Co-founder and CEO, BodesWell, Inc.
Matthew Bellows is the co-founder and CEO of BodesWell, Inc., a fin-tech startup—his third venture—that provides a software-based financial engine that delivers automated financial planning to help users achieve better outcomes.
Before co-founding BodesWell, he co-founded and became CEO of Yesware, a leading email productivity platform serving over 60,000 salespeople at companies like Box, Salesforce.com, and Yelp. After leading Yesware for the first eight years of the company's life, he now serves as its Board Chair.
Prior to Yesware, Bellows held several leadership roles, including VP of Sales at Vivox, which Unity acquired. Before that, he served as General Manager at Floodgate, which was acquired by Zynga. The first startup he founded, WGR Media, saw substantial success, he was CEO of WGR Media when it was acquired by CNET Networks. Other leadership roles include VP Sales and Marketing of Interstep which was acquired by Flycast/CMGI.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Naropa University before earning an MBA from the Olin School for Business at Babson College with the distinction of graduating magna cum laude.
Bellows has practiced meditation for 25 years. He became a certified meditation instructor in 2004
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