I am an accomplished business professional with an uncanny ability to bring new ideas, new revenue streams and new profits to just about any businesses.  I have temporarily suspended consulting activity (well, sort of) to seriously investigate the cognitive skills required by anybody making today's tough decisions. Why?  Because ironically, decision making –  in politics, business and life - is the most important yet least understood thing any human ever does. (A preliminary decision-making blog with four comprehensive but still-draft essays can be found by clicking here.)

My 40-years of business service focused on designing and executing strategic business decisions for a variety of enterprises operating in the global information technology industry. I spent most of that career in Silicon Valley where my P&L assignments and achievements were unusually divers -  and some even groundbreaking.  For example, I was recognized by PC magazine for designing the  'most innovative' PC software; led a team which developed the 'Product of the Year'; was an architect of the world's most powerful distributed computing network to support the U.S. National Ignition Facility; and led teams that raised millions of dollars from first-tier investment groups like Kleiner Perkins.  Along the way, my work was featured in CNN, Time Magazine and Tom Peter's  best seller, Liberation Management..

I left Silicon Valley after serving as vice president of marketing for Hitachi Global Data Systems producing marketing systems for 3,000 people operating in over 30 countries.  Then, as an independent business advisor my client base was also diverse.  Listed by annual revenue, they included a:

My management consulting forte is business turnarounds, especially P&L uplifts through product line reconstruction and improved organizational efficiency.  To lead in this field, I have developed systems to quickly increase cash flow and the exit value of the business.  In doing this, I employ my expertise in:

• Internal and external situation analysis 
• Developing integrated enterprise goals 
• Creating strategies with road maps 
• Formulating product requirements 
• Driving product development and product management; 
• Go-to-market programs (direct and indirect sales, Web marketing and analytics); 
• Sales force productivity systems 
• OEM, alliance and channel partnerships.

I have a B.A. in human behavior from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from the Haas School of Business with additinal marketing studies at Stanford University.  The work at Stanford supported teaching marketing in the MBA program at Notre Dame de Namur University.

I am a native of Northern California, low handicap golfer, member of the pro bono staff at the Lawrence Hall of Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley and board member of the McIntyre Ranch Foundation involved in equine assisted psychotherapy.  My intellectual passion is the integration of social biology with physics and economics.