Leading Partnerships, Business Development, Grants, and Ecosystem for COTI and enabling regulatory compliant privacy.

Designed, led, and launched the largest grants program for regulated financial services on blockchain—$50+ millionLed the end-to-end grant lifecycle from screening and interviewing to awarding and grant fulfillmentConducted market and category analysis to identify and recruit top-performing projects, supporting the end-to-end financial digital asset lifecycle for ecosystem buildersLed inbound and outbound business development initiatives that targeted regulated finance-focused developers and projects who would enhance the ecosystemCollaborated with TradFi and FinTech brands and products to facilitate their integration into the Provenance Blockchain Foundation ecosystem, expanding the organization's reach and influenceLed developer relations and cross-channel developer community growth

Led the marketing, growth, and engineering team for a creative agency that designed campaigns and products for clients across China, Australia, New Zealand, UK, and the US. We worked with companies such as Unilever, Officemax, Westpac, JHerro etc...as well as SMEs and small local businesses.Today, Cinderhouse is a playground where we work on quite weird things that blend technology, creativity, and altruism.

Led the blockchain engineering team and products, concentrating on off-the-shelf IP plays for top entertainment companies and entertainersLed blockchain engineering and product development for a skunkworks division, while securing over $10,000,000 in grants (valuation at the time of contracting)Was asked to take over and revamp the marketing department and brand after 6 monthsLed and launched blended category blockchain products that leveraged AI, art, and entertainment

Spearheaded the Developer Relations department, driving adoption of the largest token on the Solana Blockchain—50m+ wallets—and designed and orchestrated strategic growth initiativesOrchestrated comprehensive community growth strategies, SDK (Go, Python, TypeScript, Swift, and Kotlin) and dApp development, and developer marketing campaigns to promote engagementEnhanced developer experience by recreating and refining documentation, SDK and product demos, and developer education materials that streamlined the customer integration processProvided expert guidance to dApp, app, and project developers, empowering them to bring innovative products to market by leveraging the Kin and Solana ecosystems

Starting from zero, recruited, built, and managed high-performing engineering, marketing, and content development teams—fully remote staff across six countriesPioneered product and growth strategies, achieving 700,000 students and 1,000,000 sign-ups across 197 countries, expanding the organization's global reachLed technical product development and marketing with strategic partnerships with industry leaders like Facebook, EY, Unilever, IKEA, and Barclays, surpassing KPIs and objectives for each collaborationLed successful expansion into UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Spain, and Bangladesh while advising local teams on technical product and marketing while leading the creation of standardizing growth playbooks Designed and directed Acumen Academy's inaugural global conference, exceeding attendance targets by 230% with representation from 120+ countriesCompletely revamped the tech stack and spearheaded the development of AcumenAcademy.org using Hubspot, Salesforce, React, and other technologiesInnovated Ask Acumen, a helper bot leveraging Slack API, Bolt, Airtable API, Google App Engine, DialogFlow, Node.js, and GPT-3 to streamline user support

A social entrepreneurship case study founded by current and former international school educators and administrators that leveraged profit from educational products and services sold to private schools to fund education initiatives in low-income countries.

Grew revenue by 350% while leading the growth, recruitment, and training of a diverse multinational team of nineteenOversaw all non-academic operations, including business development, marketing, web app, campus development, and government relations, driving overall organizational growthDesigned and launched growth hacks including the technical and product development of thenanjinger.com which became the largest foreign media outlet for a city of over 8.5 million

Founded and successfully exited a soft-skills consultancy in Beijing during the lead-up to the 2008 Olympics. We advised companies such as IBM-Lenovo, LG, Langham Hotels, Elong.com, Match.com etc... in soft-skills management and comms.