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Garry S. Wheeler is an award-winning and accomplished executive, author and artist with 40 years of experience as an entrepreneur, CEO, COO, GM, CIO, CFO and supply chain leader across multiple sectors including high tech, IoT, AI, consumer products, manufacturing, real estate, professional services, media/entertainment and non-profits. He has an extensive background in P & L and operations management and has led many successful mergers and acquisitions. He has been a founder in eight startups.
Garry is a co-founder and the COO/CFO of Xpertloop, an AI startup with a mission of empowering experts to wrap and share their knowledge with authentic AI.
He has driven major new product launches and countless business improvement programs. His broad experience ranges from startups to companies as large as $14 billion in sales. Since 1985, he has founded/co-founded eight different businesses (see below) in diverse industries and invented several breakthrough products and tools.
Garry's roles have included extensive international focus, including frequent engagements in Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, China, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Canada and many countries in Europe. He boasts a strong track record of delivering competitive advantage through information technology and business process reengineering. Garry is skilled at strategic planning, large scale program management & change management and has excelled at creating strong teams and motivating organizations to succeed. Garry's carreer has epitomized ROI, hence the name Garry.ROI.
Garry holds a CSS Graduate degree from Harvard University, a BA from DePaul University ,and an AS from Fisher College. He has been a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) since 2007 and in 2010, became a Stanford University Certified Project Manager (SCPM).
For his innovation at Yellow Brick Road/BandDigs, Garry was presented with the “2006 Rookie of the Year” award by New Hampshire’s Governor John Lynch and the Software Association of New Hampshire.
Wheeler is also a multi-award-winning international abstract artist and a non-profit leader in the arts. He serves as the Board President of Marco Island Center for the Arts and the Art Center Theater and is the former President of the Art Council of Southwest Florida. Garry is a world traveler who has traveled to more than 100 countries in his lifetime. Lastly, he has a need for speed, racing stock cars on 23 different NASCAR tracks over the last 15 years.
Xpertloop- Co-founder/COO/CFO
Marco Island Center for the Arts and Art Center Theater - Board President
Author of the book From Failure to Fortune & numerous Substack articles
Garry Scott Wheeler Artwork LLC- multi-award-winning international abstract artist
Art Council of Southwest Florida - President
Icontrol Networks - SVP/COO Corporate Operations & GM of Piper Business Unit
Polycom - VP/GM Global Cloud Services & VP Global Services Operations
BandDigs.com - CEO/Founder
Yellow Brick Road Entertainment - CEO/Founder
Vette Corp. - VP of Supply Chain & CIO/Co-Founder
Align-IT - CEO/Founder/CIO
Aavid Thermal Technologies - Exec VP/GM of Power Electronics Business Unit & CIO
Polaroid - Supply Chain CIO
Digital Equipment Corp - Numerous Director level roles in Global Services, Systems Integration & IT
Design One Development - CEO/Founder
By Design Realty - CEO/Founder
Granite Rocks Records - Co-founder & CIO
Harvard University - CSS Graduate Degree (Finance & IT)
DePaul University - Bachelor of Arts
Stanford University - Certified Program Manager
Villanova University - Certified IT Service Management
PMI - PMP Certified since 2007
Align-IT was an IT consulting company that provided companies with part-time CIO support and consultants that managed large scale IT implementations, created IT strategic plans, conducted project readiness assessments and performed comprenhensive IT security audits. When Align-IT was acquired it had serviced over 100 customers in the US and in Europe.
Design One Development and its sister company, By Design Realty, built single family homes and designed and built home additions for almost 10 years. The company also developed land in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
YBR Entertainment promoted concerts, managed recording artists and coordinated live entertainment events.
The company promoted shows for Maroon 5, Willie Nelson, Tim McGraw, Incubus, Lily Tomlin, Suzanne Vega and others in 1,000 to 8,000 seat venues. YBR pivoted to BandDigs.com due to intense market competition in late 2005 from Live Nation.
Granite Rocks Records was an independent record label that produced, recorded and supported New England musicians. The primary focus was to serve as a digital label for the artists offering them production, an internet radio station and digital distribution. The company invented and launched the first digital music download store in New England in 2003, servicing over 200 recording artists. Itunes was closed to independent artists at the time.
BandDigs was the first of its kind live and interactive video platform & community that served the music industry. Bands were able to broadcast live shows and behind the scenes action using a digital video camcorder. They were also able to video chat with 100's of fans and sell copies of their videos as a keepsake of their conversation. The company had deals with Virgin, Disney Records, Geffen and others.
Xpertloop.ai is Garry's latest startup venture. The company's mission is to spread wisdom via AI in a way that is trusted, owned and controlled by the keepers of knowlege. The company is backed by Mike Maples Jr. of Floodgate.
Vette Corp. was an electronic cooling and thermal products company with customers in North America and Europe and manufacturing operations in China. The company was backed by Kodiak Venture Partners and General Catalyst Partners. After achieving revenue in excess of $50MM, the company was acquired.
Garry Scott Wheeler is a multi-award-winning international abstract artist with customers all over the US and Europe. The company offers original artwork, prints and a full line of merchandise online.
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