San Francisco, California
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2023
2023
Brightband is a Public Benefit Corporation building AI weather and climate forecasting tools for all.
2023
2023
Helping the GBx Board and Executives grow the leading British Tech Networking Group.
2020 - 2022
2020 - 2022
Taking the work out of meetings with AI Headroom is pioneering the future of work with a complete virtual meeting tool and searchable, shareable knowledge base of all of your meetings, transcribed, summarized (text and video highlight reels), with action items captured, all automatically in real time. Real time gesture recognition, emotion detection, and speaking time feedback, enhances meetings in real time.
2015 - 2019
2015 - 2019
- Entrepreneur-in-Residence starting Moonshots. - Ran Product Management team for Early Stage Moonshots focused on AI applications, including 3 GMs of current X projects: - Generative Coding - now in Bard, Google AI Developer Assistance, and Vertex AI - AI for Agriculture - Mineral Project https://mineral.ai/ - AI Computational Biology - AI Inference Custom ASIC Semiconductor Chip Design - Generative AI for chip design - Co-GM of Malta Grid-level Energy Storage project. Graduated from X as Alphabet Spin-Out Malta Inc. developing pilot plants. Helping solve climate change by enabling 100% renewable power generation with cheap, long duration grid-scale electro-thermal storage. Raised $26m venture funding from Breakthrough Energy Ventures and others. https://www.maltainc.com/ - GM of Pebble ultra-low power ML IoT sensor network for parking and mobility solutions https://www.sidewalklabs.com/products/pebble
2014 - 2015
2014 - 2015
Launched Google Cloud Vision API, Android Vision on-device API, used by billions of people. Launched Mobile Vision team optimizing Deep Neural Network performance on embedded devices including mobile phones - MobileNet. Led Google Goggles, Google Lens Augmented Reality visual search products. Supported all parts of Google using AI Computer Vision technology and products
2011 - 2014
2011 - 2014
2014 Webby award for Jetpac City Guides iPhone app. Made travel more fun using computer vision to analyze billions of travel photos to show the truth about places. First to put Deep Learning Object Recognition on the phone.
2007 - 2010
2007 - 2010
Leading global tickets strategy, M&A, strategic partnerships, new business; navigating through a time of rapid change in the tickets industry including technological shift from paper to digital tickets, regulation and industry structure change. Centralizing and managing all aspects of information – systems and processes for research, tracking, measurement, reporting, analysis, and creating financial and operating success metrics, forecasting, dashboards, and customer segmentation. Instituting Net Promoter Score (NPS) as key strategic and operational approach. Also General Manager of Last Minute Services for a year - reorganizing and re-engineering nationally distributed team of 120 operations, customer service, and logistics people in 12 locations – delivering tickets to buyers up to the last minute before the event.
2008 - 2010
2008 - 2010
Created leading home design inspiration service.
2005 - 2007
2005 - 2007
Managed P&L and team of 26 for eBay's storefront solution for online merchants. Successfully doubled subscriber base to tens of thousands in one year after acquisition. Provided every service necessary for selling online – ecommerce hosting, payments, design, inventory, shipping, accounting, blogs, marketing, reporting etc. Responsible for Strategy, Product Strategy, Marketing, PR, Business Development.
2004 - 2005
2004 - 2005
Doing deals with Intuit, Microsoft, Dell, Network Solutions, Omniture, Constant Contact to acquire and provide small business and consumer sellers with a full range of selling tools and services, from domain name management to Quickbooks integration. Helped grow eBay Stores to largest storefront offering globally; increased subscriptions from 70K to 260K in 2 years. Planned and launched ProStores, eBay’s independent online storefront solution. Led the acquisition and integration of Kurant and rebranded as ProStores.