Ed Baum Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, United States

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San Francisco Bay Area

CEO Mentor to over a dozen Alchemist Accelerator companies. Advised Replex which was acquired by CiscoAdvised many Alchemist companies after they graduated the Alchemist program, including 11Sight, CryptoMove, and NFWare

San Francisco Bay Area

Chai Vault is the first anti-fraud solution for wines and spirits that allows potential buyers to know a bottle is authentic and view provable provenance, before purchase, without physical proximity to the bottle.

San Jose

• Led global strategy, planning and operations for multiple business units across Cisco's cloud infrastructure software businesses
• Owned P&L for multiple externally-facing Cisco cloud platform businesses including Metacloud
• Sculpted Cisco cloud strategy and positioning; leading presenter of Cisco cloud strategy to customer executives
• Led the integration of Cisco cloud platform acquisitions, including Metacloud, Piston Cloud Computing and ContainerX; shaped businesses to fit Cisco business model, mentored business leaders within Cisco culture.

San Jose, California

• Led the global strategy, planning, investment portfolio management and governance processes for Cisco’s $10 billion services division.
• Led the global strategy, planning, investment portfolio management and governance processes for Cisco Services, driving growth from $4B in FY 2006 to $10B in FY 2012
• Led Services strategy development across all customer segments and business functions
• Engaged by EVP/COO across two major Company transformation; Recommendations were implemented resulting in over $3B of cost savings and $1B of reinvestment opportunity.
• Led numerous strategic engagements including Cisco's launch into data center virtualization and converged infrastructure, managed services, cloud, XaaS, globalization and the Internet of Things (IoT)
• Owned the strategic planning process for Cisco Services, coordinating a global extended team of over 200 people and driving Services planning process innovation into the rest of Cisco

Sunnyvale, California

CXO Systems was a leading provider of network-based business and risk intelligence software for senior executives whose primary assets were acquired by Cisco. Grew CXO Systems from an idea to a global software company with solid technology, predictable revenue, significant customers such as ADP, FedEx, and H&R Block, and partnership with and investment.

San Francisco, California

Tactical Consulting was a boutique consulting firm dedicated to providing strategic and practical executive services to IT executives of large organizations. Tactical Consulting areas of focus included M&A diligence, strategy development and alignment, and resource allocation.

San Francisco, California

President and co-founder of the Cambridge Information Network (CIN), a division of Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP). CIN was the largest online and offline community of senior CIOs in the world, representing $100 billion of IT spend. Led CIN through two years of rapid growth in revenue and more than 3000 members while consistently meeting or exceeding.

San Francisco, California

Axiom was a boutique consulting firm specializing in Business Process Re-engineering and Information Engineering, providing strategic planning and operational implementation services for large organizations on a global basis that was acquired by Cambridge Technology Partners in October 1995. Led numerous management consulting and business process.

Chicago, Illinois

Designed and programmed major components of Accenture’s Computer Aided Software Engineering software package, DESIGN/1, as a part of its Technical Services Organization.

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