Harry Max

Harry Max is an executive player-coach, consultant, and hands-on product design and development leader with vision and a solid grasp of operations. A servant leader at heart, Harry works with senior leaders and their teams to help them realze their visions by zeroing in on pragmatic solutions to complex challenges.

Max's experience includes having been a founder/CEO, operational leader, and strategy consultant with start-ups, innovators, and global brands, including Apple, Adobe, DreamWorks, Google, Hewlett-Packard, ITHAKA, Microsoft, PayPal, Rackspace, SGI, Symantec, and Yotascale. An early pioneer in e-commerce, Harry was a co-founder of Virtual Vineyards (wine.com), where his designs powered the interaction model behind the first usable and secure online shopping cart.

Harry Max is an autodidact. His undergraduate studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, focused on qualitative problem-solving and sociology. He is also an NLP Master Practitioner and a graduate of the Aspen Institute Technical Executive Leadership Initiative and Hoffman Institute. Max's work has been featured internationally in the Economist, New York Times, TEDx, the Wall Street Journal, and a Harvard Business School case study. And lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.