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Tiburon, CA, US

- Infrastructure Ventures uses a data-driven model to select and invest in technical founders from the Global South, who we call Lost Einsteins.- Eccentric Labs is our enterprise data platform that works with blockchain and AI companies to help them build out their developer ecosystems. We proactively discover founders and then help nurture the startup.

Everywhere, OO

- BNB Chain is a community-driven, open-sourced, and decentralized web3 ecosystem with 150M consumers. Developers and innovators use BNB Chain to build decentralized applications (DApps) and cloud infrastructure (e.g. BNB Greenfield).

London, England, GB

- Arweave is a web 3.0 infrastructure protocol, which provides decentralized cloud storage to help enterprises permanently store digital information and assets. - The company publicly listed its token in 2018. The Arweave Foundry actively invests in ambitious founders that want to build innovative companies using the permaweb infrastructure.

- Xenon Ventures is a Private Equity firm focused on acquiring controlling stakes in technology businesses.- Provide operational and management support to each of the portfolio businesses. Focus on increasing sales and setting up an inorganic growth team to execute on M&A, investments and preparing a portfolio company for exit.

Mountain View, California, US

- Credit Sesame is a financial services firm and Neobank with 16 million customers. Our platform uses advanced analytics to create personalized recommendations to help consumers improve their credit score and make the optimal decision when using credit or cash, buy insurance, obtain a loan or choose a credit card.- Our customers benefit from a platform.

Mountain View, California, US

New York, New York, US

- Uphold is a Neobank with 10 million customers, that provides financial services to consumers and businesses.- Consumer products include debit card services, international payments, cryptocurrency and tokenized securities.- Businesses use Uphold to add new payment services to their product, reduce business banking costs, or increase consumer access to.

- acuteIQ is a customer acquisition platform that uses machine learning to predict purchase intent. The technology identifies active trigger signals across our proprietary database of 21 million small/medium-sized businesses. - Customers are banks and insurance companies, including Barclays, Chase Bank and RBC. Investors include Harvard Business School.

- YuMe is a provider of digital video brand advertising.- Recruited to build YuMe's mobile advertising business, promoted to turnaround indirect ad sales team and then to launch the programmatic ad sales solution. - Part of management team that took company from $30 million in revenue to over $170 million and public listing on NYSE in 2013.

- Rhythm is a mobile video brand advertising company.- Managed the business development team that built a mobile video ad network of 30 million monthly uniques and 500 million monthly impressions in 18 months. - Acquired by Blinkx (LSE AIM: BLNX).

Menlo Park, CA, US

- Stanford Research Institute (SRI) is one of the largest research labs in the United States with over 2,000 engineers. - Headed research commercialization and product development for a cyber security program for the Dept. of Homeland Security. Worked with senior executives across government agencies (Dept of Defense, NSA) and critical infrastructure.

GB

- MCC Global is a Private Equity investment and advisory company.- Provided strategy consulting and M&A advise to mid-market Technology, Media & Telecom firms in America and Europe.

Roma, IT

- Telecom Italia Ventures manages the corporate venture investing for Telecom Italia, Italy's largest telecom company.- Sourced early stage investments and restructured existing portfolio companies. Identified new products and and spun-out technology start-ups.

Toronto, ON, CA

- San Francisco Consulting Group was the strategy consulting team within KPMG focusing on telecoms and media clients.- Worked on over 25 projects, including engagements with Bertelsmann, Disney, Sprint, Verizon and RadioShack.

Education record

Bachelor'S Degree