Jason Radisson
CEO of Movo
Jason Radisson
CEO of Movo
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overview
Work Experience
CEO & Founder
2020 - Current
Running a business that depends on a large frontline workforce has never been more challenging. It’s expensive, manual, time-consuming, and legacy systems are no help. Movo (https://movo.co) is the only mobile-native platform custom-built for automatically acquiring, engaging and boosting the productivity of today’s frontline workforce up to 30%. With Movo you can be up and running in 2 weeks.
Investor
2020
Investor
2019
Investor / Special Advisor to the Office of the Chairman & CEO
2018
Amazing partnering with the Rappi Founders over the years: - Setup of the COO organization, central ops, country/regional - Setup of Global Growth & Brand Management organization. Interim Chief Marketing Officer - Retail/grocery BU realignment, team and capabilities building
Chief Operating Officer
2017 - 2019
99 is the Brazilian ride-sharing platform backed by Softbank, Monashees, Riverwood, among others. My team and I grew the business 10x on $50M in invested capital, and sold 99 to China's Didi Chuxing for $1B, making it the most capital-efficient scale-up recorded by a gig marketplace and one of South America's first unicorns.
Board Member / Board Advisor
2011 - 2018
1) Otto Group, www.ottogroup.com, Hamburg, Munich. $12B multi-channel retailer. 2) Scout24, www.scout24.com, Munich. Marketplace for cars and real estate. 3) eCircle, Munich (email platform acquired by Teradata). 4) Gap, Inc., www.gap.com, San Francisco.
General Manager, Regional General Manager
2015 - 2016
Launched and ran South Western United States. We were Uber's quickest and most efficient scaleup. In addition we developed a partnership with LAS that became the template for Uber’s airport deals throughout the United States. Our success in fixing longstanding transportation gaps garnered national media recognition.
Executive Vice President
2011 - 2015
Avira is Germany’s #1 private software company and was my first full-stack global COO role. Responsible for the consumer products and business, with a base of 300 Million active users, and all related product development. Delivered 20% CAGR or better per year as we transitioned our business model from physical product and channels to online license sales, to freemium to ad-sales, and launched dozens of new cyber-security products.
CEO & Founder
2010 - 2015
Echtzeit was a SaaS algos shop I built to help leading German retailers compete with Amazon.de. We provided merchandize recommendations, dynamic pricing, item catalog, inventory management applications and real-time instrumentation for German household brands like Otto.de, SportScheck, Baur, Bonprix. Tech stack was Kafka, Couchbase and HBase with HDFS backhaul.
Practice Lead & Sr. Solutions Architect
2007 - 2010
Hired by eBay and PayPal GM-CMOs Michael Linton and Barry Herstein. My team of 100+ Accenture, secunded eBay/Paypal personnel, and I ran 20+ ‘Tiger Team’ automation projects -- pricing, dynamic incentives, merchandising algorithms. I also ran the company's monthly and quarterly demand-planning processes for North America. We won Accenture’s Ken Ernst Award in 2009 for most impactful client work in the United States.