Paul Masson's Page

Innovation Interest(s):

Innovation strategy implementation through multiple means including alliances, corporate product development, joint product development, academic partnering, government lab partnering and individual innovator support.

Organization(s) and Title(s):

Strategic Alliances Resources Network, LLC
Managing Director

Current Relevant Project(s):

DOD-Adaptive Planning Innovation Supply Chain (Software)
Personal Air Transportation Alliance (Aviation)
SouthEast Colorado Economic Partnership (Multiple Innovations)
Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (Hydrogen Fuel Cells)
California Mushroom Works (Agriculture)

Past Relevant Project(s):

NASA Limited Partnership Design (SRI International)
Phillips and MAD Computer Co-Development/Manufacturing Partnership
Mushroom King/Honeywell/Dole Foods Partnership
Healthcare Open Systems Standards (HOST-Cedar Sinai+)
Aircraft Synthesis Design Software (ACSYNT-Boeing+)
Rotorcraft Industry Technology Alliance (RITA-Textron+)
Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiment (AGATE-Cessna+)
Pessure Paints Partnership (U. Washington+Boeing)
Astro-Ade Partnership (Shaklee Corporation+)
Robotics Engineering Consortium (REC-Carnegie Mellon+)
NASA Technology Partnership Training

Short Bio:

Paul is midwestern born and bred with a dash of East Coast education and a thirty year resident of Northern California. Paul's professional experience spans five years of iternational coporate & government finance; six years of management consulting (SRI International & Cap Gemini); three startup companies (software, agriculture, finance); and seventeen years of technology partnership development. Married and resident in San Francisco, appreciates middle-bodied red wines and good choclate.

Education:

Univ. Pennsylvania, Wharton, 74 BSEcon w/Minor in History
Univ. Pennsylvania, Wharton, 75 MBA Finance w/Minor Performing Arts Management
Certification Programs in Strategic Planning, International Trade, Economic Forecasting, Strategic Alliances, Public/Private Partnerships

Inspiration(s):

Will Rogers, Theodore Roosevelt, Paul Petzoldt (first highline backpack of the Wind River Mountains), Barry Alan Bowman (died Vietnam 1971) and my Wife, Kay

Hometown:

San Francisco, CA

Website1:

http://www.starnetllc.net

Website2:

http://pata.aero