Roger Bass

Summary

Senior executive with proven success in global business development from entry strategy and startup to Fortune 500 product management; delivers growth and market share domination in competitive environments. Innovative leader of payments, platform, technology & B2B/B2C/C2C product/service initiatives. * Led Intuit's initiative to connect up the $2trillion of payments and commerce QuickBooks users do with the 90%+ of those users' customers who use non-Intuit business solutions. * Confounded analyst expectations with a $20M revenue deal for a new Internet e-commerce platform, resulting in a $1B market value gain for a $5B company. * Faced down Microsoft, claiming 80% market share, $3M revenue and 100,000 users in the first six months for Intuit’s first ever online banking product, Quicken Germany. * Promoted 22% segment growth in a flat business, driving distribution through new platforms for channel partners and developers, * Pioneered an online banking initiative currently representing $300M in revenue for Intuit. Goal: build huge new businesses solving big problems for mass markets of consumers and businesses - in particular by making technology easier to use and more accessible. Specialties: Markets/Technologies: SMB (Small & medium business), Software & Platform-as-a-Service, Developer Models, B2B/B2C E-commerce, Business Integration, XML, Global Market Development Functional: Product management, business/channel/partner/corporate development, market & strategic analysis