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Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

• The World's Greatest Fiber Supplement.Identified a need and proactively invented a solution in the gut health space. THE CHALLENGE:
• Dissatisfied with the previous daily fiber supplements I had been taking for over a decade and unable to find something better, I recognized the need for a high-quality, all-natural option with much less/no sugar.THE.
• End-to-end creation of Pinch Magic Fiber, a premium daily prebiotic supplement sold via D2C e-commerce store, from bootstrapped development to 10's of thousands of customers and growing ~3.5x YoY. THE CREATION:
• Developed initial concept, recruited founding team, led seed investment round, vetted/hired/managed R&D and development team, developed brand and marketing strategy, built online store, vetted/hired/managed.
• The profitable business continues to get exceptional customer feedback as its steady growth is sustained by outstanding partnerships and scheduled input/guidance from my business partner and self.
• I continue to serve as CEO and strategic advisor with my business partner, overseeing our pillar partners, guiding advertising/marketing and creative strategy, product and innovation, business model/operations..

Los Angeles

As a graduate of the Founder Institute accelerator program, I serve as a mentor for Founders who are currently in or who have recently graduated the program as they refine their business idea and bring it to life.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Recruited by Founder and prior CEO to provide senior-level guidance and growth strategy for the organization and for clients.Leadership & Strategy:
• Part of the Senior Leadership Team, guiding strategic prioritization & planning, company vision, and team mentorship.Advisory & Development:
• Architect of sophisticated, multi-methodology research and strategy engagements (including designing and selling several million dollars of engagements each year).Research & Consulting:
• Senior thought leader for high-priority clients and engagements, ensuring approach and implications/impact are pushed to their edge and aligned with end-goals.Communication & Implementation:
• Present strategy and insights to CEOs/C-Suite and Product/Insights/Marketing leads for multiple billion-dollar global businesses.Innovation & Thought Leadership:
• Driver of internal innovation, from pioneering AI integration and best practices to evolving data analysis tools, and helping push the edge of thinking around how to approach various client business challenges.

Los Angeles

The relentless pursuit of non-obvious yet essential growth for global businesses through applying Consumer and Economic Data, Human Understanding, Cultural and Trend Foresight, Brand Strategy, and Creative Problem Solving.A highly engaged and dedicated partner for client Executive, Marketing, Product, Insights, Strategy, and Innovation teams, enabling.

Greater Los Angeles Area

The relentless pursuit of non-obvious, meaningful growth for my clients through combining fresh creativity, data analytics, and technology.Design and lead global and domestic growth engagements for the world’s best companies to help:- Segment the market to identify and connect with the optimal consumer- Find product-market fit through understanding and.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Vice President at Kantar Consulting, a Strategic Global Consultancy.- Manage and execute global strategic research and business strategy consulting initiatives- Facilitate client workshops with research/insights/product/innovation/marketing/engineering teams- Build long-term client relationships / business development- Grow and develop team- Innovate and.

• Practice Timefulness™ with DayPoint.Identified a need and proactively invented an iOS app-based software solution in the time management/quantified self space to help users spend their time more consciously and.
• Finding myself constantly wondering "Where does the time go??", I recognized the need for a tool to help automatically capture and visualize data on how I spend my time.THE SOLUTION:
• DayPoint is a 5-star iOS app/quantified self tool that passively captures how you spend your day at a macro level, then providing beautiful data visualizations of behaviors & trends to allow you to Practice Timefulness™.
• Combines geolocation and mobile sensor data with sophisticated, proprietary algorithms to automatically translate users' time spent into useful, enriching data insights and visualizations.THE CREATION:
• Developed from napkin sketch to bootstrapped international launch, conducted market analysis and consumer research to validate the need, created wireframes and drafted product specification documentation.
• Received high reviews and we had paying users/subscribers, but I ultimately failed to sufficiently monetize enough to grow and continually fund regular development efforts to adapt to repeated iOS updates, so I had to.

Santa Monica, California

• The college admissions essay process just got easier.Aligned on the need and proactively developed a web-based software solution for writing and managing exceptional college application essays. THE CHALLENGE:
• While some very fortunate high school students receive private tutoring and guidance while writing their college application essays, there is a long-tail of students that do not have that privilege but that still want.
• Yessay is an online tool that helps students write and manage their college admissions essays, breaking the daunting process down into guided, bite-sized pieces, while providing the tips and strategies to produce the.
• The proprietary process helps extract uniquely interesting stories and create uniquely effective essays for college applications, systematically facilitating a creative generation phase and proven refinement process to.
• As a team of 3 Founders, took the vision of the CEO (who had facilitated this process manually as a professor at a top university) and validated the idea through market analysis and consumer feedback, developed.
• The company failed after 2 years but was an amazing experience: Helped a lot of students and learned a tremendous amount as an individual and team about software development and building a startup.

With the Conscious Leadership Connection (CLC), I work with the other members of the Millennial Advisory Committee to help provide relevant resources and tools the younger generation seeking to grow as conscious leaders in business. Business is not just the ruthless pursuit of profit, and CLC helps leaders by striving to be THE resource for growing.

Los Angeles, California

A partner for the entire project processes, including partnering with clients to identify specific business needs and objectives, determining the optimal study design, designing survey instrument, managing vendors for program creation and data processing, analyzing data, writing reports and serving as main client contact throughout. Manage a team and.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Manage a team and multiple research projects while providing market research and business consulting to some of the best companies in the world. More specifically: Strategic market research consulting using domestic and international, custom and tracking, and B2B and B2C studies, including satisfaction, A&U, brand positioning, concept testing.

Strategic market research consulting using domestic and international custom and tracking studies, including satisfaction, A&U, brand positioning, concept testing and qualitative work in the fields of technology, finance, B2B and consumer goods and services.Manage entire project processes, including working with clients to identify specific business.

Consulted for Marketing Department, conducting extensive interviews with team members to investigate procedures involved in creating marketing collateral, ultimately developing their Policies and Procedures Manual per SEC and internal compliance regulations.

Economics, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Dean's List in '05 and '06 Certification in Organizational Development

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