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San Diego, California, Us

Hired to provide financial and operational leadership in anticipation of business sale. Led the successful exit of the business with sale to Vista Equity Partners. The SmartDrive® video-based safety program and transportation intelligence platform transform fleet performance. Combining video safety, advanced analytics, telematics and compliance applications from a single box, SmartDrive’s converged solution is the preferred solution that businesses rely on to transform their fleet’s safety.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Capsule Technologies was the successful spin out of Qualcomm Life to Francisco Partners. Capsule is a leading medical device connectivity platform that connects medical devices to clinical information systems in over 2,000 hospitals in approximately 40 countries. Through Capsule’s connected devices, networking solutions, and intelligent software applications, hospitals can capture and visualize clinical data to monitor patient health and improve patient care. Capsule is a key enabler of the digital hospital and is a trusted choice among hospital clinicians, IT administrators, and healthcare IT vendors. As hospitals continue to adopt data-driven approaches to managing patient care, we stand as the centralized connectivity hub for clinical information.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Business Unit CFO for Qualcomm's wireless health initiative. Qualcomm Life, the industry leader in connected health, is creating a world where medical-grade care is ‘always on’ and available to patients, regardless of care setting. Where end-to-end connectivity solutions can be deployed rapidly and securely, and data integration can be seamless, flexible, and device-agnostic. In this new world, health data is liberated and insights are unlocked, creating new intelligent models of care. Our medical-grade platforms and expansive open ecosystem enable leading health care companies to scale their solutions and realize the benefits of secure, near real-time patient and consumer data. From hospital to home and all points in between, Qualcomm Life is powering new standards of connected and personalized patient-centered care.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Comprehensive financial oversight for a portfolio of new wireless technologies across diverse sectors. Qualcomm Labs is the technology incubator within Qualcomm Inc. At Qualcomm Labs, we bring our new technology ideas to market by combining technical expertise with operational know-how to commercialize the technologies we develop.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Business Unit Controller for Qualcomm's mobile television platform. FLO TV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, invented and brought to market a technology for transmitting audio, video and data to portable devices such as mobile phones and personal televisions, used for mobile television. The service included live, real time audio and video streams, as well as scheduled video and audio clips and shows. The service was commercially available throughout the US on both the Verizon and AT&T networks.

San Diego, Ca, Us

CFO for Qualcomm's captive Venture Fund responsible for financial reporting, quarterly guidance, SEC & SOX compliance, investment valuation and analysis, and quarterly reporting to the Office of the CEO. Qualcomm Ventures is the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, Inc. With over $1B under management, Qualcomm Ventures is focused on advancing the wireless ecosystem through investments in key technologies including VR, IOT, robotics, cloud computing and wireless health.

San Diego, California, Us

CFO responsible for all finance, legal and administrative functions including financial reporting, budgeting, strategic planning, regulatory compliance and Board of Director communications. SupplyPro is the premier provider of inventory management solutions. With over 16,000 installations in over 40 countries, SupplyPro's Inventory Management Solutions improve the availability, tracking and control of over 60 million SKU's. Our customized solutions combine the most flexible inventory management systems available with industry-leading intelligence software to improve productivity, increase efficiency and reduce inventory costs. SupplyPro brings proven simplification to the distribution and management of MROP (Maintenance, Repair, Operating and Production), safety and tooling supplies at the work cell.

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Audit Practice Leader for SEC client base including Amoco Corporation, Baxter Healthcare, Tribune Company, Inland Steel and The Oprah Winfrey Show (Harpo Entertainment). PricewaterhouseCoopers is the second largest professional services firm in the world providing Assurance, Business Advisory and Tax services to over 400 of the Fortune 500 companies. Vault Accounting 50 has ranked PwC as the most prestigious accounting firm in the world for seven consecutive years, as well as the top firm to work for in North America for three consecutive years. PwC is the 5th-largest privately owned company in the United States.