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San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

Early stage VC & Angel Squad investor community. Hustle invested in Webflow, NerdWallet & many more.

The GenAI Collective is a community of 25,000+ founders, researchers, operators, and investors representing the global forum for AI and technological progress. Through world-class events, workshops, and online forums, members leverage their diverse perspectives and innovative minds to foster meaningful relationships, solve challenging problems, and define.

Founder of the largest community of YC Startup School Alumni https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12682370/

San Francisco, CA, US

Redmond, Washington, US

After Xamarin's acquisition by Microsoft, I led partnerships for mobile developer and devops solutions, and helped guide our integration.

Xamarin is a software platform to develop iOS & Android apps. We grew ARR to $48M & 1.4M+ devs. Acq by Microsoft for $500M after raising $82M. I was deal lead on partnerships with Microsoft, AWS, Google, Salesforce, IBM, Oracle, SAP, & Samsung. My 10-person team led thousands of partner integrations across security, analytics, payments and more. I also led.

Founded consumer app company & served as chief product officer. App let kids create a curated wishlist and thank you cards for parent-approved family & friends who got reminders to buy the right gift for for the right kid at the right time. Achieved top rating in iOS app store, learned product management, dev & designer hiring & tools, cross-platform.

Gild built an AI SaaS for technical recruiters to synthesize & rate developer code and skills on GitHub, StackOverflow and social media. I signed dozens of customers and led mobile product management. Gild was acquired by Citadel. Investors: Menlo, Correlation, Globespan, Baseline, Sapphire, Drive, DNX, TMT.

CRI was founded by Paul Kocher, co-inventor of SSL. I led BD for our digital media security business, adopted by Apple, Samsung, Sony, Fox, Disney & others. CRI was acquired by Rambus for $342M.

Zero G provided software deployment and devops solutions. I led sales & BD, building a base of thousands of enterprise customers including Apple, AT&T, Microsoft, HP, SAP, Oracle, CA. Zero G was acquired by Macrovision (now Tivo).

Adero provided a content delivery network (like Cloudflare or Akamai) with servers in 40 countries. I built our strategic partnerships, and was deal lead on our $80M Series C. Investors: Microsoft, Intel, Reuters, Mitsubishi, Yahoo, Fidelity, Spectrum Equity & MC Partners. Adero was acquired by Colt, a cloud infrastructure provider.

ValiCert provided digital security solutions. I built relationships with BofA, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, British Telecom, France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom & others. Investors: August, Bessemer, DFJ, USVP, Intel, France Telecom, Gemplus (now Thales) & Thomson. IPO & acquired by Axway, a cloud infrastructure provider.

INDIVIDUAL provided competitive intelligence services. I signed enterprise license deals with our largest customers including AT&T, Cisco, DirecTV and built a $2.4M deal with Microsoft, helping our ARR grow from $1M to $30M. After our IPO, Thomson Reuters acquired INDIVIDUAL. Our IPO S1 filing: http://goo.gl/UYtASy

Cupertino, California, US

I developed custom solutions for several campus-wide implementations for Apple education customers, including Dartmouth, Harvard Business School, and Boston area K-12 school districts.

Ba, Coursework: Computer Science, Political Science & Religion

Startup School S22

High School Degree