Eric Weiss

I help CTOs and technical founders scale themselves to meet the demands of their company. I give them the operating system to lead, hire, and scale without burning out. Clients include OpenAI, Automattic, ASML, Heap, Sendlane, Tealium, and Sempre Health. What I help them do: • Get out of the weeds and lead strategically • Build autonomous, high-performing teams • Hire A-players and develop a winning team • Gain executive presence and manage the C-suite • Navigate funding, hiring, and scaling inflection points with ease My clients raise more capital, keep their best people, and get their time back without losing momentum.

Leading execution of the 2024 World Design Capital and San Diego Design Week events. Engaging with the San Diego design community to evangelize human-centered design in our cities, schools, businesses, and communities.

Providing support and resources to the San Diego Startup ecosystem.

Invested in over 20 startups and participated in due diligence and technology screening for new deals.

Rock My Run is a music streaming platform for curated, biometric adaptive music to enhance exercise performance. With a team of professional and celebrity DJs creating seamless mixes designed for exercise, and technology that can measure your pace and heart rate to match the tempo to your steps and exertion level, Rock My Run has been scientifically proven to improve performance by up to 35%. It's also just a really cool app for finding great music. As CTO, I was responsible for: • Defining the product roadmap • Implementing an agile software development methodology • Planning and managing release cycles • Developing software components for our iOS, Android, and server platforms • Integrating third-party SDKs and APIs into our stack • Managing relationships and development schedules for our SDK customers

Leader of Qualcomm's Intellectual Property Intelligence Team, developing strategic business applications supporting one of the world’s largest patent portfolios with over $7.8B in annual licensing revenue. • Developed industry leading analytics, predictive models, and machine learning algorithms to help drive Qualcomm's strategic patent portfolio. • Lead architect for Qualcomm’s Executive Intelligence Dashboard, engaging with the CEO, CFO, CIO, President, and General Counsel. Owned the product roadmap, requirements specification, and development. • Lead agile software development teams for several mission critical business applications across Corporate R&D, Finance, Manufacturing, and Intellectual Property

Co-Founded a private aviation company based out of Tokyo, Japan. FreeAir provided private jet fractional-ownership and charter services that focused on providing low-cost flights on private aircraft using network routing optimization algorithms.