STARTUP AND TECHNOLOGY NEW PRODUCT LAUNCHES:
- Worked on a project for Steve Job’s legendary NeXT Computer at their PR agency, Ketchum. It was totally revolutionary at the time.
- I worked on the launch teams behind many products thought to be completely groundbreaking and disruptive at the time–like the first color inkjet printer at HP.
TECHNOLOGY
Iolo – maker of System Mechanic PC software sold in 40,000 stores worldwide
Friendfinder.com - one of the world’s largest online social networks/dating service with 30,000 websites
Panda Software USA – $30 million antivirus vendor based in Bilbao, Spain
Pandoodle.com – personalized animation and avatars for film and television
Hewlett Packard – Corporate, Personal Computer Group, Corvallis, OR division and Ink Jet Printers (San Diego) – launch of inkjet printers
Sun Microsystems, TOPS division – first PC-Mac-Unix cross platform network and email
Phoenix Technologies – $500 million maker of the BIOS in every PC, security, anti-virus
Xerox, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) – consumer PC utility software
Cybermedia – Consumer anti-malware and anti-virus utility software for PCs. (acquired by Network Associates/McAffee and later, Intel)
- Introduced the world’s largest dating service to the business press — it was a match.
Radius/Adobe/Apple – launch of first digital video editing system, a partnership with Radius, Adobe Premiere and Apple which evolved into and is now incorporated in every Apple Mac as the core video editing system.
Enfish Technology – One Space desktop search engine software for consumer PCs
Hear Planet – early strategic consulting for consumer Apple iPhone application
- I helped launch HearPlanet, an app that turns your Apple iPhone into a talking tourguide – it was my idea for them to rent a bus and shuttle people around MacWorld. Way cheaper than a booth and it drove home the “tourist” message!
PEX Interoperability Consortium – IEEE X Windows consortium of HP, Sun and other workstation leaders.
Everypath – pioneer in wireless and mobile device applications B2B, cloud wireless middleware
Media Vision – pioneer multimedia games and consumer electronics software and hardware
Greg Le Mond’s Bicycle Adventure – multimedia consumer software for PCs
NeXT – visionary desktop computer invented by Steve Jobs
Postini – anti-spam software SaaS B2B (acquired by Google)
Claris Works – Apple consumer software spin-off
Responsys – business to business direct email software, SaaS, B2B, cloud
Cirrus Logic – graphic acceleration chips, semiconductors inside every PC
RivalEdge – legal B2B SaaS cloud app for law firm recruitment market
Partnership announcements with:
Apple
Microsoft
Etrade
Cisco/WebEx
