Founded and lead the Corporate Ecosystem Innovation Practice. Focus on developing new management systems to accelerate open innovation between ecosystem partners. Leading research on and validation of new industry-focused platforms that offer value through ecosystem member curation and making industry data and AI foundation models more accessible. Financial Services Innovation - Partnered with Intel and MassChallenge to develop innovative systems and methods that make it faster and easier for fintechs and financial services institutions co-innovate. bit.ly/43slVE5 Decarbonization Innovation - Partnered with IBM Research, Kaplak Partners and and MassChallenge to develop an innovative startup acceleration system. bit.ly/3IJJH6O

IBM's Volunteer Startup Mentor Program is focused on making access to IBM expertise and experience in a range of technical, industry, and business areas easier for curated startup founders from underserved and underrepresented communities. This program was launched in 2021 as a partnership with MassChallenge and MIT.

Pioneered a groundbreaking startup ecosystem partnership model that forged new paths for collaboration between IBM, accelerators, VCs, and corporate innovators. Leveraging my deep expertise in hyperscaler strategies and startup ecosystems, I successfully closed IBM's first AI Startup Ecosystem Partnerships with Hype Innovation and LG Nova Accelerators, positioning IBM as a key enabler of startup-driven innovation.My mission is to make IBM's AI technologies more accessible to startups. I developed, piloted, and validated this innovative strategy while implementing a system to track results within 90 days, ensuring rapid feedback and continuous optimization to meet the needs of IBM sellers, startup ecosystem partners, and startup founders—enhancing collaboration, and accelerating outcomes.

Recruited by and reported to the IBM GM of WW Cloud SW Sales to be a change agent to identify and execute new revenue growth strategies for IBM software brands. Founded and lead IBM's ecosystem partnerships with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud. The primary role is to drive co-investment to grow software access and consumption on these platforms. Bootstrapped the program and pioneered the use of the joint accelerator lab to simplify collaboration and innovation between IBM and hyperscaler partners. The initiative laid the groundwork for IBM's strategic partnership with AWS. Awards: 2020 IBM Top Performer Honoree, 2021 IBM People Choice Award.

Strategic Advisor working with the ClimateTrade team to expand their transparent ecosystem platform to make it even faster and easier for companies and citizens to calculate their carbon footprints and make contributions that fund projects that reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions.

Group of experienced startup and industry executives that advise climate technology founders to accelerate their impact on climate change.

Oracle startup team chartered with bringing Industry Hybrid Cloud solutions to market leveraging Oracle PaaS, SaaS and Mobile Cloud Services. Led regional sales and alliance divisions to develop and execute go-to-market plans to engage Global Systems Integrators to adopt and drive Oracle Cloud Platform PaaS and SaaS revenue.

Co-founded and led execution of the the Oracle Excelerator automated cloud deployment service for Exalogic and Exadata. Led a global agile team representing Product Development, Cloud, Services and Sales Regions to design, develop and execute this service. Built orchestration framework for automating deployment of production-ready application that reduced time from days or weeks to hours with better quality. Led to Oracle's first fixed-price application configuration and deployment service.

Led a worldwide sales and technical sales team to manage the Oracle/IBM sales relationship including our Joint Solution Center team and lab, Montpellier FR. Designed, developed and sold integrated solutions comprised of Oracle applications and technologies and IBM's infrastructure platforms including System X, Power Systems and Linux on System Z. Team engaged hundreds of global Fortune 1000 customers annually in a wide range of sales engagement activities from technology briefings to large, complex data center design, proof-of-concept and benchmarks. In 2006 led a joint investment to make Oracle portfolio commercial grade on IBM's mainframe Linux platform. In 2010 created, secured funding for and launched of a new global Oracle team focused on creating and executing market development strategies for Oracle Cloud Computing solutions in heterogeneous platform accounts (e.g.: Sun, IBM, EMC, VMWare, HP). Work closely with Oracle Product Development and Marketing Strategy executives to align with and communicate to Oracle corporate strategies with Oracle senior regional sales executives in North America, EMEA, APAC and China.

Built a WW team and executed a technology team to accelerate the replacement of legacy technologies with Oracle solutions. Hired and led a global team of solution architects that supported regional sales divisions to drive modernization, competitive-take-out-driven revenue.

Recruited to position the company for acquisition. Assets acquired by Oracle. Took position within Oracle.

Founded and secured early stage financing for company. StructuredSoft developed a middleware software development workbench designed to improve the productivity of developers making the move from procedural to object-oriented programming.

Consulting team with various backgrounds focused on developing turn-key business and technology strategy. Consulted to LabMorgan investment group at JPMorganChase on Small Business Banking digital strategies.

Service for individuals to license personal commerce information to marketers.

E-Commerce catalog platform that published digital retail catalogs used by hundreds of online retailers including Amazon.com with rich editorial and merchandising metadata for the sale entertainment products (music, books and movies). Worked closely with Amazon to enable their growth beyond books into music and movies and collaborated to build the merchandising catalog that contributed to their launch of Amazon.co.uk in 1998.

Edition was the first browser-based XML editorial and workflow application for the publishing industry. Sold to Inso corporation.

Pioneering e-Commerce network before the Web. Funded by John Kluge focused on delivering government and commercial online transactions and advertising from private networked kiosks. The initial network launched was operated for the City of New York called "InfoNY." The kiosks, which were like ATMs, were directly online to the City’s computer systems for secure, up-to-date and precise information

Created and led a start-up within IBM and with business partners to develop private e-government networks that enabled constituents to access a range of government services directly from interactive kiosks placed throughout New York City. Led the alignment of the Mayor's Office, senior New York City, State and Federal Agencies, Legislators and commercial partners including JD Decaux to launch in New York City.

Completed year-long comprehensive, rigorous IBM Sales and Technical training program. Designed large complex hardware, software and network solutions for large NY City, State and Federal agencies.