Experience

IPO Candy

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • Apr 2009 - Present

  Louisville, Kentucky, United States IPO Candy provides data, information, analysis and valuation around newly public companies. Widely used by investment banks, institutions and company management teams to inform their IPO strategy and investments. We added SPACvest to our portfolio of offerings in late 2019 to address the huge wave of SPAC IPO transactions.



Blue Caterpillar LLC

• Chief Investment Officer

  • Jan 2005 - Present

  Louisville, Kentucky, United States With the massive decline in "cap rates" for real estate I decided it was time to shift our asset base and consolidate our equity and related holdings into a new family office structure that we also use to connect and network with other like-minded family offices and high net worth individuals.



1000 Angels

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Boston Founding Venture Partner

  • Oct 2015 - Jan 2017

  Greater Boston Area I led the startup efforts for 1000 Angels in the greater Boston area. They did well out of the gate and I hosted some investor/company events and drove some effective capital raises. However the company failed to achieve the scale needed to really compete with AngelList and OurCrowd.



GoodData

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Founding Investor

  • 2008 - 2015

  GoodData was started to bring new technologies and collaborative methods to data processing, analysis and information discovery.



Research 2.0

• Founder

  • Apr 2005 - Oct 2011

  Boston My original name for the independent research and advisory firm. When the SoundView trademarks in 2011 I acquired them and started doing business under that name instead. We advised a number of technology companies in Europe and the US including NetViewer and alfabet AG.



alfabet GmbH - A Software AG Company

• Germany
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisor

  • Jan 2006 - Jan 2008

  Advised the company through their US market entry. This included initial market readiness, meetings with potential customers and partners, a set of budgets and timeframes, board presentations, evaluating sales candidates and helping to position the company. Over the period the company established a successful US operation in Cambridge MA.



Canaccord Genuity - Global Capital Markets

• United States
• Financial Services
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Head of Equity Research

  • Dec 2002 - Jun 2004

  Boston In charge of all aspects of equity research at this regional investment bank. Also part of the general management team. We revamped the entire research organization - especially in technology. The team developed a much-improved research coverage profile and a strong product.



SoundView Technology Group

• Director of Research

  • Apr 1995 - Dec 2002

  Covered software stocks for many years as an equity analyst. Rose through the ranks to Partner and then Director of Research. Company was acquired first by Wit Capital, a public company, in January of 2000 and then again by Charles Schwab a few years later. Few were better at positioning technology companies with the institutional investment world from 1995 through 2000. Over the course of the time was the primary research analyst on 35 software IPO and secondary offerings.



S. G. Warburg (now UBS)

• Vice President - Institutional Sales

  • Aug 1992 - Apr 1995

  Institutional sales for clients in NYC, Chicago, Texas and Denver. Knowing how to sell and carrying a bag as a salesman sets the stage for a making a difference as a research analyst. Everyone should do it if they can.



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Representative

  • May 1984 - Aug 1992

  Held a variety of jobs at IBM beginning with Corporate Staff and rotating through Marketing HQ and eventually the field organization. All the while my focus was on applying advanced technology and new services to unsolved business problems with great success; thanks to my customers and the resources of the IBM company.



Carnegie Mellon University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Researcher

  • Aug 1981 - May 1984

  Researched and applied artifical intelligence techology and techniques to build systems for the U.S. Navy and Digital Equipment Corporation.



Prodigy Labs Pvt. Ltd.

• Design
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Micro Computer Expert

  • Sep 1979 - Aug 1981

  Early micro-computer work. Built, repaired and sold a variety of early micro-computers. Taught programming. Wrote software to integrate and deliver new applications and systems.