John Spottiswood

Summary

Consumer and SAAS internet executive with 20 years of experience including president, COO, business & corporate development, product management, product development, professional services, customer success, and strategy. Currently, SVP Business Development and Partnerships at Activehours. Prior to Activehours, EVP of Business & Corporate Development at Inflection. Also ran marketing, including SEM, SEO, and email marketing during part of my tenure. Lead the sale of our Archives division to Ancestry for $100m. Previously, VP and GM of the DSS division of QuinStreet, Grew the business and brought it to profitability. Also built a 30 person software development and professional services division in India. Prior, VP Professional Services at DemandTec, an enterprise SAAS company focused on retail/consumer packaged goods. Also ran Customer Success, Education Services, Technical Documentation, and Modeling Services (statisticians). Other roles included regional store operations manager at Toys R Us, founder Video View magazine, founder CookEatShare, marketing manager Sony (Nagoya, Japan) and foreign secretary to Katsuya Okada (Tokyo, Japan). Specialties: Business Development -- Negotiated all early partnerships at Match.Com; Developed initial customers for DemandTec; Struck major partnerships at QuinStreet. Offshore Management: Built QuinStreet India--over 100 employees. Hired sales/services teams in Shanghai & Tokyo Growth Marketing: Built very successful customer acquisition teams and strategies focused on SEM, SEO, Email, Social, Affiliates & BD at Match.com and Inflection. Product Management: Drove product dev at Match.Com and QuinStreet (for SaaS and real estate), and heavily influenced products at DemandTec Hiring/Team Building: Hired & built successful teams ranging from 35 to over 100