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Lake St. Louis, Mo, Us

Lake St. Louis, Mo, Us

San Diego, California, Us

Matt Classen is Market Director at Veyo, a technology enabled transportation broker. In this role, Matt is responsible for overseeing the Arizona and California markets, specifically working with ourcontracted health plans and member transportation, managing the IDP and 3PO provider networks, and responsible for identifying market trends, opportunities, and executing on financial goals. An accomplished marketing and operations executive with almost two-decades of championing product initiatives spanning product innovation, new product development, and VOC-driven productenhancements, Matt has successfully transitioned his skills and talents in multiple industries, including manufacturing, consumer products, transportation, and health-care. Maximize Revenue by successfully leading my teams to overcome the seasonality and challenges that arise with supply/demand cycles and have consistently kept an IDP capture rate of 80%+ of total trips completed, while maintaining budgeted cost-per-trip and margin goals. Successful in creating a sense of urgency to work with Technology, Operations, and Data to make informed decisions on how to solve problems. Directed all Market activities for Veyo’s Arizona and California markets Lead a team of A-players in Business Development, Supply and Demand Management, Account Management, and cross-functional collaboration of all departments in our organization. Full P&L responsibility and accountability. Ensuring a high-quality and optimized Provider Network exceeds current demand at all times by at least 150% Led the IDP launch in our new Orange County, CA market by building an Independent-Driver Provider (IDP) network from the ground up that quickly captured 80+% of total available trips; both providing better overall service delivery and a vastly improved bottom-line.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Member of the Leadership Team, who directed all operations of Discount Cab, the largest fleet of hybrid taxis in North America, and totalride transportation products. Develop and implement business strategies and tactics to continuously enhance value for customers, responsible for maximizing profitability, and achieving growth goals. Directed all functions including Operations, Shop, Fleet, Recruiting, and Marketing. Responsible for the creation of department budgets, business plans, metrics, and corrective actions/continuous improvement interventions.Owned the product development roadmap by identifying and then prioritizing key initiatives to make our multiple lines of business run lean and efficiently. Responsible for positioning internally created and partner sourced software products as superior options to our driver partners. Additionally, responsible for defining the brand vision and positioning our transportation products to our defined customer bases, personas, and target markets by creating the appropriate messaging and targeting and ensuring all advertising and marketing activities align with our strategic business development goals.* Ensure maximum utilization of over 800 taxicab vehicles, in two markets, including preventative maintenance to reduce expenses and providing customers a highly desirable product.* Manage a recruitment team to meet the constant demand for new taxicab and ride-share drivers in one of the most competitive driver markets in the U.S.* Set pricing and cost targets, project timelines, coordinated all advertising and messaging campaigns and led all sales training to key personnel

Product Manager – Little Wonder and ClassenProvide product management for two of company’s six brands, manufactured/assembled across three facilities in three states and sold through multiple channels including two-step distribution, dealer direct, national accounts, big box retail, and international. * Boosted gross margin 26.7% and enhanced marketability for better competition and expanded market share in aerator category.* Played instrumental role in multi-brand market introduction of unique turf renovation product and projected to add ~$4M in revenue in third year of launch. * Led new product development for a product that improved gross margin 18% over preceding product, increased market share, and produced $130K in first-year sales. * Generated $200K+ incremental revenue growth and improved gross margin 8% for revamped product line.* Gained mind share and market share among European Union dealers and partners.* Delivered 15% gross margin improvement from packaging improvements.* Launched a premium line of debris handling equipment that doubled annual units sold, increased revenue and better positioned the Little Wonder brand as a premium supplier of air moving leaf and debris management equipment. * Authored one of company’s largest sales programs for American Rental Association tradeshow that delivered 25% YoY sales growth in 2015.

Promoted to drive efficient and effective plant operations by directing functions including traffic management, purchasing, engineering, product planning/development, cost controls, quality assurance, safety, and production. * Reduced labor cost per unit by 27% and delivered $135K YoY labor cost savings, while increasing output 18%.* Optimized production efficiency, purchasing capabilities, and inventory levels.* Ensured customer adoption and satisfaction.

Production planning ensuring alignment with customer demand. Managed shipping and receiving operations. Participated in purchasing, supplier/vendor relations, production, cost controls, tradeshows, and sales initiatives.* Met all needs and requests of major customer, The Home Depot, in timely manner.* Negotiated volume discount pricing with vendors and freight forwarders.

Southampton, Pa, Us

Conducted wide range of job functions for this privately owned business, encompassing sales, technical fabrication, general assembly, and web development.* Transitioned business from manual engineering drawings to SolidWorks files.* Streamlined customer access to parts information.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Marketing

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Psychology

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), General Studies