COO & Board Director @ Fusemachines helps B2B enterprise inside sales teams find and connect with highly targeted qualified leads.
Fusemachines leverages Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to accelerate the inside sales process. It has built an artificial intelligence assistant that empowers inside sales teams with the ability to better communicate and connect with prospects. From lead generation automation, personalized email response drafting, to sales introduction meetings, Fusemachines’s artificial intelligence platform dramatically fuels the productivity of sales development representatives while exponentially increasing the number of quality leads. From November 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) Cofounder & Board Director @ Payfone leverages the cellular telecomm network to provide authentication services to consumer-facing mobile websites & apps. It is a licensed mobile operator that verifies mobile subscribers’ accounts with the same integrity as their operators.
Vice President of Finance (March 2010 - January 2012)
• Financing closings: Series C ($18.6MM that included American Express & Verizon in 2011), Series B ($11.1MM in 2010), and Series A ($1.6MM in 2008)
• Contract negotiations (included Verizon and several other prominent global operators, American Express, Nokia)
• Design and implementation of system for global reconciliation and settlement at scale
Vice President of Product (March 2008 - March 2010)
• Product requirements for end-to-end payment system, which included the mobile account as the funding source and the company’s current base level of authentication
• Architecture (flows, APIs, interactions among several parties for charging, reconciliation, settlement including chargebacks) for scale and beta
• Beta implementation (10/2009 launch)
• IP strategy and implementation includes patent below and several other 2008-2014 filings, support of company strategy is ongoing From 2008 to Present (7 years) Entrepreneur-in-Residence @ Cofounded Payfone in office of RRE (our first investor). From August 2007 to February 2008 (7 months) Program Manager @ • Member of startup team responsible for sponsorship recruitment, channels for future staffing and prospective students across 15+ countries for a school that opened in 2008
• Staffing, curriculum, schedule for the inaugural summer program (now multiple programs globally) From 2004 to 2005 (1 year) Performance Analyst @ • Multi-department team lead for improving data distribution’s accuracy, cost, speed (60x faster)
• Reporting on internal trends and risk across all assets under management From 2003 to 2004 (1 year) Greater New York City AreaBusiness Development Associate/ GenuGuard Project Consultant @ Logistics solution designs, ROI modeling, and business development support From 2001 to 2002 (1 year)
MBA, Finance @ Columbia University - Columbia Business School From 2005 to 2007 Bachelor's Degree, Engineering and Computer Science (Decision and Control Theory) @ Harvard University From 1997 to 2001