Peter Messana Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, TX, US

San Antonio, TX, US

Boston, MA, US

• Retained by Private Equity firm, Scaleworks, to return to their fund for a second time in order to stabilize a very frail company.In one year we have accomplished the following:
• Hired a completely new Leadership team.
• Instilled operational excellence and best practices.
• Restarted stalled product development.
• Stabilized the business to be EBITDA positive and cash flow neutral.The business is now set to thrive as the company revamps messaging and sales tactics.Awards:2024 Best Places to Work in San Antonio2024 Trust Radius.

New York, NY, US

Member of the Board of Advisor for the Leader in AI Driven Digital Rights Management

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Hire by Private Equity firm Scaleworks to grow a niche ecommerce Search SaaS product.Successfully exited the business after 3 years by merging three different companies while propelling sales with record growth, while.
• Grew revenue 340% (44% CAGR) over 3.5 years
• Sequential Sales records each year
• Lowered churn to 50% below the industry average
• Drove a positive Net Retention (105%)
• Created over 60 new jobsAcquired Nextopia in August 2019.Acquired 4-Tell technology in July 2020.Successfully exited business from Scaleworks (PE Firm) to PSG Equity in September 2022.Exit returned 8.2x invested.

Toronto, ON, CA

Responsible for Development/Engineering, Product Development, Client Services and Support.Led company to double in size. Hired over 40 employees in 2018.

Toronto, ON, CA

Hired to utilize my deep retail background to drive Product Strategy for all five e-commerce products. Leveraged my background to transform the products from a bottoms up mentality with keeping the ecommerce customer front and center.

Sylvan Lake, Michigan, US

Member of the board offering guidance to the over arching strategy of the company.

Sylvan Lake, Michigan, US

• Retained by Private Equity group after selling Austin Kayak to them to run the combined specialty retailer focusing on the outdoor retail niche markets including skis.com, austinkayak.com, inlineskates.com and many.
• Implemented common HR practices across entire organization
• Successfully integrated two warehouses to cross ship product
• Worked to mesh two very differing cultures located in two remote locations
• Directed the integration of customer service so any agent in any location could service customers
• Conceived and implemented Store-in-Store concept putting ACK stores inside MI Summit Sports stores; increased summer revenues by more than 2x

Austin, TX, US

• Sold award winning company to PE firm in Jan 2016 and retained to be CEO/President of the combined organization
• Built a retail company from single location
• Went from $0 ecommerce in 2005 to $25MM in 2015
• The entire company went from 1 location, no ecomm, to 5 locations and large % of revenue from ecommerce; (42% CAGR)
• Operated a high lifetime value business focusing on repeat purchase and generating high AOV per transaction

Round Rock, Texas, US

Started as a Manager in the Customer Experience department with responsibility for all customer touch points with the Dell Preferred Account (DPA) and helped with the Dell Business Credit accounts. Promoted to Sr. Manager in the State Local & Federal Government team.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Part of the Internal Audit Leadership Development Program (LDR). The LDR program was leaders selected from the business and went through a 2 year program to learn about the business through the Internal Audit department where we were exposed to all areas of the business.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Various positions from junior developer to development Manager.