Glen Mehn
Principal at Social Innovation Camp, sixteen years of entrepreneurship, including ideas-to-market consultancy in the UK, ten years of IT and Operations in Silicon Valley, and six years running arts organisations in New Orleans. MBA (Oxon), BA (UNO)
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Website: | http://glen.mehn.net/ |
| Industries: | Biotech, Cleantech, Computing, Entertainment, Information Technology, Internet, Real Estate, Travel |
| Skills: | Business, Computer Engineering, Copy Writing, Design, Editing, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, Fiction, Guerrilla marketing, Human-Computer Interaction, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Product design, Public Relations, Public speaking, Spanish, Writing |
| Location: | London, UK |
| Groups: | Oxford Entrepreneurs |
| Visas: | UK (unrestricted), USA (citizen) |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Internships, Investing in projects, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Supporting my investments |
| Tags: | Africa, London, sicamp, silicon valley, social innovation camp |
| Schools: | Louisiana State University System - University of New Orleans, University of Oxford |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Independent |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | September 2008 - Present |
| Description: | Man Group, PLC
• Created a strategy to re-launch the Intranet to drive internal communication • Advised on specific ways to use bonuses to increase collaboration • Restructured employee induction process to communicate company culture and strategy • Planned the shift from an email-only culture to a face-first/phone-second/email-last culture MBAs Without Borders – Entrepreneurship Consultant & Turnaround Executive • Interim/turnaround executive for Ugastove, a 40 person manufacturer of efficient stoves • Reduced manufacturing losses by 85% with new record-keeping processes • Doubled sales in six months with a new marketing and sales strategy • Ensured successful carbon project validation/verification with new Operations and Financial procedures Various smaller clients – Turnaround and start-up consultant • Raised USD$700,000 for a USD$2million/year seed firm after restructuring • Built operations/management frameworks for Mobile Transactions Zambia Ltd (MTZL) • Wrote business plan, advised on fundraising and incubation business model for African Enterprise Partners, a social venture consulting & deal flow company in Zambia • Advised Aros Capital on the structure and investment strategy for their Altruistic fund |
| Employer: | Perlegen Sciences, USA |
| Position: | Senior Systems Administrator |
| Time period: | January 2005 - December 2007 |
| Description: | I architected and managed a “high data availability,” scalable IT infrastructure with a team of only three people, all while balancing budget and changing engineering requirements, and coordinating between operations, lab, bioinformatics, and Senior Management. We genotyped 10x the genes of our nearest competitor who had 2500 staff to our 220. I tightly coordinated our UNIX team of three to deliver the right solutions the first time and then keep the systems up and running.
• Expanded data centre capacity while reducing power usage. • Achieved 99.99%+ uptime. (less than 24 hours total downtime/year) • Coordinated three departments to optimize data usage in 40TB genotype database. This data was the core asset of our company, and had to be available at all times. • Wrote and implemented security and network plan ahead of Sarbanes-Oxley. |
| Employer: | LookSmart, Ltd, USA |
| Position: | Production Operations Senior Systems Administrator |
| Time period: | January 2004 - December 2005 |
| Description: | My team of four people primarily operated the Business Intelligence system, requiring complex coordination between several departments, purchasing power, influence on company strategy, and sub-contractors.
• Managed communications between BI, Engineering, Operations, and Sales, reducing the time to generate a bill from 72 hours to less than 24. • Coordinated Windows, Unix, Operations, and Database groups to set up a new audit/authentication system to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley. |
| Employer: | SquareTrade, Inc,USA |
| Position: | Lead Systems Administrator; Systems Administrator |
| Time period: | January 1999 - December 2004 |
| Description: | I was the fourth employee at this company, and built its technical infrastructure from the ground up. I managed often-conflicting requirements from all departments in a start-up environment and drove communications between Operations and Engineering, resulting in fast development/release cycles with higher operational uptimes. I supervised 5 people.
• Implemented open-source cutover saving 72% in annualized operating costs. • Led data centre change, resulting in 30% annualized operating cost savings. |
| Employer: | Technical consultant, USA |
| Position: | UNIX, and network architect and consultant |
| Time period: | January 1998 - December 2003 |
| Description: | • Volunteered for and managed Burning Man sysadmin team for 6 years.
• Launched the MyVest managed accounts system. (Wealth Management) • Installed the patent tracking system for Exelixis, Inc. (Biotech) • Analysed and implemented technical needs for Enovity, Inc. (Green building) • Y2K Project Lead – Exelixis Pharmaceuticals • Brought MiaVia spam filter appliance from idea through proof of concept to market • Created IT strategy for and launched MyVest automated managed accounts system • Managed technical M&A implementation for the GoMo/Pomp acquisition • Interim Head of IT – NextBus Information Systems • Managed networks, desktop, and server systems for TriStrata Security |
| Employer: | TriStrata |
| Position: | Systems Administrator |
| Time period: | December 1997 - November 1999 |
| Description: | I was responsible for the internal network and desktop systems at this company, including capacity planning and bottleneck analysis. |
| Employer: | The Space Between, USA |
| Position: | Founder, designer, producer |
| Time period: | January 1995 - December 1998 |
| Description: | The Space Between grew out of a work that myself and several artists and designers were doing in New Orleans. I learned to work with large groups of people, negotiate, and find win-win outcomes in all things. I did everything here from PR to production to fundraising to graphic design to taking out the trash.
• Launched strategic partnerships with Mikko Presents..., leading to a quarterly sold-out multidisciplinary arts show at Positive Space Gallery. • Fundraised for and produced TranSForms, an international film project based on the work of Rodin. |
| Employer: | Glen Mehn Design, USA |
| Position: | Lighting Designer, Scenic Designer, electrician, carpenter, director |
| Time period: | January 1992 - December 1998 |
| Description: | A designer in nonprofit arts learns to minimize waste and reuse everything. I managed diverse groups of people as well as juggling complex schedules.
• Led teams of carpenters and electricians for most New Orleans-area theatres. • Taught Lighting and Scenic design lab course at the Tulane summer theatre program. • Assistant designer, Dog and Pony Theatre Company. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Oxford |
| Time period: | 2007 - 2008 |
| Degree: | Entrepreneurship/Design, MBA |
| University: | Louisiana State University System - University of New Orleans |
| Time period: | 1991 - 1997 |
| Degree: | English, Design, Sociology, BA |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | “Strategic use of Internet-Based Social Lending on small enterprises” IBIMA, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia (2008). |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Yoga, wine, cooking, language, writing, design, sustainable technologies, cycling, travelling (Africa, Europe), SCUBA diving (Hawaii, Monterrey, CA, St. John USVI). |
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Ting Chen
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Steve Gotz
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