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Board member and advisor for startups and investors, focusing on multiple aspects of product, technology, growth, partners, vendors, go-to-market, due diligence, organization and culture.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Nonprofit dedicated to supporting and funding charter schools. In particular, we support North Oakland Community Charter School by leasing a school site to them.

Oakland, Ca, Us

MathAction is an educational nonprofit with a big mission: empower the next generation to use mathematics as a tool to understand – and seek solutions for – the most pressing global challenges of our time.​By blending the precision of mathematics with the ambiguities of complex global challenges, MathAction students learn to use mathematics to investigate social and environmental issues, recognize multiple perspectives, communicate ideas and inform their actions. Our ultimate goal is to help young people become mathematically and globally literate citizens who will make positive contributions to the world.

Phoenix, Az, Us

Integrate.com is at the forefront of B2B Precision Demand Marketing. This cloud-based martech SaaS/PaaS/mobile technology has become core to the B2B marketing stack for enterprise and larger SMB companies to drive revenue. VC backed with high-multiple PE exit in 2021:• Top-of-funnel campaigns.• Sophisticated, high scale data processing.• Full-funnel data analysis to guide marketing and sales execution.Role:• Drove software revenue growth of 20x over three years.• Operated tech side of company in full, including product management, engineering, production operations, DevOps/SRE, program management, corporate IT, security/risk/compliance.• Built team, culture, organization, process.• Led strategy.• Replaced legacy product with cutting-edge PaaS architecture to handle high-speed, complex transactions along with a customer-centric SaaS UX. Transitioned customers to new platform.• Developed partnerships and M&A opportunities to accelerate time-to-market.• Replaced manual billing with automated back office, reducing need for accountants and enabling trusted system audits.• Exec-sponsored major new enterprise sales deals, increasing ACV and overall revenue, including closing the company’s first million-dollar subscription.• Instituted security and compliance, including GDPR and SOC 2 – this reduced procurement cycles and became a key selling point.

New York, Ct, Us

Trust scores and service guarantees for the sharing economy.

Brisbane, California, Us

SquareTrade is a fintech company revolutionizing the world of protection plans for consumer electronics, with special focus on mobile devices. Incredibly focused on providing best in class value and service to millions of customers. Dedicated to providing the best experience and revenue to retail partners. SquareTrade sold to Allstate for over $1.4b.Role:• Scaled product output and quality, driving 12x corporate growth over four years, with $240m raise (second-largest round globally in 2012) ultimately selling to Allstate for over $1.4b.• Operated tech side of company in full. Built product management, engineering, QA, Devops, IT operations, solutions, outsourcing and security-risk-compliance to public company scale.• Oversaw multiple consumer and B2B products, technologies and associated operations, including: web (SaaS), mobile, ecommerce, partner integration (PaaS), logistics, inventory, analytics, telephony, call center, corporate systems, Salesforce.com contract, Bluetooth beacons, marketing systems, data lake and big data analytics.

San Jose, Ca, Us

OpenDNS is a cloud-based Internet security (content and malware) company serving 90m consumer and enterprise customers across 170 countries with a global network handling 140b transactions per day. Bought by Cisco for ~$700 million.Role:• Set up product management team. Put in place strategy, roadmap, SDLC.• Created major new revenue growth streams, including product lines for enterprise, SMB, resellers, hardware partners (embedded), platform APIs.

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Interactive marketing automation for major B2B and B2C enterprises and SMB. Martech SaaS, PaaS, mobile.Role:• Transformed utility email product into a top marketing suite – key to 10x revenue growth, IPO and acquisition by Oracle in 2013 for $1.5b. Shifted flat sales to 40% revenue growth within 15 months.• Drove product management, UX, engineering, QA, product strategy, product marketing and strategic business development (partnerships and acquisitions).• Developed initial branding and go-to-market planning.• Moved product from the bottom of analyst rankings to the number one spot.• Oversaw modernization of architecture to increase competitiveness, scale and performance (1 billion B2B and B2C multi-tenant transactions per day).• Localized to drive global expansion into EMEA and APAC.• Evolved partner ecosystem of alliances including Salesforce.com, all major web analytics providers, SMS mobile gateway and print-on-demand vendors.• Created platform (PaaS) with web services API and developer program.

Co-founded this popular and thriving public charter school that provides a progressive education with a community orientation in 1999. Opened in 2000. Expanded from K5 to K8 in 2008. Served on the board and as a corporate officer for several years. Set up corporation and nonprofit status.

Email marketing automation for SMB and enterprise customers. Martech, Adtech, SaaS.Role:• Ran product management.• Tapped into new market with clients 30 times more valuable than before, resulting in a new revenue stream that added $4m to the bottom line in the first year.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Developed strategy, sought disruptive and complementary technologies, instigated multiple pilots/deals per year.Represented the CTO on co-marketing and partner programs with Microsoft, Sun, HP, etc.Led technical and organizational due diligence for multi-million dollar corporate VC investment fund.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Led the first subscription releases for Autodesk's highest grossing product line, bringing release cycle down from 2 years to 3 months, for which sales increased by 100,000 a quarter.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Led product for Autodesk's highest volume product. Tightened consumer targeting, leading to record growth of 20% to $200m in 1999.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Founding member of data management team. Developed new engineering data, document management and workflow product and built multi-million dollar business. Then sold it.

Naples, Florida, Us

Ran product line. Built leading architectural computer aided design applications.Oversaw transition through merger with Vertex (see prior position). Ultimately, sold to Autodesk.

Designed and built the leading architectural detailing computer aided design package. Took to market. Raised A and B rounds.Managed staff of 27 working on three product lines. Oversaw product management, engineering, QA, support, technical services. Managed P&L, cash flow and revenue accrual.Merged with Archsoft Group to form ASG. Ultimately sold to Autodesk.

London, London, Gb

Designed and built expert systems software for clients at this leading UK consultancy. Worked for oil and gas clients primarily.

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

Hardware engineer for leading instrumentation manufacturer integrating analogue and digital electronics with mechanical sensors used for Ariane rocket program, aviation, civil instructure, commercial operations, etc.

Bsc, Engineering

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