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Seattle, Wa, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Ossia is leading the world on what is possible with wireless power. Protected by 265 patents with 100+ pending; regulatory approval in 62 countries including US. Ossia is a wireless power IP licensing and fabless semiconductor company. Ossia works like your WiFi for your devices but instead of transmitting data, we send power freeing your devices from power cords and even batteries in some applications. Ossia’s flagship Cota® technology redefines wireless power by safely delivering remote, targeted energy to devices at a distance. Ossia’s Cota technology is a patented smart antenna technology that automatically keeps multiple devices charged without any user intervention and enables an efficient and truly wire-free, on the move, powered-up world that is always on and always connected without direct line of sight or static charging pads. Ossia is headquartered in greater Seattle Washington.

Foster City, Ca, Us

Motiv is a sustainable energy technology company, delivering all-electric chassis for a wide variety of medium duty vehicle applications, utilizing proprietary AdaptEV software, patented power electronics, and industry-leading truck and bus body partners for the commercial EV market. Motiv frees fleets from fossil fuels. More specifically, we design, build, and sell battery electric vehicles (EVs) that enable our commercial fleet customers to move from internal combustion-powered medium duty (class 4-6) trucks and buses to zero-emission versions without giving up performance and usability."It's your truck, but electric."

Seattle, Wa, Us

A division of Continental Automotive Group, Zonar is a hardware-enabled telematics and analytics software company. Responsible for the overall business development function in the OEM/Channel/Reseller Partner verticals. Evaluates and manages new strategic business opportunities, initiatives, partnerships, and alliances. Oversees sales, business development, and operations for all indirect revenue and OEM business. Provides leadership in sales, business development, planning, designing, due diligence, and implementing of business objectives. Defines vision, strategies, and structuring strategic initiatives specific to large deal structures and business planning.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Gratafy is an experience-based social gifting platform that allows people to effortlessly send personalized items such as a glass of wine, specialty cocktail, or dessert from partner restaurants and nightlife venues to Facebook friends.

At Wescom, I provide strategic management and consulting to emerging growth companies. My primary focus was capital formation and structure management for early and secondary stage companies. I have managed a broad array of businesses from inception through all phases of growth and exit. Responsible for managing and structuring Wescom Capital’s strategic partnerships, joint venture, and alliance relationships and supports the company’s mergers and acquisitions, and business development. Developed strategies for leveraged buyouts, equity, and debt financing, hybrid securities, and valuation analysis for publicly-traded and privately-held companies. Managed the structuring of strategic partnerships, joint venture, and alliance relationships and focused on the company’s business development pipeline for the partner network. Provided funding and strategic management, M&A, consulting services to emerging growth companies. Worked on capital raising and management structure for midsized and late-stage companies.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

I am responsible for the IoT platform services at OmniM2M. I lead the development teams to implement customer requirements and new features company-wide. I also manage the P&L for support, operations, sales, marketing, and customer service. This includes a quota for sales and marketing for all new and existing business. Further, I manage and structure all the strategic partnerships, business development, and legal activities company-wide. Under my management, sales have increased 20% month over month with a 98% retention rate.OmniM2M offers an end-to-end solution in the M2M/IoT space. Proprietary software platform that manages any M2M/IoT device into a seamless enterprise dashboard (M2M/IoT as a Service (MaaS)). OmniM2M's unique device-independent IoT/M2M software stack allows tremendous flexibility with hardware devices and integrating with mission-critical enterprise software stacks.

Port Townsend, Wa, Us

I'm responsible for driving the company vision and working with senior management to execute these plans. Have grown the user base to over 1.8M users and growing.Creator Republic is a leading source of the hottest creator videos, deeply focused on surfacing the best video content before anyone else and connecting fans with the content creators through our social video platform. A solution for Social Brands and creators looking to work with Brands. Turn a typical promotion into a socially-driven entertainment experience and let your best customers do the selling! Everyone loves a talent competition! We engage “Brand Fans”, potential customers and targeted Influencers in a video-based contest, which rewards your fans/customers. Creator Republic is a place for who and what is awesome online.https://www.facebook.com/CreatorRepublic/Twitter: http://twitter.com/creatorrepublicTumblr: http://creatorrepublic.tumblr.com/YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/creatorrepublicCompany exit to uZoom: https://www.geekwire.com/2017/video-streaming-marketplace-uzoom-acquires-creator-republic/

As part of the founding team, it was essential to design a mobile platform from the ground up. We began operations with a scalable blogging platform, WordPress, which is utilized by millions of top brands and influencers in real estate. Managed a team of developers, developed all revenue models, sales and marketing plans, and executed an accelerated sales plan that was at 530% upon exit. Personally responsible for the sale and marketing outreach that grew the business to over a thousand customers in an eight-month period which included over 60 MLS in the USA and two foreign markets through social media and industry blogging. In October 2013, the company was sold to a private company looking to adapt and replace their existing technology with a more scalable mobile platform returning over 10x to investors.Generate leads and grow your client base with ease. Spot-on Connect IDX supercharges your online marketing efforts, ensuring that homebuyers can easily find you online. Spot-on Connect gives you full MLS search and visitor data capture capabilities previously available to only the largest brokerages and real estate companies – making you look like and market like a superstar to thousands of potential leads. You’re not chained to a desktop computer all day. Neither are homebuyers. They’re on the go, using laptops, mobile phones and tablets to search for properties. Many researchers estimate that by 2015, more people will access the Internet from mobile devices than from computers. Will you be ready? Spot-on Connect links buyers to you via any device, anywhere, any time of day. You don’t have to do anything to ensure that your search pages automatically scale themselves to fit the screens of today's most popular devices such as iPad's, iPhones, Android, and Windows. Spot-on Connect does that for you.

Company successfully launched a mobile content platform at the following clients: Rockwell Collins, OTG Management and Siemens. Managed business development, sales, account management, IT, development, marketing, content acquisition, payment, and programming. Lead team that signed and maintained key customers such as Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Sprint PCS, T-Mobile and Alcatel Lucent on the mobile side of the business. Primarily focused on the sales, business development and product sides of the business in product categories such as media, payment, mobile messaging, consumer and enterprise-based products. Led strategic planning and resource allocation, established operational processes/process improvement, managed strategy implementation, in particular regarding budgets and timelines, set operational and or performance goals for each department which were aggressive, achievable and tied to long-term goals.AirCloud™ is a PaaS company that provides facilities with a turnkey customized mobile experience that is highly relevant to the end user along with the ability to recoup and further make money on their Wi-Fi network. Simply put, AirCloud™ is a software and content services company that makes Wi-Fi networks fun! We do it by providing each mobile user with entertainment specific to each site that is perfect for all their entertainment needs. AirCloud™ built an unprecedented content library unsurpassed by anyone in the industry. Partners include Sony Music, Universal Music Group, EMI Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Warner Brothers Studios, Sony Pictures, GLU Mobile, EA Entertainment, RealNetwork’s GameHouse, Big Fish Games, Bing, Corbis, Getty, Toshiba, Disney, and Google.AirCloud's relationships and experience of programming large carriers decks such as Alcatel-Lucent, Sprint and T-Mobile, management have leveraged this expertise to bring relevant programming to the network of locations that allows us to maximize returns for our merchants and advertisers.

Bio-DC provides biodegradable products from renewable resources and offers intelligent, environmentally-friendly solutions to waste management applications.

Taylor Creek Associates is a mobile services company focused on content management and mobile strategy. We have established a strong reputation for providing superior strategy and service to companies either entering the mobile marketplace or building upon their existing strategy to extend their mobile business to the next level. Taylor Creek Associates works with over 50 key content partners and major music labels, sourcing the highest quality content while targeting specific demographics. We provide a comprehensive approach to content acquisition, management, programming and marketing, helping carriers increase revenue, acquire new subscribers and retain their current customers. Taylor Creek Associates’ expertise and relationships in the mobile community serve as the foundation for helping our partners meet their business goals and objectives and ensure their long-term success in the highly competitive and ever-changing mobile marketplace.

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Responsible for forecasting to senior management, sales compensation, and marketing. Work with major record labels and movie studios to negotiate contracts for distribution of music and movies over the Internet. Manage media solutions ranging from product requirements to market positioning for sales. Responsible for negotiating partnerships with well-known portals interested in having a media presence. Engaged daily in contract negotiations and relationship building within the company. Discovered, and implemented, new business strategies for secure digital distribution of rich media content within leading media and entertainment companies, wireless, and major brand companies (also co-managed webcasting business unit – including P&L).

Loudeye acquired Acivate.net in January of 2000).Responsible for developing a carrier channel within the sales organization to re-sell streaming services to its current and prospective end-users. Managed five sales and three event managers who were responsible for over $4 million in revenue, which is 50% of total revenue. Led the management and growth of such customers like AT&T, Sprint, WorldCom, Genesys Conferencing, InterCall, Genesys, Global Crossing, Exodus, Nortel, and ABC. Negotiated large contracts and created partnerships with communications carriers, vendors and Fortune 500 organizations.Established alliances with ten major integration partners and attained ranking as the top #1 sales producer within just one year, generation $3.5 million annually.Generated the highest volume of new accounts company-wide and was recognized with a “Top Sales Achievement Award” the company’s most prestigious honor.Worked with the Microsoft Studios group as a vendor of choice for Microsoft external streaming projects like TechEd.Created marketing materials, customer training program, and procedures manuals.Promoted to Sales & Business Development Director, DMS Division.Top producer in exceeding quota (200% quota attainment YTD).

Directed, marketing, training, and corporate communication strategies within major accounts such as Nortel, AT&T, Microsoft Corp., Boeing, Deere & Co., Go2Net, Infospace and Sprint.Delivered complex end-to-end Enterprise webcasting solutions for F1000 corporate communication, corporate and partner training and general brand marketing strategies and needs.Responsible for revenue attainment of $1M annually through new business generation and revenue growth of existing F1000 enterprise accounts.Top producer in exceeding quota (210% quota attainment YTD).Grew Western Regional sales by 200% in 2000.Created proposals, business cases, and responded to RFP's.Promoted to Senior Sales Director of Channel Sales.

Managed a group of four sales reps. who sold and implemented complex networking solutions for customers spending more than ten thousand dollars per month on telecommunication services. Had a monthly team quota of $1M in new business.• The types of services sold were both voice-and data related, including frame relay solutions, hosting, Internet solutions, ATM & IP solutions, and point to point circuits. Managed services and dedicated long distance services • Sales team performance was 310% above quota.

Sold and implemented complex networking solutions for customers spending more than ten thousand dollars per month on telecommunication services. The target accounts had monthly billings between $100k to $550k. The types of services sold were voice, dedicated long distance services, data-related, including Frame Relay Solutions, Hosting, Internet Solutions, ATM & IP Solutions, Point to Point circuits, Managed Services and software licensing for hosted services. Qwest worked very closely and partnered with Microsoft, KPMG, Cisco, Nortel, and other hardware providers to provide a seamless and soup-to-nuts solution. Qwest assigned each account executive, in addition to Qwest services, monthly hardware, and software license quota.Sales performance was 400% above quota.Promoted to Sales Manager.

• Developed solutions and applications for new and existing customers • Responsible for telephone prospecting and personal research for generating leads • Very fast-paced and goal-oriented environment that demanded immediate results and strict weekly performance evaluations • Exceeded monthly and yearly performance metrics by 300%

Delivered Internet marketing service for major local, national and international companies.Managed website relations and Internet promotions with merchant partners and promotions with event coordinators and sponsors (major record labels, band promoters, radio stations, and merchants).Responsible for all online and ad sales.Exceeded monthly and yearly performance metrics by 225%.

Business Administration, Marketing And Management

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Business