20 years of aggressive start-up, sales and business development experience, offering large companies innovative new technology solutions, to improve top-line or bottom-line results.
- 7-time Founder and 5-time CEO of new companies & international subsidiaries
- $50M+ of new revenue & 100's of signed B2B customer & partner contracts
- Hired & developed 100's of employees
Path To Purchase Institute Faculty (along with Executives from Coke, Walmart, Kellogg's, LG, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, Walgreen's, Microsoft, ConAgra, IRI, Mars, Ahold, P&G, Kraft).
Founding CEO @ Retailigence powers ”path to purchase” marketing, attribution, insights & ROI. The world's most innovative brands and Ad-Tech companies use Retailigence across any media to ensure marketing not only generates awareness, but converts into measurable path-to-purchase shopper action, in-store sales, and a better ROI. Retailigence leverages unique hyper-local insights into shoppers, as well as the product availability, price and/or sales of 10's of millions of SKUs, in up to 200,000 brick & mortar stores.
Retailigence has received numerous industry and client awards:
- Founder Institute: Won "Hot Company," 2009
- Under the Radar conference: Overall judges Winner, 2010
- $1.5M Seed Funding from Dave McClure's 500 Startups & other leading Angel investors, 2010
- SVCW Mobile Conference: Winner, 2011
- $2.6M A-Round Funding from DFJ, Motorola, Quest VP & others, 2011
- Red Herring: Red Herring 100 Winner, 2012
- $6.3M B-Round Funding from DFJ, Motorola, Quest VP, OPT, Telenav & others, 2013
- AdAge: Nescafe Global Start-Up Innovation Contest, Jan. 2014
- Ad:Tech: Winner of CPG Spotlight Pitch, 2015
- Forbes: Top 100 Analytics Startups of 2015
- Presenter at leading Mobile Commerce, Advertising & Mar-Tech conferences and events from MMA, MediaPost, OMMA, Oppenheimer, BrandConnect, AdvertisingWeek, Ad:Tech NY, Pacific Crest, Opus Research, BIA/Kelsey, DFJ, GS1, Ad:Tech SF, Path-to-Purchase Institute (awarded "Faculty" status), CES, Founder Institute, etc. From January 2010 to December 2015 (6 years) Director @ Tomorrow Ventures, founded by Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google is a venture fund based in Silicon Valley and Asia focused on early-stage investments that develop innovative ideas which have the power to change the way people live, interact, and thrive.
Role involved the strategy, partner development, international outreach and program planning for a new venture investment program, for very early-stage companies & ideas. From March 2010 to June 2010 (4 months) Vice-President, Business Development @ RTM Asia helps fast-growing technology companies rapidly acquire and accelerate revenue growth and/or raise local capital for their operations in Asia-Pacific.
Lead business development, advising CEOs, Founders and VCs on Asian business expansion, and prepared effective proposals for such services, based on each start-up's needs. Resulted in many new clients in SaaS & mobile apps. From February 2009 to February 2010 (1 year 1 month) Founder & Managing Director @ Start-up, sales, business development, partner development, JV set-up, hiring and managing P&L and customer satisfaction with primary focus in Japan, China and Korea (& secondarily on Australia, India & SE-Asia).
Solution Value Proposition: Convert underutilized value of existing CAD data into real-time rendered 3D photo-realistic interactive content for Digital Marketing (CG images, movies, internet mini-sites and POS systems) and Product design (replacing physical prototypes). Customers included Adidas, Sony-Ericsson, Samsung, Airbus, LG, etc. and in automotive industry Shanghai-VW, Audi, Lexus, Mini, Volvo Truck, Lamborghini, BMW, Shanghai-GM PATAC, Porsche & Toyota.
Results: 1000% revenue growth, profitability, built team 0 to 50 & achieved strong market awareness From October 2005 to January 2009 (3 years 4 months) Tokyo, JapanGeneral Manager @ Company growth, Business development, partner development, hiring and managing P&L and customer satisfaction in Korea & SE-Asia.
Solutions for CRM, BPM/EPM/CPM, BI, ERP and SCM competed with Salesforce.com, Oracle, Hyperion, Cognos, Business Objects & SAP. Customers included Visa, Europcar, Clarins, Pharmacia, AXA Insurance, Bombardier, GE Plastics, Sharp Electronics, British Airways, etc.
Results: 100% growth in revenue during 1 year (1 region, multiple product lines) From January 2005 to October 2005 (10 months) Vice-President, Business Development @ Lead business development globally including partner development, demos & pre-sales, and in smaller countries, sales, marketing and operations too.
Solution Focus: Business Intelligence (BI), Planning and Performance Management applications that competed with Hyperion, Cognos & Business Objects.
Customers: Christian Hansen, Red Bull, Scandlines, Sydbank, Storck, Ramboll, Arovit
Results: 100% growth in revenue during 1 year (1 product line, globally) From November 2003 to December 2004 (1 year 2 months) Vejle Area, DenmarkFounder & Managing Consultant @ Helped software vendors (SCM, Data warehousing & Analytical CRM) identify and deliver on opportunities in Asia.
Sample project: Conceptualized and developed new sales model for selling sophisticated data mining business solutions in a underdeveloped market. 2 new customers in 6 months. From 2001 to 2003 (2 years) Co-Founder & Regional Manager, Asia @ First year set-up of operations & business development in each of Japan, Singapore & Korea, Australia, India & others. Role included business development, pre-sales, partner development & operations.
Solution: Global Supply Chain (SCM) planning, scheduling & optimization software which competed against i2 Technologies, Manugistics & SAP at companies in High-Tech (Fujitsu, Hitachi, Toshiba, Sharp, Matsushita, NEC, Philips, Sanyo, Samsung) and CPG (Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, Firmenich) industry.
Results: Asia revenue grew from 0% to over 50% of global revenue, simultaneous with the company's fast growth. From 1997 to 2001 (4 years) Senior Consultant @ ERP & Enterprise software From 1997 to 1997 (less than a year) Intern Management Consultant @ Supply chain, ERP software & business processes redesign From 1995 to 1997 (2 years) Toronto, Canada AreaIntern Implementation Consultant @ Supply Chain planning & scheduling software implementation
(Numetrix was acquired by JD Edwards which was acquired by Oracle) From 1995 to 1995 (less than a year) Intern/Co-op Student @ Supply Chain Planning From 1993 to 1993 (less than a year)
Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General @ Kellogg School of Management program @Sasin (in Asia-Pacific) From 2001 to 2003 MBA, Business Administration and Management, General @ London Business School From 2000 to 2000 Honors B. Mathematics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Statistics @ University of Waterloo From 1990 to 1995 Graduated as "Hot Company" by panel of 20 VCs, B2B category @ Founder Institute From 2009 to 2010 MediaPost mCommerce Conference Jeremy Geiger is skilled in: Start-ups, Enterprise Software, Rapid Growth, Internet, Digital Marketing, Emerging Growth Companies, Asia Pacific, International Development, Partner Development, Product Management, Strategic Partnerships, SaaS, Business Development, Global Business Development, B2B