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Fremont, Ca, Us

Leading Gotion's investments into the Americas to secure an LFP battery supply chain, including strategic investments in lithium extraction, pCAM, cathode and anode active materials, and other cell components. Coordinate investment with downstream EV and ESS partners, and financial investors.

Fremont, Ca, Us

Gotion is a leader in energy storage solutions with an emphasis on electric vehicle battery innovation.Responsible for fundraising, M&A, spinouts, and investment.

Everywhere, Us

Seed investor and advisor to a startup defining new business processes and licensing in generative AI for video.

Stamford, Ct, Us

Analyst in Gartner's Technology and Service Provider (TSP) research group with a focus on the Tech CEO role. I advise tech CEOs on corporate development and business performance management challenges, including growth strategy, M&A, exit strategy, and finance.

Live OTT streaming of sporting events, distributing over 8,000 live events annually. Led all finance, administrative, legal, and marketing functions. Negotiated strategic partnerships, defined strategy, and product positioning. • Negotiated $5.5M in Series A and $1m follow-on; created 5-year operating and financing plans.• Built revenue reporting processes, treasury management, and tracked KPIs.• Acquired assets of One World Sports business unit.• Managed complex direct to consumer content monetization operations, including subscriptions, ad-based, and pay per view services.

Wilmington, De, Us

Global provider of wireless communications technologies used in cellular, wireless, and network applications.Developed commercialization investment proposal for Board of Directors to support new line of business in advertising and video analytics. Analyzed market competition, product strategy and positioning, staffing, and 5-year funding.

Stockholm, Se

Leading developer of OTT applications solutions on connected devices, e.g. smart TVs, streaming devices (Roku, Apple TV, FireTV), and set top boxes.Recruited as third person in North America to build NA business unit. Designed NA business model to bridge with European model; formed NA team and led entry to North American market.Networked and formed industry relationships with MVPD (multichannel video programming distributor) clients across North America to build brand awareness, as well as identify new product and partnership opportunities. Identified emerging technologies for global commercialization, as well as global M&A opportunities. • Developed strategy and commercialization investment proposal for new video ad mediation/insertion product to drive entry into video advertising market in US and globally. Analyzed built vs buy vs partnership options, emerging technologies, market demands, and company strengths to formulate workable development strategy.• Developed new business plan around video casting service, allowing users to send video from Accedo developed app on mobile devices to any nearby smart TV, including technical specifications, demo product, and 5-year operating plan. • Developed M&A strategy and acquisition pipeline.• Built Accedo NA market, driving revenues from $500K to $7M+ in 2 years, personally selling $750K in development and licensing projects while enabling $5M more through partnerships.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

adRise is a provider of video advertising solutions and video-on-demand applications on connected devices. They partner with premium content owners to distribute and monetize TV shows and movies across Xbox, Roku, TiVO, Smart TVs & Blu-ray players (such as Samsung & Sony), tablets, mobile devices, streaming boxes.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Thuuz provides personalized sports data services to operators and STB OEMs, including TV guide, game ratings, headlines, alerts, DVR automation, and highlight reels.- Advised team on product features and positioning.

mgMEDIA is a leading developer of TV Everywhere and OTT VOD solutions for media companies and operators in Spanish-speaking markets. Led mgMedia’s efforts to spin out their consumer facing VOD services in Spain and Latin America. Worked directly with the CEO to:• Develop a spin-out plan for mgMedia’s VOD service, including capitalization and investment strategy,• Research markets and competitive landscape, define product requirements,• Refine a market expansion strategy that included rebranding their customer facing service to SmartVideo, and• Drive a content acquisition strategy for competitive advantage.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Movea is a leading provider of sensor agnostic motion sensing software in the healthcare, sports and fitness, and consumer electronics industries.- Created a TV Market Development Strategy - Led Movea’s efforts to embed their SmartMotion platform gesture services in Smart TVs and STBs.

Founded, built, and distributed one of first internet platforms for SmartTVs. Developed and directed all business operations, including strategic planning, product development, finance, and HR. Planned and executed marketing programs.• Raised $1.8M in seed capital and built revolutionary, never-before-deployed technology to TV manufacturers to capture major platform partnerships. • Negotiated/obtained retail distribution and co-marketing agreements across North America and Canada with Best Buy, Sharp, Yahoo, InComm, and Samsung. • Won innovative product award for sports application from Fantasy Sports Trade Association.• Led Rallypoint Systems to successful sale to Connected Sports Ventures.

Founder of an early stage venture capital firm focused on investment and incubation of software and digital media companies- Raised $80M from institutional and private investors over two venture capital funds.- Led 18 investments and negotiated 12 M&A exits.- IPOs with Abovenet Communications (NASDAQ:ABOV, later acquired by Metromedia Fiber for $1.37B) and Active Network (NASDAQ:ACTV, later acquired by Vista Equity for $1.05B)

Founded an innovative, seed-stage investment and consulting practice that coupled business strategy and technology skills with early stage venture capital investment capabilities. - Performed management consulting roles for start-ups and investors, including business strategy, due diligence, business development, partnership development, business plan writing, and executive recruitment.- Raised a $1.5M fund from institutional and individual investors. Returned over 1050% IRR to investors over the life of the fund.

Provo, Ut, Us

Senforce Technologies, Inc. is the leading developer of location-aware security software for enterprise mobile computing. Senforce's flagship product, Enterprise Mobile Security Manager(TM), allows IT Managers to create, deploy, enforce and monitor computer security policies for mobile clients across the enterprise.

eBoomerang is a provider of software for managing product returns. The solution is designed to transform the business problem of returns into bottom line profitability for our customers. It is focused on returns as a business problem and designed to provide improved efficiencies and significant cost savings, as well as the ability to harness the valuable information associated with returns.

Windsor, Ct, Us

Financial Interactive, Inc., provides a comprehensive Investor Relationship Management (IRM) and fund profiling infrastructure to alternative fund managers, fund of funds managers and fund administrators. Financial Interactive's FundRunner product offers contact management, reporting, performance analytics, compliance, and account management as a license or web-based solution. In addition, FundRunner is used to organize and track all constituent fund data and due diligence information.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

TriCN is a leading provider of high performance semiconductor I/O intellectual property. We offer a complete portfolio of interface IP, essential to meet the demands of high performance communications and networking IC designers. We've created a family of Interface-Specific I/Os (ISI/O) and SerDes IP core, which increase speed and data transmission for a broad range of interfaces and applications. These I/Os are validated and complete interfaces, refined to meet the particular needs of the application, reducing IC and system development costs, and increasing product speed and reliability.

Plano, Tx, Us

Recently named “Best of the Web" by Forbes Magazine, and a "Hot Site" by both USA Today and Sports Illustrated for Kids, eteamz.com (www.eteamz.com) is the premier online community for connecting players, coaches and families to the sports they love. eteamz.com brings the excitement of amateur sports to the Internet by providing free team, league and individual web sites, instructional tips & drills, communication tools, and e-commerce and services. eteamz.com continues to experience exponential growth in its membership, now boasting more than 150,000 registered teams worldwide and generating more than 22 million page impressions per month. - Held Board seat until merger of eTeamz with Active Network (active.com) in October, 2000. IPO 2011 (ACTV)

Dublin 2, Ie

Management consultant in TIS-EMEAI group focused on mapping emerging enterprise database, electronic commerce, Internet, and client-server technologies to the problems of large enterprises in the EMEAI region.• Managed technical architecture teams and participated on technology strategy projects. • Managed entire system development lifecycle, defining requirements, designing UI/UX, managing development teams, managing release schedules, building out test environments, and in many cases planning and managing migration paths, including data migration, from installed base to the new processes and technical solutions.- Sold a $10M project to develop a Internet home banking solution for Commerzbank.- Global specialist in database technologies (Informix, Oracle, Sybase), Unix platforms, SAP technical architecture, and emerging Internet and electronic commerce technologies.Consulting clients included:- Commerzbank (Frankfurt, Germany) - Internet banking- Deutschebank (Frankfurt, Germany) - business strategy- British American Tobacco (Staines, England) - business strategy- Siemens KWU-F (Erlangen, Germany) - technical architecture- Hoechst (Frankfurt, Germany) - technical architecture- Woolworths (Cape Town, South Africa) - technical architecture- Trust Company of the West (Los Angeles, California) - technical architecture- State of Washington (Olympia, Washington) - technical architecture- Manufacturers Hanover (New York, New York) - technical architecture

Management consultant for a firm specializing in 4GL development of financial and marketing information systems design for not-for-profits clients.. - Responsibilities included project management, system design, coding, testing and production implementation.- Led the payroll and inventory team in the conversion of the entire Kmart store systems from IBM Series/1 to UNIX and Informix 4GL.Clients included:- Kmart (Detroit, Michigan)- Chicago Community Trust (Chicago, Illinois)- The Chicago Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)- Great Lakes Protection Fund (Chicago, Illinois)- Spencer Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)