Luke Starbuck

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT LUKE STARBUCK

I am an accomplished executive leader with a 20-year track record of success in business growth, marketing, and operations. My experience ranges from pre-revenue to $Bn+ organizations, leading GTM, Marketing, Sales, and Growth. I have supported multiple Seed and Series A funding rounds as a key executive. I have served as Interim Marketing leader at Education Perfect (KKR), Interim VP Marketing at Symend and Infobip, VP Marketing at Linc Global, VP Growth at Pixel Union (Tiny) and Marketing Community Leader & Growth Architect at Winning By Design, driving growth based on rigorous analysis and tenacious execution. I also served in growth and marketing leadership roles at Mobify (Salesforce).During my tenure as CEO of Campfire Labs, I led the team to grow revenue from launch to $1.5M in under 15 months, serving clients like Dropbox, Asana, RingCentral, Podium, Clearbit, LatticeHQ, Measurabl, and Drift with ACV $34k and margins 60%+, while enabling a global team to earn in their upper 25% percentile. As VP of Marketing for Linc Global, I helped grow revenue 2.8x YoY by acquiring F500 consumer brands as customers. I have also provided strategic guidance for new business founders of 11 companies, leading to funding rounds, acceptance into coveted incubators, millions of active app users, and profitable exits. I led brand, service packaging and productization, pricing strategy, R&D, product, and operations to help Mindeo go from R&D stage to a growing, franchise-based business model, growing T6M revenue avg 375% in 18 months.Given the global impact and threat that climate change presents, I have contributed $300k to climate change research and advocacy.I led the editorial positioning and planning of, and co-authored a bestselling book on brain health (Mindfire), bringing together that last 15 years of research science into a digestible, accessible, and enjoyable-to-read guide that was received with an extremely positive reception by the medical community, and the general public.Throughout my career, I have developed strengths in business growth innovation, complex analysis, and risk mitigation. I have focused on collaborating closely with leaders across all aspects of the business to strategically enable growth and success. My ultimate goal is to leverage my experience to bring effective solutions to markets that impact human health and wellbeing.