Leads the enterprise-wide innovation strategy, identifying and integrating early-stage technology firms into our business to modernize and drive bottom-line growth to Douglas Elliman and its subsidiaries

Sourced and negotiated investments in over 20 real-estate technology firms and funds into a strategic portfolio that has grown significantly in value while providing access to early-stage technologies and business models to Douglas Elliman.

Principal of industry agnostic, early-stage venture capital fund.

Led the Enterprise Innovation initiative and Ladenburg Innovation Lab. Seeking transformative technologies and solutions, and to align them with the financial advisors supported by Ladenburg’s independent advisory and brokerage (IAB) subsidiaries: Securities America, Triad Advisors, Investacorp, KMS Financial Services and Securities Service Network. Core areas of activity include: - Serving as an in-house strategic consultant and partner to the business units and subsidiary firms, across the Ladenburg enterprise, as well as their affiliated advisors, that are testing new business models and growth plans to leverage Ladenburg Innovation Lab’s expertise in technology and the practice of innovation to further fuel their success. - Drawing on input from members of the start-up and venture capital communities, as well as Ladenburg’s subsidiary firms, advisors and third-party solutions providers to develop a strong pipeline of compelling ideas, solutions and technologies that have the potential to fundamentally transform the financial advice industry. - Guiding Ladenburg to explore potential strategic equity investments in third-party technology and solutions providers in areas such as fintech. These highly-selective investments are expected to be directed toward innovative early-stage companies whose products and platforms demonstrate compelling benefits for Ladenburg’s advisors.

In-house advisor to Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services. Focused on topics of emerging fintech, innovation, and other new technology solutions in the wealth management and independent financial advisory space.

In my role, I worked with Fortune 500 corporations to develop innovative and breakthrough business concepts, build robust business cases, and help them actually get off the ground and generating revenue. Work across a wide range of industries, with particular focus in health care, telecommunications, and media/publishing.Project clients (note: many of whom were projects operated under Inzenka) have included:- General Electric- Assurant- Cox Communications- Metaswitch- J.D. Power & Associates- Reed Exhibitions- McGraw-Hill- Reed-Elsevier- Experian

Head of the Digital and DVD departments of iN DEMAND, specifically focused on distributing and monetizing original content from the MOJO HD network along with other owned and licensed content. Led and completed contract negotiations with iTunes, Hulu, Amazon Unbox, Sling Media, Joost, and managed relationships with all platforms. Managed retail and direct sales of all DVDs of MOJO HD original programming, licensed content developed for MOJO HD, and additional unique DVD product line of stand-alone content.

- Strategic interactive marketing consulting and business analysis- Develop online marketing strategies, whether involving online media campaigns, web-site development, eCRM, sales and more- Part of a full-service interactive marketing agency

- Marketing manager responsible for PEOPLE Magazine's student marketing efforts within consumer marketing- Developed strategy to reach 18-24 year-old subscribers- Executed partnerships with numerous outside companies and conducted testing on college campuses around the country