M&A, Business and Technology Strategist to Global 1000 companies and startups
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Advisor, Board of Advisors at GoldenEye
- Advisor, Board of Advisors at Colligent, Inc.
- Past
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- Founding Partner & Chief Strategist at Olliance Group, LLC
- Advisor - Technology, Board of Advisors at TRX, LLC
- Advisor - Technology, Board of Advisors at CUG Technologies, Inc.
- Independent Consultant at ChrisMaresca.com
- Senior Strategy Consultant at Olliance, LLC
- VP of Engineering at Musicfans, Inc.
- Independent Consultant at ChrisMaresca.com (Self-employed)
- Senior Project Manager - Engineering at Organic Online, Inc
- Lead Developer at Ellsworth Associates, Inc.
- Managing Director at Kingsbury International, Inc.
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Chris Maresca’s Summary
After spending many years focused solely on the intersection of open source and business, I am now focusing on different areas, such as M&A strategy, and within specific verticals that have been disrupted by near and long-term trends.
Until summer 2009, I was chief strategist at the Olliance Group, an open-source consulting group I co-founded in 2001. In that capacity, I advised over thirty large cap companies (including over a dozen Global 500's) on open source business, technology, IP and community strategies. A number of these were large technology end-users where I helped build open source into technology planning lifecycles, building strategies that enabled increased deployment flexibility, vendor independence and cost reduction. Others were large technology producers, where revenue models, SDLC decisions and competitive strategies were key focus areas. At the other end of the spectrum, I have also consulted with over 60 startup companies on business models, technology development and market strategies, working with investors, boards, executive management and communities to build profitable, growth-oriented businesses.
Prior to founding Olliance, I served as consultant to the financial and shipping industries, designing trading and supply chain intelligence systems. I helped several large OEM’s develop customer-oriented outbound sales and marketing strategies, and led the implementation of award winning technologies for clients such as HP, Kinko’s and Starbucks. I was also a VP of Engineering at several VC funded startups during the dot.com boom, version 1.0 (1997-2001) and have extensive experience in Europe.
Chris Maresca’s Specialties:
Open Source, business & technology strategy, international ventures, venture capital, fundraising, sales, marketing, branding, e-business, startups.
Chris Maresca’s Experience
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Advisor, Board of Advisors
GoldenEye
(Automotive industry)
2008 — Present (1 year)
Goldeneye is a new generation ERP for automotive dealerships that streamlines both dealership operations and customer experience.
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Advisor, Board of Advisors
Colligent, Inc.
(Music industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
Colligent provides the brand and entertainment industries with an advanced metrics platform which provides actionable consumer research from social networks. This enables companies, advertisers and managers to quickly understand trends and develop targeted action plans. Clients include CBS Records, Hollywood Records and Razor & Tie.
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Founding Partner & Chief Strategist
Olliance Group, LLC
(Partnership; Computer Software industry)
September 2001 — June 2009 (7 years 10 months)
The Olliance Group is the recognized leader in open source strategy and business consulting. Olliance has helped large technology producers, technology consumers and startups understand and participate in the open source revolution.
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Advisor - Technology, Board of Advisors
TRX, LLC
(Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
March 2001 — August 2004 (3 years 6 months)
TRX provides supply chain insight to companies, with a specialization on tracking container shipments through customs clearance. Information is available in real-time regarding current clearance status, down to the individual pallet, all through a SaaS-delivered service offering.
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Advisor - Technology, Board of Advisors
CUG Technologies, Inc.
(Package/Freight Delivery industry)
August 2001 — February 2004 (2 years 7 months)
CUG Technologies provides same day, local delivery on-demand for the Detroit metro area. A key technology component developed by CUG is a fully automated scheduling, dispatch and billing system, with route-based costing and on-the-fly delivery re-routing.
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Independent Consultant
ChrisMaresca.com
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2001 — September 2001 (7 months)
Consultant to a number of venture backed companies in the financial and automotive space. Focused on helping companies make appropriate technology choices based on current resources, business needs and ROI.
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Senior Strategy Consultant
Olliance, LLC
(Management Consulting industry)
December 2000 — March 2001 (4 months)
Olliance was a venture-backed open source strategy consultancy and product company. It was restarted in fall 2001 by myself and a co-worker as the Olliance Group, with a focus solely on business and technology strategy consulting.
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VP of Engineering
Musicfans, Inc.
(Entertainment industry)
February 2000 — December 2000 (11 months)
MusicFans was a venture-backed startup which owned the top 300 music fan sites. In aggregate, MusicFans was one of the top 10 web destinations at the time, and built a highly scalable Linux-based web platform to support the large traffic generated. This platform is still in use as Voxel.net's Rails infrastructure offering.
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Independent Consultant
ChrisMaresca.com (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)
October 1999 — February 2000 (5 months)
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Senior Project Manager - Engineering
Organic Online, Inc
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; OMC; Internet industry)
August 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 3 months)
Organic Online was one of the pioneers in the webspace. The company was started to specifically service HotBot clients needing web banner ads, and, at one point, controlled a substantial amount of the web ad market. In the late 1990's, Organic began to build ecommerce sites for large clients such as Starbucks, HP, Home Depot and others. During this transition, the company grew from 300 to 1700 and IPO'd in early 2000.
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Lead Developer
Ellsworth Associates, Inc.
(Internet industry)
August 1995 — July 1998 (3 years)
Ellsworth was an early pioneer in introducing web-based systems to the US Government. In the mid-'90s, Ellsworth built web-based portals for large Federal Government agencies such as Dept. of Health and Human Services, US Customs and the Dept. of Education. Ellsworth was also responsible for setting up the first department wide email system for the Dept. of Commerce.
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Managing Director
Kingsbury International, Inc.
(Consumer Goods industry)
September 1992 — November 1994 (2 years 3 months)
Kingsbury was an import-export company originally setup to take advantage of the fall of iron curtain. It specialized in exporting Western consumer products to the former Soviet states.
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Chris Maresca’s Honors:
One Club - Interactive Merit Award
Cover Story - CRN Magazine - August 8, 2005
