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Recent Clients
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"We partnered with SEED right after founding ID Analytics and they have given us the guidance we need to grow into this large new market from the very beginning."
--Mike Cook, VP of Product & co-Founder, ID Analytics
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"SEED's strategic work was more actionable than what Bain did for us AND they stuck around as interim executives to successfully lead the implementation of the growth strategy. They were a great value-add to my company."
--Jess Kraus, CEO & Founder, 3E Company, $25M MBO in '02
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"The Team at SEED was incredible. They worked with our technology leaders and executives to create a superb business plan and investor presentation. More importantly, they developed a successful strategy for a powerful stand-alone business that is fundable by the highest caliber VC's, and they even helped us execute."
--Dr. Victor George, Vice President, SAIC and CEO/Co-Founder of IsoPix
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"It's not easy to take a molecular diagnostic array technology and craft a sustainable business strategy - but that's what the entrepreneurs at SEED did. Lina and Tony were the perfect interim executive additions to our team of accomplished senior scientists and what every founder needs to turn a well developed technology into an extremely successful business."
--Dr. Nanibhushan Dattagupta, President, co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer of Applied Gene Technologies, Inc.3/5/2003
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"The Team at SEED was incredible."
-- Dr. Victor George, VP of SAIC
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Our Team
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Tony Medrano
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  Tony Medrano joined Inflow, a $50M application hosting and business continuance and IT services company, as its General Manager in 2004. He currently manages Inflow's San Diego Data Center and its Sales and Operations teams which serve clients throughout California like Kintera, Profitline and AMN Healthcare. Prior to joining Inflow, Tony was President of SEED Enterprise LLC where he worked as an interim executive focusing on high growth, turnaround and buyout/spinout opportunities with technology services companies such as SAIC and 3E Company. At 3E he developed the company's growth strategy which led to a $25M MBO in 2002 and led the implementation of rapid revenue growth with a large national sales team, and at SAIC he led the strategic efforts surrounding a hardware spinout.
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Previously, Tony co-founded and served as President of DoDots, Inc., a business-to-business software infrastructure company in Silicon Valley. Tony grew the company to over 120 employees and 50 paying customers. Tony also initiated, negotiated and closed numerous public company customers to revenue generating licensing contracts, even before product release. He personally raised over $25M in venture capital and managed all company efforts on all day-to-day operational and strategic sales & alliances matters.
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Tony is a recognized expert in entrepreneurship and operations for VC funded companies, and for the past 4 years has co-taught Stanford Graduate School of Business class titled "Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital." Tony's leadership in company operations and fundraising and creative financing was the subject of two and author of one case study published by Stanford University Press.
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Tony is a Southern California native and has a BA from Harvard, an MA from Columbia, and an MBA and JD from Stanford. Tony also served as a line Officer in the US Navy, where he led 100 person engineering & operations departments aboard a technologically advanced guided missile destroyer. Tony currently serves on the Board of Directors of DEFCOMM, a Defense & Space Technology Consortium and as Chairman of the Government Market Business Interest Group of the SD Software Industry Council. He was also named one of 15 National Finalists for the 2003 "Entrepreneur of the Year" Award and one of the "100 Most Influential Hispanics" in 2000 by Hispanic Business Magazine, as well as one of the top 30 Up-and-Coming Entrepreneurs in 2000 by Silicon Valley Magazine.
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Tony Medrano
General Manager
InFlow, Inc.
9645 Scranton Road, Ste. 100
San Diego, CA 92121
858-812-5330
Email: tmedrano@inflow.com
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Lina Ramos-Holm, Advisor
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Lina Ramos-Holm, President, Emerging Growth Enterprise LLC. Lina posses over 12 years planning, financing & operating private ventures, start-up divisions and multiple product lines and services. She currently leads EMERGING GROWTH Enterprise's growth-stage practice, working with the Sr. Management and Founding Teams to turn, proven products & services into profitable, high-growth businesses positioned for market leadership.
With regards to Homeland Security, Crisis and Consequence Management and Government sector activity, Ms. Ramos-Holm has been a key lead in building our portfolio companies through SBIR I, SBIR II and Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technologies Grant Funding. In addition, Ms. Ramos-Holm has been an active team member in identifying relevant government agencies (including the Department of Transportation, Boarder Patrol and the Department of Public Safety) for potential collaboration and sales. For several years, Ms. Ramos-Holm, Principal, EMERGING GROWTH Enterprise, has been on the mentoring board for a San Diego-based organization funded by the government and founded by SPAWAR, UCSD, SDSU, Jacobs School of Engineering and Orincon. The mission of this organization, the Center for Commercialization of Advanced technologies is to cross-pollinate commercial technologies for enhancing homeland security and crisis and consequence management.
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Client companies include: SAIC Technology Spin-out, Applied Gene Technologies Growth Strategy/Government Alliances for Homeland Security, Parity Computing, ID Analytics Government Market Development, and 3E Company which recently closed on $25Mil in financing.
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Prior to working in San Diego, Lina held P&L responsibility for division, category, and products & services at Fortune 500's including Booz Allen, Procter & Gamble, and, most recently, Monsanto where she reported directly to the CEO on growth initiatives. Her demonstrated results in operations, enterprise growth, marketing /sales strategy, strategic alliances/acquisitions include a $185MM acquisition approval and 28% division sales turn-around establishing market leadership for a 105 person division which she ran; $10MM+ national launch for franchise expansion; and $20MM free media PR campaign for a software technology (www.rice-research.org). Lina holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
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Website: www.emergingenterprise.com
Email: lina@emergingenterprise.com
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