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Boston, Ma, Us

Defined the path and leading efforts to achieve Product <> Market Fit. Implementing the Growth playbook, instilling a metrics-driven culture and sponsoring the development of a Data Infrastructure team: achieved 30%+ growth month-over-month. Working closely with the founders to build the core functional teams & optimize their processes -- Product, Marketing, Finance & Accounting, Sales -- and to prepare the company for the next fundraise.

Burq is an API-first startup building a network of delivery networks to offer businesses on-demand last mile delivery. Merchants large and small count on Burq to manage all of their delivery business, while Burq works with leading national as well as local delivery providers to fulfill the deliveries cost-effectively.Advised the founders since the company's inception in 2020, and angel invested in the Pre-Seed round in 2021. Supporting their growth through product launch, Seed fundraise, revenue ramp-up, and team scaling to 50+ employees.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Nespresso for healthy snacks, leveraging automation and IoT technology to provide a premium smoothie-making experience conveniently and at lower cost.Making people happier and healthier with on-demand, fresh and customized smoothies.Led a syndicate of angel investors to invest in smoodi's pre-seed round.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Fractional CXO, Board member and Angel investor for startups building the future of smart & sustainable urban ecosystems. 20+ years of experience growing tech businesses in smart mobility & autonomy, robotics & last mile automation, IoT & mobile, ecommerce & retail tech, and digital platforms for sustainability. Particular expertise at the intersection of digital platforms and the physical world, and with B2B2C business models.Strategic engagements for tech startups and high-growth businesses in the areas of:+ Deploying Growth playbook and tackling barriers to scalability+ Achieving Product <> Market Fit+ Go-to-Market Strategy and Fundraising+ Product Strategy and User Experience Design

Boston, Ma, Us

New York City, New York, Us

Mentoring a handful of terrific entrepreneurs in this world-class accelerator program, to make their entrepreneurial dreams a reality. Advice spans startup positioning & pitching, strategy for shaping a scalable business, growth hacking & go-to-market strategy, building the team, biz dev & closing deals, prioritization to achieve product/market fit, and identifying what's hard and tackling it head on.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

HomeBinder is the centralized operating system for the home. It empowers homeowners to manage their homes and increases home value by providing valued services through a trusted network of partners. Served on the company's Board of Directors through its acquisition by iGo in 2023. Advised the founder since the Techstars Boston accelerator in 2019 and through their Series A fundraise.

Los Angeles, Us

Robomart is a cashierless commerce and last mile tech company that has created the fastest delivery service on Earth. Users hail the store, rather than an Uber, to shop for essentials in as little as a few minutes. Say goodbye to painstakingly entering your ecommerce order - just hail a Robomart, grab the goods you need, and go! Our checkout-free technology figures out what you shopped and charges your card on file.We're LIVE in Los Angeles and partnering with retailers nationwide to deploy Robomarts across the country.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Innovusion is the leading developer of image grade LiDAR sensor systems for autonomous vehicles and smart cities. Our unique combination of very long range, high resolution, hardware-accelerated sensor fusion, compact size, ease of integration and cost effectiveness makes our products an ideal choice for the most demanding applications. Founded in 2016 by Silicon Valley veterans with decades of experience in optoelectronics and sensing systems, Innovusion is headquartered in Sunnyvale CA and has raised $300M of venture capital. I helped Innovusion with growth in the automotive and smart city markets, engaging with customers & partners in North America and worldwide. Innovusion's lidars are shipping in high volume commercial vehicles from luxury EV maker NIO.

Boston, Ma, Us

Educate HBS's budding entrepreneurs in collaboration with the Rock Center's faculty and staff. Head Coach for the Rock Accelerator. Support and encourage student-entrepreneurs with their startup ventures.

Boston, Ma, Us

PayByCar is building the future of commerce for commuters. Our innovative IoT + fintech platform and partnership with E-ZPass enables us to authenticate commuters visiting retail locations and let them pay quickly & securely from their mobile phone.

Boston, Ma, Us

NextDroid helps automakers develop safe autonomous driving systems while reducing costs. We build tools for ADAS and AV feature validation on public roads. Veritas - our ground truth platform - combines a bolt-on hardware sensor SLED with a cloud-based software toolkit that ingests test drive data and produces ground truth information. The system assesses the real world performance of automated driving features and empowers engineers with a suite of tools for root cause fault analysis and correction. Leading automakers and ADAS suppliers in North America and worldwide use Veritas to safely bring autonomous driving to market.I help NextDroid with customer discovery and developing a scalable go-to-market strategy to deploy its Veritas platform widely amongst automakers and ADAS system manufacturers.

Waltham, Massachusetts, Us

Takeoff is a novel retail concept that enables eGrocery with a sustainable business model, by implementing robotic aisle-less stores where customers can pick up their groceries, saving them time and money. I advised the founders since the venture concept phase, and shaped the ecommerce user experience by building the mobile apps & site that launched to market with the world's first robotic supermarket in 2018.The company has raised over $150M, grown the team to over 250 people, and launched numerous micro fulfillment centers worldwide with leading grocery retailers.

tntmedia is developing a mobile engagement & content delivery platform that helps retailers and mobile players reach existing customers on a daily basis on their phones and tablets, and engages users with lockscreen teasers that deliver targeted mobile content.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Tap 'n Tap is the leading software solutions provider helping mobile players differentiate, ship, support, and monetize their tablets and other Android-based products. Tap 'n Tap pioneered a complete User Experience & Software stack for Android-based tablets, starting our innovative design & development efforts 2 years before iPad, and launching v1.0 in 2010 with several customers as the tablets market emerged.Leading mobile & consumer electronics brands like Sony, Lenovo, Telecom Italia, ViewSonic, Hannspree, and many others used our software solutions to successfully launch their tablets to market. We also partnered with many mobile industry leaders, amongst them manufacturers Foxconn, Quanta, and Compal, and chip vendors Nvidia, Rockchip, and Allwinner, to integrate our solutions and execute high quality product launches.

Assembled and led 5-person management team to pursue a private equity-funded spinout of a division of a public technology firm. Developed MBO concept, engaged prospective seller, developed business plan and presented it to private equity firms, securing a financial partner. Submitted $20M+ offer, performed due diligence, and conducted negotiations with prospective seller. Deal fell through in the end, but seller regretted it months later when they ended up having to do a distressed sale for less than half of what we had offered.

SigmaTel was a publicly-traded tech firm that sold audio & imaging solutions to the world's leading technology companies including Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard. Led a fantastic team of product managers, BD professionals, program managers, and applications engineers to grow our digital imaging technology business by 65% CAGR. Championed product line extensions into new emerging markets such as digital photo frames, and accelerated growth by transforming the customer engagement approach from turnkey projects to embedded product sales with do-it-yourself software development kits and reference board designs.Engaged and launched products with the likes of HP, Dell, Kodak, Konica Minolta, Canon, Sharp, Ricoh, Lexmark, Philips and other leading imaging companies.

Led a product line of semiconductor controller chips for embedded imaging devices. Initially <10% of revenues, grew it to becoming our largest and most profitable business. The role spanned end-to-end marketing & sales responsibilities: developing the marketing strategy, managing the product roadmap, marketing existing products, and closing multi-million dollar deals with customers and supporting them through integration, launch, and scaling. Our product line's rapid growth contributed significantly to Oasis's successful exit -- its acquisition by publicly-traded SigmaTel in 2005 -- yielding returns to investors of over 20x.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Co-led Product for the multi-billion-dollar global product line of family sedans. Selected for an ex-pat assignment launching new products designed in North America and Europe, and manufactured in South America, to a range of markets worldwide.Initially joined the Strategy management training program and worked in various operating roles including project management, system engineering, design & release engineering, manufacturing, and marketing.

Mba, Technology & Entrepreneurship

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering