Experience

Spark Admissions

• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • 2012 - Present

  Newton, MA * Co-founder of Spark Admissions, the top-rated admissions consulting firm in the U.S. * Provides college consulting services for students interested gaining admission to Ivy League and other highly selective U.S. colleges and universities. * Coaches students on gaining admission to private schools. * Works with a wide range of students throughout the U.S. and internationally.



Evolution Partners

• Managing Director

  • Jan 2009 - Jun 2012

  Evolution Partners provides advisory and implementation services to assist start-ups, small and mid-sized companies with achieving and managing growth objectives.



Wazoku Crowd

• United Kingdom
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, Product Management

  • Jun 2007 - Feb 2008

  Led Product Management for Web 2.0 online community providing forum for Not-for-Profit and Fortune 500 companies to innovate through crowdsourcing. InnoCentive community includes over 135,000 registrants.



econfidant.com

• CEO & Founder

  • Jun 2005 - Mar 2007

  Launched and grew online media company focused on providing online dating & relationship advice through a monthly subscription model. Sold company to Innovive Technologies LLC. Board members included the Founders of OpenTable.com and Evite.com.



UScellular

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Manager, Data Services

  • May 2004 - Jun 2005

  Grew wireless data services business to over 1 million subscribers with $100 million in revenues, while responsible for P&L of wireless data services business. Increased subscriber acquisition rates and improved retention rates through implementing an improved customer offer providing unlimited data usage and a free wireless browser.

• Manager, Business Development

  • Jan 2003 - May 2004

  Responsible for launch of U.S. Cellular's Data Services business, ensuring that there were over 200 applications available on U.S. Cellular phones at time of launch. Completed deals with over 100 wireless content and application providers.



Mosaic Data Solutions

• Manager, Customer Acquisition

  • Jan 2001 - Nov 2002

  Led online customer acquisition for largest U.S. provider of email marketing services, optimizing performance of a 50 million consumer email list mailed daily and monetized through CPA deals.



CEB, now Gartner

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Research Associate

  • Sep 1995 - Jun 1998