GP Network Society Ventures
Co-Founder & former CEO, TechShop
Author, Speaker, Green Beret
Entrepreneur in Residence, UC Berkeley
Adjunct faculty Singularity U
San Francisco Business Times - “Bay Area’s Most Admired CEO Award”
Fast Company - “Who’s Next”
Xconomy - "... biz dev ninja"
EXPY Award - “experience stager of the year”
Engagements with GE, Ford, P&G, ExxonMobile, Kraft, and many others. Presented at TEDx, The Clinton Global Initiative, the Council on Foreign Relations, Singularity U, UC Berkeley, and Harvard.
Appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, Bloomberg, CNN and Fox. Quoted in Bloomberg Business, FastCompany, Inc, Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The LA Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and others.
My book, "The Maker Movement Manifesto," by McGraw-Hill in came out in September of 2013.
Describe the most impressive thing you've done.Disruptive innovation platforms, hardware startups, edTech, Maker focused startups.
Describe what you're looking for in a company.