
Venture Advisor & Mgmt Consultant
San Francisco Bay Area

Venture Advisor & Mgmt Consultant
San Francisco Bay Area
Provide entrepreneurial advisory services that help early & growth stage enterprises succeed. Delivering the insights and advice necessary to help these firms attract the best investors, advisors and talent. (Venture Insight Advisors)
Additionally, through Productivity Advisors we work with our clients to create and deliver practical solutions in a variety of management consulting situations. We have successfully worked with clients on business solutions that have addressed: customer, knowledge, order, process, project, sales and vendor management issues and workflows.
Investor materials development & outreach. Business and venture valuation. Business development and product management experience in the software/web industry.
(Privately Held; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
At Venture Insight Advisors, we:
• Help people with ideas build the foundation for successful companies
• Focus on building strong sustainable business models
• Help start-ups optimize their strategic position for financing, growth, and M&A
• Have worked with over 100 companies across multiple sectors including enterprise software, consumer web, wireless communications, digital media, clean tech, security, internet infrastructure and more.
(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)
January 2002 — Present (7 years 7 months)
Business consultancy focused on creating and delivering practical solutions in a variety of management consulting situations. We have successfully worked with clients on business solutions that have addressed: customer, knowledge, order, process, project, sales and vendor management issues and workflows. Client and partner work includes: Catapult Learning (Sylvan), Gap Online, Google, Intuit, LivePerson, Macromedia (Adobe), Omniture, UCLA, VF Corporation, WalMart.com and Warner Bros.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; NIKU; Internet industry)
December 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 2 months)
Managed web-based business unit operations and developed strategic partner relationships.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)
December 1997 — September 2000 (2 years 10 months)
Managed product management team at Work.com, a business portal that was a $30MM joint venture between Excite and Dow Jones.
Partner manager of Excite's Finance Channel, a partnership between Excite and Intuit's Quicken.com
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Investment Banking industry)
1991 — 1993 (2 years)