Leading growth, business development and success teams for a fast-growing ecommerce frontend platform. Nyla is a 100% no-code frontend platform that powers the fastest pages in ecommerce. Some of the top DTC brand use Nyla to maximize conversion and delight visitors with instant page loads and beautiful experiences. Partners include Supergoop!, Corpus, Lula, Olivers, Stryx and many more!

- Led 2ndKitchen exit to strategic partner REEF Technology
- Led 8-person growth and business development team for REEF Hospitality reporting directly to Chef Development Officer, focusing on expanding hospitality footprint in 50+ cities across 3 continents
- Developed focused and repeatable growth plan that aligns go-to-market to three verticals: operated kitchens, licensed content, and connected locations. This effort resulted in business unit GMV growth by 51% in Q1 2022
- Represented REEF to win strategic deal with leading global hospitality player spanning over 5000 accounts

- Co-founded and led team of 18 people to build a fast-growing and leading provider of B2B virtual kitchens for hospitality, serving 150,000+ hotel keys and tables and 1M+ customers in the last three years
- Raised $4.5M across two rounds from top-tier venture capital in Chicago, NYC and San Francisco
- Executed scalable go-to-market strategy, reaching $4M annual sales run rate and growing at 800x per year
- Navigated COVID headwinds through swift and decisive strategy, leading to 150% revenue recovery in 8 months
-  Techstars Chicago Class of 2018, 2020 Chicago Innovation Award Up and Comer Winner, 2019 Built In Chicago 50 Startups to Watch

- Led interviews with 60 corporate accounts across 3 regions to gather and analyze customer insights 
- Launched nationwide utilization sales program projected to increase product utilization by 34% In 3 years
- Presented a machine learning-based promotion tool that touches 55M licenses

- Sourced and screen over 50 monthly VC deals, ranging from sub $250K seed to $2M series A deals
- Represented OCA Ventures in pitch meetings and provide investment advice to managing partners
- Provided portfolio support including strategic vision, UX design and customer experience

- Co-founded the “Uber for Pizza” startup that delivers pizza from local pizzerias in 20 minutes or less
- Developed a supply optimization model called “spread sourcing”, which cuts delivery time by 40-60%
- Pitched idea to private investors and raised $100K in seed funding after 1 month of public beta operations

- Led go-to-market effort for Deloitte Digital’s 2020 vision with the goal of becoming the go-to agency for the most influential CMOs and CEOs
- Managed 3-person workstream to redesign the product lifeycle for a global engine manufacturer, saving $30M in costs
- Hosted 20-person Agile Scrum workshop for Fortune 20 technology company, increasing efficiency by ~30%
- Reimagined a leading beer manufacturer’s customer strategy to increase on-time deliveries from 85% to 98.8%
- Influenced customer experience strategy for a leading health provider to triple digital revenue in the new healthcare exchange marketplace by 2020

- Assessed and integrated 4 operating models as part of a $600M divestiture at a leading high-tech company
- Developed business requirements, scope catalog and firsthand customer research for a national storage unit company
- Interviewed c-suite executives and visualized resulting data in interactive dashboards shared with 50K employees
- Rated consistently as a top performer and won five Deloitte “Applause Awards” for high-caliber performance

- Founded a city-wide community of entrepreneurs and generated over 500 organic signups and members
- Organized events that feature prominent Silicon Valley executives and startup pitches for funding & recruiting
- Created impactful connections that resulted in well funded ideas

- Worked in close teams to deliver multi-million dollar solutions: Oracle and SAP ERP implementation, governance risk and compliance, IT security and architecture, SOX internal auditing, segregation of duty.
- Developed relationships with middle and c-level executives within numerous Fortune 500 companies.
- Maximized billable hours (100% chargeability) and received full scores on all performance evaluations

- Founded an award-winning digital agency obsessively targeting “startups, visionaries and dreamers”
- Won contracts with 75+ startups collectively valued at $2 billion
- Manage lean agency operations with six freelance employees to achieve scalable and profitable growth
- Led complete design effort (website, brand, marketing) for a mobility manufacturer that won an IDEA Silver Design Award
- Redesigned user experience/interface for a $30M health startup to achieve a record 2x conversion rate
- Created design strategy for an international education company that received unanimous praise from shareholders

- Founded and developed UC Berkeley’s bestselling lifestyle magazine with a readership of 15,000 students and alumni
- Recruited and led a team of 100 journalists, photographers, designers, editors and managers.
- Developed Caliber Magazine ground up from project idea to the largest student publication on campus.
- Headed the Caliber board of directors and made decisions concerning the image and functioning of the magazine

Nick Anastasiades

Chief Growth Officer @Nyla | Exited Founder | Forbes Top 1000 Entrepreneur