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New York, Ny, Us

We work with the world's leading companies and founders to co-create high impact ventures.

New York, Ny, Us

Prehype is an innovation and Venture Development studio with offices in London, Copenhagen and New York. We are a group of entrepreneurs who help established companies and VCs facilitate spin-outs, incubation and venture partnerships. We run programs for companies like LEGO, Newscorp, Coca-Cola, O'reilly, LGE, Kaplan, Vostu and Verizon where we identify new innovation/business opportunities and incubate these via our lean incubation process.

Hastings-On-Hudson, Ny, Us

Hudson Lab School is a new, independent K-12 school opening in Hastings-on-Hudson in Westchester. We opened in 2017 in a single, mixed-age classroom, and in our fourth year we now have 45 students ranging from K to 6th Grade. Learning at Hudson Lab School is rooted in project-based learning. We strive to integrate the rigorous academics of a classical liberal arts education with collaborative, interdisciplinary project-based learning and thoughtful self-reflection. Hudson Lab School‘s mission is to instill a love of learning and to teach children how to design and build a life in which they can thrive.

Nift is a software platform that makes contracts easier to read, navigate and understand. Contracts are broken. People don't really read or understand what they are signing. Nift is on a long-term mission to make them more understandable and enable businesses to connect with their customers in a more trusted and transparent way.With headquarters in East London's creative and cultural workspace, Second Home, Nift is home to a team of motivated and experienced professionals who are passionate about making the important things in life a bit simpler. Nift was co-founded in partnership with venture development firm prehype.

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Seoul, Kr

- Head of SmartTV group, establishing core connected device strategy for UK and more broadly across Europe, executing business development deals with dozens of content partners. Built organizational capacity in strategy, business development, service marketing, and internal operations. Served as connected device evangelist in broader media, internet, and developer communities.

Member of the senior management team of Joost, an online television platform created by the founders of Skype; part of the original team that helped to establish the company; now responsible for leading the business development team, focusing on identifying, evaluating, and executing on new opportunities to drive growth for Joost in the international and domestic markets. INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT- Lead Joost’s international business development team in creating the strategy and executing on the localization and new market entry for the company’s software products in China, Japan, Korea, Scandinavia and Western Europe. - Managed the international team responsible for the project management of the local market launches of the Joost software as well as the day-to-day operations in each country. Most recently (July 2009), the team launched a white-label live news portal for NHK, Japan’s national broadcaster.- Negotiated, launched and established operations for Joost’s joint venture with Tom Online in China. Managed Joost’s involvement in the JV, as well as the overall Joost / Tom relationship. Joost China launched in July 2008 and garnered over two million downloads in three months. - Designed, conducted and presented qualitative and quantitative research as well as business models to back the team’s strategic recommendations. - Responsible for developing Joost’s hardware strategy and implementing hardware partnerships, including being one of the first to market with an iphone application, a PS3 application and a Boxee integration. - Developed and implemented Joost’s affiliate marketing and distribution strategy and partnerships including co-marketing arrangement with Netlog (40M+ pan-European social network); team completed over 15+ distribution arrangements with other social media companies during three month period accounting for 10% of non-paid total traffic upon launch.

CONTENT STRATEGY AND ACQUISITIONS- Hired, trained and managed an eight person sales and relationship team focused on third party channel and content acquisition for Joost’s online television offering. Over 18 months the team completed over 300+ multi-territory, multi-year deals with key content suppliers, creating the largest legal online repository of premium, ad-supported content. Eventually, the library included over 20,000 hours of programming, and 75,000+ videos. - Analyzed performance of key content genres and identified opportunities for new channel launches and content acquisitions; set programming and acquisition strategy for Joost. - Personally structured, negotiated & closed content deals with 50+ content partners including CBS, Viacom, Warner Brothers, Turner International, Warner Music Group, Alliance Atlantis et al.- Established, led and grew commercial relationships with key content suppliersCONTENT OPERATIONS- Managed a 10-person team responsible for the front-end operations of the Joost platform, ensuring that once a deal is struck the content becomes available on the system. - Provided business requirements for and managed the development of internal and external content management tools that supported the Joost platform. - Managed the financial operations of the content business and the development of the payment models and systems for content owners.

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Sourced, evaluated and screened companies, created financial analyses and valuations, conducted management and customer due diligence, researched markets, products and barriers to entry, prepared investment memoranda, negotiated and closed financial terms on a variety of deals.

New York, New York, Us

Analyzed business operations and evaluated strategic, financial, and operational impact of potential acquisitions and divestitures for Citigroup’s Global Consumer Division.CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT, FINANCIAL MODELING, AND STRATEGIC ADVICE- Created valuations and merger consequence analyses, conducted due diligence, reviewed legal documents and integration planning; managed internal and external communications programs as part of M&A process; prepared presentations for executive management team. Completed deals include the $1B+ acquisition of First American Bank of Texas, the divestiture of CitiCapital’s European vendor leasing business, and the multi-billion dollar acquisition of Principal Mortgage

New York, Ny, Us

BUSINESS STRATEGY & PROJECT MANAGEMENT- Launched FX Sales & Research office in London: Analyzed global expansion opportunities, proposed FX departments in London and Tokyo, co-authored the business plan, hired key personnel and produced sales. In Europe, client accounts doubled and trade volume rose 22% in the first yearPUBLISHED RESEARCH & MEDIA RELATIONS- Co-authored daily and weekly research in “International Markets” and “International Markets Weekly”: Provided critical analysis of world economic & market events, key trading strategies and currency forecasting to over 800 institutional investors and internal clients- Highlighted reports included: “Japan’s Other Y2K Problem: Teigaku Flows and the Yen”- Developed macro-economic and country specific risk models for use in currency forecasting. - Appeared weekly on Bloomberg TV as a BBH Economist and fielded interviews for CNNfn, CBS Evening News, Reuters Newswires, Dow Jones News, Bloomberg News, BBC Online, Euromoney, resulting in over 200 media hits from January 2001 – March 2003FX SALES & MARKETING- Developed and executed FX trading and risk management strategies for multi-million dollar portfolios using technical and fundamental analyses- Increased online transactions by 65% with the launch of a proprietary online FX trading platform

Managed tour “The Force of Will Tour 1997” and played trombone for Smit-Haus, an original rock band

Mba, Finance And Economics

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics And Public Policy