At FounderPartners I help startups build their companies by providing product, business and technical expertise to founders.

Investor / advisor: MyHomeParkTesteryFacepayLeadfernoPorter MetricsSpace InvoicesInvestor / shareholder: Epic GamesUrban CatalystTiny Rolling Fund

I co-led Ford X (Ford's venture accelerator), and helped startup teams build new mobility businesses in areas such as Micromobility, Connected Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles and Electric Vehicles.

GatherUp (formerly GetFiveStars) serves over 20,000 businesses globally, helping them gather, manage and market their customer experiences including customer feedback and online reviews. GatherUp was acquired by Alpine Software Group in November 2019!

GatherUp is a customer feedback and review management system that helps businesses build better relationships with their customers.

Expand2Web provides software and training to help small businesses succeed online. Expand2Web launched several subscription products including the SmallBiz WordPress theme, the Expand2Web Experts Group, and most recently GatherUp - an automated feedback and review management service to help businesses business build better relationships with their customers.

Managed products and established partnerships with key technology partners for digital video delivery of live and VOD content. Launched Red Bull TV partnerships and apps for Apple TV, Xbox, Google Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Sony and others.

In this role I built relationships with partners, customers and communities to demonstrate the value of building on Office and Office Live (software-as-a-service) platforms.I managed the on-boarding process for the first 30 partners to build on the new Office Live platform. As a Microsoft technical evangelist, I built prototypes, demonstrations, and proof-of-concepts to develop compelling use-cases of Office and other Microsoft technologies integrated with other systems.As a vehicle for platform evangelism, I managed and developed Office developer content on the popular Channel 9 developer community (http://channel9.msdn.com) including sample applications, blogs, screencasts, podcasts, wikis, video podcasts and community participation reaching over 4 million visitors per month.

- Defined complete Web services Management Platform for early-stage start-up company in emerging Web services market. - Established partnerships with strategic technology partners resulting in VP and CTO level relationships with IBM and Sun. - Defined product offerings within each partner’s eco-system and attained advanced partner levels and validation within both IBM and Sun. Established initial partnerships with BEA and Oracle.- Built and performed compelling product demonstrations to Fortune 1000 companies, evangelized Infravio products and Web services technologies resulting in the company’s first four enterprise customers.

At Interwoven, I started out in technical sales, then moved to key product management and business development roles in this full-cycle startup that grew from 40 people to 1,000 and a successful IPO.

Managed the Ford Credit website production process, including content development, website updates across vendors and internal developers, coordinating production server and firewall issues with hosting facilities. Designed and developed Java-based electronic commerce services including a mission-critical commercial paper trading system, and Ford Credit's pre-approval application integrated with the Ford Motor virtual shopping service.