Parallel Entrepreneur; Developer; Broker; Investor
San Francisco Bay Area
Parallel Entrepreneur; Developer; Broker; Investor
San Francisco Bay Area
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Real Estate Developer in seven countries, currently. Residential, hotels, fractionals, and a little commercial overseas. In the US, office, industrial, R&D, high-density residential (apartments), and retail including big-box retail.
Licensed California real estate salesperson and broker. Licensed securities salesperson able to sell institutional grade TICs for individual investors to 1031 in to. (Real estate) brokerage owner. (1031 Exchange) brokerage owner. Real Former money-raiser. Investment-banker-to-be.
Successful real estate investor. Experienced venture investor, including technology & hospitality ventures.
Business expertise in finance, real estate, technology, hospitality.
Former winery owner.
Former experienced technology executive with a track record of increasing responsibility. Fifteen+ years as President, CTO or VP of Engineering.
Stanford BS; UC Santa Cruz MS; and Ph.D. work, all in Computer Science and related fields.
Expertise in the creation and support of scalable, secure, highly available mission-critical enterprise software, as well as DLAs, social networks, media and device management, open source, the blogosphere, and personal & mobile publishing & communications.
Series 22 and 63 and 24 licensed, with more securities registrations (7 next) to follow.
Real estate: development, brokerage, TIC brokerage, investment, management. Mortgage brokering. Hospitality. Wine. Angel Investing. Private equity & debt. Financials. Supply chain. Advertising. Europe, Asia, Australia, Central America, & South America. Specifically, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, Panama, Honduras, Mexico, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, & Argentina.
Ph.D., Computer Science, September 1994 — June 1997
Completed classwork, passed oral examination, advanced to candidacy, completed thesis code and dissertation draft. Dropped out prior to defending dissertation to become an entrepreneur in high-tech and start my first company.
MS, Computer Science, September 1990 — June 1994
Master's Thesis: PALette, a Platform-Independent Animation Language.
BS, Symbolic Systems, September 1984 — January 1990
Double self-designed concentration within major.
low risk, high return investments; travel; rural properties; wine
* Zoom Systems, Advisory Board
* LiquidTalk, Advisory Board
* Craigslist Foundation, Advisory Board
* Founding member, Technical Leadership Forum (formerly Bay Area CTO Forum)
* Keiretsu Forum, member
* North Bay Angels, member
* Golden Gate Angels, member
* Pass The Hat, member
* IIFF (International Institute for Film Financing), Board Member
* EarthTrain, advisor and supporter
* Bitzi, Board of Advisors
* Media Machines, Advisory Board
* Catamount Ventures, Technical Advisory Board
* ChainCast Networks, Technical Advisory Board
* TICA (Tenant in Common Association), member
* CREA, supporter
Recipient: multiple awards for work at Charles Schwab (several Excellence in Service awards and the Presidential Award, given to 4 teams out of 15,000 employees)
Comdex Gold Medal Award (1994)
various scholarships