ENTREPRENEUR: Joe has helped start and scale several companies that raised millions in funding and secured millions in contracts -- including an exclusive contract with the federal government.  

He has also worked with incredible teams from idea-to-exit, enhanced public policy at the highest levels and negotiated commercialization alliances with some of the world’s leading brands.

 

GEEK: A patent holder, Joe has authored methods addressing traceability, technology and security. 

He has also motivated stellar inter-disciplinary teams to design data-driven solutions for systemic challenges in some of the most heated, complex, and rapidly transitioning environments, including:

-- water issues facing returnees from internally displaced people (IDP) camps in northern Uganda,

-- youth unemployment in Cairo, Egypt during the Arab Spring and, most recently,

-- Trans Criminal Organization (TCO) influence and gang directed violence in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the most dangerous city in the world.

 

MENTOR: Joe helped start four accelerators (Corporate, University, Community, Social Venture) where he has mentored entrepreneurs, scientists, CEO's, professional athletes and elite members of the US military through the commercialization process. 

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As a frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship, he speaks humorously from the trenches ("How I screwed up, and how you can too!" and "The last thing you want to do is write a plan") and was pleased to be part of Apple's Master's of Media speakers tour.   

 

COACH:  Today, Joe coaches innovators and serves on several boards, including start-ups, a social venture incubator, USC's Faber Center for Entrepreneurship and the McNair Institute for Entrepreneurism and Free Enterprise.