Shaun Arora

Experience

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  PathSpot

  New Product Catalyst + Strategy Coach

  Jan 2023 - Present

  The PathSpot SafetySuite helps your business operate safer, healthier, smarter, and more efficiently

  • Work with leadership to optimize internal meetings and tools, accelerating the team as they manage an ever-increasing number of seemingly impossible milestones
  • Improve the process for new product introductions
  • Align internal and external stakeholders around marketing direction and strategy

• Vento Box & Feedback EQ

  Co-Founder

  Mar 2022 - Present

  Feedback EQ was launched by Vento Box in 2022 when we asked "What type of feedback giver are you?"

  • Build psychographic profiles on how people provide and receive feedback at work
  • Deploy a decision making webapp to evaluate PMF
  • Segment employees based on their profile, and their comparative position relative to their team
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  Make in LA

  Managing Director

  Dec 2014 - Present

  MiLA Capital (f/k/a Make in LA) is a Seed-Stage Venture Capital Firm that Invests in Tech You Can Touch.

  • Launched venture fund focused on hard technology verticals such as climate tech, robotics, IoT, biomarkers, space, mobility, and industrial automation
  • Built operating system to manage deal flow across 100+ global networks
  • Strong deal flow generation: 5000+ companies from 75+ countries
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  Intrinsic Power

  Fractional Exec and Corporate Development

  Jun 2023 - Sep 2023

  Intrinsic Power addresses a misunderstanding of the distributed energy problem that's led companies to create separate products for distributed solar, energy storage, and vehicle charging.

  • Co-create the strategic narrative
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  Beltways

  Head of Strategy (fractional)

  Nov 2021 - Jul 2022

  Beltways is on a mission to accelerate humanity with a new and exciting form of mobility.

  • Lead customer discovery and narrow company positioning
  • Lead fundraising process
  • Support marketing initiatives including website launch and video
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  Cloud of Goods

  Chief Operating Officer (fractional)

  Jun 2021 - Jan 2022

  Our mission is to enrich traveler’s experiences at their destination by providing easy access to the equipment they want.

  • Collaborate with CEO on key strategic decisions as company emerges from a COVID-19 related hibernation and executes a major pivot
  • Lead a remote customer support and retention team
  • Evaluate, ideate, and prioritize on product roadmap driven by user insights
  • Implement tools to bring down end user wait times from 17 minutes to 1 minute
  • Draft and implement Service Level Agreements for employees and service providers
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  Stoked Mentoring Inc. (stoked)

  Surf Instructor, Board Member

  May 2004 - Dec 2006

  stoked is a community of fearless leaders. through mentorship, opportunity, and action sports culture, we empower urban youth to reach their fullest potential. launched in 2015 by steve larosiliere and tv personality, sal masekela, stoked holds passion and perseverance at its core. we believe that the strength and courage needed to learn action sports serves as a catalyst for larger life skills. stoked has impacted over 4,000 youth since its inception, with flagship offices in new york city, los angeles, and now chicago (launched in january, 2017). recognized as a 2017 ny community trust nonprofit excellence award recipient, the stoked community celebrates a culture of individuals that live big lives, take risks and seize opportunities. meet our community and learn more about stoked by visiting www.stoked.org

  • Launched the surf mentoring programs in New York and Los Angeles
  • Secured criticial donations and fundraising to support program initiatives