Nicolae Rusan is a Brooklyn-based founder and product leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling consumer and enterprise web products. As co-founder of Clay and founder of Toolkit AI, he blends design and front-end engineering to connect SaaS, APIs and code into spreadsheet-like automation workflows that make systems and data more usable. He has a track record of founding startups (Frame, The Shared Web), leading product and design at hypergrowth teams (Sailthru) and advising academic and research initiatives to translate scholarship into polished web experiences. A former VP of Product at Dow Jones and early Microsoft program manager, Nicolae pairs strategic product vision with hands-on implementation across the full stack. He also invests and advises early-stage teams, with a particular interest in reimagining publishing and scientific workflows.
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