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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, US

Cleveland, Ohio, US

Cleveland, Ohio, US

Serial Stage Ventures Partners is a network of more than 100 investors that collaborate on investments in life science and tech startups.

Solon, OH, US

Cleveland, OH, US

• Overall management of the firm’s evergreen seed funds and for-profit venture funds, investment operations including deal sourcing, screening, due diligence, and investment/transaction closings for nationally recognized.
• Seed/Venture Fund Investments: Evaluated companies for investment from seed funds (Evergreen and Focus Funds) and JumpStart NEXT Fund, LLC. Made investments in over 100 companies deploying $60M since 2007.
• Due Diligence & Investment Structuring: Led and performed due diligence for investment candidates, structured and negotiated investments, and prepared investment memorandums for Investment Committee review/approval.
• Portfolio Management: Provided technical/advisory assistance to portfolio companies to accelerate progress on value driving priorities and position companies for the next growth phase and/or follow-on financings.
• Portfolio Company Governance: Served as board director/observer for select portfolio companies.
• Provided Operating Support: Engaged with companies to develop strategies to develop/accelerate market traction, optimize sales & marketing functions, and determine capitalization/financing strategies.

Westlake, OH, US

• Managed strategic partners and co-developed enterprise content management solutions aligned with partners product/services offering and unique market opportunities resulting from each partner’s strategy.
• Partner management: Structured, negotiated, and managed relationships with national partners/resellers each of which presented unique solution models aligned to the partner’s core business capabilities.
• Partner strategies: Collaborated with national and OEM partners on solution strategies. Interfaced with Hyland technical team as needed to facilitate customer solution development.

Cleveland, Ohio, US

• Developed strategy and recruited and managed relationships with third-party service providers for a new line of business within KeyCorp.
• Market research: Researched technology and business service needs of middle market clients to drive process of identifying alliance/partner prospects.
• Partner recruitment: Identified, evaluated, and selected alliance partners, structured value propositions, developed go-to-market plans, and trained sales team to sell new services.
• Business strategy support: Performed market research and prepared reports for senior management to determine market viability of automated ACH payment engine (for use on online procurement platforms) and other.

• Member of founding leadership team for investor-backed database publishing company launched in 1994. Led global sales and marketing for the company’s business information database products, which sold into corporate.
• Sales & marketing strategy/planning: Developed sales and marketing plan, recruited and trained sales & marketing team, implemented sales and marketing infrastructure to support operations.
• Product launch: Launched four products in three years going to market through direct sales team and channel partners.
• Revenue growth: Grew revenue to $8.5M in 2000 from $0 in 1995.
• International market development: Established partnerships with sales agents in the U.S., Southeast Asia and Australia with the objective of expanding market presence in these regions.
• Product Management: Served as product manager launching company’s web-based product in launched in 1996.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Managed Product/Operations for Lockheed Martin’s data processing and information management operations.
• Production/operations management: Led team of 13 financial analysts responsible for daily balancing and reconciliation of electronic transactions, validation data updates/integrity, payment processing and revenue.
• Mainframe system enhancements: Managed mainframe system enhancements including new user-interface screens, data processing rules, and various activity transaction codes. Project completed on time and within budget and.
• Online Reporting: Developed online reporting system to provide users with desktop access to over 200 daily, weekly, and monthly revenue and productivity reports. Resulted in more timely and accurate report distribution.
• Payment processing and revenue reconciliation: Managed daily lockbox revenue receipts (check processing) and payment reconciliations.

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