About me
I manage Sharp’s partnership and venture activities in Social TV in Silicon Valley. I joined Sharp in 1Q2011, with over 20 years of experience as a technology executive.
I was a Vice President of Research at Gartner Group in Paris for ten years. During my tenure at Gartner, I was responsible for the creation and launch of several flagship products, including:
• “Gartner’s Cool Vendors List” — a yearly round-up of the best and brightest startups in IT
• “Gartner Invest” — an advisory service for investors in tech
• “Gartner Predicts” — yearly predictions on IT markets
As a Gartner analyst I focused on the consumer Internet space and spoke at numerous Gartner and industry conferences around the world.
I left Gartner in 2005 to join Microsoft in Silicon Valley as Senior Director and Portfolio Manager for Digital Media. As such, I evaluated opportunities for Digital Media startups to engage with Microsoft’s Entertainment Division and product groups such as Xbox, XboxLive, Zune and IPTV. I represented Microsoft on numerous media and investment industry panels in the US and abroad.
In my spare time, I am also a wine aficionado and entrepreneur, contemplating a wine-and-tech oriented venture still in stealth mode…
This is my personal blog, opinions are my own.
