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Palo Alto, CA, US

Bloom is revolutionizing how hardware brands build, deliver, and service their products by creating a unified marketplace that connects them with essential onshore/near-shore service and supply chain partners.

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TrueCar is building a modern-day marketplace to make car buying and selling more easy, convenient and transparent, and bringing more of the transaction online.I serve on the Compensation & Workforce Committee and on the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee.

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LendingTree simplifies financial decisions for life’s meaningful moments through choice, education and support.I serve on the Transactions Committee and chair the Technology and Product Advisory Committee.

Togetherly is a virtual wellness community to support parents and guardians of teens struggling with mental health. Our platform is a safe space to connect and share with others navigating a similar journey.

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EngageSmart’s elegant SaaS products simplify tasks such as bill pay and appointment scheduling for medical offices, public utilities, insurance carriers, and nonprofits.In 2021, 2022, and 2023 Deloitte named EngageSmart to its Technology Fast 500: Fastest-Growing Companies in North America list.I was a member of the Audit Committee and the Nominating &.

I guided the strategy, creation, and delivery of Intuit’s, end-to-end customer experiences toward the goal of establishing Intuit as an AI-powered platform. I led its product management and design disciplines of over 1,000 employees, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence know-how and design thinking.

By charter, Harvard has two governing boards—the President and Fellows of Harvard College (aka "The Corporation") and the Board of Overseers, which perform the essential roles ordinarily associated with a board of trustees. The Board of Overseers exerts broad influence over the University’s strategic directions, provides counsel to the University.

Using the concept of a sports "scouting combine" as its operating metaphor, WeScout endeavored to revolutionize how creative talent could be identified and trained. It was part of the IDEO venture capital startup portfolio I managed.

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) is a multinational Spanish banking group. One of the largest financial institutions in the world, it operates in Spain, North America, South America, and Turkey.Working alongside the CEO and the Global Head of Customer Solutions, I served on BBVA's Innovation Advisory Board to help drive its digital transformation.

I led strategy and execution for all of IDEO's key growth initiatives, including the founding, incubation, and scaling of new business units such as IDEO U and CoLab, as well as the business platform spanning them all. Under the umbrella of IDEO Futures, I also drove IDEO's involvement in the world of venture capital and startups via our Startup in.

As a Senior Partner I was part of a six-person senior management team responsible for leading all of aspects of IDEO's global business.

As Managing Director with P&L responsibility for our two California offices, I built and led a creative culture capable of innovating on a routine basis..

Prior to my Managing Director role, I founded, shaped, and scaled the Business Design capability at IDEO, which is now a key part of the company's consulting offering.

The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship supports Harvard Business School's mission to "educate leaders who make a difference in the world" by infusing this leadership perspective with an entrepreneurial point of view. The Rock Center Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EiR) program makes accomplished entrepreneurs available to students to offer counsel on.

As a founding faculty member of the d.school, I created and taught classes that helped set the tone and methodology for the institute as a whole. Notably, I developed and co-taught a popular course called "Creating Infectious Action" with Professor Bob Sutton.The d.school is a hub for innovators at Stanford. Students and faculty in engineering, medicine.

I served on the board of the d.school and provided strategic and operating guidance through its early years of learning, growth, and scaling.The d.school's Executive Director George Kembel and I drew up the "d.school napkin manifesto" which celebrated our roots in the startup garage culture of Silicon Valley while charting an optimistic and ambitious path.

I helped lead Intuit's first, pioneering, cloud-based version of QuickBooks across the chasm to begin the process of scaling up. When I joined the team, we had only 30 customers... and when I departed we had over 30,000, making us arguably one of the largest SaaS products in the world at that moment in time. This job gave me a first-hand understanding of.

As a project team leader and design engineer, I managed product development programs for clients such as Apple, BMW, Intel, Steelcase, and Ferrari. I pursued customer experience excellence while simultaneously solving for market success and environmental sustainability.I was fortunate to be part of the design teams for iconic products such as the first.

I engineered key elements of HP's off-axis inkjet printing platform, still in service today. I performed extensive fluid mechanics modeling, identified and developed new suppliers of materials and parts, and built various prototypes and testbeds. I designed a variety of plastic and metal parts for a printer which was manufactured in extremely high volumes.

Atsugi, Japan

Based at the Nissan Technical Center in Atsugi, I worked in an engineering test group. I was involved in high-speed track testing, wind tunnel evaluations, cooling system thermodynamics simulation modeling, and (occasionally) lighting cars on fire.

Mba, With Distinction

Bs & Ba, Mechanical Engineering (Bs) | Values, Technology Science & Society, With Honors (Ba)

Activities and Societies: Stanford in Oxford (Magdalen College) | Stanford Jazz Band | Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society