Russell Sims

Leading Business Operations @ Apollo.io | ex-Meta | ex-Morgan Stanley

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Experienced Business Operations, Operations Strategy, and Product Strategy leader specializing in helping businesses and teams grow, measure/track success, increase operational efficiency, and plan/scale for the future. 19 years of total experience (16 years in high growth tech) partnering with executive leadership across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Operations.

Experience

  • Senior Director, Head of Business Operations at Apollo.io
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

    - Leading the Business Operations organization at Apollo.io

  • Director, Business Operations & Engineering at Meta
    Nov 2019 - Jun 2023 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    - Built and scaled a global team of Product Managers, Technical Program Managers, and Product Designers responsible for building internal products & tools for the Chief Business Officer’s Meta Business Group - Led the team’s bi-annual prioritization, OKR, and product roadmap creation & review processes

  • Director Of Operations at Skillz Inc.
    May 2019 - Nov 2019 · 7 mos

    - Led Business Operations, People Operations, and Workplace Operations teams

  • Facebook ()
    • Senior Manager, Business Planning & Operations - Business Product Marketing
      Aug 2016 - May 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      - Served as business partner to the VP of Facebook's Business Product Marketing (BPM) organization. - Managed a global, multi-disciplinary team of operations and analytics leads to drive business operations, analytics, organizational strategy, goaling, and investment planning for the BPM organization

    • Global Growth Lead, Facebook's Audience Network
      Jan 2015 - Aug 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos

      - Led small & medium developer growth strategy and operations for Facebook's mobile ad network (Audience Network) - Helped grow Audience Network to a $1Bn+ annual business in less than one year

    • Program Manager, Business Operations - Small Business Group & Global Sales Outsourcing
      Jun 2012 - Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      - Served as business partner to the VP of Small & Medium Business and the Head of Global Sales Outsourcing, providing them with analytical and strategic support to grow Facebook’s SMB team and expand the Company’s outsourced sales business globally - Designed and owned P&L, ROI, and operational constraints models that provided Facebook’s CFO & CRO with financial, operational, and strategic insights into the performance of 9 call center programs across 4 continents

  • Senior Analyst, Investment Banking Division - Financial Sponsors Group at Morgan Stanley
    Jul 2007 - Jul 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    - Served as an Analyst and Senior Analyst in the Financial Sponsors Group within Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking Division: - Completed complex financial models incorporating leveraged buyout, IPO valuation, dividend recapitalization and bond repurchase scenarios - Select Transactions: 1) $1.9Bn Purchase of First Republic Bank from Bank of America: - Managed the equity syndication process. Organized management presentation meetings, diligence & investor calls 2) $250MM Senior Notes Offering, Amendment to Term Loan Facility, and $272MM IPO for Express, LLC - Built the master model, sensitizing around seven transaction structures and three operating cases, in order to determine optimal transaction structure