I am a marketing and product-driven leader who simplifies things to drive scalable customer and revenue growth directly and through partnerships, search, mobile, social, word-of-mouth and other channels. I have grown revenue in the small business, e-commerce, and searchdiscovery sectors at both startups and for Fortune companies. I have also had some unsuccessful startups where I learned painful but invaluable lessons. I co-founded CitySearch SF grew annual bookings to million at WorldRes (WRI) re-launched Yahoo Travel and grew the overall category to M in annual revenue (resulting in B in GMVbookings). Most recently I co-founded Uptake and built it into the third largest U.S. travel research site (Groupon). I have served on multiple private and non-profit boards and have been on both sides of the table for multiple US and global MA transactions. My career began at McKinsey a long time ago. Professionally, I am passionate about three things. First, I am a technology geek who likes to try to simplify emerging technologies to disrupt existing industries with better customer experiences. I love intuitive, simple experiences that mask complex tech, tech ops andor physical ops (e.g. Google Search, Uber). Second, the rare occurrence where the customer experience is aligned with the business model and there is a win-win-win for the brandmerchant, the company, and the customer (e.g. AirBnB, Ebates). Finally - mentoring. I helped start C, a group of Silicon Valley Canadians that help tech startups in Canada. I I also mentor at Stanfords StartX, C and Startups. I served as President of Big Brothers and Big Sisters for SF and Silicon Valley to deliver youth mentoring. While not working, I am usually hanging out with my daughters or coaching one of their teams, rooting for one of my perennially underachieving sports teams, biking, swimming or falling over while doing Warrior . I live in Palo Alto but still consider Vancouver home.read more ...read less ...
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Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
The University Of Western Ontario
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Business Analyst At Mckinsey & Company
Mentor At Startx
Svp Corporate Development At Ebates Inc.
Charter Member At The C100
Executive In Residence At Mayfield Fund
Big Slacker At The Beach Club
Co-founder And Ceo At Uptake Networks Groupon
General Manager Of Travel At Yahoo
Board President At Big Brothers Big Sisters
Executive Vice President - Business Development & Product Marketing At Worldres Inc
Director Of Operations & Co-founder Of Citysearch Sf At Citysearch Ticketmaster And Iac
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