I back the people
building what's next.

Before mobile, I was building the consumer web as it was being invented. I sold my white-label store to CMGI, the biggest internet company of the dot-com era, then built iCast, a social platform for musicians that reinvented cross-channel advertising. A stretch building developer frameworks led me to Stick Networks, where I built location-aware content for handhelds with Philips, Disney, and Compaq, when the iPhone was still years off. Around then, Kodak hired my firm to design the touchscreen interface for its EasyShare-One camera, something unheard of on a camera at the time — the design went on to win Best of Innovations at CES 2005.

What I did with that camera is part of why Macromedia made me architect for embedded mobile, devices that, ironically, ran Flash long before the iPhone arrived. That group's work became a big reason Adobe bought the company, on platforms that shipped across Adobe, Intel, and Microsoft.

Before "the cloud" was a given, SlideRocket rebuilt the presentation entirely in the browser. As VP of Engineering I helped grow it from ~$1M to $10M and carry it to an acquisition by VMware, then led teams reimagining office apps as cloud-native, using that environment to do what desktop never could, like tracking which slide held an audience and reporting it back as live analytics.

As social went mobile-first and global, I set both engineering and revenue direction at SKOUT, one of the largest social-discovery apps of the era. We scaled it to millions of users and into an acquisition by The Meet Group, a company that went public on Nasdaq. A live-video product I launched grew to $85M a year on its own.

Today the frontier is the real-world creator economy. As President & CTO of StyleSeat, I lead product, engineering, and operations for the marketplace powering independent beauty & wellness professionals, connecting millions of clients with the people who serve them.