Nucla platform helps Global 5000 enterprise teams streamline company tracking, reporting and sharing. World-class software focused on improving the process for anyone who tracks companies.

Nucla platform helps Global 5000 enterprise teams streamline company tracking, reporting and sharing. World-class software focused on improving the process for anyone who tracks companies.

KITE is the leading ecosystem partner for enterprises and consultancies seeking to augment and bolster existing capabilities with an extensive research data bench, and AI-augmented venture-quality analyst talent. KITE is the fastest, best and most cost-effective way to source disruptive and accretive intelligence. It’s scouting streamlined and simplified for ongoing and on-demand needs. KITE accelerates smarter, mission-critical decisions, and increase the number of high-quality partnerships and outcomes.

In November 2010 Schawk Inc acquired Real Branding. My role is to bring emerging platforms and thought leadership to our clients in North America.

Delivered multi-layered solution to product/services evolution through emerging platforms thought leadership, events, educational curriculum, applied strategy, creative ideation and innovative marketing programs. Led early strategies and adoption on range of emerging platforms in Social Media and Gaming, Mobile and ultimately with SoLoMo. Moved agency to center of Agency, Brand, Events, Media, Technology and Venture intersection. Established evaluation, vetting and selection process for early stage companies.

Founded and helped build Real Branding, a leading digital marketing agency with offices in SF & NY and clients such as ABC/Disney, Anheuser-Busch/Inbev, Darden Restaurants, Johnson & Johnson, Peet's Coffee, PepsiCo and Unilever.

In 1994 I co-founded RealBeer.com with Pat Hagerman. While Pat built the initial team & infrastructure my wife and I traveled around the US in a 3/4-Ton Dodge Ram pulling a shiny silver travel trailer meeting with every brewery and beer marketer along the way. We evangelized the new medium, captured content and cemented business development partnerships that have lasted nearly 20-years. This "apple-seeding" mission worked as we returned to SF with real customers, real revenues and real beer. Early clients included Corona, Miller Specialty, Labatt USA which became A-B/Inbev, Newcastle Brown Ale and hundreds of breweries and beer suppliers. Building a digital business back then required inventing nearly everything from CMS systems to native ad formats, CRM to web hosting. I'll never forget the time Pat slept next to the server overnight on a cot to restart the machine when it was having hiccoughs. To really date ourselves, we connected on the road with Earthlink, AOL & CompuServe accounts (queue modem sound), sometimes using a phone coupler (look it up--it's old skool). In 2001 we spun Real Branding, our digital marketing arm, out of RealBeer.com to unlock shareholder value and put it on its own course. Real Branding became a leading digital marketing agency and RealBeer.com remains a going concern today serving the community of brewers and beer lovers alike.

Mostly tech accounts like AMD, National Semiconductor, Sun & Symantec where we got an early look at the earliest web browser, Mosaic, on Unix boxes in '93. That inspired us to build the business case and launch one of the earliest commercial websites, CareerMosaic very early in 1994,