Lead marketing and business development for an AI-powered 'smart pool' solution that automates monitoring of water health keeping swimmers safe in residential, hotel, multi-unit living, recreational centers, and other commercial pools. Our technology enables hotel and property mgrs to improve asset mgmt reducing energy, chemical costs, and labor costs while mitigating legal risks. And our technology is helping shape the future of the pool industry by powering the next-generation of spas.

Berkeley SkyDeck is the startup accelerator program affiliated with UC Berkeley - offering guidance, support, and capital to over 140 startups who collectively have raised over $1 Billion funding and affiliated with the UC system. I serve on the Investment Selection and Advisory Committees helping to select candidates for funding and advising start-ups who receive investments from the SkyDeck fund on gaining market traction and momentum.

Assist BCG on a global basis, in engaging with and securing new client business, as well as supporting the execution of those projects by providing specific domain expertise in smart/connected transportation (ADAS, autonomous driving) and EV technologies.

Nwave is an IoT cloud-based solution provider delivering a smarter transportation offering aligning with autonomous vehicles and parking asset optimization. Nwave’s technology, developed with MIT, enables our Unwired IoT network to deliver massively scaled data capture with disruptive economics. We are focused today on solving some of the world’s toughest transportation problems with self-powered parking and traffic sensors together with cloud API data delivery and analytics. GTM includes a rapidly growing ecosystem of application vendors and smart transportation providers delivering solutions to enterprises and government.

Member of the CTO Council for the Telecommunication Industry Association. Assessing emerging wireless technologies related to smart cities, V2V/V2I smart transportation, and other smart device/IoT communications applications.

Led Smart Cities marketing and business development for Panasonic USA. Reporting into the President, responsible for driving rapid revenue growth of Renewable Energy and Smart/Safe Transportation solutions.Launched Panasonic's CityNOW smart cities initiative driving revenue growth related to V2X connected/safer transportation, autonomous vehicles, commercial solar, and micro-grid solutions incorporating battery storage, telecommunications, and EV charging. Today, Panasonic is collaborating with the DOT's across multiple U.S. states to deliver groundbreaking Connected Car platforms, and road infrastructure technologies to enable a safer, smarter transportation world.Business transformation – led the marketing team through digital transformation leveraging Marketo & Salesforce platforms. Scope of work spans branding, media/analyst relations, social, thought leadership, events, web, and marketing technologies. My team works to translate thought leadership into leads and leads into sales transactions and relationships.

Devised two new growth strategies - Unified Communications/Collaboration and Contextual Intelligence - which has transformed Plantronics business from simply headsets into the wearable computing space to enable new user experiences. This was achieved through embedding intelligence into body-worn devices and the creation of a cloud-based platform that enables apps developers to make their apps user-aware. The results have produced new competitive advantage, positioned the company to tap into vastly broader growth opportunities, and pivoted the business model to derive future revenues from both devices and software. Achieve incremental revenue growth of over $1B for the company.Driving the vision from its inception, collaborated with the advanced engineering team to develop the initial prototypes, secured board approval, led efforts to drive the product/platform roadmaps, worked with legal to buildup the patent portfolio, and led the development of a new partner ecosystem and developer program. Leading new market and solutions development with key ISV partners to fuel innovation and accelerate adoption and revenue growth including securing the partnerships with Microsoft and IBM in the UC space, Intel in the secure identity space, and Oracle in the WebRTC space. . Formed and manage Plantronics UC Customer Advisory Board which has brought forward-thinking CIO's and other senior IT executives into the product planning and vetting process. Served as company spokesperson to technology and financial analyst communities, and to customers/partners by presenting at industry conferences. Identified and recommended investments and acquisitions of companies to strengthen the Plantronics product and solutions portfolios.

Led all aspects of worldwide marketing including product management, alliances, and corporate marketing functions for this mobile enterprise middleware company delivering a mobile platform for ISV developers building industry-specific applications for global brands. Developed licensing agreements to fill security related solution gaps and established a position in the leadership quadrant with Gartner and other analyst firms as a mobile platform. Amid rapid industry consolidation exited the market through acquisition by SAP.

Led the company's thrust into the enterprise market - first securing funding from the board for the business plan - and then developing the partner ecosystem and solutions roadmap required to compete against incumbent vendors. Garnered critical-mass of support in the enterprise mobile ecosystem (IBM, SAP, Oracle, Adobe, Borland, Symantec, etc) to establish a beachhead in the market, and served as chief evangelist in the enterprise space with customers, developers, press, and analysts.

Recruited by Microsoft to drive development of the emerging wireless enterprise mobile market. Developed and launched Microsoft's Mobile Workplace initiative delivering end-to-end wireless enterprise solutions into the market together with key SI, carrier, middleware, device, and application partners. Launched by Ballmer at the Wireless and Mobility Solutions conference with support from the leading SI's in the mobile space including HP, Accenture, and CGEY. Assessed target companies for making acquisitions and equity investments, directed resources and analyzed the performance of these investments.

Recruited into Palm following 3Com's acquisition of US Robotics and its Palm subsidiary. Created the strategic plan to grow Palm's business in the enterprise space. Led execution of the plan in developing a strategic partner ecosystem (Oracle, SAP, IBM, Symbol Technologies..) around targeted solution and transaction-based market entry points such as Retail Store applications, Field Sales, and Field Service.

Recruited from HP to start-up an Industry Marketing team focused on several high-potential industry segments including retail and lodging. Developed a program recognized as industry-leading and achieved a notable market success against Cisco in thought leadership, market share, and revenues. Managed a $2M budget directing advertising, PR, equity investing, solutions development and marketing, business development, and thought leadership. Created the company's first industry-specific customer advisory board and produced the Retail Innovation Awards program recognizing innovative new applications that leveraged advanced network technologies. Directed equity investments to help accelerate building an ecosystem-derived applications portfolio that produced new revenue growth in networking products at the core and edge. Partner ecosystem spanned Analytics/BI to ERP to multi-channel selling to in-store computing/POS.

As GM for HP's Retail Industry Group, I was responsible for developing and aligning technology enabled solutions with retail business needs to help leading retailers drive innovations that grew revenues and created customer value. In this role, I worked with senior executives at leading retailers across ALL retail segments including retailers such as Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Amazon, Walgreens, Nordstroms, REI, and over a hundred others to define innovation strategies that created customer value delivered in-store and omni-channel. This also involved creating a new partner ecosystem working with 150 retail application vendors spanning all functions of the retail business. This was a strategy, innovation, and solution creation role that required solving complex problems with innovative new applications, technology enablement, and thought leadership based on an in-depth understanding of the retail business. After securing executive sponsorship from HP's COO, led HP's entry into the retail industry against two entrenched competitors to achieve the #1 market share in a high TAM, rapid growth segment. Developed an industry-leading solution architecture (HP OpenStore) and extensive partner ecosystem (150 ISV's) which combined with cross-division collaborative effort led to becoming the leader in distributed computing and growing revenues from $10M to over $1B. Partner ecosystem grew to 150 partners spanning the full breadth of retail store applications plus key corporate apps (BI, ERP). Identified targets and directed equity investments that accelerated server revenue growth derived from partner produced applications and integrations. Worked with the CIO's at many of the leading retailers to drive technology-enabled innovations that impacted revenues and customer value creation.