Your Team

Learn About the Ideal Strategic Partner Team

Ideal Strategic Partners

Our goal, as a team of experienced business development consultants, is to allow you to gain access to the guidance and resources from veteran professionals where you will be able to manage and launch a product and sustain your business.

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John Roshala

Managing Partner
As Managing Partner, John is an operational leader who guides and helps spearhead the company’s portfolio partners. He is noted for his vision, sound practical management style, ability to build dynamic companies, and ensuring a winning culture that achieves critical goals.

Having very broad and deep experience as a business development consultant, John enjoys the dynamics of entrepreneurship, specializing in creating immediate and powerful action plans, sustaining operational excellence, developing the right relationships, and driving sales.
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Scott Moffat

Head of Partner Recruitment
As Director of Partner Development, Scott starts working from day one with our partner community to help entrepreneurs get selected by Ideal Strategic Partner’s selection committee.

Scott’s truly hands-on experience helps Entrepreneurs in the initial phases of their concept to ensure they have what it takes to be successful. His unique and very engaging process working side by side with entrepreneurs has positioned him as a very sought after business development partner.
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David King

Director of Partner Marketing
Among his many endeavors, as Director of Partner Marketing, David specializes in providing our community of partners with website development and deployment, market research and market entry strategy, search engine optimization, lead generation, digital marketing, mobile marketing, and search engine marketing.

Whether it’s a widget, specialized product, or application, David’s expertise has been instrumental in the successful adoption of products and services worldwide.
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Bruce Krozca

Director of Partner Success
As Director of Partner Success, Bruce brings over 20 years of experience in customer facing support roles delivering multi-million dollar customized software / hardware solutions, and product distribution to customers in private industry and the federal government.

He is an enthusiastic and dedicated professional with an outstanding track record of success and has managed projects and delivered solutions from start up and inception to in excess of $20M. With his oversight of global projects and deployments, he has traveled extensively in the Continental U.S. and Outside Continental US working with partners side by side to ensure their success.
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Amber Polanco

Partner Operations Coordinator
As Partner Operations Coordinator, Amber works with our Partner portfolio in a multitude of capacities, including but not necessarily limited to: initial Partner contact, recruitment, engagement, ongoing Partner operational assistance, and affiliate Partner coordination and management.

In addition, due to Ideal Strategic Partners IdeaPath process, she frequently assists with ISP’s project management teams to ensure a World Class level of service is provided to our Partner portfolio companies.
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Ray Chavez

Client Success Manager
As Partner Success Manager, Raymond works directly with our Partners during their journey with Ideal Strategic Partners. Ray also works on the front end in the initial phases with the business development team so he can be involved with our partners from the start.

With his past experience as a corporate trainer, Ray has a mentor/communicator type approach in his skillset which is paramount in the development of our partner entrepreneurs and their relationship with Ideal Strategic Partners.
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Vincent Castellano

Client Success Manager
Entrepreneurialism is something Vincent is very passionate about helping others pursue. He has started several businesses himself which has given him the unique ability to effectively see the vision of our partners and determine whether or not we are potentially the right fit.

His position is centered on the early idea stages of discussions where his ability to help partners effectively discover and articulate their vision is a real asset.

Advisor Committee

Meet Your Advisors

Get yourself started on the right foot with help from our highly valued business partner advisor experts. You'll be able to gain the wisdom and experience from our advisors that will guide your business to success. 

Ken brings over thirty years in leadership positions in sales, marketing and operations, with a consistent record of overachievement. He has been a founding member of organizations from inception to unicorn status, and traveled the world working with the global organizations helping them fuel growth. Ken has a diversified perspective of all functional and business operations with an emphasis in sales, marketing, strategic planning and operations. This experience and skill set directly benefits our partner portfolio companies and the entrepreneurs who lead them.

In many cases, Ken acts as a COO or CCO helping our portfolio partners define their winning strategy, develop their pitch deck, provide guidance, direct support, and help spearhead funding if applicable. With his deep and profound contact base and relationships around the globe, Ken is a valuable resource for business execution and success.
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Ken May

Operations, Growth and M&A
Russel McHugh serves as an advisor partner for our portfolio companies seeking expertise in applications and product development. His vast background working with entrepreneurs and companies includes technology and applications in Internet of Things, embedded systems, ruggedized devices, connected car systems- mapping and next generation telematics solutions deployments, driver behavior and driver safety solutions and mobile TV content management services.

With his applications development tenure, he also has broad based experience in Software, and Mobile healthcare platforms. As an advisor to Ideal Strategic Partners, he works with our selected portfolio partners specializing in product management, technology evangelization, solution sales, strategic business development, product design, engineering and manufacturing.
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Russell McHugh

Applications and Development
Katie heads up community and partnership development at Tale Tree and she is founder of Truli Uli, headquartered in Dallas. She is a consultant, organizer, and business planner for numerous organizations and works towards a specialty in combining research and development and activism..

Her essential skillset and unique background are an asset for Ideal Strategic Partners as she works with our partner community and specializes in helping woman entrepreneurs.
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Katie Troutman

Coaching and Mentoring
Mark is strategic business development consultant IPSecureTech LLC which works to increase client revenues. He teams with ideal Strategic Partners portfolio companies specializing in structuring relationships and providing guidance to initiate new market entry and continued growth in existing markets. In addition, he can analyze commercial business concepts and demographics to implement strategic plans to increase cash flow on a projected timeline. In partnership with Ideal Strategic Partners, Mark provides general counsel and specializes in intellectual property and corporate law.

Mark’s contacts and network allow him to utilize executive level corporate and legal contacts around the world to develop relationships that enable projects to move from initial concept to targeted client goals.
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Mark A. York

Legal - Intellectual Property
Mark is president of Echelon Management, a growth and turnaround consultant, syndicated writer, professional speaker and advisor to owners and CEO’s. He is the author of Growth or Bust! Proven Turnaround Strategies to Grow Your Business, published by Career Press and High Growth Levers published by Pelican Publishing.

Mark has worked with and interviewed many Fortune 500 CEO’s and top turnaround CEOs. His client companies have included P&G, IBM, Monsanto, Apple, Syngenta, Bayer, John Deere as well as smaller closely held organizations including over 50 third-generation family owned companies, government agencies, universities and even non-profits. He is also active in helping entrepreneurs avoid some of the early pitfalls of growing a new company and is positioned as an experienced advisor to Ideal Strategic Partners portfolio companies. Through this, he works side by side with our portfolio Entrepreneurs as an executive coach.
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Mark Faust

Coaching and Mentoring
Jason’s passion is leading product-centric ideas and to conceive and transform the intangible into tangible action and extraordinary results. He is a versatile and experienced leader enabling individuals and ecosystems to thrive in diverse cultures and complex environments. Originally a UX designer, his skills centered to product management with additional experience including business development, program & project management, board advisor/member, M&As, corporate & intellectual property (IP) strategy, marketing, invention, and commercial deployment. Rooted as a “product person,” he focuses on methods to visualize product objectives, establish clear pathways to success, motivate teams to collaborate, and drive invention all along the way.

The spirit of invention has led Jason to create many new things, partially represented by his 304 granted patents and, more importantly, has enabled him to scale practical invention practices to others in an organization. As a partner advisor to Ideal Strategic Partners, Jason works on impactful problems shoulder-to-shoulder with smart and passionate people in our portfolio partner companies.
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Jason Kenagy

Strategy, IP and Product Development
Jane is the founder of organizedjane.com. She is a Life-Biz Organizer, Author, Director and University Instructor who found her passion by de-cluttering spaces and business processes. She is also referred to as a "Structure Strategist" who loves to help companies and individuals get more organized.

One of her passions is to help and work with women entrepreneurs in helping them stay focused on their priorities so she works as a partner advisor with our woman owned portfolio companies to provide that operational expertise and business coaching service.
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Jane Stoller

Woman Entrepreneurship Ops. & Coaching
Kevin is founder of The Idea Guy® which helps people create new ideas that solve problems through speaking, workshops, training and consulting. These specialized programs and services teach people to become more creative, facilitates innovation for teams, and helps leaders to build systemic creativity. His expertise is in the development of a strategy that meets business objectives, the creativity to gain awareness, and the communications that facilitates engagement.

As a partner advisor, Kevin assists Ideal Strategic Partners portfolio companies to formulate unique, highly engaging, and creative marketing tactics to elevate awareness, interest, and effective branding.
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Kevin Popović

Entrepreneurship, Ops. and Coaching
Lauren Wiswall is CoFounder and Chief Product Officer at CoachLogix where her passion and commitment to scale coaching globally stems from her prior work as a mental health therapist and executive coach. She helped found CoachLogix based on the belief that the coaching industry needed a scalable technology solution for coaching practice management. Lauren is on a mission to help more people across the globe gain access to coaching through technology.

Lauren’s career began as a mental health therapist, which later evolved into executive coaching and consulting. She earned her BA in Psychology at the University of Washington, her MS in Clinical Psychology at Pacific University, and completed coach training at the Coaches Training Institute.
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Lauren Wiswall

Entrepreneurship, Operations and Coaching
Jan is principal at Ocean Wolf Consulting and works with Ideal Strategic Partner’s portfolio of entrepreneurs on a selected basis to help design and build organizations, teams and products. The process of identifying new opportunities, assessing alternative solutions, selling the concept to investors, defining the requirements, building the team, executing the plan and then seeing the product in use is what he most enjoys.

Jan has had the privilege throughout his career to lead smart, motivated, high performing teams who relentlessly pursue excellence in all that they do. In order to foster a culture of excellence I identify and communicate a clear and compelling vision, eliminate roadblocks, solve problems, identify opportunities for growth, and encourage others to keep driving forward.
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Jan Lezny

Leadership & Business Development
Tom is a seasoned senior executive with over 30 years in defense and aerospace at corporate, senior, and middle management levels. Technical background combined with 10 years in program management and 10 years in business development. He is actively involved in San Diego technology community. Entrepreneur-in-Residence at UCSD's CONNECT and board member for the San Diego chapter of ACT-IAC.

Tom helps Ideal Strategic partners navigate applications for government or federal agencies that may apply within our partner network. He is an excellent communicator both in business and as an educator. He is an Adjunct Professor of Business at local colleges teaching Management and Leadership.
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Tom Hernandez

Government and Federal Applications
Jude is a competent, reliable leader with excellent people skills, who learns and adapts rapidly to new situations, synthesizes ideas, and solves problems to accomplish organizational goals and objectives. He is skilled in Microsoft Excel, Wireless Applications, Business Process Improvement, Cross-functional Team Leadership, and Financial Analysis. His areas of expertise help Ideal Strategic Partners in several industries and provide strong financial acumen to help our portfolio companies scale and meet operational and financial goals.

Jude is a strong consulting professional with a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) focused in Finance from University of San Diego and he is also a graduate of Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Technology and Society.
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Jude Izra

Coaching and Mentoring
Chris' mission is to use his decades of utility industry innovation experience to instantiate new technologies which make the world a better place. He has been an adjunct professor at California State University, Long Beach and held management positions in the business strategy, intellectual property, information technology, finance and human resources functions.

He also is an experienced leadership, organization development and executive coaching consultant. He has two Smart Grid-related patents, has published four books and articles on a variety of topics and serves on the advisory boards of GridX, Xendee and Hygge Power. He has a BA in Economics and an MBA from UC Irvine.
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Chris Chen

Entrepreneurship, Operations and Coaching
With over 40 years in technology implementations, Michael's background includes deep industry experience in Construction, Technology, Manufacturing, Beverage, Entertainment, and Packaging.

Michael knows the importance of implementing Technology Solutions based on Goals of the Company and where the solution fits within its Technology framework. He has a long track record of successful project implementations for large, distributed organizations. He is a Change agent in both large and small environments. Regular speaker for National Construction Technology events and webinars.
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Michael Oster

Entrepreneurship, Operations and Coaching
Kimberly is President of IPSecureTech LLC and has a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry. In her capacity as a Partner Advisor to Ideal Strategic Partners, Kimberly provides our first time founders with services to help establish their company/legal entity and assist in setting up the initial business operations.

She is skilled in customer service, organization and time management, marketing, team building, and training.
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Kimberly Brown

Business Ops. and Intellectual Property
John is President of Revel8tion Media, a media and communications firm set up to serve the Hispanic community by offering affordable and valuable media distribution across a plethora of industry verticals.

John is passionate about raising awareness of the Hispanic community by spearheading many programs designed to advance others and elevate the community. At Ideal Strategic Partners, John aides Hispanic founders within our portfolio of partners by offering his experience and expertise in entrepreneurship, media, content, and advertising.
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John Campa

Entrepreneurship, Ops. and Coaching
Lee is a top tier product management and business development executive with experience at some of the largest organizations in the world such as Intel and Hewlett Packard. He also has vast experience with the start up community and has helped numerous companies successfully align their products for market fit.

As a partner advisor at Ideal Strategic Partners, Lee acts as a highly sought after resource for our portfolio companies that seek the talent needed to develop World Class products and services. Lee’s experience extends to software as a service (SaaS) and includes many technical verticals including gaming, electronic chips, and wireless to name a few.
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Lee Itzhaki

Product Management & Business Development
John has a proven track record of developing, launching and managing strategic initiatives within a multitude of industries. He specializes in business development and new customer acquisition, and has an effective ability to communicate a company’s vision and value proposition, while providing the expertise to scale business, and drive companies to exceed forecasts.

John works with Ideal Strategic Partners and their portfolio companies mainly with the IdeaPath stage 2, Strategy and Branding. Effectively John acts as an operational business development consultant to initiate the sales and go-to-market Strategy. With his extensive experience in a multitude of industries, John rolls up his sleeves and initiates a plan into action.
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John Gilveli

Operations, Growth, Consulting, and M&A
Jamison is an accounting and finance professional with Big4 pedigree and leadership experience in private, public and non-profit companies. With his experience and degree from the University of California, Berkeley, Walter A. Haas school of business, Jamison serves as a premier consultant and partner advisor to Ideal Strategic Partners. He works with our portfolio companies to ensure their accounting and processes are sound, meet generally accepted accounting principles (GAP) and compliance requirement is required.

Jamison also is an advisor to develop pitch and financial decks for our portfolio companies seeking additional outside investment for growth. With his direct experience with the largest accounting firms in the world, Jamison has the credentials that can be needed when our portfolio companies need the financial rigor it may take to prepare investment documents.
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Jamison Gilveli

Accounting, Finance, and Consulting
Anna is founder and HR consultant at Accelerated HR, an HR advising and consulting firm focused on providing professional, tailored, and scalable human resources solutions to a broad spectrum of industries ranging from technology, digital marketing, hospitality, and manufacturing. Anna works with Ideal Strategic Partner portfolio companies whether their need involves one-time HR advisory, or working on an ongoing basis, Anna will be there to help minimize employment risk and maximize employee productivity.

Among her many list of services Anna provides: HR advising and consulting, employee handbook creation, on-site HR department set-up, recruiting, management coaching & training, employee engagement, recognition, and culture development, performance management, benefits administration, employee relations advising, and employee leave administration.
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Anna Mikituk

Human Resources
Tim is an accomplished Executive with 20 years of successfully spearheading growth within the three-tiered alcohol beverage system, building brands and customer relations calling on grocery chain HQ buyers, distributors and industry leaders. He is an approachable, resilient, motivated exceptional leader who is able to identify what influences key buyers or stakeholders and build lasting relationships. He has also established key relationships in other industries, such as automotive.

At Ideal Strategic Partners, Tim heads up and provides business development and consulting to our portfolio partners that seek to enter the beverage industry or have aspirations to sell their products in automotive parts and supplies chains across the nation.
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Timothy Friend

Operations, Growth, Consulting, and M&A
Eric is a hobby serial inventor who has created several products and applications in automotive, powersport and industrial industries. His background includes small and large enterprise as well as government and federal sectors. He is also a great problem solver, with stellar experience leading and building teams to install, test, upgrade and maintain a variety of electronics, electrical, plumbing, general construction and telecommunications circuitry, including networks.

As a hands on partner advisor with Ideal Strategic Partners, his innovation capabilities and technical acumen positions him well with many of our portfolio partners. Eric is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, earning numerous awards while managing the 52c Air Search Radar.
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Eric Ratza

Entrepreneurship, Operations and Coaching
Adam is founder of Aeon law where he builds High Tech IP portfolios with his clients and counsels them on business-savvy IP strategies. As a Partner Advisor at Ideal Strategic Partners, he handles patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and related transactions and licensing for our portfolio partners.
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Adam Philipp

Legal and Intellectual Property

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"A clear vision, backed by definite plans,
gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power" -Brian Tracy