
Product Leader Focused on Decentralized Social | Founder @ Planetary & Social Web Foundation | Ex-BBC, Yahoo, Eero
Product and design leader with 20+ years’ experience in new product development and product strategy, with particular expertise in decentralized (and centralized) social platforms, media, location services, and the Internet of Things. I’ve led large cross-functional teams and incubators at the BBC and Yahoo!, and developed products for global companies including Nokia, Eero, and Jawbone. I’ve also founded two venture-backed startups—Planetary and Thington—guiding them from concept and design through to launch and (in Thington’s case) acquisition. Most recently, I’ve been focused on decentralized social infrastructure—co-founding the Social Web Foundation and leading work on end-to-end encryption for ActivityPub, funded by the Ethereum Foundation.
yahooinc.com
timeout.com
bbc.com
eero.com
San Francisco, California, United States
Co-founder & Product Director (now Advisor)
Social Web Foundation
• www.linkedin.com/company/social-web-foundation
Jan 2024 - Present
Product Strategy, Design and Development Consultancy
Self-employed
Jun 2010 - Present
San Francisco
Co-founder & VP Product/Design
Verse Communications (trading as Planetary)
Jul 2018 - Mar 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Senior Product Manager
eero
• www.linkedin.com/company/eero
Jun 2017 - Jan 2018
San Francisco Bay Area
Co-founder & VP Product/Design
Thington Inc.
Nov 2012 - Jun 2017
San Francisco Bay Area
User Location Strategy & Product Management
Yahoo!
• www.linkedin.com/company/yahoo
Jan 2009 - May 2010
San Francisco Bay Area