Executive VP for Business Development for New Age Ventures, a boutique full-stack venture studio, with a capital investment and entrepreneurial advisory focus on earlier stage companies in the Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Artificial Intelligence, Technology and Logistics Industries.www.newageventures.netBusiness Partner to Venture founder with responsibility focus on technology assessment, business development, complete due diligence, legal and operation. Instrumental in analyzing and closing technology investments. Key Accomplishments include:• Investments closed achieved annual returns exceeding 400%• Successfully lead due diligence for over 5 deals • Closed 3 additional major partnership deals• Instrumental in analyzing and closing technology investments (Venture focus on leading technologies in the areas AI, Biotech, Semiconductor, Manufacturing)

emoshape.comEmoshape Inc. is dedicated to providing an edge computing solution (cloud / chip) that teaches intelligent objects how to interact with humans to yield a favorable, positive result. Emoshape emotion synthesis chip (EPU) technology represents a massive leap for Artificial Intelligence, especially in the realm of self-driving cars, personal robotics, sentient virtual reality, affective toys, IoT, pervasive computing, and other major consumer electronic devices. Applications including human-machine interaction, emotion speech synthesis, emotional awareness, emotion reasoning, machine emotional intimacy, AI’s personalities, machine learning and affective computing. Fields as diverse as medicine, advertising, and gaming will significantly benefit from the Emotion Processing Unit (EPU II). The growing presence of AI, robotics and virtual reality in society as a whole dictates that meaningful emotional interaction is core to removing the barrier to widespread adoption.Computers will possess emotions and personality – Ray Kurzweil.Imagine intelligent machines able to truly understand and sense what they say; sentient robots able to modulate their voice, facial expressions and body language by the intensity of their emotions; advanced affective agents (AAA) in soft toys; driverless cars capable of responding faster when making complex decisions by emotional reasoning; and robots developing their own unique personalities, learning from humans interactions. We invite you to take part in the future; in making the world a better place by giving intelligent machines empathy for humans, to help create a positive future.

Led global Consulting engagements with major technology companies.

Saving Sharks For Ocean Health.Shark Stewards mission is to restore ocean health by saving sharks from overfishing and the shark fin trade, and protecting critical marine habitat through the establishment of marine protected areas and shark sanctuaries.

Responsible for Executive Key Accounts, World Economic forum Davos (WEF), Global Sales Performance and Business Intelligence. Member of the CSO (Chief Sales Officer) Staff organization. Executive Sponsor of the AMD Alliance and Freescale Account.Key Accomplishments include:• Increased Sales by over $200 million• Lead two Global Account Sales teams and managed Sales Alliance (Freescale and AMD)• Responsible for all HP customer engagements at the WEF (annual World Economic Forum in Davos) • Designed and implemented HP’s first global Sales Scorecard across all regions• Co-leader of IT Portfolio optimization, identifying key IT investments with budget exceeding US$4 billion

Rsponsible for WW Sales Performance Excellence for the Technology Soutions Group (TSG)

HP WW Executive Sponsor for the AMD and Freescale accounts

Director for South Asia with focus on Business Development. Moldflow is the world’s leading supplier of software solutions to the plastics industry.Key Accomplishments include:• Established regional presence, new Distribution and Sales strategy • Established Distribution and Sales network• Continuously exceeded Sales targets (up to 186%). Sales territory included China, India, SEA, Australia, New Zealand, and the Middle East.

Business Owner for the Sourcing & Distribution Business Unit with annual Sales of US$200 million. Responsible for all aspects of the business, including Sales, Business Development, Marketing and Operations. Restructured business, created and implemented new vision and direction for organization, restructured and expanded team, while continuously exceeding plans in Sales and Profits. Key Accomplishments include:• Created new business strategy• Expanded business in new directions and markets, significantly increasing customer & supplier base• Closed deals with annual sales exceeding US$200 million• Continuously exceeded Sales and Profit targets by over 50%, growing business by US$100 million

Directly responsible for all Financial Operations, Business Planning, Accounting, and Controlling. Lead the Finance team through the year-end close, budget and business planning process. Essential part of the business development and strategy planning process of SPLS. Co-leader of SPLS West Coast with annual sales volumes exceeding US$ 150 million.Key Accomplishments include:• Successful completion of audited year-end close• Established new reporting system and business guidelines• Implemented fully automated payment processing system in coordination with eProcurement Operations• Closed deals with annual sales exceeding US$150 million

Responsible for Siemens North America Corporate Volume Purchasing Agreements covering US$600 million and implementation of world leading eProcurement tool “click2procure” with an user base of 90,000. Directed Operations, Content, Legal, and Marketing groups. Achieved industry recognition through the work in the eProcurement field, held presentations at leading industry events, and was featured in multiple Magazine articles.Key Accomplishments include:• Successful implementation, operation, and selling of world-leading B2B eProcurement system • Negotiated new agreements and improved existing agreements covering more than US$600 million of indirect material spend; achieved savings exceeding US$60 million

Responsible for all Corporate Planning and Executive Reporting. Leading team of 9 Senior Financial Analysts (MBA/CPA), plus 4 assignees from Germany. Implemented nation-wide, Oracle multi-dimensional database-driven, planning tool facilitating global annual budgeting processes Key Accomplishments include:• Reduced the planning cycle and cost by more than 30%• Lead the companies' first combined functional and business unit strategic plan• Merged companies with revenues of over US$2 billion

Responsible for Planning and Executive Presentations. Completed several planning cycles. Designed and implemented Siemens’ first online reporting system which later was rolled out globally.