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San Mateo, California, Us

Backblaze B2 offers developers, IT people, and others the lowest cost cloud storage on the planet. At just $0.005/GB/month, the pricing is 1/4th that of Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.Backblaze Cloud Backup provides completely automatic and unlimited Mac & PC backup for just $6/month. About.com rates it the #1 online backup service. The service has recovered over 50 billion files for customers in over 160 countries.Backblaze stores over an exabyte (1000 petabytes) of data, is profitable and won a spot on Deloitte's Fast 500 for 917% five-year revenue growth.

Milpitas, Ca, Us

Led Email Security division with P&L responsibility. Integrated MailFrontier acquisition and rolled out new product line to 10,000 global channel partners. Signed up 3000 corporate customers. Doubled revenues and brought to profitability in one year.

Us

(Acquired by SonicWALL)Led product strategy/marketing/management and business development from pre-launch through acquisition at anti-spam and email security company. Quoted by Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Network World, InfoWorld, NPR, CBS News, and hundreds of others. MailFrontier protected over 1 million consumers and 2000 enterprises. Gartner Magic Quadrant visionary. Winner of PC Magazine, Cnet, SC Magazine, Network World, Consumer Reports, and numerous other awards.

Drove products including Broadband Platform and Excite Toolbar from inception through mass adoption (2 million daily users.) Ran 40+ person broadband self-install division, building a combination retail/online system used by over 100,000 customers to install broadband service (resulting in $5 million direct savings.) Developed Platform-Product-Professional Services strategy and leveraged it in selling to AT&T, Comcast, Cox, and other cable companies. CEO later presented this strategy during earnings call as defining the direction Excite@Home needs to head.

(Acquired by Excite@Home)Reported to CEO. Ran marketing and products from pre-funding through acquisition. Search startup grew from 0 to 45 people and developed innovative end-user and enterprise products.

Founded search startup during business school. Business plan used as a model for entreneurship classes at U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business for years after. Joined Kendara to pursue shared vision.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Developed strategic global sourcing plan for Fortune 10 company.

Boston, Ma, Us

Designed and deployed robotic equipment in Spain for nuclear energy research. Program managed and staffed $80 million refurbishment plan for Japanese reactors. Trained in Six Sigma Quality.

Developed business plan for mountain biking components company while in undergrad. Designed and prototyped initial product.

Mba, Global Business, Technology, Entrepreneurship

B.S., Mechanical Engineering