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Board Member
Apr 2019
Matilda Cloud empowers businesses to reduce IT operating costs, accelerate application delivery, and drive digital transformation. Our software solution helps you migrate applications to the cloud quickly, manage ongoing cloud costs, and automate your software release pipeline.
Let us show you how Matilda Cloud can:
• Provide a quick and reliable mechanism to migrate applications to public clouds
• Configure and manage infrastructure resources through a self-service workflow
• Provision and manage virtual resources on major cloud providers
• Support DevOps with complete lifecycle management of applications and services
• Provide real-time monitoring, alerts and event correlation
• Reduce complexities in deploying new applications and features
The Matilda Cloud platform delivers a framework that allows for easily repeatable deployment of applications to the cloud. Expense control can be realized through management of deployments across cloud partners. Risk can be mitigated through the control of software and security vulnerabilities. Application delivery can be accelerated through automated release management.
Contact our sales team today to learn more: sales@matildacloud.com
Board Member
Aug 2013
We are now Stellar Elements. Find us here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stellarelements
Founding Board Member
Feb 2007
Ziosk® is the creator of the first entertainment, ordering and pay on demand tablet for table service restaurants. The new generation of Ziosk tablets feature 8-inch touchscreens with encrypted credit card readers built to accommodate the latest secure payment technology including EMV and NFC. The tablets reside on each table, enabling guests to see menu items, play games, view news and entertainment, order food and beverages and pay on demand; all of which gives guests control over their dining experience. The pay on demand platform enables other benefits like labor efficiency, increased sales, guest insights and greater guest frequency for restaurants to better run their business. For more information, please visit www.ziosk.com.
Ziosk is currently working with large casual dining chains and is observing positive results from the guests, sponsors and restaurants.
Board Member
Jul 2005
geniant creates exceptional experiences for your employees and customers.
Experiences shape the world; they happen in physical spaces, between people, and through technology. We've brought together world-class craftspeople with the skills to help you optimize your entire brand experience. As you look to navigate your new employee engagement model for hybrid work and improve your experiences across all customer journey moments, let geniant help you shape a better tomorrow.
It's time for professionals to catch up and combine their thinking for a more thoughtful and well-designed, holistic experience. We're helping lead this profession where it needs to go, where you have one company with experts working together in an integrated way to blend this reality and shape the future of experiences.
geniant is the leader at bringing together these historically separate experts. Bringing years of experience across architecture, interior design, user experience, service design, change management, and technology. Imagine streamlining your business in a way where employees move seamlessly across office space and technology-enabled moments, where experiences are shaped to be seamless for customers across their journey, from your retail location to a mobile app or even the metaverse.
Are you ready to shape experiences that drive improved customer and employee experiences for your business?
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2026
Operating Advisor
Aug 2026
Updata Partners is a leading technology-focused growth equity firm in Washington D.C. with over $3 billion in committed capital. Led by an investment team averaging more than 25 years of technology experience, Updata invests in high-growth B2B software and software-driven businesses where the combination of capital and operating experience will help accelerate success. To learn more, please visit updata.com.
2019
Board Member
Apr 2019
Matilda Cloud empowers businesses to reduce IT operating costs, accelerate application delivery, and drive digital transformation. Our software solution helps you migrate applications to the cloud quickly, manage ongoing cloud costs, and automate your software release pipeline.
Let us show you how Matilda Cloud can:
• Provide a quick and reliable mechanism to migrate applications to public clouds
• Configure and manage infrastructure resources through a self-service workflow
• Provision and manage virtual resources on major cloud providers
• Support DevOps with complete lifecycle management of applications and services
• Provide real-time monitoring, alerts and event correlation
• Reduce complexities in deploying new applications and features
The Matilda Cloud platform delivers a framework that allows for easily repeatable deployment of applications to the cloud. Expense control can be realized through management of deployments across cloud partners. Risk can be mitigated through the control of software and security vulnerabilities. Application delivery can be accelerated through automated release management.
Contact our sales team today to learn more: sales@matildacloud.com
2018
Chairman and Co-Founder 501 Entertainment
Nov 2018
501 Entertainment specialise in creating fun, engaging, entertainment systems for a variety of sectors. Our team consists of highly skilled artists, software engineers and hardware geeks. We have expert knowledge and an enviable track record in product design, game design, payment systems and more. If you have a vision for a project, feel free to drop us a line to see if we can help make it a reality.
Board Member
Sep 2018
Tidel is a world leading provider of cash management solutions that empower organizations to streamline, automate, and secure their cash environment. For over 40 years, customers have relied on Tidel to help them improve efficiencies, reduce risk, and increase profits. Information about the company and its products may be found on Tidel's website at www.tidel.com.
2013
Board Member
Aug 2013
We are now Stellar Elements. Find us here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stellarelements
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