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Jim is the President and CEO of Startech. Prior to joining Startech, Poage was the CEO of H2O Advisors providing investment advice to selected companies seeking funding.
He has been active as a founder and an accredited investor in early stage companies.
Poage was previously the Chief Marketing Officer of TradeMC, a 50/50 joint venture between Fluor Corporation and IBM. TradeMC sales in the first 8 months of operations exceeded $100 million.
He has over 30 years of senior management positions in information technology including:
Sabre, Inc. – SVP Worldwide marketing - $1.2 billion global P & L.
Texas Instruments - Division manager – 3 years in Singapore & 3 years inAmsterdam.
Bausch & Lomb
Intel in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
MBA & BS Electrical Engineering from the University of Wyoming. He has served on a number of international boards and advisory panels including being elected to the Marble Falls City Council in mid 2005.
He has made hundreds of speeches worldwide to audiences of all sizes, and has appeared as a guest on a multitude of radio and TV talk shows and appeared on all major U.S. television networks. | 
