AI Copilot powered easy button for employee ownership at 3 million US businesses. Reimagining ownership of businesses responsible for 44% US GDP and 46% US employment.

Invest for Better · Board Advisors, Jul 2021 - PresentCredence · Advisory Board, Oct 2020 - PresentOji Life Lab Product Strategy · Feb 2021 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr 8 mosWorkIt · Product Leadership · May 2020 - Jan 2021

Clients: SkillSuccess Growth Stage, $60M-$250M clients: private Construction Plastering and Masonry, Home Goods ecommerce, Last-Mile Delivery- Business development strategies;- Executive management;- Product management & operational support;- Growth, M&A and expansion advisory.Kothari Leadership & Business Advisory provides executive coaching focused on leadership and the achievement of business results. Our main mission is to empower our clients to achieve breakthrough results at work and in all other facets of life. We link executive coaching to emotional intelligence to execution. Our core clients are leaders who want to live with purpose. You want to measure your progress against goals, and are now willing to invest in the operational discipline to do so. You don’t want to get lucky; you want your success to be a certainty.For more information about the company please visit www.kotharileadership.com

JFF (Jobs for the Future) is a national nonprofit that builds educational and economic opportunities for underserved populations in the United States. https://www.jff.org/points-of-view/how-small-lab-building-big-thing/We launched JFFLabs to bridge the traditional education and workforce systems with innovative approaches and technology-enabled solutions.As the Chief Operations Officer & Interim Head of Labs, I was responsible for the following:Non-profit entity development;Growth strategy Implementation;Leadership Team management;Business development.

JFFLabs is the strategy and innovation arm of JFF.

COO (Present)Responsible for Kiva’s Product Management, Strategic Planning, Analytics and People/HR functions. Enable collaboration and creativity across teams to drive impact and growthMore than 1.7 billion people around the world are unbanked and can’t access the financial services they need. Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 in San Francisco, with a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive.
Kiva runs a global marketplace platform for crowd-funded micro-loans to serve the financially excluded in sectors such as education, water, clean energy, and refugee resettlement. In just 15 years, Kiva has raised nearly $1.5 billion in loan capital for more than 2 million borrowers in 84 countries.Chief of Staff (Sept 2014 - Aug 2015)• Drive quarterly executive operational reviews, board meeting preparation and management team meetings, including creation and analysis through executive dashboards• Fill in as needed, including leading 2015 budgeting in absence of CFO, consumer (lender) strategy in absence of CPO, Hiring and managing analytics teamDirector of Strategic Planning (2013- Sept 2014)• Led executive team in creation of 2014 & 2015 strategic plan including setting top organization goals, strategies and budget, contributing to meeting key loan volume and revenue targets• Led recommendations on major initiatives, including feasibility analysis and plan for largest ever Kiva strategic partnershipDirector of Product Management (Mar 2011- May 2013)• Led kiva.org roadmap and resource prioritization across engineering, QA, design, and managing 3 senior product managers• Drove 50% new user growth with free trial and social media features which remain key new acquisition lever (ex: $1M Reid Hoffman campaign)http://youtu.be/0YMRsHjqPYUhttp://youtu.be/H0Dt-QBvLNohttp://youtu.be/ETemXkwd528

Developed ad tech platform, built new brand video ad products, built next gen reporting platform

Lead Product Manager June 2007 - December 2007Managing advertising products for local media network (RippleTV) including Ad Center, the self-serve product (adcenter.rippletv.com)Business Development December 2006 – June 2007

AdSense International

Manage products, including launch of new offerings. Connect products and services with the needs of customers. Develop strategies that drive fast adoption and deployment rates.