

SID MOHASSEB

LIFE IN BRIEF
Sid is a published author, serial entrepreneur, venture investor,
university professor, board member, business thought leader and public speaker.
At 16 he migrated to US without his family, at 21, he started and exited his first company while at college. At 25, he taught comparative Eastern and Western philosophy. At 27, he became the youngest partner of a national management consulting firm serving fortune 500 clients with operational improvements and strategy formulation.
During the next two decades, he supported large scale acquisitions and acted as principal investor in middle market companies leading company turnarounds — from near bankruptcy to profitability. He also founded and led several early-stage and hyper-growth companies from inception to acquisition. Many times over, he has shouldered the responsibility for meeting payroll and has written checks to acquire or invest in companies; learning to think both like an investor and a founder and facing, accepting, and overcoming his share of failures and successes in ideas and ventures.
Sid has served on the boards of over a dozen profit and non-profit companies. He has logged thousands of hours developing strategies for various enterprises and working with board members and management to execute.
As a teacher, he has taught Strategic Management, Corporate Finance, Venture Capital, Negotiation and Data Analytics to MBAs at University of Southern California (USC), Chapman University, and University of California in Irvine (UCI).
As a professional fund manager and angel investor, Sid has mentored dozens of entrepreneurs, met with hundreds of start-up companies, and reviewed countless business plans. As a management consultant and board member, he has advised corporate leaders across a wide spectrum of industries and scale. In this journey, Sid has learned to appreciate the perspectives of conglomerates, middle market players and start-ups.
As an author (The Caterpillar’s Edge), adjunct professor, a venture capitalist, a few times over corporate CEO, former Strategic Innovation lead in Strategy for a conglomerate, a Harvard trained negotiator, a veteran board member and a featured TED Speaker, Sid’s real expertise is in connecting theory and reality and helping people see the bend in the road ahead and make visions a reality.

CLIENTS SERVED ALONG THE WAY
Advance MP Technology
Allegheny County, PA
American Honda Motor Co.
Beverly Enterprises
California AOC
CALTRANS
Carl Karcher Enterprises
CCH - Computax
Central Judicial District, - OC
Church of Latter-Day Saints
Chrysler Corporation
Citrus Judicial District
City of Las Vegas, NV
City of Long Beach, CA
City of Louisville, KY
City of New York, NY
City of Pasadena, CA
CNN
County and City of Sacramento
County of Broward, FL
County of Clark, NV
County of Cook, IL
County of Jefferson, ky
County of Los Angeles, CA
County of Maricopa, AZ
County of Pima, AZ
County of Riverside, CA
County of Yolo, CA
Employ America
Federal Reserve Bank
First Interstate Bank
Flextronics (Flex)
Ford Motor Company
General Telephone Company
Grumman Space Systems
Home Savings of America
Hughes Helicopter
Hughes Micro Electronics
International Business Machines - IBM
ISD Corporation
Johnny Rockets
Kia Motors
Krause’s Sofa Factory
Langenthal Corporation
Long Beach Judicial District
Malibu Judicial District
Marie Callender's
Micrologics Inc.
Morrison & Forester LLP
Motorola Inc.
National Center for State Courts
National Medical Enterprises
Mattel Toys Inc.
McDonnell Douglas
National Starch & Chemical Corp.
Nevada Depr. of Transportation
NDT Systems, Inc.
NRCCUA
Orange County Superior Court
Pac*Tel - Pacific Bell
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Permira (Private Equity)
Riverside Judicial District
San Diego Housing Commission
Santa Barbara County
Southern California Gas Company
State of California
State of Texas
State of Washington
Sterling Partners
TelAutograph (Omnifax)
Toyota Motor Company
Tuftex Industries
Union Bank
Wells Fargo Bank
WellPoint
Zeus Components (Arrow)
… & MORE

ACADEMIC
CONTRIBUTIONS

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Current Adjunct professor at University of Southern California (USC) Marshall Business School – Focus: Dynamic Business Strategy and Execution
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Facilitation of executive workshops conducted for over 8500 middle managers and hundreds of senior executives across many organizations nationwide
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Former Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University – Focus: Strategic Management & Venture Capital investment
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Former faculty at University of California at Irvine (UCI) – Focus: Business Globalization
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Former faculty at Saddleback College – Focus: Small Business Management & Venture Capital Investments
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Former faculty and member of the power of angel investing sponsored by the Kaufman foundation
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Former Advisory Board member, Chapman University Business School
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Former Advisory Board member, University of California at Irvine Business School
“Business wars are won on the battle ground, in the market place, a common problem is that board rooms are disconnected from the foxholes and strategies are often not responsive to the constantly changing competitive realities”

BOARD
CONTRIBUTIONS
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Anabasis, Inc. (Chairman) – Management Consulting Services / Turn around services Clupidia, Inc. – Business to Consumer Internet Content play
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Venture Farm (Chairman and GP) – Early Stage Seed Funding
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Vital Source, Inc. – Global Distribution of Electronics Components
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Cerius Executives - Interim Executive Solutions
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NDT Systems, Inc. – Ultrasonic Testing Equipment Manufacturing
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Competitive Knowledge (Chairman) – Internet Content Aggregation B2B
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Trend Point Systems, Inc. Power & Energy Optimization Product Manufacturing
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AccuScore – Sports Analytics and Predictive Modeling
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Wise Window (Chairman) – Unstructured Data Analytics
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XS Capacity (Chairman) – Trucking and Transpiration Technology Platform
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Vator.TV (Advisory) – Platform for Entrepreneurial Interaction
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Non-profit advisory board: Chapman University
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Non-profit advisory board: University of California Irvine (UCI),
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Non-profit advisory board: Southern California Technology Council

SPEAKING & PRINT CONTRIBUTIONS
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Featured speaker at TEDx, “Exploring the Collective Conscious”
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Frequent keynote speaker and panel participant e.g. American Association of Accountants, Oracle Symposium (open world), Microsoft Exchange 365, National Credit Union CEO Roundtable, Various Private Equity CFO and CEO special events, Various Corporate Retreats, Harvard Alumni Group, IEEE organization, TiE organization, Venture Association, Technology Council, IDEA, National Retail Association, etc.
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Frequent Speaker at various universities on entrepreneurship, innovation, commercialization, data Analytics and Strategy e.g. UCI, UCLA, USC, Pepperdine, Concordia, North Carolina University, Wharton Business School, etc.
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Served as the host and moderator for a national radio program on good Business practices with a 7.5 million audience in four states.
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Publication: The Caterpillar’s Edge – evolve, evolve again and thrive in business - distributed by Simon & Schuster.
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Publication: Management Handbook of Strategy, “Knowledge: The True Return on Information”
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Publication: Energy Magazine, “The Role of Operations Research in Asset Allocation Planning”
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Publication: Houston Business Journal, “Restorative Management”
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Publication: CEO Express, “Transcending Transaction: Achieving Competitiveness Through the Internet”
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Publication: USA Technology, “Components as Commodities”

INTELECTUAL PROPERTY & INNOVATION
In addition to contributions to formulation of six technology driven business process patents, Sid was recognized as the architect for innovative business approaches and software solutions such as: the Resource Allocation model (RAM – winner of the Innovation in Government Kleps award) , Executive Dashboard model, Operations Planner Resource Optimization model, the HOPES Utility Forecasting system, the Sentence Screening system and Vibes (Edison Innovation award Silver medalist, 2nd to Google, as well as Tech America’s innovation award).

ENTREPRENURE
COMMUNITY
CONTRIBUTION
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Founding President of the Orange County Chapter of TiE (largest entrepreneur organization – 50+ countries
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Past President & Board member of Tech Coast Angels, Orange County (largest seed investment entity in US)
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Former Board Member Southern California Technology Council
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Member of California Assembly Committee for Economic Growth
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National Science Foundation Commercial Evaluator

DEEP DIVE INTO HISTORY
Past
Prior to the KPMG’s acquisition of Wise Window, Inc., a data analytics company, in April 2012, Sid Mohasseb was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board for the company. At KPMG, he served as a member of the US Data Analytics leadership team and as the national strategic innovation lead for the Strategy Practice.
Prior to leading Wise Window from inception through acquisition to KPMG, Sid was the Managing Director of Venture Farm LLC, a seed funding firm, where he raised the fund and helped the portfolio companies from inception to harvest. He was also the President of the Tech Coast Angels in Orange County, the largest Angel investment organization in US. He served as the CEO of Vital Source, Inc., a global distributor of electronic components with offices in the US, Europe and Asia where he led the company on a 30-fold revenue growth over a three-year period. He was also the Chairman / CEO of Competitive Knowledge, Inc. (CKI) - a, data focused, VC backed Internet Company. After his tenure as a partner at the SGS Group (a national management consulting firm), he founded Anabasis-Straub, a strategy and operations management consultancy entity, serving municipalities and Fortune 500 clients and led a number of Private Equity transactions as a member of the turnaround team, the principal investor and a member of the Board of Directors.
Present:
Following the success of his recent book “The Caterpillar’s Edge”, Sid is involved with speaking engagements, high level advisory activities, expanded academic commitments as an adjunct professor at University of Southern California (USC) and globally as well as selective corporate board roles and investments.