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MITCHELL A. LEVY

SUMMARY OF KEY SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

EXPERIENCE

ECnow.com, Inc., Cupertino, CA Oct 1997 - Present

President & CEO - Founder of a management consulting firm helping companies grow with strategic consulting and targeted business education. Partial client list. Highlights during this period include:

• Aug 2004-Present: Director and Chief Strategy Officer of the Silicon Valley Executive Business Program through San Jose State Extension (SJSU-PD).
  
• Jun 2002-Present: Co-Founder and Partner in CEOnetworking. Participated in over 75 meetings helping 6-10 CEOs per meeting explore, analyze and make adjustments to their business.
  
• Sep 2001-Present: Created the Value Framework®, a strategic framework which helps companies drive value in the business. Have used the framework to analyze the business models at over 100 companies.
  
• 2000-2001: Conference chair for 4 Comdex conferences. Brought in $2m in revenue.
• Fall 2000: Wrote a book on transitioning companies from the industrial age to the Internet age called E-Volve-or-Die.com.
  
• Sep 1999-Dec 2003: Founded, Ran and was a Faculty Member of the Enterprise & E-Commerce Management Certificate Program at SJSU-PD. Created 50 courses, brought in $1.7m in revenue and sold over 4,700 courses.
  
• Helped a $1B client double Internet sales in 6 months (50% ahead of schedule).
  
• Trained, coached and hosted 3 Japanese executives for 4-5 month intensive training periods. Facilitated an increased knowledge in business, strategy and management. All 3 were extremely successful contributors once they returned to their corporations.
  
• Negotiated over 100 contracts, 20 of which involving partnerships.
  

Bay Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA April 1997 - Oct 1997

Senior Marketing Mgr, Web Business Developement.

Responsible for the strategy, direction and implementation of e-commerce and all Web-related business activities for this $2b corporation.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA May 1988 - April 1997

Held various management positions, leaving Sun as the Worldwide Operations Electronic Commerce Manager.

Led an 11-person cross-functional team responsible for streamlining Sun’s $3.5b value chain while building a global EC infrastructure. Functional responsibilities included: strategic planning, market research, product positioning, business development, process reengineering, change management, product development and procurement, system integration, on-going support, people and budget ($1.6m) management.

• Pioneered use of new Internet technologies in Sun’s supply chain
• Developed Intranet site which facilitated info flow across Supply Mgt., Logistics, AP & Engineering
• Spoke at major conferences on Internet marketing and Web design. Published in Internet Journals

Highlights from the other positions held:

• Chartered by CFO to pull revenue & standard margin data from disparate worldwide O/E systems. Conceptualized and evangelized the vision, managed implementation: led teams, wrote spec, designed database, developed sections of code, marketed system and trained users.
• Responsible for the life cycle of a worldwide supplier scorecard application. Created product plans, defined specs, obtained budget, built and led joint IR/user team, delivered on time and within budget.
• Created a Supply Mgt. Intranet site to share info. (e.g. reports, process info., project status, etc.) among the 160-person worldwide organization. Integrated Web technology into business processes.
• Coordinated worldwide OS transition for all finance, HR, legal & facilities applications.
• Led team of 6 to right-size a mainframe-based financial reporting application to a client/server platform. Responsible for entire life cycle. Created product plan, defined specs, managed team, documented product, created training materials and trained over 200 users worldwide, provided quality control and successfully managed user paradigm change.
• Responsible for consolidating & reporting worldwide actual/plan data from the General Ledger. Negotiated contract, programmed interfaces, wrote documentation, trained over 150 users and facilitated paradigm changes in finance community to adopt system.
• Published in "Journal of Info Strategy", "Journal of Financial & Accounting Systems" and "Management Accounting"

RELATED EXPERIENCES

• Director and Chief Strategy Officer of the Silicon Valley Executive Business Program
• Partner and Chairman, CEOnetworking
• Chairman, Media Attention Now
• Creator of the Value Framework® and CEO and Chief Strategist of the Value Framework® Institute
• Authored the book E-Volve-or-Die.com
• Founded, Ran and Instructor in the E-Commerce Management program at San Jose State University Professional Development.
• Was actively involved with the Silicon Valley Web Guild and the Software Development Forum (previously running e-commerce SIGS within each group)
• Was actively involved with CommerceNet (500 Company Consortium). Served as part of the Members Advisory Council and chaired the Marketing Working Group which drove the architecture and creation of white papers & case studies which fostered a better understanding of e-commerce.
• Authored, published, and marketed a nationally released book called "Home Ownership: The American Myth". Sold over 3,500 copies of the book and over 800 copies of the software. Appeared on NBC TV stations and in Parade Magazine around the world. Made countless appearances on TV, radio, newspapers, magazines & book stores in the United States.
• Featured on numerous TV, radio and hard-copy publications

EDUCATION

• Certified E-Commerce Consultant, CEC
• Master of Business Administration, College of William and Mary, Full fellowship, Dec. '83.
• Bachelor of Science, Operations Research, University of Miami, Top 2% of class, May '82.

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