Chaos To Clarity

At Chaos to Clarity, we're all about empowering SaaS founders with the knowledge and tools they need to build resonating products that drive growth and success. Our mission is to provide clear guidance and foster a supportive community to fuel your entrepreneurial journey.

CEO and Founder, Chaos to Clarity Accelerator

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With growth comes growing pains. Every great leader has faced turmoil, setbacks, and the overwhelming stress of holding together a growing company as it nearly comes apart at the seams. You are not alone. Listen in as we share the stories and guidance from entrepreneurs, executives, and thought leaders who have walked the path from Chaos to Clarity.

Podcast Host

I work with technical founders, CTOs, CPOs, and VPs of Engineering and Product to intentionally mature with the needs of their business, develop strong leadership, and overcome their growing pains.

Through 1-on-1 and group coaching, I help executives discover their critical areas for growth, create clear intention and an actionable plan, and hold them accountable to achieve their goals. I do all of this in an environment of trust and vulnerability, where executives are free to share and process their internal challenges.

Executive Coach

Founder Institute

Mentor

Startup San Diego

Providing support and resources to the San Diego Startup ecosystem.

Board Member

Design Forward Alliance

Leading execution of the 2024 World Design Capital and San Diego Design Week events. 
Engaging with the San Diego design community to evangelize human-centered design in our cities, schools, businesses, and communities.

Vice President of the Board

Tech Coast Angels

Invested in over 20 startups and participated in due diligence and technology screening for new deals.

Angel Investor

Rock My World, Inc.

Rock My Run is a platform for curated, biometric adaptive music to enhance exercise performance. With a team of professional and celebrity DJs creating seamless mixes designed for exercise, and technology that can measure your pace and heart rate to match the tempo to your steps and exertion level, Rock My Run has been scientifically proven to improve performance by up to 35%. It's also just a really cool app for finding great music.

As CTO, I was responsible for:
•	Defining the product roadmap
•	Implementing an agile software development methodology
•	Planning and managing release cycles
•	Developing software components for our iOS, Android, and server platforms
•	Integrating third-party SDKs and APIs into our stack
•	Managing relationships and development schedules for our SDK customers

Chief Technology Officer

Qualcomm

Leader of Qualcomm's Intellectual Property Business Intelligence Team, developing strategic business applications supporting one of the world’s largest patent portfolios with over $7.8B in annual licensing revenue. 

•	Developed industry leading analytics, predictive models, and machine learning algorithms to help drive Qualcomm's strategic patent portfolio, leveraging QlikView, SQL, Informatica, Netezza, TM1, Java, and C# .NET.
•	Delivered Qualcomm’s Executive Dashboard as lead technical architect, by spearheading monthly meetings with the CEO, CFO, CIO, President, and General Counsel. Owned executive customer engagement, product roadmap, requirements specification, development schedule, and release schedule.
•	Acted as Scrum Master and Product Owner for agile software development teams.

Engineering Manager, Data Scientist, Sr. Staff Software Engineer

FreeAir Incorporated

Co-Founded a private aviation company based out of Tokyo, Japan. Similar to NetJets and Marquis Jet Card, we were a private jet fractional-ownership and charter service that focused on providing low-cost flights on private aircraft using network routing optimization algorithms.

Co-Founder and CTO

Sony Online Entertainment

Managed product requirements, specification, and execution for all server-side components of the Playstation Network Platform, including application controllers, content management, payments, security, infrastructure, and networks. 

•	Drove successful global product infrastructure development, launch, and operation of the PlayStation Network Platform, a $1.96B business, as lead project manager to the CTO.
•	Managed launch of several global online game products with over one million active subscribers, by owning business partner engagements with Sony global headquarters, and managing product infrastructure specifications, schedules, capacity plans, and inventories.

Senior Product Manager, Enterprise Architect - PlayStation Network Platform

Raytheon

Delivered critical software development tools and platforms for US Navy Aircraft Carrier Defense Systems, a $6.5B business, as Architecture and Infrastructure Team Leader.

•	Developed critical server-side software components using Perl, PHP, and Java.
•	Managed customer engagement with software and hardware product development teams, owning infrastructure specifications, project schedules, and implementation.
•	Increased operational efficiencies as a Six Sigma Analyst including $365K in annual cost savings, 81% decrease in system down-time, and 40% improvement to software development process execution time

UNIX/Linux Systems Engineer, Software Developer, Project Manager

Are you a SaaS founder drowning in chaos and finding the journey to the top tougher than you imagined? You’re not alone.

Every SaaS leader faces uncertainties that can stifle growth. Stalling revenue, team dysfunction, and murky product-market fit are among the common pitfalls along the path. Growing a successful company is hard, and every founder struggles with friction and obstacles.
Some founders have found an easier path. 
Instead of venturing alone, tripping over every rock and scraping against every branch, they found a guide to help them navigate, avoid obstacles, and reach the summit with ease.

Welcome to Chaos to Clarity. Your lifeline in the tumultuous journey of SaaS entrepreneurship.

1. Learn from the Chaos to Clarity Podcast: Equip yourself with actionable insights from experienced founders who’ve reached the summit and lived to tell the tale. We tackle the critical issues that keep you awake at night, from building a strong team to raising money and leading through crisis.
2. Transform with the Chaos to Clarity Accelerator: More than a program, it’s your expedition party. You’ll work closely with experienced SaaS executives and industry experts who will guide you up the mountain using battle-tested strategies to solve your toughest challenges.

Ready to make the ascent from Chaos to Clarity? Take the first step now.

After 15 years of working with SaaS companies, and being an angel investor myself, I’ve seen more than my fair share of investment deals that succeeded, and plenty that failed.

And I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the funding market for SaaS companies has been pretty rough lately. Investors are much more skeptical than they were a few years ago, and valuations have fallen off a cliff.

It’s not all doom and gloom though. I’ve met with dozens of angels and VCs over the past couple years, and they’ve all shared a similar message: Capital efficiency is the new growth

What do I mean by that? Well, investors are still hungry to invest, in fact many are contractually obligated to deploy capital, but they’re much more shrewd about where the money goes. They want to see solid unit economics, a winning strategy, and an ever-growing crowd of raving fans.

That means no more half-baked concepts and unvalidated solutions. No more high-growth, high-burn, “we’ll figure out profitability in the next round” startups. No more “if we build it they will come” approaches to PMF.

If you want to raise capital in this market, you have to answer one simple question: Can you cost-efficiently market and deliver a product to a clearly defined customer segment who finds it insanely valuable?

Let’s break it down:

You first need to understand exactly who your best-fit customers are, their wants, needs, frustrations and fears, their goals and motivations, and their buying behavior.

You need to understand their pain points, and specify one huge problem that they currently spend a ton of time and money trying to solve, but fail because existing solutions don’t cut it.

You need to be able to design, build, and validate a solution that meets their needs better than anyone else on the market.

You need to clearly communicate, using the right sales and marketing channels, to the right audience, the problem they’re facing and the value of your solution.

And last but certainly not least, you need to be able to package all this up into a compelling narrative that keeps investors on the edge of their seats.
That’s what we’re going to give you in the Chaos to Clarity Product-Market Fit Bootcamp.

If this resonated with you, leave a comment below or shoot me a DM and I'll give you the details.

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