Acting CEO and investor in small businesses (1M to 5M in revenue). Always looking to get involved in such businesses (contact me). I'm involved in improving, growing, and preparing businesses for investment due diligence, (M&A) sale, and/or long-term sustainability.I'm also actively advising other CEOs and managing a number of my own personal investments.

I was elected for two consecutive 2-year terms on the Executive Board of the Del Rey Yacht Club. I also perform the duties of Port Captain since 2021, a volunteer position that consists of managing the club's marina with 304 slips, all dry docks, and boat equipment storage facilities. I am also a member of the Digital Committee. The DRYC is a member managed club, my board role is an elected position. All my duties, roles, and contributions are on volunteer basis. Contact me if you are curious about boating and/or want to join the DRYC.

Governmental Venture Capital in Portugal actively investing in Portuguese technology startups:• Giving back as member of several panels (jury) evaluating startup viability and investment validity (go, no-go), as well as advisor to entrepreneurs offering guidance, focus, strategy, and opening doors in the US market.

San Francisco-based startup company that leverages advanced Data Science research in Human Dynamics (the application of “big data” to social relationships and human behavior) to identify market trends and predict customer actions, most notably retail and financial services companies. • Brought in to manage and bring structure aligning 40-person organization (sales, delivery, product, marketing, and related areas) with strategic priorities. Distributed team across SF, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires. Rationalized technical pre-sales and services teams to improve delivery capabilities. Head of Data Science Service Delivery with oversight of: Technical Pre-sales, DevOps, Infrastructure, Data Engineering, Data Science and Machine Learning.

Standardized test consortium and leading multi-state test provider that creates State Standards-aligned tests, adaptive online exams. Product leader of the open source product suite (LMS, TDS, Secure Browser, Portal, CMS) across several platforms (web/mobile) serving 15+ states in K-through-12 providing content, testing, and teaching platforms for teachers and touching over 7 Million students: • Joined CIO to develop 2-year plan for spending, contracting, and budgets across IT and product teams, later reporting directly to COO and CEO. Optimized $10M budget while guiding teams of internal user advocates and corresponding external contractor software developers across new product development and product lifecycle management functions. • Maximized business results and performance of 8-member team, driving product planning and development to release, infrastructure, and ongoing support.

Worked with tech companies expanding to and from the US, EMEA and LATAM: • Consulted for/with VC's, Angels and Incubators advising companies in the Seed to Series A phases on professional services (post and pre-sale), funding, and organizational structure. • Performed Private Equity due diligence of the technology, product, and delivery in M&A deals, including Carveouts from large tech companies.• Worked with several companies in the $1M to $5M yearly revenue in tech preparing to be acquired and/or needed to recapitalize and re-structure: marketing, email, mobile, social, IT management, HR/HRIS/HCM and services.

Under the Technicolor Ventures umbrella, created a Data Science and Marketing driven platform for product discovery and product enthusiasm. Intoo Captured the relationship between products and humans in a directory that gathers product enthusiasts around the products that mean the most to mankind.• CEO role, also led product management. Recruited technical team and spearheaded design and development of proprietary, big-data marketing engine. Raised $250K in negotiated spinout. Later secured $750K from Google Cloud, AWS and Azure, signed a global apparel brand, and signed 2 national sports brands, along with several famous community spokespeople.

Initially a R&D Innovations Lab and subsequently Technicolor Ventures, a 50M corporate venture fund. Was Entrepreneur in Residence type of role (startups):• Led an internal (stealth) project in strategy, prototype definition, and a team for execution. • Headed client discovery, industry contacts/networking, etc.• Helped new ventures incubated by Technicolor Ventures w/ product and growth.• Defined the process and thesis for new ventures as well as incubation.

Joined cloud-based learning and talent management software-as-a-service (SaaS) company a month after IPO, launching and growing high-impact services team to 12 personnel that carried out data integrations and tool/product implementations. Guided strategic direction while managing P&L, Statements Of Work (SOW), pricing, marketing, staff recruiting, and project delivery: • further grew and trained team to cover services, training, management consulting, and pre-sales functions;• personally stepped up as sales architect and technology SME to support team of 96 commercial and enterprise sales people across USA and LATAM; and • managed SalesForce SOW process for team tasked with contractual and opportunity management.• Grew Integration services revenue from $0 to $13M during 1st year, with 60% spike to reach $36M in pre-sales and project volume by end of year 2.• Cut service escalations 80% and delivery times 50% with comprehensive services catalog and related delivery models, new process, and team training. • Personally delivered 50% over-quota results in mid-market/commercial and enterprise sales in a record 9 months, with highest ratio of number of services and technical scoping to a closed sale in 2012.

SVP of Sales & BD for LINGOSPOT, startup that delivered AI-based content management systems to global media companies, recently acquired by PickSell: Led team that rolled out NLP-driven systems to top global media companies, including Gannett, Bloomberg, Fox, Sky, LexisNexis, McClatchy, and CBS.

CEO of KLICKSPORTS, mobile and web sports gaming startup in L.A. (3 years): Co-authored patent, raised $1.3M funding, partnered with Google, and led teams to deliver promotions for KFC, FOX, Papa Johns, AT&T, The Washington Redskins, and 5 NCAA college bowl games by partnering with NFL, MLB, NBA, ESPN, CBS, FOX, Yahoo, and Electronic Arts (EA).

Convolution was a multi-disciplinary design company. Award winning projects in design as well as marketing for NEI treatment systems, NoHo Lofts and software as JWatcher (UCLA/OBEE), CEX and HOH (LA Times/Tribune), CVRLAB(UCLA).

SDC built one of the first display ad targeting optimization servers - later sold to MySpace/FOX-Interactive Media (FIM). The technology was based on segmentation schemes and a real time rules learning algorithms. Employee #14 in the core technology team.

Project Manager for CarsDirect.com car server. Started as a web-tester and in less than 6 months became responsible for managing a team of 35 developers. Developed fully functional mockups and gave demonstration of products.