Arta Finance (formerly Arbo Works)

Joined Arta Finance via the acquisition of Money Minx to be part of the founding product team.

Founding Team | Product

Startup Beach

Hosting startup events in San Diego and enabling event hosts to use a matchmaking algorithm to make sure they attendees always come out with at least two new business connections.

Founder

Techstars

Mentor

GPT Hacks

GPT Hacks is my weekly newsletter, where I share tips, resources, and deep dives on how to leverage AI to grow and streamline your business. Over 9,400 startup founders and entrepreneurs get my AI tips, join them 👉 https://www.gpthacks.com/subscribe.

Money Minx

Founded Money Minx to help investors track all of their Investments, Alts, Crypto, and more in one place. Exited to Arta Finance

eCapital Corp.

eCapital is an industry leader in the freight factoring space. We service and help keep thousands of truckings companies stay on the road moving freight that makes our every day lives possible. 
As CIO and Head of Strategic Initiatives I am responsible for all things IT and Technology used by our employees, customers and partners.

CIO and Head of Strategic Initiatives

My team delivers the simplest factoring experience to the transportation industry, from owner operators to large fleets. We do this through the technology and products we build combined with customer-focused service.

Chief Experience Officer (CXO)

Responsible for the product and technology vision, roadmap and development of the company.

VP Product & Technology / CTO

appsplit

- Founded AppSplit: Positioned as one of the earliest crowdfunding platforms, timed to take advantage of the beginnings of the AppStore and Google Play.

- Innovative Mechanism: Created a network for developers to offer discounts, ownership, and rewards to investors interested in app ownership.

- Media Coverage: Featured in leading tech and fintech publications like TechCrunch and The Next Web.

- Successful Exit: Led the company to a successful acquisition by an investment group.

DiamPrice

- Launched DiamPrice: Developed the industry's first mobile app dedicated to the evaluation of loose diamonds, as well as gold, silver, and platinum jewelry.
- Target Audience: Primarily designed for industry professionals seeking accurate, real-time appraisals.
- Market Disruption: Introduced a first-of-its-kind tool that revolutionized the traditional appraisal process, offering a digital solution in a predominantly manual industry.
- Successful Exit: Sold the business to a private equity group.

OneRoof Energy, Inc.

LPL Financial

Managed team of project managers, established project management best practices and lead delivery of large projects.

Assistant Vice President Program Management

Developed test strategies and lead teams of QA engineers on projects.

Lead QA Engineer

Developed requirements and research for products.

Senior Product Analyst

Stuff I am currently focused on:

#1 Bring new financial advisory products to market at Arta Finance. 

#2 Build a startup ecosystem in San Diego via Startup Beach and mentoring for TechStars San Diego & Anywhere. 

#3 Help others with AI via GPT Hacks. 

#4 Help my youngest develop his soccer skills, my second work on her basketball game and my oldest shine like his sax.

#5 Spend more time with my awesome wife doing fun things in San Diego and around the world.

Hussein Yahfoufi

Stoked for two things... and a bonus!

First, my good friend Ryan Berman packed out Barnes & Noble, Inc. last night and sold out his new book Headamentals.

Second, this was the first book signing hosted on Eventship. Excited to see more authors, creators, and communities using the platform for events like this.

And on a personal note, my amazing wife Jessica Yahfoufi is getting close to releasing her new novel. Stay tuned for that launch party! 💃

Founder, Eventship • Helping event hosts grow everywhere • Host of San Diego’s Startup Mixer

What do you get when you have 200 incredible founders, investors and people working hard to help us all grow at the same place and at the same time?

Great connections, business deals, investments, new jobs and a great ol' time. Especially when you also add in our authentic tacos made by hand on site courtesy of Isaac Pollock, CFP® and Robert Goodyear.

See you there!

Emily Kramer's ecosystem strategy in today's Lenny's Newsletter is brilliant, but I have a different take on one point which is worth unpacking.


You don't get tired of events the same way you do as flooded email inboxes if the events are done right. The problem isn’t too many events, it’s too many of the wrong ones.

With over one thousand events behind me, I can tell you what makes a great event and how events are actually a growth node in your ecosystem flywheel not something people get tired from.

1. Events have to be from trusted hosts (think innovation hubs, accelerators, community leaders, founders, etc).

2. The right people have to be at the event, the attendee list must be curated and focused on the right groups for that event.

3. Sponsors of the event must be true ecosystem partners, not just logos on a wall. e.g. Isaac Pollock, CFP® is the taco guy for my mixer, not just our banker. He is part of the community and cares about it.

4. The event must be designed for connection, not attendance. This is what Neal Bloom🎩, Jonah Peake 🐺 and I talked about in our LinkedIn Live last week. It's also the reason why Eventship invests heavily in our matchmaking AI.

When you get those right, events aren’t fatiguing or tiring. They’re energizing. They are the ecosystem.

When you attend the right event, meet the right person, and the right sponsor supports it, that event becomes a node that strengthens the whole network.

Hussein Yahfoufi’s North County Startup Mixer — every month keeps getting better and better. 😎

Thank you to this month’s sponsors!!!
Isaac Pollock, CFP® 
Kimberly Drozdoff 
Emily D. 
Tyler Hastings 

See you next month 😎

Wallabi

Wallabi is an AI business analytics tool that helps B2B marketing and revenue teams find breakthroughs in growth and profitability by understanding their marketing funnel, customer segments, ROI, and more.

Co-Founder & CEO

CornerstoneX Inc.

Delivering the next wave of citizen engagement experiences with the world’s first interactive AI Metahuman Concierge platform, HOPE.

Board of Advisors

TalentValue™

TalentValue is a powerful predictive analytics solution for employee performance and retention. It delivers actionable insights to managers, executives and HR, which helps companies maximize their talent.

Tableau

Lead Tableau to deliver market-leading analytics solutions. Develop and champion a clear product vision. Define themes and priorities ensuring a cohesive product strategy. Own the Tableau-wide product roadmap. Help Tableau customers be successful in their analytics journey.

Head of Product & General Manager

Google

Drive product vision, advocate product capabilities and solutions informed by user feedback and market research, influence the product planning process, and shape go-to-market strategy and product positioning. Engage the Looker user community to understand adoption of the product, as well as press and industry analysts to influence market perception. Lead product launches and own Looker’s external roadmap.

Head of Outbound Product Management, Looker

Responsible for product marketing efforts for the Looker data and analytics platform. This includes go-to-market strategy, positioning and messaging, thought leadership, content strategy, product launches, market intelligence, as well as support of various functions like demand generation, sales enablement, corporate communications, field marketing, analyst relations, vertical strategy, alliances, and more.

Head of Product Marketing, Looker

Looker

Vice President, Product Marketing

Infor Birst

Drive Birst’s product strategy initiatives, including market analysis, go-to-market strategy, product direction, and sales enablement. Define product positioning and collaborate with engineering to define long-term product direction. Work closely with customers and partners to understand market trends. Act as a product evangelist and spokesperson with press, analysts, and customers.

Vice President, Product Strategy

MicroStrategy

Launched the company’s first SaaS offering, MicroStrategy Analytics Express. Recognized as a “Top 10 Solution” by eWeek and CEA, and honored as the Best New B2B Product at the 2013 American Business Awards. Launched MicroStrategy Analytics Desktop, a desktop-based visual analytics tool designed for business users.

Director, Product - Agile BI

Achieved revenue and profit quotas while managing P&L with annual revenues of over $2.5M from clients in a variety of industries. Ensured quality services delivery in all consulting engagements. Recruited consulting staff and grew the professional services organization.

* Managed customer project recognized as Outstanding BI Application at 2010 MicroStrategy World user conference. Attained 138% of services revenue goal while maintaining 98% employee utilization.

Director, Professional Services

Multiple roles, from Technical Support Engineer to Senior Director of Worldwide Support, running at $150M customer service operation, with a staff of 80 employees distributed across various call centers worldwide, delivering technical support to over 2,000 customers located in 70 different countries and in multiple languages, while maintaining global customer satisfaction rates above 90%.

* Recognized as the top-rated support organization in the BI industry by the OLAP Survey for 5 years in a row. Obtained the only perfect score for quality of support in Gartner's Vendor Rating study.
* Launched call center operations in Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore and Warsaw over a four-year period, and increased customer satisfaction ratings by 30%.

Technical Support

Stereo Gol

Radio talk show covering world soccer and Spanish rock music. Interviewed Spanish rock artists (Beto Cuevas from La Ley, Alfonso André  from Caifanes/Jaguares and Cristina Rosenvinge) and soccer journalists like Grant Wahl, Trino Camacho, and Walter Gonzalez.

Producer & Host

Service & Support Professionals Association

Driven by the belief that better informed people can accomplish great things. 25+ years in business intelligence and analytics, with roles as a tech support specialist, consultant, product marketer, product manager, and now founder and CEO. Have been here since the beginning: from the dominance of early BI platforms, through the disruption of self-service data visualization, to the emergence of AI-powered tools today. BI is a fascinating space: $25B market that has only reached 25% of its potential audience. Lots of work left to do for a lot of people that still need help.

Pedro Arellano

It's official! Wallabi's executive event, “Leading with AI: How San Diego Leaders Are Putting AI to Work,” is fully booked.

We started this with a simple idea of bringing together local executives for honest, real-world discussions about AI. We're deeply grateful for everyone who's joining us next week, and to our panelists Emilie Hersh, Cory Huff, and Ron Wangerin for sharing their thoughtful perspectives. 

We hope this event will be the start of a small but growing community of San Diego leaders who want to learn from each other and shape how AI adoption happens in their businesses. 

Looking forward to seeing everyone next week! 🦘

CEO at Wallabi 🦘. Helping AI-curious CEOs transform how their teams operate.

Last night was something special. We hosted Wallabi's first "Leading with AI" executive dinner, and the response blew us away. Far more people showed up than we expected, a reminder of just how eager business leaders are for honest conversations about AI.

Our panel was outstanding. Emilie Hersh, Cory Huff, Ron Wangerin, and Zachary Johnson shared thoughtful, practical insights about how leaders can introduce AI in their organizations, encourage teams to experiment, and build the right guardrails along the way. 

The highlight for me, though, was how the community showed up. The room was filled with engaging discussions, and people comparing notes and experiences. It's clear that leaders want a space to learn from each other and exchange perspectives about how to navigate this moment.

I'm deeply grateful to everyone who attended, to the new connections I made, to our partners at FogBell, and to our brilliant panelists for bringing such honesty and clarity to the conversation. 

A big night for Team Wallabi, and hopefully the start of something meaningful for our local community of business leaders interested in AI.

Thank you, all! 🙏

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