
Web Veteran / New Media Talent
San Francisco Bay Area

Web Veteran / New Media Talent
San Francisco Bay Area
- Seasoned web and software executive - currently with Yahoo!
- Web 1.0 Veteran; Founding member of corp strategy and biz dev groups at AOL in 1996
- Former CEO/Founder of venture-backed software provider in content management software sector.
- Brief stint at Kleiner Perkins backed startup in digital media at pre-IPO stage.
- Member of corporate finance group at Goldman Sachs.
-> Content syndication and distribution
-> Content aggregation applications and technologies
-> Search technology
-> Web business models
-> Online advertising
-> Software
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
Running product marketing, biz dev, monetization for Local properties at Yahoo!
(Computer Software industry)
2001 — 2005 (4 years )
Covigna was an innovative content management software provider, which was named a Top 100 software provider by Supply & Demand Chain Magazine.
(Internet industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year )
Audible [NASADAQ: ADBL]
(Public Company; Internet industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years )
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1994 — 1996 (2 years )
MBA , 1998 — 2000
BA , Mathematics-Economics , 1990 — 1994
- As CEO/Founder, represented Covigna in over 10 speaking engagements including Dow Jones Venture One Summit
- Authored 5 whitepapers for Covigna published by trade media and industry publications
- Rated # 1 MBA in the nation for technology industry by leading magazine upon graduating from Univ. of Chicago
- Received Kauffman Entrepreneurship Internship Award at Univ. of Chicago GSB
- College Stuff: Calculus Teaching Assistant, Editor-in-Chief of School Paper, Board of Trustees, Varsity Baseball
- Intel Science Competition, National Semi-Finalist (Stuyvesant High School) for work in Game Theory