About -
I’m originally from the Bay Area. I attended Syracuse University, where I triple majored in Neurology, Creative Advertising, and Management Advertising.
In 2010 at 20 years old, confronted with the task of paying for university I stumbled upon a Craigslist ad calling for an intern for the website ‘Airbedandbreakfast.com’. It was then 12 people working out of an apartment. During the three-month internship I built the global photography program, which has become a case study in Reid Hoffman’s, ‘Blitzscaling’. Listen to CEO Brian Chesky and I reflect about the photography program on the Masters of Scale podcast here. The “internship” turned into an eight-year tenure I touched every part of the product including owning product development and launch of ‘moonshot products’, Host Growth, Experiences, and more.
After leaving Airbnb, I became a founding member of a startup called Haven Money, which used AI to make proactive recommendations and actively move money to alleviate the cognitive and emotional burden of financial decisions. The company sold to Credit Karma.
From 2018-2019, I spent a year in Kenya advising and consulting with various startups companies between Kenya and California. A few of my projects included developing a product strategy and UI designs to aggregate Coronavirus data, detect counterfeit drugs, develop software that use satellite data to provide seed and fertilizer loans to rural Kenyan farmers, and bring awareness to regenerative agriculture through hospitality.
Since 2020, I’ve been working as a Senior Product Manager at Apple building something new.
My focus is to build products that leverage technology to improve people’s lives by helping people live more intentionally in the “offline world”. I gravitate to building teams to solve complex problems where I can use creative and analytical problem solving to build and scale something from scratch.
Outside of work, I’m outside — running, biking, walking my dog and then it’s late nights in the studio working on larger scale paintings. I explore light and how it navigates manmade and organic subjects often with an environmental and nostalgic narrative.