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.