Founded by a group of experienced and successful investors, entrepreneurs, and corporate officers, Pilot Mountain Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm. The firm invests primarily in the areas of technology and medical device, generally in the angel round but with the flexibility to invest in the Series A round. Pilot Mountain is actively involved in the companies it invests in, providing advice, contacts, and mentoring to help the company succeed.

Web based golf leaderboard application that creates a fun and interactive addition to golf outings and events via a live scoring leaderboard.

Merging Wikipedia, Yelp and Clinicaltrials.gov functionality to improve clinical trial transparency. Merged with Genetic Alliance December 2021.

Building clinical trial strategies to improve outcomes in pancreatic cancer.

NQ Oncology is a cancer drug development company commercializing a bioamplification mechanism to rapidly and selectively kill tumor cells.

Increasing the value of therapeutic and diagnostic products, technologies and services through integrating product and business development.

US market entry strategy for AML (Acute Myeloid Leukemia) and Multiple Myeloma clinical diagnostic tools. KOL development, marketing strategy, business development.

Marketing and operations for phase III clinical trial of a sleep compound targeting an orphan indication in the blind.

Co-authored and produced a sing and act along board book to the tune "The Wheels on the Bus." Illustrated by Coe Steinwart, illustrator of "Elf on the Shelf."

Commercializing medical devices and seeking investment and licensing business development for sleep related disorders and products.

Founder and manager of company offering web based reservations and marketing systems and services to non-profit businesses including zoos, aquariums and botanical gardens. Services include marketing and operations consulting. Sold to Thriva in 2006.

Responsibilities included role as lead businessperson specifically establishing and executing the strategy for the Electrochemical Division as well as contributing to overall MCT corporate strategy. Other activities include the stage-gating of development programs, market assessments/customer negotiations in photonics and rf wireless, member of IT committee and database consulting.Accountabilities included the business and technical aspects of MCT’s fuel cell R&D effort that evolved into successful strategic partnership with the industry leader. Achieved technical success and developed business case resulting in $7 million equity investment by Ballard Power Systems and expansion of effort to include multimillion-dollar scale-up effort.

Consulted with member companies to improve their business model and investor presentation strategy Evaluated feasibility of applicant business plansAssessed proposals for technology commercialization

Worked with management of fuel cell Development Company to define market focus and streamline internal information system.Completed market research project assessing market segment and economics for emerging energy technologiesDesigned and implemented MS Access database to streamline flow and tracking of research experiments and data

Started as R&D Chemist for specialty chemicals manufacturing company. Promoted to Sales for ability to communicate and achieve goals.