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VP Marketing Search | Venture-backed members-only deals e-commerce start-up

The Position

Reporting directly to the CEO, the Vice President of Marketing will play a senior leadership role within the management team, overseeing all branding, customer acquisition, public relations, and channel marketing efforts.

Core Responsibilities: This position will be responsible for the overall success of the Company’s consumer offering, including user acquisition/adoption/retention and general management of the brand.   The VP Marketing will build a business-to-consumer marketing function focused on the customer experience. He/she will also identify opportunities for increasing value and optimizing revenue growth and will ensure consistency in messaging across integrated marketing channels.

The VP Marketing will lead the Company’s  strategic and tactical consumer marketing initiatives and will assist with the development of the overall corporate strategy, vision, messaging, and product direction. He/she will be responsible for the creation of an innovative marketing strategy and outreach program for the Company.  He/she will also act as a key external evangelist for the company when called upon.

Specific responsibilities include:

  • Drive the Company’s  market research and segmentation, brand strategy, demand creation, channel definition and affiliate marketing programs, marketing communications, advertising, public relations, events, web presence, and sales support efforts
  • Driving quantitative marketing metrics and dashboard that support a real-time feedback loop and test-and-learn marketing approach
  • Digital Marketing – eg, social media, blog marketing, SEO, SEM, etc.
  • Linear Marketing – e.g., radio, TV, etc.
  • Brand – Define and integrate a unified corporate message, image, and brand across the Company’s  product, its website, its presentations, and its marketing collateral.  Positioning, messaging, and the managing of any agency or design resources.
  • Lead the budgeting and execution of marketing plans encompassing all products and consumer channels, driving a very cost-effective program that is appropriate to the company’s stage and funding
  • Work with supply-side partners  to define and drive programs that increase the leverage effect of their brand involvement and reach
  • Be the leading advocate for the evolution of the end user experience that is enabled by the Company’s  products
  • Lead participation within relevant industry forums
  • Working closely with internal engineering resources, and in particular with the VP of Customer Analytics and Pricing, and VP Product
  • Qualifications & Experience

  • Prior successful experience as a consumer oriented marketing executive focused on the delivery of a shopping experience to consumers via the web and mobile devices that significantly and positively impact business results and revenue
  • A strong understanding of the overall business models used in the sale of consumer focused e-commerce
  • Extensive understanding of U.S. consumer markets with the ability to sense and adapt to consumer requirements at this time and in the future
  • Current relationships with key executives at consumer applications and content providers, and media and entertainment companies
  • Prior experience and recognition as a market and brand creator
  • A successful, hands-on track record managing all marketing functions in a dynamic, start-up environment
  • Proven ability to developing and implementing creative and resourceful guerilla marketing strategies and programs
  • A smart and decisive executive with proven analytical ability and strategic business and product development/management skills
  • B.A. or B.S. is required. An M.B.A. or other advanced degree is desired.
  • Skills & Personal Characteristics

  • Defined by others as smart, capable, hands-on, energetic, and someone who possess a strong entrepreneurial spirit.
  • A product and corporate evangelist with outstanding strategic and conceptual thinking skills.  Someone who is able to adjust rapidly to changing market conditions and new opportunities.
  • A strong, assertive personality, able to make a creative contribution and build buy-in for ideas as well as integrate with the ideas of others.
  • Ideal Candidate Profile

    The following diagram illustrates the intersection of competencies critical in the VP Marketing position:

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    UK Managing Director search for “on-site utility” for the Commercial Customer

    Efficiency gains with on-site co-generation

    BSG Team Ventures has been retained to recruit the UK Managing Director and Advisory Board Directors  for a new British energy generation business that targets the commercial customer with a unique onsite co-generation solution that reduces their cost of heat and power while at the same time requiring no up front capital expenditure nor addition of employee overhead.

    You can think of it as an “On-Site Utility” offering clean electricity, heat, hot water and cooling to hotel, healthcare, and multifamily housing properties in the United Kingdom. The company sells the energy produced on-site as an alternative to the outright sale of energy equipment; designing, installing, owning, operating and maintaining the complete CHP system. Customers pay only for the energy they need and use, at a rate guaranteed to be below their local utility rates, via a prenegotiated power purchase agreement.

    Reporting directly to the President of the parent company, the UK Managing Director is responsible for all activities of the subsidiary.

    Essential Job Functions/Responsibilities

  • Divisional P&L
  • Multi-functional team-building
  • Strategy (sales, marketing, operations)
  • Sales leadership and sales pipeline management
  • Developing and managing detailed budgeting & forecasting
  • Developing sales and distribution plan
  • Developing partnerships in both upstream indirect sales channel development, and downstream servicing and maintenance functions
  • Investor presentations for follow-on company fundraising
  • Below is a Venn diagram of the success attributes for the Managing Director position–

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    SVP Technology & Software Engineering, SaaS software for financial services sector

    The Leading Provider of Wealth Marketing Solutions

    Based in New York City, our client provides strategic and interactive marketing solutions for wealth management firms and luxury brands. The company offers strategy planning and research services; online marketing and advertising programs; and e-marketing tools, which comprise a suite of software offering an e-marketing platform that allows communication with clients and prospects. It also provides marketing services, including print and online content publishing, brand and identity creative, creative strategy and planning, logo and mark creation, graphic design and layout, editorial design, copywriting, multimedia design, video and audio production, prepress and print, and collateral development services. In addition, the company offers interactive solutions, such as Web design, Web building and analytics, Internet and intranet/micro site development, information architecture, SEM/SEO, systematic design, content management, E-commerce, and Internet application development services,  and multichannel integrated marketing, rich and emerging media, media strategy, media planning and buying, and strategy and creative development services.

    The company has become the pre-eminent provider of interactive agency expertise, accompanied by specific CRM oriented software tools to help their marquis clients, including Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Charles Schwab and Barclays.

    The Position

    Reporting to the CEO, the SVP Technology’s role is to oversee day to day activities of the software product development and enterprise architecture integration teams for the company’s Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. The SVP will directly supervise a team of software developers, quality assurance, and business analysts; identify risk and opportunity areas; and coordinate all software development activities.

    The head of technology will also work closely with Product Strategy on the business side and manage the Lead Technical Architect to envision and define features in the product roadmap and be accountable for the features development, deployment and support.  In addition to the technical leadership of the team, this role has full management responsibility and oversight for a cross-functional group of engineering personnel.

    The SVP Technology shall:

    • • Manage software architecture, design, development, procurement, and integration. Also manage tier-2 and higher support once software has been placed into operations.
    • • Achieve cost, schedule, technical and quality performance for delivered software. Compile, maintain, schedule, resource, execute prioritized lists of development projects, including planning and managing the budget and scheduling personnel and vendor contracts to meet project needs. Collect metrics on development performance and report on them.
    • • Collaborate with other functional managers (customer facing business units, systems engineering, QA, and operations) to ensure architectural integrity, effective integration and test, and ongoing system stability.
    • • Direct technical subcontractor management including contract negotiation, technical support, budgetary management and program management of various contracts and associated budgets.   Coordinate vendor contracts, deliveries and schedule with affected company parties.  Contract with vendors for services to support engineering while addressing Intellectual Property, Non-Disclosures and Statements of Work.
    • • Manage short- and long-term staff planning, recruitment, performance management, work assignments, training, mentoring, career development, and recognition or disciplinary action.
    • • Be responsible for business planning and proposals, operating budgets and financial terms / conditions of contracts for both internal and external customers.

    The successful candidate must also have the ability and experience to lead a multi-disciplined organization in a multi-location environment.

    Qualifications

    • • Minimum of 10 years overall software development experience, with no less than 5 years in a SaaS environment as well as at least 5 years of management experience.
    • • 2-3 years of senior-level or leadership experience in a software environment with 10 or more direct reports.
    • • Experience working with product managers and other business stakeholders to set timeliness, budget resources, and manage expectations and quality of the development process
    • • Advanced understanding of SaaS web application programming architectures, including standards for security, scalability and configurability
    • • Expertise and experience in implementing and overseeing measures for data security, business continuity, disaster recovery
    • • Deep understanding of load balancing and performance optimization  principals for high volume/transaction web applications
    • • Strong skills in Java software development.
    • • Experience with refactoring and eliminating legacy dependencies
    • • Demonstrated substantial leadership in both technical and management areas
    • • Experience leading development efforts using a variety of different SDLC approaches (waterfall, agile, etc.)
    • • Knowledge of multi-threaded programming
    • • Outstanding collaboration skills, excellent communication skills, an ability to look at the big picture

    Essential Job Functions/Responsibilities

    • • Lead software and front-end engineers in the specification, design and development and support of all our applications, including websites/products, our core services and our internal and external tools
    • • Provide hands-on technical management leadership and support to software development team of 12 – 15 engineers
    • • Identify skill and performance gaps in current organization and provide improvement plans
    • • Improve existing processes and establish new processes for efficient development and high quality output
    • • Evaluate and enhance overall development environment, release practices and Quality Assurance methodology
    • • Instate and maintain development standards, code reviews, unit testing and integration testing frameworks
    • • Maintain overall ownership / accountability for data security, business continuity, disaster recovery
    • • Work in tandem with Technical architect and development team to identify and implement new measures for system performance optimization under high load
    • • Lead, recruit, develop and supervise the development team members
    • • Evaluate and take accountability for decisions on key technologies adopted
    • • Ensure proper development of technical specifications and documentation.
    • • Estimate resource usage and timeliness for development team
    • • Review team members’ detailed design of components/modules/code
    • • Provide a good balance of experience and skills in several front-end and/or back-end technologies
    • • Strong relational database skills, preferably MY SQL Serve
    • • Knowledge of latest web technologies with understanding of AJAX and RIA
    • • Ability to translate technology choices into business implications

    The diagram below illustrates the intersection of competencies critical in the SVP Technology position:

    Compensation

    Compensation is competitive with the position’s requirements.  In a performance-based environment, this will include base salary, incentive bonus structure based on both individual, department, and corporate qualitative and quantitative MBOs, and a potential stakeholder position in the company.

    SVP Software Engineering, SaaS software for financial services sector
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    U.S. Sales Leadership, Innovative Needless Syringe Technology

    PharmaJet's innovative Needless Syring Technology

    PharmaJet's innovative Needless Syring Technology

    PharmaJet, Inc. (http://www.pharmajet.com) offers jet injection technology to deliver vaccines and drugs through skin. The company offers PharmaJet, a needle-free system that delivers liquid medications at high speed creating a ‘liquid jet’ that penetrates the skin and delivers the medicine through the skin in less than 1/3 of a second. It serves individual patients, as well as public health needs internationally. The company is based in Golden, Colorado with operations in

    With approximately 23 employees currently,  PharmaJet was founded in 2007 and is currently headquartered in Golden, Colorado with other offices in San Francisco and  Baltimore.

    As a privately held medical device design company, PharmaJet has developed an FDA 510 (k) cleared needle free jet injection technology.  It can be used to inject any liquid medicine into the body (human and animal), for fixed dosages ranging from 0.1cc to 0.5cc, into intra-dermal, subcutaneous, and intra-muscular tissue depths.  It is most appropriate for vaccine delivery, which is a standard 0.5 cc dose for nearly all human vaccines.  Since starting its first scientific collaboration 22 months ago, active pre-clinical and clinical testing of PharmaJet’s device is underway in 9 countries, with 18 partners for more than 25 vaccines and therapeutic medicines.

    Market Opportunity

    History & Genesis

     •	An estimated 600,000 - 1 million US healthcare workers receive a needle stick injury annually •	In Africa, healthcare workers receive an estimated 2-4 needle stick injuries annually.  >50% of the patients are HIV positive. •	40-70% of needle syringes are reused in countries like India (recycled) and China (reused in health care because of lack of education and tradition). •	Each year unsafe injections cause 1.3 million early deaths and 26 million years loss of life and more than $535 million in direct medical costs.

    PharmaJet’s technology was developed to address a need for safe and clean delivery of liquid vaccines, without a needle, in view of the massive infection rates caused from within the healthcare system of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV (and an additional 17 other blood borne diseases) due to syringe needle reuse and needle stick injury during vaccination (estimated at 22 million injuries per year world-wide).   With the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines in mind, the Founders created a needle-free injection technology that is simple, robust, and inexpensive.  Besides getting rid of needles, however, there are a host of other sustainable competitive advantages and attractive features making it a value added device that can improve the lives of people, reduce the cost of healthcare, all the while generating profitability for PharmaJet and its partners.

    Product  Potential

    PharmaJet’s features help address the developing world problem of re-use (as much as 40-70% in some countries) which contributes to growth in disease and epidemic.  Further, the intra-dermal application (0.1 – 0.2cc volume) may contribute to stretching vaccine supply (reduced dosage, but similar immune response to standard 0.5cc dosage) where there is shortage so that the health net can be spread among a larger population, ultimately benefiting their group welfare and economy.  At the same time, it is perfectly appropriate for the sophisticated healthcare market, and eliminates needle-stick injury which is prevalent everywhere.  As a technology platform, there are a variety of additional product extensions that allow it to be useful in other injection segments, user groups, and processes.

    Initial Markets
    • Human vaccine market: >1.75 billion needle-syringes being used annually for injection of vaccines, for children and adult populations.
    • Animal vaccine market: Even larger by volume than the human vaccine market, PharmaJet’s device has been used successfully in a range of species (mice, rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, cats, goats, sheep, horses, cattle), making it suitable for:
      • For pre-clinical research and antibody production
      • To keep companion animals from spreading disease to their owners (i.e. rabies), and;
      • To keep animals productive, so that populations do not starve (developing world), industries are not financially devastated (i.e. culling for foot & mouth disease), and producers maintain efficiency (i.e. dairy).

    The Position

    As PharmaJet, Inc. seeks to substantially expand it’s product user base, exposure and revenues in 2010, the PharmaJet Regional Business Development position plays a vital role in product introduction, demonstration and sales within several key market segments.  Leveraging their industry experience, this sales and business development leader will systematically identify and develop key new market opportunities and represent product sales to all public and private healthcare providers currently utilizing needle injection delivery of vaccines and select drugs to patients and the general public. Based upon a pre-defined region, such product introduction will use a team approach for product adoption and use support, in conjunction with PharmaJet Certified Trainers and Technical Support. This position will thus serve as the overall regional business manager of these services.  The role will be focused on integrating PharmaJet’s product capabilities into all relevant regional public health networks, private clinics, and hospitals, thereby participating in all key mass vaccination events at the city, county and regional levels.  Such efforts shall include attendance and representation at all relevant user’s groups and regional conferences of professional healthcare providers

    PharmaJet Candidate Competencies Venn Diagram

    PharmaJet Candidate Competencies Venn Diagram

    Financial Backing

    PharmaJet has raised a Series A and B equity financing from angels and strategic investors, and is well capitalized to enter their next phase of commercialization.

    Compensation

    Compensation is competitive with the position’s requirements.  In a performance-based environment, this will include base salary, incentive bonus structure based on both quantitative revenue goals and qualitative MBOs, and a potential stakeholder position in the company.


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    European Sales Director, Leading Wind Energy Industry Technology

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    Second Wind’s (http://www.secondwind.com/) mission is to advance the use of wind data to make wind energy profitable for the businesses and investors who create wind energy plants, painless for the operators who work with wind energy equipment and practical for the businesses, consumers and utilities that benefit from wind energy as a low-cost and environmentally desirable source of power.

    Second Wind prides itself on technology innovation with its in-house hardware development and software engineering talent. The company continues to develop ground breaking products related to wind data.

    Thirty four employees staff Second Wind’s headquarters and manufacturing facility.  The company has an industry-wide reputation for innovative, reliable technology and excellent customer support. Inc. magazine recently ranked Second Wind on its first-ever Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. The company’s ranking was based on its 27% revenue growth from 2003-2006 and was the only business-to-business wind organization in the energy industry category. In December 2007, Second Wind secured $4 million in second round financing from Good Energies, a leading global investor in the renewable energy and energy efficiency industry.

    Second Wind has been growing steadily, with annual sales of about $7M in 2008. Their clients include the largest developers and operators in an industry with a 30% annual growth rate.

    History

    Second Wind was founded in 1980 by Walter Sass and Kenneth Cohn.  Engineers who have been friends since grade school, they decided the emerging field of wind energy provided an opportunity to leverage their engineering skills to benefit the environment. They recognized that, to succeed, the industry needed more than wind turbines. Wind developers also needed software and hardware to measure wind accurately at prospective sites and to monitor turbine performance at established wind farms. The company’s first headquarters was the spare bedroom in Sass’s home.

    Second Wind established a presence in wind resource assessment in 1981 by introducing the first data logger designed specifically for wind energy prospecting.  In 1985, the company introduced their first wind farm monitoring system. In 2007, Second Wind launched the TritonTM sonic wind profiler, designed to re-invent sodar for wind profiling.

    Market Opportunity

    Wind energy is growing at 20-30% annually.  The market is global, with 17 countries having attained over 1,000 MW via wind.  Of the $37B invested in wind energy in 2007, 2% was for wind resource assessment instrumentation and services, or $735MM. 8,000 met towers were installed for prospecting, power performance and operations.  Target markets for wind assessment include large, medium and small developers as well as services firms.

    The pressing need for viable alternative energy sources that do more than just supplement coal fired power-stations is driving advances in the development of wind energy. A major hurdle in establishing successful wind farms is the difficulty of attaining accurate site evaluation data.  The Triton Sonic Wind Profiler addresses this challenge. Designed to measure wind-speed at heights of up to 200m without the need for erecting costly and less effective masts, the wind profiler utilizes a technique known as Sodar (sound detection and ranging) that measures sound wave echoes in the atmosphere. The technique is not dissimilar to Sonar detection used by submarines underwater.

    In evaluating a suitable site to establish a wind farm, measurements need to be taken over a period of at least a year. This has been achieved, until now,  by using a meteorological mast or met mast – a tower equipped with anemometers and other weather instruments. These masts are limited to a height restriction of 60m; any taller tower requires aircraft warning lights, which complicates assessment of a site for a turbine 75-80m high.  Another complicating issue is the masts’ high visibility, which can raise public concerns before the site has been properly evaluated.

    Relying on precise measurements of frequency and time delay from sound pulses that are bounced back to the transmission unit by wind turbulence, Sodar technology provides a virtually invisible tool which measures wind speed and direction at heights up to 200 meters. The Triton system also overcomes some of the problems associated with existing Sodar technology by remaining effective even in poor weather and delivering easy to interpret wind data without an on-site presence.

    Triton also boasts innovations such as a hexagonal transducer array and a tri-lobed acoustic enclosure that increase accuracy by improving signal-to-noise ratios and beam focus, rugged construction making the unit effective in all weather conditions and able to correct measurements when used on uneven ground.

    The Products and Customers

    TritonTM Sonic Wind Profiler re-invents sodar technology for wind assessment. It captures accurate wind data from any height, in any weather, at any location, without being attended. Readings look like anemometry results, with no expert analysis required.

    SODAR (SOnic Detection And Ranging  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodar ), or sodar, is a meteorological instrument which measures the scattering of sound waves by atmospheric turbulence. SODAR systems are used to measure wind speed at various heights above the ground, and the thermodynamic structure of the lower layer of the atmosphere.

    Sodar systems are like radar (radio detection and ranging) systems except that sound waves rather than radio waves are used for detection.

    Sodar sends an audible “chirp” up through the air, and wind turbulence sends a portion of the sound back toward the ground. By precisely measuring the frequency and time delay of the chirp’s echo, the sodar device measures the wind speed and direction at various heights.

    Sodar technology is commonly used for “site profiling” at the end of the prospecting process for potential wind farm locations. It measures above the 60-meter height of most meteorological masts, assessing wind at actual turbine heights. In addition, sodar is more portable than masts and can be moved to determine ideal turbine placement.

    Current sodar products have multiple limitations for wind profiling. They require on-site support to

    operate, and deliver wind data in formats that require expert interpretation. Readings must be carefully analyzed to filter out “side lobes,” or sound artifacts from nearby trees and buildings that can produce inaccurate results. Most current sodar products also must be covered in rain or snow to avoid damage to the sensitive microphones and speakers.

    Benefits of the Triton Sonic Wind Profiler

    Numerous Triton innovations address the shortcomings of existing sodar products for wind profi

    • More accurate data. A hexagonal speaker array (patent applied for) focuses sound beams more

    effectively than previous designs, which improves signal-to-noise ratio accuracy and decreases

    disruption. The array is housed in a tri-lobed acoustic enclosure, which reduces the chance of

    sound artifacts disrupting data.

    • Unattended use in any location. A solar array and battery can provide adequate power for the

    Triton unit to operate for prolonged periods of time, depending on available sunlight and amount

    of use.  Bundled with new Skyserve satellite wind data service, the Triton profiler delivers

    accurate wind data to any computer from any location in North America.

    • Ready-to-read data. Unlike other sodar products, the Second Wind sodar delivers easy-to-read

    data that is similar to data read outs from conventional meteorological towers.

    • Works in any weather. The unit is made of rugged plastic with stainless steel components and

    sound absorbing material that functions when wet, unlike foam. Internal temperature sensors and

    a propane heater also allow Triton to operate in icy conditions.

    • More portable and less obtrusive. At six feet tall, Triton can easily be towed by a pick-up truck.

    The unit has internal controls to compensate for uneven ground, and a built-in GPS and compass

    identify the time and location of data as it’s captured. Because of better acoustics, it is also less noisy than other sodar products.

    The Position

    Reporting to the VP Global Sales Peter Gibson, the Director Eastern European Sales will be responsible for the planning and execution of sales activities for Second Wind in Eastern and Central Europe. The Sales Director be focused on direct sales of the company’s Triton SODAR device and services.

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    CEO for growth-stage start-up in Denver focused on pixel OS

    Our client is tearing down the walls of the pixel landscape.  The Company has developed proprietary breakthrough software that functions as a pixels operating system, moving video display from one source projecting one visual, to infinite sources projecting virtually unlimited visuals.  And all of this is at a pixel-density that can go beyond high-definition quality, at commodity projection device cost, with no manual calibration or image “stitching” required.  The Company’’s technology is used in various applications ranging from simulation and training to museum displays and digital signage.  The company serves corporate, government, and academic organizations.

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    Market Opportunity

    Industry Outlook (software-enabled displays):

    • •    Visual simulation and Large Venue Display – $1.4B and $22.2B
    • •    Growing rapidly – 14.1% and 23.3% CAGR
    • •    Incumbent companies expensive, inflexible, and manually aligned – the bottleneck to widespread use of advanced display
    • •    Commercial public venue display increased from $16.5B to $22.2B from 2005-2007
    • •    iSuppli (major research firm) predicts $51B by 2011
    • •    Multiple options for use: API for large, seamless displays and computing clusters with over 6xHD resolutions displays; or seamless displays up to 6xHD with no application integration.

    A single Company server can calibrate multiple displays and is not limited by projection hardware type or resolution.

    The Position

    The CEO’s core responsibilities will include:

    Marketing direction:

    Marketing strategy & product marketing– Establishing a short and long-term business direction the drives the company to become an industry leader and maximize the penetration of the markets served.

    Business development, including channel sales, OEM & relationships, and all distribution agreements

    Operations– Product delivery, deployment, fulfillment and post-sales customer relationship management.

    Manufacturing & Operations:

    Oversight of manufacturing and production teams responsible for commercializing the technology, establishing build/buy/outsource decisions, etcetera. Working with the rest of the team, oversight of quality assurance, working with the CTO to ensure that product development meets various international multi-regional market-driven specifications and is “rolled out” smoothly and on schedule.

    Staff- team building, development, mentorship:  The CEO is responsible for human capital planning and hiring.  As important, the position will actively be responsible for developing new and existing staff to help prepare them for company growth and increased leadership responsibilities at all levels.  Finally, the new CEO will serve as leader and mentor to the founding team and as a complement to their existing skills.

    Investors/shareholders & board - milestone management, follow-on fundraising, liquidity strategy: The new CEO is primary liaison to the board and will aggressively manage milestone deliverables, be a key contributor at board meetings and to board/investor communications.  The CEO will be responsible for developing and managing against an annual operating plan and in addition to possible follow-on fundraising, will be accountable for optimizing the harvest for all shareholders.

    Ideal Candidate Profile

    The diagram below illustrates the intersection of competencies critical in the new CEO:

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    Compensation

    Compensation is competitive with the position’s requirements.  In a performance-based environment, this will include base salary, milestone/incentive bonus structure, and a stakeholder position in the company.


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    Vice President, Product Management– Leading Online B-to-B Content Provider

    The Company

    Becoming the leading content provider of geospatial imagery for mapping & monitoring applications

    Our Client has its roots in rocket science… literally.   Since the first image was collected from space over 30 years ago by classified government imaging systems, only a limited number of people have been permitted access to highly detailed photos of the Earth, and the industry was tightly regulated.  Since its deregulation in the 1990’s, The firm is changing this historical usage of Earth information through the commercialization of high-resolution satellite imaging and an innovative approach to conducting business with customers, partners and resellers. The company was founded in 1992 to launch satellites into space for the purpose of taking high-resolution photos of the earth for defense and intelligence, government, and commercial use.   In early 2000, the US government awarded its first significant contract for satellite imagery, to our client.  Currently the company offers the world’s highest resolution commercial satellite imagery, the largest image size, and the greatest on-board storage capacity of any satellite imagery provider.  In addition, the company’s comprehensive ImageLibrary houses the most up-to-date images available.

    In 2004, the firm struck an exclusive portal agreement to supply much of its satellite imagery to Google’s new product launch, branded Google Earth. This deal served as both validation for a broader explicit push as well as anchor tenant into the non-federal government, commercial sector.

    Continued growth in 2009 is punctuated by an IPO in May, and the launching of their third imaging satellite, WordlView 2, in October.  With this satellite joining the prior two, the firm has the most powerful ability to add global imagery to its imagery library faster than any other company on the planet.

    The company is headquartered near Boulder, Colorado, with other offices and facilities in key geographies throughout the world.

    Market Opportunity

    Popular business and technology soothsaying magazines have trumpeted mapping as the next “killer app.” Even as far back as 2005, the MIT Technology Review dubbed it “Killer Maps” in their article– More…

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    Director of Product Management

    Location:         Mountain View, CA. USA.
    Website:          www.google.com

    Head of Product Management

    Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
    In September of 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up their first workspace in Susan Wojcicki’s garage in Palo Alto, and over the last 10 years Google grew to being one of the world’s best known companies. Susan was employee number 18, and currently is responsible for managing Google’s monetization and measurement platform products including AdWords, AdSense and Google Analytics.

    One of the most visible members of the senior management team is Marissa Mayer. Hired as employee number 20 and the first female engineer after receiving her Masters in Computer Science, Marissa is responsible for the consumer-facing (UI) side of Google, and has been called the Chief Experience Officer.
    The opportunities for Directors of Product Management will report directly into Marissa Mayer or Susan Wojcicki , and will be responsible for working across Google in the innovation, creation, management, release, and lifecycle of new products that extend the improve the quality and measurability of search and advertisement monetization. They will establish short and long term product goals and strategies to build and manage a product roadmap to support Google’s goals and strategies. They will initiate and prioritize projects within engineering; track product development; develop product launch plan, and also engage closely with the engineering team to help determine the best technical implementation methods and reasonable execution schedules.

    Product Management at Google is an engineering and deeply technically focused organization that is full of visionaries and entrepreneurs. They apply their core technical abilities to understand the capabilities and possibilities of computers, and then leverage insight and imagination to create new products that will allow users to gain better, faster, and more accurate access to information. They are fascinated with new products, and obsessed with making the best possible product for the largest possible audience serving the most important needs. They represent the visionary, the communicator, the leader, and the technologist all-in-one. Essentially, the Product Management team ensures that Google has the best worldwide product offerings by analyzing, positioning, packaging, and promoting their solutions
    across a variety of countries and markets where Google does business.

    Areas of core expertise for this PM role: More…

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    General Manager: eTrinsic Division

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    Position: General Manager, Simbionix eLearning

    Reports to: CEO, Simbionix USA

    Location: Denver, CO

    Website: www.simbionix.com

    “Virtual reality simulation in surgical training has become more widely used and intensely investigated in an effort to develop safer, more efficient, measurable training processes…If executed properly, virtual reality offers inherent advantages over other training systems in creating a realistic surgical environment and facilitating measurement of surgeon performance.”E. Seymour and J.S. Rotnes, Surgical Endoscopy (2007)

    “If we’re going to make a mistake, let’s make it on the simulators first.” - Dr. Karl Illig, Chief of Vascular Surgery at Strong Medical Center, Rochester, NY, on why physicians are eager to start using the new Simbionix PROcedure Studio simulator

    “If the learning actually matters, use simulations. If it doesn’t, don’t worry about it.” - Clark Aldrich, founder of SimuLearn, industry visionary, and author of numerous articles and books on simulations and e-learning

    SIMBIONIX IN THE NEWS

    http://www.simbionix.com/News.html

    http://www.simbionix.com/PROcedure.html

    THE COMPANY

    Surgical simulators have been developed in the past few years to enhance the training of physicians, reduce the number of animals and cadavers, and provide flexible training scenarios and preoperative planning. Despite their potential benefits, and the fact that they have precedence in flight simulators, there are very few simulators in current use globally. Simbionix as a leadership company in this growing industry is changing the medical training landscape.

    As a world leader in the field of medical education and simulation technology, Simbionix offers the most comprehensive medical training experience available, using the latest software and hardware technology. The company’s state-of-the-art technology provides surgeons, interventionists, nurses, and technicians with a robust platform to learn and master critical skills to ensure procedural efficiency and promote quality patient outcomes. The systems offer a range of basic and highly advanced procedures, and incorporate detailed and complete metrics for skill assessment.

    The user is free to practice skills and perform procedures until the required proficiency is attained. In addition, difficult and uncommon procedures may be practiced at any time. This maximizes consistency to optimize learning, providing a clear advantage over relying solely on previous ly available patient training methods. More…

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    Vice President of Enrollment Management

    Position: Vice President of Marketing and Enrollment

    Management

    Reports to: President

    Location: Manchester, NH

    Website: www.snhu.ed

    Southern New Hampshire University trains intellectually and culturally enriched individuals to be successful in their careers and contribute to their communities.
    SNHU’s educational philosophy challenges students’ intellectual potential and prepares them for professional lives in an ever-changing and increasingly interconnected world. It provides a supportive and close-knit learning community, delivering engaging instruction in a flexible variety of formats. Students develop the knowledge to understand a complex world, the skills to act effectively within that world and the wisdom to make good choices. They do so within a community of teachers, staff and peers that is encouraged to add its scholarly, creative and pedagogical contributions to the larger social good.”

    THE COLLEGE

    Founded in 1932 as the New Hampshire School of Accounting and Secretarial Science, Southern New Hampshire University was granted its degree-granting charter in 1963 and conferred its first bachelor’s degrees three years later. The college became a nonprofit institution under a board of trustees in September 1968; in 1969 its name was shortened to New Hampshire College.
    Throughout the next three decades the college continued to grow through the addition of its Schools of Business, Community Economic Development, Education, Liberal Arts, and Professional and Continuing Education. During the ‘90s the college opened off-campus centers to better serve adult learners. Programs now are offered in Laconia, Manchester, Nashua, Portsmouth and Salem, N.H., and in Brunswick, Maine, as well as internationally through such schools as SIT in Malaysia.
    A recent article in the Boston Globe describes SNHU’s efforts to lower the cost of high-quality education by offering a “low-frills”’ alternative to the campus-based experience.
    SNHU Students Forgo Frills to Save Thousands
    Today SNHU boasts a full- and part-time student enrollment of more than 6000 and a full-time faculty of 130; 40 degree-granting programs; a 300-acre campus on the Merrimack River; one of the largest and most dynamic online offerings in New England; and programs as diverse as culinary arts, public economic development, and language education. Students come from more than 23 states and 35 countries, with 80 percent of undergraduates living on campus. More…

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