Entrepreneur at the Intersection of Media, Tech & Consumer Brands
Founder, The New Savant · Former Google, Twitter, Vox Media, CBS News
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For two decades, I’ve built my career at the intersection of media, technology, and consumer brands, with roles at Twitter, Google, Vox Media, CBS News, and MTV News. In 2020, I co-founded The New Savant, an independent fragrance company I lead as CEO. Bootstrapping the business has meant operating across every dimension of the company—from finance, supply chain, and product development to brand marketing, retail relationships, and long-term strategy.
Previously, I served as Executive Producer for Kara Swisher at Vox Media, where I oversaw her flagship shows Recode Decode and Pivot. During that time, I helped grow Pivot from a once-weekly show to twice weekly, and worked closely with Kara, Scott and the team to refine the segments and format that helped shape it into a defining forum for conversations about tech, media, and power.
At Google, I worked on a small, cross-company team addressing one of the platform’s most complex challenges: the evolving relationship between technology platforms and the news industry. As part of Google News Lab, I led global initiatives to combat misinformation and elevate high-quality journalism across Google’s product surfaces, collaborating with newsroom leaders and product teams across six continents.
Before that, I was at Twitter. As one of the company’s first 300 employees, I helped shape its early global news strategy—building tools for journalists, contributing to key acquisitions like TweetDeck, and co-founding the company’s internal LGBTQ+ employee group. And honestly, having a lot of fun along the way.
Earlier in my career, I worked with Katie Couric at CBS, who gave me a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help integrate Twitter into her reporting and newsroom workflow. Prior to that, I covered the 2008 presidential election for MTV News.
While covering the 2008 election for MTV News, I was also working full-time at Spectrum Science Communications, a public affairs firm in Washington, D.C. that took a chance on me and gave me my first job out of college.
I’m a Hoosier and former Little 500 cyclist who now calls Brooklyn home (where else?). Most days you’ll find me at the co-op, riding my single speed across the boroughs, or in the seats of whatever theater production I can get tickets to.
Building The New Savant
In 2020, I co-founded The New Savant with former YouTube creator Ingrid Nilsen. Since then, we’ve built a competitive fragrance brand from the ground up—reaching thousands of customers, achieving above-average retention, and securing placement in a national retail chain. Our obsessive focus on making fragrance more interesting and relatable has earned press in The New York Times, The Cut, Vogue, Business Insider, and more.