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Proven entrepreneur and executive with 25+ years of achievement in start-up, growth, and late-stage businesses.
• Currently lead an elite team of 30+ as the the Head of Business Development for the United States and Canada at Uber. Our team leads Uber's most strategic partnerships across all business/product lines and our impact is measured in $Billions.
• Founded Yardbarker, a digital media pioneer that was acquired by Fox Sports. The business was a comScore Top 100 property and grew to 28 million monthly unique visitors
• Led BD/Corp Dev and member of leadership team for the creative platform Tongal, which was twice named to Inc. 500 for fastest growing companies and was also named to the Ad Age A-List for Top 10 Agencies
I have been fortunate to embark on amazing learning experiences throughout my career. In the first third of my career I learned to be an operator in the trial by fire world of Corporate Turnaround/Restructuring for mid-large cap enterprises. During the next third my learnings accelerated as an entrepreneur, founding a venture backed business that was acquired by Fox Sports/NewsCorp. In my latest chapter I have been focused on step change growth and market disruption across leadership roles in business development as well as an early stage business advisor and angel investor.
Expertise in consumer businesses, marketplace models, travel, loyalty, payments, subscription and transaction revenue models, the gig economy, media, sports, music, news, film, entertainment, partner ecosystems, network/distributed business models, publishing and advertising.
Specialties include strategy, business development, general management, entrepreneurship, new product development, early stage investing, company formation, corporate development, operational turnaround, financial restructuring, revenue strategy, operations, finance, business analytics, business planning, creative development, brand and performance marketing.
Please reach out to discuss board roles, advisor roles and early stage investment opportunities. 
