Matt Lerner

SYSTM

At SYSTM (formerly Startup Core Strengths), our mission is to help early-stage startups find their big growth levers (and pull them). We've noticed that great startups don't waste time on small stuff, so we  focus everyone on the most impactful work.

Founder & CEO

TransferGo

During my part-time interim role, our team more than doubled the YoY growth rate of acquisitions while lowering CPAs and improving retention and revenue per transaction. I also sourced their full-time VP Growth, and hired 4 other diverse and talented marketers to the team.

Interim VP of Growth

500 Startups

I led 500 Startups operations in London, investing in 35 seed-stage companies including Storemaven, SimplyCook, ZenJob, AirSorted, Popsa, Settled, Lexoo, Thriva, CharlieHR, HonestBrew, Fy and Second Nature. I also set up and ran the "Distro Dojo" growth marketing program for our portfolio companies in London and Berlin, which I was able to staff with a handful of the most extraordinary growth marketers in Europe.

Partner, London

PayPal

I led business-to-business marketing for PayPal UK, and oversaw the SMB/SME merchant business as a general manager.

Director, SMB

Created and lead PayPal’s first website marketing team, including conversion specialists, web analysts, developers, designers and writers. With a $3.5M budget, I oversee all business-facing areas of PayPal.com, driving over 85% of PayPal’s small business acquisition. The team boosted conversion (visitors to signups) in 2011 by 28%, generating an extra $67M over three years.

Director, On-Site Marketing

Built and managed a team of direct marketers who oversaw all marketing to PayPal’s existing small business customer base including activation, cross-sell and retention, generating $30M in incremental revenue.
+ Led pricing in North America.
+ Oversaw all marketing for the PayPal Debit Card, a $60M business, accelerating growth from 7% to 20% YoY in 12 months.
+ Deployed a propensity model targeting our most promising new customers with a high-touch “welcome” experience, boosting their value by 34% vs. control. The program generated an extra $11M in revenue in the first year and $55M over three years.

Group Manager, Merchant Engagement Marketing

Promoted within the same role, grew the team to 18. Developed processes & metrics around go-to-market. Oversaw the launch of many of PayPal’s most popular small business products.

Group Manager, Product Marketing

Built PayPal’s first outbound Product Marketing team. We oversaw all outbound B2B product marketing, launched a dozen major products and features.

Sr. Manager, Product Marketing

+ Originally hired to oversee developer marketing
+ Managed partner marketing through our shopping cart partners including GoDaddy and Yahoo!
+ Ran PayPal’s first consumer engagement campaigns
+ Launched Website Payments Pro, which currently generates over $100M revenue/year.

Marketing Manager

Macromedia

Brought Fireworks MX 2004 to market. The launch exceeded sales forecast by 20%. Planned subsequent release including researching and writing the MRD.

Product Manager

Visited 36 countries, wrote a book, climbed two 18,000 ft. Himalayan peaks, dove some of the world's best reefs, and learned to "think globally."

International Traveller

+ Led the successful development and launch of two products and discontinued a third product without alienating valuable customers.
+ Led demand generation among designers and developers for four of Macromedia’s largest launches including the flagship Dreamweaver product. Sales consistently beat forecasts. Tactics included print advertising, online media, direct mail (Harte Hanks) and email (Digital Impact) campaigns.

Product & Marketing Manager

Elemental Software

Poppe Tyson

Led B2B online marketing programs for clients including Novell Inc., Edward Jones Inc. and IDG.

Assistant Account Executive

Startup growth strategist, Ex PayPal, 500 Startups VC, Founder @ SYSTM

I founded SYSTM to help startups find their big growth levers - the small actions that can have the biggest impact on their growth. We’ve worked with over 200 companies and earned a 96% founder “likely to recommend” score.

Before founding SYSTM, I was the London-based Partner of 500 Startups, an early-stage VC fund, where I built and ran an accelerator seed-stage growth program for our portfolio companies.

Prior to joining 500 Startups, I worked for many years building and managing growth teams for three  startups (two disasters, one exit), and later at PayPal. 

I approach my work first as a general manager and then as a marketer, product manager or both, as needed. My lens is quantitative, but rooted in deep customer insights and testing, and based on fast iteration. I’m always learning, and I really enjoy teaching and helping those around me to learn and improve. Skip to the references below, you'll see that I'm regarded as a thought leader in many areas of business, and an inspiring people manager who reliably delivers ahead of expectations.

Bright River

Bright River is the visual content solutions provider of choice for many of the world’s leading e-commerce brands and retailers. Visual content solutions create rich, engaging online shopping experiences that help convert customers from browsing to purchasing, and enable studios to streamline their visual content production for fast pace product turnover.

With their end-to-end, scalable solutions, from visual product content analysis and optimization to post-production image editing and CGI creation, Bright River empowers brands and (r)etailers to increase revenue through effective online merchandising.

Established in 2006, Bright River is growing rapidly with headquarters in Haarlem, the Netherlands and a second head office in New York, NY. With 750 employees in five offices across three continents globally, Bright River serves customers worldwide with a strong foothold in the United States.

Inventic strategie//creatie//resultaat!

• Ontwikkelen Brand Strategiëen 
• Visualiseren marketing briefings
• Ontwikkelen van proposities
• Ontwerpen van Corporate Identities
• Ontwerpen van Beurs en Event stands 
• Ontwerpen van websites
• Schrijven van tekst

Owner

BNI Alkmaar

Kas beheren BNI Alkmaar, presentatie planning maken en events organiseren

Secretaris Penningmeester

DirexionDM

Co-founder, designer and conceptual thinker at Direxiondm, a digital print provider specializing in Variable Data Printing, Web2print and Digital Printing solutions.

Amstel Advertising

Started as junior copywriter, where I worked on the Skoda account and in perticular on the  introduction campaign for the new Octavia and Fabia.

Copy Writer

Westerlaende Financieel Advies

Responsible for marketing at a small financial consultancy company. I designed ads, wrote direct mail letters and drafted telemarketing scripts.

Marketing Medewerker

Marketing Manager at Bright River

As a Marketing Manager at Bright River, I’m on a mission to show the world why we’re the go-to for AI-driven visual product content solutions. Think jaw-dropping visuals, seamless integration, and end-to-end services. From content analysis and optimization to post-production wizardry, including Interactive 3D and AR magic.

I get to work with a massively talented team constantly pushing the limits of what’s possible in visual content. Our lineup includes AI-powered image editing and video editing, virtual model imagery, and the almost endless possibilities of 3D. Pretty much everything that makes your products look their very best online.

Every day at Bright River is a new adventure in redefining online shopping through mind-blowing visuals and cutting-edge tech. Let’s make e-commerce awesome together.

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