Simon Berg Founder & CEO of Ceros will
Transition to Board Director
Ceros partners with 900+
enterprise customers to create premium digital experiences
NEW
YORK, May 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- After over a
decade, Simon Berg, Founder &
CEO of Ceros will be stepping down as CEO and serve as Board
Director. In partnership with Simon and the Ceros Board,
Alison Lange Engel is named Chief
Executive Officer. Engel brings deep market and operational
experience to Ceros previously holding executive level roles at
LinkedIn, Greycroft, and Stripe. Throughout Engel's diverse career,
she has helped build companies from the ground up, from early stage
startups to post-IPO category leaders.
Prior to Ceros, Engel joined Stripe as the CMO at the Series D
in 2016, before eventually becoming Partner at venture capital firm
Greycroft, where she advised and invested in early and growth-stage
founders. Through her role at Greycroft, Alison formed a
relationship with Ceros and joined its Board, where she served as
Director for over three years.
In 2011, Alison was recruited to LinkedIn pre-IPO to build the
Marketing Solutions business, where she hired and led a Marketing
team of more than 100 employees in 12 cities and helped grow
revenue by 10x through the sale to Microsoft in 2016. Additionally,
her accolades and resume include posts at Microsoft, Goldman Sachs,
and startup Massive Inc. where she joined as employee 16 and led
global marketing for the gaming platform, which was then sold to
Microsoft in 2006.
As founder and CEO, Berg was responsible for growing Ceros from
zero revenue to over $50M in ARR and
900+ enterprise customers across all sectors including Colliers,
McKesson, McKinsey, Red Bull,
Spencer Stuart, The Skimm, The
Telegraph, Unispace, and Univision. Berg secured a $100 million strategic investment for Ceros in
2020 from Sumeru Equity Partners and existing investors including
Grotech, StarVest and Greycroft. With over 30 years of experience
in the tech, advertising and marketing industries, Berg is a
creative entrepreneur, AI thought leader, and culture building
expert. After he dropped out of school at just 16-years-old, Simon
began working for a creative production agency, which served as a
catalyst for his 20-year journey to CEO of the same agency: FMG
(Now BORN Group). As CEO, Simon led the charge to sell the agency
in order to build and grow Ceros, which he incubated while at
FMG.
Berg said: "I'm beyond proud of what we've accomplished at
Ceros, and excited to see what the next chapter of Ceros will be
under Alison's capable leadership. I know that she will continue to
position Ceros at the forefront of creativity and innovation. I'm
thrilled to see how Ceros will continue to foster solutions that
propel the mission of unlocking creativity forward."
Engel said: "I'm honored to succeed Simon and join the Ceros
team. I've had the opportunity to work closely with Simon and the
Ceros management team for the last few years, and he leaves Ceros
in a strong position with great momentum. I look forward to working
with the Board, Ceros management, and our dedicated team to deliver
value for all of our customers, employees and stakeholders, and
continuing to build on Simon's vision for a creative future with
unlimited possibilities."
Sanjeet Mitra and George Kadifa,
Sumeru Co-Founders and Ceros board directors said: "It's been a
pleasure working with Alison these past several years at the board
level, and we are sincerely excited to see her join as CEO. Simon
and the Ceros team have built a great business that reimagined
enterprise creativity and design. We look forward to collaborating
with Alison, Simon and the Ceros team as they scale creativity and
innovation."
For more information on Ceros, visit www.ceros.com, and for more
on Alison, check out her LinkedIn.
About Ceros:
Ceros is a content creation platform that
helps you easily create digital experiences and content. Since its
inception, Ceros has grown to hundreds of thousands of users and
over 900 enterprise clients such as Colliers, Getty, McKesson,
McKinsey, Pepsi, and Red Bull to
name a few. For the last 12 years, Ceros has been used by designers
and marketers in Fortune 500 businesses across all sectors
including tech, healthcare, financial services, real estate,
consulting, and entertainment to create digital content such as
microsites, pitch decks, product demos, reports, and more.
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