Laguna Beach, California, United States
Proven and hands-on executive with deep experience in security, cloud, SaaS, mobile, wireless, semiconductor, networking, and enterprise software businesses in start-up and global corporate settings. Over the course of three decades, I’ve applied my strong knowledge of engineering, product management, business development, general management, and marketing in CEO, Founder, CTO, VP, and operating roles to deliver products and services to enterprise, service provider, and consumer markets. I’ve co-founded two venture-backed companies and delivered several successful liquidity events, acquisitions, and mergers. Some highlights include: • Establishing Sepior as the leader in institutional-grade digital asset security and cryptographic key management (based on secure multiparty computation) while raising over $15M in funding and delivering the sale of the company to Blockdaemon. • Turning-around and delivering the successful sale of Soonr to Autotask (Vista Equity Partners company). • Delivering over $160M in OEM revenue at Trapeze resulting in the sale of the company to Belden then subsequently to Juniper. • Co-founding and growing two venture-backed companies and raising over $30M in venture funding. • Delivering the industry’s first DSL IP/LAN access product line and growing it rapidly to a $25M run rate at PairGain (acquired by ADC for $1.6B in stock). • Delivering and managing the technical solution for a major DoD program (ULANA) that generated over $2.5B for EDS. Specialist in executive management, product life cycle (PLC), business and corporate development, intellectual property (IPR) management, corporate M&A, technical marketing, channel strategy.
Singularas, Inc. develops and constructs large-scale off-grid renewable powered data center facilities for AI and HPC workloads that deliver high availability, low cost energy, and rapid deployment. These facilities use a proprietary distributed hybrid microgrid power architecture that combines solar photovoltaic energy, battery storage, and natural gas to achieve Tier-3 or better uptime without reliance on any interconnected grid power. The result is a highly cost and energy efficient infrastructure for high performance computing while achieving a reduction of at least 95% in carbon footprint. The data centers are modular and scale in 20MW to 100MW increments up to aggregate capacities in excess of 1GW.
Blockdaemon powers the global blockchain economy with secure, reliable web3 infrastructure and is trusted by 300+ institutional customers including Goldman Sachs, OpenSea, Plaid, Microsoft, and Blockchange. Our robust and reliable product suite includes enterprise-grade Staking API and high-specification white label validators, MPC wallet, dedicated nodes, and an extensive multichain API suite - all underpinned by unparalleled technical depth, industry-leading SLAs, and 70+ points of presence in the cloud and on bare metal servers.
Sepior is the market leader in self-hosted, multiparty computation (MPC)-based digital asset wallets, custody platforms and cloud-hosted key management infrastructure. Sepior makes it easy for our customers to bring innovative services to market rapidly, with industry-leading security, flexibility, and control. Using patented threshold cryptographic protocols, Sepior’s RSA award-winning team of renowned cryptography experts has revolutionized key protection and management required for online security. Sepior was acquired by Blockdaemon in July 2022.
Soonr is a leading provider of cloud-based secure content sharing and collaboration services to more than 150,000 businesses in over 135 countries. Soonr was acquired by Autotask Corp. (a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company) in July 2015. • Appointed CEO by the BoD in early 2014 to accelerate growth. Replaced, reorganized, and made critical additions to marketing, sales, finance, and customer success functions. Invested in new MSP and OEM partners, verticals, geographic expansion, service reliability, and technology road-map. Soonr-branded bookings and revenues grew 123% and 99% respectively, while average recurring revenue for new deals improved by 3x and gross margins remained at 80%. • Managed the M&A process from beginning to end; worked closely with the BoD, bankers, legal teams, and audit firms; resolved all commercial and legal issues; prepared management and due diligence materials; managed and conducted all management presentations and diligence reviews; drove the negotiation of the purchase and sale agreement; and coordinated the closing of the deal. Prior to the CEO role, as VP of Products, Compliance, and Customer Success, had responsibility for Soonr’s business-grade cloud service, client device, and mobile app (iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows) roadmap and life cycle. • Managed pre- and post-sales initiatives including technical marketing, initial user experience, service uptake, organic growth, customer support, and all training. Reduced monthly churn to under 1.5% across all brands of Soonr while reducing the on-boarding time for new partners and large end-users to just days. • Managed Soonr’s major OEM relationships including AT&T, Rogers, Ricoh, Comcast, Support.com, and Cisco Webex among others. • Managed and conducted all compliance and regulatory activities including Service Organization Controls (SOC2) based on SSAE16 / ISAE 3402 auditing standards, HIPAA, PCI, and SafeHarbor in Soonr’s four jurisdictional data-center regions.
SpiderCloud Wireless is a start-up developing small-cell wireless infrastructure and service assurance platforms that enable cellular operators to deliver broadband coverage, capacity, and mobile services to their enterprise customers. • Focused on commercial roll-out with end-users by providing business and technical support to field teams, delivering technology and product related collateral, monitoring and participating in standards bodies (3GPP, FF, IEEE) and driving market expansion initiatives by working with potential partners including Vodafone, Cisco, Ericsson, and Alcatel. • Created a streamlined PLC process; determined commercial success factors and product pricing strategy; drove creation of product roadmaps around UMTS, WiFi, LTE, Service Assurance APIs, LBS, and enterprise/core interfaces.