SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a NYC - based media & entertainment entrepreneur and technologist focused on building meaningful digital experiences leveraging cloud, data and artificial intelligence as covered.
• He is currently the Founder and CEO of Confidential .
• AI building large scale data programs where he frequently partners with Confidential .
• Confidential works with executives to define success and then builds the team and technology to execute.
• He is a rare trusted partner who can lead sales, technology and operations. For the last decade, Confidential has advised the top agencies.
• He began his career in management consulting advising Fortune 500 companies in financial services and communications on technology transformation, business strategy and marketing.

CORE SKILLS:

Solution Architecture New Business Development Innovation Entrepreneurship Omni Channel Retail Program Management Brand Building Key Staff Hiring Building Sales Programs and Partnerships Innovation Culture Organizational / Transformational Change Leader Enterprise and Consumer Technology Contracts / RFP Operations Budgets Business Planning and Audit P/L Responsibility Business Development Sales Leader Management Consulting Agency Leader Digital Property Governance eCommerce Channel Management Messaging Intellectual Property Budgeting /Contracts Team Building

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Chief Innovation Officer, Founder

Responsibilities:

• Consulting services and platform to create new revenue streams for clients using operational exhaust of large credit card and telecommunication companies.
• Produces proprietary signals and scores that create competitive advantage for clients in financial services and consumer marketing.
• Utilizes large corpus of 1st and 3rd party data, cognitive and linguistic science based hyper segments.
• Commercializing more than a decade of Harvard and Yale academic research.
• Generating leverage across 1st party enterprise data sets.
• Several hedge funds utilizing alternative data sets.

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Founder, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Holding company and consultancy for next generation data / predictive AI solutions.
• Architected AI recommendation engine product, Genie, which achieves 74% accuracy in predicting a retail consumers’ next likely purchase.
• Lead visibility initiative: Finalist in Walmart Open Call for Innovation, resulting Sam’s Club store pilot.
• Brokered Confidential Watson partnership and on behalf of Confidential, led their flagship shopper marketing partnership with Momentum Worldwide (McCann).

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Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Directed key market opportunities for AI driven hedge fund macro insights platform
• Architected messaging and value proposition that unlocked NYU Nexus Accelerator opportunity
• Advised leadership team on go-to-market and customer development

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Investor and Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Provided key direction on product/ market fit on cloud solution that redefines the way that enterprises support and enable their field salesforce to grow revenue, reduce turnover and develop talent; securing engagement with Confidential .
• Advised on capital raising, go-to-market, and customer development that closed $1M in funding

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Investor and Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Defined value proposition of mobile sensor/ IOT data to determine emotion sentiment and behavior in real time to researchers and brands.
• Advised on capital raising, go-to-market, and customer development - raising more than $1MM from NY-based Angel group
• Defined technical infrastructure strategy to scale telemetry and data capture for enterprise.

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Chief Revenue Officer

Responsibilities:

• Visualized long-term product roadmap and technical strategy for a big data platform in advertising industry.
• Created monetization model for new ATM-based advertising network across 40k ATMs via Cardtronics; securing $1M ARR.

Confidential, New York, NY

Founder and CEO

Responsibilities:

• Created SaaS platform that consolidated 1.8 million nonprofits and cross-referenced every publicly traded company CSR initiative in America.
• Revolutionized donations through a variety of channels. CRM, CMS, eCommerce, affiliate revenue, Amazon cloud services, PHP/ MySQL.
• Created philanthropy program and consumer online marketplace used by RecycleBank (Kleiner Perkins) members in more than 100 municipalities and several million households for loyalty point redemption and micro-donations to partnered nonprofits.
• Developed strategic partnerships for a global brand loyalty program with measurable triple bottom line.

Confidential. New York, NY

Group Manager, VP Digital

Responsibilities:

• Formalized and accelerated Ketchum Digital’s solution architecture offering through translating C-suite communication objectives into business requirements and building organizational capabilities.
• Managed the creative idea development of technology-driven consumer loyalty and employee engagement programs incorporating gamification, CSR and rewards across the Ketchum portfolio of clients including Kinkos, Best Buy and Kimberly Clark.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Senior Manager/ Client Executive

Responsibilities:

• Managed financial services accounts for Avanade Division (strategic JV between Confidential and Microsoft) in East Region to develop and implement strategic plans to market Microsoft professional consulting services for premier clients.
• Developed and implemented strategic go-to-market CRM and knowledge management programs, channel and end-user sales development, new market identification and penetration, financial channel management, and large-scale contract negotiations.