Currently Chief Operating Officer at Fermyon Technologies, whose vision is to lead the ecosystem for the third wave of cloud computing, with a team of deep-cloud experts who have worked together for the past 5 years deep in the bowels of Microsoft's core cloud technology. Also Board member at Mental Health Partners (non-profit), Bolster Prime Mentor, and advisor to Furhat Robotics and Spiky.ai.Previous operating executive of a 50-person/$5M revenue company (Solista, CEO. acquired by Gartner), a 200-person/$20M revenue company (Tendril now Uplight, CEO/COO/CIO, currently valued at $1.2B), a 30-person venture-backed smart home company (Revolv, CEO, acquired by Google), and a 45-person personal robotics company (Misty Robotics, CEO, acquired by Furhat Robotics). Head of Strategy at Nest Labs, a unit of Google / Alphabet. Career started at Apple (almost 10 years). Angel investor in 11 startup companies. Mentor to award-winning startups including Snap-a-Bug (Techstars '10), SimpleEnergy (Techstars '11), LinkCycle (MIT Cleantech '11), Mobiplug/Revolv (Techstars '12) and Ludela (Techstars '19). Winner of Boulder County Esprit Award Entrepreneur of the Year (2012).Board Member positions include several non-profits such as the Mental Health Partners of Boulder County (current), Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneur Initiative, Demand Response/Smart Grid Coalition, and Young Entrepreneurs Organization and for-profits such as Iotas, Tendril, Adeptive, SkyeTek, Oxlo, Intellocity and LeadWorks.Goal: To build great businesses through passion, focused and disciplined business management, people leadership and the installment of “Top 10 Percentile High Performance Culture” philosophies.Specialties: Entrepreneurship/start-ups, market & business strategy, fund raising, acquisitions, leadership, culture installation and enhancement, product management, manufacturing supply-chain/operations, professional services management, critical thinking. Ask me for my "user manual" or StrengthsFinder detailed report for more.
Listed skills include Product Management, Leadership, Acquisitions, Start Ups, and 32 others.