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Bellevue, Wa, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Leading awesome product and engineering teams to drive revenue and adoption of Microsoft Copilot and Power Platform by creating AI-first enterprise applications for CIOs, CFOs, Supply Chain Leaders, and business decision makers across the enterprise.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance is the fastest growing and most collaborative financial management system/ERP in the industry. Finance Insights (aka Suplari) helps mid-size and large enterprises continuously optimize costs, cash flow, operations, and processes using unified, cleansed data, automated insights, and predictive workflows across all ERPs. Dynamics 365 Finance Insights is based on the acquisition of Suplari, Inc from 2021.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Working to commercialize intellectual property, incubate new technology companies, and foster entrepreneurship at the University of Washington.Serving on the Supply Chain, Transportation, and Logistics advisory board.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Suplari provides an AI-driven insights & workflow platform that enables finance, procurement, and budget owners to optimize spend, cash flow, suppliers, strategic sourcing, risk, and ESG. Suplari connects and unifies disparate supplier data sources and systems and then continuously analyzes millions of supplier and sourcing transactions to generate real-time AI-driven insights on reducing spend, mitigating risk and increasing compliance. Suplari then recommends next best action workflows to enable enterprises to capture value and drive accountability. Suplari was acquired by Microsoft in July of 2021.

I have been advising a number of companies and social enterprises on their strategies, particularly as they relate to innovation, building marketplace businesses, and driving traffic. I am also very interested in social enterprise and pursuing business opportunities with great purpose in job training and career counseling.- University of Washington, Innovation Advisor: Working with Vice Provost to commercialize intellectual property, incubate new technology companies, and foster entrepreneurship at the University of Washington.- BURN Manufacturing: BURN makes the Jikokoa clean cookstove which reduces fuel consumption by 45-60% and emissions by more than 60% for more than 1 billion people living in sub-Saharan Africa.- Largest B2B Marketplace for IT Managers: Consulting helping CEO and Executive Team drive traffic and build a B2B marketplace for the trillions of $$$ controlled by IT Managers- TechStars / Keepe: Advising a mobile marketplace for home services serving property managers with go to market strategy and fundraising- DESC: Helping largest provider of housing for the homeless with strategy and operations support- Social Venture Partners: Working on the Fast Pitch Committee identifying & coaching innovative non-profits & social enterprises in education and the environment- Year Up: Mentor & guest speaker for one-year, intensive training program that provides low-income, urban young adults with skill development, college credits, corporate internships, and soft skills support.-Partners4Housing: Business plan competition mentor to start-up focused on providing housing solutions to the developmentally disabled in Washington State.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Leader & general manager of Trulia's three growth businesses in mortgage, rentals and new construction, evaluating build, buy, and/or partner strategies. One of three revenue owners at the company and member of Trulia's Senior Management Team. Key accomplishments: Lead evolution of mortgage and new construction businesses away from display advertising to native advertising placements and lead generation across web, mWeb and mobile apps, grew rentals traffic >25% yoy with no paid advertising support, and developed the leading rentals property in the industry based on NPS. Trulia was purchased by Zillow for $2.5Bn in February 2015.

Partnered with two talented entrepreneurs in the home services industry to start a company to bring e-commerce and online ordering to large ticket, replacement/like for like home services (water heaters, furnace, windows & doors, roofing), plumbing and handyman services. Bootstrapped to achieve proof of concept for Seattle metro area. Company continues as a profitable home services business.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Drove product management and strategy for all Saas & performance marketing products (RealEstate.com/HouseValues.com/JustListed.com), social media and print (in partnership with Shutterfly) for Market Leader, a subsidary of Trulia Inc., one of the largest real estate web sites serving 40 million consumers and 150k real estate professionals each monthKey member of the executive team that drove tunaround strategy and execution that lead to 3 years of 30% annual revenue growth at 10-15% EBITDA margin. Led company sale to Trulia Inc for $380m (based on enterprise value at closing) in August 2013. Lead strategy and product integration between Market Leader and Trulia. Developed product strategy for Trulia Seller Ads which became Trulia most successful product launch and fastest selling product in company history.

ActiveRain is the largest social network and blogging network dedicated to the real estate industry, publishing more than 100k blogs posts per month, generating more than 200k comments, and more than 2m visits per month. ActiveRain has one of the highest domain authorities in the real estate industry. As CEO, grew blogs per month by 60%, managed through the Google Panda, expanded the position of ActiveRain in major social networks, while managing community through significant change. Grew revenue significantly, focused company on profitable products, and brought the company to profitability. ActiveRain was acquired by Market Leader in October of 2011.

Founded in 2007 and spun out of the University of Washington, Bio Architecture Lab is focused on producing the world's lowest cost, most scalable, and sustainable source of sugars for biofuel and renewable chemical production from aquafarmed, native macroalgae (seaweed). We raised $35m in financing - $8m from venture capital and then an additional $27m from strategic partners and government grants. BAL has strategic partnerships in place with Statoil, DuPont, and the Chilean national oil company ENAP. We grew the company from 0 employees in 2008 to 40 people in 2010, built out the executive team with industry experts, and hired an experienced CEO from the biofuels industry to take the company to the next level.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Worked with Madrona team to incubate and develop business in Internet marketing. Served as advisor to Mixpo & BaconSalt.

-Member of the Executive Team, growing company from $10m in revenue in 2001 to $100m in 2007; IPO in 2004 with $375m valuation-Drove corporate growth, corporate development, business development, product strategy, and served as GM of mortgage team -Completed 3 acquisitions leading to nearly $50m in revenue growth over three years-Drove strategy and P&L for the turnaround of mortgage lead generation strategy-Managed an annual $20m media spend focused on television, search, and web marketing. -Developed pricing, inventory and yield management for company

Evaluated early stage venture capital opportunities in the Pacific Northwest. Invested in HouseValues (NASDAQ: LEDR, acquired by Trulia for $380m), In Situ Group (acquired by Boeing for $400m), TeamOn (acquired by RIM), Essention (purchased by McKinstry), Location Labs (acquired by AVG for $220m), and several other companies.

Us

Evaluated technology investments and telecom buy-outs for Europe's largest private equity fund

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Launched Dell consumer portal and consumer email service. Generated new revenue through online business development partnerships.

Zurich, Ch

Worked on M&A and financings for biotech, pharmaceutical and health care services companies. Worked with a broad range of companies including Pharmacia Biotech, Amersham, Genzyme, Affymetrix, and Heska.

Mba, General Management

Ba, Biochemical Sciences