AboUt Grant Gipe

Grant has 20 years' of senior level operational experience across 40 countries with repeated success in leading high-performing support and sales operations across varied sectors including telecoms, cable and travel. He helped launch a pan-European DTV cable provider across 10 countries, a Bulgarian GSM mobile operator, and multiple B2C e-commerce websites. As a Senior Director, Grant had $15 million P&L accountability, led 1,000 FTEs, and had business unit responsibility for 14 million customers. He holds a dual masters - MBA & MS Marketing - from the University of Colorado at Denver and a BSB Marketing from Murray State University.

Grant is a former member of the U.S. Army's elite 82nd Airborne Division and participated in two combat missions. He used to also own a dj lounge bar in Amsterdam and worked in film production in Hollywood.