| Name | Title | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|
Chris Peacock |
Chief Technology Officer | Profile |
WePay started with a simple idea: an app that made it easy for friends to pool money for shared expenses like ski trips and club activities. Yet that simple idea wasn`t so simple to execute. It was 2008, and no payments system could easily and safely pool money from groups of people to pay out to others. So we built one. The team spent nearly two years negotiating contracts, dealing with regulators, and wrestling with bank integrations. We developed easy sign-up and frictionless checkout experiences. We also built one of the most advanced fraud detections systems around so we wouldn`t lose our shirts. And it worked. WePay started to get traction. There was just one problem.
Blucora, Inc. is a leading provider of technology-enabled financial solutions for consumers, small business owners and tax professionals. Through our operating companies, TaxAct and HD Vest, we provide leading products in tax preparation and wealth advisory services and help millions of individuals manage their financial lives. With more than 500 employees located primarily in Bellevue, WA, Irving, Texas and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Blucora is led by experienced management teams with deep expertise in their respective markets.
Boomerang Commerce enables omni-channel retailers to maximize revenue and margin growth while remaining competitive. Our SaaS based software rapidly analyzes, tests and deploys smart pricing strategies at scale for millions of products including private label. Led by veterans from Amazon, Adobe and McKinsey, Boomerang uses advanced machine learning and real-time data analytics to drive strategic pricing decisions. Top 100 omni-channel retailers such as Staples, OfficeDepot and web-only retailers such as Groupon Goods are using Boomerang today and realize $40M in incremental revenue and $9M in incremental margins for every $1B in revenue they run through our platform. Boomerang is named a Gartner Cool Vendor for Digital Commerce 2015 and one of the Top 50 Big Data companies in the world.
Founded in 2000 and based in Columbus, Ohio, 2Checkout.com, Inc. is a global payments solutions provider servicing approximately 60,000 online retailers.
method sold its first product on February 28th, 2001 – we mark this as the day we became people against dirty®. But why did two twenty-something guys start a cleaning product company? Well, we’re not exactly big fans of cleaning, but we are passionate about cleaning up a dirty business. We recognized that household cleaning, which includes laundry and hand wash, was a massive category in desperate need of a little disruption. We also had questions. Why do we pollute when we clean? Why do we use poison to make our homes healthier? And why do cleaners have to be so ugly that you hide them away or smell so bad that you hold your breath? The answer: we can do better. Leveraging two major cultural shifts in health + wellness and life styling of the home, we disrupted every aspect of the category and grew method into a green cleaning leader. Along the way, we hit #7 on the Inc. 500 list, were named the #16th most innovative company in the world by Fast Company in 2008 and became PETA persons of the year for developing the first vegan laundry products. method products can be found in Target, Lowe’s, Safeway, Whole Foods and most grocers nationwide, along with growing distribution in the UK, France, China, Japan and Australia. And the party is only getting started. In 2012, method merged with Belgian green cleaning giant Ecover, and together became the world’s largest green cleaning company. Our two brands are committed to inspiring generations of happy, healthy homes by making non-toxic products that work—for you and the planet. And we’re building a LEED-Platinum certified manufacturing plant to prove it, the first of its kind in our industry. We even formalized the name of our joint enterprise: People Against Dirty (PAD) Manufacturing. Of course, this is more than a company name, it is one of our founding principles. By pioneering a cleaner clean, we believe we can make a difference.