• Serves as Senior Advisor at Blackhorn Ventures, a firm investing in startups that enhance resource efficiency in the built environment, transportation/logistics, and energy sectors.
• Co-founded three software startups in the Built Environment sector, including Vité Corporation (CEO & Chairman), Design Power, Inc. (Non-Executive Chairman), and Rackwise, Inc. (Co-founder & Director).
• President of the Farmers Investment Club, a Stanford-based angel investment partnership, since 2005.
• Kumagai Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University, where he co-led the 'Digital Cities' initiative.
• Previously worked on the civil engineering faculty at MIT.
• Conceived and directed Stanford's Advanced Project Management program, an executive education certificate program that graduated over 10,000 managers.
• Holds an MS and PhD in Construction Management from Stanford University and a Civil Engineering undergraduate degree from the University of Witwatersrand.

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