Designing a New Product, Shaping Your Startup, Managing Typical Company Issues

Exceptional leadership combined with an innate grasp of the big picture. Ability to motivate teams to perform above the level of its members. Excellent mentor who cares for the individual as well as the team. I hope to work with Nora in the future .

It is my pleasure to provide a recommendation for Nora Ryan. In her role as an advisor to the Board of Directors at Otosonics, she made numerous cogent suggestions on the operation of our company. She was instrumental in introducing us to our lead investment group and in maintaining solid relations with that group. Nora has tremendous business experience and insight in high tech industry. She knows how to work with engineers, scientists and managers. Most important, she has keen vision on significant opportunities for advanced technology.

Nora was a classmate at MIT and instrumental in pulling me through at least a course or two. After MIT, she went off to Silicon Valley and has been a product manager/launcher wiz ever since. Her experiences, at both startups and big companies, have long impressed (and exhausted) me. But I was never surprised; she was always smarter and worked harder than me. I recommend her highly.

Nora provided an ongoing process for divisions at Apple to identify opportunities for joint collaboration and development. She provided an excellent conduit for division leaders to jointly work together on cross functional projects. I would recommend her highly for any project, involving multiple companies or divisions.

Nora's job at Apple was difficult and often thankless, and yet one that she fulfilled with enthusiasm and aplomb. Her role as an engineering liaison meant she not only had to be a jack-of-all-trades, but a master of some as well. Nora is a brilliant (and funny) person that I can recommend without reservation.

Nora is top-notch. Sharp, aggressive, intelligent, ethical and an
incredibly hard worker. She knows how to get the job done, on-time and under budget, and how to take care of her team, who would walk through fire for
her.

When starting our e-Commerce activities, we were in need of strategic consulting, support in evaluating contractors and understanding the new market. With Nora we found all that in one person. She got us started in no time and brought in her experience to architect a solid base for a successful business. If I ever need to start a technology venture again, I know who I will be calling.

My company, RealNetworks worked with Nora (representing Palm) to create a media player for various portable devices. Nora was professional and reliable every step of the way. She had great attention to detail and knew when to "drive" the project more hands-on, and when to step back.

Overall, she gets my most enthusiastic thumbs up and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her for a leadership role.

I worked with Nora while she was with Palm. She did a great job holding together a very complex project, involving several companies and continents - and a new technology. The project delivered successfully - and on time, which is a great testament to Nora's skills.

While at Palm, Nora used her ability to strategically define a way to greatly improve Palm's ability to utilize external companies for development and marketing. Nora gained the support of management and peers across Palm to substantially change Palm's processes, focus and resourcing to enable far higher quality results and vastly improved relationships with Palm's 3rd party community.