Below is a more detailed list of my experience, starting with the work I am most proud of.

Brio Systems

What Is It: An end-to-end COVID 19 safety system for large organizations.

When Was It: 2020 - 2023

My Role: Chief Commercial Officer (Promoted from VP of Commercial & Growth)

Biggest Accomplishments

1) We went from < $10,000 in monthly revenue to > $10,000,000 in monthly revenue in under 4 months.

2) We landed some of the biggest organizations in the world as our customers. Some of those names include: PepsiCo, Amazon, Netflix, Uber, DoorDash, ServiceNow, Marriott, Shell, Chevron.

3) Our RFP was accepted to become the health testing and software provider for the United States Postal Service.

4) CAA (Creative Artist Agency) became our agent & signed us as their first ever health client.

5) We helped dozens of movies and TV shows by keeping thousands of actors and others safe on set.

Forever Voices

What Is It: AI company that invented transforming influencers into AI chatbots for their fans to talk to.

When was it: 2023

My Role: Chief Business Officer (Founding Team)

Biggest Accomplishments

1) Our GTM strategy of creating the first AI girlfriend, CarynAI, worked and went viral internationally.

2) The media talked a lot about us including Wall Street Journal, CNBC, NBC, Forbes, Bloomberg & LA Times.

3) We were the first to ever license individuals' likeness, voice, persona, and appearance for building AI clones.

4) We partnered with over 200 influencers, including some of the most followed in the world.

Lately, I've been helping other companies replicate the rapid growth we had at Forever Voices.

Pika Labs

What Is It: Idea to Video AI Platform with $55M in venture funding.

When Was It: 2023 - 2024

My Role: Fractional CMO (with Ishan Goel)

Biggest Accomplishments

1) We helped Pika launch a world-changing product enabling anyone to make a high quality video with no camera.

2) The launch of Pika 1.0 was covered by Forbes & TechCrunch.

3) Our social media video was viewed by over 20 million people and trended on X (Twitter).

4) Pika had over 2 million users within 60 days of going live with their web app.

5) Helped my friend Chandler Song make his seed investment in Pika much more valuable :)

Character.AI

What Is It: Platform where users create and talk to advanced AI agents with over $500m in funding. 

When was it: 2024 - Current

My Role: Fractional CMO (with Ishan Goel)

Biggest Accomplishments

1) We helped Character.AI go from purely text based interactions to voice conversations with AI.

2) Our Character Voice launch video was viewed over a million times (10x more than any previous social post)

I'm also doing business in areas that I want to learn about. It's fascinating getting to be behind the scenes of arguably the major driver of culture historically.

724 Management (Live Nation JV)

What Is It: Talent management company that works with Tiffany Haddish, Gwyneth Paltrow, Aerosmith, and more.

When Was It: 2023 - Present

My Role: Innovation Consultant

Biggest Accomplishments

1) Helping one of their newest artists grow their socials and find new ways to engage fans.

2) Creating presentations that are used to land new talent and for existing talent to land residencies.

Extreme Preparation Media Group

What Is It: A media company which brings the advice and stories from industry leaders to the world.

When was it: 2022- Current

My Role: Partner

Biggest Accomplishments

1) Our first podcast series, In Search of Excellence, has had an amazingly eclectic group of featured guests, including Mark Cuban, Mike Tyson, Trina Spear, Lele Pons, Orlando Bravo, Daymond John, Matt Ishbia, Chris Voss, Ryan Sheckler, David Solomon, Rachel Zoe, Steve Case, Appolo Ohno, David Rubenstein, Jimmy Carson, and Sammy Hagar.

2) Our professional mentorship program has helped several individuals significantly grow their businesses.

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What Is It: An influencer management company in its infancy stages.

When was it: 2024 - Current

My Role: Partner

Biggest Accomplishments

1) We've signed 1 client so far!

Another industry I am fascinated by is aesthetics.

Lemmon Avenue Plastic Surgery & Laser Center

What Is It: The highest rated medical spa in Dallas led by Cary Deuber, a top 100 injector and previous Real Housewife of Dallas.

When Was It: 2023 - Present

My Role: Fractional CMO / Fractional CSO (with Ishan Goel)

Biggest Accomplishments

1) Creating a concierge program where customers interact with a highly trained remote team rather than a receptionist.

2) Helping Lemmon win back over a dozen of their highest-spending customers that had not been to practice in the past year by sending them hand-written ultra-personalized mailers on super thick card stock.

3) Creating unique ways for Lemmon's newer injectors to drive business through social media content.

Before all of this, I developed much of my business fundamentals by working closely with my mentors. This started with spending over 4 years at a venture capital firm working side by side with the founder of Akamai Technologies ($18B Market Cap).

JUMP Investors

What Is It: A venture capital firm & single family office investing in Seed and Series-A technology companies.

When Was It: 2015 - 2019

My Role: VC Associate (Promoted from Analyst)

Biggest Accomplishments

1) During my time at the firm, JUMP invested in DiDi, Lyft, Rumble Boxing, Shani Darden, Inspire Energy, SkinTe, EDO, and dozens of blockchain companies.

2) Completely overhauled the acquisition strategy and sales operations of a portfolio company involving taking 20 binders of data on paper and turning it into a well-oiled CRM. This doubled sales.

3) Acted as the GM of a wholly-owned subsidiary company, Sandee. I hired and managed engineers, over 100 researchers, and drew up the early user interfaces on a piece of paper with no design experience or any idea what I was doing in general. Today, Sandee is the only place where you can find information about every beach on planet earth.

I also had a 16-month stint in Austin, Texas (yee-haw) learning from Brett Maloley, the founding CEO of a popular health & fitness app.

Ladder

What Is It: A strength training app which has raised over $20m in venture capital.

When Was It: 2019 - 2020

My Role: Chief of Staff / VP of Business Development

Biggest Accomplishments

1) Recruited and hired 8 very talented new employees across product, engineering, and success.

2) Launched multiple new GTM strategies including partnering with benefits brokerages to offer Ladder to employees as an employee health benefit.

3) Partnered with several health-related companies to offer their users and readers a special offer to join Ladder which resulted in thousands of new trial users.