Ken Furnanz

Corporate Ventures | Business Development | Go-To-Market Strategy

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About

An accomplished professional and entrepreneur possessing a successful track record of creating strategic business plans, engineering management, and new product development. A creative thinker with the capacity to identify and facilitate unique solutions for complex and difficult to solve issues. Specialties: • Business Development and Alliance Management • Strategic analysis & business planning • Innovator & Patent Holder • Engineering management • Proven entrepreneurial capacity • HW & SW product development • Alliance Management • International business acumen • Consultative selling • HW & SW technical sales

Experience

  • Intel Corporation (11 yrs 7 mos)
    • Business Development - Incubation Businesses
      Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

      - Security CoE Lead - Neuromorphic Computing

    • Strategic Alliance Manager
      Jan 2022 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Work with Intel investment startup companies to develop strategies, tactics and plans to accelerate their go-to-market and sales results with Intel customers and ecosystem partners.

    • Director Business Development – EMEA
      Jun 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Leading team focused on datacenter solution sales with the objective to establish adoption of workloads incorporating new innovative memory and storage technologies.

  • OEM Account Manager at QLogic
    Aug 2011 - Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Founder at Alpzite Product Development
    Mar 2007 - Dec 2014 · 7 yrs 10 mos

    Founded a technology start-up that developed a wireless RF location finding technology. Licensed IP & Product Design to an international manufacturing company for distribution.

  • Intel (11 yrs)
    • Business Development Manager - EMEA
      Jun 2004 - Mar 2007 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Responsible for the EMEA wide sales of Intel’s OEM Platform Solutions Division. Developed strategic market penetration plans for the geo, successfully increasing ASPs & profitability.

    • OEM Account Manager
      Sep 2002 - Jun 2004 · 1 yr 10 mos

      Responsible for the overall Intel relationship for motherboard and system level products for key MNC accounts. Developed relationships with VPs & directors across a variety of business functions to expand the business relationship and alignment of strategic directions.

    • Manager - SW Engineering & Validation
      Apr 1999 - Sep 2002 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      Built and managed multiple teams to improve the performance and quality of Independent Hardware Vendor (IHV) products with Intel processors and platform technologies. Launched a new Interoperability Services business within Intel’s Platform Solutions Division.

  • Quality Assurance Engineer at Extensis
    1995 - 1996 · 1 yr