Nick Locascio

Deep Learning Consultant

Booth AI

Co-Founder, CEO

Standard Cognition 

I joined Standard AI as employee #7 and wore many hats throughout our unicorn growth cycle. I wrote critical pieces of our algorithms and inference stack, led and grew our Machine Learning Teams, spearheaded our Synthetic Data initiatives, landed 10+ machine learning models into production, and drove key metrics and ml product launches.

Director Of Engineering

Symantec

Built deep learning systems for dynamic cyber threat and insurance modeling.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Published 2 Machine Learning Papers. Founded and lectured MIT's Deep Learning course, 6.S191.

Papers:
[1] High-Risk Breast Lesions: A Machine Learning Model to Predict Pathologic Upgrade and Reduce Unnecessary Surgical Excision
Journal of Radiology '17

[2] Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language with Minimal Domain Knowledge, EMNLP '16

Graduate Researcher

Perch

Developed deep learning computer vision models for early stage fitness technology startup.

Deep Learning Engineer

Pinterest

Worked on Machine Learning Recommendations team building big data prediction models with Hive+Hadoop.

Machine Learning Engineer

Fitbit

I worked on the iOS team doing various feature work.

Software Engineer

Mystery Snap

Mystery Snap was an ephemeral photo sharing iOS app.

Acquired +250,000 users. +3 million photos sent.

Mystery Snap held the #1 spot in the Norway Photo & Video Category for over two weeks.

Founder

Monster Cats

Monster Cats was a 2D action runner iPhone game.

Monster Cats reached #56 on the App Store
for Adventure Games and made the All Games Top 300 the first week of launch.
4.5 Star Rating. +150,000 downloads

Co-Founder / CEO at Booth AI (YC W23)

Woodridge Growth

Long-Term Client Relationships: Clarity Money (acquired by Goldman Sachs), Marcus by Goldman Sachs, Jet.com (acquired by Walmart), FanDuel (acquired by Paddy Power Betfair), Soludos, ShopKeep, and more. We have also provided marketing services to SurveyMonkey, NBA Digital, and dozens of other top brands. 

We achieve unprecedented results for our clients, and we love what we do. We have an unrivaled, measurable track-record in Facebook and Instagram advertising, Apple Search Ads, App Store Optimization, Search Engine Optimization and Content Marketing.

Founder & CEO

Miner Labs, Inc.

Backed by Simon Ventures, the venture group of Simon Property Group (SPG) -- the largest shopping mall operator in the US. Other investors included David S. Rose and Dreamit Ventures.  

Miner Labs was a technology company in NYC with an ambitious vision for retail. When you shop for clothes online, you can see the inventory available in warehouses hundreds of miles away. Why is it that we cannot see what's available in the retail stores around us? Why do our online purchases get shipped from the retailer's warehouses when there is a physical retail location with the same items? Miner wanted to change that by building the Everywhere Store, an e-commerce platform tied to physical locations.

Miner's flagship product debuted on the App Store in May 2015. Miner is was one of the fastest growing shopping apps, and made it easier to buy clothes. Miner was Featured by Apple following the WWDC Keynote, and climbed the App Store listings to be a Top 50 Shopping App.

Chief Growth Officer

Klique Inc.

As Chief Marketing Officer, Franco reported directly to Chairman Robert Crown, founder and former president and CEO of Crown Communications, the largest wireless tower network in the United States.

Co-Founder & CMO

Carat USA

Search engine optimization (SEO) Specialist on Pfizer Pharmaceuticals account during Carat's reign as #1 Global Media Agency (RECMA), Media Agency of the Year (Ad Age) and Agency of the Year (Adweek). Developed agency's social media strategy audit during tenure at firm and collaborated with teams from Macy's, P&G, and more.

Senior Associate, SEO

Franco Media

* Providing digital marketing counsel for a variety of clients including prominent recording artists, technology start-ups, and a leading financial institution.

Hiptics.com

Created a music blog from my dorm room that would go on to become a profitable business and one of the most popular hip-hop music blogs of all time, boasting an audience of 160,000 unique monthly readers from all around the world.

* Increased organic traffic of website 234% from February 2010 through February 2011 while boosting Facebook community size 183% in 365-day period.

* Produced and marketed original content that was viewed over 5,000,000 times and generated consistent monthly profits.

* Created unique business model revolving around advertisement relationships, affiliate programs, and direct sales. Formed advertising partnership with MOG Music Network after continued site traffic growth month after month.

* Developed whitehat link-building strategy that yielded a large number of high-quality links from top websites include The Huffington Post, Fader, Nah Right, and Rap Radar. 

* Formed strategic partnerships with biggest names in urban music -- including Wiz Khalifa, Big Sean, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Juelz Santana, Freddie Gibbs, and Warren G -- to deliver exclusive content to global audience

* Utilized the latest emerging media and technology to connect and communicate with audience in unique and creative ways

Owner & Executive Editor

Since 2016: Accelerating growth for Goldman Sachs, Clarity Money, Jet.com, FanDuel, ShopKeep, Soludos, Rhone, Padma Lakshmi, Spring, GreenBlender, and dozens more. 

From CharityBuzz:
Since founding Woodridge Growth in 2016, Chris Franco has helped Jet.com (acquired by Wal-Mart), Clarity Money (acquired by Goldman Sachs), FanDuel (acquired by Paddy Power), Soludos, SurveyMonkey and ShopKeep accelerate their growth with first-of-their-kind marketing strategies. Franco introduced the concept of growth hacking at the American Marketing Association’s Annual Conference and is a regular speaker at universities (Columbia, Claremont McKenna) and industry events.

From the American Marketing Association:
"Learn new ways to acquire customers from expert growth hacker and Woodridge Growth CEO, Chris Franco. With a client roster that includes two of the fastest companies to ever achieve $1 billion dollar valuations, Jet.com and FanDuel, and a proven track record for helping nearly every kind of business grow…”

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