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Santa Clara, California, United States

Wilsonville, Oregon, United States

• Managed business development, product marketing and product strategy team for High-Level Synthesis and Verification, Low-Power Solutions, and FPGA Synthesis.
• Drove marketing initiatives that led to a 15% year-over-year growth in revenue.

Montreal, Canada Area

• Founding CEO of Suometry, an award winning, Montreal-based computer vision startup targeting XR, robotics, ADAS, and machine learning.
• Suometry was named a 2019 top 20 Canadian startup by CIX. Suometry’s OmniPolar Camera won the 2019 CES Innovation Prize for cameras.
• Raised a $1.4m seed round, acquired 2 major OEM partnerships, 3 major marketing partners, and 10 lead customers.

Montreal, Canada Area

• Served as Mentor to startup companies as part of the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science-based companies.
• Helped 3 start-up teams successfully complete the CDL program. Clarified and sharpened their investment thesis from value proposition to go-to-market. Worked with teams to set priorities and deliverables. Directly.

Littleton, Massachusetts, United States

• CLKDA applied distributed computing, machine learning and circuit modeling to deliver a SaaS solution for the design of low-power computer and cell phone chips.
• Raised $14m in venture capital. CLKDA’s customers included Qualcomm, Intel, MediaTek, AMD, CSR, Tilera, Faraday, Realtek, Spreadtrum and Huawei.
• Grew CLKDA to 20+ employees and over $7m in annual bookings.
• Successfully sold company to Ansys in March 2017.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Served as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Benefits, Department of Veterans Affairs.
• Initiated and led the development of the Veterans Benefits Management System (VBMS) paperless claims processing system. VBMS is now used by over 20,000 VA employees, Veterans and Veterans Service Organizations.
• Reduced claims processing time from over 2 years to less than 4 months.
• Radically improved VA’s software development process. Introduced agile development and user-in-the-middle design to the program.

Salem, New Hampshire, United States

President and CEO of Lightchip, supplier of DWDM optical components and subsystems for the telecommunications and cable industries. Recruited a new management team; including sales, marketing and finance executives. Signed OEM agreements with Cisco, Scientific Atlanta and Arris. Grew revenues from zero to $4m in annual bookings. Sold company to Digital.

North Billerica, Massachusetts, United States

President and CEO of Chrysalis, the market leader in applying mathematical and formal methods to chip verification. Led Chrysalis to profitability, and grew revenues from $7m to over $20 million and 60+ employees. Sold company to Avant!

Ms, Management

Bachelor'S Degree, College Of Social Studies