Learning how to be a phenomenal husband and father. Reanimating interests and relationships. Seeking hard questions @ South Park Commons (joined April 2024).

Built out a sunkworks team of top talent to rapid prototype GenAI productivity products within the Office of the CEO.

I joined Fivestars with the mandate to discover and execute an organizational pivot (as our loyalty business was approaching a plateau). I was supported by an incredible team of designers, user researchers, product analysts, and PMs as Vice President & Head of Product. Our team identified and validated a new strategy, pivoting the company from loyalty to credit card payment hardware.Some highlights of our payments strategy (a loyalty-integrated credit card terminal):- Key hypotheses were validated using lean hypothesis testing before we "bet the farm" on a risky hardware play.- We brought the credit card hardware to market in < 18 months (an industry-leading timeline).- Product processed more than $500M+ GMV at small businesses, becoming the fastest-growing product line through COVD-19.- Resulted in a successful exit to SumUp for $320M.Simultaneously, we grew the legacy product to influence 50+ million consumers and $2bn in annual spend.

Freshplum used ML to help some of the world's largest retailers understand and personalize online promotions. The tech increased retailer revenue by 15% by predicting demand elasticity, using targeted discounts to turn site visitors into new customers.Funded by YCombinator, sold to TellApart (which was then purchased by Twitter).Post acquisition we facilitated the integration of a personalized retail promotions pilot program (using Freshplum's machine-learning technology) into the TellApart (and later Twitter) ad product offerings.

PM responsible for all of Facebook Photos & Video. Grew product to average 100 million+ daily photo uploads and 10 billion+ daily photo views.Incrementally relaunched the entire product, which included releasing:- Auto-tagging via facial detection & recognition ML (included a build-out of Facebook’s machine learning image-processing stack; processing over 100M photos / day)- New photo viewer- New photo uploader- New album interface- Hi-res photos

Divvyshot fixed photo sharing with one of the industry's first iOS photo-sharing apps. Funded by YCombinator, sold in 2010 to Facebook.