Without stating my exact age, I started working in tech before the web was the web – Mosaic was what it was called. I spent about half my career in tech media – Ziff Davis, Gigaom, Red Herring – which was in its prime in the late 90s. I ran the events division. I partnered with another woman to start Dealmaker Media in the early 2000s. We ran a very successful event series called Under the Radar which was the first startup pitch event. In 2009, I started a fundraiser event called Silicon Valley Rocks! It was a great event featuring talent from Randi Zuckerberg, Tim Chang, Raj Kapoor, Drew Houston of Dropbox. In 2014, I was the first CMO at 6sense – employee #11. And then I worked for several different companies in that capacity until I started Trusted CMO in February of 2020. For fun, I love to run, do Pilates and play bass guitar!
I grew up in Dallas, TX and moved to California to go to college. I spent a couple of years living in Los Angeles and Paris before I moved to San Francisco. My father was a contemporary art curator, originally from NYC. As a small child, we traveled to Europe when he got a grant to visit artists, including some dissident artists in the Eastern Bloc! I remember having guards place a mirror under our car to ensure we weren’t smuggling anyone in. I spent a lot of time in museums and got to know some fun artists. I am the only one in my family who is NOT a visual artist.