Founder & CEO - Brain.fm

• Founded an active and growing neuroscience music consumer SaaS startup (web, iOS, and Android) producing $15mil+ revenue and 1.5m+ users.

• Ideated and executed end to end product conceptualization, branding and marketing - idea, the name of company, logo, branding + marketing strategy, product design (UX / UI / design), business model, value proposition, and every detail in the product.

• Architected and launched a partnership with the Olympic USA Greco Roman wrestling, during 2016 Rio Olympics.

• Led partnerships landing $2m+ in revenue with AppSumo, StackSocial, and others.

• Led PR airstrike with full-length features in Newsweek, Guardian, Inc magazine, Vice, Forbes, Entrepreneur magazine, Bustle, Futurism, New York Observer, and 10 more publications.

• After reaching profitability, closed venture & angel funding by $1.2m from few respected investors in the music and digital health space.

• Recruited and led a 15+ person team of musicians, engineers, neuroscientists, operation assistants and expert contractors.

• Created content strategy and grew Facebook following from 0 to 120k+ followers in 9 months via strategic partnerships in the influencer space.

• Partnered with leading influencers - podcasts, youtube and facebook - in the space including MindPump Media, Ben Greenfield, Wellness Mamma, Onnit Podcast (Kyle Kingsbury,) Mama, Smart Drug Smarts, College info Geek, Optimal Performance podcast, and others (10m+ public following).

• Led and won a federal government for $225k grant with National Science Foundation, Phase 1 STTR grant to research the efficacy of our focus application to treat ADHD.

Founder, COO & Founding Investor - Detective Labs

• B2B enterprise startup, Detective is the Software Adoption and Training Platform used by Inc 5000 innovators and Fortune 500 leaders.

• Active and growing annual revenue (millions+) with profitable economics.

• Organically grew user base to 30k+ and with a steadily growing enterprise customer base.

• Recruited and led a team of 8+ engineers, sales, and operations assistants.

• Selected by CNBC as one of the worlds most promising companies of 2013. Won SXSW festival runner up position in 2013. Incubated by DreamIt Ventures.

• Raised $5m in venture & angel funding led by GoAhead Ventures with participation from Lightbank (founders of Groupon), Hyde Park Venture Partners, Patrick Spain (the founder and CEO of Hoovers), Lon Chow, Apex Venture Partners.

Thoughts that inspire me

“To be alive is to be on fire with purpose,

to move forward with undaunted determination toward a goal.”

- Yogananda

“Love is one of the greatest stimulants to the will.

Under the influence of love the will can do almost anything.”

- Yogananda

“I awoke and saw that life was service.

I acted and behold, service was joy.”

- Tagore

“If you can dream it, you can do it.“

- Walt Disney