Sean Pfitzenmaier
Sean is well acquainted with the Seed to Series B ecosystem and understands intimately the pressures you face. He is uniquely skilled at finding clarity in chaos and leading teams through complex and challenging situations.
Sean served as the Chief Product Officer for Alerzo, a Series B funded eCommerce & Fintech venture focused on utilizing technology to revolutionize Africa's B2B and B2C economy. Sean’s first major milestone at Alerzo was taking an offline supply chain business and bringing it fully online; processing $20m in sales across 20 warehouses within 4 months of release. He also led all product development and adoption of the Company's eCommerce mobile app (achieving $4m in monthly sales within five months of release) and fintech app (processing $100m within 14 months of release). While at Alerzo Sean supervised and led a team of 200 employees across the product, design, engineering, marketing, analytics, and sales verticals.
Before Alerzo, Sean was the Senior Director of Product & Operations at NewCo, the product incubation arm of IAC (NASDAQ: IAC). Within this role, he led the product development of NewCo's portfolio companies, implementing systems that significantly shortened the timeline to profitability and created playbooks across engineering and product management to standardize workflows. Sean has also been a founding partner in three start-ups within the consumer and technology industries.
Sean has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and an MBA from NYU Stern. He looks forward to cutting through complicated brain twisters to arrive at effective and efficient solutions for you and your business.