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We enhance student and teacher engagement in STEAM education through AI-powered tools and curriculum integration, reducing teacher burnout and making STE(A)M accessible.Our vision is to instill confidence in students for life success, fostering equitable learning for all. We focus on building a collaborative STEM/STEAM community among educators.Aiming for rapid STEM certification readiness within 12 months, we support teachers with interactive resources and provide data-driven insights to optimize educational outcomes.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Mentor to founders in ATV's start-up community. Focus on partnership development, go-to-market strategies, and growth hacking.

I help businesses grow by providing flexible fractional marketing leadership that drives results without the full-time commitment. My approach is hands-on, personalized, and focused on your specific goals.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Led an Atlanta non-profit promoting sport for social change. Internationally renowned Soccer in the Streets became recognized as a pioneer in social equity. Served 5,000 youth in urban neighborhoods through soccer and leadership programs. Innovation: Launched the awarding-winning StationSoccer initiative to turn unused public land at train stations into community hubs for health, recreation, and learning. Won the International Award for Innovation from Beyond Sports. Raised $6m for the capital expansion of the project. Growth: Over 6 years, increased the total operating budget by five-fold. Drove the sustainability of the organization by increasing the amount of earned income from 10% to 54% of total revenue. Took the annual fundraising gala contribution from $40k to $300k. Secured the single largest donation of $1.5m in the organization's 33-year history. Partnership Development: Created a team that brought in partners from the public and private sectors. From the private side, this included FIFA, Amazon, Major League Soccer, Atlanta United FC, and Bank of America. From the public sector, this included the City of Atlanta, MARTA (the public transit system), and three school districts. The majority of Atlanta's most recognized foundations supported the organization. Leadership: Led the organization through the pandemic. Secured sufficient funding to ensure that no staff was furloughed or laid off and all part-time team members were given the opportunity to earn additional income. Kept the organization growing at the same rate despite the effects of the pandemic.Nonprofit Management: Served the organization for 23 years. Started as a volunteer and fundraiser, moved on to the board, and then the board chair. Finally, served as CEO for 6 years.

Created an automated marketing & content tool trusted by enterprises such as Greenpeace, National Geographic, and Office Depot along with 300,000 thousand small organizations. Acquired 2017.

Led the team that built a social learning network used by colleges like MIT and Yale. Based at Georgia Tech, OpenStudy enabled students to ask questions, give help and connect with others studying the same subjects. Innovation: Created a peer-to-peer learning platform. OpenStudy was one of the early open learning educational platforms leveraging free online content. Partnerships: Recognizing that free online educational content could be monetized, I established partnerships with the country's top educational establishments like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Yale University, the University of California, Berkeley, and others.

Co-created the company that became an early pioneer of cloud-based telecommunication services. My role focused on product management and all things revenue. The organization was acquired by Vonage Communications and became Vonage Small Business.Strategic: Identified the emerging trend for phone calls moving to the internet. Saw a gap in the market to build technology for small businesses that had been left behind by expensive and complicated enterprise phone services. Created one of the early Software-as-a-Service (Saas) offerings that removed the costly software 'rental' pricing model and eliminated the need for on-premise hardware. Disruption: Created an offering that large incumbent telecommunications were unable to respond to without killing their current business model. Enabled quick market adoption. Innovation: Used software running over the internet to replace costly onsite phone equipment. Result = enterprise-level phone system now within reach of a small business at 80% reduced cost. Marketing: Developed a new lead generation model leveraging 3rd party content creators. Reduced the cost of creating a business lead by 90% over industry norms. Result = high barriers of entry to competitors + a user acquisition model that scaled fast with low cash needs.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Lead marketing and partnership development for an online music service called MusicNet. It became a precursor of services such as iTunes. Partnership Development: Worked with major music labels, such as Warner Music and EMI to license their content for downloading online. At the time music was not available for individual download on the internet. We successfully, secured music libraries from 4 major labels. Innovation: Oversaw product management to develop software for downloading and listening to music online. At the time, 99% of music was downloaded illegally through services such as Napster. MusicNet was one of the first legal music providers. It opened the door for listeners to access music online using a paid model. It showed the music industry it could offer songs a-la-carte instead of an album format.

Co-founded a business that made it faster and easier to download content online. Was responsible for product marketing and company sales. Netzip was acquired by Real Networks. Growth: The company's product became one of the top-five fastest-growing products on the Internet [Source: CNET], as well as the Southeast’s largest privately-owned consumer software company.Partnership Development: Established a business model based on software product sales and advertising revenue. Created a network of top-tier partnerships with some of the industry’s most recognized names, such as Netscape, CNet, Music.com, and Real Networks. Innovation: The advertising model pioneered by NetZip allowed consumers to interact with content as they downloaded music and was a forerunner to many Internet-based advertising vehicles. Click rates were 12-15% versus the industry standard 1-2%Value Creation: The company was acquired by Real Networks. It was profitable and on-target to acquire 15 million users and was the year’s largest sale of a privately held .com in the US.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Developed marketing strategies to promote the company's core brands in the UK market. Specialized in direct marketing / promotions / event management. Introduced the first pin-badge-on-a-can promotion through vending machines. This resulted in a 200% increase in product sales for participating accounts. Introduced the first direct-mail campaign to retail sports outlets. Lead the UK in vending machine sales within 18 months of leaving college.

Ba (Honours) Economics, Economics

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