Senior Executive with extensive experience in building high-growth companies in media, internet technology, health care, and automotive verticals. Experience includes building from the ground up for angel backed start ups or re-engineering acquisitions of international Fortune 100 companies for optimum performance and revenue growth. Founded Dataium in 2009 which grew to become automotive industry's leader in behavioral data collection and analysis. Exited in 2015 with sale to publicly traded multinational, IHS, (NASDAQ: INFO). Have appeared as guest expert on Fox News, speaker at GLC Global Leadership Conference, NADA Leadership Summit, Automotive News Marketing Summit, JD Power Marketing Roundtable among many others. Contributor for publications such as Automotive News, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. Named Nashville "Innovator of the Year" in 2012. Twice nominated as entrepreneur of the year im Nashville as well. Demonstrated strong ability to create new products and business models to secure significant market share within a narrow timeline. Further, strong leadership skills in managing diverse work groups whether dozens or hundreds. Additional Professional Education and Training - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Executive Leadership program - Columbia University, New York, NY, E-Commerce, Creating Strategic Advantage - GE Strategic Acquisition Management - Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) Automotive Counsel member - Gallup Customer Engagement Training - Developed prompt engineering skill along with LLM literacy Specialties: Data based product and adtech oriented product development support by artificial intelligence Managing large businesses to perform and compete like a Start Up Managing small businesses to compete and out perform resource rich larger competitors Acquisition due diligence Creating and executing high growth strategies Sales and marketing infrastructure development New product and services development Industries: Artificial intelligence and LLM development, adtech & martech technology, Online media, Publishing, Newspaper, Niche media, Automotive