Avi Pollock

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ABOUT AVI POLLOCK

I am a seasoned executive and start-up leader currently running a consulting firm to help high growth technology businesses achieve their potential through go-to-market disciplines and operational excellence. Services include:• Business Operations Strategy, Planning and Execution including financial planning, strategy development, corporate development and business operations optimization• Go-to- market, channel development and partnership strategies and execution• Building and scaling a successful Customer organization - Services, Success, Support My 20+ year career has been split evenly between leading, scaling and advising entrepreneurial, growth-oriented companies and as an executive leading innovation, strategy and P & Ls at large companies. Having leadership experience in both start-up environments and at large companies has given me a unique perspective on how to blend the best of both worlds to make businesses successful. I have been fortunate to have participate in multiple exits and acquisitions over the course of my career most recently as President of Grapevine6, a high growth SaaS company that I helped lead through to a sale to Seismic, a unicorn and leader in Sales Enablement Software.Some highlights from my career include:• Growing and scaling an enterprise SaaS company by 10x over 3 years leading to a sale of the firm to a strategic buyer at a market leading multiple of revenue providing significant returns to the shareholder Founders and employees• Building and scaling a technology services business from $4MM to $30MM and managing through a sale to a public company• Leading a ~$300MM division of a public fintech company including 3 lines of business and product areas. • Acting as advisor and in interim executive roles for early stage and growth companies leading go-to-market, international expansion, M&A advisory and as interim COO.• Spearheading the enterprise innovation team at RBC through multiple business cycles with initiatives to drive a culture of innovation, launching 20-30 pilots annually with many progressing to production, and championing RBC as an innovative organization through competitions and hackathons like the Next Great Innovator Challenge• Leading technology strategy for RBC including all board materials, alignment of business strategy and technology strategy as part of the annual planning process and specialized strategies e.g. payments, risk, security, mobile, social, digital, analytics