As an undergraduate at UCLA with a penchant for travel, I wrote and released the first online travel booking software program to help travel agents transition to the digital future. I couldn’t have guessed it at the time, but that early success would pave the path to a colorful and highly-rewarding future as a tech founder, leader and mentor. I have a track record of founding, growing, and successfully exiting a long-list of venture-backed start-ups. Since 1995, I’ve played a major, hands-on role in five consecutive successful exits, including at least one unicorn. That’s why I am repeatedly entrusted by some of the savviest founders and VCs in tech to shepherd their companies to the brightest possible results.A few highlights:Managing a Global Org - As COO at StubHub, I am part of the leadership team driving the global growth of the leading platform in a hotly competitive market and a highly visible industry where consumers, leagues, artists, and policymakers have loud voices about our every move. My portfolio includes operations, supply, sales, real estate, and HR, and I’m using my decades of experience to help make hard decisions that benefit our stakeholders. Growth Hacking, Digital Marketing and Operational Excellence - I joined ZipRecruiter when it was the fastest growing startup in LA and as COO shepherded the organization to exponential growth and through the transition to becoming a successful public company. Among our innovations was the now commonplace podcast live-read ad format, which proved to be massively more impactful than typical ad insertions and powered a great deal of demand for our platform.A penchant for identifying and solving big problems - The old adage that half of all advertising is wasted always rubbed me the wrong way, and I knew that with a proper perspective, we could develop a multi-media advertising and sales attribution model to optimize our ad spend at YLighting, the online lighting e-commerce company I built in the early 2000s (acquired by Alpine Investors). The innovative attribution model became the seed of my next company, Convertro, (acquired by AOL). Earlier in my career, when I recognized that the transition to digital documents would require trustworthy digital signatures, I founded EchoSign, the first web-based e-signature company, (acquired by Adobe)An eye for talent - I led Crystal Dynamics, a video game company with a hand-picked team who have gone on to create an unbelievable list of blockbuster games including: The Last of Us, Call of Duty, Goldeneye, The Lord of the Rings and Soulreaver.