I lead GitHub Fund, GitHub Accelerator, GitHub Sponsors and work on fun initiatives across Microsoft and GitHub related to open source like funding, policy and partnerships.GitHub Fund: https://resources.github.com/github-fund/GitHub Accelerator: https://github.com/acceleratorGitHub Accelerator: https://github.com/sponsors

Mentor Alexa Accelerator companies

Investor or advisor in select companies and funds.Funds: Expertise in strategy, portfolio construction, fundraising, community and platform, thought leadership.Companies: Exec Coaching, Strat/Corp Finance and Strategy, product, BD and GTM. BlueprintValidated SERVCommerceFAVSEmergeUpsideMinoaGuruStyleseatLentesplusYumiBlokableMentorcam CrimpdDrop PartySalutHitchTacit Therapeutics (f.k.a. U1 Bio)Nutr NucleusVaultCAFTCPJelly

Building for private capital across venture firms and portfolio companies.

Lead BD for startups and VCsLaunched early stage program for accelerators and incubatorsLaunched first ever external Amazon program for under represented founders and investors. Women Founders Represent with All Raise and AfroTech World with Blavity.https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/alexa/alexa-startups/alexa-fund/women-founders-representhttps://afrotech.com/how-8-black-owned-startups-made-their-voices-heard-at-afrotech-world-founders-showcase-with-amazon-alexa-startups-and-the-alexa-fundSupported early discussion on how to support diverse and underrepresented founders/investors. This evolved to Catalyst Capital program.

Led portfolio development for Alexa Fund, Amazon's $200MM Corporate Venture Capital program dedicated to investing in voice and AI startups. Grew portfolio from 33 to 100+ portfolio companies, +80 deals.Lead product, technical program, and business development management support for portfolio companies. As of Q3 2020, cumulative portfolio raised $4.8B including two SPAC IPOs.- Corporate innovation programming programs and initiatives

Grew and scaled business operations, inventory management, planning and execution for 8 categories - Home Entertainment, Home Audio, PC, Camera, Mobile, Wireless, Musical Instruments, and Office Products on Amazon.ca.

- Manage portfolio companies of Alexa Fund (pre-seed to late stage)- Manage early-stage pipeline programs, sourcing and diligence.- Support investors, accelerators and incubators across commercial and university sectors.- Lead startup programs- Lead diversity initiatives

Evangelizing, connecting, and building the Seattle start-up community. Message me to learn more and get involved a StartupGrind Seattle event.

Teaching Financial Modeling within Business with the following take-aways:• Understanding of financial statements and what the value drivers of a business are• Understanding how to navigate and build a model in excel• Understanding of how to evaluate the outputs in relative perspectives• Knowledge of tools to evaluate businesses for better investing

RPM Ventures Portfolio CompanyRaised small Preseed round to build the next generation of mobile collaboration infrastructure. At Collabrify.IT, we made mobile collaboration easier, synchronous, and real-time. By building synchronous collaboration into mobile infrastructure, people build on the Four C's: critical thinking, communications, collaboration, and creativity.Led product and BD/GTM

RPM Ventures Portfolio CompanyOwned demand gen, campus marketing and supported community program.

Worked with portfolio companies to identify go to market strategies, establish product market fit, create market maps to evaluate value-chains, and participate in diligence of businesses. Collaborated to create market map of connected car.https://www.rpmvc.com/connected-car-convergence-mobile-auto-internet-things/

Student Advisor for $7 million student-led venture capital fund. Fund focuses on tech, clean tech, and healthcare.Responsible for performing due diligence on investment opportunities, collaborating across the entire investment decision making process, making investment decisions, connecting with VC's and entrepreneurs, and evaluating current portfolio businesses.

Teaching assistant to Prof. David Brophy for Finance 626 - Global Private Equity and Finance 325 -Entrepreneurial Finance. Provided office hours and student support for both classes. Helped students with core skills such as modeling, company valuation, and market mapping. Also graded core projects and assignments.Evaluated students pitch decks for private equity transaction process for a simulated deal. During the course of the project, students reviewed an investment banking deal book on the acquisition target, analyzed all of the due diligence information that a buyer would obtain in an acquisition process and make a presentation to real banks in order to obtain financing for the deal.

Product Manager and Vendor Management evaluating private label opportunities within the Kitchen Category, including dinnerware sets, flatware, and glassware.

Assisted development of innovation index for investing and defining GTM strategy for new website and content

Caterva uses machine learning and AI to provided recommendation solutions for increasing engagement on websites.First generation Big Data, Machine Learning, and Social Analytics.•Developed channel and segment strategy aligning to penetration capability, product-market fit, pricing strategy, and volume/margin strategy• Generated lead pipeline of +1k leads at publishers, retailers, content generators, associations, and platforms• Delivered customer feedback to CEO and Technical lead to develop product strategy, roadmap, and features driving better customer acquisition Business Development for enterprise Saas SDK/API startupRPM Ventures Portfolio CompanyAcquired by FB

Strategic Planning: •Collaborate with Managing Directors and Business Office to shape culture, motivate, and solidify the organization in the newly integrated company during the worst housing recession in company history•Work with Business Office to understand project's strategic impacts and provides input for an integrated project plan to mitigate risk and allow successful implementation•Designed and implemented new product stage-gate / business case processes, including: analysis processes, controls, score cards, BRD / business case documentations, and enabled systems critical to the successful growth of the business in a cost effective manner•Gather business requirements, perform gap analysis, establish project metrics and continuously monitor performance against the approved planPricing: •Developed 5 year strategic plan for aligning 3 brand pricing portfolio and maintaining compliance in a satisfactory manner for the customer while aligning to core strategic initiatives and strategy•Collaborate with market research team to understand competitive strategy/positioning and integrate results into business planning•Responsible for analyzing pricing programs that drive business growth & customer loyalty with Channel Marketing Team.Finance: •Finance business partner ensuring product line profitability, business case justification and executive approval, speed-to-market for successful new product launches: Launched Merillat Coreguard, Kraftmaid / Lowe's Vanity Business, Lowe's Countertop Business, OPP / Entry Level Multifamily Builder business, 2 Kraftmaid product line refreshes, 1 Merillat product line refresh•Responsible for adapting Profit Models and Finance procedures in the NPD process to changes in business requirements•Analyze and provide recommendations to enhance existing product line performance (SKU profitability, SKU rationalization, etc.)Corporate Innovation - Leader of innovation programming and culture; content and training

Corporate Marketing, Financial Planning and Analysis, and Corporate Development•Lead and collaborated with business wide research teams on macro-trend projects to understand key risks and opportunities and presented results to executive management leading to new product development, new business ventures, and global expansion•Produce quarterly analyses for executives of current economic conditions, peers, key customers, suppliers, consumers, and market forecast.•Contributed to Corp Dev diligence with economic/financial modeling, and business case development including top line growth, cost structure, and capital allocation. •Conduct research and prepare research papers for market analysis to enhance working knowledge of market conditions and business opportunities•Contributed to numerous business unit projects for strategic planning and forecasting, sales and marketing analysis, and industry intelligence projects•Perform detailed business analysis for key monthly financial statements, budgeting and long-range planning processes•Developed key process improvements related to the monthly financial & operational tools•Provide support to Investor Relations by creating presentations and reviewing/analyzing peers, customers, and competitors earnings data•Assisted Treasury in assessing and valuing commodity hedging programs

•Aided in developing an economic model for metropolitan quality-of-life indices and valuation of urban amenities•Collected data involving variables ranging from income to fiscal spending attributes and other various city amenities•Constructed standard linear regressions with dummy variables and fixed effects of citiesFor review of paper see NBER Working PaperW14981: http://www.nber.org/papers/w14981albouy/Cityvalue/cityvalue.pdf