Company Info for mirareality.com | IcebreakerMembers
I’ve led growth initiatives at publicly traded companies and Sequoia-backed startups, helping scale Yelp’s East Coast business as the company grew from $100M to $1B, initiating Mira’s go-to-market journey as the first sales hire driving 0-1M before its acquisition by Apple, and recently, scaling The RealReal’s sales team, helping drive the company to profitability.
With a background in Industrial Design, I incorporate design thinking into my daily operation. As a business leader, my strength lies in intuitively understanding technical details, utilizing my high emotional intelligence, and leading with data-driven decisions. Enhanced by meticulous attention to detail and creativity, my success comes from blending technical expertise, emotional intelligence, and sales acumen.
Beyond business, I'm dedicated to nurturing the next generation through maritime youth programs, mentoring with Big Brothers Big Sisters, and contributing to men's groups, reflecting my commitment to community and personal growth. I spend most of my free time outdoors in nature, capturing aerials with my drone, chasing sharks around reefs, and building/DIYing things with my hands.
Driven by results and committed to making a difference, I blend business acumen with a heart for community, striving to lead by example and inspire those around me. 
I'm a founding partner at ifMagic Ventures & Co-Chair of the Kutsa Foundation - a Single Family Office. I'm also helping develop a new impact tech
called Webit.Capital. I was also an advisor to the National Grid on their CVC Fund strategy. Finally, I support a number of portfolio companies as a board member and advisor.
At ifMagic, we're investing in talented, change the world entrepreneurs with magical mindsets who are building innovative early stage start-ups.
Prior to becoming a VC: I was a serial founder and startup exec leading Product, Sales & Marketing with a strong background in operations, engineering & technology. I've helped lead and manage growth from seed stage through IPO.
I have been a start-up CEO, Chief Product Officer, VP Sales & Business Development, CMO & CTO which uniquely positions me to help startup founders with all aspects of building a successful company. As a former agency guy, I have a lot of experiencing working with enterprise and consumer brands on e-commerce, branding, corporate marketing and digital marketing.
Here are some things that I enjoy helping my portfolio companies with:
-Recruiting & hiring the right talent
-Connecting with the right early adopter customers
-Establishing high-trust startup cultures that empower teams to succeed
-Designing new products
-Managing and streamlining product portfolios and teams
-Figuring out market positioning, pricing, etc.
-Growth hacking new markets and products.
-Creating product & customer advisory boards
-Branding, Marketing, Creating & scaling lead generation.
-Working with analysts & influencers.
-Developing customer relationships, closing deals and establishing partnerships.
-Launching winning social media and advocacy marketing strategies.
Kutsa Family Office:
Our single family office was established in 1974 to invest in California real estate. Since those early days, we have diversified into multiple assets classes including a global real estate portfolio, equities, Venture Capital and Special Projects. The family office also supports various initiatives in Education and the Arts.
Some other stuff I've done:
-Product Management, UXP / Design Leadership, Business Development, Community & Social Business, Professional Services, M&A, Angel Investing
Things I geek out on:
- AGI, Agentic/Generative AI, ML, Energy Transition, Climate Tech, Sustainability ,Design Thinking, Data Science, Fintech, Synthetic Biology, Content Marketing, Ad Tech, SEM, SEO, Content Marketing, Drip Marketing, eCommerce, Video, SaaS, Information Architecture, Social Business, etc. 
