Jeremy Hanks
Founder & CEO, DropShip Commerce
Jeremy is an Idaho farm boy turned serial eCommerce software entrepreneur. He is the Founder & CEO (and Chief Executive Cheerleader, Fundraiser, Recruiter, Storyteller, Culturist, Salesman, Visionary, Strategist, and Cultist) of DropShip Commerce, a leading provider of distributed supply chain management solutions.
Before DropShip Commerce, he founded and Doba, an eCommerce drop shipping virtual distributor. Under his leadership, Doba grew over 3,000 percent in four years, was ranked No. 23 on the Inc. 500, was named the No. 1 fasting growing company in Utah on the MWCN Utah 100 list, and was a finalist for the 2008 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Prior to Doba, he founded GearTrade.com, a marketplace for used, closeout and distressed inventory, which he sold to the founders of Backcountry.com.
Jeremy has spoken at Internet Retailer, Shop.org, Magento Imagine, and the Inc 500 Conference and Awards Ceremony.
He is also the founder of LaunchUp.org, an event that focuses on “barn raising” monthly events for entrepreneurs in Utah, Las Vegas, and Hong Kong.
He is an avid outdoor enthusiast, and enjoys hiking and backpacking on off-the-grid “Vision Quests”, especially with his two kids and adventure buddies Kaitlin and Alex, as often as he can pull away from the black hole of technology startups.
You can read more about Jeremy on his blog: www.jeremyhanks.com