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GearLaunch Expands Executive Team With Three New Ecommerce Industry Veteran Hires
GearLaunch, the leading E2E commerce platform, today announced a series
of senior executive team additions including a new Chief Financial
Officer Tripti Thakur, Head of Marketing Craig Hammond and Head of Sales
Cory Rich. Hailing from companies including MyPoints.com, Prodege, and
Peejamas, the team will strengthen GearLaunch's executive capabilities
and will support their recent expanded footprint with its new office
opening.
As part of an emerging "extreme outsourcing" movement within the
ecommerce realm, GearLaunch aims to bring a new level of opportunity to
the ecommerce market. While many companies are emerging to help
independents and entrepreneurs perform all necessary duties, GearLaunch
has taken the model one step further by housing all services under one
roof and bringing the opportunity to the widest possible base of
independent entrepreneurs.
Joining as CFO, Tripti Thakur is a finance veteran with experiences at
Fortune 10, Wall Street, and Internet companies. Thakur most recently
has spent 10 years in online loyalty as a Vice President for both
Prodege, LLC and MyPoints.com, concentrating primarily on FP&A and
Business Operations. Prior to MyPoints, she was an equity sell-side
analyst covering small-cap financials for a boutique research firm after
starting her career at AT&T (News - Alert) in its Financial Leadership program. Thakur
received her Bachelor's Degree from Baruch College and her Master's
Degree from New York University.
Newly appointed as the Head of Marketing, Craig Hammond has been
called-on multiple times throughout his career to establish, build, and
develop both businesses and departments in growing companies. Most
recently before joining GearLaunch, he built his own children's pajama
company that achieved immediate success, including holding the current
record for the highest fnded children's apparel product in crowdfunding
history. In his career, he has helped businesses scale globally, led the
creation of marketing departments and strategy, and had numerous
companies he's helped start go through acquisition. Hammond holds a BA
from the University of Utah and a MBA from the Thunderbird School of
Global Management.
"Technology is fueling a renaissance of individual entrepreneurship,"
said Hammond. "With prior companies, we had to build each component from
scratch and painstakingly cobble together our own supply chain,
marketing and fulfillment systems. When I saw that GearLaunch had a
taken a page from the classic cloud services playbook - making industry
best practices and tools available to anyone with an internet connection
- I instantly saw the potential to transform the lives of internet
retail entrepreneurs and in the process transform the retail industry
itself."
Heading GearLaunch's sales efforts is Cory Rich, an executive sales
leader with over 10 years of sales leadership experience with an
emphasis in small and medium size start-ups. He has been in key sales
leadership positions within several rapidly expanding young companies.
Prior to joining GearLaunch, Rich played key sales leadership roles in
two venture-backed healthcare companies that have revolutionized their
respective spaces. His move to GearLaunch combines his passion for
ecommerce with his extensive background and knowledge of sales,
leadership and go-to-market strategy. He has taken over as Head of Sales
at GearLaunch and will be leading efforts to break into new markets and
empower entrepreneurs everywhere to build and scale ecommerce businesses.
GearLaunch not only offers the most complete and sophisticated E2E
commerce platform to date, but also provides a host of business
operational support and logistics services such as production, shipping,
and personalized customer support for buyers. With a continually growing
catalogue of product offerings, GearLaunch's 2,500 merchants generated
more than $115 million in product sales last year. GearLaunch also
offers a deep integration with Shopify storefronts, allowing any
merchant selling through Shopify to take advantage of GearLaunch's
platform from anywhere around the globe.
For more info visit: www.gearlaunch.com
About GearLaunch
Founded in 2013 by a team of e-commerce, CPG and retail industry
veterans, GearLaunch offers a sophisticated platform for E2E commerce, a
rapidly emerging category that focuses on the full e-commerce value
chain. The company provides the tools and resources for online retailers
to build completely independent and scalable online businesses, giving
them complete control of their customer relationships and enabling
infinite scale. With more than $100 million in sales during 2017 and 4.5
million products sold to date across more than 2500 merchant sites,
GearLaunch customers range from regional and specialty outlets to large
global brands.
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