In 2022 MitchelLake successfully completed a global executive search for no-code design software unicorn Canva. Canva was seeking a divisional General Manager based in Sydney.
Explore Canva on Linkedin: “Before Canva, creating a professional-looking design was a complex process – you had to purchase expensive software; learn how to use it; purchase stock photography and fonts for the software; decide on a layout; slice images; receive photos and content via email; design something; upload and email the pdf only to find revisions needed to be made … and then finally be able to prepare your design for web or print. Since launching in August 2013, Canva has been changing the way in which we communicate. Today our design tool has attracted over 60 million happy users across 190 countries, who have collectively created more than 7 billion designs. With an integrated marketplace that has both free and paid stock photography, fonts, illustrations, and thousands of templates; a paid subscription that offers the ability to set up a brand kit so users can save their brand colors, fonts, and assets, and ensure consistency across their designs; and a print service that gives our users the ability to produce professional prints in a variety of formats and sizes, delivered straight to their doorstep – Canva is disrupting the way we design.”
Contact MitchelLake to find out more about our experience in Executive Search for Online Software, SaaS, no-code design tools and marketplaces
MitchelLake was commissioned by the founders of Biteable to execute a global executive search for a Chief Executive Officer with global scale-up experience in a B2C & B2B venture context. Biteable is the market-leading no-code tool for creators, educators, individuals, and organizations who want to harness the power of Video to enhance storytelling for learning, sales, and engagement.
Biteable in the Media, PR-Newswire: Video Platform Biteable raises $7 Million Series A financing led by Cloud Apps Capital Partners
“Video is the most powerful communication medium we have ever seen. The events of 2020 have made that abundantly clear. Yet, video creation is cited as the number one creative bottleneck for most organizations looking to make videos for marketing and internal communications. Biteable helps open up the bottleneck. We could not be more excited to partner with cloud business experts like Matt and his team at Cloud Apps Capital as we expand to help more customers.” Brent Chudoba, Biteable CEO
Explore Biteable on Linkedin: “Biteable enables anyone to put their message in motion.
Our wonderfully simple platform empowers millions of people – from entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies – to engage their audience with video.
Struggling to get through to your employees? Biteable Teams make reaching your people easier. Turn your most important messages into impactful videos that you can share and track with a single link.
Biteable Teams includes access to:
– Exclusive template packs for your core communications
– 30-day customer success program
– Early access to every new feature
– Dedicated support whenever you need it
Contact MitchelLake to enquire about Executive Search for Chief Executive or other critical Leadership team hires to support your ambitions for global growth and international markets.
In 2021 MitchelLake helped establish a world-class leadership team executing a major program of Executive Search for Web3 company Immutable. Building a hypergrowth, global technology venture is an epic challenge, building a Web3 Unicorn even more so, but scaling a great team and maintaining a great culture is what engenders sustainable success. We partnered with Immutable to identify and appoint a Chief People Office with the experience, empathy, and drive required to help navigate a venture from early-stage to a multinational organisation with a focus on community, diversity, and excellence.
Media Coverage from Business Insider:
“Katherine Rau joins Immutable as its Chief People Officer, another newly created role as the company looks to rapidly scale up. She brings extensive experience building and developing leading teams in the tech sector.
Katherine joins Immutable from Culture Amp, where she was Global Vice President of People and Experience. She has previously led talent acquisition and culture across leading businesses such as Unlockd and Catch.com.au.”
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About Immutable: We are making digital worlds real. Immutable is advancing the world of NFTs through Immutable X, an industry-leading NFT minting and trading platform, and Immutable Studios, an NFT game development studio.
Contact us about Executive search for Web3 Ventures
In 2022 MitchelLake successfully executed a regional executive search for travel-tech startup Travlr. Travlr were seeking a growth-experienced Chief Financial Officer to join their leadership team.
TRAVLR is a technology provider that consolidates the global travel industry into one seamless platform via its unique ‘Travel as a Service’ (TaaS) model. Travlr licenses its full-service travel platform to the world’s leading companies and brands, enabling its audiences to discover, plan and book curated once-in-a-lifetime travel experiences. This enables companies to directly engage with new and existing audiences, retaining them within their ecosystem for longer, developing a new revenue stream, and capturing behavioral data that would otherwise be lost to other distribution channels. This unique ‘win-win-win model’ benefits all key stakeholders including consumers, companies, and the travel industry, who have traditionally experienced a fragmented travel booking journey across multiple platforms and providers.
TRAVLR’s mission is to create the world’s leading travel platform and forever change the way people dream of, plan, and experience travel, encouraging them to focus on the quality of an experience curated by their favorite brands. Current partners include Network 10, MTV, Bali Bible, and Stuff.co.nz. TRAVLR was founded in 2017 by Bali Bible founders Simon and Lani te Hennepe and has strategically located offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, and Denpasar.
Contact us to enquire about an executive search in travel-tech, or startup and scaleup experienced leadership
ASX Listed sports technology venture Catapult Sports International successfully partnered with MitchelLake to execute their executive search for a global CEO. Catapult was looking to appoint a commercially-minded, globally-experienced Chief Executive Officer to lead the company’s operations, leverage the credibility of the product, and develop, design, and deliver the company’s next stage of growth by capitalizing fully on the company’s market opportunities. The role oversaw a team of 360 based across the US, Australia, and the UK, comprising technology, sales, customer support, marketing, and admin.
Read the full ASX Announcement of this placement: “The Board of Catapult Group International Limited (ASX:CAT, ‘Catapult’ , or ‘the Company’) is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Will Lopes as Chief Executive Officer, commencing 11th November, 2019. As the former Chief Revenue Officer of Amazon subsidiary Audible, Mr. Lopes brings world-class technology and growth experience from one of the world’s most successful technology businesses. With the North American and European markets comprising the majority of Catapult’s revenue, Mr. Lopes will relocate from New York and be based out of Catapult’s Boston office.”
Explore Catapult Sports on Linked: “Catapult exists to unleash the potential of every athlete and team on earth. Operating at the intersection of sports science and analytics, Catapult products are designed to optimize performance, avoid injury, and quantify return to play. Catapult has over 400 staff based across 24 locations worldwide, working with more than 3,200 elite teams in 137 countries globally. To learn more about Catapult and to inquire about accessing performance analytics for a team or athlete, visit us at catapultsports.com. Catapult Group International Limited (CAT) is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.”
Contact MitchelLake to enquire about global executive search for chief executive officer and other executive leadership hires for fast growth sports technology ventures.
In 2021 MitchelLake executed a Board Director search for ASX-listed Global IoT and Analytics business Catapult Sports.
Discover more about Catapult Sports in Linkedin: “Catapult exists to unleash the potential of every athlete and team on earth. Operating at the intersection of sports science and analytics, Catapult products are designed to optimize performance, avoid injury, and quantify return to play. Catapult has over 400 staff based across 24 locations worldwide, working with more than 3,200 elite teams in 137 countries globally. To learn more about Catapult and to inquire about accessing performance analytics for a team or athlete, visit us at catapultsports.com. Catapult Group International Limited (CAT) is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.”
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