Entrepreneur and Business Executive with experience in Sales, Marketing & Engineering • Entrepreneur, CEO and founder of a high-tech hardware startup • Incubated a new hardware startup business that delivered $49M of revenue at 75% Gross Margin in 2 years • Customer focused, energetic leader with excellent time management and organizational skills • Breadth of experience including Vice President of a company-wide Functional Department, Business Unit General Manager, Strategic Marketing, Business Development, Product Marketing Manager, Engineering Director, and Technical Sales (Field Applications) Engineer • Managed a 150+ person Engineering development, technical support and field sales applications organization building, promoting and supporting embedded solutions for consumer, industrial and automotive products companies • Weekly engagement with the CEO, and quarterly business operation reviews with the board of directors • Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley

CEO & Founder @ Deako is a high-tech hardware startup based in Seattle, WA. From April 2015 to Present (9 months) Greater Seattle AreaVice President of Applications Engineering @ Competencies Developed: Executive-level management; Lean management; Merger and Acquisition (M&A) of a technology startup in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) space; expert-level for Net Promoter Score (NPS); customer technical support best-practices and tools. • Responsible for all Field Applications (Technical Sales) and Factory Applications Engineers (Technical Product Definition, Collateral Support, Training and Technical Support) within Cypress. 150+ direct employees, and 100+ indirect employees who generated $725.5M in 2014 annual revenue • Executed a Lean initiative to reduce the product development process for all deliverables beyond silicon enabling a >30% reduction in cycle time (cradle to public launch) • Career development of multiple Director-level managers • Organizational re-deployment to create a 24x7 global Technical Support organization with < 2 hour first response time From May 2013 to March 2015 (1 year 11 months) Greater Seattle AreaMarketing & Engineering Sr. Director @ Competencies Developed: Rapid new product development for consumer markets including research, development, and manufacturing; managing global Engineering teams (China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, USA) • Cradle-to-Grave ownership of new User Interface solutions developed for specific end customers including hovering touch, pen/stylus, proximity and pressure technologies • Responsible for an average of 35 customer specific solutions brought to mass production every quarter • Executed manufacturing root cause corrective actions that have improved our China manufacturing partners yields worth more than the face value of our solution to customers • Team has developed embedded solutions that ship over 50M units per quarter in a variety of consumer products including mobile phones, tablets, digital still cameras, portable media players, and personal navigation devices From November 2011 to April 2013 (1 year 6 months) Business Unit Sr. Director @ Competencies Developed: Incubating a new business from scratch; managing product development resources; managing rapid growth, both hiring and new product introduction ramp; P&L management; Agile software development • Successfully incubated a new business product line that was merged with another business unit to form a new division • Developed customer and partner relationships with industry leaders through focused engagement (Apple, HP, Motorola, HTC) to understand the emerging needs, ecosystem value chain and market opportunities • Direct management of business development, product management, program management, tech support, software, firmware, test and hardware engineering teams • Developed the team vision, mission and strategy as part of the presidents 5yr strategic growth plan • Full investment payback in From February 2010 to October 2011 (1 year 9 months) Regional Marketing and Solution Center Director @ Competencies Developed: International marketing and sales; managing large worldwide Engineering teams; managing a large (60+) engineering organization, executive customer engagement • Responsible for delivering $175M in revenue in 2009, and growing to $220M in 2010 • Responsible for promoting new products to strategic accounts with international customizations • Managed 10 regional marketing resources deployed across the US, EU, China, Korea and Japan • Managed 50 software and firmware Engineers who implemented mobile specific touchscreen solutions • Drove marketing campaigns promoting solutions for mobile devices (handset, tablets, GPS, e-Reader) • Ran quarterly business reviews with the worldwide sales management teams • Member of the Marketing review board responsible for reviewing all business plans in the company From May 2008 to January 2010 (1 year 9 months) Senior Product Marketing Manager @ Competencies Developed: Business plan development; market segmentation; competitive analysis; product definition; product development execution; worldwide product launch; personnel management • Managed the product management, systems engineering and technical support team of 15 engineers • Defined requirements for a $75M platform technology used as the foundation for our product line • Created business plans for new products using market research, competitive analysis, customer needs, and identified and targeted opportunities in touch screen, Made for iPod, Glucose meter, and solar inverter markets From September 2005 to April 2008 (2 years 8 months) Field Sales Applications Engineer @ Competencies Developed: Technical sales; customer management; onsite technical support • Technical sales engineer for 5 key strategic accounts: HP, Palm, Microsoft, nVidia, and Broadcom • Provided post sales technical support with customer system engineering, hardware and software teams • Built customer base from $9M per quarter in 2 years From May 2003 to August 2005 (2 years 4 months) BlackBerry Systems Engineer @ Competencies Developed: System Engineering; technical support; failure analysis, international experience • Responsible for system integration of BlackBerry with top European wireless providers • Technically supported the testing and verification, root cause and failure analysis for new product launches with O2 (UK, Germany, Ireland), T-Mobile, TIM, and Telefonica • Provided integration support for key strategic accounts including UBS, Barclay’s and Goldman Sachs From May 1999 to December 2002 (3 years 8 months)

MBA, Business Administration and Management, General @ University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business From 2004 to 2007 Engineering, Electrical @ Queen's University From 1995 to 1999