SmartAsset

Chief Marketing Officer

Responsible for consumer marketing in SmartAsset's financial advisor lead generation business.

SVP of Marketing

Built and oversee 10-person B2C performance marketing team with mid 7-figure monthly advertising budget. Paid acquisition leader who's helped grow SmartAsset's investor <=> financial advisor lead generation business from $0 into a multi-million dollar business, using direct response strategies on social, native, SEM, content marketing, email, direct buys, etc. as well as OTT (streaming) and direct mail.

VP, Digital Marketing & Revenue Operations

Oversee digital marketing strategy across search, social, native and organic channels. Manage paid acquisition and revenue optimization efforts.

Digital Marketing Director

Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc.

Product owner for development of marketing engineering tools and platforms through in-house development and 3rd party integrations. Plan and execute roadmaps for workflow / automation solutions across multiple engineering teams. Successful launch and management of campaign optimization platform and affiliate marketing platform. Manage vendor relationships and integrate third-party technology with internal systems.

Senior Marketing Manager

Managed $10MM+ in annual CPA marketing spend, growing net earnings across portfolio of 18 downloadable software products. Led marketing technology projects with engineering and reporting teams to improve processes and analytics.

Marketing Manager

Assistant Marketing Manager

CORFO

Investment Executive

One Pearl

Marketing Operations Manager

Chilean Economic Development Agency

Marketing / Research / Investor Relations

Startup growth insights -- SVP of Marketing at SmartAsset

CMO at SmartAsset, where we've grown a lead generation business from $0 to $100M+ in revenue. 

* First principles thinking
* Behavioral psychology
* Intelligent donkeys
* Generative AI


Brian Bourque

Rich Robinson

Vice President, Marketing and Sales

Animoca Brands

• I'm all about empowering builders to create products and services to enable users to own and manage digital assets across the open metaverse. 

• Animoca Brands is a unicorn blockchain technology and investment company focused on furthering true digital ownership and was ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021.  We are a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, gamification and NFTs. 

• Animoca Brands develops and publishes a broad portfolio of products including the REVV token and SAND token; original games including The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes; and products utilizing popular intellectual properties including Formula 1®, Marvel, WWE, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Doraemon. 

• Animoca Brands’ portfolio of blockchain investments and partnerships includes Sky Mavis (Axie Infinity), Dapper Labs (CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot), etc and subsidiaries include The Sandbox, Quidd, Gamee, nWay and Blowfish.

Entrepreneur In Residence

• Joined as an advisor to Animoca Brand's chairman and co-founder Yat Siu just as Web3 was exploding across Asia and globally.  Web3 is my Act3 and I've been lovin' it ;-).

Advisor

Whip Wham

• Whip Wham means *speed* - we are an advisory and investment practice focused on the fast-moving and dynamic China and Asian markets where 60% of the world's population lives but where arguably 80% of the world's dynamism and potential is to be found.

• Whip Wham helps startups to build, scale-ups to grow and entrepreneurs to achieve top performance while navigating the rapid pulse and pace of change across the Asia Pacific region.

Founding Partner

Schwarzman Scholars

• Mentoring students focused on entrepreneurship and innovation at this prestigious scholarship program at Tsinghua University's Schwarzman College 苏世民学者 (Sūshìmín Xuézhě) designed to introduce a new generation of young  leaders to China and its changing global role, making them more effective as leaders and as links between China and the world.
http://www.schwarzmanscholars.org

Mentor

Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

• Teaching entrepreneurship with a focus on China to whip-smart local and international MBA students.  Using a framework for entrepreneurial thinking while bringing in seasoned entrepreneurs to share their journeys and lessons learned along the way. 
• Beijing is not only the Silicon Valley of China but of Asia and has one the most compelling and rich concentrations of world-class entrepreneurs on the planet. 
• Peking University 北大 (Běidà) is China’s oldest and most prestigious institution and its Guanghua International MBA program emphasizes the reality of doing business in China.

Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship

SOSV

• Assist entrepreneurs who are innovating at the cutting-edge of information technology to create successful start-up companies.
• Chinaccelerator is the first mentorship-driven seed-funding program in China and is based in Shanghai
• HAX is a sister accelerator and is the world's first and most prolific hardware focused accelerator and is based in Shenzhen

Mentor HAX & Chinaccelerator

ChopSchticks

• Created Asia's first roving North American stand-up comedy extravaganza which has given sore abdominal muscles to nearly 70,000 attendees to date across Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Sanya, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Manila and Tokyo
• Produced shows across China and Asia featuring Jim Gaffigan ('07 & '18), Marc Maron (our first performer in Mainland China in '01), Russell Peters (right before he got huge), Louis C.K. (in a 360 year-old Peking Opera Theater), Joe Wong (黄西) and dozens of other top comics
• Organized first Asian tours for Montreal's Just For Laughs Comedy Festival (2X) and The Second City (Chicago 2X and Toronto 2X)

Co-founder, MC & Producer

H2 (h2.co)

• H2 is the premier global leadership network for the technology industry supporting startup ecosystems around the world.

• H2's membership consists of entrepreneurs and senior executives from leading startups and top global firms in major technology centers worldwide.

Advisory Board Member (former Global Chapter Chair, China Co-Founder)

Tsinghua University

• As a 'pracademic' I taught practical skills to senior executives from Chinese high-tech companies and Unicorns by providing the relevant competencies, connections and experiences to best implement global expansion, corporate innovation, lean startup practices, business model canvas techniques and design thinking, etc.
• BI-Tsinghua is a joint program between BI Norwegian Business School - one of Europe’s leading Business Schools and no. 1 in Norway - and Tsinghua University which is ranked no. 1 in the world in engineering, computer science and material science

Guest Lecturer, BI-Tsinghua 

International School of Beijing

• Participated in 12-member Board of Trustees which provided oversight and governance for my children's school in Beijing.
• Focused on the Futures Committee and proud and challenged to have worked with such a thought-leading and innovative institution like ISB.

Board of Trustees

500 Startups

• Helped 500's entrepreneurs around the planet crack the China/Asia markets.
• 500 Startups provides early-stage companies with funding ranging from $10K to $250K via seed investments and a startup accelerator program.

Over 25 years in Asia as an entrepreneur, exec, investor and advisor across:
- Web 1.0 - (1995-2005) Read era
- Web 2.0 - (2005 - 2020) Read/Write era
- Mobile - (2000 - present) Services 
- Web3 - (2020 - present) Read/Write/Own 

As Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Animoca Brands, I'm about empowering users to own and leverage digital assets across blockchain games and metaverses. 

Previously with 8 startups as a co-founder or senior exec, and with dozens of others as an investor, board member, advisor or mentor (HAX, Chinaccelerator & 500). 

First a senior exec at 3 companies from private to public, then went on to found 5 companies: 3 exited to publicly listed companies and 2 blew up.

I eagerly/gratefully teach Entrepreneurship in China as a Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship at Peking University's Guanghua Int'l MBA program. 

Have taught 'pracademics' to senior execs at Tsinghua University's BI-Tsinghua program and the Spirit of Entrepreneurship at Alibaba University.  Have frequently guest lectured globally at Harvard University, University of Southern California, Technical University of Munich and RSM at Erasmus University, etc.

Active in the geek-o-system in Asia/globally and am a sought-after keynote speaker and event MC in the tech, startup and innovation space (NFT.NYC, Web Summit Lisbon & Dublin, TechCrunch Beijing, Rise Hong Kong & TechInAsia Singapore & Jakarta, etc)

Grew up in Greater Boston and my Boston accent and I went 'wicked fah away' to study at USC in L.A. and Cambridge University in the UK.

After college, I was a wild-eyed backpacker working my way around the world as a bartender in the Virgin Islands; a concierge/ski bum in the Swiss Alps; an English teacher in post-revolution Prague; a house-painter in Norway; a grape picker in France; and a BMW factory worker in Munich.

In '93 I traveled overland from Switzerland to Hong Kong via Beijing on the Trans-Siberian and fell in love with China.

Got an MBA at the Rotterdam School of Management in The Netherlands '94-'96  & fell in love with the interwebs.

After grad school did a solo 4,000km African bicycle trip from Nairobi to Cape Town
vimeo.com/22348199

Labors of love to exercise/exorcise my creative muse:
- Write children's books through Creatribute - all money goes to charity;
- Produce/MC stand-up comedy shows across Asia with top comedians like Jim Gaffigan and Russell Peters

Now happily based in Bali, Indonesia - the Island of the Gods - since Covid.  Loverly entrepreneur wife. 3 children all 'Made in China'. Perpetual Mandarin & Bahasa student.

• Focus is on the exciting and fast-growing space of blockchain gaming where I'm all about empowering users to manage digital assets in order to have fun and generate income in fun and dynamic blockchain games and metaverses. 

• Animoca Brands is a unicorn blockchain technology and investment company focused on furthering true digital ownership and was ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021.  We are a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, gamification and NFTs. 

• Animoca Brands develops and publishes a broad portfolio of products including the REVV token and SAND token; original games including The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes; and products utilizing popular intellectual properties including Formula 1®, Marvel, WWE, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Doraemon. 

• Animoca Brands’ portfolio of blockchain investments and partnerships includes Sky Mavis (Axie Infinity), Dapper Labs (CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot), OpenSea, Harmony, Bitski, and Alien Worlds. Its subsidiaries include The Sandbox, Quidd, Gamee, nWay, Pixowl, Lympo, Blowfish and Bondly.

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