From West Point to a US$1 billion NASDAQ listing… and a few adventures in between.
Founder & CEO · The Dolphin Group LLC
US$1B+
Nasdaq listing
valuation (SSII)
5
Industries spanned
25+
Years leading
companies
7
Podcast episodes &
counting
01 Ventures
Medical robotics, mining, telecom, fintech and private equity — taking complex operations from founding to exit.
Mission first — then backward-plan every step. It works for an army engineering unit, a surgical robot, and a NASDAQ listing alike.
7 episodes on robotic surgery, startup growth, capital strategy and leadership under pressure — hosted by Alex Clug.
True success is measured by the opportunities we create for others — through the annual Alex Clug Scholarship and as Trustee of the Barry F. Cohen Foundation.
Essays on strategy, medical robotics, mining and leadership.
A strong crisis communication plan helps you control the narrative by making your organization the fastest credible source of accurate, empathetic, and useful information. You protect
You maintain leverage with critical technology partners by preserving a credible ability to renegotiate, reduce your dependency, or move to another provider. Vendor lock-in becomes dangerous
A strategic retreat is a deliberate decision to narrow the markets, products, or customer groups you serve so you can redirect cash, talent, and management attention
Over-reliance on metrics blinds you to market shifts when dashboards make past performance look like present reality. Metrics help you measure what has happened; they don’t
The second act challenge is the risk that your prior startup win becomes a mental shortcut instead of an advantage. You may have more capital, credibility,
To prevent groupthink in an executive team, you need repeatable decision habits that make dissent safe, data harder to filter, and assumptions easier to challenge
