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Menlo Park, Ca

Providing executive-level leadership, marketing strategy, sales, and communications consulting to a wide array of technology-focused companies.Often brought in to serve as leadership consultant and/or trusted advisor to CEOs and senior management teams. Focus includes: leadership, team effectiveness, marketing strategy, positioning and messaging, product strategy, go-to-market planning, customer engagement and acquisition, hiring and management of high performing teams, as well as execution of product launches and campaigns.

San Francisco Bay Area

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cosm Medical is delivering personalized care for women suffering from pelvic floor disorders by reinventing the art of pessary fittings through the science of Gynethotics. We are modernizing an age-old therapy through cutting edge tech and data-driven personalization to improve access and quality of care for women suffering from a common, stigmatized and underserved global women's health issue.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

HiMama provides SaaS to child care and early childhood education programs to operate their child care programs, manage classrooms and support young children's learning and development. It provides a quick and easy way for child care programs to record and share children's activities, everything from silly and fun moments to learning and developmental milestones, and supports administrators with managing staff and collecting tuition payments from families. The software is based on extensive research and interviews with early childhood educators.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Voicify brings your business and voice apps to Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Samsung Bixby, Custom Voice Assistants, and endless web, SMS & chatbots all through a visual web interface for marketers and an open API for developers. The Voicify Voice App Platform is built on APIs from the ground up. Ensuring modern architecture, configuration and customization were at the forefront. What results is a robust enterprise platform that satisfies the Fortune 1000’s capabilities, security, and privacy checklists.

Kelvin Zero helps your organization take the first step towards its digital future with a revolutionary access distribution system, SoLID™. We have also developed a universal digital wallet, MULTI-PASS™, and an in-house data investigation platform, SHERLOCK™.

San Francisco Bay Area

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Orbiseed's AI platform standardizes and summarizes commercial property data for risk engineers to sell more, reduce costs and manage risk better. We develop turnkey cloud-based solutions to automate repetitive reporting processes, so risk engineers and underwriters get more accurate data, quickly and affordably.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Optimity is a mission-driven technology company that improves the health, wealth and longevity of its users with evidence-based behavioral science, gamification and rewards.The company's wellness app and related B2B solutions are developed by leading technologists, health and medical researchers, wealth experts and advisory firms, and backed by more than 30 years of behavioural science research. Optimity Enterprise B2B technologies provides a suite of solutions White-labeled apps, APIs and segmentation/data & AI powered tools to engage large populations and is used by customers in the U.S., Canada, and Japan to drive better health outcomes and longevity for policyholders.With a reach of over 2.6 million North Americans, Optimity is one of the most popular and trusted health rewards programs in the world.

Keyworks is a Canadian-based Technology Strategy and Services firm that was founded by a group of executives with decades of experience in the North American Telecommunications industry. They support our clients, internationally, in doing things that our teams have done before. From large-scale network, product and service deployments, to the launch of new business ventures and customer experience transformations. They help clients achieve optimal success through our collective experience and practical wisdom.

Palo Alto, Ca

Responsible for all aspects of marketing and communcations, including business planning and strategy, public relations and corporate communications, digital marketing, customer acquisition and conversion, product marketing, company and product positioning and branding, and creative services.

The ItsOn cloud-based platform turns traditional mobile operators into modern digital marketers.Built team responsible for successfully elevating the company’s global profile and driving demand among wireless operators. Named a Gartner Cool Company and a Current Analysis Disruptor. Covered in top-tier press including Forbes, WSJ, Inc, Bloomberg.Led all facets of marketing and communications, including branding, PR, IR, social, advertising, events and consumer research. Developed and delivered presentations to support sales efforts focused on C-level audiences.Developed and delivered presentations to support sales efforts focused on C-level audiences.

Sunnyvale, Ca

Good Technology delivers the world's most comprehensive secure mobility solution, and continuously develops new innovations in enterprise security, manageability, scalability and usability.Partnered with CMO to review existing messaging platform, evaluate product marketing strategies, create keynote presentations, develop new marketing campaigns and lead the creation of unique assets to simply illustrate the power of the overall system (e.g., products, platform, developer ecosystem).

Palo Alto, Ca

HobNob provides Wi-Fi access in employee shuttles, mobile medical vehicles and other transient or remote locations. They deliver unprecedented levels of reliability and performance to companies and mobile professionals seeking network connectivity anywhere business happens.Brought in by CEO to develop new go to market pricing models, consult on website design, refresh competitive positioning and develop compelling marketing assets.

Palo Alto, Ca

A2O Mobile delivers innovative, consumer-centric software applications for sales teams. The company’s solutions enhance deal efficiencies by accelerating collaboration and leveraging existing enterprise information.Created investor pitch and refined company messaging. Designed updates to company website, created company press release and redesigned outbound marketing messaging and assets.

Palo Alto, Ca

Capriza’s platform simplifies existing web applications into lightweight, mobile-optimized versions of the originals. Users quickly pick and choose the elements they need from desktop workflows and instantly have an HTML5 app that’s ready to deploy in hours.Working with CEO and VP of Product, led team to redesign outbound communications including sales scripts, website, press releases and marketing content.

San Mateo, Ca

Helped install new Product Marketing department, processes and staff for leading provider of innovative mobile applications (e.g., security, backup, mobile technical support, phone location services) sold through wireless carriers. Worked with marketing, product, engineering and sales management to instill new product launch process.

Sunnyvale, Ca

(Motorola/Google)Developed launch, positioning, channel marketing and demand generation strategies for Motorola field force, enterprise and consumer devices at AT&T and T-Mobile. Grew carrier marketing investments. Led or coordinated demand generation activities, PR, event selection, digital and other marketing functions.Created eight-person product marketing team to successfully position and lead sell-in of 2010 Android portfolio to mobile operators worldwide. Led messaging strategy with marketing communications teams.Built product management team responsible for designing integrated hardware, software & cloud services product line, known as Motoblur. Defined initial requirements related to social networking, information sharing & connected services.

Santa Clara, Ca

(acquired by Motorola)Quickly expanded support of client software solutions across Windows Mobile, Symbian and PalmOS operating systems as well as server solutions across Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino to grow sales by over 200%. Oversaw creation and implementation of key domestic & international carrier reseller relationships including AT&T/Cingular, Sprint, Verizon, Bell Canada, Telstra and O2. Rapidly recruited and grew mobile messaging product management team to strengthen product relationships and solution acceptance with both wireless carriers and OEM partners such as Nokia, Palm, HTC, Samsung and HP.

Wokingham, United Kingdom & Santa Clara, Ca

(acquired by HP)WOKINGHAM, ENGLANDLed product marketing team in Europe to reduce product approval timeframe, improve launch processes and deliver products on time and on budget for European countries. Conducted cross-product press tours as corporate spokesperson and educated salesforce on selling and positioning.Created and launched new, EMEA-exclusive GPS solutions increasing divisional revenue by $18 million per year.SANTA CLARA, CALed creation, strategy, development and launch of new $60+ million GSM/GPRS data-centric, wireless product line. Led development team of software and hardware engineering, manufacturing, customer service, quality assurance/testing, marketing communications, developer technical support and finance.Designed user experience of mobile applications with respective interface, design and engineering, and created handheld and accessory solution pricing, positioning and promotions with respective teams.Achieved network approval, customized product, and resolved channel issues with wireless carriers worldwide including AT&T Wireless, Vodafone Global and Orange.

Redwood Shores, Ca

Launched new SoundsGood™ MP3 Player and software product for Handspring Visor Palm OS PDA. Determined development direction of wireless products with product management team. Researched and selected additional products to develop (e.g. camera, scanner, bluetooth and video devices) in Smartphone and PDA market. Developed MRDs, product positioning analyses and technology-focused white papers.

Rolling Medows, Il

Chicago, Il

(acquired by SBC)

Mba, Marketing, International Management, Organizational Behavior

B.S., Business Administration & Marketing