With over 20 years of experience, Sarah has been a part of the ‘start-up’ culture since the infamous dot com era. Venturing cross-country to San Francisco in 2000, Sarah left New York after a 2 year role in Product Marketing and Equity Research at investment firm Donaldson, Lukfin & Jenrette and took on a Research Associate position at Red Herring Magazine, leading startup evaluations, editorial picks for Top Private Companies’ and C-level panels for Venture Market events. When Red Herring folded, Sarah assisted two brilliant women founders at venture backed beauty brand startup, Passport Cosmetics. 

In 2002, Sarah landed a covetable Sales position at San Francisco based CRM leader Salesforce.com, and was quickly promoted to manage Customer Success for top Enterprise clients. As one of the first six members of this team, Sarah personally developed Sales and Marketing best practices for C-level executives, led webinars, customer city tours and conducted Business Process Reviews to help clients identify obstacles to success, resulting in recommendations for increased ROI.

“This process is one that is invaluable for companies at any stage, simple operational changes can help companies become more profitable and efficient.” 

After seven years on the west coast, Sarah was captivated by the buzz of digital advertising and began her migration back to NYC in 2007, where she most notably held positions at native advertising pioneer Vibrant Media and global cloud-based content marketing platform Thismoment. As the first sales hire at Thismoment, the company moved Sarah from New York to Chicago to open the Mid-west office in 2010. During this time she developed multi-channel Social Media Strategies for Fortune 500 brands (ie; Chrysler, P&G, Oreo, Kraft, Sprint) in addition to managing regional partnerships with agency holding groups and networks including Google, Facebook, and Twitter.

 “The social media technology landscape was evolving quickly, and brands needed full-scale strategic support and implementation.”

Through her passion for working with early stage companies and entrepreneurs to help develop their vision, build sales and marketing strategies and grow long-term profitability, Campsix was officially launched, in 2012, assisting clients across LA, Portland, New York, San Francisco and Chicago. This initial launch was brief, after Campsix client, Belly, offered Sarah a full-time Executive position, following a month-long consulting project. Belly was funded by Silicon valley venture firm Adreessen Horowitz, and had created a disruptive business model for both mobile apps and loyalty programs. 

 "They were at the 3-year mark, which is a critical phase for a young company. I saw an opportunity to really make an impact from within.”

During her tenure at Belly, Sarah managed a team of over 30 Account and Community Managers. While focusing on Belly's small business and enterprise customer base, she built out Merchant Scoring, Customer On-boarding, Parachute Programs, Small Business Workshops, Quarterly Business Reviews, Wellness Visits, Client Resource Center, Enterprise Operations and developed long-term strategies for increasing customer satisfaction. Her notable contributions included achieving record low churn and record high Enterprise growth - multiplying Enterprise locations by over 600%. 

In 2015, Sarah was offered an Executive leadership role at global commerce startup,  rewardStyle x Liketoknow.it. She (along with her husband) packed up and relocated from Chicago to Dallas, to manage Publisher and Retail Development in addition to Product Marketing and Content Marketing teams.

Leading the vision and strategy for rewardStyle’s US business teams, Sarah took her passion for building data-driven solutions, world-class customer service and scale for the organization, managing over 40 employees across the country.  At rewardStyle Sarah utilized her skills in strategy and management to grow profitable territories.

"Just give me a whiteboard...I love to dig into questions like, 'How do we monetize this'...or 'How do I create more value to customers', that is what gets me excited everyday.” 

In addition to overall business strategy, Sarah helped lead and scale rewardStyle’s agency services, growing performance annually by 400%. Working alongside brands like Nordstrom, Laura Mercier, Kate Spade and others - Sarah’s team embraced data-driven influencer marketing campaigns from idea to execution in addition to building out account management teams to operationalize influencer services.

Starting in 2016, Campsix worked with many early-stage tech clients looking to launch products, attract partnerships and raise capital. During this time Sarah launched a fundraising support service and led an accelerator for Circular Board.

“Now there are several virtual resources for female founders - but Circular Board was the pioneer - as the first global virtual accelerator for female entrepreneurs in tech and eCommerce.I knew I wanted to help more founders access tools and mentorship. I was looking to either start an accelerator or join one, so I could work with more founders 1x1.” I

In May of 2017, Sarah became part of The Circular Board/Hello Alice mission, leading their virtual accelerator for high-growth female founders, and joining two female founders on their mission to build a more inclusive ecosystem for all business owners. The company was backed by Dell, Melinda Gates Foundation and partnered with the Kaufman foundation and others who shared the mission to support women. She focused on numerous areas as an executive member of the team, most notably leading events, customer experience, product marketing, monetization strategy and assisting with corporate venture and business development.

In 2019, Campsix worked with clients such as health-tech startup Rosy, based in Dallas. In addition, Sarah partnered with world-renowned influencer Danielle Bernstein of WeWoreWhat to launch a project management platform for influencers, called Moe Assist. While serving as the companies Interim COO/CMO, Sarah raised both Friends and Family and Seed rounds successfully and took the company to market.

In 2020, Sarah also launched a digital agency alongside Talent Agent, Jen Powell, to bring influencer marketing strategy and brand partnership services to emerging DTC brands at Lemon HQ.

In addition to her agency, Sarah selectively takes on interim C-level roles within startups, one-at-a-time. To inquire, please email. sarah@campsix.co