francine hardaway

partner, stealthmode partners

Stealthmode Partners is an advocate and accelerator for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs: a network of people and companies working together to help support and accelerate new initiatives - be they new or emerging growth companies or new directions, projects, or products within existing companies. Stealthmode Partners is headed up by Francine Hardaway, Ph.D., an experienced marketing strategist with special expertise in startup companies. As a partner in Stealthmode Partners, she has helped package and secure funding for many early-stage technology companies. She has created positioning and marketing strategies for dozens of companies growth companies (from startup to IPO to maturity). Prior to co-founding Stealthmode Partners, Dr. Hardaway was Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Innovative Environmental Products, and Manager of Worldwide Press Relations at Intel's Computing Enhancement Group, where she planned the entrance of the intelligent I/O server chip into the OEM market and created the public relations plans for digital imaging, in-car computing, USB, and home networking. As an entrepreneur, Dr. Hardaway built the largest marketing/public relations firm in Phoenix, Arizona before leaving it to join Intel. Nine years ago she co-founded Stealthmode Partners with Ed Nusbaum. Francine was an Entrepreneurial Fellow at the Berger Center of the Eller School of Business, University of Arizona and has taught entrepreneurship at several Arizona colleges. She makes her home in Phoenix, Arizona and Half Moon Bay, California. In Phoenix, she founded the Arizona Entrepreneurship Conferences and Social Media Club Phoenix. Stealthmode Partners runs the popular FastTrac progams in metropolitan Phoenix.