Marc Smookler

Chief Operating Officer

2022 - Current

www.clearstem.com

Managing Partner

2021

Phoenix builds, launches, relaunches, or rightsizes: ideas/products/brands.

Founder / Board Member

2009

Sake Social is the largest online retailer of premium Japanese sake in the US. We are also one of the most trafficked sites for information, learning, and social collaboration on all things Sake. - Top search ranking site for all keywords related to sake. - Triple digit year-over-year growth in both revenue and visitors. - Award winning site for design and platform implementation.

Partner / Investor

2011

Capital Factory is a mentoring program for startups that provides a small amount of seed capital and weekly mentoring sessions by entrepreneurs who have founded successful companies. Startup companies apply to participate in our 10 week summer program intended to get a startup pointed in the right direction with a clear path to profitability and growth.

Mentor

2013 - 2023

Techstars is a geographically distributed accelerator which provides both financial and advisory help to budding entrepreneurs. Focused exclusively on the early stage startup scene Techstars gives help to the freshest and most disruptive ideas. Mentors provide help, advice, counseling, and new perspectives to companies in the Techstars portfolio.

Founder / Board Member

2014 - 2023

**acquired by getPlotr.com** IdealSpot has been providing high-resolution (block group, census tract) near-time geolocated market intelligence since 2014. Our unique location data platform is used to build actionable insights that solve real-world business challenges ranging from small-business retail site selection, regional franchise territory cutting, and even nationwide commercial real-estate investment target selection. Our unique data models include core demographics, market insights, economic health, consumer spending, and much more at the lowest of geographic levels.

Strategic Advisor

2014 - 2020

**acquired by Paylocity** VidGrid is Video’s Most Interactive Platform. Going beyond recording, hosting, and sharing; Vidgrid transforms video into a two-way conversation by empowering anyone to capture knowledge, converse with the audience, and control the flow of information. Worldwide leaders such as Fox, Mortensen, G2 Crowd, Paylocity, Duke University, and the University of Nebraska leverage VidGrid to communicate and collaborate across sales, customer success, training and education.

Advisor / Investor

2013 - 2019

Equipboard makes it easy to find, share, & shop for the gear that your favorite pros are using.

Board Member / Investor

2011 - 2015

Marketing Director

2011 - 2013

Macheen, Inc is a SaaS company that brings mobile broadband and connected services to all devices, such as tablets, digital cameras, personal gaming devices, connected cars, etc. without WiFi or traditional data plans. Macheen innovative platform offers mobile broadband connectivity to just the applications needed for that device–such as email, entertainment, security, or specialized education apps–allowing customized connectivity for device makers, VARs, large enterprises, and end-users. Responsible for driving strategy and implementation of the end-to-end marketing life-cycle including product management, brand, and to go-to-market for both the Macheen-branded platform and Macheen's white-label channel partners including Dell and Lenovo. Also: - Created and managed global brand and messaging for all sales channels including direct, channel, OEM. - Managed all affiliate and business development. - Managed PR, events, media content, social feeds and activities - Heavy influencer of strategy and product through market research in the: mobile, cloud, broadband, consumer device and telecommunications genres. - Created and drove all external partner marketing activities to help evangelize our products and services. - Led product marketing including: definition, pricing (global), customer segmentation, go-to-market partner offers and differentiation of white-label product. - Led all efforts for demand and lead generation, online acquisition and retention. - Managed iterative product development and UI/UX, with data-driven user behavior analytics. - Owned all channel enablement including training, sales and marketing collateral and media, webinars, video demo’s, etc.