John Blanchard

John Blanchard is the current Chief Operating Officer at Viome. Prior to this, they were with Groupon as VP of Marketing Product and Engineering from April 2014 to December 2019. There, they led a global team responsible for marketing, targeting, personalization, pricing, and merchandising systems that generated over $100 million in monthly revenue. John increased customer engagement and conversion by 30%+, promotional profitability and awareness by 10%+, and reduced operational costs by >15% annually.

Before Groupon, John Blanchard was with Amazon.com for nine years, from January 2005 to March 2014. There, they were the Director of Worldwide Deals & Events Marketing Channel Manager. In this role, they provided the technology and marketing expertise necessary to identify and evaluate customer-centric, on-site promotions, surface them in convenient and habit-forming ways to customers, and execute marketing activities across traffic channels for Amazon’s largest cross-category promotions, worldwide.

John Blanchard started their career as a Senior Consultant at pcOrder.com from January 1999 to December 2001.

John Blanchard has a B.S. in Biology and Computer Science from the University of Utah.

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