Primary Job Title Vice President, Engineering Primary Organization 
BlackHawk Network
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Operator/Investor/Advisor. Led pre-IPO teams at: BigCommerce, Twitter, Salesforce.
TRUSTLY - Senior Vice President of Engineering. Led a global team of 130+ to enable online banking payments as an alternative to credit & debit cards.
CARTA - Vice President of Engineering responsible for its flagship product. Led a global team of
Engineers across San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Rio, and Waterloo.
APPDIRECT - Vice President of Engineering. Led a global team of 200+ across San Francisco, Montréal, Buenos Aires, and Pune.
BIGCOMMERCE - Senior Vice President of Engineering. Scaled the Engineering team from 65 to 130 across San Francisco, Sydney, and Austin.
TWITTER - Director of Engineering thru its IPO. Responsible for the Engineering Services teams: Trust & Safety, User Services, Content Management Tools, Platform Intelligence, Open Source Programs, Developer Productivity.
SALESFORCE - Joined pre-IPO Salesforce when Engineering team was ~36 individuals. As Senior Director, he was responsible for a large portion of the Salesforce Platform. Ron also worked closely with the corporate development team (Salesforce Ventures) on mergers & acquisitions.
