Press Kit:Information and Media Collateral for UpCity.
Who We Are
UpCity helps businesses find service providers they can trust. Our marketplace creates and empowers successful relationships between businesses and service providers from marketers to accountants to HR professionals. Over 225,000 businesses visit the UpCity Marketplace each month seeking services from over 40,000 providers in over 600 cities in North America. We provide transparency and insights to dramatically improve the B2B partner selection and purchase experience.
History
UpCity was founded in 2009 with the goal of helping businesses navigate the rapidly changing world of digital marketing. As the number of marketing service providers grew, so did the challenges for businesses searching for information they could trust to drive their decisions. We launched the UpCity marketplace in 2017 to empower successful relationships between businesses and marketing service providers by providing transparent, trustworthy information. In 2019, the UpCity marketplace expanded to additional B2B service providers from accountants to HR consultants.
Our Leadership Team
Dan Olson
Dan Olson is co-founder of UpCity, Inc and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to UpCity, Dan was an early employee and served as Vice President at Performics, the largest search engine marketing company in the United States. He is active in the Chicago startup community and has made investments…
Heidi Sullivan
Heidi drives the product, marketing and insights strategy for UpCity. Prior to that she was a VP at Sterling Talent Solutions and spent 13 years in various executive roles at Cision, including as SVP, Product and Managing Director, Canada. She was named as The Hub’s Individual Influencer of the Year…
Arman Ghosh
As SVP of Sales and Customer Success at UpCity, Arman is a serial entrepreneur who also loves cereal. His experience includes Co-founder/Managing Partner at A-Frame Ventures, Co-founder at Builders.VC/Studio, SVP of Sales at BellyCard and Head of Growth at Pawngo.
Joe Banks
These days, Joe leads the development team and technology strategy at UpCity, but he cut his teeth writing code for the Timex Sinclair 1000 💻 in the early 80s. After university 🎓and stints as a 🕺and 👨🍳, he returned to his tech roots and still enjoys developing software for real life applications…
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