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San Francisco Bay Area

Define Dolby's strategy and navigate market climate through long-term strategic planning, market research, business insights, and M&A.

Facilitated and built strategic business plan for Dolby's new stand-alone SaaS business, Dolby.io (API platform), providing developers access to APIs to improve quality of media and communications. Subsequently recruited by CEO into leadership team to run operations. • Created and supervised operations group. Managed revenue and business operations, built Program Management Office (PMO), and business analytics function.• Organized strategic priorities with engineering and product teams for effective decision-making and backlog tracking, implementing OKR's, KPI's, and monthly reporting packages, go-to-market execution, business development, and sales programs. • Designed and presented regular, periodic presentations and business strategy updates to executive leadership team, Dolby Board of Directors, and companywide all-hands meetings, informing and updating organization on business group effectiveness.• Coordinated cross-functionally across Dolby organization, streamlining functions and aligning operations of new business unit with Dolby's existing business groups.• Led acquisition of Millicast (ultra-low latency streaming platform). Supervised integration into Dolby.

San Francisco, California

Created strategic opportunity assessments and supported company and business-unit strategies through identification, deal negotiation, execution, and integration of M&A transactions. Advised on strategic decisions.• Aligned cross-functionally to conceive, devise, and create business plans, bringing multiple new products to market.• Engaged in numerous corporate strategy initiatives, partnerships, and industry relations with organizations such as Amazon, NBC, Samsung, Universal Music Group, Abbey Road Studios, Soundcloud, and Mercedes-Benz, resulting in widespread adoption of Dolby technologies in partner company’s products and services. • Spearheaded new business incubation team, developing numerous innovation products and launching new applications, including Dolby On (multimedia recording app for iOS and Android with over 5M downloads and 500K daily active users). • Served as Dolby representative for standards bodies and trade groups, expanding Dolby technologies and licensing revenue.• Selected to be authorized spokesperson for Dolby for press events, public engagements, trade shows, and conferences. • Recruited to serve as Initiative Leader for IdeaQuest, Dolby's annual celebration of innovation that brings together hundreds of employees worldwide, proposing and prototyping new ideas and out-of-the-box thinking.

San Francisco Bay Area

Boston, Ma

City Music Program

San Francisco Bay Area

Developed corporate strategy framework and promoted company and business-unit strategies through identification, deal negotiation and execution of M&A transactions. • Created strategic opportunity assessments to identify how best to leverage strengths, capturing new markets and customers.• Led development of numerous solutions, driving increased revenue and adoption of Avid products and services.• Conceptualized and orchestrated voice of the customer programs and worldwide customer advisory boards, increasing NPS scores in all Avid market segments. Conducted market, competitive, and technology trend analysis.

Boston And San Francisco Bay Area

Led post-acquisition integration project of Sibelius business into Avid. Worked across Avid product management, engineering, sales, operations, and finance organizations to execute integration. • Supervised corporate consolidation initiative of acquisitions, bringing together multiple brand sites into single corporate presence. Conceived, developed, and project managed implementation of consolidation initiative for websites and E-Commerce. • Developed master messaging and functional requirements documents, working cross-functionally across organization for stakeholder acceptance. Organized all user interface design and taxonomy, localization, AWS and SAP integrations, and deployment of worldwide fulfillment providers. Project created unified brand and purchasing experience. • Coordinated with vendors and systems integrators to negotiate multiple contracts, delivering greatly simplified and efficient corporate process.

London & San Francisco Bay Area

Sibelius is the world leader in music notation software. Recruited to assist founders in preparing for the sale of the company. Led Sibelius business through multiple years of profitable, double-digit growth, and continued to run Sibelius business and Avid Education Segment after acquisition. • Directed sales and marketing, product management, finance, and operations. Acquired and integrated two companies and product lines into the organization. • Designed, implemented, and administered PMO, standardizing and introducing economies to engineering processes. • Served as executive team member, participating in board meetings, determining strategic and operational direction.• Controlled all aspects of strategic partnerships, implementing relationships with Yamaha Corporation, Hal Leonard Corporation, and ASCAP. Oversaw intellectual property protection and trademark issues.