Prisidio is a digital vault that allows you to capture, keep safe, and securely share your most important information with your family and trusted advisors. With Prisidio, it’s easy to keep your affairs in order and yourself prepared for whatever may happen in life.

OCA Ventures is an early stage (Seed, Series A, and Series B) venture capital firm focused on equity investments in companies with dramatic growth potential, primarily in technology and highly-scalable services businesses. OCA invests in many industries, with a preference for technology, financial services, education and healthcare technology. Founded in 1999, the firm is investing out of its fourth fund in companies spread throughout the United States.

DACRA is an easy to use Municipal Enforcement System for officers and administrators to improve your current e-citation and adjudication processes. Modernize your municipality’s violation procedures such as Parking, Code, Animal, Administrative Towing, and State ticking. Keep your officers and community safe and save time with simplified mobile ticketing features that benefit your collections.

Mentor to the companies participating in the Techstars Accelerator program in Chicago.

In this role my focus is to keep NAR and its members at the forefront of emerging technologies and business trends that will guide the Association and industry into the future. Specifically, I am responsible for…• Creating an emerging technology team and strategy team to identify and evaluate emerging technologies and their potential impact on real estate as well as identify opportunities to partner and build relationships with other organizations, companies and institutions researching and developing new technologies. • Creating a strategy team that will work on strategic projects involving NAR's investment companies and large technology players.• Launching NAR's forthcoming strategic think tank which will be composed of a network of world class senior executive business leaders and innovators from inside and outside of real estate• Building on the success of NAR's 2018 inaugural Innovation, Opportunity and Investment (iOi) Summit to ensure it is one of the industry premier conferences when it comes to technology and innovation

Crowdfind is a unified mobile and web-based platform that brings efficiency to the management of lost, misplaced and unwanted personal property. Whether a business or a member of the public, with a few taps of a smartphone or clicks of a mouse, Crowdfind takes the pain out of lost and found!

Crowdfind is a unified mobile and web-based platform that brings efficiency to the management of lost, misplaced and unwanted personal property. Whether a business or a member of the public, with a few taps of a smartphone or clicks of a mouse, Crowdfind takes the pain out of lost and found!

Liveoak helps enterprises and their customers complete complex paperwork and forms. Liveoak recreates the power of a face-to-face meeting via simple video conferencing, co-browse and electronic signature.

Member of the DocuSign Advisory Board; former Founder/CEO of Cartavi which DocuSign acquired in May 2013.

DocuSign® is The Global Standard for Digital Transaction Management®. DocuSign is helping more than 100,000 companies across nearly every industry and department make their digital transformation by putting an end to the paper chase. Responsible for the Company’s product offerings for the global Real Estate market. Own all aspects for these products including vision, roadmap, design, development, quality assurance and the infrastructure upon which the product operates. Focused on delivering upon the organization’s move into Digital Transaction Management (DTM), beginning in the Real Estate market.

Cartavi provided Real Estate professionals with a simple way to store, share and manage the myriad of documents involved in a real estate transaction. Began by initially focusing on document management for Agents and transitioned to encompassing transaction management for the Brokerage - becoming the hub of where Real Estate professionals managed their transactions from listing to closing. Identified the need for a solution based upon first-hand experience watching my wife manage her transactions after she became a REALTOR. Co-founded the company, boot-strapped it for 3 years, built the team, mapped out the product, oversaw the product from infrastructure to development, raised one round of venture capital and successfully sold the business to DocuSign - all in a matter of 5 years.

At Relativity, we make software to help users organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Our e-discovery platform is used by more than 13,000 organizations around the world to manage large volumes of data and quickly identify key issues during litigation, internal investigations, and compliance projects. Relativity has over 160,000 users in 40+ countries from organizations including the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 70 Fortune 100 companies, and all of the Am Law 200. Relativity's cloud solution, RelativityOne, offers all the functionality of Relativity in a secure and comprehensive SaaS product. Relativity has been named one of Chicago's Top Workplaces by the Chicago Tribune for seven consecutive years.

At Relativity, we make software to help users organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Our e-discovery platform is used by more than 13,000 organizations around the world to manage large volumes of data and quickly identify key issues during litigation, internal investigations, and compliance projects. Relativity has over 160,000 users in 40+ countries from organizations including the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 70 Fortune 100 companies, and all of the Am Law 200. Relativity's cloud solution, RelativityOne, offers all the functionality of Relativity in a secure and comprehensive SaaS product. Relativity has been named one of Chicago's Top Workplaces by the Chicago Tribune for seven consecutive years.

RESO actively develops, adopts and implements open and accepted data standards and processes across all real estate transactions. RESO provides an environment for the development and implementation of data standards and processes that facilitate software innovation, ensures portability, eliminates redundancies and obtains maximum efficiencies for all parties participating in real estate transactions.

Elmspring is a Chicago-based seed-stage technology accelerator for real estate and housing tech startups that is located in 1871 Chicago. The program is a collaborative effort that offers unparalleled access to curated real estate connections to participating companies. Companies are provided with seed capital, office space, and opportunities to beta test products and refine sales strategies during the three-month elmspring session.

REach, an accelerator program from Second Century Ventures, mission is to help companies connect with one of the largest industries in the world: real estate. By helping companies innovate in the industry we help hundreds of thousands of small businesses, millions of REALTORS® and consumers and the economy as a whole.The REach program differs from other accelerators in both its vertical focus within real estate and related industries and in the growth stage at which most companies enter the program. Furthermore, the REach program aims to move these organizations rapidly forward beyond their initial successes through education, mentorship and market exposure.

The Illinois Technology Partnership promoted forward-thinking technology policies that helped companies to innovate and grow. The organization kept a pulse on the latest technology innovations and understood what businesses in Illinois needed to thrive, working with industry leaders across the state to bring attention to technology-related issues. By educating lawmakers about the importance of creating policies that accurately reflect today’s technology landscape, the organization strived to make room for new and emerging technologies and companies.

Morgan Street was a provider of electronic document services to organize, share and protect life's essential information. Joined as first executive and tech leader after founders developed a proof of concept. Responsible for defining and executing against the company’s product vision. Designed all aspects of the company’s two products – Secure Vault, for high net worth individuals and Orggit, for the consumer market. Oversaw all aspects of both products including design, product development, quality assurance, technical support and the infrastructure upon which both products operated. Both products were well received in the marketplace for their usability and aesthetics, including Orggit being featured in the Wall Street Journal and on FOX Business.

Oberweis is the largest family-owned dairy in the Midwest and distributes its products through wholesale, home deliver and Ice Cream and Dairy stores. Had full P&L responsibility for the company’s Ice Cream and Dairy Store division which had annual revenues of $25.1 million in 2006. Oversaw all aspects of business for division including Operations, Information Technology, Marketing and Sales. Directed a team which consisted of 90 full-time and 750 part-time employees situated across 37 company-owned and 5 franchised stores located across 4 states.

Amdocs is the world's leading provider of billing and customer relationship management software products and services for the telecommunications industry. Responsible for capturing, managing and exploiting the value of the organization's intellectual assets. Created a global document management strategy and implemented Documentum for the company's 13,000 employees. Designed, developed and launched a web-based application for managing sales and marketing documents for the organization's 1,350 Sales & Marketing personnel.

Divine provided critical software infrastructure, web solutions and services for enterprises worldwide. Responsible for managing divine’s enterprise document management environment, internet/intranet presence, and technology help desk. Additionally, evaluated technology offerings of acquisition targets and integrated the information technology departments of acquired companies.

LightsEdge provided a cloud-based solution that allowed small to mid-sized organizations to manage and disseminate their Sales and Marketing documents. Hired key personnel, established the product vision and led the organizations sales efforts. Led the organization's efforts to provide a mobile solution that allowed sales personnel in the field to view, email and fax documents from their Palm VII personal digital assistant.

PLATINUM provided software products and professional services for database management, systems management, application development and data warehousing. Created department with responsibility for building information systems to capture and manage PLATINUM’s intellectual capital, with an initial focus on document management. Responsible for integrating the intellectual capital of the 70+ companies acquired by PLATINUM over a 5 year period, with a focus on incorporating product knowledge and marketing collateral from acquisitions into a global sales force of 1,500 employees.