Pouring high octane gas on the fire
As we reflect on the first half of 2023 [List updated April, 2026], the oakpool team has a lot to be grateful for. We’ve added a number of valuable new team members and clients so far this year, and look forward to continuing to grow those relationships while building new ones. A spark that started with the kindling of a conversation between colleagues on a trout stream has grown into a significant and consistent blaze, providing warmth and entertainment to a growing cohort of contributors and partners.
That’s all a metaphorical way of saying, 5 years ago we were a couple of guys with a simple concept. Now as a team of over 40 contributors worldwide, servicing over 20 clients, managing millions of dollars in advertising spend, and growing 100% year over year, it’s time to pour some more fuel on our fire.
This particular gasoline comes in the form of a group of five senior advisors, each one bringing unique and valuable experience to the table. To that end, we are stoked to introduce oakpool’s board of advisors.
Colin Day
Colin is the founder and former CEO of iCIMS. An HR SaaS company that scaled to over $100M in ARR before selling to Vista Equity Partners in 2018. Colin now serves as an advisor to Susquehanna Growth Equity as well as a number of their portfolio companies. We look forward to having Colin’s perspective founding, managing, scaling, and exiting high growth technology companies at our table.
Nadine Hachach-Haram
Nadine is an NHS surgeon, the founder of Proximie, a Co-Managing Partner of KHP Ventures, and a faculty member at Singularity University. She is a leading voice in healthcare innovation and startups. As the founder of Proximie, Nadine has raised over $100M from investors including Fidelity’s F-Prime Capital. Nadine’s extensive experience in healthcare, innovation, and venture capital makes her an invaluable addition to our advisory board.
Amanda Orson
Amanda is an experienced executive, investor, and marketing entrepreneur. Most recently, Amanda served at the US CEO of London-based FinTech company, Curve. While at Curve, a company that has raised over $175M from investors including Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, Amanda led expansion in the US and Crypto markets. We look forward to having Amanda’s experience growing cross-functional international teams and deep sector experience in Fintech at our table.
Carter Nicholas
Carter has held senior roles, with a particular focus on European expansion, at AdTech companies like Integral Ad Science and DoubleClick (acquired by Google). Carter also has deep operational experience in the data sector, having served as CEO of eDataSource (acquired by SparkPost, a MessageBird company). Carter brings years of experience in AdTech, Data, and international expansion to our table.
Bardia Pourvakil
Bardia is co-founder & CTO of GC.AI, the company that has raised over $70M to build AI systems for in-house counsel. Formerly, Bardia served as head of developer relations at a16z-backed Replit, an online IDE. Before Replit, Bardia helped build the innovative note-taking platform Roam Research. Bardia brings a wealth of experience in scaling product and engineering organizations, and marketing to engineers, to our table at oakpool.
Peter Kuhn
Until recently, Peter Kuhn was CEO, North America of OLIVER, the in-housing agency that builds bespoke, on-site teams inside the world’s largest brands, including Unilever, PepsiCo, adidas, and Bayer. Under Peter’s leadership, OLIVER North America scaled to over 18 embedded agencies and 400+ staff, earning Adweek’s recognition as the fastest-growing large agency in 2020. Before OLIVER, Peter spent eight years as Managing Director of Tag Worldwide, running centralized marketing for Intel, Coca-Cola, Citi, and Diageo. Peter brings deep expertise in embedded agency models and enterprise client relationships to our table at oakpool.
Matt Weiss
Matt Weiss spent six years at Huge as Global President and Chief Brand Officer, leading 300+ people across integrated marketing, branding, and connected commerce for clients including Google, McDonald’s, Planet Fitness, and Virgin Voyages. Before Huge, Matt served as Global CMO and Global CRO at Havas, Chief of Staff at MDC Partners agency KBS, and spent 15+ years at McCann winning multi-million dollar reviews for Mastercard, Verizon, Intel, and Home Depot. Matt brings 30+ years of agency leadership, a deep pitch playbook, and enterprise client relationships to our table at oakpool.
Bharat Mediratta
Bharat Mediratta is a senior engineer at Anthropic, the frontier AI safety and research company behind Claude. Previously, Bharat served as CTO and SVP of Platform at Dropbox, where he oversaw technical infrastructure, security, and the company’s platform ecosystem including Dropbox Paper and HelloSign. Before Dropbox, he spent over a decade at Google as a Distinguished Engineer, leading the team behind Google’s homepage and search results and earning multiple Founders’ Awards. He was also co-founder, President, and CTO of AltSchool, and later served as Coinbase’s first Engineering Fellow. Bharat brings deep technical leadership, experience scaling infrastructure at global scale, and a unique ability to build consensus-driven engineering cultures to our table at oakpool.
Alex Sandoval
Alex Sandoval is co-founder & CEO of Allie AI, the manufacturing intelligence company that has raised $8.3M from Voyager Ventures, Spero Ventures, BDev Ventures, and the co-founders of Tesla and eBay to build AI agents for the factory floor. Allie serves large enterprise clients across food & beverage, building materials, and automotive in Mexico and the US. Before Allie, Alex was General Manager and VP of Product at Rappi, where he helped scale the company into a $5B+ Latin American unicorn. Alex brings deep expertise in B2B SaaS, enterprise AI, and scaling product organizations across Latin America to our table at oakpool.
So there you have it. At oakpool, we’re growing like crazy, surrounding ourselves with great people, and look forward to this continued journey. Join us.
