Michael Skarzynski Email & Phone Number

United States

Operating and Interim Executive and Advisor to assist venture companies to accelerate cloud adoption, build cybersecurity solutions, build brands, increase global sales and partnerships, navigate transitions and reach their full potential. Specialize in transformational change in sales, technology, operations, and business models. Experience with Public Cloud Platforms Architecture and Deployment to deliver customer facing skills to represent AWS, Azure, Docker, GCP, Oracle, VMWare and SAP within the clients' environment. Drive discussions with senior execs regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation. Strong organizational and project management skills with an ability to manage numerous, competing demands from internal and external stakeholders and Customers.Experience in building/integrating security solutions in large environments. Strong understanding of Internet protocols and applications. Experience designing comprehensive enterprise solutions based on Cloud reference architectures.Work with clients to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges of cloud adoption. Work with clients on the design, development and deployment of business software at scale and technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experienceAssist clients in implementing AWS and Azure services in distributed computing environments including integration of cloud services with on-premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and SAP.Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements security, privacy, SCCA, NIST SCRM controls, HIPAA, ICD503, FISMA, FedRAMP, SSAE16 SOC 2, and PCI DSS▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀Advisor to: nference, Luftronix, REAN Cloud, BirdEye, AOPA, veveo/Rovi, iPinion Surveys/Research Now, Aylus Networks, Kirusa, and Winphoria.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Powered by its artificial intelligence software platform, nferX, nference's mission is to synthesize the exponentially growing biomedical knowledge. nferX uses state-of-the-art neural networks (shallow and deep learning models) for real-time, automated extraction of knowledge from the commercial, scientific and regulatory body of literature. The platform enables a diverse set of applications ranging from R&D to commercial strategy and operations in the life sciences ecosystem. The long-term goal of the nferX platform is to become the connecting fabric of the various silos of information that exist across health care. Founded by Murali Aravamudan and Venky Soundararajan, Ph.D., nference is led by a multidisciplinary team of serial entrepreneurs from the tech and biotech worlds and PhDs in Biology/Genomics from MIT and Harvard Medical School.

Santa Clara, California, Us

REAN Cloud solutions are focused on offering modernization and managed services and patent-pending solutions for hyperscale integrated infrastructure (IaaS) and platform (PaaS) service providers and is one of few MSPs capable of supporting the entire cloud services lifecycle. Backed by extensive security DNA, deep compliance expertise and broad big data and analytics experience, REAN Cloud specializes in helping enterprise customers operating in highly regulated environments. Hitachi completed its acquisition of REAN Cloud in 2018.

Palo Alto, California, Us

BirdEye is a SaaS platform that reimagines the way customer feedback is used to acquire and retain connected customers by closing the loop between reputation marketing and customer experience. BirdEye enables businesses to get new reviews and captures existing customer sentiment from review sites, social media, Net Promoter Scores, and support cases in real-time. BirdEye converts all feedback into actionable insights so businesses can engage in every step of the customer journey, establish a positive online presence, and benchmark performance across locations and against competitors.The BirdEye platform is trusted by 25,000+ businesses and prominent F1000 enterprises. BirdEye was founded in 2012 by Google, Yahoo, Amazon alumni and backed by Trinity Ventures, Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang.Some noteworthy mentions:Check out some of our recent G2Crowd awards! Best Software Company in 2019: #60 Best Small Business Software in 2019: #25 Best Product for Marketers in 2019: #16

Frederick, Md, Us

AOPA is the largest, most influential general aviation association in the world. AOPA has achieved its prominent position through effective advocacy, enlightened leadership, technical competence, and hard work. Providing member services that range from representation at the federal, state, and local levels to legal services, advice, and other assistance, AOPA has built a service organization that far exceeds any other in the aviation community. AOPA's Mission We protect your freedom to fly by… advocating on behalf of our members, educating pilots, nonpilots, and policy makers alike, supporting activities that ensure the long-term health of General Aviation, fighting to keep General Aviation accessible to all, and securing sufficient resources to ensure our success.

Veveo is pioneering technologies that enable natural interfaces that support true conversational capabilities for connected devices and applications. Its SmartRelevanceTM Conversational Platform is used by service providers & major smartphone manufacturers for intelligent search, personalization, and recommendation solutions. Veveo’s technologies have been deployed for more than 100 million devices. Veveo’s conversational interfaces are designed to deliver rich, hyper-personalized user experiences that anticipate user intent toward driving higher engagement, content consumption, and monetization of products and services for device vendors, service providers and enterprises, across platforms of smartphones, tablets, TVs, and set-top boxes. Veveo has a growing intellectual property portfolio of more than 60 patent applications, with 32 issued patents. The venture-backed company is founded by serial technology entrepreneurs and based in Boston, MA. Rovi acquired Veveo on Feb 28, 2014.

Mobile2Metrics is a mobile media SaaS company providing digital marketing solutions to enterprise and service provider clients.

Aylus Networks was founded in 2005 to enable the creation and processing of rich media in mobile networks. Our innovative, core-infrastructure technology enables the tier 1 mobile operator to gain a competitive edge in the marketplace by effectively revitalizing a flat or declining revenue stream. Aylus Networks enables wireless carriers to quickly deploy rich communications services for a variety of underlying wireless networks and platforms. Networks such as EDGE/UMTS/WCDMA/HSPA/LTE, EV-DO/Rev A, and WiFi/WiMAX are all addressed by Aylus' high-quality, high-reliability and flexible infrastructure in both IMS and non-IMS architectures. The Aylus Networks end-to end solution is a vertically integrated platform enabling media casting, one-to one and one-to many media sharing, one-to-one video communications and real-time media processing, including: o Transcoding, translating and transizing o Content storage, web portal support, and social networking integration.

Shelton, Connecticut, Us

iPinion Surveys is a SaaS venture that has developed an Enterprise grade Consumer Insights and Market Research solution for the mobile world. iPinion has patent pending solutions that delivers break through consumer research capabilities in the rapidly growing smartphone and tablet world. Market Research firms and Enterprise clients can license iPinion platform and gain new ways to gain deeper, richer consumer insights. Research Now acquired iPinion Surveys in 2013.

Boulder, Co, Us

With over 20 years’ experience, 41 patents and a history of cutting-edge software development, Circadence solves complex customer problems using robust, industry-leading solutions. Circadence is a recognized leader in the Federal cyber security community. Powered by a culture of innovation, intellectual property and the demands of an evolving cyber market, Circadence is using its current cyber range solution and next generation cyber security training platform (Project Ares) to address this critical national security challenge and tremendous business opportunity.

Berkeley Heights Township, New Jersey, Us

Kirusa is a global leader in providing communication solutions over data networks for consumers and enterprises. Kirusa’s solutions include InstaVoice ReachMe, a voice-over-data solution to help users receive their GSM calls over data in a mobile app, while helping carriers leverage the power of data to enrich the calling experience of their subscribers; InstaVoice®, a unique call completion solution for users that bundles voicemail, missed calls, availability, and ring, and helps mobile carriers monetize missed calls in their networks; Kirusa Konnect™, a Communications Platform as a Sevice (CPaaS) for enterprises that helps bolster enterprise-customer engagement over mobile channels; and InstaVoice Channels™, that offer users access to live voice blogs from their favorite celebrities, sports clubs, news portals and other streams. Kirusa solutions are deployed in 46 countries, with 50 mobile carrier partnerships in Africa, Asia, and LatAm. Kirusa solutions are built on its patented technology and highly reliable, scalable multimodal & cloud platforms, which manage over 2.5 billion calls and 100 million active mobile users across the globe, every month. Headquartered in New Jersey and led by an experienced team of wireless telecom executives and technologists, Kirusa has offices in four continents.

San Jose, California, Us

UTStarcom delivers cutting-edge packet optical transport and broadband access solutions coupled with a carrier grade Software Defined Networking platform to give telecommunications carriers the power to efficiently serve the rapidly growing demand for bandwidth from cloud-based services, mobile, streaming and other applications.Our goal is to help network operators simplify the process of offering new revenue-generating products and services and run their networks more efficiently. This goal inspired our “simple network, simple operation” philosophy of product design whereby we help customers eliminate unnecessary layers of technical and operational complexity. As a result, network operators can reduce capital expenditures and operational expenses, while maintaining a high level of network reliability, performance and security.We leverage our extensive expertise in packet optical transport, broadband access, Wi-Fi and next generation video platforms, to develop state-of-the-art products for different market segments and applications, including mobile backhaul, metro aggregation, Wi-Fi data offload, and to optimize our solutions for video streaming applications. Many of the innovations that we embed in our products stem directly from insights we glean through close engagement with tier-1 telecom carriers worldwide as they strive to improve network performance, maintain tight budget discipline and offer their customers a compelling package of services.UTStarcom was founded in 1991 and began trading on NASDAQ since 2000. It has operating entities in Tokyo, Japan; San Jose, USA; Hangzhou, China; and Delhi and Bangalore, India. In 2011, the Company deployed a revamped growth strategy that concentrates on broadband and selective investments into innovative companies providing media operation support services.

Chicago, Il, Us

Irving, Texas, Us

Murray Hill, Nj, Us

Los Alamos, Nm, Us

Los Alamos National Laboratory is a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security. We enhance national security by ensuring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile and serve as a center for research in a wide range of scientific disciplines, including space exploration, geophysics, renewable energy, supercomputing, medicine, and nanotechnology.

Princeton, New Jersey, Us

LNJ draws together highly successful professional women and men into our Fellowship to achieve a greater good in our professions and for our communities. LNJ works with our State’s leaders to achieve their goals of making New Jersey a better place in which to live and work.

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

For 50 years, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has developed practical solutions to the world’s greatest challenges. Today’s global landscape presents strategic opportunities that will define our future. As we celebrate this milestone, CSIS scholars are developing strategic insights and bipartisan policy solutions to help decision makers chart a course toward a better world. CSIS is a bipartisan, nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Center’s 220 full-time staff and large network of affiliated scholars conduct research and analysis and develop policy initiatives that look into the future and anticipate change. Founded at the height of the Cold War by David M. Abshire and Admiral Arleigh Burke, CSIS was dedicated to finding ways to sustain American prominence and prosperity as a force for good in the world. Since 1962, CSIS has become one of the world’s preeminent international policy institutions. The Center’s work focuses on defense and security; regional stability; and transnational challenges ranging from energy and climate to global development and economic integration.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is an independent, nonpartisan organization that provides insight – and influences the public discourse – on critical global issues. We convene leading global voices, conduct independent research, and engage the public to explore ideas that will shape our global future. The Council is committed to bringing clarity and offering solutions to issues that transcend borders and transform how people, business, and governments engage the world.

Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Jp

Mba, Finance, Marketing, Strategy And Operations

Bs Foreign Service, International Economics