I’m a serial entrepreneur with two decades of experience successfully launching and scaling new products and brands. Most recently, I was the Founder and CEO of Man Crates, a tastefully irreverent brand synonymous with unforgettable men’s gifts. Inc 5000 awarded us the #1 Fastest Growing Bay Area company in 2016, and we scaled to well over $50MM annually prior to our acquisition by Modern Gourmet Foods in 2023.As CEO, I drove corporate strategy, vision, culture, and fundraising while recruiting and motivating high-performance teams across all areas of our business. I also managed brand and performance marketing, built our award-winning customer service function, scaled cross-border manufacturing and logistics, and managed everything in between.Additionally, I teach two classes at Stanford: 1) Startup Garage, one of the most popular classes at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and 2) Launchpad, an entrepreneurship class at Stanford’s renowned Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the d.school). Outside Stanford, I regularly advise venture-backed and early-stage startups on problem identification, customer discovery, product-market fit, brand building and fundraising.If you would like to discuss opportunities to work together on a consulting or fractional CEO/COO basis, please contact me.