Work
I live in London, managing some of Google's strategic partnerships as well as an excellent team that does the same. Formerly I worked on Commerce & Analytics for Google in California. Prior to that, I was a Senior Vice President at Neumont University (a start-up university); before that, Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Universidad Galileo (Guatemala); and before that, Founder and VP Operations of ArsDigita Corporation (acquired by Red Hat). Résumé.
Education
Wharton MBA in Finance. Engineering degrees from Caltech (bachelor's) and Berkeley (master's). Additional coursework at Stanford in Data Mining. GMAT: 800. Research: Characteristics and Determinants of Private Equity Returns (MBA) and Computational Analysis of Pyrolysis (master's).
Places I've Lived
Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Salt Lake City, London, Guatemala
Places I've Visited
Antarctica,
Argentina,
Australia,
Belgium,
Brazil,
Canada,
China,
Costa Rica,
Croatia,
Czech Republic,
Denmark,
Egypt,
El Salvador,
France,
Germany,
Greece,
Guatemala,
Honduras,
Iceland,
Ireland,
Israel,
Italy,
Japan,
Jordan,
Malta,
Mexico,
Monaco,
Morocco,
Netherlands,
Norway,
Portugal,
Singapore,
South Africa,
Spain,
Sweden,
Switzerland,
Thailand,
United Kingdom,
Uruguay,
Vatican City,
Venezuela,
West Bank (Palestinian territory),
Zambia
Places I Want to Go
India, New Zealand, Madagascar, Santorini, Machu Picchu, Gombe National Park (Tanzania), Sealand, International Space Station.
Things I Enjoy
Pi, travel, photography, change, Van Gogh, Pablo Neruda, Henryk Górecki, Arvo Pärt, Astor Piazzolla, dogs, penguins, teaching, dancing, statistics and data mining, Barolo and Barbaresco, the OpenACS logo, vegetarianism, singing karaoke with my sister Hedy.
How I would spend my time if I didn't have a day job.
Goals
Live on all continents, speak 4 languages fluently, do important work (it doesn't matter which field the work is in) and write and teach about it.
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