Leadership

In 2010, former senior executives from Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and icrossing formed Tallwave, a venture accelerator and management firm that helps entrepreneurs move beyond concept to early stage growth and a successful go-to- market strategy.

Jeffrey Pruitt Partner & CEO	the		Jeff Pruitt is a founding partner and CEO of Tallwave, a company formed in 2009 as a venture accelerator to develop, support and grow digital marketing enterprises, among them ethology. At Tallwave, Pruitt leads the overall direction and growth of the company with a focus on discovering next generation, digital marketing entrepreneurs and concepts, and enabling the development of these ideas and companies via Tallwave’s business model.Read More
Dan Boberg Partner & President	the		Dan Boberg serves as President of Tallwave, Inc. He is one of the architects of Tallwave’s business strategy, working to identify new strategic partnerships and to develop Tallwave’s portfolio of early stage, digital marketing enterprises.Read More
David A. Husband Partner	the		David Husband is CFO of Tallwave and has served as a CFO and Chief Operating Officer for both private and public companies for the past 12 years. He possesses a wealth of knowledge in process optimization, accounting, financial reporting, and corporate finance, including domestic and international merger and acquisition transactions and public and private financings.Read More
Bob Hobbs Jr. Partner	the		Bob Hobbs Jr. is a partner at Tallwave where he helps to develop strategic business relationships with funding partners and customers. After graduating from Arizona State University with a B.S. in Communications, Bob honed his creative skills while working as a consultant for the largest direct mail marketing firm in the US.Read More
Jennifer Dorre Partner	the		Jennifer Dorre is a founding partner of Tallwave, where she helps drive content strategy and production for the company. Most recently, Dorre led Microsoft’s team for paid search and advertising sales, driving the product launch and growth of the Microsoft Ad Center paid search solution. During her tenure, she grew Microsoft’s paid search business to more than $300M in revenue.Read More
Robert Wallace EVP of Venture Services, Marketing Practice Manager	the		Robert Wallace is Vice President, Business Services at Tallwave where he leverages his entrepreneurial and strategic marketing expertise to develop and implement strategies for Tallwave early-stage ventures. Wallace has more than a decade of start-up and client-side experience developing growth strategies, positioning companies, and bringing products to market.Read More
Doug Noblitt VP of Finance, Finance & Accounting Practice Manager	the		Doug Noblitt has over 18 years of experience in turnaround management, consulting, and financial and operational management in national and international companies in diverse businesses including manufacturing, distribution, retail, telecommunications, hospitality, and many others. He has maximized stakeholder value through corporate restructurings by identifying and executing opportunities for profitability improvement, developing business plans and valuations, leading corporate finance teams, and raising and renegotiating debt and equity funding. Mr. Noblitt is a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA), holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and a master’s degree in international business studies.
Dave Albertson VP Product Management, Product Management Practice Manager	the		A proven product, technology, and advertising leader, Dave brings over 10+ years in directing operations and pioneering development of sophisticated user centered technology.  His operational roots come from 6 years of e-business management roles at Intel,where he was responsible for full-scale implementation of software tools and process . He  then progressed to director of product management roles at digital media company iCrossing and marketing automation company Infusionsoft, where he learned a unique set of skills that blended operations, marketing, and technology leadership into an innovative style of product management.   Dave specializes in taking small software teams and maximizing their productivity while ensuring company collaboration and product focus towards the most impactful market and user driven goals.  His work has spanned a variety of team types and technologies with a consistent result of increased profit and reduction of software development costs.  Dave holds an MBA from Arizona State’s W.P. Carey Business School.
Jerrod Bailey VP Business Development, Business Development Practice Manager	the		Bailey comes from a technology integrator background with a career of “top 1%” sales performance in telecommunications, IT, security and managed services, ranging from simple to very complex sales cycles and $20M+ service contracts for the Fortune 100.  He has global experience in Business Development roles at CompuServe, MCI/Worldcom, Reliance Globalcom and was primarily responsible for growing managed services provider, Virtela Communications, from $5M to $80M.   For 11 years, he has developed winning sales methodologies and the teams to drive them.
Chris Trendler VP of Operations	the		Chris is an experienced operations and strategy leader whose approach to lean operations and design thinking has helped several companies adapt to changing market conditions in a distinctive and cost-effective way. He was most recently with McKinsey and Company, a global strategy consulting firm. At McKinsey, Chris was involved in a variety of strategic and operational projects including international growth, mergers and acquisitions, operations transformations and strategic procurement. He also led several initiatives involving recruiting and training new consultants.Prior to consulting, Chris worked in Washington, DC in public policy. He holds a JD from the University of Chicago Law School and a BA from Brigham Young University. Chris is also a member of the State Bar of Arizona.