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Portfolio Acceleration

The goal of the Climate Draft is to accelerate efforts combating climate change by mobilizing high-impact individuals. The inaugural Climate Draft in October 2021 focused on connecting top talent from the tech industry with venture-backed climate tech startups as potential advisors, board members, angel investors, and/or executives. The 1-month virtual.

Climate Draft is an industry-wide effort to attract, educate, and activate new talent into climate tech.

Los Angeles, California, US

Berlin, DE

Santa Barbara, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Joined Swing Left full-time to lead product management, analytics, and acquisition marketing for the 2018 Midterm elections. Helped achieve $11M raised and 7.5M voter contacts in 84 swing districts (winning 55).
• Worked closely with Head of Technology to build out and lead a distributed cross-functional product development team of 7 – including design, engineering, data science, and product management.
• Conceived and led execution of an entirely new product to mobilize our user-base to action, dramatically increasing conversion rates and resulting in hundreds of thousands of volunteer hours.
• Led data-driven segmentation of our >700k subscriber email list to drive activation and retention.
• Oversaw >$500k in online ad spend, including conversion funnel instrumentation and optimization.
• Developed and led product strategy for, #TheLastWeekend, an unprecedented collaboration between 60+ progressive political groups resulting in >730k volunteer hours committed.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Left LVMH in June 2017 to become a full-time volunteer with Tech for Campaigns, a non-profit pairing skilled volunteers from the technology industry with down-ballot Democratic campaigns.
• Oversaw 16 volunteer project teams across 10 campaigns focused on website design/development, data mining, email marketing, Facebook and Google advertising, as well as developing and documenting internal best practices.
• Worked with campaign managers to assess their needs and identify online marketing opportunities, then created proposals for well-scoped consulting projects to be executed by volunteer teams.

Paris, FR

• Reported directly to Ian Rogers, Chief Digital Officer of LVMH, the world’s largest luxury conglomerate comprised of more than 70 global brands. Oversaw projects involving multiple corporate teams, LVMH brands, and.
• Led cross-functional team to gather customer service requirements of multiple LVMH brands globally, research available solutions in various markets, and then formulate a strategy and multi-million Euro investment case.
• Worked with LVMH’s investment arm, various corporate teams, and brands to recruit, select, and support startups from around the world to participate in the LVMH Innovation Award in 2016 & 2017
• Acted as a liaison between senior LVMH executives and technology industry executives and investors, including organizing and leading executive tours to Apple, Google, Tesla, and Facebook
• Led creative development and production of 4 internal marketing films for senior management

New York, US

Assisting with integration of awe.sm

San Francisco, US

San Francisco, US

awe.sm provides a platform and tools to bring performance marketing methodologies to social media. We're focused on helping our customers measure the real business value driven by marketing activities on social media services, like Facebook and Twitter, and improving the success of those activities over time.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Led cross-functional team responsible for the strategy, product development, and marketing of Yahoo! Widgets, a globally-deployed multi-faceted product with millions of users and a robust ecosystem of thousands of independent developers.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Served as chief of staff to EVP of Connected Life. Participated in all aspects of the formation and operation of the 500-person global business unit responsible for mobile, desktop, broadband, and digital home.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Initial member of newly-formed Corporate Strategy team, working very closely with M&A teams, business unit and product team leaders, and senior management to formulate proactive strategies and competitive responses.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366627/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380817/

US

Completed comprehensive CampaignCorps campaign training program, and was then assigned to a NJ Legislature race. Acted as Finance Director and speechwriter: raised and managed a $100,000 budget; prepared public remarks and press releases; and created and maintained campaign website.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362506/