About Me

I am currently a Director at Microsoft, focused on building the global partner-led GTM strategy for GitHub Copilot and the AI developer tool suite. I'm passionate about empowering the ecosystem of citizen developers. My previous role was with M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, on the Portfolio Development team covering Artificial Intelligence. I had the amazing job of working with our founders to solve operating challenges and help expand their businesses. I also had the chance to lead M12's relationship with OpenAI and internal AI teams. In addition, I was an active board member holding the M12 board observer seat for 8 portfolio companies over my tenure.

Outside of my work at M12, I have had extensive involvement in the startup ecosystem, as a Limited Partner at Rhino Ventures in Vancouver, a mentor at Techstars Seattle, and angel investor in multiple startups. I have also been a business advisor for the Women in Cloud organization, represented Microsoft at TechTO's pitch nights, and a volunteer and board advisor for MontrealNewTech.

I am fortunate to have spent my career meeting and working with amazing people every day. I have had the opportunity to work, study, volunteer, and travel to over 70 countries including living in Canada (home), France, Singapore, Switzerland, Ecuador, and in the USA.

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FAQ

What tech trends are you excited about?

Empowering the Citizen Developer (AI Dev Tools): The growing role of the citizen developer is an area I'm watching closely. Code assistants have removed the primary barrier to software development. Putting accessible development tools directly into the hands of domain experts allows those closest to the business problems to build their own software solutions, which is a massive opportunity for innovation. Perfecting workflows is the next step (versus just chat to code), but agents can potentially help there.

Action based workflows (Autonomous Agents): The ability for the application, or AI agent in this case, to move beyond chatbot and take actions on behalf of the user is another area I am excited about. While there are a lot of great demos for browser based agents, and regressive coding agents, there are still many problems to be solved to have agents that can accurately and consistently complete workflows.

Real Time Voice Architecture (Voice to Voice): I'm particularly interested in the potential of advanced voice technology as a more natural way to interact with applications. There is work to be done all through the technology stack make voice models more performant and efficient. In addition, at the application layer, the user interface and how voice is blended with traditional UI also has lots of potential.

What are your technology interest areas?

Artificial Intelligence: Generative AI has been my primary focus and I have had the chance to interact with companies across the entire AI tech stack. Starting with cloud infrastructure (Dmatrix), Models (OpenAI, Nixtla, Fastino), data platform and LLMops (Arize, Unstructured), Applications (Typeface) and Agents (Workspan).

Developer Tools: Because I have been testing out the tools myself, I spend a lot of time looking at the platforms, frameworks, and infrastructure that empower teams to build, deploy, and scale software more effectively. My interest spans across the entire SDLC lifecycle and how it can be streamlined by AI. Examples of startups I have worked with include Paralog.ai, Arize.com, inworld.ai.

Business Applications: Software the cuts across the lines of business and enables them to operate more efficiently such as marketing tech, sales tech, strategy tech, etc. Examples of AI startups I have worked with in these areas Typeface, Workspan, and Brev.io.