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Jake Mccgwire

VP of Marketing at Komi

Kensington, England

Overview 

Jake MccGwire is the Growth & Marketing VP at KOMI, with expertise in marketplace and growth advising. Highlights of his career include serving as Head of Growth at Camplify and CEO & Co-Founder at Evopass. Jake MccGwire has excelled in roles such as VP of Marketing and Head of Growth, showcasing his skills in optimizing web strategy, customer acquisition, and demand generation while advising companies like Resolute Ventures and Mustard Underwriting.

Work Experience 

  • VP of Marketing

    2023 - Current

    Focused on growing KOMI's subscriber base. Owning acquisition, retention and unit economics.

  • Head of Growth

    2022 - 2023

    Owning all things growth @ Komi. Komi is building the ultimate creator hub. All the key tooling a creator needs, in one place. Our vision is to empower creators to build deeper, direct and more rewarding relationships with their audience. Komi’s first product is the world’s best landing page for the creator economy. A Komi-powered landing page makes it easy for creators of all levels to consolidate all their offerings natively into a beautiful, fully-personalized hub. A home on the internet for every creator. Komi-powered landing pages are supporting leading creators with a combined global audience of over 1 billion.

  • Advisor

    2022

    Advising Resolute on CRM ops

Resolute Ventures is a U.S.-based venture capital firm focused on investments in seed-stage companies.

  • Advisor

    2022 - 2024

    Advising Mustard on GTM for UK & EU markets

  • Growth

    2022 - 2023

  • Head of Growth

    2018 - 2022

    Head of Growth at Camplify, one of the world's largest RV rental marketplaces. - Scaled annual revenue from $1.6m to $20m 💪 - Went from a 17-person startup to listing on the ASX 📈 - Paid out over $70m to van owners across Australia, New Zealand, UK & Spain 💰 - Grew our community of van supply from 3,000 to 10,000 vans worldwide 🚌 - Grew annual GTV from $7.9m to $60m 🔥

  • CEO & Co-Founder

    2016 - 2018

    -Founded Evopass (originally known as TicketChain) whilst at University, grew the team from three to seven people and developed a sales & marketing strategy which led to us achieving €30,000 in monthly sales. -Oversaw the development of a mobile application and website which enabled over €120,000 in sales within five months of going live. Used React Native & Expo frameworks to enable continuous deployment & iteration. -Led the company through a full pivot and rebrand, including a new business model, mission and product strategy. Went on to lead the development of a Web App P2P marketplace. -Developed a digital marketing strategy and implemented it across Facebook, Medium and Google Adwords. Was solely responsible for implementation and optimisation of Adwords. -Was responsible for fundraising and secured €60,000 in funding through private investments and grants. -Skills learnt: Sales, Negotiation, Fundraising, Rebranding, Agile Product Development, Product Direction & Roadmap, SCRUM, Hiring, Google Analytics, Adwords, Digital Marketing, Managing Teams, Pivoting. Evopass is a Dublin-based startup that develops digital ticketing software to control and monetise how event tickets are resold. www.evopass.io

  • Co Op- Strategy & Operations - Fsi

    2015 - 2016

    Interned with Deloitte Consulting over the space of 12 months. Focused primarily in Financial services focusing with a major Irish bank and Healthcare Insurer.

Deloitte Tax is an advisory firm that provides tax preparation and advisory services.

  • Research Analyst

    2013 - 2013

  • Research Analyst

    2012 - 2012

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