About me
Rebekah Campbell bio 2014
Rebekah is Founder and CEO of Posse.com, a social search engine launched in 2013 that helps people find and recommend their favourite places and interact with storeowners. Posse is used by 45,000 merchants worldwide and is backed by leaders from Google, Facebook, Twitter and E-Bay.
Prior to Posse.com, Rebekah founded Scorpio Music, one of Australia's most successful music companies. Scorpio developed the careers of Evermore, George, Lisa Mitchell, Matt Corby and many others.
Rebekah has been instrumental in creating fundraising events such as Make Poverty History in 2006. In 1999 she launched the Levi’s Life Festival, raising awareness of youth suicide. She is Chairperson of Chapel By The Sea (a community organisation that runs a homeless centre, kindergartens and indigenous empowerment projects at Bondi Beach), is a director at Campaign Action, Australia’s first grassroots political training organization, and an advisory board member for Kidpreneur, a non-profit organisation that teaches kids to start businesses.
Rebekah is passionate about entrepreneurship and community building. She writes a weekly column for the New York Times at: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/author/rebekah-campbell/
Projects
- PosseCompany Overview Posse helps you find all the best places in the world according to people whose tastes you can trust – your friends. So the next time you’re in a new city or are even just hanging out in your own neighborhood, you’ll know exactly where to go for the best of everything. Description Search Posse is the world’s first social search engine. Tell Posse what you want, like 'great coffee’, ‘brunch', 'salon' or ‘gym’, anywhere in the world and you’ll get recommendations from your Posse;
Work history
Columnist
I write a weekly column on entrepreneurship and my own journey. This is published at: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/author/rebekah-campbell/
Founder & CEO
Posse.com is an ambitious social network that helps people to find the favourite places of their friends. Next time you travel to a new place try searching Posse before Google, Yelp or TripAdvisor and you'll get much better suggestions for restaurants, bars, hotels, shops & places to go!
Posse.com is always on the hunt for talented engineers to join our world-class Sydney based team. For more info email: jobs@posse.com
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Skills
- Digital Media
- Blogging
- Management
- Marketing
- Social Media Marketing
- Entertainment
- Entrepreneurship
- Digital Marketing
- Online Marketing
- Leadership
- Social Media
- E-commerce
- Start UPS
- Social Networking
- Startup
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science Maori Language
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Awards
APEC Young Woman Innovator of the Year
APEC
Top Ten Business Ideas for 2010
Springwise.com 'Top Ten Business Ideas for 2010' for Posse.com
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