Experience

Wisdom Ventures

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Partner

  • Oct 2021 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area We support a new generation of entrepreneurs dedicated to consciously harnessing the power of business to co-create a future of greater human connection and wellbeing. Seventeen investments to date (August 2023) and celebrating the recent oversubscribed close of Fund I ($10mm, mostly seed). Looking forward to starting to raise for Fund II ($75mm) in early 2024.



Self-employed

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Angel Investor / Advisor

  • Jan 2007 - Present

  Angel investor in 150+ startups including Slack, Dropcam, Upstart, Coda, Nerdwallet, Within, Tempo, Wildlife Studios, Ramp, Mercury, Miro, etc.



Google

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• VP Product, Advisor

  • Feb 2008 - Sep 2023

  Mountain View Leadership of a wide variety of Google products and the teams that operated them, including Gmail, Google+, Google Docs, Google Voice, Google News, Google Reader, blogger, Orkut, Google Photos...



Singtel

• Singapore
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Board Director

  • Dec 2019 - Jul 2023

  Singapore, Singapore Board Director for Singtel, Asia’s leading communications technology group, operating in one of the world’s fastest growing and most dynamic regions. Singtel provides an extensive range of digital and telecommunication services to consumers and businesses. Served on the Finance & Investment and Technology Committees.


Yahoo, Inc.
• VP Advanced Development

  • May 2004 - Feb 2008


Virage

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO / Co-founder

  • Jan 1993 - Apr 2004

  Led technical direction and R&D for video analysis startup, from initial founding to IPO on NASDAQ and eventual acquisition.