CompanyCompany Background Shaun Jayasundera founded Revolve in 2005. After spending over a decade at Dell Inc. in executive positions in marketing, finance and general management, Shaun was convinced that there was a better way to bring extended services to market. He concluded that by giving customers more choices on how to pay and the flexibility to control the duration of their services--without long-term commitments--that customers would perceive even greater value from extended services purchases. Revolve was created specifically to enable extended warranties and other services to be sold on a monthly basis for consumer electronics, appliances and personal computers. From the beginning, Revolve sought to combine monthly warranties with sophisticated, yet easy to use, technological capabilities. By making it easy to process warranty orders, providing insightful reporting and analytics to understand the business, calculating retailer sales rep’s commissions and having advanced pricing features that can attract and retain customers, Revolve has brought innovation to the industry in many ways. Leadership TeamJ. Shaun Jayasundera Prior to founding Revolve, Shaun spent twelve years at Dell Inc. in a variety of executive positions in marketing, finance and general management. Most recently Shaun spent three years as an expatriate for Dell in Asia, where he served as General Manager and Marketing Director of the Consumer and Small Business Divisions of Dell South Asia and Dell Asia, respectively. There he helped accelerate Dell’s businesses while also expanding Dell’s Small Business division to several countries, including India and Taiwan. Prior to his overseas assignment, Shaun was Director of Financing and Payments of the U.S. Consumer Division. In this role, he initiated several monthly payment plans that were widely accepted by customers and which supported the division’s rapid growth to the number one market position. Also, as Director of Best Practices for Dell Worldwide Consumer and Small Business, Shaun became globally respected for his expertise in pricing and marketing in these business segments. Shaun has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Robin Lowman Robin brings many years of technology services experience to Revolve. During eight years at Dell Inc., he held various management roles, which included technical support, customer services and marketing, and software management. His responsibilities included managing and helping increase customer satisfaction in customer and technical support and also driving strong analytics for proper measurement of services delivery. Following his Dell experience, Robin managed worldwide customer service operations and vendor relationships for repair services at Seagate Technology. Robin has a BS in Operations and Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Janet Mountain Janet spent eight years at Dell Inc., where she was most recently Vice President and General Manager of the U.S. Consumer Division. Prior to that position, she was Vice President and General Manager of the Worldwide Consumer and Small Business Desktops product line. Janet also served as Marketing Director of the U.S. Consumer and Small Business Divisions. Janet was a key contributor to the rapid growth of the Consumer and Small Business divisions during her tenure at Dell. She is also widely regarded for establishing the core marketing principles of these divisions. Currently, she runs one of the world's largest philanthropic foundations. Janet has a BBA in International Business from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Harsha Wickramasinghe Harsha Wickramasinghe was most recently the Secretary of Commerce and Consumer Affairs of Sri Lanka. In this role, he initiated work on free trade agreements with several countries, including the United States, Singapore and India. He assisted with changes to new company law and established the key intellectual property legislation in effect today. Earlier, he was General Manager of the Sri Lanka Shipping Corporation and Additional Secretary of the Trade and Shipping Ministry. There he lead the modernization of Sri Lanka’s principal port at Colombo, catapulting the port to become a major gateway and hub of South Asia. He is also a director at the Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation. Harsha has BA and graduate degrees in Economics, from the University of Peradeniya and Oxford University, respectively.
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