Scaling Brands That Achieve Multi-Million Dollar IPOs with Sean Dollinger - fnGlobal Keynote & Roundtables (February 15, 2023)

Sean Dollinger is an e-commerce wizard who has taken two companies public with eight-figure IPOs. His current company, PlantX Life Inc. is on a mission to make a plant-based diet accessible and convenient to consumers across North America. The Vancouver-based company offers groceries, meal plans, and more. Often likened to an Amazon-meets-Postmates rival, itmakes for a vegan’s paradise.

Sean’s newest e-commerce venture follows his reign as founder of Namaste technologies where he helped lead the company to a $1 billion market cap and multi-million dollar IPO in just two years. The company debuted its IPO on the Canadian Securities Exchange and moved up to the Toronto Stock Exchange.

In his global keynote on Feb. 15, Sean will drill down on what leaders must get right when scaling companies rapidly in today’s business landscape.

Sean will also cover the following:

• How to leverage e-commerce strategies to rapidly scale your business
• How to develop and package a company that catches the eye of the market
• Lessons learned in sustainable growth, effective hiring, and inventory management
• Operational mistakes to avoid as a founder

Opening Remarks @ 9:30am PT

Join us for opening remarks with Dina Fattom, Member Success Manager at Founders Network, to get the latest updates from the Network and opportunities for getting involved.

Keynote Speaker @ 9:40am PT

Sean Dollinger is an entrepreneur with a keen ability to take an idea from conception through successful execution. He has an incredibly diverse background in all facets of e-commerce. In the early 2000s, while attending university on a baseball scholarship, Sean started a food delivery service similar to today’s Postmates and Uber Eats. He accomplished this before the smartphone even existed. After that, while attending a computer specialty school, Sean officially began his career in e-commerce with an online platform for selling satellite parts. This business was hugely successful and was the starting point for what continues to be a successful career. Sean’s most recent project is PlantX, which he founded in Summer 2019. PlantX is not only an online store for plant-based products, but a full online vegan community, where users can order healthy vegan meals, and learn about the vegan lifestyle through discussions and blogs.

Stage-Based Roundtables @ 10:30 am PT

Community Partners:

Jeff Erickson

Jeff leads the Partnerships Team at Forecastr — a leading FP&A software company that helps startups create kick-butt financial models to impress investors, confidently raise capital, and effectively run their businesses better.

Jeff serves on the advisory boards of several startup companies and is an active angel investor. He's passionate about startups and enjoys working with founders and mentoring entrepreneurs.

Jeff is an experienced entrepreneur and was the founder and CEO of a successful consumer goods company that he rapidly grew from $1M in sales its first year to over $40M in annual revenue in its fourth year of operations and was ranked #138 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies.

Prior to founding his own company, Jeff was a partner at Beanstalk Partners where he led the sales and business development activities. He also served as the National Sales Director for a venture-backed tech startup where he generated over $45M in client contracts and developed the company’s channel partner program.

Jeff has a degree in accounting and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Utah. After receiving his MBA in Finance from the University of Utah he served as the Vice President of Investments for Sentry Financial Corporation.

Cathy Keeler

Cathy is the Managing Partner at FullScope Growth, a global consortium of elite Fractional Executives and Business Acceleration Partners that provide the exact combination of experts that organizations require.

She has cross-functional experience in sales, management, marketing and business planning, client services, network development and operations. Delivers strong results within highly competitive markets.

Guests Are Welcome!

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