Strategic Software Services LLC
Managing Partner
Starting
Clark Gilder
Managing Partner at Strategic Software Services LLC
- Location
- Greater Atlanta Area
- Industry
- Computer Software
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Background
Summary
My consulting services are novel and unique given my 30 year experience in the software industry. Contact me to see how you or your client can leverage my thought leadership and unique executive experiences as a start-up founder & CEO, Angel investor, strategic consultant providing advice to CxO's, and entrepreneur with several US patents.particularly electronic payments (EPO) and Big Data
My background includes a 12 year tenure with Microsoft in Redmond WA, where my work earned awards for innovation, drive and achieving results in the elite software product teams as well as executive level and general management, driving P&L, teams & corporate board leadership
Successful projects and work experience includes solving product & technology challenges in new or unproven areas, providing strategic advice and critical thinking to multiple companies and boards of directors. Working across the software ecosystem, managing internal development teams, product & API evangelism and product management, PR including launch plans, ISV relationships, traction in sales & marketing, improving support, in enterprise software and SaaS or Cloud models.
Skill areas: program & product management, Agile Iteration Manager, software architecture and design, Intellectual Property and Patent analysis, market analysis, technology PR & marketing.
As a 15+ year angel investor have funded & grown many start-ups and early stage companies into multiple M&A exit events. As a key member of ATA's angel investor due diligence process, I have leveraged my software life-cycle skills to evaluate business models and investment opportunities as well as coach and mentor start-up founders and CxOs
Every consultant brings their unique skill set and experience, if you have a software product or company facing challenges, contact me to solve the problem and move forward.
Experience
Managing Partner
Strategic Software Services LLC
SSS provides CxO level strategic guidance, thinking and execution planning and direction to organizations facing challenging problems involving their software products, strategies and execution results. Executive level services provided to clients include:
- Product strategy assessments and RoadMap planning
- Product Market & Competitive analysis
- Strategic product acquisition & sale advice, including product integration planning or guidance
- Go To Market & product launch planning, PR and Analyst messaging
- Product development design, architecture and process review
- Intellectual Property (IP) assessment, planning and patent development
We provide much more than the latest buzzwords, process models or architecture of the day advice and instead focus on solving the difficult or challenging problems often overlooked or avoided by others. To accomplish this, we leverage over 30 years of deep technical experience, working in many vertical industries including Retail, Manufacturing, Logistics, Banking and CRM / ERP among others. Special and unique experience includes product and program management experience at Microsoft working with the worlds best development team on the largest and most complex software development processes.
Contact me to start a discussion about your situation and allow us to formulate a free proposal to solve the most perplexing software problems facing today's technology executives.
Founder / CEO
Global Standard Financial Inc
GSF designed and owns world-wide patents on Paperless Checks (or EPOs or ECI), which are better than ACH debits and follow UCC law not EFT / Reg E rules. Based on Check 21 image standards, including X9.37, GSF's products include all the innovative uses that all digital checks may offer to every segment of the payments world via GSF's unique and innovative online payment platform. GSF checks start electronically with the payor authorizing GSF's system to create and send the check to any payee and thus provides true paperless checks or "EPOs" or Electronically Created Items (ECI). GSF enables both payors and payees to keep checks digital for any use case or payments scenarios including mobile payments, person to person (P2P), business to business (B2B), AP/AR, online billpay (OLBP), electronic bill presentment and payments (EBPP) and many other payment scenarios. Contact me to discuss how your business may license or signup for GSF's business development process - clark.gilder AT gsf-inc.com - GSF is open to working with anyone interested in our patented products as part of your payment solution needs.
GSF provides THE newest and most innovative electronic payment products and services based on our patented paperless Check 21 technologies or Electronic Payment Orders (EPO) as defined in the 2009 Fed whitepaper. GSF's "Digitally Originated Checks" or DOCs provide a next generation payment product for any and all payment systems or scenarios. GSF's broadly patented "electronic check" technologies are the foundation of the payment platform which runs our business. Finally, GSF is angel funded and supported by a group of world-class bankers and payments experts who on our board of advisors which provides GSF with key insight in the complex, but slow moving and heavily regulated banking and payments marketplace. GSF Go Checks(tm) - are the Check 2.0 (tm) solution!
The Fed formed a "Study Group" in 2013 to define use cases that GSF envisioned back in 2006
Chairman of the Board & CTO
ZeeWise
ZeeWise is the leader in Franchise Business Intelligence services (we created this innovative SaaS category). ZeeWise provides a SaaS cloud based BI solution to 1000's of remote franchisees and small businesses by aggregating all of their data (POS, LOB and QuickBooks) together into a single BI data-warehouse. Once all the data is centralized, our Zee360 system provides unique KPIs & executive dashboards with critical business & operational insight to franchisors, franchisees / owners, managers and FBCs. The unique ZeeWise Zpipe agent is a multi-patented data replication technology that enables data from multiple franchisee apps to be consolidated into a single cloud BI solution. We enable data mining insight to be created and shared within any Franchise concept as well as to the broader financial services and banking / lending market.
Only ZeeWise can enable any business owner to automatically track KPIs and measure the health of their small business and compare their QuickBooks financial results to any peer group. The ZeeWise Zpipe software agent collects financial and operational data from any group of remote, independent sites and provides a consolidated view of multiple sets of business data. We support consolidating and rolling up a variety of software products including QuickBooks and other financial applications as well as a variety of POS and Line of Business (LOB) products via our unique, patented database abstraction and application control layer which we call Zpipe. Contact sales@zeewise.com for more information. www.ZeeWise.com
Advisor
Data Profits inc.
Met Stuart Dunkin as he started DP and have provided strategic advice, planning and feedback to him as he has built the company's unique mid-market supply chain management (SCM) solution using a SaaS model.
Board Member, Angel Investor, ATA
Atlanta Technology Angels (ATA)
Advisor
Mr Arlo
Investor
Compliance 360
Evangelist, Lead Program Manager
Microsoft
Project Leader
Compris Technology
Manufacturing Engineer
Compaq Computer Corp
Founder and CTO
Touch and Go Systems
Programmer Analyst
CAPS Logistics
Honors & Awards
"Gold Star" Product Award Microsoft Windows Division - 1st ever recipient
Microsoft
Awarded the first ever "Gold Star" award created by Microsoft senior executives to recognize outstanding achievements above and beyond the existing high performance expectations held by the SVP of the leading software development team at that time. When this award was first created and awarded in February 2000 it was the first time MSFT created anything other than 'stock options' to recognize the "best of the best" for contributions above and beyond for outstanding results in creating and shipping Windows 2000 for a select few among the huge Microsoft product development team. Awarded to the top 10 individuals out of 1000's of members, the award recognized the excellence in hard work, innovation, creativity and drive to achieve outstanding results in shipping Windows 2000.
During the next product ship cycle, was awarded a second Gold Star for similar outstanding results in Windows XP and managing the impact of the DOJ settlement on the Windows product plan ...
US Patent 8,214,329
US Patent Office
This patent covers the unique remote data collection service that ZeeWise utilizes to collect data from multiple remote databases (POS, CRM or other LOB like QuickBooks accounting database) and securely & reliably send that data to a cloud based consolidated database for further analysis. Unique features are the ability to attach to ANY data source that has an open or published access model or API along with the ability to simultaneously collect from MULTIPLE remote data sources via the same agent among many other unique capabilities. Database vendors typically create single purpose data replication services while only ZeeWise has created and offers a "HETEROGENOUS, MULTIPLE SOURCE, AUTOMATED, INDEPENDENT" lights out remote data replication services. Contact us to learn more and to see how your business may benefit from our unique technology.
US Patent 7, 539, 646
US Patent Office
The first and original "Paperless Check" or "Electronic Payment Order" (EPO) as the Federal Reserve 2009 whitepaper describes them. This is the truly innovative all electronic "check" based on Check 21 imaging standards that provides the best of ACH and Checks while staying a fully UCC compliant check created by a payor and sent or "pushed" to a payee. This is not ACH auto-draft or bill pay, but a payor created and controlled payment that they authorize, create and decide when to send to a payee which covers any format or scenario including mobile, phone, PC, cloud / SaaS service etc.
Additional patents included 7, 620, 603 and 7, 702, 588 among many others pending patents still under review. Contact me directly to learn how your company could partner with GSF to create a truly innnovative all electronic check payment service.
Volunteer Experience & Causes
Mentor
ATDC
– (15 years)Science and TechnologyMentoring and coaching of entrepreneurs and their startup business plans, judging and evaluating business plan competitions and selecting companies for potential future investments by ATA
Opportunities Clark is looking for:
- Joining a nonprofit board
- Skills-based volunteering (pro bono consulting)
Causes Clark cares about:
- Arts and Culture
- Children
- Education
- Health
- Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
- Science and Technology
Organizations Clark supports:
Patents
Remote data collection systems and methods(Link)
United States 8214329
Issued July 3, 2012ZeeWise's 1st US patent covers unique methods to dynamically collect remote data from any LOB data source including multiple remote data sources at the same location using the single instance of the Zeepipe remote agent. The flexible, intelligent and autonomous agent can be instructed to collect and consolidate accounting / financial (QB) data along with POS or operational data and consolidated it into a master data warehouse model which drives unique KPIs, scorecards and executive dashboards to be generated for anyone desiring to monitor and manage independent remote business locations. ZeeWise is the pioneer in Franchise Business Intelligence (FBI) and the 8214329 patent is the foundation of the Remote Data Collection (RDC) system that drives the BI backend used by the leading Franchisors in the country and around the world.
- Inventors:
Financial payment systems and methods using paperless Check 21 items(Link)
United States 8,214,329 7, 620, 603 and 7, 702, 588
Issued May 26, 2009Covers all aspects of EPOs or Paperless Check 21 items. This foundational patent allows anyone (payer or payee) to create, send and or receive dynamically generated Check 21 items without any Remote Deposit Capture process or an original paper check item. The method eliminates the need for one off (or per merchant / payee) Remotely Created Check models and is superior in covering more scenarios, more users and broader range of business models. The method also supports mobile phones, tablets/PDAs, P2P, AP/AR and any computer based process to create, send and receive check payments via a faster, easier and more secure process than traditional paper checks, ACH or RDC. Additional patents cover additional scenarios such as automated lockbox with AP/AR processing and enhanced security and B2B processes. Methods include using an existing ACH NACHA file as metadata to generate paperless check items along with other P2P / mobile scenarios. Contact ClarkG.MSN.com to learn how you can license these foundational patents.
Remote data collection systems and methods using read only data extraction and dynamic data handling(Link)
United States 8560568
Issued October 15, 2013Software patent describing elements of ZeeWise's unique Remote Data Collection system which we call the "Zeepipe" platform, enables any SMB LOB data source to be consolidated to drive BI and generate analytic reports & scorecards for any small business. Particularly critical for consolidating independent QuickBooks accounting data files into a master DB for comparing any two small businesses P&L's or Balance Sheets etc.
- Inventors:
Publications
US Patents 7,539,646(Link)
US Patent Office
December 2008Covers the fundamental aspects of creating paperless checks (or EPO's as the Fed Whitepaper describes them), these "virtual drafts" are not EFT like ACH debits but true UCC check payments in electronic Check 21 form without needing an original paper check. This process is superior to Remote Deposit Capture, i.e. taking a picture of a check with your phone for deposit, because the "payor" sends the check image to you and you skip the photograph step & go to automatic deposit. This groundbreaking patent covers creating any form of Check 21 file without an original paper check as well as conversion of ACH files into Check 21 items. Contact Clark Gilder for more information.
Skills
- Start-ups
- Product Management
- Venture Capital
- Business Strategy
- Entrepreneurship
- SaaS
- Mergers
- Business Development
- Strategic Partnerships
- Business Analysis
- Corporate Development
- Strategic Planning
- Electronic Payments
- Check 21 Imaging
- Early-stage Startups
- Franchising
- Business Intelligence
- Angel Investing
- Product Strategies
- Technical Marketing
- Program Management
- Strategy
- Product Marketing
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Business Planning
- New Business Development
- Cloud Computing
- Mobile Devices
- Mobile Payments
- Management
- Leadership
- CRM
- Executive Management
- Enterprise Software
- Go-to-market Strategy
- E-commerce
- Consulting
- Pre-sales
- Analytics
- Competitive Analysis
- Due Diligence
- Business Alliances
- ERP
- Professional Services
- Management Consulting
- Finance
- Big Data
- Business Modeling
- Mobile Applications
- Strategic Consulting
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Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
BIE, Operations Research, software modeling
GT's Industrial Engineering (BIE) degree has been the top IE school for the last 25 years. Major focus was in Operations Research (OR) or mathematical modeling including integer and dynamic programming models. Managed the IsyE computer lab in 86-87 while also being selected as Senior Student Adviser to the GT IE faculty. After graduation went to work with leading professors to develop software that demonstrated their advanced models which was delivered as part of their consulting work.
Activities and Societies: IIE student chapter officer 86-87
Middletown High School
South Gwinnett
Interests
- I enjoy coaching startup entreprenuers on their business plans and revenue models
- helping technology startups gain traction via better product design
- marketing
- & business development strategies Reviewing & improving software architecture and systems design
- applying technology to business problems
- innovation and risk analysis
- Intellectual Property development and analysis
- early stage angel investing and market analysis
- personally: history & science fiction
- studying innovation
- gadets
- creative business models & stock market analysis ...
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