Grace Hu-Morley
Catalyst for Product and Business Success—Awarded for innovation in product and revenue creation
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Website: | http://gracehm.com |
| Industries: | Computing, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Media |
| Skills: | Business, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Marketing |
| Location: | Silicon Valley |
| Interested in: | Meeting new people, Professional opportunities |
| Tags: | business development, catalyst, grace hu-morley, gracehm.com, marketing leader, product executive, product management, product marketing, silicon valley |
| Schools: | Santa Clara University, University of California System - San Diego |
FULL BIO
Who I work with are high-tech companies who have the challenge of prioritizing features sets and turning technology into successful products. I am a catalyst for product and business success—creating and launching truly compelling, people-friendly products.
Awarded for both product and revenue creation innovation, I lead marketing and product teams—bringing new technologies to market for start-ups to Fortune 100 companies.
I have brought to market some of the World’s top market share products including products for Cisco Systems such as IP video phones, softphones, and Unified Communications applications.
I uniquely combine product management, user experience, and outbound marketing to create and launch successful, profitable products—triple digit percentage revenue growth, top market share, and significant cost savings.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Polycom |
| Position: | Sr. Product Manager - Unified Communications Solutions |
| Time period: | January 2010 - Present |
| Employer: | Cisco Systems |
| Position: | Sr. Product Manager |
| Time period: | September 2000 - July 2008 |
| Description: | Emerging Technology Group
Drove product requirements and go-to-market strategies for public safety solution that dissolves communication and collaboration silos for first responders. Voice Technology Group Delivered several Cisco firsts—unified communications endpoints, video telephony endpoints, and entry-level voice over IP (VoIP) devices. |
| Employer: | Komodo Technology |
| Position: | Director of Marketing |
| Time period: | November 1999 - September 2000 |
| Description: | Managed product marketing, marketing communications, and business development for a supplier of consumer-based IP telephony hardware products. Activities led to acquisition of this successful start-up by Cisco Systems for $175 million. |
| Employer: | Trident Microsystems |
| Position: | Sr. Product Marketing Manager |
| Time period: | June 1997 - October 1999 |
| Description: | Product management, product marketing, and business development for line of embedded memory LCD videographics controllers for mobile computing. |
| Employer: | Cirrus Logic |
| Position: | Business Marketing Manager |
| Time period: | November 1995 - May 1997 |
| Description: | Business development, customer program management, and product management for a line of LCD graphics controllers. |
| Employer: | Pulse Metric |
| Position: | Marketing Project Leader / International Sales |
| Time period: | December 1991 - March 1995 |
| Description: | Managed marketing communications activities, international sales activities, and clinical studies for medical device start-up company. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Santa Clara University |
| Degree: | MBA |
| University: | University of California System - San Diego |
| Degree: | Biomedical Engineering , BSc |
| University: | University of California System - San Diego |
| Degree: | Biomedical Engineering, MSc |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | Silicon Valley Product Management Association – Speaker Recruitment Volunteer
CSIX Connect – Speaker Recruitment Volunteer Cisco’s Women in Technology Action Network (WTAN) (Member of multiple other entrepreneurial and technology organizations) |
| Awards: | Cisco Achievement Program Awards -
• Launch Teamwork Award • Expediting Product SKUs Award • Web Portal Award • Outstanding Teamwork Award • Pricing & Bundling Promotion Award Cisco Innovator Nomination and Cisco Cross-Functional Collaboration Recognition |
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Ken Thomas
Founder & CEO of Kedrix. I love to bring my ideas to life and have the passion for it 24/7/365.
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Dan Steketee
Entrepeneur with 13+ years of strategic and tactical consulting experience in the financial services, start-up and technology industries (BPM, Business Intelligence, KPI's,, Vendor Management, etc) .
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Marc Guerrero
Marc Guerrero is a writer & journalist, editor & translator, historian & futurist, and media management entrepreneur for many years.