Jul 2025 – Nov 2025 · 4 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

• Partnering with Cathay Innovation’s investment and portfolio teams to evaluate SaaS and AI opportunities, track performance across our portfolio, and help founders sharpen product strategy, go-to-market execution, and growth.

Mar 2025 – Nov 2025 · 8 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

• We help SaaS founders and leadership teams tackle their biggest growth challenges — from finding product-market fit to preparing for enterprise scale. Beyond the Build brings proven real-world experience and playbooks developed at Microsoft, Slack, Spendesk, and Envoy.
• Our mission is to help you scale smarter, move faster, and grow stronger.

Jun 2024 – Mar 2025 · 9 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

• As Chief Product Officer at Envoy, I led a comprehensive transformation of the product organization, creating the company's first product strategy, roadmap, and development process while building a high-performing team. Through methodical changes to organizational structure, recruitment, and operational processes, I worked collaboratively with the CTO to shift the EPD organization from a reactive feature-factory to a strategic, impact-driven product organization. This transformation established clear product vision, improved execution predictability, and strengthened enterprise customer relationships.
• Key Measurable Impacts:
• Created and rolled out company’s first structured and detailed product strategy and roadmap.
• Established systematic product development process leading to predictable delivery and improved customer satisfaction with strategic accounts like Tesla, Western Digital, and Vanguard.
• Increased employee NPS for the product organization from -100 to +50 while increasing velocity and instituting clear career development journeys.
• Reduced recruitment pipeline timeline while making strategic hires in Design and Product Management.

Feb 2024 – Jun 2024 · 4 mos · Remote

• Collaborated with Founders and Co-CEOs to establish and operationalize OKRs to increase efficiency and engineering effectiveness.
• Trained the R&D team in modern product development processes to reduce product discovery and delivery time by 50%.
• Led a cross-functional team to devise an integrated AI, Content, and platform strategy.

Oct 2023 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · Remote

• Lepaya combines the power of AI with the skills and experience of learning and development professionals to guide leaders through their learning journey.

Aug 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• (Acquired)
• Coho.ai applies AI to SaaS product engagement analytics. Their AI platform shortens a customer's time to revenue while decreasing CAC-payback and accelerating LTV. It's AI-driven PLG in a box.
• Advising the founders and the board on product strategy, roadmap and GTM.

Sep 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr · Paris, Île-de-France, France · On-site

• Built and restructured the engineering organization to take the company from Start-up to Scale-up.
• Spearheaded the adoption of OKRs, completing 90% of set goals, revamped planning cycles, and tripled engineering throughput within a year.
• Recruited top-tier engineering leaders from across Europe, overhauled the engineering structure, expanding from 50 to 100 FTEs within a year.
• Led the cultural shift from startup to scaleup, integrating new processes that enhanced
• operational efficiency and employee satisfaction, while maintaining desired attrition at 6%.
• Introduced metrics-driven (DORA) engineering principles, integrated customer support into engineering, achieving the following outcomes:
• > Reduced critical bugs to 0 and non-critical bugs by 50%.
• > Accelerated code releases to production to once every two weeks.
• > Reduced data inconsistencies by 90%.

May 2021 – May 2023 · 2 yrs · Paris, Île-de-France, France · On-site

• 🦄 The premium European spend management platform built for SMBs and valued at over $1B.
• Recruited to transform the company into a product-led sales (PLS) organization to drive scale. Built and led an organization of product managers, designers, data analysts/researchers, and program operations.
• Executed a targeted growth strategy enhancing product fundamentals, which increased ARR from €15M to €43M within two years.
• Built a fast prototyping team that launched a freemium product, cutting lead creation costs by 90% in six months and reducing CAC Payback by 20% over 12 months.
• Established a Product-Led Growth team that boosted Spendesk card transaction volume from €217M to over €600M in two years through user-focused iterations.
• Recruited senior leaders from top-tier companies (e.g., Google, Miro, Algolia) to restructure and modernize the R&D organization, achieving a 4X increase in R&D velocity within two years.
• Led a team of data engineers to bring AI to the spend management platform.

Oct 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco, California

• Recruited to build and lead the high-performing Productivity team . Working across engineering, design, program management, user research and data analytics and product marketing, we developed a product strategy and built native productivity tools and integrations to win Enterprise adoption and drive user engagement and growth.
• Led product teams that built innovative premium features, achieving a 32% YoY increase in the
• number of enterprises with an Annual Contract Value (ACV) of over $100,000.
• Implemented Product-Led Growth (PLG) strategies to drive active users of Slack from 12M to 25M in two years.

Feb 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Hybrid

• I built and led a cross-organizational product management, product marketing, data science, customer success, and field team that drove enterprise growth (PLS) and product roadmaps across Microsoft 365.
• Increased usage of Outlook Mobile to over 100M users.
• Helped increase Microsoft 365 revenues by 36% YoY.
• Grew enterprise penetration of Outlook and Intune from less than 10% to over 85%.

Mar 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Hybrid

• Recruited to scale the team, bring the product to enterprise readiness, boost consumer satisfaction, and grow product usage. Scaled the R&D team, integrated two acquisitions, and built high-velocity product development processes.
• Led the team to grow monthly active users from less than 1M to over 54M in two years.
• Built innovative product development processes that accelerated engineering velocity and increased product quality resulting in an increase of app store rating from 2 stars to over 4.2 stars.

May 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Recruited to lead cross-functional teams - directed and energized 5 product managers and 30+ engineers.
• Integrated 5 product development teams into a single cloud scaling and monitoring platform with
• a new freemium business model that increased product adoption by 500% within six months.
• Instituted new customer support processes, automations, and data visualization that reduced
• the time to ticket resolution from 24 hours to 30 minutes.

Mar 2008 – May 2013 · 5 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• Bootstrapped one of the earliest cloud scaling platforms with partnerships with 3 of the 4 top
• global semiconductor electronic design software companies.
• Closed sales with top semiconductor companies such as Intel, Xilinx, Cadence, and Synopsys
• to develop the platform and raise seed funding.

Feb 2006 – Mar 2008 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco

• I worked with the CEOs of 4 European enterprise software startups, positioned 3 companies for acquisition, and successfully launched products in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr · Greater Boston · Hybrid

• I commercialized technology for a software startup which had received $8 million in venture funding and a $2.5 million NIST grant.
• Built $5 million sales pipeline and closed the company’s first enterprise sale after accelerating product release and brand relaunch.

Jun 2001 – Jan 2005 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Silicon Valley · On-site

• Recruited to define, build, and launch multiple products globally. Collaborated with the founding CEO and CTO, VP Sales to productize intellectual property and enterprise software technology.
• Grew annual revenues from zero to $12+ million by transforming the company from a technology-centric organization to a product/customer-focused business.