At Tiltbrake we are helping professional delivery drivers and merchandisers by reducing stress on the body with our new 2 wheel hand truck that brakes when you tilt it! NO hand brakes! Check out the video!

We are Investors and a Rapid Prototyping Hardware Incubator We take product ideas and bring them to life to create a minimal viable product (MVP). In lieu of up front service fees, we negotiate a small success percentage when product gets to market.Think of us as a new type of investor. If you are an inventor or entrepreneur, we should talk.

We provide "stratactical" style fractional sales and marketing leadership for tech companies of all sizes. We often partner with investors to assure their portfolio companies are growing at a healthy rate. What is stratactical you might ask? It means that we are not typical consultants as we are strategic and tactical. In other words we are great at the high level strategy stuff, but we also roll up our sleeves and actually get our hands dirty and make things happen! Offerings:• Executive coaching and advising to the CEO on sales and marketing strategies and tactics• Fractional sales team leadership• Go-to-Market strategy developmentClients include:Jostens, Jingit, Agosto, Delaget, Comm-Works, Skillfitness, Toovio, Data Sales, MPC and Tailwind.

EXB Solutions, Inc. (EXB) is an engineering services small business focused on Systems Engineering and Test for high-reliability and safety-critical systems in the aerospace, defense, and medical industries. We cover a variety of technologies in these industries and we work in both real-time embedded engineering and information technology (IT) environments.

At Digital River (Nasdaq: DRIV) I was SVP of Sales that developed the industry’s first cloud-based e-commerce platform, a high scale enterprise offering handling over $30B in e-commerce transactions, across 80 countries. The Digital River business grew by over 2000% during my tenure and was the first Minnesota company to go from 0 to a $1B+ market cap in the last 30 years.

InnoCentive was founded in 2001 to help companies innovate better. InnoCentive built the first global web community for open innovation, enabling scientists, engineers, professionals and entrepreneurs to collaborate to deliver breakthrough solutions for R&D-driven organizations.Developed and built the go-to-market strategy, oversaw the sales and marketing organizations, managed all business development activity and is responsible for all revenue generation. Additionally acted as evangelist in the emerging Open Innovation sector and spoke frequently at various forums and conventions on the subject. We did two private equity raises during my tenure and doubled the revenue of the company in a shrinking economy.

Primary role over the years was that of executive leader of new client acquisition, business development and revenue generation organizations in software and retail verticals. Member of the executive team and actively involved in strategic planning, budgeting and acquisition activity for the company. During my tenure, Digital River achieved almost 400% growth in annual revenue; earnings growth to $1.76 EPS; and a nearly $2 billion market capitalization. Share price from $5 (Q102) to $55 (Q107).

Acquired in 2007 by Concur, Gelco was a leading provider of outsourced expense report management services for F-1000 corporations with very large sales organizations.Lead and managed all revenue-generating activities of Gelco as well as set the strategic agenda for commercial operations. Member of the executive committee, responsibilities also include strategic planning, sales, product strategy, branding, budgeting and business re-engineering. During my tenure I spearheaded the introduction of a web-based SaaS model in 2000. Achieved average annual revenue growth of 48%.

Lead the transition of the business from a wide area networking hardware reseller, to an information security consulting firm by providing vision, planning and leadership across the organization.

Original investor and general partner in an investment group that purchased, then leased, 800 mhz radio licenses to Nextel. Grew revenue from $35K per month to $350K per month and an eventual asset purchase to Nextel/Sprint.

Prior to being acquired in 1998 by Tumbelweed, Worldtalk was a revolutionary technology company that integrated disparate email systems for the Fortune 500, prior to the launch of the Internet. I began as the original field sales representative with this small email security software company. I then hired and directly managed 25 field sales reps across North America and participated in the 1996 IPO. Consistently grew revenues over 75% per year during tenure.