With over 20 years of experience in building companies, partnerships, communities, and teams that enable the creation and consumption of amazing content, I now lead AI Audio partnerships and business development at Adobe. Prior to Adobe, I was Descript's first business hire. As a member of the Descript leadership team, I established and led business development/partnerships, corporate development, sales/enterprise/customer success, community, and bits of marketing. My experience includes leading teams behind the Academy-Award winning Avid Pro Tools, pioneering artificial intelligence in music creation and production with my startup Imagine Research, serving as an executive at Emmy-winning iZotope, and founding and leading the industry-education nonprofit Real Industry.I lecture on media technology and business at Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Michigan. I was featured as a Bloomberg Businessweek Innovator, and interviewed by 60 Minutes, Forbes, Billboard, and over 100 podcasts and publications. My strategy is to build and execute business and technology partnerships across academia, industry, startups, and creative communities that create significant business value. I am a leader, community builder, ambitious optimist, and tenacious deliverer of results.Key Skills: Community building, business development, product and platform evangelism, executive leadership, technology incubation, applied research commercialization, new business validation, cross-functional management across engineering, design, marketing, HR, legal, and executive teams.