The Journey From Executive to Entrepreneur

Speaker

Jack Dowling - Founder and CEO, VOTUM

Most corporate executives pursue their careers within large organizations. After rising through the ranks, these senior executives advance their careers by moving to broader responsibilities in even larger organizations. Occasionally, though, corporate executives change directions entirely and start companies to provide themselves a newer, more rewarding challenge.

This is the path that has been chosen by Jack Dowling, founder and CEO of VOTUM, an independent RFID consulting and deployment company. Mr. Dowling has been a recognized leader in high technology industries with over a quarter century of experience, including twelve years in C-level roles. Earlier in his career he was a key technology executive at Sprint and he was the CIO at CompuCom and Eagle Global Logistics. Prior to founding VOTUM, Mr. Dowling ran business operations at GlobeRanger, was COO at Truckload, and was founder and CEO of Visual Business Intelligence (VBI).

Come hear Jack Dowling speak about his experiences making the journey from corporate executive to entrepreneur. He will describe some of the challenges he faced in making this transition and provide some useful “lessons learned” for both current entrepreneurs and those contemplating their own journey.

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