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)

Link Collaborative

Help start-ups and small businesses successfully manage the expansion of the business, building a roadmap to success. Led planning and execution of complex projects for clients in various industries from e-commerce, wellness, manufacturing, and education.

Assist in launching start-up business from concept to market resulting in profitable ventures within the first year of operation.

Director

Hackworks

Led innovative training programs that transformed traditional-sector organizations into innovation-focused cultures. Facilitated 40+ design thinking workshops, hackathons, and innovation talks to create new service offerings based on changing market demands and customer needs for different enterprise clients including financial institutions, government municipalities, and non-profit organizations.

Program Manager

CAMH

Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a knowledge dissemination and global capacity building model connecting specialists with healthcare providers across Ontario using digital platforms. The aim is to reduce disparities in the quality of care of mental health and addiction in rural and underserved areas. 

• Coordinated and implemented several (8+) large Ontario-wide online professional development education programs for primary care professionals; connected with 650+ healthcare providers from 190+ health organizations.
• Coordinated the programs’ operations including strategies for targeted community and stakeholder engagement, communication and recruitment plans and client onboarding & expert facilitator training workshops.

Project Coordinator 

Prep Academy Tutors

• Provides resources and tools for students so that they develop problem solving skills with confidence. 
 • Combines mentorship with instructions in both French and English languages to promote an enthralling environment for learning and achievement.

Advance Mathematics and Data Management Teacher

York University

•	Constructed and organized an experimental design to investigate the effects of visual motion processing on a person’s ability to detect objects in a real-world environment.
•	Prepared deliverables for manuscript publications, presentations and conferences. 
•	Collaborations with external researchers

Selected conferences:
•	CVR- Centre for Vision Research  Conference, Toronto, Canada. June 13-17, 2017.
•	18th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF), Nashville, Tennessee, USA. May 19-22, 2017.
•	European Conference of Visual Perception (ECVP), Barcelona, Spain. August 28-September 1st, 2016.
•	10th Canadian Association for Neurosciences (CAPnet-CPS CAN-CAN) SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM “Action & Perception: Cognition, Coding and Clinical Populations”, Toronto, Canada. May 29-June 1st, 2016.
•	17th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF), Suzhou, China. June 15-18, 2016.

Graduate Master's Student

•	Provide consultation by elaborating key statistical concepts in a clear concise manner to allow students to be able to identify and calculate both descriptive and inferential statistics 
•	Evaluate student performance, provide feedback and assign grades for large class
•	Organize weekly meetings, and communicated with course director to meet administrative deadlines

Graduate Teaching Assistant (Statistics Course)

•	Collected and analyzed data
Selected conference:
•	16th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF), Pisa, Italy. June 13, 2015.

Research Assistant, RAY Studentship, Centre for Vision Research (CVR)

•	Organized and classified qualitative research and materials relating to the interaction and regulation between radio and newspapers and listeners from the 1930s for conferences and publications
•	Translated from French and worked on archival documents, transcriptions, contact calls as well as interviews related to marketing radio, communication and commercializing advertisements that contributed to publication of book. "Michael Windover and Anne F. MacLennan, Seeing, Selling, Situating Radio in Canada: 1922-1956 (Dalhousie Architectural Press, forthcoming)"

Research Assistant, Department of Communication & Culture Studies

BFG Enterprise Services

•	Help with administrative staff with accounting duties (e.g. accounts payable, bank deposits and reconciliations)
•	Completed ROI, health and dental submissions for employees
•	Relieve receptionist duties

Administrative Assistant Summer Student

Metro Inc.

•	Provide customer service: assistance and reduction of complaints by listening carefully to clients’ needs and taking appropriate action
•	Organizational skills in the office: schedule and delegate tasks for front end staff
•	Properly prepared bills and overnight deposits, general accounting, reconciliation of tills

Cashier Manager

Digital enthusiast interested in strategy, product design, and implementation. I lead initiatives around seamless customer experiences, building roadmaps and systems to grow within innovative ecosystems. I'm passionate about helping founders, entrepreneurs, and start-ups grow their operations, business development, and strategy.  

With over 7 years of experience focused on customer satisfaction and transforming customer journeys across online and offline platforms in various industries including healthcare, government, and fintech.

Ask me about operational excellence, project management, go-to-market strategy, strategic planning, design thinking, and business development.

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