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 where my teams at Airbnb touched every part of the product including owning research and 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. So far I’ve developed a product strategy and UI designs to aggregate Coronavirus data, worked with teams to develop software that use satellite data to provide seed and fertilizer loans to rural Kenyan farmers, and bring awareness to regenerative agriculture through hospitality. The pandemic cut the time in Kenya but it was nothing short of awesome.
Most recently, I’ve been working as a Senior Product Manager at Apple building something new.
I focus on products that leverage technology to improve people’s lives by helping people live more intentionally. 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.