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About Further:Further is a pioneering fintech startup dedicated to empowering first-time homebuyers by simplifying and guiding them through the financial decisions involved in purchasing a home. Our mission is to make homeownership more accessible and informed, addressing the current affordability challenges in the real estate market.Key Responsibilities: • Operational Leadership: Oversee daily operations, ensuring seamless coordination across departments including product development, engineering, design, and customer support. • Strategic Planning: Develop and implement operational strategies aligned with Further’s mission and growth objectives. • Team Building: Recruit, mentor, and manage a high-performing team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. • Product Development: Collaborate with the CTO and Lead Designer to guide the development of our platform, ensuring it meets the needs of first-time homebuyers. • Financial Management: Oversee budgeting, financial planning, and resource allocation to support company objectives. • Process Improvement: Implement and refine operational processes to enhance efficiency, scalability, and overall performance. • Market Analysis: Stay abreast of industry trends and market conditions to inform strategic decisions and maintain a competitive edge.Let’s Connect:I’m passionate about making homeownership more accessible and would love to connect with like-minded professionals, potential partners, and talented individuals interested in joining our journey at Further. Feel free to reach out!

New York, Ny, Us

EasyKnock is a PropTech platform on a mission to become the first company in the US to institutionalize the sale leaseback for the residential housing market and provide equity release.At EasyKnock, I rebuilt and structured the fragmented Product team, ensuring stability and direction through multiple reorganizations. I developed and implemented short and long-term product roadmaps, aligning them with company goals and continuously enhancing product strategies. I emphasized cross-functional collaboration, fostering successful partnerships with engineering and operations teams. My customer-centric approach led to significant improvements in the customer journey and integration of customer feedback into product development. Additionally, I played a key role in due diligence and integration for three acquisitions.

Boston, Ma, Us

Hologram is reimagining the future of nutrition, bringing together proven science, pioneering technology, and habit-building to create truly personalized solutions and lasting consumer relationships.As an early employee of AVA, which became Hologram Sciences after being acquired, I was brought back on to architect and build out the data infrastructure to improve team efficiency and standardize data across the company.- Set up Snowflake Data Cloud with best practices for security, data organization, and load balancing- Built out ETL data pipelines from all sources into Snowflake- Integrated DBT with Snowflake and built models to clean raw data- Created reverse ETL data pipelines to move data from Snowflake into various destinations- Built automated dashboards to track business KPIs

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Knox was founded to democratize real estate investing by making it simple to keep your old house as a smart, reliable investment instead of selling.Joined the team as the first technical hire shortly after raising our seed round and built out our product, Salesforce, engineering, analytics and UI/UX teams.I leveraged my experience in product, real estate, analytics, and startups to build out the core infrastructure including deeply customized and integrated instances of Salesforce, Hubspot, AWS, and Buildium. As I grew the team, we developed more bespoke solutions like our web app and customer portal built on more modern and performant tech stacks.The company was acquired by Doorstead in December 2022.

Inspired by my youngest son, Grant, who was born with a rare genetic disorder, CommonlyRare is dedicated to advancing diagnostic and treatment efforts for individuals and families impacted by rare genetic disorders.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Managed the largest business line ($250+ annual revenue) before, during, and after our transition to a publicly traded company. Drove an 18% increase in revenue and 28% increase in profit in 2018 and a 50% increase in revenue and 59% increase in profit over the course of 2019.Oversaw performance marketing, product, and distribution for the business line that accounted for 85% of company revenue - stock price increased by over 150% from IPO and over 600% from its low point shortly after IPO.Took a very hands-on approach to driving forward major strategic growth projects, like leading the inbound calls initiative from concept to an $8+ million business in less than a year by building a small team to focus on execution.

Boston, Ma, Us

Architected and worked closely with engineers to develop the operational infrastructure that allowed us to scale the number of customers each nutritionist was able to support without any degradation in customer experience.Built out multiple functional teams that reported up through Operations - Growth, Finance, Analytics, Performance Marketing, CX/UX, and our Nutritionist network.

Boadilla Del Monte, Madrid, Es

Brought in to develop products that would simplify offerings and reduce the cost of deposits - researched/analyzed, scoped, socialized, built, and ultimately launched new deposit product suite, including the core product Simply Right Checking.Launched in Dec 2015, and still the flagship product today, Simply Right Checking has been Santander's most successful and longest living deposit product.Managed day-to-day strategy, analytics, and reporting for consumer deposit products (checking, savings, money market, and CDs).

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Developed and implemented new strategies for underwriting credit card customers, with the goal of reducing loss rate and increasing profitability. This included the creation of a model to underwrite customers based on their potential profitability that is now being used in addition to traditional risk-based underwriting.

Us

Responsibilities included managing development and operations of investment properties, leading financing efforts, including obtaining financing for new developments and negotiating loan terms, and overseeing leasing, sales, and marketing across our real estate portfolio. Helped to guide the company through the 2008 financial crisis which disproportionately impacted the real estate industry in Florida. Worked on loan restructuring and creative deal making to prevent foreclosure due to defaulting on loan terms.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Initiated and completed retail leases and sales of investment properties, leading to over $6 million in total volume over two years.

Mba, Concentrations In Asset Management, Corporate Finance / Investment Banking, And Sustainability

Ms, Real Estate

Ba, Mathematics & Economics