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TURNING FRONTIER TECHNOLOGY INTO CATEGORY-DEFINING BUSINESSES.

Commercial executive and founder. The operating leader founders, boards, and CEOs trust, and the founder and CEO who has sat in their seat, across media, entertainment, music, film, sports, gaming, social media, the creator economy, wellness, and AI.

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Based in San Francisco. Lived and launched on five continents.

WHY ANGEL

START WITH THE EXECUTIVE. EVERYTHING ELSE FOLLOWS.

Angel commercializes frontier technology, as a senior executive inside the world’s defining companies and as a founder taking companies from day one to exit, across major technology waves, from streaming, social, digital music, and mobile to cloud, smart mobility, frontier brain and mental health, and now generative AI.

People want to work with her for one reason: she delivers outsized outcomes. Her edge is trust, judgment, and taste. New technology gets adopted when someone the industry trusts shows how it makes the business better, and she has been that person, in the room where the decision is hard and in the seat carrying the whole company.

$2B+

in brand partnerships, enterprise deals, and M&A, buy and sell side

4+1

4 exits plus 1 public listing, as founder or founding executive

$1B+

Aggregate P&L led

40k+

customers onboarded in a year, AWS Startups and Activate

6

global platforms built and scaled

263k+

TEDx views · BAFTA and BRIT award-winning teams led

ON RECORD

RAN. BUILT. ADVISING. STAGE.

RAN

Global platforms across media, music, retail, mobility, and cloud.

โ€‹Principal of Startups at AWS, 40,000+ new customers in under a year. General Manager, Smart Mobility at Castrol, building ventures with BP’s corporate venture arms. SVP, Innovation at Westfield, then the world’s largest retail owner-operator. Chief Commercial Officer at Napster, expanding it from consumer into platform-as-a-service leading to the sale of the company. Senior executive at MTV/Viacom/Paramount, running the largest business outside the US. Senior leader at the BBC, launching its first streaming, on-demand, and mobile platforms and building and shipping the MVP that became BBC iPlayer.

BUILT

Founder and founding executive, day one to exit.

Founder and CEO, Sensai, an AI content agent for social media, serving Grammy Award-winning artists, professional athletes, and high-profile creators, built in 2016, before today’s foundation models. Former Chief Product Officer, Ellipsis Health, AI voice mental health biomarkers piloted with Cigna and Headspace. Founding Global VP, Music and Content at Bebo, the social media company acquired by AOL Time Warner. Founding executive at Gameplay through the public listing, Founder of The Alchemy, acquired by Ford, Board Member and business development executive at Sonico, acquired by IAC, and Founding CMO of AutoWeb, acquired by Autobytel. Founding Partner at the Co-Created and Prehype venture studios behind BarkBox, Ro, and Managed by Q.

ADVISING

GTM, growth, and M&A.

Senior Advisor, Nfluence Partners, capital formation across sports, media, music, entertainment, the creator economy, and wellness technologies. Senior Advisor, PsyMed Ventures, frontier brain, mental, and behavioral health. Board Trustee, California Institute of Integral Studies. Founder and CEO, Angel Club, a global community of 8,000+ founders and 400+ investors. Advisor and board member to growth and early-stage companies, funds, and non-profits.

STAGE

Presence and recognition.

2026 keynotes at the ACA Angel Investing Summit and the EBAN Congress. Recurring across enterprise and brand leadership offsites, AI and technology conferences, investor summits, and founder communities.

THE PRACTICE UNDERNEATH THE RECORD

FROM THOSE WHO WOULD KNOW

“She has helped guide our focus as a company, my leadership as a CEO, and the success of our go-to-market strategy."

Matt Boerum, CEO and Co-Founder, Audible Reality

“Angel’s track record building successful digital media platform businesses has been vast and deep.”

Bill Patrizio, President and CEO, Rhapsody International (NAPSTER)

“Genuine executive and investor credibility, a real respect for where our community actually is, and a generosity that lifted the room.”

Pat Gouhin, CEO, Angel Capital Association

“Direct without being performative. Provocative without being reckless. Practical without losing the larger moral and strategic frame.”

Christy Cunningham, Founder, inCioX

THE PRACTICE UNDERNEATH THE RECORD

THE RIGHT QUESTION.

I.

Listen for what the room is not yet saying.

II.

Earn the trust to ask what most people avoid.

III.

Name the question that unlocks the block.

PRESENCE. TRUST. TASTE.

AI flattens competence theater faster than it flattens competence. As models converge and information flattens, the premium shifts from output to alignment, from volume to discernment, from speed to taste. The advantage is now in what AI cannot perform: showing up aligned, earning the room, and knowing what and who to keep, refuse, and release.

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THE NEWSLETTER

Where Angel shares what she doesn’t say on stage.

A dispatch on culture, community, commerce, and capital in the AI era, through the lens of behavioral science. Read by 10,000+ founders, investors, and leaders who want signal, not volume. Usually lands Friday afternoon. Every issue closes with a track.

Usually lands Friday afternoon. Roughly monthly, never more than weekly. Every issue closes with a track.

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