Functional Skills

Business Development
Revenue Growth
Strategic Planning
Regulatory Compliance
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
Operations Management
Real Estate Investing
Leadership Development
Finance Transformation
Supply Chain Integration
Strategy Development
Business Operations
Operational Efficiency
Operational Due Diligence
Growth Strategy

Sector Experience

Automotive
Business Services
Real Estate
Technology

Experience

Facta Partners Management Consulting
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
10/2023 - Present
• Co-founded Facta Partners to drive scalable growth and operational alignment for businesses, leading end-to-end engagements focused on strategic planning, GTM execution, and actionable systems that deliver measurable results across leadership and teams

Kaptyn Corporate Strategy & Development
Chief Strategy Officer
12/2021 - 5/2023
• Raised +$30M series B, personally securing $22M in equity capital
• Expanded from one to three markets leveraging both acquisition and greenfield expansion
• Built key partnerships across demand (Uber), supply (rental cos, FMCs and OEMs), and infrastructure (TeraWatt, Zeem) to enable national scale while minimizing capital needs
• Built strategic planning functions, linking operating model and growth model to OKRs aligning daily business management, product roadmap planning, and board reporting

Knotel Start-Up
Vice President, GMNorth America West
8/2019 - 11/2020
• Grew contracted revenue by +300% to over $100M while reducing operating expenses by +25%
• Moved global business from a centralized, HQ driven model to market ownership of P&L and key decisions, including consolidating west coast markets into a single region
• Reorganized Real Estate and Sales functions into a unified commercial unit, matching demand to properties pre-lease signing, driving the lowest vacancy rates of Knotel's mature markets
• Implemented fundamental management frameworks including OKRs and RACI models to manage through measurement and foster a transparent performance-based culture
• In COVID - Reduced expenses by +50% through a reorganization, rationalization of non-performing assets, restructuring vendor contracts, and negotiating rent relief, while defending a majority of revenue

Lyft Start-Up
Director, Express Drive
5/2016 - 12/2018
• Business, Strategy, and Operations leader for Express Drive, Lyft's vehicle rentals platform, providing over 1X% of total Lyft ride volume, with +$400M P&L
• Scaled the business over 250X, growing from a manual single city pilot to an integrated high growth platform with over 40,000 vehicles in +30 cities across +100 retail locations
• Started as an IC and built the core HQ team (35+) and created and secured resource plans for partner teams (field org, regulatory compliance, legal, risk, finance, etc) of over 300 employees
• Partnered with Product & Eng to create a unique org model within Lyft, integrating Ops, Product, and Engineering teams into what is effectively a self-contained business unit with shared OKRs
• Created novel analytics framework to assess driver acquisition ROI focused on the incremental cost of supply that is now used throughout the Lyft business
• Continually improved program performance through operational excell

Self-Employed Management Consulting
Independent Consultant
1/2016 - 5/2016
• Advised Shift Technologies on a strategic pivot in vehicle acquisition strategy, creating a program to source supply from large secondary market channels including a partnership with Hertz, reducing overhead and acquisition costs and enabling rapid scaling of the supply side

Audi of America Operations
Mobility Strategy
7/2010 - 9/2015
• Managed development and launch of Audi on demand, a first of its kind app-based retail mobility service offering concierge vehicle rentals in San Francisco, and then created two spinoff businesses focused on commercial and residential use cases
• Developed and led the partnership with Silvercar, a venture-backed premium car rental service, then the largest fleet customer in Audi of America history. Initiated process of investment in Silvercar's series
● raise, leading to Audi's acquisition of the company
• Created new pricing strategy and modeling tool for fleet transactions, increasing margins by over 20% and growing annual sales volume by 52% to over $90m in 2015

PetCareRx, Inc. Start-Up
Vice President of Business Development
8/2004 - 7/2008
• Managed comprehensive site redesign with migration to MS commerce server, with new site increasing conversion rate and basket size, yielding over 90% revenue growth within one year
• Automated warehouse and pharmacy fulfillment systems, enabling same-day fulfillment for 80% of orders while reducing headcount requirements
• Increased supplier diversity to reduce costs and de-risk concentration, including negotiating strategic shipping partnership with the USPS reducing shipping costs by over 35%, and onboarding additional wholesale supplier to optimize supply chain and reduce holding costs by over 20%