Current President and former VP of the board for Ignited Education. Ignited is a Silicon Valley nonprofit that brings STEM learning up to speed with 21st century demands by creating a direct connection between industry and the classroom. We provide teachers with summer fellowships working in the trenches at top companies and universities, so they can effectively inspire and prepare their students to become the next generation of innovators.

Major League Soccer lower division football club in the East Bay

Major League Soccer lower division football club in the East Bay

Supporting NSF Convergence Accelerator Phase 1 grant recipients in water and climate.

Mentoring and supporting alternative protein startups.

Supporting young and mature German Startups to scale their business globally.

Mentoring and supporting a pan-African consortium to grow synthetic biology research, industry, and startups in Africa.

Member of the Skyline Biotech advisory board to provide pathways and workforce development to bioengineering students in the SF Bay Area.

The Leadership Now Project is membership group of mostly business leaders that invests in nonprofits and candidates that "advance a modern, effective democracy."

Supporting startups in edtech that drive equitable economic advancement via workforce development.

Italian Serie A football club in Venice, Italy.

Beyond Earth Technologies is an angel syndicate focused exclusively on the space sector.

Venture capital fund focused on early stage blockchain infrastructure

Limited partner for the initial venture fund from Blockchain.com in conjunction with Lightspeed Ventures to invest in blockchain infrastructure startups

Global fractional executive services as well as investor advisory services and angel investments including:-Data and AI strategy-Operational and executive leadership-Pre and post investment strategy and due diligence-M&A

Supporting AWS Space Accelerator space tech startups during their pitches and post program.

Blue Origin's Orbital Reef Reef Starter Innovation Challenge mentor to space tech companies to utilize orbital space stations including review of business plans, data rooms, financial modeling, etc. Including mentoring post-program.

•Investor at Series A and successful transition to Series B•Support via product expertise as well as various industry peers for growth and scaling at Series A•Strategic partner via leveraging early access to OpenAI GPT models to enable early product enhancements such as human language coding suggestions to improve day 1 retention

•Due diligence, sourcing, industry breakdowns, and advising new venture capital deals and acquisitions ranging from millions to hundreds of millions around the world in analytics, data science, machine learning, AI, business intelligence, finance, and management across various industries including edtech, food delivery, e-commerce, classifieds, media, synthetic biology, agtech, blockchain, gaming, BCI, etc.•Machine learning and data advisor and support across the portfolio including interim head of analytics and data for OLX in Buenos Aires•Internal hands-on projects ranging from leading GDPR efforts, leading implementation of Google Analytics, thought leadership on cookieless solutions, TV attribution via synthetic control using an ensemble method of Bayesian structural time series models, data mesh implementation, etc.•Running a global data community for data scientists and engineers including a newsletter with best practices and current topics as well as a speaker series with practitioners from Google, Looker, Monte Carlo Data, etc.•Working with a dedicated AI team with OpenAI tech leads to implement generative AI solutions in edtech in 2022 prior to ChatGPT release•Monetization and pricing modeling including international expansion pricing for Udemy as well as internally for target country and industry investment using internal data and macroeconomic data•Only Prosus non-executive management team member on a board in our portfolio•Regular public speaker for our portfolio company events •Deeptech due diligence including scientific papers as well as practical concerns such as scaling in synthetic biology such as downstream bioprocessing (DSP) and access to Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs)•Led deal and contract negotiations for tools such as Google Analytics, Segment, etc. for our portfolio companies via affiliate agreements and legal boilerplate without contractual obligation for Prosus

Non-profit providing support for positive change via grants and expertise to other non-profits.

Mentor for UN World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator not long after its inception. Startup business plan review and company deep dives on product and finance.

•Head of analytics for Inflection doing whatever is most needed ranging from data ingest, data tracking, dashboarding, analysis, pushing company-wide initiatives, company-wide hiring, investor analysis, and culture change•Collaborate and manage multiple projects spanning multiple groups (product, marketing, engineering, data engineering) and executive team•Managed a talented and scrappy analytical and business intelligence team •Originally hired at Senior Director level but after less than 5 months promoted to VP and added to the executive team•Helped manage and steer company and culture through reduction in force as a new member of the leadership team•Lead on VC investor talks with CEO and founder for a sale of product group in the company•Grew and mentored employees technically and professionally as well built an approved analytical career growth path now used by HR•Streamlined tools (Hubspot, Salesforce, Qlikview, Alation, Hotjar, Mode Analytics, R, Python, Spark) and systems and brought analytical culture change to the company•Executed important operational work daily for individuals as well as company wide, ranging from new product analytics and investment, analytical product advice, B2B and partner optimization, etc to deals, leads, revenue, and profit•Weekly presentations, ad hoc analysis, and trusted advisor for CEO and founder and executive team (even prior to joining the Executive team) •Mentored and grew younger talent on my team and all key technical individuals across the company in analysis, data visualization, leadership, managing projects across multiple groups, and working with executives

•Head of analytics for Trulia doing whatever is most needed ranging from data ingest, data tracking, dashboarding, analysis, pushing company-wide initiatives, company-wide hiring, and culture change•Collaborate and manage multiple projects spanning multiple groups and leadership•Hired and managed a talented and scrappy analytical team •Grew and mentored employees technically and professionally as well built an approved analytical career growth path now used by HR•Created ingests on my own and with my team of Omniture, Google Analytics, App Figures, etc data for analysis and dashboarding using R, PHP, and Python•Executed important operational work daily for individuals as well as company wide, ranging from lead fulfillment optimization, automated cohorting, and user-level analytics to arrive at product aspects to drive traffic, engagement, and leads•Weekly presentations, ad hoc analysis, and trusted advisor for CMO and other C-level executives •Mentored and grew younger talent on my team and all key technical individuals across the company in analysis, data visualization, leadership, managing projects across multiple groups, and working with executives

•Ran mortgage analytics reporting directly to the GM and working with executives, product manages, and engineers to manage and improve revenue, product experience, and lead conversion•Used R for analysis as well as automation, data ingests, and dashboarding for GM and C-level executives•Created my own data ingests of web analytics data of Omniture data via the API for dashboarding and analytics•Hired to build a dynamic mortgage lender marketplace to allow lenders to bid on users scored with predictive modeling•Weekly presentations, ad hoc analysis, and trusted advisor for executives across the company•Mentored and grew younger talent across the company in analysis, leadership, and data visualization

•Led development as well as developed/patented novel product in natural language generation for mobile business intelligence•Market research and analysis of competitive landscape as well as key individuals to target for team •Product development in R, story-boarded user experience for graphic design team, created technical specs for engineering team,solicited and incorporated user/client feedback into product life cycle•Worked with generic and unstructured data sets as well as Salesforce data•Weekly presentations and ad hoc analysis for executives, reporting directly to founders

•Accredited professional soccer journalist, covering soccer in the US (US National Team Players like Jozy Altidore or foreign teams playing in the US such as AC Milan, Chelsea, Inter Milan, FC Barcelona, etc and MLS)•Locker room interviews as well as coverage from the press box of LA Galaxy (Beckham, etc), Chivas USA, Chicago Fire, and the San Jose Earthquakes

•Key interface for Google on YouTube revenue and monetization•Modeled YouTube revenue in R using ARIMA models to determine the annual plan and budget of YouTube at the daily level by page, adserver, region, subregion, country, sales channel, etc at the aggregate level •Data cleaning and preparation of data using R with data gathered using SQL and Tenzing•Set sales quotas via similar modeling in conjunction with input and feedback from sales finance business partners•Presentations to execs and business partners weekly including leading meetings for cross-functional groups across product, sales finance, accounting, monetization, etc. •Performed ad hoc analysis and ran meetings on a daily basis and deep dives with accounting to improve the accuracy of forecasting gross revenue•Led annual budget determination with long-term driver model, simplifying technical work and incorporating business partner intuition •Created and managed automated jobs for YouTube performance reporting by segments

•Family consulting company for polymer products and services ranging from ductile concrete to nano-particle embedded polymers•Patented research and products for industrial application and licensing

•Created, implemented, maintained, improved credit risk models for entire company including mortgages, funds, private, public, not for profit, healthcare, personal•Lead quantitative expert for Credit Policy department as well as key advisor and educator for business partners on all quantitative and technical matters regarding credit risk modeling•Key instructor for internal ongoing quant seminar series for all other risk department quants

•Modeling and methodology practical and theoretical problem solving for internal and external clients•Taught employees high level intuition , highly technical quantitative methods, etc•First tier of interaction with Moody's Risk Product clients

•Developed and implemented Economic Capital model infrastructure and vision for a portfolio of mortgage representing 25% of all US mortgages•Created and improved economic capital models ranging from market risk to credit risk, using Monte Carlo simulation with copulae to account for correlation•Presentations and work with senior management, including the CRO, as lead modeling expert

Intermittent Reporter/Guest on the Space Show: •Covered 2004 X-Prize Launches•Announcer with Miles O'Brien 2007 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge•Occasional guest on Space Show

•Led and performed market research on social media and web applications •Wrote business plan and designed business model including revenue share for social media startup that won DemoGod07 award with business model written up in several publications including the Wall St Journal (July 12, 2006), Rolling Stone, CNET, etc)•Pitches to investors raised over $1.5M in funding http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115266820411604188.htmlhttp://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9682925-2.html

•Taught class and held office hours for MBA and undergrads for accounting•Performed risk capital and accounting model building and research via SAS•Theoretical research in game theory and optimal contracting, empirical research and modeling in executive compensation and information embedded in accounting data

•Led and performed market research on LED lighting for aerospace applications and competitors in industry •Wrote business plan, designed business model, and developed competitive advantage pitch for breaking into LED lighting for aerospace industry•Pitches to investors and business plan led to large investor buying remaining partners out

•Maintained and implemented logistic regression consumer credit risk models via SAS for over $300B in outstanding consumer loans and leases •Improved models and prepared quarterly risk capital reports for total economic capital (including credit, country, market, and operational risk)with drilldown to the product level via SQLand Crystal Reports for presentation to senior management and regulators •Opened dialogue with Latin and South American affiliates and established deep data relationships with them that could not be negotiated previously by management

•Created programs for optimal asset allocation models via VB for fixed income portfolio as well as Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS)•Became resident TIPS modeling expert and derived several trading profitable trading strategies regarding TIPS•Recognized for communication ability with additional seat on the trading floor to provide expert modeling and research advice to sales/traders•Valued for research/modeling ability and creativity that led direct manager, Bulent Baygun, to present my research at conferences

•S&P 500 addition/deletion modeling and analysis used to detail effects and support MCM skill •Data collection of years of S&P add/delete announcements to generate optimal timing windows•Optimal timing windows led to increased value for MCM client portfolios that tracked the S&P 500

•Taught class and held office hours for MBA and undergrads for corporate finance and derivatives accounting•Created programs to model the value of zero coupon bonds using trinomial trees via Matlab•Theoretical research in asset pricing models, game theory, and corporate finance

•Taught class and held office hours for my fellow graduate students as well as undergrads for actuarial science, including courses I had just taken the quarter prior•Assisted in pricing research/modeling and created SOA level exams using Latex

•Managed, led, trained, and developed over 100 employees•While managing, company became ranked in top 5 fitness centers•Customer service and customer facing experience and excellence

•Won Florida Space Grant Consortium research grant twice competing with grad students while undergrad •Performed infrared spectroscopy of comets to determine composition using Sun Station and Unix in C++ under Professor Humberto Campins and Graduate student David Osip•Created manual for use of imaging data via the Infrared Spectroscopy Orbiter, which was used by graduate students years after I left

•Opened, closed, and helped run store for owner starting at age 12•Worked register, customer service, and inventory management