- Founder & CEO of Blackbox, a Silicon Valley-based nonprofit working to elevate entrepreneurs across the globe.- Connector; effectively matching human capital and venture capital needs across the globe- Angel investor, mentor & business partner to international startup accelerators such as Communitech, Nasscom, SeedCamp, Rockstart, NUMA, iBeta, StartupBootcamp, StartupChile, Enterprise Estonia, Etc.- Frequent speaker at incubators & accelerator, tech innovation & startup conferences, education initiatives and related economic development policy discussions around the world.- 15 years experience working with the venture capital community and talented technology entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley to -often exclusively- craft and execute strategies for recruiting and building core teams for early-stage & high-growth startups companies such as Chromatic Research/ATI, Intraspect/VGNT, PeakStream/GOOG, SixAprt/SayMedia, Bebo/AOL, Splunk/SPLK, Zynga/ZNGA, Lala/AAPL, Tapulous/DIS, CubeTree/SFSF, Apture/GOOG, ShopKick, Etc.My vision is to awaken the entrepreneur within everyone and support the creation of one global entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Listed skills include Leadership, Product Marketing, Team Building, E Commerce, and 44 others.