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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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..

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.

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.

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

Bachelors, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science