Poulomi Damany

Limited Partner

2021 - Current

Senior Vice President/GM, Credit Karma Money & Tax

2020

Manage Credit Karma's Money business unit which includes checking and savings products to help our members get faster access to their money, build good habits and make financial progress. Responsible for the business’s holistic P&L across product, engineering, design, marketing, partnerships, support, risk and operations -Grew revenue 40+% y/y multiple years in a row, building all parts of the business -Introduced innovative product features such as Instant refunds, Credit Builder and Instant Karma, giving consumers fast money access and helping younger/sub-prime members build credit and save money -Built AI driven risk and operations models and strategies to deter fraud while differentiating service for good consumers -Integrated Credit Karma Money and Turbo Tax, driving $xB in deposits adding multiple points of growth for Credit Karma

Vice President, Recommendations

2019 - 2020

Led a newly formed business unit focused on fully personalizing the experience for our 100M members in all Credit Karma channels (app, notifications, offsite marketing) My team builds and serves AI driven recommendations and ranking to personalize the Frontdoor including the Stories feed, the vertical marketplaces and email/push channels to maximize both revenue and engagement We own and operate levers for the business to quickly and efficiently make data-driven tradeoffs between revenue and engagement and Interpret and communicate metrics and actionable insights to the board and executive committee to drive understanding and impactful decision-making

Vice President, Product Management

2017 - 2019

Product lead and evangelist for Credit Karma’s largest vertical - Cards and horizontal - Data systems Developed the product strategy and compelling experiences to drive double digit growth in our Cards business partnering with business execs and Fortune 500 card issuers Founding lead for "Lightbox" a SaaS modeling platform that enables our partners to build and deploy targeting models in Credit Karma. This provides partners with the ability to make real time, customized, pre-approved offers to our 110 million members. Rolled out several major systems including a new AI-driven recommendation system leveraging google's ML infrastructure, advertiser campaign and analytics tools , an end-to-end machine learning platform for our data scientists and our Credit cards and Personal Loan partners Hired and built a team of world class product managers, establishing a high performance culture in line with our company values .

Mentor

2021 - 2021

Advisory Board Member

2013 - 2017

CaringBridge, the nonprofit caring social network, offers many ways for people to care for each other during any type of health event. Our mission is to amplify the love, hope and compassion in the world, making each health journey easier

Digital Services Expert

2016 - 2016

https://www.usds.gov The U.S. Digital Service is a startup at the White House that pairs the country’s top technology talent with the best public servants, to improve the usefulness and reliability of the country’s most important digital services. Various engagements with DHS, State, NIH and the VA. Most proud of: - Improving the cross-agency flow of information to streamline refugee admissions - Piloting the secure sharing of electronic medical records for the Precision Medicine Initiative - Working on the MOA between the VA and DoE to leverage the National Labs high performance computing capabilities for the VA’s Million Veteran genomic research program

Vice President Product Management (Founding team)

2012 - 2016

Built a category defining product -the first data warehouse service in the cloud to democratize big data analytics for non-engineers. Key member of the executive management team contributing to business and operations planning, venture fundraising ($12M) and strategic partner and customer negotiations

Senior Director Product & Engineering, Media Products Group

2010 - 2012

Built and managed a new 100 person global distributed engineering team delivering one-of-a-kind Y! property-integrated solutions for Top advertisers: -Branded Experiences: Great cross-platform customer experiences on Yahoo! Media properties designed to drive awareness, favorability and purchase intent -Tentpole Events: Develop sites with original programming to bring Yahoo!’s special events coverage to the world. Examples include the UK royal wedding and the Clinton Foundation concert global livestream -Consumer Marketing: Award-winning rich online consumer games to drive user engagement/time spent

Head of Display Targeting & Recommendations, Data Systems Group

2007 - 2009

Managed a 20+ team of engineers, product managers and Data scientists to deliver Advertising and Engagement Targeting and Recommendations products for Yahoo! verticals. Products included: -Consumer Direct: Developed with Nielsen combining Homescan purchase-based insights with Yahoo!’s Targeting & Audience -Custom Targeting: A new set of demographic, psychographic & lifestyle targets that enable advertisers to achieve their branding objectives -End User recommendation engine for Y!properties like Shopping, Travel, Autos, Real Estate, etc -Smart Ads: A dynamic ad optimization solution to deliver highly tailored ads to users -Advertiser campaign insights and recommendations to improve advertiser ROI for search and display - Automated optimization of large scale display and search campaigns for performance advertisers

Senior Director, Product Management, Server Foundation

2004 - 2007

-Grew one of SYMC's flagship product lines (Veritas Cluster Server) from revenues of $250 MM in 2005 to over $300 MM in 2007 -Led team of 17 in Product Planning, Technical Field Enablement, Product Marketing, and Technical Product Management -Reinvigorated SYMC's visibility in the HA/DR market through press and analyst outreach, earning a Gartner first take for launching a new product in the Data Center Automation space -Interfaced with a 200-person distributed development team in the US, India and China.

Director, Product Management, Application Performance Mgmt

2003 - 2004

-Grew Application Performance Management product line 20% y/y post-acquisition -Led Product Planning, Technical Field Enablement & Business Operations via a centralized project office -Interfaced with a 180-person development team in Israel