Intrepid

Intrepid is a financial technology company that brings innovation, inspiration, and opportunity to every entrepreneur and business in the creator economy.

Our core product "Superstar" is a creator marketing management software designed to automate the way data-driven marketing teams operate. It offers an integrated platform to manage the entire lifecycle of creator marketing campaigns. 

The objective is to streamline processes from the creator discovery phase to payments, all while leveraging data-driven insights and fostering enhanced collaboration among stakeholders.

I recruit customers, partners and lead our global community.

Co-Founder | Community | Growth 

Activate America

Producer of Amplified Avondale https://www.instagram.com/amplifiedavondale/ 

Activate America leads urban transformation and regenerative placemaking projects, creating vibrant cultural hubs for economic revitalization and fosters community connection and cultural diversity.

As the Founder and CEO of Activate America, I orchestrated a transformative journey that significantly impacted the local community. We've achieved remarkable milestones:

Community Development: Our festival transitioned from a homogenous gathering into a diverse and inclusive event, with over 1,000 monthly attendees representing a rich tapestry of backgrounds, fostering an inclusive sense of community and cultural diversity.

Revenue Growth: Doubled and tripled revenue for local merchants, contributing to the economic vitality of the community.

Urban Revitalization: Pioneered the creation of a net-new entertainment district, catalyzing urban revitalization and cultural enrichment.

Founder and CEO

Delivering over a hundred keynote speeches, panels, and moderated discussions on Fintech, Modern Banking, Web3, Blockchain, AI, and the Future of Work.

Translating deep tech trends into human-centric insights, driven by my entrepreneurial, executive recruiting, and advisory background.

Public Speaker

Silver Creek Partners

Full time through 2016, select long term clients through 2023. Global reach.
Key Contributions:

Recruited and onboarded over 2500 professionals, driving substantial revenue growth and innovation for diverse organizations. Hundreds of customers from idea stage to F50.
Functional areas: Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Corporate Development
Roles: CSuite to individual contributor.
Google, SAP, SingTel, AIA, Flipt, Anheiser Busch, Salesforce,

Key Accomplishments:
Scaled startup engineering teams from initial hires to robust units of up to 40 engineers.

Led talent acquisition for a HealhTech startup from idea to a teams 140+ employees.

Led talent acquisition efforts for a Fortune 100 electronics manufacturer, resulting in 35 senior manager and executive hires within 12 months.

Scaled a Fortune 50 insurance company's newly formed division from a single employee to 35 senior hires in just 18 months, including relocating 25 senior executives to Singapore.

Oversaw organizational design and talent acquisition for a corporate development and Innovation business unit, culminating in 14 executive-level hires.

Drove early success for startups, consistently recruiting first customers in zero to one environments.

Founder | Executive Recruiter

Intrepid Ventures

Intrepid Ventures was a Blockchain and Web3 startup studio and innovation lab for founders and chief innovation officers.

Customer-facing leader with a proven track record of success in growing and engaging communities, launching successful events, and building relationships in the blockchain and Web3 space.

Grew a global invite-only community from 0 to 30,000+ members in 18 months. Community led insights and guidance helped to shape the thinking of community members and position them for success in the rapidly evolving blockchain and Web3 space.

Developed and launched more than 20 sponsored events across Southeast Asia through ecosystem partners including Visa, Prudential, AIA, IFC World Bank, IBM, and others, attracting over 10,000 attendees. 

Facilitated community-driven innovation and collaboration, resulting in the launch of multiple successful blockchain/crypto products across insurance, fintech, security, and gaming.

Intrepid Ventures | Co-Founder | Blockchain & Web3 Venture Studio

Creator Economy | Influencer Marketing | Community | Sales and Partnerships | Recruiting

I help Influencer Marketing teams unify, automate, and scale their operations so they can focus on growth vs. administrative tasks.


I've recruited and helped build amazing teams (onboarded 2500+ professionals).
I've designed and built global communities from zero to 30K+.
Designed, launched and produced 18 Music and Art Festivals, 5 large scale conferences and 100+ events
Co-founded 4 startups in  Blockchain, Healthech, Fintech and AI/Automation.

Zach Piester

Collab Asia, Inc.

Leading digital content studio and influencer network with offices across Asia.

COO / Co-founder

Collab, Inc.

Consultant

Quant Media Advisors, Inc.

Developing data-driven Web-based products for entertainment professionals.  Manage a cross-border team located in the US and Korea.

Principal

AwesomenessTV

Helped revise forecasts for parent, subsidiary and joint venture entities
Worked with network and finance team in aggregating ad revenue from Youtube/Google
Analyzed network partner/member management contracts in calculating participations and royalty payments
Projected advertising and sponsorship revenue using data from Google AdWords
Worked with production in budgeting costs for proprietary and sponsored content

Capitol Films

Entertainment roll-up company.  Helped raise $150 million in financing for leveraged buyouts of domestic and international entities including film distributor ThinkFilm, international sales agency Capitol Films and various production entities and library assets.

D.B. Zwirn

$5 billion global hedge fund.  Evaluated major film slates for investment.  Helped employ over $150 million in senior debt, mezzanine debt and equity capital to operators in domestic and foreign film, film slates, music recording and publishing and other entertainment sub-sectors.

Associate

Columbia Business School

Emphasis on media economics and value investments.

Student

Banc of America Securities

Helped provide credit to a private equity firm in an LBO of a B2B telco services provider.

Summer Associate

Lionsgate

Led the company’s annual global film, TV and new media library valuation and worked on the Artisan Entertainment merger.  Created company's first standardized electronic greenlight model.

Director, Corporate Development

Hollywood Stock Exchange

Simulated market exchange for movies. Helped create predictive film performance models in creating marketing tools for studios.

Vice President, Finance and Strategy

As COO and Co-founder of Collab Asia, Allen Lee oversees the company’s efforts to put creators, brands and platforms first in today’s age of digital content. He was previously a consultant for Collab, Inc. where he and his now CEO and co-founder Eugene Choi saw an opportunity in the Asian market. Together, they championed the growth of Collab’s network of Asia-related creators and eventually led the separate incorporation of Collab Asia, Inc. from Collab, Inc. in 2017.

Prior to working in the digital content industry, Allen worked at hedge fund D.B. Zwirn & Co. in their Special Situations Group in New York, where he helped deploy senior and mezzanine debt and equity capital to media companies collateralized by their intellectual property. Before that, he was the Director of Corporate Development at Lions Gate Entertainment in Los Angeles, where he helped execute their annual library valuation, and has since valued over 10,000 film, TV, music and new media properties.  He started his career at investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette in their M&A Group in New York. 

Allen holds a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School, a Bachelor’s in
Business Administration from UC Berkeley, and is a largely self-taught coder with experience building Web apps in Ruby and SQL.

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