Fred Means Business:
Fred Dewey is a high impact technology business leader. He specializes in hyperscale, turnaround, transformation, and startup scenarios. At Sun Microsystems he led 750 engineers to turn around a failing software release. 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, and unable to stay out
of the game, he raised $2.5M in funding, bought a logistics
company out of bankruptcy, and turned it around. Then as Co-founder/CEO of an e-commerce company, he raised $750,000 of angel funding and led engineering/product management to seven major product launches. Since then he has rescued and turned around 6 businesses in 6 different industries, saving thousands of jobs.
In addition to his passion for business, he is also passionate about emotional intelligence and Conscious Capitalism. He launched an EQ training company, and leads workshops where participants generate a dramatic increase in emotional intelligence. He believes that in order for a business to thrive, it must serve ALL of its stakeholders (employees, customers, suppliers, partners, and communities, in addition to stockholders).
In addition to his high impact work, he enjoys flying small airplanes, basketball, boating, grandparenting, hiking and meditation.
JD Knows Science:
JD Stillwater is a professional public speaker and science ambassador with a gift for making difficult science concepts graspable for average people. He offers insights from how nature works that inform and promote business, cultural, and personal change. A 24-year veteran of K-12 science education, JD is in demand as a speaker in venues ranging from colleges and civic organizations to the Parliament of World Religions. As of April 2023, he has presented well over 100 talks in 22 states and provinces.
JD was a top-20 contender for the Radio Shack National Teacher Awards, is NASA certified to borrow and handle lunar geological specimens, won an award for original work with atomic force microscopes, serves on two non-profit boards and as advisor to a private foundation, is a certified Red Cross Instructor, and published a children’s picture book on big-bang cosmology.
JD’s life experience includes: walking from Los Angeles to Washington DC; founding a non-profit; serving as a school’s Medical Officer during the pandemic; jumping off cliffs into the ocean; delivering a baby as the sole birth attendant (in a bus); playing drums in the first-ever stadium rock concert in the USSR; traveling in all 50 U.S. states, 8 Canadian provinces, and 13 European countries; rafting the Grand Canyon; and taking 10 students to Oregon for a total solar eclipse.