Consulting firm providing business owners, corporate executives, and professional service firms with senior-level strategic guidance and negotiating experience with companies ranging from early stage to Fortune 50. Provides advice in mergers and acquisitions with private equity and debt financings in addition to exit preparation strategies. Also provides strategic advice to companies on the use of technology and how it can provide market distinction and disruption for companies who wish to scale their business. Achieved a successful track record by founding multiple disruptive technology companies and spearheading each venture to ensure successful exit strategies to Fortune 100/500 companies, including 3M Corporation, MCI Telecommunications, Salem Communications, Landmark Media Group, and Cox Communications.

Provide consultation to numerous small and mid-size businesses on improving their operational excellence and maximizing profitability. Coached CEOs in transitioning from founder duties with detailed management to an executive role by developing a trusted team that handles the details of day-to-day operations. Advise key executives on how to tap into emerging technology for larger business opportunities that can more rapidly scale the business, and how to build a corporate structure that maintains the founder's culture. Invested in several companies within Winston Starts and serve on multiple boards.

Co-founder and Board Member of Sensory Analytics, a technology company that delivers a transformative technology for real-time coating thickness and film layer measurement. Its solutions help global manufacturers measure the absolute thickness of their applied wet or dry coatings or coating layers—in-process or off-line—down to sub-micron levels. Worked with the CEO to recruit a technical team who optimized several processes within the company to improve efficiency and result in a positive impact on the bottom line. The management team created and patented new systems to successfully measure the coating on various substrates. Operating in 40+ countries, the Company has more than ten patents and serves many Fortune 100 companies internationally.

Responsible for all operations of a data and analytics firm with proprietary content and risk assessment tools designed to solve large-scale cyber risk management problems. The Company’s cyber risk reduction strategies use its data analytics platform, consisting of proprietary databases and assessment tools, for the production of cybersecurity and data privacy solutions. These solutions have been designed to enhance cyber-risk management systems used by consulting professionals, insurance carriers, MSP/MSSPs, insurance underwriters, law firms, and CPA practices.

Built a professional team that managed all aspects of data management, cloud storage, and Internet security. Implemented multiple initiatives and strategies providing wireless and mobile solutions to telecommunication and cable operators that resulted in significant growth. Transformed the company into one of the leading Cloud-storage companies in the United States, Europe, and Singapore.

Founder and CEO of GuardiaNet Systems, Inc. (GSI), an Internet access management, smart card, and encryption technology company focused on public libraries, schools, and universities. The Company was recognized as the premier solution provider for secure Internet access management, e-purse, and personalization of shared public resources. Developed a smart card and SaaS solution that enabled parents to define the access rights to internet content so that each family member could only access content that conformed to their family values. For example, adult content would be limited to what the parent considered appropriate for their child's age when they used public access computers in schools and public libraries. Their access rights would conform to age-appropriate content as determined by the parents. GuardiaNet's solution also integrated with 3-M's self-check systems so that when the student or patron checked out books, the smart card maintained payment of fees in the e-purse on the card. Cash-to-card stations were located in the school or library for re-loading the cards so that students and library patrons could use the cards for paying for Xerox copies, fees for printing on public access printers, and purchases from vending machines. GuardiaNet's proprietary technology and patent led to the sale of the Company to 3M Corporation.

After MCI acquired Image Technology in 1995, I served as President of the software and internet division for MCI Telecommunications, a Fortune 50 company. I managed over 1,000 employees and was responsible for deploying all digital imaging, e-commerce, and smart-card technologies. Our business unit scaled revenue from $10m in 1995 to more than $100m in 1996. Within 3-months of joining MCI, our team licensed our proprietary e-commerce software to OfficeMax for a non-exclusive $50M contract. Our division won a $2.5B contract for smart card applications to all state universities of New York (SUNY). The technology for the SUNY contract included a smart card solution that served as a student's ID card, including card creation, control access to dorms, lecture halls, gyms, and other facilities, a telephony card, a campus e-commerce solution, and an interactive kiosk tied into the universities main frame computer for all tuition applications including student loans, scholarships and paid tuition. The kiosk enabled a student to order an interim scholastic report, textbooks, and e-commerce for the campus store with the ability to receive a discount coupon redeemable based upon the amount of the purchase at local retail establishments around the campus. The company developed one of the first B2B e-commerce solutions in 1993 which led to an e-commerce engine capable of providing large retailers with a B2C solution utilizing multiple databases of digital assets including images, video, retailer graphic design styles, and multiple product databases. The e-commerce engine stored multiple retailers within the same database yet giving each retailer a completely custom commerce site. The first large scale deployment included the B2C retail shopping for Macy’s, Neiman Marcus, and Brooks Brothers and was deployed in April 1995.

Created the company from a single employee to more than 700 employees and was accountable for achieving the entire business development lifecycle and establishing the company's structure, mission, and long-term goals. Designed, created, and sold a license to a prototype software application designed for collecting relevant information from a database of images and textual content and then utilizing the acquired data for publishing online books, magazines, and catalogs. Sold a non-exclusive license to the technology in 1987 for $1.5m and used the revenue to grow the company to more than $15m. Led the technology strategy for creating disruptive solutions including the initial algorithm used in creating the JPEG file format for compressing images. Developed B2B e-commerce solutions, database publishing systems, and new media production platforms utilized by multiple enterprises across numerous industries, including digital photography, publishing, cable broadcasting, telecommunications, and radio. Our team focused on implementing new strategies in vertical markets including real estate, yearbook publishing, furniture, and hardlines (Home Depot, Lowes, Ace Hardware, etc.). Developed the first industry database for the American Hardware Manufacturers Association and the first industry database for office products with S.P. Richards. • Responsible for the company's case study at Harvard Business School presented in the course “Managing in the MarketSpace” due to outstanding database publishing and online technologies, resulting in future collaborations with noteworthy companies, including US West and MCI Telecommunications. • Spearheaded the creation of “City Key” an interactive shopping and mobile network of kiosk systems for US West, resulting in an option to buy 10% of the company’s equity.