Experience

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  Copia Global

  • San Francisco

  • Founder, Chairman

    • Oct 2010 - Present
    • San Francisco

    Copia is bringing ecommerce to the Base of the Pyramid, transforming this historically neglected market into empowered global consumers. It is the best of Amazon plus Fedex plus a healthy dose of BoP expertise. The advent of mobile technologies is the game changer, enabling Copia to provide a profitable, high quality service to the BoP for the first time in history. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2013, Copia started its operations in Kenya. Copia is now serving more than 6,000 locations throughout central Kenya, generating more than $1mm in monthly revenues, and planning its international expansion.

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  Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth

  • Hanover, New Hampshire, United States

  • Board of Advisors

    • Oct 2021 - Present
    • Hanover, New Hampshire, United States

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  CARE Social Ventures

  • www.caresocialventures.com

  • Board Member

    • Jan 2018 - Present
    • www.caresocialventures.com

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  Village Capital

  • Founding Board Member

    • Jun 2011 - Sep 2015

    Village Capital finds, trains, and invests in entrepreneurs solving real-world problems. We build communities around entrepreneurs and their ventures to improve opportunities for growth and success.

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  MicroPlace, an eBay Company

  • San Jose, CA

  • Founder/CEO

    • May 2005 - Dec 2009
    • San Jose, CA

    MicroPlace was a web-based broker-dealer similar to eTrade that enabled Americans to make social investments around the world, creating positive impact while earning a financial return. Thousands of people invested more than $58 million to help individuals and communities. It was acquired by eBay in 2006.

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  KickStart International

  • San Francisco, CA

  • CFO

    • 2003 - 2004
    • San Francisco, CA

    I took a year "off" from my entrepreneurial endeavors to work with this incredible organization. KickStart’s mission is to lift millions of people in Africa out of poverty, quickly, cost-effectively and sustainably by enabling them to make more money.

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  4charity

  • San Francisco, CA

  • Founder/CEO

    • Jan 1999 - May 2003
    • San Francisco, CA

    4charity was the first web service provider for the $200B nonprofit industry. We provided services like ticket sales, volunteer management and donation processing in the web 1.0 era. 4charity also provided an Amazon-smile like service, an online shopping mall where a portion of every sale went to charity.

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  ROBERTSON STEPHENS SECURITIES

  • Associate

    • 1998 - 1999

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  Mercer Management Consulting

  • Washington, DC

  • Consultant

    • 1994 - 1996
    • Washington, DC

    Strategic management consulting firm serving fortune 500 companies. Mercer was known for its expertise in advising clients on how to "grow to greatness."