I advise and operate startups alongside founder-CEOs, helping them enter new markets and sourcing partnership, enterprise, and M&A deals. I also validate product-market fit and can broadly speak on branding/positioning, org-design and capital raising. I'm also working on a couple side-projects of my own.As the former VP in BD & Strategy at Pond5, I built the global partnership and reseller API program from $0 to a rapidly growing seven figure plus recurring revenue program, creating the most valuable segment of customers for Pond5. Notables include sourcing, negotiating and closing strategic partnerships with Adobe, Vimeo, Frame.io, DJI and RED, among numerous international reseller deals and product integrations with leading creative and tech platforms. Other achievements include originating, launching, and validating our initial go to market in enterprise and subscriptions for our e-commerce segment, both of which contribute XX% of company revenues today. I was Pond5's first business hire and employee #7 in 2011 and led their $61M Series A w/ Accel Partners – the largest Series A in NYC history at that time – including the acquisition of a Prague-based tech startup that currently serves as the company's global content operations arm but at a fraction of the costs. During time I also led the development of the first app integration with Adobe Premiere Pro and the launch of the Pond5 3D library.