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• Instrumental in founding, funding and breathing life into several small businesses (both technology-driven and service companies):- Terra Gallery & Event Space: Co-founding Member, co-authored business plan, and heavily involved in day-to-day operations, partner relations, business development, and marketing of high growth event facility located in San Francisco, CA. Achieved profitability after 1st full year of operations and reached $1M in sales revenue in 2nd fiscal year. Strong top level revenue growth has continued for almost every single year, and optimization efforts have netted an ever-increasing net profit margin. More recently rejuvenated marketing and business development efforts that resulted in a 90% year-over-year revenue growth in Year 1, followed by 100% year-over-year profit growth in Year 2. The close of Year 3 resulted in another 50% increase in net profit. Revamped Operational blueprint with two partners to create massive improvements in efficiency and overall event volume.- ebrary (www.ebrary.com): Acted as Angel investor, provided initial strategic input, and helped bring together original team of Founders for this leading eBook technology and services company located in Palo Alto, CA. Experienced a successful acquisition in early 2011.- Elixir Saloon: I was the anchor investor in Elixir, the third oldest saloon in San Francisco, CA. In very short order, it became a popular, profitable entity. Although I exited this investment in 2008, the business has continued to grown at a solid rate and continues to win awards for both quality of beverages and overall atmosphere.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Operational and financial management of relatively large event space located in downtown San Francisco. The primary business is providing a large (24,000 square feet on two levels), multi-faceted space to event organizers / promoters who are looking for a venue to hold functions of all types: company dinners and/or celebrations, corporate sales & marketing events, conferences, product launches, wedding ceremonies & receptions, art exhibits, fashion shows, fundraisers, and private parties of all types. We are a full-service event facility and can provide start-to-finish event management if needed.If you are in my LinkedIn network, please contact me directly for possible discounted rental rates.

Salvo Marketing was a multi-channel online marketing services company. Our clients included advertising agencies and advertisers who want to utilize our deep knowledge of the online media space to reach their target audience in an affordable yet highly efficient manner. We additionally worked closely with content creators and publishers to help expose their unique audiences to higher value advertising opportunities. Salvo Marketing also worked directly with corporate clients, both start-up and more veteran firms, making their first foray into online marketing. Our services range from tactical, channel-specific media buying to complete turnkey online ad operations management, including "1st generation" creative development, multi-channel marketing (performance marketing to display brand campaigns to social media marketing), technology and reporting implementation, and optimization of advertising.

Responsible for managing day-to-day operations of vertical ad network focused on 18-34 year old males in their "passion" points. As Co-Founder, also heavily involved with long-term strategy, partner management, business development, and other evolving needs of the startup.* Ad Operations - implementation and ongoing management of new ad campaigns - integration of new publisher partners into network - managed & optimized lateral advertising partners such as remnant inventory ad networks and indirect advertisers, including international partners - daily and monthly reporting to both publishers and advertisers - daily, weekly & monthly internal reporting and optimization* Partner Relations - managed life-cycle of new publishers and advertiser following hand-off from sales teams - customer support and trouble-shooting functions - inside sales activity with current advertiser and publisher partners - business development with secondary advertisers (ad networks, etc.) both in the US and international* Finance & Accounting - handled all accounts payable and receivable activity - payroll & benefits - accounting, banking & tax filingsVERTual was focused on helping mid-tier, niche website publishers with quality content optimize their advertising opportunities while simultaneously offering agencies and advertisers access to a massive, yet targeted audience of high-value 18-34 males at compelling price points. At its zenith, the VERTual Media network included over 600 publishers and touched 30 million uniques each month.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Developed international market entry / expansion plans and provided reports and recommendations to the Executive Staff.• Analyzed and provided strategic input on potential international M&A opportunities, including iBazar (Europe), Internet Auction Ltd. (South Korea), Eachnet (China), and MercadoLibre (South America). • Facilitated three-way communication and best practice sharing between eBay.com, eBay International USHQ, and local country teams as part of post-merger integration.• Consulted on International Special Projects such as cross border trading, electronic payments, and content translation.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Prepared key strategic quantitative and qualitative analyses of eBay Marketplaces businesses to executive leadership, including including ongoing lifetime value analysis, activity and financial impacts of new features or business units, and special projects related to customer support / community and legal issues• Spearheaded competitive intelligence gathering and reporting and worked closely with product management and M&A teams to respond to market dynamics, resulting in multiple acquisitions and integrations, including Butterfield & Butterfield (offline auction house), Alando (German online auction site), and Half.com (online eCommerce site)• Key contributor to initial conceptualization of internal data warehouse, worked on scope / design / implementation team, and trained internal users on query & analysis software (Business Objects)• Collaborated with Direct Marketing team to determine audience segments, manage user list management, analyze impact of campaigns, and develop “life cycle” marketing methodology

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Managed a wide spectrum of analytical projects: product features & functionality, Life Cycle of an eBay User, eBay Market Theory, user segmentation, category analysis, vertical community development, Powerseller (high volume) Program, competitive intelligence, and initial international market entry analysis.• Cross-functional collaboration with Engineering, Product Management, Marketing, Customer Service, and Finance teams to identify consumer needs and make informed recommendations utilizing market research, data analysis, user feedback, competitive assessments, and instinct.• Developed analytical framework and processes to gather, synthesize, analyze, and communicate crucial information to decision-makers.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Successfully moved up through the Management Trainee program to become Branch Manager in less than 2 years, after working in several high growth / high volume offices (including primary downtown Seattle location).Helped expand early Enterprise territory footprint into Southeastern Seattle & West Seattle areas. New territory expansion efforts included advance recon and business development, local marketing, office / facilities setup, vendor selection, and community outreach. Trained and managed a super efficient team of representatives and car preps.

Mba/Mim, International Management/Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Ecommerce

Ba, Political Science & German Minor

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