BD Advisors provides networking and business development training and coaching services for engineering, research, and technical organizations to enhance their capability to identify and develop new business. The principals at BD Advisors provided business development training to Southwest Research Institute, Battelle Memorial Institute, Gas Technology Institute, and the Ohio State University College of Engineering, and a number of for-profit technology firms.

JumpStart America helps regional leaders identify opportunities to accelerate the creation and success of high growth businesses. To accomplish this, we employ a multi-phase approach which includes analysis and planning, fundraising, and execution. In partnership with the federal Economic Development Administration and several national foundations, JumpStart America is currently engaged with regions located throughout the country.

Teach MBA level courses including Services Marketing, Business Planning, and Selling the HR Value Proposition.Provide training to local corporations on value propositions and selling methodology.

Help engineering and research organizations improve business development and sales performance with process, tools and skills training tailored to the unique context of each client. BizLogx also works with public and non-profit entities in the design and implementation of programs to help increase the capital and related support available to tecnhology-based companies as they move through the earliest phases of commercialization.Primarily served clients in science and engineering, research (universities, national laboratories), and technology development.

Designed, developed and managed the internal venture capital program to identify, develop, and commercialize (in partnership with third party venture capital) new products and technologies developed within Battelle and also in the US Department of Energy National Labs that Battelle managed.Organized and managed a team of business development advisors assigned to Battelle business units to identify and commercialize technologies, products, and services.Advised CEO and business unit leaders of business strategy.

General Manager of medical device business unit with over $120M in sales, 100 employees, and 300 products.Director of Marketing for Medical Nutritional ProductsDirector, New VenturesSenior Business Development Manager, Medical Nutritional ProductsBusiness Manager, Medical Weight Management Program

Dallas Wellness and its spin-off company Medical Weight Managment provided health promotion programs and medical services to hospitals, public schools districts, private companies, and directly to the public. Dallas Wellness was ranked on the Inc Magazine list of the fast growing companies in the US. Medical Weight Management was sold in 1989.

Vertical Network was a technology-based startup firm that developed a prototype of a one-to-many communication system that linked providers of commodities with buyers through satellite and digital packet services. The concept was 'ahead of its time' and did not receive first round funding.

AVM Systems, a management buy-out from Gould Inc., developed and installed vehicle location and monitoring systems for public transit and police organizations globally.

Air Intelligence Officer assigned to a B-52 bomber wing at Blytheville AFB, Arkansas and later at U-Tapao Airfield in Thailand. Served as a regional political and military intelligence analyst for the US Air Force Southern Command and as Aide de Camp to commanding general, both at Albrook AFB, Panama Canal Zone.