Formation and growth
Structuring initial boards, recruiting independent directors, establishing meeting discipline and preparing companies for institutional capital.
Board service
Board of Directors Experience
Board service is not a collection of titles. It is repeated exposure to consequential decisions—capital, leadership, risk, transactions, conflict and accountability.
75+For-Profit Boards
18Venture-Backed Companies
10Public Companies
16Companies Founded
Range of experience
Governance tested across the full company lifecycle.
Transactions and exits
Acquisitions, mergers, public offerings, recapitalizations and the board processes required when ownership and control change.
Leadership transitions
CEO selection, succession, replacement and the separation of governance authority from day-to-day management.
The governing principle
“Governance is not management. Management runs the company. The board ensures the company is well run.”
Independent judgment protects enterprise value.
A governing board must challenge assumptions, demand complete information and act for the corporation—not for individual directors, investors or management. Constructive tension is an asset. Rubber-stamping is a governance failure.
That distinction has guided Dennis’s service as director, chairman, presiding director and chief executive across companies at every stage.
Previous and current boards
Selected board portfolio.
The portfolio includes public, venture-backed, founder-led and closely held enterprises across technology, software, services, healthcare, media and other industries.
View the company list
- GBC Associates
- Management Systems, Inc.
- Inner Garden
- SOROC Technologies
- David Jamison Carlyle Corporation (NASDAQ: DJCC)
- Ducommun Data Systems
- Design 1 Interiors
- Century Computer Marketing
- Data Enterprise Services
- Carlyle Contract Services
- National Electronics Corporation
- Perini Software Corporation
- Insight Development
- HealthSoft
- Great Bear Technologies (NASDAQ: GTBR)
- Wavefront Technologies
- Meridian Software
- Tidemark
- StarPress
- Intervista Software
- Software.com
- Acorn Technologies
- Human Race
- ISOCOR
- MessageMedia
- Sanctuary Woods Multimedia
- Supply Solution
- Commission Junction
- Santa Barbara Technology Group
- Ants.com
- Virtual Bandwidth
- Unified Dispatch
- Cooperating Systems / Epidemic Networks
- New Entrepreneur Venture Fund
- InTouch Technologies
- Bargain Network
- TouchCommerce
- Blue Casa Communications
- SmartReceipt
- SaluDent International
- Scam Safe / TrustOn
- TWL Corporation
- Noza
- SureBooks
- Virtech Paralegal
- Merchant National
- NL Systems / Encryptics
- Copper Mobile
- Cosiin
- Tavros Technology
- Virimar Holdings
- Heart Stories
- Prista Corporation
- Pratter
- Precision Location Intelligence / QA Locate
- PonyUp Technologies
- OneYum
- TCCR
- nDivision (OTC: NDVN)
- Verimos
- Boreas Technologies
- GasItUp
- ThinkX
- Howzbout
- Protexol
- PHY Wireless
- GovernX
- Guardian Alliance Holdings
- Voz Media
- Accesr
- The Nord Company