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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

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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, retained vast majority of key staff

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• Owned the tracking, reporting, management and investment reallocation processes for Cisco Services’ $300M+ portfolio of internal investmentsPromoted from Senior Director to Vice President in 2013Promoted from Director to Senior Director in 2009

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 from Cisco. Developed CXO’s core value proposition based on an extensive knowledge of CIO needs, what information CIOs and other senior executives need to run their businesses, and the enabling value of service-oriented architectures Led all legal and financial closing processes around two VC rounds, raising a total of $11.8 million with strong valuations and up rounds, including strategic investment from Cisco Oversaw full customer delivery cycle to IT executives from sales and scoping to delivery, implementation, and post-implementation support and managed all CXO Systems professional services personnel

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 net income targets. Used research from CIN to create influential thought leadership and assess opportunities in new geographic and vertical markets for Cambridge Technology Partners. Frequently quoted in leading trade and international press. Negotiated the sale of CIN to EarthWeb (now Dice.com) in Q1 2000.

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 re-engineering projects in the US and Europe for clients such as Wells Fargo, IBM, Unisys, Levi Strauss & Co., and Kaiser Permanente.

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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