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Philadelphia, Pa

Technology leader in the BlockChain space for Insurance and Investment Banking.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Responsibilities in running Sales and Marketing for a no-code platform called Graphite GTC. The platform can be used to build enterprise class business applications at drastically reduced cost and time. Customers have seen development schedules reduced up to 60%.Using Visual Templates, Graphite GTC allow developers to write applications at the speed of ideas.It is a 5th Generation Language and platform that will digitally transform the Enterprise class of applications in the marketplace.

East Coast Mid Atlantic

IBM Cloud Sales responsibility for Enterprise level customers.Concentration on Bluemix Development platform. Responsibilities include C level focus on Apple and IBM Mobile solutions, Watson Cognitive Cloud platform and development of new IBM cloud PaaS applications.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Bringing my C Level relationship skills and technical experience to help companies from the Enterprise to Startups, utilize IBM Bluemix PaaS to create SaaS applications that will empower companies to significantly decrease the time to develop and publish the tools their employees and clients need to be more productive and increase business revenues.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) is a trusted data center solution provider for many of the world’s leading enterprises. We offer:- Unmatched, highly experienced leadership team - One of the industry’s largest data center portfolios - Financial strength to ensure long-term stability and customer support We stand out from other data center companies by offering innovative solutions driven by customers who see data centers not just as a technical investment but as a strategic platform for success.

Jack was the CEO and lead investor in this SaaS podcasting company in late 2006 which purchased, outright, all of the assets of this 5,000 Alexa rated Web 2.0 (4 million unique visitors monthly) property. The site and all the assets were purchased from Obvious Corporation. As a note, Obvious Corporation was the founder of Twitter.com, one of the most highly recognized and written about (micro blogging) properties on the internet today.While Jack was at the helm of Odeo, it was awarded the First Place Award for Time Magazine’s Audio and Video Website of the year for 2007.

Founded RedLasso in 2005 as a SaaS model phonetic search enabled technology provider of audio and video content. Redlasso formed a customer base including CBS, NFL, NBA & MLB. In addition, clients included major city government, public relations, advertising and political election agencies.RedLasso in 2006, experienced exponential monthly growth of traffic ,with a milestone of 30 million unique monthly visitors in May 2007. This placed RedLasso in the top 25 of US based web properties.

SpeechWorks International (now Nuance Communications)Regional Sales Manager(2001-2005)SpeechWorks provided various custom speech recognition products along with marketing, training, implementation & design for major Fortune 500 Corporations. Worked with Procter & Gamble, Pitney Bowes, General Electric and General Motors. Led partnerships with GMAC Financial services and assisted SpeechWorks in a successful IPO endeavor.

Greater Chicago Area

Lead sales responsibilities for the MidAtlantic & East Coast regions. Primary services included the marketing and delivery of the Comdisco suite of availability services which included customized corporate continuity planning, disaster recovery & high availability network recovery solutions. Clients included major financial, insurance, transportation, manufacturing & science & technology organizations.Individual achievement awards included numerous Presidents Club (10 times) & Salesman of the Quarter (9 times) recognition presentations. Led sales force with a record of $40,000,000 in professional services and Hybrid colo and cloud solutions for a one year achievement. Again, led overall sales force with over $30,000,000 in Enterprise software sales in 2001.