Founder President & CEO – Waterleaf International and Cyberleaf 2010 – 2025 www.waterleafinternational.com - www.cyberleaf.io Founded commercial and government systems integrator for telco engineering and Cyberleaf – Cybersecurity as a service 68% CAGR, 70% GM. Design, build & maintain Smart Cities and low latency networks for High Frequency Trading (HFT). Provide cybersecurity, core RF/EE – Telco engineering services, data science, operations and project management for Fed,SLED, Enterprise and Carriers. SME - AI/ML, Cybersecurity (25 years exp). Recruited teams, executives, created successful culture and leaders. • Designed and built Cybersecurity as a Service (Cyberleaf) integrating NIST, CMMC, CIS, SOC2, ISO 27001 into the CSF for large scale Enterprise and Gov. • Designed, built and maintained low latency MW/HF networks for HFT/FINTECH • Designed and built ML (ANN/CNN/Tensor Flow) and LLM models for defense. • Built compliance and regulatory practice Governance Risk & Compliance (GRC) • Global scale system integration – SDN and SDWAN Cloud for Telco/FinTech • Splunk deployment optimization for CMMC/GCC High and integration to SOAR/SIEM
Led business CLEC and wireless provider in a turnaround from losses to EBITDA positive in 14 months. Developed strategy for next generation services, M&A and industry synergies. Hired senior, management team implementing process and procedures in engineering, finance, marketing, operations and administration. Turned around corporate culture to create a thriving and dynamic environment. Reduced OPEX and set KPI’s for all divisions. Re-organized/ re-started company via infrastructure, engineering, operations, finance. Secured and launched wireless network (regional) with a national WiMax license Expanded the company organically – data centers, fiber, SAAS and new products Added Unified Communication services and cloud/managed services Led M&A activities (acquired and integrated 2 companies)
Hired as SVP of Operations and promoted to managing operations, sales, business/corp development, for mobile digital content and e-commerce/SAAS products. Expanded the company in N.A., SE Asia, EU, China and India. Developed sales channels (retail & agent) and operations with contracts globally and strategic relationships with wireless carriers and global ISP’s. Due diligence and analysis on M&A opportunities. Developed revenue analysis and pricing models. Strategic Planning and Global Operations Planned and directed global services, operations & support (EU, US, Asia, SE Asia) Managed large scale integration/deployments with Yahoo, China Mobile, Globe Telecom, Voda, Smart and others. Managed business development US, SE Asia, China, India, EU Developed and deployed support organizations in India, SE Asia, Japan, China and EU. Led Investor Relations at the BoD level as well as managing a successful ‘B’ round Sales, Marketing and Business Development (EU/EMEA/Asia/NA) Created strategic relationships with partners; Yahoo, Google, MS, Vivendi etc. Managed carrier sales teams (NA, Asia, SE Asia, China, EU and India) via direct sales and VAR/SI’s channels selling to global carriers. Direct ‘C’ level relationships Enabled first ‘big sales win’ with Globe Telecom - $65MM LTR Established long term contracts with CMCC and others Grew revenue from $3MM to $65MM. EBIT from loss to $12.3MM
Served as a senior executive and board advisor, assisting various portfolio companies on tactical and strategic initiatives. Other areas of focus included; operations management, MarComm, financial analysis, marketing, business development and sales management. In this role, I also assisted in M&A activities and the management of portfolio companies via board advisory. Board advisor assisting portfolio companies in exits and liquidity events Evaluated new opportunities for investment Advised portfolio - RF engineering, sales, marketing, finance, M&A, operations and strategies for product development (closed sales with Sprint, Voda and others in excess of $200MM) Reduced manufacturing costs, streamlined product development at portfolio companies (Little Feet and Caly Networks). Company contributions: Here U Are, Dynamicsoft (sold to Cisco), E-Wireless, Caly Networks, Universal Access
Recruited and hired expert staff for finance, marketing and engineering. Managed the relationship with key OEM’s for reduced BOM and delivery to customers in Asia and SE Asia. Introduced the worlds first wireless CPE for ‘routing at the edge’ of a network. Added just in time manufacturing, Kaizen/TQM, ISO process and Black Belt processes etc. Directed Investor Relations as well as Strategic Planning and Operations Reduced BoM, added lean manufacturing, outsourced non IP centered manufacturing reducing overall costs by 65%. Secured global contracts for manufacturing and 4 year purchase agreement Led the acquisition of Okanogan Wireless (stock purchase) Secured strategic partnerships (Carriers, chipset OEM’s, and ODM’s.)