MyTwitterManager is a fully-managed service helping startups and SMBs to grow their business via social media. We apply Machine Learning to identify the most relevant users for our clients and engage them on their behalf, as well as regularly posting fresh content to build value for the community. We have dozens of happy clients including Moju (featured on the App Store homepage by Apple), ViralGains (MassChallenge Diamond winner in 2013), as well as TV celebrities, Kickstarters, musicians, e-commerce companies, and great non-profits.

Co-founder and President of SocMetrics, the leading influencer identification and engagement tool for agencies and brands to win more new business, create proposals and marketing campaigns more efficiently, and monitor competitive standing in key segments by engaging industry-specific influencers in social media. Leading agencies like Digitas, Edelman, Shift and Ogilvy have benefited from our unique Topical Influencer capabilities.TrueLens is the first solution for marketers that creates a living, breathing customer record by bringing social insights linked to the CRM database. We help loyalty marketers by enriching their data with interest, intent, influence and brand affinity data that can be leveraged for Segmentation, Retention, Upsell and Acquisition. TrueLens is a division of SocMetrics.

I'm a Boston-based mentor for Dave McClure's awesome 500 Startups fund.

I've been a TechStars mentor and advisor, helping recruit and select companies and mentors and provide feedback I hear from the entrepreneurs on what works and what could be improved in the program.

AOL acquired Going, the company I co-founded, in June '09. I managed the team, integration, product development including our new iPhone application, and all areas of the business.

Board of Directors member, head of product development & strategy managing product management, editorial, engineering, online marketing and other areas. Managed team of 15 full-time and 40+ part-time including product managers, developers, designers, editors, client services, online marketing as we grew Going to 1M Unique Visitors and 15M Page Views per month with substantial revenue across national brand campaigns (JetBlue, Virgin, Bacardi, Miller) and event ticket sales.

Advisor to companies including JoyTunes, peerTransfer, MeetImpact, NodeRabbit, and judge for awards competition.

Mentor to companies including ThinqTeq, and presenter on Co-founders & Team-building session.

Mentor to several program startups and panelist on fundraising.

Mentor for Startup Weekend Boston and finals judge.

Co-founded Going, the leading Local Events Network across 30 US markets, and led company from bootstrap prototyping stage to market validation and incorporation. Raised seed round and Series A follow-on from Highland Capital and General Catalyst. Led business through user adoption and growth milestones, hired leadership team, set up finance and legal operations, launched company with 5,000-attendee event for our user community. Also filed multiple patents on our local data aggregation, normalization and recommendation technologies.

As part of newly-formed eDiscovery division, led integration of product lines after IBM acquired iPhrase in late '05 to unify lines across OmniFind, Venetica and iPhrase.

Business lead for company's largest product lines, ramping new eService software business from zero to $5M+ revenues in the first year. Led all aspects including product strategy & management, pricing models, lead generation, active in sales calls, bizdev partnerships, analyst interviews, go to market. Customers included Charles Schwab, WaMu, Staples, Radio Shack, Neiman Marcus, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Sephora. Part of M&A due diligence team for acquisition of Israel-based Banter in 2004. Product was winner of 2004 MTLC/MITX award. Quoted in CIO Magazine, CRM Daily and others and led Gartner and Forrester relationships.

Market strategy, competitive analysis, product requirements, sales tools and training, joint calls with sales team, management of delivery with engineering team, working with VP Marketing, VP Sales and CEO at natural-language enterprise software company iPhrase, backed by Sequoia, CRV, Greylock, RSA and Elsevier. Developed relationships with partners PeopleSoft, Siebel, Interwoven and IBM.

Led newly formed three-member Usability team in product evaluation and UI design, researched and recruited target demographic, trained moderators, designed, conducted and analyzed two major usability studies with 150 users, presented recommendations to CEO. Product managed Analytics & Reporting product modules.

Working at Florham Park and Red Bank NJ labs, researched applications in convergence of telephone, computer and TV, leading to several patents.

Human-computer interaction researcher in the Computer Science Laboratory working with Keith Edwards. Research into collaborative document editing and user interface techniques, developed implementation in Java. Work led to Xerox patent.