Saildrone provides turnkey solutions for maritime defense and security, ocean mapping, and ocean research, providing actionable data without maintenance. Saildrone’s fleet of uncrewed surface vehicles, powered by renewable wind and solar energy, are designed to make ocean intelligence cost-effective at scale, with minimum carbon footprint. Operating 24/7/365 without a crewed support vehicle, the Saildrone fleet has sailed almost 1M nm and spent more than 25,000 days at sea in every ocean on Earth.As CRO, I lead global sales, sales ops, business development, partnerships, and marketing. We are growing our team to address a wide range of challenges for a growing global customer base. If you are a mission-oriented sales and business development professional with experience in ocean research, commercial ocean data and/or defense, we are hiring!

DataStax is a vector DB, offering the complete data stack for production GenAI and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications with high relevancy and low latency. I led the team that was tasked with building out our global partner ecosystems (cloud, OEMs, SIs, technology) and Federal / public sector sales.

Defense Innovation Unit was formed by the Secretary of Defense to provide the DoD with direct access to innovation ecosystems in real time (e.g. AI/ML, autonomy). I led the team that managed the DoD's commercial interface (start-ups / VCs) and was tasked with connecting known capability gaps inside DoD with best-in-class solutions.