Education
Dartmouth College
BA, Cognitive Science, Russian, Biology - 1992-01-01SHS
, -Work Experience
Empower Capital Advisors
Current
Empower Capital Advisors
Adobe Marketo
2012-04-01 - 2013-07-01
Adobe Marketo
Crowd Factory
2006-01-01 - 2012-04-01
Crowd Factory
Tribe Networks
2003-10-01 - 2005-08-01
Tribe Networks
Cenzic
2002-03-01 - 2003-10-01
Cenzic
Intertrust
1995-05-01 - 2001-05-01
Intertrust
Skills
Summary
I help build companies that make the world a place where we are proud to live. Current focus: Health, Renewables. Top exits: Fanduel ($11B), and my company Crowd Factory > Marketo (IPO $1B, purchased by Adobe $5B) Successful Entrepreneur - Raised/Helped Raise $350M Private and Public Funding. Bootstrapped my company Crowd Factory to ~$2M in revenue, 20 employees, customers like HBO, Martha Stewart, VH1, Universal Music, Comcast. Raised $5M in December of 2008 when the economy was in free fall. Raising a total of $12M before acquisition by Marketo in 2012, ran Product Management through the IPO. Adobe later acquired Marketo for ~$5B. CEO/Founder Coaching - Work with early to mid stage company founders and executives to refine go to market, customer development, market definition, positioning, surface and address team blind spots, identify key roles, investors, partners, acquirers as well as adapt to rapidly changing market conditions. Investing + Portfolio - 2 IPOs, Built or invested in companies sold to: Marketo, Intel, Salesforce.com, Sony, Phillips, SanDisk. Exits include: Fanduel ($11B), Braze (BRZE, ~$3B) BentoBox ($317M), Mashery ($180M), Aggregate Knowledge ($150M), InterTrust (IPO at $1B, then sale to Sony/Phillips $453M), Marketo (IPO, $1B+, acquisition by Adobe ~$5B).