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 Mr.
Coolidge has been President/Chief Executive Officer of a number of high-technology companies and has extensive and successful
experiences in eight start-up and
turn-around business situations. In the turn-arounds, he
dealt with troubled, visionless, plateaued, product-poor or unprofitable
high technology companies.
Prior
to becoming involved in company start-up and turn-around management, Bob spent twelve successful years with 3M Company and
Honeywell Computer Division where he learned the structures and disciplines and
gained the experiences required for
career and business success.
Since
then, Bob has been approached and hired by venture capital groups or the Board of Directors to replace founding or existing senior
management in eight at risk
high-tech companies.
Bob
has measurable successes managing fast growing start-up, second or third phase businesses in quickly changing business and competitive
environments. He has successfully
lead these companies through first, second, and mezzanine financing, as well as through successful international IPO's.
He
is well versed in international business, having established two of his own businesses in Europe and Russia. He has negotiated sales,
product licenses, distribution and
service agreements as well as business mergers and partnerships throughout Europe and Asia.
Having
been recognized for his business successes in Europe and the U.S., Bob
was chosen as the U.S. President/CEO of two major European
companies. He has served on the
Board of Directors of a number of U.S. and overseas companies.
In
1984, he founded and funded Capstone Technology, a communications, computer,
hardware and software R&D for hire and proprietary products business, which
developed products for IBM, Intel, HP and others. He sold his business in 1994.
In
1996 he formed and funded a company involved in the location and transfer of patentable technology from the former Soviet Union with
principle offices located in
Sunnyvale and Moscow.
In
early 1998 Mr. Coolidge was asked to come out of semi-retirement to become the interim President/CEO of a five year old troubled international Wall Street based company to effect a complete business and financial
turn-around. Mr. Coolidge successfully concluded this turn-around in June 1999.
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