Gary Bruder, Senior Consultant

Gary Bruder is a Senior Consultant of the US Market Access Center. Mr. Bruder has over 20 years experience in high technology marketing, market research, corporate communications, and industry analyst relations. His executive experience includes being Vice President of Gartner Group, the premier information and technology research and advisory firm with over 10,000 clients and recognized as the leader in high technology advisory services. At Gartner he led a consulting group and headed up the Telecommunications Practice. He has also been Director of Analyst Relations for Network Equipment Technologies (NET), Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Stanford Software, and Vice President of Silicon Valley News (an online high technology newspaper published in three languages).

Karla Callahan, PhD, Senior Consultant

Dr. Karla Callahan has 20 years of experience in the high technology, semiconductor, medical device and computer industries.  Dr. Callahan is a high-energy executive with a proven track record of product development, rapid growth and creative problem solving. She is an inspirational leader of technology teams, both domestic and international, from new product conception, through development, manufacturing and commercialization to achieve fast growth and profitability.

Tim Connelly, Senior Consultant

Tim Connelly is a senior consultant at the US Market Access Center with a broad background in market research, business consulting, management of high-tech companies and hardware/software engineering. Recently, Mr. Connelly was the CEO of a business software company, EasyWare Software (San Jose, CA). Two of his current areas of consulting interest are wireless technologies and business software. He recently was awarded a 12-month contract to analyze wireless technology investment opportunities for a large multi-national corporation. A significant proportion of Mr. Connelly's market research projects have been performed for international firms. At the US Market Access Center, he was a consultant on a retail software study for a South African firm, a supercomputer study for a Canadian firm, and a market assessment of a material modeling software program for a Russian/Slovenian institute. Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Mr. Connelly was a Director of Custom IT Consulting areas at Dataquest (now Gartner). In this capacity, he personally was responsible for about $5 million in billings over a 4 year period. 

Ben Connors, Senior Consultant

Ben Connors is a Senior Consultant with the US Market Access Center. He provides consulting to guide emerging technology companies in developing strategy, finding appropriate financial and human resources, and executing for success. Mr. Connors has a proven track record of creating shareowner value in companies he has founded and built, as well as for those he advises. He is a Venture Partner with Mirador Capital, was a co-founder of Viador (NASDAQ: VIAD, an enterprise software firm), and currently serves as a member of the board of directors of several high-technology companies. He has 20 years of experience in business development, sales and marketing, international, and general management of advanced information technology businesses. Mr. Connors has authored numerous articles, white papers, and is a contributing author to TiE's textbook, "Essentials of Entrepreneurship" (John Wiley & Sons, 2003). 

Stuart Creque, Senior Consultant

Mr. Creque is a Consultant specializing in marketing and lead generation. He has extensive experience marketing technology products and services to corporate clients at the executive and officer level. In his career positions at FindtheDOT (now IntelliDOT), IKON Office Solutions, and Teknekron, Mr. Creque demonstrated success at winning multimillion-dollar accounts and creating new markets.

Peter Darling, Senior Consultant

Peter Darling has over twenty years of experience in all facets of marketing and business development. His engagements incorporate a broad range of professional expertise, including that of an entrepreneur, strategist, consultant, attorney and marketer. By bringing all these disciplines to bear on behalf of his clients, Peter provides effective, proprietary solutions to one of the working professionals most critical problems: how to bring in new business.

Richard Dasher, Senior Consultant

Dr. Richard Dasher has been Director of the US-Asia Technology Management Center since 1994 and Executive Director of the Center for Integrated Systems since 1998. Both are education and research centers in the Stanford University School of Engineering. In addition, as Consulting Professor at Stanford University, Dr. Dasher teaches courses and seminars on technology management and Japanese business, and he advises several Stanford student groups which focus on entrepreneurship and Asia business. Dr. Dasher maintains an active private consulting practice and is currently advisor to two business incubators and several start-up companies in Silicon Valley. Dr. Dasher was the first non-Japanese person ever invited to participate in the senior management of a Japanese national university, serving a one-year term on the Board of Directors of Tohoku University from April 2004. He continues to serve as a member of the Management Steering Council of Tohoku University and as special advisor to its president. 

Doug Felder, Senior Consultant

Doug Felder is a Senior Consultant of the US Market Access Center and President of Business Development Inc.  Mr. Felder has over 30 years experience in high technology sales, marketing, and operations management.

A partial list of positions held would include: Chief Operating Officer, Vice President World Wide Sales, Vice President Business Development, and Vice President of Strategic Alliances.

Athol Foden, Senior Consultant

Athol Foden has over 20 years of senior level experience in sales and marketing, as well as strategic business planning and branding, all of which is based on a solid technical background. From hardware, software, and peripherals to services and even consumer products, Mr. Foden has covered the spectrum as his interests in positioning distribution channels and integrated marketing have evolved.

Karin Hollerbach, Senior Consultant

Dr. Karin Hollerbach is a Senior Consultant at the US Market Access Center. Dr. Karin Hollerbach serves as CEO of Taku Group. Taku Group helps global wellness companies accelerate growth and capitalize on market opportunities. Taku Group's clients move to their next level of growth - by raising growth capital, entering new markets, or expanding via strategic alliances. Dr. Hollerbach has served as CEO, President, Executive Vice President, VP of Technology, VP of Products, and other management roles. She has served in interdisciplinary roles at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, the Whitehead Institute, SRI, and Draper Laboratory. 

Peter Holoyda, Senior Consultant

Peter Holoyda is a Senior Consultant at the US Market Access Center. He brings over 16 years of high technology engineering and sales management experience to the organization. Mr. Holoyda has experience in semiconductor, medical imaging, embedded systems, and electro-optics. He is uniquely experienced in business development, sales, and channel development and as a lead technical engineer.

Stu Jeffery, Senior Consultant

Stu Jeffery is a wireless telecommunications consultant with over 25 years experience in both commercial and defense fixed and wireless communications systems. His career has included managing the Electronic Warfare group of GTE Government Systems, Business Development at Synacom Corporation, developer of GSM/CDMA networking products, and Product Management at Sensitron, developer of wireless applications for medical facilities.

Firat Kahraman, Senior Consultant

Firat Kahraman is a senior consultant at US Market Access Center. Mr. Kahraman is currently Vice President of Vizyontech Imaging, Inc a medical device company, which builds next generation diagnostic imaging systems. He has played critical roles in product design, system architecture definition and identification of market business opportunities within technology start-up companies.

Greg Marus, Senior Consultant

Greg Marus has worked in technical and marketing roles for a number of high-technology companies, in areas as diverse as remote computing and network services, document image conversion, knowledge management, Y2K software tools and graphic image masking. These firms have ranged in size from startups to Fortune 500, including Tymshare/Tymnet (McDonald-Douglas), West Coast Information Systems (WESCO), and Paravue Corporation (image processing).

Vaughn Mulder, Senior Consultant

Dr. Vaughn Mulder is a Senior Consultant with the US Market Access Center. He provides consulting to emerging technology companies on Corporate Development strategy, including market entry and channel partner development, as well as executive search, and location analysis. In addition, he works with a number of international governmental / economic development agencies, including Italy, Thailand, State of Victoria Australia, Wales, San Diego amongst many others. He is a Director with RJ Watkins & Co, Consultant with Odell Sims and Associates, Gramercy Ventures, EGB Advisors and currently serves as advisor to a number of early stage technology companies in Australia, the UK, Ireland and of course the United States. He has 20 years of experience in business development, sales and marketing, and international economic development. 

Timothy S. H. Ome, Senior Consultant

Mr. Ome's career spans over 20 years as an investment banker, management consultant, venture capitalist and senior financial officer. His experience involves a full range of corporate finance, corporate development, strategic advice and operating management for technology companies from start-up's to global multinational electronic firms.

Ana Pedros, Senior Consultant

Ana Pedros is a Senior Consultant for the US Market Access Center. Previously, Ms. Pedros was a marketing and strategic consultant for different start-ups in the high tech, entertainment, and consumer business industries in the bay area and southern California. Prior to that, Ms. Pedros was a senior consultant for Deloitte & Touche, where she specialized in Customer Relationship Management, Marketing, and Strategy.

Julia Rasor, Senior Consultant

Julia Rasor is a senior executive leader with 30 years of proven success in strategic product development for medical devices. She has dual expertise as a hands-on operational executive manager and R&D clinical scientist bringing products from invention to commercialization in ten countries. Her skills include multi-million dollar fundraising and business unit responsibility. Ms. Rasor is a serial entrepreneur - founder/key contributor to 35 medical device companies and 50 medical products.

Daniel Sachar, Senior Consultant

Daniel Sachar has well over a decade of digital media and marketing experience.   A digital marketing strategist, he specializes in addressing the needs of companies who are determining how to best market themselves online.  From web design, online advertising, paid and unpaid search (SEM/SEO), Daniel draws upon all major forms of syndicated research, business knowledge, and a deep understanding of best practices for online marketing to determine the best strategy for each client, no matter what industry.

Saira Singh, Senior Consultant

Saira Singh has over 19 years of cancer, drug delivery and pharmaceutical drug development research experience as well as in-depth knowledge of antibody therapeutics product development, relating market trends and strategic issues. She is an expert in tumor biology and pre-clinical model development. Ms. Singh started her research career at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia and subsequently held various research positions in the pharmaceutical industry. In her professional experience at Sterling Drug, Syntex, and Matrix Pharmaceutical, Inc., Ms. Singh provided core pharmacology, receptor biochemistry and pre-clinical support for lead compounds. Ms. Singh was the founder and president of OncoPhamarmaceutical, a company focused on developing natural products cancer therapies. She successfully led the company in accomplishing a strong intellectual property portfolio.