Tapulous
Founder
Andrew Lacy
Founder @prenuvo. Founded & exited @tapulous and @zaptravel SVP @disney. 18y in digital product & eng. Also angel invest.
Founder @prenuvo. Founded & exited @tapulous and @zaptravel SVP @disney. 18y in digital product & eng. Also angel invest.
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LiveMinutes
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Artquity
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Kawana Ventures
Founder
I provide deep functional expertise around all aspects of building a new product and business. My favorite insights relate to creating products that delight customers, building... more highly effective teams, sequencing for success and how to raise money in the Silicon Valley (where much of my network is). I'm also a firm believer in the 80/20 rule as it applies to startups - that is with 100% of your time you can do the job of 5 people at 80%!
Lebara
Chief Product Officer
Lebara is the leading provider of telecommunication products to migrants and is one of the world's leading migrant brands. I was brought on to lead the company's efforts to... more further digital its business and to launch new digital products.
During the course of 1.5 years I build from scratch the company's product management and design team. We launched Lebara Play (a live TV and VOD service), Lebara Talk (a VOIP service) and Lebara Money (a innovative mobile and web based money transfer service).
During the course of 1.5 years I build from scratch the company's product management and design team. We launched Lebara Play (a live TV and VOD service), Lebara Talk (a VOIP service) and Lebara Money (a innovative mobile and web based money transfer service).
Exit
Founder, Founder/CEO
Zaptravel was a semantic search company, with an initial focus on travel. Eric Schmidt recently started that Google hasn't even begun to solve search because it can answer... more a question like "i want to go away this weekend to snorkel someplace warm for under 300 euros". Well, that's what Zaptravel did! It was a Kayak for people who don't know the "where" or the "when" and who just want to be delighted by trips that match their interests. ZapTravel was sold to Lebara in Jan 2015.
Senior Vice President, Mobile
I joined Disney after they acquired Tapulous in June 2010. Some highlights:
- Worked to define a mobile strategy for Disney
- Defined a new mobile category that we coined... more "instant games" and then hired people to deliver titles against this, leading to the launch and success of "Where's My Water" titles.
- Transformed the mobile organization by bringing in new leadership and overhauling many of the system and processes
- Managed budgets and the monetization strategy of our titles.
- Worked to define a mobile strategy for Disney
- Defined a new mobile category that we coined... more "instant games" and then hired people to deliver titles against this, leading to the launch and success of "Where's My Water" titles.
- Transformed the mobile organization by bringing in new leadership and overhauling many of the system and processes
- Managed budgets and the monetization strategy of our titles.
Exit
Tapulous
Co-Founder/COO
Co-founded this company when we saw the incredible groundswell of interest in apps on the iPhone even before Steve Jobs announced that he would open the platform. Built out... more our product portfolio and grew to a profitable business that we sold to Disney 2.5 years later.
McKinsey & Co
Consultant
Led McKinsey and client teams in problem solving, analytics, formulating recommendations, making senior presentations, implementing change programs. Most engagements focused... more on new business building (mainly digital but also some offline) in the consumer, financial and transportation sectors.
Exit
Product Manager
Internal product manager responsible to developing a customer segmentation model for fulfilment and service. This was a mid-MBA internship, hence the short stint.
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Zaptravel is a smart travel booking service
Founder · Zaptravel is a smart travel booking service that pairs inspirational trips with the best deals online.
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I am a product leader, general manager and technologist with extensive experience taking digital products from conception to launch in both my own startups (Tapulous, Zap) and large corporates (Disney, Lebara and various large banks and insurance companies). My experience across a range on industries helps me to bring fresh perspectives, to appropriately challenge established practices and to bring breakthrough thinking to under-innovated spaces. ** see LinkedIn for more **
I'm told that my quote-unquote "super-power" as a leader comes from my ability to move fluidly between the highly strategic and the highly executional and, in doing so, to sequence a course for a product and business to go from zero to vision. My experience running most technology functions, including engineering, mean that I have the capacity to dive in, partner and work alongside teams to build capacity, speed execution and improve outcomes.
MBA Stanford University, JD Law & B Economics
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