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Saucey

Saucey is the leading e-commerce, compliance and logistics provider to regulated retailers. Powering safer and more convenient experiences for customers and retailers. 

We work with regulated retailers across 1,200+ cities to drive additional revenues, customers and provide insights/tools to help them manage their store online. 

Saucey also powers some of the world's largest brands to connect with and understand their end consumers, including Diageo, AB-InBev, Bacardi, Coca Cola, Constellation and more.

Highlights:
-Millions of happy customers across the U.S.
-Grown from $0 to hundreds of millions in sales
-Sent customers to the Super Bowl, Olympics, Adult Summer Camp and more
-Driven hundred of millions in incremental revenue to independent retailers 
-Built smart appliances that auto re-order beer
-Channing Tatum, Nick Jonas and more have all been delivery drivers
-Launched dozens of new brands into target markets

Founder & CEO

ROARKE

Roarke is an unlimited Design & Web Development subscription for the world's most ambitious brands.

Used by SaaS companies, Startups, DTC brands, Agencies, Franchises, and high-growth businesses to unlock their potential online. Roarke supercharges the design and development process, helping companies move faster and bring big ideas to life seemingly overnight.

Partner

Hampton

Hampton is a private, highly vetted community of high growth founders, entrepreneurs, and CEO’s.

Founding Member

Emjay

Emjay is a leading omni-channel cannabis technology platform.

In it’s first two years:
-Hundreds of thousands of customers served
-6 M&A transactions
-Grew from $0 to 7-figures/month in 6 months
-First native iOS application to sell cannabis in the app-store

textPlus, Inc.

textPlus is one of the largest texting & calling apps with over 70M users.

I oversaw US marketing/growth, user acquisition and CRM through digital and traditional channels. Including being one of the first/largest advertisers on Facebook's native ads platform (brand new at the time). Acquired millions of new users/month, tracking performance, executing & reporting against key KPI’s, and identifying channels that brought in higher LTV customers.

Helped plan our international launch. Oversaw all creative for advertising, marketing campaigns, and the textPlus brand.

Lead our ad sales platform, securing $millions in ad revenue from some of the world's largest brands.

Separately split out a small 6-person team to build an ultra low-cost international calling platform. Took it from concept / design / telco contracts to launch in 2.5 months.

Marketing Director & Head of Partnerships

Jarvus (Acquired by textPlus)

(Acquired by TextPlus) Jarvus was an iOS app that let people capture life's moments with their friends and family. It would analyze the geo-tags and time-stamps in your iPhone's photo album, match you with Facebook friends that were in the same places at the same time, and easily create group albums using you and your friend's photos. 

You could apply beautiful filters, effects and stickers to your content, and upload/share the collective "memories" / albums on Jarvus or across your social accounts. 

Featured on Jimmy Fallon. Celebrities shared moments with their friends and fans. TextPlus tagged us in a post on Jarvus that they wanted to acquire the platform. The rest is history.

Coupeez Inc

Coupeez was an early online deals platform unlocking customer savings across local businesses.  

-Lead product design and built the iOS and Android applications (very early app-store days). This is what opened my eyes to how mobile was going to change every business in the world.
-Designed our UI & UX for web, iOS, and Android from scratch. 
-Curated categories of deals and onboarded thousands of local businesses throughout California to our marketplace.

Head of Product

Over the past decade, I've built three multimillion-dollar businesses while growing a family and raising four children.

I started with no resources, no connections, and didn’t have access to the playbooks that would have made the journey 10X easier. 

As a kid, I made money garden landscaping for families at church, manufacturing merchandise for private clubs, and then developing websites and running ad campaigns for local companies.

By 21, I was founding companies. In the decade since, I've:

➤ Generated $300M+ in revenue
➤ Built operations in 1,000+ U.S. cities
➤ Served over 3 million customers globally
➤ Helped grow hundreds of small businesses
➤ Raised $30M+ in capital from Angels, VCs, Private Equity, and Family Offices
➤ Successfully navigated both successful and failed multimillion-dollar acquisitions
➤ Been featured in leading publications like Forbes, Bloomberg, Entrepreneur, USA Today and more
➤ Worked with and advised the world's most iconic brands, including Diageo, Mars, Tesco, 7-Eleven, AB-InBev, Molson Coors, and Constellation

BUT, the journey was hard (harder than it needed to be).

I’ve faced many of the things you don't think about when starting a company:

→ Fought off (and won) predatory lawsuits
→ Closed a Seed round days after my wedding
→ Negotiated with demanding government agencies
→ Worked with lobbyists to introduce or change legislation
→ Raised a Series A while in the hospital for my first son's birth
→ Navigated a failed multi-million dollar merger while my daughter was born
→ Survived near-extinction events where we had single-digit weeks or days to save the company

Personal interests: Boxing, strength training, being in the ocean, spending quality time with my wife Danielle and our four little ones.

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Mamenta

Mamenta is a Global Trade Platform that enables brands to seamlessly expand, sell, and operate across 600+ marketplaces and retail partners worldwide, including leading social commerce platforms like TikTok Shop.

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)

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Monotype

I managed a book of 50 major key accounts, each having $1B+ minimum annual revenues, such as Nike, Williams Sonoma, Wells Fargo, Electronic Arts, Logitech, T-Mobile, and NVIDIA. I grew average deal size more than 4x in one year, resulting in annual quota attainment early in Q2.

Director, Global Key Accounts | Transformed Sales Approach to Value Creation for Key Accounts

I was promoted to grow existing $100K accounts into $1M key clients by increasing wallet share and identifying additional business opportunities.

Enterprise Sales Director | 1st Sales Executive in Company History to Reach Annual Quota in Q1

As one of the company’s first 5 Enterprise Account Managers, I revitalized, expanded, and retained a book of existing client accounts.

Senior Enterprise Account Manager | Set Year 1 Sales Record & Drove 123%-187% of Quota for 3 Years

I led business development efforts for this international e-commerce startup as the company’s first employee.

VP, Business Development | Landed Company’s 1st Customers & Achieved 120% of Quota

Onestop Internet

After nearly 5 years in the talent management industry, I transitioned to e-commerce and built a team of business development reps who met and beat a multimillion-dollar quota.

Director, Business Development | Earned President’s Club 2x & Led E2E Systems Implementations

Intellectual Artists Management

Talent Manager & Independent Producer | Negotiated & Closed Endorsement Deals with Major Brands

Jeff Morrone Entertainment

Talent Manager | Achieved up to 300% of Revenue Expectations

Across industries including Software / SaaS, eCommerce, and Talent & Event Management, I enable profitable, scalable, and sustainable revenue growth. From landing major key accounts to overcoming objections with value-added differentiators, I develop, grow, and retain business.

My expertise includes: Strategic Planning | Partner Development | Enterprise Account Management | Business Development | Negotiation & Closing Strategy | Salesforce Development

I build strategic partnerships, long-term client relationships, and high-performing sales teams.

As a versatile, results-driven sales leader, I:
•	Became Monotype’s 1st sales executive to repeatedly meet annual quota in Q1 or Q2.
•	Landed the first customers for an international e-commerce startup – Mamenta, proving the potential of the business.
•	Built and led Onestop’s sales team to consistently meet and exceed quotas.

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