Austin, Texas, United States
I am passionate about combining innovative products, technologies and business models to create highly successful companies. I was a co-founder at LinkedIn. I worked with a talented team to enable professionals to connect in fundamentally better ways with each other online. (Since you're on this site, you know the rest!) I am an experienced entrepreneur who has seen a lot about what succeeds and what doesn't, and cares a lot about building great companies. There are a lot of important ingredients. You can ask me what they are if you're curious.
KarmaCheck has reimagined background checks with a technology first, AI-driven approach that provides the fastest background check for employment needs. Employers and employees benefit from real-time, actionable notifications, so hiring decisions come sooner. Our mobile-first background check platform is easy to access, reliable, and compliant.
Hub is a blockchain protocol that will create greater trust in online interactions. Hub was a project under Presdo.
Presdo provides an event app platform that facilitates attendee networking while providing a full digital event guide.
As a co-founder and founding CTO of LinkedIn, I helped launch LinkedIn and contributed to its overall strategic direction at the executive team level. On the product side, I architected and implemented several core components of the service, including its networking and search algorithms and features. I built LinkedIn's desktop products team, and as Vice President of Desktop, I led the team to create all of LinkedIn's desktop integrations, including LinkedIn's Outlook, Firefox, IE, and JobsInsider products.
I founded a company to build a server platform for the delivery of personalized content and wireless services. We did business mostly in Japan, with some of the large companies in the wireless space, including Toshiba, KDDI and NTT DoCoMo.