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Erik Bullen

Founder, Former CEO, Board Member | COO/CCO | Exec Coach | Investor | Strategy Consultant | ex-frog

Greater Boston

Work Experience

2020

  • Advisory, COO, CCO, and Board Roles for Startup and Scaleup Companies - Bolster Ambassador

    2020

    My current role is strategy and operations at TeamBirth, a company we are spinning out of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Former roles include: • Fractional COO: For a mental health startup with $3M in funding, created and led core functions, including HR, Finance, Legal, IT, and Customer Success. • Fractional COO: Advised Founder and CEO of a next-generation productivity SaaS suite. • Executive Coach: for a $70M SaaS company, planned and led a company-wide RFP program to evaluate partners to re-platform the core product with more than 10K customers.

  • Managing Partner

    2020

    We are a trusted partner among startups, VCs, and global enterprises for delivering strategic advisory, AI/ML development, data science, and product development services. Deep expertise in NLP, Computer Vision, Fintech, Healthcare, Supply Chain, SportsTech, Digital Marketing, and Consumer Research. Example engagements include: • Advising a cybersecurity company on product, engineering, business model, and Go-To-Market. • Advising a German company in the emergency management and elder care market (received a grant from the University of Potsdam, Germany). • Led consumer and competitive research and defined the U.S. market entry strategy for an Asian technology company. • Led research and design to automate via AI/ML the matching process of a two-sided marketplace.

  • Member Board of Directors

    2021

    Vencapital helps to improve the diversity of the venture capital industry by providing investor training, mentoring, and job placement to women and minorities.

2021

  • Angel Investor

    2021

    TBD Angels is a group of angel investors who are current operators at leading startups and executives at major companies.

  • Limited Partner

    2019

    Mendoza Ventures​ is a VC firm focused on Fintech, AI, and Cybersecurity​ early-stage and growth-stage companies. The firm is both minority and woman-owned and is the first VC firm founded by a Latino on the east coast.

  • Board Member and Chief Operating Officer (Fractional)

    2020

    We fuse science, design, and technology to improve human health, wellness, and performance through recovery.

  • Board Member and Advisor

    2020

    EroeGo is the newest online grocery platform for conscious consumers in the Middle East and Africa.

  • Core Member

    2022

2018

  • Founder and Managing Director

    2018

    We provide startups, scale-ups, VCs, and corporate innovation groups with advisory, interim exec, and project-based support for strategy and operations; growth; product; marketing; customer success; culture and organization; innovation; fundraising and due diligence.

  • Advisor and Investor

    2018

    Realplay's video automation platform generates, edits, and publishes unparalleled in-game video of youth baseball and softball games and players.