Lead Giva to build and deploy AI Copilots and other AI technologies. Expertise with all major AI models and tradeoffs. Result is our customers are increasing productivity by up to 54%.Engage with customers worldwide to validate requirements for our next generation of cloud solutions. I'm just a Founder that loves product and believes that one must be in the "line of fire" of customers to build superior and highly differentiated SaaS products. Inspiration from Jobs, Musk, Zuckerberg, Gates, and Ellison for their "hands on" product approach.Lead Giva's strategic planning, roadmap and investments in Artificial Intelligence (AI), HIPAA, healthcare, banking and other regulated vertical markets.

Founded in 1999, Giva was among the first to provide a suite of HIPAA compliant help desk, IT Service Management (ITSM), and customer service applications architected for the cloud and targeted at healthcare, banking, legal and other high security minded sectors.

Coinventor of United States Patent No. 10,982,283. Indices of Microbial Diversity Relating to Health. We discovered a relationship between the human microbiome, obesity and type II diabetes.Biome Health is focused on providing actionable information to help patients understand and improve their microbiome health and as a result improve overall health and well being.

We sold VPNet to Avaya for $120 million in cash. My experience with product failures at Hewlett-Packard was foundational for our success at VPNet and my future. Identified gaps in the IPSec Virtual Private Network (VPN) market, conducted customer research, evaluated market opportunity, specified a suite of hardware and software products and worked with R&D to bring to market.

Worked on many failed products so have keen understanding/insights of how to achieve product market fit (PMF) and the financial challenges of making product innovations profitable. I proactively sought out new and high risk projects knowing that this was the best way to grow my human capital early in my career.Foreign Assignment-Hewlett-Packard Singapore 1993-1995. Led LaserJet and DeskJet Consumables product lines for Asia reporting to General Managers and Marketing Managers in USA. Successfully differentiated HP commodity consumables in a very price sensitive AP market. Grew revenues from $75 to $120 million in 2 years. Responsible for $5 million operating budget.1988 - 1993 Experience in starting new divisions and business lines. Worked closely with Research and Development engineers and customers to translate unmet customer needs into innovative and highly differentiated hardware and software products. Differentiated HP commodity consumables-SUCCESSInteractive Television Appliances-FAILED v1.0 eCommerce Software-FAILEDPen Computing-FAILEDPDAs-SUCCESSMobile Software-FAILEDNetwork Servers-SUCCESS

Added value to buy/sell decisions for Firm's prop traders by calculating the theoretical value of warrants detached from French corporate bonds and actively traded on the Paris Stock Exchange. Created real-time information utilizing Black-Scholes, an IBM PC and Lotus Symphony.

Responsible for daily P&L of emerging and exponentially growing mortgage-backed securities book. Industry invented by Lewis S. Ranieri in early 1980's and chronicled in "Liar's Poker" by Michael Lewis.

NY State CPAPlanned and executed concurrent engagements. Utilized all Firm resources to deliver audit, tax and management advisory services to small nonpublic companies, high net worth individuals and nonprofits.