Founder of Network Weather | RCSD President | Experienced Board Director | R&D Executive for Facebook, Google, Capital One | Commercial Pilot

I'm a veteran technical product executive and serial entrepreneur with 30+ years of experience building and running zero-to-one orgs in all manner of structures: non-profits, startups, and R&D teams at Facebook, Google, and Capital One. I love how design, research, data, and engineering disciplines can come together to imagine and build useful new things. I foster creative, inclusive, and collaborative orgs and am a strong team player and servant leader. I delight in helping people achieve their full potential, watching their efforts come to fruition and helping hone them to make them even more powerful versions of themselves. I'm proud at how many of my mentees have soared to greatness and now mentor others.l or are captains of industry. Working with startups and new concepts is something I find energizing and invigorating. I've invested in over 110 companies and sit on several boards. I've created vehicles to help startups in ecosystems as varied as Drones and Mexican tech. I'm always in the founder's corner even as I'm unafraid to give direct (and loving) feedback. I've built nerd communities for thousands. I've visited over 40 countries, taught kids tech in Ghana, worked with the Tunisian government on connectivity, seen fiber trenching live in Uganda, climbed mountains to support hilltop community wireless in northern India, have been a reporter for the Korean press, own a Canadian ham radio license, guided Filipino coders on their use of Facebook APIs, and polled the Swedish public in person on their opinion on GMOs. I'm a certified PADI Rescue Scuba Diver, a helicopter pilot, an instrument-rated commercial airplane pilot (and fly for AngelFlight West), and a Part 107 licensed commercial drone operator. I've taught thousands about product management and created and ran a course on product management attended by over 2,000 Googlers. I like helping people. That's the Silicon Valley way. I don't expect favors in return, but do expect those I help to help others. I'm a trustee for my children's school district and I firmly believe in the power of public education to invest in developing the next generation of Americans. All problems that take 20+ years to solve are an education problem! I think we should have opinions about technology and the world and to make a best guesstimate of how we can make the world better based on what we know, then to push for that. It's not that technology is either inherently good or bad but it certainly *is* an amplifier and thus it very much matters what we build and don't build. I don't like eggplant.