Waypoint Strategy is a consulting firm dedicated to helping leaders improve leadership and team competencies resulting in better business performance. We focus on development of effective leadership skills, organizational design, strategy development and processes to achieve accountability from teams and individuals.
Mr. Marv Tseu, Managing Director, Waypoint Strategy, founded the firm in 2008. Marv has had a long career holding Director, CEO and Executive level positions in both public and private companies. His career spans companies across the technology, media and telecommunications landscape. Marv is known for his personable and engaging management style that always strives to get the most out of people and organizations.
He is a strong believer in assessing peoples’ capabilities and operating biases. He uses their strengths in collaborative problem solving and strategic thinking while helping people evolve and address areas needing improvement. Marv listens intently for nuances in thinking that can be nurtured into transformational ideas and plans. Then, he works tirelessly with people and organizations on execution which is the hard part of achieving success. In all of his operating roles and consulting assignments, Mr. Tseu has been known for his sound judgment, even keeled approach to management and his passionate attention to the development and evolution of management teams and leaders.
Mr. Tseu spent many years at Plantronics (NYSE: PLT) as an operating executive. He was a key member of the Plantronics management team that took the company private and then public again in 1994. He was appointed to the position of Chairman of the Board in 1999 and served in that capacity until 2018 when he assumed the Vice Chairman role coincident with the $2 billion acquisition of Polycom.
Marv has been involved with venture backed startups as well as public companies. He was CEO and Co-Founder of a successful internet startup, SiteSmith, which helped businesses manage their complex internet infrastructures. In one year, he raised $40M in venture financing and grew the business from 11 people and one location in the Silicon Valley to 400 people and 25 locations. SiteSmith sold for $1.4 billion to MetroMedia Fiber Network just prior to going public.
Over the last 10 years, Mr. Tseu has held senior management positions in digital advertising companies. He has been involved in helping entrepreneur-funded businesses refine their business models and organizations to achieve sustainable scale and stability.
Marv is an avid sailor and involved with supporting the arts communities in Silicon Valley and in San Francisco. He is a director on the Foundation for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.