Impossible Objects Leadership

Technology executive with global management experience and demonstrated ability to motivate teams to exceed goals. Deep domain expertise in Engineering, Operations and Sales within the manufacturing and technology markets. Establishes trusted relationships, attracts and retains gold standard staff. No nonsense metrics, process, execution and strategic mindset that supports business goals and drives consistent P&L success.► PRODUCT AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE:Vice President of Business and Application Development for Stratasys, a manufacturer of 3D production and printing systems resulting in 28% year-over-year growth for production related products and applications. ► IDENTIFIED & IMPLEMENTED EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES TO STRATEGIC MARKETS:Twenty years at The Boeing Company where I led innovative material and process research and development in the areas of additive manufacturing, reverse engineering and advanced manufacturing. Hold various patents for the direct manufacturing of end use parts and multiple functional tooling used in military and commercial aircraft programs.► TRANSITIONED REVOLUTIONARY PRODUCT DESIGNS & PROCESSES TO THE MARKET:While at Boeing, was a key principle to certify and qualify first ever additive manufacturing material and processes for flight hardware used on the F/A-18 super hornet and the 787 Dreamliner production aircraft programs.► WORLDWIDE RECOGNITION AND HONORS:Named among the "Top 25 most influential people in the world in rapid product development and manufacturing" by Time Compression Technologies magazine of Europe.

I am currently a Managing Partner at Deer Valley Ventures, investing in early stage advanced and additive manufacturing companies.

Previously I founded and acted as the portfolio manager of the William Harris Technology Fund. The WHI Technology Fund was a $30 Million equity hedge fund investing in publically traded technology companies.

Prior to that I was Director of Engineering for Interactive Simulation, Inc. ISI produced The Sculpt Molecular Modeling software used for drug discovery by pharmaceutical companies. ISI was acquired by MDL Information Systems (a Reed Elsevier Company) in 1999 and I served as Director of Product Development at MDL until 2002. At MDL I managed the San Diego division working on molecular modeling, predictive analytics and cheminformatics software.

Specialties: venture capital, investment management, portfolio management, equity valuation, technology analysis, TMT, computer graphics, scientific visualization, computational chemistry, software, semiconductors, investment management, private equity.

Technology executive with global management experience and demonstrated ability to motivate teams to exceed goals. Deep domain expertise in Engineering, Operations and Sales within the manufacturing and technology markets. Establishes trusted relationships, attracts and retains gold standard staff. No nonsense metrics, process, execution and strategic mindset that supports business goals and drives consistent P&L success.► PRODUCT AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE:Vice President of Business and Application Development for Stratasys, a manufacturer of 3D production and printing systems resulting in 28% year-over-year growth for production related products and applications. ► IDENTIFIED & IMPLEMENTED EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES TO STRATEGIC MARKETS:Twenty years at The Boeing Company where I led innovative material and process research and development in the areas of additive manufacturing, reverse engineering and advanced manufacturing. Hold various patents for the direct manufacturing of end use parts and multiple functional tooling used in military and commercial aircraft programs.► TRANSITIONED REVOLUTIONARY PRODUCT DESIGNS & PROCESSES TO THE MARKET:While at Boeing, was a key principle to certify and qualify first ever additive manufacturing material and processes for flight hardware used on the F/A-18 super hornet and the 787 Dreamliner production aircraft programs.► WORLDWIDE RECOGNITION AND HONORS:Named among the "Top 25 most influential people in the world in rapid product development and manufacturing" by Time Compression Technologies magazine of Europe.