice compassionate action and to sharing their stories. Show less

The mission of TimeToArise is to Inspire Happiness by quieting the mind through bringing spiritual wisdom and practices to the digital age via the accessibility and flexibility of mobile devices. We've developed a platform and content management system that enables us to rapidly generate a new iPhone app once the content for it has been curated and voiced.We've released two iPhone apps: the Don't Sweat Meditation app based on the Don't Sweat the Small Stuff book series, a… Show more The mission of TimeToArise is to Inspire Happiness by quieting the mind through bringing spiritual wisdom and practices to the digital age via the accessibility and flexibility of mobile devices. We've developed a platform and content management system that enables us to rapidly generate a new iPhone app once the content for it has been curated and voiced.We've released two iPhone apps: the Don't Sweat Meditation app based on the Don't Sweat the Small Stuff book series, a publishing phenomenon selling over 25 million books, and the iEleven app based on the Twelve Step program's Big Book. Show less

On behalf of incoming President of CloudShield, led executive team workshop to align organizational mission, values, shared and individual vision and goals for the new leadership team. Working directly with CTO and product visionary, drafted key white papers to communicate his key, unique insights and vision surrounding Cybersecurity in words and metaphors more understandable to the general C-level audience as well as technical C-level audience.Lead product vision workshop for Big Data… Show more On behalf of incoming President of CloudShield, led executive team workshop to align organizational mission, values, shared and individual vision and goals for the new leadership team. Working directly with CTO and product visionary, drafted key white papers to communicate his key, unique insights and vision surrounding Cybersecurity in words and metaphors more understandable to the general C-level audience as well as technical C-level audience.Lead product vision workshop for Big Data applied to Cybersecurity to achieve alignment of vision for team from different business units and geographies who arrived with divergent agendas. Follow-up included rapidly drafting key product definition statement and brochure for use in whisper suite with C-level customer prospects at annual RSA trade show. Show less

Led the Competitive Analysis initiative designed to explore and evaluate the desirability and operational feasibility of competing in a market containing the fastest growing company ever - Groupon. The initiative involved "screen scraping" to obtain up-to-the-hour snapshots of how the leading competitors' deals performed, collecting this raw information in the data warehouse, and then internally publishing the digested information in a cloud-based, rapid development environment in simple form… Show more Led the Competitive Analysis initiative designed to explore and evaluate the desirability and operational feasibility of competing in a market containing the fastest growing company ever - Groupon. The initiative involved "screen scraping" to obtain up-to-the-hour snapshots of how the leading competitors' deals performed, collecting this raw information in the data warehouse, and then internally publishing the digested information in a cloud-based, rapid development environment in simple form useable by the sales and work flow team. Acted as the individual in the company who represented the viewpoint of the local merchant customers, making sure their needs were considered and addressed, often needing to take a contrarian, yet constructive position relative to the internal company viewpoint. Show less

Mission: To connect people across time and space through easy and compelling personal storytelling.Co-conceived breakthrough simplification in creating "instant videos", a video-like user experience with high production values, yet easy and quick to create and edit / evolve. Led formal organizing of company, recruiting highly talented global team, raising outside seed capital in US and Australia. Identified entry market segment in residential real estate, and led successful… Show more Mission: To connect people across time and space through easy and compelling personal storytelling.Co-conceived breakthrough simplification in creating "instant videos", a video-like user experience with high production values, yet easy and quick to create and edit / evolve. Led formal organizing of company, recruiting highly talented global team, raising outside seed capital in US and Australia. Identified entry market segment in residential real estate, and led successful initial market traction. Show less

Acted at turn-around CTO for Internet startup, which had lost a year and US $ 1 million working with a respected national web application development firm. Rapidly and successfully achieved product launch in time for huge annual trade show. Recruited star VP Engineering and star team of developers.Led development of web application that enabled national retailers to better understand their customer demographics and psychographics via Claritas PRIZM segmentation system in order to… Show more Acted at turn-around CTO for Internet startup, which had lost a year and US $ 1 million working with a respected national web application development firm. Rapidly and successfully achieved product launch in time for huge annual trade show. Recruited star VP Engineering and star team of developers.Led development of web application that enabled national retailers to better understand their customer demographics and psychographics via Claritas PRIZM segmentation system in order to select optimized locations for new stores. Our group suppled Apple with suggested locations for their then emergent retail strategy based on understanding their customers via their warranty card information, since at the time Apple did not have a direct relationship with its customers. Show less

In parallel with separate west coast-based CTO role, for east coast-based old line textile manufacturing and distribution company, led enterprise application selection process resulting in on-time and successful implementation of SAP to replace 1980's era custom applications.

As part of licensing the Proponent intellectual property and knowledge transfer, led the team to utilize the software in key software building engagements including convergent billing system for EchoStar. Led the team that ported the software to OpenStep.

After over 15 years of hands-on and executive experience in enterprise application development and after a several month sabbatical reflecting on how to dramatically improve the challenging process of application development, I conceived the product vision for what became Proponent.Steve Jobs had just introduced the extraordinary NeXT computer, and more importantly introduced the first platform for scalable object-oriented programming connected to relational database servers.For… Show more After over 15 years of hands-on and executive experience in enterprise application development and after a several month sabbatical reflecting on how to dramatically improve the challenging process of application development, I conceived the product vision for what became Proponent.Steve Jobs had just introduced the extraordinary NeXT computer, and more importantly introduced the first platform for scalable object-oriented programming connected to relational database servers.For one brief shining moment, in the early 1990's. we had a preview, an experience of the computing landscape as it is implemented today - about 10-15 years before this landscape became mainstream. For those who do not know, OS X still utilizes the very same development environment (with enhancements, of course) we used starting in 1989.Proponent was an enterprise software, application development environment targeted for use by "power users" or the actual business or organizational sponsors of an application. It largely obviated the need for DBA's and corporate developers. It was essentially "cloud-based", however where the cloud was internal to the organization rather than commercial as today.Proponent was adopted by customers where absolute advantage in software development was their most important imperative - i.e. Wall Street Capital Markets banks and western nation defense intelligence agencies.NeXT Computer was not a market success, and this bounded the Proponent opportunity as an enterprise product. The then Windows 3, 95 & even NT, were not powerful enough as platforms to underly a port of Proponent, and by the time Apple released OS X, Apple had turned its solid focus to the consumer market and not the enterprise market.Proponent largely remains known only to the few early adopters in the advanced computing world of the early 1990's. Many of its concepts still remain ahead of comparable products that are in use 20 years later. Show less

Founded a custom application development consulting firm that specialized in using 4GL development environments first on super-mini computers and over time on PC's and networked PC's in order to achieve superior productivity for clients.Achieved cash flow positive operations from outset with no invested capital. Accumulated sufficient investment capital to fund subsequent enterprise software product venture (Proponent).Worked with an exciting array of fast growth businesses… Show more Founded a custom application development consulting firm that specialized in using 4GL development environments first on super-mini computers and over time on PC's and networked PC's in order to achieve superior productivity for clients.Achieved cash flow positive operations from outset with no invested capital. Accumulated sufficient investment capital to fund subsequent enterprise software product venture (Proponent).Worked with an exciting array of fast growth businesses from fashion accessories to investment banking and capital markets brokers. In 1986, for a global investment banking client, conceived and implemented a global TCP/IP based network using the Mac II as client computer and Sun Microsystems as servers, with users dragging and dropping documents across the globe, gaining a competitive operational advantage about 5-7 years before this was more widespread.Matrix merged with Advanced Management Design, an Organizational Development firm. and integrated OD practices into software development practices to create the capacity to guide process reorganizations effectively.Developed substantial personal and organizational learning in OD best practices, software development best practices and experience with most productive development environments of the era. Show less

In the late 1970's, when the term "startup" had not yet gained acceptance, and very few "kids" in their mid 20's started companies, I raised US $ 1.5 million to develop a standard software product targeted to small and mid-sized CPA firms that ran on the then highly innovative, ergonometric, and user-friendly Hewlett-Packard, HP-250 computer, and was offered by Matrix as a "turn-key" package.As product visionary, I led a highly dedicated team on my first "death march" achieving an… Show more In the late 1970's, when the term "startup" had not yet gained acceptance, and very few "kids" in their mid 20's started companies, I raised US $ 1.5 million to develop a standard software product targeted to small and mid-sized CPA firms that ran on the then highly innovative, ergonometric, and user-friendly Hewlett-Packard, HP-250 computer, and was offered by Matrix as a "turn-key" package.As product visionary, I led a highly dedicated team on my first "death march" achieving an amazing product in terms of richness of functionality and ease-of-use, that was used by some customers for over 12 years, barely keeping the hardware running, but unwilling to settle for any of the substitue standard software packages that emerged in the DOS era.The HP-250 had a highly productive development environment including separation of database from application well ahead of competitors. The environment also support a terrific user experience including an early notion of a visual, interrupt-driven interface. Oddly, HP discontinued the stellar HP-260 in its infancy which had the effect of ending the Matrix opportunity.I learned from this experience to strive for a balanced life for myself and my future teams. Show less

While pursuing degree in economics at Berkeley, learned to program on the job. Within six months of learning to program, over many months of working through the night, wrote a code generator, which, even with benefit of 30 plus years of hindsight, was quite extraordinary. Planted the seeds for career long focus that continues to this day, pursuing both breakthrough simplifications in technology and game changing breakthroughs in application development productivity.Developed a… Show more While pursuing degree in economics at Berkeley, learned to program on the job. Within six months of learning to program, over many months of working through the night, wrote a code generator, which, even with benefit of 30 plus years of hindsight, was quite extraordinary. Planted the seeds for career long focus that continues to this day, pursuing both breakthrough simplifications in technology and game changing breakthroughs in application development productivity.Developed a keen awareness of the need for user-friendliness and the benefits of stellar user experience decades before such concepts and terms were recognized as important by software industry.Worked with a broad range of clients, including Asset, Trust, & Real Estate Management, Ship Repair, Theme Park, CPA Firms, and more. Show less