who
about
Co-founder & Chief Scientist of Iterable. San Francisco.
I co-founded Iterable in 2013, out of a small office in downtown San Francisco. We wanted to give any company the kind of personalized customer messaging that, back then, took a team of engineers to pull off.
A decade on, it runs communication for more than 1,200 incredible brands around the world. I've held many jobs along the way: President through the early years, then CEO & President from 2021 to 2025, the stretch where we crossed both $100M and $200M in annual recurring revenue. In mid-2025 I handed off the CEO job and became Chief Scientist, which means I spend my days on technical problems again. Mostly that means Nova, our AI agent.
Before Iterable I was on Google's AdSense team, and before that I studied Business, Computer Science, and Information Systems at Boston College. Free time lately goes to AI experimentation and security research.
Email me if you want to talk about agents or browser security, or just to say hi.
the arc
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The Boston Globe ran my op-ed arguing the city kept losing its founders to Silicon Valley.
- age 22
- The Boston Globe
read the op-edI wrote it having just taken a Google offer in the Valley myself, and signed off with a promise to come back and help the Boston scene. Reader, I co-founded Iterable in San Francisco two years later. Right about the pull of the Valley, wrong about where I’d end up.
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Left Google and started the company in a small office in downtown San Francisco.
- left Google
- downtown SF
the companyThe pitch: give every brand the personalized, data-driven messaging that, back then, only the giants could afford. The word I used — and still use — is democratize.
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Eight people, the first outside believers, and a product we’d describe far more ambitiously today.
- $1.2M
- 8 people
TechCrunchTechCrunch still called us an “email marketing startup.” CRV wrote the first check and stayed with us for the decade that followed.
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By now the platform orchestrated messaging well beyond email. Cross-channel growth was the story.
- $60M
- cross-channel
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Became CEO and announced a $200M Series E the same month.
- $200M Series E
- CEO
- past $200M ARR
the announcementThe round was led by Silver Lake, alongside CRV, Viking, and others who’d backed us for years. We crossed $100M, then $200M in annual recurring revenue. I wrote “Focusing on the Future, Together” on taking the seat — the parts I’d still sign in ink are about leading with humility and the original mission.
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Handed off the CEO job and became Founder & Chief Scientist — back on the hard technical problems.
- Nova
- MCP server
- 1,200+ brands
NovaMost days now are Nova, Iterable’s AI agent — taking the mechanical half of a marketer’s job so the strategy stays with people. I also helped build Iterable’s official MCP server, so an assistant can talk to an Iterable account in plain English.
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Reported a use-after-free in Chrome’s FileSystem to Google’s Vulnerability Reward Program.
- CVE-2026-10886
- Critical
the advisoryGoogle rated it Critical — the most serious tier Chrome uses — and shipped the fix in Chrome 149. My name landed in the Chrome Releases bulletin, which was not a venue I expected. The anchor finding for the VRP work I do on the side.