Apple | Mobile |
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Business Dev & Design Entertainment | Social Media Tech Web Video |
Apple | Mobile |
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Business Dev & Design Entertainment | Social Media Tech Web Video |
Provides online interactive shopping services.
Year Established: | |
Funding: | 32.3 |
Address: | PowerReviews, Inc. USA |
Telephone: | 2076538527 |
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Mail: | info@powerreviews.com |
Company URL: | http://www.powerreviews.com |
PowerReviews is a 4-year-old Social Media company with top-tier Venture Capital backing. PowerReviews creates trusted experiences for shoppers through user-generated content and community interaction that leverages the surprising
Draper Richards, L.P.,Menlo Ventures,Tenaya Capital (FKA: Lehman Brothers Venture Partners)
Pehr Luedtke - CEO
Pehr is CEO of PowerReviews, where he is responsible for the overall vision and strategic direction of the company.
Pehr has a deep background in brand marketing, sales, and consumer internet. Most recently, Pehr was a General Manager at Shopping.com, where he ran the Epinions and Advertising Sales teams. Prior to Shopping.com, Pehr held several senior strategy and sales roles at Levi Strauss and Company, where he helped launch the Levi Strauss Signature brand into the mass retail channel. Pehr began his career as a strategy consultant at Oliver Wyman. He currently sits on the Advisory Board of AdNectar, the leading virtual gifting marketing platform.
Pehr holds an AB from Princeton University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Andy Chen - Founder and VP, Strategic Partnerships
Andy is co-founder of PowerReviews and leads PowerReviews’ strategic partnership efforts.
At Fogdog, Andy led the customer acquisition and creative teams to create a world-class brand based on providing an extraordinary customer experience. Following the acquisition by GSI Commerce, Andy served as Vice President, Product Development and Vice President, Product Management for GSI. In these roles, he worked closely with GSI's ecommerce partners to ensure that the features and functionality of their sites provided an optimal customer experience.
Following GSI, Andy joined Yahoo! Shopping in 2004 as Director of Product Management. There, Andy was responsible for overseeing site features and functionality with a goal of positioning Yahoo! Shopping as the starting destination for customers shopping online. Andrew attended Stanford University.
Robert Chea - Founder and COO
Robert Chea is co-founder and chief operating officer of PowerReviews. In this role, Robert is the company's product and technology visionary, ensuring PowerReviews' features and functionality continue to meet the evolving needs of retailers and brands in today's research-intensive shopping environment.
At Fogdog, Robert led the technology and development efforts, and focused on delivering superior technologies and services to establish Fogdog as a leading online retail brand.
Robert also served as Chief Technology Officer for GSI, directing the company's overall technology infrastructure and development strategies to support ongoing rapid growth. Robert later transitioned into the role of Vice President of Strategy, where he led product management, user experience, and search strategy. Robert is a graduate of Stanford University.
Matt Parsons - VP, Client Success
As VP of Client Success, Matt leads account management, integration and implementation efforts at PowerReviews. His primary focus is client satisfaction, ensuring that each client realizes all the benefits of our high-quality, industry-leading social merchandising solution throughout the merchant's shopping experience.
Matt has over 10 years of account and project management experience in the financial, telecommunications and e-commerce industries. Prior to joining PowerReviews, he managed a sales operations team at Qwest Communications and prior to that was a Senior Consultant at BearingPoint. Matt's first foray in e-commerce was at Fogdog.com and he is a graduate of Stanford University.
Joshua Greenough - VP, Operations
Joshua is the VP of Operations at PowerReviews, where he is responsible for managing the people and processes that support both retail partners and consumers. His mission is to improve the shopping experience by leveraging process and technology to improve PowerReviews' consumer responsiveness while continually achieving greater levels of efficiency.
Being raised in the Silicon Valley has it advantages as the dinner table always had a new business idea to discuss. Prior to PowerReviews, Joshua worked as a software engineer at both AuctionDrop.com and Fogdog.com, as an analyst at Champion Ventures, and managed his own technology outsourcing company. Joshua's extracurricular experience playing high level Ultimate Frisbee often translates very well when building the operations team.
Joshua holds a BS with majors in Business Finance and Computer Science from the University of Oregon.
Gautam Prabhu - VP, Engineering
As VP of Engineering, Gautam is responsible for leading the engineering efforts to provide world-class technology and social merchandising solutions to clients.
Gautam has over 10 years of development and engineering management experience in the software industry, focusing on e-commerce solutions and enterprise software and services. He has held engineering positions at Fogdog, GSI Commerce and Sun Microsystems.
Gautam holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Jim Morris - VP and General Manager, Buzzillions
Jim is VP and General Manager, Buzzillions Platform where he manages the growth and expansion of Buzzillions, the world's premier hub for product reviews. His passion is creating a user-centric site where the actual words from real consumers lead shoppers to the best buying decision.
Born into the Internet in 1996, Jim has spent the last 11 years architecting, creating and managing large scale eCommerce services for hundreds of online retailers. He was part of the team that created the review service for Fogdog.com and knew then that reviews would revolutionize the buying experience.
Prior to PowerReviews, Jim served as an e-commerce architect and consultant to a variety of innovative eCommerce companies including GSI Commerce and NapaStyle. Jim is a graduate of Stanford University.