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United States

New York, US

Reaching 50,000+ founders, funders, and operators every month and showing them how the VC world really works.

San Francisco, CA, US

V5 Summit is the leading event focused on the intersection of AI and Venture Capital. Visit v5summit.com for more information, or join us in May 2024 at our inaugural event.

Creators, investors, and subject matter experts investing in the best companies in the Creator Economy.So far we've made investments into:- ConvertKit (growth/secondary)- RightMessage (pre-seed)- Carry (Series A)

New York City, NY, US

Build production-ready AI agents and features using cutting-edge models and techniques via a simple developer-friendly API. No AI expertise required. Founded by alums of DigitalOcean, Microsoft Research, and Facebook.

San Francisco, CA, US

Investor in 20+ early stage startups w/ 3 profitable exits, 1 🦄, and more to come. Powered by the GoingVC community and alumni network.Portfolio+Learn More @ https://www.goingvc.com/goingvc-partners

San Francisco, CA, US

GoingVC is the leading VC career accelerator program with 500+ members and alums around the world, coupled with an associated VC investment arm (GoingVC Partners).Visit goingvc.com to learn more, and to join our community of thousands of angels, investors, and operators.

New York, NY, US

The enterprise platform for production AI. Backed by Microsoft, Boldstart, Eniac, Greycroft, Resolute, Notation, and other prominent VCs and angelsI'm an advisor, investor, helped the company connect with several sales prospects, and introduced them to one of their first paying customers.

New York, NY, US

As Director of the Marketplace (200+ Apps and Partners) product group I led a cross-functional team of ~20 Product Managers, Partner Managers, and Engineers delivering high revenue growth and operational efficiency. I reported to the Chief Product Officer and was a member of DigitalOcean's Product Leadership Team. I joined the Marketplace as the founding.

Quantopian is a platform for you to build and test trading algorithms. You don’t have to be a professional quant to get started. We provide a simple API and powerful analytical tools so that you can quickly start generating and testing ideas. Quantopian's investors included Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, and.

Helped this open source startup with introductions to relevant potential partners, customers, and investors. Also advised on go-to-market strategy and content strategy.

We work with tech executives, venture capital firms, and entrepreneurs to help them build their brand and reach through content.Our customers have been featured on leading sites like Huffington Post, Techcrunch, and Inc.com.Visit bemaven.co for more details, or just contact me directly.

Seattle, WA, US

Worked as a product manager in Amazon's display advertising business. Key accomplishments: - Launched our brand lift measurement product globally.- Partnered with our data science team to pilot a new retail data product with 2 of Amazon's largest CPG vendors- Planned and executed one of Amazon's first cross-platform advertising tests, the results of which.

New York City, New York, US

Mentor for Techstars Cloud program

Seattle, WA, US

• While at AWS, I led development and execution of our go-to-market strategy for Big Data and Hadoop solutions in a hybrid role spanning product marketing, partner management, business development/sales, and sales.
• Launched Elastic MapReduce Bootcamp, AWS’s 1st Big Data customer success program* Partnered with sales team to help close 1 of AWS’s 5 largest Elastic MapReduce customers
• Worked with product team and AWS executive management to help launch new EC2 reserved instance type
• Delivered webinars, sales presentations, and training to groups as large as 200

I served on the Board of Advisers for VAlign, a software company that sells a virtual infrastructure management and chargeback solution. My involvement included assistance with business plan development, go-to-market strategy, and fundraising.

Armonk, New York, US

• (Acquired by IBM for $1.5B+: https://www.reuters.com/technology/ibm-acquire-software-provider-turbonomic-over-15-bln-2021-04-29/)
• Employee #1 and 1st business team hire
• Drove Customer Development Process during which time we navigated a major product and business model pivot. Led over 100 customer conversations. Synthesized customer feedback and worked with product management and.
• Managed alpha/beta program and increased the number of participating organizations by 400%
• Recruited, trained, and managed metrics driven telesales team that delivered some of VMTurbo’s first customer wins
• Developed relationships with high profile bloggers that contributed to 4X year-over-year increase in website visits

Responsible for sourcing and due diligence of early stage technology companies at $160 million venture capital fund. Sectors of interest included enterprise IT, cloud computing, and digital media.Developed investment analysis for and supported closing of 4 equity transactions totaling over $25 million. Board observer for physical layer switch company.

US

Chart Venture Partners was founded with ~$100M to invest in early stage companies with proven entrepreneurs and technologies. Chart Venture Partners is building successful, enduring companies with best of breed technologies for government and commercial markets. At Chart I was responsible for screening enterprise software and IT security-related deal.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Always grateful to Peter Bell & Neill Occhiogrosso for having given a wet behind the ears MBA student a chance to work with a great firm.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• (Promoted from Senior Consultant and Consulting Architect)
• Managed 12-person, $2MM yearly run rate professional services unit that exceeded quarterly margin goals.
• Designed and implemented VMware cloud computing solutions that generated over $10 million in client savings
• Proposed and worked with sales team to close over $500,000 in professional services business
• Created all sales, marketing, and delivery assets for flagship Server Consolidation Assessment service offering
• Earned Practice Development Award for exceptional intellectual property contributions and teamwork and Road Warrior award for high revenue production

US

• Managed infrastructure ("DevOps") engineering team and a $1 million annual budget. Youngest member of management team. Reported to CTO.
• Led internal and vendor technical teams that supported FOX’s 2001 Super Bowl website. A record 1.3 million unique visitors and 3 million pages were served by FOXSports.com on game day
• Performed technical due diligence on more than 20 business development partners
• Reduced server hardware costs by 50% by integrating FOXSports.com with Akamai’s content distribution network

New York, NY, US

• (Promoted from Associate and Senior Associate)
• Deployed Sun, BEA, and Oracle infrastructure that supported over one million Chase Online banking customers
• Managed team responsible for installation of over $10 million of hardware and software on behalf of MLB.com

The Internet Access Company (TIAC) was the premier Internet access provider in the Northeast during the mid 90's. I did everything from administrating DNS servers to taking customer service calls. It was a great learning experience and provided me with some pocket money in high school and college.TIAC was eventually acquired by PSI.

Mba, Finance, Entrepreneurship

Bse, Computer Science

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