Overview

Gender

male

CEO of Beatdapp, a blockchain application that helps music labels and artists track their songs and collect royalties. I also teach Advertising and Marketing at Trinity Western University and mentor a number of startups in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York.

Previously, I’ve served as an executive at various technology companies. I was the VP of Growth at BuildDirect, a B2C and B2B home renovation ecommerce website, marketplace, and heavy goods supply chain logistics company. The Head of Growth at EasyMarkit, a Vancouver-based patient communication SaaS in the medical industry. And, one of my favorite positions, The Chief Marketing Officer at Spinlister, a peer-to-peer action sports sharing economy with inventory and users from over 100 countries.

Other than tech, I’ve taught advanced marketing and entrepreneurship courses at FIDM (Downtown Los Angeles) and Trinity Western University, and launched multiple top 10 (iTunes & Billboard chart) musicians, major brands, and successful web properties. I also helped establish major film and television projects as a signatory literary agent with Monteiro Rose Dravis Agency (both WGA and WGC).

My projects have been featured over 4,000 times in publications including Mashable, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Wired, The Guardian, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch. I’ve also presented on digital marketing, marketplace dynamics, and sharing economies at conferences like SXSW, SHARE, and ClickZ.

I specialize in growth frameworks, retention and engagement tactics, business strategy, digital marketing strategy, market analysis & implementation, growth hacking tactics, sharing economies, peer-to-peer, two-sided marketplaces, technology platforms, the Internet of things (IoT), new media strategy and development, business operations, agile enterprise scaling and online marketing. Specialties: Business Strategy, Digital Marketing Strategy, Market Analysis & Implementation, Growth Hacking, Sharing Economies, Peer-to-Peer, Collaborative Consumption, Two-Sided Marketplaces, Technology Platforms, Internet of Things (IoT), New Media Strategy and Development, Business Operations, Agile Enterprise Scaling, Online Marketing (SEO/SEM), Social Media Marketing, Digital PR, Enterprise Start-up and Positioning, Creative Development (Film/TV/Web), Video Production, and Customer Relationship Management.