Jonathan Chizick

CEO, Co-Founder

2024

Building tools to help parents research and navigate the home education journey for their children. Antler ATX6; Texas Venture Labs Accelerator Fall 2024; Finalist 2024 UM ZLI Alumni Pitch Competition

Entrepreneur in Residence

2024

Mentor

2018

Advisor

2024

PulseJet is building the entertainment content platform for immersive spatial computing. Our music experiences deliver the best in the world full immersion and maximum engagement.

Advisor

2023

flareAI.co is an AI-powered inbound marketing platform helping businesses drive organic sales from Google Search without SEO or Paid Ads.

Founder

2022

Global Waves is passionate about marine conservation and art and excited to share those passions. We're proud to support REEF with a portion of all sales supporting REEF’s marine conservation efforts. Visit us today - www.globalwaves.art

MBA Career Advisor

2018

Adjunct industry career consultant providing McCombs MBA students with advising on their career search in the technology industry & startup ecosystem

Strategic Business Development, Office of the CTO

2018 - 2024

• Developed joint-engineered solutions with our premier global OEM partners • Created and activated a first-of-its-kind joint VMware+Global Technology Partner Solutions Showcase, integrated into partner’s pre-sales motions, to demo new VMware+Partner solutions to joint customers. Delivered $160M+ in attributed deal value in first year

Head of Marketing and Business Development

2016 - 2018

AppZen is the world's first AI solution for automating expense audit & fraud detection. AppZen serves 1400+ customers, including 10+ of the Fortune 50 and several of the largest global corporations. AppZen is #171 on the 2021 Inc5000 list of fastest growing private companies • Employee #4 and first business hire. Built the Marketing team from scratch while growing the company from 5 to 50+ employees • Grew our customer base of enterprise clients from single to triple-digits and ARR over 20x from $xxxK to $xxM • Personally sourced AppZen's two largest deals (Amazon and Salesforce) worth over $1M ARR • Evaluated, negotiated, and implemented key distribution partnerships with global industry leaders, including SAP Concur and Coupa. The SAP Concur partnership is Concur's first-ever reseller partnership and is on track to deliver tens of millions in revenue in year one • The Amazon deal and Concur partnership were the catalysts for securing AppZen's $13M Series A funding round and putting AppZen on track for 500%+ y/y revenue growth and positioning for a $35M Series B • Implemented a scalable growth platform to drive and close inbound & outbound qualified leads. Also responsible for messaging strategy, PR, website, SEO, social, email, paid digital, blogging, content creation & distribution, and analyst relations (resulted in Gartner Cool Vendor 2018, 2018 Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star, and multiple other industry awards) • Coined key brand names, such as ReceiptIQ and ABI (AppZen Behavioral Index)

MBA Career Advisor

2014 - 2016

• Adjunct industry advisor providing Haas MBA students & alumni with 1-1 and group advising on their career search in the technology & startup fields • Udemy course creator: "The Insider's Guide to Tech Resumes"