I run marketing for the leader in high performance, S3 compatible, multi cloud object storage. Built for the challenges of AI data infrastructure, MinIO's cloud-native object storage server has more than 1.7 Billion! Docker pulls, 31K members of our Slack community and 46K GitHub Stars. We have won TechTarget's Storage Product of the Year (2x), GigOm Object Storage Leader (3x), a Gartner Cool Vendor mention, a Gartner Peer Insights award, inclusion on RedPoint's InfraRed100 (2x), and Datanami's Reader's Choice award (2x) - just to name a few. MinIO is the only object storage system capable of delivering the performance at scale to serve as the primary storage layer for advanced analytics, database and AI/ML workloads with the benchmarks to prove it. Check us out at www.min.io, @minio or on our Slack channel. I was the company's first marketing hire and built out our content/product marketing, demand-gen, content marketing, field marketing, partner marketing, customer advocacy and BDR functions. Our tech stack is considered the blueprint for modern, data-driven, ABM-oriented, B2B SaaS tech companies. We earned a unicorn valuation in our Series B without any salespeople - 100% of revenue came inbound. It still does three years later. Needless to say, we are hiring.

I ran marketing for one of the most decorated startups in enterprise-class artificial intelligence. From our award-winning platform through to our application specific solutions, Ayasdi is transforming the financial services and healthcare industries through the practical application of intelligent software.Funded by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, IVP, Khosla, CenterView Partners, Draper Nexus, Citi Ventures, GE Ventures and Floodgate Capital, the company has built a mature, enterprise ready suite of applications that fundamentally alter how organizations interact with and learn from their data. The company has been named to Fast Company's most innovative list twice, the Forbes Fintech50 twice, won the Accenture Healthtech Challenge, the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer award and was named the #1 AI solution in Risktech by Chartis twice.

I led the marketing function for GPU database and visual analytics pioneer, MapD (now Heavy.ai). Backed by Google Ventures, In-Q-Tel (the US intelligence community's venture arm), Verizon, Nvidia and Vanedge Partners, the company is delivering extraordinary performance improvements over legacy database technologies - in some cases 1000x faster. MapD puts billions of rows of data into the realm of realtime results, revolutionizing how organizations think about their analytical challenges. MapD was named a Cool Vendor by Gartner, one of the 10 Coolest Startups in Big Data by CRN, the Startup of the Year by Business Intelligence Group, an Innovation by Design Winner by Fast Company and a Barclays Open Innovation winner.

Ayasdi is on a mission to make the world’s complex data useful by automating and accelerating the insight discovery process. The company’s suite of Machine Intelligent applications employs Topological Data Analysis (TDA) to solve the hardest problems confronting the healthcare and financial services industries.Developed by Stanford computational mathematicians, Ayasdi’s approach combines machine learning algorithms, abundant compute power and topological summaries to revolutionize the process for converting data into business value. Ayasdi is funded by leading venture capitalists including Khosla Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, FLOODGATE, Kleiner Perkins, Citi Ventures, Centerview Capital and DraperNexus. The company counts many of the Fortune 500 as clients. I was responsible for corporate marketing in my role, covering web, social, events, public relations, analyst relations, advertising and partner marketing. I worked closely with the sales, product development and product marketing teams as well as the demand generation teams. Ayasdi is one of the hottest and most decorated startups in Silicon Valley, having been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2015, a Fast Company Most Innovative Company for two straight years in addition to dozens of other lists of the most interesting and innovative companies in the world.

Ran product, customer success, demand generation and corporate marketing for Ace Metrix, the new standard for determining the effectiveness of video advertising. Ace Metrix is now part of iSpot.tv's solution. On television or online, Ace Metrix delivers data on the effectiveness of video advertising in real time, providing a portfolio of options to advertisers - from enhancing media planning decisions to developing more effective creative to providing competitive context in ways never before possible. A winner of multiple awards (AlwaysOn, Red Herring North America 100, Red Herring Global 100) Ace Metrix revolutionized how the world's leading brands activate their most expensive marketing line item with a SaaS platform focused on speed, usability and actionability. During my tenure we used our constant flow of data to re-define the concept of content marketing - on our blog, in the media and through the Ace Metrix BLACKBOOK. The company gained coverage in Forbes, Fortune, NYT, FT, WSJ, AdWeek, AdAge, Fox News, CNBC and a host of other outlets. In particular, the Ace Metrix BLACKBOOK quickly became the standard for advertising performance in the industry. On the demand generation side, we developed an innovative, highly tailored outbound program which we coupled with an awards program - driving both awareness and leads on a quarterly cadence - resulting in more than two dozen major advertisers per quarter via this single program. Additionally, the company invested in a high-profile thought leadership events at Cannes and during Advertising Week to drive exposure for the company and its unique approach.On the digital side we grew unique visitors to the website by 130% and increased our Twitter following 5x providing a unique channel for us to engage real-time events such as the Super Bowl. During my tenure the company grew revenue by over 1,300% and customers by more than 10x.

As the VP of Strategic Marketing was responsible for product marketing, technical marketing and business development for 2Wire's products and services.2Wire was purchased by Pace for $475 million in December 2010.Successfully created and executed integrated product and positioning strategy around total cost of ownership and next generation applications enablement based on detailed analysis of financial and market trends at key customers. Drove go-to-market strategy and execution for three enterprise software launches from business intelligence to device management and services management. Directed the introduction and implementation of a solutions selling approach for 2Wire; shifting the company’s historical focus on devices to one more integrated with the company’s software assets (device and enterprise) and its customer care assets thereby leveraging the company’s complete value proposition. Structured and maintained relationships, negotiated terms and delivered implementations with key 2Wire partners including Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco and Ericsson.

Oversaw product strategy and product marketing for 2Wire’s entire range of products including hardware vehicles, device software, enterprise software and media products. Created and implemented 2Wire’s first long term strategic planning process including customer segmentation, product portfolio analysis, go-to-market models and financial modeling. Presented strategic plan to key members of Board of Directors and at the request of Executive Staff, assumed responsibility for implementation of those recommendations. Instituted a rigorous, cross-functional launch planning and execution process for new product introduction including enhanced competitive benchmarking, tool development, playbook development and extensive training of the sales force.

Oversaw the program and product management transition from hardware to software model and subsequent migration of the business model to accompany that transition. Developed and released 6 versions of software on the Homezone platform containing 50+ new features. In partnership with AT&T and DISH, grew installed base of 2Wire software by over 120% within 3 quarters. Designed and implemented new approach for tracking and managing software defects with AT&T and Echostar resulting in significantly enhanced visibility and efficiency. Led implementation of the Blockbuster OnDemand solution from concept to completion in 4.5 months including the development of new backend management systems, a new user experience and installation flow, new device, new system on a chip port (SoC) and new manufacturing model (JDM). Led marketing team for 2Wire on Blockbuster’s OnDemand solution including packaging, consumer offer, press, trial programs and industrial design.

Purchased by Ericsson for $1.4 billion.Drove all business development activities for IPTV in the Americas hemisphere. Worked as a member of the CTO team to create product strategy for new markets and new accounts including AT&T, Verizon, Qwest and Bell Canada. Developed the cross-product, eco-system partner program for infrastructure and software partnerships that grew to 30 companies including Microsoft, Alcatel, Cisco/Scientific Atlanta and Siemens.

GoldPocket was purchased by TANDBERG Television for $80 million. Developed the iTV go to market strategy for IPTV including features, distribution approach and alliances. Negotiated and delivered an interactive product strategy engagement with major a US service provider. Frequent speaker on the subject of cross-platform interactivity as it related to IPTV.

Responsible for product management, corporate marketing, professional services and business development. Negotiated and managed ongoing relationships with over 60 partners including Walt Disney Corp, Children’s Television Workshop (Sesame), TV Guide, GuideWorks, Tandberg, Pioneer, Motorola and Scientific Atlanta. Led program and product management for ICTV’s initial deployments and trials including Charter, TimeWarner and Mayo Clinic systems.Led development of the company’s core product, HeadendWare, through its launch and initial deployments. Achieved Motorola Acadia validation for the product and its subsequent delivery to Charter Communications.

Managed the product development process from idea phase to engineering beta for the first redesign of the company’s core platform in order to reach the small hotels market. The redesign saved the company more than $1M a year while enabling access to new markets and greater profitability in existing markets.

Provide auditing, accounting and consulting services to a variety of clients across several industries.

Provided political and economic risk analysis to investment banks, hedge funds and money managers. As a member of the firm’s founding team, participated in strategic planning, product development, resource allocation and marketing decisions for the firm whose revenues grew to exceed $5 million. Frequent participant on CNBC’s Squawk Box and Power Lunch segments.

Directed and coordinated the Congressional notification and tracking systems for foreign sales of over $23 billion in U.S. weaponry. Prepared the briefing books and background material for Secretary of State James A. Baker’s testimony before Congressional committees.