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Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
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Work Experience
2015
Founder
2015
Spun out VONLY as a business solutions innovation lab (leveraging data science and machine learning) after pivoting Marketly to focus on its anti-piracy product. Helping select large media companies maximize their revenues through legitimate distribution channels like Amazon Prime and Hulu.
2020 - 2021
SVP, Anti-Piracy
2020 - 2021
Developed the strategic vision for Corsearch Anti-Piracy by continuing to build on Marketly's vision. Supported the timely acquisition of Entura to cement Corsearch's position as the market leader in online anti-piracy market. Transitioned to an Advisory role upon successful transition of Marketly's operations.
2010 - 2020
Founder & CEO
2010 - 2020
Marketly is a fast-growing company that provides innovative & impactful anti-piracy solutions for the world’s leading content creators. Founded Marketly and guided its strategic vision and profitable growth strategy with an emphasis on innovating for market leadership and collaborating with the world’s top rights holders. * Bootstrapped the company to achieve multi-millions in subscription revenues and 400% top-line growth in the past four years. * Cultivated a competitive advantage through delivering results and impact that attracted a strong customer base of traditional studios (Warner Bros., Disney, FOX, and more) and newer media entrants (YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and more). *Expanded operations from Seattle to India and Silicon Valley, building agile, responsive teams with high retention rates.
1999 - 2010
Principal Program Manager
2007 - 2010
WINDOWS PHONE MARKETPLACE Charged with defining the applications and games marketplace user experience and feature set for the Windows Phone. Led collaboration with key stakeholders and partners and planning and execution across a 25-member, cross-functional engineering team. Initially joined this startup group that was chartered with defining the entertainment strategy for Windows Mobile, including podcasts, cloud syncing and media, social networking, and commerce.
Senior Software Engineer
1999 - 2006
OFFICE LIVE MEETING Following Microsoft’s acquisition of Placeware, joined this newly formed team to develop audio/video conferencing functionality and UX for Office Live Meeting (web conferencing solution). MSN AD-DELIVERY PLATFORM Sought out the opportunity to join this startup group chartered to build Ad delivery server infrastructure for MSN from scratch. As one of the first developers to join the team, we engineered a solution that scaled almost linearly to serve billions of ads daily with minimal hardware to all Microsoft sites including Hotmail, Bing, Carpoint, and MSN. WINDOWS CORE OS After earning an MS in Computer Science from USC, started career at Microsoft on a new team that had formed based on Microsoft’s acquisition of a code base for managing removable storage devices with Windows 2000 from HighGround System. Developed the RSM Notification Service.