Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
A self-taught software programmer, I have launched and led multiple cloud and e-commerce businesses since the age of 23. My first startup was Rapidata.net, a pharmaceutical market research company, where I served as CEO. While involved with Rapidata, I helped grow revenues by over 500% and laid the foundation for the company's acquisition by Greenfield Online. Subsequent to Rapidata.net, I co-founded and served as CEO for a web site development firm called novelProjects. I founded ShareFile in late 2005, bootstrapping the company from zero to four million users in six years. I joined Citrix in 2011, when Citrix acquired ShareFile. At Citrix, I was the CVP & GM of the Cloud Services Business Unit at Citrix, where I was responsible for the vision, market direction and strategy behind Citrix's cloud products, including ShareFile, ShareConnect, RightSignature, and Citrix Workspace Cloud. In 2017, I left Citrix to found Levitate, a marketing software company that helps small businesses keep in touch with their clients and prospects in a personal, authentic way...at scale. Levitate has over 7,000 customers and 250 employees as of 2025. I graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University with a degree in philosophy in 2000. I currently serve on the board of directors of Yext and Geenplaces and am a founding partner of Raleigh Founded, a co-working space in downtown Raleigh.
Lead investor and Board member
Founded in 2017 by ShareFile creator Jesse Lipson, Levitate was built with a passion for helping small and medium-sized businesses focus on what they do best: building relationships. Our pioneering approach to marketing—what we call “keep-in-touch” marketing—leverages personal, authentic communication strategies with the power of an AI-driven platform to keep your business top of mind all the time. Clients can use the platform to send top-performing email and social media post templates to their network, make AI-created content in seconds, use our built-in meeting booking, send Happiness Surveys to get a pulse on your clients, generate reviews, set up keep-in-touch tags for contacts, create automated drip campaigns, and more -- all with a dedicated Success Specialist by your side. For more information, visit www.levitate.ai.
I lead the Cloud Service Business Unit at Citrix, with responsibility for ShareFile, RightSignature, Citrix Workspace Cloud, and the Citrix Service Provider program.
I am responsible for Citrix Workspace Cloud and also the the Workflow Cloud, which consists of ShareFile, GoToMyPC, ShareConnect, QuickEdit, RightSignature, GoToAssist, and Podio.
I am responsible for the Documents Cloud group at Citrix, which consists of ShareFile, GoToMyPC, and QuickEdit.