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Los Angeles, CA, US

As a CEO coach and advisor, I act as a catalyst for growth-minded, deep-tech CEOs (typically Series B or later) who are eager to push themselves to the next level of their leadership potential.CEOs turn to me when they are overwhelmed by the rapid growth of the company and wondering how they can best lead the team and support their evolving needs. I also.

Owlery doesn't ship items for CPG customers, it makes every shipment easier. Everything a logistics team needs is combined in an easy to use platform.As the founding board member, I have worked with the founding team since before company inception. Beyond typical board duties, I meet weekly with the executive founders to help the team find product-market.

Beverly Hills, California, US

I've poured my passion for the coming wave of Augmented Reality into a podcast series. The AR Show dives deep into the emerging world of AR with a focus on the underlying technologies and uses of Smartglasses, and the people behind them. The show features interviews with entrepreneurs, executives, investors and early adopters to extract insights that will.

Advisor and investor currently focused on companies and founders who are working to help computers understand and move in the real world.

Carlsbad, CA, US

Ostendo is a leader in quantum photonics. The team applies a unique understanding of the interaction between photons (light) and electrons to a diverse set of opportunities ranging from displays to computing to energy. The most mature of these technologies is the QPI, which uniquely combines advanced microprocessor design with nano-scale photonics to make.

Los Angeles, California, US

Amplify is a hands-on startup accelerator and multi-faceted entrepreneurial campus in Los Angeles. Amplify has an unmatched team of investors, mentors and executives who are committed to helping founders build their startups into strong, scalable, successful companies.Offer guidance to companies focused on mobile, SaaS, and/or enterprise software.

Velocify provides cloud-based, intelligent sales software.Drove product vision and execution of software development. Crafted vision and incremental approach to deliver best-in-class sales engagement tool for B2B companies. Expanded sales-relevant capabilities for telephony, email, and text. Led user experience design.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Joined SugarCRM through the acquisition of Stitch. While there for less than a year, I made an impact quickly and broadly:
• Established, validated, and got executive approval for a new mobile product strategy that emphasized extensibility and deployment flexibility.
• Led the diligence for M&A opportunities. Fought for and delivered two term sheets and one definitive agreement for companies that could accelerate our product development and revenue growth.
• Extensively interviewed and prepared two 2-day off-sites to understand and address challenges and opportunities to improve the product management and user experience teams.
• Led the former Stitch team on their initial task of ingesting corporate email to automatically log customer conversations and begin to derive deeper insights into customer relationships.

Led product at Stitch (aka Hothouse Labs, Inc.) where we built a smart sales assistant that analyzed email, calendar, and CRM data to provide the next best action to sales reps and managers. We brought an organization's collective knowledge and sales methodology to bear when suggesting high-value tasks like re-engaging with at-risk prospects, answering key.

Santa Monica, California, US

• Nimble envisions a world in which every business relationship is meaningful and mutually beneficial. To enable this vision, the company helps business teams nurture stronger relationships to make them more productive.
• Led product design and development for Nimble's social CRM tool across web, API, and mobile, including delivering the first paid version of web app, delivering the first public API and developer portal, and designing.
• Instigated discussion and articulated the company vision, mission, and strategic objectives
• Implemented data-informed decision making driven by home-grown metrics solution, enhanced utilization of KissMetrics, regular surveys with active and churning accounts, and customer interviews
• Yielded 10% trial -> paid account conversion rate by focusing on most valuable feature enhancements and first-time user experience; laid out roadmap for additional conversion improvements
• Drove registration changes that yielded 34% improvement in users completing registration process while maintaining trial->paid conversion rate

San Francisco, California, US

• Led mobile application software development at Salesforce.com, where the team was focused on collaboration, social networking, CRM, and productivity apps.
• Led design and development for mobile enterprise collaboration apps (Salesforce Chatter Mobile)
• Spearheaded new Mobile Labs initiative to generate and deliver innovation around enterprise mobility
• Delivered 4x increase in active mobile users years through feature, usability and performance improvements
• Selected as 2011 Business App of the Year by Apple Inc.; won 2010, 2011 SIIA Codie Awards for mobile apps

• Led internal engineers and external contractor teams to create web-based business analytics tools based on best practices and research from leading business schools (UCLA, Wharton, Stanford). Managed the design.
• Envisioned and drove state-of-the-art analytics platform to be distributed, scalable, and extensible
• Steered corporate strategy, and crafted corporate and product financial projections
• Launched first product (financial statement risk analysis), alpha-tested second (cost of capital); prototyped third (business intelligence and relationship visualization); others in design

• Assembled and led a team in the strategy, development, and sales of a flexible, white-label ad matching and delivery platform for mobile phones. The platform supported ad delivery in any mobile content type including.
• Drove product design, secured seed financing, built core platform, and signed early customers
• Negotiated and sold company assets to Convergent Mobile for integration into their end-to-end mobile marketing and communications platform

• Started, managed, and grew 20-person mobile phone software company, which developed a sophisticated mobile phone content delivery and virtual world platform. The team created and built an original multiplayer.
• Raised $3M in private financing, deployed beta version of the platform and original content, and obtained letters of intent to use the system from media companies and distribution partners
• Negotiated clean separation for subset of tech and team to pursue another opportunity

Randolph AFB, TX, US

• Served as an officer of the US Air Force. Promoted rapidly from Test Manager to Product Manager of a $50M communications tool; then promoted to Branch Chief responsible for directing government and contractor teams.
• Re-planned faltering $718M modernization effort with an executable strategy; received approval from Space and Missile System Center commander, our CEO – same plan being executed years later
• Successfully navigated politically charged and highly bureaucratic environments to gain customer acceptance and to deliver products on time/budget
• Collaborated closely with most demanding customer (NRO) to increase satisfaction with new systems and our office; received letter of commendation from the customer’s commander
• Won the 2002 Team-of-the-Year award at squadron, base, and headquarters levels

M.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering

Mba, Business

B.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering, Economics