Erin Defossé Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

VanessaMusi.com is the online education website of Chef Vanessa Musi, founder of the Healthy Baking Lab, the world's first teaching laboratory devoted to developing healthy baking recipes that are not only good for you but taste as good or better than the originals. Our vision of creating a Sweet and Healthy World is brought to life at VanessaMusi.com by.

Austin, Texas, US

• The Magellan International School is a PK-9th non-profit, independent school in Austin, Texas that prepares children to thrive as global citizens of the 21st century with the knowledge, skills and values to make.
• Developed the mission, vision, and business plan and selected the International Baccalaureate as the school's pedagogical model
• Build the Board of Directors
• Hired the our first two Heads of School from pools of leading candidates from across the globe
• Obtained IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit status for the school
• Recruited the founding families

Colorado Springs, Colorado, US

Chief Operating Officer at Slingshot Aerospace leading the product, marketing, engineering, sales, and operations teams in our mission to accelerate space sustainability to create a safer, more connected world.

Austin, Texas, US

As an part of the original management team at Aceable, I held a number of roles including Chief Product Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Strategy Officer. I participated and helped lead the company by building the team from 13 people to well over 200, a 40x growth in revenue, several acquisitions, and multiple rounds of venture and private.

Austin, Texas, US

• Bazaarvoice (BV) is a SaaS company operating a network that connects brands and retailers to the authentic voices of people where they shop. Each month, more than 700 million people view and share authentic opinions.
• Managed a senior of team with four direct reports and over fifteen total team members across the Bazaarvoice Connections, Syndication, Pricing, Data Rights, and Analytics teams
• Developed and managed execution of the Bazaarvoice Connections product roadmap
• Successfully launched the Bazaarvoice Connections product into the EMEA market
• Managed Data Rights strategy and rollout
• Established Data Rights operational processes to obtain data rights from all new clients as well as those in renewal and in up-sell or cross-sell

Austin, Texas, US

• Bazaarvoice (BV) is a SaaS company operating a network that connects brands and retailers to the authentic voices of people where they shop. Each month, more than 700 million people view and share authentic opinions.
• Managed a senior team of three direct reports covering the Bazaarvoice Connections, Syndication, Pricing, and Data Rights products and functions
• Successfully migrated several thousand client instances on BV's Connections platform from its legacy infrastructure to a new scalable platform.
• Developed go-to-market strategy for new solution offering targeting Brand clients in partnership with the CMO.

Austin, Texas, US

• Bazaarvoice (BV) is a SaaS company operating a network that connects brands and retailers to the authentic voices of people where they shop. Each month, more than 700 million people view and share authentic opinions.
• Responsible for Pricing, Data, and Competitive Strategy
• Managed a team of five senior strategists
• Led development of Data Rights Strategy, creation of policies and practices, and roll-out of the Bazaarvoice Network Cookie across all existing clients.
• Developed variable pricing strategy and established a Pricing Lab to test out new pricing methodologies with live clients
• Led all Competitive research and response activities working with Marketing and Sales to appropriately position the company and respond to changes in the market and moves by the competition including development of all.

Austin, Texas, US

• Bazaarvoice (BV) is a SaaS company operating a network that connects brands and retailers to the authentic voices of people where they shop. Each month, more than 700 million people view and share authentic opinions.
• Managed a team of four product strategists and one solution architect as direct reports with a total team size of 15.
• Responsible for strategic technical and consultative pre-sales engagements
• Led all Competitive research and response activities working with Marketing and Sales to appropriately position the company and respond to changes in the market and moves by the competition including development of all.

• edioma was an independent software development company that delivers mobile phone software applications targeting the Hispanic demographic in the US that is interested in learning English as well as English speakers.
• Responsible for the product management and engineering functions at the company as well as advising the CEO on corporate and product strategy.
• Developed the systems architecture and directed the development and implementation of “egoal”, edioma’s soccer edutainment title for learning English and Spanish vocabulary.
• Successfully managed carrier relationship and deployed egoal on the Sprint deck.
• Directed the successful implementation of “edigo”, edioma’s contextual language instruction application on Nokia Series 60 mobile phones.
• Managed the application design and the UI implementation of a mobile payment solution under contract by a leading third party provider of pre-paid debit cards and mobile financial solutions targeting the Hispanic.

• Austin Wireless Alliance (AWA) is an organization focused on increasing the global awareness of Austin’s wireless industry through education, creating an environment that attracts new wireless companies to Austin and.
• Raised the organization’s first $300,000 from sponsors to execute its program.
• Managed a Steering Committee of 15 senior executives, government officials, and academic leaders. Responsible for the successful planning and execution of the Texas Wireless Summit from 2004 until 2008.
• Envisioned and launched the Texas Wireless Summit annual conference in Austin leading to annual attendance of over 300 people and keynotes from CXOs from major mobile carriers, equipment manufacturers, and software.

Austin, TX, US

• ATI, a not-for-profit program of the IC2 Institute at The University of Texas at Austin, works with early stage technology companies to increase their odds of success and decrease their time to capital and markets..
• Responsible for identifying promising early stage companies, admitting them into the ATI, and providing them with the necessary operational and strategic business assistance to help them achieve their growth objectives.
• Conceived of and launched the wireless industry practice. Built the practice from scratch and raised more than $450,000 from sponsors to develop and run the program. Built relationships with investors who have kept the.
• Recruited a world-class Advisory Board comprised of an elite team of current and retired senior industry executives, technology gurus, and academic thought leaders
• Identified and established consulting relationships with many start-up organizations by making them members of ATI. Coached selected organizations to develop fundable business plans
• Mentored ATI Wireless clients to improve their business plans in order to raise external funding. Achieved 100% success rate with more than $12 million raised by all clients

US

• Isochron developed end-to-end software and hardware solutions using wireless telemetry, handheld computers, and web-based enterprise software for the effective management of remote equipment. The company also offers.
• Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, and Member of the Board of Directors
• Raised more than $15.5 million in combined venture and angel funding by meeting with investors, presenting business plan, managing technical due diligence, and negotiating term sheets with co-founder
• Recruited key advisors and board members together with co-founder and was actively involved in the hiring of all key executive management team members
• Served as a member of the Board of Directors from start-up until the sale of the company in March of 2002
• Principal executive responsible for managing all due diligence, legal, IP, and transactional issues associated with the sale of the Company in 2002

Chicago, Illinois, US

• A.T. Kearney is a global management consulting firm that focuses on strategic and operational CEO-agenda issues facing businesses, governments and institutions around the globe.
• Developed an e-commerce strategy for Electronic Data Systems (EDS), a leading Fortune 50 global information technology services company.

Pasadena, CA, US

• JPL is a NASA center staffed and managed for the government by a leading private university, Caltech. JPL is a federally funded research and development center principally tasked with the program management of NASA’s.
• Responsible for systems engineering efforts across a variety of interplanetary spacecraft programs including Galileo, Cassini, Mars Observer, Rosetta, SIRTF, and the next-generation micro-spacecraft project.
• Managed the development and testing of a prototype landing system for the Champollion cometary lander
• Co-managed the development and testing of prototype control systems for the Next Generation Micro-Spacecraft bus
• Responsible for the design and development of trajectory verification software for the Galileo spacecraft
• Responsible for the design and development of simulation software for the design and analysis of orbital trajectories for the Space InfraRed Telescope Facility

Mba, Entrepreneurship And It

Ms, Aeronautics And Astronautics

Bs, Aerospace Engineering

High School, Diploma