Product Executive, Speaker,
Startup Enthusiast, Investor

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

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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. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
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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. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
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Techstars Austin Community board member (ongoing)
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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. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
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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. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
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Consulting and Advisory

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Founder and Partner
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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. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
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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. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
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Network protocols engineer

Productized key research work for VXWorks – Protocol Independent Multicast. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
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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. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
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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. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
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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. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
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President & co-founder

Key advisor for the president of Nigeria on global technology outsourcing initiatives and tech policy Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
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