Francine Hardaway Ph.D.

Founder & Managing Partner
Stealthmode Partners

Stealthmode Partners is headed up by Francine Hardaway, Ph.D., an experienced technology marketing strategist with special expertise in early stage high growth companies.

As a partner in Stealthmode Partners, she has helped package and secure funding for many early-stage technology companies, and serves on interim management teams. She has created positioning and marketing strategies for dozens of 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.

Hardaway has been an Entrepreneurial Fellow at the Berger Center of the Eller School of Business, University of Arizona. She has taught entrepreneurship at several Arizona colleges, and was on the Advisory Board of the Medical Informatics Program at Arizona School of Health Sciences (part of the A.T. Still University of Osteopathic Medicine).