Overview

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Prior to serving as CEO, announced November 3, 2015, Rich Williams served as Chief Operating Officer for Groupon, a position he earned in June 2015. He also serves as President of North America, a position he's held since October 2014. He was previously Groupon's SVP of Marketing. He joined the company in June 2011 with nearly 20 years of experience. Throughout his career, Rich has overseen some of the largest online marketing programs in the world, including the analytics and technology that power them.

Immediately prior to joining Groupon, he ran Worldwide Marketing and Advertising at Amazon. While at Amazon, Rich split his time between building scalable software to manage Amazon’s global automated advertising programs and coming up with TV ads for the Amazon Kindle (among other things).

Prior to joining Amazon, Rich spent nearly 7 years developing marketing programs and technologies in a variety of leadership roles at Experian, including running marketing for Experian’s Interactive companies and launching Experian’s Real Time Marketing platform in its Marketing Services division. Before his time at Experian, Rich mostly walked the Earth like Caine from Kung Fu, earning room and board in exchange for working odd jobs in marketing, advertising and creative. Rich spends much of his spare time with his wife and daughter, often getting his hands dirty in the small winery they own together.