Investing in early stage startups with great founders, solving giant problems with novel product solutions. Portfolio companies include OpenAI, Bearing.ai, Somatic Robotics, Opal, Spot AI, Jellie AI, Orbit, Growit, Ionic Mineral Tech, Agility Robotics, Supermove, MultiOn, Truleo, The Complete Human, and Arcoscan where I've co-invested alongside Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Accel, General Catalyst, AI Fund, Berkeley Skydeck, and other leading seed stage venture firms.Startup Advisory at Stanford's Graduate School of Business Center for Entrepreneurial Studies Venture Studio and UC Berkeley's Skydeck Accelerator program.Led multi-month product management consulting engagements helping shape product orgs and innovation roadmaps and processes for a Series A startup and a Fortune 100 company.Executive coaching to multiple venture-backed startup CEO's, CPO's, and product leads and senior product managers at FAANG companies.Expert instruction for advanced product management workshops and team learning and development for public and late stage startups focusing on AI product strategy and product decision making and product review processes.Virtual team of pm's, engineers, and designers researching, and incubating a variety of -1 to 0 concepts for potential new ventures. Current experiment is: https://TomsList.com

I was a top 4% rated ("transformative impact") product management director at Google and led product innovation for some of Google's most complex applied research incubations around AI-based products including a zero to one initiative launching Google's first AI-powered clinical search and summarization product to multiple health systems in live clinical environments. Many of the technologies we pioneered are now available at scale via Google Cloud AI. Led team of 20+ product managers supporting the work for hundreds of research and software development engineers. Also responsible for multiple executive relationships both internal at Google and with external strategic partners.

I was responsible for re-imagining and rebuilding the core Creator experience at YouTube. I built and led a product management team from 1 to 10 (2 managers and 8 individual contributors) covering V1 innovation projects, platform, desktop, mobile, and long-term infrastructure investments. Examples of work from my team included the new YouTube Analytics, new YouTube Upload flow, new YouTube Studio, new YouTube channels setup process.My team drove the roadmaps and prioritization for about 100 engineers and another several hundred engineers indirectly. Our users uploaded 500 hours of new content every minute attracting 2B users to YouTube every month. I was one of the most senior advocates for Creators within YouTube leading cross-company initiatives that span multiple orgs and also the primary external spokesperson externally for all new features and policies that affect YouTube creators.

Acquired by NXTThing (a recruitment process outsourcing company) in April 2018. Poachable (aka Anthology) matched top employed tech professionals with new career opportunities anonymously. Backed by $3.3M in seed capital from Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures, the former general counsel of Facebook, former CEO of Immunex, CPO of Acxiom, Google and Amazon execs, and top angels. Over 1,000 companies have promoted jobs through Anthology include Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, Facebook, Uber, Netflix, Smartsheet, Offerup, Blue Apron and over 300 venture backed startups. As of Jan 2017, we had over 60,000 active members including 5,000 VP's and 7.500 directors.Poachable was featured in the New York Times, CBS News, CNN, Mashable, LifeHacker, Huffington Post, WSJ, Inc, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, etc. We won the 2015 Seattle Business Magazine Top Emerging Tech Company award and the 2015 Harvard Business School Alumni Ventures "Best Investment" award for Northern California & Northwest.Prior to the Poachable business, our team incubated 6 products which were designed to enhance how people connect online through conversations and community. These included an instant feedback mobile app for quick decisions, a shopping Q&A community, a social event planning tool, an Ask me Anything platform, a town hall internal collaboration service, and a group interviewing tool for hiring managers. Our original Q&A product was featured in Fast Company, Mashable, NPR, Wall Street Journal, and was a finalist in the 2013 SxSW Startup Accelerator competition (top 18 of 550 startups competing, top 3 in the social category).

Created the Northwest's first blog-based real estate lead generation business generating over $20M in transactions with less than $10k in capital. Acquired by Kronen Group in 2018.

Reporting to our President, I was promoted from VP of small business solutions to SVP of Product overall and responsible for leading and developing Marchex's team of over 20 product managers, program managers, and UX designers as well as charting our overall corporate product strategy and roadmap generating $150M in annual revenue. Marchex is a 400 person company, publicly traded software company, headquartered in Seattle. The stuff we worked on included:SMB advertising solution that managed >$200M in SMB ad budget annually and includes exclusive strategic partnerships with Intuit, AT&T, Yellow Pages Group, Cox Media, and NBC Local.Call analytics platform for local online advertising campaigns powering ad programs like AT&T Interactive, Yodle, Marchex pay-for-call, and Yellow Pages Group Canada tracking, transcribing, and analyzing more than 10M minutes of inbound phone leads per month.Pay-for-Call ad network business with over 100 publishers such as Telenav, White Pages, Metro PCS, and Skype that drives inbound phone leads with minimal spend on SEM.An automated ad-funded directory assistance service offered direct to consumers through 1-800-Free-411 and white label offering with major mobile and voice partners such as Tracfone, Boost Mobile, MagicJack, Comcast, and Verizon.SMB online presence management tool that scoured over 8,000 web sources for information about your business, your competition, trends, alerts, etc. to monitor, analyze, and enhance your business' overall online presence.An experimental free calling plugin enabling multi-modal connections to businesses from any web page.

Website Optimizer was the #1 content optimization tool on the web and was available in 22 languages and enabled on-demand AB and multivariate testing and had over 15 global partners. Website Optimizer also won internal recognition at Google as one of the "Top 10 Product" awards. I was the lead PM for the beta as well as over a dozen subsequent releases and was accountable for the overall performance of the Website Optimizer business. I led the Website Optimizer Core team which was comprised of 15 functional areas including engineering, design, QA, localization, support, marketing, sales, PR, writers, business development, legal, webmaster, ops, etc. I also worked on projects related to Google Analytics, Google AdWords, and Google AdSense.After being promoted to Sr PM, I worked on more analytics products for Google. The last product I led was Google Campaign Insights (http://tinyurl.com/2czzruv), a state of the art display advertising effectiveness analytics product sponsored by and accountable to CEO, founders, and Operating Committee at Google. Completed Google leadership training program for high potential managers.

Trumba was founded by the creators of PageMaker and Visio and funded with $13M from Kleiner Perkins, August Capital, and Oak Investment Partners. The original vision was to provide a universal and live calendar data exchange for individuals, groups, families, churches, schools, and other community organizations.I was charged with leading our product development partnerships with high-profile enterprise customers such as the New York Times online as well as product management of our small business offerings where I reported to the VP of Marketing. After being promoted, I reported to our CFO and was responsible for creating the company's first inside sales organization.

I was the lead business owner for what would become Windows Live Hotmail, Hotmail's largest engineering initiative since Microsoft originally acquired it in 1997. This renewed effort was commenced after the launch of Gmail.I led the product planning and business strategy for the complete redesign of the Hotmail service which provided email services to over 200M consumers in over 30 languages. The redesign started after Gmail launched and included radically expanded storage, more reliable back end architecture, and completely new, more responsive Ajax front end. Windows Live Hotmail would eventually win PC Magazine's editor's choice award for consumer webmail in 2007. Co-authored multiple patent applications around online advertising and email delivery. Helped drive ethnographic research in Europe. Recipient of Gold Star award for exceptional performance and for superior potential for leadership.

Active Media was a venture-backed startup in Asia focusing on providing consumers streaming video content and advertisers with multi-channel marketing solutions (e.g. web, POS, mobile, print, billboards). Ultimately, crashed and burned but it was intense :-)Promoted from General Manager to COO, I managed a team of 22 employees from engineering, ops, design, sales, and content development. Personally closed advertising clients such as MasterCard, Canon, and strategic partners such as McCann-Erickson. Drove product development of in house and private label CMS, streaming video, streaming music, photo galleries, forums, chat, and webmail.

CRA is a publicly-traded consulting firm specializing in highly complex engagements for Fortune 500 companies and governments requiring the firm's expertise in advanced business analytics and economic analysis. I performed research, analysis, and number crunching for Phd economists. Consulting engagements focused on game theory, auction theory, and pricing strategies for Fortune 500 corporations. Promoted from Research Analyst to Associate.