Building strategy games that generate themselves.

Angel investor in early-stage AI/ML startups. Limited Partner for San Francisco VC co-investing with YC, Craft, a16z.

Built a popular AI-to-AI show reviving icons from history for 1-on-1s with AI hosts. Think Character.ai for history. Shipped personalized agents for users to connect with each AI guest (LLMs, text-to-voice, text-to-img, text-to-video, AI animation).

Hypergrowth B2C startup, went through IPO, became Fortune 500, $4B Revenue, 15X market cap.• Headed LTV Product & Growth for a massive e-commerce user base. Built, launched, and ran a Business Unit from the ground up, overseeing 4 Product and Engineering tracks.• Launched data-based products and experiments using ML recommendation engines, Data Mining, and Hypertargeting to drive Customer Referrals, increase Repeat rate, improve Upgrade Ratios, and minimize Churn.• Drove Repeats up +22%, to an All-Time High of 8.2% of total sales. Grew Upgrades +12% and Swaps +170%. Increased Repeat Trade Conversion by +45%, reaching an All-Time High that’s 2.2X higher than overall trades.• 3X’d the size of the team by recruiting, hiring, and mentoring Product Leaders, Engineering Managers, Engineering Leads, SWEs, Senior SWEs, PMs, TPMs, PMMs, Designers, and Data Analysts.

VC-backed startup using neuroscience and ML for brain training. Virtuleap has been featured in VentureBeat, TheNextWeb, TechCrunch, and many others.

EIR at early-stage VC bringing frontier tech to market (AI/ML).• In-house subject matter expert in Product, Strategy, and Emerging Tech. Routinely act as interim exec for portfolio tech startups, advising them on product, growth, roadmap development, GTM, partnerships, deal closing, growing dev communities, and more.• Sourced and vetted 100s of startups for VC funding. Led the investment in top WebVR company founded by Mozilla pioneers. Founders later landed funding from General Catalyst & YC.

Series B startup listed as Top 10 World’s Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company) and twice-awarded Top 10 VR Products (TechCrunch).• Headed Product Management for VC-backed Series B startup. Led the ‘Transport’ team, Wevr’s category-leading platform for VR apps (per NYT, WSJ, Variety), serving AAA titles by award-winning influencers: Jon Favreau (of Marvel), Tippett (of Star Wars), Missandei (of Game of Thrones).• Led a cross-functional team of engineers, designers and QA in building & shipping cross-platform VR across mobile, web and PC devices. Took the platform from alpha to public launch with effective B2C monetization. Shipped our 1st B2B product enabling OTT partners to grow 360 catalogs from 0 to Millions of users globally.• Grew the ‘Venues’ SaaS beta from 0 to 100s of SMBs globally. Amid billion-dollar competition, led the vital pivot to high-touch OOH, closing multimillion deals in Europe, China and Dubai (prime venue with world record for yearly visitor count). Happily wore other startup hats: BD, fin modeling, dealmaking, legal, ops, hiring, etc.

Product-led team building cutting-edge 3D Printing & 3D Scanning products• Shipped Microsoft's 1st Kinect app for Win10. Led a team of developers, designers and researchers. Oversaw the roadmap, UX, prototyping, analytics, marketing, and launch. ‘3D Scan’ was showcased at the annual Build conference.

Supported two batches of top tech startups in reaching inflection point growth post-incubation. Nurtured key relations between industry mentors/investors and tech entrepreneurs. Startups ranged from B2C to B2B, mobile-based and emerging tech, AR, FinTech, EdTech, and more.

• Built the 1st API for the Disjoint-Out-of-order Execution (DOE) architecture to parallelize previously non-parallelizable code. Achieved significant improvements over OpenMP by leveraging novel hardware design and DX-simplified API calls at the software level.• Co-authored and published an IEEE paper about this work. Was acknowledged in two top academic journals for separate research work.

• Managed the official negotiations of a ~$1B joint venture for a Top-3 largest sovereign wealth fund. Negotiated with major public and private partners.

• Competed in international programming contests in software engineering, data structures and algorithms. Ranked national finalist at Microsoft’s Imagine developer competition and top tier at ACM’s regional contest.