Ran Makavy
Investor and advisor
Ran Makavy
Investor and advisor
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Investor and advisor
2013 - Current
Investor or advisor to Carbon Health, Netlify, Placer.ai, TrueAccord, Anyroad, Hello Heart, Honeybook, Snappy, A.Team, Passport, and many others
Board Member
2022
Board Member
2021
Board Member
2013 - 2022
EVP, Strategic Initiatives
2020 - 2020
EVP and Chief Product Officer
2017 - 2020
VP of Growth
2016 - 2018
Director of Product Management
2011 - 2015
Ran spent his first three years on the growth team, looking at mobile and emerging market. Grew Snaptu to over 100 million active users, and started internet.org, looking at connecting the next 5 billion people to the Internet. Ran then spent a year and half running Facebook's Local and Entities teams building consumer products around places and location. His goal was to try and understand the world better through structured data.
Founder & CEO
2007 - 2011
Sequoia Capital backed company, acquired by Facebook in 2011.
Director of Product Management
2005 - 2007
Development of product strategy and positioning, product definition and marketing strategy. Followap was acquired by NeuStar in 2006
Business Consultant - Self-Employed
2004 - 2005
Designing and negotiating technical and business process solutions between the BBC and a broadcast management system provider
Business Consultant - Self Employed
2004 - 2004
Redesigned business process for managing relationships with private health care providers
Education
MBA
2003 - 2004
MBA
2003 - 2003
Bachelor of Art
1994 - 1998
Qualification in software engineering
1993 - 1993