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Nathan Zeke

Multi-Exit Founder | Community Leader | CEO

Santa Rosa, California

Work Experience

  • Chief Executive Officer + Co-Founder

    2023

  • Founder

    2017 - 2023

    Our team of Sorcerers, Artists, Shamans and other Warriors of Light are on a quest to unlock the full power of plants to Heal The World Naturally. We create magic potions that address physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and community ailments in order to facilitate a more sustainable world.

  • Board Member

    2009

    Member of the Board of 501(c)(3), a Community Service Platform that promotes and provides environmental solutions and sustainability programs focused on children and the environment.

2019 - 2023

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2019 - 2023

    cartera is a community payments network that facilitates meta-event based offerings that generate higher revenue and more cohesive experiences than subscription or advertising. cartera was acquired by 4ea in 2023.

1996 - 2023

  • Co-Founder

    1996 - 2023

    Co-Founder or Advisor to dozens of startups. Governance, Leadership, Revenue, Business Development, Strategy, Operations. I have deep revenue expertise in B2B, B2C, B2B2C, D2C; Planning, Executing and Managing Rev-Ops including Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success, ROI marketing measurement + attribution, analytics tools/platforms, & mar-tech across all major CRM, social media and community platforms while enforcing data quality and hygiene; optimization of data; and discovery of methods to leverage data to drive new and interesting findings. I am an advanced negotiator with the ability to understand the needs and priorities of investors, customers, partners, team members and the entire community ecosystem around the brand and/or business objectives. I have decades of experience with complex sales, account based marketing, solution selling and long sales cycles. I have a wide understanding of full-stack development, all major cloud and hardware environments, most operating systems, and many major (coding) languages. I am deeply familiar with most major domain and infrastructure consoles, CRMs, revenue operations stacks, ERM and payment stacks as well as countless SaaS and cloud applications.

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2012 - 2018

    Sister Brands ICE and RCMS help residential and commercial property owners recover from catastrophic storm damage by managing the insurance claim recovery and construction process to ensure high quality workmanship. The group's technology and people were acquired by one of the nation's largest general construction companies.

2005 - 2013

  • Risk Management Specialist

    2005 - 2013

    Founded in 1930, Langan, Haeger, Vincent & Born helps businesses throughout the world in the successful development and implementation of effective risk and insurance management programs. LHV&B was acquired by Williams-Manny in 2013, a division of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

1998 - 2005

  • Top Commercial Insurance Producer

    1998 - 2005

    Sales of full-line insurance products, integrated safety & loss control programs and various financial services to small-medium sized businesses and their principals. As the top producer of workers’ compensation nationally for Farmers Insurance Group, I booked and managed $5MM of ARR, earning President’s Council recognition, as a select group of 100 top producers out of 40,000 nationally.

  • Volunteer Director

    2001 - 2004

    Created and managed a volunteer organization from 0 - 8,000 field and finance operatives. Organized and managed numerous call-centers (5 - 250 telemarketers), large-ticket fundraisers, integrated media action groups and campaign events throughout Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio.