Gartner Expert

As the founder of Accel Experts, I advised start-up executives on their strategy, technology stack, product management, partnerships, and go-to-market strategy. I also served as an Executive in Residence (EIR) at Plug & Play Tech Center and regularly evaluated early start-up companies and advised some of their founders. As a senior director of product management at Walmart Connect retail media group, I led the data foundation & governance, ad performance measurement & analytics, and generative AI initiatives. Prior to Walmart, I served as VP of product management at Oracle Marketing Cloud leading the data management, API, interoperability, analytics, and cloud infrastructure initiatives. Before Responsys was acquired by Oracle, I was a senior director of product management for data, analytics, security, API and partner integration initiatives. As the founding VP of product management at Lime Engine, I led the definition of a new performance-based digital advertising platform for the entertainment vertical. As an adjunct professor of software management at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley Campus, I coached teams of students for product management, Agile software development, and entrepreneurship. As the VP of advertising technologies at Glam Media, I led the definition and creation of a new digital advertising platform to behaviorally target users across various social media sites with relevant display ads. I'm a co-inventor of a Glam Media patent for multi-dimensional optimization of display ads. As the director of product management at Yahoo!, I built and led the team to manage the media advertising platform with advanced targeting and personalization capabilities. I'm a co-inventor of the Yahoo! Smart Ad patent. I also served as the director of connectivity products and Developer Network at Informatica and co-inventor of 3 patents for data transformation. I led Autodesk's information model for the AEC industry alliance for interoperability IFC standard.