Ovidian Group is a global intellectual property business advisory firm that provides strategic services to technology companies from around the world.Ovidian Group helps clients manage IP risk by identifying, evaluating and acquiring IP assets related to business, corporate and product development, and inbound IP threats.Ovidian Group was sold to Pendrell Corp. in 2011, and repurchased in 2016.

Codi is doing away with the traditional long-term lease and reinventing commercial real estate for the way companies work today. Codi spaces are private, turnkey offices that enable companies to thrive with the most flexible terms on the market. Whether companies need a space that grows with them or a place to use a few days a week, Codi makes the process painless. Within days, companies can move into a unique space in popular neighborhoods, designed to fit their team’s needs with customizable furniture, layouts and amenities that employees appreciate.

EdVisorly helps community college students transfer to four-year universities.

Atmosfy lets you discover dining and nightlife so you can always find the perfect new experience. See restaurants, bars, nightclubs, and cafes that are near you or far away and explore them through video clips uploaded by patrons.

Hired as a senior member of Yahoo’s Media Division (News, Finance, Sports, Entertainment, Lifestyle).Built and led a Media Advanced Products Group to create entertainment, news, finance, audio/video, social networking and advertising Web applications. The group:* developed over 60 interactive software application prototypes.* enhanced user engagement with Yahoo’s news, finance and entertainment properties. Examples: Web music player, news globe, stock ticker tape, floating video player, Facebook apps.* increased follow-on video clip plays 4X by adding key components to the Yahoo Front Page video player.* enabled advanced interactive video advertising and personal playlisting by developing Yahoo’s next-generation extensible video platform.* filed 55 patent applications (inventor on 30 patents of which 16 issued).Assigned to work directly with media industry leaders, such as Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett, as creative and technical advisor for original Web entertainment projects.

Hired as a senior member of AvantGo's new leadership after Sybase acquired AvantGo in December 2002.Served content from over 2000 partners to 2 million active users by improving infrastructure technology and operations for AvantGo’s consumer desktop and mobile websites.Released a new, enhanced and easier-to-use AvantGo mobile client by conceiving, approving and managing product requirements, user interface designs and programming.

Founding member of Genealogy.com, acquired by A&E Television Networks in January 2001, and sold to MyFamily.com (now Ancestry.com) in April 2003.Grew and managed Genealogy.com’s infrastructure technology and operations to:* serve 5 million pages to 1 million unique visitors daily.* handle 250,000 paid subscriptions among 5 million registered users.* host 1.5 million user home pages and 12 million user-posted messages.Released online 1.8 million images and 22 million names of the 1910 U.S. Census within time and cost estimates by researching and implementing building blocks and processes for digitizing, hosting and searching government microfilm records. Data, image, user interface and search result quality judged best among competitors.Supported major aspects of the business, including product development, marketing, engineering, quality assurance and technical support, by researching and implementing third-party product and technology solutions.

Co-founder of a consumer software company that raised $20 million in venture capital, achieved profitability and $25 million in sales, and was acquired by The Learning Company in December 1998.Developed the business by co-authoring the business plan, securing relationships with outside content providers and product developers, and setting ongoing company strategy as a senior member of the executive staff.Provided creative and technical direction to conceive, approve and direct product requirements, user-interface designs, technical specifications, and art, music, voice-over, animation and live-action video content for Palladium’s kids, parody, reference, activity and productivity products.Brought co-branded online projects to fruition by managing Palladium's third-party Internet partnerships with America Online, AT&T WorldNet and CompuServe.Invented award-winning innovative product features.