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B2B PodPros

Lead content creation and brand positioning efforts to establish B2B PodPros as a leader in the b2b podcast advertising space.

Growth Marketing - B2B PodPros

Bonjoro

Oversee partner marketing and social efforts to impact demand generation and product adoption. Develop strategies across full customer lifecycle including sales enablement, content, video, partnerships, and webinars.

Demand Generation & Partnerships Marketing Manager

Sunnova Energy Corp.

Responsible for digital campaign operations including the development of an automated email personalization strategy at scale across touchpoints to increase active engagement, minimize churn, and re-engage lapsed and dormant customers.

Customer Experience and Digital Marketing Director

Kids Health Program I www.FlyMovement.org

Fly Movement is a one-of-a-kind kids’ health program that provides students an opportunity to reach a fitness goal through fun, rewarding team competition and fitness trackers. Responsible for overseeing the administration, fundraising, programs, and strategic plan of the organization.

Founder of Kids Health Program Fly Movement

Spark Energy

Managed a team responsible for growing residential sales (excluding D2D and OTM), customer communications, user experience, website for 4+ brands, and strategic online partnerships.

Digital Marketing Director

Frontier Utilities

Responsible for leading online retail expansion into 5 new markets, developing strategic business relationships with online retailers, building digital marketing programs, and managing digital marketing team.

Digital Marketing Manager

TL;DR – 2x founder, digital marketing background + love for building social connections.

Moved to Romania from Texas in 2020. Prior to the move, I held marketing leadership roles in publicly traded companies. When I moved to Europe, because I had an interest in tech, I’ve been mostly busy with growth and customer marketing roles at various startups like Bonjoro, OptiMonk and RoninSport.io.

Some notable accomplishments
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Launched a one-of-a-kind kids fitness program in Houston, Fly Movement, that encouraged kids’ to increase their fitness activity through the use of fitness trackers.

Interviewed 130+ European startup founders on my podcast Innovators Can Laugh.

Helped grow a b2b podcaster community and network, B2B PodPros, that helps SaaS brands reach new audiences. Clients include Deel, Dealfront, Mouseflow and others.

What I am looking forward to in 2025
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Being a part of an exciting and fun scale up where I can add value through my marketing experience.

Throwing a few cocktail parties with some of the most interesting people in Bucharest


Thank you for visiting my profile. Feel free to learn more at https://linktr.ee/ericmelchor

Eric Melchor

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Senior Technical Product Manager

Top Tier Impact

Member (Entrepreneur)

MITAI

Data modeling & backend work for a SaaS product solving problems in printed circuit board (PCB) design

Data Scientist

Generalist World

Mach49

I help startups incubated by Global 1000 companies build data-driven products

Freelance Consultant

MOMENTUS by Hitachi 

As a consultant with Mach49, I worked FTE with a team of veteran entrepreneurs to build a next-generation data aggregation and management platform for private fleets

I developed new data products (carbon dashboards; ML solutions; fleet ageing forecasts) ; managed a 3-person offshore backend dev team ; designed and built a productized SaaS fleet ops database ; owned 14 client accounts

Data Lead & Product Manager

Provided analytics support for the founding Momentus team, as they zeroed in on the market opportunity

Data Analyst

Naivya

Advisor

Naivya was a context engine that told you where online rumors started, who started them, and how they spread. It allowed internet users to identify misinformation for themselves, and political operatives to spot emerging threats

I ran a daily newsletter and a watchdog website on misinformation in Mexican politics ; owned investor strategy, materials & pipeline ; and did generalist stuff (ops, financial model, Product and S&M copy, growth & revenue strategy)

Founder / COO

Gilder Gagnon Howe & Co. LLC

Originated and developed theses for a long-short portfolio manager; financial analysis, modeling, primary research (C-suite & sell-side interviews), etc

Equity Analyst

The Global Narratives Institute

We built a political risk engine that beat the polls (predicted Macron would win the 2017 French presidential elections, 4 weeks before he took the lead)

Co-Founder

The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon

Responsible for guiding 25 articles through to publication; managed a team of copy editors for 2 years and covered ghostwriting, fact checking, translating, etc

Publication Coordinator

Product & Data | Climate | Entrepreneur | Archaeologist

🤝 I can help with: early stage Product and Data
👀 I'm interested in: connecting & partnering across the climate + tech ecosystem

Things I’ve done: 

Senior Technical Product Manager @ PG&E (spearheading catalytic data products focused on electric distribution, decarbonization, and climate risk)

Product Backend Consultant @ Mitai by TDK (strategic support for automated PCB EMC compliance tools [Python & Rust])

Data & Product Consultant @ Momentus by Hitachi (built a machine learning tool that flagged trucks before they had breakdowns, with 92% accuracy)(Precision & recall were pretty good too for certain makes/models)

Founder/COO @ Naivya (discovered and exposed a twitter bot network targeting multiple Mexican gubernatorial campaigns)

Think tank founder @ The Global Narratives Institute (predicted the 2017 French election outcomes 4 weeks before the polls tipped for Macron)

Harvard PhD in Archaeology (ask me about Phoenicians, ceramic analysis, and the best bars in Seville)

Links: https://linktr.ee/philip_johnston

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Eric Melchor

Philip Johnston, PhD 🌍

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