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Los Angeles, CA, US

Mountain View, CA, US

Supporting the growth of developers globally on Gemini, and Android, through Google's developer and startup ecosystem programs by working directly with key leads across the company.

Mountain View, CA, US

I am the head of Google's Developer & Startup Ecosystem team for Sub-Saharan Africa, managing an amazing team with members on the ground in Google's offices across Africa.Our team's focus is on reaching top startups and developers through scalable, high-impact programs, focused on all stages of the developer lifecycle. Target developers range from writing.

San Francisco, CA, US

Investing in promising early-stage founding teams, focusing on emerging markets and disruptive technologies. 50+ angel investments to date, including: Alto IRA, Doola, Klasha, Kotani Pay, Lori Systems, Mood Health, MoonPay, Nestcoin, Paga, Republic, Smile Identity, Subskribe, Syndicate, Termii, and Vurbl.

Lagos, NG

Sharing my time to support the growth of Talent City: a network of Charter Cities across Africa focused on providing the best quality of life for African technology talent that drives innovation and the digital economy.

Lagos, NG

Founding Limited Partner (LP) and global advisor with Microtraction, a Nigerian pre-seed VC fund focused on investing in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their ventures. Proud to have been supporting this fantastic crew since the beginning.

The Internet, US

An early stage fund, backing your next favorite thing

Lagos, NG

Limited Partner (LP) in Future Africa's investment fund, investing in mission-driven innovators building an African future where prosperity and purpose are within everyone's reach.

Stellenbosch, Western Cape, ZA

Leading the charge to support and expand Mxit's ecosystem of 3rd-party apps and developers running on the Mxit platform, Africa's first "super app" with an open API reaching millions of users across Africa.I manage the Developer Relations, Provisioning, and Support teams, working directly with premium 3rd-party developers, and defining API requirements /.

San Francisco, CA, US

As VP of Product at Kongregate, the top social game site for core gamers, I'm responsible for our online product and user experience. My duties range from managing the User Experience Design team and Product Management teams directly, leading our Agile product development process, managing our long-term product priorities, developing new product ideas and.

San Francisco, CA, US

Founder and president of a consulting company and incubator based in San Francisco, providing years of Silicon Valley product management, engineering leadership, and design experience to both established and emerging web and mobile companies. In other words, we take our client's ideas and evolve them into excellent products.Organizations we've worked with.

San Francisco, CA, US

On contract to an early stage financial services startup as their Chief Product Officer from seed through the successful closing of their Series A round.Played key roles in managing and building product pipeline, managing onshore and offshore teams, bringing in engineering management talent, and strategic brand development.

Gone Living: an extended around-the-world trip visiting all seven continents. Spending my time living life, figuring out what is truly important, and musing on the next big thing. And blogging it all at https://goneliving.com.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Product Manager leading Yahoo! Video Search from pre-launch through public release and first year of the product's lifecycle. Co-creator of the Media RSS / mRSS specification for including rich media and related metadata in RSS feeds, which is now used as a global standard.Product Manager in charge of Yahoo!'s Streaming Audio/Video player platform and.

US

In charge of product management for Scour Exchange, Scour's peer-to-peer media distribution system, and myCaster, Scour's personal audio and video broadcasting system.Invented the myCaster Video broadcasting system.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Co-invented groundbreaking Live365 radio site and product (while Art Director for the company's former product, Nanocosm.com), conducted initial viral marketing efforts to build launch user base, and operated online radio station that achieved significant share of the Live365 listener base for the first year of operation.

Seattle, WA, US

Worked on several research projects, including the creation of 3D content to demonstrate the rendering capabilities of a new graphics chipset, and developing a distributed Virtual Reality shopping mall. Created 3D graphics in Alias Studio, wrote interaction scenarios, wrote virtual world transition interface in Java.

Certificate, Venture Capital Executive Program

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English