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Responsible for Google’s advertising privacy & trust product strategy as the company navigated a privacy-driven industry disruption. Led product management for privacy-safe technology and policies, global regulations, kids and ads, user-facing transparency and control, and privacy infrastructure. Conceptualized, led, and launched a wholly-new Google consumer product called My Ad Center (myadcenter.google.com). This product gives you control of the ads shown on Google search, YouTube, and other Google sites and apps. It allows you to choose what ads you want and don’t want, and provides industry-leading control over how your data is used to personalize your ads. My Ad Center is Google’s first user-centric ads product, and the first ads-related product to be announced at Google I/O. It's available to the billions of users who use Google products globally. Represented Google internally and externally on the sensitive topics of ads privacy and user trust, in multiple interviews, podcasts, and live broadcasts with mainstream, business, and trade publications.Named to the 2022 Adweek 50, “honoring the media, marketing and tech’s indispensable behind-the-scenes stars”.

Led product management and design/UX for Brave’s privacy-first web browser, including its integrated private advertising platform and cryptocurrency-based rewards system. Joined as the company’s first product hire, pre-1.0; established the product function and related processes. At the time that I joined, Brave had ~700,000 monthly active users. By mid-2020, Brave had 15 million MAU across five platforms, a prominent brand in privacy, and the most widely-used cryptocurrency-based application.

Co-founded Cola (acquired by Layer Inc. in 2017). Established a new kind of mobile messaging platform that enhances group messaging via interactive apps embedded directly in the messaging stream. Recruited the core team, raised seed funding from top investors, and directed the development and launch of Cola Messenger for iPhone, as well as the Cola Bubble Development Kit (BDK). Developed key strategic partnerships, and pushed Cola's core proposition -- "Messaging is the new OS" -- leading to over 20 major publication to write about the product.

Independent director for OpenFin, a fintech startup focused on development, deployment, and management of HTML5-based apps in the financial industry. OpenFin is used by the world's largest banks and trading platforms to build high-performance, multi-window HTML5 apps.

Led Hightail's tech team (120 people, spanning dev, ops, QA, IT), supporting the company's popular file sharing service and its 45M users. Focused on upgrading Hightail's core platform; rationalized the tech organization and its interactions with the rest of the company; drove improvements in reliability, scalability, and processes; spearheaded a successful initiative to define a next-generation product.

AOL MOBILE: Unified AOL Mobile into a single unit responsible for 20+ mobile/tablet apps and 20+ mobile sites representing all major AOL web brands (AOL.com, Huffington Post, Patch, TechCrunch, Engadget, Moviefone and more) on multiple mobile platforms. Hired top-notch talent across all functions; built a design team from scratch. Boosted mobile traffic by over 200% during a period of 70% industry growth. resulting in AOL becoming the #4 US mobile destination — behind only Google, Facebook, and Yahoo. Implemented a mobile ad server and integrated it with AOL’s advertising and sales operations, creating a substantial mobile display advertising business. Acquired two startups; delivered new mobile-first products including Editions, Engadget Distro, Huffington, Play and more. AOL MAIL: AOL was the #4 US webmail provider in 2011/2, with 20M+ monthly active users. Drove the first major redesign of AOL Mail in over five years, boosting per-user revenue by 20+% and arresting a decline in usage. Created an all-new, innovative mail product called Alto (altomail.com). Alto manages mail across multiple accounts (GMail, Yahoo, iCloud, AOL), with auto-categorization of messages and a differentiated visual approach to an email user experience. The product launch generated more press coverage than any other AOL product launched during my years at the company. Alto was named as one of 2012’s “Best UI Ideas” by FastCo Design.

Led the team responsible for the webOS App Catalog, SDK, developer tools, and developer portal. Responsible for setting the strategy and shipping software to support Palm’s webOS developer ecosystem. Shipped Palm’s App Catalog (released at CES 2010), crafted a native tools strategy and a novel developer incentive program.

Founded Laszlo Systems, an early innovator in the area of RIAs (acquired by Critical Path in 2012). Served as the company's first CEO, from 2000 to 2002. Raised the company's $10M Series A investment from two venture firms. Later transitioned into a CTO/VP Engineering role, leading the company's strategic shift from a commercial platform provider to a provider of an open-source developer platform complemented by commercial, consumer-oriented communications applications. Led efforts to establish the overall RIA market category as it grew from 2003 to 2008. Played critical role in bringing large accounts on board (including Verizon, T. Rowe Price, Wal-Mart, H&R Block, Alcatel-Lucent, Cox Communications, and IBM) and in ongoing large account relations. Led the company’s strategic embrace of open source in late 2004, including establishing a new business model and building an open-source focused relationship with IBM. Grew awareness of OpenLaszlo, Laszlo’s RIA platform, establishing it as the most credible “open” alternative in the RIA space, winning InfoWorld’s 2007 “BOSSIE” award for Best RIA Platform, and obtaining over a half-million developer downloads by 2007. Presented at technical conferences on the subjects of user experience, Ajax, RIAs, Web OSs, and related topics. Served as keynote speaker at multiple conferences. Demoed at DEMO conference. Frequently quoted in industry press as an expert on RIAs.

Joined @Home Network as an engineering manager tasked with developing innovative consumer software for the cable internet service. Later became Senior Director of consumer software, responsible for multiple teams developing multiple products, ranging from the CD-ROM installer used to get a customer on-line, to a custom browser, to a TV set-top box user interface and software platform designed for @Home's cable partners. Managed the design and development of the only content/advertising product to be adopted by Excite from @Home's portfolio following the merger of @Home Network and Excite. This product, an advertising-supported desktop client called the Excite Assistant, generated 1M daily page views from its users.

Joined Apple as a member of the original software development team for the Newton, Apple's first mobile device. Focused on the Newton's user interface and UI toolbox. Later managed the Newton Toolbox team, which was responsible for developing the libraries and APIs used by internal and third-party developers to make Newton applications.

Designed and implemented modules for Intermedia, a pre-web hypertext/hypermedia system, including a world map browser, a graphics editor, and a dictionary/reference application.