We seek to perfect commerce for buyers and sellers, globally and locally.
Deem is a leading cloud commerce company, delivering Commerce-as-a-Service (CaaS) to a large, diverse ecosystem of customers, merchants, and partners. In the past year, over $6.5 billion in relevant commerce transactions occurred across the Deem network.
Customers who save money with Deem range from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies such as Siemens, MetLife, Goldman Sachs, GSK, and others. Merchants selling on Deem include hyper-local establishments and national brands such as Home Depot and Virgin America. Syndication partners range from innovative start-ups like Foursquare to global leaders such as Microsoft and MasterCard.
Deem is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
It is essential for businesses to manage their cash flow and expenses. Deem at Work is a suite of advanced spend and expense management applications that uses the latest Cloud and Web Services technology to materially lower costs and increase margins. Deem at Work gives business owners and employees discounted prices on everyday necessities, spending analytics, timesaving automation, and the hyper-productive Deem experience.
Deem Offers is a configurable software platform that enables any company to deliver a branded marketing offers and daily deals service to their users. The Deem platform helps companies build stronger relationshipswith their customers by providing the most personalized, relevant, and meaningful shopping experiences possible. Using intelligent technology, Deem drives interactions when it matters most to the buyer. The end result is instant gratification for highly engaged consumers who connect with your brand at an emotional level, leading to long-term loyalty.
The Deem network was built to perfect the relationship between buyer and seller using intelligent technology. This network marks a new era of smart, sustainable customer acquisition and retentionat a fraction of the cost of traditional advertising and promotions. Its a personalized, one-to-one marketplace that is ideal for local, national, and commercial merchants alike. Our web app, Deem Merchant enables you to tap into the Deem network and target new customers in unique ways. Then, using Deem analytics and insights, make ongoing adjustments to maximize your profits.
Patrick Grady is the founder, CEO and chairman of Rearden Commerce. Since the company’s inception, Grady has led Rearden Commerce with a singular vision: to provide the world with a Personal Internet Assistant for work and life that makes people wonder how they ever lived without it. To do this, he created the Rearden Commerce Platform, which connects an ecosystem of partners, more than 160,000 suppliers, and millions of users via the company’s flagship product, the Rearden Personal Assistant.
Grady’s tireless efforts to broaden the Rearden Commerce Platform led to the acquisition of ExpenseWire, the leading on-demand expense management solution, and Global Ground Automation (GGA), the leader in ground transportation reservation automation. Additionally, Grady has spearheaded large-scale strategic agreements with industry leaders such as American Express, JP Morgan Chase, Paychex and others.
Under Grady’s leadership, the Rearden Personal Assistant has received high recognition.
A 30-year travel industry veteran, Tony D’Astolfo has long been considered one of corporate travel’s leading experts. Prior to joining Rearden Commerce, Tony served as Senior Vice President at Sabre-Holdings, where he ran GetThere, Sabre’s online business-to-business e-commerce unit. Tony led GetThere’s penetration into more than 50% of Fortune 200 companies and 67% of the BTN 100, Business Travel News’ roster of companies with the largest annual travel spend.
Prior to GetThere, Tony worked at United Airlines for 19 years. As Corporate Sales Manager in the New York metropolitan area, he and his team grew United’s revenue by over $100 million annually through a targeted, well-executed strategy aimed at the financial services and pharmaceutical industries.
As Chief Technology Officer, Phil Steitz is focused on building a next-generation offers platform for Deem. With 20+ years of experience in business management and technology including solutions development, operations, information security, architecture, strategy and technology finance, Mr. Steitz is driving his team to build the worlds preeminent relevance engine.
Phil joined Rearden Commerce in early 2012, after becoming part of the company’s Technical Advisory Board in May 2011. Prior to Rearden, he served as Chief Information Officer for Barclaycard US, the credit card business of Barclays PLC in the United States, where he was responsible for all technology and information processing systems development and operations. He has also served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for American Express, where he oversaw global technology standards and strategy, enterprise utilities, technology innovation and strategic technology partnerships.
Recognized as a successful leader in the financial services industry, Gary Crittenden has served as a financial manager for a number of international companies. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1979, he began his career in Boston at the international consulting firm Bain & Company. Gary Crittenden later co-founded Bains office in Munich, where he became a partner, and where he worked for five years before eventually leading Bains retail practice area.
Gary Crittenden has also held the title of CFO in a series of increasingly larger companies, starting at Filenes Basement, Sears Roebuck & Co., Monsanto, and for seven years at American Express. In 2007, he became the CFO of Citigroup. He guided the firm through the financial crisis, helped reduce its assets by more than $600 billion, and decreased its employee count by more than 75,000.
In 2009, Mr. Crittenden became a managing partner of HGGC, LLC, eventually becoming chief executive officer of HGGC in 2012.
Rick is an early-stage venture capital investor focused on seed and Series A investments in the Internet, mobile, software and gaming.
He has been a venture capital investor since 1997. He has invested in several successful start-ups, including JustFab, Ipsy, GumGum, Docstoc, Shoedazzle, Verve Mobile, Dermstore, Magma Design, Micromuse, Maverick Networks, Netcontinuum, Trivida and Pulpo Media.
He received a Finance degree from the University of Illinois, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He previously worked at Palomar Ventures, SunAmerica and Milbank Tweed.
At Foundation Captial, Warren focuses primarily on investments in emerging software companies both licensed and software as a service as well as on those in the Cleantech industry. He currently serves on the boards of eMeter.com, Guardian Analytics, InterAct, MarkMonitor, nGenera, Purfresh, Quantivo, Rearden Commerce, SilkRoad Technologies, and Silver Spring Networks.
Catching emerging technologies and superstar entrepreneurs early is Warren’s passion. His close ties with leading universities and research labs give him a window into innovations in their purest form, and he cherishes the chance to work with the smartest minds in business, whether first-timers or Nobel-Prize winners. His involvement with on-demand software companies and Cleantech began years before investing in those areas became a mainstream event.
Fredric W. Harman, Managing Partner, joined Oak Investment Partners as a General Partner in 1994. Fred’s primary investment focus is on Consumer Internet and Internet New Media.
Fred is currently on the Boards of Aspect Software, Connexus Corporation Demand Media, Federated Media, FRS, Knowledge Networks, Limelight Networks, RazorGator, Rearden Commerce, Reunion.com, Shop.com, Sutherland Global Services, and U.S. Auto Parts. Fred has also led investments in aQuantive (acquired by Microsoft), Allyes (acquired by Focus Media), Campus Pipeline (acquired by SCT), Fastclick (acquired by ValueClick), Captura (acquired by Concur), Cobalt, Exodus, ILOG, IMS (acquired by Celestica) Inktomi, Pivotal, Primus Knowledge Solutions, Qpass (acquired by Amdocs), Quintus (acquired by Avaya), Sanmina/SCI, SportsGG and SPSS.
Prior to Oak, Fred worked for seven years with Morgan Stanley’s Venture Capital Group where he was a General Partner.
Terrell Jones is currently the managing principal of Essential Ideas, a consultancy that assists companies in transitioning to the digital economy.
He is an experienced board member, having served on the boards of Entrust, Inc., Overture Services, La Quinta Corporation, and Vendare Media Corp. Terrell currently serves on the board of EarthLink, Inc. and is Chairman of Kayak.com.
Terrell founded Travelocity in 1996 and served as president and CEO until May 2002. Prior to starting Travelocity, Terrell spent 24 years at American Airlines and Sabre Holdings where he held a variety of executive positions.
At the end of his tenure at Sabre Holdings, he held the position of CIO. Terrell began his travel career as a travel agent in Chicago, later moving to the technical world with Agency Data Systems, a Florida-based mini-computer accounting systems company that was acquired by American Airlines.
Senior Vice President, Sales and Business Travel at Deem
Director, Product Management at Deem
A highly regarded technologist, Dan Pritchett brings more than 25 years of engineering experience to the company after working with some of the most well-known technology companies of our day. In his role as Chief Platform Architect, Dan is tasked with finding solutions to the unique set of challenges that go with scaling the platform to accommodate rapid growth.
Previously Dan was a lead architect engineer at eBay where he was responsible for integrating the catalogs functionality, rearchitecting the billing system and structuring the architecture for integration across all of eBays 19 companies. Due to significant accomplishments he achieved, he was he designated to become one of the seven Technical Fellows at eBay.
Prior to his tenure at eBay, Dan consulted on foundational Internet infrastructure for many well-known companies such as Chase, Sun, HP, Electronic Arts, and the Federal Home Loan Bank.
Gabriel Sandoval leads Rearden’s legal department with nearly 20 years of legal experience advising high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. Previously, Gabriel was Vice President and General Counsel at Ariba where he was responsible for all worldwide legal functions from the time the company was an emerging e-commerce business through its IPO. Prior to Ariba, Gabriel was Corporate Counsel at Oracle Corporation negotiating Oracle’s software licensing agreements; strategic alliance, ISV and OEM agreements; and joint development and marketing agreements. Fluent in English and Spanish, Gabriel also managed legal for Oracle’s Latin American Division for six months and the Financial Services Vertical across North America. Before becoming an in-house corporate attorney, Gabriel was a Business Associate at Ropers, Majeski, Kohn, & Bentley.
Gabriel earned a BA in Economics from Stanford University and a JD from the Santa Clara University School of Law.
Mr. OHara is a Managing Director of OEP and has over 20 years of operating experience. Prior to joining OEP, Mr. OHara served as Executive Vice President of Worldspan and was a member of its Board of Directors. Prior to this, he was a management partner advising Citicorp Venture Capital and Ontario Teachers Pension Plan; served as Senior Vice President of Sabre; and worked in various capacities for Perot Systems. Mr. OHara currently serves on the Boards of Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Travel Acquisitions Group, and Travelport. Mr. OHara holds an MBA from Vanderbilt University.
We’ve been following Ravi over the years, as he moved through the VC industry, from Alta, to Charter, to GKM. Ravi’s very open about the lessons he’s learned, and we wrote a piece about him here a few years ago. He’s now 37. Anyway, according to the VentureWire story, Ravi does have an answer for McNamee. Next year, he plans to launch Top Shelf Capital, a hedge fund to operate from Palo Alto, and he’s doing it on a hunch that some public companies remain undervalued. He took note when publicly listed Niku had a market value of $15 million in 2002, and was then bought for $350 million in 2005.
Vice President, Human Resources at Deem
Steve is a leading Analytics Executive.
Vice President, User Experience at Deem
Vice President, Customer Services at Deem