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GameIQ, Inc. is an award-winning software company with a unique focus on developing consumer gamification technologies for retail businesses. By combining the most successful principles of game design, loyalty programs, and behavioral economics, GameIQ builds technologies to digitally engage consumers and reward spending.

Site 1001 is the developer of a building performance and operations software platform that uses core building information, building systems, and sensor data in combination with a powerful machine learning engine to put the “smart” in “smart buildings.” Cloud-based, mobile first, and location-aware, Site 1001 helps building owners, operators and facilities managers save money, improve building performance and extend building and asset life by delivering critical facilities information to the right person in the right place at the right time. Backed by a revolutionary building AI technology that continuously monitors building operations to anticipate maintenance needs and can both notify personnel as well as automatically interact with building systems to correct issues, Site 1001 users can improve efficiency, slash FM costs and extend equipment lifecycles without increasing workloads.

The Cove Fund is a seed fund that invests primarily in venture startups with relationships to the UC Irvine (UCI) Applied Innovation Wayfinder incubator, as well as in other Orange County, CA ventures.Funded and led 2 Seed plus companies (GigaIO and Litrinium). Board Member of GigaIO. Did various Due-Diligence of Tech and Med Tech companies. The Fund offers the investor the ability to invest in a carefully selected pool of UCI sourced companies with high growth potential that have been thoroughly vetted before investment and then subsequently guided by experienced investors/entrepreneurs (members of the Investment Committee) who will likely continue to serve as company board members or advisors. Equally important, the Fund will benefit the UCI community by providing a real world laboratory for students, faculty and staff to develop their entrepreneurial skills under the guidance of experienced, early stage investors.

Early stage biotech company focused on developing novel small molecule assets for the treatment of cancer

GigaIO is pioneering high performance, low latency next-generation communication fabrics for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Deep Learning (ML/DL), Edge Computing, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Big Data Analytics and IoT applications. Help raised and lead their Seed Plus and Series A round and priced the round as a lead investor.

Reliant provides Continuous Integrated Risk & Audit Management for Auditors.Reliant provides continuous integrated risk and audit management software for Chief Audit Executives who want to reduce the cost, complexity and uncertainty of enterprise-wide audits. With our flagship offering, ReliantAuditor™, you can achieve efficient audit processes and gain continuous visibility into risks, controls and audit results at any time. Reliant helps you to do more than monitor controls... we help you to manage risk. Others who benefit from our software solutions are CFOs, CCOs, CROs, LoB executives due to integrated approach to financial, operational, compliance, strategic and IT risk and internal controls management. We provide continuous assurance. Our target market is a company with revenue greater than $ 100M.Raised capital and did M&A for the company. Develop from Vision to strategic plan, to annual operating plan, sales forecast, budget & forecasting. Built a high-performance team of professionals. Worked on go to market plan and worked with the team to create the proof of concept, to a minimum viable product (MVP) with our first client, to production launch of on-premise and SaaS product offering.

Responsible for strategic planning, hiring the team, funding, signing customers, planning product and delivering on prototype and products. Hired and lead software developers from US and India. Develop annual operating plans, sales forecasts, periodic forecasts and forecasting schedules.

Started and led the Storage Area Network (SAN) and Semiconductor technology practice. Rainmaker in this position....completed twelve transactions raised $1.5B in funding for companies and generated $44M in bank fees. Did roadshows for IPO & Secondary Market capital raise. Initiated, invested and managed 2 tech private investment funds and invested in 25+ companies. Invested in SAN and Semi companies and was a board member of 2 private companies.

Responsible for sales in S.Cal Storage sector for LSI (Semiconductor). Started Storage sector practice focus & built territory from $ 0 to $ 30M in two years.

Premier Organization in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) sector.