Michael Shoemaker
Chief Executive Officer at Vayda
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
2023 - Current
Certified B Corp dedicated to enabling adoption of regenerative agriculture systems through data-based decision support for growers and landowners. Backed by Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.
Independent Board Director
2020
Latam’s leading social commerce platform.
Chief Operating Officer
2020 - 2023
Leading residential real estate investment platform backed by Softbank, Bain Capital, Khosla, Lightspeed, Canvas Ventures and others. Deployed roughly $2 billion in investor capital and managed approximately $5 billion in assets.
Roofstock is an online marketplace for investing in leased single-family rental homes.
Raised $365,250,000.00 from Newton Investment Management, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Masco Ventures, JLL Spark, SVB Capital, Citi Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Empede Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund and Expanding Capital.
Global Head of Ridesharing Product Operations (Product Planning and GTM)
2018 - 2019
Led ~90 person product planning and GTM team for Uber’s global ridesharing business, reporting to the COO and Global Ridesharing business owner.
Regional General Manager, Central and South America (Spanish-speaking)
2015 - 2018
Launched and grew P&L to ~$2 billion in GMV across 11 countries.
General Manager, Colombia
2013 - 2016
Launched and led the Colombia market from inception as part of Uber’s founding team in Latin America.
Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.
Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.
Managing Director, Co-Founder
2012 - 2013
Launched pure play general e-commerce business and helped lead it to #1 spot in Colombia e-commerce in just 18 months. Backed by Rocket Internet. Later sold to Falabella.
Founder & Principal
2011 - 2012
Colombia-based search fund.
Business Development Manager - Technology Partnerships
2006 - 2010
Built and managed strategic partnerships with major ERP and best-in-class SaaS providers.