Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

• Sourcing, evaluating, advising, and investing in cutting edge tech businesses. Portfolio companies include OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Anduril, SpaceX, Epirus, Figure AI, Bearing.ai, Somatic Robotics, Adam, Opal, Spot AI, Spokn, Jellie AI, Growit, Ionic Mineral Tech, Agility Robotics, Supermove, MultiOn, Truleo, The Complete Human, and Arcoscan where I've co-invested alongside YC, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Accel, General Catalyst, AI Fund, Berkeley Skydeck, and other leading venture firms.
• Executive coaching, management consulting, and executive search for multiple venture-backed startup CEO's, CPO's, and product leads and senior product managers at FAANG companies.
• Startup Advisory at Stanford's Graduate School of Business Center for Entrepreneurial Studies Venture Studio, selection committee member for Botha Chan Innovation Program, and Advisor and selection committee member for UC Berkeley's Skydeck Accelerator program.

Jun 2020 – Nov 2023 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

• I was a top 4% rated ("transformative impact") product management director at Google and led product innovation for billion dollar investments for some of Google's most complex applied research incubations around AI-based products.
• Owned product vision and strategic roadmap for a suite of entirely new products and led team of 20+ product managers (including 2 directors) supporting the work for hundreds of research and software development engineers launching multiple products including Google's first AI transformer-based clinical product into a live production environment at scale. Also responsible for multiple executive relationships both internal at Google and with external strategic partners.

Apr 2016 – Jun 2020 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Zürich Area, Switzerland

• Rated Strongly Exceeds Expectations for a Director (top ~10%). I was responsible for the core creator tools vision, strategy, roadmap and a multi-product portfolio redesigning and rebuilding the core Creator platform at YouTube during a time when we doubled daily watch overs from 1B to 2B+ per day. I built and led a product management team from 1 to 10 (2 managers and 8 individual contributors) covering V1 innovation projects, platform, desktop, mobile, and long-term infrastructure investments. Examples of work from my team included the new YouTube Analytics, new YouTube Upload flow, new YouTube Studio, new YouTube channels setup process.
• My team drove the roadmaps and prioritization for about 100 engineers and another several hundred engineers indirectly. I was one of the most senior advocates for Creators within YouTube leading cross-company initiatives that span multiple orgs and also the primary external spokesperson externally for all new features and policies that affect YouTube creators.

Mar 2012 – Apr 2018 · 6 yrs 1 mo · Seattle, Washington

• Acquired by NXTThing (a recruitment process outsourcing company) in April 2018.
• Poachable (aka Anthology) matched top employed tech professionals with new career opportunities anonymously.
• Backed by $3.3M in seed capital from Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures, the former general counsel of Facebook, former CEO of Immunex, CPO of Acxiom, Google and Amazon execs, and top angels. Over 1,000 companies have promoted jobs through Anthology include Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, Facebook, Uber, Netflix, Smartsheet, Offerup, Blue Apron and over 300 venture backed startups. As of Jan 2017, we had over 60,000 active members including 5,000 VP's and 7.500 directors.
• Poachable was featured in the New York Times, CBS News, CNN, Mashable, LifeHacker, Huffington Post, WSJ, Inc, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, etc. We won the 2015 Seattle Business Magazine Top Emerging Tech Company award and the 2015 Harvard Business School Alumni Ventures "Best Investment" award for Northern California & Northwest.
• Prior to the Poachable business, our team incubated 6 products which were designed to enhance how people connect online through conversations and community. These included an instant feedback mobile app for quick decisions, a shopping Q&A community, a social event planning tool, an Ask me Anything platform, a town hall internal collaboration service, and a group interviewing tool for hiring managers. Our original Q&A product was featured in Fast Company, Mashable, NPR, Wall Street Journal, and was a finalist in the 2013 SxSW Startup Accelerator competition (top 18 of 550 startups competing, top 3 in the social category).

Sep 2009 – Mar 2012 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Seattle, Washington

• Reporting to our President, I was promoted from VP of small business solutions to SVP of Product overall and responsible for leading and developing Marchex's team of over 20 product managers, program managers, and UX designers as well as charting our overall corporate product strategy and roadmap generating $150M in annual revenue. Marchex is a 400 person company, publicly traded software company, headquartered in Seattle.
• The stuff we worked on included:
• SMB advertising solution that managed >$200M in SMB ad budget annually and includes exclusive strategic partnerships with Intuit, AT&T, Yellow Pages Group, Cox Media, and NBC Local.
• Call analytics platform for local online advertising campaigns powering ad programs like AT&T Interactive, Yodle, Marchex pay-for-call, and Yellow Pages Group Canada tracking, transcribing, and analyzing more than 10M minutes of inbound phone leads per month.
• Pay-for-Call ad network business with over 100 publishers such as Telenav, White Pages, Metro PCS, and Skype that drives inbound phone leads with minimal spend on SEM.
• An automated ad-funded directory assistance service offered direct to consumers through 1-800-Free-411 and white label offering with major mobile and voice partners such as Tracfone, Boost Mobile, MagicJack, Comcast, and Verizon.
• SMB online presence management tool that scoured over 8,000 web sources for information about your business, your competition, trends, alerts, etc. to monitor, analyze, and enhance your business' overall online presence.
• An experimental free calling plugin enabling multi-modal connections to businesses from any web page.

Dec 2006 – Sep 2009 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Seattle, Washington

• Website Optimizer was the #1 content optimization tool on the web and was available in 22 languages and enabled on-demand AB and multivariate testing and had over 15 global partners. Website Optimizer also won internal recognition at Google as one of the "Top 10 Product" awards.
• I was the lead PM for the beta as well as over a dozen subsequent releases and was accountable for the overall performance of the Website Optimizer business. I led the Website Optimizer Core team which was comprised of 15 functional areas including engineering, design, QA, localization, support, marketing, sales, PR, writers, business development, legal, webmaster, ops, etc. I also worked on projects related to Google Analytics, Google AdWords, and Google AdSense.
• After being promoted to Sr PM, I worked on more analytics products for Google. The last product I led was Google Campaign Insights (http://tinyurl.com/2czzruv), a state of the art display advertising effectiveness analytics product sponsored by and accountable to CEO, founders, and Operating Committee at Google. Completed Google leadership training program for high potential managers.

Mar 2005 – Mar 2018 · 13 yrs · Seattle, Washington, United States

• Created the Northwest's first blog-based real estate lead generation business generating over $20M in transactions with less than $10k in capital. Acquired by Kronen Group in 2018.