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Silicon Valley, Ca, Us

Nexus Partners, a Silicon Valley-based consultancy, was founded and is run with the strong belief that our value is to work with our clients in solving their hardest problems in order to accelerate their growth. We are passionate about crafting customer-centric strategies and applying them to our clients' growth and innovation objectives. We provide senior level expertise and focus for developing and executing marketing strategies: customer discovery, market entry, and key partnerships. • Business Development - accelerating revenue growth• Market Entry - new geographies, market segments and/or products• Growth Strategies• New Initiatives and Innovation• Partnerships

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

As the director of Wharton's San Francisco accelerator, VIP-X/SF (Venture Initiation Program - SF), I work with University of Pennsylvania alumni and student-led startups in their growth and scaling.

Walnut Creek, California, Us

The Alliance of CEOs is the premier organization for Silicon Valley CEOs. We bring leaders together in private, confidential environments and enable them to engage in deeply strategic discussions. Since 1996, the Alliance of Chief Executives has become the premier organization for business leaders in Northern California. Our members form diverse, yet compatible, executive peer groups and challenge one another on strategic thinking, with an end goal of business growth and success.

Advisor to accelerators in Silicon Valley (Alchemist Accelerator, Plug & Play, Citrix, Advantage Austria, Envestnet|Yodlee, Nordic Innovation House, Korea Innovation Center, Spain Tech Center), Poland (Nest), and Kuwait (Sirdab Lab).

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Menlo Park, California, Us

Silicon Valley-based tech incubator and business accelerator that helps international companies with global expansion.

Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, Us

We help entrepreneurs to grow their startups and angels to grow their investment portfolios; we provide educational and mentoring opportunities to members. Investments include Qorum, Carbine Coffee, OneKloud, and Curacubby.

The Applied Innovation Foundation's goal is to enable innovation ecosystems around the world.

Reykjavík, Capital Region, Is

Nanom is powering a better tomorrow through reinventing the battery using nanotechnology. Founded in 2017 to harness the innovations of a group of dedicated scientists and entrepreneurs, passionate about bringing sustainable energy to the world. Backed by Village Global and others.

San Juan, Puerto Rico, Us

Startup With Purpose is a non-profit organization aimed at promoting entrepreneurship through collaboration in the Middle East, founded in the Fall of 2016 by university students from the University of California, Berkeley.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

In an adjunct role (part-time lecturer in the Marketing Department), taught MBA students international strategy consulting as part of their capstone project, Global Consulting Practicum.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Mentored teams of MBA students working on startups.

Stanford, Ca, Us

Mentored teams of graduate students working on startups.

Stamford, Ct, Us

Senior consulting practioner in Gartner's Northern California strategy consulting practice. Worked with key accounts in the high technology market, responsible for developing accounts and C-level relationships and managing engagements with high impact on clients' strategies.

Provo, Ut, Us

Responsible for initiatives with strategic partners: global technology partners (IBM, Cisco, Intel, etc.), major systems integrators, and strategic startups Managed M&A activities, Novell Ventures, and venture capital relationships Negotiated key deals: $100MM+ OEM contract, acquisitions, creation of internet directory industry group

Ran video streaming startup: managed sales and marketing, directed financial function, developed business plan, raised seed round of funding

Toronto, On, Ca

Responsible for identification, assessment, and execution of investments and partnershipsManaged Greenhouse Fund, including investments in Yahoo!, Infoseek, Intertrust, and VerisignPerformed due diligence on potential acquisitions

Managed Reuters relationship; created strategy for $1B North American operating unit and identified over $100MM in new opportunities Project manager for series of marketing projects for top-tier brokerage firm, resulting in over $500MM in potential revenue improvements and annual cost savingsActing marketing/business development director of wireless data company; responsible for marketing, distribution and partnership strategies

Overall management and P&L responsibility for Commerce Clearing House subsidiaryDirectly managed marketing, finance, sales and operationsTransformed company from unprofitable with decreasing revenues to profitable, 60%+ increase in revenues

Mclean, Va, Us

Member of the strategy arm of this top consulting firm (now Strategy& arm of PWC), specializing in financial services and information technology strategyCreated new marketing strategy for Legal Information Services division of CCH, with additional annual revenues of $8MM and identified operational improvements netting $10MM+ in annual savingsRecommended and implemented strategic technology initiatives for a major overnight delivery company, defending market leadership and producing over $4MM in annual savingsDeveloped operating model for new credit service for a major financial services client

Managed start up of marketing organization and created first marketing plan at a major utilityDirected team which developed workforce management system for US’s largest municipal parks systemIdentified strategic alternatives for the electronics division of a Fortune 50 client

Evaluated office automation technologies and systems for internal and commercial use Liaison between Bell Labs executive users and office automation systems developers

Mba, Marketing And Entrepreneurship

Bs, Computer Science

Effective Public Speaking And Improv