Building the GTM engine at Rime. Based in San Francisco.
I'm VP of Revenue at Rime, a frontier speech synthesis lab building the voice models that power AI agents at scale. We're deploying our models into some of the largest enterprises in the world (United Airlines, Domino's, Mayo Clinic, AT&T), where latency, reliability, and how human a voice sounds are really all the same problem. I took over GTM from our technical founders and have been scaling the commercial engine from the ground up.
Before Rime, I spent a decade building 0→1 commercial arms at high-growth software companies: FinTech at Pave, DevOps at OneSignal, and MarTech at HYP3R. I keep moving across industries on purpose. I'm fascinated by how new categories find their commercial shape, and I'd rather learn a new market every few years than settle into one.
I got started early. I joined Apple at 16, back when the iTunes Video Store was the virtual Fandango of its day. I sat next to people who taught me what attention to detail, craft, storytelling, and negotiation actually look like in practice. Those lessons have stayed with me ever since. I grew up in Silicon Valley, surrounded by people building things, and always loved problem-solving more than any specific subject. I studied Quantitative Economics at Duke, but business development found me at the intersection of product and the commercial side, and I haven't looked back.
Things I've put out into the world: writing, podcasts, the occasional take. More on the way.
A few things I keep coming back to:
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