Education
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Certificate, Sustainability 2010-01-01 - 2010-01-01Presidio Graduate School
Sustainability Management, Sustainability 2009-01-01 - 2009-01-01Stanford University
Executive MBA Continuing Education Program, -Work Experience
Elev8 Data
Current
Elev8 Data
ThinkingNode Life Science, Inc.
Current
ThinkingNode Life Science, Inc.
The WaterBearers.org
Current
The WaterBearers.org
People Centered Internet
Current
People Centered Internet
TechWomen
Current
TechWomen
Stealth Clean Energy Company
Current
Stealth Clean Energy Company
McElyea Consulting
Current
McElyea Consulting
Dhaani Systems, Inc.
2015-04-01 - 2019-05-01
Dhaani Systems, Inc.
IMCI Technologies
2017-03-01 - 2018-07-01
IMCI Technologies
World Resources Simulation Center
2015-11-01 - 2016-06-01
World Resources Simulation Center
Skills
Summary
Extensive experience creating and executing partnership ecosystems and marketing strategies. - Significantly contributed to numerous successful exits (multiple IPOs and acquisitions) - Created bundled offerings and Joint Ventures with 30+ partners, including Cisco, Microsoft, Intel - More than tripled sales within one year for more than five companies through programs, partnerships and joint/new product offerings - Created marketing exposure for several clients via speaking and event engagements, BBC interviews/shows, Global talks, etc. - Hands-on program creation, alliance recruiting, training and development McElyea thrives working with sustainable technologies (energy, water, food, education, technology for good). Previously Shannon's been a change agent with early stage disruptive and emerging technology companies building innovative and foundational programs and services with partners. Companies include: first web click call/video service/technology (Zingaya); first intrusion prevention network security platform (DeepNines); first 'one hour' delivery service platform for ecommerce vendors (DNet); first global roaming provider (iPass); first secure ecommerce technology - CyberCash (PayPal); first NAT-based firewall - Network Translation Inc. (Cisco); and first commercial Internet Service providers. Connected Keyhole with Google; Connected a Tesla founder to initial funding; connected Granite Systems to Cisco; Connected CompuServe to SpryNet Early expertise: the first distributed computing personal computer and workstation at Xerox PARC and OSD (Alto and Star); Mesa programmer, application developer, software release manager, DNS, and network workstations systems for Siemens AG. A global featured speaker for topics such as Cyberbanking, eCommerce, ePayments, VPNs, Network Security, Global Roaming, one-hour delivery network.