Experience

Tribe Capital

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

• Co-Founder and General Partner

  • Jun 2018 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area



Neo Financial

• Canada
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investor

  • Mar 2022 - Present



Marshmallow

• United Kingdom
• Insurance
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Investor

  • Oct 2021 - Present



zeroheight

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Jun 2021 - Present



Vinovest

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Mar 2021 - Present



Huckleberry

• United States
• Insurance
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Sep 2020 - Present



Jeeves

• United States
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Investor

  • Sep 2020 - Present



Pipe

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Investor

  • May 2020 - Present



Founders Pledge

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Pledger

  • Nov 2019 - Present

  I am a proud member of the Founders Pledge community: A group of entrepreneurs and investors who have pledged to give a substantial part of future proceeds to charitable causes. (founderspledge.com)



Mode

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Investor

  • Sep 2018 - Present



Kauffman Fellows

• United States
• Community Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Fellow, Class 22

  • Jun 2017 - Present



Teampay

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • May 2019 - Sep 2021



Prodigy Software Inc.

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing

• Board Member

  • May 2019 - Apr 2021

  Acquired by Upstart (NASDAQ:UPST).



Bloomberg Second Measure

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Investor

  • Nov 2018 - Dec 2020

  Acquired by Bloomberg



Insight Data Science

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisor

  • Sep 2014 - Aug 2020

  San Francisco Bay Area



Social Capital

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

• Partner, SVP of Quantitative Investing and Data Science

  • Jun 2014 - Jun 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area At Social Capital I led a small team that handled all aspects of leveraging data to drive business value in the firm's investing activities. This included utilizing data and technology to augment sourcing, evaluation of investment opportunities and the management and value add for portfolio companies. Led quantitative diligence across hundreds of investment opportunities leading to many dozens of investments across early and late stage venture as well as in our public equities strategy. Wrote… Show more At Social Capital I led a small team that handled all aspects of leveraging data to drive business value in the firm's investing activities. This included utilizing data and technology to augment sourcing, evaluation of investment opportunities and the management and value add for portfolio companies. Led quantitative diligence across hundreds of investment opportunities leading to many dozens of investments across early and late stage venture as well as in our public equities strategy. Wrote the seminal work on quantitatively assessing product market fit which has proven to be one of the most durable frameworks for assessing non-financial aspects of early stage companies (see https://medium.com/swlh/diligence-at-social-capital-part-1-accounting-for-user-growth-4a8a449fddfc). Show less



Facebook

• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager of Data Science and Analytics

  • Apr 2012 - May 2014

  Menlo Park, CA Led the creation of the Analytics and Data Science functional role at FB. Oversaw the hiring of over 200 high caliber data scientists and analysts. Created and led analytics teams focused on providing both ad-hoc and operational analytics for several product teams including the Homepage/Feed, Platform, Games, Identity, Search, and the Open Graph.

• Data Scientist, Platform

  • Sep 2009 - Apr 2012

  First dedicated data analyst for the Facebook Platform. Leveraged data to add transparency and visibility into the Platform product. Implemented flexible analytics infrastructure to operationalize a broad plethora of analytical approaches towards the Platform.



Slide

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Analytics Scientist

  • Jul 2007 - Aug 2009

  San Francisco Bay Area Led a team of data analysts responsible for all analytical activities of the company. Focused on driving results across a portfolio of social games and apps that operated across multiple social networks.



SuperPoke

• Co-Founder

  • May 2007 - Jul 2007

  Greater Seattle Area Co-created one of the first applications on the Facebook platform. Achieved 1M users in less than one month back when that was still novel. Successfully acquired by Slide, Inc. More info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperPoke!



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Program Manager

  • Sep 2006 - Jul 2007

  Program Manager in the Windows Live Search group. Focused on relevance for commerce search.



Stanford University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student Researcher

  • 2001 - 2006

  Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics