San Francisco Bay Area
Founder and CEO of successful self-financed start-ups. Leadership of multi-million/year strategy, technology, business intelligence, operations project at Fortune 100 company. Top tier management consultant for US and international clients. Specialties: Ideation balanced with execution--revenues matter. Thriving in ambiguous and chaotic environments. Connecting disparate dots through observation, understanding, and relationships.
Evidence-based entrepreneurship for student entrepreneurs creating scalable start-ups. Personal passion for hackathons and other mechanisms to connect science, technology and business talent to solve the world's biggest problems. Hub Director & Lead Instructor for NSF I-Corps Northwest Hub. Co-Faculty for the UC-wide LAUNCH Accelerator and Haas' Lean Transfer, Startup Disco & Berkeley Changemaker: Solving Family Business Growth Challenges courses.
Vector Wise CME is a non-profit working to advance vector-borne disease diagnosis and treatment through continuing medical education on clinical best practices, advancement of science and patient advocacy.
NASA spin-off using AI-powered mobile tools to mitigate executive function disorders ranging from brain injury to stroke to pre/early dementia. Specifically designed to meet the needs of cognitively impaired users, the tools solve common problems including multitasking and schedule recalculation while providing context aware reminders.
Phalula is expanding the consumer base for digital and P2P lenders with a cognitive mode scoring system. This behavior-based system integrates machine learning with the latest neuroscience research to identify responsible and reliable borrowers. These financially underserved borrowers represent up to 85% of all loan applicants.
Non-profit start up using products designed by Innovation Games. These large scale game events engage communities and non-profits in collaboration, prioritization and sustainable success. Recently profiled in the Financial Times (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/b3a1add2-2931-11e2-9591-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2BUnXfZCd) & Business Week (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-30/making-sense-of-the-games-politicians-play)