Eastern Illinois University

Teaching Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Eastern Il University.  Excited to support the next generation of entrepreneurs and bring a piece of the valley to the midwest!

Adjunct Professor Entrepreneurship

SVEN (Silicon Valley Executive Network)

Member Board of Directors

StartupOS Inc.

StartupOS stands at the intersection of founders, investors and partners, as they all seek to advance early-stage companies down a road to success

Founder & BOD Member

EPICDX

Board Member

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

ALS CURE Project

ALS Cure Project Board of Directors

Kandy.io

Acquired by Sonos. Kandy is a cloud-based, real-time communications platform offering proprietary Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS), Microsoft Teams Direct Routing as a Service (DRaaS), and SIP Trunking as a Service (STaaS). Kandy's white-label solutions enable service providers, enterprises, software vendors, systems integrators, partners and developers to enrich their applications and services with real-time contextual communications, providing a more engaging user experience. With Kandy, enterprises of all sizes and types can quickly embed real-time communications capabilities into their existing applications and business processes.  Kandy was acquired by Sonus and then AVCT Technolgies.

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Spigit

Acquired by Planview.  Spigit is the leading SaaS solution for crowdsourced innovation. Spigit engages employees, customers, and partners in the innovation process. Spigit crowdsourcing software is used by over 6 million people within the Global 2,000 for process improvement, product innovation, cost reductions, employee engagement and consumer insights. Spigit helps find the best ideas using patented crowd science algorithms.  Spigit was acquired by Planview, Inc.

PCQuote & HyperFeed Technologies

CEO of a NASDAQ listed company.  Spearheaded a turnaround form a B2C quote provider to creating a B2B high speed quote platform purchased by 5 of the 6 largest financial exchanges.  Sold the consumer business PCQuote to Money.net.

Global Crossing

Skillfully managed all divisional aspects of a $650m quoted global broadband. Oversaw the engineering of a partner network for selling bandwidth-required services.

President Next Gen - Broadband

Global Center

Acquired by Exodus Communications.  CRO and CPO reporting to CEO of Global Crossing.  Successfully grew revenue from 90M to 207M leading to an acquisition by Exodus Communications Inc. of GlobalCenter Inc., a unit of Global Crossing Ltd., for $6.5 billion.  Global Center was a leading providers of complex web hosting services to business customers worldwide.cquired by

EVP Sales & Marketing

Experienced innovation leader with a 30-year track record of driving transformative programs for Fortune 500 companies.  I've partnered with industry giants like AT&T, Citibank, Duke Energy, MetLife, Pfizer, Unilever, UnitedHealth Group, IBM, and Capgemini, impacting over 88% of the F500. Passionate about fostering a culture of innovation and delivering impactful results. 

I help lead organizations into a future no one has fully mapped yet. Successfully built multiple $50M+ ARR new products and companies. My entrepreneurial journey includes 6 startups with one IPO and 4 successful exits. I've served as CEO for both public and private companies and raised over $100M in funding.

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