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$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
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Chief Executive Officer & Board Director
2022
Member Board of Directors
2024
A public (TSX) technology company and world leader in creating value through the development of innovative graphene-based solutions. The Company is strategically focused on serving the global air filtration and purification market with new products to meet growing demand. G6 also sells a range of graphene-based products and other materials, including but not limited to conductive epoxies, high-performance composites and R&D materials, with numerous customers from among the Fortune 500 list of companies, as well as NASA and leading universities.
Managing Partner
2017
Trolley Ventures is a Richmond, VA based seed stage venture fund that invests in Virginia based start-ups. www.trolleyventures.com
Chief Executive Officer
2017
Clients are primarily Private Equity / Venture Capital Firms and other Institutional Investors.
2020 - 2023
Member Board of Directors (Private Education Tech. Co.)
2020 - 2023
Sold to Paper (https://paper.co)
2018 - 2020
Member Board of Directors (Lead Independent Director, NBUD)
2018 - 2020
Member of the Audit Committee Member of the Compensation Committee North Bud Farms Inc. (CSE: NBUD) is building a cannabis production facility located on 95 acres of company-owned agricultural farmland in Quebec, Canada. The facility will focus on two verticals: GMP standardized production to be used by our pharmaceutical commercialization partners, and food-grade extracted inputs. North Bud Farms Inc. is positioning to become a raw cannabinoid input supplier to cannabinoid infused product manufacturers, and as such is working with multiple food, beverage and science companies.
2017 - 2020
Member Board of Directors (Private Tech. Co.)
2017 - 2020
Mango Insight is a machine-learning-powered, actionable insights firm that allows business leaders and growing brands to understand massive amounts of data and make wise business decisions quickly.
2017 - 2020
Member Board of Directors (Australian Public Co.)
2017 - 2020
i-Command is an Australian public company with USA operations based in Phoenix, Arizona, and is a technology company that developed a platform to assist human-to-machine interaction. Developed over the last eight years, the technology allows for human engagement by using voice recognition software for translating speech into an intuitively natural conversation between information and action. The customizable platform can scale across multiple areas of an organization to increase process efficiencies and overall customer experience and satisfaction ratings.
2012 - 2016
Various Executive Roles (Corp. Dev. & GM roles)
2012 - 2016
- Recruited by Altria Group's Chairman & CEO to lead new business development - Led Altria's corporate venture unit that made equity investments in companies that could deliver a competitive advantage and/or seize new business opportunities, including M&A - Led Altria's second largest P&L ($3.5B) and reversed a multi-year in-come decline
2002 - 2016
General Manager / "President" (with P&L Responsibility)
2009 - 2016
- Recruited to stay with PMI following its spin-off from Altria Group in 2008 - Delivered record income and market share in Denmark and Norway for three consecutive years
International Marketing & Sales Roles
2002 - 2009
- Modernized the marketing and sales approach in numerous Central/Eastern European countries - Led Sales & Distribution for two of Asia's important countries (Taiwan and Malaysia) - Significant M&A experience both during diligence and integration