Drue Placette is a veteran technologist with 20 years of in-depth experience in the Tech and Startup industry. His focus has been on hardware development, IoT, Cloud Technologies, Emerging Technologies, IT Strategies, infrastructure deployment, and Technology Startups. In that time, Drue has explored new frontiers and pushed the boundaries of technology as a hands-on engineer and technology researcher capable of spearheading design and engineering for the next generations of technologies that meet today's user demands while simultaneously enabling business agility and growth.

Drue's background has led him to become one the top startup and scale-up strategist specializing in rapidly-changing and growing tech companies. Drue spent the last 8 years helping tech startups be more innovative by driving effective team collaborations, recruit the right talent, streamline operations, and creatively solve problems. I believe that innovation is the “rails” on which all industries—not just technology—advance, and that the main barriers to innovation are an organization’s resistance to idea-sharing and collaboration and the siloing of its employees into formal roles. I believe any organization, regardless of the industry can become a launchpad for collaborative innovation, which in turn advances its mission.

☛ excels at delivering simultaneous, large-scale projects while under budget & time constraints coupled with remarkable ability in developing key technologies that reduce costs/ burn rate & deployment time;

☛ has a proven effectiveness to multitask in fiercely competitive, multi-platform, & fast-paced environments; and

☛ has an extensive background in leadership roles in the private & public sectors that have earned him a well regarded reputation as an exceptional leader & technology innovator.