Angel investor, start-up advisor and new business formation strategist. Really, I've "been there, done that" so many times that there's a very high likelihood I'll have some valuable advice to help you either start or scale your enterprise, and I enjoy getting my hands dirty for the right venture.

BlueBox is the leading high impact accelerator in Mexico, expanding throughout Latin America and serving the best start-ups targeting the Latino diaspora world-wide. We are looking for the most innovative entrepreneurs throughout LatAm, and for investors who are eager to add southern exposure to their portfolios.

KeyStroke: Re‐imagining the way that you interact with your computer. KeyStroke Corporation is developing a new computer pointing technology that will provide superior comfort and productivity to serious computer users.

After a successful 12-year term as President & COO of the leading graph analysis and NetCentric Intelligence platform in the DoD, IC and now commercial sectors, I've successfully exited from my day-to-day responsibilities at Semantic Research, and transitioned to supporting a wonderful team of true professionals. Feel free to discuss partnering opportunities with me as I assume a strategic advisory role with Semantic Research.

Semi-retirement is a challenge to maintain. I couldn't pass up an opportunity to help lead a start-up whose mission is to change the way the planet feeds itself through advanced indoor agriculture technologies based on cutting-edge LED lighting. Let's grow smarter, together!

Acted as Curator for the TEDxSanDiego 2011 and 2012 events. Advised the Leadership Team for TEDxSanDiego 2013/15. Four year corporate sponsor of TEDxSanDiego.

Semantic Research, Inc. is the developer of Semantica, the world's only software using semantic networks as the representational model for graphing knowledge across multiple domains. Semantica is currently used in leading programs throughout the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community and Law Enforcement Agencies. Commercial applications include Insider Threat analysis, Culture of Compliance, and Enterprise Knowledge Management.

After a second round of funding with strategic investors including Office Depot and Oracle, I was tired of commuting cross-country so moved the family to NYC. The only problem was the whole "Dot-Com Bomb." The first thing I did was to lay off most of the staff. Painful, but educational, like so many things in life... glad I did it... glad it's over... back to San Diego.

While at cyberworks wrote the business plan for Working Woman Communications, which published Working Woman and Working Mother magazines, ran the National Association of Female Executives (NAFE) and the Business Women's Institute (BWI)... and, at one point, Ms. Magazine. The plan got funded and the VC's insisted on someone to implement the interactive/web strategy. I commuted from San Diego to NYC for a year.

Cyberworks was an early pioneer in the Southern California website development biz. Some firsts included streaming video live from the US Open of Surfing, one of the first (the second?) web banner ads, and a number of large websites and applications. Among a variety of "interesting" projects, ask me what it was like to start and run 3 online casinos, the first online multi-level marketing program and to get bought out by a gambling company.

AKA Inter@ctivate Consulting Group back in the day ;-)

Inter@ctivate was an incredibly successful interactive strategy consulting company, profitable from day 1, that provided strategic guidance for companies trying to get their arms around the new "Web Thing." Some key successes included The San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park, the San Diego Padres, and the California Avocado Commission, where we integrated the Web with outdoor (Billboard) advertising, TV and radio -- one of the first really integrated marketing strategies.

Now SiteLab, International. At Bien Logic we had two lines of business, Surf Report, which was one of the early website traffic tracking applications, and custom website development/publishing. A couple highlights include: One of the first million dollar websites, for SDGE, one of the early leading website directories, PlanetEarth, and a raft of really early corporate/consumer websites.

I suppose one could ask, "As a serial entrepreneur, why a psychology degree?" These days we push young creative people into highly specialized degrees, but I have found that it is the ability to recruit and motivate people, whether employees, partners, or customers, that is the primary determinant of start-up success. It's not entirely shocking though that I took some of the first entrepreneurship courses offered in the UC system in the early '80s.