Our team of
growth leaders
When you partner with MAVAN, you’re adding a team of specialists who’ve spent years scaling some of the world’s most successful companies.
MAVAN leadership team
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Matt Widdoes Chief Executive OfficerWiddoes has built and led teams at various start-ups across the valley as well as iconic brands including RedBull, Intuit, Zynga, and King. He has deep experience across Operations, Marketing and Business Development. He’s worked cross-functionally to drive growth at massive enterprises and has been responsible for roughly $1B in media spend and billions of dollars in revenue. He is also an active angel investor and start-up advisor with a rich network of top talent across Silicon Valley and beyond.
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Malachi Rose VP of GrowthMalachi is a mobile growth veteran having spent the last 10 years growing some of the preeminent mobile gaming and fintech companies in the world. He has deep knowledge in performance marketing and has worked across almost every digital channel. At Zynga, he lead growth across all products, was responsible for nine-figure annual advertising budgets, built the growth marketing team, and helped the company achieve a profitable turnaround during his 3.5 years there. At Digit, he built a growth organization and scaled ARR by 3x in the first year.
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Ellyn Stanton Lead Project ManagerExpert from:
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Lawrence Valenti Chief Creative OfficerExpert from:
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Chanel DeVetter Head of LifecycleExpert from:
Add a little jet fuel to your business
When you work with MAVAN, you get access to the best minds in growth. We know how to build from scratch, move existing systems in a new direction, and stand out in crowded fields. We use experimentation to identify the gaps the rest of the market is missing.
MAVAN Advisory Group
MAVAN Advisory Group (MAG) is an exclusive network of world-class executives that advise MAVAN across their agency operations and internal venture studio projects.
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Daniel Barnes Chief Operating Officer, Forte
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Kimberly Pointer Corbett Chief Publishing Officer, Fortis Games
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Lea Dudum Chief Financial Officer, Elevation Advisory
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Bryan Kelley Director, Uber for Business, Global Marketing Programs and Operations
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Kfir Raiby Data Scientist, Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering
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Jason Purdy Product Lead, Square
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Eric Kovalkoski Director of Growth, Digital Poshmark
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Ismail Maiyegun Chairman/CEO, Big Wolf Games
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Eric Seufert CEO Heracles LLC
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Brian Sapp Head of Growth Rec Room
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Jason Parmar Head of gaming UK + Nordic Tik Tok
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Aurelie Guerrieri Chief Marketing Officer, Data Dome
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Kyle Shields Art Director, Wealthsimple
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Steve Wu Product Lead, Gusto
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Brett Fischler CTO & Co-Founder Early Enterprise AI StartupExpert from:
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David Diaz Co-Founder, StealthExpert from:
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Atif Khan VP of Business Thirdweb
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Brandon Fuller Co-Founder + Chief Creative Officer 1215creative
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Doug Thielen Senior Director, Global Brand and Product Marketing Dickies
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Matthew Snow Head of Product Design, Skillz
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Hilary Self Founder Higher Self Marketing Services
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Jeremy Leal Head of Sales and Marketing Uncle Terp
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Our Values
Supportive
We do good for our clients as well as each other. We lend a hand, an ear, and support wherever it’s needed. We assume the best of each other. We don’t hold each other back, we build up. We’re one team.
Curious
We innovate, we adapt, and we’re always learning. We break things to make them better. Our curiosity is our greatest asset, and we’re always investing in it.
Aspiring
We are never satisfied. We’re ambitious. When we reach a goal, we set a bigger one. Again and again. No solution is too ambitious if it’s the best solution.
Mindful
We listen, we collaborate, we keep an open mind. We know that great ideas can come from anywhere and we’re always ready for them.
Authentic
We bring our real selves to the table. We believe honesty leads to inspired work. We work hard. We deliver. We keep it real.
Entrepreneurial
We’ve got that dog in us. We embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and we’re not afraid of failure. We are champions of growth. We see problems, and we solve them. When we sense opportunity, we dig it up.
Accountable
We stand by our work, and our word. If we say we’re going to do something, we do it. We can only celebrate our wins if we own our losses. We are not afraid of being wrong, because we learn from it.
Playful
We take our work seriously, but not ourselves. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it. We surround ourselves with supportive, collaborative, fun-loving people who all look forward to ‘walking in the door’ every morning. We love our downtime, but when we’re on, we’re on.