Operator & Builder

For more than 20 years, I’ve founded, built, led, and scaled businesses across startups, growth-stage companies, and global organizations. 

My experience spans the full business lifecycle—from 0-to-1 innovation and company creation through 1-to-10 commercialization and 10-to-100 scale.

My career began in professional sports, working in media, public relations, and marketing with the San Francisco Demons, Oakland Raiders, Detroit Lions, and Rhein Fire of NFL Europe.

I transitioned into enterprise technology through ADP, Actuate, and CareerBuilder before joining Adap.tv as an early employee and its first Business Development Manager, helping build the strategic partnerships and commercial ecosystem supporting a pioneering video advertising platform.

I went on to lead global businesses and business units at Collective, Turn, and Civic Technologies, with responsibility spanning P&L management, organizational strategy, product commercialization, strategic partnerships, and international expansion.

I founded and built Stitch Video, scaling its global media distribution and monetization business through two acquisition outcomes involving its technology and the company. Following my own experience with cybercrime, I founded DFend, an identity-centric digital safety venture.

Today, I serve as Board Chair of The Defend Foundation and advise founders and executive leadership teams through LvlUp Ventures and theMiracle. I’m also the award-winning author of Privacy Pandemic.