* Member - Sand Hill Angels (sandhillangels.com) since 2016 - 2019: Startup angel investing

- Provided business guidance and strategies- Developed and managed major customers, strategic business and technology alliance projects- Strategized, initiated, and led a high-level relationship with Western Digital & HGST resulting in a $10M strategic investment from Western Digital along with an OEM product development project with HGST. This project created an avenue for an extremely successful exit for Amplidata from an acquisition by Western Digital & HGST in March of 2015 for 300 million dollars

Strategic new business development. Established a high profile new project generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue.

- Served on the Board of Directors (Taiwan); Contributed to the listing of the company on Taiwanese Stock Exchange (TWSE)- Built business growth and revenue from less than five million dollars to over one-hundred million dollars- Built and led major departments and division structures at U.S. headquarters with well over a hundred employees in multiple departments. Built and lead a direct report staff of senior department heads including VP Engineering, VP Support / Quality, Senior Director of Marketing and Alliances, Senior Director of Sales, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Senior Director of Product Management and planning- Developed and executed successful customer projects including Intel, Apple, NEC, Fujitsu, HP, Dell, Netapp, Symantec, all major drive vendors and large ODMs in APAC- Established a Tier 1 distribution network (Ingram, TechData etc.) and VAR / SI channel sales network- Spearheaded and developed centrally planned programs which served as the catalyst for outstanding brand name and position in the industry that led to growth throughout worldwide facilities - Identified new market segments such as data center (hundreds of petabytes using tens and thousands of systems), rich media, near line back-up, etc., - Created key alliance product development projects with world-class technology providers including Intel, Apple, PMC, Marvell and all major drive vendors using strategic and effective business development planning- Initiated and implemented highly effective offshore outsourced product development and customer support procedures that tightly integrated with onshore teams and procedures in the U.S.- Enhanced and developed new product line strategies that allowed for expansion from very low-end storage HBAs to high-density SAN/DAS rack mount systems that handled hundreds of petabytes of data in data center installations and video production applications.

• Helped establish and promote the company and its products in the USA.• Established and led marketing, sales and support departments and programs • Developed and executed successful customer projects; OEM, distribution / VAR sales and marketing networks • Created tens of millions of dollars of revenue within the first year