I've been building digital businesses since before "digital transformation" was a buzzword.
My path started in the engineering ranks at IAC — writing code, scaling infrastructure, building data systems. From there I grew into product and general management, eventually leading multiple functional disciplines as a Section 16 corporate officer at eHealth, a publicly traded health insurance marketplace where I led 450 people across product, technology, data, engineering, and marketing.
I've done this at companies ranging from scrappy startups — I joined JibJab right after their first venture round and helped them raise two more — to global icons like Disney, Hallmark, and Playboy. The eHealth chapter sits somewhere between those worlds: a mid-market public company with genuine scale, where the breadth of what I owned was closer to a COO than a product leader.
I got my technical foundation at nights and weekends — taking comp sci, algorithms, networking, and systems courses at Santa Monica College while working full-time. I hold a BA in Political Science from USC, which taught me to argue clearly and think in systems. The combination has served me well.
Today I work fractionally with a small number of companies at a time, bringing genuine senior leadership to organizations that need it most — often PE-backed businesses navigating digital transformation, or companies that need to move faster than a traditional executive search allows.