Rolland Waters
About Rolland Waters
I am passionate about solving real-world issues with technology and bring the discipline of 30+ years of successful technical and business leadership to my investing. While I’ve gained a comprehensive understanding of a variety of industries and technologies, I still strive to build on my skill set and knowledge base. For the last year I've been mentoring several active startup founder / CEOs as well as developing new business proposals in carbon / sustainability / building technology. Please feel free to get in touch if I can help you, too, or if you have a great fit for me. HIGHLIGHTS: • Founded RTIME, bought by Sony to form the core of the PlayStation Network. • Informed Cray’s strategy for big data, machine learning and deep learning / neural networks. • Shipped first US speech-driven consumer products for both Sony and Microsoft. • Shipped the first version of two top-rated and top selling AAA console titles: - SOCOM, franchise sales total over 15 million copies (Sony / PlayStation). - Forza Motorsport, franchise sales total over $1 billion (Microsoft / XBOX). • First person to route an IP packet over a T1 line on the original Internet backbone.