Thanks for visiting. If we haven’t met, I’m a fractional executive, venture builder, and venture investor.

Here’s how I spend most of my time:

• Board Membership: I serve on boards as an independent director, actively involved in supporting strategic decisions, advising top leadership, and monitoring progress.
• Building and Launching Ventures: Assembling entrepreneurial teams and guiding them to achieve aggressive goals by applying methods and tools of best-in-class startups and venture capitalists. I drive innovation with startups and also and create new ventures within large organizations
• Market Discovery: Synthesizing subtle patterns from customer discovery as the foundation of disruptive ventures.
• Opportunity Identification and Analysis: Identifying links between emerging technologies, business opportunities and large-scale customer needs to create durable new businesses.
• Angel Investing: I invest privately in deeptech and hardtech startups, primarily on complex challenges such as energy transition and autonomous systems.
• Keynotes and Short Workshops: For smaller interactions, I have distilled everything above into a set of interactive skill-building modules, and I frequently speak at conferences and company offsites.

Much of my energy over the last ten years focused  on helping teams from Global 1000 companies to create and launch new ventures from within. I have led small interdisciplinary teams from big firms to disrupt their own organizations, and to build businesses that were not imaginable five or ten years ago. Magic happens when entrepreneurial teams teams foresee the implications of unexpected technical advances at the intersection of large-scale human problems, and visualize entirely new opportunities. I live for these moments.

I’ve been doing this work for decades. I leverage my experience as an early employee of three startups with successful exits, along with many enjoyable years at an Executive Vice President of venture incubator Mach49 and as Global Director of Technology Strategy at design and innovation firm IDEO. My work at Mach49 and IDEO generated billions in business value for my clients (and gave me six patents as well). I also enjoy teaching at both Stanford and UC Berkeley.

Here’s my LinkedIn, here’s a sample keynote presentation, and here’s a video blog sample.

Let’s talk!