Seattle, Washington, United States
Drive company-wide M&A, Integration & Venture Capital activities. Oversee Corporate Strategy, Climate (Frontier Fund), and Paystack (Africa) business.
Led an amazing team of experts specializing in marrying Autodesk's strategy with acquisition, investment, integration, FX, strategic capital planning, cash flow forecasting, capital markets and accounts payable activities.
I managed a strategic and execution-oriented team that oversaw investments, acquisitions and strategic partnerships on behalf of Autodesk. The team managed the initial strategy development and adjacent market analysis and then deal sourcing, analysis, execution and integration activities for all Autodesk acquisitions, select partnering and strategic investments (including the $100m Spark 3D Printing Venture Fund as well as the $100m Forge Fund driving the Future of Making Things). From 2012 onward, we completed over 140 acquisitions or investments.
I ran strategy, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, served as Chief of Staff and drove a variety of operational activities on behalf of Autodesk's largest division is comprised of the Company's hero product (AutoCAD), other horizontal solutions, consumer, and emerging businesses (web-based initiatives, Labs, cloud solutions) focused on creating next-gen solutions for the Company.
Venture fund with over $400m under management investing primarily in early-stage IT companies. The vast majority of my time was spent focused on developing investment thesis and strategies in SaaS, security, consumer internet, data management and application software. Part of the founding of the fund. Investments and Boards during my tenure included: Security Focus (acq by Symantec) Umbria Communications (acq by McGraw Hill) Immunix (acq by Novell) Actional (acq by Progress Software) Groople (acq by Short's Travel) Gamma (merged with Applimation; acq by Informatica) Siperian (acq by Informatica) Remend (out of business) Innoprise (acq by Constellation Software)
Led business unit, legal and finance teams in sourcing, analyzing and executing acquisitions, direct equity investments, joint ventures, PE fund investments and other new business ventures.