Founder
ZipSend, Inc.
1999 - present
San Francisco, California
Company Profile: Founded July 1999; acquired by JPS International December 2000.
 Technology for using email addresses to route delivery of physical packages.
 $6 million in funding; 46% SAP Ventures, 46% JPS, 8% individuals / seed-round.
 47 employees peak.

Created the first e-commerce infrastructure company with a proprietary, patent-pending system that allows users to send tangible, real world items - from gifts and merchandise to packages, products and parcels - simply using the recipient's email address as the delivery address. ZipSend is the trusted third-party escrow service for personal delivery information, translating email addresses into delivery information according to user preferences.

     w Company-wide P&L responsibility to shareholders and board of directors.

     w Worked with CFO to establish the financial operating plan, departmental budgets, and revenue

        forecasts.

 

     w Established departmental performance targets by which senior staff were measured.

     w Kept expenses under plan by studying requirements, optimizing procedures, and scrutinizing

        outflows.

 

     w Created and presented company's business plan to all first, second, and third round venture

        participants.

 

     w Secured seed funding, recruited strong management team, and opened first office in under

        2 months.

 

     w Relocated company to larger offices to accommodate growth after 1 year.

     w Sold the company to JPS after 18 months.

     w Participated in the merger of ZipSend and another JPS company, FrogMagic.com.

     w Asked to lead the combined companies, with offices in San Francisco, San Rafael, and Boulder.

     w Conducted national press tours, radio and television interviews.

     w Closed a major partnership with AOL.

     w Participated in sales negotiations with Yahoo!, Lycos, uDate, TalkCity, Odigo, Matchmaker.com,

        Jabber, etc.

 

     w Established strategic discussions with FedEx, UPS, USPS, Stamps.com, and Microsoft.

     w Recruited key Board members.

     w Filed multiple patent applications.

     w Garnered over 200,000 registered users in the first 100 days of operation.

     w Ranked "13th Fastest Growing Site" by PC Data Online (ahead of ePinions, NeoPlanet, iDrive,

        and MySimon).

 

     w Cultivated relationships with over two dozen wholesale fulfillment partners and 22 network partners.