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Talent Acquisition Consultant

Cloudery 

Invest in startups and provide them with advisory services around talent acquisition, recruitment training and strategy.

Cloudery's Recruiting Arm. 
https://www.cloudery.com

Partner

Saus

Boston's premier eatery for Belgian frites, liege waffles, beer and more. Located downtown, Saus has been the recipient of several gastro-accolades since opening its doors. Featured on Food Network's "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" with Guy Fieri.

http://www.sausboston.com
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Chulalongkorn University

Faculty of Psychology serving students from Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) and the University of Queensland (Australia). Topics covering current employment markets and how the digital transformation has changed today's approach toward career development, job-hunting and overall hiring. 

Chulalongkorn University has been consistently ranked as Thailand's #1 institute for higher education, by Times Higher Education QS Rankings. 

https://www.chula.ac.th/en/news/5888/

Guest Lecturer

Pantastic

Acquired Spently, CartHook, LimeSpot, and Refersion.

Lead talent acquisition efforts at this SaaS e-commerce startup. Recruited top talent globally for sales, marketing, design, engineering, product management, media buying, partnerships, and customer success teams. Hires made in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Ghana, Nigeria, Turkey, Philippines and Bulgaria.

Head of Recruitment

Bentley University

General Business 401 Course.

Topics covering modern recruiting methodology, pandemic effects on hiring, social recruitment and best practices in managing career change.

Kamcord

Acquired by Lyft.

I manage Kamcord's talent acquisition efforts in the United States, Japan and Korea.

Director of Recruiting

Mashery

Acquired by Intel.

Mashery is the world’s most powerful API management solution. Led the recruiting team of 4 members, focused on talent acquisition for Marketing, Sales, Product, Developer Outreach, Strategy Services, Customer Success, and Engineering teams worldwide. 170 hires completed to date.

Director of Talent Acquisition

Intel Corporation

Talent Acquisition

OpenView Venture Partners

Joined OpenView portfolio company (Mashery) in 2012.

Recruited sales, marketing, human resources and technical talent for the venture capital firm and its portfolio. Key hires made for expansion stage technology startups like Mashery, Intronis, Kareo, Balihoo, Monetate, Skytap, NextDocs, Zmags, Xtium, etc.

Talent Manager

15+ years chasing purple squirrels. They're out there 🐿️💜

Vic Mahillon

Managing Influencer Marketing Hub, the leading resource for Social Media Influencers, Influencer Marketing Platforms and Influencer Marketing Agency Case Studies.

General Manager, Influencer Marketing Hub

Building the next generation of ecommerce solutions to help independent brands thrive.

Senior Director, Product Management & Corporate Development 

Fjord

Helping clients identify, define and build new ventures.

Group Strategy Director, Ventures

McKinsey & Company

I was a leader in McKinsey Digital Labs - Design Studio. A team of 100+ seasoned Design professionals that partner with client teams across sectors to Imagine, Evolve, Explore and Invent experiences that create new value for clients and the customers they serve. I deliver client impact through a combination of  Human-Centered Design creativity and Management Consulting rigor. 

My two primary focus areas:
● NewCo Building – Counsel clients and lead teams to define and deliver new businesses that combine distinctive digital experiences, value propositions and business models.
● Digital Transformations – Helping clients develop new digital capabilities to reinvent their businesses and maintain industry leadership

Experience highlights 
● Grew Digital McKinsey design team from 20 UI/UX designers to a global team of 100+ Service and Experience Designers
● Serve clients across advanced industries, media, retail, telecoms and financial services
● Defined digital NewCo for global industrial client combining ethnographic research, competitive strategy analysis, business model innovation and customer co-creation. Presented final output to Board of Directors who approved initiative as a 2017 priority. 
● Served as virtual "Head of Design" for a digital attacker bank to execute concept design with client's preferred vendor and counsel client exec team on key experience design strategy issues. 
● Ran experience design program for an investment bank's first foray into online retail lending. Delivered a comprehensive experience design system, signature moments and design brief. Guided CEO and his management team through the design process and deliverables to show how they address their business objectives and enable a differentiated product experience.
● Shaping multi-year digital transformation for a B2B media company with an aim to break down silos between product, IT and editorial.

VP, Experience Design

Fjord, Design and Innovation from Accenture Interactive

Fjord is an international digital service design consultancy that helps clients leverage design to reimagine their businesses and reinvent their industries. Built and grew Fjord’s US presence directly leading to acquisition by Accenture in May 2013. 

● Lead US Business Design practice that helps clients meet their business objectives through Fjord’s user-centric service design approach
● Business Design leads the context and opportunity phases of Fjord engagements using product strategy, design and management methods to align service concepting, detailed design and implementation phases with business priorities 
● Successfully integrated  Fjord’s design approach with Accenture's management consulting approach for leading clients such as Prudential, AIG, and Kohl’s
● Responsible for generating $5M in direct billing and over $200M+ in pull-through billings since Accenture acquisition in May 2013

VP, Business Design

● Founded Fjord’s US presence with offices in New York and San Francisco
● Responsible for general management, business development and client management
● Built team from 1 to 30 members including operations, business development, project management and design
● Secured engagements with market leading clients including ESPN, Real Networks, Nokia, Samsung, LG, MySpace, The NFL, Foursquare, Yahoo, Microsoft, Verizon, Citigroup,PayPal, Qualcomm and Meijer
● Grew annual revenues from $0 to $5M over three years

Managing Director

● Product strategy consultant to Fjord’s media, telecoms and technology clients
● Introduced product management methods/perspective to Fjord’s design-led methods
● Helped design and close Fjord’s first six-figure engagement with Nokia that spanned service strategy through implementation 
● Collaborated with Fjord’s design teams on engagements for The BBC, Nokia and Deutsche Telekom

Director, Product Strategy

Mippin.com

Developed and launched Mippin, a service from Refresh Mobile. Refresh Mobile is a London-based company backed by Accel Partners. 

● Brought on by Accel Partners (London) to turn around product strategy for portfolio company Refresh Mobile
● Developed and relaunched Refresh as Mippin, a service to optimize web content for mobile screens
● Implemented product management process to develop new product vision, user-centric product design and iterative collaboration model with technology teams

VP, Product Management

Yahoo

● Responsible for new mobile product development, deployment and partnering with external developers for advanced products such as mobile clients and mobile search platform components
● Managed five person cross-functional team to deploy mobile search transcoding solution for UK mobile operator, 3; increased product usage by 50%
● Launched the official FIFA World Cup 2006 Mobile Matchcast Java client across Europe in six languages as a showcase for Yahoo’s mobile technology strategy  
● Developed and launched industry’s first multimedia mobile IM client preloaded on Nokia Series 60 devices and distributed in 11 markets across the US, Europe and Asia

Sr. Product Manager, Mobile Services

● Managed Yahoo! Europe’s communications team and products in UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy
● Consolidated regional product requirements for core product development team in California
● Worked with European mobile team to launch premium mobile communications services both direct to consumer and in cooperation with Tier 1 mobile operators
● Successfully deployed Yahoo! Messenger 6.0 resulting in 25% increase in user adoption
● Led transition of increased mail storage from 10MB to 1GB

Senior Product Manager, Yahoo! Mail and Messenger, Europe

Independent Consulting

Advised clients on wireless hardware, software and service strategies, created product specifications and built key partnerships to execute strategies and launch products.  

Key projects included:
● TechDirt Corporate Intelligence - Corporate intelligence and analysis for emerging technology firms
● vVault - Carrier-class wireless mobile productivity platform
● Musicbank - Digital music subscription service

Principal

Stick Networks

● Co-founded wireless Internet startup with $12M in seed capital developing next generation wireless multimedia platform
● Built and led four person product management team which worked with research and development to build product specifications for wireless commerce, content, messaging and location-based services and long term product roadmap

Co-Founder, Director – Product Strategy

BuyDirect.com/Beyond.com

● Joined BuyDirect.com (CNET spin-off) that was subsequently acquired by online retailer Beyond.com
● Led cross-functional team that launched industry's first voice-prompted download assistant to ease the consumer downloading experience

Director - Digital Experience

I am passionate about combining design, business and technology to create services that customers love. 10+ years of operational experience working with start-ups, entrepreneurs and multinational corporations as a digital product manager. 5+ years as a service design consultant across industries.

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