Work
Founder + Ring Leader
Created and lead SF’s largest, longest-running, and most-loved tech community and event series.
Founder + Executive Producer
Founded and nurtured the FoodBytes! community and produced national events to identify and showcase the best-of-the-best in food and agribusiness. "Where the best ideas in food and capital come to the plate."
Founding Father + VP, Public Affairs + Comms
Pioneering community-building by using the Internet to get people off the Internet!
Director, Ecosystem + Programming
Created and lead corporate innovation + startup engagement programming for Fortune 500 clients.
Executive Producer, MC + Instigator
1000+ startups currated + demo'd live on stage across 300+ events. 55,000+ tickets sold.
Online Marketing Pioneer
Invented online advertising and online publicity by "driving traffic" to our Fortune 100 clients during the dawn of the Internet.
Investor, Consultant, Advisor
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ABOUT MYLES
Hello! Thanks for popping over! I'm looking for co-conspirators on my next big thing!
I am a passionate community-led marketing and communications professional. I build brands and their communities by connecting people, ideas, and innovation and by creating unique experiences that result in increased brand love, exposure, partnerships and deal flow.
I work famously with companies to create growth trajectories with community-led marketing, supported by strategic communications and outreach to rally and delight their most cherished people.
As a veteran marketer, I excel in building legion with communities, event creation and production, member engagement and empowerment, integrated and experiential marketing, bottom-up story-telling flywheel wizardry, and creative direction and execution to create and nurture inroads to increased B2C, B2B, C2B connectivity and positive outcomes. I fully endorse go-to-community (GTC) as a winning go-to-market strategy.
As a passion project, I am building It's In The Air, an exclusive hiking community that connects high-achievers in tech, business, and creative fields through our AI-powered "Smart Hikes". Smart Hikes use machine learning to match members based on shared interests, personalities, and goals to facilitate serendipitous connections and high-value conversations on the trail. Through beautiful outdoor experiences, this curated community discovers new perspectives, sparks innovative ideas, and cultivates meaningful relationships. I conceived and developed It's In The Air to exemplify what I call "Applied Serendipity" - bringing together passionate people in an intentional yet unexpected way to create peak human experiences and drive positive change.
I've worked with hundreds of startups and have been a part of a few myself, including SF New Tech, which I founded and ran for 15 years as SF's largest tech community and event series. I started FoodBytes, now the global center of innovations in food. I led Meetup's communications and public affairs as one of its founding fathers to create one of the world's most-loved brands for Community. I was invited to the White House under Obama for my work in building community for innovators in San Francisco.
I can't stop, won't stop connecting people, ideas, and innovation! I'm always on the lookout for the next big thing. So if you've got a killer idea, I want to hear about it!
On the personal front ... I live in Marin County, California with my wonderful wife, two incredible teenagers, and a bulky-pulke rescue pittie named Twyla. I love cooking creative slow-food meals. Currently garlic, lemon, dijon, and EVOO are my best friends in the kitchen; and tomatoes, onions, and cilantro are jealous. I am an avid photographer and not-too-avid writer. I love building new-fangled things from nothing. You can usually find me hiking around the green or scorched-earth hills of Northern California, sitting on the beach, or wiping poison oak off the dog. I once had a floating office that was literally anchored out in the middle of the San Francisco Bay.
I'm a music nut. Spotify likes to feed me Americana indie jamband folk roots acoustic artists, probably because of my killer Nugget Bucket playlist. If I can hit a Phish show or five, I will. I'm not a musician but I can play a really mean steering wheel.
I have a very special place in my heart for Block Island, which happens to be the smallest town in the smallest state and where I learned my way around the kitchen. I recorded a soundtrack there and it's streaming everywhere - listen in!
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- NorCal Explorer
- Island Photographer
- Hiker
- Husband
- Dad
- Domestic Line Cook
- Bad Surfer
- Jam Patrol
- 1.0 (Not a Wook!)