Award-winning creative leader with extensive experience in growing high-growth start-ups and consumer tech brands.
Hands-on creative leader with +12 years of experience building brands, functions and teams at high-growth start-ups and consumer tech brands. Proven track record of leading data-driven creative strategy, performance brand campaigns, and marketing experiences that align with business goals. Experienced in building and guiding design teams.
Areas of Expertise
Developing growth-first creative strategy · Champions creative as a growth engine—relentlessly testing, refining, and optimizing to achieve and exceed performance-driven sales goals.
Building start-up brands · Expert in building brands from the ground up—from teams to design systems, visual identity and brand strategy to messaging and verbal guidelines—in high energy, fast-paced and fast-growth environments.
Scaling DTC & subscription models · Developed impactful creative strategy in partnership with high growth marketing initiatives to drive subscription. Partnered with eCommerce teams to optimize for the consumer experience.
Leading product launches · Led the development and market launch of nine hardware products in 7.5 years, spanning pet tech, pet food, and health & wellness. Expertise in product identity, brand systems, packaging, and asset development to drive product differentiation and sustained commercial success.
People-first leadership · Low-ego leader who inspires teams to strive for design excellence and drives team culture, prioritizing ‘we’ over ‘me.’ Highly collaborative across teams, functions, agencies, and stakeholders.
Experience
Shopify Creative Lead · 2024 - present
It’s Bodily Creative Director · 2023 - 2024
Hatch Creative Director · 2020 - 2023
Whistle Labs Creative Director · 2016 - 2020
Eargo Art Director · 2015 - 2016
MMB Networks Sr. Marketing Designer · 2014 - 2015
Kobo Marketing Designer · 2011 - 2014
AWARDS
2022 CES Editors' Choice Award, HATCH
2020 CES Editors' Choice Award, WHISTLE
2019 Creative Media Awards 2019, PUPPO
2017 The Creative Awards Shortlist, WHISTLE
2017 The Drum, Creative Awards Shortlist, WHISTLE
2017 Ad Age, Editor's Pick, WHISTLE
2016 Clio Awards Gold, EARGO
2016 AD&D Wood Pencil, EARGO