Arta Finance (formerly Arbo Works)

Joined Arta Finance via the acquisition of Money Minx to be part of the founding product team.

Founding Team | Product

Startup Beach

Hosting startup events in San Diego and enabling event hosts to use a matchmaking algorithm to make sure they attendees always come out with at least two new business connections.

Founder

Techstars

Mentor

GPT Hacks

GPT Hacks is my weekly newsletter, where I share tips, resources, and deep dives on how to leverage AI to grow and streamline your business. Over 9,400 startup founders and entrepreneurs get my AI tips, join them 👉 https://www.gpthacks.com/subscribe.

Money Minx

Founded Money Minx to help investors track all of their Investments, Alts, Crypto, and more in one place. Exited to Arta Finance

eCapital Corp.

eCapital is an industry leader in the freight factoring space. We service and help keep thousands of truckings companies stay on the road moving freight that makes our every day lives possible. 
As CIO and Head of Strategic Initiatives I am responsible for all things IT and Technology used by our employees, customers and partners.

CIO and Head of Strategic Initiatives

My team delivers the simplest factoring experience to the transportation industry, from owner operators to large fleets. We do this through the technology and products we build combined with customer-focused service.

Chief Experience Officer (CXO)

Responsible for the product and technology vision, roadmap and development of the company.

VP Product & Technology / CTO

appsplit

- Founded AppSplit: Positioned as one of the earliest crowdfunding platforms, timed to take advantage of the beginnings of the AppStore and Google Play.

- Innovative Mechanism: Created a network for developers to offer discounts, ownership, and rewards to investors interested in app ownership.

- Media Coverage: Featured in leading tech and fintech publications like TechCrunch and The Next Web.

- Successful Exit: Led the company to a successful acquisition by an investment group.

DiamPrice

- Launched DiamPrice: Developed the industry's first mobile app dedicated to the evaluation of loose diamonds, as well as gold, silver, and platinum jewelry.
- Target Audience: Primarily designed for industry professionals seeking accurate, real-time appraisals.
- Market Disruption: Introduced a first-of-its-kind tool that revolutionized the traditional appraisal process, offering a digital solution in a predominantly manual industry.
- Successful Exit: Sold the business to a private equity group.

OneRoof Energy, Inc.

LPL Financial

Managed team of project managers, established project management best practices and lead delivery of large projects.

Assistant Vice President Program Management

Developed test strategies and lead teams of QA engineers on projects.

Lead QA Engineer

Developed requirements and research for products.

Senior Product Analyst

Stuff I am currently focused on:

#1 Bring new financial advisory products to market at Arta Finance. 

#2 Build a startup ecosystem in San Diego via Startup Beach and mentoring for TechStars San Diego & Anywhere. 

#3 Help others with AI via GPT Hacks. 

#4 Help my youngest develop his soccer skills, my second work on her basketball game and my oldest shine like his sax.

#5 Spend more time with my awesome wife doing fun things in San Diego and around the world.

Hussein Yahfoufi

Stoked for two things... and a bonus!

First, my good friend Ryan Berman packed out Barnes & Noble, Inc. last night and sold out his new book Headamentals.

Second, this was the first book signing hosted on Eventship. Excited to see more authors, creators, and communities using the platform for events like this.

And on a personal note, my amazing wife Jessica Yahfoufi is getting close to releasing her new novel. Stay tuned for that launch party! 💃

Founder, Eventship • Helping event hosts grow everywhere • Host of San Diego’s Startup Mixer

What do you get when you have 200 incredible founders, investors and people working hard to help us all grow at the same place and at the same time?

Great connections, business deals, investments, new jobs and a great ol' time. Especially when you also add in our authentic tacos made by hand on site courtesy of Isaac Pollock, CFP® and Robert Goodyear.

See you there!

Emily Kramer's ecosystem strategy in today's Lenny's Newsletter is brilliant, but I have a different take on one point which is worth unpacking.


You don't get tired of events the same way you do as flooded email inboxes if the events are done right. The problem isn’t too many events, it’s too many of the wrong ones.

With over one thousand events behind me, I can tell you what makes a great event and how events are actually a growth node in your ecosystem flywheel not something people get tired from.

1. Events have to be from trusted hosts (think innovation hubs, accelerators, community leaders, founders, etc).

2. The right people have to be at the event, the attendee list must be curated and focused on the right groups for that event.

3. Sponsors of the event must be true ecosystem partners, not just logos on a wall. e.g. Isaac Pollock, CFP® is the taco guy for my mixer, not just our banker. He is part of the community and cares about it.

4. The event must be designed for connection, not attendance. This is what Neal Bloom🎩, Jonah Peake 🐺 and I talked about in our LinkedIn Live last week. It's also the reason why Eventship invests heavily in our matchmaking AI.

When you get those right, events aren’t fatiguing or tiring. They’re energizing. They are the ecosystem.

When you attend the right event, meet the right person, and the right sponsor supports it, that event becomes a node that strengthens the whole network.

Hussein Yahfoufi’s North County Startup Mixer — every month keeps getting better and better. 😎

Thank you to this month’s sponsors!!!
Isaac Pollock, CFP® 
Kimberly Drozdoff 
Emily D. 
Tyler Hastings 

See you next month 😎

Opus Duo

Building a scalable, fair and equitable HRIS stack using cloud, ranking and matching algorithms, AI-driven workflows and gamification.

Head of Product

UC San Diego

- Support establishment of policies and key strategic objectives.
- Mentorship of engineering students at UCSD and support recruitment of students into local industry.

Executive Board Member (CAP)

ITS (UK) - Intelligent Transport Systems

Member, Board of Directors

Lead the Secretariat and Ambassador of ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) to enhance the reputation and profile of ITS (UK) internationally to build networks, influence policy, support international cooperation on ITS and to create opportunities for the association.

Facilitated and hosted multiple international delegations, signed memorandums of understanding with global institutions and helped achieve year on year growth of the institute inside and outside of the UK.

International Director

Cubic Corporation

Lead international strategy, growth and program management across defense and commercial sectors for C2ISR, law enforcement and emergency services capabilities.

SaaS and e-commerce for commercial product lines. GTM for new product launches and P&L oversight.

Director, International Programs & Commercial Products

Building and driving strategic innovation capability and oversee diverse R&D portfolio of $55M+ (up from $43M in 2020) across transportation, defense training and secure communications, including SaaS platforms, AI/ML, cloud computing, simulation, mobile, payments and more, leading to revenues of $400M and customer co-development of $190M in 2021.

Management responsibilities:
- end-end innovation process and increased external partnerships with startups, universities and SMEs
global innovation team, innovation center, and mentorship
- R&D portfolio and financial progress measures
- investment reviews and linking innovation activities to business strategy

Director of Innovation

Supported President of Cubic Transportation Systems with 5 year business plan and strategy towards largest backlog in company history (>$3B) - relocated to San Diego for 3 months as part of assignment.

Responsible for delivering impactful innovation to the public transport industry specifically focused on mobile payments, user experience, accessibility, mobility-as-a-service, passenger flow management and security, creating IP and publications.

Lead project on future ticketing and gatelines with UK pilot in 2018, with successful funding from UK government entity and defense training projects around instrumentation and tracking.

Published paper on scaling biometric systems that has also been presented at a number of events globally (Paper DOI: 10.2495/TDI-V2-N2-166-175).

Senior Research and Development Engineer

- Lead innovation projects in the transportation and defense sectors
- Lead diverse teams ranging from software and hardware engineers to industrial designers and human behavioral psychologists
- Supported ~£1.5 million in funding from government (DfT)
- Accomplishments: CEO award, Innovator of the Year, 8 filed patents

Research and Development Engineer

Google

- Optimized digital growth strategies for SMB's in the Nordic region.
- Consistently drove innovation to benefit internal and external customers. Examples include creating a more efficient scheduling management tool and simplifying the billing process for Google Ads (globally), with the latter resulting in efficiency gains and clarity for customers and ultimately, less cases for Google to handle, directly impacting the bottom line. Consequently won award. 
- Supported project related to mechanics and optics (thermal dissipation) for the self-driving car.

Global Customer Experience Account Strategist

SPI Lasers

- Project management deploying new manufacturing line for laser products.
- Transformation of R&D concepts and processes into high volume manufacturing.
- NPI and cost reduction activities, savings >£1M realized from automation.
- Thermal management on optical layer through material science, testing, and creating mathematical models of degradation.
- Transferred internal repair processes for simplicity and cost reduction. Created working documents (including videos) and trained engineers and technicians to follow the processes.
- Key project: Thermo-Optical Characteristion of 1kW Capable CW Fibre Lasers

Manufacturing Project Lead

- Value-stream mapping to reduce cycle times, balance process and increase output capacity.
- Process improvement projects alongside operators.
- Procurement activities (cost reduction activities on components). 
- Robotics (fluid dispensing SCARA programmed and installed).
- Silicone development (reduced in-house processing)

Process Engineer

University of Portsmouth

Directed overall strategy, financial planning, daily operations, orchestrated staff recruitment, resulting in a notable accomplishment of surpassing 160 members and securing a record promotion to the 1st division, whilst achieving positive cash flow.

President

Financial planning, daily operations and strategy.

Vice President

Apollo Fire Detectors

Lead lean initiatives and NPI. Introduced automation to production and improved capacity management and implemented and lead cost reduction initiatives through supply chains and process improvements.

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