In 2012 I founded the Inkkas company (www.inkkas.com) and successfully scaled the company from zero into a multi-million dollar brand and then sold the company in 2016 to celebrity investor Marcus Lemonis. The process of launching and scaling a new Ecommerce brand from scratch was riddled with many challenges along the way. Some of the major challenges included branding, go-to-market strategy, fulfillment, sourcing, web design & development, customer acquisition, paid advertising, conversion rate optimization and more. Along with my founding team, we were able to overcome every obstacle and devise a customer acquisition strategy the led to success.

The challenge was differentiating American Eagle Outfitters from its competitors in the teen specialty retail space as well as keeping all social media channels fresh and unique to increase followers, engagement and traffic to the website.

The RootsTech conference is the largest genealogy conference in the world. For the first 10 years, the conference was held in Salt Lake City, UT as an in-person conference with only 40k attendees. When the pandemic hit, the challenge was how to take an in-person conference, make it virtual and expand the global footprint of the business.

Breakr is a brand new creator to creator marketplace that connects musicians looking to promote new music with content creators/influencers looking to integrate music into their content as a way to monetize their social capital across platforms. As a brand new app / platform with a duel consumer target, my role as Head of Marketing + Growth was to grow our user base to provide proof of concept and product market fit by developing a robust brand and growth hacking strategy .