matt allison

Responsible for maximizing shareholder value while also maximizing the satisfaction of our customers & employees.

BrioBody helped companies decrease healthcare costs and maximize employee health through its employee health analytics software. We won a national best business idea competition called IdeaBlob and raised an additional $35k. During the 4 years of this company, I lived off about $12k/year, lived in guest bedrooms and basements, worked landscaping, construction, roofing, concrete, home remodeling jobs, and even worked as a sushi chef to keep the dream alive. We worked tirelessly for 4 years, learned a ton of lessons, and ultimately shut the business down in July 2012.

Responsible for product vision, product framework, and most importantly, delivering a highly valuable product to our customers. Responsibilities included product design of the full base platform and subsequent features, roadmap, internal and external messaging, internal and external training, feature usage discovery and analysis, and going from concept to deployment of key features like data visualizations and interactions, interactive reports, Google Analytics integration, Adobe Analytics integration, Social Amplification, and PR Attribution.

Springboard, CONNECT's flagship program, is a business creation and development program. Innovators at all stages from lab to global bridges receive hands-on mentoring by successful CEOs, CFOs and CMOs in Springboard's Entrepreneurs-in-Residence Program.

Built our Customer Success team from scratch and ran it up to about 50+ customers, before handing off to our VP Customer Success, Tracey Kaufman.

Xoobly was a Reading, Pennsylvania based start-up created in 2012. We helped employers create successful incentive programs by incentivizing their employees with products and services they want. We worked with local vendors to provide offerings on health and beauty services, gas and groceries, restaurant food, entertainment, sports events and leisure activities, travel, and other miscellaneous products and services. We also provided an incentive option for employees to donate to charities both locally and across the globe.

Meltwater is a global leader in Software as a Service (SaaS) and winner of the 2010 Global Red Herring Award. At Meltwater I was personally responsible for driving the full sales cycle from prospecting to closing. I developed and nurtured client relationships with CEO’s and top executives in organizations ranging from Fortune 100 companies to small non-profits.

TrendKite revolutionizes how the world's biggest brands and media companies measure the impact of their PR campaigns.The TrendKite platform allows PR professionals to hone in on important coverage with single-click filters, and produces interactive reports, so they can benchmark against competitors, report the impact of campaigns, and quickly respond to crises. The product has more than 500 clients, including Nike, Campbell Soup, PepsiCo, Hershey's, Asana, Squarespace, Prosek, and Tealium.We're building a great company, one amazing employee at a time.Think you got game? Check out our careers page: www.trendkite.com/careers

Twenty-four campuses; 17,000 faculty and staff; 100,000 students; a teaching hospital that provides care to more than a million patients a year; over one-half million active alumni; an online World Campus that empowers anyone to pursue an education—anytime, anywhere; and the largest student-run philanthropic organization on the planet. Success with honor. Activities and Societies: Varsity Track and Field, Volleyball, PSEN (Penn State Entrepreneurship Network), Penn State Finance Club, THON