Gino Borland Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Clean Energy for Biden (CE4B) is a network of business leaders and advocates united to elect Joe Biden as President of the United States and advance America’s clean energy economy. CE4B mobilizes the clean economy workforce and allies to shape policy, raise funds, and get out the vote.

Seattle, Wa

Entrepreneurial product leader specialized in building high-performing teams and processes to translate strategic business requirements into a technical product roadmap to increase engineering productivity and enabling operations to meet business objectives. Envisioned, hired, mentored, and inspired a Product Management organization to transition from scrappy startup to cross the chasm in preparation for exponential growth objectives, resulting in a specialized, high-functioning team with a customer-centric, collaborative, and multiplier culture. Developed a Product Management roadmapping process. Validated value propositions with early adopter customers, introduced modern product methodologies (Lean, Agile) and tools (Aha, Jira, Slack, Confluence), cross-departmental collaborative requirements gathering, prioritization, success criteria, and validation, resulting in 600% increase in new markets, 60% increase in engineering productivity and 90% releases on (or ahead) of schedule. Supported the technical PreSales Engineering team, providing sales modeling, hardware supplier and costs, proof points, and contract and demonstration support to enable sales, resulting in 1,500% increase in sites modeled, 1,300% increase in new customers, 4,100% increase in MW and 25,000% MWh deployed. Built the first Network Operations Center organization. Responsible for hiring, process, and providing product support to deploy and operate in a fast growing operational environment, resulting in 960% increase in new sites deployed with 100% customer retention. Guided product strategy by influencing a more focused go-to-market plan via limited new market entry until product-market fit validated, set attainable OKR/KPIs, and educated a project-oriented global utility to a technology-oriented product culture.

Seattle, Wa

Seattle, Wa

SwitchUp helps shoppers align their spending with their values, making it more profitable for large corporations to be better global citizens.As an impact entrepreneur, transitioned from Social Enterprise Startup Weekend mentor (winning “Best Overall Startup”) to SwitchUp founder and CEO. Articulated mission, vision, strategy, funding, recruiting, and inspiring team to help companies monetize Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, resulting in startup formation. Customer development and product experimentation via interviews, surveys, adwords, prototypes, and leadgen/affiliate transactions to monetize Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives resulting in validated consumer value proposition, validated shopping behavior change, and multiple business model pivots. Developed Product Roadmap applying Lean Startup build-measure-learn principles via experiments and prototypes to provide personalized merchant CSR scores to shoppers before, during, and after purchases, resulting in rapid product development cycle and fast learning.

Greater Seattle Area

Starting as a mentor for Social Enterprise Startup Weekend, got caught up in the frenzy and joined a team who won Best Overall Startup. Our prize was participation in the Founders Institute, which was intensely fun.

Greater Seattle Area

Cake Ventures mission is to accelerate widespread clean energy deployments. The name Cake derives from making the world a better place and make money doing it – ’cake and eat it, too’.An impact entrepreneur and angel investor with expertise in software, renewable energy, and due diligence. Recognized as an active member in the CleanTech technology, policy, and advocacy ecosystem. Due diligence and seed investments (individually and as Element 8 members) to fund business model validation supporting six clean energy technology startups with two exits. Articulated new clean energy business clarifying mission, vision, market research, customer development, strategy, and recruited a team to unblock project finance for community, distributed mid-scale projects, resulting in Cake Ventures formation. Developed the first online marketplace for clean energy assets to lower project finance transaction costs. Developed the first crowdfunding website for clean energy projects via self-directed Certificates of Deposits.

Greater Seattle Area

Evaluate cleantech opportunities for startup company formation based on UW research.

Greater Boston Area

Global evangelist for integrated Customer Relationship Management and email marketing; strategic M&A support.

Greater Seattle Area

Founded one of the first personalized email marketing enterprise software companies. Funded primarily by it's launching customer, Microsoft; as well as Madrona Venture Group, Arch Ventures and local angels. Acquired in 1999 by Xchange, Inc (Nasdaq: EXAP)

Greater Seattle Area

Managed a team of 30 software engineers shipping multiple versions of Windows 3270 terminal emulation enterprise software. Foundational cross departmental management experience with Executives, Customers, Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, User Experience, Documentation, HR, etc...