Founder Chair of BoD & Chief Strategy Officer. 20 years experience. Ex-Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute (CMU SEI), Marketing Director Europe. MARSSA co-creator. Started first own company at age of 20. Commercially licensed mariner. Frequent speaker at marine technology conferences. Founder President & CEO. 30 years experience. Ex-CMU SEI, Managing Director Europe. MARSSA co-creator. Serial entrepreneur. Founder & CEO Q-Labs (acquired by Ericsson, DNV, Ratos). Commercially licensed mariner. Chief SW Architect & Dev Team Lead Experienced (25 years) Internet services architect and Java developer. MARSSA contributor. OBP architect. Ex-Lead SW Engineer at Tieto and Aareon AG. SW Architect and Lead SW Engineer at CheapCaribbbean.com Sales Team VP Marketing & Sales. 30+ maritime industry veteran. Ex-National Marine Electronics Assoc. President & Executive Director. Multiple Director positions at leading marine electronics companies. Sales Team Product Dev. & Sales Europe. Captain at leading ferry operators. Ex-Kongsberg Maritime. Financial Team Lead CFO. 20+ years experience as CFO in tech companies from start-up to IPO, Silicon Valley. Member of the Board of Directors A veteran of Silicon Valley, Ms. Mason is co-founder of the Bell Mason Group (BMG), a specialty consultancy serving global corporations who seek strategic growth through corporate venturing and innovation (CV&I) initiatives. Ms. Mason serves as a strategic advisor to Global 1000 corporations that are focused on innovation, new markets and new business creation through venturing. Ms. Mason is a multi-published author. Her book The Venture Imperative: A New Model for Corporate Innovation (May 2002, Harvard Business School Press, co-authored with Tim Rohner) introduced best practice CV&I operating principles that have been broadly applied in corporations across the globe. Advisor Mark concentrates in strategic intellectual property advice, private financing, corporate partnering, software licensing, Internet licensing, cloud computing and copyright and trademark. For over 30 years Mark works with technology companies and companies ranging from Fortune 500 to start-ups that use technology and enjoy applying the law to the issues raised by new technologies, such as open source software, IoT and domain names. He is the Co-Chair of the Internet of Things Group at DLA Piper. Our Team
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