Passionate about creating sustainable competitive advantage by identifying hidden opportunities, creating innovative products/services/software, connecting the dots, and making it happen. Successful outcomes for $5M to $500M enterprises averaging 20% CAGR for external and internal startups, company restarts, turnarounds, acquisitions, and “good to great” transformations in software-centric commercial & residential building-related and municipality/infrastructure industries such as LED lighting & wireless controls, Smart Homes, building automation, Smart Cities, IoT edge processed data & analytics, AgriTech, CleanTech, SaaS/Enterprise software, solar PV and CSP, waste to energy, & other Renewable Energy markets. Creative innovator & non-linear thinker who can assimilate information quickly & make rapid decisions on game-changing issues. Enjoys architecting how to help consultants, contractors, systems integrators, and VARs and channel partners how to grow their business by offering better business and sales tools, programs, and training. Leveraged data & information “stickiness” as a competitive advantage as early as 1994. Strong track record identifying, hiring, retaining, & motivating top talent - multiple people have followed me to other firms.Selected Highlights:-Led a startup from $0 to $100M+-Primary architect that created a $1B+ industry that simply never existed before -Ran a “Good to Great” transformation that yielded $135M+ in incremental enterprise value in <3 yrs-Turned around a $5M firm that was losing market share, & then doubled business in <2 yrs-Led an acquisition for the first two years & more than doubled sales-Grew a $7M company to a $19M firm during the 2007 to 2010 downturn. I'm great at finding solutions to difficult problems such as "How do we grow?" focusing on five key areas: sales & business development, program and business tool development, product development, supply chain & strategic sourcing, & leveraging national and local strategic partnerships.Demonstrated Specialties: +Business Alchemy - identifying hidden opportunities, new businesses, & new markets +Revenue Acceleration - how to grow, & fast..+Growth in a No Growth Economies+Business Dev & Process Improvement +Significant Knowledge of Building Technologies & Software +High CAGR record 20+% over past 25 yrs +Drives Product Dev & Innovation +Strategic "out of the box" Thinker +Excellent Negotiator +Visionary "Agent of Change" +"Go to" Person for Creative Solutions to Complex Problems
Listed skills include Product Development, Start Ups, Strategy, Strategic Partnerships, and 46 others.