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Management and technical consulting to early-stage software businesses. Identify and assess business opportunities, create effective, fundable business plans, set development plans, recruit staff, conceive initial products, manage product development and product marketing, negotiate distribution agreements, and mentor executive staff. Former Executive Associate with San Jose Software Business Cluster, Executive Advisor with Women’s Technology Cluster. Advisor or board member with several startups, helping create several hundred million dollars in market value. Expert witness and consultant in software patent and contract cases. Speaker and writer on practical use of advanced software technologies.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

I led development of a product that answers English-language questions about a SalesForce database and creates appropriate visualizations. I created a patent-pending wrapper for database management systems that makes the product dramatically easier to port to other database management systems and customize. I continue to guide the team in extending its language understanding capability and systematizing the process for supporting customer-specific fields and SalesForce objects, as well as other CRM databases.

New York, Ny, Us

PREDIQT is developing a global decentralized network enabling consumers to monetize their personal data that is provided to brands and market researchers. A blockchain-based solution rewards consumers for the quality of the data they provide while offering higher-quality market data to businesses.

Opero Partners was a consulting firm whose members are experienced operating executives. We have proven track records helping technology-based businesses achieve their growth and profitability objectives. We also have strong consulting backgrounds, recognizing there’s an “art” to creating value-enhancing change that clients will embrace, and subsequently drive forward on their own. Further, we are experienced institutional and angel investors, which keeps our attention on the business as a whole even as we help operate specific functions.

GoodChange operated the MyChange service, which permits donors to progressive causes like the Sierra Club and Oxfam America to round up their credit, debit, PayPal, or ApplePay purchases and donate the "spare change". The business was sold in November, 2019.

energyOrbit offers a leading platform to utilities for "demand side management" -- managing programs that incentivize residences and businesses to use energy-saving equipment. It has been deployed with many of the leading utilities and 3rd-party implementers in North America

Orinda, Ca, Us

I chaired the committee that screens software- and internet-related deal flow for the largest and most active angel investor group in the San Francisco area. I have led or contributed to due diligence of investment opportunities; led academies to educate fellow angels on valuing patents and other IP; mentored dozens of entrepreneurs.

Co-inventor and co-owner of an intellectual property portfolio of six US patents. They cover consumer-selected advertising in interactive media such as virtual worlds, chat, instant messaging, and web sites. I worked closely with patent attorneys to develop the portfolio, and with a patent broker to sell it.

Cupertino, California, Us

Established group, reporting to Chief Scientist, to coordinate technology developments across business units. Developed Apple's first product roadmap. Led AppleSoft Architecture Council. Executed special projects for CEO's Product Srategy Council, including market and technical strategies for enterprise computing, client-server architecture for K-12 schools, and the Internet.

Princeton, New Jersey, Us

Managed sales, marketing, r&d, and manufacturing for medical device company. Set marketing, financing, regulatory, and technical strategies, raised $2 million in financing. Developed and executed sales plans, managed creditors, implemented FDA-mandated Good Manufacturing Practices.

Articulated strategic goals of merger-&-acquisition program for newly public company, identified and screened candidate software firms, participated in due diligence process. Identified products for licensing or acquisition.

Bottom-line responsibility for operating unit. Brought revenues from software products and training courses from approximately $2.5 million to over $4 million in 15 months. This level of sales enabled IPO as a software products company, raising over $30 million. Established regional sales force. Established marketing or distribution arrangements with five major hardware vendors. Set product strategy emphasizing integration with conventional computing over AI pizzazz.

Managed product development and turnkey system development by 50-person engineering group. Accelerated product release to 7 months from original 20-month plan. Established management controls turning a $1 million unprofitable custom development business into a highly profitable $10 million one in 3 years.

Co-founded MI; developed business plan and raised over $40 million with core team. Managed both systems & product engineering and research & development.Established joint venture with Yaskawa Electric (now Japan's largest robot manufacturer). Defined business and product strategies, supervised product development, recruited robot sales and marketing team. Frequent interaction with Japanese parent. Initiated product development activities in machine vision and English-language data retrieval. Released first general industrial vision system, and first computer-networked robot. Spun data-retrieval activity out as Symantec Corporation, a leading software developer and publisher.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Managed and performed research at Artificial Intelligence Center. Pioneered “modern problem solving.” Developed, marketed and participated in research programs in automated and interactive problem solving, natural-language interaction with data bases, distributed robotics, and programming languages.

Phd, Computer Science

Ms, Computer Science

Ba, Psychology