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Los Altos, CA, US

Los Altos, CA, US

Palo Alto, US

Bean provides agile project management and part time resources for accounting teams. CFOs' biggest challenges include attracting and retaining talent, controlling job costs, managing disconnected data and getting the deliverables done on time. Controllers and CFO's are looking toward automation and artificial intelligence to help the finance department.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Lucinetic Letters is an AI platform developed by a team from Caltech, Yale and NASA to reduce the time professors commit to writing PhD recommendations. "Letters" is trained from the author’s own writing/letters to ensure that recommendations (and other letters) generated by the author are in her "authentic voice". The platform enables the student to.

Palo Alto, California, US

Responsible for building a database of >30K prospective investors, closing capital commitments, CRM and investor relations for MDSV's two first-time funds. The MDSV Emerging Manager Fund of Funds ($25M) invests in small VC funds ($10-$30M) with managers who have a track-record of identifying and investing in outlier companies. The MDSV Seed Fund ($35M).

Jacksonville, FL, US

Cava Mobile builds custom branded, employee experience mobile applications that help small and medium businesses extend their culture, mission, vision and values to their entire workforce.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

FAP builds advanced life insurance portfolios with algorithmic underwriting and funding techniques for tech forward estate planning that leverages tax advantages and low counter party risk to create a non-correlated assets with AAA security and outsized returns. I advise single and multi family offices representing more than $60B in collective net worth.

San Antonio, Texas, US

I defined the partner and operations strategy for Eat Club's national expansion plan and go-to-market strategy for our new business unit.

Los Gatos, California, US

I launched a crowdsourced content company that generated media for native advertising campaigns and mobile app design.

London, England, GB

I joined Talenthouse to rapidly turn around operations and prepare the company for its growth funding round. I reduced headcount by forty percent and relocated the headquarters from Palo Alto to Los Angeles. I wasn't ready to move with the company and left Talenthouse after having a substantial role in reorganizing the company in only four months..

San Francisco, California, US

Dave McClure, a friend and colleague from PayPal, asked me to help him manage the fund raising for his $30MM Fund I of 500Startups. I raised $17.5M (from eighty-eight investors) of the $30MM Fund I. I built the Investor Relations architecture for 500 Startups and continued driving fund raising through the launch of Fund II.

Nashville, Tennessee, US

I analyzed the competitive landscape and market for Asurion's mobile consumer products including "next generation" address book and data back-up.

I drove business development and raised $6.4MM from Morganthaler and Onset Ventures for Opinmind's Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing platform that, "identifies signals of purchase intent" from social media comments and blog posts. Opinmind clients use those signals to provide relevant ads to consumers across the web. Opinmind has since.

US

I helped launch the video service for mobile phones.

San Jose, CA, US

I defined and launched high impact businesses for PayPay and eBay. I launched the PayPal Shipping Platform for which I closed the deal with UPS, building the foundation for eBay's shipping platform, which fulfills nearly 20% of eBay sales. I launched PayPal Large Merchant Services for which I closed the first branded online retailers to accept PayPal as an.

Recruited by mentor and Stanford Business School Professor to assist the 6 person start-up with prospecting markets and partners for company's patented, content-based audio identification (CBID) product. Worked with partner and Audible Magic engineering teams to define application architecture and integration requirements for custom solutions. Gained.

First employee, hired to define product strategy and build sales, marketing and business development areas -Hired, Trained and Managed Inside Sales and Business Development team, which closed more than seventy partnerships prior to product launch-Defined business deal templates, developed sales/marketing materials and trained sales team-Closed key content.

Hired by Chairman to analyze declines in comparable store sales and recommend a strategic turnaround plan-Managed P&L Development budget of $3.5 million -Identified units reducing cash flow through cannibalization and developed disposition strategy-Negotiated acquisition and integration of Zoopa chain of six restaurants*Negotiated sale of retail unit at.

Regional Manager; P&L Responsibility for $12MM Region of 8 restaurantsDesigned and implemented highly successful turnaround strategy• Reduced manager and employee turnover by more than 25% in some stores• Increase in same-store-sales made region the most decorated in company; driving one store from the bottom quartile to become the top-performing.

US

• Redesigned repair and maintenance operations processes for major gasoline retailer in Canadian market-Worked with Regional and unit managers to identify inconsistencies at decision-making points-Worked with field personnel to identify and analyze units at which results varied from mean-Modeled returns and determined investment for company's $18 million.

Burbank, CA, US

• Conducted market analysis and wrote business plan for Walt Disney Comic Artwork new product launch• Managed new product launch for Disney Dimensions line of craft artwork-Performed evaluation and analysis of Art Editions operations for critical path reengineering-Established line positioning, merchandising guidelines and branding strategy-Coordinated.

• Created consumer greeting card company that generated social impact and awareness of alternative solutions to homelessness and assisted residents of Philadelphia shelters in teaching basic business skills• Marketed greeting cards designed by homeless shelter residents in more than fifty Philadelphia area retailers including franchises of The Body Shop•.

Consultant at this privately held Incentive marketing Company• Designed merchandise incentive programs for clients including Subaru of America, resulting in a record number of performance awards self funded through sales increases exceeding dealership goals• Designed travel incentive programs for clients including SmithKline Beecham and Major League.

Mba, Marketing, Finance, Management

Ba, Philosophy, Economics