Avants is a lifestyle brand for car enthusiasts. Members can attend private events, get discounts at automotive businesses, enjoy the Avants quarterly print magazine and more! Currently live in Seattle, Portland, Denver and Southern California.

• Developed business plan, hired founding team, led product management and business development for the company. • Raised seed-round funding from Founder's Co-Op• Grew traffic to 400K+ unique visitors/month in less than 6 months.

• Managed 7-person team responsible for driving traffic and revenue to MSN Shopping ($50M/year business). • Owned all MSN Shopping traffic channels included external programs (SEM, SEO) and well as internal partners (MSN.com, Hotmail, etc). Grew unique visitors from 15M/month to 20M/month• Responsible for monetization of MSN Shopping. Developed advertising packages, set prices, created inventory, etc. Collaborated with sales team to develop collateral and go-to-market materials. • Consistently presented product and marketing plans to upper-management (GM, Corp VP, etc) for review/approval.

• Managed all online marketing programs for Eddie Bauer. Responsible for E-Commerce Marketing P&L ($8M/year budget, $200M/year revenue).• Managed customer acquisition programs (SEM, SEO, Affiliates, Display) and customer retention programs (Email).• Negotiated all major advertising contracts with advertising agencies and marketing partners, including AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Amazon, Avenue A, etc.• Led team of 3 direct reports.

• Managed customer acquisition marketing programs for Gear.com.