Ben is a customer-obsessed technology executive and product leader who seamlessly bridges the worlds of business, product, and technology. He has repeated success leading cross-functional teams at multiple lifecycle stages, from 3x startup founder, to scaling through hypergrowth, to managing mature ...
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Ben is a customer-obsessed technology executive and product leader who seamlessly bridges the worlds of business, product, and technology. He has repeated success leading cross-functional teams at multiple lifecycle stages, from 3x startup founder, to scaling through hypergrowth, to managing mature lines of business.
Leadership:
In 7 years at Twilio, Ben was GM of multiple business units (Developer Experience, Enterprise), Product Director for text messaging, and Head of R and QuitCarbon, an AI platform to transition 100M homes off fossil fuels.
Tech Background:
His early experience was building high availability, distributed software for B2B customers with a focus on data and security. At Bloomberg LP, Ben developed on their trading system and first search engine. At ShadowTV he transcoded and streamed 100s of terabytes of video data for government and corporate customers. And as a Visiting Scientist at Cornell, he developed medical imaging software for lung cancer screening.
Fun Stuff:
Ben earned a BS in Electrical and Biological Engineering and a Master's in Medical Image Processing at Cornell University. His is passionate about fighting the climate crisis and local STEAM education. He lives in Oakland CA with his wife and two sons. In off hours, he can usually be found coding Ruby, biking, playing basketball, solving cryptic crosswords, listening to Audible, or losing at pub trivia.
He was one of the leading pioneers who shaped how nonprofits use text messaging for advocacy, fundraising, and organizing. He is an investor/advisor at tech startups Art19 (acquired by Amazon), Sesh, Private.ai, Propel Data, Mind-X (acquired by Blackrock), and Earthforce.
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