Experience

Meadow

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Product Officer

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  Denver Metropolitan Area Improving the student financial experience.



NextGen Venture Partners

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

• Venture Partner

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  United States NextGen Venture Partners typically invests $1-2 million in seed-stage companies. Venture Partners are founders and innovators across the country whose expertise support NextGen's portfolio growth. My circle of competence is ecommerce, SaaS, search, fintech and consumer services. I co-invest via NextGen, often alongside top-tier venture capital firms like Sequoia and Foundry Group. To date, I've funded investments in: Cratejoy, Maven Clinic, Till & Fritz AI.



Klarna

• Sweden
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Director

  • Jun 2021 - May 2022

  Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden Creating the world's favorite way to shop.



Gridics

• United States
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President Of Engineering

  • Jan 2020 - May 2021

  Denver, Colorado, United States Enabling community members and real estate developers to know what could be built on a parcel of land.



Searchspring

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• CEO

  • Jan 2015 - May 2019

  Denver, CO Background: SearchSpring started as a product search engine for online retailers to “make their website’s search box smarter.” Today, it’s a complete merchandising platform that empowers retailers to manage and curate their virtual product “isles” with fine-grain control and automation (like offline retailers have been doing for decades). I created SearchSpring’s three pillared product strategy that focuses on Search, Merchandising and Insights. Designed to work synergistically… Show more Background: SearchSpring started as a product search engine for online retailers to “make their website’s search box smarter.” Today, it’s a complete merchandising platform that empowers retailers to manage and curate their virtual product “isles” with fine-grain control and automation (like offline retailers have been doing for decades). I created SearchSpring’s three pillared product strategy that focuses on Search, Merchandising and Insights. Designed to work synergistically, our three-pronged approach helped our merchants intuitively tune search results towards profitable merchandising strategies, automate product placements on category pages and gain new insights into product engagement and purchasing behavior. Ultimately, we were able to position SearchSpring as leader in merchandising, helping to increase adoption by a host of new, fast-growing ecommerce brands including Moen, Volcom, Kate Somerville & Fabletics. After a great run at SearchSpring, we were fortunate to sell the company to Scaleworks in 2019 and I am now exploring new opportunities.

• Co-Founder & CTO

  • Oct 2007 - Dec 2014

  Denver, CO Based on my previous experience building product search engines, I single-handedly built the initial (rough) product in ~45 days which we launched to a paying customer on day one. As revenue grew, I started building out a tech team to handle support, implementations and product development. To this day, our “bend-over-backwards” customer service culture helped us retain and grow our relationships with many of our customers. From product search, I expanded SearchSpring into Product… Show more Based on my previous experience building product search engines, I single-handedly built the initial (rough) product in ~45 days which we launched to a paying customer on day one. As revenue grew, I started building out a tech team to handle support, implementations and product development. To this day, our “bend-over-backwards” customer service culture helped us retain and grow our relationships with many of our customers. From product search, I expanded SearchSpring into Product Recommendations - the first site search company to launch a Recommendations offering (around 2009) which our competitors quickly followed.



Sebenza Technologies

• Freelance Ecommerce Consultant

  • Jan 2001 - Oct 2007

  I spent my early professional career working with emerging ecommerce companies to build and grow their direct-to-consumer digital channels. It was this work that enabled me to discover the problem spaces that led to the creation of two products: Searchspring and Ordertastic.