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Bend, Or, Us

Portland, Oregon, Us

The best outdoor inspired blankets and related products known to man.

Advisory services to founders, CEOs and executives

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Home fitness and wellness products brand. Acquired by Performance Health in 2024.

Bend, Oregon, Us

Recruited by PE investors work with the board to develop a strategy and budget, align and develop the leadership team, implement governance and reporting, and recruit a permanent CEO.

Carlsbad, California, Us

Lead advisor to this reusable shopping bag brand

Bend, Or, Us

Leading subscription box service for the outdoor industry. Served on the board from Series A through successful exit to Outside.

Bend, Oregon, Us

Continued responsibility for Hydro Flask strategy, execution, leadership team effectiveness, P&L and culture following acquisition by $1.5 billion revenue Helen of Troy in March 2016. Reporting to Divisional President, became the #1 water bottle brand in the US Sporting Goods and Outdoor Market and launched award-winning soft goods products including the first soft cooler backpack. Worked with senior leadership team of sister company OXO and parent Helen of Troy to leverage shared resources, best practices and related expertise. Named to senior executive global Culture Leadership Team to drive culture transformation across parent organization.

Bend, Oregon, Us

Transformed a promising water bottle company to a fast growing hydration brand across premium outdoor, action sports, natural foods and micro brewery channels. Set the brand strategy and vision, recruited the leadership team and advisory board, defined the culture and led the focus and 10x scaling of the business from 2012-2015.Inc 500 list in 2014 and 2015. Outside Magazine's Top 100 Places to Work in 2013 and 2014. Named 2015 EY Entrepreneur of the Year for Retail & Consumer Products in the Pacific Northwest.

Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nl

Responsible for commercializing the technology behind Apple Pay (NFC) including marketing, go to market execution, mobile app strategy, ecosystem development and strategic alliances related to the mobile industry. Led market development partnerships with Google, Samsung, Sony, Motorola, PayPal, Foursquare, MasterCard, Citibank and numerous social and mobile app companies.Conceived and unveiled a technology enabled day in the life NFC cafe concept for Mobile World Congress 2012 with 10 commercially available mobile services from around the globe on display.

Perth, Au

Chairman of the Board for this RF and handheld technology provider to the global restaurant industry.

Perth, Au

CEO and board member for this mobility platform company based in Australia with regional headquarters in the US and UK. Flagship product WaiterPAD uses proprietary RF networking technology for secure restaurant pay at the table, long range/low power wireless transmissions and tableside ordering/ upselling. Recruited by investors as COO in October 2006 to turnaround US subsidiary and later promoted to global CEO in August 2007. Shifted distribution and marketing strategy away from existing direct to SMB toward more capital efficient partnering model. Successfully raised $2M in angel and strategic investor funds while restructuring business to end historic losses and achieve first quarterly profit in over 8 years.

Management consulting and business development services for software, mobile and retail technology ventures in Silicon Valley.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Joined Symbol following acquisition of @pos. Initially served as VP Product Marketing and on the executive integration team. Later promoted to VP/GM will full P&L responsibility of the strategic payment and kiosk BU with $11 million operating budget and 55 engineering and product marketing employees. Grew revenue from $4 to $40 million over 3 years. Closed key self-service kiosk deals at The Home Depot ($1 million) and major payment sales at Limited Brands ($4 million) and Sears ($11 million). Increased gross margins from 36% to 40% and reduced operating expenses 24% by moving development and testing to Sri Lanka. Transformed business culture from start up to later stage, profit-orientation with appropriate structure, process and discipline. Ended four years of losses and achieved positive contribution margins to plan. Served on the board of directors for Sri Lankan development subsidiary. Later recruited by SVP Corporate Development to become VP Strategy and Corporate Development responsible for mobile computing software from 3/05-9/05.

Innovator in signature capture POS payment hardware, kiosks and hosted CRM software for Macy’s, Best Buy, Virgin Megastores, American Express and the US Postal Service. Recruited by the board to develop and execute a growth strategy taking a little known hardware provider to an industry leader with a software and recurring services business. Successfully repositioned the company and facilitated growth from $2M to over $20M and profits. Promoted to COO and EVP Business Development in 2000 with full P&L responsibility for a venture backed cloud-based services spin out. Landed first customers, negotiated strategic alliances with major payment and Internet advertising providers and oversaw product release. Later merged company back into parent through the acquisition by Motorola Solutions (then Symbol Technologies).

San Jose, Ca, Us

Formerly Communication Intelligence Corp (CIC). Responsible for technical support, customer service, hardware OEM sourcing, software manufacturing and distribution for this biometrics and business process automation software provider spun out of Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Major customers included Chase Bank, Symbol and other mobile computing companies. Joined as Director, Product Operations and later promoted to Vice President.

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Strategy and Operations Management Consulting in the Supply Chain Management practice. Served major CPG clients Solo Cup and Quaker Oats throughout the US and Mexico.

Manage field sales office and sell engineering workstations with ProEngineer CAD solutions to manufacturing companies.

Mba, Marketing

B.S., Mechanical Engineering