BizTrip AIFounder

United States - San Francisco, California

Entrepreneur: Founder & CEO BizTrip AI; Founder & Chairman of Siesta Valley Bowl; CEO/CoFounder of Yapta, Overzealous Mountaineer & Ironman Triathlete.

Results-focused C-level executive leader with an engineering degree and deep experience in building companies and driving growth as CEO/CCO/GM. Strong functional experience in product, marketing, sales, business development, and leading teams in public companies and in VC-backed start-ups. Highly collaborative work style and analytical approach to strategy and execution based on KPIs and metrics. Focused on building teams, product innovation and go-to-market execution. Innovator and patent holder.

- CoreChain, Co-founder & Chief Commercial Officer: building and growing the next generation b2b payments & supply chain finance platform on blockchain rails. Seed funded.

- Yapta, CEO and co-founder: launched and built company into a recognized leader/innovator in travel tech space. Raised over $13M in venture capital to fuel product innovation and revenue growth, resulting in strategic investment by Concur and eventual exit for 9 figures to Coupa.

- Alaska Airlines, Vice President Marketing: led large operation with $400M P&L & 2,400 employees, and drove 20%+ annual revenue growth for loyalty program.

- Lending Club, VP Strategic Partnerships: joined pre-IPO (NYSE: LC) and drove high impact partnerships with Alibaba, Google, Sam's Club, United, Fedex, and others to drive new product innovations and 5x revenue growth over a 3 year period.

- Fogdog, Vice President Marketing: drove revenue growth from $300k to $28M, which led to a successful IPO and exit (NASDAQ: FOGD, now owned by eBay).