Apr 2022 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Experimented with consumer social - there was no founder/market fit but lots of learnings. Also realized it wasn't my cup of tea :)

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr · Toronto, ON

• Worked with the early stage team to evaluate startups for investment
• Also did a stint in 2018-19 while studying for Masters at LSE. Worked with Patrick Pichette (ex-CFO Google) to evaluate startups for growth stage investment.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 · 0 mo · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jan 2011 – Jan 2017 · 6 yrs · Waterloo, ON

• Sold my AI startup to Microsoft for $160M+ (and made friends for life)
• Built a top talent team of 50+ employees including engineers, product managers and researchers
• Led engineering and product teams that launched virtual personal assistant products on 100 million+ devices across smart phones and smart TVs
• Established vision, direction and managed the research team consisting of 20 PhDs that produced research papers accepted into top academic conferences including NIPS, ICML, ACL, AAAI and SIGDIAL
• Managed Sales and BD relationships across Automotive, Consumer Electronic, Enterprise and IOT markets in USA, Germany, France, China, Korea and Japan