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Composium.ai develops secure conversational AI products that can be trusted to remain on-brand, on-topic, and on-tone, while conveying referencable information to users. My role is to lead the company's technological innovation.

Montreal, Quebec, CA

Montreal, Quebec, CA

Advise the general partner on investment issues.

Montreal, Quebec, CA

Advisor to the iNovia investment team, with responsibility for strategy, developing best practices for the investment team, and overseeing portfolio companies during their growth and liquidity phases. Also served as Venture Partner and member of the iNovia investment team from 2015 - 2017.

Vice-President of Security Products at McAfee from 1996 to 1997, with responsibility for evolving McAfee's offerings from solely anti-virus into a broad security suite including firewall, encryption, and certificate authority product lines.I was working with one of the most dynamic management teams ever to run a public software company. I learned how a.

Honolulu, Hawaii, US

Blue Startups is a highly successful startup accelerator in Honolulu, ranked as one of the top 20 US accelerators by TechCrunch in 2015. My role as lead mentor puts me in front of each member company of each cohort, providing access to the experience that my mistakes and successes have brought me.

TechCap Ventures is a stealth fund that sources structured, unpriced investments in early stage ventures.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

Wedge Networks provides extremely high speed cloud-based malware scanning technologies to major telecom carriers. With significant deployments on 5 continents, Wedge has become an essential part of telecom companies' data infrastructure.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

Wedge Networks provides extremely high speed cloud-based malware scanning technologies to major telecom carriers. With significant deployments on 5 continents, Wedge has become an essential part of telecom companies' data infrastructure.

Prior to being acquired, AreaMetrics brought Google-Analytics-style metrics to the physical retail world, using Beacon technology and SDK embedded into popular SmartPhone apps. Retailers use AreaMetrics to help understand the customer traffic at their own locations, and to assess the effectiveness of marketing and promotion strategies by measuring traffic.

LiveSift's meeting tools significantly enhance the productivity of business meetings and conferences. Participants can manage agendas, timing, and materials, and can also interact with each other using their own smartphones, providing input, voting, sentiment tracking, question queue management, and many other functions. LiveSift also creates and.

Minded's inference engine helps you select unusual yet appropriate gifts for your friends and family, then takes the work out of remembering all your gift-giving occasions. Minded is a Blue Startups Accelerator graduate company, and I was the company's lead mentor through the program. My role after the program was to help the company make decisions that.

Hawaii Angels is one of the most active angel investment networks in the world, in part due to the broad array of active and retired executive talent available in Honolulu. My role as part of the committee is to screen prospective companies and select those that will present to the full Hawaii Angel group.

Flo Water provides personal rehydration stations to college and office campuses, fitness centers, and other organizations. People use Flo Water's rehydration stations to refill their own personal water bottles, eliminating the environmental and health concerns caused by single-use plastic water bottles.My role was as member of the company's Board of.

Freedman co-founded and grew Jasomi Networks from a blank sheet of paper to a multi-million dollar recognized leader in the then-emerging VoIP Session Border Controller space. Freedman sold Jasomi to Ditech Communications (now Ditech Networks) in 2005. Freedman had appointed Todd Simpson to lead the company through its transition to its acquirer. Simpson.

Co-founder of Launchworks, one of Canada's premier full service high tech venture capital investment houses. Launchworks funded three companies that ultimately had successful exits: Guest-Tek (IPO in 2004), Control-F1 (sold to CA), and 180 Connect (IPO in 2005, later acquired by DirecTV).

Guest Tek became the predominant provider of in-room Internet services to the hotel industry. The company grew tremendously in the early 2000's, ultimately achieving an IPO. My role was a member of the board of directors. I brought the company to Launchworks, which financed the company. In return, Guest-Tek became one of the most successful Launchworks.

Fremont, California, US

HighPoint was acquired by PowerQuest in November 1998, for its innovative personal computer data protection technologies.My role was as member of the Board of Directors, helping the company plan and oversee its growth, business development, and ultimate acquisition.

StoresOnline was one of the earliest online shopping cart providers. The company and its technologies were acquired by NetGateway in 1998.My role was as strategic advisor to the company during its entry into the market and early growth phase.

Freedman started FSA while still an undergraduate, and developed and sold networking and security software for 7 years (the first 3 of which were also spent completing bachelor's and master's degrees in CompSci).The company was an architype for bootstrapped software startups. Freedman grew FSA from zero to a multi-million dollar profitable corporation.

Msc And Bsc, Computer Science

Dip. Music Performance, Jazz Piano

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