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.

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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)

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                              …  & MORE

ACADEMIC

CONTRIBUTIONS

• 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

• Anabasis, Inc. (Chairman) – Management Consulting Services / Turn around services Clupidia, Inc. – Business to Consumer Internet Content play

• Venture Farm (Chairman and GP) – Early Stage Seed Funding

• Vital Source, Inc. – Global Distribution of Electronics Components

• Cerius Executives - Interim Executive Solutions

• NDT Systems, Inc. – Ultrasonic Testing Equipment Manufacturing

• Competitive Knowledge (Chairman) – Internet Content Aggregation B2B

• Trend Point Systems, Inc. Power & Energy Optimization Product Manufacturing

• AccuScore  – Sports Analytics and Predictive Modeling

• Wise Window (Chairman) – Unstructured Data Analytics

• XS Capacity (Chairman) – Trucking and Transpiration Technology Platform  

• Vator.TV (Advisory) – Platform for Entrepreneurial Interaction

• Non-profit advisory board: Chapman University

• Non-profit advisory board: University of California Irvine (UCI),

• Non-profit advisory board: Southern California Technology Council

 

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

• 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

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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.