Business and Technology builder with over 30 years of operational leadership experience. Currently focused on selective, strategic advisory consulting engagements, executive-leadership coaching, and non-executive, corporate board memberships.
Globally led Amazon's eCommerce Platform development, CIO (Chief Information Officer) and CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) functions, Foundational Technologies for storage, compute and information security, and created and incubated Amazon Home Services and the Amazon Custom businesses. Member of the Consumer Leadership Team for Amazon and its subsidiaries.
Built EMC's SaaS business from inception to launch, and completed the successful acquisition and integration of Mozy.
Led the conception of disruptive business models for Cloud storage and Software as a Service (SaaS) at EMC, and obtained CEO approval and funding.
CTO of the executive team that successfully took Freeborders Inc. from startup funding to profitability.
Played a leadership role in the development of IBM's SAN storage plans, and established and led the SAN Software engineering team at IBM
Specialties: General Management, CIO (Chief Information Officer), CISO (Chief Information Security Officer), Product Management, Engineering Management, Business Startup, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Software as a Service (SaaS), Storage Software, Applications Software, Platform Software