Interview: Jorey Ramer, Founder, SUPER

Tell us a little about your professional background.

I started my first business with a friend in high school, it was a non-profit focused on increasing rates of volunteerism. I raised my first seed funding in college from the then-current CEO of Merrill Lynch. We did good work, eventually organizing events with over 150,000 volunteers nationwide. The organization operated for about a decade before hitting a funding shortfall, but it was a formative experience. I’ve spent my entire career since starting new businesses or new units inside of businesses.

I began my career in earnest after college at Trilogy Software, one of the world’s largest privately-held software companies. I co-founded Trilogy’s financial services division, the largest unit by revenue within two years. Using that same technology, we spun off a company that was acquired by Fortune 500 member Marsh & McLennan, a diversified risk, insurance, and professional services firm.

Before founding Super, I founded Jumptap, a mobile advertising company, with a Boston-based venture capital firm. Jumptap was acquired by a publicly traded company called Millennial Media, now part of AOL. Jumptap and Millennial’s combined market share in US mobile advertising was on par with Google’s at that time. During my time at Jumptap, I started and grew new business initiatives, including the patent portfolio; I’m the first named inventor on about 100 issued patents in the US and Asia.