Experience

Karat

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• VP of Strategy, Chief of Staff to the CEO

  • Jul 2023 - Present

  Supporting our CEO and leading various strategy and corporate development activities such as new market development and strategic initiatives.

• Chief of Staff to the CEO I Strategy & Operations

  • Jan 2022 - Oct 2023

  Building the Interviewing Cloud and transforming the future of technical hiring.

• Head of Growth, Partnerships & Strategy

  • Sep 2020 - Jan 2022

  Focused on building out our partnership opportunities, go-to-market strategy and sales operations... About Karat: We believe that every interview can — and should — be predictive, fair, and enjoyable. So we established the discipline of Interview Engineering. Karat conducts technical interviews on behalf of organizations hiring software engineers. Karat does this through a community of Interview Engineers who are equipped with Karat's interviewing infrastructure, battle-tested… Show more Focused on building out our partnership opportunities, go-to-market strategy and sales operations... About Karat: We believe that every interview can — and should — be predictive, fair, and enjoyable. So we established the discipline of Interview Engineering. Karat conducts technical interviews on behalf of organizations hiring software engineers. Karat does this through a community of Interview Engineers who are equipped with Karat's interviewing infrastructure, battle-tested questions, and data-informed best practices. The result is highly predictive and fair interviews at scale. Karat has amassed the largest, most robust dataset of structured-interview intelligence to produce never-before-seen hiring analytics.

• Head of Growth and Sales Strategy/Ops

  • Jan 2020 - Sep 2020



Indeed

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Corporate Development: M&A and Venture Investing

  • Mar 2017 - Jun 2019

  Focused on Strategy, M&A and Investments across Indeed products in the HR Tech space for Indeed + Recruit's HR Tech Business Unit. - Deal lead: $1.2B acquisition of Glassdoor; strategy, due diligence and execution Key areas of focus including strategic alignment with executive team, investment thesis building, due diligence and integration planning.

• Product - Integrations & Strategy

  • Mar 2017 - Mar 2018



LinkedIn

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Management: Monetization and Consumer - Lynda (Acquired Apr'15)

  • Jul 2015 - Mar 2017

  Lead various product initiatives at Lynda.com. Reported to VP of Product / Head of Product a Lynda.com Key initiatives include: - Lynda.com's consumer product growth - Revamping registration/payment flow - Redesigning Lynda.com's Homepage

• Product Management: Monetization and Growth - SlideShare (Acquired May'12)

  • Mar 2013 - Jul 2015

  Lead cross-functional team focused on consumer and enterprise products. Reported to CEO/Head of SlideShare. SLIDESHARE for BUSINESSES: -Launched Lead Generation on SlideShare, enabling brands and marketers to convert their audience into business prospects through their content on SlideShare (July 2015) SLIDESHARE/LINKEDIN INTEGRATION: Leading cross-functional teams to build products to deliver value across the LinkedIn and SlideShare platforms - Launched integration… Show more Lead cross-functional team focused on consumer and enterprise products. Reported to CEO/Head of SlideShare. SLIDESHARE for BUSINESSES: -Launched Lead Generation on SlideShare, enabling brands and marketers to convert their audience into business prospects through their content on SlideShare (July 2015) SLIDESHARE/LINKEDIN INTEGRATION: Leading cross-functional teams to build products to deliver value across the LinkedIn and SlideShare platforms - Launched integration enabling users to upload rich media to their LinkedIn Profile and seamlessly publish on SlideShare (November 2014) - Launched product enabling users to push content uploaded on SlideShare to their LinkedIn Profile (August 2014) SLIDESHARE GROWTH (SEO, Social Distribution and Mobile Web): Building products to help users discover, share and present awesome content on SlideShare. Focused on SlideShare distribution/growth products across desktop and mobile web. - Launched new SlideShare mobile web experience (April 2014), enabling users to swipe between slides on mobile phone and tablet, with improved focus on sharing and discovering content - Launched SlideShare homepage redesign (December 2013), putting content front and center with a more visual design making it easier for users to discover and share SlideShares on our homepage - Lead series of growth initiatives including SEO improvements (internationalization and transcript improvement), mobile web social channel growth and content categorization

• Business Operations: LinkedIn IPO, Monetization and Consumer Product Strategy

  • Oct 2010 - Feb 2013

  Working closely with Product, Finance and Executive leadership on special projects; driving analysis of strategic opportunities with product managers and product marketers; provide operational dashboards for business lines and drive business driver analysis on regular basis Key projects: -Building monetization and engagement analyses -Monetization strategy for Online Subscription platform -GTM LinkedIn Follow Ad product -LinkedIn's IPO



Deutsche Bank

• Germany
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investment Banking: IPOs, Private Placements and M&A - Internet/Software Sector

  • Jun 2008 - Oct 2010

  Analyst in Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Banking group. Transaction experience includes IPO, Follow-on, Private Placement and Debt repurchase. Financial analysis across the technology sector, including SaaS, Internet, and new digital media companies Select deal experience includes: -Travelport $2.0Bn Initial Public Offering (Joint Bookrunner) -Fortinet, Inc $180M IPO (Joint Bookrunner) -TeleNav Inc $64M IPO (Joint Bookrunner) -SMART Technologies $660M IPO (Joint… Show more Analyst in Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Banking group. Transaction experience includes IPO, Follow-on, Private Placement and Debt repurchase. Financial analysis across the technology sector, including SaaS, Internet, and new digital media companies Select deal experience includes: -Travelport $2.0Bn Initial Public Offering (Joint Bookrunner) -Fortinet, Inc $180M IPO (Joint Bookrunner) -TeleNav Inc $64M IPO (Joint Bookrunner) -SMART Technologies $660M IPO (Joint Bookrunner), -Pandora Media, Inc. Private Placement (Sole Placement Agent) -Salesforce.com $500M Convertible notes (Call spread counterpart and co-manager) -Zebra Technologies’ $192MM Divestiture of Navis to Cargotec (sellside)

• Investment Banking Summer Analyst

  • Jun 2007 - Jul 2008



MIT Media Lab

• United States
• Research Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Research Assistant Intern

  • Mar 2006 - Apr 2006

  Assisted research team in the development and implementation of RFID-GPS integreated product both at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA and Tromso, Norway. Assisted research team in the development and implementation of RFID-GPS integreated product both at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA and Tromso, Norway.