Position:
Advisor, Mentor at StartX, Charter Member at The C100
Work:
StartX
since 2012
Advisor, Mentor
The C100
- Silicon Valley since Aug 2009
Charter Member
The Beach Club
- Wherever the weather is good and wireless coverage is bad May 2012 - May 2013
Big Slacker
UpTake Networks (Groupon)
- Palo Alto 2007 - May 2012
Co-Founder and President
Yahoo!
- Sunnyvale 2003 - 2007
General Manager of Travel
Big Brothers Big Sisters
1999 - 2004
Board President
WorldRes Inc
- San Mateo 1997 - 2001
Executive Vice President - Business Development & Partner Marketing
CitySearch (Ticketmaster and IAC)
- San Francisco 1996 - 1997
Director of Operations & Co-founder of CitySearch SF
McKinsey & Company
1990 - 1993
Business Analyst
Education:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1994 - 1996
The University of Western Ontario 1987 - 1990
The University of British Columbia 1985 - 1987
Skills:
Start-ups, Strategic Partnerships, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Business Development, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Leadership, Management, Blogging, Mobile Devices, Management Consulting, Team Building, Product Management, Brand Management, Online Advertising, Corporate Communications, Strategic Thinking, E-commerce, Social Marketing, SEO copywriting, Team, Organizational Culture, Product Development, Social Media, Online Marketing, Marketing, SEM, PPC, Product Marketing, Digital Marketing, Digital Media, Venture Capital, Program Management
Interests:
working with passionate, creative, results-oriented teams
work days without meetings, meetings without power point presentations
digital photography, swimming, road biking, hiking and eating