Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Olto is the first AI-native demo automation platform used by some of the world's top PreSales teams. It empowers sales engineers to quickly create high-fidelity and hyper-personalized live demos, interactive product tours and leave-behinds using sophisticated Gen AI models. Olto boosts PreSales productivity by 50% and reduces the time spent on demo prep, maintenance and enablement.

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr

• As part of my board duties, I focused on the Awards committee, where we launched the Ambies - the annual Awards for Excellence in Audio as the academy's bid to establish an Oscars-level industry award for audio programming

Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs

• Pitched the business plan, raised funding and built the Podcasts business at Amazon as the General Manager.
• Built the flywheel for podcasting by complementing the consumer-facing products with world-class content and creator/advertiser tools by acquiring two companies.
• Led the acquisition and integration of two companies - Wondery, the industry-leading podcast studio/network, and ART19, a leading provider of hosting, publishing and monetization tools for podcasters.
• Scaled a multi-disciplinary and global team from zero to 120+ team members across product, engineering, strategy, operations, editorial, and content for Podcasts.
• Grew the customer base from zero to several million customers through iterative product and original content launches.
• Elected to the Board of The Podcast Academy

Jan 2013 – Jan 2019 · 6 yrs

• Co-founder of Prime Music - co-authored the business plan, pitched and raised funding for Amazon's first streaming music service as the product leader.
• Led worldwide product management teams and the technical program management office (PMO) for Amazon Music. Helped scale Amazon Music from 0 to 55M+ subscribers, becoming one of the top three music streaming services in the world. Amazon Music is available in 50+ countries and is one of the fastest-growing music subscription services worldwide.
• Defined and executed the product strategy for Amazon Music including Amazon Music Unlimited, Prime Music, Ad-supported free tier, Amazon Music store, SDK, and the Amazon Music experience on Alexa/Echo.
• Hired and developed a growing team of over 55 PMs worldwide who supported the work of 500+ engineers
• Appointed as a Customer Experience Bar Raiser (CXBR) across Amazon

Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 · 4 yrs

• Drove product vision and execution for the IMDb Everywhere initiative. After joining as a Senior Product Manager, my responsibilities grew as a Principal Product Manager and then Senior Manager when I led product, marketing, business development and editorial teams. Key highlights include:
• Designed and built "X-Ray for Movies" by leading multiple teams across Amazon including Kindle Fire, Amazon Instant Video and IMDb. Collaborated with Amazon's senior leadership team to iterate over the customer experience of X-Ray. More at http://imdb.com/x-ray
• Led the IMDb Everywhere initiative at Amazon. Launched eight mobile products as a product manager/product management leader while working with a world-class team of engineers and designers at IMDb and Amazon. IMDb's mobile apps on iOS, Android and Windows Phone have over 100 million downloads and remain leading mobile apps with a 4.5 star rating. IMDb's apps are inducted in iTunes Hall of Fame, have received Webby honors and have received positive reviews by mainstream media such as Time Magazine and The Wall Street Journal.
• Launched IMDb's Games business with IMDb Trivia app on iOS. Drove mobile business development and partner management with Apple, Google, Microsoft, OEMs, and carriers.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 · 3 yrs · Seattle, Washington, United States

• Seattle Microfinance was a non-profit organization to drive awareness and raise funding for global poverty alleviation. Board activities included driving technology roadmap, improving online presence, and growth of the poverty-alleviation network in the Pacific Northwest.

Jan 2008 – Present · 18 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Early investments in ambitious founders of: Twilio, Turing, Truework, Regal.ai, Cred, Deductive AI, Materia AI, Clazar, Orkes, Neuron7, Matician, Shyp, and dozens more.
• More at: http://makinghq.com

Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 · 4 yrs

• Developed the product roadmap, designed functional specifications and managed strategic partnerships for a portfolio of areas for Lync (Skype for Business), which included instant messaging (Communicator), web conferencing (Live Meeting) & telephony (IP phone). Co-authored the book: Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit
• Developed the business plan, pitched and secured funding and built the prototype for a social network for professionals around events and conferences by leading a cross-company team.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr

• Developed signing infrastructure to test open XML file formats for Word, Excel and Powerpoint (Office 2007)

Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 · 3 yrs

• A global healthcare communication platform for personal medical records and auction-based health insurance marketplace.