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California, United States

Medford, Oregon, US

SunSpear Games is a creating a triple-A Battle Strategy Game leveraging distinctive elements of a wide variety of strategy sub-genres such as RTS and MOBA to create a truly unique player experience.The first title, IMMORTAL: Gates of Pyre, delivers fast-paced action, highly intuitive fun, and deep strategy, that attracts players across a wide spectrum of.

Helping startups, turnarounds, and Global 2000 companies and their investors maximize value and return through cutting edge technology design, effective go to market, and optimized corporate financing and structuring.Strategic Advisor: Tier 1; VC, PE, and Management Consulting firms regarding pre-investment technology and market due diligence.

New York, New York, US

CTO, CPO, CIO and CISO for 1300 person Apollo backed, PR, IR, Social, and Events SaaS + Services provider to Global 5000 enterprise customers. Focused on overall business and technology strategy including; optimizing product and service; offerings, stratification, and monetization models; technology platform refactoring, modernization, cloud native.

Irvine, CA, US

As a member of the senior global leadership team of the $50 billion annual revenue technology and cloud distributor Ingram Micro, I was responsible for managing a team of 1000 people to design, deploy, and operate; the largest cloud market place in the world with nearly $3 billion in revenue and over 38 million seats under management; the digital commerce.

San Jose, CA, US

Acquired by Ingram Micro June 2016. Joined as COO, took over as CEO / CTO, then personally acquired company through reverse merger via recapitalization, and build it into a leading provider of end-to-end hyper-scale digital commerce platforms with modules for marketplace, ordering, subscription management, service catalog, ticketing, provisioning, usage.

Helping a variety of startups and turnarounds launch / re-launch and exit in the ecommerce, mobile, database, web hosting, and SaaS markets.

Helped build (along with great young founders) the top European web hosting and domain name registrar at the time growing to 60,000 websites and 300,000 domains under management (one of the top 10 in the world at that time). Grew to be one of the first ICANN registrars outside the USA and first and largest hosting company offering Windows based websites..

Brought in along with CFO to help BOD quickly turned around and sell public company (CNKT, a former Apple spin out). Company focused on the B2B NetMarket high volume ecommerce / supply chain space. Rebuilt B2B ecommerce trading network platform in 100% pure Java (1.0 was special back then). Signed up hot dotcoms and Fortune 500 companies as customers..

Started the Internet and Embedded Business Unit at Award Software and blended into Phoenix after acquisition. Developed Synthesizable Cores and Firmware for embedded and network devices (now called IoT). Giga-ethernet, USB, 1394/Firewire, and the like. Developed and sold iBIOS (micro browser with embedded OS in firmware fitting into 128K, yes that's a K.

Electronic and Mechanical Contract Manufacturer for major companies like Intel, HP, Epson, Supra Modem, Supra Lock, Jacuzzi, Quest Medical, Tektronix, and 200 others. Grew from $4-$14m in 3 years. Led ISO 9001 certification. Built some interesting products from medical instruments to modems to spa controllers to fine pitch surface mount systems to.

Xizhi District, New Taipei City, TW

From a junior marketing associate (when it was still called Multi-tech Electronics Corporation) to senior manager overseeing major product lines, revenue streams, and cost centers, for a company that grew from $30 million to $3 billion during my tenure. Promoted 5 times in 5 years. Went there, did that, made it happen, traveled the world, did 20 different.

Technology Management

Technology Studies, Soc Design

Interdisciplinary Studies