Throughout my executive-level experience in entrepreneurial industry R&D and NGOs, and during six years in a Gates organization bringing these together in philanthropic product development and investment, I've been able to identify and cultivate opportunities in both broad overview and multidisciplinary detail, directing and fostering a transparent stakeholder-focused innovation culture reflected in organizational developments even in ambiguous, challenging and changing environments. A citizen of the US, NZ, and Italy, I've worked on all eight continents and shepherded multiple new product/service concepts through to partnering, ROI and sustainability.Familiar with intellectual property and agile project management in life sciences, engineering and artificial intelligence (AI), I've enhanced the business and partner development of existing multinational actors, and I've led startup businesses, overseeing IT, legal, HR, finance, communications and R&D teams, and managed databases and portals, research laboratories, education and conservation facilities and field test sites. I'm an inventor, writer, presenter and skilled facilitator of invention sessions, with strong technical skills in biomedical/biotech/bioinformatics, agriculture/forestry, and environment/renewables; 38 issued patents and more than 100 patents pending (https://www.lens.org/lens/search/patent/list?profile.userId=12).Career success areas: - Found, cultivated and sealed partnerships to get multiple products including devices, software and services into the private sector for public good: prominent examples are platform.gisaid.org and lens.org - Refreshed and focused strategy development and the related operations procedures each time I've entered an organization in processes of change -- which did happen multiple times even before COVID - Met complex goals as I've led portfolios of projects at various stages, in diverse value chains - Sustainability: assessments of market, stakeholder landscape and motivations to get past inertia, and find ways to keep things running even through financial crises - Due Diligence: detailed contracts review and IP management (USPTO-registered patent agent); evaluated and developed pioneering open source licenses to get wider use and improvements of patentable and patented technologies, data, materials and resources - IT project management, especially AI, machine learning, geospatial analytics, genomics, IP informatics - Experienced editor, business analyst, facilitator, and instructor for building capacity, systems overview and enablement