Blake Van Leer Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, NC, US

Rancho Mirage, California, US

Blake contributes to numerous board meetings, provides strategic planning directly to Kathy, C-level team and partners. As an advisor, he helped manage both D2C and B2B strategies. Blake developed and executed revenue growth strategies, managed tech stacks, tech dev, driving sales, and managing key client relationships to achieve our business objectives..

Rancho Mirage, California, US

• Recruited directly by the CEO in recognition of expertise building and growing companies while leveraging modern business and commerce tech; played an integral role in growing the company’s sales by over $800M in one.
• Advised the CEO directly and served as a liaison with C-level stakeholders at partner orgs like NFLPA, AmFam, Macys, and Amazon.
• Headed over 200 managerial and IC personnel across sales, marketing, technology, and licensing functions.
• Grew the company to $3.1B in annual revenue by: o Rebuilding GTM processes and marketing strategies that impacted hundreds of products and services across a portfolio that covered apparel, home, jewelry, fintech.
• Replicated the process of successfully growing the company with multiple partner orgs such as American Family Insurance at the request of the CEO.

Responsible for fundraises, Growth, GTM strategy, M&A and SG's long term vision. SG is a holding and health insurance technology company that specializes in the development and management of Medicare Advantage, private health insurance marketplaces, agent technology systems, and insurance policy administration platforms.

Charlotte, NC, US

The Information Technology Services Advisory Committee advises the Board of County Commissioners on the County's technology needs.

Greater Balitmore Area, MD, US

• Helped Gestalt AI secure funding, and build out its proof of concept commerce vertical Proto AI. Still advises Gestalt AI team on their licensing and partnership program.
• Developing a GTM strategy that brought in over 200 new business customers, and achieved a 50% trial conversion date.
• Recruited over 25 company personnel including the current C Level team, marketing, sales and engineering team.
• Instrumental in building out customer facing AI products and features; recruited a 6-person dev team to facilitate customer onboarding and success.
• Deployed a partnership program targeting agencies and tech companies, achieving a 100% conversion rate from partnership referrals.
• Spoke at multiple public events across the country including podcasts, Q&A panels, and ecommerce summits.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Padlist Co is a holding company with verticals in the PropTech space. Padlist products offer seamless solutions for finding and securing apartment homes. Padlist also offers SaaS B2B solutions through it's CRM and.
• Blake led the process for product market fit, platform launch, fundraising and market adoption strategy.
• Led marketing and sales team to secure over 1,000 b2b clients.
• Led SEO, Digital Ad and content curation process.
• Created weekly reporting presentations for investors and executive team.
• Created and maintained high level executive relationships in the multi-family industry.

Birmingham, Alabama, US

Bringing business capital into a modern fast, clean, and simple process. Porter helps businesses get the working capital they need, when they need it. Van Leer lead a team which oversaw growth, B2B sales, marketing, and revenue at both Porter Capital and Porter Freight Funding. Since leading the team, Porter experienced its highest revenue producing year.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

Blake Van Leer is available through his consulting company BLVD which offers the following services:AI and Data Empowered Marketing, Sales Team Leadership, Growth Consulting, Creative Branding, Graphic Design, Influencer Campaigns, SEO services empowered by AI, Social Media Management, Online Reputation Management, Lead Generation, Web Design and App.

Washington, DC, DC, US

Padfinders is a personalized matchmaking service for renters and landlords. Blake managed the inside and outside B2B sales team, Partnerships team, growing the business to over 400 apartment buildings (clients) and 25 relocation specialists. He also designed a custom CRM, datafeeds, front end and various lead funnel tools. Blake also deployed an SEO.

NC, SC, FL, DC, US

• Commercial & Residential Real Estate Sales and Investments; Consulting for Land Development and Industrial Real Estate Development.

Garnet Inc is a construction, engineering and development company. Garnet performed numerous residential, commercial, heavy construction, gas to energy and solid waste projects in Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia and Atlanta. Blake oversaw data analytics for population growth, trash production calculations and marketing. He also assisted with siting.

Global Business Mba, Management Of Global Technology & Business

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Systems & Business

Business Management And Business Analytics

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