Mike Buckley

Chief Financial Officer

2021

Using its innovative technologies, Soli Organic has built the nation's largest organic, indoor growing and distribution platform redefining how to bring fresh and sustainably farmed produce to retailers coast-to-coast. Led the transformation of Soli’s business and increased revenue from indoor grown products by 500% while improving labor and distribution efficiency. Raised three rounds of equity financing coupled with debt facilities to finance Soli’s capital intensive move into indoor farming at scale. Strengthened the finance function through hiring and developing talent, implementing systems/tools evolution and establishing key processes such as strategic planning, risk management and stakeholder relations. Also, led corporate development, data analytics, legal, real estate, information technology and human resources.

Venture Advisor

2024

Board Member

2011

Betaworks is a start-up platform investing, building and working with exceptional creators and makers since 2008. We’ve backed more than 150 companies including Dots, Everlane, Gimlet Media, Giphy, Hugging Face, Kickstarter, Medium and Tumblr.

Senior Vice President of Business

2020 - 2021

Maximized profitable growth as well as identified, launched and managed new business lines. Led Postmates' fast growth and profitable delivery-as-a-service business driving 300% revenue growth and delivery volume. Championed the rapidly expanding "new verticals" business (grocery, convenience, drinks, beauty and pets) and launched Postmates Retail. Served on the core executive leadership team during Postmates' period of rapid growth and acquisition by Uber.

VP, Digital Commerce Operations & New Business Models

2018 - 2019

Drove Operations for Nike’s fast-growth digital commerce business (40% revenue growth in FY19), balancing daily operational execution with defining and launching new capabilities. Led >100-person global operations team with dotted-line leadership of teams totaling >400 people. Key focus areas included omnichannel, seasonal readiness, international expansion, pricing and promotions, payments / fraud, web and app operations, post-purchase experiences and new business model/service investigations.

CFO, Nike Direct & Digital

2016 - 2018

Led Nike Direct’s global finance team with end-to-end responsibility for financial planning, performance improvements and investment prioritization as well as insight into financial and non-financial KPIs that drove business results. Implemented Nike’s global direct-to-consumer (digital, stores and experiences/technology) financial plans and strategy, accomplishing aggressive growth and margin goals ($10.4B revenue in FY18 and Nike’s fastest growing and most profitable division).

VP, Partnerships

2015 - 2016

Established the partnership function at Nike to increase its collaboration with innovative, digital companies that compliment and accelerate Nike's goal to inspire, serve and connect with consumers. Defined Nike’s partnership and marketplace strategy for driving direct consumer relationships and engagement.

Head of Finance & Strategy, Nike Digital

2013 - 2015

Drove finance and strategy for Nike’s “Integrated Digital” effort which included 4 key digital functions: Commerce, Brand, Engineering and Products / Experiences. Aligned strategy, prioritization, investment allocation and execution across disparate, rapidly evolving organizations.

Trustee

2010 - 2013

Board Observer

2007 - 2013

Board Observer

2007 - 2013

Board Observer

2006 - 2013

Managing Director, Investments

1999 - 2013

Headed the consumer investment practice at one of the world’s largest and most successful corporate venture capital organizations. Investments primarily focused on consumer and Internet-related areas including mobile, digital commerce, social, gaming and communications companies based in US but also covered China, Israel, Eastern Europe, UK, India and Brazil. - Led small team of senior investment professionals, investing ~$300M in 50+ companies. - Achieved very high cumulative IRRs with 5 resulting in IPOs and many being acquired by companies such as Comcast, Naspers, Hitachi and Intel. - Collaborated closely with management teams to build and grow their companies, often as a Board Member or Observer. Served as a Board member or Board observer on a myriad of companies including Parade Technologies, Betaworks, iControl, Flowplay, Fabrik, Avnera, and Mediabolic. Some of the private company investments that exited include the following: - Phoenix New Media (IPO on the NYSE) - Parade Technologies (IPO on the GreTai Exchange) - Yume (IPO on the NYSE) - Montage Technology Group (IPO on NASDAQ) - iMall (acquired by Naspers) - Openfeint (acquired by Gree) - Olaworks (acquired by Intel) - Mediabolic (acquired by Rovi) - iControl (acquired by Comcast and Alarm.com) - Fabrik (acquired by Hitachi) - Oplus (acquired by Intel) - and many others via M&A