Juan Cabezas

Juan has a twenty-five year management and senior management career leading turnaround situations and high-growth organizations at IBM, Tivoli Systems, General Electric and three start-ups through unprecedented profitability and explosive market growth worldwide. Two of the startups resulted in acquisitions; one by Microsoft, the other by ASG.
 
He recently held the position of Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at AM Technical Solutions. Here he worked to diversify the company’s revenue sources, launched new businesses, established sales and marketing, and re-branded the company.
 
Prior, he was the VP Marketing and Sales for Austin based software start-up (pre-A-round), nVision Software, Inc. He positioned the company as a manager of composite applications and web services and sharply grew sales, led the efforts to raise private equity funds, and finally worked to sell nVision to ASG in Naples, FL.
 
Prior, he was with Zebra Imaging, Inc. an early stage company, where he was Vice President of Marketing and Sales, General Manager Commercial Division within the highly advanced holographic imaging market.
 
Previously, Juan was the Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Strategic Alliances for General Electric’s global security business, responsible for mapping out and executing growth strategies, including entry into new markets, new channels and new platforms; establishing strategic partnerships as well as setting the direction and driving M&A. His responsibilities also included leading the global marketing organization (CMO) and the technology Centers of Excellence. He grew the business to $3B through organic initiatives and M&A.
 
Prior, he served as President of Casi-Rusco, Inc., a $60M, stand-alone GE Company and led its significant business turnaround, achieving record sales and profit under his leadership. Prior to GE, Juan was the General Manager for the Software Products Division and Vice President, Corporate Development for Reciprocal, Inc. an early stage B2B internet security company, acquired by Microsoft.
 
Previously, Juan served as Vice President of business development at multi-billion dollar Tivoli Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM. During his tenure there, Juan provided leadership in technology and business acquisitions, international licensing and reseller agreements.
 
Prior to that, Juan was at IBM where he served in multiple executive, operational and General Manager roles including IBM Software Group Strategy Executive, Product Development Executive, General Manager Custom Software and Enterprise Solutions, General Manager Compatibility, Design & Verification Services, and Communications Systems Business Line Executive.
 
Juan holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University, masters’ degrees in both Industrial Engineering and Business Administration from the University of Miami. He is fluent in English and Spanish.
 
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