Management

Skip Sponsel

Prior to founding the company, Mr. Sponsel created and directed the business development group at Intel Capital. His programs selectively matched thousands of entrepreneurial innovations with Global 2000 requirements, leading to consistent wins for both buyers and seller.

Customers searching and asking for these services to be provided across all technologies led Mr. Sponsel to found the company and develop Emerging Tech Accelerator’s patented search, collaboration, and decision tools.

Prior to Intel, Sponsel held senior sales and marketing positions with telecom equipment manufacturers – selling to both enterprise and service providers – and participating in an IPO. He built a regional sports cable network for the Minnesota Twins, and founded a sports promotion firm producing 50 events per year for Fortune 500 sponsors. He studied journalism and communications at the University of Minnesota and holds an MBA from George Fox University.

Rebecca Sponsel

Rebecca has worked as manager or consultant within numerous start-ups as well as Fortune 500 companies including IBM, Bell South, Black & Decker, 3M, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Schnitzer Steel. Her focus is on product and marketing design, and scalable staged introductions of high volume products and services. She has extensive experience creating and managing development of Call Center, Fulfillment, and Information Support Systems. Her strategic specialties are accelerated user adoption, tactical deployment, customer-centered design, and systems that increase revenue without increasing staff.

Rebecca holds a B.S. in Management from Concordia College, and MBA from George Fox University.

Neil Satterwhite

Neil leads a team of multi-lingual MBA-level relationship managers who attend to the needs of the emerging tech companies contained in ETsource™. Activities include review and enhancement of company profiles, and updating the catalog as new companies appear and older companies cycle off. In support of ETforums™, Neil’s team provides emerging tech company presenters with logistic coordination, advance briefing on customer needs and wants, and advance customer fact-finding. These and other advance planning activities assure that ETforum™ presenters can relate their solutions precisely to customer needs that are already recognized and quantified.

This team is also available for translation, adapting presentations, and developing proposals for companies entering the Asia market without benefit of a local sales relationship.