What is Launch NY?

Brian Bauer is a seasoned international energy industry executive with extensive experience in oil, natural gas, chemicals, and renewables in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Mr. Bauer has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell and an MBA in Operations and Finance from the University of Chicago. Mr. Bauer ran several businesses during a 30 year career in the energy industry and has expertise in operations, strategy, business development, mergers and acquisitions, major project management, corporate governance, and organizational change.

Mr. Bauer recently retired and relocated to Ithaca to build the next phase of his career where he is interested in startups and tech innovation, with a particular interest in the area of energy innovation. Since returning to Ithaca, he has served as an advisor to several startup companies in the energy and consumer services spaces, as well as leading the statewide cleantech business plan competition, 76West, which provides $2.5MM in prizes to a competitively selected group of innovative startups and early stage companies.

Ed Bizari has 30+ years experience at Fortune 500 companies, funded startups, and early stage startup companies in software, telecommunications and healthcare. He’s held executive-level positions around strategy, product management, and sales/marketing and has a comprehensive understanding of business model development, growth strategies, and product commercialization. Ed is currently an entrepreneur-in-residence with Launch NY, an Upstate NY venture development firm that advises and funds early stage startup companies, and Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, a Cornell University-partnered startup incubator in Ithaca, NY. He’s mentored in the 76West Clean Energy Competition, the Grow-NY Food/Agriculture Competition, and is an NSF I-Corps Short Course instructor. He also has the position of Entrepreneurial Fellow and instructor at Hobart & William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. Ed holds an MBA and BSEE from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Michael Bovalino is an experienced and successful senior executive with diversified experience. Mr. Bovalino has been the President and CEO of six different companies including both publicly traded and privately owned businesses. Mr. Bovalino's industry experience includes telecommunications/utilities, medical devices, real estate, and consumer goods. He has a unique blend of corporate and field experience with an outstanding P & L track record. He has an extensive background in creating new markets and companies, gaining market share in highly competitive environments, building effective customer and employee relationships, mergers and acquisitions, and implementing processes for change and growth. Most recently, Mr. Bovalino was the President of the medical device manufacturer BioSpherix. Other significant positions include being the President and CEO of the Pyramid Management Group, the largest privately held commercial real estate company in the US. He was the founder and CEO of Energetix, a diversified energy company that grew into a billion dollar business. He has also been an executive officer of both Niagara Mohawk and Rochester Gas and Electric.

Mr. Bovalino has a Bachelor's degree from SUNY Fredonia in accounting/finance and an MBA from Pace University. Mr. Bovalino also has a Master's degree in Information Technology from New York University and he has attended Columbia University's Advanced Management Program.

Kate Brodock is CEO of Women 2.0, a media and tech company focused on gender equality, diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. Serving over 300,000 around the world, Women 2.0 provides content, products and services around parity, and has catalyzed over $90M in funding for female founded companies.

Under Kate's leadership, Women 2.0 has engaged with companies, such as Medium, Adobe, and Airbnb, to educate internal teams about diversity and inclusion. Kate also led the team in several recent product launches, including its Lane recruitment platform and a "Men as Allies" committee, which aims to engage men in diversity and inclusion conversations.

Outside of Women 2.0, Kate has played an active leadership role in the tech ecosystem for more than a decade. She led a global non-profit focused on women in technology and entrepreneurship as its President. Most recently, she was CMO of untapt, an AI-driven tech talent marketplace based in NYC. She held the role of Adjunct Professor in PR and Marketing at at Syracuse University.

Kate is a regular speaker, appearing on stages around the world at SXSW, 15 Seconds Festival, Collision Conference, Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored, and TechStars. She has been featured in the Washington Post, TechCrunch, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, and she's a contributor for Forbes.com She has a BA from the University of Rochester, an MBA from Goizueta Business School at Emory University and an MA in International Relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

When she’s not doing all *that*, she’s a very non-professional (but adventurous!) athlete, an equally as non-professional musician, can be found outdoors in any weather — skiing, biking, hiking, sailing — and lives on a hops farm run by her husband in Upstate NY. She can be found on Twitter at @just_kate

Paul Buckley is an experienced small business professional and was most recently Directory of IT at the Buffalo News, until his retirement in 2022. Formerly he was President of Applied Sciences Group, Inc. from 1997 until early 2018, serving in engineering, administration, operations management, and strategic development areas. Mr. Buckley previously worked in the electronic warfare, aerospace, and telecommunications industries in various engineering and management capacities. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Bio-medical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Systems Engineering from RPI along with post-graduate courses in management, biotech, signal processing, and other non-matriculated coursework.

Mr. Buckley continues to use his expertise in business development to help support the startup, early stage, and small business community with tactical and strategic management and engineering expertise, particularly in the high-tech industries. He continues to mentor and coach grass-roots and high-growth companies through local programs with the University at Buffalo’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL), Pre-Seed Workshops, and several others.

Crystal Callahan has worked for billion dollar companies and created million dollar companies. She became Co-Founder of Makeur in 2016, a startup studio that helps entrepreneurs launch and grow. With its social impact focus, Makeur is instrumental in bringing new faces, ideas, voices, and business stories to market. Prior to starting Makeur, Ms. Callahan was the Founder of The Worldwide App Inc. ("Worldwide") where in 2013, she became recognized as one of the first women to own her own mobile app company, and the first woman of color to do so.

Ms. Callahan spent most of her career based in major markets: New York. Los Angeles, and Silicon Valley learning business development, marketing, sales, and customer service from working for 35+ companies operating throughout the U.S. and some of their International offices. She is considered a generalist who gained key experience in a number of interesting industries and verticals.

Ms. Callahan is a Dean's List alumna of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and City Honors here at home. She has served on the UVA Alumni Board and was awarded by Innovate NY. Ms. Callahan has several features in the Press, as Keynote Speaker, and Guest Panelist engagements where she speaks to a number of audiences about her professional highlights over the years. In the community, she is very proud of the leading edge work she's done as an Urban League and United Way volunteer.

Frank Codella, is a founding member of Medical Acoustics. He serves as Chief Executive Officer, in addition to his duties as a Director of the Company. Previously, Mr. Codella served as Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Synacor, Inc. (“Synacor”) from November 2001 to April 2010. As a member of Synacor’s founding executive team, Mr. Codella played a key role growing the business from startup phase to a mature enterprise with annual sales exceeding $100MM (IPO, SYNC). Mr. Codella is also a Co-Founder of MedRecovery Management LLC (“MRM”), where he developed the company from a concept to a thriving enterprise. MRM was acquired by HMS, a public company (HMSY).

He has over 20 years of experience in the information technology and telecommunications industries having held numerous sales, marketing, and senior management positions, including Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Global Crossing Ltd, President and Chief Executive Officer at Integrated Personnel & Systems Solutions, Inc, Sales Director at Lucent Technologies Inc, and various positions in the Global Enterprise Division at AT&T. Mr. Codella holds a BS in Economics and Political Science from the State University of New York, College at Brockport and a MBA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Mr. Codella also earned an advanced certificate from The Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Al has a 40+-year business career in leadership and management roles in both the private and public sectors providing financial services and economic development assistance to companies of all sizes and industry types. In response to the specific needs of the Upstate entrepreneurial community, and in addition to his overall management of Erie County Industrial Development Agency’s economic development operations and programs, he co-founded Launch NY and conceived and ran the ECIDA’s Niagara Region Ventures Fund which has invested to date over $9 Million in 34 start-up and early-stage companies and experienced a cash-on-cash return in excess of $13 Million. In recognition of his leadership in economic development, he was named 2011 Economic Developer of the Year by the New York State Economic Development Council. Al worked as a senior loan officer/manager for M&T Bank and Chase Lincoln First Bank (now part of JP Morgan Chase) managing lending teams and providing financial, mentoring and other business services to a broad range of commercial accounts in and beyond Western New York. He was COO/CFO of a wholesale flexographic printing supply company and of a tire distribution company responsible for accounting, banking and finance, HR and insurance, operations, and branch management and customer service. Al holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics from Fordham University and an MBA from Canisius College. His board service has included director and Chair of Junior Achievement of WNY, director and Vice Chair of NYS Economic Development Council, Treasurer of Western Region Corporation and director of Empire State Certified Development Corporation and the Workforce Development Corporation.

Don De Laria’s career has spanned a number of industries with a variety of companies both big and small. After investment banking, syndicate, and institutional equity sales, he founded Deephaven Financial Group, where he led investor relations efforts for numerous companies. He later moved into the movie business with Regal Entertainment Group, to a stock loyalty startup, Loyal 3 and to Zep, Inc., a specialty chemical company. More recently, Mr. De Laria has led business development efforts for a specialty chemical distributor and two companies engaged in the field of artificial intelligence.

Mr. De Laria enjoys giving back by mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs through local incubators and accelerators. He mentored at the ATDC in Atlanta, the oldest incubator in the U.S., and has served as a mentor for Launch NY for 5 years in Buffalo. He's also a member of the Western New York Venture Association and Buffalo Angels. He's especially skilled at the LEAN startup method and facilitating and implementing LEAN processes to drive enhanced efficiency. His experience encompasses everything from founding startup’s to business development and enterprise sales for early stage companies to participating on the senior management team (with emphasis on investor relations and communications) for $1B+ public companies.

Rich Delmerico has over 30 years of experience as a top performing technology and business professional, with extensive and successful leadership expertise from startup to Fortune 100 companies in global product and systems development, commercialization, operations, and manufacturing across consumer, commercial, medical, printing, energy storage, and materials products. Mr. Delmerico most recently led an early stage high technology Cornell based materials startup (NOHMs Technologies Inc.) from seed to VC monies while robustly developing and maturing the technology. He also is an Adjunct at the Rochester Institute of Technology’ s Simone Center for Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Rochester’s Simon School startup coach and currently on-boarding as a NYSERDA Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Prior to NOHMs, Mr. Delmerico was a corporate executive at Kodak, including the R&D Director for the $1B revenue Traditional Consumer Businesses, driving innovation to market his entire career. Mr. Delmerico has a MS degree from Clarkson University in Manufacturing Systems and BS degrees from SUNY Buffalo in both Electrical and Industrial Engineering.

With more than 35 years of experience, Holly Hillberg has extensive experience in global business leadership at companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Carestream Health, and Eastman Kodak. She has held a broad range of leadership positions which have included technology development, manufacturing, marketing, business management, operations, global strategy, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer. Her career has been centered around successfully delivering new innovative products to market across the medical devices, and commercial and consumer business spaces. Of special note is Ms. Hillberg’s experience in leading not one, but two successful multi-billion dollar divestitures, then building the infrastructure to support growth and success for the new stand-alone companies.

Ms. Hillberg is currently the president of Hillberg Consulting. She has successfully advised diverse, innovative businesses, large and small. Ms. Hillberg holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Technological University as well as a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology. Additionally, she is a graduate of the Northwestern University’s Executive Development Program and from University of Michigan Management and Manufacturing Executive Program.

Anthony J.M. Jones is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Flextime Nurses and the CEO of TasselDreamers, Inc.. He is an accomplished attorney, serial-entrepreneur and community activist. Mr. Jones brings industry experience in entertainment, media, sports, e-sports, technology, healthcare, fashion, fintech and commodities. As an attorney, Mr. Jones focused his practice on the transactional aspects of entertainment and media law, film production law, sports law, fashion law and advising mid-stage companies and start-up ventures. Mr. Jones' clients have sold a combined 100 million units worldwide, have won Grammys, have been nominated for Academy Awards, won Olympic Gold Medals, NBA, NFL and MLB championships.

As an advisor, Mr. Jones has worked with entrepreneurs and start ups of all types, including: film production and distribution companies, e-sports developers, software developers, magazine and newspaper publishers, recording artists, professional athletes, oil and gas exploration companies and merchandising and retail industries. He has been instrumental in leading capital raising campaigns by drafting and negotiating Private Placement Memorandums for start-ups, drafting convertible debt note arrangements, restructured operation agreements, corporate buyouts, capital contribution agreements and catalog acquisitions.

As a former high school and college basketball star in WNY, Mr. Jones' interest in entertainment and sports peaked as a student-athlete helping his former teammates navigate through the international professional sports landscape as well as helping music acts through a management company he founded. While still a student in WNY, he was successful in launching an independent record label and procuring a international distribution deal with Sony.
Mr. Jones is graduate of Daemen College and University at Buffalo Law School. He has served as a Adjunct law professor at UB and, although he resides primarily in Georgia, continues to support Upstate entrepreneurs.

Siva Kakuturi is CEO of CK Consulting Services and a successful entrepreneur having started, grown and exited multiple businesses in the U.S. and India. Siva’s overall business and technical management experience spans a number of countries and cultures with 25+ years experience in Healthcare, Technology, Finance, Manufacturing, and Government Service industries. He also has extensive government business expertise in program policy, compliance, process reengineering and implementation of large state-wide automated systems with in-depth experience in Education and Health & Human Service programs. Siva has a Master’s degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY.

Stephen Leous has over 25 years’ experience in a variety of industries and functional expertise in strategic marketing, finance, and corporate development. Currently a strategic growth consultant, he previously worked at e-commerce pioneer VerticalNet, the world’s largest operator of online industry marketplaces. He launched and managed seven of them and also worked in corporate development.

Mr. Leous was a Senior Marketing Manager with Rich Products, a $2.5B dollar frozen food manufacturer, where he ran a $150MM product group - the largest in the company. He also has extensive experience in international initiatives and with new product, market, concept, franchise, and business development work. Mr. Leous is very seasoned working with cross-functional teams and on a project- basis across a variety of disciplines, including market research, creative and brand development, digital strategy, strategic marketing plans, business, and corporate development planning and organizational structure. He has worked with startups to multi-billion dollar, public companies and everything in between, and has a BA from Williams College and an MBA from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg School of Management.

Mike McCourt brings over 20 years of sales & business development experience along with 15 plus years of engineering work. In his latest role as President of McCourt Associates, LLC he works with NYSERDA and Launch NY as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence and has been a member of the teaching team for NEXUS-NY, a cleantech proof-of-concept center for the past five years. He advises many clean energy startup companies in NY State. Additionally, he provides go-to-market consulting to high tech firms nationwide. Prior to forming McCourt Associates, he led Nokia’s solutions sales and partner development efforts in North America. In this role he worked closely with third party software developers and consumer electronics companies to create and introduce new location-based products to the market. Prior to joining Nokia, he served as VP Wireless Business Development at InfoSpace, Inc. Mr. McCourt generated over $10MM in annual revenue by generating new business with many of the mobile operators in the emerging wireless data market.

Previously, he successfully brought Microlytics Inc. through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization through sale of assets to Metro One Telecommunications and a reverse merger of Microlytics’ public shell with a private company providing a positive workout to both shareholders & creditors. He sought and received $2MM in funding to establish and lead Metro One Telecommunication’s Database Division. Before Metro One Mr. McCourt held management and engineering roles in several technology startups. He holds an MBA from the Simon Graduate School of Business and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Washington University.

Beth Mielbrecht is an energy and sustainability expert who leverages over 25 years in clean energy technologies. She brings technical expertise and unconventional perspective to solving sustainability issues through carbon emissions reduction and clean energy solutions. She applies a forward-thinking approach while leading the worldwide ESG Advisory services for Intertek. Beth’s expertise in sustainable engineering is built on a foundation of hands-on high-tech manufacturing, and field research demonstrations of emerging clean energy technologies in the building and utilities sectors.

Elisa Miller-Out is an experienced tech entrepreneur, investor, board director and community builder. She’s currently managing partner of Chloe Capital, a seed stage venture capital investment fund focused on women-led tech companies. She’s also co-founder of PollQ, a chatbot polling tool for higher ed and serves on the board of Women 2.0, the leading media brand for women in tech. She recently had a successful acquisition deal with a division of Singlebrook, a custom software services firm that she co-founded and led as CEO for over 10 years. She is now chair of the board and CFO at Singlebrook. Singlebrook has Fortune 500, higher education and nonprofit clients from all over the world including: Cornell, Yale, Henry Schein, Hitachi, the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund and more. Ms. Miller-Out has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, Forbes and other publications, and she speaks about technology and entrepreneurship at events across the country. Prior to founding Singlebrook, Ms. Miller-Out founded two other companies and worked in a variety of industries in New York City. She has also founded several networking groups and regularly serves as a mentor and judge for startup accelerators and competitions. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Barnard College of Columbia University.

Steve Nicosia is a senior executive with over 27 years of experience in sales management, marketing, strategy, strategic alliances, acquisitions, launching new products/markets, and P&L responsibility. He currently advises/consults with startup software companies and small businesses on starting, growing, and exiting their businesses. Mr. Nicosia spent 16 years in various senior executive roles at Emphasys software, a division of Constellation Software Inc., Canada's largest software company. While at Emphasys, Mr. Nicosia entered new markets, participated in two acquisitions, increased EBITA, managed remote development teams across several states and countries, signed several channel partnerships, launched new software products, and created client retention programs that reduced client attrition by over 50%.

Prior to joining Emphasys, Mr. Nicosia planned and executed an exit strategy for a privately held software company in which he was part owner. His work included obtaining a valuation, marketing the company to potential acquirers, evaluating and structuring the terms of the sale, tax planning, and conducting due diligence. Mr. Nicosia is a graduate of St. John Fisher College and he received his CPA from the state of Delaware.

Deborah O’Shea is a seasoned business attorney and trial lawyer as well as an experienced serial entrepreneur. She is well-versed in business development, including international business, having co-founded a transatlantic initiative that connected business, investart–upand technology opportunities between the NAFTA and European Union economic markets, particularly focused upon New York State and Ireland Ms. O’Shea provides legal and business development counsel, including to startup and early-stage companies and enjoys seeing them reach a level of sustained growth and profitability. Prior to her focus on entrepreneurial activities, she was a trial lawyer for 13+ years handling complex litigation matters including medical matters and product liability. She is an alumnus of the University of Buffalo and also studied at McGill University, Montreal. Ms. O’Shea has had numerous leadership positions and board positions primarily with non-profit/government organizations focused on business or economic development and is pleased to have been recently appointed to the Boards of SmartMPower, MPowerUSA and the Charleville Castle Heritage Trust in Ireland. She also serves on the Governance and STEAM committees of the Willie Hutch Jones Education and Sports Program (under Tre Inc.). She is a member of the Buffalo Canoe Club where she was a Director and Entertainment Chair for 6 years.

Steve Raines is a serial entrepreneur who brings experience in SaaS, professional services and SaaS to emerging entrepreneurs. A self-trained software architect and developer, Steve is the co-founder of several companies including Algonquin Studios, Field Nimble, and Pointman (acquired by Service Titan.)

Driven by the principle to “just start helping,” Steve advises and invests his time, energy, and dollars in companies with passionate founders who can benefit from his experience in entrepreneurship, customer discovery, requirements analysis, and software product development. He’s passionate about putting the right people in the right seats and giving teams the tools to make something beautiful, meaningful, and wildly successful.

A graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo, Steve is a co-founder of Algonquin Sports for Kids, a not-for-profit providing consistent and safe places for young people to engage in sports and literacy programs. Steve has been active in the Western New York technology community since 1998, serving on the board of Infotech Niagara, as the host/organizer for community startup-events events at VCAMP, and through the University at Buffalo Student Shadow program.

Ken Rother is a visiting lecturer at the Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management where is teaches several entrepreneurship courses including Designing New Ventures, Entrepreneurship of Physical Products, Product Management, and is also Managing Director of Cornell’s eLab student accelerator program. At Cornell Ken also instructs and coaches in several technology commercialization programs and is an NSF I-Corps Team program instructor. Ken is also Director of Rev: Ithaca Startup Works as well as its Hardware Entrepreneurship programs; Napkin to Prototype, Prototype to Production, and Cleantech Hardware ScaleUp. He is a Venture Partner at Cayuga Venture Fund and on the investment committee of Launch NY. Previously Ken has held multiple senior technical and business positions for organizations such as Discovery Communications, Reuters, Matrox, and the Toronto Stock Exchange. He has direct startup experience having cofounded a software business in Toronto and joining an early stage online media business in New York, both of these startups concluded with successful exists. Most recently Ken was the Senior Vice President of Digital Media at Discovery.

John Seman is a Pharmaceutical Executive with a consistent track record of building teams, solving problems, adapting to changing markets, and establishing long term growth strategies.

Dave is a co-founder with 2 exits from 12 bootstrapped software-powered companies over 22 years with the same team. In 2020 his team sold Pointman, their latest SaaS venture, to ServiceTitan, the LA-based unicorn in the residential HVAC, plumbing, and electrical contractor industry. The story begins in 1998 with the founding of Algonquin Studios, a 50+ consultant custom software development firm that today would be framed as a startup studio. Algonquin concentrated on clients in healthcare delivery and payment, legal marketing, financial services, manufacturing, and non-profit/government. Dave was an engineering leader, consultant, and marketer.

From 2006-13 the team turned around Big Bear, a top-5 apparel decorator, 8,000 SKU fulfillment house, and e- commerce platform with 80 staff serving national brands. Dave acted as Chief Operating Officer. In 2014-16, the team started VCAMP, an accelerator and $5M early stage fund to validate the value of health IT startups with the Upstate NY healthcare system. Dave participated as a Managing Director of the General Partner. When the team chose to focus on just one startup in a venture-ready model, they launched new products within Pointman from 2016-20. Dave led Product Management, Strategic Partnerships, and Learning and Development. In parallel, Dave has taught Lean Startup principles to 500+ founder-curious students in an experiential way with the University at Buffalo's Blackstone Launchpad.

Brad Treat is an instructor in Practical Entrepreneurship at Ithaca College and Cornell University. He has also served as the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Cornell University and Launch NY. Mr. Treat was most recently the Founding CEO of Mezmeriz, a high-tech company making interactive projectors and reality capture cameras to embed into mobile phones. Mezmeriz’s cutting edge technology was spun out of Materials Science and MEMS research at Cornell University. Mr. Treat was also the co-founder and CEO of SightSpeed, an innovative video and voice communications company. SightSpeed grew from a university research project at Cornell into the world’s premier video calling software. SightSpeed was profitably acquired by Logitech for $30MM. Earlier in his career, Mr. Treat worked for eight years in the automotive industry in both the US and Spain at Bowles Fluidics and GKN Automotive. Mr. Treat holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State and an MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell.

Evin is the CEO and Founder of Belouga, a social learning platform making education impactful, accessible and equitable for the youth of the world through interactive digital content, aimed at providing a global perspective while aligning to everyday school subject areas and student interests. He has 17+ years of overseeing businesses focused on education, social impact and innovation within the Gen-Y and Gen-Z demographic. Evin has created and implemented educational programs and cross-cultural initiatives in all 50 states in the US at the K–12 and university levels, along with consultancy work on six continents. In 2019, he was recognized as one of the Meaningful Business 100, an award honoring global leaders who are introducing new ways of thinking and acting to address the world’s biggest challenges: climate change, pollution, hunger, poverty, education, and health.

A 15 year digital advertising expert who contributed to growth of the enterprise platforms at Discovery Channel, Comcast, and A+E Networks via their product management and operations business units. I love the startup ecosystem, and used my digital advertising background to advise a tv media-tech startup on its digital advertising and content distribution strategy, and subsequently brokered a partnership between this startup and what was formerly Verizon Media). I believe that the more founders who gain access to the right education, mentors and investors, the greater the startup ecosystem will become. To that end, I'm so excited to serve as a member of FounderTribes, where I lead investor relations and business development. My experience as a venture angel investor with a proven ability to deal source, invest in and work with startups across several verticals (consumer, fintech, blockchain) for a multi-stage investment fund. I worked with early VC investors in Twitter, Facebook, Uber and Beyond Meat. Columbia MBA.

Founding Member at Fresh Batch Insights and owner of Avery & Harlow. Passionate about data-informed and inspired branding, marketing, and product development.

Holistic marketer with 15 years of experience in the planning, execution, and optimization of go-to-market and multi-channel organic & paid marketing. Bringing a comprehensive test & learn approach to growth across product innovation, product optimization (product led growth), user acquisition, and retention to determine the best strategies for sustainable revenue growth.