Marty is Head of Portfolio Development for M12 where she leads the portfolio management of M12 start-ups.

Marty started her career at Microsoft working on global consumer launch programs for Windows and Windows Phone as well as leading the emerging media team in Microsoft Advertising. In the early days of Web 2.0 she worked with digital media companies like Facebook and Google to land first to market media opportunities for Microsoft’s biggest brands.

After leaving Microsoft, Marty was co-founder and CEO of her own startup that combined ecommerce with machine learning recommendations to bring a contextual shopping experience to interior design. Her experience as an entrepreneur was so rewarding, she went on to teach entrepreneur classes at the University of Washington in the Fosters School of Business. She has been an advisor in the UW Jones + Foster Accelerator for years and continues to be involved in multiple advisor programs at UW.

Marty has held several senior leadership positions on digital transformation teams at Zillow and a global wine distributor where she architected an end-to-end ecommerce and marketing automation stack.

Marty holds a BA from the University of Washington and an MBA from Seattle University. She grew up in Seattle and has lived in Boston, NYC, San Francisco and Santa Barbara but currently calls Seattle home. She lives with her husband, 3 children and labradoodle in the Queen Anne neighborhood.