Henry Berg
CEO at Zplasma, Inc.
- Location
- Greater Seattle Area
- Industry
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Henry Berg's Overview
- Current
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- CEO at Zplasma, Inc.
- Past
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- Entrepreneur In Residence at University of Washington
- Director at A3 Alliance, LLC
- Product Unit Manager at Microsoft Corporation
- Managing Principal Engineer, Hardware at Vulcan Inc.
- Vice President of Engineering at Tiqit Computers, Inc.
- Research / Teaching Assistant at Stanford University
- Naval Flight Officer at U.S. Navy
- Education
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- University of Washington
- Stanford University
- Yale University
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Polytechnic School
- Recommendations
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1 person has recommended Henry
- Connections
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219 connections
Henry Berg's Experience
Entrepreneur In Residence
University of Washington
Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry
July 2010 – December 2011 (1 year 6 months)
Provided guidance on strategies and tactics to move research projects toward commercialization.
Director
A3 Alliance, LLC
November 2009 – April 2011 (1 year 6 months)
Technology fund investing in service-oriented web companies, often using secured convertible notes.
• Conducted due diligence and reviewed engineering and business plans for companies in different lifecycle stages.
• Advised portfolio companies concerning business and engineering strategy, growth and acquisition.
Product Unit Manager
Microsoft Corporation
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry
July 2005 – October 2009 (4 years 4 months)
Product Unit Manager, Insight Tools, Finance and Online Services Division, July 2006 – October 2009
• Built incubation group from the ground up to design and deploy prediction market and crowd wisdom platform.
• Worked out mathematics and functionality, patented, implemented and deployed four collective intelligence tools.
• U.S. Patent 7,880,741 issued for forecasting user interface, patents pending for betting interface and structure.
• Coordinated with legal, government affairs, Google and Yahoo for prediction market industry feedback to CFTC.
• Created and ran AdCenter Challenge development contest, including infrastructure and cross-group coordination.
• Authored Perl scripts for data processing, JavaScript client-side math library, and batch files for automation.
Software Development Engineer, Binary Technologies, Core Operating Systems Division, July 2005 – June 2006
• Added random sample tracing to dynamic x86 trace recording and replay tools (C, C++, x86/x64 assembly).
• Created automated tool to check x64 exception handling structures as part of daily build process (C++).
Managing Principal Engineer, Hardware
Vulcan Inc.
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Executive Office industry
December 2003 – February 2005 (1 year 3 months)
Technology Research & Development Department
• Led team of 6 engineers to produce Transmeta Efficeon motherboard, first article of which booted Windows XP.
Vice President of Engineering
Tiqit Computers, Inc.
April 2000 – January 2003 (2 years 10 months)
Led engineering development effort for Tiqit Computers, a privately funded startup dedicated to the development of a next-generation handheld PC. Tiqit’s fully-functional prototypes were featured in Business Week, Red Herring (cover story), Popular Science, PC World and other publications.
• Produced smallest handheld x86 computer ever to run Windows XP (Geode, stacked DRAM, 1.8” HDD).
• Led design team of 9 engineers from initial concept through production of working prototypes.
• Handled partner relationships and negotiated engineering service contracts for PCB, BIOS and battery design.
• Acted as public face of company conducting technical presentations to OEMs, venture capitalists and journalists.
Research / Teaching Assistant
Stanford University
Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry
September 1997 – March 2000 (2 years 7 months)
Computer Science Department
• Designed and built an infrared vision system for gesture recognition, programmed PalmOS devices (C, C++).
Naval Flight Officer
U.S. Navy
Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Military industry
April 1991 – January 1997 (5 years 10 months)
USS George Washington, Norfolk, Virginia, 1995-1997
• Led teams of five aircrew flying E-2C Hawkeye radar planes from aircraft carrier over Bosnia and Iraq.
USS Independence, Yokosuka, Japan, 1993-1994
Henry Berg's Languages
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German, French
(Elementary proficiency)
Henry Berg's Skills & Expertise
- Embedded Systems
- Engineering
- Programming
- Product Strategy
- Distributed Systems
- Due Diligence
- Start-ups
- Start-up Ventures
- Start-up Environment
- Business Analysis
- Business Planning
- Intellectual Property
- Business Strategy
- New Business Development
- Product Development
- Product Design
- Engineering Management
- Software Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Electrical Controls Design
Henry Berg's Education
University of Washington
Certificate, Embedded and Real-Time Systems Programming
October 2004 – May 2005
Stanford University
MS, Computer Science
1997 – 2000
Computer Systems, Ph.D. candidate
Yale University
BS, Electrical Engineering
1985 – 1990
Digital Systems
Polytechnic School
High School Degree, Science
1981 – 1985
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