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Board Member

Nanoleaf is a technology and IoT company changing the world with the most innovative smart home solutions, taking ordinary experiences and making them extraordinary. By infusing thoughtful design and technological intelligence in their products, Nanoleaf is ushering in a new era of the smart home that centers around complete personalization. Every product created by Nanoleaf embodies our philosophy of ‘Smarter by Design.’ Board of Directors, Corporate Development and +6 skills

Leadership and team development coach

No organization grows faster than its leaders. Preparing leaders to navigate complexities and lead effectively is the focus of our coaching practice. We help executives and teams achieve their individual and collective goals by systematically turning confusion into clarity and action. Much like elite athletes and performers, high performance requires disciplined focus and mastery. The most effective leaders and teams get coached by elite coaches who have been in their situations and can provide a blend of coaching, mentoring and advice. We understand how human beings behave, how human systems work, and how businesses operate. Our approach focuses on self-awareness, tangible objectives, alignment and productive action for faster goal achievement to achieve potential. We utilize tried and tested coaching methodologies such as the Hudson Institute's, that combine insights from systems thinking, neuroscience, psychology, and high-performance training with extensive CxO executive experience. In 1:1 coaching, areas of focus include: - Improving CEO / Chairman Board Dynamics and Manageent - Improving Executive Presence and Developing Leadership Capability and Style - Executive Transitions - Successful On-boarding or New in Role - Communication Skills (Presentation and Public Speaking) - Team Leadership and Management (Performance Improvement) - Improving Strategic Thinking In team coaching, areas of focus include: - Improving Board Dynamics (CEOs / Chairman and Board Members) - Cross-cultural and International Teams (Operating Models, Collaboration) - Team Building (Passion & Purpose, Collaboration, Performance Measurement, Planning and Reporting) - Leadership Development (Strategy & Planning, Problem Solving, Decision Making, Change Management, Workforce Planning, Performance Measurement etc.) - Major Change Management (Post M&A Team Merging) - Team Facilitation And mentoring for Heads of Strategy, Heads of Corporate Development and Heads of GTM Executive Coaching, Team Leadership and +6 skills

Managing Director

Specializing in the fundamentals of strategy, governance, leadership development, team and organizational alignment, and the processes of growth, scaling and transformation. Developing high-performing organizations through: 1) Consulting - corporate and go-to-market strategy, planning, sales and marketing / customer success, and new business development 2) M&A Advisory - investment theses, market / management due diligence, value creation planning and GTM strategy, post merger organization and measurement design and organization integration. 3) Board Advisory - Organizational and team assessment, organizational design, performance improvement, value creation Clients include: Growth VC / PE Portfolio Companies: Apex Learning, Coaching.com, Corsair Gaming, Gainsight, HeyTutor, Infoblox, Nanoleaf, Renaissance Learning, Philo, Plex, Riverbed Technologies, Scantron, SnapNurse, Transact Campus, Teaching Strategies, Vertex Private Equity Funds (market analysis, due diligence, value creation planning): - Advent International (Edtech) - Alpine Investments (SaaS / Tech Enabled Services) - Bridgepoint (Gaming) - Education Growth Partners (EdTech) - General Atlantic ((Network and Data Center Infrastructure) - Goldman Sachs (EdTech) - Hellman & Friedman (EdTech) - Macquarie Capital (EdTech) - One Equity Partners (Network and Data Infrastructure) - Providence Equity Partners (Digital Media) - Peak Equity (EdTech) - Pivotal Equity (HCM) - Reverence Capital (Edtech / Security / Payments) - Rothschilds (EdTech) - ScOps (Edtech / HCM) - Summit Equity (EdTech) - Transom Capital (EdTech) Public Companies: - Adobe - Redesign of global sales strategy & operations, digital transformation - Netas - Digital transformation (SI/DVAS to IaaS/SaaS provider); GTM redesign; Service creation - Outerwall - Corporate strategy, digital transformation, new business creation, M&A strategy - Envivvio - Corporate Strategy and M&A Board of Directors, Corporate Development and +14 skills

Senior Vice President

CORSAIR is the worlds second largest provider of hardware, software and services to gamers, content creators, enthusiasts and e-sports athletes to play at the highest levels of performance and experience and produce professional content for worldwide audiences on Twitch, YouTube, Mixer and Facebook. Led the company through its successful IPO in Oct 2020. GM for Services and Software division - helping Corsair customers achieve their goals through a more immersive experience and better learning combined with software tools to help them stream and create content: - Acquired Gamer Sensei, the world's largest esports gaming coaching business, and was it's General Manager.

Chief Strategy Officer

Renaissance is the global leader in K-12 learning analytics—enabling parents, teachers, curriculum creators, and educators to drive phenomenal student growth. Renaissance provides subscription, Cloud SaaS based accelerated learning solutions in the K-12 market both in the US and internationally. These solutions help educators assess, analyze, customize, plan and measure personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom - and creating better learning outcomes. Renaissance's data-driven, personalized solutions are currently used in over one-third of U.S. schools, by 24m students, and in more than 77 countries around the world. Built a new strategy to focus on becoming an K-12 teacher-centric classroom solutions provider, acquired three companies (including MyOn) to complete this value proposition and drove the successful sale of Renaissance with Hellman & Friedman to Francisco Partners in June 2018.

Chief Strategy Officer

Outerwall Inc. (Nasdaq: OUTR) was the largest specialist retailer in the US, with over 64,000 points of service and 40m customers, and over $3bn in revenues. The company owned three businesses - RedBox, Coinstar and ecoATM. Led a strategic company review (reporting to the Chairman of the Board) and led the go private sale process, with the CEO, to Apollo Global Management in 2016.

Chief Strategy Officer

TiVo (Now Xperi) is a $1bn revenue, global leader in linear, on-line and mobile entertainment technology and audience insights. From the interactive program guide to the DVR, TiVo delivered innovative cloud SaaS subscription based products and licensed technologies that revolutionized how people found content across a changing media landscape. TiVo enabled the world’s leading media and entertainment providers to deliver the ultimate entertainment experience. Led a strategic company review for CEO / Board, and led the acquisition / combination of TiVo by Rovi Corp and repositioning of new company as software, IP and hardware solutions provider TiVo.

Chief Strategy Officer

Neustar (now a division of Transunion) is a $3.1bn provider of real time, identity resolution (SaaS cloud based analytics ,and IaaS security and information services) to the communication service provider, e-commerce, retail and financial services industries. Led a strategic company review for CEO / Chairman of the Board and drove the repositioning of the company from a telecomms infrastructure provider to an enterprise analytics powerhouse focused on identity to solve core marketing and security questions.

Vice President of Enterprise Marketing

(Global Enterprise Business = $25bn in Product, $5bn in Services, $3bn in Capital Lending across all WW Geographies and Verticals) Led customer and GTM strategy, market and competitor research, marketing and business development for Enterprise business.

Vice President, Emerging Markets

(Emerging Markets = $7.5bn geographical business of 136 Countries (Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS and Middle-East and Africa) Products and Services business; 2,500 personnel) Led GTM strategy and operations (sales strategy, planning and operations, market and competitor research, geographic market development, sales business development, thought leadership and outbound marketing).

Vice President, Services

Cisco Services is a $16bn division of Cisco Inc. Led: - Strategy and planning for Cisco's Global Customer Success Business - GM / P&L for Cisco’s Global Consulting business, aimed at serving its Top 250 Enterprise and Top 50 Service Provider Customers - GM / P&L or the Software Tools business focused on remote diagnosis (audits and assessments), visualization, monitoring and security

Vice President

- GM / P&L responsibility for Hitachi’s Digital Signage business, aimed at serving its retailers, hospitality and travel Customers with end-to-end digital media solutions - GM / P&L responsibility for Hitachi's RFID business

Associate Principal

Vice President

- GM / P&L responsibility for CTP’s Global Management Consulting business, aimed at serving its Top 250 CIO Customers