New York City Metropolitan Area
Executive with a passion for leadership and innovation at the intersection of content, technology and emerging business models. Specific experience includes: • Growth-oriented CEO / P&L leader with consumer-led product development focus • Strategy, operations and deal skills including orchestrating successful new market launch, acquisition of a public company and sale of previously led private company • Global executive with operational experience across the US, UK, Europe, Asia (India & China) and Australia/NZ • Particular interest in technology-led innovation and leading digital strategy and operations • Track record recruiting, developing and motivating high performance teams and driving transformation • Results-orientation to identify key outcomes and deliver superior financial performance under any scenario • Advisor to technology, ecommerce and digital content companies at various stages of growth
Tripadvisor Group (Nasdaq: TRIP) operates a portfolio of brands and businesses that connect people to experiences worth sharing, and aims to be the world's most trusted source for travel and experiences. We leverage our brands, technology, and capabilities to connect our global audience with partners through rich content, travel guidance, and two-sided marketplaces for experiences, accommodations, restaurants, and other travel categories. The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor Group include Tripadvisor, the world's largest travel guidance platform connecting hundreds of millions of travelers each month to more than 1 billion reviews and opinions of nearly 8 million businesses; Viator, the leading experiences marketplace with the world's largest supply of high quality online bookable inventory; TheFork, the leading restaurant booking platform in Europe; and Cruise Critic, the world's largest online cruise resource.
Burning Man is a network of people inspired by the values reflected in the Ten Principles and united in the pursuit of a more creative and connected existence in the world. Throughout the year we work to build Black Rock City, home of the largest annual Burning Man gathering, and nurture the distinctive culture emerging from that experience. The hub of this global network is the 501(c)(3) non-profit Burning Man Project, headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Lumina Foundation is an independent, private foundation committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with degrees, certificates and other high-quality credentials to 60 percent by 2025. Lumina’s outcomes-based approach focuses on helping to design and build an equitable, accessible, responsive and accountable higher education system while fostering a national sense of urgency for action to achieve Goal 2025. Based in Indianapolis, the Foundation employs roughly 55 staff members and has an endowment in excess of $1 billion. Lumina Foundation is the nation’s largest private foundation focused solely on increasing Americans’ success in higher education.
Anthropocene Ventures is a global, early-stage VC firm investing in founders that leverage exponential technologies & hard science to make humanity more resilient.
Lingoda is an online language school helping the world speak new languages with confidence. Founded in Berlin, Germany in 2013, we provide convenient and accessible online language courses in German, English, Business English, Spanish and French to over 80,000 students worldwide. Our private and small group classes are taught by over 1,000 qualified, native-speaking teachers. With over 450,000 classes available per year and accessible 24/7, our mission is to empower even the busiest people to master a language and unlock their potential — at any time, from anywhere.