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As a veteran technology communicator with experience in brand storytelling through four waves of technology, including the earliest anti virus pattern matching technologies that lead to today’s AI, and the first AI chat bot, ALICE, I’ve seen this movie before.

Every new technology was feared when still recent.

I’ve launched over 30 disruptive innovations.

Each was initially thought to be impossible.

And now all of those technologies are things we take for granted. Like:

Email
Desktop video
Color printers
Software updates
Wireless devices
GPS
Movies online
Email without viruses
Computers that don’t constantly crash.

I help markets comprehend the incomprehensible before it exists.

For 40 years, in more than 30 best selling global product launches, I’ve helped the world’s leading technology companies translate complexity (and fear) into clarity and growth.

Together we build trust with your investors, early adopters, influencers, partners, analysts, media, and beta customers long before a market exists.

I started when PCs were renegade.

I wrote about computers as a journalist from a typewriter. learned to code in Fortran, compiled on a mainframe.

I remember the world before internet or mobile phones.

I have pattern recognition.

That is now a strategic advantage.

It makes me uniquely able to describe Artificial Intelligence, because I helped build all of the foundations that lead to modern AI, including 30 years in antivirus and security systems.

My career spans consumer electronics, chips, networking, email, and RDBMS:

The beginning of Web 1.0, SaaS, and cybersecurity…

Mobile web…

And now, AI, autonomous vehicles, robotics and emerging space technologies.

• CyberMedia / McAfee (IPO later Intel Security)
• Intel Capital (Enfish One Space)
• FileNet ( IBM)
• Postini (Google)
• Iolo System Mechanic (Phoenix Technologies)
• HP PC, Palmtop, Printers
• XEROX PARC
• Phoenix Technology (BIOS security)
• Cirrus Logic
• Purism Privacy PC
• Ceres Robotics (NASA / SpaceX)
• Orion Labs (AI voice devices)
• EVShare (AI autonomous)
• Founder Institute (AI and emerging startups)

Selected outcomes:

• System Mechanic grew to 33M active paid users
• NASDAQ IPO (CyberMedia)
• $5M in crowdfunding preorders for Purism through narrative, PR, social campaigns
• Mentored 100+ CEO pitch presentations as first female mentor at Founder Institute Silicon Valley.

Across every high-tech cycle — and even in my high-touch passion projects (promoting festivals, events and sustainability initiatives) — one pattern repeats:

The winner tells the best story.