Jennifer Laine Van Beek
+1.212.470.8118 
Jennifer@JLaine.com 

Summary 
I’m equal parts entrepreneur and executive. My skill set lies in translating frontier technology into business value — evaluating needs, defining value propositions and solutions through the lens of the end user, and developing intuitive products and processes that amplify human potential, generate revenue and fuel rapid growth.

Professional Experience
Awear | Paris + Silicon Valley,  2025-Present
Co-Founder
  • Stealth

Sprezi Labs | New York, NY   2024-2025
Co-Founder & Head of Product
  • Recruited and led team to build deep learning inference engines with deterministic and probabilistic recommendation capabilities to translate subjective and contextual prompts into intelligent, personalized recommendations for consumer use cases.
  • Designed and empirically tested multi-turn user paths, both in isolation and collaboratively with user communities to provide more intuitive and intelligent outcomes that systematically evolve based on user behavior, individually or collaboratively.
  • Built code architecture, core workflows, mapped inference and lead UX/UI and design of product for meaningful user interaction.
  • First (licensed) engine is a consumer-facing AI hospitality tool acting as an on-demand, proximity based recommendation engine connecting users and collaborative user groups with restaurants, hotels and activities globally.

Oxford Road | New York, NY   2020-2024
Director of Product Strategy & Operations
  • Defined 0-1 strategy & vision for a first-of-its-kind AI-powered brand suitability product to rate a diverse set of risk levels present within 40k podcast episodes daily and measure the media sentiment of the shows host across 250k media & social outlets — resulting in $270m of annual ad spend being funneled through our platform within 11 months of ideation.
  • Recruited and led cross-functional product teams comprised of Research Engineers, Deep Learning Engineers, ML, BE, FE, NLP Scientists and Data Scientists to develop a cascading series of proprietary models and tools required to generate relevant data, surpass current LLM limitations and achieve contextual relevance across various input modalities.
  • Led design to build a simple, intuitive user interface showcasing customized risk reports displaying an ever-changing, complex web of data for consumer and enterprise users. Developed report frameworks using comprehensive, dynamic and robust methodologies to ensure quality benchmarks in an ever-changing cultural landscape.
  • Built consumer extension tool by leading UX team to adapt across platforms. Design was informed by working closely with research team to understand user expectations, resulting in an AI Agent interface interacting organically and naturally via conversation style prompting.
  • Reported directly to CEO and a c-suite stakeholders (Brand, Agency, Network) representing a diverse set of complimentary and conflicting goals, communicating vertically through the build to ensure alignment and adoption. Represented product as keynote speaker at leading industry events including SXSW, Podcast Movement, and others.

Cloud Productions | New York, NY   2014-2020
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer
  • Built custom consumer facing LMS and CMS platforms to support the wider distribution of mental health, personal growth and professional leadership focused content — creating unique value for individual users and businesses alike.
  • Led internal and external teams to produce and distribute hundreds of episodes featuring narrative-driven infotainment format content backed by a mobile-first, custom LMS product offering for consumer subscription and enterprise license.
  • Led research project to understand user interaction patterns and falloff within existing industry offerings.  Directed Machine learning team to build intelligent experience engines to assemble high-quality user discovery, enabling deeper, more meaningful interaction with platform and content during the time-bounded window of user relevance.
  • Managed client relationships with companies ranging from Series A to Fortune 100, communicating directly with C-suite executives, boards, and L&D teams. Clients included: Nike, Spotify, Panasonic, State Farm, GE, Toyota, Uber and others.
  • Grew B2B revenue to $5m ARR in year two while maintaining a 76% profit margin. Grew individual subscriber base to 20k at exit.

The Advanced Room | Los Angeles, CA   2012-2014
Production Director + Stylist
  • Visually articulated brand identity clients in luxury sector, producing photo and video content for campaign and marketing purposes. Assets were used across proprietary digital channels as well as third-party media outlets. 
  • Conceived, produced, and styled fashion shoots and short films from start to finish. Clients included: Louis Vuitton, Dior, Rolex, Porsche, Peninsula Hotels and others.

Post+Beam | Los Angeles, CA. New York, NY   2011-2012
Fashion Director
  • Launched fashion division for the agency, growing the portfolio 4x over 18 months.
  • Produced events, secured product placement in print and digital media, and managed largest portfolio clients. 
  • Key accomplishments include pitching and securing the launch of TopShop’s store in Los Angeles. Secured A-list attendees, produced on-site runway activation, and generated the largest event deal in the agency’s history. 

Fimat Banque | Société Générale | Chicago, IL   2005-2011
Commodities Trader 
  • As a commodities floor broker, managed a multi-million dollar trading account executing futures and options orders for domestic and international wire-houses, banks and, investment institutions across soybeans, corn, and ethanol. 
  • Monitored specific trades, advising clients to take profits or liquidate positions to avoid substantial losses
  • Worked in tandem with pricing and forecast modeling teams on short and futures trading strategies. Specialized in ability to manage risk to ensure achievement of a profitable, speculative trading book.

Education 
Westmont College | Montecito, CA   2001-2004
  • BA: International Economics & Business
  • Academic Honors: Secured the sole position for the  International Embassy Program upon early graduation.
  • Professional Clubs: President, Athletes-in-Action. Head of Entrepreneur Society

Additional Information | Interests
Fashion
  • Name a designer and a season — I can tell you the strongest looks.
  • Will Pier Paolo go to Fendi? Hedi to Gucci?
Sports
  • Team Captain, College Volleyball. I tend to be quite competitive.
  • Skiing is the only time I will happily be freezing.
Travel
  • Spent time in Japan, South Korea and Russia for post-college internship.
  • 47 Countries & counting. Still send my grandmother a postcard every trip.
  • Travel Book List: Charter House of Parma (Stendhal), Magnificent Rebels (Wulf), Studies in Generalship (Finkel), Arguably (Hitchens)

Supported Non-Profit Organizations: These Numbers Have Faces, The Freedom Story & World Central Kitchen.