Apr 2022 – Mar 2023 · 11 mos

• Completed a 200 hour yoga teacher training, screamed into a waterfall, climbed a volcano in Bali, got strong in Cabarete, rode my bike around Lake Garda, kite-boarded on the Red Sea, skied at Revelstoke, swam in Iceland, boxed in Thailand, sound-bathed in Lisbon, wandered the Playa in Black Rock City…

Jun 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• VP of Product for Enterprise. Owner of Enterprise products through corporate transition from consumer to retailer-enablement. Owned multiple products line representing billions in revenue and a significant fraction of gross profit for the entire company. Complete rebuild of product team. Moved retailer NPS score +20 and team health score +45%. Executive sponsor of successful FoodStorm acquisition. Delivered 100% of OKRs and retained entire team since acquisition. Delivered numerous high-stakes platform and customer launches for key partners like Costco, Wegmans, Kroger, and Publix.

Jun 2020 – Jul 2020 · 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• First Round Angel Track is a community of established operators and founders looking to develop their skills and identities as early-stage investors

Dec 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Head of Product Strategy. Reporting to the CEO, Walter Knapp. Applied the data obtained from the commerce business into the display ecosystem including novel work in low-price "micro-bidding" and data profiling. Developed proprietary sales automation tools to drive down the cost of customer acquisition. Assisted integration of VigLink into Sovrn which outperformed all pre-acquisition performance targets.

Mar 2009 – Dec 2018 · 9 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Sole Founder / CEO. Invented and delivered a set of "supply-side" tools enabling mainstream web publishers to participate in affiliate commerce revenue utilizing display advertising techniques incuding realtime bidding and modelling historical behavior. At sale, VigLink was breakeven, delivered $1B in annual GMV spend, $50M in commissions, and $10M in net revenue. Built a proprietary network of 2 million publishers including Yahoo, Microsoft, Mozilla, Dotdash Meredith and Vertical Scope. Established demand-side partnerships with 75,000 advertisers including Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Nike and many others. Elected board member of the Performance Marketing Association. Speaker at Advertising Week, Affiliate Summit and others. Recruited and hired more than 100 candidates and acquired 3 competitors: Driving Revenue, LinkSmart and Prosperent. Raised capital: Emergence Capital (Kevin Spain), First Round Capital (Josh Kopelman), Google Ventures (Rich Miner & Tyson Clark), RRE (Will Porteous & Eric Wiesen) and others including Reid Hoffman and Deep Nishar investing personally.

Jul 2008 – Jun 2009 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• First intern. Member of SpaceX deal team. Personally sourced a deal through Series A investment.

Jul 2007 – Aug 2007 · 1 mo · London, United Kingdom

• Performed end-to-end review of technical and organizational architecture of 5-year, 200-person software effort, driving significant technical, organizational and cultural changes: reorganization from a dozen product teams to three, consolidation of job titles, movement to a monthly release cycle and a common toolset, elimination of non-strategic projects and change of vendors to reduce costs and increase flexibility.

Mar 2003 – Feb 2007 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Redmond, WA

• Principal Group Program Manager (Director). Internally recruited by XBOX founder J Allard to start team serving TV and Movie downloads to the XBOX. Prior work shipping numerous entertainment products including Music, Radio and others.

Jan 2002 – Mar 2003 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Worked personally for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen managing various AI, venture diligence and media strategy projects. Managed multiple teams locally and overseas with multi-million-dollar budgets. Presented to DARPA RKF

Jan 2001 – Jan 2001 · 0 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Designed, built and deployed core subsystems of the Edusoft platform including automatic grader using custom OCR and commodity sheet-fed scanners reducing per-test costs roughly 100x. In November 2003, Edusoft was acquired by The Houghton Mifflin Company.

Jan 2000 – Dec 2001 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Sole product manager and core engineer for award-winning online radio product

Sep 1999 – Dec 1999 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Developer responsible for design and implementation of a financial institution messaging system including all PKI and message integrity verification. Scient is now part of SBI Group.

Sep 1994 – Jun 1999 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Cambridge, MA

• Founded “Hive”, a popular open-source toolkit for making distributed software systems. Conceived, implemented and oversaw project, which served as basis for three masters theses including my own: Hive: A Software Infrastructure for Things That Think. Routinely briefed sponsors including fortune 100 C-level executives. Presented at Intel Play consortium and Nokia’s “Things That Link” workshop in Helsinki, Finland. Created a hardware and software system for the real-time acquisition and analysis of telemetry from wired athletes, deployed on runners in the Boston and San Francisco marathons in support of sports-medicine research.