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California, United States

San Francisco, CA, US

Raised $3M from VC firms Union Labs, Third Sphere, K9 Ventures, Cleo Capital, Incite, and John Doerr to build a consumer-facing climate tech company focused on home electrification.

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Sacramento, California, US

Appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to lead the Office of Enterprise Technology (now known as the Office of Digital Services) at CDT.- Lead member of the state’s COVID-19 data strike team. Helped lift California’s vaccine administration from bottom 20% to top 20% nationally in four months. Successfully lobbied White House and CDC to modify vaccine allocation.

Mountain View, CA, US

I led GV's Partnerships team, a BD/corpdev practice designed to connect our portfolio companies to the C-suite at Fortune 500 companies, large government agencies, and NGOs. Our team generated hundreds of millions of dollars in commercial opportunities for our portfolio, made introductions that led directly to strategic investments and acquisitions, and.

Mountain View, CA, US

I joined GV after 4 years at Google, the last three of which were spent as a product manager on Blogger, Google+ and YouTube. Built out the Startup Lab, GV's collection of workshops and mentorship for portfolio employees attended by thousands of startup employees. Deployed Salesforce to track the growing network of people and companies core to GV's growth.

Mountain View, CA, US

PM, YouTube Homepage, Accounts, Social: Served as YouTube's privacy lead as part of a Google-wide privacy working group, and led YouTube's integrations with Google+ and Google Accounts.PM, Google Profiles: Led the redesign of Google Profiles (launched to the public in March, 2011), part of core product team on the project that became Google+.PM, Blogger.

Mountain View, CA, US

(Joined Google as a result of Google's acquisition of FeedBurner.)Business Development lead, Google Scholar: 10/07 - 11/09. Handled contract negotiations to acquire 80+ years of US federal caselaw and 50+ years of state caselaw, which formed foundation of the legal opinions included in Google Scholar (scholar.google.com).Content Lead, Google Product.

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Joined the company immediately following B round of funding to head up business development focused on publisher recruitment. Successfully negotiated partnerships with leading publishers, including IDG, Ziff Davis, Business Week, Mansueto Ventures Publications (Fast Company and Inc. Magazine), Wired, Tribune Media, Hearst, and dozens of others. I served as.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Socialtext was the first enterprise social software company. We delivered lightweight web-native collaboration technology (popularly known as a wiki) that enabled small groups up to entire corporate divisions to collaborate more effectively.I reported to the CEO, and was responsible for direct sales, channel sales, and development partners. Revenues grew.

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The role was a combination of marketing, sales, and product management. Served as corporate spokesperson for media and analysts. Spoke at more than a dozen national and international conferences focused on the professional services markets, speaking on topics ranging from CRM to Knowledge Management, operational technology to eliminating cultural barriers.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Coordinated iManage's efforts in the sales, channel, marketing and product development departments for the legal market. Grew market share 50%, generating a 75% increase in revenues in twelve months. Engaged and/or managed strategic partnerships with Xerox, Cisco, Microsoft, Adobe and others. Arranged for press coverage in Wall Street Journal as well as.

Formalized TrialNet's marketing efforts and shared sales duties with the President of the company. Presented with CEO to investors interested in acquiring the company. Created first ad campaign, redesigned corporate web site, began regular PR program. Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale declared TrialNet "one of the five most significant Internet-related.

Fellow

Jd, Law

Ba, International Affairs, French

Baccalaureate, French