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Frisco, Tx, Us

Frisco, Tx, Us

Co-founded Motista, a firm that provides predictive intelligence and consulting, uniquely empowering organizations to accelerate profitable growth by identifying and acting on customer motivations, emotions, and experiences that predict customer value.Led the development of Motista’s pioneering predictive intelligence solutions from inception to scale. Directed all business development activities, innovations, and operations, managing large-scale customer intelligence and consulting engagements across retail, real estate, financial services, healthcare, CPG, and technology clients. Utilized Motista's distinctive intelligence to discern the customers most inclined towards growth, uncover the emotions propelling customer behaviors, identify pivotal experiences to offer customers, and pinpoint the optimal physical locations for customer acquisition and service.Directed clients in positioning their brands for competitive advantage, developing high-impact marketing, prioritizing and designing customer experiences, executing personalization effectively, optimizing location investments, and continuously measuring and improving customer relationships.Led successful engagements for notable firms including Allstate, PepsiCo, Las Vegas Sands, Charles Schwab, Goldman Sachs, Clorox, Cisco Systems, Blue Shield California, Barnes & Noble, Bloomingdale’s, Regions Financial, Medela, MassMutual, Google, Famous Footwear, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, HP, Amazon, and Wells Fargo.

Serving as a national retail client's markets and stores investment committee member, offering customer and location strategy and analytics expertise

Ongoing advisor to a family office regarding private investments and economic, industry and consumer intelligence

Whitby, Ontario, Ca

Provided insights as a board member of this SaaS firm specializing in managing customer rewards programs. Active board member from company inception to growth-equity recapitalization with a PE partner.Facilitated the recruitment of a President to collaborate with the entrepreneur/CEO, enhancing leadership and operational capabilities.Played a key role in negotiating and finalizing the PE transaction, enabling the company to scale effectively while generating substantial returns for early investors.

College Park, Md, Us

Co-founded and led an award-winning unit at the University of Maryland, commercializing breakthrough academic and government research through corporate spinouts.Developed and executed a highly effective approach to identify research with the highest commercial potential, accelerating new venture formation across diverse sectors including homeland security, software, electric vehicles, biomedical devices, semiconductors, and ecommerce.Led academic programs focused on technology entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland, raising millions of dollars from donors to support these initiatives.