Leadership matters. I've been a leader all my life. I help build successful businesses as an entrepreneur, consultant, or employee. It takes vision, skill, passion, and fortitude.

I am ready for opportunities where I can apply my unique talents
in building organizations, and to help increase the reach, scope and impact for progressive companies. I am available for permanent employment as well as short-term consulting projects.

I started my first business (Adaptive Controls) in 1980. The company built computerized systems that reduced energy use in highrise office buildings, a "green business" long before the term was coined. There's nothing like being in charge of a bootstrap startup to help teach leadership.

I sold Adaptive Controls to Ingersoll-Rand in 1984 and served as Vice President for Sales and Strategic Planning. I built a nationwide network of value-added resellers, wrote their first Strategic Plan, and conducted their first worldwide dealer conference. I left I-R in 1987 to join Polaroid as Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Marketing for their floppy disk division. I was part of a management team that turned this perennial money-loser into a profitable business in the face of intense global competition.

In 1990 I founded Re:Launch, a sales and marketing consulting firm that helped tech startups grow into successful businesses. I wrote business plans, helped raise money, went through 2 public offerings (running one public company), developed distribution channels, direct marketing campaigns, advertising and packaging design, and ultimately sold the business in 2004.

In 2005 I took the opportunity to lead Big Brothers Big Sisters of the San Francisco Bay Area as CEO. I spent three years leading this non-profit agency, merging three small local agencies into a single regional entity, tripling the number of young people in the Bay Area with a mentor, and building a platform for sustainable growth.