Maia Benson
Chief Business Officer at FlavorCloud
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Business Officer
2024 - Current
Managing Director
2022 - 2024
Forum Ventures is a fund, program, platform, and community for B2B SaaS startups.
Co Founder Nifty Luxe
2021 - 2022
Nifty Luxe enables luxury fashion creators/Brands to make and sell their digital assets leveraging NFT technology and best in class commerce technology. 50% of millennials - digital natives - purchase luxury fashion and creators/Brands need to meet this growing digital demand. Luxury is rooted in scarcity, authenticity and creating experiences that envelope their consumers in their brand. NFT technology now unlocks the ability to own more of these brand experiences as assets and benefit from their ongoing appreciation.
Nifty Luxe is a software development company that designs a NFT ecosystem to bring about the era of digital fashion.
Global Head of Shipping & Fulfillment
2016 - 2021
Shopify merchants around the globe need to fulfill their orders and insure their customers have a delightful experience receiving them. Shipping and fulfillment is core to how they operate (bottom line) and deliver a great customer experience for their consumers. My job is to grow our shipping and fulfillment value to merchants by defining the best strategy, milestones defining success, partnerships and operational delivery/P&L management to insure our merchants (and their consumer customers) have the best value the market can supply.
Visiting Lecturer, Digital Marketing @ Cornell University Johnson School of Business
2012 - 2021
Designed curriculum and teach the first Digital Marketing course at Cornell's Johnson School of Business, starting in the Spring of 2012. Run the course once a semester for 1st and 2nd year MBAs. Course topics include: social, mobile, display, video and search advertising
Global Digital Products & Business Lead
2013 - 2016
Online mailing and shipping are high growth markets. SMBs and Enterprises need great online tools to support digital commerce and we make shipping and mailing easy for both the businesses and their consumer clients. Pitney Bowes invented the postage meter, and now we have reinvented it online. Lead cross functional global team focused on innovating and growing our pbSmartPostage product
Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that powers physical and digital transactions that drive commerce.
Board Member
2009 - 2013
Exited to Progyny and then IPO'd
FertilityAuthority operates as an information sharing site and social network for individuals struggling with fertility issues.
Raised $1,700,000.00 from Growth Capital Fund.
VP/GM FirmManager.com
2011 - 2012
Firm Manager is the first cloud-based platform for small law firms to manage their documents, email, marketing leads and matters all in one place. Plus it adds Dropbox functionality and then some by enabling firms to share calendars and tasks - great tools for client communication and collaboration!
LexisNexis is a data analytics company that provides information solutions and law legal databases to Law and corporate businesses.
Raised $30,000,000.00 from Equivo.
Senior Director, Strategic Alliances
2010 - 2010
Managed American Express Open (SearchManager.com - white label of Clickable's search ad tech platform) and all strategic partnerships.
Syncapse provides a platform for marketers to create social media presence, manage communication, and measure consumer engagement.
Raised $28,300,000.00 from Michael Scissons and ABS Capital Partners.
Director - Product Management SEO & PPC
2007 - 2010
Founded, grew and managed web marketing agency (websites, SEO, SEM) business for thousands of LexisNexis website customers. Managed and grew PPC offering to hundreds of website customers leveraging Clickable's ad technology platform. Collaborated with online video, press release and TV commercial offerings to offer a full Agency solution to law firms.