Co-Founder and CEO Resume

SUMMARY:

Diversified 20+ years of leadership experience in building companies from grounds - up in domestic and global marketplace. Builder of highly successful and scalable technology solutions and product development teams in digital, cloud, mobile and Artificial Intelligence, with expertise in both start-ups and scaled growth stages. Expert in business transformation via digital and AI solutions and aligning marketing strategies to support front end and bottom line growth of the business. Proven capital raising and networking skills, building fruitful partnerships with hundreds of clients and network of service providers and delivering multi-million dollar growth at both end of the businesses.
Founded Fyoosion with one other Co-Founder with highly profitable exit after being acquired by a public company
Founded Confidential, a hyper-local social media platform with one other co-founder with several thousand downloads
Grew Atlantic Coast Brand from $120M to $480M by building tech solutions and personnel from 80 to 600
Built highly scalable technology platforms for nimble marketing in direct to consumer marketspace

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Co-Founder and CEO

Co-Founded Fyoosion with one other co-founder, raised seed fund from Arthur Watson Jr., Grandson of IBM’s Founder, Thomas Watson
Fyoosion - A multi-channel marketing platform, integrated with over 50+ tech tools and APIs, that helps in maximizing online sales, optimizing backend end offers and real time AI delivers customer behavior.
Established global partnerships and client footprint, built marketing distribution partnership in all of Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries, i.e., Spain, Portugal, Mexico and LATAM region
Built Clientele in domestic and international market, such as US, Canada, Poland, Spain, Thailand, Germany
Took the company from $0 to over a $1M in less than 18 months by building highly profitable sales funnels for our clients, one of them was makers of Pensida, co-founded and invested by Dr. Andrew Cappuccino, Buffalo Bills’ Orthopedic surgeon
Successfully raised capital from angel investor, made the company profitable, and recently sold it to a publicly traded company for cash and stock (Grom Social Enterprise)

Confidential

Co-Founder and President

Co-Founded Trist, a mobile app marketing platform, funded by Watson Enterprise, headed by Arthur Watson Jr.
Trist - A mobile based hyper-local and hyper-social media platform that integrates with almost all popular social media networks which predicts # of guests in a public place such as restaurants, gender ratio, age and their emotion predictions based on social comments.
App is extremely helpful for consumers to figure out which is a good place to go now or later based on activities, people mix and age and for venue owners it provides insight based on earned media content

Confidential

Advisor - CEO

Established in 1987, Millennium built mobile based Meevo software that provides business management and growth strategies to the beauty industry such as Salon and Spa businesses
Consulted and advised IT, Marketing and CEO and developed highly comprehensive product roadmap for 24-26 months, participated in product development plans and marketing planning

Confidential

Chief Information Officer

Responsible for all aspects of overall IT management for over 600 persons marketing-technology driven company servicing skin care, cosmetics and vitamin market and several strategic partners.
Led a total team of 60, including layered reporting, with 8 direct reports; Marketing Operation group of 8, being responsible of all marketing programs; led PMO group of 4 PMs; led Accounting and Operations backend
Developed workforce automation, operational excellence plans and align entire company’s deliverables aligning with marketing and technology
Led Marketing Operations and Revenue Optimization teams
Participated in product liquidity planning, brand ambassadors for flagship products such as Dr. Oz and Christie Brinkley, later sold majority of the equity to Christie Brinkley (now known as Authentic Skin Care by Christie Brinkley)