H. Victor Hess

H Victor Hess’ career has spanned a very wide range of successful achievements. He has served in senior positions in all of executive management, marketing, sales, business development, and technical disciplines. These roles have been implemented in a variety of business entities, all the way from the launch and growth of a number of entrepreneurial start-ups to the creation, development, and direction of the executive team in several mid-size and Fortune 1000 companies.

Mr. Hess has consulted for major technology companies such as Intel, Fujitsu America,Design systems, COMDISCO and scores of small companies both on technology development and strategic market positioning.

Mr. Hess is the designer and developer of “Systematic Entrepreneurship” a nationally award winning program that is based upon the premise that businesses can be guided through a structured process toward a more successful, sustainable and profitable growth.

Currently his efforts are as Principal at Development Resources, a management consulting firm and prior to joining ETC, he was the Entrepreneur-In-Residence at The Center for Business and Technology Development in Columbia Maryland. His primary responsibilities were to help nurture and develop entrepreneurial technology companies both in the Center’s Incubator and in the surrounding technical community.

Mr. Hess is the author of numerous papers on high technology sales, marketing, business development and corporate management. He was educated in physics at Frostburg State and studied engineering and computer sciences at George Washington University. He also attended the Drucker Graduate School of Management.