KICKFURTHER - Key Persons
Alex was named creative director of the decade by Adweek magazine. Since leaving Crispin Porter & Bogusky, Alex has devoted a lot of his time to building startups in Boulder.
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- Advisor
- Co - Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Metagood
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- CIO of Grand Oaks Capital
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- Vice President of Sales
- VP of Business Dev
David builds strategic partnerships that enable efficient acquisition channels and address the challenges faced by the growing CPG businesses using Kickfurther. Previously, David led a client-services team for a successful fintech company to a 100x increase in accounts.
David is Kickfurther's Vice President of Sales. He is responsible for leading our growth team and overseeing our sales processes, role development, compensation plan creation, hiring and training as well as building strategic partnerships that promote efficient acquisition channels.
Prior to joining Kickfurther, David held roles in sales leadership, marketing and account management and led a client services team for a successful fintech company to a 100x increase in accounts.
David graduated from UMass Amherst with his BA in Finance.
Job Titles:
- Dir. Sales Operations
- Head of Product / Co - Founder
Erik was a certified PMP who previously built New Brunswick Today into a syndicated media outlet. He developed the marketing initiatives that have allowed for such early rapid growth.
Erik is Kickfurther's Head of Product and one of our Co-founders. He works closely with our customers, business and engineering teams to facilitate the development and implementation of Kickfurther's product. He's an integrator who likes to work with talented people with diverse talents to achieve real world results.
Erik's background is in project management, product leadership and process development. Prior to becoming Kickfurther's Head of Product, Erik worked as our Head of Sales and Marketing. Before Co-founding Kickfurther, he worked at New Brunswick Today, Follow the Prince and New Jersey's Center for Nonprofits.
Job Titles:
- Director of Growth Marketing
Graham is Kickfurther's Director of Digital Marketing. He is responsible for outlining and optimizing Kickfurther's performance marketing initiatives including outbound email, paid social and conversion rate optimization.
He has previously held roles at Hearst and Fisher Price.
Graham received his BA in Journalism and MA in Integrated Marketing Communications from St. Bonaventure University.
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- Director of Operations
- Head of Operations
Heidimarie is Kickfurther's Head of Operations. She leads and manages our Operations Team - recruiting, objective setting, coaching, motivating and performance monitoring. She helps create, collaborate policies and workflows on existing systems across functions and translates policy into actionable processes for performance and scale.
Heidimarie received her BA from the University of Idaho, her MA from the University of Montana and her PhD from SUNY Buffalo. She has also been an Institutional Review Board Member since 2002.
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- Advisor
- Co - Founder and General Counsel, Boomtown Accelerators and Donenfeld Law
Jack is a Martindale-Hubbel A/V rated lawyer with over 35 years of experience with SEC compliance law. Jack has been working closely with the Kickfurther team to optimize their business plan.
Jackson works internally and with Kickfurther's advisory attorneys to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. On weekends, you can find him on the river chasing trout.
Jackson is Kickfurther's General Counsel. He advises Kickfurther's executive team, senior management, and board on various legal matters, and serves as lead counsel on Kickfurther's venture financings.
Jackson has worked with numerous start-ups, angel investors, and venture capital firms from entity formation to exit. He's handled over $150m in early-stage company investments on the startup and VC side and inventory funding as the supervising attorney or solo and served as general counsel for multiple Techstars graduates, 43North winners, and other accelerator graduates and winners. He also serves as general counsel to one of the largest angel investment groups in Colorado.
Jackson is a graduate of Saint Louis University where he received his B.S., Business Administration in May 2010 and his J.D. in May of 2013.
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- Advisor
- Member of the Board of Directors
John was a founding member and COO of Lending Club until 2011. He has extensive experience in the marketplace lending industry and offers tremendous insight to our team.
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- Director of Sales Operations
Joy is Kickfurther's Director of Sales Operations. He elects, implements, and manages new and existing sales productivity tools and sales processes to maximize our sales teams efficiency and is responsible for providing actionable management reporting.
Joy has more than 20 years of sales and operations experience, with 10+ years in sales management, leading teams, and exceeding revenue and productivity targets.
He has his BA in Psychology from the University of New Hampshire.
Lee is Kickfurther's Controller. Lee is responsible for the accounting and finance functions to support current requirements and continue to develop the infrastructure to support the organization as it grows. Additionally, he provides guidance and support as required to other departments.
Lee is a seasoned financial services professional across a variety of functions in production and management roles as employee, consultant or fractional executive. He has experience in defining strategic business plans, optimizing business processes, and driving performance to meet aggressive objectives in finance, sales, relationship management, branch management, information technology and other management roles. He has spent the last several years in senior financial management roles as fractional CFO or full-time CFO/ Controller.
Lee received his BA in Psychology from Hamilton College and his MA from the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester.
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- Dir. Supplier Relations
- Director of Customer Experience
Melissa has extensive consumer product knowledge and retail experience. She served as Director of Brand Development and Retail Buyer for a multi million dollar consumer goods company.
Melissa is Kickfurther's Director of Customer Experience. She oversees our customer experience, customer communications and is a member of our product team.
Melissa has previously worked as a Retail Buyer and has experience in building reports, written communications and overseeing brand voice.
She received her BA in Political Science from the University of Colorado.
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- Chief Information Officer at M & T Bank
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- Director of Data Products
Samir is Kickfurther's Director of Data Products. Samir spearheads all of Kickfurther's data science and data-related initiatives as well as managing our data department.
His background includes product management, data science and data engineering, architecting data systems and creating and managing product roadmaps.
Samir has his BA in Technology, Electronics and Communication from Model Engineering College.
Scott is Kickfurther's Chief Technology Officer. Scott oversees Kickfurther's product team. His focus areas include analyzing and prioritizing all data work and assisting Samir in overseeing all data work.
His background includes product and project management, scalable systems architecture and scalable systems implementation. Scott is the founder and principal of Saitama Solutions and previously held roles at GNS Healthcare, Future Fuel, ZappRX, Cleartrip and Google.
Scott received his BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Co - Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
Sean has years of experience in the supply chain industry. When seeking financing for his merchandising company, he came up with the original idea behind Kickfurther.
Sean is the CEO and Co-founder of Kickfurther. Throughout his entrepreneurial career, Sean's driving goal has been to create a solution to one of the most difficult problems that growing businesses face: overcoming funding the production of their inventory.
Tisha is Kickfurther's Chief Marketing Officer. She leads our marketing team in building community and bringing opportunity to CPG founders and funders.
Tisha has more than 20 years of experience in marketing, from Fortune 50 at HSBC Bank, to mid-market at HomeServe USA, to start-ups at Utility Service Partners and Next Glass.
Her background includes data driven SaaS marketing, crafting the right GTM strategy to grow ARR and maximize NRR and LTV as well as brand, demand gen, content, product and digital marketing.
Tisha received her BA from State University of New York, Cultural Studies and Communications.