80+ wins in AI, web & mobile.

I've helped early-stage startups become world-class companies through effective engineering, marketing, recruiting and leadership.

IPOs

• Elastic $2B IPO
• Fiverr $650M IPO "Made projects happen"
• Hortonworks $1.8B IPO "Consistent great results"
• Nimble Storage $2B IPO "Exceeded our goals"
• Okta $2B IPO "Huge fan"
• Palantir $20B IPO
• Sumo Logic $2B IPO
• Violin Memory $2B IPO

"Consistently delivered great results." John Kreisa, VP of Marketing @ Hortonworks

Top Exits

• Adchemy aq. by Walmart "High quality results"
• Appurify aq. by Google "Highly recommended"
• Bluebox aq. by IBM
• BrightBytes aq. by Google "Terrific expertise & results"
• Flyreel aq. by LexisNexis "Complete transformation"
• Gluster aq. by RedHat ($136M) "Incredible results"
• Sidecar aq. by GM ($39M)
• Simpli Aq. by NetZero
• Springpath aq. by Cisco ($320M)
• Sqrrl aq. by Amazon ($40M)
• UpTrending Aq. by HUSL
• Viator aq. by TripAdvisor ($200M)

"A terrific mix of communication, expertise and results." - Rob Mancabelli, CEO @ BrightBytes

Top Funded

• Betterworks $130M raised
• Druva $475M raised "Highly recommended"
• Nasuni $250M raised
• SingleStore $465M raised
• Submittable $155M raised "Exceeded expectations"
• Tigera $53M raised "Added tremendous value"
• Visier $215M raised
• VSP

"Great to work with. Highly recommended." - Jaspreet Singh, CEO @ Druva

Enterprise

• Bruker $9B market cap
• Cisco $225B market cap
• Naspers $43B market cap "One of the best decisions we made"
• Sanmina $4B market cap

"Truly impressive. One of the best decisions we made." - Hercu Wentzel, VP of Sales & Marketing @ Naspers

VCs & MarCom

• BlueRun Ventures
• Duarte
• Eastwick
• KPG Ventures
• Lewis
• Mainsail Partners
• Marina Maher
• Uncork Capital

"Produced results and exactly what we asked for." - Ashley Cravens, Head of Ops & Platform @ Uncork Capital

Additional Success Stories

• AIZA
• Alpine Data aq. by TIBCO
• AlpenIO aq. by Samtec
• AmeriDoc aq. by Teladoc
• Avodah $7M raised
• Axcient merger w/ eFolder
• Baynote aq. by Kibo
• Bridgelux aq. by CEC
• Buff
• Bunchball aq. by BI Worldwide
• Corvana aq. by SugarCRM
• Cyphort aq. by Juniper Networks
• DataRPM aq. by Progress
• ElectricCloud aq. by CloudBees
• Evolphin
• Fordela aq. by Vision Media
• GroupLogic aq. by Acronis
• Hadapt aq. by Teradata
• IncellDx $10M raised
• Kollective aq. by VeriSign
• Listen360 aq. by Qiigo
• MaxiScale aq. by Overland
• Membase merger w/ Couchbase
• MyDials aq. by Adaptive
• Netbase merger w/ Quid
• NetCitadel aq. by Proofpoint
• Omlet $24M raised
• Pentaho aq. by Hitachi
• Pivot3 aq. by Quantum
• PivotLink aq. by SmartFocus
• Pure aq. by AVenture
• Qubole aq. by Idera
• Renesys aq. by Dyn
• Sencha aq. by Idera
• Trifacta aq. by Alteryx
• Userzoom merger w/ UserTesting
• USMS aq. by TransFirst
• Whisbi aq. by Giosg
• WillBeHired aq. by TriNet
• Xangati aq. by Vertana

My sweet spot has been pre-Seed → Series B startups tackling critical inflection points like growth, product launches and recruiting.