Experience

Lead angel investor focusing on early stage startups with complex technical products.

M&A Transactions: Bitski, Blowfish, SimpleHash, SolSniper, Ventuals.

Created a civic tech application to help people save time when voting. Built a chat based app, which grew to be the top calendar app on Slack.

• Used customer development testing to identify and prototype front- and back-end features.
• Implemented and coded back-end features on Ruby/Rails/Mongo stack.
• Ran all user cohort testing, communications, and support with small group of beta testers (<100).

• Led strategic projects for Seed/Series A funded portfolio companies.
• Identified prospective investments, providing technical/market research on $250K–$4M deal flow.

• Served as the 'social evangelist', driving internal awareness of Citi's social collaboration strategy.
• Spearheaded Citi 2.0 platform — grew from 6 to 15,000 users.
• Successful employee pilot created a new division with $2.8M annual spend.

• Led live-webcast training for entire 300 person global function.
• Partnered with Omniture to consolidate web analytics, reducing expenses by $180K.

• Designed customer-centric database model for international growth strategy.
• Optimized ledger reconciliation from two days to 20 minutes, saving $20K.

Led initial expansion of nonprofit fundraising to Macau region, now generating $500K in donations.

Led Major Concerts division — brought Ludacris, Talib Kweli, Kanye, and Dropkick Murphys to campus.