Raphael Varieras

Raphael Varieras is the current Vice President of Operations at Zello, a position they have held for 3 years and 11 months. Prior to their current role, Raphael served as the Director of Operations and Director of Marketing at Zello. In these roles, Raphael was responsible for developing the FP&A function, managing comp plans, cap tables, rev rec, and AR/AP. Additionally, Raphael built an analytics pipeline with the Fivetran/Snowflake/Mode Analytics stack and is proficient in SQL. Furthermore, Raphael managed processes, data, and analytics underpinning all revenue functions, company operating cadence, OKRs + 15Five processes, and staff meetings.

Before joining Zello, Raphael was a Graduate Teaching Assistant at The Wharton School where they taught MKTG 776: Probability Modeling Applied to Marketing and STAT 613: Regression Analysis for Business. Raphael also spent 7 months as the Director of Growth at Fieldwire - The Construction App for the Field. In this role, Raphael was responsible for organic and paid traffic management, SEO/SEM, inbound + outbound marketing, events, and marketing-housed BDR team management.

Prior to their time in the private sector, Raphael spent 3 years and 3 months as the Manager - Product Performance Engineering at Solaria Corporation and 4 years as a Project Manager - Developer at Chevron Energy Solutions. Raphael began their career as a Visiting Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where they spent 4 months conducting research.

Raphael Varieras has a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from the University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, where they studied finance and marketing. Raphael also has a MSc from Stanford University in energy engineering, and a MSc from Ecole polytechnique in engineering.