Tom Hale

Chief Executive Officer

Ōura

Mar 2022 - Current (4 years 5 months)

ŌURA is the company behind the Oura Ring — the smart ring that delivers personalized health data, insights, and daily guidance. ŌURA believes health is a daily practice and, with personalized insights and guidance, you can control the course of your health to live a more balanced life. The Ring tracks all stages of sleep and recovery and accounts for daily activity to provide practical steps for long-term improvement.

President

MomentiveAI

Jun 2021 - Feb 2022 (9 months)

Member Board Of Directors

Carscom

May 2017 - Current (9 years 3 months)

Independent Director at Cars.com, (NASD: CARS) a leading two-sided digital automotive marketplace.

President

MomentiveAI

Jul 2016 - Jun 2021 (5 years)

As President, I am responsible for product, technology, IT, operations, marketing, data, and design.

Advisor / Investor

NoiseAware

Jun 2016 - Current (10 years 2 months)

As the first investor in NoiseAware, a company dedicated to preventing noise pollution with innovative technology, I've been the lead advisor with two young entrepreneurs on fundraising, scaling operations, hiring/management, and strategy. From the first days of the company to its current hypergrowth, I've helped to steer the company dedicated to creating a "smoke detector for noise."

Advisor / Investor

Volara

Jun 2016 - Current (10 years 2 months)

I am passionate about the intersection of hospitality and technology. Volara is the leading company providing voice-based guest engagement software running on in-room hardware like the Amazon Echo. As an advisor and investor, I help the CEO with strategy, fundraising, product, GTM, and partnerships in this rapidly scaling startup.

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Chief Operating Officer

HomeAway

Apr 2015 - May 2016 (1 year 2 months)

With 1200+ staffers across Development, Information Technology, Product, Design/UX, Support, and Product Marketing, I drive the product, customer, and platform strategy for a 500M/yr revenue business. During my time at HomeAway, I built the team, platform, product and business that resulted in our IPO in 2011 and the 2015 acquisition of HomeAway by Expedia, Inc for 3.9Bn. As CPO, and then as COO, I led the transformation from an classifieds advertising venue to an ecommerce-enabled marketplace, building a rapidly growing ecommerce business line at more than 100% year over year growth.

Member of the Board of Directors / Audit Committee

ReachLocal

Dec 2014 - Aug 2016 (1 year 9 months)

I joined ReachLocal to help grow an SAAS marketing tools business targeted at SMBs.

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Chief Product Officer

HomeAway

Jul 2010 - Apr 2015 (4 years 10 months)

As CPO, with responsibility for Development, Product Management, IT/Ops, Design, and Program Management, I built the team, product, platform and process for the world leading vacation rental marketplace. With 500M in annual revenue, over 50+ web sites around the globe, 15Bn in Gross Booking Value, and 1 billion yearly visitors, I led the transformation of our team into a world class product led organization over a 5 year period, resulting in HomeAway's IPO the acquisition by Expedia. Over the course of my tenure, we consolidated some 20+ platforms onto our global platform, built out a multi-hundred-million ecommerce business, and built out the B2B and enterprise segment of our business.

Chief Product Officer

Linden Lab makers of Second Life

Oct 2008 - Jun 2010 (1 year 9 months)

As CPO, I led the design revamp of Second Life and drove the push into a web-based virtual goods marketplace with the acquisition and integration of several small tech teams and a reboot of the product management and technology teams.

Member of Board of Directors / Audit Committee

Intralinks a Synchronoss Business

Mar 2008 - Dec 2016 (8 years 10 months)

Intralinks has been a great training ground in Public Company operations and CEO level leadership. On the Intralinks Board, I mentor the Marketing, Product, and Development organizations of the world leader in trusted document-based collaboration. During my tenure on the board we took the company public (2010 IPO, NasDaq: IL, 143M, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse), reported 24 quarters as a public company, and hired a new CEO. On the product side, the board and management team built a horizontal secure collaboration strategy with the introduction of VIA, and extended the core business and platform with acquisitions of PE-Nexus, Merger ID, DocTrackr, and Verilume. By adding a high growth enterprise business with a consumer-grade UI in VIA to

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Redpoint Ventures

Nov 2007 - Oct 2008 (1 year)

As an EIR I investigated digital music, virtual goods and virtual worlds, games, enterprise collaboration, and cloud-based development platforms.

SVP and GM, Knowledge Worker Business Unit

Adobe Systems

Oct 2005 - Oct 2007 (2 years 1 month)

Revitalized and energized Acrobat product team while integrating Macromedia businesses (Breeze and Flash Media Server) into Adobe. Responsible for product development, strategy, go to market, and business development for 750M business unit, with a team of 359, 100M in annual budget. Key results: • Forged new team from Adobe and Macromedia staffers and product teams • Led team to envision next 10 years of PDF, including decision to move PDF to an open standard • Launched and shipped Acrobat 8 line with revamped user experience • Aligned real time collaboration business (Breeze) with Acrobat to reach 50M in annual revenue • Supported ABC’s launch of free web-based distribution of Lost, Desperate Housewives, Alias etc • Closed three acquisitio

SVP and GM, Communications and Training Business Unit

Adobe Systems

Sep 2003 - Oct 2005 (2 years 2 months)

Led new division to target business user segment for Macromedia. Built new enterprise sales model, video streaming business, and new hosted services offering as one of 4 GMs on staff of CEO direct reports,. Responsible for product development and go to market with a team of 135, 100M in annual revenue, and 25M in annual budget. Key results: • Motivated team to grow divisional revenues from 60M to 100M in 1 year • Launched Breeze (web collaboration/training), grew revenues from 1M to 35M in 2 years • Built out Breeze Hosted, Macromedia’s first hosted service offering • Drove Flash Video Streaming Service distribution model with Akamai and other CDNs • Key member of Adobe acquisition communications and integration team

SVP, Customer Loyalty Group

Adobe Systems

Aug 2001 - Oct 2003 (2 years 3 months)

The CLG was a new group comprised of: *Our developer relations effort, including our DevNet subscription offering *Our elicensing efforts including product activation *The online store for ecommerce activities for all of Macromedia *The Technical Support team, including outsourced partners in Manilla and T3 staffers *The Customer Service operation, including call centers in multiple locations As the exec in charge of these operations, we drove strategy, revenue, new process, and organizational renewal for these cross business unit functions.

SVP, Business Strategy

Adobe Systems

Aug 2001 - May 2002 (10 months)

Drove company growth strategy by targeting new markets and business models. Key responsibilities: cross product strategy, opportunity sizing, strategic communications, internal evangelism. Key results: • Led cross business unit strategy to create tools suite that accounts for 60% of company revenues • Aligned business units on new market opportunity in application development market • Built communications framework for new strategy around “Rich Internet Application” Category • Assembled new organization for developer outreach and support, and subscription business model

Vice President, Product Management and Product Marketing

Macromedia

Jan 2000 - Mar 2001 (1 year 3 months)

Led 368M Web Publishing division reporting to the President. Key responsibilities: pricing and positioning for products and product lines, product strategy, demand generation strategies, budgeting and forecasting, customer marketing, events and educational marketing. Led team of 60 product marketers and managers, grew it to 125 by end of 2000. Key results: • Drove 47% YTY growth with products such as Flash, Dreamweaver and Shockwave • Drove studio strategy, aligning engineering teams, sales, and product management, resulting in 7M/Q incremental revenue through increased ASP • Drove standardization of Flash technology for rich media advertising • Key member of Allaire merger team, managed communications strategy and deliverables

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