JR

Jason Radisson

CEO at Movo, Investor, Board Director

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Skills

Statistical Modeling
Economics
Labor Relations
General Management
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Global HR Leadership
C-Level Leadership
Distributed Systems
Startups
Business Planning
Contract Law
International Commercial Law
Intellectual Property Law
European Law
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Strategy
Growth Marketing
E-commerce
Software Development

Work Experience

2020

  • CEO & Founder

    2020

    Running a business that depends on a large frontline workforce has never been more challenging. It’s expensive, manual, time-consuming, and legacy systems are no help. Movo (https://movo.co) is the only mobile-native platform custom-built for automatically acquiring, engaging and boosting the productivity of today’s frontline workforce up to 30%. With Movo you can be up and running in 2 weeks.

2020

  • Investor

    2020

  • Investor

    2019

2018

  • Investor / Special Advisor to the Office of the Chairman & CEO

    2018

    Amazing partnering with the Rappi Founders over the years: - Setup of the COO organization, central ops, country/regional - Setup of Global Growth & Brand Management organization. Interim Chief Marketing Officer - Retail/grocery BU realignment, team and capabilities building

2017 - 2019

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2017 - 2019

    99 is the Brazilian ride-sharing platform backed by Softbank, Monashees, Riverwood, among others. My team and I grew the business 10x on $50M in invested capital, and sold 99 to China's Didi Chuxing for $1B, making it the most capital-efficient scale-up recorded by a gig marketplace and one of South America's first unicorns.

Multiple

2011 - 2018

  • Board Member / Board Advisor

    2011 - 2018

    1) Otto Group, www.ottogroup.com, Hamburg, Munich. $12B multi-channel retailer. 2) Scout24, www.scout24.com, Munich. Marketplace for cars and real estate. 3) eCircle, Munich (email platform acquired by Teradata). 4) Gap, Inc., www.gap.com, San Francisco.

  • General Manager, Regional General Manager

    2015 - 2016

    Launched and ran South Western United States. We were Uber's quickest and most efficient scaleup. In addition we developed a partnership with LAS that became the template for Uber’s airport deals throughout the United States. Our success in fixing longstanding transportation gaps garnered national media recognition.

  • Executive Vice President

    2011 - 2015

    Avira is Germany’s #1 private software company and was my first full-stack global COO role. Responsible for the consumer products and business, with a base of 300 Million active users, and all related product development. Delivered 20% CAGR or better per year as we transitioned our business model from physical product and channels to online license sales, to freemium to ad-sales, and launched dozens of new cyber-security products.

2010 - 2015

  • CEO & Founder

    2010 - 2015

    Echtzeit was a SaaS algos shop I built to help leading German retailers compete with Amazon.de. We provided merchandize recommendations, dynamic pricing, item catalog, inventory management applications and real-time instrumentation for German household brands like Otto.de, SportScheck, Baur, Bonprix. Tech stack was Kafka, Couchbase and HBase with HDFS backhaul.

2007 - 2010

  • Practice Lead & Sr. Solutions Architect

    2007 - 2010

    Hired by eBay and PayPal GM-CMOs Michael Linton and Barry Herstein. My team of 100+ Accenture, secunded eBay/Paypal personnel, and I ran 20+ ‘Tiger Team’ automation projects -- pricing, dynamic incentives, merchandising algorithms. I also ran the company's monthly and quarterly demand-planning processes for North America. We won Accenture’s Ken Ernst Award in 2009 for most impactful client work in the United States.