Kicking off March Madness for us this year was Hunter Gray as our new Head of Product. Hunter is natively a New Jersey boy with an LA calling. He graduated from Yale University with a Bachelors of Arts in Economics and Psychology, focusing in game theory, buying theory, and social psychology. After graduation, Hunter took his first job as a Regional Team Leader for Legalshield, Inc. This is where he gained first-hand experience in recruiting and training regional sales reps which he grew into a network of more than 10,000 reps in less than two years. His company-wide mobile initiative led him to the genesis of Genie Mobile — an intelligent sales assistant enabling professionals to prioritize their daily sales tasks in order to increase revenue and the company’s bottomline.

After five years, Hunter saw that mobile was changing the business landscape and decided to build his own business. He launched Mingling Media in 2009, a mobile development shop, where he lead product development with a team of engineers and designers launching several bespoke apps for his clients. While at Mingling Media, Hunter began building a small army of patents: first Method of Managing Network Marketing (US 20120296705 A1) then later two patents around calendar scheduling: Method for Group Scheduling (US 2014/022956), and Method of Appointment Negotiation Systems (US 13/831,758). The latter patents paved the way for his next venture, Klutch.

In 2011, Hunter founded Klutch — an award-winning mobile platform for social/group scheduling. Klutch has been featured in “Best New Apps” and “Social Networking” in the Apple App Store. It was later featured in “Social” and “Lifestyle” for more than 17 weeks. What. A. Champion! I’m not the first to recognize his accomplishments, his success earned admission to LaunchpadLA which gave him access to a new pool of strategic partnerships. Hunter’s leadership along with the app’s momentum led to the acquisition of Klutch by eBay, Inc in 2015. Hunter became the General Manager of eBay’s subsidiary, StubHub Labs, where he was responsible for the ideation, roadmap, staffing, development, and marketing for all mobile initiatives. It’s clear that Hunter is a man on a mission to create the next game-changing product and Mercury Protocol is it. He shares the same vision for Mercury as I do, for these reasons and more, Hunter will be leading the Product Team all the way to the (finals) finish line.

Fun Facts about Hunter