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Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

We build and train AI coworkers to make human teams more efficient.

Seattle, Us

In June 2022, we acquired a video creative business & rebranded it as Flixr. Flixr builds high performing influencer style ad creative for games. We work with many of the world's top game studios, including Zynga, Rovio & Jam City. Our creatives are top performers across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and more.Check out our showreel here: https://vimeo.com/734366782And our website: https://www.flixrstudios.co

Chicago, Il, Us

Silver Lining joined forces with Challenger, Gray & Christmas to augment CGC’s technology for jobseekers.

New York, Ny, Us

Los Angeles, California, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Joined forces with leading outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas in December 2020.Silver Lining is a career transition platform and community for tech workers. The community grew to be thousands strong, it has more than 900 recruiters from companies like Amazon on the platform, and has been featured in the NY Times and Techcrunch. As a previous non-technical founder, I learned how to build web-based products and built Silver Lining as a solo developer.Check it out here: getsilverlining.com

- Led overall company strategy, operations, finance, legal & HR.- Developed company vision, mission and values.- Raised $4.4M in venture capital from Madrona Venture Group, London Venture Partners and select angels.- Product used by close to 20k content creators and streamers across YouTube, Twitch & Mixer and more than 500k community members.- Led recruiting & HR and hired 22 rockstars to join our team.- Built strategic relationships with key companies in the content and streaming ecosystem.- Managed and hired for new board members.- Learned a lot of lessons!

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Vungle was acquired for $780M by BlackstoneVungle had expanded rapidly to 6 offices globally by 2015 - I was tasked with creating a Global operations organization to sustain that growth and support future scale.• Created remodeled revenue forecasting architecture. • Implemented budgeting systems to optimize expenditure. • Redesigned Salesforce setup to improve sales team efficiency and deliver improved reporting.• Redesigned individual performance reporting, revenue reporting and creative reporting infrastructure.• Built & supported global team operations – US, UK, Germany, China, S. Korea, Japan.• Redevelopment of compensation and incentive plans.• Worked with Finance to develop deal templates to allow more scalable sales and quicker deal cycles.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Promoted to Global Head of Advertiser Sales and tasked with building a global team incorporating Ad Operations and Creative Production.• Grew company revenue from $XXk ARR to $XXMM+ ARR in under 18 months.• Diversified company sales further into brand advertising with creation of the Programmatic Group. Brokered partnerships with TubeMogul, Videology, Adap.TV (AOL) and Essence (Google).• Created and built Vungle Creative & Optimization Group (COG) (now rebranded as Vungle Creative Labs) to bring creative testing advantage to clients. • Built and managed a global team of 30+ in 4 offices (San Francisco, London, Berlin, Beijing). • Redesigned team structure to incorporate ad operations teams and client management & operate with more efficiency.• Built strong relationships with the world’s biggest gaming companies: Supercell, King.com, Machine Zone, GREE.• Supported the team in raising $17MM Series B from Thomvest, Crosslink, Google Ventures.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Early employee and member of the sales & business development team, moved to San Francisco and tasked with building advertiser relationships.• Built small team of Account Managers and Sales Managers to grow revenue from 0 to $XXMM ARR.• Built strong relationships with gaming performance advertisers and brand agencies.• Spent 7 months in New York to build East Coast investor relations and NY agency relationships.• Supported team in raising $6.5MM Series A from Crosslink Capital

Member of board of governors of SF Big - San Francisco Bay Area Innovation Group.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Building Sprout Inc (an InMobi company) business in EMEA. Specifically leading partnerships across Europe and Middle East - from media and creative agency partners, to major international publishers.• EMEA Launch & Development of Sprout Inc's business unit, now the global leader in HTML5 Ad Development.• Managing Sprout’s EMEA partnership strategy with major agencies.• Managing Sprout’s supply side European distribution network & publisher partnerships • Defining partner management infrastructure & grounding for growth at scale.• Procurement of systems and services to enable business growth• Mobile Rich Media evangelization– speaking, demos, award submissions and case studiesResults:• Driving role in Sprout / InMobi Mediacom EMEA deal 2012 http://www.iabuk.net/news/mediacom-selects-inmobi-to-ramp-up-rich-media• Signed & activated 10+ major global agency & publisher clients in H1 2012• Defined strategy for and successfully opened up European distribution network for mobile rich media on major ad networks, servers and partners through 2012.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

- Omnicom Media Group partnership management, across UK, IE, Benelux- Creative Agency rich media consultancy- YouTube Masthead consultancy expert- MSN HPTO creative project management- Project management of bespoke, innovative rich media solutions (see more at richmediagallery.com)- Delivery of product suite training sessions- Developed innovative new campaign reporting suite- First global VAST In-Stream campaign managed for IntelResults:- Google OC Award Winner for excellence in YouTube monetization.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

• Account management for major Google AdWords advertisers in Technology industry sector.• UK/IE mobile advertising champion• UK/IE Remarketing guru • eCommerce strategic consultancy• Regular C-Level meetings, pitches and presentations to develop book of business. • Devised innovative methods of driving revenue at scale • Interviewer and mentor for new starts. • Devised advertising strategies on new media channels: YouTube, Mobile, Display. Results -Delivered on every quarterly target, growing portfolio revenue at 30% YoY, from a base of $xxm / quarter.-Created Google Analytics reporting suite for use across entire UK consulting team. -EMEA VP Award winner for EMEA wide sales framework for Google Remarketing. -Nominated for European VP award for biggest sales impact in first two quarters.-11 Peer bonuses for excellence-Promoted in May 2010

Emeryville, California, Us

VirtuOz was acquired by Nuance.• As an initial team of three, grew business operations from grass roots up to multi million dollar business in under 12 months.• Product Manager for virtual agents - design & construction of Virtual Agents, understanding of automated language detection technology and artificial intelligence.• Involvement in RFPs and sales pitches through virtual agent construction and deliver to client account management post launch. Clients included American Express, PayPal and eBay.• C-Level meetings in both French and English.• Team leader and trainer for new staff• International business experience – pitching and launching in Australia, Europe and USA.Results- Successful pitches and subsequent launches for virtual agents on American Express, PayPal, eBay, Coca-Cola (for Euro 2008).- Promoted in March 2008 after team over-delivered on expected product delivery and sales targets.- Grew team from an initial three to ten+ based in Paris, and supported HQ relocation to The Bay Area.

2:1 Ba Hons, French And German

Germanistik, German History, Linguistics

French, French Linguistics, History, Translation