Meet the team behind Ovation!

Our Mission

Enable Businesses to Measure, Build, and Maintain Trust with their Customers.

ROCKSTAR Team!

From incredible interns, amazing customer support staff, tireless coders, on-the-ball operations specialists, and creative marketers–the team makes the company! We love the Ovation Nation! Reach out to hello@ovationup.com if you are interested in joining the team.

Why do restaurants LOVE Ovation?

Customer Video Testimonials

Board of Advisors

Kelly Macpherson

Former CIO of Burger King, Tim Hortons, Popeyes, Abercrombie & Fitch, Planet Hollywood, and Hard Rock Cafe, Kelly has spent almost 30 years in restaurant/retail

Glen Anderson

27 years experience: Google 11 years (7 networking, 4 in machine learning), 16 years in chip design and software. He’s more than a fun guy, he is a brainiac!

Wade Allen

SVP & Head of Innovation at Brinker International, and instrumental in creating It’s Just Wings, Wade is an expert in digital innovation.

Steve Young

15-year pro-football QB, NFL 3x MVP, philanthropist, President of HGGC, and loves to give Zack a hard time about hurting his shoulder playing tennis.

Michael “Schatzy” Schatzberg

Managing Director for Branded Restaurants. He has over 25 years of marketing, brand development, management and hospitality experience.

Our Values.

Ovation strives to build a company culture reflecting core values that not only helps us grow as a company, but as a team.

Keep Focus

Get it done in order: family, beliefs, health, job

Be a Partner

Exhibit innovation, communication, and dependability-ation

Build Value

Do good for customers, each other, and the industry

Celebrate!

Express gratitude, have fun, and celebrate wins

Default to How

Encourage new ideas from all and dig to the root reasons

Zack Oates

Grew up in restaurants/retail. Went on over 1,000 dates before he met his wife. He learned about relationships from both. Award-winning entrepreneur, rung the NASDAQ, author, and relationship guru.

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 Letter from the CEO

I grew up in the restaurant industry and learned that the main reason for everything we do–from training, to food quality, to ambiance, to technology–is to improve the guest experience.

Unfortunately, there are no great ways to measure guest experience. Long surveys are too much effort. Online reviews are too late and too public. Table touches are not scalable and people tend to not be honest.

That’s why I teamed up with an incredible team and gathered feedback from thousands of restaurant owners to create Ovation–a tool that has become America’s #1 feedback solution for restaurants.

Frictionless for your guests and simple to take action. The best of both worlds!

I sincerely hope that we can create a better experience for guests, for your staff, and for you.

Please connect with the Ovation team and let’s see how we can work together!

– Zack Oates

Careers Opportunities

Want to be a part of the Team?

Send your resume to the following email and we will get back to you.

hello@ovationup.com

More about Ovation!

Video Testimonials
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