Expedient is focused on simplifying the operational deployment of AI infrastructure for enterprises. We package the hardware and software required to offer safe, scalable, and fault-tolerant production AI workloads. Our goal is to abstract the complicated AI components so that organizations can focus on business logic and business outcomes. Let us be your AI Experts. Overall responsibility for Expedient's GTM Enterprise AI strategy and implementation. * Inference Infrastructure for AI / GenAI* Fine-tuning mechanization* AI Orchestration* AI-ready Data Architecture* Curation of AI technologies/models into service stack* AI Partner Alliance* Data Governance for AI

Local ambassador for DeepLearning.AI, a site focused on AI/ML and founded by Andrew Ng, a pioneer of AI. In coordination with Ted Troxell and the current Cleveland AI Meetup, we will be putting on some local Northeast Ohio AI events co-branded of DeepLearning. This will get attendees some benefits like discounted courses. DeepLearning.AI is a great resource location that creates courseware for folks wanting to learn technical details about AI and machine learning. I'm honored to have been selected

Helping Enterprises create Private ChatGPTs so they can harness the power of Large Language Models while protecting confidential company information.Areas of Service:* General AI strategic planning - Map out quick hits and long term plans* LLM Strategy / Planning - What is the current landscape? how does it comply with data governance requirements* Vector Database Design/Planning/Implementation (Pincone/Milvus/Elastic/Weaviate/ChromaDB and others)* Language Model pretraining/fine-tuning. Options to use public or proprietary/internal models.* Chat interface design/implementation/UX/UI (Chatbot)* Central Orchestration (LangChain/LLamaIndex)* Datastores/Data Lakes (Databricks, VAST, Amazon, Snowflake, Elastic)* Backend resources, inference engine deployment and scaling.

BER Holdings invests in early to mid-stage technology companies focused on delivering telephony or SaaS products.

North Coast Angel Fund (NCAF) is a contributed capital and “sidecar” pre-seed investment fund with a focus on early-stage technology investments. Our membership consists of over 180 of the region’s leading investors, entrepreneurs, and business leaders who are dedicated to accelerating early-stage ventures.North Coast Angel Fund’s members play an active role by generating deal flow, serving on due diligence teams, working with portfolio companies, or serving on the Investment Screening and Executive Committees. Through this involvement, our goal is to provide a supportive environment for our portfolio companies and ultimately enhance the performance of our Fund.Northeast Ohio has a long tradition of active and successful angel investing, but until recently, the success of this crucial form of funding has hinged on the efforts of a relatively small number of individual investors. As the region’s first professionally managed angel fund, North Coast Angel Fund works to improve the early-stage funding environment for both entrepreneurs and investors.

ExpandMyReach helps businesses identify and engage website prospects at the top of the marketing funnel.• Designed and implemented software architecture to identify and engage anonymous website visitors.• Sold first 30 clients (ARPU $750)• Created over 500M identity graphs of multi-device relationships.• Implemented an AI/ML system to employ fuzzy logic in identifying prospects based on incomplete information.• Created integrations with various lead-engagement tools like Pardot, Hubspot, Outreach, Salesloft, Salesforce• Created integrations with ad networks (Google, Microsoft, Adroll, and others) to programmatically deliver display advertisements to the identified prospects.

Expedient is one of the leading national cloud and datacenter providers positioned between the build-your-own providers like AWS/Azure and self-hosting. I reported directly to the CRO/CSO with a responsibility for evaluating and implementing plans that would affect the business in a material fashion. Many items were cross functional and spanned either the Sales/Marketing organization or the entire organization.• Responsible for driving material strategic projects primarily on the revenue-generating side of the business with an additional concentration on corporate development work.• OKR: Implemented OKR management system across the entire business to improve strategic alignment and quantitative accountability. Selected and implemented the management software. Ensured buy-in across all executives of the business. Migrated the initial OKR system to a system that involved OKRs and 1:1s. Ultimately responsible for the overall strategic alignment and objective relationships across the organization.• SDR: Automated significant process in the SDR organization resulting in 10x increase in new meeting count. Hired and managed additional headcount (7 total) to scale out the SDR team on a national basis.• Corp Dev: Evaluated dozens of strategic acquisition candidates in the $20M to $400M enterprise value level. • Implemented Lead Routing software architecture to ensure inbound lead distribution in a reliable and consistent fashion across the entire sales organization. • Built and implemented process to evaluate funnel health on a per-rep and per-market basis. Supervised management calls to ensure deals were being qualified across all markets on a consistent basis. • HR: Implemented a sophisticated DISC-based personality profile for all new senior hires. • HR: Built automations to increase the engagement of the internal recruiters with candidates via LinkedIn which resulted in a 5x increase in quality conversations and drove many new hires.

Securable.io was one of the leading cybersecurity education companies creating coursework used to test client employees on a recurring basis to ensure security posture compliance. It was acquired by KnowBe4 in 2017.• Started company as a hosted SIEM, pivoted to cybersecurity education platform.• Exited to KnowBe4, a leader in the cybersecurity education space.• Sold 20 of the first 50 customers• Built a team of 18, half development and half sales/marketing. • Coded first version of the Securable dashboard as well as the backend phishing testing module. • Pivoted the software development team to an education course creation team using technological experts to drive external animators via storyboard.• Created a learning management system (LMS) based on Moodle capable of delivering hundreds of courses to millions of customer employees. • Created a multi-tiered education platform oriented by general role (Executive, Accounting, Retail, and Cybersecurity)• Provided cybersecurity education to over 100,000 employees of client organizations.• Negotiated three license agreements to increase the breadth and depth of our course portfolio• Evaluated multiple strategic acquisition targets.

Mongoose Metrics was an enterprise provider phone call tracking services. Using its patent pending technology, Mongoose connected online activities and marketing spend to phone call conversions, allowing its customers to calibrate advertising spend to maximize return. • Organically built $15M software-based marketing technology business from inception mid-eight figure exit to strategic acquirer IfByPhone and an IRR of over 100%.• At sale, gross margins were 90% and EBITDA was 40%• Built a robust agency channel that accounted for 95% of our new revenue without requiring any partner compensation. • Created the first industry integrations with analytics platforms like Google Analytics and Omniture SiteCatalyst• Created the first integrations with CRM systems like Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, and SugarCRM.• Personally coded the high-availability fault-tolerant core telephonic switching infrastructure. This infrastructure was in use for 15 years in a materially similar format to the initial construct. • Personally coded the linkage between Google Adwords and the telephony infrastructure so that we could definitively say which keywords were driving phone calls.• Designed and implemented “Conversation Insight” which allowed for ML-based transcription of call recordings to determine the disposition of our client calls. This disposition would feed back as a datapoint in determining the ROI of marketing efforts.• Granted two patents: US8817957 – Phone-call triggered system and method for transmitting information via network-enabled server and US8687776 – System and Method to Analyze Human Voice Conversations

Expedient is a national cloud and datacenter provider servicing 14 physical markets. It fills the gap between build-your-own cloud providers like AWS/Azure and self-hosting. • Built a $30M ARR datacenter, access, and cloud-computing business primarily through distressed acquisition. Sold the business in 2005 to a strategic acquirer, Landmark Communications, at an 80% IRR.• Founded as US VoiceData in 2001• In 2002 purchased substantially all a venture-backed firm Expedient capitalized at >$100M via US Bankruptcy process. Divested of certain tangible property immediately after acquisition to pay back the entire purchase price. Re-branded as Expedient.• In 2002, Purchased 1/3 of the customers and fiber plant of Yipes Communication (capitalized at > $300M) via a 363 Bankruptcy sale.• In April 2003, purchased the B2B assets of Stargate Communications via a 363 Bankruptcy process. This was strategically transformative as we inherited a solid management team, many of which are still running the business 20 years later.• From 2001-2003, purchased 4 other ISP going concerns including RMRC, Lightstream Internet, portions of the Verio access business, and APK.net Cleveland’s oldest ISP.• Integrated all acquisitions from 2003-2005 ending up with 150 employees, a strong management infrastructure, and highly scalable processes.

IAG was one of the first business internet providers in the Midwest. Created through a merger with CICNet, one of the 7 original NSFnet networks CICnet. IAG one of the largest networks in the Midwest (PA, OH, MI, IN, IL) with points of presence in over 10 major metros and hundreds of smaller towns. Serviced many of the Big 10 universities and Fortune 500 companies in the region.• Built and ran the network and server infrastructure of the largest commercial internet service provider in the Midwest. • At its peak, had over 1,000 leased line customers, 50,000 dialup customers and 100 colocation customers.• Integrated the purchase of one of the original NSFNet networks CICNet which included many institutions and Fortune 500 businesses• Integrated the purchase of multiple smaller bolt-on dialup and leased-line businesses in our existing footprint• Created a bundled internet and phone service using early stage VOIP technology.• Managed a group of 10 systems and network engineers.• One of 20 network engineers who advised Cisco in cutting edge feature development