Marina Technology Cluster Announces CEO Coach Program Veteran Entrepreneur Bob Vander Woude Tapped as the Programs Founding CEO Coach

Serial entrepreneurs acting as CEO coaches will guide start-up companies around the perils of early-stage business development to profitability in a new program announced today by The Marina Technology Cluster (MTC). Bob Vander Woude, a Silicon Valley serial startup executive with more than 20 years of high-technology sales, marketing and investment experience will be the incubators first coach.

Marina, CA (PRWEB) February 21, 2005 -- Serial entrepreneurs acting as CEO coaches will guide start-up companies around the perils of early-stage business development to profitability in a new program announced today by The Marina Technology Cluster (MTC) (www.marinatechnologycluster.org).

Tapping into lessons learned from their own experiences as entrepreneurs -- both successes and failures -- CEO coaches will assist incubator companies with business and product launch, sales and marketing planning, sales-channel identification, public-relations rollout, strategic-alliances development, and fundraising. The coaches will also take the lead in assembling advisory boards to provide assistance to the companies on a variety of start-up challenges.

The CEO Coach Program ratchets up our capacity to turn regional entrepreneurial talent into profitable companies," said Susan Barich, director of the MTC, a technology business incubator operated by the City of Marina and located at the University of Californias MBEST Center.

Bob Vander Woude, a Silicon Valley serial startup executive with more than 20 years of high-technology sales, marketing and investment experience will be the incubators first coach.

We could not have asked for a more energetic or skilled person to launch our CEO-Coach program than Bob Vander Woude," said Barich. Bob brings a depth of startup experience from a career of developing early-stage companies and as founder of DataTools, Inc., a successful enterprise software company."

About the Marina Technology Cluster

Located in the dynamic Monterey Bay Area, the Marina Technology Cluster grows successful businesses by delivering best-available, business-development services to talented technology-driven entrepreneurs in collaboration with our world-renowned partners, including business science, education, government and research institutions.

Contact:

Susan Barich

831-582-9718    

Marina Technology Cluster

3180 Imjin Road, Suite 149

Marina, CA 93933

Tel: (831) 582-9718    

Fax: (831) 582-9546

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