Business Innovation Consultant
Albuquerque, New Mexico Area
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- Principal at ProactiveTeams
- President at NMITSA
- Past
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- Business Columnist at Albuquerque Tribune
- Graduate Assistant at University of New Mexico Anderson School of Management
- VP - Business Development at Zia Scientific
- Freelance Crowdsourcing Journalist at Assignment Zero/Wired News
- Director at State of New Mexico--Office of Science and Technology
- President at Swarm Development Group
- Director, Entrepreneurial Partnerships at Technology Ventures Corporation
- Business Recruitment Director at New Mexico Economic Development Department
- President at Burge Corrosion Systems
- Education
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- The University of New Mexico
- University of Oklahoma
- New Mexico State University
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Randy Burge’s Summary
In my professional career, I have enjoyed a wide range of success through connecting people to people and to ideas and resources that empower solutions and results. I am fascinated by the latent powers found in the relationships we each have with other people in our lives. There is a powerful spirit in each of us.
In ways, our business and personal challenges are like those a person faces when walking into a pickup basketball game, man or woman. Teams rapidly form and disband, just as in the fast paced corporate world. Or, other teams last longer and mature over time, as with a family. How does a random grouping of people and talents coalesce and work together in the fluid dynamic that is basketball, business, or life?
Winning is about working together with conviction and a certain selfless elan – finding the art in higher purposes.
My goal is to work with and around people whose pursuits are greater than themselves. The world is full of challenges, many of them human wrought, and solutions will only come from within and among us.
I take the responsibilities of connecting on Linked In seriously, and offer my input and counsel to anyone in my network who seeks it.
Progress happens at the intersections between people.
Randy Burge’s Experience
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Principal
ProactiveTeams
(Management Consulting industry)
January 2000 — Present (8 years 10 months)
ProactiveTeams links and leverages business development resources - from venture capital, to professional services, market advice, business research, facility and location decisions, employee recruitment and selection, among others. Community/civic organizations are included. Special emphasis is placed on sustainable economic development.
I have initiated and managed connections that have funded private equity and governmental investments/grants in tech ventures, venture capital firms, and non-profits for totals exceeding $25 million.
Presently, I am also working with successful closely-held or family companies that are considering exit strategies. These companies are typically transitioning from one generation to another, or have other factors where a friendly exit that leaves the current management team in place while providing substantial liquidity options to the owners. Companies need to have $3 million or more EBITDA qualify. -
President
NMITSA
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1999 — Present (9 years 5 months)
Founder of IT industry trade association. NMITSA leads the IT industry in the region through business and technical development forums/meetings, workforce development, industry advocacy, etc. (www.nmitsa.org)
Served on the international board and executive committee for the Council of Regional IT Associations, an organization of more than 50 regional associations in the major and minor tech regions/states/cities in the US and Canada (www.crita.org). CRITA represents more than 15,000 member companies, making it the largest IT association in the world. -
Business Columnist
Albuquerque Tribune
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Newspapers industry)
January 2006 — February 2008 (2 years 2 months)
Freelance business columnist loosely covering perspectives at the intersections of technology, business, and cultural anthropology. The beloved Trib closed down operations after 86 years in February 2008.
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Graduate Assistant
University of New Mexico Anderson School of Management
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Nanotechnology industry)
January 2006 — December 2007 (2 years)
Provided professorial support and lecturing functions in Management of Technology concentration at UNM MBA program. The functions include mentoring or consulting with technology companies about business plan development and venture capital presentations.
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VP - Business Development
Zia Scientific
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Biotechnology industry)
April 2007 — October 2007 (7 months)
Zia Scientific was a seed-stage startup company seeking to commercialize pulmonary drug delivery technologies. Zia was organized by several colleagues in the UNM MBA program.
After several months of effort and further market analysis, Zia Scientific business development efforts have been curtailed. In part, the recent customer adoption issues with Exubera, a Pfizer inhaled insulin system, has drastically restricted Zia's current market potential.
Zia was the 2007 winner of the Michael Gallegos Prize for Entrepeneurship in the University of New Mexico Anderson School of Management business plan competition.
I was an advisor in development of the basic business model and to position the company to raise venture capital.
(Michael Gallegos is the 2004 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and a graduate of UNM, currently the CEO of American Property Management in San Diego.) -
Freelance Crowdsourcing Journalist
Assignment Zero/Wired News
(Online Media industry)
March 2007 — July 2007 (5 months)
Participated in largest, highest profile crowdsourcing journalism experiment yet attempted, a global effort developed by AssignmentZero.com in conjunction with Wired.com.
During the experience, two of my contributions were published online at Wired and on AssignmentZero.com: a sidebar about eBrittanica in the first article on Citizendium.org; and one of the top-rated interviews -- with Alph Bingham from InnoCentive.com.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/07/crowdsourcing_diversity
http://zero.newassignment.net/filed/innocentive_crowdsourcing_diversity
InnoCentive crowdsources critical R&D subfunctions to the "crowd" (to anyone) for major pharma and companies like P&G. One of the most exciting innovations by InnoCentive is moving its crowdsourcing model to the social philanthropy and activism arenas. InnoCentive is now partnered with the Rockefeller Foundation and others, to crowdsource new solutions to our most pressing health and social problems worldwide. -
Director
State of New Mexico--Office of Science and Technology
(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Executive Office industry)
January 2003 — September 2003 (9 months)
Recruited to executive position in new administration of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson to serve the science and technology industries/enterprises, national laboratories, universities, and other related organizations.
Launched HyTeP, the regional hydrogen technology partnership, through a national conference on the hydrogen future -- building on the decades of R&D in new fuel sources at the Los Alamos and Sandia National Labs in NM.
Served on Richardson's Economic Development and Information Technology transistion teams at the outset of his administration.
Resigned from state government along with several other ED Department Directors to return to our previous respective private sector pursuits. -
President
Swarm Development Group
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1999 — May 2002 (3 years)
SDG (wiki.swarm.org) focuses on the technical development, global user base support, and educational resources for complex adaptive systems modeling and simulation software, including the agent-based modeling Swarm toolkit developed at one of the world's leading complexity centers, the Santa Fe Institute (www.santafe.edu)
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Director, Entrepreneurial Partnerships
Technology Ventures Corporation
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; LMCO; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
May 1996 — December 1999 (3 years 8 months)
TVC is a Lockheed Martin company. I developed strategic partnerships with other organizations in New Mexico and in 5 state region to empower technology commercialization from national labs, universities, institutes, etc. Resulted in Southwest Regional Tech Commercialization Roundtable with more than 40 organizations. (www.techventures.org)
Worked with tech company clientele in search of venture capital and other growth resources. Process involved intensive business plan and presentation development with tech executives in preparation for regional annual equity capital symposium. -
Business Recruitment Director
New Mexico Economic Development Department
(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Executive Office industry)
February 1987 — April 1996 (9 years 3 months)
Developed and managed portolio of out-of-state companies seeking to establish prospective operational facilities in New Mexico.
Completed projects generated more than $400 million in new facilities investment and 4,000 new direct jobs through 40+ companies including an Australian paper manufacturer I presented the idea that became the first ever cogen cardboard recycling operation ($100+ million) built next to a power plant using waste steam.
Also worked with Olympus Corporation, Intuit, AMPI, Wal-Mart (Super Center regional distribution center), Electrowire (Ford), Intel, and others. Recommended a regional workforce training initiative to Intel that was later implemented worldwide. -
President
Burge Corrosion Systems
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Oil & Energy industry)
February 1982 — January 1987 (5 years)
BCS was a regional corrosion and pollution prevention system contractor working in nine states. Clients ranged from Amoco, Conoco, Texaco, El Paso Natural Gas, Southland/Meridian Oil, Tenneco, among others. During the early 1980's, BCS was one of the world's leading installers of solar photovoltaic remote power systems through Solarex (Amoco, now BP) and our own system, SOLO.
Burge Corrosion was a family business started by my father. The experience working with him before his death gave me my passion for entrepreneurial pursuits in life. The business closed positively in the early 1990's through management decision.
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Randy Burge’s Honors:
Lockheed Martin - 1998 Corporate NOVA Team Award for one of the best teams in the 170,000 person company; Profiled in Business Week story in 2001 (http://www.businessweek.com/2001/01_09/b3721153.htm); Selected as Top 100 New Mexico "Power Broker" by New Mexico Business Weekly 2000-2004 (www.nmbusinessweekly.com)
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