Shane Mac
Founder of Ephemera
Nashville, Tennessee
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder & CEO
2021 - Current
Ephemera helps build private and decentralized messaging. We help grow the XMTP ecosystem. The mission of XMTP is to build an open and secure messaging protocol that lasts forever. https://EphemeraHQ.com
Chairman & Co-Founder
2016
A platform that connects military spouses to be your trusted assistants. We help CEOs, VCs, executives, and startup teams get their time back.
Chairman
2016
Manuscripts is a publishing company for the modern author.
Manuscripts is to provide coaches, speakers, consultants, writers, executives and thought leaders tools.
Founder
2008
A podcast with a simple idea. Let's ask questions most people don't.
Senior Vice President
2019 - 2021
Joined Conversocial after the acquisition of Assist where I was the CEO & Co-Founder for 7 years. We were acquired for $50m cash by Verint $VRNT.
Conversocial is a Customer Experience Platform for Messaging Channels.
Raised $23,962,320.00 from Octopus Ventures, Dawn Capital and Molten Ventures.
CEO and Co-Founder
2014 - 2019
Built the first bots & AI to power messaging and voice platforms. Powering T-Mobile, Sephora, Fandango, Lonely Planet, Hyatt, 1-800-FLOWERS, and more. We work with Facebook Messenger, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Whatsapp, Twitter Business Messaging, and Apple Business Chat. Assist merged with Conversocial in March, 2019 and was then acquired by $VRNT Verint for $50m cash. http://conversocial.com/assist
The Enterprise Chatbot Platform for Messaging and Voice
Raised $5,500,000.00 from Upside Partnership.
Product
2011 - 2014
Discover and hire the right service expert.
Director of Product and Marketing
2011 - 2011
I worked post Gist acquisition.
Product and Marketing
2009 - 2011
Sold to BlackBerry for ~$45m with a team less than 15 people. We created the smart address book that today is called a "Social CRM" and grew it to over 100m people in 2 years.
Local Digital Ad Products
2008 - 2009
Lead a local ad product at Cobalt Group which resulted in 100M+ revenue and helped Cobalt sell to ADP for 400+ million.