Sep 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• Lead our ChatGPT for Work product teams and product portfolio (Team, Enterprise, and Government products, Payments stack, Pricing/Packaging, Monetization)

May 2024 – Jul 2024 · 2 mos

Aug 2023 – May 2024 · 9 mos

• Led Planet's Product, Design, and Technical Program Management/TPM org (~75 FTEs).
• Developed 2-year product strategy to transform Planet from a data company to a platform company
• Built and launched the Planet Insights Platform to make it easier for customers to get value from Earth Observation (EO) data
• Reimagined our analytics products with AI
• Revamped out Pricing/Packaging strategy and infrastructure
• Consistently launched new EO data products
• Acquired and integrated three companies
• Built out all Product operations (e.g., roadmapping, product reviews, product career ladder, etc) necessary to run an efficient, execution-oriented organization

Aug 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr

• Led Planet's Product, Design, and Technical Program Management (TPM) org.

Aug 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr

• Led Planet's Platform Product team.
• Responsible for all customer facing interactions with Planet and the underlying platform capabilities (e.g., onboarding, data discovery, data delivery, data analysis, etc.).

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 · 2 mos

• Advisor to the President of Planet during my transition period from Meta.

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• The Skip CPO group is a community of 20-plus current and ex-head of products from across the tech industry. On average, a head of product remains in that role for only two years before exiting. The Skip community aims to extend this by developing and sharing best practices on how to lead a product function, successfully partner with the company’s leaders, craft product organizations, hire and scale a product team, and expand a product portfolio. Members collectively have more than 50 years of product leadership experience across dozens of industries including fintech, security, web3, and e-commerce and are some of the most accomplished and influential executives in the industry.
• The CPO group is invitation-only and is part of the Skip platform devoted to help tech professionals skip ahead in their career.

Oct 2018 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led Core Experiences and Consumer Platform teams, with full stack responsibility (consumer-facing screens to backend) across the domain space.
• Core Experiences: On/Off Ramps (money in/out), P2P, Value Added Services, geo-expansion
• Consumer Platform: Money movement platform, FX/trading engine, Treasury/Finance integrations, partner integrations

Jan 2018 – Oct 2018 · 9 mos

• Set the vision and lead the strategy and product execution of the end-to-end consumer and small business experience for PayPal’s global P2P (Send & Receive) money transfer services.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr

• Own PayPal's Send & Request /Peer-to-Peer (P2P) money transfer platform and user experiences for all domestic & international/cross-border P2P products.
• Develop product strategy, build & manage business case for PayPal’s global P2P product set
• Manage 3rd party partnerships and integrations with P2P platform APIs team
• Manage team of multiple P2P Product Managers across multiple geographies
• Led Product due diligence on multiple M&A projects, including acquisition of Xoom, and the equity investment into Toss (Korea)

Feb 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Product Owner and team lead for PayPal’s Cross-Border P2P product globally
• Developed product strategy and business case for PayPal’s consumer Cross-Border P2P/remittances business
• Led Product due diligence for the acquisition of Xoom, a digital remittance company ($890 million acquisition, June 2015)
• Led successful product integration between PayPal and Xoom (acquired entity)

Aug 2014 – Feb 2015 · 6 mos

• Worked on our Merchant product team supporting the North America business unit, focused on the small and medium businesses segment (SMB).
• As a Product Owner, I led a regional engineering team that worked on the PayPal Working Capital product and the Braintree/v.zero integration with PayPal's core merchant product set.

Feb 2016 – Feb 2020 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• FIBR (Financial Inclusion on Business Runways) is an innovative R&D project which seeks to demonstrate how smartphones can accelerate and deepen financial inclusion in developing countries. The immediate focus of the effort is on developing proof-of-concept models in Ghana and Tanzania.
• More on the project here: http://www.fibrproject.org/
• I serve as an advisor to the core working team.

May 2012 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Venture Lab is a seed-stage venture capital investment arm of Accion that invests globally in start ups who have technology-enabled solutions focused on increasing access to financial services in emerging markets.
• Led investment work in sub-Saharan Africa (based out of Nairobi, Kenya).

Jun 2008 – May 2012 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Atlanta Metropolitan Area

• Served on client teams that crafted organizational strategies for a variety of players across multiple sectors; focused on financial services, payments, financial inclusion, and financial technology.
• Expertise/focus in payments and financial services for underserved populations.