Andrew Lacy

Andrew Lacy

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Founder/CEO
Beverly Hills, California, United States

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  • Prenuvo
    Founder/CEO
    Prenuvo
    Jun 2018 - Current (8 years 4 months)
    On a mission to beat advanced disease by detecting it early when it can be most successfully treated. We use an innovative MRI-based approach that combines hardware, software, innovative calibration and machine learning. We operate across North America and have scanned thousands of patients finding cancers earlier than normal (like pancreatic cancer) or missed on standard screening (like breast cancer). I'm now working on productizing and scaling what we do.
  • azarusio
    Co-founder/Director
    azarusio
    Nov 2017 - Jan 2024 (6 years 3 months)
    Working with Alex and the team to reinvent hardcore Triple AAA gaming for the Twitch, always- connected, always-gaming generation.
  • M
    Investor (and occasional advisor)
    Me Myself And I
    Jun 2015 - Current (11 years 4 months)
    Investments: Starcloud (AI datacenters in space). Arcade (security for AI agents), Rhoda AI (Robotics training), Sygaldry (quantum-accelerated AI servers), Axiom Math (deterministic/math AI), Northwood (ground infrastructure for space missions), Apex (productized satellite platforms), Aalo (modular nuclear power), Vector (electronic warfare), Exowatt (dispatachable energy solutions), Velaura AI (low-power ASIC compute), Machina labs (advanced factory robotics), Forta Health (remote ABA therapy)
    Realized investments: Facebook (IPO), Sketchfab (sold to Epic)
  • Lebara Limited
    Chief Product Officer
    Lebara Limited
    Mar 2015 - Sep 2016 (1 year 7 months)
    Founded 15 years ago Lebara is the leading provider of telecommunication products to migrants and is one of the world's leading migrant brands. I was brought on to lead the company's efforts to further digital its business and to launch new digital products that appeal to the needs of our core migrant customers.

    During the course of 1.5 years I build from scratch the company's product management and design team. We launched Lebara Play (a live TV and VOD service for migrants who want to want content from their homes while living abroad), Lebara Talk (a VOIP service to call family member on their fixed line and mobile phones) and Lebara Money (a innovative mobile and web based money transfer service).

    Along the way I pu
  • Techstars
    Investor
    Techstars
    Jun 2013 - Jun 2021 (8 years 1 month)
    I help with interviewing and selecting startups that enter the program and then provide mentoring and advising to those as they go through it.
  • Sketchfab
    Advisor
    Sketchfab
    Jun 2012 - Jun 2021 (9 years 1 month)
    Sketchfab is a great visionary company creating the youtube for 3D content. I met them in Paris and acted as an advisor/investor in the early days of their launch.
  • Zaptravel
    Founder
    Zaptravel
    Feb 2012 - Sep 2016 (4 years 8 months)
    Zaptravel was a semantic search company, with an initial focus on travel. Eric Schmidt recently started that Google hasn't even begun to solve search because it can answer a question like "i want to go away this weekend to snorkel someplace warm for under 300 euros". Well, that's what Zaptravel did! It was a Kayak for people who don't know the "where" or the "when" and who just want to be delighted by trips that match their interests. We have a long road ahead of us, and are fueled by a core belief that travel needs to be way more customer-centric and personalized than it is today.

    ZapTravel was sold to Lebara in February 2015 and will live on as Lebara Travel, a migrant-focused travel product for getting home to visit your famil
  • L
    Advisor
    Le Camping Startup Accelerator is now NUMA
    Jan 2012
  • The Walt Disney Company
    SVP Disney Mobile
    The Walt Disney Company
    Jul 2010 - Sep 2011 (1 year 3 months)
    I joined Disney after they acquired Tapulous in June 2010. Our remit was to drive a mobile agenda for the Walt Disney Group and to manage the delivery of mobile entertainment and gaming applications across their studios. Some highlights:
    - Worked with other management to define a mobile strategy by combining the overall entertainment roadmap of the Disney group with what we had learned from our years in mobile.
    - Defined a new mobile category that we coined "instant games" and then hired people to deliver titles against this, leading to the launch and commercially successful series of "Where's My Water" titles.
    - Transformed the mobile organization by bringing in new leadership and overhauling many of the system and processes
  • Mobsmith
    Advisor
    Mobsmith
    Jun 2010 - Jul 2012 (2 years 2 months)
    Mobsmith was a super-cool mobile advertising company, ahead of its time in many respects. I helped in their initial drive to a MVP product and was happy for them to become part of the Rubicon Project not long thereafter.
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    Co-founder/COO
    Tapulous Inc
    Feb 2008 - Sep 2011 (3 years 8 months)
    Co-founded this company when we saw the incredible groundswell of interest in apps on the iPhone even before Steve Jobs announced that he would open the platform. Built out our product portfolio and grew to a profitable business that we sold to Disney 2.5 years later. Highlights include:
    - Convincing investors to invest in 'iPhone" mobile at a time when everyone thought we were crazy to not be launching titles on Nokia and Blackberry. Then convincing those investors to stick with us through the financial crisis.
    - Running revenue strategy and optimization and pioneering the vast majority of revenue streams that underpin mobile economics today (advertising, in-app commerce, incentivized app installs, affiliate revenue, sponsored a
  • McKinsey  Company
    Consultant
    McKinsey Company
    Jan 2006 - Jan 2008 (2 years 1 month)
    Led McKinsey and client teams in problem solving, analytics, formulating recommendations, making senior presentations, implementing change programs.

    (1) Business building and venture capital
    ● Business design and launch of an online personal wealth business, a $300m e-procurement hub and an online Indian agricultural trading portal
    ● Advice to telco and banking clients on technological and business-system changes to improve enterprise-wide collaboration
    ● Design and launch of a US$220m corporate venture fund
    ● Advice to clients on potential acquisitions particularly in the media, entertainment and tourism sectors
    ● Authorship of documents on technology venture design and nanotechnology

    (2) Rev
  • Amazoncom
    Product Manager
    Amazoncom
    Jun 2004 - Sep 2004 (4 months)
    Internal product manager responsible to developing a customer segmentation model for fulfilment and service. This was a mid-MBA internship, hence the short stint.
  • C
    Product Manager
    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
    Jan 2003 - Sep 2003 (9 months)
    During a 9 month secondment from McKinsey I was responsible for identifying and commercializing scientific research which meant talking to hundreds of scientists and then trying to figure out if and how their research could lead to commercial applications. I enjoyed it immensely and instilled in me the believe that there is a huge market failure in bringing scientific research to the the market. In the process I also developed an electronic sales and legal system from scratch to support scientists execute licensing and research agreement that would drive over $1 billion in annual sales of R&D services.
  • McKinsey  Company
    Consultant
    McKinsey Company
    Mar 2000 - Jan 2003 (2 years 11 months)
    I worked twice at McKinsey. I have listed my experience further up the page
  • F
    Marketing
    Freeonline
    Jan 1999
    Designed and implemented an approach to signing up university students for whom the prospect of free internet was particularly appealing.
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  • Stanford University Graduate School of Business
    MBA, Leadership
    Stanford University Graduate School of Business
    Jan 2003 - Jan 2005 (2 years 1 month)
    Focus on entrepreneurial studies and softer skills (high performance leadership, interpersonal dynamics).
  • University of Melbourne
    Economics, Finance & Econometrics
    University of Melbourne
    Mar 1994 - Nov 1996 (2 years 9 months)
  • University of Melbourne
    Law (Honors, IP/Patent Law & International Law
    University of Melbourne
    Jan 1994 - Jan 1999 (5 years 1 month)
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    High school, Graduate top of class
    Melbourne High School
    Jan 1990 - Jan 1993 (3 years 1 month)
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