My Story

I grew up in Boston, MA and swore off joining the tech industry. I narrowly avoided getting a PhD in history and instead wound up at a small B2B healthtech startup in Montreal called VisualMED trying to build an EHR for oncology centers.

Fairly quickly, I realized that this wasn't the role for me. I hated representing someone else's decisions, defending software choices I had no control over to customers. So, I left.

After VisualMED, I took some time to figure out what I actually wanted to do. Through a few twists and turns, I ended up at a company selling health supplements directly to consumers. Like most early-career, small startup employees, I wore a lot of hats, but my ability to put together PHP applications to help us run our digital ad campaigns got the attention of the technical team and I became a "product manager."

I had no idea that this was a job! Suddenly, my ability to code plus my interest in business and understanding the why behind what I was doing was valuable!

This fortuitous job assignment ultimately led me to Salsify, where I really honed the craft of product management. Here I drove millions of dollars in incremental revenue, built features used by our biggest and most important customers, and ultimately ended up owning most of the core experience of a $100+ million product with 9,000+ active users.

After six years at Salsify, I jumped to Paperless Parts where I rebuilt a product team from the ground up, doubled the customer count, doubled ARR, introduced the first AI / ML features to the product and had a blast. I got to learn all about how things are actually made (hint: it's insanely manual and high tech at the same time), got to lead a team of 10 people, got to sit on an executive leadership team, and got exposed, first hand, to the challenges of being a venture-backed startup.

After nearly 3 years at Paperless, I moved to Vizit to explore Generative AI and return to eCommerce. Here, I lead a small but mighty team of two and own the day-to-day operations of our AI and ML research team. I sit on Vizit's leadership team and spend most of my time working on our long-term strategy and identifying new growth opportunities for the business.

Now I'm excited to see what's next in this journey - whether that's building something new, helping other product leaders navigate similar challenges, or exploring the intersection of AI and product strategy in ways I haven't yet imagined.