Experience

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  Torrent Laboratory, Inc.

  • Milpitas, California, United States

  • Strategy Consultant

    • Jan 2023 - Present
    • Milpitas, California, United States

    Work with chief executive to achieve rapid growth objectives

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  Bonzai – The Creative Automation Platform

  • Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Innovation Advisor

    • Feb 2021 - Present
    • Pune, Maharashtra, India

    Advises and supports industry-leading enterprise AdTech company. Guides investigation of alternative business models and solution offerings.

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  Stanford Graduate School of Business

  • Member of Teaching Team

    • Aug 2015 - Present

    Member of teaching team at Stanford GSB Executive Education. Support corporate executives to embrace critical analytical thinking, design thinking, strategic leadership, and business model analysis to inject innovation into their companies as they confront internal and external business challenges.

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  Swanberg Associates

  • Principal

    • Jun 2009 - Present

    Support early-stage companies on strategic marketing, business planning and modeling, and business and corporate development. Current clients include PetitPot, a food processing company and Intuitive Motion which develops and markets products for short-range urban transportation

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  Petit Pot

  • Emeryville, CA

  • Acting CFO and Executive Coach

    • Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
    • Emeryville, CA

    Coach executive team of food processing company on strategic and financial issues.

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  Intuitive Motion, Inc.

  • Modesto, California Area

  • Chief Financial Officer

    • Apr 2015 - Sep 2018
    • Modesto, California Area

    Manage financial and administrative activities for leading electric skateboard company including supply chain, bookkeeping, investor relations, compliance and payroll. Part-time.

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  Africa Leadership University School of Business...

  • Kigali, Rwanda

  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation Coach

    • Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
    • Kigali, Rwanda

    Coaches graduate African business students to apply design thinking to business innovation and to develop business plans and pitches. Authored ALU Business Plan Development Guide and Pitch Development Guide. Created course grading rubric. Provides weekly qualitative feedback and grading of assign...

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  Rahrah4Good, Inc.

  • Co Founder

    • Mar 2014 - Dec 2015

    Founded and manage social enterprise to increase income of African women to enable them to pay their children's school fees. RahRah4Good designs and distributes traditional African fashion accessories in team colors to sports fans globally. www.rahrah4good.com

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  Startup Chile

  • Santiago, Chile

  • Participant

    • Mar 2014 - Oct 2014
    • Santiago, Chile

    Mentored entrepreneurs in accelerator in business model development. Presentations on Crossing the Canvas and Business Model Canvas. Developed business plan for RahRah4Good.

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  Stanford University

  • Accra Ghana

  • Stanford|SEED Coach

    • Jun 2013 - Dec 2013
    • Accra Ghana

    Working directly with six entrepreneurial companies in Ghana, Nigeria and Ivory Coast to support them in achieving their transformational goals. The full gamut of industries including food processing, furniture manufacturing and e-commerce, electronic commerce, ISP, building materials and SMS com...

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  ActiveVideo Networks

  • EVP, Strategy and Corporate Development

    • Jun 2006 - Jul 2009
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  Switched Media

  • Co-Founder and CEO

    • Jan 2005 - Jun 2006
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  ICTV, Inc.

  • SVP Marketing

    • Dec 2002 - Jan 2005
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  RealContax

  • Founder and CEO

    • Sep 2000 - Sep 2002
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  EnCommerce, Inc

  • SVP Marketing

    • Jan 1999 - Sep 2000
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  Elemental Software, Inc.

  • EVP Products and Strategy

    • Jun 1996 - Dec 1998
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  RadioMail, Inc.

  • VP Marketing

    • Jan 1994 - Jun 1996
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  Objective Software, Inc

  • SVP Marketing

    • Jan 1992 - Jan 1994
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  Apple

  • Senior Marketing Manager

    • Jan 1989 - Jan 1992
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  Network Innovations

  • VP Marketing

    • 1985 - 1988
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  Ingres

  • Product Manager

    • 1982 - 1984
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  Southern Pacific Railroad

  • Revenue Forecasting

    • 1979 - 1981