Experience

Tripadvisor

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director of Product, Data & AI

  • Apr 2023 - Present

  Innovating at the cutting edge of all major fields of AI including generative-AI, ranking and recommendations, ML systems, etc

• Director of Product, Hospitality Solutions

  • Jan 2022 - Mar 2023

  Greater Seattle Area



Hugo

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Board Advisor

  • Dec 2019 - Present



First Round Capital

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

• Fast Track Mentor

  • Aug 2021 - Present



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Lead

  • May 2019 - Jan 2022

  Greater Seattle Area Product Management for Microsoft Search and Assistant Intelligence (MSAI), leading product areas across Windows, Outlook Mobile, Teams Mobile, and Office Mobile apps: • Bing answers experience for getting local information, definitions, news, weather, and finance updates within Cortana in Windows 10 • Voice & Natural Language search in Outlook Mobile, Teams Mobile and Office Mobile apps



INDIE ENTERPRISES

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

• Venture Scout

  • Sep 2020 - Sep 2021



Nestsquare

• Nigeria
• Technology, Information and Internet

• Board Advisor

  • May 2017 - May 2021



Facebook

• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Data Operations

  • Jul 2016 - May 2019

  Menlo Park • Product Management - Led product management for annotation platform that power core AI capabilities; enabling the use of human intelligence to annotate training-datasets. • Project Management - Managed multiple cross-functional projects (across product, engineering and operations teams) related to Applied Machine Learning, and supervised a large contractor team responsible for driving improvements in several Facebook products.



Stanford University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Mar 2016 - Jun 2016

  Stanford Teaching Assistant for the course MS&E 245G/Econ 135 (Finance for Non-MBAs) taught by Prof. Vladimir Asriyan (Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business )



Ericsson

• Sweden
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Strategic Product Management Intern

  • Jun 2015 - Mar 2016

  San Francisco Bay Area Developed business value tools (including use cases, value argumentation, competitive comparisons and business models) and marketing collateral for Ericsson's SDN market and portfolio strategy. These were leveraged for sales engagements in 180 countries.



Stanford University Graduate School of Business

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Nov 2014 - Jun 2015

  Stanford Supported on-going research by Prof Katherine Casey that evaluates the role of information in enhancing political accountability in Sierra Leone



TrafficDey

• Co-founder

  • Nov 2013 - Aug 2014

  Lagos Started TrafficDey, a web-based platform, to help road users in Lagos share real-time road traffic information. With TrafficDey, users are able to find out the best routes to take for their trips, thereby avoiding the trauma of driving into avoidable traffic delays.



KPMG

• Canada
• Accounting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Management Consulting Associate

  • Jul 2011 - Aug 2014

  Management consulting engagements for some of the biggest companies in Africa; across technology, retail, logistics, manufacturing, energy, and power sectors.



Diageo

• United Kingdom
• Beverage Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Trainee Engineer

  • Aug 2010 - Jun 2011

  Participated in a technical training program that involved rotation across the following functions: Engineering KPI analysis, projects engineering, maintenance planning, condition monitoring.