Working to help reverse Type II Diabetes and obesity and improve metabolic health in 1 billion peopleSupporting product, design, data and machine learning teams. Working to help create powerful care team moments and apply AI, ML and delightful digital experiences to change more lives.

Team ignite is focused on seed stage funds with a thesis focused on B2B SaaS companies that thrive in cloud marketplaces.Early stage startup investments.- Pitch your startup: http://pitch.teamignite.vc/- Join the syndicate: http://join.teamignite.vc/- Join our YC Fund: http://join-the-yc-fund.teamignite.vc/Oct 2023 --- Partner (part time)Focused on fundraising, diligence, sourcing and as needed advising portfolio companiesMay 2022 - Sept 2023. AdvisorHelping with diligence as needed

Advising early stage start up focused on ways to improve athlete's mental performance and allow them to better demonstrate their unique fit in a team makeup.

Magnet Media is a Global Strategic Studio that combines the power of digital strategy, video content creation, and premium distribution to target audiences across every screen and device.

Kaia Health transforms outcomes and affordability for chronic diseases. It changes lives with digital first multimodal therapies for chronic diseases (COPD, chronic back pain and other musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions) combining the digital first approach with care teams in the patient’s homes on their smartphone.Accountable for Product, Design, Content, Growth Marketing-- Grew ARR by 300% contributing through improved growth marketing, and product execution both in market opening ideas, and tactical execution to improve key operating metrics-- Clarified company strategy to be Digital First, uniquely differentiated in MSK health-- Led the market with the first patient facing, in-app, clinical digital assistant in the market by investing in LLMs ahead of the market-- Improved product and design velocity with 40% of the budget through a combination of focus, talent, execution and process-- Developed product rhythms, including planning cycles, roadmap clarity, unified backlog for improved product velocity-- Reduced patient CAC by 70% year over year at 100% increased scale -- enabling highly profitable patient acquisition-- Improved operating cadence and revenue forecasting -- resulting in first accurate revenue outlook (Dec '22 outlook within 5% of 2023 actuals)If you want to change lives -- come join us -- we're hiring across product, engineering, design, content and more

Viewst changes mobile web advertising to deliver better results for advertisers, increased revenue for publishers and a better experience for their audiences.

Helping farmers make decisions with confidence to spend less while growing more. We do this by productizing university research and science. We use all the high quality data we can get, especially aerial spectral imagery, data science and machine learning to optimize use of water, fertilizer, pesticides at the plant level.Accountable for Product Management, Product Marketing, New Market Business Development, Partner Management, Onshore and offshore operations teams, periods of time supporting Engineering, G&A / HR and Finance teams-- Grew revenue over 100% to $10M ARR-- Improved Gross Margin by 20%, net margin by 30% through stronger product offerings and more efficient operations-- Transformed from a purely visual app to quantitative insights (Plant Level Insights)-- Introduced strong workflow tools, and partner integrations using sensors across all aspect of field management-- Developed strong operational planning, providing improved forecasting, and enabling stronger cash management-- Supported multiple rounds of fundraising-- Supported the operational teams with on-shoe and off-shore scaling as needed throughout peak season

Helping 2.2 million advertisers make the most of the Facebook platform with a mission to make more effective marketing easier. We're doing this by significantly changing the user experience to guide users consistently towards great decisions that quantifiably lead to better marketing outcomes and increased success for our customer's businesses. Over the long term this should create over a million net new jobs worldwide.- Significantly retooled the user experience, resulting in 10% improvement in user efficiency.- Defined user experience service level bars (SLAs)- Improved front and back end performance reducing daily SLA breaches from 95% to 63%- Delivered first dedicated analytics surface in Ads Manager, measurably increasing active usage- Delivered delivery optimization screen leading to measurable increase in customer ROI- Defined path to join FBA and Ads Manager, and encompass paid and organic media

Rocket Fuel applies machine learning to build a predictive marketing platform focused on paid media, delivering outstanding results and unique insights into consumer behavior.As General Manager for Media Services - Used strong business analytics to surface structural changes required- Optimized profitability to deliver strong net revenue while addressing declining client spend.- Narrowed sales focus to 3 key areas to improve revenue per sales head.- Reduced cost of service by 27% through off-shoring and role reorganizationAs SVP Corporate Development- Chartered by the board in December 2016 to explore strategic alternatives, primarily the divestiture of the Media Services business. Rocket Fuel stock was $1.71 and declining due to Rocket Fuel weakening cash flows.- Achieved a bid of $2.70 ($150M EV) for Media Services stand-alone spin out in February 2017 (board ultimately chose to pursue whole company offer instead). - Successfully closed sale of Rocket Fuel to Sizmek for $2.60 ($145M EV) in July 2017, a 52% premium on Dec ‘16 stock price despite significantly deteriorated cash flow

Successfully transformed Rocket Fuel from a traditional ad network into a SaaS business.Grew Platform business from $2M annually to $160M annual run rate in 3 years.Delivered AI enabled platform to deliver market leading results for brand and DR marketing objectives.Built and executed strategy to acquire X+1 to accelerate transformation into a SaaS business.Created annual business planning cadence, led strategic planning.Significant role in margin and expense management to hit quarterly earnings targetsExperienced in analyst relations, PR, earnings calls, board engagement

Swivl is a leading provider of in classroom video tools

YuMe is a leading provider of brand media to agencies and their clients globally.- Grew revenues by nearly 300% in 2 years leading to successful IPO in August 2013.- Worked on IPO readiness, S-1 and roadshow- Acquired and integrated Crowd Science for audience and first party data technologies.- Rebuilt and expanded product team and developed product process and structure.- Developed strong fiscal planning, revenue management and roadmap processes

Speechpad is an automated transcription service company.

GridIron Software is a video effects and creative workflow automation company.

Viewdle is a mobile face recognition company (acquired by Motorola Mobility Oct 2012)

Red Hat is an open source software company.- Rebuilt RHEV (Red Hat Virtualization) digital and product marketing team- Overhauled digital go to market, improving return on marketing spend by 630%.

Autonomy was a company applying big data and Bayesian inference across a variety of applications and markets such as Enterprise Search, Legal Analysis and Marketing analysis.- Developed new strategic and marketing framework for Meaning Based Marketing - Brought early augmented reality toolkit (Aurasma) to market- Developed Aurasma install base to over 2M in first quarter.- Left when Autonomy acquisition by HP was signed.- Filed 4 patents relating to augmented reality and meaning based marketing

Coincident.tv had a vision to make creative toolkits for searchable and interactive video.

Adobe is the world's leading provider of creative software.- Grew revenues by over 250% from 2005 to 2010, growing market share from 22% to 45%.- Delivered CS5 video and audio, with 60% growth over CS4, outperforming the rest of CS5.- Delivered first Creative SaaS products -- Adobe Story and CS Review- Won key battleground accounts such as BBC, CNN, Avatar by shifting engineering to them- Delivered the world's first post-production tools optimized for online and searchable video- Shifted to leveraged marketing -- increasing PR, video, social media, influencer marketing

Silicon Graphics was the leading provider of supercomputers and advanced visualization computers.- Started as an Applied Engineer in Switzerland, then the US. Shifted to product role in 1999- Product management and marketing for all graphics systems and software - P&L responsibility in excess of $450M- Restructured the business to shift from purely custom chips to leveraging GPUs - Delivered systems with up to 1,000 GPUs.- Established European marketing facility in Switzerland- Directly impacted over $100M of business and hosting over 2,000 visitors annually - Delivered novel visualization techniques and consulting across many industries- Filed advanced visualization patents

Worked in Networking Systems Division in England which focused on major networking and infrastructure software. - Tech lead for Collaborative Working and Video Conferencing Software (Person 2 Person).- Worked with marketing to develop and deliver technical marketing material - Work resulted in 2 ideas passing IBM's patent screen and being submitted.