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Universal Distribution provides high-touch replacement parts and accessories concierge services for luxury appliance brands throughout the US and Canada. At Universal, we believe that the level of post-sales replacement parts support a customer receives helps determine their ongoing loyalty to the brand. Universal provides the highest level of OEM parts and accessories support for luxury brands such as Viking, Lynx, Alfresco and others, as well as commercial brands such as True Refrigeration.

Leading the development of the Voice and AI-powered platform at Speak Music.Speak Music brings disruption-free entertainment and productivity to mobile users through voice and natural language understanding. Our partners include Amazon, Google, Spotify, iHeartMedia, iHome, TIDAL, and Monster. Our Melody platform powers over 3 million co-branded devices. With Muse Auto, we are transforming how consumers and enterprises access their content in the car.Speak Music is funded by Stanford StartX and angel investors.

Brisbane, California, Us

Executive leadership position within a dynamic organization that's a global leader in connectivity solutions, headphones, power conditioning products, audio products, and numerous other product lines. This unique entrepreneurial cross-functional position includes setting strategic direction, business development, brand marketing, strategic partnerships, celebrity integration, Internet strategy, new product development, technology development, among others. Signed partnership deals with major media companies such as iHeart Media and Viacom. Report directly to CEO.

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Founded NY based VC backed Technology Company that developed the groundbreaking Wirewize platform. Wirewize is the industry's only "brand and model specific" platform that assists consumers in properly setting up and using their complex consumer electronics devices. Conceived of and hired teams to build the only artificial intelligence system that creates a dynamic connections roadmap based on the specific devices customers own. The artificial intelligence system “reasons” as to the optimal connectivity scenarios and cable requirements for virtually any brand/model combination dictated by user lifestyle preferences and product functionality.Successfully negotiated licensing agreements with major consumer electronics retailers and manufacturers to adopt Wirewize to reduce no-fault-found product returns and unnecessary service-related truck rolls. Clients included Panasonic, Samsung, Vizio, LG, and Best Buy among others.Successfully raised $1.5m in venture capital funding.

New York, New York, Us

Conceived of Partsearch in 1999, founded the venture backed company in 2001 and served as President until 2005. Grew the company from an idea to a profitable industry leading company with $70m in annual revenue.Created the industry’s largest B2C E-commerce site (www.partstore.com) and provided B2B outsourcing services to most of the nation’s top retailers like Best Buy for replacement parts services in the consumer electronics, mobile, computer and appliance industries.• Raised $20m of venture capital over four rounds and built the business through organic growth by developing a platform that supported the continuous introduction of new products to serve the B2B and B2C markets.• Led Partsearch through multiple phases of growth including a complete technology platform build, multiple upgrade cycles of management, and development of new products and business models.• Designed and built the industry's first cross-vertical drop ship supply chain system and electronic parts catalog that dramatically improved the customer experience as well as the efficiency of the replacement parts business for retailers and service centers.• Developed and sold SaaS platform to major retailers to improve labor efficiency and reduce costly data errors.• Built state-of-the-art 150 seat call center in Kingston, New York utilizing in-house developed CRM system, providing needed jobs in depressed economic development zone.• The company has been recognized numerous times for its success including the INC 500 list, and Deloitte and Touche’s Top 500 growth businesses nationally.• Successfully negotiated and signed deals with every major electronics, appliance manufacturer and electronics retailer in the U.S. to adopt Partsearch as an industry solution.

Cypress, Ca, Us

Served as liaison between U.S. and Japan in the co-development of all new audio/video products for the U.S. market. Also developed marketing campaigns and training programs for U.S. market, while serving as company spokesperson for all industry related trade shows.