Ben Walters

Ben Walters is the current Head of Strategy & BD for Hopper Cloud at Hopper. Prior to this, they were the CEO & Co-founder of Gravy.ai from April 2017 to September 2019. Ben learned how difficult it is to manage the often opposing forces of 'doing good' and growth, how to solve the impossible 'chicken and egg' dilemma of marketplaces, what it takes to really lead teams, the ins and outs of early stage start-ups including customer discovery, raising pre-seed and seed rounds, recruiting top talent without being able to pay top salary bands, how to just get shit done and move fast, and how to navigate an acqui-hire with a soon to be unicorn when things were just not working out as planned. Before Gravy.ai, they were a Senior Management Consultant at Carpedia International from September 2014 to April 2017. And before that, they were a Global Management Trainee at Anheuser-Busch InBev from July 2013 to September 2014.

Ben Walters completed a Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) at McGill University in the field of finance and international business. Ben then completed a semester abroad at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Finally, they completed a Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) in data analytics at BrainStation.

Their manager is Frederic Lalonde, CEO. They work with Philippe Laflamme - Software Architecht, Dakota Smith - Chief Strategy Officer, and Patrick Surry - Chief Data Scientist.