wallapopa leading online classifieds company, has announced the appointment of Rob Cassedy as the new CEO of the company. Cassedy, an expert in FMCG technologies, will help guide the company into a new stage of growth.
Who is Rob Cassedy?
Cassedy is in the European online classifieds industry. He spent the last three years as Managing Director of eBay Kleinanzeigen in Germany, the largest classifieds business in Europe with almost 500 million monthly visits and 30 million active ads. Before eBay Kleinanzeigen, he headed the European expansion for eBay Inc. As an engineer, Cassedy began his career in strategic consulting at Mars & Co.. and earned her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Cassedy will assume the position of CEO of the company on October 1, 2018. In his first statements after the announcement of his appointment, he was optimistic about this new stage: “I am delighted to be joining Wallapop at this exciting stage in its evolution and look forward to working with a great team that has demonstrated a strong track record in customer-focused innovation.”
Agustín Gómez, new President of Wallapop
Agustin Gomez, who co-founded and has run Wallapop for its first six years, assumes the role of company president from where he will support Rob in this new stage. According to Augustine “Rob and I share the same vision for the new generation of online classifieds that Wallapop is leading. The experience that Having Rob in managing high-growth, high-return classifieds in Europe is a huge boost for Wallapop and his ambitions for the future.”
A new step in the history of Wallapop
As we told you in this Spanish company, it has achieved notable growth since its foundation in 2013 at the hands of , Gerard Olive (founder of BeRepublic) and Michael Vincent (founder of LetsBonus) wanted to give you a lap to business of classified ads and bring the typical market of a lifetime to the new mobile platforms.
thus was born Fleapster, or what could be called the first version in the history of Wallapop. The truth is that the creators were not too convinced by the name: they wanted one catchier. That is why in September of that same year its creation It was renamed Wallapop permanently.
What came later was an incessant chain of successes that led this Spanish company to internationalize and become a reference in the sale of products between individuals in a large number of countries around the world, including the United States, where it operates hand in hand with Letgo.
Wallapop is currently ranked number 1 in Spain, covering traditional and vertical high-value consumer goods categories such as motor, services and real estate. More than 6 million daily visitswallapop moves more than 5 million euros in transactions per day. Having started monetizing less than a year ago, the company is on a clear path to profitability.
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