Extensive experience creating and executing partnership ecosystems and marketing strategies.
– Significantly contributed to numerous successful exits (multiple IPOs and acquisitions)
– Created bundled offerings and Joint Ventures with 30+ partners, including Cisco, Microsoft, Intel
– More than tripled sales within one year for more than five companies through programs, partnerships and joint/new product offerings
– Created marketing exposure for several clients via speaking and event engagements, BBC interviews/shows, Global talks, etc.
– Hands-on program creation, alliance recruiting, training and development McElyea thrives working with sustainable technologies (energy, water, food, education, technology for good). Previously Shannon’s been a change agent with early stage disruptive and emerging technology companies building innovative and foundational programs and services with partners.
Companies include: first web click call/video service/technology (Zingaya); first intrusion prevention network security platform (DeepNines); first ‘one hour’ delivery service platform for ecommerce vendors (DNet); first global roaming provider (iPass); first secure ecommerce technology – CyberCash (PayPal); first NAT-based firewall – Network Translation Inc. (Cisco); and first commercial Internet Service providers.
Connected Keyhole with Google; Connected a Tesla founder to initial funding; connected Granite Systems to Cisco; Connected CompuServe to SpryNet Early expertise: the first distributed computing personal computer and workstation at Xerox PARC and OSD (Alto and Star); Mesa programmer, application developer, software release manager, DNS, and network workstations systems for Siemens AG. A global featured speaker for topics such as Cyberbanking, eCommerce, ePayments, VPNs, Network Security, Global Roaming, one-hour delivery network.
