Sean Everett

The project was not proceeding as hoped, so I was brought in to align the global team, set up professional software development lifecycle and agile development processes, establish communication protocols, and create a pitch deck and financial model to raise additional capital and accelerate engineering velocity.

I worked with the founder to turn his Web3 idea into a working platform for accredited investors to buy and sell fractions of collectible cars (like vintage Ferraris) and museum-grade assets. The payment mechanisms included debit, credit, ACH, Ethereum, and Bitcoin. I partnered with Circle, Stytch, and other providers to accelerate the development.

Managed the highly complex, strategic divisions of Angi, Home Advisor, and Handy’s home improvement marketplace and was responsible for $0.4 billion in GMV. This included interior and exterior painting, roofing, fencing, and additions and remodels.

Drove product development velocity and revenue acceleration by establishing industry channel partnerships (ISVs, Distributors, Resellers), determining competitive product strategy, developing new pricing and packaging models that tripled purchase conversion rates, and leading large distributed teams.

For this project, I worked with engineering teams in the US (Georgia), England, and Italy, and a UX design team in California to conceptualize, design, develop, and release a scalable video analytics solution using a containerized microservices approach on top of AWS.

It’s now running 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and 365 days a year for all its customers worldwide.

It uses animal connectomes (i.e., brain and nervous system of animals) instead of deep learning for real-time decision-making and control that can also adapt to black swan events without prior training data.

I worked with former Microsoft and Unity engineers to create Amazon Go-like augmented reality digital twins for blockchain-based transactions in retail and pick-and-pack scenarios, using an off-the-shelf iPhone and iOS 12.

I made an easy-to-use operational model with the following tabs, in the order of entry:

1. Assumptions.
2. Revenue and cash flow timing.
3. Payroll.
4. Operating expenses.
5. Detailed statements.
6. Summary statements.
7. Discounted cash flow.

Worked with the executive team to determine the product and integration strategy for a recent acquisition, develop a growth plan and financial model for the firm, present it to the board, and develop a new Generative AI product after interviewing the top 30 customer executives in the industry.

I produced five major versions for internal use and investor diligence with the following features:
• Three-year monthly data with quarterly and annual roll-ups
• Assumptions
• SKU-based order packages by three tiers
• Wholesale orders by state, with a six-month ramp of dispensaries being signed up
• Inventory management with yields by product SKU and associated cash-flow timing
• Fully loaded compensation expenses
• OPEX expenses organized by company departments and cost caps based on budgets by department
• Financial statements that are broken down by product families, departments, and state
• Budgets versus historical actuals
• KPIs and achievement levels
• Unit economics by product and state
• Discounted cash flow valuation
• Production process timelines

StoryApp is a social media mobile app that combined voice, photo and video sharing, emotion AI detection from voice, and animated emoticons back in 2012 before voice, AI, animojies, stories, and AR all hit the mainstream.

I built the Evolyte Store which sold Apple iPads at a discount if enough products were purchased; it included viral sharing options to get the word out.

It was picked up by multiple Apple blogs over a recent holiday season.

I led a private equity M&A assessment of a $100 million business in the pharmaceutical space, specifically on the capabilities of their data science, artificial intelligence, and generative AI capabilities for creating content tailored towards healthcare professionals following FDA and internal review guidelines.

I developed a proprietary dashboard interface used by sales and marketing, research and development, and finance teams to accelerate growth while reducing expenses and waste. It uses research by McKinsey and decades of operational and advisory experience to implement the summary dashboard used by all teams to align their activities. It works well with OKRs and other performance management and compensation systems.