I'm excited to be the founder and CEO of LifeLaunchr, which provides expert, personalized college admissions coaching to help students find their best-fit college or career and get in.Prior to LifeLaunchr, I was in charge of all national earned revenues at GreatSchools. My role there included driving advertising sales, sponsorships, and licensing, which grew in excess of 20% YoY during my tenure. GreatSchools drives parental engagement in education by providing information about schools and as content to help parents.I led business development at Plaxo, Inc., in Mountain View, CA, where I focused on generating revenue and user growth through distribution and integration alliances worldwide. Through my efforts, we grew revenues over 100% YoY and closed a major deal with Comcast that led to the company's profitable acquisition by Comcast in 2008. I also drove deals for advertising and media on Plaxo. During my tenure there I also helped raise over $10 million in late-stage venture capital.I founded and was EVP in charge of marketing and business development, and chief strategist at NightFire Software, which was acquired by NeuStar in 2003. We raised over $50 million in venture capital from Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Technology Partners, and The Roda Group. Led the company to be the leader in its space, doing over $20 million in profitable revenue. At NightFire, my roles included strategy, product planning, marketing, and alliance development; and working closely with engineering and sales to drive products and revenues.Before NightFire, I was director of marketing at Telesphere solutions, a subsidiary of ADC Telecommunications based in Minneapolis; and held various engineering, marketing, and program management roles at TCSI Corp. in Berkeley; and architected their flagship product, Object Services Package (OSP).Specialties: Revenue generation, marketing, social media, alliance development, strategic & product planning