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Stephen Wakeling

Executive Chair, Phobio | Founder Focused on Strategy, Innovation, and Growth

📍 Kennesaw, Georgia, United States🔄 Updated November 2026💼 3 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 United States
3
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2
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0
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0
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7y
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Board Member
Jun 2019
​​We Are Rosie exists to build a more flexible, inclusive, and human future of work in marketing and advertising. We future-proof brands and agencies with a layer of flexible talent that can scale up, down, and sideways—all on demand. Whether you need one marketer or a thousand, we’ve got you covered with a diverse community of 20,000+ independent marketing experts skilled across every discipline, from media and creative to strategy and analytics. Learn more about our services: https://bit.ly/3CnM5Ms Interested in becoming a Rosie? Join our community: https://bit.ly/3Tk4Jvv 🌹 The Rosie Difference We Are Inclusive: 40% of Rosies booked identify as BIPOC We Are Equitable: 99% M/F pay parity Remote Work is in Our DNA: 98% of Rosie hours have been worked remotely (since 2018) We Are Trusted: We partner with 25+ Fortune 500 brands and all 6 agency-holding companies 🌹 A few of our accolades 2022 Best Places to Work - BIG Awards 2022 Entrepreneur Of The Year ® 2022 Southeast Award Winner- Stephanie Nadi Olson 2022 Advertising Hall of Achievement Award - Stephanie Nadi Olson 2022 Inc 5000 Awards ranked No. 232 2022 Women’s Choice Award® Best Companies for Women, Diversity & Millennials 2021 AdWeek Women Trailblazers - Stephanie Nadi Olson 2020 AdAge A-List Awards: Visionary/Founder of the Year - Stephanie Nadi Olson …and many more!
Co-founder, Board Member
May 2019
Rodio is an easy-to-use communications platform for organizations with dispersed teams working variable hours. Rodio delivers prioritized, secure and trackable messages, information and surveys to the right teammates at the right time. It serves as a hub where you can integrate all communications in one place. This simple platform solves leadership issues, drives engagement and allows your teams to focus on improving the end customer experience.
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2021
Board Member
Jan 2021
The College of Business Administration offers an innovative, high quality, business-connected learning environment to prepare students for a variety of careers in the ever-changing world of business. The college offers a quality education through the School of Accounting and the Departments of Business Information Systems, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance and Law, Management, and Marketing and Hospitality Services Administration.
2019
Board Member
Jun 2019
​​We Are Rosie exists to build a more flexible, inclusive, and human future of work in marketing and advertising. We future-proof brands and agencies with a layer of flexible talent that can scale up, down, and sideways—all on demand. Whether you need one marketer or a thousand, we’ve got you covered with a diverse community of 20,000+ independent marketing experts skilled across every discipline, from media and creative to strategy and analytics. Learn more about our services: https://bit.ly/3CnM5Ms Interested in becoming a Rosie? Join our community: https://bit.ly/3Tk4Jvv 🌹 The Rosie Difference We Are Inclusive: 40% of Rosies booked identify as BIPOC We Are Equitable: 99% M/F pay parity Remote Work is in Our DNA: 98% of Rosie hours have been worked remotely (since 2018) We Are Trusted: We partner with 25+ Fortune 500 brands and all 6 agency-holding companies 🌹 A few of our accolades 2022 Best Places to Work - BIG Awards 2022 Entrepreneur Of The Year ® 2022 Southeast Award Winner- Stephanie Nadi Olson 2022 Advertising Hall of Achievement Award - Stephanie Nadi Olson 2022 Inc 5000 Awards ranked No. 232 2022 Women’s Choice Award® Best Companies for Women, Diversity & Millennials 2021 AdWeek Women Trailblazers - Stephanie Nadi Olson 2020 AdAge A-List Awards: Visionary/Founder of the Year - Stephanie Nadi Olson …and many more!
Co-founder, Board Member
May 2019
Rodio is an easy-to-use communications platform for organizations with dispersed teams working variable hours. Rodio delivers prioritized, secure and trackable messages, information and surveys to the right teammates at the right time. It serves as a hub where you can integrate all communications in one place. This simple platform solves leadership issues, drives engagement and allows your teams to focus on improving the end customer experience.
2010
Founder and CEO
Jan 2010
We believe every device should have multiple lives before it is recycled to make something new, and we’re obsessed with delivering great customer experiences that make it easy for people to do the right thing. We reject the old model of take→make→waste and instead promote the reuse of resilient products. With creativity and persistence we can build a restorative economy that maximizes resources, expands access, and fuels innovation. This is why we built Phobio together, and it is what drives us every day.
2005
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Principal
Jul 2005
Investment activity
2019–2021 · 3 investments
2019220211
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