Experience

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  CaseAlumAngelsSV

  • Los Altos Hills, California 94022

  • Chairman & Founder

    • 2013 - Present
    • Los Altos Hills, California 94022

    Building Bridges between Ohio and Silicon Valley.Case Alums both in Ohio and in Silicon Valley as Angel Investors, helping and providing resources to Case related start-ups both in the Midwest and in Silicon Valley.

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  Nissley Household

  • Chief Trouble Maker

    • 1957 - Present

    Keep Family Laughing on weekdays and weekends.Wake-up calls, called Margin Calls from Merrill Lynch.

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  Step Communications

  • San Jose, Calif

  • SVP, Corporate Develoment & Finance

    • 2006 - 2007
    • San Jose, Calif

    Reported to Steve Puthuf, CEO & Chair.We had the best Audio technologies for mouth to Bluetooth.We demonstrated a Cadillac convertible going 70 mph, top down,trucks and motorcycles whizzing past. Zero sound distortions ! Demoed the systems to Detroit cars firms. Identified and assisted in hiring a new CEO.Assisted him in raising $3.5 M new equity.Followed by another $1.5 M equity.The entire company was sold for more than $20 M, a year after I departed.

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  Angel Capital Netwok, Chair

  • Chairman

    • 2002 - 2006

    Chairman of the Board of the Investment Bank Holding company.We owned ACN Securities a registered broker dealer.We took Zero Tarp money from the feds.

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  International Angel Investors

  • Silicon Valley, EU, Canada, US Midwest, Korea, Japan, HK, SIngapore

  • Chairman & CEO

    • 1992 - 2003
    • Silicon Valley, EU, Canada, US Midwest, Korea, Japan, HK, SIngapore

    Assisted in the formation of Business Angel Investors in 14 cities.

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  Pyramid Technology, Reduced Instruction Set Computers

  • Silicon Valley

  • Founder & Chairman

    • 1979 - 1981
    • Silicon Valley

    I met Robert Ragan Kelly, an early 20's year old from Stanford.He had been an officer with a Palo Alto software firm, and was locked infor a few more years because of officer stock options.I hired Al Gaynor, as VP Finance. After a very short term as Chairman and CEO, we hired Ed Dolinar (ex Pittsburgh) as CEO. I left Pyramid Tech.Two years later the Board hired Dave Crocket, ex HP as CEO.He took the stock pubic (IPO) and we all made money.

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  Display & Decions Systems Ltd

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Founder & Owner

    • 1971 - 1978
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    I tried to sell computer communications equipment which we designed inToronto and some of which I purchased in the US. To accelerate sales, Iformed a Leasing affiliate that provided "operating leases" for 36 monthswith early termination clauses. My main debt source was CIBC.I personally guaranteed the leases. Margins were approx 10% to 20%.We had zero lease defaults. All parties made profits.

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  Com-Share Canada Ltd

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Founder and VP Marketing: Software as a service

    • 1969 - 1971
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    Fellow Case grad students and profs put in seed capital and formedwholesale purchase agreements with Com-Share, Ann Arbor, Michigan.I took Com-Share Canada from zero orders & zero revenue to a fewthousand per month in sales. I also initiated a Financial PR campaignthat directly led to new capital of over $2M (1980 dollars) in new equity.We used those funds for expansion into Europe and I identified a newPresident (Derek Price) from London who made us profitable and ledthe sale of Com-Share Canada back to Com-Share Ann Arbor.

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  Booz Allen Hamilton

  • New York, Cleveland, Chicago, Madison

  • Senior Associate Consultant, IT and Operations Research

    • 1968 - 1970
    • New York, Cleveland, Chicago, Madison

    Constructed a Master Plan for future IT sytems at Reynolds Metals,including optimization methods for Aluminum production.Performed an Audit of the Scientific Computing resources and their major applications at Raytheon's Bedford Labs.Performed an Audit of IT resources for the State University Systemof Wisconsin prior to a total merger with the University of Wisconsin.

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  IBM

  • Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

  • Applied Science and Sales

    • Jun 1960 - 1968
    • Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

    Application developments: Sleeve Bearing Designs; Aluminum Furnace Scheduling with Element Ratio Constraints via Linear Programming; Analysis of Alpha and Beta Shifts Studys Due To Truncation of Sequential Analysis; Sold mainframe computers to Univ of Akron, Hiram College,Walsh College. Woster, Oberlin, Cleveland State Univ, and Case WRU.