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$100,000.00Max Investment:
$10,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,000,000.00
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Work Experience
2016
Managing Director
2016
Pre-seed and seed stage venture capital fund focusing on software/technology companies in the Pacific Northwest and rising entrepreneurial hubs across the US.
2022 - 2024
Board Member
2022 - 2024
Non-profit organization responsible for building and maintaining over 600 miles of mountain biking trails in Central Oregon.
2014 - 2016
Practice Lead, Sales Pipeline Performance
2014 - 2016
B2B sales and marketing acceleration consulting firm. Developed the Pipeline Development Framework to provide strategic planning and tactical execution of sales and marketing efforts.
2014 - 2014
Vice President of Product Marketing
2014 - 2014
Acquired by SugarCRM, Inc. May 2019. Salesfusion helps marketers attract new opportunities, convert them into customers and nurture them into lifetime relationships. With Salesfusion’s smart marketing automation platform, marketing teams deliver more lead-to-revenue results by focusing on the right leads at the right time and help sales close more deals. - Joined executive management team following the LoopFuse, Inc. acquisition. - Responsible for overall product strategy and market awareness efforts.
2012 - 2014
Chief Executive Officer
2012 - 2014
LoopFuse offered a B2B marketing automation platform that tells you who is visiting your website, helps you capture their information, sends lead nurturing emails, scores the best opportunities, and integrates it all into your CRM system with advanced reporting. - Led the turnaround and eventual sale of this SaaS Marketing Automation company. - Responsible for P&L, business operations, and strategy for a software-as-a-service marketing automation platform. - Secured additional venture capital financing from True Ventures for turnaround efforts and managed the eventual sale to Salesfusion, Inc.
Founder/Chief Executive Officer
2011 - 2012
Merged with LoopFuse and became CEO of the combined company. Nearstream is a social analytics product that finds buying signals via social channels like Twitter and Facebook. It also provides opportunities to engage and interact with people in context - increasing your influence and building awareness. It became Social Signals functionality in the LoopFuse marketing automation platform.
2008 - 2011
Vice President of Marketing
2008 - 2011
Gist provided social CRM and contact management across mobile, web, and enterprise applications. - Led all aspects of marketing as a member of the executive management team for this social customer relationship management software company. - Managed a high-velocity freemium user acquisition model and product launches across the Google Apps Marketplace, Salesforce.com AppExchange, Google Play, Apple App Store as well as Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes applications.
2004 - 2008
Vice President of Marketing
2004 - 2008
Provided policy-based security and control software for email and other types of corporate messaging. Spun out of Boeing, Inc. and backed by Polaris Venture Partners, Newbury Ventures, and Northwest Venture Associates. - Led all aspects of marketing as a member of the executive management team for this information security and email compliance software company. - Managed a team responsible for lead generation, market awareness, and product marketing for regulated industries like financial services, energy, and healthcare.
2002 - 2004
Director, Product Marketing
2002 - 2004
Provided policy-based control and monitoring software for email and other electronic communication activities. - Responsible for product planning, solution definition, and sales enablement for this email messaging and electronic communications compliance software company. - Worked extensively with UK-based software development team to position company and product around compliance needs in the broker-dealer sector as well as other regulated industries.
2001 - 2002
Director, Product Management
2001 - 2002
(via nuBridges and Liaison Technologies acquisitions) Provided ebusiness and data security solutions for business to business electronic collaboration. - Led the design, development, and launch of a B2B data integration and collaboration product as a member of the founding team.