Founded True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in women-led companies improving environmental and/of human health. Companies founded and led by women have consistently demonstrated stronger returns than the market but are still under-represented as a share of VC investments, and female founders are uniquely positioned to solve environmental and human health challenges given that women make 85% of all consumer purchasing and 80% of healthcare decisions. The future of savvy investing is gender diverse.

Created business plan, self-funded and launched microbrewery that grew from 500 to over 10,000 barrels per year, a 65% CAGR, and 20 full time employees within the 1st six years of product delivery. Developed strategy using sustainable closed loop approach (such as organic and domestically sourced ingredients and spent grain relationships with organic farmers), maniacal product quality and continuous innovation to build brewery into the largest draught only, self-distributing brewery in the U.S. prior to COVID. Now we bottle and can!

Over 186 billion pounds of textile waste are generated each year, and less than 1% is recycled into new clothing. Refiberd is solving this global textile waste crisis through their patent-pending system that can process post-consumer waste into brand new textile products. Refiberd’s textile recycling system has two stages: 1) an AI and robotics-based system which sorts discarded textiles by material and color, and 2) an eco-friendly chemical textile recycling process which converts the sorted textiles into new Refiberd thread.

De Oro Devices' mission is to improve mobility, independence, and quality of life. Their first product, NexStride, is a small, portable device that uses research-backed, patent-pending, visual and auditory cues to help people with mobility disorders improve safety and mobility. They help overcome freezing of gait, one of the most common and most debilitating symptoms of Parkinson's disease, in addition to applications in Stroke Rehab, Multiple Sclerosis, and Cerebral Palsy.

Aeromutable is committed to working with the trucking industry to design and build aerodynamic enhancement systems that increase vehicle performance, safety, and efficiency. Aeromutable has developed a non-intrusive add-on system that, through the use of air injection, significantly improves aerodynamic performance and reduces fuel consumption and carbon emissions—allowing the trucking industry to increase profitability while reducing its carbon footprint.

Queen of Raw is a global marketplace for fashion brands and retailers to buy and sell unused textiles, keeping them out of landfills and turning pollution into profit. An integrated dashboard allows their customers to visualize savings to their bottom and top lines as well as to the environment by the actions they take across the Queen of Raw platform. Sellers also subscribe to a monthly service that maps, measures, and traces their supply chains, helping to minimize waste and save money.

Oralucent is the world’s most effective toothbrush and is set to revolutionize oral care. The patented sonic toothbrush emits a type of blue light clinically proven to whiten teeth and eradicate harmful bacteria that cause plaque, gum disease, and bad breath. Oralucent overcomes limitations of the mechanical toothbrush by cleaning hard to reach locations between the teeth and below the gum line.

Dermala is a biopharmaceutical and technology company that uses the human microbiome, data analytics, and machine learning to develop and market the next generation treatments for the most prevalent chronic skin diseases and conditions. Dermala has developed a rich intellectual property estate with proprietary technologies licensed from the University of California San Diego as well as developed in-house.

Focus groups have named UnaliWear a wearable “OnStar for people” because their Kanega watch provides discreet support for falls, medication reminders, and a guard against wandering in a classically-styled watch that features an easy-to-use speech interface rather than buttons. Unlike traditional medical alert products, this is the first all-in-one, voice-controlled device designed to keep seniors independent, active and safe wherever they are, 24x7 - and unlike Apple watch or Samsung Gear, they don’t require a smart phone.

Now in its twenty-ninth year, POLLACK is a designer of high-end fabrics that combine intricate construction with a unique artistic sensibility for the residential and contract markets while recognizing the importance of having the smallest possible environmental footprint, during manufacturing, use and at the end of the fabrics' useful cycles.

The Portfolia and Next Wave Ventures Rising Tide Fund seeks to narrow the gender gap in angel investing by providing women the education and training they need to become sophisticated angel investors, while offering them a unique learning opportunity that allows them to build a diversified portfolio of investments, receive mentoring by women who are experienced angel investors, as well a diversified online education & training program and opportunities for local, regional, and national events and sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation.

Building an ecosystem of partners with the new Dell Medical School to foster health technology innovations across industry, academia and community by leveraging the advanced design and manufacturing skills unique to Austin to support translation of medical research to commercialized products in the growing Internet of Things (IoT) and digital health markets.• Identifying technology partners to develop a wider innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem to increase technology commercialization and start-ups in this new area of innovation, at the intersection of materials science, health, semiconductors and analytics.• Advising the Texas Health Catalyst Program charged with identifying and supporting the most promising translation research from across UT Austin and providing guidance on opportunities and challenges that impact commercialization.

Reported directly to 3 of the 4 CEOs during 10yr tenure to drive strategic projects including $5B+ M&A integration, spin off of manufacturing capability and $300M+ acquisition. Held two general management positions in professional graphics and data center SoCs.• While reporting to the CEO, led team to enter the ARM market and determined data center servers were the best entry point; Led $334M SeaMicro acquisition from initial technical investigation through negotiation, due diligence, announcement, close, and integration.• Built and led Data Center Server Solutions Business Unit to develop tailored AMD silicon for data center servers.• Redefined strategic opportunity in professional graphics, formed self-funded start up with monthly venture board meetings, and reorganized for success, including a full P&L and dedicated sales team (from 4 to 25+) full professional graphics P&L. Increased share by >50% in one year at a $100M/yr. run rate.• Managed the Office of the CEO for 2 CEOs driving corporate management systems and cross-group operations; Traveled globally to meet with customers, press, regional sites; Identified, prioritized and coordinated some of AMD’s most critical issues for corporate and Board meetings.• Defined corporate strategy process and developed agendas and preparation for several Board of Directors strategy sessions, executive committee off-sites, and VP Forums.• Led $5.4B acquisition, largest semico industry acquisition at the time, integration through disciplined process and team representing all major company functions to realize $400M+ in cost synergies, approximately 2x the targets.• Led program management of the Global Foundry spin off and realignment of all functions across 2 companies to become a fabless company.• Built momentum of AMD Women’s Forum as Executive Sponsor to bolster retention and pipeline through career development and networking opportunities across 22 global sites; Established gender diversity tracking and budget.

Managed $150M fund with team of five investment professionals that was named by EETimes as one of the top 10 venture capital firms in the U.S. for adding value to portfolio companies.• Sourced technology deals primarily in semiconductors, communications, health tech and clean technologies.• Assisted with internal portfolio analysis and limited partner communication and reporting.• Performed due diligence, negotiated legal terms for investment and closed $8.5M in financing for 3 portfolio companies.• Actively supported portfolio companies beyond board meetings through operations, strategy, product development, marketing, sales and fundraising, including filling in as CMO at a storage ASIC company and laying out a manufacturing flow for a microarray biochip company.

Resolved top management issues of high tech clients across the semiconductor value chain (EDA, IDMs, fabless, design/IP houses, industry consortia and private equity) in communications, networking, and computing applications.• Defined client strategies, along with supporting business and implementation plans, such as:o Created a wireless strategy for a major semiconductor company with plans to integrate multiple product lines and formulation of supporting roadmap resulting in roughly $5B in value creation.o Performed customer segmentation of the semiconductor EDA industry, with over 80 customer interviews, resulting in organizational changes and revision of client’s product, sales, services, and marketing strategy.o Conducted competitive benchmarking to define set of operational targets for a large semiconductor company in operational effectiveness, product development, and go-to-market with savings of $130M in one year.o Developed strategic plan for international semiconductor trade association resulting in association’s shift of technology focus and membership expansion.• Evaluated M&A investments for semiconductor companies and private equity firm by developing investment cases with quantified sources of cost and strategic synergies in multi-business line targets; Developed M&A roadmap and investment strategy, including approach and sequence to make investments, for major semiconductor player.• Held leadership positions as a Knowledge Expert in McKinsey’s High Tech and Semiconductor Practices, wrote five practice knowledge documents, and presented at practice events on semiconductor and communication topics. Led firm-wide UC Berkeley recruiting and non-MBA integration into the San Francisco office.

Developed and implemented the Environmental Value (EnV) Analysis as part of PhD thesis work to measure process tool performance and facilitate improved early design decisions. Developed the financial analyses, appropriate performance metrics, environmental impact evaluation, and equipment process models. The EnV model has gained international exposure and interest with over 6 publications.

Researched emerging technologies as alternative techniques for cleaning photoresist. Designed a liquid nitrogen cleaning process and equipment apparatus.

Developed thermal conductive metrologies, constructed test equipment, and analyzed next generation semiconductor packaging materials. Characterized several polymer systems for semiconductor packaging applications and developed a method to obtain time-temperature-transformation diagrams.