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Improving how early stage companies raise money and close deals.

New York City, New York, US

Techstars is the #1 startup accelerator in the world. 2x alumni (KC '14, Lisbon '19), mentor to hundreds of alumni, and adviser to a few. Fundraising, product strategy, and go to market.

New York City, New York, US

Worked with a fantastic portfolio of early stage companies to help them scale. Activities included supporting follow-on investment with Techstars Ventures, fundraising, corporate development, strategic planning, and M&A.

New York City, New York, US

Very privileged to have the opportunity to work with amazing teams shaping the future of robotics.

Berkeley, CA, US

Mentoring teams in the UC Berkeley Launch program to design, validate, and launch their products.

San Francisco, California, US

Lake Oswego, Oregon, US

Verivest provides fund accounting and management software for mid-market commercial realestate fund managers. I led a number of strategic reforms to narrow the scope of products, improve software development productivity, increase customer satisfaction, and drive towards profitability.

San Francisco, California, US

Led an amazing board of Techstars alumni to develop the Techstars alumni community in the Bay Area. Organized exclusive firesides & networking with prominent entrepreneurs and investors, worked with alumni to find mentors and close rounds.

Cambridge, MA, US

Worked with students define product strategy, fundraising, and go to market. 1 exit, several funded. Great teams.

Use your voice to effortlessly capture and share notes, delegate tasks, and chat with your team throughout the day. Verbz is a voice first productivity app for business leaders and professionals. We help you work faster during the day, so you have less to catch up on at night.

Palo Alto, California, US

Helping top international startups adapt to doing business in Silicon Valley. Refining pitches, reaching investors and potential business partners.

Startup Catalyst is an annual mission to Silicon Valley for twenty young people who have the potential to be Australia’s next batch of globally successful tech entrepreneurs.

Sydney, NSW, AU

FTS is an entrepreneur-friendly post seed stage investment fund operating from Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, Beijing, and Sydney. It's run by former entrepreneurs and uses a proprietary algorithm to identify potentially disruptive companies very early in their lifecycle.

Startup Next is a pre-accelerator program working with exciting new companies and passionate teams.

ollo wearables was developing a multi-award winning smart communication system. A voice controlled device that makes talking to anyone as easy as saying their name.A digital voice assistant that is worn on the body, our vision was to enable the elderly to live at home safely, while enabling a range of rich interactions with family and important services

elevate61 is a unique program designed to enable high performing Australian businesses to fast track their growth into the United States of America (US) and beyond. The program provides participants with facilitated access to an established network of successful Australian and US-based entrepreneurs, investors, mentors and global corporations.

Behavioral economics meets monetary policy. Developed a deep understanding of statistical analysis and data driven risk management and decision making.

Greenway, ACT, AU

Worked on a range of projects ranging from.NET and SharePoint application development, to change management and work take-on process reforms, and an enterprise level system integration initiative. Requirements gathering/validation, project planning, data modelling, data collection and reporting policy development.

Russell, Australian Capital Territory, AU

Chief Information Officer's Group (CIOG) administers ICT infrastructure for Australia's Defence Force. It is Australia's largest single ICT network environment, including hundreds of data centers. I worked on a range of projects from business process improvement (KPI/scorecard development), asset control, demand management, ERP integration. I worked on.

DoBiz was my first startup, an early 'social reviews' platform. I was 22, and wanted to know which mechanics my friends used. I launched at the same time as Yelp, I was trying to create what www.yelp.com has become (but with useful business metrics, and a smart coupon system), back when yelp was an email based reviews. Succeeded in signing up 130 paying.

Worked with a wide variety of small businesses, including graphic design, professional development, and medium scale manufacturing. Advised on product strategy, business process, systems integration.

Turning humans into trained battery hens. Performance monitoring of staff and the design of service frameworks to modify behavior in a large scale technical support business (3000+ call center operators). Lesson learned, be careful what you measure.