Doug Parrish | President and CEO
After retiring from Professional Football (NFL and CFL) of six years, Mr. Parrish has been a part of the telecommunications and technology industry for over a decade. Mr. Parrish brings a considerable amount of experience ranging from sales, management and ownership. A sales acumen, Mr. Parrish spent four years servicing large and small companies such as Sprint, MFS-Worldcom and Pacific Bell Internet (SBC) where he consistently exceeded quota benchmarks after deregulation. Mr. Parrish grew market share for Pacific Bell High Speed Internet along with Cisco scalable solutions during the dot-com era.
Mr. Parrish was Founder and Board member of IPeffect, a Hosted VOIP wholesaler of Gobeam (now Covad.com), one of the nations leaders in VOIP technology (assets sold to Pac West). Focusing on IP, Mr. Parrish was Co-Founder of IP Global Voice (dba Xiptel) which raised $500,000 and later was acquired by New Market Technologies (OTC: NMKT.OB). Also, Mr. Parrish brings experience in software applications (SaaS) where as he sourced Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT’s) at OpsTechnology (now RealPage.com) on expense management initiatives. Mr Parrish later transitioned his sales expertise to online Attorney/Client matching software applications. Mr. Parrish actively consults for a Venture Capital firm in California bridging relationships and high net worth individuals to decision makers across the country and abroad. Mr. Parrish is an expert at building high revenue producing opportunities while resonating among C-level executives.
Mr. Parrish, a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. attended the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco State University. Mr. Parrish was privileged to be selected 175th overall into the National Football League (1991) by the New York Jets.
Bill Wiedemann | Chief Technology Officer
Bill is a seasoned marketing and sales executive with over 25 years experience building and leading teams. He brings to the organization an entrepreneurial spirit, business acumen, marketing and sales experience, and a strong desire to make the company a major success. He was instrumental in the development of IP Global Voice (which Parrish co-founded), as a Lead Advisor and served of the Board of Advisors. Prior to founding CleanReset, Bill worked for Phoenix Technologies running the OEM Sales team in the Americas Region. Prior to Phoenix Technologies, Bill built his experience, interest, and desire for early stage ventures at Blaze Network Products and RedCreek Communications. As Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Business Development at Blaze from its early stages in 1999, he led the company to a prominent position in the in the optical networking industry, pioneering Blaze solutions through the IEEE, OIF and other industry standards bodies. Blaze raised over $75 Million dollars of venture money and grew to more than 130 people during its first three years. As the founder of RedCreek Communications in 1996, Bill raised over $35 million dollars and grew the company from a leadership position in the virtual private networking, VPN, space. Bill conceived and developed RedCreeks early business from @Home, and Hewlett Packard totaling over $45 million dollars in contracts, and solicited and closed a $6M dollar investment from Cisco. Bills dedication and experience in leading companies from conception through investment and revenue will help to insure the success of Red Dipper
Tobi Adamolekun | VP of Corporate Development
Mr Adamolekun is an architect with extensive international experience working on projects that focused on sustainable design. As a consulting partner at Symphysis, Mr. Adamolekun provided architecture firms with bioclimatic design solutions, site and climate analyses as well as recommendations on daylighting, solar stress mitigations, and passive strategies.
Mr Adamolekun has worked with award winning architect Zaha Hadid (London), R&Sie(n) (Paris) and has presented papers at international conferences including Passive & Low Energy Architecture Conference (PLEA) in Geneva. Mr. Adamolekun holds a Masters of Sustainable Design (with distinction) from the Architectural Association School in London, a MArch from the California College of Art and a BA from the University of Toronto.
Mr. Adamolekun is also a lecturer at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
As VP of Corporate Development, Mr. Adamolekun will manage all aspects of strategic partnership building. He will identify key potential partners, develop, negotiate and manage interaction with them to enable strong business connections to foster growth for Red Dipper.
Jeff Austin | COO
Mr. Austin has extensive experience managing some of the largest and most complicated redevelopment projects in the nation (Hunters Point and Mission Bay). The experience gained while working on public-private partnership land development projects in San Francisco will translate well to other projects. Mr. Austins experience provides an intimate understanding of the complicated contracting process in San Francisco and throughout. Prior to Red Dipper, Mr. Austin started his career in the environmental consulting business and therefore understands the varied and complicated environmental regulatory processes.
Mr. Austin will provide senior oversight of the construction process, estimation duties, manage contracting issues with HVA, ensure environmental compliance at the job site and manage hiring and contracting goals. Jeff graduated with a degree in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
David Seaborg | Board of Directors
David Seaborg (born 1949) is an evolutionary biologist; as well as a peace activist, and a leader in the environmental movement. He serves as director of the World Rainforest Fund, the Seaborg Open Space Fund, and the Greater Lafayette Open Space Fund. Seaborg is the son of Helen L. Seaborg and Nobel Laureate Glenn T. Seaborg (who discovered plutonium among many other accomplishments).
David Seaborg conceived, and helped secure passage by the Berkeley City Council, of an ordinance banning the use of old growth rainforest and redwood in all products used by the city of Berkeley. This ordinance also required all businesses contracting with Berkeley to stop using old growth rainforest and redwood in any products or services Berkeley hires them to use or perform, or in any product they sell the city. He is currently working with the Berkeley city council to secure passage of an ordinance banning the use of plastic bags in grocery stores, and plastic newspaper wrappers, in that city.
Dean Gardner | Chief Advisor
Mr. Gardner has been a venture capitalist and founder of technology growth companies for more than a decade, managing and investing in technology and financial service companies. Mr. Gardner is the Founder of Crossover Capital, an investment firm that structures acquisition corporations to acquire privately held companies and positions them for a public market exit or buyout. Mr. Gardner was the Chairman of IP Global Voice (whom Parrish co-founded) that acquired private assets in the VOIP space and within 2 years was successfully sold to a public company at a significant IRR. Prior to Crossover, Mr. Gardner was the Founder and CEO of Digital Ventures (DV) for 10 years during which he was instrumental in building more than 30 start-up and growth companies in the USA, China and Europe, taking advantage of cross-boarder financing and partnership to enhance shareholder value. DV was one of the first venture capital firms to focus exclusively on the Internet and grew to over 75 executives in the United Sates, Hong Kong and London. DV had a similar business model to CMGI and Internet Capital Group and was close to filing its S1 to go public at an estimated pre-money value of $250M+ but got caught in the technology crash of 2000 before DV was able to go public. Mr. Gardner was also a founder of and early investor in such companies as Digital Ventures Asia (sold to Jardine Matheson), eFinance (sold by CSFB), Internet Games Corporation (www.playsite.com – sold to Go2Net and Rare Medium), IP Global Voice (sold to NewMarket Technology), Virtual Vegas, and ECI (Match.com). Prior to Mr. Gardner’s venture capital career, he was an active entreprenuer starting and building technogoy companies, and prior he was a corporate pilot and flight instructor. Mr. Gardner has been active in various non-profits and goverment initiatives leveraging his finance and technology background and has been a speaker on various venture capital and Internet pannels. DV was a sponsor of the HAAS School of Business and Stanford Business School venture forum programs.
