We're excited to host Growth Advisor Casey Winters, '13 and Product Director Haris Ikram, '11, for a fireside chat on startups, growth, and building scale in Silicon Valley.
Event Details
We hope you can join us for this informative conversation, followed by drinks and networking.
Speaker Profiles
Casey Winters (Speaker) '13
Scaling & Growth Advisor
Casey Winters is an advisor to top tech companies like Eventbrite, Reddit, Ritual, and Hipcamp. Over the last few years, he has helped companies like Airbnb, Tinder, Thumbtack, Google, and Pocket through growth and scaling challenges. Casey recently was the growth advisor in residence at Greylock Partners, where he worked with companies like GoFundMe, Medium, Redfin, and Figma. Prior to Greylock, Casey led growth at Pinterest, helping kickstart international growth. Pinterest recently crossed over 200 million monthly active users. Yes, those annoying signup prompts are his fault.
Prior to Pinterest, Casey was the first marketer at Grubhub, helping the company grow from 30,000 users to over 3 million by leading acquisition and retention marketing. Casey is responsible for some of Grubhub's worst performing ads, but definitely not its best. Grubhub went public in April 2014 and is now valued at $7.5 billion. Prior to Grubhub, Casey worked in online marketing at Homefinder and Apartments.com. Casey has a BBA in Marketing from Loyola University Chicago and an MBA from Chicago Booth. He blogs, not as well as most, at caseyaccidental.com.
Haris Ikram (Moderator) '11
Sr Director of Product Management, Salesforce
Haris Ikram is a Senior Director of Product Management at Salesforce, where he leads the platform for building rich enterprise websites. Previously, Haris also worked at startups in both the consumer & enterprise spaces, where he led the Product & Growth organizations.