Incubated Speechlab as Founder in Residence at Andrew Ng's AI Fund. Making the world more accessible with speech-to-speech AI.

Working with founders to help shape the strategic direction of the business.

Work as a fairly active advisor to, and occasional investor in, a number of companies in the mobile and data analytics categories including:Streetbeat,(Since Feb 2021) Invited back for a second tour of duty by Damian who founded Axwave Simpler Media (Since Jun 2020)Rover.io now Judo (Since Aug 2016)Aviso Partners (Dec 2015 to May 2017) Joined board of directors in May 2017 and assisted with successful sale of company to RakutenVibrant Data (Dec 2015 to Jun 2016) Assisted with sale to Rakuten / SlicePlateiQ (Apr 2015 - Apr 2019)Axwave (Feb 2015 to Dec 2018) Acquired by SambaTVOpensignal (Jul 2012 to Acquisition by Comlinkdata in Sep 2021)On Device Research (Since Aug 2011)

Rover's category defining platform empowers mobile publishers to rapidly build and deliver new experiences to mobile users across all platforms. I worked with the founders on rebranding and retooling the business for growth and helped raise first institutional capital.

Collaborating with very talented team at AI Fund on the next thing.

Worked with team members from Datasnap.io, and initial investors at M:Metrics to build real measurement for streaming video.Acquired by Tradeswell

First commercial hire. Launched category defining service across multiple verticals: education, media, and enterprise collaboration. Closed several large strategic deals with global 100 enterprises. Hired leadership for growth, customer success, sales, business development, and operations. Grew revenue from zero to substantial figure growing at exponential rate.

Invited to join board after advising company since inception. Helped with successful sale of the company to Rakuten Intelligence

Neustar acquired Datasnap.io to extend the focus of its IoT practice to Bluetooth beacons and other proximity technologies. My focus was to build on my experience in mobile, proximity and data analytics to build new businesses in marketing services.

Worked with team of data scientists, developers, and data visualization experts to deliver insight from proximity-triggered engagement on mobile devices. Lead successful sale of Datasnap.io to Neustar.

Built on foundation of Millennial Media and Metaresolver data platforms to define a new standard for mobile media intelligence and targeting

Built seasoned founding team of marketing, tech and analytics pros to enable targeted media buying on mobile platforms. Lead successful sale of Metaresolver to Millennial Media.

Built market research business on Majestic Research investment research platform. Majestic was acquired by ITG in Oct. '10. Built "Currency" sales tracking data used by nearly all leading OEMs and technology vendors for North American mobile handset market. Retooled healthcare research business and grew revenue by 30%

Invited to become independent board member after working as an advisor. Zokem was acquired by Arbitron to become Arbitron Mobile.

After working with founding team on launch of mobile analytics start-up in 2009 was invited to take independent board seat. Motally was acquired by Nokia in August 2010.

Founder of MMetrics, a venture-backed mobile audience measurement firm that became currency for sector in US and Europe. Oversaw the launch and day-to-day management of several industry benchmark research products. Spearheaded international expansion, established London office and secured partnership in China. Worked with co-founder to secure several rounds of financing and successful acquisition by Comscore.

Founded Zelos Group and built company into a 10 person organization, and leading boutique advisory services firm focused on the mobile sector

Built coverage in technology sector. Managed team of seven analysts. Leading industry commentator.

Built coverage of mobile data and handheld computing sectors at SRI's Business Intelligence Center.