Cofounded or helped lead several great Internet companies, including search engine pioneer Lycos, NewsAlert (sold to Dow Jones), GeoCities (now Yahoo!), Deja.com (now Google and ebay), Sixdegrees.com (the intellectual property behind LinkedIn), $2.8B etailer Newegg.com, and YouthStream Media Networks (the nation's largest high school and college media company). 13 startups. 7 publicly-held companies. 11 exits exceeding $10 billion. Co-founder of Ontheline Corporation, a Web 4.0 digital lifestyle platform and "Super App" that solves most of the issues created by social media, while adding multiple features to enhance Real life, Ontheline™. Ontheline is Section 230 and GDRP compliant, and offers enhanced member safety, security, privacy (we never sell member data) and self-moderation for members, plus our Ownership Society™ returns profits to our members. Our children and teens site, Friendswith, is focused on communications and bringing the best teachers to the homes of tens of thousands of students via the Friendswith platform. The platform also teaches young people the safe use of technology. Formerly a board member and active manager at e-commerce retailer newegg.com, now a public company. Since 2000, Chairman of Amati Foundation, a nonprofit music foundation that has placed over 21,000 stringed instruments into the hands of young musicians. Former board member at Futuristics, Really Easy Internet, and Solidus Networks (dba Pay By Touch) .Author of "Yes You Can! How To Be A Success No Matter Who You Are or Where You're From" with over 800,000 copies to date and co-author of "$134,000 for Your Thoughts" published in Harvard Business Review. Named on of Baylor University's Top 100 Alumnae. Lectured at TEDx, Harvard University, University of Texas, South-by-Southwest (SXSW), Loyola Marymount, AdTech, Digital Hollywood, National Assoc. of Contract Managers, as well as conferences in Japan, Taiwan and China. Featured in Business Week, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times Magazine, Baylor magazine, HoofBeats, Wooster magazine, and others. Appeared on ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, CNBC's Treasure Detectives, NBC Nightly News, Entertainment Tonight, others.I thrive on game-changing ideas, excellence in all forms, and have a fondness for efficiency and OKRs.
Listed skills include E Commerce, Strategic Partnerships, Start Ups, Strategy, and 46 others.