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Boston, MA, US

London, Greater London, GB

Dragonfly is trusted by over 70 global brands including Reckitt, CocaCola, Unilever, Pepsico, Danone, Bacardi, Colgate, Mars, Nestle, J&J and others.Dragonfly’s AI platform optimizes the quality and effectiveness of visual content by delivering instant actionable insight, and on-demand creative testing and analytics, at scale, across any format, channel.

CEO (full time and interim), Executive Board Chair/Director, CEO/Management team Mentoring, and Operating Advisory roles with more than 25 enterprise SaaS software companies overseeing numerous financings, multiple acquisitions, and 17 Exits to both financial and strategic buyers. Representative companies include: Dragonfly AI (London) AI-based Predictive.

Charlestown, Massachusetts, US

RightHand Robotics™ is the leading provider of robotic piece-picking solutions for efficient and predictable order fulfillment. Their state-of-the-art RightPick™ 3 system handles a wide variety of items and is designed to integrate seamlessly with your existing fulfillment processes. The piece-picking solution combines an intelligent gripper, a vision.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Bookings grew 300% to $24M with such customers as the FDA, Bosch, Siemens, Raytheon, Merck, IBM Watson Health, and Point 72. Closed large global strategic deal that resulted in smaller surviving entity. Customers focus resulted in 100% customer satisfaction. Repositioning produced leadership status at Gartner and Forrester. Recruited by Founders to respond.

Ridgefield, Connecticut, US

r4 is the pioneer in cross-enterprise AI. Organizations across multiple industries use r4’s platform to unlock growth opportunities trapped in and between enterprise silos, systems, and processes.Recruited by Series B Private Equity investor Pilot Growth to assess company circumstances and secure new Series C financing in 2019Started working with this.

Recruited by Eden Capital Private Equity to lead the integration of two SaaS software companies: Compass, a provider of sales automation solutions (Boise, ID), and Tour de Force, a provider of CRM, Business Intelligence and sales force automation (Findlay, OH).Managed the alignment, integration, and restructuring of the leadership team of this profitable.

Colorado Springs, CO, US

Recruited as Executive Chairman by Ed Glassmeyer, Founder of Oak Investment PartnersAfter Global Ops review became CEO to restructure this ~$50M computer storage companyHeadcount was reduced by 45% to facilitate organizational rebuildingGo-To-Market strategy was focused/narrowed and eliminating the direct sales teams in favor of distributor and reseller.

Masthead’s focus was on investments in enterprise application SW, security software, and digital advertising platform companies Operating Partner focused on Sales, Marketing, GTM, Product/Market fit, and technology innovation Led recap of Centric Software. Dassault acquired 51% in 2018 at a $500M+ valuationNotable exits: Centric, Tacoda (sold to AOL).

Wayne, PA, US

Filed for an Initial Public Offering leading to the sale of company to SunGard (NYSE:SDS) Quadrupled the revenue run-rate in two years while transitioning from a loss to profitabilityRelocated corporate HQ from Paris to Boston Revenues grew from <$10M to ~$40Mdecalog was the leading provider of Straight-Through-Processing (STP) front office asset.

US

Completed a very successful Initial Public offering (IPO) that was 24 times oversubscribed.Hired as the company’s first outside CEO following Greylock's investment.Successfully led the company through critical stages of corporate growth and development. 20 consecutive profitable quarters while International revenue contribution expanded to >50%. Revenue.

Lincoln, Rhode Island, US

Later acquired by CA, Legent was a General Atlantic PE-backed Software roll-up. Hired to run the recently acquired BST software Management Division. AS GM, revenue more than doubled to >$40m in two years. Reported to John Burton, President and CEO.

Austin, Texas, US

Reported directly to Larry Ellison, CEO. While there, revenue more than quadrupled to over $1B. Responsible for several product divisions that generated >50% of corporate revenue. Managed and motivated a large staff of product development, marketing, operations and finance professionals at corporate HQ.

Mba, Entrepreneurial Studies

Bs, Mathematics

Undergraduate Studies