Bio

Co-Founder at Clearword (https://clearword.com) I'm a technologist, an avid learner, an angel investor, a startup advisor, and a serial entrepreneur that likes to share stories about his successes, acquisitions, exits, choices, and failures. With 3.5 exits and a few failures, I have amassed a tremendous amount of experience in running lean startups, raising funds, developing business strategies, and understanding the importance of focus and self-constrain when bootstrapping and developing a brand new product. With experiences come stories, and I thoroughly enjoy sharing mine in order to help other entrepreneurs in their endeavour. You'll regularly see me speaking at technology and business conferences about topics from data mining, web development to investment and growing startups. I primarily work in pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. I've previously worked in facial and real-time voice recognition, adaptive threat analysis, telecommunications, auto-scaling and adaptive cloud hosting and many other interesting products. As an open source advocate, I've also been involved in a number of large open source projects as such as PHP, Debian Linux, the PEAR project and other smaller but fascinating open source undertakings.