Bio

I am passionate about building world-class teams, driving disruptive innovation, and delivering great business results. I am also particularly interested in identifying, nurturing and growing new ideas from concept to bloom and then fruition. My special skills are in Strategic Business Execution, Technology expertise ( Machine Learning, Telepresence and Computer Vision) and Innovation ( 46 patents) At Kernel Labs, we are focused on opportunities in Machine Learning, VR and Cyber Security. ---------------------- In addition to my ''day job'', I am an active Investor in several startups in the Bay Area and in Seattle. A partial list: Redfin (RDFN) - First investor OfferUp (largest mobile marketplace) - initial round investor SignalSense (acquired by Splunk) - founding investor Wise.io (acquired by GE) - investor, advisor Appsheet (acquired by Google) - first investor S2 (acquired by CloudFlare) - board member Previously, I was the Chief Technology Officer at Symantec Corp. See below: My role was to develop our technology strategy and drive excellence in the way we build products for our customers. I also lead a significant portion of our Enterprise security business, including EndPoint Security, Mobility Solutions, Encryption, and Management products. These products represent one of our most important company assets - serving over 400,000 customers worldwide by protecting and managing their individual computers and devices. In this capacity, I lead a distributed worldwide organization of over 3000 highly capable and passionate people who want to change the world. We all know that software makes the world go round. Most of the things we take for granted would simply not work without software. And yet, the software that makes our lives work is under critical threat – and people’s confidence in this critical basic infrastructure is declining. We see examples of this everyday in the news, in both security and information management.