Tom Garland

Experience

Hydr8inc

Founder, Co-Founder 2013 - Present (over 13 years)

Intellectual Ventures

Head of Program Development, Invention Investment Funds 2009 - 2013 (about 4 years)

Exit

Hearme/mpath

Vice President Network Programming & Business Development 1996 - 2000 (almost 4 years)

ACT Venture Partners

Founder, President 2007 - Present (over 19 years)

Evernote

Advisor

Centrify

Advisor

Exit

Topspin Communications

Advisor

Exit

SnapTell

Advisor

InQuira

Advisor

Abbyy USA

Advisor

Gryphon Investors

Advisor

Consentry Networks

Advisor

Chelsio Communications

Advisor

Tacit Software

Advisor

Teradici

Advisor

Trilibis Mobile

Advisor

Silicon Graphics

Director of Business Development

Founder

ACT Venture Partners, Hydr8inc

Employee

Silicon Graphics, Hearme/mpath, Intellectual Ventures

Advisor

Centrify, Evernote, SnapTell, Consentry Networks, Chelsio Communications, Topspin Communications, Teradici, InQuira, Trilibis Mobile, Tacit Software, Abbyy USA, Gryphon Investors

Education

About

Achievements

Some of the proudest feedback I ever received was from the Admission Director at the Stanford Business School who said my "accepted application was the most creative they had ever seen".

I have advised and been a founder at start-ups for 20 years. My first start-up was HearMe/Mpath that had a $1B IPO. I have advised over 50 companies and have had a number of exits including Topspin Communication (Cisco), SJ Labs (YMAX), Snaptell (Amazon), Soundpipe (Comdial), Inquira (Oracle) and Mpath/HearMe (IPO)

I have experienced hyper revenue growth from minimal revenue to billions in revenue at SGI and Intellectual Ventures.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Advertising Digital Marketing Marketing Research Marketing Strategy Product Marketing Analyst Relations Business Development Business Plan Distribution Due Diligence E-Commerce Entertainment Infrastructure Lead Generation Management Marketing Management Private Equity Product Development Public Relations Venture Capital Product and Market Validation Customer Development Corporate Development Corporate and Marketing Strategy Corporate Marketing Adobe Creative Suite Creative Strategy Patents / IP Intellectual Property Strategy Digital Transformation Branding Strategic Planning Strategic Partnerships Go to Market Strategy Fund Raising Marketing and Branding

Locations

San Francisco Bay Area Silicon Valley Palo Alto San Jose

Tom Garland

Passionate, extremely creative marketing and business development executive with founder, IPO, venture capital experience. 1st CEO of Evernote. Co-founder Hydr8