WeAccel Founder & Chief Innovation Officer

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 Ethical Tech & Communications Director

Background Industries: Smart Cities / Internet of Things (IoT); Publishing, Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Communications Strategy / Marketing, Multimedia Technology

Specialties: Technology (IoT / Smart Cities, Collaboration, Broadband, Comms, AI); Data Science; Sociology (Ethnomethodology); Business / Tech Ethics; Strategic/ Crisis Communications; Writer / Editor; Event Production; Consulting (Marketing, UX/UI; Customer / Consumer Technology Advocacy); Speaks Spanish

Clients: Cisco Systems, Link Oregon, InfoWorld , PC Entertainment, Lotus Magazine, Softbank / Key3Media, Lotus Dev. Corp/IBM, Nikon Precision;

Affiliated Organizations: Technology Assoc. of Oregon (TAO), Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon (CHIFOO), Global Communities Technology Challenge (GCTC); UCLA, SF State University

Company: 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

Company: Enterprise Development Consulting Group (EDG)

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

Company: Enterprise Development Consulting Group (EDG)

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

Company: WeAccel

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.

Company: Lost Summit Films

Background Industries: Film, Video production

Specialties: Film making, videography, scripting

Associated Projects: Smart City Diaries

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

Company: Consulting & Business Coaching

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

Company: Deep Blue Institute & UIXGlobal

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

Specialties: Sustainable, resilient city development, including infrastructure, design thinking, civic engagement, entrepreneurship, social capital, impact investing, blue economy

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