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Founder of YachtWave® is at the forefront of digital innovation in the boating industry, offering modern solutions to simplify and revolutionize boat ownership, management, and delivery. The intuitive YachtWave app, featuring tools like AI Mechanic™, digital document management, and marine engine and equipment support, sets a new standard for the customer experience in the maritime world.

Providing operational automation solutions for businesses of all sizes in healthcare, software, and technology field. With proven experience with design and implementation of operational support systems, information technology optimization and human workflow optimization, our solution architects are both big-picture thinkers and in-depth problem solvers. We take pride in designing solutions that stand up to high transaction volumes and won’t fail at critical points. The solutions we design are built for the long term and empower our clients to scale up their companies from serving one customer to serving a million customers seamlessly.We provide a full range of services, including consulting services, implementation, administration services, third party integrations, and application development.

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Operated ITelagen for a Austin, TX based private equity firm. Capitalized on developmental and planning leadership expertise, aiding department heads to meet minimum 50% gross margin operating targets – led and grew the busines while generating 13.5% annual cash distribution for investors and identified M&A opportunities, while exceeding profit and EBITDA goals.Team Size: 60 | P&L – $20M | Relocated tech-center to “Tampa Area” (Sarasota, FL) - Slashed salary costs by 20% | High EBITDA Gains | Formed strategic ties with healthcare IT companies | M&A Due Diligence• Secured 2.1x returns on exit for private equity investor.• $340K/employee revenue vs. employee ratio – advocated benefits of automation, introducing modern technology to automate manual labor, thus minimizing staff.• 50% EBITDA return on acquisitions with improved cash flow – developed shared vision and practical M&A strategies while integrating people, process, and technology with an acquired healthcare hosting business.

Sarasota, Florida, Us

Team: 6 Direct/60+ Total | $15M Annual Revenues | Revenue & Profit Growth Strategies | Orchestrated a successful strategic PE sale | Strategic negotiator of investment deals & contractsA healthcare IT managed service provider with 60 employees and over $10M+ in annual revenues. Launched and positioned the healthcare IT managed service company for profits and strategic exit for shareholders in 2015 – assumed full P&L accountability as CEO, growing healthcare clients to 500+ nationwide and revenues $12M+ from organic growth and acquisitions.• Conceived and crystallized a vision for a company, building company from seed funding to 20%+ YOY organic sales growth – achieved profitability in the first year.• Delivered ~13% annual investor rate of return via distribution payments and interest – eased original investor by dropping capital requirements every year.• Generated a 20% YOY rate of return for Mezzanine Debt investors – replaced mezzanine debt with private equity, facilitating a profitable exit for investor.• Championed leveraged buyout of Integrated Healthcare Systems (Charlotte, NC), launching ITelagen’s new healthcare vertical. Tripled revenues in the first 3 months.• Secured 20% YoY return on investment, creating significant value for mezzanine debt investor at the end of their 3-year holding period.

Help-desk automation software solutions company that developed and marketed broadband software to telecommunication companies worldwide. In 2001, was appointed to the position of CEO by the company’s Investor’s and Board of Directors to spearhead the reorganization of the company and find viability in the post “dot com” market. Identified the need to diversify the limited product line to focus on the emerging broadband technologies market.■ Increased company revenues by over 300% in the first two years as CEO by diversifying a limited product line from 1 product to over 5 products and technologies.■ Formed key strategic alliances with companies such as Intel, Wind River Systems, Motorola, Westell and ZyXEL.■ Closed over multi-year contracts with the world’s leading service providers including Telmex, Verizon, EarthLink, and CenturyTel.■ Expanded worldwide operations and sales by opening local sales and support offices in the UK, South Africa, Brazil, and Mexico as well as established strategic worldwide distributors.■ Identified and closed intellectual property acquisitions (M&A) for technology products.■ In 2005, established a $30M sales pipeline by building a worldwide sales team and management.

Founder of a software company specializing in support automation software technologies for Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Selected ideal location for headquarters and designed and developed preliminary product prototypes. Helped to grow the company to annual revenue of over $2M and profitable within the first 2 years.Grew business from start-up to 300 clients and revenues over $2M in sixteen months■ Developed specifications for and oversaw the development and fulfillment of all software projects and product design.■ Hired and trained a team of 22 people to accommodate the workload of hundreds ISP customers worldwide.■ Initially wrote entire base source code for company’s primary software product and continued to write software code for the first two (2) years while transitioning efforts to a team of developers.■ Acted as Chief Product Architect and lead visionary for product development.■ Negotiated investment deals, office space leases, contracts with strategic partners, and employment agreements with key personnel.■ Spearheaded strategic planning and development of new technologies based on industry trends to keep the company’s product ahead of the competitors.

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A New York based marketing/analyst firm that developed marketing strategies for various national technology clients. Managed the market development of numerous products for clients such as IBM, Novell, and Intel that were seeking to position new or legacy products within the rapidly expanding “dot com” universe.Spearhead numerous projects for this start-up company with Fortune 500 clients:■ Intel – Developed competitive market positioning and return on investment analyses for the market launch of the Intel LANDesk (codename “Hammerhead”) product line.■ IBM – Developed product viability study and analysis for IBM OS/2 (codename “Warp”) operating system platform.■ Novell – Developed market viability study and analysis for next-generation Novell operating system (codename “IntranetWare”).

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