David Wood Email & Phone Number

Santa Cruz, California, United States

Non-Profit devoted to improving salmon spawning and reintroduction of Beavers in the California Central Coast.

San Jose, Ca

Responsible for capturing $2B+ in retail payment volume through the Presto tablet in casual dining chains. Responsible for payments, partner ecosystem development, team leadership, certifications, schedule and business strategy.

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for driving annual recurring revenue for large payment systems in the Americas to $20M+. Built sales and deployment team, and led penetration of US and Canadian markets. Positioned firm for acquisition by Mastercard.Key alliances include MasterCard Worldwide, CITI, Softcard, Deloitte, ACI and Ugo wallet in Canada.

San Diego Metropolitan Area

Led development of new revenue streams at Qualcomm. Built and managed teams of up to 15. Responsible for opportunity analysis, strategy, business plan development, consensus building, initial implementation and closing of lighthouse accounts. Key Initiatives:- Mobile Commerce Business Lead 2006 - 2010 Global assessment of e-commerce and mobile payments activity, opportunities and trends. Led creation of Qualcomm vision and recruited support up to C-Level. Assisted in mobile wallet make vs buy analysis, joined M&A team for due diligence - acquired Firethorn for $200M in 2009 to create Qualcomm mobile commerce division. - EGAL Business Lead 2010 - 2011 Business Lead for $30M+ NRE funded project to develop a new satellite communications protocol (EGAL) and integrate it into the standard QC chipset. Managed consortium of 3 satellite MNOs funding project and facilitated development of supporting device ecosystem. Project enables deployment of LTE networks in spectrum previously reserved for satellite communications exclusively.- Digital Traffic Data Services Business Lead 2004 - 2006 Assessed opportunity to monetize position data accumulated by QES division from long haul truck monitoring and tracking. Developed business plan to create historical traffic dataset for US freeway system, and associated real time traffic feed. Managed technical implementation, and licensed the service feed and dataset to INRIX on an exclusive basis.

San Jose, Ca

Member of founding team, served as SVP Sales and Marketing. Led De Carta Software to leadership as the spatial software platform supplier worldwide, with Google, Qualcomm, Yahoo, Yellow Pages.com, Ford Motor Company, Networks in Motion, TeleNav and other marquee customers. Raised over $50M in venture funding, built a team of 20 professionals and guided development of the strongest platform for mobile GIS applications worldwide.

San Francisco Bay Area

Provided consulting, M&A and market development services to the ECM and Document Capture industries. A leader in creation of the TWAIN standard and TWAIN Working Group. Created and produced the Wood Seminars, the leading market development channel used by the capture industry in the 1990s, sold to AIIM and still produced today as the AIIM capture seminars. Built team of 5 professionals and $2M+ annual revenues. Advised on M&A deals totalling more than $500M. Named to Top 10 most influential industry leaders in the US in 1998. Key accounts: HP, IBM, Kodak, Adobe, Qualcomm, IBM, BofA, Wells Fargo, Ricoh, Fujitsu, Nuance, Blue Cross, OpenText, and EMC.

San Jose, Ca

Envisioned the opportunity for a Value Added Distributor focused on the Document Management and BPM marketplace. Sold Law Cypress Distribution on the idea and joined as SVP Document Management. Built the division to $100M in annual revenue in 3 years, and added 30+ new vendors including Hewlett Packard, SUN, IBM, Ricoh, Kodak, Nuance, OpenText and others. Hired and managed group of 30 sales/marketing personnel

San Jose, Ca

Ma, Interactive Educational Technology

Software engineering degree awarded by the School of Education at Stanford.

Ba, International Relations

Education record