Felipe Cariño, Jr. has over 23 years of experience in the Information Technology area with a number of leading companies. He has a unique background and is a visionary Intrapreneur. He has conceived and led several pioneering visionary products with hands-on technical development, management, marketing, and competitive pre-sales, then followed by customer deployment and innovative use of these leading-edge products.

Felipe's career spans leading-edge research institutions (i.e. Bell Labs) to conceiving developing new product concepts at established (Fairchild, Ford Aerospace) to intrapreneurial positions (Teradata, FileTek) as well as startups where he was the fourth, fifth and a company he founded to commercialize heterogeneous databases in 1986. Felipe developed new product ideas at these companies' years before they were validated commercial concepts. For example, relational databases at Bell Labs in 1978 when Oracle was founded in 1979 and UNIX workstation at Fairchild when SUN was founded in 1983. Most recently, at UltiData developed autonomic self-tuning tools for database, storage and overall system optimization. Recent assignments have led to expertise in Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems and medical IT infrastructure.

Felipe has also served as interim COO and SVP Marketing and New Business for emerging companies. A major new business development success led to a strategic OEM alliance with IBM for a new product concept he developed.

Felipe holds seven patents, has 20 major journal/conference publications and has present papers at major industrial conferences. Felipe holds an Executive MBA from USC, as well as a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and two Bachelor's degrees (Computer Science and Mathematics) from New York University. Felipe also took an Intrapreneurship course at Loyola Marymount University. Finally, Felipe is an area editor for Information Systems Journal.

You can reach at Felipe.Carino@phoenix2000group.com