OurExperienceCounts.com

The OurExperienceCounts.com team:

Ian Zwicker – Chairman of the Board

Ian Zwicker is the President and CEO of Zwicker Advisory Group, which provides advice and expertise to private companies seeking to access the capital markets. Notable clients include Stirling Energy Systems, a leading utility-scale solar company, and Live Square, an enterprise level antivirus company.

Prior to forming Zwicker Advisory Group, Ian was the President of W.R. Hambrecht, a revolutionary investment bank that introduced the online auction process for IPOs, and was head of the Global Technology Investment Banking practice at Donaldson Lufkin and Jenrette.

Jeff Winters – President

Jeff Winters has over 30 years experience in marketing and sales in technology industries. He founded and served as CEO at Innovative Robotics for 9 years. He has also held various senior management positions where he has demonstrated the ability to establish or revitalize businesses. While with VLSI Technology he setup and managed that company’s Asian operations, which included three ASIC design centers. In three years revenues grew from less than $1 million to over $70 million annually. In addition to his work at OurExperienceCounts.com, he also serves as Chief Financial Officer at Borgata Recycling and also provides career counseling at ProMatch (a nationally recognized career counseling center for Silicon Valley professionals).

David Goldstein – Vice President, Technology

David Goldstein has over 25 years of experience in information technology management. He was founder and chief executive officer of Green Eagle Technology. He has also had management positions in information technology at National Semiconductor and Fairchild Semiconductor, BlueRoads Corp, and was Applications Manager for the City of Santa Clara, California. He has successfully implemented many large scale projects in his career, including the implementation of Fairchild Semiconductor on its own datacenter and the management of a world-wide PeopleSoft supply chain implementation. David has a Bachelor of Arts from the City College of New York, and has certificate in Computer Science from Coleman College.

Cher Forman – Vice President, Human Resources

Cher Forman has over 20 years of domestic and international Human Resources experience in organizations ranging from startups to $3B. As Director or Vice President, she has managed Human Resources groups at Applied Materials, Stanford Telecom, Ask Computer Systems, Teledex and Tri-Data Corporation and consulted on H.R. philosophy, values and infrastructure with many start-ups as well.  Cher has managed several of these firms through rapid expansion and significant organizational challenges. While at Applied Materials, she led her business unit as the company grew from 6,000 to 16,000 employees in three years. Ms. Forman has specific expertise in employment, M&A’s, corporate legal compliance, development of cost effective compensation/benefit strategies, organization development and international HR management. She has a degree in Organization Behavior from the University of San Francisco and has participated in advanced training at several other colleges and universities.

Camille Grabowski – Director, Strategic Relationships

Camille Grabowski is a Professional Career Coach with over 25 years of experience in the recruiting and human resources industries. As a workplace expert, Camille provides career coaching services to mature workers in the areas of career transition, career relaunch, job search strategies, resume writing, interview preparation, and job offer evaluation and negotiation. She is a frequent speaker on these topics and has presented workshops and webinars for many organizations including AARP, RetirementJobs.com, Robert Half International, Adecco, and RiseSmart. Camille is founder of 50+ Career Coach and has served as a Senior Career Coach for RetirementJobs.com. Camille has an MBA from The Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.

OurExperienceCounts.com Advisors:

Elliot Goldstein

Elliot has over 15 years experience in the internet and telecommunications industries in Israel. He was a co-founder of one of Israel’s earliest ISPs, Gezernet, and was the technical director. He then co-founded and was chief technical officer of eXXactly.com, and spent 6 years as the CTO of Interspace Ltd., the largest web hosting company in Israel. More recently, he has been the CEO of Swiftouch Ltd., a leading Linux solution provider in Israel. Swiftouch provided software and hardware consulting and development to many of Israel’s leading hi-tech companies. Elliot studied Political Science at the University of California at Santa Cruz and Industrial Computerization at the Ruppin Institute in Israel.

Rob Gullet

Rob Gullet is an independent Sales and Marketing Consultant specializing in working with clients in the technology space. Rob’s background is rooted in strategic and tactical sales and marketing applications where he provided marketing and sales consultation to Global marketers like Verizon, BMW, Maserati, British Petroleum, NTT, DoCoMo, Burberry, VISA, Chevron and others, Rob has worked with senior sales and marketing leaders where customer acquisition, retention and loyalty programs where sales process, database marketing, analytics, modeling, datamining and segmentation. Prior to his consulting practice Rob held a variety of sales positions from an individual contributor role as a Sales Rep to Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and New Business Development.

Dan Hartford

Dan has over 30 years in Business Information Technology Management. He started as a programmer in the mid 1970’s and quickly accelerated into management positions where he has excelled for the past 25 years. In those management positions he has weathered many cycles of upsizing, downsizing, insourcing and outsourcing in management as well as employee roles. Dan’s experience spans a broad spectrum of industries including Pharmaceutical/Biotech (Syntex, Roche), Commercial SW (Adobe), High Tech (Siemens Microelectronics, Infineon, KLA-Tencor, Avanex) and Applications Management (Accenture). Dan is a Certified Project Manager and has won several company based individual and team awards for his management and project work. During his years as a first and second line manager, Dan has honed his interpersonal and people management skills and is known for his staff motivation, counseling, and coaching skills. Dan has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA and a Certificate of Project Management from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Deb McClanahan

Deb McClanahan, Principal of BroadBand HR Consulting, helps companies with Executive Search and HR Consulting. She has also developed a practice in Expert Testimony helping clients with challenging immigration and employment matters. Attorneys across the country rave about her success rate on these cases.  For Executive Search, Deb services high tech, biotech and medical device companies as well as other businesses by finding and attracting extremely qualified people. Whether it is VP, Director, or individual contributor level, Deb specializes in hard to find talent.

Prior to starting BroadBand HR Consulting, Deb worked in-house at software and hardware companies in the Valley. Her experience also includes years in Manufacturing management and numerous HR roles at General Motors. She has also mentored in various incubator groups and supported non-profit career development and other organizations.  Her degree from Georgia Tech has prepared her well to contribute in a variety of ways to both technical and business process challenges well beyond the traditional borders of HR.  Deb currently serves as Secretary and Communications Director for the Women in Consulting Organization, having been active in the group for many years.

Rich Mumper

Rich has over 30 years experience in the sales management world of high technology chip design software.  He has successfully executed P&L responsibilities with Borgata Recycling Inc., Raytheon, General Electric and Mentor Graphics Corporation.  Rich has managed teams of as many as 110 people and yearly budgets in excess of $50M.  He has also been personally responsible for over $200M in chip design software sales and indirectly involved in over $400M of chip design software sales revenues during his career.  Rich has been involved in the successful completion (IPO’s) of three start-ups in California – Lexitron Corporation;  Quickturn Design Systems and Cooper & Chyan Technology.  These companies were eventually purchased by major competing companies – Raytheon, Mentor Graphics and Cadence Design Systems respectively.

Denise Pringle

Denise Pringle brings more than 20 years of broad domestic and international human resources experience to OurExperienceCounts.com, with specific expertise in strategic business support, organizational development, coaching and training.  Her experience includes a rich background in as a HR executive at corporate and subsidiary-levels in high tech and life science companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Denise has worked on transition teams for mergers and outsourcing and has had responsibility for training, organizational development, staffing and university relations.

Denise has taught her own hands-on, down to earth approach to Human Resources to other HR professionals as an adjunct professor at San Jose State University, where she had previously received her B.A. in History and Business.

Tim Ravey

Tim has over 30 years experience in the training, primarily in the transportation industry. At Viking Freight, he trained over 1200 freight handlers to the successful completion of their Commercial Drivers License including certification in the challenging DOT Hazardous Materials qualification. At FedEx Freight he developed and delivered new on-line education for freight handlers. In 2008, Tim was awarded the FedEx Extra Mile award for designing and delivering a red hot operating system training project for 300 top field managers. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley.