Andrew Lacy
Australian, alumni of Stanford Business School. Hands on experience business building of several internet and enterprise start-ups in Australia, India and US in internet and bioscience areas. Current interests in consumer and enterprise collabor...
| Headline: | Startup Member |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Industries: | Gaming, Information Technology |
| Skills: | Marketing, Viral marketing |
| Location: | Palo Alto, California |
| Groups: | BASES, Stanford C.S. and E.E Engineers Group |
| Interested in: | Finding engineers, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Stanford University |
FULL BIO
Australian, alumni of Stanford Business School. Hands on experience business building of several internet and enterprise start-ups in Australia, India and US in internet and bioscience areas. Current interests in consumer social applications. Enjoy adventure travel, snowboarding and running
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | McKinsey & Company, Inc. |
| Position: | Project Manager |
| Time period: | January 2006 - December 2008 |
| Description: | Led McKinsey and client teams in structuring and solving problems, conducted analyses (including market sizing and financial modeling), formulated recommendations, prepared and made presentations, implemented change programs.
Served clients in Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK, Spain, Brazil, China and India. Responsibilities included: • Technology business building and venture capital: • Designed and managed development of an online personal wealth business. Performed market research to understand customer needs, developed product specifications and IT requirements, and set revenue projections. • Brought together a consortium of large NZ companies to form a US$300m e-procurement hub. Developed the business plan, including the customer offer, competitive analysis, pricing and management reporting system. • Advised a global telco on technological and business-system changes to improve enterprise-wide collaboration • Led the development of an online Indian agricultural trading portal. Managed outsourced software developers, developed pass-through pricing system, negotiated technology agreements and hired management team. • Designed the corporate governance, funding mechanisms and organization structure for a US$220m corporate venture capital arm for a large Australian financial institution. Managed the review of the first round of pitches. • Provided advice to a US$140m listed investment trust on potential investments in media and entertainment sectors, likely acquisition prices, and internal rates of return on those investments. • Authored several internal McKinsey knowledge documents on technology venture design and nanotechnology. • Operations and strategy: • Lead the post merger management of IT systems (over 18 systems including yield optimization, pricing, ticketing, flight operations, and critical maintenance systems) of two European airlines • Led a client team of five to design and implement a sales monitoring system to optimize pricing across a national salesforce at a large construction company • Led a large client team to overhaul pricing, purchasing, logistics and organization processes, successfully turning around an insolvent Australian agricultural company with revenues of US$350m. • Managed a large client team at an Australian bank to realize US$450m over 3 years, primarily through initiatives targeting performance management, pricing levels, and sales channel management. • Worked directly with senior management at an investment bank to identify and generate over US$150m in new revenue through implementing proactive performance metrics and coverage models for its salesforce. |
| Employer: | Amazon.com |
| Position: | Product manager intern |
| Time period: | January 2004 - December 2004 |
| Description: | Managed the implementation of a new strategy for dynamic customer service segmention at Amazon.com |
| Employer: | Commonwealth Scientific Research Organization |
| Position: | Product Manager |
| Time period: | January 2003 - December 2003 |
| Description: | • Conceived and launched a cross-organization technology platform to revolutionalize a $500m IP sales process.
• Managed a cross-functional team of software developers, marketers, lawyers and senior scientists. • Worked with senior scientists to identify and develop technology-based business and product opportunities across an extremely broad range of scientific areas (eg. Plant Genetics, Bioremediation and Bioprocessing). |
| Employer: | Freeonline.com.au |
| Position: | Product marketing manager |
| Time period: | January 1999 - December 1999 |
| Description: | Designed marketing and product strategy for Australia tertiary students at this Internet service provider. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2003 - 2005 |
| Degree: | MBA |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Enjoy triathlons, hiking, scuba diving and squash |
Andrew's Startups (2)
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Gogo apps, Inc
Creating fun, social applications for the iPhone and next generation mobile platforms
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Tapulous, Inc.
Tapulous is a Palo Alto-based company that makes iPhone applications with over 6 million users and the #1 game on the iPhone App Store for 2008.
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Eve Phillips
Entrepreneur. Co-founder of Empower, creator of online self-help tools. Previous experience includes a mix of investing and ops roles at Greylock, Chirp, Zazzle, Trilogy, Microsoft, & Vector Capital. MBA from Stanford, M.Eng & BS from MIT.
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Paul Joseph
Indian 23, Grad in Computer Application. Been with Web design and dev for 6yrs.
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Eric Kerr
19 year old in love with technology and startups. Moving to SF to play to take a stab at it myself.
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Avish Dahiya
Global Software & New Media Entreprenuer President, DNA Global Network Inc. (Global Sourcing, Program Management, Management Consulting & Research)