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San Mateo, California, Us

It's rare to be apart of a company that has pioneered the category it operates in. When Conversica was first launched in 2007, there was no Siri, no Alexa, no Cortana, no AI assistants in general. But then Conversica developed AVA (the company's first AI persona at the time). Over a decade later Conversica is changing the way the world does business.Conversica pioneered the category of Revenue Digital Agents for accelerating revenue, helping organizations attract, acquire, and grow customers. First launched in 2009, the flagship Conversica® Sales AI Assistant has over a decade of expertise helping companies find and secure customers more quickly and efficiently by autonomously contacting, engaging, qualifying and following up with leads via powerfully human, two-way conversations. Now Conversica has assistants for marketing, sales, and customer success organizations - all focused on increasing revenue.Reaching over 1B interactions on behalf of thousands of companies, Conversica’s AI Agents are built on a proven and patented conversational AI platform integrating natural language understanding (NLU), decision and policy management, natural language generation (NLG), autonomous action chains and deep learning capabilities that engage prospects over multiple communication channels and in multiple languages. We deployed the first transformer GenAI model in 2019.Conversica was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Foster City in Silicon Valley with additional offices in Seattle, Bellingham, Guadalajara, & Manila. Conversica is a portfolio company of Providence Equity, Savant Growth, Toba Capital, and Hollyport Capital.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Instruct classes, and individually advise founders on business strategy. Founder Institute, founded by Adeo Ressi, is the largest incubator in the world by number of companies created, number of locations, number of mentors and pace of company creation; collective efforts have helped launch nearly 250 companies worldwide by over 300 Founders, employing thousands of people.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

In this role I helped the Highbar team assess new investment opportunities and, of course, corresponding CEO roles. HighBar Partners is a private investment firm focused on strategic growth capital investments in enterprise and infrastructure software companies. The firm invests in companies undergoing significant change or transition and provides patient, long-term capital to build successful businesses. HighBar is a creative and engaged partner with resources and relationships to assist management teams with financial, strategic and operational execution. HighBar’s principals have founded, operated or invested in over 100 companies in the technology sector.Also, the “BAR” in HighBAR used to stand for the three founding members - Bill Joy, Andy Bechtolsheim, & Roy Thiele-Sardiña, who are all legacies in their own right.Bill designed & wrote Berkeley UNIX, & then co-founded Sun with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, & Andy Bechtolsheim. Andy invented the “Stanford University Network workstation" that eventually became the Sun-1 Workstation. Roy started the Sun's telco business & grew it to 10% of the company's worldwide revenue, before he led all international sales. All three went on to accomplish amazing things beyond their Sun success (not that this wasn’t enough).When Bill Joy wrote his own high performance TCP/IP stack, others who failed before him asked, “How did you do this?” His response, “It's very simple — you read the protocol & write the code.” I love Bill’s “no bullshit” & “just get it done” brilliance. Andy wrote the initial $100K check to "Google Inc" prior to the company even being founded. You have to love his passion for startup innovation. Roy, like his peers, started as an engineer, but “jumped to the dark side” to become a master of sales & then later a founder & CEO. Roy’s connections are unmatched, & his ability to recall a day, an hour, a minute of detail out of his past is not human.

Portland, Or, Us

Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM) was a $16.4B market in 2018 with a 19.25% CAGR, growing to $56B by 2025. Janrain (Acquired by Akamai) was the #1 leader in CIAM, followed by Gigya/SAP, ForgeRock, iWelcome, LoginRadius, & CIAM-want-to-be-companies Onegini, GlobalSign, IBM, Auth0, Microsoft, Salesforce, Pirean, Okta, CA Technologies, Acuant, Ping Identity, & SecureAuth.We believed that your identity is the most important thing you own & that it should not only be easy to use, but it should be safe to use when accessing your digital world.Janrain was the #1 Identity Cloud, servicing Global 2K enterprises reaching over 1.7B identities, providing seamless & safe experiences for end-users across all web, mobile, or thing applications.Janrain created the CIAM category, starting back in 2002. The company invented social login, & co-founded the OpenID Foundation (the steward of leading protocols for authentication). Janrain managed customers identities throughout their life cycle - starting as an unknown user, to a registered & known user, to a highly active & high-lifetime value user. We do this by offering authentication & authorization services which power traditional/social registration & login, & single-sign-on with a real-time system of record for a unified customer ID within its Cloud Directory.Since 2000, the number of connected people has grown well over 8x, with 3.3B out of 7.2B people globally, accessing their digital worlds. Android mobile users can access 1.6M applications. Apple mobile users can access 1.5M applications. And most users have multiple mobile devices, which will only increase with the 50B Internet of Things by 2020.Janrain's competitive differentiation was its identity security. With over 8.3B identity data breaches between 2016 & 2018 alone, Janrain developed and launched the most advanced adaptive, risk-based authentication offering leveraging its network & Akamai's view of over a 3rd of the internet's traffic.

Ashburn, Virginia, Us

I led a newly formed practice at CSC (later merged with HPE to form DXC) focused on Digital Applications (Digital Transformation). I ran a line of business of 7000 responsible for $1B in commercial business; including both consulting and delivery organizations; focused on serving Fortune 1000 companies in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil; including Banking/Capital Markets ($50M), Consumer/Retail ($150M), Energy/Tech ($125M), Healthcare/Lifesciences ($165M), Insurance ($245M), Manufacturing ($265M). I reported directly to CSC's EVP of Americas, David Zolet.To stay ahead, enterprises need agile, dynamic, iterative, continuously evolving, ecosystem-based application environments. In the digital economy, businesses will live or die based on how they handle complex application strategies, including the use of data and analytics, cloud, cyber, and mobility to expand packaged applications, and/or develop custom applications which improve internal operations and external customer experiences.All of these application environments need to deliver one thing - a seamless digital user experience. The key challenge for today’s applications professional is to reinvent applications strategies to align with the new digital reality, while at the same time supporting the innovation businesses will need to remain competitive.This practice included innovations from traditional technology powerhouses including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM, as well as new high-growth cloud application providers including Salesforce, Workday, and ServiceNow. We deployed advanced DevOps capabilities for clients, convert them into agile enterprises, and educate them on their application portfolio journey from current to future state, beginning with application rationalization.

Ashburn, Virginia, Us

Reporting directly to Mike Lawrie, CEO of CSC (later merged with HPE to form DXC), I led the highest growth business unit across all of CSC (51% YoY) - CSC Big Data & Analytics (@$250M in 2015, & chartered to achieve over $1B in revenue by end of 2017). We assisted our global clients through their digital transformation across industries including Banking & Capital Markets, Insurance, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, Transportation, Utilities, Oil & Gas, Telecom, and Public sectors. This was accomplished through the development of digital applications leveraging prominent web scale, open source Big Data technologies developed by Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin.Big Data & Analytics (BD&A) executed over 800 projects per year and was a global business unit over a 1,000 people in the Americas, Central & Eastern Europe, South & West Europe, UK & Ireland, Nordics, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand, and India. Business functions include R&D, Product & Offering Management, Consulting, Delivery, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations, HR and Legal functions. We were uniquely positioned as the only System Integrator investing into over 160 people in Research & Development. Our R&D team was developing repeatable Big Data technologies solely using open source. Our consulting organization was the world's best in business solutioning, data science, and platform innovation. Our approach of delivering Big Data used a cloud consumption model, deploying the most sophisticated analytic infrastructure on public and private clouds (enabled by AWS, Azure, OpenStack, and VSphere) as a managed service.We were addressing an overall market where 30B devices (things) would be generating over 40 zetabytes of data annually by 2020 (EMC), serving as the catalyst of a market growing at over 12.5% CAGR from $1.3 trillion in 2013 to $3.0 trillion in 2020 (IDC).

Santa Barbara, California, Us

GigaOM has grown into the leading provider of research, online media, and events for global technology innovators. Events include Structure, Mobilize, GigaOM RoadMap, and Structure:Data. The company is one of the most credible and insightful voices at the intersection of business and technology. I was working with the team to share my insights from disruptive, real-world experiences in Big Data, Cloud, Open Source, and Application Platform technologies, while in my day-to-day role as a CEO.

Global, Us

Led a division of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), now DXC - a multinational corporation that provides leading information technology services and professional services. I was a part of the highest growth segment within CSC - namely, Big Data & Analytics. This business unit is tasked by CEO Mike Lawrie, to establish and grow a leadership position in Big Data over all other prominent system integrators.Infochimps, provided an open-standards based Big Data Cloud, servicing Global 2000 enterprises. When combined with the power of CSC's professional services, it's investments in cloud infrastructure, domain expertise in verticals, and its reputation with enterprises across the globe, Infochimps expects to surpass legacy vendor solutions from companies like IBM, Oracle, and Pivotal. Look out guys!

Our direction for Infochimps leverages the power of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Open Source, and Platform as a Service – all extremely disruptive technology forces. Infochimps was founded by data scientists and cloud computing experts with the belief that by effectively leveraging Big Data, enterprises make better decisions.The company's solutions make it faster, easier and far less complex to build and manage Big Data applications and quickly deliver actionable insights.With the Infochimps Cloud, enterprises benefit from the fastest way to develop and deploy Big Data applications in public, virtual private and private clouds.You have data? We can enable your existing teams to turn it into $$$$revenue. Try us. It only takes 30 days to achieve value - any size problem, any volume, velocity, variety of data. No one provides enterprise-class Big Data cloud services like we do. Guaranteed.

Palo Alto, California, Us

Working with PARC's Intelligent Systems Laboratory consisting of an interdisciplinary team of computer and social scientists. We were developing a breakthrough in consumer experience business intelligence that leveraged technologies in graph search and Big Data, which later led to the founding of Quantiply (https://www.quantiply.com/), using explainable AI for fighting financial crimes (AML/KYC) and acquired by Eventus.PARC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox Corporation and an integral part of Xerox’s strategy for long-term research investment. Founded in 1970 as a part of Xerox Research, PARC was incorporated in 2002 as an independent research business. As the birthplace of technologies such as laser printing, Ethernet, the graphical user interface, and ubiquitous computing, PARC has an established track record for transforming industries and creating commercial value. PARC continues to embed relevant technology into products and solutions, participating in over 40 commercial spin-outs to date.

港区, 東京都, Jp

Responsible for developing global cloud strategy and new business unit at SIOS, a publicly traded company providing open source enterprise software, headquartered in Japan. • Created cloud strategy, and business and operating plans (http://tinyurl.com/yh5rlom)• Built team (http://tinyurl.com/2d3vbs3) and launched core development (US, Japan, and India); reorganized and incorporated existing subsidiary focused on business continuity enterprise software (http://tinyurl.com/2db82k3)• Established relationships / validated strategy with Fortune 100 CIOs, data center architects responsible for largest data centers (Citibank, UBS, JP Morgan, State Street, Flextronics, Walgreens), and industry analysts (451, Forrester, Gartner, IDC, Toigo Partners, ESG, Saugatuck)• Executed key partnerships, investments, and technology licenses (http://tinyurl.com/2bkzvy8, http://tinyurl.com/2797e5f), including a joint venture with $6B global system integrator, Wipro Technologies• Demonstrated proof of concepts with customersCreated new cloud business unit from concept to a team of over 50 focused on cross-platform (virtualized and non-virtualized) private PaaS enteprise software for Fortune 500 deployments; projected annual revenue of $100 million over three years.SIOS' cloud offering, CASPIAN (http://bit.ly/jtfzEH), was architected to address Fortune 500 data center needs in private cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS), a market predicted to grow to over $55B by 2014 at a 51% CAGR. The solution included a declarative language used by application developers to separate application definition from deployment platforms (http://bit.ly/kHVzdb). CASPIAN enabled the unique abstraction of the application from compute, storage, and network (both virtualized and non-virtualized) in order to accelerate development, and application mobility; ahead of VMware (http://slidesha.re/lsmWGd), Red Hat (http://red.ht/m7lJmj), HP (http://bit.ly/jWv6xA), or Gigaspaces (http://bit.ly/kAZfyp).

Express Ventures (Marco Thompson, Joe Markee, and Franz Birkner) assisted San Diego-based entrepreneurs by providing initial funding and focused attention on company development in preparation for a successful Series A funding from a top tier venture capital fund. Responsibilities as an EIR included:• Assisting managing partners in evaluation of potential deals. • Advising existing portfolio companies on business strategy and startup operations. Worked with companies in wireless, Internet, enterprise software, SaaS, semiconductors, communications, and networking. Focused specifically in the areas of high-quality digital video delivery and addressable video advertising for broadcast and broadband applications, enabling cable operators and telephone companies to offer video solutions across coaxial, fiber, copper and wireless networks. Also spent considerable time in cloud computing and datacenter automation (which resulted in the formation of StackIQ).

Responsible for repositioning fledgling company of 2 years into larger cloud and big data enterprise markets. • Analyzed technology and initially repositioned from High Performance Computing into an emerging enterprise private cloud market (growing to over $55B by 2014 at a 51% CAGR per IDC)• Restructured team & recruited senior staff including Chairman/CEO, CFO, CTO, VP Eng• Validated strategy with key customer prospects and analysts• Developed new engineering roadmap, business model, sales modelPositioned the company for a successful Series A with Avalon Ventures (Steve Tomlin) and Anthem Venture Partners (Brian Mesic)).

Conceptualized, built, & deployed a digital media SaaS providing broadband & mobile video publishing, syndication, and advertising. Led the digital media industry by combining social media with professional video content using a sophisticated scalable SaaS platform, and a clear monetization model.• Built team skilled in Web 2.0, media transcoding, media management, mobile video, video publishing, video ad-insertion, content moderation, & media business intelligence (mentored by digital media veterans Michael Robertson, Jordan Greenhall, Dmitry Shapiro)• Deployed embeddable plug-and-play video widgets/applications for website publishers & digital media producers to enable personalization• Aggregated & optimized across video ad-networks including Google, Tremor, Yume, Adap.TV, Scanscout, Digitalsmiths, SpotXchange (http://bit.ly/2HsYL9e)• Captured customers including Lucasfilm, SonyBMG, News Corp (Fox Sports, Fox HiLites, Fox On-the-lot), IAC (CollegeHumor), Vh1, NBA, AETN (History Channel), Cyworld, & Demand Media (Richard Rosenblatt), & over 10,000 mid-market publishers (Wall Street Journal http://bit.ly/Cbsx3)• Engineered scalable SaaS platform of over 4M video, photo, & music titles servicing 500M user transactions, 16M video streams, & 25M video ad impressions per month (online & mobile)• Raised over $10M with Express Ventures (Joe Markee, Franz Birkner, Marco Thompson), & Gabriel Venture Partners (Tim Chang, Rick Bolander)• Managed M&A processOperated within online advertising market growing to over $5.6B in 2013 at a 63% CAGR with a sophisticated exchange with a video CMS (e.g. Brightcove, Move Networks, Comcast 'the Platform', Kit Digital, Kyte, Ooyala, Limelight/Delve Networks, Kaltura, Yahoo!/Maven Networks, Reality Digital); targeted & dynamic in-stream advertising (e.g. SAY Media, FreeWheel, Adap.TV/OneSource, Termor Media/Acudeo, Specific Media, Extend Media); and mobile delivery/monetization (e.g. Transpera, Admob, Millennial, Adtech).

Co-founded a fabless semiconductor company for a new switching power supply controller IC:• Utilized a novel zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) power supply topology to provide a higher-efficiency power supply for high-power CPU, GPU, and ASIC devices and applications.• Assembled a team of 4, created a business plan, developed early prototype, and began fund-raising.

Led industry with new high-performance semiconductor device packaging in a market forecast to be $29B in 2003 growing at over a 46% CAGR. Developed first-of-its kind ceramic and organic ball-grid array package for CPUs, GPUs, and ASICs. • Co-founded with Jack Shemer & David Hartkey (founders of Teradata) & built company from only 1 employee to 35; venture-backed by Phil Paul (Paul Capital, Top Tier Capital); Board including Art Collmeyer (Weitek, Hi/fn, Iridigm, iWatt, Sensory Networks, etherWhere), and Bob Adams (Xerox, Peerless Systems, Encad, Tekelec, Documentum)• Developed & executed business plan for $200M+ within 5 years. • Completed two rounds of financing totaling $10M (TopTier Investments / Paul Capital, Apple Oaks Partners, Laurel Grove Capital, Max Palevsky, Monte Phister) • Managed key relationships with strategic partners & customers (Intel, AMD, Sun, IBM, CISCO, TI, HP, Dell, Tyco, Molex, Celestica).• Led development of business model consisting of licensing & outsourced manufacturing.• Executed successful patent prosecution strategy (17 issued patents in 5 years).

Co-Founded INCEP with Jack Shemer (Executive Chair), founder of Teradata. Led execution of early startup tasks including authoring the business plan, creating corporate identity, establishing financial and legal services, recruiting founding team and directors of the board, raising financing, & establishing initial customer partnerships:• Within first year, raised $4.6M Series A financing, created first prototype in joint development with Intel. • Created corporate identity, website, brochures, white papers, presentations, tradeshow & trade advertising designs.• Performed all marketing & competitive research, & interfaced all editors & industry analysts.• Created new product development process (methodology & specifications) for 4 hardware products and 1 software product.• Developed/presented all value propositions & resulting customer/company return on investment for highly complex sale into political & segmented customer accounts.• Established key relationships with large & diverse accounts (Intel, AMD, Sun, IBM, HP, Dell).

Semiconductor technology and design services firm targeting digital media, space, computing, communications, and medical device applications.Created corporate identity, grew key customers accounts, and successfully identified/led initiative to spin out innovative semiconductor technology used to found INCEP Technologies, Inc:• Designed and implemented all marketing materials (brochures, data sheets, whitepapers, customer success stories), sales presentations, and tradeshow booth designs.• Grew customer base 10x in one year establishing relationships with corporate executives for local targeted high-technology companies.• Tracked and worked with engineering to maintain all customer deployment schedules.

San Diego, California, Us

Teradata is a leading global provider of powerful, enterprise analytic technologies and services such as Data Warehousing, Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Demand Forecasting / Inventory Management, Profitability Analysis, and Supply Chain Intelligence.Brought in by VP of Marketing (then Randy Lea) to manage critical product launch of the Teradata RDBMS on Windows NT operating system (strategic market expansion beyond UNIX-based systems), which was completed within 4 months:• Coordinated cohesive marketing campaign and agreements with channel partners (OEM platform vendors including Compaq, Dell, HP, and IBM).• Interfaced with press and authored press kits.• Created all outbound promotional materials including brochures, multimedia CDROM, whitepapers, sales presentations, and demonstration evaluation software.• Managed key tradeshow launch of product, organizing joint presentations with partner Executive VPs, and coordinating executive press interviews.

San Diego, California, Us

Successfully led Teradata’s Knowledge Discovery Workbench (KDW) business intelligence software program (data mining application tool suite, professional services, sales, and support) and established Teradata’s database data mining extensions and data mining middleware program. Sold internal management (working with Dale Hazel) through detailed business cases. Was responsible for managing the budget and overseeing all program activities performed by a matrixed team comprised of product marketing, sales program marketing, area deployment marketing, partnership marketing, industry marketing, engineering, publications, education, software control & distribution, pre-sales support, post-sales support, consulting services, and quality/process control.Developed company's core competency in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - KDD (machine learning / algorithms included: 1. Classification with Decision Trees such as CHAID/C5.0; Neural Networks with backprop, radial basis functions, Kohonen; Regression; Bayesian; SVM; 2. Association with GRI, Apriori, CARMA, Sequence; 3. Segmentation/Clustering with K-Means, Kohonen, TwoStep, Anomaly; Leveraged CRISP-DM methodologies). Deep domain experience in mining detailed data center / data warehouse data to gain knowledge, determine trends, predict outcomes. Applications ranged from business applications (e.g. market basket) to IT (e.g. security with log analysis).Developed sophisticated SQL-based analytics (SQL extensions) that were embedded into the RDBMS (ability to apply analytics directly to petabytes of detailed data).

San Diego, California, Us

Was responsible for Teradata’s Scalable Data Warehouse business plan governing business unit revenues of $1.2B (annual hardware, software, professional services, and support revenue). Worked with NCR executive office (with Elsie Yip) as part of an offering management team responsible for both product and services offerings and business planning including:• Coordinated with all business unit department heads to establish collective operating plan.• Compiled industry direction of platform hardware, database, enterprise executive reporting, and data mining application futures.• Worked with executives to develop Teradata Data Warehousing strategic plan.

Dallas, Tx, Us

As part of the Teradata business unit (within AT&T Global Information Services), I was sent on special assignments (working with Tom Baronner) as technical “expert” responsible for implementation of database information systems for the largest and most complex data warehouse customers - also most politically sensitive customer accounts. Examples include Bank Of America (Bay Area); TRW Credit , now Experian (Texas), and Ctirceal (France):• Worked with Ctirceal customer to identify, manage, and correct issues with combined OLTP and Decision support database banking application/platform.• Led TRW Credit $40 million / yr account on the migration of Teradata's second largest customer to UNIX open systems. Reported to the VP of Product Management at Teradata, and VP of Operations at TRW. Raised TRW’s satisfaction from below 50% to over 90% in just 3 months. • Provided professional consulting to Bank of America. Involved product management activities related to Teradata’s large system products. Worked directly with VP of Database Management for customer's data center, and the Teradata sales account team.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

One of five principal engineers to develop Teradata’s Banyan crossbar circuit-switched high-speed network, the world’s largest circuit switched compute node network of 4096 processors and the basis for NCR’s $1.7B+ revenue stream. Responsibilities included multiple semiconductor chip designs, several printed circuit board designs, and backplane designs. Core team included: Robert McMillen, Serdar Yilmaz, Paul Micheletti, Bob Moussavi, and Douglas Hundley. Also, worked with one of the co-founders of Teradata, including David Hartkey.

Digital voice and data communication technologies was something I became very curious about. It's only now that people realize the power of such technologies with solutions like Apple's Siri.As a digital engineer, I helped DSC, supplier of network-based, communication-management solutions, give people the freedom to manage voice, fax and e-mail messages anytime, anywhere, using a telephone, personal computer, fax, or pager. I worked on a product line with other other crazy smart engineers (e.g. Manley Klassen). The products integrated enhanced computer/telephony/Internet applications on an open systems platform, giving its customers -- public network service providers -- a strategic advantage in a highly competitive telecommunications marketplace.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Hungry for something "bleeding edge", I worked on a top secret government project, funded by the Army, to develop a laser satellite defense system. For more than 30 years, a significant focus of the government’s defense science and technology program has been on the development of lasers with the power and wavefront, or beam quality, needed for eventual “beam weapons” applications. My project consisted of a curtain of X-ray lasers. The curtain was to be deployed either using a series of missiles launched from submarines or via satellites, during the critical seconds following an attack on the US. The satellites would be powered by built-in nuclear warheads – in theory, the energy from the warhead detonation would be used to pump a series of laser emitters in the missiles or satellites, allowing each satellite to shoot down many incoming warheads simultaneously. The attraction of this approach was that it was thought to be faster than an optical laser, which could only shoot down warheads one at a time, limiting the number of warheads each laser could destroy in the short time 'window' of an attack. I also worked on optical laser approach with large satellite-based mirror used to reflect ground-based laser system to shoot down warheads. This was all during the period of GEODSS (Ground Based-Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance) and GBFELTIE (Ground Based Free Electron Laser Technology Integration Experiment).

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, With A Focus In Finance And Entrepreneurship

Bachelors, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science