<a href="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiVmh0dHBzOi8vY2EuZmluYW5jZS55YWhvby5jb20vbmV3cy9hcHByaXNzLXJldGFpbC1uYW1lcy1pbmR1c3RyeS12ZXRlcmFuLTEzMDAwMDIyMi5odG1s0gEA?oc=5" target="_blank">Appriss Retail Names Industry Veteran and Innovator Dean Abbott Chief Data Scientist</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#6f6f6f">Yahoo Canada Finance</font>

Appriss Retail Names Industry Veteran and Innovator Dean Abbott Chief Data Scientist - Yahoo Canada Finance

<a href="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMipQFodHRwczovL3d3dy5idXNpbmVzc3dpcmUuY29tL25ld3MvaG9tZS8yMDIzMDUyMzAwNTI0Ny9lbi9BcHByaXNzLVJldGFpbC1FeHBhbmRzLUl0cy1MZWFkZXJzaGlwLVRlYW0tV2l0aC1Ud28tTmV3LUhpcmVzLUZvY3VzZWQtb24tQ3VzdG9tZXItU3VjY2Vzcy1hbmQtUmV2ZW51ZS1Hcm93dGjSAQA?oc=5" target="_blank">Appriss Retail Expands Its Leadership Team With Two New Hires ...</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#6f6f6f">Business Wire</font>

Appriss Retail Expands Its Leadership Team With Two New Hires ... - Business Wire

Carnegie Mellon University

Phillips Exeter Academy

CEO & President at SmarterHQ

Appriss Retail provides real-time decisions and active risk monitoring to enable our customers to maximize profitability while managing risk.  Our solutions are continually adapting to changing market conditions. 

We bring 20+ years of retail data science expertise and experience.  We serve a global base of leading commerce partners, representing 1/3 of all US omnichannel retail sales activity across 150,000 retail locations across specialty, apparel, department store, hard goods, big box, grocery, pharmacy, and hospitality businesses in 45 countries on six continents.

The company provides compelling, relevant, and profitable collective intelligence to operations, finance, marketing, and loss prevention. Appriss Retail’s performance-improvement solutions yield measurable results with significant return on investment.

Appriss Retail

Chief Executive Officer

ShopSocially delivers applications that allow retailers to enable Social Commerce for their customers.  I'm working with Jai Rawat and Valhalla investor Kiran Hebbar to help the team package, price, and go to market driving tons of value for their outstanding customer list.

Zinrelo (formerly ShopSocially)

Member, Board of Advisors

Advising the leadership team on turning early-stage startup energy into value for customers and growth as a business. Leverage both experiences and relationships to help guide the trajectory of the company.

OrderGroove, Inc.

Board of Advisors

Wunderkind

President

Lucernex was acquired by Accruent in August of 2017.  Lucernex™ is a leading provider of cloud-based Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) software solutions. Our solutions are used every day to proactively manage more than 85,000 real estate locations on 5 continents for more than 140 customers.

Lucernex

Board Of Directors

SmarterHQ makes it easy for marketers to increase revenue now and customer relationships over time by powering highly personalized, cross-channel experiences. Trusted by leading brands such as Bloomingdale’s, Hilton, Santander Bank, and Finish Line, SmarterHQ activates real-time, multichannel data, identifies audiences quickly based on customer behavior and information, and automates personalized content across outbound and online channels. They have been recognized by Forrester’s Total Economic Impact study to deliver 667% in ROI. Learn more at SmarterHQ.com.

CEO & President

Smarter Remarketer provides a Software as a Service (SaaS) Email Marketing automation and analysis suite that allows multi-channel retailers to bolster customer lifetime value by creating relevant and effective customer experiences.  I'm personally working with Howard Bates, Angel Morales, and the SR team to scale the organization particularly on the sales and sales process sides.

Techstars is a geographically distributed accelerator which provides both financial and advisory help to budding entrepreneurs.  Focused exclusively on the early stage startup scene Techstars gives help to the freshest and most disruptive ideas.  Mentors provide help, advice, counseling, and new perspectives to companies in the Techstars portfolio.

TechStars

Mentor, Techstars Austin

Advisor for Garrett and the leadership team on sales scaling, leadership, and growth.

Edgecase.io

Advising the founding team on acquiring and growing the customer base, leveraging my time at Bazaarvoice to help them succeed.

Nomi

Originally Handshakez, the pivot into becoming myDocket is complete and I remain a co-founder and Board of Directors member, along side Austin Ventures and Jason Wesbecher.  myDocket is focused on enabling sales people to send sales collateral and actually know when/if the prospect looks at it.  Sales people NEED these capabilities and this is a fantastic team to go after the opportunity.

Handshakez

Co-Founder, Board of Directors

I'm responsible for understanding the needs and painpoints of our customer base and future customers.  This role is the focal point of advocacy on behalf of our customers and future customers.  I work with Sales, Services, Product, and Development internally to bring the voice of *our* customers to the heart of our business.  If you're a customer of Bazaarvoice, or want to be, I work for you.

Bazaarvoice

Chief Customer Advocate

Advising the Monetate leadership team in areas of growth and scale, particularly focused on their sales channels.  Working with leadership team to relay experiences of growing a startup company, growing an outstanding culture, and scaling a sales organization.

Monetate, Inc.

Focused on scaling our direct and indirect channels to enable growth across our business verticals and geographies.  Leading the sales and BD functions to unlock value for our customers and our partners.

Chief Revenue Officer

Bazaarvoice makes word of mouth marketing work for our customers and their customers.  Defining, leading, and expanding the reach of Social Commerce for Retail, Travel, Manufacturing, Media, Financial Services, and doing it all over the globe, means we have to have an outstanding and highly passionate sales force.  My job is to hire, train, and push the best people in the world to be the best salespeople every day.  We communicate value, not proposals.  We sell partnerships, not deals.  If you're interested in what Bazaarvoice has to offer OR in being a part of one of the best teams globally, send me an email!

Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Responsible for all new revenue for Bazaarvoice, worldwide.  Also responsible for hiring, growing, and scaling a fantastic salesforce.

Vice President, Sales

Managed as many as 25 person team of Account Analysts, Account Executives, Support, Best Practices Analysts.  Responsible for 100% renewal rate of very large client base.  Responsible for 100% preservation of current client revenue stream.  Succeeded in growing current client revenue base by 20-30% per year.

Coremetrics

Director of Client Services

Managed current client relationships, focused on retention of their SaaS revenue as well as upsells and renewals.  Helped grow the team as we scaled the business and managed 50+ account relationships directly.

Account Executive

Managed internal processes for the Photo Ditto product release.  Worked with Sony Corporation to accomplish their successful release of a branded PictureStation device.  Developed and led internal processes to streamline the interface between Development, Product Management, and QA.

Michael Osborne