Gerry Colyer

Co-founder | CEO

Clara

Jan 2020 - Current (6 years 10 months)

Clara is the leading solution in Latin America for companies to make and manage all their payments. The Clara platform includes locally-issued corporate credit cards, domestic and international transfers, and proprietary real-time expense management software.

Launched in 2021, Clara today operates local payment solutions in Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia and is the fastest-growing solution of its kind in each of these three countries. We also operate a spend management platform available to our customers globally.

Clara's backers include regional VCs like monashees, Kaszek, and Canary, as well as global investors such as Notable Capital, Coatue, DST Global Partners, ICONIQ Growth, General Catalyst, Citi Ventures, SV Ang

VP Revenue

Grow Mobility

Jan 2019 - Apr 2020 (1 year 4 months)

- Responsible for ideating, analyzing and executing initiatives to maximize revenue
- Identified and successfully executed on billing fix that grew yearly revenue by $1.5m USD annually
- Developed market and competitive intelligence team, supporting our ops teams to expand market share
- Oversee the financial side of key partnerships (e.g. Rappi)
- Fixed revenue reconciliation and reporting; implemented Simetrik

Chief Growth Officer

Grin Scooters

Sep 2018 - Apr 2020 (1 year 8 months)

- Joined via acquihire when company had 50 scooters on the street; grew to operating in 7 countries, 25+ cities, and regional leadership (60% of all regional micro-mobility rides)
- Organized recruiting process (introducing first ATS and structured interview processes) and recruited senior leaders including multiple country managers
- Developed company's first expansion playbook and led first expansions on the ground
- Oversaw analysis of expansion targets and strategy
- Introduced analytics tools at the company and created KPI dashboards for city/regional leaders
- Worked jointly with product team to solve scalability roadblocks

Co-Founder

Uva Scooters

Jan 2018

Acquired by Grin Scooters

Head of Growth

Siftery

Jan 2016 - Jan 2018 (2 years 1 month)

- Initiated engagement with G2.com CEO, leading to Siftery's acquisition
- Negotiated partnership with Crunchbase to include Siftery tech graph data on company profiles and data marketplace

- At Siftery, I led a cross-functional and geographically-distributed team to develop products, marketing initiatives, and partnerships to growth on company KPIs. My team was responsible for the company's customer lifecycle from awareness through revenue.

Our product launches include those listed here:
https://www.producthunt.com

VP Growth

HealthSherpa

Jan 2015 - Jan 2016 (1 year 1 month)

On a mission to help 1 million people sign up for ACA-compliant health insurance by the end of the year.

Director of Business Development

HealthSherpa

Jan 2015

Summer Fellow

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Jun 2014 - Sep 2014 (4 months)

Co-Founder & CEO

Closer Labs Inc Spiral App

Jan 2014 - Jan 2015 (1 year 1 month)

Closer Labs, Inc. (Spiral App) - Acquired by Taringa.net

Landing page: getspiralapp.com, closerlabs.com

Co-Founder

Cuponzotecom

Jan 2010 - Jan 2013 (3 years 1 month)

Group buying platform started in Mexico, expanded to Chile and Colombia. Endless lessons learned.

Awards/Recognitions
// E100 - Top 100 Entrepreneurs (2x)
// CNN Expansión (México) - Top Web Entrepreneur (2012)
// Startup Chile Graduate

Associate Consultant

Bain Company

Jan 2010 - Jan 2012 (2 years 1 month)

Projects in private equity, financial services, airlines, CPG, and agriculture
Results Challenge winning team (Bain South, 2011)

Summer Associate

The Boston Consulting Group

Jun 2008 - Aug 2008 (3 months)

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Director - Product

PickTeams

Jan 2007 - Jan 2010 (3 years 1 month)

PickTeams was a leading platform for online games played on teams, consisting of GoCrossCampus, the top college gaming site, and several other gaming properties.

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