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VP of Product @ Calendly

Chief Product Officer @ Calendly – we build products that are the best and most valuable way for individuals and businesses to manage time with others, on the planet. Leading Product Management, User Experience & Design, Content Strategy, User Research and Product Operations Grew key metrics ~2x every year – Meeting booked, ARR and MAU

Head of Product @ Atlassian Communications (ended 2018)

Head of Product @ Atlassian Communications (ended 2018) Leading Product Strategy and Product Management for Atlassian Communications division – HipChat, Stride, Meetings/Scheduling assets, Jitsi Video Communications Retained HipChat customers, Rebuilt HipChat > Stride, as a next gen team communications tool. Sold to Slack.

Board Of Directors

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Board member and Product Strategy (ongoing)

Energetic member of the board, that’s helping the founder and team of Quitch to build a very successful and valuable company.

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Techstars Austin Community board member (ongoing)

Working to help engage the global Techstars mentor network to do amazing things

Investor roles

Founding Manager and Principal (ongoing)

Kernel Fund focuses on startups in Africa where there is significant upside given the fast growth, demographics and market voids. Managing the fund in addition to deal sourcing, marketing, due diligence and deal consummation.

Venture Scout (ongoing)

Finding and investing in diverse founders who are building companies focused on the future of work, entertainment, ecommerce and other frontier technologies.

Consulting and Advisory

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Founder and Partner

ProductMind works with innovative founders and boards to help them innovate better and faster by deeply investing in the product management practices of their company






OTHER ROLES AND INTERESTING STUFF

Head of Product @ Atlassian Communications (ended 2018)

Leading Product Strategy and Management for Atlassian Communications – HipChat, Stride, Meetings/Scheduling assets.

Founder & CEO

Building an interest-based social network that helps customer turn weak ties into stronger ties. Creating and managing meaningful connections is hard. Mingl raises your odds significantly while being fun and authentic.

Network protocols engineer

Productized key research work for VXWorks – Protocol Independent Multicast.

GM or product management & Senior Management Associate

Productizing a multicast protocol (Protocol Independent Multicast – PIM) invented by my professor for Wind River Systems (now Cisco). Quality assurance, product planning and feature development. Real time OS verification and embedded systems programming and testing.

GM or product management & Senior Management Associate

Lead all of product and engineering for the customer division. Bridgewater is the largest hedge fund in the world and creates superior returns through its original approach to finance and its unique products like Pure Alpha and All Weather funds.

Lead Product Manager and Product Marketing Manager

Worked on multiple products and platforms including: Exchange, Windows, Windows Server, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Mail, OneDrive. Deep collabs with MS Research and Microsoft Bing Led product marketing team for Visual Studio Ultimate – Microsoft key developer application lifecycle management (ALM) tool/SKU.

President & co-founder

Key advisor for the president of Nigeria on global technology outsourcing initiatives and tech policy

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