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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.

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..

Sarasota, Florida, US

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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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.

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