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California, United States

California, United States

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Pano AI is the leader in early wildfire detection and intelligence, providing government, utilities, insurers, and private landowners with advanced tools and up-to-the-minute intelligence to quickly mitigate wildfire threats while protecting lives, property, and the environment. www.pano.ai

San Francisco, Ca, Us

FOG Ventures was created to invest and support innovative founders that are helping create toolbox 2.0 for the modern day operator. We’re backed by the world's top COOs & CFOs at tech’s most prominent startups. We do not just invest in what we believe in — as active operators, we’re investing in products we actually love and use. Through 2021 I was part of the Diligence Committee, but as demands on my evenings increased further with the Wolt acquisition at DoorDash, I stepped back from this.Send amazing teams/products our way: www.fog.ventures / deals@fog.ventures

San Francisco, California, Us

Operator Guild is an independent, invitation-only group of startup operations and finance executives.

San Francisco, California, Us

Private leadership community of finance executives at high-performing growth stage companies.

San Francisco, California, Us

My team and I were responsible for the finance side of DoorDash's Corporate Development work - M&A, Investments, and Business Development Partnerships. Our work spanned from preliminary perspectives on spaces and companies before formal engagement to diligence and through to integration and ensuring we realize our goals from the acquisition. During this period, we acquired Wolt ($8B), BBot (undisclosed), and Chowbotics (undisclosed), led a $750M investment round in Flink, invested in an undisclosed additional number of companies, and evaluated countless other opportunities for M&A/Investment. This was a new team and function for DoorDash, however the team was disbanded in the November'22 RIF. Previously, I owned the P&L's for Caviar, Chowbotics, and DoorDash Kitchens as business units within DoorDash and was responsible for the Merchant Finance organization for a stretch as well. As finance owners for those business segments, our mission was to help guide the business to grow and learn faster and accomplish more using a strategic finance mindset to evaluate success and guide future initiatives and investments. I joined DoorDash 2 months prior to the Caviar acquisition and so those first two months were dedicated to close readiness and initial integration plans. Post-close, work was been spread across accelerating the business, completing integration, and building the financial tools to enable the right cadence and level of detail in monitoring and acting on all aspects of performance at Caviar. Chowbotics and BBot were a repeats of that process, but started with diligence and then negotiating the deal. Wolt as the biggest deal by far repeats the process and again started from our earliest days of engaging with Wolt and starting to form a perspective on the business through to extensive integration work.

San Francisco, California, Us

Sun Basket, is the leading healthy meal kit in the United States. The company grew rapidly from $0-$300M+ Annual Revenue Run Rate (ARR), with the best unit economics in the space, in 4 years. Ranked the #1 mealkit by Buzzfeed 2 years in a row, Sun Basket is disrupting the $650B grocery market with a fundamentally healthier, easier, and more personal way to cook and eat at home. Strategic Finance leader with a mission to see around corners before others do and help guide the business through both opportunities and risks. Through a combination of modeling, experience, and collaboration, deeply understand the complex relationships that drive success in the business in order to partner with leaders across the business to shape strategy and prioritize investment of time and money. Deep experience in the unit economics in direct to consumer, physical products business where effectiveness of digital customer acquisition and lifetime value of customers is key. In a data driven culture focused on building a product that people love and a large scale and profitable business, Strategic Finance was at the center of decision making at Sun Basket.Owned Sun Basket's financial plan and engage deeply with Board, current investors, and potential investors and any diligence processes. Previously managed Business Intelligence until hired Head of Data Science and then partnered closely with the Data Science/BI team. Data Science's mission is to uncover and share insights across the organization to improve data driven decision making as well as to build data products to improve marketing effectiveness and enable product personalization.

San Francisco, California, Us

Working with a fantastic team to build out Sun Basket's capabilities and processes as we quickly scale the business. As we scaled, I led our first production facility search, demand forecasting, packaging innovation, food and packaging procurement RFP's, deep cohort analysis for 4 rounds of fundraising, investor analytics and presentations for 4 rounds of fundraising, board of directors analytics and presentations, food portioning and packaging automation, material handling and box pack-out automation, ERP system search and selection, and the company's path to higher contribution margin.

We’re a small food company with a big mission. We want to end childhood hunger around the world. For every bar you buy, we feed a hungry child. That’s it. Simple concept, simple business model. 2 Degrees Food is a healthy energy bar company with national distribution.

Managed distribution partners and supply chain to distributors, direct to retail, as well as direct to consumer. Process improvements to order processing through multiple channels. Managed existing supplier relationships. Conducted search and RFP for new co-packing partners for both current itemization and line extension into a new category. Created sales projections, inventory projections, and budget for fundraising efforts.

Non-profit association focusing on the promotion of education in the food industry. A board and organization full of inspiring leaders in companies leading their markets across the Western US.

Keene, Nh, Us

C&S is the largest wholesale grocer in the country serving as the middle man between CPG's, farmers, and ranchers and grocery stores large and small. C&S is the supply chain for grocery stores from small single store operators up to the largest grocers in the country including Ahold, Safeway/Albertson's, and Target to name a few.As Sr. Director of Sales and Marketing, I was responsible for driving business growth through both expansion of a ~$300M existing business portfolio and new business development for the West Coast division. Managed a dedicated Account Management sales team to drive growth with existing accounts as well as a New Business Development team to sign supply agreements with grocers on the West Coast not using C&S at the time. The Account Management team's mission was to be a true partner to the grocers we worked with bringing best practices from the thousands of stores C&S supplied to each operator large or small. Depending on the grocers needs that could range from category management data and recommendations, store remodel support, competitive intelligence, new store development, retail technology, financing, and opportunities for further cost savings. In the retail grocery business, every penny matters.In addition to the $300M of existing West Coast accounts, I was responsible for primary local management of a $300M+ division of a national account.

Stanford, Ca, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Completed four private equity due diligence projects. Assessed market outlook, impact of technological change, customer satisfaction, and competitive outlook.

Keene, Nh, Us

Drove project saving $150 million of inventory for company. Identified opportunities for savings, planned work streams, and led implementation of improvements.

Keene, Nh, Us

Responsible for Supply Chain Analytics, development and implementation of buying system and forecasting system for $20 billion a year wholesale grocer, ongoing support of buying system, and analysis, development, and implementation of IT-enabled and non-IT enabled supply chain improvement projects. Served as connection point and relationship manager between business and IT for all of Procurement.

Keene, Nh, Us

Keene, Nh, Us

Mba

A.B., Economics