About Ensemble Ventures:

Ensemble Ventures is a 9 year old "Venture Ventilator" that provides small business support services for seed and development stage companies.

Formed in 2001, Ensemble Ventures, LLC after two decades of international consulting and business Development, Mr. Schmidt formed Ensemble to develop a unique form of "Venture Ventilator" that is dedicated to supporting local entrepreneurs and their business ventures through hands-on, grassroots collaborative support assisting new entrerpreneurs as well as seasoned veterans with their product and service innovations, fast-track go to market strategies and capital formation needs.

About Mr. Schmidt:

Mr. Schmidt is a strategic business development and tactical marketing and sales professional/ entrepreneur with integrated skills in both technology and marketing/sales disciplines. Twenty-plus years of international start-up company experience and management-level consulting engagements with over 30 clients.

Capabilities & Skill Sets:

Technical Skills include; new product design, development, project planning, software definition and creation, and product engineering prototype work, manufacturing support, and logistics.

Marketing/sales skills encompass; advertising, promotion, public relations, trade show coordination, publications design, direct mail campaigns, seminars, customer training, technical support, sales management, sales training, and account management

Management experience includes; management of company profit centers, project teams, forecasting, budgeting, and start-up of companies in the US, UK, and Asia. Comfortable with new start-up companies and product/service offerings. Have traveled extensively both domestically and internationally in the USA, Canada, Central and Latin America, UK, (Wales, Ireland, Scotland), Europe, Central and Latin America, Asia, and South Africa.

Sales Accomplishments:

Fast Track Sales Experience: Eastern Regional Sales Growth Experience of 230% over quota managing instrumentation sales reps over 6 months that led to promotion to create and lead new division to generate sales over $4.65 Million in 12 months as National Sales Manager of new Industrial PC division inside existing $15M Data Acquisition & Controls Company.

Extensive ISP/Internet Service Experience:

Have owned and operated 2 separate ISP's from 1995 through 2008 offering ATM/Fiber-based broadband internet, intranet and extranet services, web-hosting, streaming audio and video services, audio and video web-streaming services, digital audio satellite-two-web streaming services (1996) as well as fixed licensed 39Ghz and unlicensed wireless WiFi services.

Specialized Training/Education:

* Business Administration/Marketing Studies - DeAnza College, Orange Coast College
* Toastmaster International Member Experience (4 years/Bay Area)
* AMA (American Mgmt Assoc.) Engineering Mgmt Course (1.9 CEU Credits) - 1980
* Apple Computer Programming Training - 1988
* Comstream - Digital Audio Satellite Training - 1992
* Omnilux - Free Space Optics Training - 2003
* BelAir - Broadband Wireless Training - 2004