CTO at Renegade Partners


      Renegade Partners
  

I'm an active angel investor in over 40 companies. A selection of my portfolio can be found at https://www.jigsawvc.com/.


Proud to serve on the advisory boards of the following companies:- Standard Cognition (2017-2019)- door2door (2017-2019)- LVRG (2018 - 2019)- Curated (2019- current)
    
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      Various
  

Excited to be a member of the Data Collective group!



      Data Collective
  


      Costanoa Ventures
  

About us

  Tala is a mission-driven mobile technology and data science company that’s opening up financial access for underserved people globally. Tala’s smartphone app uses alternative data to deliver instant credit and help customers build their financial identities. Unlike traditional credit scoring, our proprietary underwriting models draw on thousands of mobile data points including network diversity, social connectedness, geographic patterns, and financial transactions to score customers in real time, without a need for formal credit history. We're  headquartered in Santa Monica with additional offices in Nairobi and Manila.

Tala, formerly known as InVenture, is backed by IVP, Ribbit Capital, Lowercase Capital, Data Collective, Collaborative Fund and other leading venture and impact investors. In 2016, Fast Company ranked Tala as one of its top 10 companies in Money, and Forbes named Tala as one of the top 50 FinTech companies in the world. Additionally, Tala’s work has been highlighted by Forbes, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, TED, and Wired, among others.

Our Android application for our lending product is #1 Finance App in the Kenya Google Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inventureaccess.safarirahisi

Tala

About us

  We produce beautiful, meaningful products that delight the world. We're not just investors, we are emotionally invested.

All you need to get to market and the freedom to focus on the passion and integrity of your vision. 

We dream big and we encourage others to dream bigger.  Come play with us.

Playground Global

Building the world's most intelligent freight marketplace. I helped our Operations Tools group launch our internal brokerage tools, including our load board and load booking suite. I launched the Uber Freight Marketplace Dynamics team, focusing on optimizing how the brokerage acquires and fulfills freight opportunities, as well as owning algorithmic pricing for the brokerage.
    
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About us

  We believe that by solving some of the biggest problems of our time, we can create a future where there is limitless freedom of movement for people and things all across the world. Just talk to our people — and feel their passion, optimism and curiosity for building solutions every single day on behalf of drivers, riders, couriers, eaters and employees.

While the tough problems we face everyday can be incredibly difficult to figure out, we believe those same problems enable us to personally grow the most. So we welcome people from all backgrounds who have the passion to change the world and also want to help create a supportive and collaborative environment. So that ultimately, we can learn together, solve together, build together, and move the world forward together.


      Uber
  

Building a research focused, analytically driven group of data professionals. The Data Science & Analytics team is responsible for pre-feature development research and feasibility experimentation, as well as post-facto analysis to determine the efficacy and quality of complex data features and products.


Mathematics, Applied Statistics, Demand Forecasting,Computer Programming, Dynamic Pricing algorithms. Solving mathematical problems in the transportation industry.


In addition to carrying a full graduate courseload, I currently teach undergraduate physics lab. I research and present informative lab lectures, as well as grade quizzes and labs for nearly 60 students. I am also in charge of organizing and maintaining a grade system for my students throughout the semester, as well as handling the administrative tasks associated with the class.
    
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The nation’s pioneer land-grant university, Michigan State University is one of the top research universities in the world. Home to nationally ranked and recognized academic, residential college, and service-learning programs, MSU is a diverse community of dedicated students and scholars, athletes and artists, scientists and leaders.

Michigan State University

GPA: 4.0. Awarded Teaching Assistantship three times (Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Summer 2009).

Graduated with a 3.2 (3.65 Physics) GPA. Awards include:Michigan Merit Award (2004-2005) and the Xavier Presidential Scholarship (2004-2008). Awarded a Hauck Research Grant twice (Summer 2005, Fall 2007), as well as being a Hauck Scholar. Helped to organize and found the Xavier Club Football Team and was elected game captain three times by teammates.

CTO at Renegade Partners

Renegade Partners

CTO

Jigsaw Venture Capital

Angel Investor

Various

Advisor

Data Collective

Equity Partner

Costanoa Ventures

EIR

Tala

Chief Data Officer

Playground Global

Entrepreneur In Residence

Uber

Head of Data & Engineering, Pricing & Operations Tooling

Uber

Head of Data Science Platform

Uber

Head of Data Science

Uber

Data Scientist

Michigan State University

Teaching Assistant/Researcher

Michigan State University

Physics

MS

Xavier University

Physics (major), Math/Computer Science (minor)

BS