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At Catching Air, an advisory services firm, I guide companies from ideation to execution across multiple domains. Areas of focus include: ➣ Strategic Business Transformation & Growth➣ Startup Development ➣ Technology Innovation➣ Corporate Operation➣ Business Development & Partnerships➣ Product Strategy & Development

Arch Platform Technologies provides a high-performance studio-in-the-cloud IaC solution for compute-intensive and design-intensive enterprises. As CEO of the company, I forged and maintained strategic partnerships with industry leaders—including AWS, HP, Autodesk, LucidLink, Avid, Hammerspace, and Epic Games—and developed and executed strategies to expand target sectors from media/entertainment to data science and AI, healthcare, architecture, engineering, and construction. DELIVERED RESULTS INCLUDE:✔ Rebuilt technology/company from the ground up, achieving a 10x revenue increase over 4 years without external funding.✔ Led and completed 18-month intensive infrastructure change, enabling the successful pivot of the product from small independent production/VFX companies to larger enterprise companies.✔ Secured contracts with some of the world’s largest corporations in broadcasting, advertising, and game development.✔ Significantly enhanced product competitiveness and achieved global reach, driving recurring revenue from 38% to 95% and enterprise customer revenue from 2% to 74% over a 2-year period. ✔ Executed real-time customer insights survey/discussions, resulting in valuable input leading to implementation of optimized pricing structure and quicker deployment methods; time from initial contact to quote reduced by 80%.

New York, Ny

I executed and oversaw day-to-day operations of an award-winning independent feature film production company while creatively producing and sourcing funding for films. DELIVERED RESULTS INCLUDE:✔ Produced 4 award-winning independent features achieving premieres at top festivals, including Sundance and Tribeca.✔ Delivered more than 100% capital return on 2 films and all films secured global/top-tier distribution with entertainment companies and streaming platforms, including Sony Pictures Classics, Netflix, Magnolia, and The Orchard. ✔ Designed a hiring platform (Connect-In) increasing below-the-line diversity for underrepresented groups in live action production along with creating an assessment and risk mitigation tool (RedBird Systems), streamlining the production process.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Salient Sciences is a company offering a revolutionary audio and video forensics product. As head of strategic development at Salient Sciences, I led the integration of customers and dealers into the new (audio and video combined) product line as a result of the acquisition of Salient Stills by Digital Audio Corporation (DAC), a forensic audio company.DELIVERED RESULTS INCLUDE:✔ Expanded international market share throughout Europe, Asia, and Latin America by forging new strategic relationships. ✔ Achieved 100% retention of dealer network from Salient Stills into Salient Sciences while overseeing successful integration of audio features into the video product.

Boston, Ma

As CEO and founder of Salient Stills, a company providing a revolutionary way to create high-resolution stills from video footage, I led an organization comprised of engineering, product, quality assurance, sales, press, and marketing teams. A large part of my role was revamping channel distribution strategy, product technology roadmap, and sales and marketing plans to reposition our technology to new markets and client base. DELIVERED RESULTS INCLUDE:✔ Built extensive dealer network propelling Salient Stills as a global leader in the video and image forensics space. ✔ Forged and nurtured relationships with more than 350 clients in 35 US states and 25 countries, including the FBI, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Department of Defense (DOD), and National Security Agency (NSA).✔ Raised 4 rounds of financing, facilitating the company’s sale.✔ Successfully expanded and pivoted company from media and entertainment clients to the security and surveillance space, primarily serving global government agencies. • The FBI was the company’s biggest customer when the business was successfully sold / acquired by DAC. ✔ Increased annual revenue by 500% and recurring revenue from 0% to 60% by growing channel partners from 1 to 20+.

Boston Ma

As technical founder of Salient Stills, I created technology, patented it at MIT, and licensed it to start the company. I directed the first commercial product's vision, targeting key sectors such as advertising and newspapers, and built (from ground up) and led design, product, engineering, QA, and R&D teams. DELIVERED RESULTS INCLUDE:✔ Secured major clients including the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and Sports Illustrated.✔ Successfully oversaw more than 60 software releases.

M.S., Mit Media Lab

At MIT Media Lab's Entertainment and Information Technology Group, contributed to innovation at the intersection of computer science.

B.A., Chemical Engineering, Cum Laude

Robert E. Lewis Award - Graduating senior who best demonstrates the ideals of athletic leadership and sportsmanship in Yale internal.

M.F.A., Film, Michael Hausman/Filmhaus Award For Producing Excellence

Certificate, Mit Sloan + Csail Artificial Intelligence: Implications For Business Strategy

An advanced course at MIT Sloan School of Management examining the strategic implications of artificial intelligence within business.

Product Management & Strategy