As a co-founder and product leader at a successful SaaS startup in Seattle, I’ve experienced the ups, downs and all-arounds of fighting to gain traction in a new market. From no-funding, seed funding during a recession through raising $92M in venture capital (series A to D – Goldman Sachs, OpenView, Microsoft, Voyager), I understand the grit and growth mindset it takes to truly build something great. Reporting to the CEO and Board of Directors, I played a core role in moving text messaging to the cloud for B2C and inventing conversational “business texting” for B2B customers – text-enabling existing landline / VoIP / Toll-Free phone numbers so businesses can communicate with their customers at near 100% response rates – while growing to a successful $130M ARR with a top ranked culture and workplace.I’ve led product development from an idea to scale creating an award-winning business messaging, enterprise grade, SaaS / CPaaS messaging software (desktop, web, mobile, tablet, integrations, and embeddables) and API platform to support billions of conversational commerce text messages. To round out my product knowledge I developed a Customer Experience (CX) competency – Success, Support, Onboarding – and helped scale our growth through strategic reseller partnerships. I attribute my success to surrounding myself with a passionate and talented team, communicating a clear vision for the product and the target customer, obsessing about customer experience / design, and then delivering and iterating to create real customer value. And some luck brought about by good karma. My startup and enterprise experience is backed by Amazon, Accenture, and Fortune-500 joint venture roles in product, program and business development. I’m known by my peers and team as a results-driven, empathetic, high-integrity leader who knows first-hand that a diverse team of respected and motivated people propel the business forward.----Management: Vision, Leadership, Strategy, Growth Strategy, Corporate Development, PaaS, SaaS, Talent Acquisition, Mentoring, CoachingProduct: Product Management, Product Marketing, UI Design, User Experience, Program Management, GTM, Mobile and Web Apps, Requirements Definition, Wireframes, Emerging Technologies, SMS, RCS, MMS, Messaging, Customer Journey Design, Agile, User StoriesBusiness Development: Executive Pitches, Contracts, Negotiation, Strategic Partnerships, Resellers, White-Labels, Integration Partners, Account Management, Customer Success, Onboarding, Retention