Ann Devens

Ann Devens is VP of Business Development at Cro Metrics. Her work experience includes early-stage product management and digital marketing roles at companies including Stella & Dot, Levi Strauss & Co., and WeddingChannel.com (now The Knot). Applying her experience as a product manager and growth leader, Ann helps CRO clients grow their businesses through strategic experimentation and data-driven decision making.

Ann lives in San Francisco, and she enjoys typical San Franciscan activities such as practicing hot yoga, drinking Philz Coffee, and watching unicorns. Connect with Ann

Dave Albert

As VP of Client Services, Dave collaborates closely with Cro Metrics clients and Product Managers to deliver successful outcomes. He cut his teeth in the world of publishing, successfully launched and divested an email marketing start-up, and has worked with both start-ups and Fortune 500 brands to launch large-scale marketing and platform initiatives.

Dave’s 20+ year history with user-centered design, engineering, usability and analytics converge to form a unique perspective on data-driven marketing. He’s passionate about understanding audience behavior, and the psychology and metrics behind conversion optimization.

When not staring intently at a screen, Dave enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, cooking, riding motorcycles and adding items to his ever-expanding bucket list. Connect with David

Grant Tilus

Grant is a ‘real’ marketer, in that he earned his bachelor’s degree in marketing. He started his career as a key contributor to an award winning inbound marketing team, then moved into website and content strategy roles before moving into conversion optimization and a/b testing. He has experience leading experimentation programs across high profile organizations in the education, computer hardware, software, consumer electronics, and hospitality industries. His competitive drive fuels his passion for optimizing digital properties and improving user experiences throughout the customer lifecycle.

Grant is based in a small town about an hour outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He enjoys spending time with his wife and three little girls, staying active and continuing to challenge himself.Connect with Grant

Jerome Choo

As far as he can remember, Jerome has always had a burning curiosity to figure out how things work. Naturally, he entered the field of engineering to satiate this curiosity and graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in Biomedical Engineering. Soon after he co-founded an education technology startup that provides specialized tools for reading teachers.

More recently, Jerome has been developing an interest in the psychology behind the user experience and ultimately, the buying experience of products. He joined Cro Metrics for this reason, helping the engineering team with implementation and product management. He serves as a Director of Product Management.

Jerome is based out of Austin, Texas. He enjoys traveling and exploring new hobbies that he might or might not be terrible at. Connect with Jerome

Matthew Gossage

Matthew is the Director of Engineering at Cro Metrics and has been writing code in one form or another since his early adolescence. What started as a hobby grew into a career as he now spends his days doing front-end development.

He finds great enjoyment in the particular challenges found in A/B test implementation, preferring the ‘front-end hacking’ work to standard front-end web development.

Matthew loves a good laugh and can often be found chasing :derp: emojis around Cro Metrics slack channels. Connect with Matthew

Rachel Osborne

As VP of Business Development, Rachel Osborne provides customer-centric and results-driven leadership to her client portfolio, helping launch their optimization programs and strategically grow revenue.

With 15 years of media experience, Rachel headed consumer marketing and sales as Vice President for iconic brands such as InStyle and Food & Wine. She led go-to-market and growth initiatives for consumer products and services, profitably increased multi-channel customer acquisition and retention and developed research to build product differentiation and satisfaction.

As a native New Yorker, Rachel loves all things food and culture related. Rachel graduated from Hamilton College, Phi Sigma Iota. Connect with Rachel

Paul Swinand

Paul Swinand has over 20 years of experience in finance and consulting. Prior to joining Cro Metrics, he was a corporate and investor relations communications consultant with Four Hills Advisors following a 15 year career as a sell side equity analyst. Paul is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and also of the University of Massachusetts’ Isenberg School of Management. He is fluent in French and conversational in Italian. A resident of Evanston, IL where he lives with his wife and three children, Paul is a competitive cyclist and enjoys coaching junior athletes in his spare time. Connect with Paul

Walter Budzian

Walter’s education and career meet at the intersection of technology and humanity. Trained in anthropology and psychoanalysis, Walter leveraged his understanding of people to stand-out in his professional career as a system engineer. Inspired by the work of other systems thinkers and designers who eat, sleep and breathe user-experience, Walter made the transition into product development, most recently as a digital products executive for a behavioural sciences research and consulting firm.  Walter’s understanding of people’s basic psychological needs allows him to build hypotheses off a powerful framework of user-experience that drives towards long-term engagement and meaningful personalized interactions. When not delving into user research, Walter aims to create meaningful experiences with his wife and two sons in Asheville, NC. Connect with Walter

Alan Atlas

Specializing in product analytics, Alan’s career has inevitably led him into the world of web experimentation and CRO. He has spearheaded the analytics & experimentation programs for some of the most well-known media & entertainment brands in the world. It’s not always technical, though. Some of his deepest interests lies in the “why” of questions surrounding today’s evolving digital users, and solving problems from both qualitative & quantitative perspectives.

When Alan’s not converting or optimizing, he’s spending time with his fiancé, watching hockey, chasing his dog, or thinking about his next 3 meals. Alan currently resides in New Jersey but will soon be relocating to Arkansas. Connect with Alan

Jamie Steiner

Jamie came to product management and site optimization through her experience as a web analyst at Angie’s List and a regional appliance retailer. Even though she has a strong analytical background, she finds the behavior of users fascinating! She believes that the intersection of psychology and analytics are where the best solutions are found. Tests that perform in an unexpected manner end up being her favorites because of the learnings they bring. There are no losing tests, only winners and learners!

When not working, Jamie enjoys spending time with her niece, singing and playing music at her church, and traveling around the world. Connect with Jamie

Jon Rappaport

Juking and jiving from the jump, Jon is an accomplished 10+ year digital marketing point guard. With deep experience building and executing successful strategies across multiple digital channels and industry verticals, Jon’s wealth of knowledge and experiences will pay dividends for anyone he works with. With a passion for insights and the ability to solve unique problems regarding consumer behavior, Jon leverages his diverse background of experiences to foster great relationships and forge undeniable digital experiences. Jon is proudly born and raised in Los Angeles and lives life with a west-coast state of mind. Be it surfing, hunting or hiking from the beach to the mountains, he loves to get outside and adventure. Jon graduated with a B.S. in Sports Marketing & Management from the University of Utah. Connect with Jon

Karl Taylor

Karl loves telling a good story. Over the course of his career, he’s developed a knack for helping small and medium sized businesses across a variety of different industries connect with customers in new and exciting ways. He’s helped teams to devise their go-to-market strategy, develop their analytics programs and refine their customer messaging. Over the course of his career, he’s lead teams as they leverage first and second party data to develop a better picture of their audiences and is adept at using this information to develop marketing programs that get results.

Karl lives in Denver, Colorado and in his spare time enjoys reading books, playing music and exploring the great outdoors. Connect with Karl

Kevin Manley

As a Marine, Engineer, and Product Manager, Kevin enjoys leaving his comfort zone to learn, lead, and innovate.

He’s obsessive about decomposing user journeys to understand motivations, and to optimize products and experiences. Using enthusiasm for data analysis and product management, Kevin is able to unify a team around actionable goals to drive rapid execution.

Kevin currently lives in Pittsburgh, where he enjoys cooking lavish breakfasts for his wife and daughters. When he is not building products, he can be found sailing the Caribbean, hiking new trails, and dabbling in real estate investing. Connect with Kevin

Lauren Chapman

Lauren is a scientist turned psychologist turned marketer turned analyst. Leaving behind a traditional pre-med track in college, she decided to pursue a degree in Psychology because of her interest in trying to understand how the brain works. It wasn’t until grad school where she completed a masters in Integrated Marketing Communication that she discovered her true calling as a digital analyst. She is fascinated by the ability to use digital data to improve business performance, optimize ROI and personalize content for targeted audiences. In her 9 year career she has specialized in web analytics, site optimization and digital media measurement on both the client and agency sides. In her free time, Lauren enjoys all types of fitness pursuits. Whether it’s a half-day hike, a bike ride around town, an aerial yoga class or a morning surf session, she’ll be there! She’s also an avid traveler and spent the first 8 months of 2018 traveling through South America and Europe. Her home base is next to the pool in Southern California. Connect with Lauren

Nik Budisavljevic

Nik has spent nearly 10 years building, launching, scaling, analyzing and optimizing digital channels across industries.

Nik’s primary focus is bringing together quantitative data, UX research and user psychology in order to drive substantive improvements to online experiences. He has also heavily leveraged experimentation and personalization to validate and inform design and development throughout his product career. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies as well as niche brands scaling their digital businesses. While he has helped clients across a spectrum of industry verticals, Nik specializes in Ecommerce, Marketplaces, Travel & Entertainment.

When he’s not busy strategizing and optimizing, Nik enjoys traveling with his wife, hanging out with his dogs, watching Duke basketball, biking and kayaking.

Nik holds his B.A. from Duke University and his J.D./M.B.A. from the University of South Carolina. Connect with Nik

Ryan Lucht

Ryan got an early start in online marketing when he ran an award-winning consulting shop before finishing high school, helping everyone from local businesses to international eCommerce sites with SEO and content. After graduating from Northeastern, he began specializing in web experimentation in 2014, running a successful testing program as hire #2 at Big Interview.

Ryan brings a keen strategic eye, deep understanding of user psychology, and enthusiastic creativity to optimization. When he’s not running tests, he can be heard playing in bands around Boston, or being the most vocal Green Bay Packers fan living in Pats territory. Connect with Ryan

Sam McAlear

Sam is a native of the quaint and historic beach town of Amelia Island, Florida. His 10-year career in technology has spanned a wide range of industries and roles, including financial modeling, business development, running customer support and implementation for a SaaS startup, conversion optimization, and product development. Sam first fell in love with the concepts of data informed experimentation and optimization while working at NBCU as a product manager for some of their enterprise level sports focused digital brands. He was the first to bring these ideas and skills in-house and was able to successfully establish and build an optimization program within the organization from scratch. When Sam isn’t busy optimizing customer experiences he spends his free time playing guitar, playing and watching soccer, surfing, and traveling. Connect with Sam

Scott Sharp

Scott began his career as a full stack developer but found he enjoyed the business side of the web more than the technical side. Unsurprisingly, it was A/B testing that really flipped him.

Scott has led growth, digital marketing, and analytics for various Northeast Ohio startups, bringing a data-driven and experimental approach to growing businesses. He has run the digital marketing gamut, including search and social advertising, SEO, content marketing, and affiliates, but enjoys experimentation and analytics above all else.

Scott earned his M.B.A. from Case Western Reserve University and B.S. from Youngstown State University. Connect with Scott

Steve Meyer

Steve has a unique blend of creativity and engineering know-how that were honed throughout his past life as a full-stack web developer – traits that just happen to be a perfect fit for a product manager at Cro Metrics.

Steve joined us from an integrated marketing agency where he served for seven years as a development supervisor and digital strategist. As part of his previous role, he developed a new conversion rate optimization service offering to help clients succeed and amplify other digital marketing efforts. The product manager position was a natural fit for Steve’s combination of skills, experience, and his desire to share good news and valuable insights with clients.

In his spare time, Steve enjoys travelling and creating intricate art projects with his two young children – and he is on a quest to make the perfect fire-roasted salsa. Connect with Steve

Steve Spillman

Steve began his career as a journalist covering the tech world, but quickly made his way to telling stories from the other side. As the first marketing director at GroupMe, he helped shepherd the product from its early days as an SMS service to a Skype-owned app with millions of daily active users. Over the last decade, he’s built products and grown audiences for innovative startups and enormous brands alike, most recently as director of product marketing at Playboy.

Steve spends his time reading and exploring cities, and he is learning to play the harp. He and his cat are living their best lives in Los Angeles, CA. Connect with Steve

Vivian deBrauwere

Viv went to film school, but in the middle of the writer’s strike, she decided to find work in a stable industry. Viv landed a job at Sony and launched the PlayStation Network and developed their Dynamic theme program. Viv then took her talents to Netflix and played a key role in the launch of the Darwin UI and led a program that became a personalized artwork algorithm. Viv relocated to Chicago to join Trunk Club and helped develop a women’s service, overhauled the website and brought countless marketing initiatives to life via project managing the in house creative team.

Viv spends her time with her two bulldogs. She enjoys playing and watching soccer and is an avid participant in competitive dodgeball. She bleeds blue for the LA Dodgers, and hopes to watch them play at every MLB Stadium. Connect with Viv