MIT degrees, five acquisitions, consultant, public speaker, educator, and author. Here's the backstory: After earning my bachelor’s and master’s in electrical engineering from MIT, I co-founded Lobby7, which developed an early version of what you’d now call Siri, back in 2000. Later I joined Avid Technology, where I worked on an Emmy-winning digital media suite that reshaped how broadcasters delivered the news. Since then, I’ve led strategy at the telecom startup Starent Networks (acquired by Cisco), founded Likelii (a “Netflix for wine”), and led product development at Allant and Symbotic. Five of the startups I’ve been involved with have been successfully acquired.
