MB

Maia Benson

Chief Business Officer - FlavorCloud. Venture Partner. Founder Partner.

New York, New York

Work Experience

  • Chief Business Officer

    2024

2022 - 2024

  • Managing Director

    2022 - 2024

2021 - 2022

  • Co Founder Nifty Luxe

    2021 - 2022

    Nifty Luxe enables luxury fashion creators/Brands to make and sell their digital assets leveraging NFT technology and best in class commerce technology. 50% of millennials - digital natives - purchase luxury fashion and creators/Brands need to meet this growing digital demand. Luxury is rooted in scarcity, authenticity and creating experiences that envelope their consumers in their brand. NFT technology now unlocks the ability to own more of these brand experiences as assets and benefit from their ongoing appreciation.

2016 - 2021

  • Global Head of Shipping & Fulfillment

    2016 - 2021

    Shopify merchants around the globe need to fulfill their orders and insure their customers have a delightful experience receiving them. Shipping and fulfillment is core to how they operate (bottom line) and deliver a great customer experience for their consumers. My job is to grow our shipping and fulfillment value to merchants by defining the best strategy, milestones defining success, partnerships and operational delivery/P&L management to insure our merchants (and their consumer customers) have the best value the market can supply.

2012 - 2021

  • Visiting Lecturer, Digital Marketing @ Cornell University Johnson School of Business

    2012 - 2021

    Designed curriculum and teach the first Digital Marketing course at Cornell's Johnson School of Business, starting in the Spring of 2012. Run the course once a semester for 1st and 2nd year MBAs. Course topics include: social, mobile, display, video and search advertising

2013 - 2016

  • Global Digital Products & Business Lead

    2013 - 2016

    Online mailing and shipping are high growth markets. SMBs and Enterprises need great online tools to support digital commerce and we make shipping and mailing easy for both the businesses and their consumer clients. Pitney Bowes invented the postage meter, and now we have reinvented it online. Lead cross functional global team focused on innovating and growing our pbSmartPostage product

2009 - 2013

  • Board Member

    2009 - 2013

    Exited to Progyny and then IPO'd

2011 - 2012

  • VP/GM FirmManager.com

    2011 - 2012

    Firm Manager is the first cloud-based platform for small law firms to manage their documents, email, marketing leads and matters all in one place. Plus it adds Dropbox functionality and then some by enabling firms to share calendars and tasks - great tools for client communication and collaboration!

  • Senior Director, Strategic Alliances

    2010 - 2010

    Managed American Express Open (SearchManager.com - white label of Clickable's search ad tech platform) and all strategic partnerships.

  • Director - Product Management SEO & PPC

    2007 - 2010

    Founded, grew and managed web marketing agency (websites, SEO, SEM) business for thousands of LexisNexis website customers. Managed and grew PPC offering to hundreds of website customers leveraging Clickable's ad technology platform. Collaborated with online video, press release and TV commercial offerings to offer a full Agency solution to law firms.