Aug 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Jose, California, United States

• Helping build Cybersecurity's first Weather Forecasting system.
• Cloud Marketplaces: AWS, Microsoft, GCP
• Technology Partnerships & Strategic Alliances
• Partner Program

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Managing community, local events & social media. Supporting the fund operations and deal flow with Automotive Expertise and European market insights.

Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 · 11 mos · San Jose, California, United States · Remote

• 24/7, instant user feedback from YOUR target user at a fraction of the cost for traditional qualitative studies.
• Built the solution with a 3 person team. Got accepted into Antler S24. Pivoted to B2B clients, pilot with 5 global market insight agencies. Currently on hold.

Mar 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Created Corporate Venture Capital strategy, managed LP and direct investments.
• Ecosystem management of sourcing, due diligence and execution of partnerships, venture clienting and investments with start-ups.

Jan 2019 – Feb 2023 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Corporate intrapreneur and start-up ecosystem manager focusing on mobility, data services, deeptech and emerging technologies (Blockchain, AI/ML, RPA). Managed digital innovation funnel and global start-up network. Ideated and pitched 30+ concepts to C-Level, received funding / team, and concluded 4 PoCs (3 in collaboration with start-ups). Scaled and exited a B2B supply chain solution to $2M+ ARR in the 2nd year. Responsible for market research, ideation, due diligence, external partnerships and execution of innovation strategies.

Mar 2023 – Dec 2023 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Built a GenAI solution that sounded like you. Precise finetuning of writing style and tone and fast-tracked content creation by just picking a topic. Exited.

Apr 2018 – Present · 8 yrs · Remote

• Mentoring founders on GTM strategy, fundraise and scaling. Focus on B2B, deeptech and automotive. Nominated for Bold Vision 150 award by Startupbootcamp in 2022.
• Accelerators:
• Alchemist Accelerator ; Santa Clara University (Bronco Ventures) Accelerator ; CV Labs ; Startupbootcamp ; Blockchain Founders Group
• Startups:
• Morpheus.Network ; Constellation Network ; Fuel.ai ; Like Minded

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 3 mos · Remote

• Advising & supporting VC funds and investors with due diligence and day-to-day fund operations / deal flow management with focus on early stage (pre-seed, seed). Working with:
• Santa Clara Ventures
• Santa Cruz Ventures

Mar 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Corporate intrapreneur and start-up ecosystem manager. Focus areas: mobility, autonomous driving, industrial deeptech. Managed innovation funnel and global start-up network, researched and sourced solutions for various automotive applications - additive manufacturing, V2X, coatings, emerging and bleeding edge software (e.g. Blockchain, AI, IoT, Industry 4.0), sensors for self-driving cars (e.g. Lidar). Ideated and pitched 20+ concepts to C-Level for team and funding, realized 3 PoCs (2 with startups, one went public later - https://www.getalfi.com/.

Feb 2016 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr

• Global marketing strategy and execution, managing a team of 4. Built up product and innovation management within the organization and managed external stakeholder network. Prepared launch of a new product line (large climate chamber), incl. software and aftersales strategy.

Oct 2010 – Dec 2015 · 5 yrs 2 mos

• Global marketing lead, managing a team of 6. Transformed the innovation process using lean start-up concepts and supported 2 product initiatives from inception to market (e.g. magnetic whiteboard wall covering). Enabled senior management decisions on investments, value chain extensions and new market entries.

Feb 2007 – Jul 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Coventry ; Bayreuth

• EvoBus: Sales support & marketing for CV in UK, market analysis with management proposals
• British American Tobacco: Project management and database support for global SAP rollout