Jack Shannon

Jack Shannon, CEO & Co-Founder of Recess

Jack Shannon is the CEO and co-founder of Recess, a music and ideas festival that brings together successful entrepreneurs, startups, and musicians to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs.1 He co-founded Recess in 2010 with Deuce Thevenow while they were students at Indiana University.2

Some key milestones in Recess' history under Shannon's leadership include:

• Launching the first Recess Music Festival in May 2010 at Indiana University with LMFAO and Mike Posner as headliners, which quickly expanded to more colleges in the Midwest2
• Raising a seed round led by Mark Cuban in 2013 to expand Recess Music & Ideas Festivals to more campuses and further their mission2
• Building a multi-city brand campaign in 2015 for Topshop to help the UK retailer expand into the US market, partnering with brands like KIND Bar and Red Bull2
• Launching the Recess brand activation platform in 2018 to allow brands to search for unique sampling and sponsorship opportunities across the US2
• Raising a $5M Series A in 2022 led by Data Point Capital and Spring Mountain Capital, following a year of strong customer growth2

Prior to Recess, Shannon was a board member for Operation Homelink from 2005 to 2016, and interned at Fox Broadcasting, MGM, and Relativity Media.1 His LinkedIn profile is linkedin.com/in/shannonjack.3