Seed investor and advisor to the founding team whom I’ve known for 5+ years. Also brought in additional capital through network resulting in 3rd largest investment after Intel Capital and True Ventures.

Seed Investor, 500 Startups '16

Seed Investor, YC '16

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Seed Investor, YC'16Creating the next gen digital media brands for African audiences.Our media properties include: OMGVoice and Bitnode http://omgdigitalinc.com

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The Batchery: where incubator meets accelerator and advisory meets capital. See: http://batchery.io- Managed P&L for the entire business. - Guest speaker at startup events. - Sourced and managed LP’s. - Created partnership with leading cloud company to provide free cloud services to our startups. - Developed strategic partnerships with international incubators.

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Co-founder of Bookera, a "Netflix for ebooks" mobile and web application- Hired offshore engineering team reducing development costs by over 50%. - Managed all operations of the business.- Secured angel investment.

- Created a fund specializing in long-short strategies of equities, options and ETF’s across all sectors - Raised over $1 million in capital from accredited investors.- Investment strategies were on a per-client basis and including long/short equities and ETF's. Also offered high yield derivative strategies including calls/puts, vertical spreads, condors, butterfly spreads, volatility hedging and commodities investing.

- Managed sales and operations reporting functions for a $50M business.- Managed quarterly operating overview which was delivered to senior management. I was included in these meetings which included the CEO and all senior field leadership. Advised management on gaps in business and potential areas of opportunity. - Prepared weekly financial reporting for CEO.- Prepared weekly financial reporting for field organization and built close relationships with field teams and advised them (regularly) on areas of opportunity.

- Led rollout of new Oracle Payroll Management System impacting 1,200 stores and $500 million of sales.- Managed sales forecasting for the entire Gap brand of 1,000+ store locations. Report was personally sent to CEO on a weekly basis. - Built weekly store report giving better business metrics for store and district managers. - Led weekly reporting consolidation project resulting in more effective business reporting.

• Performed financial valuation analysis and due diligence for mergers and acquisitions.• Research of comparable public and private company transaction analysis.