Montebello Partners is a technical and business consultancy. An introduction to our company can be found on our home page. We typically assemble a project team from both our own firm and associate service partners who can bring deep experience tailored to a client's needs.
Our two founding partners are Ames Cornish and Wendy Whitlock Cornish.
J. Ames
Cornish leads Montebello Partners which he founded in 1997 to provide business
strategy, Internet security, and application development services to
high-technology businesses. Clients
include Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurial start-up companies, and
venture capital firms.
Ames was the founder, Chief Technical Officer, and President of Vividus Corporation, which was funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson in 1991, and acquired by Sunburst Communications in 1997. As the product visionary, Ames conceived, designed, and developed Vividus' award-winning multimedia authoring (Cinemation), web authoring (Web Workshop), and children's products (Amazing Animation).
Prior to founding Vividus, Ames' roles included managing the Desktop Presentations marketing group at Apple Computer, and managing the product marketing team for Business Graphics Software at Hewlett-Packard. Previously, Ames worked in corporate finance at Kidder, Peabody, where he assisted in initial public offerings for technology companies, and invented a debt-for-debt swap in which over $100,000,000 was invested.
Ames has presented at numerous industry conferences, and appeared on national TV and radio broadcasts. He has been elected to the board of directors for the bay area chapter of Infragard, an FBI-sponsored cyber-security organization. He is a member of the board of directors of the Software Development Forum (SDForum), Silicon Valley's leading developer organization, and is a founder and co-chairman of SDForum's Internet Security and Privacy special interest group.
Ames holds bachelor's and master's degrees in theoretical physics from Harvard University, and an MBA from Stanford University. Ames is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and certified by Visa for PCI assessments (QSA, QPASP).
Ames' résumé is available here.
Wendy
Whitlock Cornish is passionate about creating an excellent
user experience. Whether designing a virtual world experience, an
on-line service, or a marketing campaign, Wendy's expertise in
understanding the customer results in successful high-value product
offerings and effective marketing programs.
Wendy has 17 years of marketing and product management experience. She has held senior management positions in several startups across a wide range of industries including on-line communities, digital music, multimedia, and telecommunications. She co-founded Vividus, where she led marketing and product management and produced award-winning products including Web Workshop, Cinemation, and Amazing Animation. While at IBM, Wendy was responsible for International product development and marketing of the PhoneMail product. Most recently, Wendy enjoyed working as a Marketing Consultant for Linden Lab, makers of the virtual world Second Life.
Her range of experience brings perspective and creativity to new situations. Wendy graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in International Relations, and she has an MBA in Marketing from the University of California, Berkeley. In her spare time, Wendy leads the viola section of the Peninsula Symphony Orchestra and enjoys spending time with her husband, two children, and their chocolate lab.
See Wendy's resume for more information.
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