Marc Schneider

Statusphere is a creator infrastructure platform that automates influencer marketing end to end, from creator matchmaking and product fulfillment to content approvals and analytics. Brands can activate thousands of creators, eliminate manual workflows, and consistently produce high-performing user-generated content at scale. At the core of the platform is StevieOps™, our AI campaign operator, which manages creator sourcing, fulfillment, contracts, usage rights, and reporting. StevieOps leverages more than 300 first-party data points and campaign performance insights to continuously optimize campaigns and make each one more effective over time. Unlike platforms that provide tools and leave execution to the brand, Statusphere delivers guaranteed content at scale. This approach helps consumer brands across beauty, CPG, food and beverage, and home goods turn influencer marketing into a predictable growth channel that is faster, safer, and more cost-effective than managing it in-house.

I teach Principles of Marketing within the College of Business and Economics, providing students with a comprehensive foundation in marketing strategy, consumer behavior, market research, branding, and digital marketing. My approach emphasizes real-world applications, leveraging case studies, industry insights, and hands-on projects to equip students with the skills needed for today's dynamic business landscape. With a background in venture-backed startups, eCommerce, fintech, SaaS, and strategic growth, I bring practical experience to the classroom, helping students bridge the gap between theory and practice. I am committed to fostering critical thinking, data-driven decision-making, and creative problem-solving among future business leaders.

KSS is a B2B company that exclusively partners with its clients to support their employee rewards, voluntary benefits, and internally sponsored strategic buying programs.

Ulu Ventures is the first and largest Latina-led seed-stage venture fund in Silicon Valley investing in women, minority, and diverse entrepreneurial teams. The firm has designed its investment process to reduce risk and produce better, more consistent returns. Ulu’s process structures intuition and applies it intelligently to investments, avoiding cognitive biases common in VC; systematically identifies key drivers of risk and uncertainty, streamlining due diligence; and calculates a probability-weighted multiple (PWM) on invested capital, ensuring consistent decision-making. As a Venture Operating Partner at Ulu Ventures, I focus on providing strategic and operational support to early-stage portfolio companies. My key areas of expertise include founder support, operational scaling, business transformation, and fundraising strategy. I work closely with founders to address critical challenges, optimize business models, and prepare for subsequent funding rounds, ensuring alignment with Ulu's mission to drive impactful and scalable innovation.

As an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Ulu Ventures, I evaluated and supported the development of innovative business opportunities. My focus included assessing a crypto hedge fund and exploring the creation of a secondary market for illiquid assets. Leveraging my expertise in market analysis, financial modeling, and operational scalability, I provided strategic insights to identify growth potential and mitigate risks, aligning with Ulu's mission of fostering transformative, high-impact ventures.

Zebit is an eCommerce and fintech company that is dedicated to changing the lives of over 100 million U.S. credit-challenged consumers by giving them access to a broad set of products and the ability to pay for those products in instalments over six months. Zebit was founded in 2015 and operates in all 50 States across the U.S. I founded the business as a spin-off from Gain Credit, creating a unique e-commerce platform offering a buy-now, pay-over-time model with no interest, hidden fees, or penalties. This innovative approach provided credit-challenged consumers with a fair alternative to predatory financial options. Taking a hands-on role, I built a 50-strong team and led the development of proprietary data warehouses, systems, and infrastructure, scaling the company from a start-up to a publicly listed entity. I overcame numerous challenges in a highly competitive market, developing a sustainable business model that empowered financially underserved consumers to access a wide range of previously unattainable financial products. Under my leadership, Zebit solidified its position as a market leader, successfully navigating multiple fundraising rounds, culminating in an IPO on the Australian Stock Exchange. I was honored to be named the 2022 Best CEO in San Diego by the San Diego Tribune, and Zebit was consistently recognized as one of the Best Places to Work from 2016–2019 and again in 2021–2022.

Gain Credit is a fintech company that combines superior analytics to build and offer innovative financial services credit products to the under-banked communities across the world. Gain has operating capabilities in India, the UK, and the U.S. Websites include https://www.gaincredit.com/ and www.lendingstream.co.uk. Appointed to diversify Gain’s lending operations and navigate the business through significant compliance changes driven by tightening UK regulatory reforms, I held full P&L, OPEX, and CAPEX accountability. I guided the organization toward stability through decisive action, overseeing deliverables across 12 senior leaders spanning operations, underwriting, legal, compliance, customer service, accounting, and finance. During a challenging regulatory transition, I ensured operations remained compliant while driving diversification and enhancing revenue streams. I successfully launched a new product offering tailored to higher credit-quality customers and implemented a comprehensive restructuring initiative that reduced costs. This included a thorough review and renegotiation of IT and data contracts, alongside strengthened customer acquisition processes. Critically, Gain Credit was the only company in its sector to avoid sanctions or fines during the transition from OFT to FCA regulation, a testament to the robust compliance measures and strategic leadership I delivered.

Founded in 2010, Zulily is one of the fastest growing eCommerce private event sales sites that focuses on the babies, moms and kids market. Day-to-day oversight of operations for a venture-backed e-commerce start-up, including hiring and managing >150 people. I built company processes and departments from scratch, including customer service, fulfillment, merchandising operations, event management, website and engineering, grew the company to 9 figures of ARR and drove a successful exit.

Ecommerce retailer (formerly Provide Commerce) of perishable and specialty gifting items; $600M+ subsidiary of Liberty Media Interactive with greater than 400 employees. This role provided me with valuable turnaround experience in enhancing and scaling call center operations. I successfully led the transformation of the call center, expanding daily operations from 300 employees to 3,000 during peak holiday periods. Additionally, I drove several strategic e-commerce acquisitions, including Bodybuilding.com and Personal Creations. Notably, I led the acquisition of RedEnvelope.com out of bankruptcy, fully integrated its operations, and achieved EBITDA-positive results within six months.

A multi-disciplinary professional services firm focused on corporate governance, restructurings and turnarounds headed by former SEC Chairman Richard C. Breeden. The firm also operated an activist hedge fund.

$500M investment banking and private equity firm based in Washington, D.C.