Jason Davis

Co-Founder

Jason has 20+ years of experience in creating and building technology based businesses in roles ranging from market leader to founder. He has always been passionate about helping take ideas from concept to market, with a particular interest in helping to develop and execute on product marketing and channel distribution strategies. Prior to co-founding RocketSled, Jason was the Managing Director of the Products & Innovation group at Slalom, where his team focused on empowering start-ups and enterprises to rapidly ideate, create and launch validated products. In addition to his role at RocketSled, Jason also serves on the Advisory Board of PointDrive, a Chicago based start-up.

 

Courtney Shuster

Co-Founder

Courtney’s career began at Circles, an early stage start-up where she helped raise $22M in funding and took on a variety of product roles to help grow Circles into a world-class concierge provider to clients like American Express, Citibank and Neiman Marcus. In 2007, Circles was acquired by hospitality giant Sodexo. Courtney became VP of Marketing and Product of Spire, a spin-off of Circles, until it was acquired by Perfect Escapes in 2010. Most recently, Courtney was Practice Lead of the Products & Innovation group at Slalom where she worked with enterprises and start-ups to invent and launch new digital products.

 

Jim "Buzz" Buswell

Co-Founder

Buzz is a technologist with over 15 years of experience leading digital product teams within startups and large enterprises. Buzz started his career as a consultant programming in Java and using agile methodologies to build large scale web applications. Most recently, he was Practice Director and co-founder of the Products & Innovation group at Slalom, where he led digital teams in reducing the waste of traditional software development by quickly validating product concepts before going to full-scale development. He is also an advisory board member to PointDrive and served as interim CTO.