London-based entrepreneurial and international senior manager with strong experience developing eCommerce, web and mobile social services with extensive strategic background.
Currently co-founder and CEO at Peak, a VC funded startup developing the next generation mobile cognitive training service.
Prior to Peak, built and sold Kukunu and Scovile, 2 web-services focused on travel and local discovery.
Worked at Visa Europe as Senior Manager of eCommerce products, managing the development of V.me, Visa's new ePayment solutions.
I gained strong web product management experience at Amazon.com where I launched new product lines in the UK and developed France pricing strategy and operations.
I developed a strong strategic background by working 3 years as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group across many industries and practices.
Specialties: eCommerce product development, product management, customer acquisition, viral marketing and social media, strategy and pricing
Co-founder & CEO @ Founded Peak in 2012 and raised more than $10m in VC funding to augment games with sciences and change people's lives with the next generation brain training service. From 2012 to Present (3 years) London, United KingdomDirector @ Provides strategic consulting, including product development, digital strategy, eCommerce, payment and mobile innovation From 2011 to Present (4 years) Co-founder and CEO @ I founded the company, build a web and iOS development team, raised $400k and opened our London office where I ran our product development and marketing and acquired 100,000 users in less than 3 months, leveraging social media to generate viral customer acquisition
We developed a social travel planning platform (Kukunu) that enables travellers to collaboratively plan complex travel itineraries and a social location-based service (Scoville) that empowered our community to share and discover the best places in their city.
We sold the business in 2012 to Rundavoo inc. From 2010 to 2012 (2 years) London, United KingdomSenior Manager - eCommerce products (V.me) @ Responsible for developing VISA eCommerce strategy and implementing new eCommerce platforms:
Developed the product strategy, business case, and operating model of V.me, Visa Europe top 1 priority project
Lead a cross-functional team of 20+ to deliver the user interface, technical back-end, commercial framework, and fraud risk scoring engine
Developed a thorough analysis and understanding of the current and future ePayments market with a focus on PayPal, Google Checkout, Amazon Payments, Orbiscom, SEPA, and PSD solutions
Built an innovative business and technical model that resulted in 2 patents pending in the EU, UK and US From 2008 to 2009 (1 year) London, United KingdomProduct Manager - Softlines UK @ In charge of Amazon.co.uk Softlines product management:
In charge of pricing strategy and project implementation
Drive key traffic initiatives around SEO, sponsor links and associates
Optimize business processes by designing Excell, Access and SQL tools
Build KPI metrics to drive bottom line
Business owner for global projects impacting UK Softlines stores
Development of new product lines from initial business requirements to detailed specs and product launch:
Sport - Jewellery & Watches - Shoes & Apparel From 2007 to 2008 (1 year) London, United KingdomProduct Manager - Pricing Media FR @ Worked across Product lines to develop pricing strategy and improve pricing operations:
Managed global Amazon projects to improve pricing operations
Coordinated large scale merchandising campaigns and promotions
Built new reporting, KPIs and pricing processes to switch business from a top line to a bottom line focus From 2006 to 2007 (1 year) London, United KingdomSenior Consultant @ Worked on a broad range of topics and industries, in Paris, Lyon, Munich and Brussels From 2003 to 2006 (3 years)
Master, CS and Electronics Engineering @ University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa From 2002 to 2003 Master, CS and Electronics Engineering @ Université libre de Bruxelles From 1998 to 2003 Itamar Lesuisse is skilled in: Product Management, Mobile, Social Media, Viral Marketing, E-commerce, Product Development, Entrepreneur, Product Strategy, Online Marketing, Digital Strategy, Customer Acquisition, Business Strategy, Online Advertising, Entrepreneurship, Mobile Devices