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

Dmitri Cherner

Head of Influencer

Future Influence

Founder & CEO

OneSkin

Joined to establish an Influencer performance program. OneSkin is unique in that it is a new entrant into a hyper saturated beauty and skincare space, with the main challenge being driving conversions with little upper funnel awareness
•Onboarded SaaS platform (Aspire) to manage and scale program from end to end, provide conversion and commission tracking, and introduce social listening to brand
•Launched over 75 collaborations on IG, TikTok, & YT, directly attributable for over $100K in revenue and 15K clicks
•Drove over 100 UGC and licensed assets for paid media that outperformed brand assets by 2X or more
•Managed Affiliate and Partnerships lead, which was attributable for over 15% of annual company revenue

Quince

Brought aboard to build scaled Influencer performance program, focused on Quince’s luxury apparel and home goods essentials
•	In 9 months with the company, I developed a foundational structure for an evergreen, performance influencer program that achieved a 3.5X ROI
•	Onboarded SaaS platform (Aspire), created performance and UGC/paid media content campaigns, briefs, reporting, and SOP

Director of Influencer & Social

Ruggable®

Promoted within a year due to program success and expansion of role and responsibilities to include brand and licensing partnerships, additional headcount, and paid media strategy

Associate Director, Influencer and Partnerships

Established and lead Influencer and Partnerships strategy for Ruggable’s Marketing organization. This consisted of building program from scratch and developing operational processes designed to scale for top performance and content generation. Managed a team of 7 FTE dedicated to driving Influencer program to be industry-leading by all performance and brand metrics
•	Onboarded an Influencer SaaS platform, AspireIQ, to scale and standardize influencer collaborations across multiple verticals. Provided feedback directly to the platform and was asked to join the Customer Advisory Board as a result, leading to priority service and customization
•	Perform rigorous testing and analysis of each influencer collaboration through specific bottom-funnel metrics: views (CPM), clicks (CPC), and conversions (CPA), and ROI- achieved a program-wide, annual ROI of  7X in 2022
•	Launched always-on strategy that resulted in over 5,000 influencer collaborations across multiple verticals, ranging from micro influencers to celebrities, majority on Instagram but also including YouTube, TikTok, & Twitter. This has led to post-purchase survey results of customers first hearing about Ruggable through an influencer from under 1% to consistently over 5% (approx. equivalent budget allocation)
•	Built content marketing initiative into an effective content generation engine, providing an ongoing stream of thousands of images and videos to be used across all creative marketing assets including email newsletters, blogs, website content, paid media, and social media. Influencer content remains the highest performing and most often used assets across all of Marketing and drove over 75% of paid media assets, a core growth channel for the organization
•	Oversaw organic social strategy, leading Instagram account growth from 165,000 to over 800,000 in followership before passing off day to day management
•	Launched whitelisting strategy that scaled to 25% of FB/IG paid social spend (ten figures annually)

Influencer & Strategic Partnerships Manager

ZEFR

Promoted to lead post-sales operations and execution

Director of Operations and Partnerships, Influencer Team

As Sr Operations Manager, I am charged with developing and maintaining best practices, creating organized and efficient workflows, and solidifying general team reliabilities and responsibilities. With a detailed knowledge on running influencer and digital content marketing campaigns, my role is to improve workflows and remove communication barriers of those around me, in order to allow the team to run as smoothly as possible.

This entails every aspect of custom content campaigns, from pre-sales proposals to content development and execution. In my role at Zefr I have done the following:
- Discovered, implemented, and trained all Influencer team members on Project Management software (Asana). This included creating template projects for seamless campaign management and accountability for all team members involved
- Developed highly efficient workflows for all team members and internal teams, specific to custom content and influencer campaigns. This included multiple templates, forms, and organizational systems in order to ensure successful campaign execution at all stages- RFP/proposals, influencer contracting and negotiation, concept deliverables, approvals/revisions, delivery, reporting, and finance.
- Created training guidelines, templates, and visual workflows for more effective training and simpler breakdown of all steps involved in content marketing campaigns
- Analyzed previous year and ongoing sales data for critical review and guideline training for sales teams. Traveled to satellite offices to train sales teams on updated strategies and workflows for improved sales techniques
- Keep monthly financial report on campaign deliverables, tracking billable engagements and reviewing contracts to ensure appropriate and organized billing statements
- Performed company-wide operational audit and provided detailed insights to company leadership to improve redundancies and communication breakdowns between teams and departments

Senior Influencer Operations Manager

Thoughtful Media Group, Inc.

Thoughtful Media Group is a digital media company and YouTube Multi-Channel Network headquartered in Los Angeles and with offices in Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, and Shanghai. We find unique and meaningful YouTubers to work with brands and make powerful digital campaigns that resonate with their audiences. Our goal is to reach the right audience with a curated message that will leave a lasting impact because it is targeted in its approach and sincere in its delivery.

- Started as a Network Intern, was promoted to Media Operations Manager in October 2014, promoted again to current role of Senior Operations Manager in July 2015
- Oversee day-to-day operations of Los Angeles office, directly supervise at least 8 people and 3 different teams
- Ad Operations Manager: Traffic and optimize global digital ad campaigns. Have run over $200,000 in digital ad campaigns in Google Adwords and Google Adwords Certified
- Manage the Catalog- collection of over 1,000 YouTube channels that have opted in to receive brand opportunities from Thoughtful Media. Oversee team that performs outreach, negotiation, and talent management throughout campaign executions
- Manage domestic network and launches of international networks- oversee network teams that focus on audience development and growth through optimization and analysis, SEO, collaborations, production, and brand opportunities 
- Create and improve operational best practices and guidelines. Work with Sales to actualize campaigns, bring influencers on board, negotiate creative materials, project manage deadlines and provide results and analysis
- Business Development through creation of and on boarding of proprietary technologies and existing dashboards

Senior Operations Manager

Nemo Media Group

-Content and copy writing for marketing flyers, letters, and press releases, LinkedIn/YouTube/Facebook profiles and pages
-Re-structured and edited LinkedIn page for Nemo Media Group
-SEO for YouTube (Channels and Videos), LinkedIn (Personal and Business), Google Keyword Tool research and analysis
-Social Media Marketing (LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook)
-Create client and sales presentations using Prezi
-Website Design and Creation
-Media List Building and Mass Email Marketing

Marketing Professional | Copywriter | SEO | Social Media Marketing

Insight Global

-Place qualified candidates in IT positions for many Fortune 100 companies based on critical evaluations of experience, expertise, and specific criterion of client.
•	Recruit candidates for specific positions based on thorough 4-step recruiting process: 
o	Initial phone screen determining if the candidate is a proper fit for the specific position
o	Face to face interview with candidate judging professionalism and communication
o	Speaking to managerial references when they worked in similar role
o	Final phone screen done by account manager who has spoken directly with hiring manager of client regarding available position
•	Go on meetings with hiring managers of client, learning more about staffing opportunities and offering services with 24-48 hour turnaround.
•	Cold call managers to set up point-of-contact meetings in order to introduce the company and recruiting process to said manager.
•	Worked with account manager to develop professional skills: selling tactics, cold calling, running meetings, general recruiting, and relationship development.

IT Recruiter

With over 10 years in Influencer Marketing, I have successfully built and scaled 3 unique programs for D2C Ecommerce brands (OneSkin, Quince, Ruggable). I have also managed every aspect of integrated marketing campaigns at agencies, with clients such as Coca-Cola, Walmart, Wendy's, and Samsung.

I specialize in driving growth and performance through scaled, evergreen influencer programs that also drive brand awareness and UGC / licensed content for paid media purposes. I work cross-functionally with Acquisition, Creative, Brand, Growth, and Data teams to drive business results, and am passionate about creating impactful and engaging digital campaigns that connect with consumers and generate value for the company.

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