Ambassador - New York

Social entrepreneur, social business architect, and connector-at-large chiselling away proverbial walls and silos to enable and impel people driving meaningful impact.

Founder of MediaWire, providing advisory, facilitation, training, and coaching services in digital media and social strategy and building lean startups. Social business strategy + Lean venture development.

StartingBloc NY’12 Social Innovation Fellow

Current business ventures:

• The Coding Tree – cultivating disruptive technological innovation through agile and living software development
• Pixelle – online marketplace for emerging art around the world
• CXM – permissions-based customer experience management platform for retailers to engage one-on-one with customers
• Synthescape – high-resolution digital imaging technology for museums and private galleries
• couplewise – web and mobile-based application to help improve one’s close relationships
• iFunding – crowdfunding platform for direct equity investment in real estate

Projects and campaigns:

• Plan Buffalo-Niagara – campaign to provide tools for community-based regeneration in the Buffalo-Niagara region
• Green Economy Think Tank [GETT] NYC – think/do-tank bringing together the business community in New York City for a more bearable, viable, and equitable (hence sustainable) local economy
• Sandy Storyline – web platform for survivors of Hurricane Sandy volunteers for relief and recovery to share stories to produce a collective narrative

Consulting availabile for:

• Social business – social media, digital strategy (branding/marketing/product), community management/online engagement
• Social enterprise – corporate social responsibility, sustainability, social impact ventures
• New business development – start-ups, small businesses, marketing/sales