Business Development and Product Evangelist
San Francisco Bay Area
Business Development and Product Evangelist
San Francisco Bay Area
Sales and Business Development professional (BS, MBA) with broad experience in all aspects of partnership management and business development in enterprise/consumer software, hardware and consumer Internet companies.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
2006 — Present (2 years)
CrossLoop, funded by El Dorado Ventures, enables everyone to help someone with its very popular free and secure desktop sharing software. Its the first company that provides dynamic profiles - profiles that update automatically with every session to enable any expert to build technical credentials by logging time spent in helping customers.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
2004 — 2006 (2 years)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FON; Telecommunications industry)
July 2004 — November 2004 (5 months)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Utilities industry)
October 2003 — April 2004 (7 months)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
April 2003 — October 2003 (7 months)
A wireless startup building a new consumer service in the mobile VoIP space working closely with the Texas Pacific Group
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)
June 2001 — October 2003 (2 years 5 months)
Sounded better than a "consultant" but a lot happened to me during this downturn for me and it was one of the best learning I have ever had in my professional life. I built a network of senior executives, angel investors and venture capitalists built on fundamentals of trusted mentoring and mutual professional development
- Initiated long term relationships and built a network of mentors
- Created business development opportunities for startups by collaborating at the senior executive level
- Collaborated with senior executives and entrepreneurs at companies, such as Plaxo, Shop.com, on market intelligence and product development
- Outsourced and coordinated software development projects off-shore to System Integrators (SI)
- Aligned entrepreneurs with Venture Capital firms and Angel Investors
- Learned job searching well enough to be a guest speaker today (2005-2007) at many job-seekers networking groups
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; PLNR; Computer Hardware industry)
January 2002 — May 2002 (5 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Telecommunications industry)
September 2000 — February 2001 (6 months)
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; TTEX.BO; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1996 — August 1999 (3 years 6 months)
A premiere enterprise system integrator and services subsidiary of the $10 billion TATA group.
Penetrated local markets with partners such as SGI, HP, IBM, Sun, PTC, Autodesk, EDS, Cisco, 3Com
People and behavioral psychology, new technology and value creation, creativity, leadership and business, learning, reading and knowledge management, life, snowboarding, dancing, racquetball, tennis, Jedi powers, social media