Serial and occasionally parallel entrepreneur. Founder of three venture-backed startups: StreamBase (acquired TIBCO 2013), SellerCrowd, and Empirical Systems (acquired Tableau 2018). I enjoy working from product vision, technological validation, and fundraising, through team creation, product delivery, and market development. I am also experienced helping bring cutting edge technologies out of academic research labs into industry applications.
Advisor to a range of startups and founders. Experienced player-coach in evangelical sales of complex software products into large enterprises, especially in financial services firms. Love guiding the creation of new products and new product/engineering teams. Occasional founder-therapist, and always happy to talk about the hard things.
Past market focuses include capital markets, insurance, retail banking, online gaming, advertising, customer loyalty, advanced analytics, sensor networks, and internet of things. My favorite trends are augmented intelligence, the development of social business processes, increasing technology sophistication of line of business stakeholders, and the consumerization of enterprise technology adoption. Of course everything is now AI.
