Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• AI advisory and thought leadership to Bessemer Venture Partners and its portfolio companies

Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Jan 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led engineering, AI, product and UX teams for leading global provider of Computer Vision AI solutions for the Retail and Commerce industry
• Leveraging cutting edge AI to offer seamless real-time shopping experience to consumers across physical stores, online and mobile

Dec 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Jan 2017 – Apr 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Jan 2014 – Jan 2022 · 8 yrs

• Led Natural Language Understanding product organization at Google AI, launching first LLM and Transformers based technology (BERT).
• Led Product Management, Design and Program Management teams, focused on bringing the power of AI to Google Search, Assistant/Speech, Ads, Cloud, Commerce, Translate and other products
• Led product management and UX teams for Google Translate (103 languages, 1 billion+ monthly users, 140+ billion words translated every day)
• Led the world's first large-scale productization of LLMs and deep neural networks (Google Translate) - completed in 9 months instead of the projected 3 years and delivering more quality gains than the previous decade combined

Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 · 3 yrs

• Led mobile commerce efforts within Google Wallet team
• Spearheaded, developed and launched Google Instant Buy (Online Wallet) product, using innovative approach to enhance value proposition to users and dramatically simplify integration for merchants
• Initiated, secured alignment and launched Google Wallet Android SDK as part of Google Play services, resulting in distribution on 500M+ phones and significant revenue
• Led cross functional efforts to enable streamlined payment experience on Android Device Store, resulting in increased sales and decrease in customer support and operational issues

Jun 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Led product strategy for Microsoft's local and mobile advertising and local commerce initiatives
• Delivered 500% YoY increase in global mobile search ad revenue through new product launches and go-to-market activities
• Led Microsoft’s deals/offers and mobile payments efforts to facilitate purchases discovered through online advertising

May 2007 – Jun 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Led product and business strategy and execution for PayPal Mobile Payments and mCommerce
• Achieved 25x revenue growth in 2 years through introduction of new products and improved cooperation with internal and external stakeholders

Apr 2006 – May 2007 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Led product and go-to-market strategy for revolutionary small business product

May 2005 – Apr 2006 · 11 mos

• MBA internship: Developed product and marketing strategy for SAP Mobile Solutions and Enterprise Search

Feb 2003 – Jun 2004 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Led engineering and product management teams. Took leading role in business development and corporate strategy activities.

Dec 1999 – Mar 2001 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Start up acquired by IBM
• Supervised a group of IT professionals and computer specialists. Key contributor to the development of product and partnership strategies

Aug 1997 – Dec 1999 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Aug 1993 – Aug 1997 · 4 yrs