About Serial Entrepreneur Linda Holroyd
Since January 2005, as CEO of FountainBlue, Linda Holroyd has masterfully connected the dots, discerned trends, and empowered clients to capitalize on market opportunities, realizing sustainable bottom-line results strategically.
Past Experience
As a serial startup CEO, a former director at a venture fund, and a former managing director at a technology incubator, Ms. Holroyd specializes in working with global technology-based companies in growth markets, shifting to adjacent technologies, markets, and strategies.
Industry Pundit
Ms. Holroyd is known for her ability to create dynamic and resilient models and strategies that factor in evolving technology and market trends and regularly speaks on the political, environmental, societal, technological, legal, and economic (PESTLE) headwinds brought on by the pandemic. See below for a selection of recent blogs on industry and technology trends.
Current Projects
Ms. Holroyd is currently mentoring a cohort of students at SDSU in the course entitled ‘LEAN Solutions for National Defense.’ She is working with the class in teams to mentor them in the clarification of problem statements and product definitions so that a prototype can be implemented by the end of the term.
Read about WHY Linda started FountainBlue in this February 2022 presentation.
Linda’s Industry Experience
As CEO and COO consultant for FountainBlue LLC and its client companies, Linda Holroyd has direct marketing, strategic and management experience in the following industry areas:
- Software: (Social media measurement, Resume matching system, Mobile app development, Wide range of cloud projects)
- Hardware: (Mobile sensors, Semiconductor)
- Medical device: (Hydration management, Biosensor)
- Pharma: (Digestive health, tissue regeneration, wound care, CRO)
- Clean Energy: (smart grid, sensors, equipment, electric cars, water purification, energy diagnostics)
- Business Services: (business process improvement, product design and development, cloud-based HR and leadership development)
- Consumer: (Food and retail)
Linda is also regularly exposed to a number of different industries, facilitating monthly discussions at VIP Roundtables attended by industry executives
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See below for excerpts from recent blogs on growth and startup themes.
Client Testimonials
Linda has the exceptional ability to crystallize random thoughts into patterns of behavior and strategies for expansion and growth – for myself personally or for the team and organization I serve.
Our team and partners respond so well to Linda’s curiosity, communication style, and open-mindedness, so she’s able to get up to speed on where we are as a company, and where we want to go in the future. From there, Linda leverages her extraordinary intellect to inform us and frame the opportunities within the challenges so that we can grow our business.
Linda has the impressive ability to process complicated, intricate technical and marketing data and draw conclusions and implications for our company. I’ve seen her do it for three very different product lines with consistently amazing results.
Linda’s organizational and communication skills are as impressive as her business development expertise and her passion for helping client companies create and build something from nothing.
Linda Holroyd is a powerful and connected executive and an insightful adviser. She asks the questions which help us clearly define and deliver on a strategic vision which benefit a broad range of stakeholders.
Linda’s strategic ecosystem approach to leadership and innovation delivers Innovators who are Leaders, and Leaders who are Innovators.
Linda Holroyd has a passion for innovation and leadership and a track record for enabling and empowering leaders and managers to step up and realize strategic benefits for niche customers.
Linda amazingly combines her strategic ability to research and understand market trends with her outstanding ability to connect the dots, with the intent to inform and enable her client companies to meet market and customer needs.