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San Francisco, CA, US

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Stand Together is a philanthropic community dedicated to solving society's most pressing issues. My job as CTO is to build a technology strategy to attract leading technology entrepreneurs to social change.

Champaign, Illinois, United States

Independent board member for materials science spinout of UIUC. AMI creates low-VOC self-healing paint, useful to protect assets.

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

ACQUIRED by BUSHELGrainBridge was a joint-venture between ADM and Cargill with a vision of helping farmers better manage their grain sales to maximize their profits. I joined the company in April 2020, released a product, and grew our user base. I then ran an acquisition process, leading the sale of GrainBridge to Fargo-based Bushel in October 2021, where.

Los Alamos, NM

Founded Descartes Labs with a group of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory to better understand the planet through satellite imagery. While I was CEO, the company raised $60m in venture capital, grew to over $20m in revenue, and to over 100 employees.

Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States

Member of Executive Committee. Helped to transition the organization to a new executive director.

San Francisco Bay Area

Led Zite as a part of CNN Digital, culminating in a sale to Flipboard in 2014. During my tenure, I tripled the size of the team, redesigned Zite from the ground up, improved the underlying discovery technology, expanded from iPad to iPhone and Android, experimented with wearables, inked deals with dozens of publishers, booked revenue, built an integration.

San Francisco Bay Area

Became CEO of Zite after being an advisor. Had a term sheet for a series A fundraise and an acquisition offer from CNN; we decided to sell the company and grow within CNN.

After acquisition, I lead a team of five program managers, focused on captions generation (relevance, infrastructure, and measurement), reference answer generation, and specialized NLP projects for local search.

Powerset was a natural language search company, spun out of Xerox PARC which sold to Microsoft in August 2008.On the product side, I helped to turn Powerset's NLP into a Wikipedia search product. On the outbound side, I managed all of our PR and marketing efforts for two successful launches: Powerlabs @ TechCrunch40 in September 2007 and Powerset's launch.

Kosmix was a search engine and technology company that sold to WalMart in April 2011.Launched Kosmix.com at DEMO '06. Created and managed the Video Games, Politics, and Travel verticals. Responsible for the overall user experience at Kosmix.com and owned the relationship with Kosmix's public relations firm.

SideStep was a travel search engine acquired by Kayak.com for $180M in December '07I was the product manager who launched the web version of SideStep's travel search in January 2005. I created and led the usability initiative at SideStep, which included award-winning features, such as multi-select filtering and comparison pages. Job also included a heavy.

Product manager within the mySAP HR team, focused on Employee Self Service (ESS) and Manager Self Service (MSS), which were two of the first SAP applications distributed on the mySAP Portal. Involved in gathering requirements, usability testing, sales support and training, marketing, evangelism, and coaching a list of blue chip beta customers.(Note July.