Rob Solomon

Electric Aviation, Marketplace + Consumer Internet executive and investor with 20 years of experience, including CEO, President/COO, general management, business operations, product management, product development, business development, M&A, strategy and launching new brands.Currently CEO of Swiss propulsion battery leader H55. Previously served as, Chairman & CEO at GoFundMe; Venture Partner at Accel Partners; President & COO at Groupon responsible for Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Operations & International; Venture Partner at Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), one of the largest and most successful growth equity tech-focused VC firms with $12 billion under management.Early stage investor In Slack, Instawork, Uplift, UnifySquare, Okra, Sote, EDO, Pludo, Curbside, Dwellable, Pullstring, Bloomspot, Lore Online, etc.Previously, served as the President and CEO of SIDESTEP, the web's first real-time vertical search engine in the travel category. Led successful turnaround and merger with KAYAK.Prior to SideStep, served in multiple executive management roles at YAHOO including Senior Vice President, Commerce and Vice President/General Manager of the Yahoo Shopping Group responsible for Yahoo's Shopping, Travel, Auctions, Classifieds, Real Estate, E-Commerce Hosting and Vertical Product Search businesses.Other roles included product management and marketing at Electronic Arts, Cendant, Golfweb (funded by Redpoint), and Zaplet (funded by Kleiner- Perkins).Rob also competed at a high level in water polo earning All-America honors at UC Berkeley and was a member of two NCAA national championship teams.