Bio

Product obsessed entrepreneur, advisor & angel investor building the Metaverse with a focus on XR, Web 3 and Social. XR Product Management at Qualcomm (formerly ClayAIR) and MuckerLab advisor. Previous experience includes: Product Lead at ClayAIR (acquired by Qualcomm) building platform agnostic hand tracking and gesture recognition solutions with breakthrough computer vision, machine learning and advanced cognitive science. We enable hand interactions with XR virtual content, smart devices and digital interfaces. No controller. No touch. CEO & Co-founder of Butter, the mobile app for making new friends anywhere on Earth! We are building the graph of people that you want to know, via photos and chat. Butter users have generated over a billion mobile page views and counting! CTO at Snowball, smart crypto portfolio investing for everyone. Revolutionizing the way people invest in cryptocurrency by offering one, safe, easy-to-use place to invest in tax-optimized crypto portfolios or ''bundles'' that pay you interest. Co-founder of SHEnetics, delivering conversational AI solutions at the edge, opening the door to powerfully intelligent mission critical solutions for smart cars, autonomous vehicles and avionics. Founder & Former Managing Partner Brand Anywhere, a mobile marketing agency that managed the mobile campaign strategy and execution for global brands including McDonalds, Comcast, Qualcomm, Meguiar's Auto, CoverGirl, Tampax and Herbal Essences. Co-Founder & Former CEO Soapbox Mobile, a mobile marketing platform provider. As CEO was responsible for the company's vision and mission of helping companies improve customer engagement through mobile. Instrumental in creating a next generation mobile marketing and CRM platform that has powered the mobile campaigns of numerous brands including Levis, Guinness, Vans Warped Tour, Procter & Gamble, W Hotels, General Motors and many others. Soapbox was acquired in 2007. Product Hunt Golden Kitty Winner! Featured speaker: The UC Irvine Graduate Computer Science Program, The Rady School of Management at UCSD, The MIT Enterprise Forum and Dow Jones VentureWire. Specialties: entrepreneurship, Lean Startup, growth, product management, marketing, advertising, virtual reality, mobile & wireless, mobile marketing, public relations, public speaking