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The Coaching Board
"I feel like I have just been through one of those make over shows on Oprah where the wife gets some fashion maven to do an intervention on her scraggly husband and suddenly he appears at the end of the show looking all spiffy. Thanks for making me spiffy."
~ Torrey Russell, Offers Network, Serial Entrepreneur
ZINO Society Coaching Board Members-
Ajit Sukesan - Universal Consultants
Alan Housley
With a high technology background in Fortune 100 companies and venture backed startups, Alan has gained over 25 years of marketing, business/operations management, strategic planning, and international business expansion experience. Twenty combined years at Hewlett Packard and Eastman Kodak has provided Alan with world class business skills -- especially in the area of product marketing, go-to-market execution and business planning -- while delivering outstanding business results. Since arriving in the Seattle area, Alan has focused his skills on starting and growing smaller, high technology and e-commerce businesses – leading marketing, sales, product management, development and operations.
Diverse businesses managed have ranged from enterprise computing and networking, to wireless mobile software & services, factory automation/control, professional photography and imaging, consumer based digital photography and imaging, office document management, and field customer technical support. Some of the vertical markets Alan has served include health care, government, telecom, manufacturing, energy & aerospace. Alan earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri – Columbia.
Alan Smith - Fenwick and West LLP
Allan Smith, partner in the Corporate Group of Fenwick & West LLP, has advised many of the region's leading public technology and life sciences companies on corporate governance and securities matters and has led a variety of private and public financing transactions and mergers and acquisitions. He also has an active venture capital financing practice, having represented many of the region’s leading start-ups and venture capital firms, including Clarus Ventures, Cray, ICOS, Immunex, Infinia, Madrona Venture Group, MPM Capital, Onyx Software, Redfin, SonoSite, Voyager Capital and Vulcan Capital. Mr. Smith has been recognized as one of the top corporate and mergers and acquisitions lawyers in Washington by Chambers USA and as one of the “Top 40 Under 40” by the Puget Sound Business Journal.
Andrew Boyd - Tangerine Power
Andrew is the CFO/COO of Tangerine Power, a renewable energy developer. Andrew has over 20 years of experience in finance and business administration and is on his 4th career startup. Andrew loves to build systems and processes that enable agile decision making. Andrew has experience with healthcare, software, technology and energy sectors. Andrew has several years of experience in the entrepreneur saddle, and can empathize with entrepreneurs who wear many hats and have significant time challenges, and loves to offer his experience and advice to new entrepreneurs.
Brad Wilke - Flash Volunteer
Bob Day - Rialto Associates, LLC
Bob Nowlin - Tag Team Business Solutions
Bob is a financial management professional and Principal and Co-Founder of Tag Team Business Solutions whose focus is management consulting for companies in the retail and hospitality industries. The seven principals are from different professional functional areas from within a typical corporate structure so they are able to cover a broad range of company issues and solutions. Bob provides services to companies needing CFO level skills in such areas as financing, business analysis, strategic planning and due diligence. Bob has been consulting for two years but before that was the CFO with Restaurants Unlimited, a Seattle based restaurant chain, for seventeen years. Prior to that Bob was a Managing Director for a E.S. Jacobs & Co a private equity firm in New York and before that an Audit Partner with Arthur Young & Co (now Ernst & Young).
Bob Toomey - S.R. Schill & Associates
Bryan Brewer - Business Plans Northwest
Bryan Brewer has guided business plan clients in raising more than $15 million in angel and venture funding since 2000. He specializes in helping entrepreneurs prepare to successfully present to angel investors through the Investor Pitch Makeover service offered by Business Plans Northwest. As a former journalist, author, technologist, and business owner, Bryan brings an incisive perspective on the essentials for startup success. He is an active volunteer and presenter for the Northwest Entrepreneur Network, the business schools of the University of Washington and Seattle University, and other entrepreneurial groups in the Northwest.
Candice Carr - Graham & Dunn
Cathi Hatch – ZINO Society
Prior to founding ZINO Society, Cathi Hatch has held executive roles and consulted in the restaurant business for over twenty-five years, including her work as director of operations for Schwartz Brothers Restaurants and regional vice president for Restaurants Unlimited, Inc. She currently holds leadership positions on a number of for-profit and nonprofit boards including Zones, Inc.; Cinnaroll Bakeries Ltd.; Pacific Northwest Ballet; YMCA, PONCHO and the United Way of King County. Ms. Hatch has served as the president of HatchMatch, a consulting business that works with businesses and nonprofits to maximize the impact of philanthropy in the community, and has served as a facilitator and trainer for a variety of companies.
Chuck Roxin - Roxin Solutions
David Van Patten -
Dave Watts - Giant Harvest Sales Consulting
Dave is a Principal and Co-Founder of Giant Harvest Sales Consulting which is dedicated to helping new companies achieve continuing sales success. As an entrepreneur and business owner who has worked extensively with local startups Dave understands first-hand the go-to-market challenges of starting a business. Dave has 30 years of experience and success in high-tech sales, consulting, and management. He has successfully sold software, hardware, networks, and services, working with technologies that range from mainframes and PCs to cloud-based offerings. In addition to helping screen applicants for quality investments he loves coaching ZINO entrepreneurs to help them effectively communicate their offering to potential ZINO investors.
David Riley - Garvey Schubert Barer
Debra Hermansen - Debra is a Senior Operations and General Management Executive with twenty plus years of leadership experience with unique operating insight into the hospitality, consumer services & goods industries, specializing in sales and operations including full Budgeting and P&L expertise. Debra's Specialties include Strategic & Tactical Leadership with emphasis on sales and operations in a customer centric environment. She has 25 years' experience in restaurants, consumer services, consumer goods - B2B, B2C and E-commerce in business initiative development resulting in sales and profitability maximization.
Ellen Bierman - Black, Lowe & Graham PLLC
Ellen is a patent attorney specializing in software, Internet, business process, and computer-related patents, portfolio management and strategy, and litigation. She especially enjoys helping new and existing technology companies of diverse sizes protect their intellectual property investments in the software, e-commerce, and “business method” arenas. Prior to joining BLACK LOWE & GRAHAM PLLC, Ellen counseled clients for over eighteen years at Seed Intellectual Property Law Group. She has a vast technology and management experience as a software professional in areas such as operating systems, user interface design, and object-oriented software, working for companies including Microsoft Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, Digital Equipment Corporation, and a start-up computer company. She also owned her own company in user interface design and consulting.
George Sarhanis -Digital Ventures Group
Gary Ryno - Morgan CFO Consulting
Haeryung Shin - Davis Wright Tremaine
Haeryung represents public and private technology and rapid-growth enterprises in corporate finance, licensing and technology, strategic partnering and other business transactions. She works with public and private companies across many industries, but focuses on emerging and high growth clean technology companies. She has extensive experience as a legal and strategic advisor to founders, investors and early stage companies. She also has significant experience representing renewable energy investors and project development companies in development and finance transactions (including construction contracts and energy purchase agreements). Haeryung chairs Davis Wright Tremaine’s Clean Technology practice and leads the firm’s Smart Grid team. Haeryung is a the managing editor of the firm’s clean tech blog, Cleantech Chatter, as well as a frequent contributor to the firm’s Startup Law Blog.
Jeffrey Baumgarten - Tricendent Management
Jackson Weaver - InTown Media
Jackson has always been entrepreneurial – from the development of one of the first rock music stations on the FM radio band to building a digital new media companies - he has always worked on the edge of new media and new ideas.
Jesse Minier - Fenwick & West LLP
Jesse Minier, associate in the Corporate Group of Fenwick & West LLP, focuses his practice on general corporate representation of public and private technology companies. Mr. Minier advises companies on matters involving mergers and acquisitions, private and public equity financings, securities law compliance, SEC filings, and corporate formation and governance. His clients have included companies in the medical device, semiconductor, web 2.0, mobile social network and clean technology and alternative energy industries.
Mr. Minier received his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2002, where he was a member of the Stanford Technology Law Review. Prior to attending law school, he earned his M.S. degree in accounting from McCallum Graduate School of Business, Bentley University, and received his B.A. degree in psychology from Harvard University.
Jessica Hoerschelmann - Graham & Dunn
Joe Wallin - Davis Wright Tremaine
Joe provides legal counsel to emerging, high growth, and startup companies. Joe frequently represents companies in angel and venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, and other significant business transactions. Joe also represents investors making investments in companies, provides general counsel services for companies from startup to post-public, and advises clients on Securities Exchange Act compliance and corporate governance. Joe is a frequent contributor to DWT's Startup Law Blog, as well as to the firm’s Corporate Finance Blog. In addition to screening applicants for investments, he coaches ZINO entrepreneurs on pitch best practices, and provides counsel to many ZINO entrepreneur companies.
Joel Ard - Foster Pepper
John Baier - Davis Wright Tremaine
John Baier represents companies and investors in a variety of commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private debt equity and offerings, venture financing and strategic investment transactions. John has represented numerous private companies in early- and advanced-stage financing rounds. He also handles general corporate matters including entity formation, conventional financing, contract and corporate governance matters.
Kirk Van Alstyne - Evolution Capital Advisors
Founder and Managing Partner at Evolution Capital Advisors. Evolution is a boutique investment bank providing capital formation and mergers and acquisition advisory services focused exclusively on the niche of early stage technology companies. The firm has a strong specialty in the cleantech sector, recently advising high profile early stage Northwest firms such as Powerit Solutions (smart grid), M2E Power (energy harvesting), and Novinium (grid reliability) on raising their early institutional (venture capital) rounds of financing.
Nicole Sporer - Perkins Coie
Nona Battistella - BNY Mellon
Nona is a Director with Bank of New York Mellon Wealth Management where she is responsible for attracting new clients and transitioning the client smoothly to her team, of portfolio managers, private bankers and fiduciary officers. She has worked in the investment industry for most of her career with broad experience including investment banking, private equity, estate planning, investment management and planned giving. She has held positions locally as a Partner with Liberty Pacific Capital, Vice President in the Private Client Services group for Wells Fargo, Regional Vice President for Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and Vice President of Client Services for Accessor Capital Management.
Pat Franke - Graham & Dunn
Pat is a corporate, securities, and business lawyer and a member of the firm’s Startup & Venture Capital Group. He focuses his practice on the representation of startup companies utilizing his 15+ years of experience to provide strategic advice on initial capitalization, corporate structuring and governance issues, intellectual property, capital raising transactions, operational matters, and mergers and acquisition activities. Pat gravitated to this practice because of his entrepreneurial nature and because he thrives on the excitement and energy involved in new ventures and ideas. He genuinely enjoys working with entrepreneurs and relishes the opportunity to roll up his sleeves and become an integral part of his clients' teams.
Peter Thermos - Total Reclaim/EcoLights
Peter is the Marketing Director at Total Reclaim/EcoLights, a computer, electronics and fluorescent lamp recycling company in Seattle, WA. In addition to marketing and advertising, Peter directs Web development and creative contractors in the creation of products that open new markets and channels of distribution. He also has expertise in business valuation/cash flow analysis, small business acquisition or sale, SBA 7a loan funding and Business Development. With background at early-stage companies operating on Angel or Venture Capital funding, Peter appreciates the entrepreneurial vision and has aided in the development of successful VC investment pitches. For the last 10 years, Peter has screened business plans entered in the University of Washington Business plan competition, where he completed an MBA degree in 2000.
Rajiv Sarathy - Perkins Coie
Robert O'Hara - Andrew Seybold, Inc.
Scott Warner - Garvey Schubert Barer
Shannon McCarthy - Graham & Dunn
Sinjin Dinh - Foster Pepper
Skip Walter - Factor, Inc.
Skip has over 40 years of experience in executive management, executive consulting, software product development, mergers and acquisitions, and joint venture development in the legal, publishing, health care, high technology and wine industries. Skip was the founding CEO and CTO for Attenex achieving a cash flow positive state within three years. Attenex was sold to FTI Consulting in 2008 for $91M. Skip has raised more than $25 M in new venture funding for software companies in the office automation, medical, and legal industries. Skip teaches in several graduate programs at the University of Washington. Skip serves as the Chairperson for the External Advisory Board for the Human Centered Design and Engineering Department at UW. Today, Skip is actively involved with angel investing and coaching for ZINO Society.
Stephen Gerritson - enterpriseSeattle
business development manager for clean technology at enterpriseSeattle, has been elected to the board of directors of the Northwest Environmental Business Council.
Stuart Campbell - Davis Wright Tremaine
Stuart handles transactional matters primarily for emerging technology and other high-growth companies. He has particular focus in representing companies in the wireless, health care technology and game spaces. He has extensive experience representing investors and companies in venture capital financings and with respect to mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, entity formation, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and technology transfers and licensing. Stuart also advises clients on corporate governance matters.
Susan Betcher - Perkins Coie
Taft Kortus - Moss Adams LLP
Taft is a Certified Public Accountant and Business Assurance Partner at Moss Adams LLP in Seattle. He is the Northwest Regional Leader for the Technology & Life Sciences Practice Group and a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)/Corporate Finance Practice Group.
Taft has 13 years of public accounting experience with an extensive focus on technology and life science companies ranging from venture backed early stage start-ups to multi-national entities. His areas of expertise include revenue recognition, equity and debt based transactions, business combinations, stock-based compensation, intangibles and goodwill, corporate restructurings, segment reporting, private placements, public stock offerings, mergers and acquisitions, international financial reporting standards (IFRS), and SEC compliance matters. He is currently an executive committee and board member with the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
Troy Hartzell - Evolution Capital Advisors
Vin Ricci - Foster Pepper
Mr. Ricci's practice includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, public company reporting and disclosure, cross border transactions and general corporate matters, with a focus on the representation of life sciences and technology companies. Before joining Foster Pepper, Mr. Ricci was an associate at Orrick's Seattel office, and at Preston Gates & Ellis LLP. Prior to that he was an associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York for six years.
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