Hello, I’m Annie. I was born in Michigan and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. My home is a lively one and every day is an adventure with a 10 & 3 year old, 8 year old shelter pup that thinks he’s human, 3 fish named Peter, a frog named Toad, and a snail (no name as far as we know).
Having worked in tech for the past 25 years, I have held a variety of roles building, leading, and growing operations, sales, customer success, customer experience, marketing, operations, strategy, finance, and people. I am a three time C-level executive at growth and scale domestic & global SaaS software companies and a published author and industry speaker. More detail here.
These days, I wear a few hats.
As Chief Operating Officer at Interact, I am responsible for the company’s operational and financial strategy and get to work with an amazingly nimble and awesome team to bring a new layer of humanness and understanding to zero-party data acquisition and online relationship management.
As a mentor, advisor, and coach, I help mid-senior level leaders and entrepreneurs successfully shift from operational to strategic leadership, become intentional about their personal brand and make major career & personal transitions, and better understand their customers, employees, and themselves.
As part-time partner at The House Fund, an early stage venture fund investing in the UC Berkeley ecosystem of entrepreneurs, I support deal flow and advise our portfolio.
As an angel investor, I write 2-3 checks a year in founders and ideas that I believe in. To-date, my portfolio includes companies focused on SaaS, SMB, AI, alternative foods, and eCommerce. I am proud to have had the honor of investing in 80% women or minority founded companies.
As a writer, you can find me publishing weekly columns at the San Mateo Daily Journal, which serves San Mateo County and Silicon Valley. I write about current events, education, parenting, tech, and more.
I am a passionate advocate for education and progressive policies driving equity and personalized learning experiences within our local public education system. I sit on two non-profit boards focusing on improving public education (San Mateo-Foster City Education Foundation) and closing the representation gap in software development (Techtonica). As a community partner, I am acting as a Board of Supervisors appointed committee member to the Housing and Community Development of San Mateo County, in the heart of the San Francisco-Silicon Valley peninsula.
Contact
email: hi@annietsai.co
twitter: @meannie
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Annie Tsai 