Fred Dewey
About
Fred Dewey is a high impact technology business leader. He specializes in turnaround, hyperscale, transformation and startup scenarios. He started his career as a Silicon Valley software engineer from Rochester Institute of Technology. At Sun Microsystems he led 750 engineers in turning around a failing system software release and getting it shipped on-time. As the worldwide VP of technology sales at Portal Software (now a $4B division of Oracle) he drove revenues from $5M to $300M in just 5 years, while building a team of 110 sales engineers in 26 countries and retired at the age of 40. After being a full-time dad for 5 years, he raised $2.5M in funding, bought an E-commerce and 3rd Party Logistics (3PL) company out of bankruptcy, and turned it around. Then as Co-founder and CEO of Kachingle (an e-commerce and content monetization company) he raised $750K of angel funding and led engineering/product management to seven major product launches. Most recently, after 3 years studying and teaching emotional intelligence and launching an EQ training company, he has rescued six different businesses including a flood insurance company, two e-commerce businesses, a major national outsourced security guard company, a large national packaging printing company, and a human services non-profit.
Titles Held
- CEO
- COO
- President
- Vice President
Industries
- Consulting/Training
- E-Commerce | FinTech
- I.T. (Managed, Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Cyber-Security)
- Software
- 3rd Party Logistics & Fulfillment