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2021
2021
Ring Ventures, named for the honored Aggie Ring, is a fund and a community of people with a connection to Texas A&M University (Ring Ventures is not part of nor endorsed by TAMU): investors, entrepreneurs and innovation enthusiasts. As one of the funds of the Alumni Ventures Group (AVG) we enable individual investors to participate in the Venture Capital category. Texas A&M Former Students invest between fifty-thousand to several million dollars each for long-term capital appreciation, retirement or estate purposes. Investors can even use self-directed IRA funds. Each Ring Ventures fund enables a limited number of investors access to a portfolio of ~20 growth companies in diverse sectors and geography. The network of Aggies also alerts the fund to interesting Aggie-led businesses that may be candidates for investment. The fund invests in deals that are best for the portfolio, regardless of sector, stage, geography or school affiliation. We follow firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer, Lightspeed, Menlo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, NEA, Shasta, and Sequoia. Ring Ventures works closely with the McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship of the TAMU Mays School of Business by offering coaching and program participation for current and former students. Entrepreneurs, note that Ring Ventures provides connections to a network of 500k+ nationwide executives, job candidates and business prospects. Ring Ventures does not take a board seat or lead rounds. We strive to be every Venture Capital firms’ and Entrepreneurs’ “favorite co-investor”. To learn more and join the community, visit: https://www.avgfunds.com/ring-ventures/ Ring Ventures is private, for-profit, friendly with, but not affiliated with or sanctioned by Texas A&M University.
2020
2020
Co-chair of Austin Aggie Tech Execs, an open membership group that facilitates networking and events for Aggies in the Tech industries. We hold informative sessions on topics of interest to managers and executives in Software, Hardware, Internet Services, MedTech, Venture Capital and Banking. https://atxaggie.tech/
2020 - 2020
2020 - 2020
InsightSquared, Inc. a leader in Revenue Ops acquired Olono in October 2019. I continue to assist the company in an Advisory role.
2020 - 2020
2020 - 2020
As a Venture Partner I served as an advisor to several companies in the portfolio. Helping them build their go to market plans and scale. I also assisted in deal flow for this Seed Stage venture fund.
2016 - 2020
2016 - 2020
Olono was acquired by InsightSquared. Fantastic merger and right for both our customer bases. Revenue Ops just took a huge leap forward with our combined offering. Olono is changing the way sales professionals work with the industry’s first proactive enterprise sales tool. Think of us as “your personal sales sidekick.” AND, it works with your existing CRM as the System of Record (Salesforce and Oracle Sales Cloud). Olono is harnessing its Big Data-driven artificial intelligence and predictive analytics platform to transform the CRM industry, moving from data entry to an intelligent, proactive sales engine. We call it “Guided Selling”. The Olono solution enables both sales managers and sales reps to understand all of the interconnectivty of information across ALL of the apps they use: Salesforce, email, LinkedIn, Box, Google Drive, internal systems and more. It highlights needed responses, provides suggested next actions and reports on what events in the sales process actually contribute to closing deals. It is all about improving sales effectiveness.
2015 - 2015
2015 - 2015
Was brought into Boundary, Inc. as Interim President to determine the best go-forward business plan. It was ultimately determined that it would be the best outcome for customers, employees and investors to accept an acquisition offer by BMC. That transaction closed in mid August, 2015. BMC has done well with this technology.
2014 - 2014
2014 - 2014
Gazzang has been acquired by Cloudera. The leader in Big Data has just raised the bar for security and compliance for Hadoop.
2010 - 2014
2010 - 2014
CEO of fast growing cloud infrastructure software company. We provide enterprise class security through an encryption platform for LAMP stack open source tools and a robust key manager that can manage ANY key, token, certificate or opaque IT object. Many of our customers use Gazzang to encrypt the data in their BIG DATA projects on MongoDB, Cassandra and Hadoop. We are funded by Austin Ventures and SilverCreek Ventures. Check out our solution or join the team.
2010 - 2011
2010 - 2011
Worked with early stage VC firm helping portfolio companies with go to market strategies.
2010 - 2010
2010 - 2010
Phurnace Software was acquired by market leader BMC in December, 2009. The product saw great success for BMC after the acquisition.