Kingfisher Investment is a venture growth firm focused on mid and late-stage technology companies, with a bias towards enterprise software and corporate IT Infrastructure. Kingfisher has the flexibility to make either primary or secondary investments helping companies with both growth equity and near-term liquidity needs of individual shareholders. Over the years, many of the companies Kingfisher invested in have become category leaders (and sometimes household names), including: Arista Networks, Coursera, DocuSign, Domo, Fastly, Five9, Lyft, Palantir Technologies, Planet Labs, RingCentral, and SimilarWeb.Kingfisher is currently investing from its over-subscribed 4th vintage. Our bite-size is flexible, ranging from $5M to $25M.In July 2023 Preqin, a leading company in the data analysis and market insights for the Alternative Asset community, placed two of Kingfisher’s most recent funds in the top 1% globally of realized performance. The study ranked KEP III 5th out of over 700 PE/VC funds globally sized up to $250M. Similarly, KEP II was ranked 7th by the same study. We work collaboratively with Management, and we close our investments quickly and quietly.

Centrical is a leading enterprise software Business Intelligence platform which transforms how frontline teams perform, coach, learn, and connect through a personalized experience. Centrical empowers managers to enable their team members to be more successful with AI-powered, closed-loop coaching that triggers personalized activities that impact individual employee performance and real-time performance visibility.

SkySafe is a global leader in Drone Detection, Tracking, and Identification (DTI). SkySafe's drone intelligence platform transforms data into action. Tested and validated by the FAA, SkySafe's technology is vetted and approved to ensure airspace safety, security, and world-class drone forensics capabilities. Its cloud-based SkySafe One platform, the most comprehensive on the market, provides real-time and historical UAS identification, activity tracking, and telemetry data for teams responsible for protecting cities, infrastructure, the public, and campuses.

OpenExchange is the trusted provider of professionally managed virtual meetings and events. The Company specializes in high-end virtual and hybrid events, bridging the worlds of real-time videoconferencing, live-streaming, and searchable on-demand video archives. OpenExchange makes it easy to connect, create, disseminate, and discover information critical to investment and business decisions.

Straight-forward, unvarnished counsel to entrepreneurs. I also provide introductions, as appropriate, to potential clients, investors and strategic partners.

Worked closely with senior leadership globally. Conducted research and analysis for new business initiatives, partnerships, investments, and acquisitions.

Tackled a wide variety of executive-level business challenges of Fortune 500 clients.Engagement Experience: Business Planning, Change Management, Complexity Management, Corporate Strategy, Customer Loyalty Drivers, Large Scale Enterprise Transformation, Market Assessment, Market Research, Product Development, Organizational Operating Models, Supply Chain and TransportationIndustry Experience: Apparel Retail, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Quick Service Retail.

Led three teams in defining, translating and integrating customer requirements into products and services. Responsibilities included: analyzing quantitative and qualitative study results, identifying key issues and drivers of customer loyalty, formulating and presenting recommendations to client executives. Client industry served include: Automotive, Financial Services, and Hospitality.

Automotive Industry: Primary and secondary research

Twice selected to receive Distinguished Service Award from unit commander (top 1%)