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Portland, Or, Us

Reno, Nv, Us

StaffView is an innovative, supported healthcare community marketplace created to help address staffing shortages by conveniently connecting short-staffed healthcare facilities with clinicians from a wide variety of partners.

Reno, Nv, Us

StaffView is an innovative, supported healthcare community marketplace created to help address staffing shortages by conveniently connecting short-staffed healthcare facilities with clinicians from a wide variety of partners.

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Taru, Kenya, Ke

Recruited to lead Kenya Keys through the transition from a founder-based organization to a self-sustaining, Executive Director and Board-based organization. Led development of a 5 year strategic plan, a full technology stack upgrade, and implemented robust organizational development and alignment with US and Kenyan teams. Kenya Keys help students achieve their potential through education and experiences that lead to academic achievement, marketable skills, gainful employment, and increased leadership capacity.

Portland, Or, Us

When I first joined The Dyrt I was responsible for overseeing a critical product launch and expansion and then transitioned to lead all operations execution for a hyper-growth outdoor technology startup. As a result, I was instrumental in leading the operations required to allow the company to achieve 5x revenue growth and raise 3 rounds of financing for $20.5 million in funding, which led the company to become the leading D2C subscription-based SaaS platform and mobile app for camping on Apple and Android platforms. In a post-Covid world, I successfully led team-wide expansion, nearly doubling the workforce from 25 to 50 FTEs. In this role, I directly supported the CEO and President to execute the organization’s corporate vision and guided the team to refine strategies, processes, and procedures to ensure a streamlined and efficient organization effectively meeting expectations for customers and shareholders.

Marlborough, Massachusetts, Us

Recruited as a Director of the Board as a subject matter expert and leader in international healthcare and patient engagement technologies. Health eVillages, a program of the not-for-profit Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, provides state-of-the-art mobile health technology including medical reference and clinical decision support resources to medical professionals in the most challenging clinical environments around the world.

Led WELVU, an enterprise patient engagement platform bringing data-driven, mobile patient engagement solutions to clinics, hospitals, and health systems as those organizations seek to empower patients with actionable information that leads to higher satisfaction, lower costs, and improved outcomes.As a result, I raised $3M in investor capital to trailblaze product development and go-to-market strategies for the next round of innovation in the patient engagement sector at major health systems, clinics, and and medical technology firms.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Mentor-in-Residence providing mentorship, guidance, and support to leaders and investigators that have started or are considering starting new companies around technologies currently being developed at OTRADI and OBI.

Portland, Oregon, Us

I was asked to serve as an entrepreneur-in-residence for Oregon Health & Science University to support of their operational development and commercialization. In this capacity, I partnered with principal investigators and new company leadership to identify high market potential solutions and provide executive operational support to drive short-term and long-term initiatives. As a result, I developed strategic and tactical plans that supported the execution of go-to-market and growth initiatives by advising C-Suite Executives to gain buy-in.

Portland, Or, Us

Non-profit entrepreneur peer-mentoring organization with the mission to support the development and growth of entrepreneurs building innovative organizations seeking to create change and economic development. Co-founded the organization with several entrepreneurs and the organization has continued on to support dozens of organizations with several successful acquisitions and liquidation events. Helped launch the founding and growth of unusually successful non-profit start-up business incubator that was formed as an initial organization with 7 founding companies, most of which have been acquired or are still in operation. Organization achieved an 81% survival/success rate among 131 member companies, collectively raised $455M+, 20 companies merged or acquired, 1 IPO, and 4 Inc. 500/Inc. 5000 companies.

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Participated on the Board of Directors of a communications technology company seeking to disrupt the mobile telecommunications marketplace. Supported the CEO and team in Board meetings and ongoing business discussions to advance company growth and success.

Promoted following consolidation of four major divisions to help company reposition its overall strategy, product suite, and profile to achieve growth and maintain margins in a competitive market. Created 36 month strategic plan with CEO, President, and EVP’s of 4 recently merged business units, leveraging innovation and acquisition to grow revenues by 10%+ while maintaining 40%+ EBITDA margins. Directed and coordinated strategic planning operations, contributed to organizational budget and financial modeling, and supported creation of product development initiatives for corporate review and selection. Facilitated senior management planning meetings and led analysis and pursuit of corporate business development opportunities for partners, licensing, and acquisitions. Facilitated division transition following corporate consolidation. Researched, reviewed, & maintained relationships with possible partner & acquisition targets for CEO, and participated in market conferences to represent the organization and report analysis of market trends and competitive awareness to the organization.

Led acquired team of 12 through full integration process while scaling product suite across 15x-sized sales team to grow top line revenue by 150%+ while achieving 42% EBITDA margin in less than 3 years. Led transition from privately held company to integrated division of Krames. Managed all P&L responsibilities and successfully grew top line and bottom line results over three year period. Integrated all pertinent operational systems into corporate operations platform and product suite into existing sales and marketing organizations. Managed all division sales, marketing, client services, content production, and product development leadership. Participated in long range strategic planning with senior management and with parent company executive team. Interfaced with senior leadership from parent and sister companies, driving partnership and revenues.

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Co-founded and led idea-stage startup to market leader position in eight years with first online streaming health video library with SaaS, cloud-based video CMS with an “information prescription” for patients. Developed proprietary content library and software platform to displace market leaders and provide innovative solutions to the healthcare market. Managed all business operations, financial management, and fund raising activities for the company. Managed sales, client services, content development, and product development leadership and initiatives. Raised $3 million dollars in equity and $1 million of debt financing to fund growth to 1000’s of clinics and 100’s of hospitals as customers to lead to a successful exit with a well established market leader. Managed the acquisition process with 3 major suitors to achieve a 7 month close and 100% of 3 year earn out achieved. Directed all internal merger and acquisition activities including negotiations, legal, financial, and due diligence management. Managed the Board of Directors, the company's advisory board, as well as all investor relations. Conceptualized and scaled company from idea to acquisition, overcoming major pivots and pitfalls.

Provo, Ut, Us

Volunteered in university research lab led by Dr. Kim O'Neill, studying physiological pathways of tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer cells. Gained insight into basic science research processes, utilization of primary and secondary research to further scientific knowledge, and collaboration with team members and mentors to make progress in understanding breast cancer disease and treatment pathways.

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

Worked with clinical researchers studying the physiological pathways of inflammation in an effort to identify novel interventions that would impact the inflammatory response in individuals with targeted medical conditions.

Non-profit healthcare advocacy organization affiliated with the American Cancer Society with the goal of educating individuals and their families about the benefits of cancer screenings and lifestyle changes that minimize cancer risk. Executive team member beginning in 1994, providing first exposure to the impact of health information advocacy for consumers and patients.

Deerfield, Illinois, Us

Worked at the Baxter Genetic Therapy laboratory in Round Lake IL, working on viral vector therapeutics for Hemophilia and other genetic conditions.Publication related to the work done at Baxter can be found at: http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/cgi/reprint/95/3/820.pdf

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Volunteer international mission serving and communicating with those who sought assistance while living among the wonderful people of western Venezuela. Established new leadership abilities, a stronger work ethic, and obtained fluency in Spanish.

Medicine

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Microbiology, General