John Hingley

I bring 25+ years of sales & online marketing expertise with analytics-driven decision making & business savvy to help my companies and clients gain market share. A quick backgrounder: • Built the direct-to-consumer consumer software biz for Softkey/The Learning Company from $16MM to $145M in 4 years, playing a key role in the acquisition of The Learning Company by Mattel for $3.8BB. And yes, Kevin O’Leary from the TV show Shark Tank was my boss. No pressure there! • After that, I led the turnaround of wine.com after the company rose a staggering $175MM then went into bankruptcy. We bought the URL and other assets for song and in less than 1 year moved the company from Portland to SF, did a complete re-org, and delivered both revenue growth and their first profitable quarter. Wine.com is now the amazon.com of the wine industry. • Then I founded and raised a Series A for a SaaS Social Media Analytics technology company, Andiamo Systems. In the first 12 months of our 2007 launch won enterprise clients including Warner Bros., Disney, multiple divisions of Microsoft, Pfizer, Roxio, and Adobe/Omniture. Andiamo Systems is now a part of HP. • In 2013 Deluxe (NYSE: DLX) purchased VerticalResponse, a leading email & social media marketing SaaS for SMBs, that I co-founded with my wife Janine Popick (CEO) in 2001. I served as a consultant and board member, and was heavily involved in the 2014 launch of our business freemium offering. • In 2014 I co-founded business dashboards & analytics company Dasheroo and served as CEO. After looking at all of the separate data sources a business needs to look at in order to be successful, we figured why not bring it all together, make sense out of it and make it easily accessible to companies of all sizes, in one easy to understand business dashboard. Dasheroo was acquired by FreshLime in 2016. • In 2017 my wife Janine Popick and traded in 20 years of San Francisco living for the lovely Caribbean island of Turks & Caicos. We're working on a new venture, Awesome Caribbean Villas. Think VRBO for only the most luxe villas in select Caribbean islands. Specialties: online marketing, e-commerce, freemium biz models, start-ups, business development, direct marketing, mobile marketing, social media marketing, email marketing, database marketing.