Paces
Founder, Co-Founder & CEO
James McWalter
Founder • using data science to solve climate change
Founder • using data science to solve climate change
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Experience
Director of Operations
Responsible for growth, operations, data science/analytics, security, sales and CS at B2B SaaS marketplace.
Hello Vera
Director of Business Development
Developed sales and strategy for advanced AI customer service startup. Launched new sales strategy, including outbound prospecting. Managed multiple projects and team members... more to execute sales, marketing and product strategies. Redesigned pricing model. Wrote sales collateral and rewrote legal agreements. Increased client numbers 10x. Ran cold email/cold call efforts. A/B tested cold emails to move from 2% to 7% response rate. Doubled number of inbound prospects using content marketing.
Hale
Founder, COO
Developed and implemented micro-geographic business strategy for Vancouver product launch in May 2017.
Managed direct reports utilizing weekly 1-on-1s. Created all FB/GOOG... more Ads., ran “Influencer” campaign. (Inbound) email marketing with referral loop, content marketing (blog posts/podcast), social media. Managed development team in integration of AWS, Stripe, CMS. Successful application of Canadian startup tax credits
Managed direct reports utilizing weekly 1-on-1s. Created all FB/GOOG... more Ads., ran “Influencer” campaign. (Inbound) email marketing with referral loop, content marketing (blog posts/podcast), social media. Managed development team in integration of AWS, Stripe, CMS. Successful application of Canadian startup tax credits
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CEO and founder of Paces, a venture backed company working to solve climate change.
Co-founded of Hale, a personal training marketplace.Director of Operations, responsible for data science/analytics, customer success, sales, operations and security at Respondent, a market research marketplace and Director of Business Development and employee #1 at Hello Vera, an AI chatbot startup acquired by a tech giant. Before that, I sold data to US quantitative hedge funds and portfolio analytics tools to EMEA asset and sovereign wealth managers totalling more than $3M. Also, Co-founder of ShortSphere, the youtube of scripted short content andCo-founder of Miscellany Theatre Productions, a london-based theatre company.
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What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?
Zero to One -Thiel and Antifragile - Taleb;
What's your favorite non-business book?
For Whom The Bell Tolls
If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?
What I am doing.
What words of advice would you give your younger self?
Be riskier.
What's the most creative thing you've ever done?
Produced a play at the Edinburgh Fringe
Which founders or startups do you most admire?
Patrick Collison (Stripe) and Stewart Butterfield (Slack). They show that no matter the power of the incumbent, great products will always win.
What's your super power?
Strategic thinking
What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?
What words of wisdom do you live by?
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?
Strategy, creating great products, understanding the narratives we live by.
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