Loyal: Helping dogs live longer, healthier lives. We're a Series B, clinical-stage veterinary medicine startup developing drugs intended to extend the healthspan and lifespan of dogs.As CPTO, I lead engineering and product teams to deliver user-centric applications that meet the unique challenges of FDA and regulatory compliance, supporting the go-to-market strategy for the first lifespan-extension drug and laying the groundwork for future breakthroughs.• Building the e-commerce platform to drive the launch of Loyal’s first drug and fuel business growth.• Creating tools for researchers to accelerate discoveries for the next generation of longevity solutions.• Leading innovation with a high-performing team to deliver delightful, compliant, and scalable solutions.We’re growing! If you’re passionate about groundbreaking work, join us. I'm hiring• Sr. Product Manager: Drive Loyal’s e-commerce platform to launch the first longevity drug for dogs.• VP of Engineering: Build Loyal’s engineering team and deliver the eCommerce platform to support the go-to-market strategy.

Action-oriented Results-driven Interim Software Leadership & MentorshipLeading strategic engagements for technology companies seeking to improve business strategy, as well as engineering, operations and product results.

Change: $100+ million global, digital platform that supports advocacy petitions, plus related campaigns & fundraising; 500+ million users in 196 countries. Investors include Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, and Sam Altman. Owned technology vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution. Led engineering and product organization. Member of executive leadership team, reporting to CEO. Presented to Board of Directors. Managed 90-person team in 10 countries along with $27 million budget. • Joined rapidly-growing organization with inadequate tech stack and nascent data science function. Immediately upgraded tech stack and infrastructure, which drove 3X revenue. • Defined AI vision. Established team. Guided iterative ML model development. By 2023, enabled 2.5X YOY global campaign revenue growth and 90% campaign cost reduction.• Advanced global data management with data lake & analytics platform creating single source of truth at scale. Ensured data accuracy and integrity. Improved cybersecurity. Enabled product development, analytics, business operations, AI/ML, and R&D teams. • Consolidated architectures, automated deployment, simplified infrastructure, retired antiquated systems, and secured staff and user data. Accelerated new feature and product launches from months to days. • Modernized cloud infrastructure. Migrated to AWS managed services. Initiated and negotiated multi-year partnerships with AWS, Google, Stripe, and Salesforce. Cut annual operating expense by $1+ million. • Restructured engineering to align with product development goals. Hired top talent, grew team 80%. Expanded from 3 to 10 countries with minimal increase in total labor cost. Increased leadership team capabilities and diversity. Improved overall team performance.• Panelist at the 2022 & 2023 Reuters MOMENTUM AI Summits. Speaker at the 2022 & 2023 WomenTech Global Conferences.

Formerly Captricity: 8-figure, Series C maker of Vidado, a cloud-based, SaaS, enterprise-grade, AI/ML paper-to-digital data transformation platform; acquired by SS&C (NSDQ: SSNC) in 2020.Led technology and product vision in collaboration with Board, executives, and customers. Managed 45-person team and matrixed project organizations. Reported to CEO.• Played key role in growing company from $400,000 to $10+ million revenue in 4 years (224% CAGR) and establishing technology/IP and commercial foundations for successful exit.• Applied technology to solve a monetizable problem—the transcription of hand-written data to digital formats in conjunction with enterprise digital and AI transformation programs. Member of pursuit team that secured contracts with 8 of the top 10 US insurers.• Collaborated with R&D and legal to protect IP (system outperformed Google/Vision OCR and AWS/Textract products in test competitions). Secured 29 Captricity assignee patents for the use of deep learning in text transcription. • Developed and executed strategy to recruit top AI experts in rabidly competitive market. Built team from 9 to 45 people (R&D, deep learning training, testing, and deployment).

Clean Power Finance: 8-figure, Series C, B2B, online fintech marketplace that connected the solar industry with capital providers. Kleiner Perkins & Google Ventures portfolio company. Merged with Kilowatt Financial to form Spruce Power in 2016.Built 31-person product and engineering team. Managed $7 million budget. Reported to CEO. Implemented 3-sided online marketplace. Increased revenue 5X to $40+ million.

APN: $500+ million provider of custom desktop and mobile search & web access solutions for software and media companies. Subsidiary of $5+ billion media holding company, IAC (NSDQ: IAC).Led 150-person global engineering team. Reported to Division President. Conceptualized and built next-gen architecture and platform that supported top 3 browsers, plus expansion to mobile and OS. Enabled 250% YOY revenue growth from $200 million to $500+ million.

Here: 8-figure, privately held, LGBT-oriented media company (NSDQ: LGBT).

PlaneetOut: $20 million, LGBT-oriented Internet & media company; acquired by Here Media in 2009.