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Di-Ann Eisnor

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at WakeCap

Palo Alto, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)

    2024

    Acquired by Wakecap!

  • CEO

    2019 - 2024

    Supporting the construction workforce of the future

  • CWeO Cities

    2019 - 2019

  • VP Platform, Director of Growth

    2009 - 2019

    Waze is a social gps and real-time traffic app with instant rerouting, fuel prices, hazard reporting, road closures -- at the core is a community of 45 Million people that hate traffic and are working together to outsmart it. At Waze, we’re striving to save everyone 10 minutes a day. Because the bigger the community, the better the data, we're now on 32 TV stations every morning helping commuters avoid traffic and are also in 17 after market devices which can turn any car into a connected car. In July, we expect to launch in our first fully embedded global vehicle. Waze was also used by the White House and FEMA during Hurricane Sandy, by the City of LA during Carmageddon, President Obama on his recent trip to Israel. Waze was also recommended by Apple CEO, Tim Cook during the Apple Maps apology letter.

  • Co-Founder

    2015 - 2018

  • Co-founder, Chairman

    2005 - 2011

    Platial, The People's Atlas was a collaborative, user generated, cartographic website. It was founded in 2004 by Di-Ann Eisnor, Jake Olsen, and Jason Wilson. Platial, Inc. was headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Platial was used by hundreds of thousands of people globally to share and associate relevant content with geographic places of interest. Platial claims 25% of the web's map widgets, used on over 10,000 sites. On October 18, 2007, Platial acquired Frappr!, another social mapping website, increasing its total user-generated locations to more than 100 million.

  • ceo, founder

    2004 - 2005

    Community-centric marketing. Amsterdam/NY. Clients include Strawberryfrog/Boomer Coalition and American Express small business network.

  • CEO, Founder

    1997 - 2001

     Eisnor, was founded in 1997 as an alternative marketing and branding agency focused on launching new businesses and new units of established companies. Clients included CNet, About.com and The Street, Staples, Polaroid and Reebok. Eisnor grew to 60 employees and $15MM in annual gross revenue in just four years, with offices in NY, SF and Boston. Eisnor became part of the Omnicom Group of Companies in 2000. Di-Ann has received several industry awards and honors for her work with Eisnor Interactive including; “Woman to Watch” award at the annual Women in Business Congress, “5 years in business” award from NAWBO and “Top 100 Internet Executives” from The Silicon Alley Reporter. She has spoken at over 200 conferences and has been on the covers of Working Woman magazine and Fortune Small Business. Other articles and features include Fast Company, Industry Standard, Wall Street Journal, NYTimes, Business Week, PBS, CNBC, CBS and Bloomberg Television.

  • Director Client Services

    1995 - 1997

  • Account supervisor

    1991 - 1995

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