OpusClip

OpusClip is the world's leading AI video editing agent that turns any type of long-form video into short, shareable clips and compilations.

As the head of strategic partnerships I'm responsible for strategic initiatives including technology alliances, the OpusClip API Partner Program, and our enterprise offering.

Head of Strategic Partnerships

Partnership Leaders

Chapter Host - San Francisco 

(various)

Presenting and hosting workshops on partnerships, marketing, and entrepreneurship.
My TEDx talk "There is No Luck. Only Good Marketing." gained +500k views.

Public Speaker

Hopin

Responsible for key strategic partners (Youtube, Meta, Linkedin etc.) of our live streaming business, StreamYard, on which most of the company's revenue depends.

Director, Strategic Partnerships: StreamYard & Streamable

Responsible for Hopin's app store and product partnerships for emerging products in the Hopin suite.

Past milestones include: 
- Grew from 0 to +50 high-quality, vetted Hopin partner integrations in one year.
- Launched key partnerships with Linkedin, HubSpot, Salesforce, and more.
- Developed partner program (internal / external enablement, co-selling playbooks etc) from scratch.
- Improved key product metrics to increase retention among our most important customer segments

Senior Partnerships Manager, Product Partnerships 

Hire #16 and #3 on the go-to-market team. My favourite achievements:

- Helped to move hundreds of thousands of events online during the onset of the covid pandemic
- Invented the job of "virtual events manager" and helped clients stay employed
- Created hundreds of jobs at our partner agencies who ran thousands of events per month.

Other milestones include: 

- Closed +$2M in sales deal in six months while developing our agency partner program
- Developed and sold Hopin's first ever annual (+$50k) and enterprise deals (+$120k).
- Closed +90 deals in 2020, largest deal size +$400k
- Identified the opportunity and built the Hopin Events Agency Program from scratch.
- The agency program ultimately grew to +300 agencies which generated +$13M in revenue. 
- Managed a team of partner managers to oversee our agency co-selling motion. 
- Interviewed hundreds of team members and key execs, growing Hopin to +1,200 employees
- Helped Hopin achieve global coverage through event agencies within four month.
- The agency program ultimately would replace our entire event services function.

Head of Agency Partnerships

StreamYard

Director of Strategic Partnerships

Tick. Done.

Tick. Done. is the micro-video platform for instant knowledge sharing. Together with our team and my co-founders, Cedric (CTO, INSEAD) and Jess (CMO, former co-founder of UK unicorn Blippar), we are on a mission to empower a billion people with a million new skills. 

- To date, raised funding of +£550k from top VCs like Seedcamp and Ascension Ventures
- Featured by Forbes, Product Hunt #1 of the Day, Apple App Store, Slush, and more
- Overseeing strategy, marketing, and product management
- Recruiting, managing, and grateful to our team of 12 legends
- Establishing partnerships, e.g. Google AMP Project (featured at AMP Tokyo and Google I/O)

Co-Founder & CEO

Zinc VC

Entrepreneur in the first cohort of Zinc VC, a mission-driven startup incubator backed by LocalGlobe. Together with 50 bright minds, I embarked on a nine-month journey to find co-founders and a startup idea that will address some of the world's most pressing issues.

- Selected for the inaugural cohort (<5% acceptance rate)
- Built a network of mentors and advisors among London's top founders and investors
- Assembled an all-star team: thanks Jess (former Unicorn founder) and Cedric (tech genius)
- Conducted user research and rapidly tested and iterated towards our idea for Tick. Done.
- Raised +£550k after pitching to a variety of partners and investors

Entrepreneur 

Rolling Promotion

At Rolling Promotion, we offered an environmentally friendly and innovative approach to advertising. Selected for the Startup Bootcamp Accelerator "Smart City and Living '17" Cohort.

Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer

RockBoost - The Dutch Growth Hacking Agency

Rockboost Growth Hacking Agency is one of the leading Dutch agencies for growth consulting and education. A Growth Hacker is a creative marketer, product manager, and data analyst all together, whos true north is growth.

- Educated SME customers on growth methodologies and implementing growth processes 
- Conducted qual/quant research and experiments with clients in Europe and Latin America 
- Leveraged a diverse range of strategies (data analysis & machine learning in R & Python, smoke screens, A/B testing, etc.) to run iterative experiments for clients and discover untapped marketing opportunities

Growth Hacker

ECE Students

Founding member, external relations manager, and talk show host of the Erasmus Center For Entrepreneurship Students' "Minimum Viable Talkshow", an event with high-profile guests aimed at delivering hands-on advice to student entrepreneurs.

- Responsible for acquiring and interviewing high-profile guests such as Christian Stadil (Investor at Danish "Shark Tank"), Jan-Peter Balkenende (Former Dutch Prime Minister), and Marian Van Loon (President of Royal Dutch Shell NL).
- Developed the talk show and event format, growing to an audience size of +150 students
- Managed and maintained existing relationships with speakers and sponsors

External Relations Manager & Talk Show Host

Strategic Partnerships @ StreamYard | Captain @ The Partner Ship 🚢

Franz Schrepf is the Head of Strategic Partnerships at OpusClip, the #1 AI video editing tool used by 6M+ creators and businesses around the world. 

Before Opus he was the #16 employee at Hopin and StreamYard, a virtual events and live streaming company which Sifted called "Europe's fastest growing startup of all time." 
 
His new book, "The Book on Partnerships: How Startups Work With Partners To Sell More, Add Features, And Get Acquired.", is a foundational guide full of stories and insights from 50+ industry experts that explain the power of partnerships in the most basic terms.  

Franz is also a frequent contributor and speaker on the topic of partnerships on podcasts, blogs, events, and conferences as well as the host of one of the most popular partnership podcasts, The Partner Ship 🚢.

Originally from Germany, Franz lives with his wife and daughter in San Francisco, where he organizes monthly partnerships meetups together with the Partnerships Leaders community.

Franz-Josef Schrepf (FJS)

Parlons Virtuel

Parlons Virtuel est la branche d'événementiel virtuel de Parlons Données. Nous offrons des services sur mesure pour les entreprises et organismes qui désirent organiser des événements virtuels. 

Nos services incluent entre autre : 

• L'évaluation de faisabilité d'un événement en ligne
• L'analyse de différentes plateformes d'événement en ligne
• L'accompagnement stratégique pour la planification de l'événement en ligne
• Le support technique lors de l'événement
• La diffusion de vidéos en direct
• L'analyse post événement (gestion des enregistrements, création de rapports d'événements, analyse des données, etc.)

Fondateur

Data Talks

Data Talks is consulting firm which helps entrepreneurs and analyst to optimize data and information management. 

We offer : 

• Virtual event organization
• Coaching on how to use digital tools like Office 365, Google Suite, Airtable and more

Founder and main consultant

As a freelance, I do business and tech consulting. 

Projets I did : 

• Creation of sales dashboard
• Sales process automation 
• Creation of an e-commerce platform for a retail business
• Organization of corporate events (hackathon and meetup)

IT and digital business consultant

AQIII (Association québécoise des informaticiennes et informaticiens indépendants)

Membre du conseil d’administration de l’AQIII

Administrateur

Sécurité carte à puce 

Sécurité Carte à puce est une entreprise en gestion de risques numériques qui offre des solutions sécuritaires tout en améliorant la productivité de votre entreprise.

Responsable développement d'affaires et partenariat

Startup Weekend

• Communicate the planning and the mission of Startup Weekend
• Represent Techstar Startup Weekend with the local community
• Support organizer before and during the event

Events : 
• Sherbrooke, Quebec (Jan. 2017) 
• Shawinigan, Quebec [Global Startup Weekend] (Nov. 2017) 
• Trois-Rivières, Quebec (Mar. 2018) 
• Montréal, Québec [Global Startup Weekend] (Nov. 2018) 
• Ottawa, Ontario [Global Startup Weekend] (Nov. 2018)
• Sherbrooke, Quebec (Mar. 2019) 
• Montréal, Québec [HEC] (Nov. 2019)

Facilitator

As an organizer, I’ve been able to see all parts of a Startup Weekend. I’ve worked with a lot of volunteers. My main goal during these events as always been to give the best experience ever to the attendees. I’m really proud to say that some of the business I helped, did manage to continue working on their projet and are now success stories.

Organizer

Le Garage & co

Le Garage & co is an entrepreneurial hub based on the south shore of Montreal. 

My role consist in  : 
• Mettre en place des processus d'affaires efficace 
• Dynamiser la communauté entrepreneurial de la Montérégie

Contributor

financetoimieux.com

Finance Toi Mieux est une entreprise de services financiers spécialisés pour les étudiants universitaires. 

En tant que Directeur des Technologies et de l'Innovation, mes mandats consistaient à : 
- Schématiser les processus de l'entreprise
- Créer des tableaux de bord opérationnelle
- Former l'équipe aux outils numériques
- Planifier les stratégies d'affaires

Directeur Technologies et Innovations

Espace-inc

Espace-inc is a business incubator based in Sherbrooke. In addition to offering high quality mentorship to startups, we offer them a dynamic and creative space with one of the largest collaborative workshop on the east coast. 
 
My role at Espace-inc was to  : 
- Gather as much information as possible on how incubators, co-working and VC firms works in Canada and elsewhere. 
- Map the process of the organization 
- Suggest solutions inspired from best practice and what is in other organizations
- Plan the complete architecture for information management
- Prepare an action plan for actually implementing the system
- Execute the plan and make sure everyone know how to use the system

Analyst

Université de Sherbrooke

Prepare workshops with Microsoft Access, Tableau, SAP, Wordpress

Teaching assistant

Sherbrooke.IO

Co-founder

Passionné par les nouvelles technologies, je suis toujours à la recherche de nouveaux défis pour réussir à me surpasser. 

Je suis un hybride entre l'informatique, le monde des affaires et de l'entrepreunariat. Adepte des startups, j'adore challenger les idées des entrepreneurs pour sortir le meilleur de ceux-ci.

Contactez-moi si vous avez des question sur n'importe quel des sujets ci-dessous : 
• Organiser des événements en ligne stimulant
• Modèle d'affaire (BMC) et commercialisation
• Outils de gestion de données : Excel, Google Sheet, Airtable, SQL et autres 
• Intégration et optimisation d'outils numériques : CRM, ERP et autres outils 
• Automatisation et simplification de processus avec Zapier ou IFTTT
• Créer des tableaux de bord avec Google Data Studio, Tableau ou Power BI

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