David Wolfe

Advising early-stage and growth-stage companies on product strategy, leveraging AI, organizational design, growth, and analytics. - Working with companies in the B-C people search space focused on growth through retention improvement - Led a core team through bankruptcy, maintaining revenue break-even before asset sale. - Rearchitected payment processing platform, boosting acceptance rates by 20% - Developed strategies for market pivots and retention measurement in various startups.

Led product and technology for a digital ad marketplace. Focused on auction optimization, reinforcement learning, and large-scale data modeling. - Engineered real-time ad matching systems optimizing ROAS across billions of transactions - Scaled auction infrastructure to support multi-million daily ad impressions - Developed and productized ROI optimization algorithm for advertisers using machine learning (XGBoost model). In 6 months was responsible for 63% of ad spend on platform - Built and led cross-functional teams across engineering, product, and analytics

Drove product, growth marketing, and analytics to position Goldbelly as the leading food e-commerce marketplace. - Doubled GMV and monthly active users - Led data-driven product redesign and customer acquisition strategy - Defined and operationalized LTV and CAC metrics across channels - Part of team that built a personalized recommendation engine that increased frequency of purchase by 250%

Transformed a horror focused niche video service from MVP to high-growth business (Sold to Cinedigm) - Quadrupled subscribers and raised $1.5M$ in funding - Launched across Amazon, Sony PlayStation, and OTT platforms - 200% increase in CLV and optimized customer acquisition funnel - Developed umbrella strategy for multiple niche brands (SuperFan Network)

Led digital product and tech for people search and identity platform. - Streamlined development workflows, introduced agile/lean process, org design, and culture - Released “IdentityHub” product , for managing digital reputation, which, 3 months after release was responsible for 60% of new subscription sales - Built a pricing model test platform with which we discovered new subscription and upsell models that lifted ARPU by 27%

Led online product initiatives for financial intelligence platform. - Developed NLP tools for summarizing and surfacing market data - Drove UX and digital strategy for hedge fund and institutional clients - Launched prosumer online channel targeting non-professional investors. Responsible for 20 % of revenue 6 months after launch

Grew local services marketplace to be 3rd largest competitor behind Groupon & LivingSocial - Scaled product management, engineering, BI, and UX from zero - Drove social commerce innovation and mobile-first strategy - “BuyWithThree” viral marketing strategy responsible for 32% of sales - Led $16M VC raise; company acquired by Gilt Group. Promoted to be COO

Oversaw digital products for one of the largest African-American media networks. - Revamped top 10 social network, BlackPlanet.com - Increased monthly visitation by 40% - Implemented OpenSocial and built developer community on BP - Added virtual goods to BlackPlanet. Generated 20% of revenue 6 months after release - Managed team of 100+ across engineering, product, design, and analytics

Oversaw products/platform and participated in sale of early music streaming subscription platform to BestBuy - Co-led $121M sale to Best Buy - Developed hybrid music streaming/download model - First to market with Iphone music streaming app - Designed award winning user interface - used AI techniques (collaborative filtering) to improve music recommendation system - Implemented agile transformation across 8 product teams which moved release cycle from monthly to weekly

Lead product-driven growth at early high school focused social network - Scaled revenue from $4M to $60M - Built hyper personalized, high volume data driven email notification platform that generated 55% of revenue - Built long-tail SEO platform that published 300M public profiles to Google/Bing and generated 15M visitors/month - Scaled product development organization from 5 to 75 and implemented a high performant agile/lean process/culture/org model - Led rebrand and product overhaul from Reunion.com to Mylife.com

Interests included: Cognitive Science, Logic, Mathematical Logic, Formal Semantics