Hip eCommerce is a fast growing, VC-backed, startup that builds marketplaces for specific collectibles, including comic books and stamps. It's an exciting time to join as we currently have $20 Million annualized GMV, 1,500 Sellers, 200,000 Members, and 12 Million Listings! Our Mission is to re-imagine eCommerce for collectibles - by building collectible specific communities where buyers and sellers can connect with each other, share their passion, and grow their hobby, and our Vision is to work together with collectors in revolutionizing every collectibles market - while bringing them into the 21st century and beyond.

Stanley Gibbons, founded in 1856, and publicly listed in the UK, is an international leader in the collectibles industry, with approximately 280 employees worldwide. The eCommerce division, based in Raleigh, is responsible for a next generation marketplace for collectibles (StanleyGibbons.com), which leverages the power of proprietary catalog data and industry expertise to build a phenomenal online platform and product to find, buy, sell and enjoy collectibles.★ CEO of Stanley Gibbons eCommerce Ltd ★Provides leadership and executive management to the group’s eCommerce division. Leads strategic planning, drives a team of 40 employees, and develops, forecasts, and manages an annual budget of $7 Million.• Generated a projected $850,000 in cost savings for 2015 by optimizing marketing spend aligned with ROI.• Presented alongside the group CEO at bi-annual investor roadshows, creating and presenting the group’s long-range eCommerce plan focused on delivering $85 Million in annual GMV within the next three years.★ Chief Digital Officer (Chief Product Owner) ★Drives a team of product managers and developers focused on transforming analog products into digital ones; with a focus on designing new and exciting products to maintain Stanley Gibbon’s competitive edge.• Successfully implemented Agile methodology within the group, focusing on cross functional teams, scrum, lean startup and an MVP product development lifecycle approach - using data analysis and customer feedback.• Lead a team of 4 product managers, 2 business analysts, 4 UX designers and 25 developers. Focusing on high performance, career growth and personal motivation - built in a fast paced, collaborative environment.★ Principal Product Owner – Search & Data ★• Built and fine-tuned an ETL system to normalize over 6 Million unique product listings consisting of loosely structured seller generated data, and successfully match each against a known catalog of 500,000 SKUs

Founded bidStart.com - the Collectibles Marketplace. Sold in November of 2012 for $1 Million to Stanley Gibbons, the most well-known, respected and trusted name in philately and collectibles. At the time of sale, the website was home to over 6 million item listings, with approximately 75,000 items sold monthly and yearly gross merchandise volume of $4 Million.★ Founder & CEO ★• Grew the business to over 6 Million active item listings with approximately 75,000 items sold monthly and GMV of $4 Million. Leading to an acquisition by the Stanley Gibbons Group PLC for $1 Million in 2012.• Developed and fine-tuned a recommendations engine which grew to account for 15% of yearly GMV. • Successfully launched outside the box marketing campaigns - including the giveaways of items such as a C3a Inverted Jenny stamp (given away in January of 2008 with a then current Catalog Value of $400,000).

BigSweetDeal is a discount dining website which offers ridiculous savings on a wide selection of quality restaurants. How do we do it? Every night, in cities across the world, it happens: tables in restaurants go unfilled, and restaurants lose money. Through special partnerships with these restaurants, we can help get these tables filled by offering our customers deeply discounted promotional certificates valid for one night only. This means that our customers are helping restaurants meet demand on a daily basis, which in turn means bigger discounts and a wider selection of restaurants.Created the business model, products and website.

Gary Posner, Inc. is a business which deals in collectibles stamps.★ Director of Operations & Software Engineer ★• Managed business operations and lead the company’s eCommerce initiatives and strategy leading to over $10,000,000 in sales per year (combined offline and online).• Created a unified process and online system to seamlessly integrate all aspects of day-to-day operations including, but not limited to, invoicing, inventory management (including syncing to third-party websites), product information, client leads, and scheduling.• Managed online and print advertisements, flyers and catalogs.• Optimized product catalog production leading to a 75% reduction in creation time.★ Office Manager & Webmaster ★• Increased online sales 100% every year, and reduced cost of online operations by 83%.• Coordinated inventory across all online and offline sales venues, and created an easy and efficient system to manage overall inventory.• Set up and maintained websites and eBay store• Provided software and hardware technical support.

StampCPA, Inc. is an online eCommerce business which sells collectible stamps, originally on ebay.com, and later exclusively on bidStart.com.• Co-founded the business in 1999, and quickly grew annual sales to over $400,000 a year.• Created a custom based system and computer program to successfully and efficiently manage thousands of sale transactions a month from start to finish.• Managed all marketing activity and campaigns.

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