gillian morris from hitlist, panel/presentation at the travel marketing summit 2015
TRANSCRIPT
“Hitlist is a well-‐designed, simple app that helps you complete your travel bucket list on your own financial terms.”
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TEAM
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Gillian Morris, CEO & co-founder Harvard grad, named one of the 35 travel professionals to watch in 2013 by PhoCusWright. First Entrepreneur in Residence at TechStars Boston. Transport, tourism, and energy industry consultant with work featured in CNN, The New York Times, Fox, Forbes, TechCrunch, and more. Executive Board, Harvard in Tech; Founder, Travel 2.0 Boston
Luka Kladaric , CTO & co-founder 12 years of web development experience building highly scalable back end infrastructure. 3 years at DeviantArt. Lead developer at SCHED. Featured speaker at PHPday, MobileCamp, CROWD, ZgPHP
Rahul Caprihan, Product Manager Formerly senior PM at Peixe Urbano, Brazil’s leading daily deals site which he helped scale to 15m users and numerous awards (winner Best International Startup Crunchies ‘11). Responsible for the roadmap of consumer-facing web and mobile apps and platform API. Also iOS developer.
Tomislav Filipcic, mobile lead Creator of a number of award winning and best selling apps under developer name ‘7sols’. Featured in ‘Designing Great iPhone Apps’ (O’Reilly Media). Also professional photographer with work acknowledged by the National Geographic Society, Lucie awards, etc.
Investors include:
Jeff Clarke, Chairman of Orbitz Worldwide John Owen, Founder of JetBlue
WHO IS A HITLIST USER?
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• Launched November ‘13, >150,000 downloads, >6m desired trips listed
• Users volunteer rich demographic and intent data through linking to social accounts and interactions in-app. Average Age: 29
• 92% iPhone user, 8% Android
• Highly engaged: >50% open rate on email alerts
Featured in/on:
Jeleana Salai, Designer Lives: Shanghai
From: Serbia # of countries visited: 54
# of cities on her Hitlist: 167