Current Company:ElementBars.com - Custom Energy BarsEntrepreneurial Experience:In 1999, founded GetCheapBooks.com - leading online price comparison shopping site for books, movies, music, and video games. Negotiated with large internet merchants to gain access to inventory; created commission payment system for each sale resulting in the successful partnership with seventeen leading internet merchants. Expanded company through coordinated effort of online advertising and offline marketing through a network of campus representatives resulting in an annual revenue growth rate of 70%. Implemented peer-to-peer marketplace that provides escrow, tracking, and product exposure services that enables users to sell directly to each other.Consulting Experience:Two and half years of consulting experience with ZS Associates, a global consulting firm specializing in analytical solutions to sales and marketing issues. Specific experience includes designing and programming new customized tool and process to help medical product company’s sales force visualize and execute on growth in market share strategy; co-managed on-site implementation with company’s VP of Sales; resulted in over $1M of follow-up contracts with several leading medical products companies. Evaluated and streamlined Fortune 500 company’s compartmentalized R&D process through best practice research and needs assessment workshops; created uniform data collection process and graphical reporting tool that resulted in the capacity to evaluate and document 100% more ideas per quarter. Developed 5-year resource allocation plan for size and structure of sales force after expected FDA approval of new pharmaceutical product resulting in a significant shift in corporate strategy10 year goal: Early stage VC in the biotech or internet spaceSpecialties: Internet advertising, webservice integration,