Ron Rothman
Board Advisor - Investor - Consultant at Search Fund Accelerator
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolRon Rothman is an experienced board advisor, investor, and consultant who transforms B2B commercial and industrial strategies into measurable growth, drawing on a 30+-year career that began at ADEMCO and culminated in leading Honeywell’s $3B Security & Distribution business. He combines executive leadership—former President of Honeywell Security and Senior VP at AFA—with hands-on product and channel strategy experience, earning five patents and industry recognition along the way. Ron also brings operational perspective from startups and boards, having led Turing AI and contributed to early-stage companies while serving as an active limited partner. Based in the New York metro area, he pairs community leadership as President of the Smithtown Rotary Club and a long-standing village board member with selective investing and advisory roles. Notably, he contributes technically as well, improving Python concurrency primitives in a well-known open-source library (gevent), signaling a rare blend of executive judgment and practical engineering understanding. His MBA and marketing foundation underpin a pragmatic, market-focused approach to product roadmaps, channel strategy, and commercial execution.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Nova Southeastern UniversityUniversity of MiamiBS Marketing, BS Marketing at University of Florida
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Github Skills (25)
python10
testing10
gevent10
python-requests10
concurrency10
ajax9
cors9
jquery9
asyncio9
concatenation9
xml-parsing9
dictionary9
argparse9
xml9
coroutines8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gevent/gevent
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Coroutine-based concurrency library for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 18 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Ron contributed to the gevent library by modifying the `Pool` and `Queue` modules. They implemented new parameters, specifically `blocking` and `timeout`, for the `Pool.add` method. The user also added a new exception, `PoolFull`, and integrated it within the code. Their work included writing tests and modifying documentation to reflect the changes, demonstrating a focus on improving the library's concurrency features and API.
concurrencycoroutinespythongreenletasyncio
BeeswaxIO/influxdb-python
Mar 2017 - Apr 2019
Python client for InfluxDB
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
influxdbpythonpython-client
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