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Charlotte / Virtual, Us

Fractional Chief Innovation Officer / Chief Digital Officer / Chief Technology Officer / Digital Operating PartnerStrategic Advisor & Board Member >> Innovation & Transformation Catalyst >> AI-driven Transformation >> Channel Partner Builder for Innovation Providers >> I'm passionate about empowering businesses to achieve success through innovation. I leverage my experience across three key areas:Strategic Guidance: As a trusted advisor and board member, I provide invaluable insights and guidance to companies and help them navigate complex challenges to achieve their objectives.Executive Catalyst: I act as a catalyst for innovation and transformation. I help businesses kick start and accelerate initiatives and new ventures through vision, strategic planning and execution.Channel Partner Expertise: I bridge the gap between cutting-edge solutions and the audiences who need them most. Partnering with DxEcosystems, we connect innovative providers with the right clients, maximizing growth and impact for all.Portfolio:- GODOT - industrial waste-to-energy solutions- Trust-Place - digital certificates for high-end brands- DxEcosystems - curation and delivery of digital interactions & customer engagement innovations to the corporate marketplace.- Infoslips - OnRamp to Digital engagement. Interactive, Hyper-Personalized Correspondence, revolutionizing how to communicate with customers- Blue Rush - Digital/Customer engagement, creating engaging customer journeys with personalized video- Quaeris - AI enabled BI (Conversational Queries)

London, England, Gb

Working with R² Data Labs, the innovation catalyst and accelerator inside Rolls-Royce. Our goal is to act as a development hub and accelerator to bring innovations and ideas to fruition quickly to drive growth and transformation through AI and data analytics in an industrial engineering context.Building the R² Data Labs Innovation Ecosystem – a wide community of innovators including OEM partners, tech providers, cutting edge data innovation start-ups and academics. By matching outside partners with our internal expertise and engineering excellence we are looking to unlock new value from data with a collaborative ‘co-creation’ approach.Key areas of interest:* machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, AI (augmented intelligence)* IoT, streaming data, real time analytics* Digital Twin - a digital version of a physical object. think engine, turbine, etc.* sustainability in supply chains

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Worked with founders as part of executive leadership team to re-imagine transportation of the future. Built a platform for autonomous aerial systems and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), using emerging technology with human centered design to redefine the future.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Built out the Digital Transformation practice for Dell/NTT Data Digital Business Services. My specialty is being a generalist, although have focused on regulated industries; Banking/Finance & Healthcare.Demonstrating the Art of the Possible, providing clients with a business-first holistic view of how digital technologies, platforms & eco-systems can focus customer interactions, spark innovation and transform the enterprise. Providing thought leadership, building relationships and evangelizing Digital Transformation to clients & internal stakeholders.+Digital Innovation+Digital Business Strategy+Digital Transformation Consulting+Consumer Engagement+Change Agent

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Technology & Digital Innovation > Product Development > Enterprise Adoption > Business DevelopmentWorked with Fortune 100 executive management, focused on innovation & transformation. Known for “getting it done”.Sample Roles & Engagements:Enterprise Technology Innovation - Look at innovation from an enterprise level, create partner ecosystems, engage with global emerging tech startups, VCs, Incubators etc. and inject that into the enterprise.Digital Transformation - Look through departmental and corporate boundaries to achieve a true customer focused end-to-end transaction experience.Digital Innovation /Technology Scout -- Work with Chief Digital Officer & Technology Innovation Officers to launch an enterprise innovation function. Build an ecosystem of innovation partners; partnerships with VCs, technology companies, fintech start-ups, etc, Key interface to internal business units to match up emerging technologies and trends to strategic objectives. Due diligence on emerging technologies and start-ups to understand the technology fit, risk assessment, growth opportunities etc. Labs/New Product Development -- Focused on applied exploration and rapid development of new digital growth opportunities in social media & publishing, mobile capabilities, emerging payments, big data analytics to drive sustainable growth across the enterpriseProgram/Project Leader -- Manage large scale, complex projects. Great at dissecting a problem, forming a hypothesis and putting a plan in place to execute a solution. Clients include: CapitalOne, Charles Schwab, Fidelity Investments, Wells Fargo, Cisco, DirecTV, McKesson, Walgreens, Bauer Publishing, Netcentives

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Start-up focused on driving enterprise IT adoption, using methodologies adapted from change management, organizational development and process improvement fields. Leveraged cloud & big data to create analytics platform (patent pending) capable of monitoring & analyzing millions of enterprise (ERP & CRM) user transactions to drive improvement in adoption rates of 30-50%

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Supported Senior Schwab executive, launched Enterprise Technology Innovation & Business Development function, sourced opportunities, developed & nurtured inter-company relationships, negotiated business terms & conditions, co-ordinated due diligence activities for major strategic partnerships to drive incremental multi-million dollar revenues, including the largest partnership in the history of the firm.

CDO & Co-Founder of start-up new media company bringing together traditional publishing with online social networking to create active online communities. Achieved top 2 category circulation and 1M active online users within 18 months. Valiantly tried to keep pace with Facebook, Youtube and other social media sites (MySpace, Hi5, Bebo). with a fraction of the budget

New York, Ny, Us

Disrupted the prevailing sales and distribution model for mobile devices by creating the 1st fully integrated price comparison, online purchase and fulfillment platform for mobile phones, providing overnight delivery of mobile devices to consumers. The platform was used by online and store retailers including; Microsoft (MSNMobile), Yahoo!Mobile, Best Buy, and integrated backend with 30+ telco partners, including; CellStar, Ericsson, T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon (Bell Atlantic), etc. Now trading as wirefly.com.

Co-Founder & CTO, MaxMiles was the first internet technology infrastructure for online account aggregation services. Named “the leading company in its field” by the Wall Street Journal, MaxMiles technology was adopted by American Express, AOL, Microsoft, SABRE, Target & Wal-Mart. MaxMiles was acquired by American Express (NYSE:AXP).MaxMiles original business plan and pitch was a finalist at the Super Bowl of investment competitions, the Venture Labs Investment Competition (previously Moot Corp) held by the University of Texas at Austin.

Gb

Management Consulting to Change Integration/IT, BPO and Tax Technology GroupsFounding member of Tax Technology Group, creating the first Corporate Tax compliance system in Australia. Product dominated the market for years.

B. Eco, Economics, It

Executive Program, Executive Management

Education record

Masters: Getting Stuff Done

Chemical Engineering