Experience

Meta

• French Polynesia
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, Product Management

  • Jul 2023 - 6 months

  San Francisco, California, United States Leading strategic projects as part of the product leadership team for Messenger at Meta. I work on finding solutions to some of our biggest product challenges, particularly those that require cross-org and cross-company coordination.

• Interim Product Lead, Personal Communication, Messenger

  • May 2023 - Sep 2023

  San Francisco, California, United States

• Head of Product, NPE

  • Aug 2021 - May 2023

  San Francisco Bay Area I headed up incubations and early stage explorations for NPE, Meta's experimental products group.



Betaworks Ventures

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

• Founding Partner

  • Jul 2015 - Aug 2021

  San Francisco, California Founding partner at Betaworks Ventures, a pre-seed and seed stage fund investing. Notable investments include Rec Room, Hugging Face, 8th Wall (acquired by Niantic), Resemble.ai, Bunch, Squad (acquired by Twitter), and Facemoji (acquired by Google).



AOL

• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution

• Director, AOL Alpha

  • Sep 2014 - Jul 2015

  I co-lead Alpha, AOL's experimental products group. Our first mobile app, Pip, launched in December 2014.

• VP of Strategy

  • Jun 2013 - Jul 2015



gdgt

• United States
• Internet Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO & Co-Founder

  • Sep 2008 - Feb 2013

  New York & San Francisco CEO & Co-founder of gdgt, a venture-backed social commerce startup focused on consumer electronics. Investors included Spark Capital, True Ventures, betaworks, SV Angel, & Lerer Ventures. Acquired by AOL in February 2013.



RCRD LBL

• United States
• Musicians

• CEO & Founder

  • Feb 2007 - Apr 2009

  New York, NY I created and led RCRD LBL an ad-supported online music platform that offered free, curated legal MP3s for download from thousands of emerging and established artists.



Joystiq

• Writing and Editing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • May 2004 - Jul 2008

  New York, New York, United States The first video game blog.



Engadget

• United States
• Online Audio and Video Media
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder & Editor-in-chief

  • Mar 2004 - Jul 2008

  Everything.


Gizmodo
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Founder & Editor-in-Chief

  • Apr 2002 - Mar 2004

Red Herring Magazine
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• Associate Editor

  • Jun 1999 - May 2001