R4 TECHNOLOGIES - Key Persons
I've been a strategy and marketing leader with some of the world's top companies, including Kodak (in the day), SAP and IBM. At IBM, I architected the turnaround of the PC business and turned ibm.com into IBM's "easy to do business with" $12B sales channel. For the past 20 years, I've developed unique expertise in leading global companies to transform disconnected go-to-market activities into market-driven alignment and growth.
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- Advisor, Brown Brothers Harriman Former CFO, IBM, MCI
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- Co - Founder & Chairman, Ultra Capital, LLC, Pequot Capital
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- CIO & Senior Managing Partner, WP Global
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- Chief Data Science Officer
I have been always at the frontier of applying innovation to the business world. During the personal computing revolution, I co-founded NITA, one of the first companies to apply network computing to Air Traffic Control systems. At the dawn of the internet, I helped launch one of the world's most successful e-commerce companies, priceline.com, where I was chief architect of the pricing and revenue management system. Now, I am fortunate to be at the forefront of the third technology revolution of the past quarter century: artificial intelligence.
I am a life-long entrepreneur, from running and selling my own business in college, to being one of the top sales executives at Procter & Gamble in a tough eastern states market, to trailblazing e-commerce at Aramark and now at r4. For me, the foundation of business growth is the relentless pursuit of operational excellence by everybody, for everything, every day.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Founder & Managing Partner Pilot Growth Equity
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- CEO
- Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Founder, Chairman & CEO CMO & Founding Team, Priceline.Com
Early in my career, I was the CMO and co-founder of one of the world's most iconic e-commerce brands, priceline.com. We defined, built and led the business model, strategy and execution that leveraged data and mathematics to create over $100 billion in shareholder value and became one of the most successful IPOs in history. We built priceline.com through a combination of vision, practicality, and a quest to disrupt the marketplace.
The scope of my leadership career, often in lean environments, ranges from Fortune 100 multinational organizations to the high pressure, demanding and fast-paced world of high-tech boutiques.
I was delighted to be a part of the Hewlett-Packard Consulting transformation as a practice manager, Y2K Country Campion, as well as a USAID and Deloitte and Touché project lead. After switching my focus to the smaller companies I've built the Microsoft technology practice from the ground up as CTO at GRT and defined and executed the agile product development process as COO at Kindle Innovations.
As CTO at r4, I am an enthusiastic and innovative organizer of our world-class technology team dedicated toward joint success, and for our clients, bottom-line performance where it counts. I love r4's constant drive for innovation, creative thinking and an opportunity to challenge "impossible."