Tech entrepreneur and consultant since graduating from the University of Chicago with degrees in Math and Physics. My background includes founding startups, C-level roles in public companies and venture-funded start-ups, and business consulting roles for some of the largest companies in the world across a range of industries. Accomplished in both business and technology settings and straddling the two.Highlights:In the last two decades I've been the CTO of several fintech and game monetization platform startups, founded a data ingestion and business operations support service for hedge funds and similar companies, and founded a mobile advertising network for CPGs. I sold my first startup System Constructs (SCI) to SofTech, Inc., (NASDAQ, SOFT) and joined them as VP of Systems Integration Services. In less than two years I doubled that business through a series of acquisitions and organic growth and sold it to Data Systems, Inc.As the turn-around CEO of Information Decisions, Inc., I engineered their transformation from a loss-making reseller to a profitable full-service integration vendor, going from losing over $3MM/year to making over $3MM/year in less than 12 months.In my early career I led large scale technology projects. Highlights include trading and financial analysis systems (Merrill Lynch, UBS/SG Warburg, Goldman, ...) the first suspend-mode computer, the first wireless (satellite) email system, and the world's largest GIS system for making retail store location decisions.I was fortunate to start my career with Norman Rasmussen at his Boston-based consultancy, Teleprocessing, Inc. Mr. Rasmussen was head of IBM’s Cambridge Scientific Centers where he oversaw the creation of SGML and the VM operating system, the origins of today’s web and cloud computing. I became a partner and founded the NYC office of Teleprocessing with a focus on Wall Street, real estate and media clients.
Listed skills include Start Ups, Mobile Devices, Product Development, Mobile Applications, and 17 others.