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Chicago, Illinois, Us

Frönen makes delicious non-dairy frozen desserts using only clean, natural ingredients. Our pints use only 4-7 simple ingredients and are dairy free, gluten free, gum free, and do not use refined sugars or seed oils. Each scoop embodies our commitment to quality, ensuring every bite is as delicious as it is wholesome.

City Oak Films is a film production company developing scripted feature films.

Palisades Capital is a diversified holding company managing investments in venture capital and real estate.

TKM3 is an investment group focused on private placement investment opportunities. As the Managing Member, I am responsible for managing funds, transactions, and company financials.

Responsible for creating and leading the STR management and real estate brokerage business units for an established home services company. I created product offerings, developed and implemented operational processes, and integrated new tools, tech and procedures into existing workflows and databases. I created brand guidelines for properties, including guest experience, owner management, and product curation.

Austin, Texas, Us

Boutiq, a Techstars Austin portfolio company, uses proprietary models to inform the purchase and management of luxury vacation rental homes.As the Co-Founder and VP of Partnerships and Development, I served as a generalist leading partnerships, operations, procurement, listing management, and owner and guest relations. Projects included managing the home buyer program, creating operations and logistics tools that integrated with vendors, building owner dashboards and reporting systems, creating templates and materials for listings and guest communications. Our partnerships with luxury brands created beautiful spaces while reducing FF&E by 18%+ per home.

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

in-House is an anonymous employee feedback platform designed to drive discussion, build consensus, and drive organizational change. As the Strategy Lead, I led the transformation of the business and product from a social media company to an enterprise SaaS platform. I oversaw the company’s business team, including Finance, Go-To-Market, Research, and HR team members, and was responsible for developing OKR’s, project KPI’s, project backlogs and deliverables. Responsibilities included defining product features and strategy, owning the company roadmap, building the investor pitch deck, overseeing HR and hiring processes, and managing company financials, cap table and pro forma models.

Austin, Tx, Us

Polygraph Media helps companies execute local, social advertising campaigns with data science. As a Business Analyst Consultant, I analyzed the existing sales strategy and worked with the sales, product, and ad ops teams to develop content and sales tools. Projects include quantifying efficacy and campaign results to demonstrate outperformance relative to competitors, identify front-end and usability improvements for the product, writing white papers and sales decks, working on the creation of a product demo for sales pitches.

Demand Food was a local tech-enabled meal delivery service. As the Head of Strategy and Growth, I was responsible for increasing sales, expanding gross margins, and improving operations. Projects included transforming the sales strategy, innovating product strategy, revamping menu offerings, developing forecasting tools, surveying customers and improving the digital marketing strategy. As a result, sales grew 63% MoM, revenue per order grew 40%, conversions increased across search and social ads by 5x (CPA -500%), and COGS decreased by 30% through forecasting to reduce labor and waste. Other projects included modeling and executing initiatives that optimized utilization rates, production processes, and logistics.

New York, Ny, Us

HeTexted is a viral media and content company. While I data mined and performed sentiment analysis to gather insights on users, I also served as a relationship expert providing advice to thousands of individuals. This led to me presenting at live events and on a TV series.

New York, New York, Us

Plated, a Techstars New York portfolio company, was a pioneer in the meal kit subscription industry. I led the Go-To-Market strategy for the Midwest region, Plated’s first geographic expansion. This included developing a comprehensive launch and growth plan that incorporated internal business units (kitchen, operations, product, and marketing), vendors and partners. Projects included analyzing sales data and customer feedback to manage expansion goals, developing customer profiles, forging partnerships with national and local brands, and setting metrics and KPIs to guide future expansions. I led the “First Order Free” trials that yielded 2.2x revenue/customer.

New York, Ny, Us

Skadden Arps is a major multinational law firm. As a Paralegal in Skadden Arps’ Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Practice, I worked on several large and notable bankruptcy cases. I managed large projects and the development of materials in support of attorneys and clients.

New York, Ny, Us

As an intern with Merrill Lynch’s Global Private Client Group, I researched stocks, bonds, and funds suitable for individual client investment strategies.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

B.A., International Business