WeLevel empowers small and medium-sized businesses to grow smarter with an all-in-one AI-driven marketing platform. By consolidating essential tools—CRM, content marketing, review management, and automation—into a unified solution, we help businesses improve lead conversions, save time, and boost revenue. Whether it's automating follow-ups, enhancing customer engagement, or optimizing ad campaigns, WeLevel delivers measurable results that reduce churn and drive sustainable growth.

WriteForMe connects businesses with writers to help businesses communicate effectively with sales prospects and current customers.

Lead growth for MidSouth Pain Treatment Center.

At Helpware, we build world-class Customer Experience (CX) teams to help our clients scale their operations. Back Office Support and Customer Experience Support are critical for our clients to achieve "operational excellence." Integrating omnichannel Customer Experience teams, combined with a structured workflow and modern technologies are imperative back office processes to help our clients with customer retention and repeat purchasing. At Helpware, we help our clients innovate through a carefully planned strategy, utlizing the right technologies, and bringing the best people to help our clients scale efficiently.

Business development and strategy with a focus on distribution for MGO. MGO started as a joint venture between Technicolor and Dreamworks Animation, and was acquired by Fandango in February 2016.

PUNCHCARDPunchcard is a mobile engagement and loyalty network designed to give merchants an effective way to retain customers while rewarding shoppers for making frequent purchases at their favorite retailers.The Punchcard app is a mobile platform that uses an electronic "punchcard" system that is easy-to-implement and simple to use for shoppers and merchants alike. Merchants get real-time data about their customers buying habits, as well as social and other demographic information that allows them to provide their loyal customers with targeted offers and rewards. Punchcard is an Idealab company headquartered in Pasadena, CA. For more information, please visit www.punchcard.com or follow @MyPunchcard on Twitter or MyPunchcard on Facebook and Google+.OFFERBOXOfferBox (www.OfferBox.me) is a platform where consumers can link their credit card one-time with our platform, and then with 1-click, they link offers to their credit card. Each time the consumer swipes their credit card, regardless of where they purchase, they receive personalized offers based on their spend history. Advertisers are able to deliver the right offer value to the right cohort of customers to incentivize those consumers to shop with them.Redemption is seamless: When consumers use their linked credit card at a participating retailer's store, within 1 minute of the transaction, we notify the user via text or push notification that the funds from the offer value will be placed onto their credit card as a statement credit.

Portfolio companies include: EyeWonder (acquired by Limelight Networks), Vertical Response (acquired by Deluxe Corporation), ViaFone (acquired by Extended Systems), ZeroDegrees (acquired by IAC), AltoTech Ventures, CafePress (e-Commerce Platform), , Staenberg Ventures, Wine.com, Clickability (Publishing Platform), Comedy World Radio Network (Media).

As an Entrepreneur in Residence at Idealab, I am the Founder of Gigway. We created 2 products where consumers can earn rewards everywhere they shop: Punchcard (www.punchcard.com) and OfferBox (www.OfferBox.me).

-Founder of MerchEngines, a Search Marketing and Social Media marketing company focused on helping local businesses grow their businesses online.-Funded the company myself. Created, funded and built MerchEngines through a successful acquisition to Deluxe Corporation, a Fortune 1000 company: https://gigaom.com/2009/07/14/419-check-printer-deluxe-purchases-search-engine-marketing-firm-merchengine/-MerchEngines is a platform and SaaS that integrates SEM, SEO, Local Directory marketing, Reputation Management, Social Media Marketing, conversion tools such as call tracking, lead capture tools, and effective websites that help local businesses market themselves efficiently.

• Social network for business professionals to find jobs and help their colleagues and friends find jobs. • Key part of the management team to lead the company through a successful acquisition to IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ:IACI) after one year of operation for 10X-invested capital.• Grew business to over 1M business professionals.• Led all business development efforts and distribution strategy for the company. Key contributor to developing the business model for the company.• Structured distribution deals with Wall Street Journal, Lycos, CMP, Jupiter Media, CNET, Linkshare, Advertising.com, CareerCast, Job.com, ValueClick, and other distribution partners with an average CPA of $1-2 per member.• Exceeded membership acquisition goals by 100%. Grew member base from 0 to 1M+ business professionals in the network.• Developed SEO/SEM, affiliate marketing, email marketing programs yielding 50-100% customer growth month over month, and managed a business development team of 5.

Created a prototype for a social music network.

• Led research and consulting engagements with Microsoft. • Sold and co-created 5 in-depth wireless, media strategy research reports to Microsoft

Comedy World’s talk radio entertainment network produced and broadcasted original programming for terrestrial and Internet radio. Hosts included Ahmet Zappa and Kennedy, Sandra Bernhard, Ken Ober, Kids in the Hall, Harlin Williams, Eddie Griffin, Greg Berhendt, Bobby Slayton, and others.• General Manager of Operations for the San Francisco office. Responsible for hiring and overall management of 50 employees. • Co-authored the company’s business plan, and managed all Internet development.• Defined sales opportunities, and built integrated sales packages for advertisers.• Managed a complex company-wide budget in excess of $20M

• Pioneered community, email and affiliate marketing on the Internet. • Key member of the management team who took the company public and through a secondary offering before NBC acquired the company and merged it with Snap.com to form NBC Internet. • Managed a budget of $30M. Built products that grew membership from 1M to 16M within 1 year catapulting Xoom.com to the 7th most trafficked media property on the Internet. • Led M&A efforts and integration of companies once acquired (Liquid Market, ParaLogic, MightyMail, SiteMail, Greetings Online, Pagecount, Inc, and NetFloppy). • Authored business plan for NBCi Europe. Fostered and completed International partnerships to form NBCi Europe with Canal Plus (France), RTL (Germany), Telecom Italia (Italy), Channel 4 (UK).Defined network-wide integrated sales and distribution packages for advertisers to purchase ad spots across the Web, email, television, and radio.

• Built out the company’s first content rich products: Infoseek Sports, Infoseek Finance, and a personalized product called MyInfoseek. • Managed the product integration of the GO.com properties after Disney acquired Infoseek. • Led the integration of Registration and Personalized Services across all GO Network properties including ABCNEWS.com, ABC.com, Disney.com, Infoseek.com, ESPN.com, Family.com, DisneyBlast.com, and others.• Managed the user interface / design team, engineering and Web development teams, and trained sales staff to sell against sports and finance products.• Created GO Networks# personalized products.• Established and developed strategic partnerships with TIBCO, S&P Comstock, Morningstar, Zacks, Hoovers, SportsTicker, and other content providers, and implemented their services into the Infoseek portal.

• One of 4 of the founding team of Snap.com, which we spun out of CNET in April 1997, and was acquired by NBC in the summer of 1999. • Led a product development team of 4 to launch Snap.com.• Led the integration of 3rd party content into Snap.com.• Sourced and signed agreements with over 40 content providers, and led the integration of 3rd party content, including local services.• Defined PRD/MRD development process, managed the implementation of this new process across a multi-disciplined team; Managed the integration of content from Associated Press, Accuweather, MovieLink, TV listings, Maps, Personals, Lottery, Local, and Yellow/White Pages; Integrated data mining tools that were utilized by over 100 media and telco partners for tracking traffic performance on their branded editions of Snap.com.• Led data warehouse and performance analytics efforts.

• Led product development efforts to take CD-ROM assets and put them online.• Sourced and integrated a payment gateway (one of the first on the Internet).• Key part of the management team when Real Networks acquired MusicNet.