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San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Lead HR tech startup with AI-driven recruiting platform built specifically for the construction industry. Propel empowers HR teams to hire the most qualified candidates more quickly and efficiently than ever before, automatically and intelligently reviewing and sorting applications, conducting prescreen interviews, and ensuring a smooth end-to-end process.

Westfield Center, Ohio, US

Leading the next startup launching out of 1848 Ventures, a venture studio focused on building, launching, and scaling B2B SaaS companies that harness the power of AI for SMB customers.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Transformed B2B SaaS mobile marketing technology company out of financial distress, through to its strategic acquisition for 3x revenue, converting expected write-off loss into investor returns. Internally recruited by.
• Triaged operations to remedy an aggressive cash burn—secured insider bridge financing, restructured global operations, revamped business model, and stabilized staff morale during global pandemic, all to cut costs.
• Successfully closed first M&A process with recapitalization financing from external private equity investor, securing going-concern viability, and injecting board with new investors
• Re-recruited as CEO after missteps by new management, hiring permanent CFO, while growing new ARR 14%, increasing ACV by 43%, and with 61% of new deals as multi-year contracts from enterprise customers including.
• Drove second M&A process at strategic targets without i-banker. Acquired by MessageGears for 3x revenue, Dec 2022

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Revamped strategy and product as leader of Product, UX/UI, and Content teams, successfully executing vision of enabling enterprise marketers to easily personalize and deliver mobile messages based on each consumer’s.
• Overhauled UI/UX from developer-oriented on legacy tech to consumer-friendly usage on modern stack
• Harnessed deep behavioral data to generate AI/ML models exposed as one-click consumer attributes that could be fully utilized to target, trigger, and personalize messaging across any channel
• Modernized architecture from monolithic silos into full microservices architecture (MSA), while still continually releasing new user-level features based on market and customer needs
• Expanded channel coverage from mobile-only to broader messaging across multiple mobile, Web, and OTT TV platforms, plus pre-built integrations into multiple marketing clouds and email systems

Product Management consulting for startups Next Force (Mobile B2B service) and Skulpt (IoT/smart fitness device/app)

San Francisco, CA, US

Created new strategy and plan to rebuild core product tied to enterprise customer needs for Demandbase's suite of B2B SaaS products at the intersection of MarTech, AdTech and Data/Analytics, helping enterprise customers execute Account-Based Marketing (ABM) to their key accounts.

Mountain View, CA, US

Created mobile iOS shopping apps to showcase TheFind’s data/ontology core for acquisition, at e-commerce startup with largest commerce data index of 500M products across 500K merchants. Won 2014 W³ Gold Award. Nominee for 2014 Webby. Company acquired by Facebook, where TheFind’s ontological tech was integrated into Facebook’s e-commerce.

San Francisco, California, US

Cofounded B2B SaaS startup with mobile Sales Automation app for luxury retailers whose salespeople manage client relationships, to curate 1:1 with clients with the benefits of CRM. Selected for 2011 Springboard Accelerator program and 2011 NYC FashInvest pitch event. Bootstrapped to private beta and integration with Salesforce.

San Jose, CA, US

Directed first mass market camcorder—hardware, firmware, user software, video hosting back-end—from startup through nine generations and market leader. Sold 7M units in <4 years for $1B+ retail revenue, and IDSA Design of the Decade. Customers included Best Buy, Target, Costco, Amazon, Walmart. Company acquired by Cisco for $630MM, May 2009.

Defined and executed product restart, resulting in pivot from SMB app into data virtualization platform for enterprise BI/analytics. Product showcased at DEMO 2003. Company recapitalized as C9 Analytics, then acquired by InsideSales.

US

1st employee after founders for SaaS Marketing Resource Management (MRM) for marketers to manage agencies/vendors in project, price, process. Customers included GM, Whirlpool, Merrill Lynch, Oracle. Company acquired by EFI.

US

Managed firmware for first silicon chip with full multimedia. Acquired by ATI.

San Jose, CA, US

Rearchitected to increase Windows version from 18% to 34% of Photoshop revenue.

US

Directed first Windows version of FrameMaker desktop publishing

Austin, Texas, US

Managed marketing programs for Inside Sales/VAR channels for PC products.

B.A., Economics

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