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Chartered Financial Analyst
Bachelor of Arts
Total Funding: $50M
Total Funding:
Total Funding: $6.1M
Total Funding: $3M
Total Funding: $34M
Total Funding: $21M
Total Funding: $7M
Total Funding: $5M
Total Funding: $12M
Total Funding: $2M
2023
2023
2019
2019
Robot Ventures is a (pre-)seed investor in fintech / crypto companies with big ambitions and contrarian worldviews.
2017 - 2023
2017 - 2023
Compound is an open-source, autonomous protocol built for developers, to unlock a universe of new financial applications. Interest and borrowing, for the open financial system.
2016 - 2019
2016 - 2019
Appointed by SF Board of Supervisors to help provide oversight for the city's revenue bonds, financing our water, sewer, and municipal power programs
2016 - 2017
2016 - 2017
Product Lead, overseeing all merchant-facing products, which included sales & onboarding, partnership dashboard & reporting, payment systems, ordering channels, and the Postmates tablet Order App. * Expanded the Order App (a countertop tablet + ordering system) from an initial proof of concept release to the industry's best ordering system, with menu management, hours management, printing capabilities, reporting, and in-app fulfillment support * Doubled the number of partner merchants, and reduced the time to onboard new partners by 60% * Designed and launched an entirely new product, Instant Order Support, which reduced merchant support workload by more than 50%
2011 - 2015
2011 - 2015
Founded Safe Shepherd, which pioneered a personal-information opt-out service for consumers. Part of 500 Startups, batch 3. Grew to over $1m revenue on minimal VC funding. The identity protection industry followed our lead, and each of the major players either made acquisition offers or copied our product. Sold in February 2015.
2009 - 2011
2009 - 2011
Managed investment modeling & reporting infrastructure. Member of Investment Committee advising $6bn in assets.
2007 - 2009
2007 - 2009
Let ALM analysis & planning process; managed interest rate and liquidity risk analysis of the bank's balance sheet