
From demand-generation plumbing to Flywheel's C-suite, the Toronto marketer built a career around the instant data, media and a shopper's decision meet.

After building software for the measurable world of Amazon ads, the Sapien founder is taking on a stranger problem: modeling human decisions before the real world sends back the bill.
Chris Compean is the co-founder and CEO of Mayan, a fully-remote SaaS platform that helps Amazon sellers grow with data-driven automation for advertising, inventory, and analytics. An MIT graduate and former early team member at Thrasio, he launched Mayan in 2020 with three MIT fraternity brothers, went through Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch, and raised a $5M Series A in 2023 led by Bright Pixel. Mayan has driven over $160M in total Amazon sales for its customers.