Jan-Christopher Nugent

Operating Partner

Act One Ventures · Los Angeles, California, United States

Present

Act One is an early stage VC investing in the future of SAS, AI, fintech and ecommerce enablement. We are actively investing out of our Fund III and raising fund IV.

Cofounder and Ceo

Nogin

• Co-founded Nogin, establishing it as a premier Commerce as a Service (CAAS) platform. • Spearheaded growth initiatives, leading to over $140MM in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). • IPO in September 2022.

Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Digital River

As part of the acquisition of Commerce5 I had the privilege to run Sales and Marketing Globally for the Global Tech ( Enterprise) Division of this hyper growthNASD (DRIV) publicly traded ECommerce Company. Global wins included Microsoft, Samsung, Nokia, Gateway, Sony, HP and well as much of the Consumer Electronics and Software industry.

Chief Revenue Officer (Cro)

Commerce5

Turned around the growth and market presence and sold Commerce 5 to the world leader in outsourced ecommerce Digital River (NASD-DRIV). This was a fun project as it required a company rename/ rebrand and product innovation/ market repositioning to restore triple digit growth while also having limited cash post bubble.

Divisional Vice President of Sales

The Fantastic Corporation

I was fortunate enough to contribute to The Fantastic Corporation in its 6.5BB IPO October 1999. I ran a sales team growing from $0-$50MM in ARR with major deals to Lucent, Loral, Cincinnati Bell, BSkyB as well as major content players such as NFL, Viacom, Fox, Eurosport.

National Sales Manager

Mirror Software

Built a sales team from being a single contributor and $0 revenue to 21 Nationally and $25MM for this medical software company. Architected an indirect sales channel with Allergan, Coherent and that went on to double company post my tenure.