I set up the machinery a startup runs on.

Venture studio — conceives, funds and builds AI and data companies.

Investment & Formation Operations Lead Reported to a General Partner

• Owned the Signal program’s early-stage operating cadence — designed founder check-in schedules, coordinated formation mechanics and orchestrated portfolio company presentations to the Hive community.
• Built and ran investment screening and diligence for a General Partner: sourcing structure, first-pass screens, diligence memos. Standardized the workflows and increased inbound deal flow.
• Partnered directly with portfolio founders as a thought partner on business plans, financial models and decks.
• Coordinated cap table and formation diligence with finance, managed prioritization and scheduling for a GP, and represented super{set} at two large-scale events scouting founders.

• Deal flow
• Diligence memos
• Entity formation
• Cap table
• Founder support

Seed-stage biotech — novel therapeutics for diseases onset by aging.

BizOps Lead · Founding Team 3 years · 2 remote, 1 in-person · Reported to CEO

• Established the corporate entity, payroll, EOR and compliance stack in under 5 weeks, enabling rapid hiring and a $5M SAFE close.
• Owned GTM for NEEL (neelgel.com): negotiated supplier costs down 50% on volume, launched on Shopify and Amazon, and grew revenue to $250K in under 18 months at a blended paid-media ACOS under 15%.
• Integrated Zendesk and unified support across email, social and e-commerce — median response under 1 hour, 4.8-star CX.
• Ran every administrative function of the company: spend, payroll and benefits, travel, tax and employer compliance.

• Entity & compliance
• Payroll / EOR
• GTM
• Shopify & Amazon
• Support ops
• Finance admin

Series-A startup — manufactures and sells an innovative range of LED lighting products.

Lead Project Manager · Systems 3 years · Reported to CEO

• Led manufacturing automation — QR-based tracking and robotic testing — cutting defect rate from 2% to under 1% for $1M in savings to date.
• Collaborated with a team of 5 engineers: 2 backend, 1 frontend-web, 1 Android, 1 iOS.
• Built a suite of native Android and iOS apps for supply chain and sales, adopted by 97% of field sales staff; lifted channel margin over 20% and improved demand-forecast accuracy over 30% by capturing live channel inventory.

• Manufacturing automation
• Mobile product
• Supply chain
• Channel sales
• Forecasting