Work
A record of the roles, products, and protocols I've built.
experience
Product Lead
Jul 2024 – Present xLabs / Wormhole · Remote
- · Owned product strategy of validator business launching on 6 chains, locking in $40M+ AuM in first 120 days
- · Authored Wormhole NTT playbook, a standardized framework cutting new partner onboarding by 73%
- · Integrated Threshold Signature Scheme into Wormhole in 6 months, cut 95% of gas costs for cross-chain txs
- · Spearheaded relayer build (concept to launch), reduced wallets maintained by 50% and at risk funds by 80%
- · Led asset onboarding for Portal bridge adding 70+ new token listings
Head of Product & BD
Mar 2021 – Aug 2023 DMA Labs / ICHI · Remote
- · Built vault product (Uniswap v3 liquidity management system focused on minimizing IL) from idea to launch
- · Launched 40+ ICHI Vaults with partner companies/DAOs locking in over $100M in tokens
- · Implemented a lending market on Rari Capital with AuM reaching $600M+ (2nd largest at the time)
- · Built 10+ community-backed stablecoins with crypto teams (Chainlink, Uniswap, Shapeshift), m. cap of $80M+
- · Raised $2M+ in grants from Solana, Moonbeam, Polygon, and Flow to launch ICHI stablecoins on their L1s
- · Redesigned UX/UI on app.ichi.org increasing deposits by 32% MoM
- · Led team of 4 BDs in crypto growth strategy focused on foundation forums, Discord, Telegram
Product Manager
Oct 2018 – Feb 2021 IBM Enterprise Blockchain · New York
- · Owned market strategy and development of the IBM Blockchain VS Code extension installed by over 60,000 developers
- · Spearheaded development team building Red Hat integrations, bringing the CodeReady Workspaces product to market within three months enabling remote IDE access and simplifying cross-geo team functionality
- · Led blockchain competitive analysis across global IBM teams encompassing running hour-long monthly enablement calls and building competitive market resources used in over 80% of deal-winning client engagements
- · Headed development lifecycle of open source integrations including bringing IBM Blockchain Platform’s Ansible collections for automating infrastructure creation to market within a quarter
- · Created a go-to-market strategy and financial models to competitively price the blockchain platform leading to wider adoption of the product including initial adoption increases of 31%
- · Owned the Client Feedback Loop across Blockchain Platform deployments, retaining the highest Net Promoter Score (NPS) across all IBM Hybrid Cloud products in July 2020
- · Mentor at IBM Blockchain Accelerator: discovered promising early stage founders and companies from leading NYC universities, interviewed and onboarded teams, and helped them develop their technology stack and business model
Quantitative Analyst
Jun 2016 – Aug 2016 I Know First · Tel Aviv
- · Implemented dominant day-trading strategies, utilizing both bullish and bearish positions, to increase client portfolio returns from 30.5% to 45.2% over an eight-month simulation period
- · Analyzed proprietary stock predicting algorithm’s performance and implemented strategy to increase it by over 10%
- · Evaluated hourly trading strategies, taking into account slippage and commission on individual securities to strengthen long-term portfolio success through personalized schedule functions
- · Simulated market forecast models that statistically evaluate daily investment scenarios using Quantopian
Investment Intern
Nov 2014 – Apr 2015 OurCrowd (VC) · New York
- · Conducted due diligence on promising fintech-focused, early-stage teams based in Israel and NYC
- · Developed investor ranking reports and new rolodex for US investor expansion as first intern in the NYC office
- · Prepared quarterly reports for portfolio companies providing analytics and suggested market opportunities
