Experience

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  impact Venture Capital

  • Sacramento, California, United States

  • Operating Partner

    • Feb 2020 - Present
    • Sacramento, California, United States

    I provide strategic counsel and execution support across several areas to Impact's investment activities and the Fund’s portfolio companies. I work connecting other venture capital firms in sourcing and co-investing in deals.

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  ScoreData Corporation

  • Board Member

    • May 2020 - Present

    ScoreData's iMaaS is an AI/ML model management platform that helps businesses deploy, monitor, and manage models in production, to predict business performance drifts with alerts, to improve outcomes.

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  advanced.farm

  • Board Member

    • Oct 2019 - Present

    Advanced Farm Technologies develops robotic technology for farmers. In 2019, AFT became the first U.S. company to commercialize robotic strawberry harvesting using its innovative T-6 platform designed specifically for soil-planted beds. Advanced Farm Technologies is a private company based in Davis, Calif. For more information, visit www.advanced.farm.

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  GigaIO

  • Board Member

    • Oct 2019 - Present

    GigaIO was founded by industry visionaries with decades of domain expertise in communications, networking, data centers, high-performance computing, open source and infrastructure management.GigaIO develops innovative, high-performance interconnect fabric for computing clusters, with the objective of accelerating large-scale workloads on-demand, using industry-standard technology.GigaIO's unique, patented technology enables you to create a unified, composable infrastructure resulting in breathtaking performance. GigaIO extreme connectivity for high-end computing delivers optimized resource utilization and reduced total cost of ownership.

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  Mountain Summit Investment Group

  • Sacramento, California Area

  • Investment Manager

    • Jul 2018 - Present
    • Sacramento, California Area

    Mountain Summit is a friends and family investment fund focused on the Information Technology sector of software, hardware, security, Saas, AI and analytics space for seed to early stage companies in fast growing industries. We focus on experienced management teams with proven track record of past success and not only provide direct capital investments but additional resources such as hands on support with technology, productization, organizational structure, go to market strategy, access to customers and additional avenues of third party capital.

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  Cornami Inc.

  • Computer Hardware
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • President & CEO

    • Mar 2017 - Jul 2018

    CORNAMI is a high performance computing (HPC) company that increases compute performance significantly, made possible by the development of its breakthrough and patented multi-core technology that efficiently uses heterogeneous cores in a highly concurrent, parallel way. This technology will reduce the use of power sources and lower latency, while vastly increasing the compute performance of products and their ROI in a variety of markets, with the Company’s initial focus being Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Big Data.

  • President & COO

    • Mar 2016 - Mar 2017

    CORNAMI is a high performance computing (HPC) company that increases compute performance significantly, made possible by the development of its breakthrough and patented multi-core technology that efficiently uses heterogeneous cores in a highly concurrent, parallel way. This technology will reduce the use of power sources and lower latency, while vastly increasing the compute performance of products and their ROI in a variety of markets, with the Company’s initial focus being Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Big Data.

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  Xand (now TierPoint)

  • President & CEO

    • Feb 2013 - Jan 2015

    Xand is a premier facilities-based provider of data center managed services and technology solutions for clients requiring exceptional uptime, performance and support for mission-critical business operations. With over 30 years of experience, Xand has designed, built, and managed IT infrastructure services which allow enterprises to maximize their critical application performance and availability. Xand offers cost-efficient, custom designed solutions tailored to meet any organization’s requirements via colocation, cloud, enterprise hosting, managed services, business continuity/disaster recovery, and wide area networking platforms. These services and more are delivered across all of Xand’s best-in-class facilities, utilizing superior engineering expertise and unparalleled commitment to customer service to consistently deliver excellence.Following the acquisition of Massachusetts-based Access Northeast and DBSi of Pennsylvania, Xand has grown to become one of the largest privately-held data center service firms in the Northeastern United States. The combined entity now operates six data center facilities in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania with more than 500,000 sq. ft. of space under lease. With financial backing by industry leading private equity firm, ABRY Partners, (www.abry.com) Xand is poised to extend their market leadership with continued facility expansion, customer growth and increased scalability.

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  Xand

  • President & CTO

    • Jul 2012 - Feb 2013

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  RagingWire Data Centers

  • Founder, President & CEO

    • 2000 - Jun 2012

    RagingWire Data Centers designs, builds, and operates mission critical data centers that deliver 100% availability, high-density power, and a world-class customer experience. The company has nearly 1,000,000 square feet of data center space and 80 megawatts of power in the United States.

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  Photronics

  • Vice President of Information Technologies

    • 1996 - 2000

    Photronics is a leading worldwide manufacturer of photomasks. Photomasks are high precision quartz plates that contain microscopic images of electronic circuits. A key element in the manufacture of semiconductors and flat panel displays, photomasks are used to transfer circuit patterns onto semiconductor wafers and flat panel substrates during the fabrication of integrated circuits, a variety of flat panel displays and, to a lesser extent, other types of electrical and optical components. They are produced in accordance with product designs provided by customers at strategically located manufacturing facilities in Asia, Europe, and North America. Additional information on the Company can be accessed at www.photronics.com.

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  Microlink Technologies Inc.

  • Vice President of Engineering

    • 1988 - 1996

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  Photronics

  • Lithography Supervising Engineer

    • 1986 - 1988

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  Gebex Corporation

  • Lithography Supervising Engineer

    • 1985 - 1986

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  Trilogy Systems

  • Engineering Technician (Co-op College Intern)

    • 1983 - 1985