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Half Moon Bay
650.712.7789 Winter:
St. Augustine
904.819.9666
Harold is in California. Mobile: 650.520.5200
Harold Fethe draws on a wide range of experience for his current ventures as a consultant, writer, designer and musician. At ALZA Corporation — an S&P 500 company that was merged into healthcare giant Johnson and Johnson — Harold served as Senior Vice President, responsible for ALZA’s human resources, facilities, real estate, security, and other corporate functions. He invented the powerful and intuitive graphical user interface for the Visual 360® performance appraisal system, now available from SumTotal Systems, and managed the completion and occupancy of ALZA Plaza — three towers in Silicon Valley totaling nearly a half-million square feet. He now serves as principal in his own consulting venture, writes for a wide range of publications and projects, and performs as a jazz and rock guitarist.
The "class picture" for Speaking to the Big Dogs 2.0, including Powerspeaking founder Rick Gilbert and trainer Melissa Schwartz.
Silicon Valley executives featured in Speaking to the Big Dogs reconvened in December 2008 to update the project. Harold Fethe joined Net Apps CEO Dan Warmenhoven, Propel CEO / Founder and philanthropist Steve Kirsch, Vanguard Ventures Managing Director Dan Eilers, Edwards LifeSciences CFO Corinne Lyle, and Brigadier General Robert Drolet in a lively video shoot that will become part of Speaking to the Big Dogs 2.0. Look for updates in early 2009. Rick commented, "We need the trained eye of an anthropologist. Margaret Mead is long gone, so we have Harold Fethe. Your insights have just been stellar, all the way back to that first article you wrote for us back in '04."
David and Hi-Jin Hodge, with whom Harold has collaborated for over five years, have a new website for their video art and documentaries.
Harold is featured in an upcoming video about an R&B and jazz club called Sarah’s, where newly-desegregated bands and audiences met to enjoy live music during the early Civil Rights era in the mid-1960s. See a short preview. For the third consecutive season, Harold's trio will perform at the 2009 San Jose Jazz Festival, at Theater on San Pedro Square, 10am to 11:30am on Saturday, August 8. The theater is one of the Bay Area's most attractive small venues, with plentiful free parking nearby during the Festival.
Harold's debut CD is Out of Nowhere, on the Southport label. Listen to some tracks and read liner notes and reviews here. Order your copy from Amazon.
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