Trinity College’s Center for Entrepreneurship encourages and supports entrepreneurial thinking, broadly defined, in all Trinity students. The center is a resource for students pursuing any of the college’s more than 40 liberal arts majors, not just those focused on business or entrepreneurship. It connects students and faculty with Trinity alumni and other world-class entrepreneurs and innovators, and strengthens Trinity’s partnerships with Hartford’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, benefitting Trinity’s home city and incentivizing Trinity graduates to stay in Connecticut. The Center works with faculty and staff to grow curricular and co-curricular innovation and entrepreneurship resources across campus.

PartsTech is an automotive web-based ordering platform designed to meet the needs of today's mechanics, manufacturers and distributors.

We've cracked the code on one of life's greatest mysteries-- the hiccups! While many think of the hiccups as a cute annoyance, chronic hiccups are a rare and debilitating condition affecting patients already struggling with cancer, heart disease, dialysis, and surgery. To date, clinicians and patients have had few treatment options and little data to support their use. Meter Therapeutics is working to replace a 1950's-era antipsychotic drug with a new standard of care for chronic hiccups.

Passionate and actively involved in this K-12 STEM invention program that annually teaches 17,000+ kids in Connecticut the process of invention--building problem-solving skills and confidence in boys and girls alike.- Started working with the program in 2000 when first child encountered program in Elementary School/Kindergarten.- Have worked closely with all Executive Directors since then in support role with focus on outreach, partnerships, and program innovations.- Founded spin-off organization, The STEMIE Coalition, to promote CIC concepts worldwide. Grew organization to more than 100,000 students across 10 countries before exiting to The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation to be their marquee youth outreach program in 2018.- Created strategy for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, with data tracking and feedback processes and targeted partnerships for impact.- Have overseen efforts to create innovative tech processes to help the organization achieve its goals more efficiently and with access to more volunteers.

TeleChoice is presently a holding company for my startup activities. In the 1990s and 2000s, TeleChoice was one of the largest management consultancies focused on telecommunications and Internet, during the heyday of fixed and mobile broadband growth. With few exceptions, most major telecom carriers, equipment vendors, competitive market entrants and Internet Service Providers were clients of TeleChoice. In my role as CEO of TeleChoice, I worked with Boards of Directors, senior executive teams, venture capitalists, private equity teams, royalty, and other movers and shakers to advance broadband around the world. TeleChoice helped launch some of the biggest names in telecom and Internet during that timeframe -- including four "unicorns". Today, TeleChoice is focused on launching and supporting startups in a broad range of industries, including medical devices, pharmaceutical, automotive, edtech, and energy.

Co-author of thirteen "...For Dummies" titles in telecommunications and computer networking topics, including Smart Homes for Dummies and Wireless Home Networking for Dummies. Books were translated into languages across the globe for worldwide distribution.

Assumed role from acquisition of our STEMIE non-profit by The Henry Ford in August, 2018, I was responsible for the growth of the museum's K-12 invention and entrepreneurship programs, especially the Invention Convention brand, across the U.S. and globally. STEMIE's Invention Convention program serves as the major outreach arm of The Henry Ford in bringing innovation, invention and entrepreneurship programming to students around the world. Our mission is to have every child be an inventor and/or entrepreneur at least once during their K-12 career.- Created an affiliate expansion strategy to create formal relationships with like-minded invention education programs and partners worldwide. Led team for global outreach to recruit new affiliates and partnerships, including with organizations that supported our DEI strategy (e.g., Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers, National Society of Black Engineers, and Society of Women Engineers).- Created and supported the Global Invention Convention annual competition in Singapore.- Conceptualized and contributed to development of the Innovation Atlas, a decision tool to help identify and prioritize local K-12 school programs to close the Innovation Gap in America, as identified by Raj Chetty at Harvard, Opportunity Insights -- with particular focus on historically underserved and poor innovation areas.

Founded and grew The STEMIE Coalition (www.stemie.org) as a non-profit, umbrella organization of youth invention and entrepreneurship programs across the U.S.; STEMIE was acquired by The Henry Ford in August 2018 to be its global youth outreach program (rebranded as Invention Convention Worldwide). The coalition provided much-needed national attention on and drove interest in K-12 invention and entrepreneurship, and empowered the local affiliated organizations with best practices and collaborative resources. The STEMIE Coalition is the first such entity created to elevate invention and entrepreneurship education of K-12 students across the country. With founding corporate partners like Stanley Black and Decker and United Technologies (now Raytheon), we launched invention education programming and partnered with STEM and entrepreneurship programs with in-school curriculum and competitions to drive innovation and problem-solving skills into our next generation workforce. Our participants were perennially diverse and representative of the whole population -- 59% young women, 37% underserved, and 31% minorities. All K-12 students can be inventors.The non-profit group’s goal was to make an extensive, immediate, and measurable impact on youth invention and entrepreneurship in the U.S., and sought to train teachers and their youth inventors and entrepreneurs annually through the in-school programs of its affiliated partners, in all 50 states plus DC, within five years.Under this program, I conceptualized and led a volunteer team to launch The National Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Expo (NICEE) in 2016, held annually at the USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, VA, which showcases and celebrates young inventors and entrepreneurs -- winners of the underlying partner invention and entrepreneurship programs from across the U.S. The National Invention Convention is now held at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn MI.

The National Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Expo (NICEE) -- the marquee event organized by The STEMIE Coalition -- annually showcases and celebrates young inventors and entrepreneurs -- winners of the underlying partner invention and entrepreneurship programs from across the U.S.. The National Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Expo was held annually at the headquarters of the USPTO in Alexandria, VA, and then moved to The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn, MI in 2018. For more info, see: https://inhub.thehenryford.org/icw/competitions/us-nationals-landing

Hiccupops are the world’s first-ever nutritional supplement to help suppress the hiccups. Hiccupops contain a unique blend of ingredients that trigger a set of nerves in your mouth and throat that are responsible for the hiccup reflex arc. When those nerves are over-stimulated, the message from your brain to hiccup is cancelled … and they taste good too!

Mblast is a Data as a Service company able to identify, rank, reach and engage specific individuals at precise and articulated moments of intent.

Launched a suite of products and services for this compliance and auditing firm, including learning management, training books, auditing software, and other consultancy-complementary products and services. Created baseline plans and partnerships for a new annual conference which was successfully held in Fall 2014. Coordinated all software development with a team of programmers overseas for a new suite of inventory and auditing tools.

Interim Executive State Director for the revamped and relaunched Connecticut Small Business Development Center (SBDC) network -- a management consultancy for the 97% of the state's businesses that classify as Small Business, including all startups in the state. www.ctsbdc.org. Created strategy, negotiated with SBA and DECD, made initial hires, formed partnerships, administrated network, pending long term Executive Director being hired.

MoxMe is the world's first social alerting network for groups, focusing on K-12 applications for teachers, parents, students, and staff.