Operating Partner at Icarus Partners. Icarus makes buyout and minority investments in middle market specialty industrials, business services, SaaS, and consumer products companies. Icarus partners with portfolio company management teams to reposition and differentiate in the market, accelerate growth, build operational teams and capabilities, and drive continuous improvement.

OMCO SUMO is a manufacturer and global OEM supplier focused on ESG and sustainable sourcing for bearings, engineered assemblies, and motion-related components across all industries requiring mechanical power transmission. Established in 1964, with our extensive experience and global supplier networks from over 50 years in business, we are deeply knowledgeable and passionate about helping customers achieve sustainable sourcing and ESG goals, focusing on both the integrity of product performance and the corresponding influence on human rights, the environment, and fair business practices. OMCO is the first and only provider of proprietary ESG ratings within the power transmission industry covering an extensive and expanding network of manufacturers throughout Asia that provide high-quality lower-cost products, and often sharing the same supply chain with well-known premium brands without the accompanying overhead. Our goal is to support our customers with transparent values-driven business practices that help achieve sustainability of the triple bottom line: people, profit, and planet.

CXponent is a CX sourcing and implementation advisory firm.We help buying committees sort through the internal and external chaos of digital transformation so that IT, the business, and their chosen vendors succeed together.

No longer working in this role

RS Metrics is the market-leading and first company to measure the global economy for business and investors using large-scale quantitative analysis of satellite, aerial, and drone imagery, and other geospatial data. RS Metrics was acquired in November 2018 by a group of investors led by Thynk Ventures. My role as President is to focus on business development and strategic alliances, and continue to innovate and drive product development and sales:• Established strategic distribution partnerships with leading global data firms including Bloomberg Enterprise Data, CME Datamine, Nasdaq/Quandl.• RS Metrics YouTube channel with brief product videos has over 300,000 views from industry executives and professionals: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHQw4-etID4at2tKaWpO-1w• RS Metrics Press: https://rsmetrics.com/events-and-press/Our proprietary, patented technology leverages advanced computer vision and machine learning to extract meaningful and ready-to-use data from imagery, providing predictive analytics, alerts, and end-user applications for decision making in financial services, real estate, retail, industrials, commodities, government, and academic research. Each week, the RS Metrics platform generates data for hundreds of thousands of global retail and industrial locations, and delivers data and analysis in applications and data feeds:Retail: The industry-leading TrafficSignals application measures traffic at major US retail and restaurant chainsCommercial Real Estate: CRE Trends tracks traffic at commercial real estate locations like shopping centers, malls and office spaceMetals & Mining: MetalSignals measures copper, aluminum, and zinc stockpiles at global smelters and storage facilities and predicts metals price and volume.Industrials: FactorySignals measures changes in employment, production, and other activity at global factories and warehouses.

I founded the company, raised capital, and built and managed a technology platform, global brand, and team of approximately 40 professionals located across the US and Asia, serving hundreds of the world’s largest and most sophisticated investor, corporate, academic, and government customers.• In mid-2009, invented the first system for quantitative analysis of satellite imagery for economic and market information for business and investors. Conceived of the initial satellite imagery retail traffic measurement product concept, formed team of founding executives, and raised over $10mm in capital. • Led development of TrafficSignals, the world’s first app and dataset for measuring retail traffic and generating Alpha with satellite imagery, FactorySignals (industrial employment and production measurement), CRE Trends (commercial real estate activity monitoring), and MetalSignals (metals supply for commodity futures, equities, currencies, rates).• Leader in development of AI machine learning/ computer vision platform for extracting data from satellite imagery, with a human QC workflow system to ensure accuracy at scale. • Created a new market from nothing and grew subscription product revenue to consistent multi-million ARR from 2013-2018.• Holder of fundamental US Utility Patents including 9542627 and 10,127,457 covering “System and methods for generating quality, verified, and synthesized information.” They cover all quantitative measurement of economic activity using geospatial data from any source (imagery, GPS, payments, etc)• Established strategic channel sales and distribution partnerships with CME Datamine, Thomson Reuters, Wolfe Research, Eagle Alpha.• Data published by UBS, Piper Jaffray, Wolfe Research, Barclays, Harvard Medical School, Virginia Tech, Princeton, Berkeley, and more.• Interviewed and featured on CNBC, CNN, ABC News, WSJ, NYT, FT, Economist, NY Post, The Atlantic, Crain’s, Wired, and many more. https://rsmetrics.com/events-and-press/

Stax Inc. is a global strategy consultancy serving private equity firms and corporations across a broad range of industries. The firm partners with clients to provide data-driven, actionable insights to help clients drive growth, enhance profits, increase value, and make better investment decisions.

Co-founder of Fulcrum Systems, an enterprise software company using massive data sets for design and ongoing optimization of complex corporate telecommunication networks. Fulcrum was acquired by NRG, a telecom carrier-focused channel partner looking to expand its offering to enterprise clients.

Internet start-up developing data and knowledge visualization technology for enterprise networks and project collaboration.

Design engineering firm focused on telecommunications and computer hardware, with clients including Motorola, Intel, and Rambus. Co-developed product strategy and helped raised capital for Mobilepro.com, spin-off company that developed a custom small form factor laptop with built-in wireless model, targeted to mobile executives.