Avela empowers education providers to promote equity and enable families. We are building a new common application for everything education - daycare, after school programs, summer camps, charter schools, private schools, district schools, and eventually scholarships and college. Today, we are the leading application and enrollment management system for schools and districts, including New Orleans, Tulsa Public Schools, Newark Common App, and more. We also partner with social impact organizations looking to more equitably allocate resources, including Teach for America, US Army, and METCO.

PoliScribe is ChatGPT for government. PoliScribe enables public servants to connect with their constituents and govern more efficiently. Whether answering phone calls, responding to constituent mail, or generating proactive/outbound mailers, legislative offices use our web-based platform to research issues and surface the right messaging and content instantly. PoliScribe even suggests draft text to respond to and follow up with your district. PoliScribe integrates directly with Leidos Intranet Quorum (IQ) and the Fireside CRM.

Roadrunners is a community of founders, operators and practitioners who care about innovation in education and the future of work. Read more at https://medium.com/reach-capital/beep-beep-expanding-the-family-with-the-reach-roadrunners-edc2c53ce9e1.

Mentor and strategic advisor to CEOs on strategy, marketing, business development, and fundraising at several startups, mostly in the education technology space, as well as through education accelerators and venture networks.Selected companies include:* Extern (Paragon One) - [2023-present] Externship platform to educate and engage Gen-Z talent.* ChalkBooks - [2022-present] Platform for school finance and operations, starting with fundraising.* Veery - [2021-present] Flexible-term commercial real estate platform, think AirBnb x WeWork x CBRE.* Vendition - [2020-present] Immersive sales training and apprenticeship program for recent graduates and career changers.* HiCounselor - [2019-present] Democratizes career networking by connecting job seekers to company insiders and industry experts.* Jobscan - [2018-2019] Established their higher education (B2U) business unit and served as interim GM. * BoldABC (博得国际教育) - [2018-p] Offers Chinese students an engaging way to learn English online through a combination of live instruction from American teachers and an interactive e-learning platform.* MarketX (源投金融​) - [2017-p] - Creates liquidity for founders with a cross border secondary market. * Renren (人人公司) - [2012] - Developed thesis for public Chinese social network and gaming company to enter the online learning and education sector. Selected nonprofits and schools* Transcend Education* Generation Citizen (GC)* Constructive Dialogue Institute (CDI) * Rutgers University, Big Data Certificate Program [2018-2022]Selected accelerators and venture networks include:* NewSchools Venture Fund [2012-2013]* Reach Capital [2023-p]* GSVlabs [2020-2022]* StartED [2015-p]* StartupWeekend EDU [2012-p]* Faster Capital [2019-p]Expert panels include:* HolonIQ - Global Executive Panel [2019-p]* CTA - 21st Century Workforce Council [2020-2022]* GLG, Catalant, Maven, ThirdBridge, GuidePoint, Coleman Research, etc.

Joined pre-revenue and grew to millions in ARR growing at 200% YOY with 70+ enterprise customers and 1.7+ million users. Brought from Seed stage to acquisition by Fidelity Investments. I held a variety of roles during my five year tenure, and for last 3 years led marketing and growth, business development, sales development, professional services, customer success, and account management. Previously also responsible for product management and design (2013-2015). Vice President, Marketing & Customer Experience - 2016-presentVice President, Products & Marketing - 2015-2016Director, Product Management - 2013-2015

Responsible for leading NovoEd's pivot from a B2C MOOC platform with a revenue sharing partnership-driven business model, to a B2B and higher education learning platform with an enterprise SAAS model.

Head of Product, responsible for product management, design, and ultimately finding product-market fit. Designed and shipped core features including team workspace, analytics, and coaching/mentorship.

Philanthropy University is a free, first-of-its kind educational initiative for change makers in the social sector. Powered by UC Berkeley and NovoEd. Learn more at http://philanthropyu.org.

Led VMware's cloud computing initiative product marketing. Launched vCloud Director and exceeded sales goal by 400%. Recognized for being in top 1% of 10,000+ employees.

Led analytics for major pricing revamp for VMware's largest revenue driver, vSphere. Drove corporate strategy as part of CEO-led, five-person skunkworks team.

Developed Go to Market strategy and virtualization product offering for distributed, remote, and branch offices (ROBO).

Strategic advisor to senior executives. Projects include investment strategy for the Gates Foundation, economic city building in Saudi Arabia, private equity due diligence, enterprise marketing strategy, and telecom growth strategy.

Responsible for the worldwide launch of Microsoft Dynamics ERP/CRM

Analytics and operations for Structured Products Group, which includes asset backed Securities (ABS), mortgage backed securities (MBS), collateralized debt obligations (CDO), and other securities. Analyzed CDO capital structures to determine credit support. Enhanced FAS-140 calculations and automated price testing models. Developed KPIs and automated metric reporting for Mortgage Group.

Responsible for legislative correspondence, case work, district matters, and more. My work with the US Senate led to my co-founding PoliScribe, which automates the process of responding to constituent mail.