Jorge Heraud Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Making the future of weed control a reality. Chemical free. No more resistant weeds.

South San Francisco, California, United States

Autonomy for vineyards and more!

San Francisco Bay Area

Bringing smart machines to Agriculture and Construction to make our customers more productive, profitable and sustainable.

Sunnyvale, CA

CEO and co-founder of Blue River Technology, which was acquired by Deere & Co in September 2017 and is now run as an independent subsidiary. Our machines use computer vision, machine learning and precise spraying to identify weeds from crops in Agricultural fields and then spray only the weeds. This reduces the amount of herbicides used by a factor of 10.

Stanford, CA

Attended the Sloan Program, a one year full program in business (executive MBA) at Stanford Graduate School of Business.My focus was in leadership and entrepreneurship.

• Established and led the Business Unit; generated initial five year strategic plan, oversaw P&L, strategy and execution.
• Grew unit from 1 to 60 employees, achieved profitability and grew revenues by a factor of five
• Led the acquisition and integration of Rawson Control Systems, Tru Count Inc and N-Tech Corporation, meeting or exceeding profitability goals.
• Defined and launched a successful new product line that consolidates five product lines into a single one; reduced system… Show more
• Defined and launched a successful new product line that consolidates five product lines into a single one; reduced system complexity and leveraged acquired companies, while increasing revenue by over $3M. Show less

• Identified and evaluated nine different companies as possible acquisition targets, four of which were acquired by Trimble Navigation.
• Refined business strategies and evaluated for fit, created financial models and presented to senior management.
• Acquired companies: Tru Count Inc. (2008), Rawson Control Systems (2008), NTech Industries (2009) and FarmWorks/CTN (2009); generated over $30M in increased revenue for Trimble.

• Managed all engineering activities including electrical, software, mechanical design, controls and Global Positioning System (GPS), for the $250M+ Agriculture division, with a budget of over $10M.
• Grew the engineering team from 35 to 52 employees in two years with engineering groups in Sunnyvale, CA, Portland, OR, and Christchurch, New Zealand.
• Restructured engineering group to better focus on new product lines.
• Reduced time to market from 15 to 12 months by improving… Show more
• Reduced time to market from 15 to 12 months by improving product development planning process. Show less

• Designed and managed the development of four new products for vehicle tracking with combined revenues of $25M.
• Products included a communications module (GPRS, 1xRTT, CDPD or Satellite), GPS and sensors capable of monitoring the operation of industrial vehicles; now deployed in over 100,000 vehicles including Ready Mix vehicles.

Electronics and Programming

Repair and support

Business, Sloan Fellow

Activities and Societies: • Masters in Management program for students with 10+ years of experience. Focusing in Entrepreneurship and.

Executive Development Center

Ms, Engineering Management

Activities and Societies: M.S. in Engineering Management, Focus in Marketing and Finance Marketing, Finance, Entrepeneurship

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Focus in Computer Architecture Depth area - Computer Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Electronics

Education record