Apr 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Silicon Valley, California, United States · Hybrid

• Series A start-up, leader in multicultural video, Canela Media was the largest funded Hispanic start-up in 2022.
• As the CPTO for the organization:
• I created the vision, strategy roadmap and budget for the Product & Technology divisions and laid foundation for their innovation charter.
• I built the engineering, product, UX and Data Science teams with FTE and outsourced teams (leveraging industry standard vendors) within 4 months of hiring
• Launched standalone Canela Kids mobile app for iOS, Android and iPad with new UX on a modern backend streaming infrastructure with embedded analytics and product experimentation loops

Jan 2020 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

• Pluto TV is a division of Paramount Streaming and the leading FAST (Free Ad Supported Streaming TV) service.
• Established the Product Organization for Pluto TV. Built teams across the Core Product, Ad & Monetization Product, International & Distribution Platform, Streaming Services, Analytics & Experimentation and User Experience & Design verticals
• Drove Product vision & Strategy. Fueled by the Roadmap Pluto TV Grew MAUs to 50M (from 20M in 2019) and reached revenue to 1Billion a year ahead of schedule
• Launched Pluto TV in 19 LATAM countries, Spain and Italy as well as on the LG, Samsung, Play Station 5, Hisense & Tesla platforms.

Aug 2014 – Dec 2019 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Redwood Shores, CA

• Eros Now is world’s leading Indian digital Entertainment platform; the Netflix for Bollywood entertainment.
• As CPO, I lead the global distributed organization of Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists and User Experience designers with offices , in the Silicon Valley, Bangalore and Mumbai, India. Drove the ground up development of organization through all aspect of product life cycle from inception to launch.
• Defined and executed the Product Vision, Strategy and Technology Roadmaps
• Increased subscription revenue year over year by ~240%
• Grew the service from inception to 150 M global in 135 countries

Apr 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos

Feb 2011 – Aug 2014 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Palo Alto, Ca

• Established 2002, Socialtext - a DFJ startup - is the first company to deliver social software to businesses. By unlocking knowledge, expertise, ideas and data, Socialtext eliminates information silos across the enterprise to drive superior business performance. Socialtext's enterprise social networking products — including microblogging, blogs, wikis, profiles and social spreadsheets — provide simpler ways for employees to share vital information and work together in real-time.
• Achieved 40% growth in revenue as a result of re-engineering its platform and launching its mobile apps and achieving 90% customer retention.
• Led distributed engineering team of software developers, QA, and Ops engineers in Palo Alto, Minnesota, Florida, Taiwan and Canada.
• Partnered with CEO to a successful acquisition of Socialtext by Bedford Funding, a 1.4B dollar technology fund, in April 2012 and subsequently led integration with Peoplefluent

Jan 2010 – Feb 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · United States · Hybrid

• TipTop is a powerful AI Platform that was way ahead of it's time in 2010 and had capabilities that many of the LLMs have today. It's still a powerful engine and ethical AL platform that has some distinct cost benefits over the other more popular LLM engines available today.

May 2008 – Aug 2010 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Gullivergo Inc. is the world's first comprehensive portal for Study Abroad Students. As the VP of Products and Engineering I tag teamed with the founder to launch the Beta version of the product, pilot with Universities and based on the learning develop the current incarnation of the product. The portal got acquired in August 2010 by the founders of Princeton Review.

Sep 2006 – May 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Defined and executed Product and Technology strategy for the internet video startup, transforming the site from a personalized TV Listings service to a social video portal focused on discovery and sharing. Led and grew the technology and product teams to successfully deliver on the product and technology vision.

Oct 2005 – Oct 2006 · 1 yr

• Led technology strategy and vision, and directed worldwide and localized technology and product development. IGE (now Affinity Media) comprises of several companies in the US, China (including HK) and Korea focussed on ecommerce for Massive Multi-player Online Games.

Apr 2004 – Nov 2005 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Own product development for Ziff Davis' online gaming portal.

Apr 1999 – Feb 2004 · 4 yrs 10 mos