Jake Furst Email & Phone Number

Brooklyn, Ny

Brooklyn, Ny

Coldwater, Michigan, United States

Brooklyn, Ny

Brooklyn, Ny

Greater New York City Area

Brooklyn, Ny

Greensboro, Nc

New York, Ny

Greater New York City Area

Shake is a mobile-first platform to create, sign and send legally-binding agreements in seconds. Shake was acquired by LegalShield in April, 2015.As the VP of Business Development at Shake, I had a wide range of responsibilities, including:+ Leading Shake's BD, Sales, HR/Recruiting and Operations functions.+ Designed and implemented successful pilot program with 2,000+ business partners including Twitter, VICE Media, 72&Sunny and Betterment.+ Responsible for full rollout of Shake's first premium products.+ Distribution, Co-Marketing and Revenue-generating partnerships with AIGA, RISD, Freelancers Union and Clio.

Greater New York City Area

At Foursquare we believe the world is full of amazing experiences. We make apps to help guide you to them.As the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Foursquare, my primary responsibility was for all business development partnerships which directly improved the Foursquare user experience:+ Strategic partnership with American Express, delivering couponless offers to millions of Amex members inside of Foursquare at hundreds of thousands of merchants in the US and UK.+ Commerce partnerships with CardSpring (card-linked offers), Groupon, Living Social, Gilt City, Peixe Urbano and Scoutmob.+ Data partnerships with Locu, Single Platform and Maponics.+ Integration partnerships with GrubHub/Seamless and OpenTable.My experience at Foursquare started with the Foursquare Merchant Platform, working with hundreds of thousands of small businesses and large retail organizations on how they could best drive more foot traffic and increase sales via their Foursquare strategy.

HotPotato is a mobile/social network that helps friends and fans socialize and share experiences around live events. At HotPotato I worked closely with both founders to develop a partnership strategy, roadmap and pipeline to drive awareness and increase user engagement. HotPotato was acquired by Facebook in July, 2010

Duane Street Capital are private equity investors focused on small and middle market companies.While interning at DSC during my MBA summer, I had the following primary responsibilities:+ Identified and analyzed 50+ investment opportunities, utilizing due diligence tools including the construction of financial and operating models, strategic business analysis, soliciting expert opinions from consultants and running comparables analyses.+ Developed and cultivated industry investment theses to fuel proprietary deal pipeline.+ Evaluated the acquisition of a specialty lender from NDA through LOI. Created financial model, co-authored investment memorandum circulated to the firm’s investors, led diligence calls with outside consultants and attended multiple management meetings.

Wieden + Kennedy is an independent, creatively driven advertising agency that creates strong and provocative relationships between good companies and their customers. We believe that it doesn't matter where, how or in what medium an idea is expressed, you still have to start with a good one.At Wieden I worked as an Account Manager on the ESPN account across a number of different properties and advertising campaigns:+ Managed cross-functional efforts for integrated advertising campaigns on numerous ESPN properties, including: Monday Night Football, SportsCenter, NBA, MLB, ESPNEWS and ESPNU.+ Instituted ESPN’s first dynamically-updating digital branding campaigns for MLB and NBA on espn.com.+ Oversaw 75+ television spots and 150+ digital, print, OOH and radio ads.+ Managed ESPN’s largest-ever marketing campaign -- “Is It Monday Yet?” -- helping transition Monday Night Football from network to cable and becoming the highest-rated program in cable TV history.+ Executed local grassroots, digital and branding campaigns for ESPN’s college sports network—ESPNU—helping increase subscriber growth 4X, from 5M to 20M subscribers.

-Managed Wheaties’ first TV advertising campaign in over 8 years, in addition to overseeing sponsorship relationships with the NBA and MLB.-Worked on a strategic repositioning of Excedrin, helping Novartis move Excedrin from “the headache medicine” to a pain-relieving brand with products suitable for a number of different symptoms.

-Worked on General Mills’ Big G cereal brands (Wheaties, Cocoa Puffs, Reese’s Puffs and Cookie Crisp).-Promoted to Account Executive in under one year’s time.

Mba, Media & Finance

Activities and Societies: Technology and Business Group, Media Management Association, Private Equity & Venture Capital Club, Columbia.

Ba, Political Science, Business Institutions

Activities and Societies: -Chi Psi Fraternity Social Chair, -Chi Psi Fraternity Assistant Rush Chair, -Manager of Business Ops.

Business Bridge Program

Immersive summer study program, taught by MBA faculty, designed to help prepare graduating liberal arts students for success in their.

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