University of San Francisco School of Law

University of California, Santa Cruz

Datacenter Industrialist

Los Gatos, California, United States

Collaborate with our founder, owners, and fellow executives to develop and execute on our strategic vision/growth. Work to ensure that our team is aware, aligned and automated while also being the executive lead on our Federal and Public Sector engagements.

Switch

Chief Strategy Officer

- Counterpoint Global, one of our Active Fundamental Equity teams, seeks to make long-term investments in unique companies whose market value can increase significantly for underlying fundamental reasons."

Morgan Stanley

Executive In Residence - Counterpoint Global

Consulting practice ranging from founder/CEO/board advisory to product/technical/GTM/operational strategy, due diligence, capabilities and team assessments for investors in the biotech, pharmaceutical, software industries, telco, media and defense sectors.

S8 Advisory Partners LLC

Managing Partner

iGrant.io

Chair Of The Board Of Directors

Elevate Labs makes the award-winning Elevate and Balance applications.

Elevate Labs

Investor

S8 FAM LLC is the family investment vehicle beneficially owned by The Hoffman Family Trust and is solely organized for the purpose of making their financial investments. We look at a wide range of companies from seed start-up to public equities.

S8 Family Asset Management LLC

Principal

Automattic

Executive In Residence & Advisor to the CEO

American Tower

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

GSMA

Deputy Chair of Operator Platform API Group

Co-Chair of the Telco Edge Cloud Forum

MobiledgeX

President & CEO

MobiledgeX is working with global mobile operators to deliver full control over multi-cloud edge deployments. The Edge-Cloud platform provides a common interface for managing application workloads anywhere, abstracted from underlying infrastructure, to maintain control over data, privacy and security. MobiledgeX was founded by Deutsche Telekom AG and was wholly-owned by Deutsche Telekom from 2018-2020. We raised an external round in 2020 from VMware, Samsung, SK Telekom, World Wide Technologies and Odin Ventures.
            

    
    

    
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- 5G, IOT and Cloud."

Head of Technology for an ~30000 person unit that is one of three of Ericsson's businesses (Radio Networks, Digital Services and Managed Services).

We help our customers with their voice, data and infrastructure strategy and execution. We help them run their business and we help them manage revenue. We also have full consulting, lifecycle management and end-to-end service delivery capabilities.

Our portfolio includes Communication Services, Core Networks, Network Management, OSS, Billing, Charging, Revenue Management, and Cloud and NFV infrastructure.

My group's interest in the "why" and making sure that we're executing on the right technologies at the right times within a future-proof way of thinking.

We're interested in
- 1] the interplay between new hardware and new software,
- 2] being continuously improving, deploying, delivering and cloud native,
- 3] being world-class at distributed systems and recognizing that expanding the "edge" will require new technologies and approaches,
- 4] shifting the architectural and business design to being data-centric,
- 5] taking a complete and scientific approach to instrumenting everything we do in production,
- 6] optimization and care using a comprehensive approach to machine learning for the purposes of having the best best functionality, performance and scale,
- 7] developing post-optimization automation techniques to driving desired intent and behaviors in machine-designed rather than human-designed systems.

We're also the common cloud delivery group for the company.
            

    
    

    
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Ericsson

CTO, Business Area Digital Services

Owner for the Ericsson Cloud business.

Based on the initial work I did in corporate strategy, we assembled a portfolio including datacenters/DCIM, hardware, platforms (applications and data), data and storage and infrastructure security and elevated "Cloud" to a top-level business P&L in the company (a "Product Area").

We define “cloud” as highly accessible, industrialized infrastructure.  It is what traditional infrastructure is not. It is infrastructure as it’s own practice. Being highly accessible has consequences to all non-functional aspects: automation, governance, tenancy, utilization, predictability, security, maintainability et al. Being industrialized means the introduction of supply chain thinking where there are continuous improvements in technologies, output and unit economics all within the same operational model.

Our products include NFVi, SDN, HDS8000, BSP8100 and others.

The HDS8000 was the world's first hyperscale, disaggregated system where all components where natively available over a common single-mode optical interconnect. It won multiple industry and design awards.

At MWC 2017, we took it one step further and demonstrated alternative form factors that are entirely assembled and serviced by robotics in the datacenter.

Starting the cloud effort required touching our approaches to design, development, partnering, sourcing, supply, manufacturing, assembly, distribution, warranty/claims handling, contracts, support, commercial models, consumption experience, positioning, marketing and differences in our customer's buying and decision processes.

In three years, we

- 1] went from #6 to #1 in customer perception for NFVi
- 2] launched the world's first hyperscale, rackscale system (HDS8000)
- 3] went from 0 to nearly 300 BSP8100 customers
- 4] started the transformation process to virtualization a 100+ networks
- 5] established a comprehensive set of partnerships and mapped our position in the ecosystem.
            

    
    

    
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Vice President, Head of Product Area Cloud Infrastructure

Startup focusing on new products and services relating to npm. Backed by True Ventures and then Bessemer. Acquired by GitHub.

npm, Inc.

Developed cloud infrastructure and platform strategy and portfolio.

VP, Corporate Strategy and Portfolio Management

New Context is a Digital Garage company. They're focused on system and data integrity and assurance, the industrial internet and the IoT.

Acquired by Copado.

New Context

Member of the Board of Directors

Joyent

Executive and Board Advisor

The ICT Vision Core Panel is an 8 member panel at Singapore’s National Research Foundation and is responsible for

1) recommending new areas in ICT R&D spending over a 5-‐15 year timeline (>$0.5 billion per year)
2) proposing the end-‐to-‐end strategy for technology transfer and commercialization of government-funded ICT R&D.

<a href="http://www.nrf.gov.sg/nrf/default.aspx">http://www.nrf.gov.sg/nrf/default.aspx</a>

National Research Foundation Singapore (NRF)

Member, ICT Vision Core Panel

Incredible Labs is an incredible lab of people and initially working on Donna, a smartphone-based personal assistant.

Incredible Labs was acquired by Yahoo.

Incredible Labs

Investor and Member of the Board of Directors

Mob Science has been building fun and addictive social games since the early days-way back in 2008. Their games have been played and enjoyed by over 50,000,000 people, with new fans discovering them every day.

Mob Sciences is also the first company to be launching on Zynga's gaming platform.

Mob Sciences was acquired by Social Gaming Network

<a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/13/social-gaming-network-acquires-mob-science-shares-its-strategy-for-growth/">http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/13/social-gaming-network-acquires-mob-science-shares-its-strategy-for-growth/</a>

And SGN by NetMarbles.
            

    
    

    
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Mob Science

- Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) helps leading companies and investment firms learn more about current business issues by arranging interactions with members of the GLG Councils, a network of academics, scientists, industry practitioners, and other professionals worldwide. Client interactions with GLG Council Members include telephone consultations, in-person meetings, reports, and educational presentations."

GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group)

Council Member in Technology, Media and Telecommunications

Guardtime is the only technology that allows one to determine data integrity and tampering in completely untrusted and compromised environments. It was blockchain before it was cool.

Guardtime USA is entirely focused on the federal and defense sectors.

Guardtime

Member of The Board of Advisors

The innovation council helps provide a structure and framework to facilitate the discovery and the exploration of disruptive concepts/products that are aligned with the Emerson Network Powers’s long-term DCIM strategy.

Emerson Network Power

Member, Innovation Council

WordPress Foundation

Acquired by Samsung (2016).  We launched the world's first container-as-a-service offering in 2004, the most popular asynchronous runtime (node.js) in 2009, the most secure KVM-based VMs in 2009 and the world's first serverless offering in 2013.

As a founder, I was a guardian of organizational purpose, and functionally the product and engineering groups at Joyent reported into me where I lead the development and implementation of Joyent’s technologies.

At Joyent, I've been responsible for overseeing our commercial offerings, pricing strategy, products, product positioning, engineering and operations.

I was also responsible for research and advanced development, technical outreach, evangelism (partners, customers, industry, press and analysts), consultative efforts for partners and business units, and managing Joyent’s intellectual property portfolio including involvement in open source projects, licensing, technology transfer, assessments of potential partnerships, mergers and acquisitions.

Joyent is a unique company in that we're a large scale operator that has no reliance on outside software vendors: we work from kernel to runtime. Our operating system work is open sourced at <a href="http://SmartOS.org">SmartOS.org</a> (<a href="http://smartos.org/">http://smartos.org/</a>) and our runtime work is open sourced at <a href="http://nodejs.org">nodejs.org</a> (<a href="http://nodejs.org/">http://nodejs.org/</a>). It's been a great experience in building and directing a self-sufficient and vertically integrated engineering organization.

When I left Joyent, people like Werner Vogels (Amazon's CTO) and David Heinemeier Hansson (creator of Ruby on Rails) were kind enough to say

- Dear @jasonh thank you for the high bar on how science should be used in technology and in business. Your work will continue to influence..."

<a href="https://twitter.com/Werner/status/377460375446228993">https://twitter.com/Werner/status/377460375446228993</a>

- jasonh Quite the run! Thanks for all your help in the early days of Rails as well. Best of luck with NEXT."

<a href="https://twitter.com/dhh/status/377256380089905152">https://twitter.com/dhh/status/377256380089905152</a>
            

    
    

    
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CTO and Founder

Novartis

Fellow

Technology spin-off from the lab’s work. Company was VC-funded, staffed with former Merck people, acquired in 2006.

The Burnham Institute and Targeted Molecules Corporation

Consultant

Graduate course in Modern Methods in Pathology. I covered combinatorial methods ranging from phage display to combinatorial small molecule libraries.

UCSD Department of Pathology

Visiting Lecturer

Consulting practice with principal involvement in technical due diligence, capabilities and team assessments for investors in the biotech, pharmaceutical, software industries, telco, media and defense sectors.

For example, covering areas like "medical sensor networks" where proper assessments of success require deep, expert technical knowledge and experience in biomedicine, chemistry, engineering and information and communication technologies.

Perform feasibility, valuation and technical analyses coupled with product, team and commercial analyses for venture, institutional and private equity investors.

The main five types of customers:

- 0] Venture funds investing in mid to late stage start-ups
- 1] Private equity funds doing divestitures, LBOs, growth and mezzanine funding
- 2] Institutional investors evaluating public companies and doing LP evaluations of venture and private equity.
- 3] Large companies acquiring strategic assets and teams to accomplish strategic and portfolio objectives
- 4] Governments and their surrounding ecosystems

Transitioned from "consulting on the side" to family trust/LLC structure to hold projects and investments.
            

    
    

    
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J.A. Hoffman & Co.

Strategy, Execution and Investment Advisor

The Princeton Review

Master MCAT Trainer

While in graduate school, I ran a company that wrote, edited and did strategic planning around the output of grant-funded science: published papers.

I typically did one or two manuscripts a week, and over five years, edited nearly 400 manuscripts (~1 per week) and had a 98% publication rate. Largely fueled by an very international base in the San Diego area and then via recommendations, it was a tremendous experience and I was lucky to have done it. Typically the experience of having reviewed, edited and written hundreds of published papers is what you do over an entire career.
            

    
    

    
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SciEdit.com

Chief Editor and Principal

This is where I did my PhD work. You're typically called "visting" when you do your research at an institute that is adjunct to the school (UCSD) itself.

Lab of Erkki Ruoslahti at the Burnham Institute

Visiting Graduate Student

After scoring in the top 0.1% of the MCAT, I thought it would be fun to teach Organic and General Chemistry.

Senior MCAT Chemistry Instructor

Lab of David Sigman (<a href="http://www.chem.ucla.edu/news/dss.html">http://www.chem.ucla.edu/news/dss.html</a>). Mainly synthetic organic chemistry, bio-organic chemistry and protein structure, design and biochemistry.

UCLA Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Division of Organic Chemistry

Graduate Student Researcher

Chemistry 153C: Metabolism and Regulation. 5 quarters.
Chemistry 153A: Biochemistry. 2 quarters
Chemistry 153L: Practical Biochemistry. 1 quarter.

Teaching Assistant

Lab Assistant II

I taught American Heart Association Adult and Pediatric Basic Life Support (BLS), as both free-standing courses for the general public, new parents and child-care providers, as well as part of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support courses and Health Care Provider (e.g. Nursing staff) recertification.

St. Mary's Medical Center

Master CPR Instructor

While an undergraduate, I worked full-time (3x 12 hour shifts a week) as a licensed paramedic/technician in a Level 1 trauma center.

Jason Hoffman

Jason Hoffman