Citizen Science for Health is dedicated to empowering patients to:• Participate in experiments, studies and clinical trials in ways that truly benefit all concerned• Access and share meaningful health data• Elevate lifestyle medicine approaches (diet, exercise, stress, etc…) onto an equal playing field with drug interventionsUltimately, we seek to transform medical research by putting the person back at the center of today’s movement towards "personalized medicine". Come join with health professionals, patient-advocates, experimenters, quantified-self enthusiasts and others for a lively exploration of our collective efforts in this important frontier. As a new non-profit, we seek to support everyone in playing their unique part in improving both personal and societal health.

This is the latest evolution of the firm I originally started under the name Teamwork Promotions, as a vehicle for my sponsorship and alliance program development and sales work, among other projects.

Building Alliances is delighted to be working in support of The 4A's, helping them connect forward thinking Sponsors and Partners with opportunities to impact their membership audience of Advertising decision makers, representing 80% of US Advertising Spending. We are particularly focused on the opportunities held by the upcoming Transformation Conference, coming to Austin March 22-25, 2015.

We at my firm Building Alliances are very excited to be working with leading website Business Insider to expand their annual Ignition: Future of Digital Conference and other programs. We are developing powerful new sponsorship programs for leading technology companies and other brands, in support of their thought leadership and business development objecttives.

Eventbase is a leading Mobile App Platform for Live Events, working at scale with premium events like SXSW , the Olympics, Cannes Lions, Sundance, Lollapolooza and many others.I am assisting them and their key customers in leveraging the value of their platform for event sponsors.Given Eventbase’s leadership in deploying iBeacon technology at events, I am particularly excited to work with them to unlock new and even more powerful use cases for Sponsors and Event Producers in a live event environment.

Conferencebites.com springs from my vision to bring the best sound bites from the best conferences directly to your email box or web browser each week. By focusing on uncovering and sharing wonderful quotes from conferences relating to business, technology, social media, advertising, marketing and all things Web 2.0, my hope is to create a destination that you, your friends and colleagues will want to bookmark, subscribe and return to.I have also started a companion Blog at www.conferencebitesblog.com focusing on my and other’s thoughts on the challenges and opportunities for face to face events in an increasingly online world.

New research in the nobel-prize winning field of telomere science shows we can live healthier, longer lives. Agemarker.com is dedicated to providing the information and resources to support people in healthy aging.

NewCo is a cross between an artist open studio and a tech conference with the vibe of a music festival—taking place in cities like SF, London, Boston, Austin and a dozen more. My role has been to support the Festival and the new Shift Forum to enlist leading Pillar Partners such as Adobe, Microsoft, Publicis.Sapient, Citi Ventures, and others. Full details at newco.co

Through my firm Building Alliances, I and my colleagues are working with KITE to share their Innovation Platform with leading Global 2000 companies, helping them to map, monitor and manage all aspects of their engagement with start-ups, so as to dramatically accelerate their innovation on an enterprise-wide basis.

We at Building Alliances have recently joined the team at The One Club, producers of Creative Week and The One Show, to assist them with developing new breakthrough ways to serve sponsors, both at their May 2014 events, and beyond.

I am very excited to be working on a contract basis in support of Twitter's events team. Our main project involves helping leading business events benefit from doing the best job possible of integrating Twitter into the marketing and communications.

I have been working with John Battelle for the last six years supporting his Conversational Marketing Summit (held each year in New York during Internet Week) with developing and selling all of their Sponsorship Programs. Participating companies have included: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Adobe, HP, and many others.

I advised and supported this investor backed start-up as they seek to disrupt the Sponsorship industry, and deliver powerful ROI services to leading sponsors and events.

I am excited to be working with John Battelle and the team at Federated Media in support of their groundbreaking Conversational Marketing Summits, coming each year to NYC for Internet Week, and selected other events.

I am very excited to be working with Dan Esty and his team. In particular, I am working on forging alliance partnerships in support of the launch of the Esty Sustainability Network, including the Sustainability Masters Working Group. This is a powerful new initiative which has as its goal taking corporate sustainability to the next level. It will help to advance the professionalism of the CSO role, while at the same time delivering concrete strategic benefits to companies and their key executives charged with sustainability.

I am excited to have worked in support of the largest interactive conference and trade show dedicated to green building, business, design and technology. My focus was on supporting Sponsors by involving them in the event in positive and innovative ways, and in related thought leadership programs to help them achieve their objectives.

I am supporting this important Business Networking and Business development organization in its events and other activities, and especially their upcoming Sustainable Cities Conference in NYC on June 8th.

I work with this organization, founded by Drs Robert Kaplan and David Norton, and originally named The Balanced Scorecard Collaborative le on a contract basis, through my firm Teamwork Promotions.My focus is on forging alliances with leading technology companies and others who want to take advantage of their Events, Thought Leadership and Research, and Online Community Programs, all of which focus on Strategy Execution and Performance Management.

I worked with the team at Harvard Business School Publishing on their events for over seven years, on a contract basis, through my company Teamwork Promotions. This was a great and successful engagement that included involving many top brands in their world class content. it came to an end when HBR decided to close their conference division as we were first heading into the down turn.

Through Teamwork Promotions, the marketing firm I founded over 20 years ago, I support leading progressive businesses and non-profits in the achievement of their sales and marketing objectives.My marketing experience includes the creation of large consumer expositions in the environmental and health fields, marketing and sponsorship support for numerous conferences and special events, and launching several products, publications, and industry groups.In recent years I’ve paid close attention to the interface between sustainability, events and new technologies and to finding new ways to help clients meet these challenges, and take advantage of the opportunities, in this new landscape.

I worked with Global Giving on programs to generate sponsorship in support of their ground-breaking programs for re-inventing philanthropy.

I worked closely with the original Fast Company launch team, focusing most directly on their Real Time Conferences. My role was primarily Sponsorship Sales, although in their case the creative and integrated approach we took, led the work in some interesting directions. I am most proud of some of the ways we pushed the envelope beyond traditional sponsorships, especially for forward looking major brands such as HP and Sony. I provided these services on a contract basis through my firm, Teamwork Promotions, and am happy to share more details upon request.

Teamwork consulted with this event from start-up through their first four years of operation. We created a sales and marketing strategy that enabled them to grow their sales from zero to over one million dollars annually. Teamwork developed all sales materials, including a Sponsorship Sales Program which produced over one half of their sales, while reducing marketing costs significantly.