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New York City Metropolitan Area

Help startups and established businesses develop new revenue streams by focusing on new product/market strategies, efficient technology development and thinking creatively about sales and business development tactics. Industry knowledge includes: Semantic Web, AI, Machine Learning, Digital Media, Web and Mobile App Development, SEO, Social Media, Video, and Web Publishing. Also, B2C and B2B/SaaS business models.High-level functional experience includes technology development, entrepreneurship, P&L management, sales, business development, strategy creation and execution, business planning, revenue and cost forecasting, and building and mentoring teams.

Greater New York City Area

- Led Browser Brains strategic development from inception- including fundraising, sales/marketing, and technology buildout. Represented management on the company's Board of Directors- Managed all aspects of product operations, platform road map, project management and production teams- Negotiated and executed a wide array of partnerships including content licensing, new technology platforms, and distribution- Directed the company’s partner program and negotiated business terms on all contracts (Including strategic relationships with Getty Images and Anheuser Busch)- Led partnership discussions with Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.- Monitored competitive environment, identified new opportunities and executed strategic response (both sales and technology) to address rapidly growing market.

Greater New York City Area

Local Labs is a New York-focused semantic, social and application-delivery platform designed to bring the City's people, places, and businesses closer together. Our goals are to break through artificial bottlenecks imposed by the traditional locally-oriented sites – such as zip codes and "time in a silo" – to create a new and open platform based on structured, targeted relationships between people and the activities and patterns they pursue in their day-to-day life. Funding provided by Valhalla Partners, Greenhill SAVP, and prominent Angel investors.

San Francisco Bay Area

Sold to Google- became the foundation for the Google Knowledge Graph.Metaweb Technologies, Inc. was a San Francisco-based company that developed Freebase, an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge". Freebase is a massive, collaboratively edited database of cross-linked data. The idea behind the product is to create a Wikipedia like system for building the semantic web. Freebase allows anyone to contribute, structure, search, copy and use data. It sounds like Wikipedia, but instead of arranging by articles, it is more of an almanac, organized like a database, and readable by people and software.- Created GoToMarket strategy through business development and partnerships- Fundraising (Benchmark Capital, Omidyar Network)

San Francisco Bay Area

BV Capital (now e.ventures) is a global venture capital platform with an investment focus on early-stage consumer internet and mobile companies.