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Led Global Samsung eCommerce product, growing it from $50M to $1B (20x in 5 years). Built Groupon Goods platform. Launched V1 of Windows Azure and Office365
Founder and General Partner of Conexo Ventures. Co-founder of Loop Pay, acquired by Samsung and became Samsung Pay. Former PayPal, Nokia and Gemalto BD exec. Successful fintech investor/mentor (Mobeewave sold to Apple, Roam to Ingenico)
10+ years experience building partnership GTM strategies with some of the largest SI’s & Agencies. Former VP of Agency Alliances at FAST. Prior, Agency Alliances for NA and LATAM at Salesforce via Demandware acquisition where he was Head of Partnerships for North America.
25 years of launching and scaling businesses at the intersection of media and commerce. Revenue leadership roles in both venture backed start-ups (WHERE Inc. - acquired by PayPal; Drizly - acquired by Uber) and global billion dollar e-commerce / media companies (PayPal, eBay, News Corp, VICE Media, Time Inc.)
Chief technical architect for Samsung global eCommerce and managed 20+ countries. Chief architect at Xome, 4C Insights, Global Scholar (ed-tech startup, acq by Scantron), Lead engineer at Drugstore.com
Sr Director of Architecture at Samsung, responsible for performance and reliability on 20+ countries. Lead engineer in Samsung Brazil, developing globally used Android solutions. Key engineer in digital circuit design reference for the Physical Layer of first Brazilian long-range LTE at CPqD