I co-founded and lead Civic Health Project, a nonpartisan grantmaking and operating philanthropy. We have awarded 70+ grants to grassroots bridge-building organizations, creative artists, and academic reseachers whose efforts demonstrate high potential to reduce toxic polarization, improve civil discourse, and strengthen democracy in America. Major strategic initiatives and organizations backed by Civic Health Project include Bridge Entertainment Labs, the Strengthening Democracy Challenge, America Talks, and Mismatch.org.

I currently coach the competitive LOWkeynote program at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, where I also served until Dec 2022 as a year-round Lecturer in Management, co-teaching a popular recurring course in Strategic Communications. In Fall 2021, I designed and co-taught a new course in the GSB's Leadership for Society Program. I have also served periodically as a communications coach for the GSB's incoming MBA1 students.

The Partnership for American Democracy | More Perfect Campaign is a collaborative nerve center attracting greater energy and resources to advance American democracy. The More Perfect Campaign amplifies the impact of democracy reform leaders by bringing the field together to build alliances, secure funding, and sustain public attention for democracy renewal at this inflection point in America’s history.

I co-founded and co-facilitate Citizen Assembly and Deliberation Allies (CADA), a free, open, membership based community of learning and practice that formed in mid-2023, at the American Democracy Summit, to explore ways to advance citizen deliberation models in the U.S. CADA's 200+ members meet every two months to share best practices, showcase projects, and discuss challenges around ramping citizen deliberation.

I currently serve as a board member of +More Perfect Union, a 501c3 organization that inspires and equips talented civic leaders (many with U.S. military backgrounds) to fund and lead local service chapters, called "brickyards," in communities across America. +MPU brings a strong bridging focus to their work in politically, culturally, and economically divided communities, to foster civic strength and renewal across lines of difference.

I currently serve on the board of Listen First Project, a 501c3 organization that leads the collaborative movement to heal America by building relationships and bridging divides. We enhance the impact, visibility and voice of the interpersonal bridge building field by aggregating, aligning, and amplifying the efforts of 350+ #ListenFirst Coalition partners into large scale, collective campaigns and strategies. As a Listen First Project board member, and in partnership with USA TODAY and AllSides, I launched and ran the first-ever America Talks, a nationwide event engaging thousands of Americans in face-to-face conversation across differences.

I currently serve on the advisory council of Business for America, a coalition of civic-minded business leaders and purpose-driven companies who are ready to take action and promote government that works for all Americans.With an understanding of your interests, stakeholders, and community, we connect civic-minded business leaders and purpose-driven companies with opportunities to get involved and take action locally and nationally.

Senior marketing executive responsible for developing the marketing strategy, messaging, and go-to-market model for Intel Data Center Group's advanced solutions. Launched Intel's first-ever platform brand for its $16B data center business. Technology focus areas include: analytics and AI; supercomputing; high performance computing (HPC); service provider networking / NfV.

Chief Marketing Officer of fast-growing, award-winning company (subsequently acquired by Nvidia) that provides management software for big data and cloud computing environments. Solution capabilities include deployment, provisioning, and operational management for high performance computing (HPC) clusters, Hadoop clusters, and OpenStack environments. Responsible for driving global marketing function to help achieve the company's aggressive growth targets across all sectors.

Program Director, Marketing Strategy and Operational Planning, Solutions Software (2012-2013)Managed marketing strategy and operational planning for one of IBM's largest and fastest-growing software divisions, including strategic planning, pipeline management, budget management, organization and resource planning, and acquisition integration activities.Director of Marketing, Enterprise Content Management (2010-2012)Global Executive in charge of marketing for IBM's enterprise content management (ECM) software portfolio. Responsible for defining and driving IBM's worldwide marketing message, strategy and execution for ECM.Director of Marketing, Service Management and Cloud Computing (2006-2010)Global executive in charge of product marketing for IBM's service management software portfolio. Responsible for worldwide marketing messaging, strategy, and execution for cloud computing software, business and performance automation software. Oversaw integration of seven acquired marketing teams; created worldwide product demo plan.

CMO / Vice President, Global Marketing (2003-2006)Reported directly to CEO, responsible for the worldwide marketing efforts of a public company generating ~$160M per year in annual revenue. Managed all marketing-related functions including globally dispersed team, ~$5M global program budget, strategic marketing, field marketing, competitive analysis, market research, public relations, and pricing functions.Vice President, Corporate Communications (2001-2003)Reported directly to CEO, led the Investor Relations, Public Relations, Analyst Relations, and North America Field Marketing organizations for Micromuse. Evolved from Dir. of Investor Relations (reporting to CFO) to VP of Corporate Communications during this time period.Product Manager (1999-2001)Responsible for managing Micromuse's voice, telco, and reporting product lines, including product messaging, marketing, and technical success. Managed company price list. Oversaw product delivery efforts of developers, testers, documenters, and marketing personnel. Interfaced and negotiated with OEM suppliers of software components. Supported field sales activities.

Strategy consultant for Accenture's (then Andersen Consulting's) Communications and High Tech Strategy Practice, based in London. Consulted for telecommunication hardware vendors on projects related to corporate turnaround, M&A, and new technology investment. Also served as summer intern in Accenture's Sydney office in 1997, between 1st and 2nd year of business school.

Delivered over 600 live and remote presentations as the "face of the company" for global videoconferencing team. Wrote and delivered executive, sales, user conference, and trade show presentations. Managed team responsible for videoconferencing product demos, product and sales training, sales and partner events, videoconferencing services, and the company's executive briefing center.

At request of Congress, investigated allegations of federal government waste, fraud, and abuse. Researched efficacy of farm-related aid to the Caribbean, seismic safety of federal building inventory, and fairness of IRS practices. Contributed to team-written reports to be used by Congress in introducing legislation, conducting hearings, and / or otherwise advocating for change in government practices and policies.