Ran Makavy
Investor and advisor
New York, New York
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Education
Qualification in software engineering
ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES COMPUTER ACADEMY(1993 - 1993)
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Work Experience
2013
Investor and advisor
2013
Investor or advisor to Carbon Health, Netlify, Placer.ai, TrueAccord, Anyroad, Hello Heart, Honeybook, Snappy, A.Team, Passport, and many others
2022
Board Member
2022
2021
Board Member
2021
2013 - 2022
Board Member
2013 - 2022
2016 - 2020
EVP, Strategic Initiatives
2020 - 2020
EVP and Chief Product Officer
2017 - 2020
VP of Growth
2016 - 2018
2011 - 2015
Director of Product Management
2011 - 2015
Ran spent his first three years on the growth team, looking at mobile and emerging market. Grew Snaptu to over 100 million active users, and started internet.org, looking at connecting the next 5 billion people to the Internet. Ran then spent a year and half running Facebook's Local and Entities teams building consumer products around places and location. His goal was to try and understand the world better through structured data.
2007 - 2011
Founder & CEO
2007 - 2011
Sequoia Capital backed company, acquired by Facebook in 2011.
2005 - 2007
Director of Product Management
2005 - 2007
Development of product strategy and positioning, product definition and marketing strategy. Followap was acquired by NeuStar in 2006
2004 - 2005
Business Consultant - Self-Employed
2004 - 2005
Designing and negotiating technical and business process solutions between the BBC and a broadcast management system provider
2004 - 2004
Business Consultant - Self Employed
2004 - 2004
Redesigned business process for managing relationships with private health care providers