Our team of
growth leaders

Widdoes 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.

Malachi 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.

Rich has spent nearly 15 years developing groundbreaking data initiatives across several high-profile tech brands such as Zillow, Google, Pandora and Zynga. He has functional expertise in marketing, product, engineering, operations and representation. Most recently at Zillow, he helped drive YoY growth of agent DAU 40%+, engagement 20%+ while reducing operational costs through experimentation by over 25%. An avid advocate for representation, he also created several programs to aid Zillow in achieving a 10-14% improvement in its representation goals.

Kyle is an internationally-awarded art director and designer. Along with his partner Aaron Peever, he’s helped launch 360 campaigns for brands like Mastercard, Wendy’s, Suncor, Scotiabank, AncestryDNA and Kia Motors. With 10 years of experience in digital media, broadcast, design, branding, illustration, UI/UX, and creative problem solving he brings a diverse set of skills to deliver results for any client problem. During their time McCann he and Aaron helped launch The Wendy’s Canada Mobile app, increased sign-ups for Suncor’s loyalty program by over 100k users and more than doubled brand awareness for the CareMakers Foundation.

Aaron is the copywriter half of his internationally-awarded creative team. With his partner Kyle Shields, he’s created campaigns for Mastercard, Wendy’s, Suncor, Scotiabank, and Kia. Aaron’s wheelhouse is finding exciting and unexpected creative solutions to client’s problems. While at McCann, he and Kyle turned a simple public service announcement brief into a 24-hour long interactive documentary film, increasing donations for the CareMakers Foundation by 1649% in the first month after launch. Before taking the plunge into creative advertising, Aaron spent nearly a decade as a comedy writer working on web series and performing across Canada and the United States.

Julie is the Head of Lifecycle at Mavan and was previously a Senior Director of Email, Push & Affiliate Marketing at Overstock. For over 15 years, she’s managed Lifecycle annualized P/L’s that range from $200K to $1.3B and generated YOY growth of 35%+. From ecommerce, logistics, transportation and hospitality, she has launched & scaled lifecycle programs across multiple industries.