John Chin
Senior Director of Marketing, Grabango
John Chin is a seasoned consumer marketing veteran with over 30 years of experience bridging the retail, media, and technology verticals.
John is the Senior Director of Marketing for Grabango, the leading provider of checkout-free technology for large-scale retail chains. Grabango delivers a next-generation shopper experience and is the only enterprise-class, checkout-free solution suitable for operation in existing stores.
He has held key positions throughout the evolution of retail: starting as a buyer for a billion-dollar brick-and-mortar retail chain, overseeing e-commerce vendor relations during the dot-com bubble, spurring on the growth of digital advertising for major CE introductions such as HDTV and the iPhone, and launching the Best Buy Express automated store concept across airports. Prior companies include CNET, Monster Cable, Technicolor, and WideOrbit.
John is a Silicon Valley native and earned an accounting degree from San Jose State University. He has lived in San Francisco his entire life and continues to enjoy the city with his wife, two sons, and chocolate Labrador retriever.