| 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.