For the last 10+ years, I have focused on creating, building, and investing in products that help local businesses operate more efficiently and increase sales.I started Wholesail with 6 friends & former colleagues that I’ve worked with for the last 5-10 years across multiple companies. We spent nearly a year doing market research and customer discovery and identified a set of challenges related to how local businesses work with their suppliers. Previously I led the OpenTable product group responsible for growing OpenTable’s reservation availability. We built features to drive acquisition of new restaurants and increase reservation availability from existing restaurants. I joined OpenTable through the acquisition of Copilot, a company I led and co-founded with two other Wholesail founders. Copilot leveraged data to help restaurant operators increase revenue. We built a highly-engaging analytics product used by a few hundred restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. At OpenTable, we focused on scaling Copilot amongst OpenTable restaurants before shifting focus to building new revenue management features within OpenTable’s existing products. Before starting Copilot, I was an Associate at Alsop Louie Partners. I have remained an active angel investor with a focus on marketplaces and companies that serve local businesses. I grew up working in the restaurant business (which was the inspiration for Copilot) and remain connected to the industry through my involvement with the family restaurant business and my personal investments in the Tartine restaurant group (Tartine Bakery, Tartine Manufactory), Che Fico (Italian restaurant group in SF), and Mian (Sichuan noodles in the LA area).