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Washington, DC, US

Washington, District Of Colombia, US

New York, NY, US

New York, New York, US

San Francisco, CA, US

London, England, GB

Washington, D.C., US

Investing in and supporting inclusive fintech founders across five continents. Learn more at: https://www.accion.org/how-we-work/invest/accion-venture-lab#portfolioI currently lead and guide the post-investment engagement efforts for our early-stage, inclusive fintech venture fund with over $45 million in deployed capital and 51+ portfolio companies across.

Washington, D.C., US

Investing in and supporting inclusive fintech founders across five continents. Learn more at: https://www.accion.org/how-we-work/invest/accion-venture-lab#portfolio

San Diego, CA, US

Have invested in 20+ startups globally from pre-seed to Series A. I focus my investments on inclusive fintech solutions and developer-centric productivity tools.*I am not taking cold inbound requests for angel investment at this time.*

Nairobi, KE

San Francisco, CA, US

Santiago, RM, CL

New York, NY, US

Republic is an investment platform spun out of AngelList that allows anyone to invest in pre-seed to Series B startups. Our global and diverse community of 800,000+ accredited and non-accredited investors have helped over 175 companies raise $250M and counting. Startups can raise up to $1M a year per campaign while significantly increasing the reach of.

Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, BR

Bogotá, Bogotá, CO

Providing independent guidance and Pre-seed/Seed/Series A funding for impact-focused technology startups.

Chicago, IL, US

• Served as Civis’ first Director of Product Marketing while also serving as Interim Head of Marketing, leading a six-person team in multiple dimensions of a marketing stack: growth, product-market fit, events, and.
• Built critical workflows to establish Civis’ first long-term product roadmap, collaborating with Product and Technical leads to establish a 2019 go-to-market plan for a suite of data science products with three.
• Led the development of Civis’ inaugural Landscape Intelligence, creating a central hub for all competitive, persona, and solution knowledge to build messaging and go-to-market plans

San Francisco, California, US

• Led product messaging and go-to-market initiatives for Heroku’s Data products – Postgres, Redis, and Kafka
• Served as the product liaison for Heroku’s growth marketing team, building messaging frameworks which led to 30% growth in authenticated new user sign-ups and 15% month-on-month billing growth

San Francisco, California, US

I lead product marketing initiatives for several of Heroku's product surface areas.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Served as a founding team member of GitHub’s Product Marketing, Developer Marketing, and Customer Success organizations, creating processes around go-to-market strategy, customer engagement, and developer relations
• Collaborated with Product, Design, and Sales teams to build messaging, planning documentation, and collateral that resulted in a 2x increase in users and a 2.5x increase in projects residing on GitHub.com and GitHub.
• Contributed a company-leading combined renewal and upsell ARR - $7.4 million in 2015 - and achieved 120% of sales upsell quota for 2015 (149% for non-draw months)
• Our overall efforts prepared GitHub for a $7.5 billion acquisition in 2018My work on the Product and Developer Marketing teams focused on a few areas:- Delivering key external messages for new product releases.

New York, NY, US

I get to teach eager student-professionals how to use Microsoft Excel in even more powerful ways. I developed the curriculum, schedule the courses, and teach in both in-classroom and online settings. My courses have appeared as features on the General Assembly website, and I taught several bite-sized learnings for the Google for Entrepreneurs series.

San Francisco, California, US

I led the implementation strategy and day-to-day operations with multiple Fortune 500 CPGs for a SaaS trade promotions test platform, including test design, user ramp-up, insights, product feedback/improvements, and client engagement metrics.I also developed expertise in social media marketing platforms as a testing vehicle for consumer behavior. Our team.

I built the initial operational and web/mobile product strategy for an early-stage social networking startup. My client generated $500K seed investment during engagement, and it looks beautiful - you can see it at imprint.usI also developed the strategy and early-stage execution plan for creating a $50m impact investing fund for The Skillman Foundation.On.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

I assessed existing manufacturing operations and led on-site process workshops for a growing CPG to identify $15 million in immediately-deployed cost improvements. I got to wear a bunny suit in the factory.I also performed due diligence of acquisition targets for an automotive electronics supplier to accelerate their top-line growth. I gained extremely.

Roma, RM, IT

I built an Excel model to optimize staff and program resources for 4m annual tons of food distribution with the United Nations’ World Food Programme.You really need to see this Excel model. I wrapped it up and gave it to my parents for Christmas. "Best gift I've ever received" -- Dad

I worked alongside two other Founders to commercialize a high-technology solution that produces a key component in the solar panel manufacturing supply chain. Working alongside a team of rocket scientists (no, seriously), I served as the technical liaison, identifying critical steps forward to ensure the technology would come to market in reasonable time..

Chicago, Illinois, US

Redmond, Washington, US

Chicago, IL, US

Arlington, VA, US

London, England, GB

London, England, GB

B.S., Aerospace Engineering

Certificate In Digital Money

Master'S Degree, Public Policy (Specializing In International Policy, Education Policy, Program Analysis)

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), International Business, Corporate Strategy, Emerging Markets

Hbs- Accion Program On Strategic Leadership In Inclusive Finance