VeraCloud unlocks perspective & clarity for better understanding of diverse businesses & capabilities, expands access & connection into diverse vendor marketplaces, and unlocks opportunities in contracting, operational spending and procurement to promote diversity inclusion. VeraCloud Programs enable State & Local Government, Private Companies and Higher Education to expand diversity efforts and more easily identify, credential and utilize diverse vendors. VeraCloud Technologies enable organizations to leverage operational spending & procurement and focus economic benefit within a targeted area, like their operational footprint, financially supporting diverse businesses and helping promote, enrich and sustain the local people and communities they serve.

Strategic Consultant, Government Affairs & Business Development ExpertDynamic, consultative, business veteran with 20+ years experience driving profitable revenue growth for companies via business development, strategic partnerships, and lobbying relationships. Multi-industry work includes financial services, insurance, transportation, property management, durable and non-durable manufacturing, medical device, health management, retailing, CPG, wireless, internet, green technologies, nanotechnology, and others.New York State Government relations, business development, procurement, and public/private partnership expert. New York State Lobbyist.• Advise clients on multiple aspects of Government compliance including NYS ESD, NYS DEC, NYS Tax and Finance and NYS Dept of Labor.Business Development • Work with client executive teams to scale company growth. Client Development• Advise clients on efficient navigation of New York State Government, including its Agencies and Authorities. • Expert Empire State Development economic development strategist, M/WBE rules and regulations in NYS and surrounding region. • Facilitate introductions for Government clients to parallel opportunities with other State Governments.

The Albany Institute is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and promoting interest in the history, art, and culture of Albany and the Upper Hudson Valley. The museum achieves this mission through its collections, exhibitions, education programs, library, research projects, publications, and other programs offered to the general public.Special Events Organizer & Fundraiser. Member, Individual Giving Committee.

Actasys is a startup incubated out of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Flow Physics and Control and is focused on the development of active aerodynamic systems that increase the fuel efficiency of ground transport vehicles. Championed Actasys with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and secured with them a $500,000 development grant to pilot their technology. http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Price-Chopper-joins-RPI-test-using-air-flow-to-5414000.php

Mentor for teams in annual US Cleantech competition.The Cleantech Open is a not-for-profit organization that runs the world’s largest accelerator for cleantech startups. Our mission is to find, fund and foster entrepreneurs with big ideas that address today’s most urgent energy, environmental and economic challenges.Since our founding in 2005 by leaders in Silicon Valley and Boston, our organization has established itself as the leading force for accelerating clean technology entrepreneurs. Of the over 1,000 companies we have worked with in the United States alone, nearly half have gone on to raise external capital now totaling over ONE Billion dollars!A network of more than 2,000 volunteers powers this process: remarkable professionals who lend their time and expertise to entrepreneurs, facilitating the growth of the cleantech industry and the positive impact that will come from such technologies.http://www2.cleantechopen.org/

KTS leverages its core competencies, and those of our affiliated network of experts, to provide strategy, product/service evolution, channel development, strategic partnership, and other critical expertise to our clients. With a multinational footprint, we focus on IP & technology driven companies in the following areas ripe for innovation and profitable commercialization: • Retail/In-store Technology-based marketing services for FMCG and CPG (including Advertising, Promotion, and DB marketing) Our team has combined years of consultative selling into the world’s most powerful retailers: Walmart, Target, Kroger, Ahold, Home Depot, The Gap, JC Penney, 7-11, Sears, Walgreens, CVS, Osco, and others. KTS is well positioned in all of the various retail verticals in North America as well as with the largest retailers in Europe including Carrefour, Tesco, Marks & Spencer Tengleman's, Metro, Auchan, & SPAR.• Mobile & Location Based Services (including RFID enabled)• Digital media/Communications • Membership organizations & Loyalty platforms KTS analyzes client needs, channel, and market opportunities, and provides value creation services that include:- Corporate Strategy- Definition & execution of strategic partnerships (including negotiation, closure, & management of dynamic deal structures & opportunities)- Product/Service Refinement & Development- Database/Insight Development & Measurement- Financial- Operational ManagementWe fuel our clients’ profitable growth by leveraging our global expertise in the navigation & cultivation of customer, technology, market, financial, and governmental ecosystems. We enable our clients’ executive teams to better articulate & commercialize what makes them unique…dramatically enhancing their go-to-market capabilities.KTS is technologically agnostic. For each of our clients, we dynamically create and champion the integration & utilization of tools and platforms best suited to scale profitable growth.

Warehouse and Commercial Real Estate development.

Founded and operated a real estate property management company to manage $ multi-million portfolio of non-performing assets of Trustco Bank: office buildings, shopping malls, and apartment complexes.