About
Hi, I'm Jake. I build early marketing at companies where the product is hard to explain: namely for AI infrastructure and developer tooling teams.
Work
Most recently I led product marketing for Noir at Aztec - the open-source zero-knowledge programming language behind privacy infrastructure used by 18M people (the EU mobile wallet, World Network, and more). While there I built NoirCon, which went from a scrappy side-event to the industry's leading technical workshop series with 500 attendees.
Before Aztec, I was Polygon's sole marketing hire on Polygon ID (verifiable credentials) and Avail, and spent two years spinning Avail out into its own company - launching it as a $1.5B protocol. Earlier, I led marketing at Namebase (DNS infrastructure, acquired by Namecheap) and at AirDev, a no-code dev shop in San Francisco that shipped software for 100+ businesses during the pandemic.
Earlier
- Created the machine learning team at a telecom firm in Dallas
- Helped plan an ICO at ICONLOOP in Seoul in the 2017 era (still the largest token in Korea)
- Assistant film composer for the composer behind The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- International student outreach for Minerva across five continents
School
Minerva, first class, six countries in four years. Got a Computer Science degree in Machine Learning and Statistics, and a Business degree in Brand Management. More on that someday.
Now
Currently exploring product marketing and GTM engineer roles at AI and developer-tools companies. Outside of that: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, a home lab, guide dog training, and a handful of side projects. See what I'm up to →