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Mill Valley, Ca, Us

Foster City, California, Us

Foster City, California, Us

Leading the product strategy, design, and go-to-market efforts for modernizing Visa's payments processing network. Managing a global team, serving as Chief of Staff, and also driving the strategy and design for modernizing the Commercial processing platform.Building on the successful development of Open Visa Net, and to meet today's increasingly complex payments use cases, we are building a more dynamic core platform -- with a modern hardware stack, a new suite of capabilities, using an agile design and deployment approach -- to deliver a versatile, configurable and responsive payments platform.VisaNet has been the industry benchmark for payments processing for the past 50+ years. And upscaling the platform will enable Visa to meet consumer and commercial payments needs for the next 50 years.

Foster City, California, Us

Leading a cross-functional, global team for the Product design, go-to-market strategy, and delivery of Open Visa Net -- Visa's next generation payments processing network. This is more than a product or platform. It is the backbone of our business and how we serve issuers, sellers, acquirers, technology partners, and consumers. The new platform will be integrated with Visa’s full suite of more than 250 Products and Value Added Services and will be capable of processing up to 76,000 transactions per second. This is a global project, requiring matrixed management of a team of more than 450 people across several business lines, multiple geographies, and every key function, including Technology, Client Services, Commercial Business Solutions, Marketing, Design, Risk, and Product.VisaNet has been the industry benchmark for payments processing for the past 50+ years. We are building this next generation platform to meet the dynamic needs of an accelerating digital commerce ecosystem.

Foster City, California, Us

Led Global Commerce Unbound, a global initiative exploring the future of payments and the impact on clients and partners across the financial ecosystem, a longitudinal effort with >13,000 consumers across 22 countries.Led product strategy and commercialization efforts for Visa's Everywhere Initiative (VEI), a global open innovation program that engages with the Fintech start-up community to address the payment challenges of tomorrow. More than 8,000 companies from 100+ countries have participated in VEI Challenges since 2015. Led several global Fintech Product strategy initiatives, including our rapidly expanding Fast Track Program, and Visa's Global Accelerator program, incubating the best of tomorrow's solutions across the payment landscape.

Foster City, California, Us

Led multiple global initiatives, including digital marketing strategy, digital transformation, strategy and planning, global capabilities, and leadership development initiatives. Key projects:- Designed and delivered inaugural curriculum for the Visa Marketing and Communications College- Reimagined long-term global digital partnership strategy, including negotiations with top strategic partners, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter- Created Marketing & Communications (M&C) capabilities framework, including design and delivery of >15 customized leadership development programs, across multiple regions and markets

Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Seattle, Ibiza , Us

Advisory board member to America’s first fully-insured peer-to-peer boat rental marketplace.

Woodside, Ca, Us

Led brand, media planning, revenue strategy, go-to-market, and strategic partnership development. Drove more than 3x growth in less than 18 months for venture backed technology company.

Led all aspects of the business from inception, including marketing, sales, brand, distribution, and operations. Within 18 months of launch, recognized as one of the hottest wine companies in the industry, including Forbes “Wineries to Watch” and Robb Report’s “Best of the Best”. Placed wines in the most coveted restaurants and boutique shops in the U.S., including Thomas Keller's 'The French Laundry' and Daniel Bouloud's 'Daniel' and named to Wine Spectator's top 10 newcomers in 2010. In less than 5 years, grew distribution to reach >90% of U.S. high end markets and 5 countries.We successfully sold Capture Wines to Jackson Family Wines (aka Kendall Jackson) in 2014.

Santa Rosa, California, Us

Kendall Jackson has developed or acquired more than 50 of the best wine brands in the industry. Promoted to launch an innovative product built on the company's iconic brands, leveraging its almost $1b global footprint.

Santa Rosa, California, Us

Responsible for evaluating new business ventures for a $900 million business, to drive go/no-go investment decisions (e.g. winery and real estate acquisitions including La Jota, Freemark Abbey, and Arrowood).Hired by and reported directly to CEO and visionary founder, Jess Jackson.

Westlake, Texas, Us

Managed cross-functional team to drive revenue goals and increase SI brand footprint in the financial ecosystem. Created and executed SI marketing and pricing strategy for new client segments. Enterprise contribution to earnings increased from 10% to 30% over 2 1/2 years.Managed enterprise wide re-pricing initiative, improving margins from (20%) to 36% in less than 12 months. Successfully designed and launched new service model across national client portfolio.

Hired to lead Marketing and promoted to the senior management team, with enhanced focus on GTM and revenue growth. Led revenue growth of 40% quarter-over-quarter.Oversaw 3 functional teams and a 40+person team. Reported to CEO.

Jackson, Wyoming, Us

Global management consulting firm, with focus on corporate strategy and business analytics.Worked with global clients in telecommunications, e-commerce, and education, focusing on brand and product strategy, go-to-market strategy, marketing campaigns and business development.

M.B.A., Strategy And Marketing

B.A., Political Science, Economics, Literature

High School

High School

Comparative Literature