Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 · 4 yrs · Los Angeles, CA

• Exited August 2022.
• Founded EnterpriseAlumni in a new vertical, addressing how companies maintain a connection to employees that have left, to drive recruitment, sales & brand value.
• Built & led 65+ person company from product ideation to market leader in 5 years (features, functions & architecture) across ideation, strategy, and solution delivery.
• Worked across customers, users, and the market to identify, understand and release functionality to drive adoption, retention, and engagement.
• Enterprise First Design: Authentication, Compliance, Data Sovereignty, NIST 800-53, Scalability & Reliability, a11y, i18n.
• API / Ecosystem First Design, enabling rapid integration & partnerships with LinkedIn, SAP, Workday, Oracle, ADP and other ATS/CRM systems.
• Led go to market and sales strategy, notable customers include Google, Blackrock, Nestle, Coca-Cola, Citi, LinkedIn, Lufthansa among others.
• Led AI Team to drive experience, understanding, skills assessment & job matching, building out first person and aggregate analytics engine to enable customer understanding of value and intelligent RPA.

Jun 2014 – Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Large enterprise innovation projects for leading customers globally with a focus on internal transformation, supply chain opportunities, organizational (bench) efficiency, platforms & ecosystems, and accelerated innovation pipelines.
• Led small team delivering ideation, strategy, and solution delivery for the build of cloud native applications to support customers digital transformation initiatives. Focused on building scalable accelerators to serve multiple customers, with automated deployment and rapid time to value. Deployed 100+ applications into F500 companies across industries and markets.
• Joined Competitive Intelligence, M&A, Market Analysis teams on internal opportunities to identify whitespace, cross-product line innovation, user retention & big data / analytics projects.
• Led efforts to accelerate startup & partner adoption of SAP Platform technologies, driving awareness, innovation and community.
• Notable customers included: SAP (Internal), Bechtel, Singtel, Emirates, Aecom, Qantas, Adidas, Deloitte, BHP.
• Expanded role into competitive intelligence team and ideating internal whitespace opportunities.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs · Greater Los Angeles Area

Jan 2013 – Dec 2013 · 11 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Published monthly series on startup ideation, strategy, acceleration and leveraging partner and market ecosystems to accelerate go-to-market.

Jan 2011 – May 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• Led the portfolio company efforts in developing and defining the base product, subsequent route to market and roadmap into monetization, user engagement and adoption. From origination to gtm to exit.

Jan 2006 – Present · 20 yrs 2 mos · Los Angeles County, California, United States

• Experienced strategic leader, advisor, & innovator, with a focus on capital deployment (LP), advisory, and enterprise transformation.
• I work with early-stage founders (Idea to Series A) in areas including idea validation, product development, go to market, and technical considerations, helping accelerate their journey.
• I also undertake the role of an Venture Partner / Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) as needed, working with venture capital funds, private equity, accelerators, corporations, universities, and government-funded programs.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2006 · 5 yrs · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Digital Infrastructure, IP Protection, Network Security & Communications Protocols for the management and movement of sensitive and high value intellectual property. With a focus on the entertainment industry.
• Part of the development team for the design of Digital Cinema and the technical and operations standards.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 · 2 yrs · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Adhaero Technologies delivers products that enable enterprises to transparently secure documents and e-mails created in the Microsoft Office environment.
• DRM of Microsoft Office Suite documents within a native environment which was ported and applied into enterprise environments and then into Digital Cinema & Shipping Manifest / Logistics Data.
• Adhaero products control the use of information assets throughout their lifecycle, including in-transit and after delivery to validated recipients, thus ensuring secure, transparent Web-based collaboration.

Jan 1999 – Dec 2001 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Bleem! was PlayStation emulator software designed to allow people to play original PlayStation games on their PC computers or Dreamcast gaming consoles. It was released in March 1999. Although Sony's litigation against Bleem! bankrupted the company, their inability to win a decisive victory against Bleem!, nor to have the product removed from shelves after their demise, is a legal precedent for the commercial viability of emulators in the marketplace.
• // Technology was sold to SCEA //

Jan 1999 – Jan 1999 · 0 mo · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Design and deployment of infrastructure for digital transfer of studio intellectual property between various studios, companies and individuals within a secure yet accessible environment.

Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 · 1 yr · London, United Kingdom

Jan 1997 – Jan 1998 · 1 yr · London, United Kingdom