George Consagra
Founder of Tidepool Labs
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder/CEO
2017 - Current
COO
2015 - 2017
Our goal is to make healthcare accessible to everyone by changing the way we shop for care. We partner with quality providers to offer affordable rates on procedures for patients to purchase directly online. Just like shopping online, customers pay for their procedure upfront. Our package prices include all procedure-related fees. No more surprise bills. As COO I oversaw product, engineering, design, marketing, sales and business development. We've grown the company by doubling revenue every year.
CEO
2010 - 2015
GoodGuide is a venture-backed start-up and is the world's largest source of information on consumer products for green and health. GoodGuide was bought by Underwriters Lab (UL) August 2012. As CEO I am responsible for all aspects of GoodGuide, with primary focus on product direction (site, mobile, tablet), strategy, marketing and hiring of engineers. The company raised $14mm in VC funding from NEA, DFJ and Physic Ventures.
President
2008 - 2010
Scribd.com is a venture-backed start-up, and is the largest social publishing site on the web with 100mm unique users a month. As president I oversaw business development, sales, recruiting and operations.
Scribd is an unlimited reading subscription that offers access to books, audiobooks, magazine articles, documents and more.
Raised $106,750,000.00 from Spectrum Equity.
COO
2007 - 2008
Bebo was bought by Time Warner/AOL for $850M. Bebo was the third largest social networking site in the US, and number one in the UK, Ireland, and Australia with 42M registered users, 10 billion pageviews, and 24m unique visitors per month. I was employee number 18.
Bebo is a social networking platform. The company enables members to connect friends, as well as share photos and discover new interests.
Raised $15,000,000.00 from Balderton Capital.
SVP Media, VP Managing Director
1999 - 2006
Organic is a digital advertising agency. The company went public in 1999 and sold to the Omnicom Group in 2002. Received multiple promotions for consistently exceeding growth and profit targets. Lead digital media practice globally. Also managed Western Region for four years with 200 employees and $75 million in revenue. Clients include: Fox Entertainment Group, Warner Brothers, Sony Entertainment, Sprint, Virgin Mobile, and Chrysler.
Organic is a digital marketing agency that offers banner ads and hosts the Apache server mailing list.
CEO and Co-founder
1995 - 1999
Launched a 3D animation studio and production company serving the advertising and video game industry with no outside funding. Built blue-chip clients included Warner Brothers Music Group, Electronic Arts, Broderbund, Mattel, and MSN.
Executive Producer
1992 - 1995
Post Production Supervisor/Film Editor
1990 - 1992
Lucasfilm produces original content, postproduction effects, and audio for external clients, licensed products, and the gaming industry.