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Focus on emerging technology businesses:• New business development and partner engagement• Research to Market (R2M) and New Venture Challenge (NVC) mentor for Venture Partners at CU Boulder• Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) for New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and for Launch NY incubator in Buffalo• Currently an EIR for several clean tech startups both in NY and CO• iCorps mentor for Department of Energy• Customer discovery utilizing Lean Launchpad methodology• Support early stage startups with pitch prep and fund raising

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

• Successfully sold Nokia's Location Based Services (LBS) to enterprise customers. Managed all facets of technical presales, creation & delivery of completed service and ongoing support• Voice of the Customer for our product management teams• Partner Development: discover and assist software development partners globally with business development & technology.

-Develop new location-based services business at major North American wireless carriers, Internet developers, application developers and device manufacturers.-Large account penetration and new sales engagements through consultative selling. Work across customer organization: business development, product marketing, product accessories, engineering, supply chain, key vendors.

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--Introduced new solutions (WAP, SMS, MMS, wireless internet) to wireless carriers and closed some of the first accounts in this emerging business. --Managed and grew key strategic accounts. Negotiated new contracts / initiatives with senior management, directed project implementation / systems engineering support, supervised daily operations, maintained P&L responsibilities.--Setup office in Sydney, Australia during 2000. Recruited and hired first staff. Secured and managed Vodafone Australia business and successful rollout of InfoSpace’s suite of wireless services. Transitioned responsibilities to in-country personnel during 2001.

Portland, Or, Us

Created and ran a new database software division reporting to CEO; Responsible for all sales & marketing, P&L, and growing new online data base business.

Appointed by Company Board of Directors to lead business reorganization and recapitalization. --Successfully brought company through Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization through sale of assets to Metro One Telecommunications and reverse merger of Microlytics public shell with private company providing a positive workout to both shareholders & creditors.--Generated new business and maintained positive cash flow through eight-month reorganization and retained core technical staff.

Software/Hardware engineering and founder roles at various start-ups & small engineering firms. Work was in following areas:--embedded software & hardware development--real time process control software & UI design--consumer electronics design & manufacturing--PC software development--Computational linguistics software development

Mba, Marketing

Ba/Bs, Psychology, Electrical Engineering

Ms, Electrical Engineering