Senior adviser to tech start-ups on operations, hiring, strategy, new sales channels, financial management, attracting equity investment for firms in the U.S., Ireland and elsewhere in Europe, and Israel.

Mobilized for a tour of Active Duty at MCB Quantico and HQMC in the Pentagon. Advised the Commandant of the Marine Corps and his staff and senior Navy officials on sensitive organizational issues, strategic and crisis communications and media-relations, and established and oversaw a major strategic program. Provided operational support to contingency combat and humanitarian efforts in Afghanistan, Haiti, Libya and Iraq. Originally served 1984-90. Returned to Marine Corps Reserve in October 2001.

Founded in 1989, extensive experience doing management, sales, hiring and strategic consultancy to promising Irish and U.S. technology and services firms. Carpe Diem founded, managed, and held the majority shareholding beside 45 private investors in AV LLC, a venture capital group focused on deals in Ireland.

Senior adviser to contract clients such as the United Nations, Boeing Corporation, Emir of Kuwait, U.S. Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned, Hunter Defense Technologies, Ford Foundation, National VFW, and the Harvard Middle East Initiative.

Organized and managed a business unit from “green field” with zero sales up to over $8M in revenues and an operating profit in less than six-months; business unit delivered network and cyber-security services. Clients included the Federal Reserve, Oracle Government Systems clients, OPM, J.P. Morgan, IBM, VISA, Cisco.

Mobilized, deployed and fought during the war in Iraq.

Agincourt (AV), a Dublin-based boutique venture capital group that raised more than $40M in equity capital then identified, negotiated and structured convertible debt-for-equity investments in promising start-up and early-stage Irish tech-companies.

Top Nixdorf new account salesman in 1988 for complex systems and software focused on Fortune 500 companies across the Mid-Atlantic region (128% of quota).

Managed all aspects of the operations, sales & marketing, financial P&L responsibility for an IBM sales program into Europe for used computers. Took troubled IBM unit from sales of $13M and unprofitability to $48M and a 22% profit in 18-months.