JEREMY S. DE BONET

Southborough, MA • 617-953-7369 • jeremy@debonet.com • www.debonet.com
Platform-Transformation CEO • P&L Operator • Organizational Builder

Best suited for $100M–$500M revenue companies facing structural inflections that require platform reinvention, organizational redesign, and 12–36 month EBITDA acceleration.

CEO / OPERATOR PROFILE

Platform-transformation CEO who drives EBITDA expansion by redesigning architecture, cost structure, organization, and execution cadence. Identifies structural inflections early, invents architectures that change unit economics, and rebuilds teams and systems to realize gains within 12–36 months. Combines invention (100+ patents, Emmy Award) with P&L leadership across startups, Fortune 50, and $30B enterprises—translating architectural decisions directly into EBITDA, cash-generation, and long-term margin structure.

Operating scope: Full P&L ownership; $75M+ program budgets; leadership experience from 15 to 1,500+ across startups, Amazon, and Shopify.

VALUE CREATION SUMMARY

EBITDA (Shopify): Identified $1B+ EBITDA potential through architecture redesign, cost optimization, and platform consolidation.
Industrial cost structure (Building Machines): Delivered 70% cost reduction, 7–9× lower conversion cost, ~6× labor reduction, and 6–12× cycle-time improvement in a $1.8T industry via autonomous-architecture redesign.
Capex & unit economics (Amazon): Reduced checkout-free retail from $10M+ per store to sub-$1,000 BOM through architectural simplification and hardware/software integration.
Opex & SG&A (AMFM): Achieved 3× Opex reduction for a $30B network through tax-advantaged $350M bandwidth-for-ads structure enabled by digital consolidation.
ARR & scale (MobiTV): Invented the core technology that made the business possible and designed the platform architecture that made it economically viable, establishing the unit economics (cost/subscriber, carrier margin splits, bandwidth economics) that enabled scaling to 7M subscribers and $325M ARR.

SIGNATURE PATTERN

Find Inflection → Architect Unlock → Redesign Organization → Drive EBITDA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SHOPIFY — Remote (Boston, MA; HQ Ottawa, ON)

Vice President & Distinguished Engineer | 2025–Present
Scale: 5,300-engineer platform; 130-person division (taken over within first 60 days).
Mandate: Transform platform architecture, cost structure, and execution velocity.

Identified $1B+ EBITDA potential through architecture redesign, cost optimization, and platform consolidation.
Architected framework consolidating 10 fragmented projects into a unified platform, eliminating duplication, enabling $30–40M annual operational savings, and freeing development resources to pursue value-add opportunities.
Engineered system changes driving 3–5% GMV uplift through improved conversion pathways and cross-platform coherence.
100-day reset of 130-person division: replaced underperforming leaders, coached and elevated high-potential “diamonds in the rough,” raised the talent bar, rewrote charters, reset cadence, instituted AI-first architecture, repointed the developer platform from third-party-only to internal backbone, and instituted weekly roll-up “commitment and delivery” reporting that created a self-propelling culture, exposed under-performers, regularized operating cadence, and improved cross-team coordination.

BUILDING MACHINES, INC. — Boston, MA

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder | 2020–2025
Mandate: Redesign cost/throughput model in $1.8T structural concrete; manage capital in downturn.

Achieved 70% cost reduction, 7–9× lower conversion cost, ~6× labor reduction, and 6–12× cycle-time gains by inventing autonomous casting architecture and eliminating labor-intensive steps.
Raised $7.5M; built strategic relationships with 30+ robotics CEOs/CTOs for talent access and market intelligence.
Built high-output team (Amazon/iRobot/MIT) and operating cadence focused on rapid risk reduction and cost-curve improvement.
Created robotics/materials/architecture IP enabling scalable autonomous factories.
Executed disciplined wind-down preserving IP and investor alignment during contraction.

AMAZON — Seattle, WA & Boston, MA

Director, Just Walk Out Technology (Dash Cart) | 2014–2019
Scale: ~140 people across two sites; $75M+ annual budget; launched stand-alone 80k sq ft R&D center.

Made checkout-free retail economically viable for grocery/big-box formats by architecting a sub-$1,000 BOM system replacing $10M+ per-store Amazon Go designs.
Delivered first product in 14 months via architectural consolidation and execution-cadence reset.
Redesigned Seattle organization from functional (EE/ME) to cross-disciplinary project teams—requiring leadership overhaul, new charters, talent development, and stakeholder alignment—yielding ~3× execution velocity and ~8× reduction in designed-component costs from a smaller team.
Led technical diligence for $100M+ Canvas Technology acquisition, aligning autonomous mobility with economic roadmap.
Set unified architecture and hiring bar across Boston and Seattle under shared cost/throughput targets.

MOBITV, INC. — Emeryville, CA

Chief Technology Officer | 2001–2006
Scale: 7M subscribers; $325M ARR; 300+ engineers.

Invented the core technology that made the business possible and designed the platform architecture that made it economically viable, establishing the unit economics (cost/subscriber, carrier margin splits, bandwidth economics) that enabled scaling to 7M subscribers and $325M ARR.
Delivered carrier integrations supporting millions of concurrent users via distributed-systems redesign.
Received Emmy Award for core technical architecture enabling the revenue model.

AMFM (Acquired by Clear Channel) — Cambridge, MA

Chief Technology Officer | 1998–2000

Drove 3× Opex reduction through a ~$350M bandwidth-for-advertising barter enabled by digital consolidation.
Rebuilt digital architecture to support scalable margin expansion across 465 stations.
Led acquisition diligence to align cost structure with the company’s roll-up strategy.

EARLY TRANSFORMATION ORIGIN

Early ventures established a repeatable pattern: spotting inflections early, inventing the architecture that monetizes them, and executing with high capital efficiency.

ASSEMBLE MEDIA — CTO & Founder (Acquired)
Operated with minimal draw from $9M committed and achieved an exit during the dot-com implosion by inventing and commercializing an AI-personalized broadcast engine.

SKYWARD MOBILE — CEO & Founder
Partially bootstrapped and raised $2M. Invented technology enabling iPhone-like applications on low-end, pre-smartphone hardware—unlocking the mobile-app market (now a $100B+ sector) through innovation rather than capital intensity.

COPILOTED — CEO
Fully bootstrapped. Scaled to $35M AUM in 3 months from launch with AI-powered robo-advisory optimized for the constraints of 401(k) retirement accounts.

BOARD, INVESTOR & M&A EXPERIENCE

Chairman of the Board at Building Machines, overseeing governance, investor alignment, and strategic direction.
Board-level reporting at MobiTV, aligning architectural roadmap with capital allocation and EBITDA model.
Strategic engagement with Jeff Bezos and the Amazon S-Team on architecture, capex/opex, and long-horizon retail economics.
Led diligence for $100M+ Canvas Technology acquisition.
Advisor to AI, robotics, and platform companies; collaborated with PE operating partners on transformation theses.
Raised $18.5M across three ventures with high capital efficiency.

EDUCATION & RECOGNITION

MIT — M.S. Computer Science (AI Lab), doctoral research, Microsoft Research Investigator
Columbia University — B.S. Applied Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude (graduated ~19)

100+ U.S. Patents • 40+ Publications (5,400+ citations) • Emmy Award (2005)
Author of The Bricklayer’s Son.

TARGET ROLE

PE-backed CEO at $100M–$500M revenue company requiring platform transformation, organizational rebuilding, and EBITDA acceleration, with full P&L authority.

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