Eric Wittman

About Eric

Experience

1. 

   Full-time · 4 yrs 2 mos

   • Chief Executive Officer

     Sep 2023 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos·San Francisco Bay Area·Current
2. 

   RAPIDFORT

   • Investor

     Feb 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos·Current
3. 

   Pocus · Full-time

   • Investor

     Jun 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos·Current

     The first Product-Led Sales platform designed for the modern sales team.

4. 

   Arcade · Full-time

   • Investor

     Apr 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos·Current

     Empowering product-led companies to build beautiful experiences that demonstrate product value faster.

5. 

   LaunchNotes

   • Investor

     Aug 2020 - Present · 5 yrs·Current

     Single-source for keeping teams aligned on product changes LaunchNotes raises a $1.8M seed round to help companies communicate their software updates

6. 

   Duro Labs

   • Investor

     Jul 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 1 mo·Current

     Duro's Cloud PLM Hits Onshape App Store

7. 

   Maze

   • Investor

     Sep 2019 - Present · 5 yrs 11 mos·Current

     The most effective, design-centric platform for user testing. Maze raises $2 million and adds Figma support to enable user testing at scale

8. 

   Facet

   • Investor

     Jul 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 1 mo·San Francisco, California, United States·Current

     Facet is a content-aware image editor for crafting stunning visual stories. Unmask your creativity

9. 

   Webflow

   • Investor

     Jul 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 1 mo·San Francisco Bay Area·Current

     Leader of the #NOCODE movement. Webflow gives you the power to design, build, and launch responsive websites visually, while writing clean, semantic code for you.

10. 

    Linear

    • Investor

      May 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 3 mos·San Francisco Bay Area·Current

      Intuitive issue tracking optimized for speed

11. 

    Platform.sh

    • Investor

      Sep 2018 - Present · 6 yrs 11 mos·Paris·Current

      Modern Cloud Application Platform (look out Heroku!)

12. 

    Sentry (sentry.io)

    • Investor

      Jul 2016 - Present · 9 yrs 1 mo·San Francisco Bay Area·Current

      Sentry raises $16M Series B from NEA and Accel to help developers squash bugs more quickly

13. 

    Full-time · 4 yrs 2 mos

    • President

      Jun 2021 - Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos·San Francisco Bay Area

      VSCO Careers

14. 

    Full-time · 2 yrs 5 mos

    • Chief Revenue Officer, JLL Technologies

      Mar 2020 - May 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Oversee Growth for the JLL Spark Global Venture fund and all aspects of go to market and services for JLL Technologies.

    • Chief Growth Officer, JLL Spark

      Jan 2019 - May 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Built out growth platform for JLL Spark, a $100M+ global venture fund for JLL focused on proptech investments.

15. S

    Sapling (acquired by Kallidus)

    • Investor

      May 2017 - Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 8 mos·San Francisco Bay Area
16. 

    Figma

    • COO

      Jan 2017 - Jul 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos·San Francisco Bay Area

      Worked with a bunch of modest, over-achievers who are solving the collaboration problems teams face building well-designed software. Took a great product and built a great business around it. Built out business side of company including hiring functional leaders for product marketing, recruiting, people operations, finance, business operations, business development, and sales (customer success / account management). Built out and implemented initial go to market and growth strategy. Paired with co-Founder/CEO to close a successful $25M Series B raise. Defined and launched paid offering adopted by over 2000 customers in less than a year including Microsoft, Uber, Airbnb, Delta Airlines, Slack, and The New York Times and over 7+ figures in ARR. New faces at the Figma helm – Figma Design

17. 

    Loom

    • Investor

      Sep 2016 - Nov 2023 · 7 yrs 3 mos·San Francisco

      Why Slack And General Catalyst Just Backed Video Platform Loom In $4 Million Round

18. S

    SourceClear (acquired by CA Technologies)

    • Board Member

      Mar 2016 - Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos·San Francisco Bay Area

      CA Technologies Acquires SourceClear, Advancing SCA Capabilities for a DevSecOps World

19. 

    Atlassian

    • General Manager, Developer Tools

      Dec 2013 - Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos·San Francisco Bay Area

      Ran the Developer Tools business unit consisting of award winning products Bitbucket, SourceTree, Bamboo, FishEye and Crucible. Responsible for setting the overall strategy for the business, overseeing the full P&L and directly running product marketing, developer advocacy, product management and engineering. Keynote: Atlassian for Software Teams - Atlassian Summit 2015

20. 

    2 yrs 6 mos

    • CEO

      Jun 2012 - Oct 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos·San Francisco Bay Area

      Responsible for driving the strategy, vision and creation of a next generation social music experience - Songbird.me.

    • SVP of Product at Songbird

      May 2011 - Jul 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos·San Francisco Bay Area

      Heading up Strategy, Product Management and Engineering for next generation music experience company Songbird.

21. 

    15 yrs 3 mos

    • Head of Platform Services

      Nov 2009 - May 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Formed and led product development division responsible for the creation of new services for developers enabling them to more rapidly build, distribute and monetize applications created on the Adobe Flash Platform. Concurrently grew application distribution business to $XXXM/annum in revenue.

    • Director of Platform Distribution and Business Development

      Dec 2007 - Nov 2009 · 2 yrs

      Upon completion of successful three year expatriate term based in Paris, France, oversaw Adobe’s strategic business initiatives surrounding the distribution and revenue for Adobe’s Reader, Flash and new AIR runtime platforms.

    • Director of Business Development, Mobile and Devices

      Jan 2006 - Nov 2007 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Oversee and manage business development activities for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for Adobe's Mobile and Devices Business Unit.

    • Director, Communications Solutions

      Oct 2004 - Dec 2005 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Oversee and manage the Macromedia Communications business for EMEA based in Paris, France. Areas of focus include working with large Telecommunications operators, negotiating and managing ISP/Hosting partnerships, architecting streaming media solutions large European broadcasters, overseeing strategic growth businesses in e-learning and webconferencing. Grew business over 300% in under 12 months.

    • Major Accounts Director

      Mar 2002 - Sep 2004 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Managed leading contribution of direct sales revenue, field activities and customer relationships for the Silicon Valley, Rocky Mountain and Southern California regions: - increase significant revenue contributions in existing top Macromedia accounts - top sales ranking in North America for Macromedia’s fiscal year 2003 (135% of quota) and fiscal year 2004 (157% of quota) - top worldwide revenue producer for newly introduced product, Macromedia Breeze, in fiscal year 2004 - work closely with product divisions on future developments

    • Director of Product Management, Macromedia Flash Products

      Mar 2000 - Mar 2002 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Transformed acquired animation technology, FutureSplash Animator, to Macromedia Flash, the company’s second best selling product and prominent strategic platform technology: - responsible for Flash authoring and Flash Player businesses strategy - built and oversee team of seven professionals: product managers, product marketing managers and product designers - manage entire business process for the product line: budgeting, sales revenue forecasting, marketing, head count, contractors, etc. - chair product strategy committee affecting all Flash related businesses - grew customer base from 100K to more than 1.3M within a three-year period, increased product line revenue growth 377% during that same period - expanded global market by localizing Flash in eleven languages, thereby growing non-US business from 11% to 48% - oversaw company’s biggest ever product launch, Flash MX

    • Senior Product Manager, Macromedia Flash

      Mar 1998 - Mar 2000 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Defined strategy, feature planning through launch for Macromedia Flash authoring and player through three successful product releases, Macromedia Flash 3, 4 and 5: - facilitated relationships with key partners — Microsoft, Netscape, RealNetworks, AOL, and Apple — to utilize and include Macromedia Flash Player technology within their key web browsers, operating systems and media players - managed external communications with press, developers and strategic partners - oversaw creation of key marketing materials including reviewer’s guides, direct mail, online advertising and website - served as company spokesman for product line on TV, radio, and industry conferences. - presented to key press, industry analysts and financial analysts including Jupiter, Gartner Group, Yankee Group, Forester, Saloman Smith Barney, Piper Jaffray, Morgan Stanley - developed and spoke at conference session tracks for Flashforward, Macromedia Web World, and Macromedia UCON conferences.

    • Multimedia & Web Technologies Specialist

      Mar 1996 - Mar 1998 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Key role within the sales organization to communicate and evangelize Macromedia Director and Shockwave worldwide: - wrote product and feature specification documents that contributed to product development process for Director and Shockwave - worked with corporate account reps on Fortune 100 corporate accounts - exceeded quota and objectives consistently over eight quarters - developed the competitive analysis of FutureWave Software, developer of Future Splash Animator, that led to their eventual acquisition and creation of Macromedia Flash

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