UC Santa Barbara

Business Development and Strategic Partnerships

San Francisco, California, United States

Amazon

Sr. Strategic Partner Manager, Amazon Devices (Alexa)

- Led business team with responsibility for business development, marketing, operations, customer success and product commercialization for a venture-backed premium smartwatch company. Joined as the first business hire and employee number four.
- Drove strategic partnerships in the fashion, entertainment, horology and luxury retail industries. Sourced partners who would later come on as key strategic investors.
- Built technology/IoT partnerships with industry leaders in fitness tracking, connected homes, on-demand rides and location-based services.
- In consultation with company founders, developed Olio’s go-to-market strategy, including competitor analysis and market positioning.
- Oversaw the public launch of Olio Devices and led a B2C marketing campaign that resulted in Olio selling out of the initial production and achieving $1M+ in monthly sales.
- Spearheaded Olio’s retail sales effort, launching Olio on Amazon and in-store at Nordstrom.

Olio Devices

Director of Business Operations and Strategic Partnerships

Nicknamed 'The Ideo of the Energy Sector' by Fast Company, Chevron Energy Solutions is the renewable energy group behind Chevron International. I drove public sector & technology partnerships across Northern California.

Chevron Energy Solutions

- Placed fluorescent protein markers on detached retinal tissue to study effects of cellular remodeling after eye injury
-  Performed computational molecular phenotyping of retinal neuron and glial cells

UCSB Neuroscience Research Institute- Retinal Cell Biology Lab

Research Intern

- Represented 18,000 undergraduates at UCSB through regular   meetings with the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellors as the President of the Student Body
- Represented student interests at a statewide and national level through lobbying in Sacramento and Washington

John Paul Primeau