Help drive strategy and lead business development efforts

Serve as strategic advisor to startup seeking to increase access to quality mental healthcare through tech-enabled behavioral health integration with primary care

I support iHealthScreen's CEO and commercialization colleagues with strategy, business planning, business development, and strategic partnership negotiations.

Mentor in the prestigious Grow-NY ag tech program managed by Cornell University on behalf of several NY State economic development agencies. Participated in selecting 20 finalist teams out of >400 qualified applicants. Mentor for Unibaio, an Argentina-based developer of a proprietary particle aimed at dramatically increasing the efficacy of pesticides across many types of crops, reducing environmental impact, increasing sustainability, and helping farmers make more money.

First ever Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Colgate University with mission to support aspiring student, alumni, faculty, staff, and community entrepreneurs with hands-on entrepreneurship and innovation programs, mentoring, networking, and inspiration. Connected entrepreneurial teams to new collaborators, prospective customers, partners, advisers, and sources of capital. Cultivated "connective tissue" between world-class liberal arts education and entrepreneurship, innovation, and design thinking - in every type of career and endeavor.

As an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Connecticut's award-winning Technology Incubation Program, I help portfolio companies build and grow their businesses. I do my best to serve as a consiglieri to CEOs with a bias towards action, experimentation, and learning. The startups that learn the fastest tend to be the most successful.

Served as both VP of Growth and acting VP of Product for AI-driven diagnostics, monitoring, and insights for mental healthcare and CNS clinical trials. Was responsible for strategy, business development, marketing, and product management. Spearheaded the company’s pivot from tool purveyor to behavioral health providers to developer of a biomarker discovery platform designed for CNS biopharma and med device companies. Won Boehringer-Ingelheim NY Grassroots Innovation Prize.

Responsible for all administrative and business development functions (including legal, HR, and operations) at early-stage health tech company bringing breakthrough neuroelectric stimulation technology to the field of physical therapy and rehabilitation.

As part of the NYCEDC-funded ELabNYC program as well as its sister programs in Connecticut (ABCT) and Westchester County (WCBA), I had the privilege of coaching and supporting a terrific group of early stage life sciences and health tech companies

Helping to launch a decision support and medical education platform, with content created by doctors for doctors. Actively involved in product definition, pricing strategy, and go-to-market.

My mission at Samsung NEXT was to help the company's prodigious portfolio of early and growth stage startups to build their businesses. More on which amazing teams I'm working with and what we're doing to succeed coming soon.

Strategic advisor for early-stage clinical trial recruitment startup. Helped stand up multi-channel effort to partner with clinical neurology practices. Key areas of focus included segmentation, value prop, customer journey, marketing automation, and CRM.

Started with Philips Research Labs as a strategy consultant. Developed, secured support for, and helped to execute a pivot from a clinical assessment platform aimed at neuropsychologists to an FDA-approved Class II Medical Device making cognitive assessment clinically useful, practical, and sustainable in the field of neurology (see IntelliSpace Cognition). Served as interim head of sales & marketing for the US until full-time staff could be recruited, defined key aspects of flagship product and services, developed formative strategic partnerships, and drove go-to-market strategy.

Founding partner in boutique consulting firm focusing on strategy, commercialization, and growth projects for innovative organizations – from startups to market leaders - in the education, healthcare, technology, and non-profit domains. Projects included the refinement and scaling of a school improvement program focusing on principal professional development, the repositioning of an open source literacy program, US market entry strategies for a portfolio of Korean education companies, and strategic planning and development for BrainFutures, a brain fitness initiative by a leading non-profit mental health organization. BUILD New product development, innovation, business modeling, competitive landscape analysis, market segmentation, value proposition design, and usability testing LAUNCHGo-To-Market strategy and planning, sales process development and validation, marketing automation and CRM integration, product and service rollout, and early customer engagement/assessmentGROWSales process optimization, channel development, strategic partnership identification and development, average revenue per customer optimization, and international expansion

Managed a team of over 40 professionals in the US and Sweden focused on innovation, product development, M&A, and new business acceleration for Pearson's renowned Clinical Assessment division. Key accomplishments include doubling Cogmed Working Memory Training revenue in the school market, acquiring, integrating, and growing the Quotient ADHD assessment business by over 30% in 18 months, launching Attention360, a communications & collaboration platform for ADHD care, and serving as a key advisor to the Q-Interactive business.

Responsible for all aspects of product at Google Ventures-backed online language learning service leveraging video, speech recognition and hyper-personalization. Led the charge, together with VP of Engineering, to go from advanced prototype to scalable commercial product. Attracted hundreds of thousands of registered users, thousands of paying subscribers, and achieved rave reviews.

Led variety of invention, product development, business development and market research initiatives on behalf of Jay Walker, Founder of Priceline.com.

While serving as an entrepreneur-in-residence for a leading venture capital fund, I conceived of and prototyped a new way of learning languages online. This effort culminated in an early stage web service called Yolango. After building an active early user base, I sold this nascent venture to Walker Digital and joined Real Time English.

I co-founded JTT Holdings to acquire Soliloquy Learning, turn around its school business and pursue opportunities for leveraging its applied speech recognition technology in the consumer market. While there, I invented a new method for digitally tutoring children as they read physical books.

I co-founded Readia to transform children’s books into interactive learning experiences. We secured $15 Million from a top venture capital syndicate, recruited and managed team of over 25 professionals and negotiated agreements with leading trade and K-12 educational publishers.

Working closely with Audible's top management, I developed and managed multi-faceted strategic partnerships (including equity investments) with Amazon.com and Microsoft Corporation. I championed the company's move out of hardware and into a digital content-based subscription business model. I initiated and managed the AudibleReady compatibility and co-marketing program, signing over 20 OEM partners for it, and led the company's first steps towards wireless delivery of its content. I also played a key role in both private and public financings.

I licensed rights to game and media properties, including a couple of million dollar-plus console deals. I was responsible for a JV with Electronic Arts Victor that brought a series of PC and console games to the Japanese market. I also managed localization efforts.

I was among the first evangelists for 3DO, the world’s first 32-bit video game platform. During this time, I was responsible for developing and managing relationships with dozens of leading game developers. I later co-founded 3DO’s Japanese office and managed OEM partnerships, licensing and developer support with a staff of 12.

I was a member of a business planning team reporting to the Manufacturing and Engineering Division President. I initially worked on plant selection, audit and procurement. I later championed and launched Sony’s “SDDS” digital sound for film business.