Technical Ventures Group, Founding Team Member
Round Rock, Texas, Us
The Technical Ventures Group was an innovation archipelago created to identify, fund, build and acquire disruptive intellectual property with all of the institutional backing of EMC but without any classic organizational encumbrances. This nimble organization was a direct report to Board and made the first cloud computing investments on behalf of EMC in 2007. Later the team grew into the Cloud Infrastructure Division and EMC Ventures. I was recruited by Senior Vice President to build from scratch the startup sales and business development organization that focused on key verticals of service provider, defense, and intelligence markets. Later my role expanded to include relationships with financial service organizations including JPMC, CS, GS, Morgan Stanley and their trading partners. The team built Atmos, the first commercially viable software defined storage system, the Common Appliance Platform which pivoted all EMC products to x86 architecture, the Cloud Delivery Platform which enabled service providers like AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink to enter the infrastructure as a service markets and other novel technologies that were commercialized as ViPR and ECS. We were modeled after and operated like Google X, Lab126, Apple Special Projects Group, XPARC, MITRE and conducted build, buy, invent, invest and partner programs for the M+A committee. As the Business Development Manager for Technical Ventures Group I was responsible for organization building & talent management, market penetration and expansion, sales channel management, strategic alliances, government relations, and thought leadership programs. Founding team member. Contributor to Congressional House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Cloud Computing. Expert Witness to United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission.