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Stuart Frost Laguna Niguel

Founder & CEO
Stuart has 30 years' experience in founding and leading successful data management and analytics startups. In the last eight years, he has created and incubated some of the leading companies in the IIoT market, including Maana (IIoT knowledge platform) , OspreyData (oil and gas analytics) , NarrativeWave (wind farm analytics) , ThinkIQ (food traceability) and SWARM (AI agents for IIoT) . During this time, he'saw the market go from its very early gestation to the point where major industrial companies are starting to make significant, long term commitments to digitization. Through this unique experience, Stuart has developed deep knowledge of the market's needs and how to successfully create and sell key technologies to meet those needs. After graduating from Nottingham University with a degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering, Stuart founded SELECT Software Tools at age 26 and led the company, as CEO, through rapid growth and expansion, including a very successful NASDAQ IPO in 1996. He then founded DATAllegro in 2003 which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 for $275m. As part of the acquisition, Stuart joined Microsoft to lead the data warehousing group, which generated around $1bn in revenue. He left Microsoft in 2010 , and started an incubator focused on creating industrial and healthcare IoT startups. Having successfully created some of the leading startups in the IoT market and seeing that the world's major industrial companies are starting to invest in digital twin and related technologies, he is now taking the helm of a new company (Geminos Software) focused on this huge opportunity.
STUART FROST Background
Laguna Niguel, CA, USA

Professional Background

  • Current status
    Employed
    Not open to opportunities
  • Profession
    Business Development
  • Fields
    Investment Management
  • Work experience
    More than 15 years (More than 15 years relevant)
  • Management
    I've had experience in managing 15+ people
  • Skills
    word
    photoshop
    service quality
    problem solving
    people management
    good communication and interpersonal skills
    business partnership
  • Languages
    English
    Native or Bilingual
  • Highest level of education

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Full-time
    Not interested in working remotely
  • Desired positions
    Founder & CEO
  • Desired work locations
    Laguna Niguel, CA, USA
  • Freelance
    Non-freelancer

Work Experience

Founder & CEO

Jan 2019 - Jul 2020
1 yr 7 mos
Stuart is creating a new company to create the leading real - time digital twin platform for large industrial assets and processes. The company already has a proven minimum viable product and a strong pipeline of prospects.

Co -Founder & Chairman

Oct 2016 - Jul 2020
3 yrs 10 mos
SWARM has built a multi-agent AI system that helps large enterprises optimize complex processes such as Ø materials/food blending and supply chains. The company has raised seed capital and has recently secured its first customers. Ø Maana

Founder & CEO

Nov 2010 - Jul 2020
9 yrs 9 mos
Stuart founded FDC and Avventura to incubate his ideas for industrial and healthcare IoT startups. Over the course of the last eight years, Stuart has founded 27 companies and helped raise over 200m across the portfolio. During this time, he developed strong relationships with key players in Industry 4.0 such as GE, Shell, Chevron, Maersk, Rockwell, etc. More recently, Stuart has made many connections in China and has been helping some of the portfolio companies raise funds from Chinese investors and develop strategies for the Chinese market. Ø Microsoft Ø

Founder & Chairman

Aug 2012 - Jul 2018
6 yrs 0 mos
Stuart founded Maana to build a platform that could use AI to explore massive sets of Big Data and make it much Ø easier and faster for large industrial companies to create advanced analytics applications. The company has raised 65m in venture capital and has a number of very large and successful deployments. The company's potential as a Technology Pioneer was recognized by the World

Founder & CEO

Jul 2003 - Aug 2008
5 yrs 2 mos
DATAllegro was a leading player in the data warehouse appliance market. Stuart founded the company and designed the massively parallel database architecture that combined off the'shelf servers and components, an open source database and DATAllegro's own proprietary software to process petabytes of data. Stuart raised 65m in venture capital for the company and led the acquisition by Microsoft for 275m, which represented 26x revenues and generated a 36x return for seed investors. InvestorIQ.com

Co-Founder & CEO

Jan 1999 - Sep 2000
1 yr 9 mos
InvestorIQ provided investment research on small cap companies. Funding came from a public offering in the UK and a corporate investment. With the downturn in the market's, Stuart decided to focus on his other business interests and close the company.

Founder, Chairman & CEO

Nov 1988 - Nov 1998
10 yrs 1 mo
Stuart founded SELECT in 1988. Products included business process and component-based modelling tools, together with a range of component management tools. SELECT was involved with many successful projects that pioneered the use of components for large-scale distributed systems. As a result, Stuart has extensive experience in business process design and automation. The company established a global presence, had 300 staff and annual revenues of over 30m in 1998. Highlights of SELECT : Venture capital from 3i and Elderstreet

Founder & CEO

Jan 1983 - Dec 1988
6 yrs 0 mos
While at Sentinel, Stuart provided programming and systems analysis services to a number of clients in the defence, aviation and communications industries.

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