WeAccel, Founder & CEO

Background Industries: Economic, Business, & Workforce Development; Technology, and International Trade; Community Engagement

Specialties: Development Strategies for Smart Communities, Community Engagement; Public-Private Partnerships; Banking & Finance; Real Estate; Energy; Local Government

Affiliated Organizations: Global Communities Technology Challenge (GCTC) under the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), City of Oakland, City of San Leandro; IDotConnect (Principal); Wells Fargo Bank, Crocker Bank (AVP, Real Estate Industries); TwoPointOakland (Co-Founder); Mission Bay Residents Assn. (President)

WeAccel, Sr. Dir., Ideation, Ethics & Communications

Background Industries: Resilience & Sustainability, Smart Cities/IoT Technology, Knowledge Mgmt, UX/UI, Tech Editor, Crisis & Executive Comms, PR, Marketing, Events

Skills: Systems Analysis, Community Engagement, Ideation, Ethics, Social Sciences, Content Dev., Event Mgmt.; MarComm, UX/UI; Spanish, French; Photography

Partners, Past Clients, & Affiliated Orgs: DERSec, Automicle (An MTI Company), OracleLens, eIoT, the Marcus Consulting Group, Cisco, Link Oregon, IDG & Ziff-Davis Publishing, Lotus Dev. Corp, Nikon Precision; Technology Assoc. of Oregon (TAO), Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon (CHIFOO), Global Communities Technology Challenge (GCTC)/NiST

Creative Content Advisor, BorjaPlus

Background Industries: Sales; Marketing (Digital & Physical); Political Campaigning

Specialties: Social media, digital & graphic design, web design, creative development

Affiliated Organizations: City of San Leandro, San Leandro School Board Member; Smart City Diaries

Enterprise Development Consulting Group (EDG), Business Innovation & Climate-Change Advisor

Background industries: The Enterprise Development Group (EDG) is an international consulting firm that specializes in innovation strategy and best practices, organization design, and leadership development across a myriad of industries.

Specialties: Climate Strategy, The CO-STAR (TM) pitch, Innovation Best Practices, Leadership Training.

Clients: Apple; Intel, Logitech, BBC; Kaiser Permanente; Swiss.com; Stanford University; Southern California Edison, Lockheed Martin

Enterprise Development Consulting Group (EDG), Business Innovation & Climate-Change Advisor

Background industries: The Enterprise Development Group (EDG) is an international consulting firm that specializes in innovation strategy and best practices, organization design, and leadership development across a myriad of industries.

Specialties: Climate Strategy, The CO-STAR (TM) pitch, Innovation Best Practices, Leadership Training.

Clients: Apple; Intel, Logitech, BBC; Kaiser Permanente; Swiss.com; Stanford University; Southern California Edison, Lockheed Martin

Background Industries: Public Relations, Communications & Digital Branding; Entertainment Journalism (Music, Film)

Specialties: Communications and creative development

Affiliated Organizations: Ann Flower Communications; Lobeline Communications; World Race Productions; Girls Behind the Rock Show; Absolutepunk.net; Substream Magazine; Kennedy Consulting

Lost Summit Films, Production, Cinematography & Story Telling

Background Industries: Film, Video Production, Documentaries

Specialties: Film making, videography, scripting

Associated Projects: Smart City Diaries

Key Projects: Out From the Ashes; Smart City Diaries; Truth is Beauty; A Gentle Walk; Circular Resonance

Consulting & Business Coaching, Circular Economy Advisor

Background Industries: Digital economies; hardware in technology; blockchain; consulting

Specialties: Circular economies; regenerative design and entrepreneurship; clean tech

Affiliated Organizations: Holo.host; Lifeguides; VEME; Karavan; LUMAN.io; Solar Punk

Deep Blue Institute & UIXGlobal, Blue Economy Advisor

Background Industries: Consulting; education; economics of preservation / regeneration of the marine environment (blue economy)

Specialties: Sustainability, resilient city dev., infrastructure, design thinking, civic engagement, entrepreneurship, social capital, impact investing, blue economy

Affiliated Organizations: Clean Tech Open, Seasteading Institute, Digital Raign, Impact Hubs Bay Area & Roma, Prospect Silicon Valley