Mar 2019 – Sep 2023 · 4 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led product, design and mobile engineering efforts for Visual search and AR at Amazon.
• Turned around team with limited customer and business impact to a customer-obsessed and product focus resulting in 5X customers and sales growth reaching over $1B revenues over 2.5 years from Visual Search and AR-based experiences.

Sep 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Led product management, design and customer support.
• Zocdoc is the tech company at the beginning of a better healthcare experience. Each month, millions of patients use Zocdoc to find in-network neighborhood doctors, check patient reviews and instantly book appointments online. With a mission to give power to the patient, Zocdoc’s online marketplace delivers the accessible and simple experience patients expect and deserve.
• Zocdoc investors include J. Bezos, M. Benioff, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, DST Global, Atomico.
• Drove double digits’ growth in patient bookings through SEO, conversion and re-engagement product initiatives.
• Drove aggressive business model transformation from subscription to transactional revenue model (booking fees and ads).
• Grew Ads product (Sponsored results) by 8X in two years.
• Elevated Zocdoc execution and product velocity:
• Team. Doubled team size and elevated design and UX research as key strategic disciplines.
• Built up high performing team poached by Facebook, Google and Amazon by both developing junior talent and attracting leaders from Amazon, Zynga and Frog Design.
• Processes. Established planning and operational excellence processes for the technology organization.
• Organization. Realigned organization to our three customers: patients, local providers, Health Systems.

Aug 2015 – Jul 2016 · 11 mos · Redwood City, CA

• Led product management, design, editorial and customer support teams.
• Drove consumer app redesign leading to double digits increase in retention and 3X growth in weekly active users.
• Defined and launched new consumer product, content and brand strategy.
• Established product management best practices, goal setting and performance review processes to help scale the company from 65 people to 150 in two years.
• Built up strong team by both developing junior talent and attracting senior leaders from Google, Yahoo, Frog Design
• At shopkick, we are creating the era of contextual commerce.
• We are building a digital layer on top of the physical world that will make shopping a highly personalized and contextual experience from the couch to the in-store aisle.
• Shopkick is the most widely used shopping app at real-world stores in the U.S. (Nielsen) with over 20 million users, driving $1B+ in measurable sales for partners since founding. Acquired from SK Planet (over 10X exit). Initial investors were Kleiner Perkins, Reid Hoffman/Greylock ($20M). Partners Macy's, Target, Best Buy, Old Navy, P&G, Disney, Unilever, L'Oreal, Revlon, Samsung, HP, General Mills.
• Word Economic Forum Tech Pioneer and Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Retail (Fast Company).

May 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Redwood City, CA

May 2011 – May 2014 · 3 yrs · Palo Alto

• Mobile
• Grown mobile business from 15% to over 54% of US transactions by leading key product and marketing initiatives
• Led Groupon 2.0 mobile app redesign across iPhone and Android resulting in double digits sales' lift, Apple and Google’s appstores feature and 5 stars ratings
• Led 1.5 and 2.0 app iPad redesigns resulting in triple digits sales' lift and Appstore feature with 5 stars ratings
• Doubled Android revenues in 6 months by increasing app engagement and conversion
• Created A/B test framework for mobile experimentation used in product management activities (two pending patents)
• Established strong relationships with Apple appstore and Google Play and secured featuring opportunities worth several millions of dollars in advertising
• Led product effort to increase mobile sales penetration in international countries as part of International turnaround effort
• Led product initiatives to support distribution deals with Deutsche Telekom, Nokia and Microsoft
• Rewards
• Launched Groupon Rewards, customer loyalty solution for local businesses. Rewards completes Groupon’s marketing solution suite for small businesses adding customer loyalty to the existing customer acquisition offering (Daily Deals)
• Led program from product strategy and ideation to market rollout in a very accelerated timeframe
• More than 7,000 merchants & 2.5M consumers across 35 markets signed up in first 8 months
• Recognized by the CEO as best executed product launch in Groupon’s history

Jul 2008 – May 2011 · 2 yrs 10 mos · San Jose

• Heralded PayPal in the mobile space by defining the strategy and by building from scratch cross platforms PayPal apps and mobile checkout solutions for merchant and developers.
• Grown total payment volume from $24m to over $4B run rate. Products launched still contributing to the vast majority of the $14B PayPal payment volume in 2012. Such products included:
• Mobile web checkout solution for merchants (Mobile Express Checkout for iPhone/Android)
• Integration of PayPal into eBay mobile properties (1-click payment)
• iPhone 2.0 PayPal app with Bump integration (rated 4 stars, featured in Appstore)
• iPhone/iPad/Android Mobile Payment SDK enabling developers to accept payments within their apps
• Blackberry PayPal application (rated 4 stars)
• Integration of PayPal API checkout solutions into Blackberry AppWorld

Aug 2006 – Jul 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos · Chicago

• Led strategy and product portfolio planning of Motorola Windows Mobile devices (i.e. MOTO Q franchise, first US smartphone to sell more then 1M devices)
• 2007 portfolio doubled 2006 revenues
• Driven internal strategy development processes and communications to Motorola executives
• Supported business development activities with roadmap presentations to executives of carriers and distributors

Jul 2005 – Aug 2006 · 1 yr 1 mo · Chicago

• Led strategy of MOT Mobile Devices accessory business. Business grown to $1B+ sales and won market leadership of Bluetooth headsets
• Led re-engineering of product development processes to shorten cycle time and improve ergonomics of Motorola bluetooth headsets leading to multi-million dollars savings
• Developed investment framework to assess investment/disinvestment for product portfolio decisions
• Identified new growth areas for the group (Big Bets) and developed entry strategy in two new categories
• Led resource planning processes

May 2000 – Jul 2005 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Chicago

• Managed workstreams of client engagements, conducted analyses, identified and evaluated strategic alternatives and presented recommendations to clients’ executives
• Managed junior consultants and client teams
• In 2001 Awarded MBA sponsorship as top performer (top 5%) within European Sr. Business Analysts pool. Moved to Chicago’s office as Associate following MBA graduation (2003)

Oct 1998 – May 2000 · 1 yr 7 mos · Rome Area, Italy

• Responsible for developing customer requirements, designing and coordinating implementation of IT systems. Managed business analysts and client teams
• Ranked as top performer (5%) among business analysts and received early promotion to consultant

Jul 1997 – Sep 1998 · 1 yr 2 mos · Rome Area, Italy

• Led platoon of 30 soldiers
• UNIX system class instructor for technical corp officers