San Francisco, California
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(1987 - 1991)
Total Funding: $3.2M
Total Funding: $2.8M
Total Funding: $25M
Total Funding: $2M
Total Funding: $2.7M
Total Funding: $39M
Total Funding: $41M
Total Funding: $110M
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Total Funding: $170M
Total Funding: $5M
Total Funding: $540M
Total Funding: $7M
2023
2019 - 2022
2022 - 2022
Included the functions of enterprise account management, sales enablement, revenue management, business development and commercial strategy.
2020 - 2022
Led a team of product managers, data scientists, engineers and designers responsible for Airbnb's guest-facing websites and mobile apps. Launched category-based home search. Increased conversion by simplifying and optimizing various guest flows.
2019 - 2020
Led an initiative to add boutique hotel inventory to Airbnb, which was put on hold during Covid.
2010 - 2022
2010 - 2022
Co-founder and CEO of the leading last minute hotel booking app. Raised over $100m and built a team of 350 people. Grew the business to profitability with revenues in excess of $150m. Successfully sold the business to Airbnb in 2019. Continued to run HotelTonight inside Airbnb as an independent business unit.
2013 - 2016
2013 - 2016
Independent Board Member for this fitness tracking app. Worked closely with CEO to determine strategy, budget, product roadmap and helped position the company for its successful sale to ASICS.
2008 - 2010
2008 - 2010
Travel deals search engine.
2006 - 2007
2006 - 2007
Led the company's partnership distribution efforts including partners such as Forbes and Washington Post. Also involved with inbound and outbound M&A activities. Also, as General Manager of TravelPost.com, managed all operations of the TravelPost.com website, including P&L responsibility, product strategy and international expansion.
2004 - 2006
2004 - 2006
Raised angel and venture capital funding, hired team, secured key alliances and set product strategy to build the largest independently-owned hotel review and research site with over 250,000 user-generated reviews and 700,000 unique monthly visitors. Successfully sold the business to SideStep in October 2006.
2000 - 2002
2000 - 2002
Worded with e-procurement customers to develop a supplier hub to share product information from the same supplier across multiple buyers, for greater efficiency and improved user experience. Co-creator of a patent covering distributed search technology.
1999 - 2000
1999 - 2000
Ran product development. Launched the electronics category.
1998 - 1999
1998 - 1999
Producer of the shopping category. Also did business development on the Excite CPC comparison shopping engine.