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CEO & CPO
Franklin, USA
Worldwide
MBA Finance & Economics (Chicago Booth), BS Mathematics & Actuarial Science (University of Iowa)Actuarial ScienceArtificial IntelligenceData AnalysisAugmented RealityAutodesk InventorSoftware as a ServiceConsultingContent CreationLearning Management SystemsText EditingDue DiligenceE-CommerceEconomyFinancesField Service Management
3 decades at the intersection of capital and computing currently operating across Private Equity funds.
Sean grew up in a small town in Iowa where Gateway Computers was founded. He was fortunate enough to have one of his own, access the internet, and start creating internet technologies at a young age. Looking back, it set the course for his professional life, and he now seeks to make a positive impact on others and their businesses.
- Private Equity: Owner, Executive, Product & Tech due diligence + post-close value creation
- VC Startups: Owner, CEO, Executive
- Public Companies: Board and Executive advisor (wtwco.com Fortune 500 clients), Product executive (Angi / Home Advisor / Handy)
SaaS & Tech Experience
- Stories Media format: co-inventor, open-sourced, and commercialized, with billions of active users globally
- 20 Private Equity tech portfolio companies: SAAS, FinTech, PropTech, video, messaging, ecommerce, hardware, software, self-driving, IT, Analytics, marketplaces, talent networks, energy, etc
AR Experience
- Spatial computing: first blockchain transaction on a Magic Leap device, pick and pack warehousing
- Content Experiences: merging 2D and 3D content for higher social virality and engagement (existing social and stored on new AR maps)
- Hardware: industrial augmented reality for field services
AI Experience
- Math undergrad
- Video, Sound, Stories, Real Estate, Enterprise SAAS, Emotion, Social, Robotics, Trading, Health Care
Blockchain Experience
- Early: exposed to Bitcoin in 2013
- Buy Bitcoin: all payment methods, 16K locations in the real world and virtual world
- Fractionalized assets: a platform for consumers to invest in fractionalized collectible cars
Patent Filings
- Artificial connectomes (foundational AI model Biologic Intelligence, autonomous robotics)
- Personalized video channels (AI for video)
- Mobile live streaming (video)
- Connected cars (video streaming)
- Collective intelligence (content creation, nested content document editor and reader)
- Multi-modal generative AI (gaming)
- Text-to-video generative AI (storytelling)
Education
- Mathematics & Actuarial Science, University of Iowa
- Finance & Economics, Chicago Booth
If you need high-performance advisory and execution help, reach out at https://evergence.team
Enterprise SAAS, Video, FinTech, Messaging, Investing, Payments, Marketplace, Talent Networks, PropTech, Field Services, Social, eCommerce, Generative AI, Augmented Reality, Spatial Computing, Blockchain, Bitcoin, LMS, Survey, Policy, Sharepoint
Sean grew up in a small town in Iowa where Gateway Computers was founded. He was fortunate enough to have one of his own, access the internet, and start creating internet technologies at a young age. Looking back, it set the course for his professional life, and he now seeks to make a positive impact on others and their businesses.
- Private Equity: Owner, Executive, Product & Tech due diligence + post-close value creation
- VC Startups: Owner, CEO, Executive
- Public Companies: Board and Executive advisor (wtwco.com Fortune 500 clients), Product executive (Angi / Home Advisor / Handy)
SaaS & Tech Experience
- Stories Media format: co-inventor, open-sourced, and commercialized, with billions of active users globally
- 20 Private Equity tech portfolio companies: SAAS, FinTech, PropTech, video, messaging, ecommerce, hardware, software, self-driving, IT, Analytics, marketplaces, talent networks, energy, etc
AR Experience
- Spatial computing: first blockchain transaction on a Magic Leap device, pick and pack warehousing
- Content Experiences: merging 2D and 3D content for higher social virality and engagement (existing social and stored on new AR maps)
- Hardware: industrial augmented reality for field services
AI Experience
- Math undergrad
- Video, Sound, Stories, Real Estate, Enterprise SAAS, Emotion, Social, Robotics, Trading, Health Care
Blockchain Experience
- Early: exposed to Bitcoin in 2013
- Buy Bitcoin: all payment methods, 16K locations in the real world and virtual world
- Fractionalized assets: a platform for consumers to invest in fractionalized collectible cars
Patent Filings
- Artificial connectomes (foundational AI model Biologic Intelligence, autonomous robotics)
- Personalized video channels (AI for video)
- Mobile live streaming (video)
- Connected cars (video streaming)
- Collective intelligence (content creation, nested content document editor and reader)
- Multi-modal generative AI (gaming)
- Text-to-video generative AI (storytelling)
Education
- Mathematics & Actuarial Science, University of Iowa
- Finance & Economics, Chicago Booth
If you need high-performance advisory and execution help, reach out at https://evergence.team
Enterprise SAAS, Video, FinTech, Messaging, Investing, Payments, Marketplace, Talent Networks, PropTech, Field Services, Social, eCommerce, Generative AI, Augmented Reality, Spatial Computing, Blockchain, Bitcoin, LMS, Survey, Policy, Sharepoint
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2011
Languages
EnglishNative speaker
Project history
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We’re award-winning creative and tech executives, accredited investors, and 3x venture-backed Founders with an insatiable passion for empowering values-based, innovative businesses along their journey to global adoption and brand affinity.
Learn more about our Gen AI product management solutions, or how our pitch deck, financial model, and messaging can help your business at https://evergence.team
Piksel [$100M Global Video Streaming Platform]
* Led a successful Private Equity-backed turnaround across five countries by transforming
monolithic video streaming products, building a new microservices-based product, and
jump-starting sales through partnerships and UX redesigns
* Results: 450M monthly views, 4M+ monthly vid mins, Netflix in a Box 1+ million MAUS,
reduced error rate on the decade-old LAMP stack from 10% to 0.1%, increased uptime from
99% to 99.99%
* Customers: ESPN, AT&T UVerse, Volkswagen, BSkyB, Channel 4/5, Liberty Global, Faith-based
organizations
* Products: Rebuilt and integrated multiple products including a mid-roll ads editor, redesign
of a white label web console, new HTML5 players, Android/iOS mobile apps, Roku apps, Sony
T2 Playstation app, linear playout scheduler and electronic programming guide, UGC
approvals, new real-time and historical video analytics, Netflix in a Box, MCN portal, online
help portal, internationalization features, new APIs, transcoding engine
* Patents: personalized video channel, mobile live streaming, video in connected car
Founder, CEO & Chief Product Officer
High-Growth Startups [Social, Mobile, AdTech, FinTech]
* StoryApp: Invented and commercialized the Stories media format now used by billions of
consumers daily, recruited a world-class team who now works for Apple, Adobe, Illumination,
Rackspace, Hasbro, Amazon, and partnered with Carnegie Mellon Robotics Lab, and Israeli
emotion from voice AI practitioners
* PLYFE: Launched a v1 gamified advertising product, resulting in 50,000 users earning 210
million points
* Evolyte: Concepted and shipped early products for group text messaging (SMS), anonymous
chat (web), weather and stock notifications, mobile watch faces (iOS), and 3D spatial tracking
of golf swings (iPadOS)
* BlueStone Investments: Returned +43% to the market benchmark by creating a highfrequency
algorithmic trading platform on AWS and partnering with financial engineering
colleges
* Led a successful Private Equity-backed turnaround across five countries by transforming
monolithic video streaming products, building a new microservices-based product, and
jump-starting sales through partnerships and UX redesigns
* Results: 450M monthly views, 4M+ monthly vid mins, Netflix in a Box 1+ million MAUS,
reduced error rate on the decade-old LAMP stack from 10% to 0.1%, increased uptime from
99% to 99.99%
* Customers: ESPN, AT&T UVerse, Volkswagen, BSkyB, Channel 4/5, Liberty Global, Faith-based
organizations
* Products: Rebuilt and integrated multiple products including a mid-roll ads editor, redesign
of a white label web console, new HTML5 players, Android/iOS mobile apps, Roku apps, Sony
T2 Playstation app, linear playout scheduler and electronic programming guide, UGC
approvals, new real-time and historical video analytics, Netflix in a Box, MCN portal, online
help portal, internationalization features, new APIs, transcoding engine
* Patents: personalized video channel, mobile live streaming, video in connected car
Founder, CEO & Chief Product Officer
High-Growth Startups [Social, Mobile, AdTech, FinTech]
* StoryApp: Invented and commercialized the Stories media format now used by billions of
consumers daily, recruited a world-class team who now works for Apple, Adobe, Illumination,
Rackspace, Hasbro, Amazon, and partnered with Carnegie Mellon Robotics Lab, and Israeli
emotion from voice AI practitioners
* PLYFE: Launched a v1 gamified advertising product, resulting in 50,000 users earning 210
million points
* Evolyte: Concepted and shipped early products for group text messaging (SMS), anonymous
chat (web), weather and stock notifications, mobile watch faces (iOS), and 3D spatial tracking
of golf swings (iPadOS)
* BlueStone Investments: Returned +43% to the market benchmark by creating a highfrequency
algorithmic trading platform on AWS and partnering with financial engineering
colleges
Evergence [Product Management Services]
* Grew North Star Metrics (Revenue, AUM, EBITDA) by 15% to 90% per month through
customer development and aligning cross-functional teams with growth-driver dashboards
* Responsible for product management, design, engineering, QA, and growth for clients
* Performed ~20 Private Equity product & tech due diligences and post-close value creation for
the Board as an advisor and interim product executive to drive M&A integrations with 3 to 15
different products in the portfolio
* Served in executive roles as COO, CPO, and Head of Product, focusing on leveraging creative
product management and competitive strategy for EBITDA growth.
* Clients included Google, Amazon, BASF, Angi/Home Advisor/Handy, Forbes/Q.ai,
Gembah, Crosslake, and many middle-market companies and high-growth startups
* Product expertise includes AI/Gen AI, FinTech, PropTech, SAAS, Video, Robotics, Social,
Media, HealthCare, eCommerce, AR/VR, Bitcoin/Blockchain/Web3, and many others
* Developed financial models and pitch decks to help owners with fundraising, market size
expansion, and product-growth strategy/roadmapping
* Filed patents for biologic intelligence, collective intelligence, multi-modal generative AI,
personalized video channels, mobile live streaming, connected car
* Executed strategic partnerships with top-tier firms in banking, law, software development,
sales, and marketing to enhance product offerings and market capture.
* Grew North Star Metrics (Revenue, AUM, EBITDA) by 15% to 90% per month through
customer development and aligning cross-functional teams with growth-driver dashboards
* Responsible for product management, design, engineering, QA, and growth for clients
* Performed ~20 Private Equity product & tech due diligences and post-close value creation for
the Board as an advisor and interim product executive to drive M&A integrations with 3 to 15
different products in the portfolio
* Served in executive roles as COO, CPO, and Head of Product, focusing on leveraging creative
product management and competitive strategy for EBITDA growth.
* Clients included Google, Amazon, BASF, Angi/Home Advisor/Handy, Forbes/Q.ai,
Gembah, Crosslake, and many middle-market companies and high-growth startups
* Product expertise includes AI/Gen AI, FinTech, PropTech, SAAS, Video, Robotics, Social,
Media, HealthCare, eCommerce, AR/VR, Bitcoin/Blockchain/Web3, and many others
* Developed financial models and pitch decks to help owners with fundraising, market size
expansion, and product-growth strategy/roadmapping
* Filed patents for biologic intelligence, collective intelligence, multi-modal generative AI,
personalized video channels, mobile live streaming, connected car
* Executed strategic partnerships with top-tier firms in banking, law, software development,
sales, and marketing to enhance product offerings and market capture.