Provide management consulting services to payments companies (e.g., market assessments, market entry strategy, competitive analysis, market segmentation, partnerships, M&A, customer needs analysis, product requirements and roadmaps, product benefits, pricing, operational benchmarking). Engagements include:* eCommerce risk vendor: Developed market entry for tokenization offering * African NGO: Launched M-Pesa acceptance for and designed new rent-to-own and layaway service for irrigation company; based in Kenya and Tanzania * Marketplace platform: Evaluated suitability of Stripe Connect for merchant’s multi-user educational platform* B2B payments provider: Structured partnership agreement with virtual card provider* AR invoicing provider: Evaluated card acceptance models (ISO, PayFac, etc.)* Payouts provider: Evaluated opportunity for additional card payout models (business debit rewards card, etc.)* Prepaid/debit card program manager: Evaluated partnership opportunities with card networks and BIN sponsors* Visa: Performed a wide variety of projects over 10+ years including:--- Digital wallet risk management --- Launch of global mobile alerts service--- Pricing and policies for merchant risk service --- Assessment of consumer eCommerce EMV service --- Gateway and connectivity pricing --- Global fraud management opportunity --- Acquirer incentives to promote merchant services --- Market size forecasts * Lilaguide/The Knot (advised CEO on sale of company to The Knot)* Major Television Network (market entry strategy for Internet-based video games)* IBM (market segmentation of Internet video game market)* Digital Video Production Company (market analysis of e-learning sector)

Rebuilding Together Peninsula (RTP) is a safe and healthy housing organization that provides critical repairs, accessibility modifications and energy efficient upgrades at no cost to service recipients. Founded almost 30 years ago, RTP has continued to grow and expand our services beyond our annual National Rebuilding Day program to include our Team Build and Safe at Home minor home repair programs, serving low-income homeowners and community facilities in San Mateo and northern Santa Clara counties.

Provide a wide range of product and business strategy services (e.g., launch of global multi-channel digital wallet service, market assessment and partnership structure for new ecommerce chip solution, market assessment and pricing for global mobile alerts offering)

Recruited by this 50 person healthcare Internet company to lead partnership development efforts; managed a team of 6 Directors, Managers and long-term contractors. Oversaw, established and/or grew distribution and commerce partnerships with companies like BabyCenter, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Interim Healthcare, GE, Yahoo!, and iVillage. Company was acquired by CCS.

Business owner of co-branded, online software stores that Beyond.com operated with Symantec, Compaq and other partners. Grew revenue run rate from $10M per year to over $20M per year. Launched and/or managed 12 US and international sites with localized language/content and multi-currency transaction capabilities. Reported to divisional general manager. Managed team of 6 direct reports, contractors and assigned resources. Acquired by Digital River.

Managed consulting projects to develop business strategies for Fortune 500 clients; primarily focused on market assessments, market entry strategy, business model development, partnerships, mergers/acquisitions, customer needs analysis, competitor analysis, operational benchmarking and financial analysis. Selected engagements:- Hewlett-Packard (Internet application server partnership assessment)- Hewlett-Packard (home data networking investment analysis)- Major Computer Manufacturer (Internet telephony market entry)- Sony (channel management analysis for worldwide Internet retailing strategy)- Nortel (analysis to quantify product benefits)- Nokia (analysis of convergence trend)- Kaiser Permanente (operational benchmarking, hospital cost reduction, consumer segmentation, geographic expansion)- Major Hotel Chain (market entry strategy for data processing service)- Levi Strauss (analysis of competitor distribution networks)