Jesse Owens

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About Jesse Owens

Senior Growth leader with a track record of scaling companies from the early days to international hyper-growth. As an early hire at Deliveroo, I was part of the team that helped blitzscale the UK market. With experience in Series A-F rounds across 3 different consumer marketplaces, I am now helping startups with launch and growth strategy, whilst also getting my hands dirty with brand, marketing, operations, partnerships, and revenue generation. I'm currently building Bloomin, a community-centric wellness brand where we aim to bring sustainable balance to the day-to-day lives of our users by providing the highest-quality, natural, and most effective functional mushroom remedies to combat stress, fatigue, and the draining concerns of modern living. Recent Case Studies Bloomin - Acquired customers within the first six months of trading - Established three distribution channels covering D2C, Wholesale, and Retail - First-order profitability achieved within two months post launch - Achieved market-leading retention rate within the category of 64% M1 to M2 - Initial seed round achieved Deliveroo - Achieved 400% growth across a year in the South West region resulting in a successful series C round - Ownership of overall GTM strategy for Deliveroo Editions, launching 13 cities in a year - Built the hyperlocal marketing playbook ensuring we could launch over 100 new markets within a year to enable us to run national TV advertising Escape Records - Advised on the launch strategy for 8 x UK festivals totalling GMV of £10m+- Established a European travel arm of the business launching new products in Amsterdam, Malta and the Alps - Transformed a loss-making event from £-700k in Y1 to £600k profit in Y2