OpenEd.co

( )pening the world of education for every learner. OpenEd is the home of the OpenEd Daily, the OpenEd Podcast, and our programs serve 12,000+ students with our open education model aimed at transforming millions of lives across the United States. We help families and schools help their students reach new heights with their individualized needs.

Partner & Chief Operating Officer

Liberty Ventures

Investor, Limited Partner & Advisor

Reveal

Reveal and Crossbeam merged June 24, 2024 in the biggest news in partner tech history!

Chief Partner & Ecosystem Officer (merged with Crossbeam)

nearbound.com

Formally PartnerHacker (acquired by Reveal, 2023), Nearbound.com is the media company covering the news, stories, tactics and experiences of the Nearbound Era. 

Nearbound makes the world go ‘round.

Co-Founder & CEO (acquired by Reveal)

Nearbound Podcast

The number 1 podcast in the Nearbound Era - The Nearbound Podcast

Producer & Co-Host

Cloud Software Association

Member, Board of Directors

Pillar

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

University of South Florida Muma College of Business

Member of The Board of Advisors, Guest Lecturer

Curu

Drift

A LinkedIn Top 50 Startup for 4 years in a row, Drift is one of the fastest growing B2B SaaS companies, ever. 

As Drift's first ecosystem executive, I was responsible for creating and scaling the Drift Ecosystem through global channel, strategic alliances, technology partnerships, and integration of Drift's GTM engine. Built Drift/Adobe Alliance from zero to Adobe Partner of The Year. 

Creator of the Conversational Marketing Blueprint - the underlying methodology used to certify thousands of marketers on Conversational Marketing.

Creator of Conversational ABM - launched at Adobe Summit during the Keynote to an audience of 19,000+ people as the only non-Adobe company present on the main stage.

Founded Drift's Tampa Bay office, our fastest growing regional location. Sourced and hired recruiting leadership, customer support leadership, and sales development leadership that now supports over 50 employees and growing rapidly in the region.

Sr. Director, Global Partnerships (acquired by Vista Equity Partners)

Passion is the primary ingredient to my being. About me 👇

I forge movements behind undeniable shifts in the world.

I remodel companies from participants to change agents. 

I build teams who's careers are transformed by the audacity of an unshakable vision & intense pace.

Back-to-back unicorns (PandaDoc, Drift). Board experiences in capacity as an executive, founder, small investor, and advisor (and plenty of lessons from my failed startups too, of course). 

Co-Founder of PartnerHacker (acq 2023), Co-Founder of Nearbound.com, Chief Ecosystem Officer at Reveal, and currently leading the nearbound industry in the best ecosystem in B2B - the partnerships ecosystem.

Always willing to help those who ask. I've taken hundreds of calls with first time entrepreneurs, revenue leaders, and partnership professionals. Help first, good follows. 

Play long term games with long term people 🤝

Jared Fuller

Angela Castillo Llinas

OneSignal

Senior product manager - AI,  User data, monetization 

Vector

Advisor and Investor

HelloGuru (YC W22)

HelloGuru is an innovative No Code AI tool designed to empower users to enhance their data management and automate processes without the need for coding expertise. 
- Successfully raised 1.5M USD in capital from renowned venture capital funds, including prestigious names such as Y Combinator, MIT The Engine, and Forum Ventures. 
- As a leader, I spearheaded a team of over 30 engineers, driving them towards the successful launch of HelloGuru's cutting-edge No Code tool. 
- Following the launch, HelloGuru achieved impressive growth, securing 30k USD in monthly recurring revenue (MRR) within a span of fewer than six months.
- Created a community of over 5000 No coders.

Co-Founder and COO

Drift, a Salesloft company

Accomplished Chief of Staff with a proven track record in successfully leading and managing the Senior Leadership and Executive Leadership teams of a fast-paced and innovative tech company.
- Led the Senior Leadership and Executive Leadership teams in highly productive and impactful meetings, driving decision-making processes, facilitating discussions, and ensuring alignment on critical initiatives and objectives.
- Orchestrated the successful planning and execution of the company's kickoff events, bringing together all 300 employees to align on strategic goals, foster team collaboration, and ignite motivation for the year ahead.
- In a deputy product manager capacity, played a pivotal role in orchestrating the successful launch of the Drift Desktop and mobile apps and implementing AI, overseeing development, leading a team of engineers, and actively gathering and incorporating valuable customer feedback.
- Spearheaded strategic initiatives and provided invaluable guidance to the executive team, resulting in significant revenue growth, increased market share, and enhanced operational efficiency.
-Strategically orchestrated and launched the highly impactful American Dream Webinar #1 at Drift, curating guest invitations, crafting the script, and amplifying the company's brand while providing invaluable information to empower underrepresented minorities.
- Launched the Drift Tampa Office.

Chief Of Staff to CEO 

Anheuser-Busch InBev

- Responsible for the development of  AI technologies used to increase Marketing's efficiency and effectiveness.
- Collaborated with Linkedin to create a Natural Language Processing  product increasing ABinBEV's social media engagement by 240%.
- Automated the social media content creation reducing the production time from 6 hours to 6 minutes.

Product Manager AI (NLP and ML) 

Johnson & Johnson

-Proposed a plan to re build the E-commerce pipeline startup acquisitions and collaborations. 
- Assessed upcoming technologies used in the market to inform the companies strategy.

MBA Project - Acquisitions strategy 

Teeez Cosmetics

-Spearheaded the product development of groundbreaking VR technology enabling users to apply virtual makeup on screens, revolutionizing the beauty industry for both mobile devices and in-store experiences.
-Successfully led the workstream with agencies for the launch of Teeez cosmetics in Spain, orchestrating impactful public relations events and strategic partnerships that contributed to the brand's remarkable market penetration.
-Played a pivotal role in negotiating and securing commercial partnerships with influential retailers El Corte Inglés and Druni, driving the widespread commercialization and success of the brand throughout Spain.

Product Manager VR

Unilever

•	Leading Knorr Instant soup new launch for Europe (17 countries). The objective was to generate growth and reduce complexity with the optimization and harmonization of the portfolio
•	Managing Instant soup white space strategic launch for France and Spain focused on adding incremental turnover to the business
•	Directing Instant soup new product development concentrated on penetration and new trade channels 
•	Supervising digital campaigns: defining the strategy, briefing, planning as well as supporting the implementation across countries.
•      Creating and leading digital capaign for Instant soups in Europe

Associate Brand Manager Savoury Snacking

•	Established project management infrastructure and driving initiatives to ensure deliverables are met 
•	Led work streams with external agencies (5+) to build name and packaging for product disruptive innovation
•	Worked with consumer management insights to build a powerful claim for oral care product innovation
•	Conduct market analysis for NAMET oral care market (data analysis on market share, brand role and others)
•	Supervised the budget allocation and expense management 675K.

Global Brand Development - Oral care

Danone (Headquarters)

•	Created and drove internal communication strategies, action plans and resourceful tools that promote employee engagement and company culture adoption
•	Led production of videos to promote HR initiatives
•	Collaborated with external agencies in the development of social media strategies,  digital recruitment campaigns and its implementation across platforms
•	Developed new trainings and events 
•	Managed and engaged internal stakeholders for the promotion and support of employer branding activities.

Corporate Communications

Las Provincias, Newspaper with the highest reach in the region

•Developed online marketing campaigns including social media and paid search to increase client awareness  and sales 
•Executed digital marketing results measurement using social media metrics and Google analytics.
•Negotiated prices of products and services with external partners
•Supported direct marketing and remarketing actions including Email, letters and Sms
• Created the copywriting for all the offers at Oferplan.com

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