Responsible for Internet Business revenues and operations (T-Online and SCOUT24), Information Technology services, Network Architecture technologies, T-Ventures, and new business initiatives. Hired initially to grow/incubate new businesses, pivoted towards cost savings as the Eurozone crisis and cash constraints dominated the company. Initiated the TERASTREAM (WAN/DC SDN architecture) project, consolidated disparate corporate IT elements (annual savings > €90mm) resulting in faster, better execution, initiated and delivered the Buy-In corporate purchasing JV with France Telekom and Deutsche Telekom, delivering very substantial savings based on joint purchasing volumes.

Assisting Range with investment strategy, executive team recruitment, and go to market scaling.

Met regularly with internal M&A teams.Met regularly with internal Sales and Marketing executives.Met regularly with CEO and other board members.

Chair, Audit Committee (2002-2007)Investment CommitteeCompensation Committee

Compensation Committee

Served on Compensation Committee, Investments and Acquisitions Committee... Symbol was acquired by Motorola in 2007.

Successfully raised $12M in Round B.Recruited VP Engineering, Sales, and Support.Negotiated with Music Industry CEO's.

Member, Investments & Acquisitions CommitteeMember, Compensation Committee

Compensation, Investments and Acquisition advice

Compensation committee, Investment committee. Assisted company with spin-out from Reuters into private company, then with IPO two years later.

Responsible for Consulting Engineering, Business Development, Government Relations, Corporate Legal, Technology Investments/M&A, Chief Technology OfficerFirst internal promotion to Director, VP, SVP, and Board MemberJoined company with 33 people early 1989. Responsible for indirect channel support, technology relationships/partnerships, creation of a global Consulting Engineering pre-sales activity, technology venture investing, M&A, post-Merger integration. Minority pre-IPO investments into TIBCO, CASCADE Communications, Internet Network Services (INS) among others.Creation of Nihon Cisco JV (Cisco's only JV, consisting of Cisco, Softbank, NEC, Toshiba, Itochu, Fujitsu, and several other Japanese companies resulting in an extremely strong Japanese market position.24 technology acquisitions. Targeted and acquired 3 Ethernet switching companies in 18 months (1993-95) resulting in Cisco's dominant LAN switching position and revenue stream. Acquired a small company in 1995 (Network Translation) bringing one of the first firewall products to market and later one of the first Load Sharing (LocalDirector) products to market, both resulting in very large revenue streams for Cisco.

Hired, managed, and marketed a team of young engineers working on highly distributed computing and database applications on early TCP/IP networks (Packet Radio and landline networks).