Motivational Leader & Technology Commercialization Expert
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Founder & CEO at Xuropa Inc.
- Past
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- Principle at XenoTech Software
- Principal at XLX Solutions LLC
- VP Marketing and Business Development at DAFCA Inc.
- Acting-VP Marketing at Sonics Inc.
- Director of Product Marketing at Sonics, Inc.
- VP Marketing at Merinta Inc.
- Business Unit & Product Marketing Manager Positions at National Semiconductor
- Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at National Semiconductor, Japan
- Software Developer at Matsushita, Japan
- Technical Internship at Omron, Japan
- Education
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- University of California, Santa Cruz
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Demontfort University (UK)
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James Colgan’s Summary
Founder of Xuropa Inc. a Cloud Platform designed to transition Enterprise Software to a SaaS model.
A creative leader with broad experience spread across three continents in internet, semiconductor, embedded systems, software, IP, and service businesses.
A multinational entrepreneur who has created new businesses, strategic alliances and markets for Fortune 500 and start-up companies.
James Colgan’s Specialties:
• Corporate Strategy & Roadmap
• Corporate and Product Marketing
• Internet Strategies & Implementation
• Technology Commercialization and Productization
• International Business Development: EU, USA & Japan
• Strategic Alliance Creation & Leverage
• New Market Creation & Penetration
• Social Media Marketing
• "First Dollar" Revenue Generation
• Fluent in Japanese
James Colgan’s Experience
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Founder & CEO
Xuropa Inc.
(Internet industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
The Xuropa Platform delivers client's Enterprise Software products over the web as a Software-as-a-Service without changing any of their code. Within days, Enterprise Software products are now integrated into a scalable cloud infrastructure and delivered within a rich web 2.0 environment with built-in user analytics and sales and marketing tools.
The Xuropa Platform has proven to increase revenues, shorten the sales cycle, and lower the cost of sales of traditional enterprise software products. -
Principle
XenoTech Software
(Semiconductors industry)
February 2006 — March 2008 (2 years 2 months)
XenoTech Software is the North American distributor of premiere Verification IP (VIP) products and services from long standing European Cadence Verification Alliance Partners. Our broad portfolio of over 20 UVCs is fully URM compliant and Plan-to-Closure Methodology Qualified offering both SystemVerilog and Specman e language support.
XenoTech Software supports a broad range of applications and protocols: Mass Storage; Processor & Interconnect; Automotive; Communications; Design for Test; and Analog Mixed-Signal.
VIP sourced by XenoTech Software have proven track records of high quality and rapid deployment to economically create sophisticated and scalable Cadence Incisive-based verification environments. The VIP we provide scales not only through the hierarchy of a design from core to system, but also from a simple local installation to large scale regression testing across geographically distributed verification server farms. -
Principal
XLX Solutions LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
January 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 10 months)
XLX Solutions collaborates globally with visionary companies to convert emerging technologies and services into business realities. Most recent engagements have been in the areas of Intellectual Property (IP), Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Semiconductor and Software technologies.
• Corporate Marketing
• Corporate Strategy
• Internet Strategy & Implementation
• Business Development
• Strategic Alliances
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VP Marketing and Business Development
DAFCA Inc.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
March 2005 — January 2006 (11 months)
Recruited to join executive team and lead commercialization effort.
• Created successful corporate and product branding strategy.
• Implemented fundamental business and marketing processes.
• Set corporate goals and strategy as part of the executive team
• Closed first revenue generating opportunity to create first "proof point"
• Expanded sales funnel by factor of 4
• Created strategic alliances to broaden market penetration and increase industry profile
• Regular interaction with board of directors. -
Acting-VP Marketing
Sonics Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Semiconductors industry)
March 2004 — January 2005 (11 months)
Built corporate ecosystem and leveraged partner channels to develop business opportunities. Evangelized technology and products through partner channels and press to increase sales and industry profile.
• Generated over $1M of new business opportunities in one quarter
• Doubled the size of the corporate ecosystem while simultaneously deepening strategic alliances
• Lead all marketing activities (Product Marketing, PR, Marcom, Website, etc.) as acting member of the executive team reporting to the CEO. -
Director of Product Marketing
Sonics, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)
June 2001 — July 2004 (3 years 2 months)
Recruited to establish product marketing function and lead commercialization of technology. Created corporate and product roadmap with executive team. Closed co-development and joint marketing agreement with partner for new product line. Introduced MRD process; performed competitive analyses; created sales collaterals and supported sales force in key opportunities.
• Grew bookings from zero to $3M per quarter as active member of sales team
- Broadcom (Wi-Fi routers and switches); TI (Mobile Handset); Toshiba (Set-top-box and other consumer); Samsung (Digital TV)
• Launched 4 product lines internationally
• Negotiated multi-million dollar co-development/marketing program agreement with key partner -
VP Marketing
Merinta Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
December 2000 — June 2001 (7 months)
Recruited to establish and strengthen all marketing functions within the company.
• Re-positioned the company as linux-based internet infrastructure company
• Created corporate business plan as part of executive team
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Business Unit & Product Marketing Manager Positions
National Semiconductor
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NSM; Semiconductors industry)
September 1996 — December 2000 (4 years 4 months)
Business and marketing leader for PC and embedded processor business. Created partnerships with Taiwanese ODM manufacturers. Worked closely with field sales and applications teams to close design-wins at major OEM accounts world-wide. Served as corporate spokesperson at world-wide events such as Comdex, CES and Electronica.
• Collaborated with sales organizations on strategic opportunities worth over $20M in revenue
• Defined and managed product roadmaps and strategies
• Executed market segmentation, competitive analysis, forecasting, MRD and other marketing projects
• Created and managed strategic alliances with software, system and component technology providers
• Product manager for key product development projects
• Corporate spokesperson and contributing author to trade magazines -
Senior Technical Marketing Engineer
National Semiconductor, Japan
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NSM; Semiconductors industry)
February 1993 — August 1996 (3 years 7 months)
Recruited and subsequently promoted to team leader and senior marketing engineer to create cohesive microprocessor business including 8bit microcontrollers, 32bit RISC microprocessors-based system solution and integrated x86 processor family.
• Grew embedded processor business to over $7M
• Technical marketing lead in closing additional $2M contract for complete system solution and services
• Formed two strategic alliances with Japanese OEMs to define processor products
• Launched integrated processor family in Japan as local corporate spokesperson
• Filed two patents -
Software Developer
Matsushita, Japan
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MC; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1991 — February 1993 (1 year 7 months)
Enhanced human interface software of high-end multi-function facsimile machines.
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Technical Internship
Omron, Japan
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; OMRN; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1989 — August 1990 (1 year 1 month)
Contributed to technical and user manual creation team.
James Colgan’s Education
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University of California, Santa Cruz
Extension Courses , Marketing and sales , September 1997 — December 1997
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University of California, Santa Cruz
Extension Courses , Economics and financial accounting , January 1997 — June 1997
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Demontfort University (UK)
B. Eng. (Hons.) , Electronic Engineering , September 1987 — June 1991
Class ranking: 1st
Additional Information
James Colgan’s Websites:
James Colgan’s Groups:
svase, OCP-IP
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The British Chamber of Commerce in Japan -
Enterprise Software to SaaS Transition
James Colgan’s Honors:
Patents Awarded:
5,774,684: Integrated circuit with multiple functions sharing multiple internal signal buses according to distributed bus access and control arbitration. Granted June 30, 1998
5,710,939: Bi-directional parallel data port having multiple data transfer rates, master, and slave operation modes, and selective data transfer termination. Granted January 20, 1998
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