Alysa Binder

Summary

Alysa Binder is the Co-Founder/Chief Development & Marketing Officer for Pet Airways. Pet Airways is a pet-only airline where pets fly in the main cabin and NOT in cargo. Alysa has over 20 years of experience founding and managing independent businesses in the services and retail industries. She began her career in the premium incentive industry, where she was responsible for marketing and sales to large corporate customers. After moving to Silicon Valley, she founded Interlink Recruiting and Consulting with her husband, Dan. She worked closely with top-tier venture capital and investment firms, lending her expertise to startups to recruit skilled management teams and providing early strategic direction to many companies. Her most notable successes include Palm Computing (maker of the Palm Pilot PDA) and eBay. She worked directly with Pierre Omidyar and Jeff Skoll, the founders of eBay, to build the early management team, thus laying the groundwork for eBay's IPO and phenomenal growth. Many other companies recognize Alysa's contribution to their success (see testimonials on the Interlink site at www.ilrac.com/testimonial.) In 2009, she co-founded Pet Airways. As Chief Development & Marketing Officer, she drove the marketing and PR effort. Her efforts included articles, TV spots, website mentions, and personal interviews worldwide. Pet Airways produced over 5.8M results on Google. In addition, she was responsible for recruiting and managing over 50 employees for the company. Her experience in technology, marketing, public relations, partner marketing, building teams and general business skills are continually sought after by entrepreneurs and startups. She is currently consulting to Silicon Valley Startups.