Edina High School

Gustavus Adolphus College

Edina Senior High School

Peking University

University Of Minnesota

CEO @ Gwoop  -  Experienced Startup Founder  -  Ex-Fortune 200 Innovation Executive

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Cognitive training for gamers and esports teams, powered by science and technology.
<a href="http://www.gwoop.com">www.gwoop.com</a>

Gwoop

Co-Founder, CEO

Techstars

Alumni and Mentor

Responsible for technology strategy development, research, and execution of joint development partnerships, investments, acquisitions, and other business / innovation opportunities with global companies.

Ecolab, with over $15B in sales and 49,000 employees, is the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services.

Ecolab

Global Director - External Innovation & Partnerships

Responsible for the enterprise application strategy and product teams that help drive digital transformation and digital innovation for the global enterprise.  Reporting directly to the Chief Digital Officer, I built, developed, and lead engineering teams across multiple geographies, while developing productive relationships across the entire organization to drive tangible business value.

Global Director - Digital Innovation (Mobile App Dev, Data, BI, Cloud Apps and Customer Success)

Honored to serve on the board with Jon "maddog" Hall (Chairman of Linux Professional Institute) as well as Jeff Carr (co-founder of DigitalOcean NYSE: DOCN, and founder of LinuxPPC).  Providing open source innovation, infrastructure and privacy across data centers, cloud, AI, Data Security, Edge Computing, IoT, and much more for our global technology customers.
<a href="http://www.wit.com">www.wit.com</a>

<a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/11/05/75199/googles-new-chip-protects-the-cloud-where-its-most-vulnerable/">https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/11/05/75199/googles-new-chip-protects-the-cloud-where-its-most-vulnerable/</a>

WIT.com

Member of the Board of Directors

INSPECTORIO is the #1 inspection, audit, and compliance verification platform for apparel and CPG, bringing digital innovation to our Forbes Global 2000 customers.

Our enterprise SaaS solution and AI are helping the world’s largest retailers make better business decisions by providing access to previously unattainable data, thus improving efficiencies, accountability and transparency across their global supply chain.

INSPECTORIO

President, Mentor and Advisor

North Loop Capital is a family office/investment firm that manages investments across multiple asset classes.  The strategy is focused in technology and manufacturing -- and looks closely at corporate innovation.

North Loop Capital Management

Head of Operations and Technology

B2B SaaS bringing digital innovation for multinational supply chains
<a href="http://www.builtintl.com">www.builtintl.com</a>

Built International

Founder & CEO

Rebranded SmartToy.  Voice Recognition + Mobile + Gaming + EdTech
Funded by leading VCs, Acquired - Cartwheel Kids / Sphero
<a href="http://www.SmartToy.com">www.SmartToy.com</a>
Techstars (Boulder) class of 2012
<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/ubooly">http://www.crunchbase.com/company/ubooly</a>

Ubooly (acquired by Sphero)

Co-Founder & COO

Started and grew a video game accessory line.

Eventually negotiated a partnership that enabled officially licensed Nintendo lines that integrated with their new software and technology releases, including their highly anticipated stereoscopic 3D launch.

Products were sold in the U.S.A. and UK at local retailers, e-commerce, as well as major chains such as Target, Walmart, Amazon and Best Buy.

The Green Pandas Company

Was the boy's varsity head coach during my senior year of college.  We finished the year as Conference Champions and Section runner-ups.

Benilde-St. Margaret's School

Boys Varsity Head Tennis Coach

Managed development, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics and sales/marketing of over $75M in video game accessories.

Products sold to all major retailers including Best Buy, Target, Toys R Us, Walmart, Amazon, Bass Pro Shops and Costco.

Gavin Lee