Working with earner teams solving the many complex challenges of scaling Uber globally -- fleets, taxis, motorcycles, autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles, sustainability, and more.

Supernormal is AI that writes your meeting notes. The company is growing rapidly, with a killer solution for videoconference team productivity.

March 2021 - March 2023: Commerce: Shopping Search Merchant team: Enabling every global business, from the largest e-commerce platforms to the smallest local shops, to get customers and orders for their business on Google, for free.March 2019 - March 2021: Geo: Local Search & Maps Merchant team: Connecting consumers and local businesses. Helping local businesses to gain and serve customers via Google local search and Google maps

I manage two product teams at Uber: * Shared Rides: The POOL team is building the future of ride sharing. Uber POOL and Express POOL offer the most affordable, efficient, and environmental way to get around cities. We solve incredibly complex mathematical and software challenges to provide simple, delightful, and economical ways to ride, while giving drivers increased options to earn. * Financial Products: Uber gift cards, the Uber Visa card, and our many financial partnerships enrich the benefits of being an Uber rider and give you flexible and rewarding ways to manage your spending.

Project spanning the main Facebook Inc. social apps -- Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp* Market-level assessment of emerging needs for social networking and entertainment* Focus on new segments of users in both developed and developing countries* Building new core social networking capabilities and products * Built a new team from scratch to shipping strategic products in 9 months

Facebook search serves over 2 billion queries a day to the more than 2 billion people who use Facebook. These searches help people find their friends, discover useful and interesting content, connect with businesses, express their passions, and much more. I worked on fascinating ranking, high-scale infrastructure, user experience, mobile performance, NLP, and internationalization problems, and helped make Facebook search work better and serve more users

Hypertable is an open source NoSQL company created to enable large-scale data-intensive computing tasks and the new class of applications that can be built upon massive data. Our goal is to bring the benefits of new levels of both performance and scale to many data-driven businesses who are currently limited by previous-generation platforms.

Persado generates the marketing messages that work best, for any product, any customer, at any time. The company delivers a new category of automated multi-channel digital marketing technology for Fortune 500 and enterprise digital marketers who sell direct to consumers. During my year at Persado, I worked closely with CEO Alex Vratskides to spin the company out of its European parent Upstream Systems, raise a $15M funding round from Bain Capital Ventures, and to position and launch Persado as a digital marketing SaaS company in the United States. My role encompassed marketing, business development, initial sales and account management, strategy, and fundraising.

Crowd Factory Social Campaign™ enables marketers to acquire new customers through simple social gestures and custom social marketing campaigns while easily tracking ROI. The application offers marketers the ease of a ten minute deployment and the power to tailor their messages and targeting into the social channel.

Local search engine for things to do. Founder and CEO from vision and inception through to acquisition by Ebay's Stubhub division. In Q1 2012, the Zvents Media Network empowered over 15 million monthly users, 200,000+ active local self-service merchants, thousands of paying advertisers, and over 300 enterprise SaaS partners, including Microsoft's Bing, AT&T's Yellowpages.com, and most major daily newspapers in the United States.

Rich Melmon, Hiroshi Menjo, and I founded NetService Ventures in 2002 to seed invest in startups and provide strategy consulting services to major multinationals - two highly complementary activities. Notable Investments:- Aggregate Knowledge, 2005: (ACQ:Neustar)- Zvents, 2005: (ACQ:Ebay)- SingleFeed, 2006: (ACQ:Vendio)- 3Jam, 2006: (ACQ:Skype)- TubeMogul, 2007: (NASDAQ:TUBE, ACQ:Adobe)

Based in London, UK, eBusinessMedia was the online arm of major trade publisher United Business Media. I led teams which planned a multi-vertical common operating platform for content & commerce, and which developed and launched vertical web properties in agriculture, home furnishings, and film development.

I joined McKenna as a consultant, and was twice promoted to senior consultant and then principal. During my time at the firm I worked on startup projects with Isadra, InspecTech, and others; and major corporate projects for IBM, British Telecom, Cisco, and others. I also worked closely with the UK strategy firm OC&C, which was at the time partnered with McKenna.

With Sky Woo and Prabal Dutta, founded a company to help full-service stock brokerages compete with the likes of E*Trade using their extensive databases of customer and transaction information, combined with real-time market data, to present timely and relevant trading opportunities. Bamboo was an early entrant into the CRM space, which had neither been named nor formalized as such when we founded the company. This was a prototypical "young founders" startup -- we raised less than $250K in seed funding, built the initial product, achieved initial customer relationships (notably alex.brown in Baltimore) and ran the company for a total of about 20 months before grinding to a halt due to a combination of circumstances, poverty, and inexperience. I led the database development, led the marketing by default, and made the leap from tech. to biz. that I've stuck with (mostly) ever since. It was probably the most valuable job I'll ever hold in my life.

My first job out of college. Spent a year in Detroit on the "Cash Managment Team" for client GMAC, managing legacy infrastructure (IBM mainframes running COBOL), financial systems (Tandem NonStop Himalaya systems) and spec'ing new software (UNIX-based trading systems whose names now escape me). GMAC ran a trading floor with a volume of several billion dollars per day in commercial paper (CP) short term cash-like instruments to float consumer and dealer borrowing. In addition to learning a lot about legacy integration and maintenance, and large scale financial databases, I completed EDS' excellent technical training, lived in Plano, Texas for about six months, and at various times held more than a quarter of a billion dollars' worth of live, negotiable checks in my hands. After a year+ in this role, I left to take up my deferred NSF fellowship and admission to grad school at UC Berkeley.

Data-driven application development for a number of Fortune 500 clients, including Rubbermaid and BF Goodrich.