Investor, advisor, consultant to a collection of venture backed growth stage companies playing predominantly in the mobile user location or mobile commerce markets, education technology and enterprise software.

Charged with leading the business launch of Google Glass in the Asia Pacific regionAccountable for all technical research, market landscaping, scenario analysis and GTM strategy; procured and executed agreements, hired staff and fostered the requisite business development engagements to open doors on a street level Google Glass retail location in the Roppongi District of Tokyo Google Glass was a highly anticipated next generation mobile hardware platform seeded out of Google[x]

Founding member of Project InSight: a cross-functional multi-country (U.S., Japan, Australia, Switzerland) team within Google[x] that took a few technology demos, mocks and protobufs into a launched project within 10 months; the first project in the world to deploy mobile user location indoors at any kind of scale. InSight (and the GMM 6.0 release) was recognized at 2012 Mobile World Congress as the Best Consumer Mobile ServiceI drove the assessment and development of InSight's strategic partner portfolio, seeking ways to drive innovation and revenue, procuring and closing complex custom deals with tier one partners in the retail and travel sectors. At launch, InSight was partnered with The Home Depot, Macy’s, Bloomingdales, IKEA, Best Buy, Nordstrom and covered almost 80 percent of domestic air traffic across 52 U.S. airportsSpearheaded and/or closed additional InSight deals post-launch with Walmart, The Smithsonian Institute, Hilton Hotels, Starwood Hotels, Ritz Carlton and othersFounded, hired and ramped an inside sales team of 22 contributors to bring InSight to the SMB market closing an additional 1,500+ partners in the U.S. as well as nearly 500 additional partners in the EMEA and APAC regions respectively

Led inbound/outbound content syndication and licensing arrangements for the Reader's Digest Digital Network, a group of sites that accounted for 121M+ MAUs in aggregate.

I met everyone in New York media--digital, broadcast, print--and closed content distribution and enterprise technology deals with many of them.

We helped make Tim Armstrong's dream of the "CMO dashboard" reality in the world of offline media advertising. He foresaw real-time bidding platforms before nearly anyone else and tapped a team of a dozen individuals to build and launch the pilot.

Tons of research, reporting and writing, and I helped introduce Lebhar-Friedman to something called the Internet.

This was the first chapter of my career in technology.