The following are the thoughts I shared at Greg Schuyler’s celebration of life. He passed in April, was my father-in-law and annual Alaska fishing buddy. Ernest Hemingway once said “A man is never lost at Sea.” No one that I know loved the sea more than the friend, mentor and…

We finally made it. Back from the brink. Music inspired us during those dark times and welcomed us into the real world again. Some might say that live music equals success, but that’s too low of a bar for this vinyl aficionado. At the end of 2020, I took advantage…

Last week, Wendi Sturgis became the new CEO of cleverbridge. As only the third CEO in company history and the first non-founder, I am thrilled to welcome her aboard as the captain of the ship. Turning over the role of CEO to Wendi was not a difficult decision for me…

Hear me out. I don’t have a Ph.D in Johnny Cash. Heck, I just discovered Johnny through his eponymous Live at Folsom Prison album. But after immersing myself in the music, swimming through all the tangled storylines and piercing the surface for air, Johnny Cash was one woke individual! Until…

The popular philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson once said “It’s about the journey, not the destination.” A more succinct description of the last sixteen years at cleverbridge, I could not imagine. Today is a destination, not the destination cleverbridge, founded by a team of e-commerce geeks who love solving global business…

Twenty-five years ago, after successfully pulling an all-nighter to meet the commitment delivered to Chicago’s front door steps, the Chicago Tribune went live on the internet. The tense hours spent overcoming unforeseen hurdles in the overnight darkness reminds me that great things can also be fun. …

During a recent consultant led scoping session, we were asked, on a scale from zero to ten, how confident are we that the project will succeed. One-by-one, our answers ranged from three to six. Clearly a healthy dose of pessimism hung in the air. …

2020 will go down in the history books on par with 1941, 1968 and 2001 as a year that changed the world forever. In most ways, this was a tragic year. …

It was a Friday. The build up lasted for weeks. After a year of prototyping, building, refining and testing, our Frankenstein creation was powered on directing us on a one-way path in the dark. The first email campaign pointing to our optimized customer commerce experience was launched. Over a year…