Experienced technology executive. Expert in business models & market and technology strategy.
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Advisor, Board of Advisors at International Characters
- VP - Software Strategy at EastLake Ventures
- 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
I work with business leaders and investors on acquisitions, adoption, cultural, technology and business strategies to develop breakaway growth and innovation strategies that deliver high-return outcomes. Over the last 15 years, I have achieved this by developing and introducing new business models and technologies to the marketplace, occasionally creating the ecosystem in the process. Notable successes include:
* Delivering strategies to enable seven 500 companies to capitalize open source technologies & development models
* Developing seven of the top ten open source based business models
* Building a long-term strategy for the Linux Foundation that resulted in a 1000% growth in every metric
* Showing a 900% ROI at a major government institution by streamlining technology adoption and development
My current and past clients include:
* Thirty Global 1000 companies in six countries
* Sixty VC-funded startup companies, open source and proprietary
* Four cabinet level US government agencies, the DoD and the UK Cabinet
* Several high-profile non-profits, including the Linux Foundation and the Nobel-prize winning Grameen Foundation
* Board member of six companies - three currently
My current focus is on business ventures that take advantage of the acceleration in the design/build/delivery cycle combined with technology convergence around power/bandwidth/miniaturization. I also continue to work with companies where I have board positions, advising them on business and technology strategies, all while moonlighting as VP of Software Strategies at a small venture firm (and working on too many other projects...).
I’m always interested in discussing new ventures, so feel free to contact me anytime at ckm [at] chrismaresca [dot] com.
Chris Maresca’s Specialties:
Open Source, business & technology strategy, international ventures, venture capital, fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, private equity, startups.
Chris Maresca’s Experience
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Advisor, Board of Advisors
International Characters
(Computer Software industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
International Characters (IC) makes software that can allow an ordinary microprocessor (CPU) to process XML and Unicode faster than any currently deployed software.
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VP - Software Strategy
EastLake Ventures
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
EastLake Ventures is a venture group led by Bob Bozeman, formerly of Angel Investors. It is focused on developing innovative funding and liquidity strategies for mature startups. I am a part-time adviser on a couple of ventures.
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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 11 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
