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2013
2015
Leader of Amazon's first dedicated venturing initiative - the Alexa Fund. The Fund's goal is to grow the ecosystem around Alexa - Amazon's voice-assistant platform. https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-fund
2013 - 2015
Inorganic growth initiatives for Kindle and Digital Services
2013 - 2013
2013 - 2013
Responsible for helping build the Bay Area ecosystem for Inrix's market leading real-time and predictive traffic services. Drive strategic partnerships across all verticals. Ideate with product teams to align b2b and b2c roadmaps with emerging market opportunities. Develop m&a pipeline.
2013 - 2013
2013 - 2013
Assisting venture-firms and start-ups with strategic thinking, relationship development and partnership activities in the Bay Area. Activities include: Nokia Growth Partners (build strategy for investing in Connected Car), Ekata Systems (Board Advisor) – mobile peer to peer technology, Active Mind Technology (Advisor) – wearable electronics for golf, Big Road (fleet solutions for the long tail of trucking)
2000 - 2012
2011 - 2012
Responsible for inorganic growth agenda for location/maps business. Member of management team of the division. Identify, prioritize and execute acquisitions and partnerships across the spectrum of the business portfolio - content partners for maps, core map building technology, advertising/commerce and related adjacencies. Member of core executive team supporting Microsoft relationship.
2008 - 2011
Leader of a global team responsible for Nokia's business development portfolio across Nokia's devices (Symbian and feature phones) and services business units (maps, music, messaging, store). Functionally this includes m&a and partnership development. Role also included developing market specific opportunities in emerging markets - China and India
2004 - 2007
Develop strategies for inorganic growth and evaluated/executed transactions in the following areas: mobile email, mobile middleware, remote content access, enterprise devices, security, collaboration software
2002 - 2004
Responsible for developing and implementing Nokia's mobile payments strategy. Oversaw development team. Board member of Mobile Payments Forum
2000 - 2002
M&A and minority investment transaction execution. Public and private transactions including F5 Networks, Amber Networks, Ramp Networks, Woodside Networks, NBand
1997 - 2000
1997 - 2000
Management of M&A and corporate finance transactions. Public and private. Sell-side and buyside. Transactions include: sale of LandsEnd to Sears, sale of Quaker Oats to Pepsico, The Pantry IPO, SchoolSpecialty High Yield Bond, Cabot Microelectronics IPO.
1994 - 1996
1994 - 1996
Commercial and securities law practice in Toronto Canada for a large full-service law firm. Experience includes IPO's, secondary offerings and public and private buy-side and sell-side.