Tai Lopez. CEO.
Tai Lopez acquires and operates large brands that have a customer base of well over 20 million consumers including Pier1, RadioShack, Modell's, Stein Mart, Linens N Things, Dressbarn, The Franklin Mint, MentorBox, The Book People, FarmersCart, and other ecommerce brands and real estate holdings. He has over 10 million social media followers and his Youtube business videos have been watched for over 2 billion total minutes. Forbes.com and Entrepreneur.com have both named him one of the top global business influencers.
Alex Mehr. President.
Alex Mehr Ph.D. is an investor and former NASA Scientist, who acquires and operates well-known brands. Since co-founding and selling Zoosk for $250 Million, he and business partner Tai Lopez have acquired several brands including: Pier 1 Imports, RadioShack, Modell's, Stein Mart, the women's fashion retailer Dressbarn, Linens n' Things, The Franklin Mint, and The Book People. Alex and Tai acquire and operate these brands under their holding company, Retail E-commerce Ventures. In addition, Alex's education platform MentorBox boasts 60,000 paid subscribers, and his health food online store FarmersCart is disrupting food delivery.
Maya Burkenroad. COO.
Maya Burkenroad has over 10 years of experience managing multi-million dollar companies, with a deep understanding of business relationships and psychology.
Eric Maskin. Nobel Prize Winning Advisor
Eric Maskin is the Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard. He has made contributions to game theory, contract theory, social choice theory, political economy, and other areas of economics.
He received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard and was a postdoctoral fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge University. He was a faculty member at MIT from 1977-1984, Harvard from 1985- 2000, and the Institute for Advanced Study from 2000-2011. He rejoined the Harvard faculty in 2012. In 2007, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (with L. Hurwicz and R. Myerson) for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory.
Dr. David Buss. Advisor.
David Buss is one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology. He is most well-known for his studies on mate selection, tactics of mate attraction, infidelity, tactics of mate retention, tactics of mate poaching, and the mating emotions of jealousy, lust, and love. He has taught at Berkeley, Harvard University, the University of Michigan, the University of Texas, on live TV, and is known internationally.
David has authored several books for wide audiences, such as The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating, and textbooks such as Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind.
Sir Christopher Pissarides.
Nobel Prize Winning Advisor
Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides FBA is a Cypriot economist. He is the School Professor of Economics & Political Science and Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus. His research focuses on topics of macroeconomics, notably labour, economic growth, and economic policy. In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, jointly with Peter A. Diamond and Dale Mortensen, "for their analysis of markets with theory of search frictions.
Anton De Martino.
Partner Relations
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." -- Winston S. Churchill
Justin Stainback. Partner Relations
Justin is an experienced business owner. He has spent over 15 years working directly with high net-worth individuals. He first started working with Tai Lopez in 2004 and is now working directly with Retail Ecommerce Ventures investors.
Ben Avanzato.
Chief Creative Officer.
Ben Avanzato, Chief of Marketing for REV and brother of Tai Lopez, has been working with Tai and his brands since 2011. His experience, in-the-trenches education, and problem-solving skills have proven time and time again to add priceless value to the projects he's involved with.
Rudy Mawer.
Interim Co-CEO.
Rudy Mawer is a serial entrepreneur who built 4 multi-million $ businesses with over 80 employees and staff before joining REV. He has ran one of the worlds largest direct response marketing agencies that has generated over 1/4 billion dollars in revenue for his clients. Rudy also works with the original Shark, Kevin Harrington as a marketing partner. He was awarded an 0-1 extraordinary individual visa from the USA for his consulting work, which includes clients such as the US Navy, NBA, Hollywood Celebrities, Olympic Gold Medalists and Billion $ Brands around the world.
Nicholas Bautista.
Co - Director of Operations.
Nicholas Bautista, a serial entrepreneur, has over a decade of experience in running start-up businesses both brick-and-mortar and e-commerce alike. He began working with Tai and Alex in 2017 as a customer support agent personally generating and saving millions in revenue for Tai Lopez Brands and Mentorbox. As a co-Director of Operations of REV, he oversees the human resources, product, marketing, sales, technology, customer support, and fulfillment divisions. Dubbed a "figure it out guy," Nick's strongest trait is his ability to step back, find what's broken, and inject energy, effort, and manpower to fix the leaks both big and small - preventing anything from "slipping through the cracks."
Avery DeWitt.
REV Interim Division President.
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one most adaptable to change"- Charles Darwin
Ali Gerritsen.
Chief of Staff.
Ali attended Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business for her undergraduate studies in Marketing and International Business. She then attended the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business where she earned her MBA. Ali has worked in both the Operations and Technology fields for over 15 years for publicly traded, privately owned, and private equity owned companies in San Diego. She has been extremely focused on employee experience throughout her career and has implemented multiple leadership training programs, and mentorship programs, leading to Best Workplace Awards in her prior position. In 2019, Ali was the honoree of San Diego Business Journal's Top Technology Executive award. She joined the Artemis Research team in 2019.
Jenna Lynch.
Chief People Officer.
"Named Top 100 Business Women of the Year by San Diego Business Journal, Jenna brings 30 years of Human Resources experience to REV. She is passionate about building an HR infrastructure, creating cohesive teams, and company culture transformation which has helped over 32 companies win "Best Place to Work" awards in their industries. When not spending time with her family, Jenna loves to travel, volunteer, and mentor other women."
Antonio Rios.
Partner Relations
Tony is an experienced agency owner and lead marketing strategist. He worked as a deals development consultant with investors and has experience doing large deal strategy and investments. Tony has helped a countless number of high net worth individuals, private investors, family offices and venture capitalists benefit from the rapidly changing world of ecommerce working for REV
Bradley Ryan Coyne.
Head of Retail Technology.
Oversees the retail and technology strategy for the REV retail brands.
Has over 15+ years of experience within the retail commerce space and has a deep understanding of retail process-people and system synergies.
Meg Leung.
Executive Vice President Merchandising
Meg Leung is a seasoned Retail executive with more than 20 years experience in store operations, planning and allocation, and buying. She has held positions with some of the largest companies in the retail industry.
Skilled in Product Category Management, Financial Analysis & Forecasting, Strategic Development & Execution, Vendor & Distribution Management, Leung is most passionate about leveraging her strengths in strategy and operations to spearhead innovation in category management, purchasing, and buying in diverse industries.
In her current role as EVP of Merchandizing, Leung focuses on planning and executing action plans in new product roll outs, opening up new revenue streams, and empowering team members.
Kelly Kamm.
Chief Technology Officer
Kelly is a technologist with decades of experience in critical systems development in the domains of retail, medical software & fintech, building infrastructure that passed rigorous audits and offered high availability in many demanding industries.
He was the CTO and Co-Founder of Sitehands, an IT startup that raised $35M in Series A investment and is now a part of the REV portfolio.
