As a Silicon Valley advisor and hands-on consultant, I work with people from early-stage founders and independent entrepreneurs to experienced investors and executives, to entrepreneurial academics, to those looking to enter the US market or launch a new product/technology. I can help with anything from pitches, needs analysis, and business/strategic/GTM plans to due diligence, technology analysis and feedback, to turnarounds/pivots. I can also just help you analyze, clarify, and write something or get something done that is stalled.
Domains with which I have the most experience: machine learning and analytics, enterprise software and IT, biomedical informatics / health tech, storage and data management, security and ops analytics, IOT, and optimization/logistics/operational efficiency. But I have been exposed to (and get by in a pinch in) many areas, and I learn quickly. Recently, I have done a lot of analysis of the legaltech landscape, particularly how GenAI and agentic technology is changing the shape of that world.
These days I live the proverbial life of leisure, having graduated to being what my friend Henry calls a "Tech elder." I like giving people feedback and advice, and helping them get stuff done.
My last full-time job was at Stanford, at the School of Medicine in the Department of Biomedical Data Science, where I managed the Biomedical Informatics program. I also spent a lot of my time in the startup ecosystem, including at Plug and Play where I saw over 3,000 of pitches as an Executive in Residence and got my training wheels as full-time advisor/mentor for startups. I was an advisor to Stanford's Center for Population Health Sciences (but thanks to recent events, everyone's an amateur epidemiologist these days - who would have thought?) and loved working with the awesome team at Stanford in that space. Previously I was VP of Labs for HPE Software (a $3B+ SW business) and Lab Director at HP Labs where I ran groups in the US, Israel, India, Russia, and Mexico; and before that, researcher, inventor, and early-stage startup contributor (over 40 granted patents).
I got my BS in Mathematical and Computational Science and my PhD in Medical Informatics from Stanford (working on AI and probabilistic systems), and then spent many years in enterprise R&D, most notably as a researcher, manager, and executive at HP/HPE/Hewlett-Packard Labs. I posted links to a few of the open source projects, videos (lesson learned: corporations eventually pull their YouTube content, so most of them are gone a few years later), and talks to get a sense of what I have worked on.
Patents (see also the US Patent and Trademark Office site or Google Patents)
Professional Activities and Service
You can also check me out on LinkedIn and I'm @hjs on twitter