Andrew Breen Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Prints of Love is a highly successful web-based custom printing service that provides high-quality event-based printing via a user-friendly process. The company offers cards, addressed envelopes, foam board signs, art prints and posters, canvas prints, yard signs, outdoor banners, and stickers and labels in various sizes to suit every occasion. Prints of Love differentiates itself by offering fast delivery, free shipping, complimentary envelopes and responsive customer service. The company has a large network of designer affiliates who send customers looking to print their digital designs for important life events (e.g. weddings, baby, bereavement, etc).Prints of Love was acquired by The Buy Build Fund in 2023.

New York, Ny, Us

The Buy Build Fund acquires and grows small EBITDA positive businesses. The target companies are typically under $30M in enterprise value where we lead the sourcing, seller negotiation and diligence process. Once the acquisition is completed, we step in to operate the company. The Buy Build Fund differentiates beyond providing equity capital as all three founders are former SMB operator-investors with deep tech and digital backgrounds. This expertise enables us to help our operating partners grow their companies.

Assert Digital Ventures acquires & builds small, cash flow positive digital businesses with growth potential. Using years of digital product experience, acquisitions have grown significantly to date with strong FCF. In addition, I advise leading companies from startups, investors to Fortune 1000 on digital products and transformation. Known for my deep knowledge of the Lean framework, I have significantly restructured the digital products, processes and culture of a range of companies.

New York, Ny, Us

Teaching MBA courses on Technology Product Management, Digital Transformation / innovation and Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA)/Search where I designed the curriculum as part of an initiative to formalize education for the disciplines. TPM focuses on the evolution of product management over the past 20 years and how it operates in different organizations, large and small. I cover tangible tools, techniques, best practices and real world simulation of what a product manager faces in trying to deliver against product, company and user objectives. The approach to and pros/cons from traditional waterfall/business planning to agile/lean and nimble product cases forms the core of the curriculum. I also drove the creation of the Tech Product Management specialization for the MBA degree program as well as part of the core for Stern's Tech MBA. ETA is the first Stern offering in the space supporting students and alumni looking to launch a search via the NYU ecosystem.

Tabby’s Toys is a 501(c)3 that gives children with extended hospital stays appropriate and engaging games and toys for them to play with that are free. It might be a while, if ever before hospitals are comfortable sharing toys and games so we aim to give each child a toy for them to keep. These aid in kids' recovery taking their mind off their pain and helping them to start moving again. We are currently giving kids “Comfort Kits” developed with the NYP Child Life team at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. They kits include toys, games & other items. We use donations to help pay the cost of the toys & games and 100% of the funds will go toward providing the toys & games. Whether you know a family affected by CHD or another childhood disease requiring extended hospital stays or not, this small gesture can be an important part of their recovery. www.tabbystoys.org

New York, New York, Us

Teaching Lean Launchpad class to graduate computer science students. The class helps students take tech inventions and rapidly experiment and iterate until finding a market (or not).

New York, Ny, Us

Led Digital for Argo Group (NYSE: ARGO), a multi-billion dollar commercial underwriter driving the company’s transition to a digital business and oversaw Argo Ventures, their early stage investment fund. His teams leveraged machine learning toward the goal of becoming the fastest and smartest risk assessor. The digital squads implemented a user-centric, hypothesis-driven, iterative test and learn approach on products that amplified Argo’s businesses from zero digital revenue to over $500m in three years. The venture fund invested in 10 FinTech startups.

New York, Ny, Us

Andrew Breen was Vice President of Product in American Express’s Enterprise Digital business unit. He led Amex's digital transformation across multiple teams creating and delivering next generation products focused on new customer experiences that drive commerce and deliver Amex’s award winning customer service to digital devices. In addition, Andrew was responsible for digital innovation and changing how Amex approaches product development. During his tenure, his teams' products won three of the prestigious Chairman's Innovation Awards. Using a hypothesis driven, test & learn iterative approach, his cross-functional (product, design, eng) squads built solutions across mobile and web properties to drive revenue, loyalty and satisfaction. New products included natural language (NLU) based AI on top of a new asynchronous messaging platform, algorithmic driven insights to proactively alert customers to out of pattern account activity, real-time context sharing across voice and digital channels predicting why users engage Amex and connecting users to merchants for feedback and conversational commerce.

New York, Us

Designed and delivered the first fully adaptive English learning product recognized as the most novel and effective in the industry. After launch, engagement increased 3x and conversions/ARPU increased 4.5x. The new platform led to a strategic investment ($9m) and commercial distribution deal with Pearson. Author of 4 patents on adaptive learning and natural language understanding (NLU).

Defined and led product strategy and development expanding single product into a sophisticated multi-product portfolio handling billions of impressions for the leading mobile brand advertising and monetization platform. Worked with major content publishers (NYTimes, CNN, Yahoo, ESPN, etc) and e-commerce vendors (direct sales, flash sales) to build many of the first and most innovative mobile monetization offerings. Led strategic initiative to scale business with expansion into media selling via the first to market mobile premium exchange. Awarded IAB Service Excellence industry recognition for my contributions to mobile. Scaled the team and processes from < 10 to over 60.

For Harbinger/Openwave, developed turnaround strategy for $20b hedge fund on their $100m investment in Openwave (NASDAQ: OPWV), a leading mobile software infrastructure company. Engaged OPWV Board, CEO, and investors to reduce product lines, sell non-core businesses, restructure costs, and return over $200m to shareholders.For Talk2Us, formulated business and product strategy for startup developing next-generation communications service integrating voice, email, SMS, and other text communications.For PublicEarth, hired by CEO to develop and implement product management process and tools for startup growing from founders to venture-backed business launching innovative location based service.For Skype, retained to develop Agile/Scrum product development process for new "clean room" engineering team rapidly spun up to build next generation Skype infrastructure in wake of legal proceedings.

Started new wireless data services business unit to bring value-added services to the Treo. Recruited team, developed market and product strategy, and drove technical architecture. Led 20 person cross-functional team – including wireless infrastructure partners – in defining and building first wireless service product offering. Selected by executive management to create professional services group including strategy, hiring, and leading the new team. Received Palm VIP award for achieving financial and service goals for the new business. Developed Palm’s initial enterprise software and mobile email strategy.

Part of the executive team that led the sale of the company to Palm. Developed business, product, and partner strategy for all TAA bundled (infrastructure) products for partner hardware, software, and services solutions. Led cross-functional team including product design, management, and engineering for companies’ core product line. Responsible for the development of all indirect channels for enterprise wireless software distribution including resellers, service providers, systems integrators, and OEM/ISVs. Signed over 15 new deals in nine months including Palm, Sun, GoAmerica, OmniSky, and Accenture providing over 75% of company revenues which grew from $0 to over $4m in 18 months.

Founded company and developed business plan for high-design home furnishings B-to-C e-commerce company building team to merchandize small artisan products to a larger audience. Raised $1.5 million seed capital, and hired 15 executive, technical, creative, and operational staff. Sold to UncommonGoods.

Zurich, Ch

Implemented highly scalable online institutional trading system across multiple financial products. Led server development and designed Java messaging-oriented distributed object architecture for integrating disparate backend systems into unified pricing and trading system.

Led design and implementation of platform for distributed processing and high throughput object oriented database in Java for a peer-based network application. Managed four concurrent projects with a total of 20 software engineers. Owned technical relationship with Sun Microsystems and served as a member of their JavaSoft JFC Advisory Board – an industry group of 25 leading Java technologists designing and evaluating on JFC architecture which was a key piece of Java 1.2.

Early technology executive at pioneer in casual games, e-commerce, and Internet advertising. Built one of the first online advertising networks which eventually became 24/7 Real Media. Co-managed 16 person development team in cross-discipline implementation of C++, Java, Oracle, and UNIX Internet systems.

New York, Ny, Us

Designed and built salesperson/client interaction system using object oriented modeling for cross-desk trading (fixed income, emerging markets, derivatives and equities).