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Advise startup CEOs and management teams on strategic challenges: leadership, organization, fundraising, M&A, and managing difficult situations with their board of directors.

I advise startup CEOs and management teams on their most strategic challenges: leadership, organization, fundraising, M&A, and managing difficult situations with their board of directors. Friends have referred to me as the "Startup Rabbi" because I work as a close consigliere and partner to get deep into the deepest part of the challenge and work through.

Palo Alto, California, US

Seattle, WA, US

Work closely with the Unlock partnership and portfolio. Advise the fund and Unlock CEOs primarily on investability, capital strategy, positioning, and fundraising.

Boise, ID, US

Reinventing offshore support to finally give high-growth startups and SMBs a scalable, reliable, aligned partner in growing their businesses.

New York, NY, US

Seattle, Washington, US

Concreit is making investing in real estate accessible to everyone. With an app-based investment platform, Concreit has taken all the friction out of real estate investing to give ordinary people a way to unlock their inner tycoon. I have been a senior advisor to the CEO and management team on strategic matters.

Seattle, Washington, US

Seattle, US

Zeitworks is an enterprise software company that takes the pain out of making business execution more efficient. Using advanced machine learning and other technology, Zeitworks automatically discovers and measures business processes to help you unlock broken processes, identify bottlenecks, and make teams happier and more efficient.

Seattle, WA, US

Dolly re-invented moving and delivery to take the pain away. Dolly makes it easy to schedule a move or delivery with the best experience on the planet. I was involved as a senior advisor to the CEO and management team from almost the beginning on strategic matters ranging from organization, strategy and leadership to fundraising and corporate development /.

Madrona Venture Labs is the startup studio affiliated with Madrona Venture Group, the top venture capitali investor in the northwest. MVL is bent on creating a generation of extraordinary companies with heroic founders.

Atlas was an ambitious personal search engine that collected all your digital history in one place and made it fully searchable with perfect recall. I was brought in as an advisor and worked closely with the CEO, management team, and investors; and I served on the Board of Directors as independent director alongside investors Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold.

Co-founded Wetpaint, a leader in social media. Wetpaint built audiences for its leading entertainment and TV news property with an extraordinary proprietary social distribution technology that drove massive traffic from Facebook and Twitter. Wetpaint was acquired by Viggle Inc. (VGGL).

Woodinville, WA, US

I was hired as part of a turnaround team to make the company consumer-driven. Co-led a transformation of the product development process to begin with customer needs and invest R&D in areas most valued by customers. I held full product and marketing responsibility for the commercial products (67% of revenue) which doubled revenue in 3 years while improving.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Long before eHarmony became a national brand, it was a small site with a powerful premise of matching for marriage, not dates. The website had been put together ad hoc in its first couple of years. Working from a new brand brief, I led a full re-design of the company's identity, website, UX, conversion path, and editorial content. It worked: Conversion.

London, England, GB

Betfair (LSE: BET) is a person-to-person exchange for sports betting. In 2001, I was hired by its predecessor company Flutter to evaluate the technical team and product development process, program manage key international expansion initiatives, assist with merger evaluation, and help recruit a new CTO. Betfair IPO'd in 2010, and is valued upwards of $5bn.

New York, NY, US

Blue Nile (NASDAQ: NILE) disrupted the jewelry industry by empowering consumers with education, guidance, and selection. The company has won an abundance of awards for its outstanding user experience; and has achieved the greatest success of any new entry in the luxury goods category in decades with a relentless internal focus on consumer experience and.

Fatbrain.com was an e-commerce pioneer, launched in 1996 and successfully competing with Amazon and Barnes & Noble, among others. I joined right as the Series A financing closed, and held responsibility for affiliate marketing, strategic partnerships, and new product lines. Fatbrain IPO'd in 1998 (NASDAQ: FATB), and was acquired by BarnesandNoble.com.

Boston, MA, US

Worked across primarily telecom, technology, and healthcare information systems clients. Known for Excel, programming, and database skills (there weren't many business types who wrote SQL in 1994), and creativity. In spare time, authored a charting tool that became used firm-wide.

Redmond, Washington, US

B.S.E.E., Electrical Engineering Computer Science

Dual Undergraduate Degrees: #2: B.A., Applied Mathematics