Pema Hegan
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Founder @ The Real Human Project | Build authentic human connection & trust in today’s new world of work at The Real Human Project
Location: Haleiwa, Hawaii, United States 12 work roles 1 school
1 work email found @checkout51.com 6 phones found area 416, 254, 647, and 212 LinkedIn matched
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Founder @ The Real Human Project | Build authentic human connection & trust in today’s new world of work
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Haleiwa, Hawaii, United States

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Pema Hegan is listed as Founder @ The Real Human Project | Build authentic human connection & trust in today’s new world of work at The Real Human Project, based in Haleiwa, Hawaii, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at checkout51.com, phone signal with area code 416, 254, 647, 212, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Pema Hegan.

Pema Hegan previously worked as Founder at The Real Human Project and Owner at Lion Rock Inc.. Pema Hegan holds Three-Year Diploma In Advertising And Iaa Diploma, Business from Auckland University Of Technology.

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About Pema Hegan

Pema likes to build and grow businesses. Pema is currently a founder of The Real Human Project, a private podcast for teams to share their personal stories and connect on a human level. The mission is to cultivate more meaningful and productive relationships. Pema's previous venture, Checkout 51 (checkout51.com), is a mobile app that helps shoppers save money on their groceries, and offers packaged goods brands real-time consumer insights and strategic targeting that they can't get anywhere else. Checkout 51 was acquired by News America Marketing (NAM), a division of News Corporation, in July 2015.Post-acquisition, Pema ran the Product team for NAM’s digital businesses and innovation unit, and lead the development and launch of Freedom, a new business that enables CPGs to easily run sophisticated, data-enriched campaigns across many partners at massive scale.Before creating Checkout 51, Pema joined the celebrated Canadian advertising agency Rethink as a Partner and Managing Director to launch their Toronto office. Under Pema's leadership, Rethink Toronto built a diverse and talented team and won business from clients such as Molson Canadian, Rickard's, Sobeys and Bell.Previously, Pema co-founded GigPark (www.gigpark.com), an online social media platform that allows users to find local businesses through recommendations from friends. In August 2009, GigPark was acquired by Canpages, the largest independent directories publisher in Canada (since acquired by Yellow Pages Group).Prior to GigPark, Pema was the Founding Editor-In-Chief of Dose, a national daily newspaper and digital media business backed by CanWest that he helped take from 0 to 340,000 daily readers in less than a year. Targeting young adult Canadians, Dose reached 10% of 18-24 year olds in its markets every single day.Pema founded his first company, Sonar, in the late 90's. He worked in advertising in New Zealand (Young and Rubicam) before moving to the UK to work for the pioneering Media Strategy company, Michaelides and Bednash. Pema moved to Canada in 2004 where he joined the Vancouver office of Rethink Advertising.Pema is married with 2 kids. He lives on the North Shore of O'ahu.

Listed skills include Seo, Digital Media, Digital Strategy, Social Media, and 8 others.

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The Real Human Project
The Real Human Project
Founder @ The Real Human Project | Build authentic human connection & trust in today’s new world of work
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Founder

Current

Hawaii, United States

High performing teams start with human connection.The Real Human Project is a private podcast for your team to share their stories, get to know each other better, and connect on a human level. The empathy this builds will make your relationships more productive, meaningful, and joyful.

Jun 2020 - Present

Owner

Lion Rock Inc.

Toronto

Investing and helping where I can.

Jan 2007 - May 2020

Founder, Checkout 51 & Chief Innovation Officer, News America Marketing Ventures

Greater New York City Area

After News America Marketing ("NAM") acquired Checkout 51, Pema lead the Product team for NAM Ventures, a division that includes Checkout 51, all other digital coupon businesses, and the digital media business. Pema also launched and then lead a new innovation division called NAM Labs. Under Pema's leadership NAM Labs built and tested several product ideas that touched on AR and AI. The first product the division launched was an industry wide open network for the distribution and fulfillment of coupons at huge scale called Freedom. Because of the open architecture and approach, Freedom was able to partner with several key industry players and grow quickly to become a major contributor to the business.

Jul 2015 - Jul 2018

Founder

Toronto, Canada

Checkout 51 is a mobile app that helps grocery shoppers save money, and helps consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies get valuable insights and deliver targeted coupons. Founded in 2012, Checkout 51 quickly grew to tens of millions of members and has now worked with every major CPG company in North America. Checkout 51 was acquired by News America Marketing, a division of News Corp, in July 2015.

Jun 2012 - Jul 2018

Partner And Managing Director, Rethink Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joined Rethink as a partner and owner to launch the Toronto office. Worked with an incredible team and incredible clients (Molson, Rickard's, Kraft, Sobeys, Bell, and many more).

2010 - Jun 2012

Gigpark Founder And Director Of User Interaction

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Responsible for integrating the GigPark social recommendations platform into Canpages, growing the total number of recommendations and search engine optimization for Canpages.ca.

Aug 2009 - Mar 2010

Founder

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

GigPark is a place to find the trusted local businesses your friends use. The concept behind GigPark: If you are looking to hire a local business (a lawyer, contractor, florist) the best way to find one you can trust is through a recommendation from a friend.GigPark was Founded by Pema Hegan and Noah Godfrey in 2007. After a beta period, GigPark.com launched publicly in February 2008. In August 2009 GigPark was acquired by Canpages - Canada's fastest growing local search firm.

Jan 2007 - Aug 2009

Founding Editor-In-Chief

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Part of the founding management team to launch Dose, a multi platform national media brand in Canada. As Editor-in-Chief Pema was responsible for recruiting an editorial and design team of 35 and launching a national daily magazine, website and mobile product.Dose was launched in April 2005 and by May 2006 it had over 330K daily readers, 60% of which were under the age of 35. One-in-ten 18-24 year olds in Canada read the magazine or visited the digital products daily.See here for a collection of covers from Dose magazine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pema/sets/72157600047296139/

Dec 2004 - May 2006

Account Director

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Marketing Magazine named Rethink Canadian Advertising Agency of the Year in 2003. They dominate Canadian awards shows and have had work in The Bessies, Communication Arts, The London International Advertising Awards and The One Show.

Jan 2004 - Dec 2004

Strategist

London, England, United Kingdom

M&B fused account planning with cutting edge communication thinking to create the world’s first Media Strategy company. In 1998 they became the first agency to win the industry's top two prizes in the same year - Campaign Magazine and Media Week Agency of the Year. Pema's clients included Unilever, Channel 4 Television (E4, FlimFour, Channel 4.com), Time Out and the BBC.

Apr 2000 - Dec 2003

Founding Partner

Auckland, New Zealand

Sonar is a forum for ideas relating to youth marketing, entertainment and advertising. It was founded by three entrepreneurs (Pema, Andrew and James) with backgrounds in cartooning, music, advertising, fashion design and journalism.

Jan 1999 - Jan 2000

Media Planner/Buyer

Auckland, New Zealand

Media planning and buying for clients including United Airlines, Converse Shoes, Revlon and the Star Alliance. Supervised Y&R’'s media research and ran all media activity for Y&R'’s specialist healthcare agency, Sudler & Hennessy.

Apr 1997 - Jan 2000
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Pema Hegan works for The Real Human Project.

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Pema Hegan is listed as Founder @ The Real Human Project | Build authentic human connection & trust in today’s new world of work at The Real Human Project.

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Where is Pema Hegan based?

Pema Hegan is based in Haleiwa, Hawaii, United States while working with The Real Human Project.

What companies has Pema Hegan worked for?

Pema Hegan has worked for The Real Human Project, Lion Rock Inc., News America Marketing, Checkout 51, and Rethink Communications.

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What schools did Pema Hegan attend?

Pema Hegan holds Three-Year Diploma In Advertising And Iaa Diploma, Business from Auckland University Of Technology.

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Pema Hegan is listed with skills including Seo, Digital Media, Digital Strategy, Social Media, Advertising, Creative Direction, Start Ups, and Online Advertising.

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