Own Up

Chief Growth Officer

Background

Own Up provides a software solution that enables residential lending from various lenders

The problem

As a disruptor in the mortgage marketplace, Own Up needed a top-tier Chief Growth Officer with customer acquisition competency in this unique product category. The ideal candidate needed experience in scaling 3-5x growth and building out a high functioning growth team while the company was keen on increasing the diversity of its team with this hire.
Stage
Series C
Industry
Financial Services
Funding
$49M+
Investors
Link Ventures, Brand Foundry Ventures, Listen, Techstars Ventures, Alumni Ventures

Plenty's solution

Using our intricate competency mapping and recruiting strategy, Plenty identified a target pool of candidates that precisely matched Own Up’s niche requirements. Plenty was able to source a diverse pool of candidates and, in only 65 days successfully recruited an underrepresented candidate Own Up’s Board described as “transformational”.

Jun Wu

Jun started his career in engineering and brings a data-driven, analytical to his financial work today. While at Ecolab, he grew his team to 10+ direct reports within content, direct search, email marketing, bringing in $X00MM new digital revenue.