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Founded Nextlaw Ventures, the first legal tech focused early stage venture fund in the world, with Dentons, the largest law firm in the world, as the anchor investor. Currently raising a significantly larger fund 2 that will include additional outside investors to scale our successful ‘invest, pilot and scale’ model. Created a network of Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) to vet, test, shape, pilot, launch, advise and mentor the companies in the NLV portfolio. • Driving the NLV portfolio company investments for impact and ROI (averaging +100%).• Raising a larger NLV Fund 2 from a broader set of limited partners scale the successful model. • Sourcing and vetting an unmatched deal flow to identify, invest in, and grow companies.• Identifying and monetizing collaboration opportunities across the combined NLV portfolios.

Austin, Texas, Us

Fast Charge has developed mobile and movable electricity generation and charging as a service (CaaS) IP protected solutions, independent of utilities, that are reliable, fast, and cleaner that enable fuel choice to accelerate the transition to an all-electric vehicle future, managed by proprietary software solutions. Led company through a rapid sale generating a strong IRR.

Palo Alto, California, Us

Conceived and launched Nextlaw Labs, an autonomous and wholly owned subsidiary of Dentons. Built a collaborative innovation and acceleration platform focused on developing, deploying, and investing in new technologies and processes that can transform the practice of law around the world. The simple goal is faster, better, cheaper legal solutions. • Partnering with over 20 legal tech companies to drive innovation into Dentons and its clients.• Providing thought leadership on the future of the legal industry via multiple Chanels.• Earned numerous media recognitions for cutting edge legal tech innovation.• Participated numerous pitch meetings raising the “win rate” and “share of wallet."

Conceived and launched an alternative advertising and sponsorship on-line business that sells and promotes virtual goods in leading social media platforms, including a heavy emphasis on mobile devices, for global brands. Responsible for the definition and execution of the company vision, strategy, business model, organization and results. • Raised ~$4M of seed capital from Omnicom and leading digital media angels.• Grew the business to include over 200 leading brands and over 25 social media platforms.• Led the continuous growth of the business averaging over 50% CAGR for over five years. • Negotiated and completed a private sale to a leading media company in late 2013.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Founded and led the Media and Entertainment practice within the Consumer practice of a $3B global consulting firm. Also led the Americas Post Merger Integration (PMI) practice area for several years. In both roles, responsible for the strategy, direction, recruitment and management of the practice area leadership team, as well as overall client C-level relationships, service delivery and achieving results for global clients. • P&L responsibility led the media practice to ~$80M in revenue and over 200 consultants.• Led large client relationships with Sony, Mattel, Universal, Amgen and Visa among others.• Responsible for mentoring staff and recruiting new consultants from the best universities. • Advised global client service teams as a content expert on media and entertainment.

Planned, budgeted and supervised review and operational consulting services for non-profit, privately held and start-up clients. Representative clients included LA84, the post-Olympic organization that invested part of the Olympic Games surplus to promote and encourage participation in Olympic and other amateur sports in Southern California.

Mba, Finance, Marketing And Decision Sciences

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics