David Anderson Bio
Profile
Successful international entrepreneur with strong operational experience anchored by advanced software engineering background. Track record in strategy, marketing, and sales at embedded technology firms. Exceptional creativity and leadership skills; passion for motivating diverse teams to exceed their personal and organizational goals.
Avid photographer and traveler who enjoys camping, swimming, languages, culture, and history.
Expertise
P&L Executive Leadership: Business and channel development; C-level sales; people development; diverse team management.
Analysis & Strategy: Business strategy for emerging and discontinuous technologies. Ability to analyze and project from complex chaotic data, then to extract strategic meaning from critical data hidden amidst the clutter.
International Business: Japanese business, sales, channel development, partner negotiation, P&L responsibility, public speaking.
Positions
Start-up Consulting: Enterprise Security, Multimedia, Nano-materials, Informatics
Motorola Computer Group: (Industrial Automation Segment Japan, USA), Strategic Market Analysis; Strategic Sales Manager, Japan computer Operation Director
Xytec System Inc: founder, Embedded Control Systems Engineer, Japan
Awards
Computer Group, 100% Sales Quota Award.
Nippon Motorola Chairman's Award for excellence.
Archive (technical journal); "Introduction to Realtime Control Systems, Parts I, II"; (Japanese). Coauthored with S. Iwai, Tokyo Japan.
Tsukuba World Expo '85: The HDTV Laser-Scan Telecine System at NHK control room at Expo Center is one of only two permanent exhibits left from the Expo. Developed the RTOS and controlling software system for this equipment.
Sales Talk Champion; Dale Carnegie Sales Course (Tokyo Japan)
Oregon HS Speech League First Place Men's Extempore Speaking
Education
Masters program Computer Science, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
B.A., Computer Science and Japanese; Univ. of Oregon, Eugene
Undergrad, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Lived in: San Francisco, Phoenix, Tokyo, Yokohama, Portland
Visited: Japan, Korea, Singapore, Tanzania, Kenya, Turkiye, France, UK, Mexico