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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the News space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Michael Bloomberg
Founder and CEO of Bloomberg
Michael R. Bloomberg is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who served three terms as Mayor of the City of New York. In 1966, Michael R. Bloomberg was hired by a Wall Street firm, Salomon Brothers, for an entry-level job. When Salomon was acquired in 1981, he was let go from the firm. Then with a vision of an Information Technology Company, that would bring quality to the buying and selling of financial securities, Michael R. Bloomberg launched a small startup in a one room office. Today, Bloomberg Company is a global company that has more than 15,000 employees and offices in 73 countries around the world. During his occupancy as Mayor, from 2002 through 2013, he turned around a broken public school system by raising standards and holding schools accountable for success. Michael R. Bloomberg’s economic policies helped New York City experience record-levels of private-sector job growth often in formerly depressed neighborhoods. His passion for public health led to new strategies that became national representations, including a ban on smoking in all indoor workplaces, as well as at parks and beaches. Michael R. Bloomberg launched pioneering anti-poverty efforts, including the Young Men’s Initiative and the Center for Economic Opportunity. He launched national bi-partisan coalitions to combat illegal guns, reform immigration, and invest in infrastructure. In addition to Bloomberg Philanthropies’ five areas of focus: public health, arts and culture, the environment, education, and government innovation, Michael R. Bloomberg has continued to support projects of other importance to him, including his university, Johns Hopkins University, where he served as the chairman of the board of trustees from 1996 to 2001. The university’s School of Hygiene and Public Health, the largest public health facility in the U.S., is the Bloomberg School of Public Health in recognition of his commitment and support. He has donated more than $2.4 billion to a wide variety of causes and organizations. As chair of the C40 Climate Leadership Group from 2010 to 2013, Michael R. Bloomberg drew international attention to cities’ leading role in the fight against climate change. In 2014, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Michael R. Bloomberg to be U.N. Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change where he will focus on helping cities and countries set and achieve more climate change goals. Michael R. Bloomberg attended Johns Hopkins University till 1964, and later he attended Harvard Business School from where he obtained an MBA.
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About Bloomberg, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bloomberg TV, United Nations: Bloomberg provides news, data, analytics, and communication services for the global business and financial world.
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Thomas Secunda
Co-Founder, Vice Chairman & Global Head of Financial Products & Services of Bloomberg
Thomas Secunda, also known as Tom is Co-Founder of Bloomberg LP and serves as its Vice Chairman and Global Head of Financial Products & Services. Secunda served as the Chief Information Officer Bloomberg LP. He has overseen all research and development for Bloomberg, whose worldwide businesses include the Bloomberg Professional Service, television and radio networks and publishing operations. He served as the Chairman of The Board of Trustees at National Parks Conservation Association. Previously, he worked alongside Michael Bloomberg in systems research at Salomon Brothers. He serves as a Director of Bloomberg L.P. He serves on the Boards of The National Parks Conservation Association and the Intrepid Museum Foundation.
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About Bloomberg, Bloomberg TV: Bloomberg provides news, data, analytics, and communication services for the global business and financial world.
Matthew Winkler
Editor in Chief Emeritus & Founder of Bloomberg News of Bloomberg
Matthew Winkler, also known as Matt, is the News Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and has been its Editor-In-Chief Emeritus since 2015. Winkler served as its Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg L.P. Between 1991 and 1994, Winkler wrote the Capital Markets column for Forbes magazine. Between July 1980 and February 1990, Winkler was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and news services of parent Dow Jones & Co. in New York and in London. He was a New York-based reporter and assistant editor at The Bond Buyer (1978-1980); and a reporter for the Ohio-based Mount Vernon News (1976-1977). Winkler serves as Member of Advisory Board at Tsinghua University. He is trustee of Kenyon and The Kenyon Review; trustee of the business journalism program of the City University of New York; director of the International Center for Journalists; member of the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists; the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York board and the International Women’s Media Foundation board; chairman, board of Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program at Columbia University; member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia College. He is co-author of Bloomberg by Bloomberg (April 1997, John Wiley & Sons) and author of The Bloomberg Way: A Guide for Reporters and Editors, (Wiley). Winkler is a graduate of Kenyon College (A.B. in history, honorary doctorate of Laws).
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About Bloomberg: Bloomberg provides news, data, analytics, and communication services for the global business and financial world.
Sam Parr
Co-Founder & CEO of The Hustle
Sam is the founder & CEO of The Hustle – one of America’s fastest-growing media companies with a focus on millennials, tech, and culture. He also runs Hustle Con, an annual conference in San Francisco that showcases non-technical startup founders.
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About Hustle Con, The Hustle: The Hustle is helping young professionals make better decisions throughout their day starting with business news.
Scooter Braun
Founder of SB Projects
Scooter Braun is one of the entertainment industry’s biggest entrepreneurs and innovators and the founder of SB Projects, a diversified entertainment and media company with ventures at the intersection of music, film, television, technology, brands, culture, and social good. Braun has a roster of the top pop culture icons under his management, record label, and publishing companies that include Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Zac Brown Band, and Karlie Kloss. Braun has broken more new artists than any other music executive in the last decade and has expanded his reach by establishing a fund, which invests in some of the largest management, media, and rights companies in the industry. SB Projects houses a film and television production division and also continues to impact new verticals under its tech incubator, Silent Labs, which holds investments in Uber, Spotify, Songza, Casper, Waze, and Pinterest. Braun also leads Ithaca Holdings LLC., a fully integrated holding company with interests across multiple verticals. The company has built an elite portfolio of acquisitions and partnerships including the acquisition of Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine Label Group, Mythos Studios with Marvel Founding Chairman David Maisel, the acquisition of Atlas Publishing, and partnerships with management companies. Braun remains committed to SB Projects’ founding philosophy of giving back by serving on the boards of Pencils of Promise and Fuck Cancer, and he, his clients, and his companies have – together – granted more wishes for Make-A-Wish than any other organization in the history of the foundation.
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About SB Projects, TQ Ventures: SB Projects is a diversified entertainment and media company with ventures integrating music, film, television, technology and philanthropy.
Alex Jones
Founder of Infowars.com
Alexander Emerick Jones is an American far-right radio show host and conspiracy theorist. New York magazine has described Jones as “America’s leading conspiracy theorist,” and the Southern Poverty Law Center describes him as “the most prolific conspiracy theorist in contemporary America.”
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About Infowars.com: Infowars.com is an online news source owned and managed by Alex Jones.
Jason Lemkin
Trusted Advisor, Founder of SaaStr
Jason M. Lemkin runs SaaStr, the world’s largest community for B2B/SaaS founders, and is the managing director of SaaStr Fund, a $90m venture capital firm focused on early-stage enterprise investments. Prior to that, Lemkin was the vice president of [Adobe Systems](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/adobe-systems); a co-founder and the chief executive officer of [EchoSign](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/echosign); a co-founder and the president of [NanoGram Devices Corp](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nanogram-devices-corporation); vice president of [NeoPhotonics](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/neophotonics); and a senior director at [BabyCenter](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/babycenter). Lemkin has studied at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley.
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About SaaStr, SaaStr Fund: SaaStr is a blog about web services.
Atish Doshi
President, Founder of The Black Sheep
Atish started the company at, and graduated from, The University of Illinois. He now tries to tell people what to do and sometimes it works. Go-to karaoke song: “Regulate,” by Warren G and Nate Dogg.
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About The Black Sheep: We’re a college newspaper that’s actually about college! We post drinking games, college recipes and more!
Jeff Zheng
Co Founder & CEO of NewsBreak
Jeff Zheng is the Co-Founder and CEO at NewsBreak.
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About NewsBreak: News Break is the Nation’s #1 Intelligent Local News Platform
Christopher Rudy
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Cut.com, Inc.
Christopher Rudy is the CEO, Co-Founder at Cut.com.
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About Cut.com, Inc.: Cut makes little stories of some interest.
Blaine Ludy
Story Producer & Co-Founder of Cut.com, Inc.
Blaine Ludy is the Story Producer & Co-Founder at Cut.com.
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About Cut.com, Inc., Super Frog Saves Tokyo: Cut makes little stories of some interest.
Jason Hakala
Head of Production & Co-Founder of Cut.com, Inc.
Jason Hakala is the Head of Production & Co-Founder at Cut.com.
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About Cut.com, Inc., Super Frog Saves Tokyo: Cut makes little stories of some interest.
Connie Loizos
Founder & Editor of StrictlyVC
Loizos has been reporting on Silicon Valley since the late ’90s, when she joined the original Red Herring magazine. She is currently the Silicon Valley Editor of TechCrunch. She’s also the founder of StrictlyVC, a daily e-newsletter and lecture series.
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About StrictlyVC, TechCrunch: StrictlyVC publishes a daily email that provides readers information related to venture capital firms, finance, and business investment.
James Yoder
CEO & Founder of Chat Sports
James Yoder is CEO of Chat Sports and founder of Chat Sports Studios. Prior to co-founding Chat Sports, he worked for Verizon Wireless as a Mobile Product Manager. Focusing on Verizon’s Android and iOS products, James has vast experience at the forefront of mobile industry technology. Prior to Verizon, he worked for the college sports giant, Rivals.com. James graduated with a degree in Business Management from the University of Toledo. As an angel investor, James has 4 portfolio exits. All investments to date have been consumer focused.
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About Chat Sports: Chat Sports is a live sports news network for digital platforms
Bill Apfelbaum
Co-Founder of SaysMe.TV
William Apfelbaum as Chairman, effective immediately. Apfelbaum, a renowned leader in the media industry, will be responsible for accelerating the success of Media Ventures Group and its growing client roster. In addition to his recent investment in the company, Apfelbaum has investments and holds board positions in more than 10 media based companies to complement his 30-plus years of high-profile marketing and media experience. “Bill is one of the most dynamic and accomplished leaders in marketing,” said Richard Yaffa, CEO of Media Ventures Group. “Bill brings the experience, strategic insight, value and relationships to take Media Ventures Group and our clients to the next level. We could not be more excited to welcome him to our leadership team and look forward to his contributions.” A media industry legend with an unprecedented record of guiding companies to success, Apfelbaum joins Media Ventures Group from Titan Worldwide, where he served as Chairman after cofounding the company in 2001. During his tenure, Apfelbaum saw the business become the fastest growing out-of-home advertising company in history. Prior to Titan Worldwide, Apfelbaum served as Chairman and CEO of TDI, the country’s largest diversified outdoor media company, which was ultimately acquired by Westinghouse/CBS. “It is an honor for me to contribute to the continued growth and success of Media Ventures Group at this seminal time for the company,” Apfelbaum said. “I look forward to joining the already stellar team that Rich has assembled and capitalizing on the opportunity for Media Ventures Group to become a true leader in the marketing and community-building space.” Active in the philanthropic community, Apfelbaum founded the Apfelbaum Family Foundation, through which he donates time and funds to various charitable organizations. He is also a respected guest lecturer at the Harvard Business School, New York University, Columbia University, and the London Business School. He has been profiled in many leading publications, including Forbes, Advertising Age, and Chief Executive.
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About SaysMe.TV: SaysMe.TV operates as an online platform for people to buy advertising time on cable television.
Matt Marshall
Founder and CEO of VentureBeat
Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded \”Journalist of the Year\” by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.
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About VentureBeat: VentureBeat is an online technology news platform that is engaged in technology publication and events business.
Steven Ertelt
Founder and Editor of LifeNews.com
As the founder and Editor of LifeNews.com, Steven Ertelt has provided the pro-life community with news via the Internet since 1993. He also serves as the President of Colorado Citizens for Life, a statewide pro-life group, and a member of the board of directors of the National Right to Life Committee. He is the past president of Right to Life of Wyoming and previously served as the executive director of Montana Right to Life and the public affairs director for Indiana Right to Life. Mr. Ertelt is also a former president of Students for Life of America. A former radio announcer who has been interviewed on dozens of radio and television programs, Mr. Ertelt holds a bachelor’s degree in Politics from Hendrix College.
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About LifeNews.com: LifeNews.com is an independent news agency devoted to reporting news that affects the pro-life community.
John R. Adler
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Scribd
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About Scribd: Scribd is an unlimited reading subscription that offers access to books, audiobooks, magazine articles, documents and more.
Frank Yeary
Founder of WriteLab
Frank Yeary is executive chairman of CamberView Partners, a leading source of independent, investor-led advice for public companies. He was Vice Chancellor of his alma mater, University of California, Berkeley, from 2008 to 2012 and prior to this appointment was Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at Citigroup Investment Banking. Until its sale in 2015, he was also Chairman and Co-founder of Level Money, Inc., a financial organization helping the next generation of young adults achieve financial balance. As vice chancellor at UC Berkeley, Yeary led the development of a new sustainable financial strategy, designed and implemented the university’s first comprehensive middle-class financial aid program and initiated and oversaw the implementation of one of the largest re-engineering and cost reduction efforts ever undertaken by a public university. In addition, for nearly two years he acted as chief administrative officer managing a portfolio including finance, human resources, labor relations, internal controls and intercollegiate athletics. Prior to his appointment at UC Berkeley, Yeary held various positions in the investment banking division of Citigroup. During the period 2004 to 2008 he was Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions where he significantly restructured the department, nearly tripled revenues and led the firm from the fifth to the second largest M&A business, as ranked by global M&A volume. Prior to 2004 he was global head of the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) investment banking practice at Salomon Smith Barney. Yeary received a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Berkeley in history and economics. He is on the boards of directors of eBay, Inc and Intel Corporation.
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About WriteLab: WriteLab is an online writing platform offering immediate, objective, and constructive responses to any writer’s prose.
Donald McQuade
Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer of WriteLab
Donald McQuade is the Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer at WriteLab.
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About WriteLab: WriteLab is an online writing platform offering immediate, objective, and constructive responses to any writer’s prose.
Candice O’Denver
Founder and President of Balanced View
Candice O’Denver is an innovator in the practical application of philosophy as a means to benefit all. She is the inventor and founder of Balanced View, a standardized education in the nature of mind used throughout the world. Balanced View’s unique methodology applies algorithms to reach the consistent result of the beneficial empowerment of mind, speech, body, qualities and activities. Comprehensive order becomes spontaneously obvious through recognizing intelligence as inexhaustibly open in a vast space that is not restricted by the body. When Candice O’Denver was 7, a Bermuda neighbor read her “Awareness Nakedly Seeing” from the Oxford University translation of “The Tibetan Book of the Dead.” The clear perspective of mind as an inexhaustible open intelligence was newly invigorated in within her upon hearing this important text. It gave Candice O’Denver the courage to continue in her firmly held belief that everything is beneficial by nature. Candice found no distinction between Tibetan timeless awareness and the Christian God that was so important to her family. She learned that each culture has its own system for bringing out the best in people, and that each system is a perfect fit for that particular culture. Candice O’Denver felt a strong urgency to bring unity to the people of the world through a standardized means of bringing out the best in people which is Balanced View In Bermuda, European Catholic pageantry and British royals were blended with celebratory Caribbean Christianity and early steel drum music — the roots of reggae, rapped out on large discarded oil cans. Every night, the sound filled the air from nightfall to 2am, becoming the vibration of the Caribbean countries and their people, including Candice. Although the 50s occured after World War II, Jewish people were not permitted entry to the country or its lodging through a variety of devious means. Candice O’Denver’s parents gave refuge to visitors and immigrants who were not allowed in Bermuda, giving all 6 of their children a rich background in international community and friendship. Candice O’Denver studied in a Yale mathematics program for gifted children. At the age of 18, she attended a UCLA international program for young philosophers where she focused on the pragmatic application of philosophy to be of immediate, permanent benefit. Bypassing undergraduate school, Candice was accepted into and completed graduate school, studying both critical theory and fine arts with a variety of professors at California College of the Arts, Stanford, and UC Berkeley. Early in childhood, Candice O’Denver was introduced to computer science and the use of original algorithms to reach consistent results. In the seminal years of computer history, her father began the high level design of the first international computer network for food distribution. He later led the team that developed and implemented this system when technological innovations matched his aspirations. Inspired by her father’s drawings of bar codes and stories about a future of food distribution to everyone in the world based on the bar code, reducibility became Candice O’Denver’s innate way of problem-solving. Candice O’Denver is particularly interested in utilizing the philosophy and mathematics of computer science as the basis for a revolution in social science, particularly philosophy of mind, which always has been left to vague levels of abstraction with no result of permanent benefit. Candice applies precise levels of organization and explanation used in computer science to arrive at specific results in the philosophy of mind. Advancing theories of information, reducibility, organization, and explanation, Candice has developed a comparative analysis and then a comprehensive map of all known systems of education in the nature of mind and in human nature. Candice O’Denver is very involved in the Massive Vibe Project. The lyrics that we’re putting out there in the Massive Vibe project are very special lyrics and will the very core of people. We want these lyrics always to be very, very special direct communications of open intelligence. Nature’s vast, open intelligence speaking to everyone everywhere so that everyone everywhere is very simply, yet radically, developing a universal revolutionary language that has never existed before between beings of all kinds.
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About Balanced View: A global grassroots movement empowering people to use their innate power for the benefit of all.
Susan Feldman
Founder of In The Groove
Susan Feldman is the founder of In The Groove(www.getinthegroove.com), a new life-style destination for age-defying women. In The Groove is a community that celebrates and engages these women as the evolving and relevant women they are. Founded with a sense of humor, community, and self-awareness, In The Groove is on a mission to free women from rules, age limits, and expectations. Prior to In The Groove, Susan was the co-founder and visionary behind One Kings Lane, the go-to destination for home decor. One Kings Lane launched in March 2009 and an industry was disrupted. Today One Kings Lane is a daily source of shopping and design inspiration for millions of people both online and offline One Kings Lane was sold to Bed, Bath & Beyond (Nasdaq: BBBY) in June 2016. Susan remains a strategic advisor to the company. Susan has been featured in national publications including Elle Décor, House Beautiful, INStyle, New York Magazine, BusinessWeek, and The New York Times. She has appeared on Bravo’s Million Dollar Decorators and NBC’s The Today Show. Susan was named to Vanity Fair’s “New Establishment” list twice in the past six years. Prior to co-founding One Kings Lane, Susan held executive positions in the apparel industry—at Ralph Lauren Swimwear, Polo Jeans, Warnaco/Authentic Fitness Corp., and Liz Claiborne. Susan has an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and a BA from Stanford University. Since 2013 Susan has served on the Parson Board of Govenors.
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About Authentic Fitness Corp., In The Groove, Liz Claiborne, One Kings Lane, Ralph Lauren Corporation: content/ commerce
Doug Mitchell
Founder/Project Director “Next Generation Radio” of NPR
Doug is the founder and project leader of NPR’s “Next Generation Radio.” It’s a digital media professional development camp for college students and early career professionals. Also, Doug is on the board of the Latino Public Radio Consortium, a peer reviewer for the Fulbright Association.and consults with the International Women’s Media Foundation.
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About NPR: NPR is a multimedia news organization and radio program producer that delivers national and international news broadcasts.
Jonah Peretti
Founder & CEO of BuzzFeed
Jonah Peretti is founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, the first true social news organization that provides a pioneering mix of breaking news, entertainment and shareable content. Mr. Peretti, known for creating viral hits, tracking online social behavior and building technology to amplify buzz is also a co-founder of The Huffington Post. He has been called a “viral marketing hotdog” by the New York Times, “the poster boy of guerilla media” by AlterNet and a “computer-whiz” by The New Yorker. Fast Company named Mr. Peretti one of the “New Faces of Social Media” and named BuzzFeed as one of the “50 Most Innovative Companies” in 2012. Business Insider listed him as one of the “11 Rising Tech Stars to Watch in 2012.” Mr. Peretti is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab and has taught at NYU and the Parsons School of Design. His work has been covered by Time, the Economist, Fortune, and Business Insider and he has appeared as a guest on the Today Show, Good Morning America and CNN. In 2012, Mr. Peretti hired Ben Smith of POLITICO to lead as Editor-in-Chief. BuzzFeed reaches over 40 million monthly unique visitors and gets the majority of its traffic from social sources like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more.
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About BuzzFeed: BuzzFeed is a cross-platform digital media company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience.
Sarah Lacy
Founder, Editor-in-Chief, and CEO of PandoDaily
Sarah Lacy is the founder, editor-in-chief, and chief executive officer of [PandoDaily](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pandodaily), a web publication that offers technology news, analysis, and commentaries about Silicon Valley-based startups. Lacy is also an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0 and Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos. Lacy has been a reporter in Silicon Valley for nearly fifteen years covering everything from the tiniest startups to the largest public companies. She was formerly a staff writer and columnist for [BusinessWeek](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/businessweek), the founding co-host of Yahoo Finance’s Tech Ticker, and a senior editor at [TechCrunch](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/techcrunch). Born on December 29, 1975, Lacy currently lives in San Francisco, California.
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About Chairman Mom, PandoDaily: PandoDaily is a web publication offering technology news, analysis, and commentary, focusing mainly on Silicon Valley and startup companies.
Suroosh Alvi
Co-Founder of Vice Media
Suroosh Alvi launched VICE with Shane Smith and Gavin McInnes in Montreal in 1994. Originally a punk magazine, VICE has expanded and diluted to include a network of online video channels, including VICE.com, TheCreatorsProject.com, Motherboard.tv and Fightland.com, Noisey.com and Thu.mp), a television production studio, a record label, an in-house creative services agency and a book publishing division. Today VICE produces over 60[quantify] original video series, covering news to travel to music to arts to fashion, and has a network of correspondents and bureaus.
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About Vice Media: Vice Media is a North American digital media and broadcasting company.
Renee Wang
Founder & CEO of Castbox
Renee Wang is the CEO and Founder of Castbox, an award-winning global podcast platform that enables anyone to easily find, access, create and enjoy spoken audio content. Prior to founding Castbox, Renee was a global app monetization expert at Google in user acquisition, optimization, and publisher engagement where she contributed to 42% of Google’s new app revenue. Renee holds a BS degree from Peking University, with a double major in Psychology and Mathematical Statistics.
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About Castbox: Castbox is a global podcast platform that enables anyone to easily find, access, create and enjoy spoken audio content.
Carlos Watson
Co-Founder & CEO of OZY Media
Carlos Watson co-anchors MSNBC 2 p.m. news program from NBC headquarters at 30 Rock. A Harvard grad, he got his start in politics, serving as campaign manager and chief of staff for Florida Representative Daryl Jones and managing Bill Clintonâs 1992 Election Day effort in Miami-Dade County. While at Harvard, he also worked with Senator Bob Graham, DNC Chair Ron Brown, and Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez. After graduating from Stanford Law, where he edited the Law Review, Watson joined the business world, advising Fortune 500 companies as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. He later struck out on his own and co-founded Achieva College Prep Services, which helped thousands of high school students prepare for college and was written about in Time and Forbes, among others. Watson sold the firm to the Washington Post/Kaplan in 2002.
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About Achieva.com, OZY Media, The Stimulist: OZY Media is a premium media and entertainment for curious people — across TV, events, podcasts and news.
David Bailey
CEO & Co-Founder of BTC Media
As Chief Executive Officer of BTC Media LLC, David Bailey is an industry leader in the digital currency and blockchain space. After founding yBitcoin, the world’s leading publication about digital currency, David launched BTC Media, a corporate group including Bitcoin Magazine (bitcoinmagazine.com), the world’s first information outlet and news desk dedicated to digital currency, and Distributed (Distributed.com), a leading source for banking and corporate information on distributed ledger technology.
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About Bitcoin Magazine, BTC Media, BTC Media, Distributed, UTXO Management, yBitcoin: BTC Media is Bitcoin media group, providing education and information through its family of products and services.
Daniel Hayes
Lead Director & Co-Founder of Freethink Media
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About Freethink Media: Freethink Media is a creative media company for the people and ideas that are changing their world.
John Rudolph
Founder of Music Analytics
John is an advisor to many media and tech firms, as well as an investor. He is a trusted advisor to seed stage and large companies with a specialty in the creative industries, media rights and business structuring.
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About Music Analytics: Media and tech advisory services
Bryan Goldberg
Founder and CEO of Bustle Digital Group
Bryan Goldberg is an entrepreneur in New York and San Francisco. He is the founder and CEO of Bustle.com. He previously founded Bleacher Report, and currently advises several startups.
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About Bustle Digital Group: Bustle Digital Group is a news, entertainment, lifestyle and fashion website that caters to women.
Dan Birdwhistell
Founder and CEO of Studio Publishing
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About Studio Publishing: Studio Publishing allows users to connect, find and share desired products through a portfolio of online communities.
Jane Chung
Co-Founder & Creative Director of Klooff
Jane is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Klooff. She leads Klooff’s vision and strategy by creating experiences through intuitive design, curating, and storytelling. She oversees Klooff’s brand and product development. She has a black lab named Cooper who will sit for Korean corn puffs. Sometimes she wonders if it came down to it, Cooper will pick the corn puffs over her. Jane is a design director that focuses on approaching work through a strategic, data-driven, and emotional lens. She specializes in creating narratives around brands across all channels, forms, and experiences. Jane received her BFA in graphic design at RISD and has 9+ years of experience concepting and designing for the world’s largest brands including Coke, Nike, Skechers, Leo Burnett, Epson, Sony, Quicken, Interscope Records, LG, L’oreal, and Hershey’s. Jane currently resides in New York where she dabbles between art, advertising, and film.
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About Klooff: Klooff is bringing Happiness Through Pets.
Steve Stucker
Founder of KOB-TV Channel 4
Steve Stucker is the Co-Host and Weatherman on New Mexico’s Eyewitness News 4 Today, which airs weekdays from 4:30 to 7 a.m. With over 25 years on the morning show, Steve has been continuously forecasting weather in New Mexico much longer than any other TV personality.Steve has received many honors in his years on KOB 4. Readers of Albuquerque The Magazine voted him Favorite TV Personality and/or Favorite Meteorologist 10 years in a row! He has also been tabbed by readers of The Alibi as their “Best of ‘Burque” award winner for TV Personality and/or Forecaster 9 years in a row, and has won Favorite TV personality awards from publications like the Albuquerque Journal, I Q Magazine and others. Steve was twice selected as Media Volunteer of the Year by the Greater Albuquerque Volunteer Association, and was honored as the Animal Humane Association’s Ambassador of the Year. Steve is well known throughout NM for his community involvement, working with dozens of nonprofit groups, schools & churches. He is highly sought after as a Motivational Speaker for Civic Organizations, Church Groups, Graduations and Corporate Events….and may have served as Master of Ceremonies for more events than any other person in our states history! He especially enjoys speaking with students about the importance of staying in school and making their dreams come true. Steve may be best known for his “celebrity weather dogs” appearing on air with him every Friday morning for Parade of Pets. Tuffy, Squeaky, Rez and Radar the Weather Pup are all rescues. He puts YOUR pets on the airwaves with Steve’s Parade of Pets every week. Submit your favorite Pet Pictures at kob.com/morning. He also Showcases Shelter Pets looking for homes. (You can view them here.) Steve likes to say “The ONLY group I Love more than animals…is Children!”. Each Tuesday, he highlights the extreme need for Adoptive and Foster Parents for the hundreds of children in NM who are on the waiting list for a Forever Family with “Steve’s Families for Kids.” Steve entertains viewers with a look at the lighter side of the news, his offbeat ideas, and unique perspective on life. Every once in a while, he appears on air as Elvis, Arnold Sportsnweather (Schwarzenegger), Mother Stucker, Patty O’Furniture, Dog The Weather Hunter or his alter ego, Ed Noid. He also dresses up in a colorful Balloon Pin outfit during the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta each year. Eyewitness News 4 Broadcasts Live from Balloon Fiesta Park all 9 days of the event each year. He has been married to Rose 22 years, and is actively involved at church. Steve is an Ordained Chaplain (International Fellowship of Chaplains), and the Men’s Ministry Pastor at New Covenant Church. They have three children still at home: Georgi, Kayli and Stephanie, plus an adult son, Dean.Steve can usually be found Poolside on hot NM afternoons…and loves to ride his Harley Davidson Motorcycle. His “Rally in the Valley” Charity Ride each Memorial Day weekend in Red River has raised over $47,000 for Make A Wish of New Mexico. He is also the founder and president of the non-profit, UpB4 the Son Ministries and Charities. Among other contributions, they have given over 300 beds, free of charge, to those in need.
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About KOB-TV Channel 4: KOB-TV Channel 4, New Mexico’s first television station, initially began as the mere vision of Tom Pepperday, owner of KOB Radio.
Tania Ahuja
Founder and CEO of Nobias
Tania Ahuja is Founder and CEO of Nobias and is Head of US Operations for Arkera Inc. She is a former director of Citigroup and serves on the Board of Overseers at Stern School of Business, NYU. Additionally, she sits on the board of other learning and art organizations including the Center of Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania, Salome Chamber Orchestra, The Paper Bag Players, and is Chairman of the Board for the Summit Music Festival. Tania holds a PhD in Finance from Stern School of Business, New York University. She has a BS in Statistics and an MS in Operations Research.
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About Nobias: Software tools that help protect consumers from deceptive or misleading content on the internet.
Mike Sha
CEO, Co-Founder of SigFig
Mike Sha is co-founder and CEO at Wikinvest and at SigFig. Formerly, Mike was an advisor and consultant to many internet and mobile startups and held key positions at Amazon.com where he launched and ran the Amazon Visa Card business, headed up product development in the Global Payments team, led a technology team focused on building new strategic partnerships and initiatives, and built sophisticated fraud detection models. He received a BA in Applied Math and a MS in Computer Science, both from Harvard University.
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About SigFig: SigFig is financial services firm that dedicates in making high-quality investment advice to investors of all wealth levels.
Gregory Schneider
CEO and Co-Founder of 3BL Media
Greg Schneider is a co-founder of 3BL Media and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to founding 3BL Media, Greg was the COO of a news distribution service focused on corporate responsibility. In recognition of the obvious evolution of communications technologies and the expanding global interest in CSR and sustainability, Greg, along with some friends and colleagues left their jobs to start 3BL Media. Prior to his five years running the newswire service, Greg built a number of different service organizations geared for small businesses. Greg has a degree in Philosophy and a MS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He likes coffee, The Dead, kayaking, reading and spending time outdoors.
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About 3BL Media: CSR and Sustainability News and Content Distribution Platform
Barak Feldman
Co-Founder of eko
Barak Feldman is Co-Founder at Eko.
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About eko: eko is media and technology company pioneering a new medium in which stories told in live action video are shaped by viewers as they unfold.
Tal Zubalsky
Co-Founder & CPO of eko
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Eko, Tal brings his expertise and experience in interactivity, technology, design and music to make the vision a reality. Prior to starting Eko Tal served as a founding partner at 2 tech startups, oversaw design and development of numerous international web projects, and served on the creative team at McCann-Erickson.
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About eko: eko is media and technology company pioneering a new medium in which stories told in live action video are shaped by viewers as they unfold.
Miles Jennings
Founder, COO, President of Recruiter.com
Founder and COO at Recruiter.com.
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About Recruiter.com: Recruiter.com is a leading on-demand recruiting platform that provides flexible talent acquisition solutions for startups to the Fortune 100
Shannon Terry
Founder & CEO of 247 Sports
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About 247 Sports, ComicBook, Pop Culture Media: 247 Sports is an online platform for basketball and football fans and players to find updated news and sporting opportunities.
Pete Cashmore
Founder & CEO of Mashable
Pete Cashmore is the founder and CEO of Mashable, the leading source of news, information & resources for the Connected Generation. Pete founded Mashable in 2005 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland when he was 19. His passion for sharing how web tools and social networks were transforming human interactions and reshaping cultures drove him to create Mashable. Always an entrepreneur, Pete has continued to push Mashable to evolve from a tech blog to a global media company built around technology. He leads Mashable’s strategy and his innate sense of the web and its community, are core to the company’s operations and future growth. He has been described as the “Sage of Media” and considered one of the most influential voices of his generation– on and offline. Pete was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2012. He was featured on Forbes 30 under 30 list, named one of Ad Age’s 2011 influencers, and was named a Young Global Leader by The World Economic Forum.
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About Mashable: Mashable is a media company for the connected generation and voice of digital culture.
Rick Ross
Founder & CEO of DZone
Rick Ross founded Javalobby in 1997, DZone in 2005 and AnswerHub in 2009. Javalobby became one of the web’s top Java sites. DZone expanded that to provide coverage of all developer related topics, and AnswerHub is one of the world’s leading enterprise Q&A systems.
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About DZone: DZone is a company and website that can help teach many things about technology.
John Cooper
CEO & Founder of Brightwire
CEO & Founder at Brightwire
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About Brightwire: Brightwire is a global news agency.
Ishaan Sutaria
Co-Founder, Co-CEO of Wave Sports + Entertainment
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About Wave Sports + Entertainment: Wave Sports + Entertainment is a media company built for the next generation of digital superfans.
Ben Lerer
Co-Founder and CEO of Thrillist Media Group
Ben Lerer is the co-founder & CEO of Thrillist Media Group, overseeing the growth of the company from a niche email newsletter to a disruptive media company, leading the charge in mingling content and commerce. Lerer was among Ernst & Young’s 2013 Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winners, Vanity Fair’s Next Establishments, Crain’s 40 under 40, Forbes list of Most Powerful CEOs Under 40, AdWeek’s Young Influentials, Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 5 Entrepreneurs of the Year, and Silicon Alley Insider’s 100 Coolest People in Tech for six years running. Ben is also the Managing Director of Lerer Ventures, New York’s most active early-stage technology fund. He chairs the Board of Directors for the East River Development Alliance, a New York non-profit organization, and is an Associate Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS). Lerer is an active mentor for NYC Venture Fellows, TechStars, and Enstitute.
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About Lerer Hippeau, Thrillist Media Group: Thrillist Media Group is obsessed with helping guys live fun lives and reaches over 9 million of them across the globe, every single day.
Adam Rich
Co-Founder of Thrillist Media Group
Adam Rich is the Founder of Thrillist Media Group.
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About Thrillist Media Group: Thrillist Media Group is obsessed with helping guys live fun lives and reaches over 9 million of them across the globe, every single day.
Udaynandan Reddy Padi
Founder and CEO of YUPPTV
Udaynandan Reddy, a visionary philanthropist founded YuppTV in 2006 with the vision to create a company that converges technologies in providing a virtual home based access to Entertainment, information and communication anytime, anywhere across the globe. From Social networking portals, Internet TV, Live mobile TV, to Online advertising; he led YuppTV to create its own identity through continuous expansion and innovation. His specialty is in Market penetration strategies, Top line growth, deployment of 2.5/3G networks in various countries and new product Introduction with go to market strategy. His Complex Contract negotiations has resulted in strong relationships with key players in both operator and vendor communities in the markets of India, Caribbean, Latin America, United States and Asia Pacific regions. Udaynandan Reddy served as a Director for Nortel, where he was responsible for Cable and Wireless Sales in Caribbean. Uday carries more than 15 years of rich experience in Telecom and Networking arena. This visionary philanthropist founded the modernvillagevision2020.com as an attempt to reduce the social and economic disparity between rural and urban sectors through the introduction of technological infrastructure into the rural sector.
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About Turito, YUPPTV: YUPPTV is an online platform providing access to TV channels and magazines of various languages.
Jesse Walden
Co-Founder of Mine
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About a16z crypto, Mediachain, Mine: Mine is building tools and protocols to realize a future of decentralized media.
Kent Collier
Founder & CEO of Reorg
Founder & CEO at Reorg.
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About Reorg: Reorg is a provider of news, commentary, and analytics on the distressed debt market.
Joshua Dziabiak
Founder of Gawq
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About Gawq: Gawq is a news intelligence platform that provides quality information.
Douglas Colbeth
Founder & CEO of MedCircle
Douglas Colbeth became president and chief executive officer of Kinaxis in March 2003. As one of the true visionaries of the Internet explosion in the mid 1990’s, he envisioned the opportunity to be a leader in delivering an on-demand supply chain management service. He then came across what he describes as a “gang of supply chain geniuses” in Canada, who had already developed very powerful modeling and collaboration technology. After going public in 2014 – Kinaxis has a market capitalization of approximately $2 Billion. Doug understood what the Internet’s influence on consumer behavior would be and how it would dramatically increase demand volatility. The problem of effectively responding to consumer demand would be further exacerbated by the dramatic market shift of outsourced manufacturing operations. Under Doug’s leadership, Kinaxis developed a world-class offering which enables companies to build better supply chain plans and quickly respond to constant changes in demand, supply and product — driving breakthroughs in customer service and operations performance. Today, the Kinaxis RapidResponse® cloud service empowers front-line decision makers at brand name companies and contract manufacturers with multi-enterprise visibility and collaborative analysis tools to effectively respond to change across an entire distributed supply chain. Prior to Kinaxis, Doug was chief executive officer of Spyglass Inc., a leading provider of Internet software technologies. Spyglass technologies are utilized inside millions of products including PCs, televisions, telephones, and other hand-held devices. Most notably, Spyglass technology is the foundation of the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser. In June 1995, Spyglass became the first Internet software company to conduct a successful Initial Public Offering. In March 2000, Doug negotiated its merger with OpenTV Inc., at a value of $2.4 Billion. Outside of his work with Kinaxis, Doug and his wife Margaret are pioneer philanthropists in the area of juvenile brain diseases. Established in 2000, the Colbeth Clinic is operated by the University of Illinois Medical Center and serves inner city children in the Chicago area. This state of the art clinic employs a multidisciplinary approach to treating a wide range of brain diseases including: autism, depression, bipolar, OCD, ADHD, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Doug holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Siena College in Loudonville, New York, and studied Quantitative Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (R.P.I.) in Troy, New York. While attending R.P.I., Doug was awarded a research grant from Texas Instruments Inc. to develop modeling software for various Texas Instruments products.
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About MedCircle: MedCircle is a San Diego based company redefining the mental health care market
John Biggs
Founder of Tech4Reporters
John Biggs is a writer, consultant, programmer, former East Coast Editor and current contributing writer for TechCrunch. He writes mainly about technology, cryptocurrency, security, gadgets, gear, wristwatches, and the internet. After spending his formative years as a programmer, he switched his profession and became a full-time entrepreneur and writer. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Laptop, PC Upgrade, Surge, Gizmodo, Men’s Health, InSync, Linux Journal, Popular Science, Sync, and he has written a book called Black Hat: Misfits, Criminals, and Scammers in the Internet Age. He builds products, writes books, and consults with startups to help them make cool things. John Biggs runs the BWL family of blogs, SlushPile.net, Audiomonger, and WristWatchReview.com. Born in 1975, he currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Disclosure: Biggs owns and maintains cryptocurrencies in a private account and has been consulting with startups regarding blockchain-based products. He also edits and writes for startup clients.
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About Procodific, Tech4Reporters, TechCrunch, WristWatchReview.com: Tech4Reporters is a web project that links journalists with experts in the tech community.
Ben Goldhirsh
Founder of GOOD
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About GOOD: GOOD is an integrated media platform for pragmatic idealists working towards individual and collective progress.
Ed Lasky
News Editor & Co-Founder of American Thinker
Ed Lasky, news editor, is a former lawyer, and now a stock trader. He has degrees from Northwestern University (B.A., economics), University of Michigan Law School (J.D.), and J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Northwestern University) (Master of Management). A read-aholic husband of one and a father of three wonderful kids (twin girls and a son), Ed is focused on politics, media monitoring, and foreign affairs. He started being concerned about the future when he had children. September 11, 2001 was a motivating factor as well. He feels fortunate to live in America. Ed has appeared on the Milt Rosenberg show in Chicago and a variety of other radio shows (including National Public Radio); has been mentioned in Newsweek and interviewed by the NY Times. Recently he appeared on “The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News.
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About American Thinker: American Thinker is a daily internet publication devoted to the thoughtful exploration of issues of importance to Americans. Contributors
Thomas Lifson
Editor and Publisher & Co-Founder of American Thinker
Thomas Lifson, editor and publisher, calls himself a recovering academic. After graduating from Kenyon College, he studied modern Japan, sociology, and business as a graduate student at Harvard (three degrees) and joined the faculty at Harvard Business School, where he began the consulting career that was to lead him away from academia. He also taught sociology and East Asian studies at Harvard and held visiting professorships at Columbia University and the Japanese National Museum of Ethnology. As a consultant, he has worked with major companies from the United States, Japan, Europe, Asia, and Australasia at the nexus of human, organizational, and strategic issues. A Democrat by birth, Thomas became more conservative in adulthood as reality taught him that dreams of perfecting human society always run smack into human nature. In 2003 he founded American Thinker.
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About American Thinker: American Thinker is a daily internet publication devoted to the thoughtful exploration of issues of importance to Americans. Contributors
Richard Baehr
Chief Political Correspondent & Co-Founder of American Thinker
Richard Baehr, chief political correspondent, is a management consultant in the health care field and is the president of Richard A. Baehr & Associates. He frequently serves as an expert witness in health care litigation cases involving planning and financial matters. Richard has a longstanding interest in the Middle East and American politics, and he is a frequent speaker and writer on these subjects. He has spoken at many Jewish organization meetings, synagogues, and colleges on various topics: Israeli-Palestinian relations, the war in Lebanon, American politics and Israel, the future of Israel and the Middle East, and American political trends. Richard was recently named a Visiting Fellow of the Jewish Policy Center, and he was a panelist for a Jewish Policy Center Forum along with Michael Medved, John Podhoretz, and David Horowitz. He has been a guest on many talk radio programs, including those of Michael Medved, Dennis Miller, and Milt Rosenberg. Richard also writes a commentary on the Middle East and American politics which is distributed by e-mail. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kenyon College. He is married with two adult children.
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About American Thinker: American Thinker is a daily internet publication devoted to the thoughtful exploration of issues of importance to Americans. Contributors
Daniel Barreto
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Haystack News
Daniel Barreto is Co-Founder of Haystack TV, and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Daniel Barreto serves as General Manager of Mobile Cloud Business Unit and Chief Customer Advocate of Wyse Technology (UK) Ltd. Daniel Barreto leads the Mobile Cloud Business Unit (MCBU), a distinct unit designed to research, develop, and market products and services that mobile user. He served as General Manager of Mobile Cloud Business Unit and Chief Customer Advocate of Wyse Technology L.L.C (also known as Wyse Technology, Inc.). Daniel Barreto served as Chief Software Architect for Wyse, where he was responsible for overall architecture and software innovation for Wyse Technology L.L.C. He joined Wyse in 2003 and has been responsible for growing Wyse’s software portfolio with new award winning products resulting in over 50 patent applications (23 as inventor or co-inventor). Prior to joining Wyse, Daniel Barreto was a Staff Engineer at IBM in the Systems and Storage Division. Daniel Barreto holds Master’s and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University.
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About Haystack News, Stanford University, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): Haystack News is an Ad-supported streaming news platform that offers relevant news, from local coverage to global current events.
Brian Timpone
Founder & President of BlockShopper
Brian Timpone, President of BlockShopper, founded the company in May 2006. Formerly a television reporter, Brian is the founding publisher of courthouse legal journals in Southern Illinois, South Texas and Charleston, WV, as well as LegalNewsline.com, a national news service covering state supreme courts and attorneys general. He also serves on the board of directors at Manifest Digital , an interactive web design and development agency based in Chicago. In 2003, he founded Greater Illinois Newsgroup, four community newspaper chain in Central Illinois. It was purchased by the Champaign News-Gazette in 2005. In 2001, Brian founded 1871 Media, a content management software provider for newspapers and associations. Brian is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He lives in Lincoln Park with his wife, Patricia, and three children.
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About BlockShopper: BlockShopper is a local news and market data service for current and seeking homeowners, home buyers, and home sellers.
Carll Tucker
Founder and Chair of The Daily Voice
Mr. Carll Tucker served as Chief Executive Officer of Daily Voice, LLC until October 31, 2011. Mr. Tucker founded Trader Publications in 1986 and served as its President until 1999, which published The Patent Trader newspaper and various Local Magazines, Newsletters and Programs for Cultural Institutions in Westchester, Putnam and Fairfield counties. He served as owner and publisher of Trader Publications. Mr. Tucker has been Chairman of Daily Voice, LLC since October 31, 2011. He served as Chairman of the Board of Northern Westchester Hospital Center from 1999 to 2001. Mr. Tucker serves as Trustee of Northern Westchester Hospital Center. He served as Director of Five Star Products Inc., since August 8, 2007. Mr. Tucker previously served as Director of Five Star Products Inc., from January 2002 to March 1, 2007. He is the author of a weekly newspaper column in the Westchester Patent Trader, ‘Looseleaves’, since 1983.
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About The Daily Voice, The Daily Voice: The Daily Voice is a local news organization.
Anthony Longo
Co-Founder & CEO of CO Everywhere
Anthony Longo is the VP of Marketing & Commercial Products at SIONYX.
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About CO Everywhere, CO Everywhere, Niche Collective, SiOnyx: CO Everywhere is a research and development lab and investment vehicle focused on building technology products and services.
Kunbi Tinuoye
Founder and CEO of UrbanGeekz
Kunbi Tinuoye is an award-winning British-born journalist and broadcaster based in the United States. She is the Founder and CEO of UrbanGeekz.com, a groundbreaking video centric digital news platform focused on technology, science and business. Tinuoye is a sought after on-air contributor, speaker, panelist, and moderator at conferences across the country. More recently she has appeared on MSNBC & Arise News and facilitated a panel discussion at the Spelman College Leadership and Women of Color Conference. Tinuoye is a former News Correspondent for NBC’s African American digital news platform theGrio.com. In 2013, she provided commentary as an investigative reporter on the Investigation Discovery hit television series ‘Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall’. Prior to relocating stateside, Tinuoye was a senior broadcast journalist for the BBC in London. She is an international writer whose work has been published in The Daily Mail, London’s Evening Standard, Ebony.com and The Voice newspaper For a number of years, Tinuoye served on the Editorial Advisory Board for Cambridge Alumni Magazine (CAM), which is distributed to approximately 150,000 readers globally per edition. She is one of the original founders of Aspire, a support network for ethnic minority journalists in the United Kingdom. The organization has partnered with and attracted sponsorship from mainstream media outlets, including the BBC, Channel 4, Trinity-Mirror, the Guardian and the Financial Times Tinuoye graduated from Trinity College, University of Cambridge, with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Social & Political Sciences. She studied a post-graduate in print journalism and is an NCTJ qualified UK professional journalist, with credits in media law and 100 wpm shorthand. Ovation International Magazine has named Tinuoye one of the 50 most influential Nigerians in the diaspora. She is currently on the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists (AABJ) Development Committee.
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About 1863 Ventures, Geekz Watch, UrbanGeekz: Digital news platform focused on technology, science, business, and entrepreneurship
Stanley Yuan
CEO & Co-Founder of Otto Radio, Inc.
CEO of Otto Radio. Strategist by day, mathematician and economist by training, humanitarian at heart. Love productizing & building. Previous @GoldmanSachs @Columbia
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About hibooks, Otto Radio, Inc.: Transform the time on everyday tasks into opportunities to be entertained and stay informed about the things they care about most
Yu Wang
CTO & Co-Founder of Otto Radio, Inc.
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About Himalaya Media, Otto Radio, Inc.: Transform the time on everyday tasks into opportunities to be entertained and stay informed about the things they care about most
David Fink
VP of Engineering & Co-Founder of Otto Radio, Inc.
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About hibooks, Otto Radio, Inc.: Transform the time on everyday tasks into opportunities to be entertained and stay informed about the things they care about most
Matthew Lieber
Co-Founder & President of Gimlet Media
Matt Lieber is the co-founder and president of Gimlet Media. In a previous life, Lieber helped launch the public radio programs “The Takeaway” and “Fair Game.” He left radio to get his M.B.A., and worked for several years as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group before chucking it all for this. He knows the value of a dollar.
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About Gimlet Media: Gimlet Media is a developer of a digital media network platform that focuses on producing quality narrative podcasts.
Alex Blumberg
Co-Founder and CEO and Podcast Businessman of Gimlet Media
Alex Blumberg is a CO-Founder and CEO and Podcast Businessman at Gimlet Media. He received a B.A. from Oberlin College and is currently an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University. From 1999-2014 he was the producer for the public radio show This American Life and his stories were regularly featured on the show. From 2007-2014 he was the executive producer of the television version of This American Life. Prior to This American Life, he worked as a freelance radio reporter, contributing to This American Life, the Savvy Traveller and Chicago Public Radio. In 2008 he collaborated with National Public Radio economics correspondent Adam Davidson to co-host the Planet Money podcast, which posts new episodes twice weekly. In August 2014, he started Gimlet Media along with Matthew Lieber. Initially pitched as the American Podcasting Corporation (APC), Gimlet Media is a podcasting business. Blumberg documented the startup process in the first season of a podcast hosted on Gimlet Media, titled StartUp. The second season follows “Dating Ring”, another startup company. Apart from StartUp, Gimlet Media has launched several other podcasts, including Mystery Show, Surprisingly Awesome, and Reply All. The company has raised $1.5 million in seed funding. After raising most of its initial capital from investment firms Betaworks, Lowercase Capital, and Knight Enterprise Fund, Gimlet invited the listeners of its shows to help raise the last $200,000 through crowdfunding platform Alphaworks. In December 2015, Gimlet closed a Series A round of funding that raised $6 million at a $30 million valuation.
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About Gimlet Media: Gimlet Media is a developer of a digital media network platform that focuses on producing quality narrative podcasts.
Rafat Ali
Founder & CEO of Skift
Rafat is the CEO/founder of Skift, the largest industry intelligence and marketing platform in travel, providing news, information, data and services to all sectors of the world’s largest industry. Previously, he was the founder/CEO of paidContent and ContentNext, which he sold to UK’s Guardian News and Media in 2008, and left in 2010. Prior to that, he was managing editor of Silicon Alley Reporter. Rafat was the Knight Fellow at Indiana University, where he completed his Masters in Journalism, 1999-2000. Prior to that he completed his BSc in Computer Engineering, from AMU in Aligarh, India.
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About ContentNext Media, Skift: Skift is a travel intelligence media company that delivers news, data and services to its readers.
Oliver Schmalholz
Co-Founder & CEO of News Quantified
Oliver Schmalholz is the co-founder and CEO of News Quantified. With over 15 years of experience in the global technology and finance industries, he has built four start-up companies, raising more than $50 million in venture capital. Schmalholz has both the vision to create revolutionary businesses and the skill to execute them successfully. Before working in fintech, he co-founded European Telecom and was the first to sign an interconnection agreement with Austria after the industry de-regulated. This work was so sought-after that the firm was ultimately acquired by the fifth-largest publicly traded telecom in the world. He then managed a U.S. equities trading firm where he designed a software solution that allowed for the low-latency, real-time processing of large volumes of information, along with no-delay order execution. Schmalholz’s keen understanding of how news directly impacts stock movement inspired him to launch News Quantified.
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About News Quantified: News Quantified specializes in matching financial news with market data.
Jay Larmee
Co-Founder & CTO of News Quantified
Jay Larmee, who lives in Evanston, Ill., has 25 years of application development experience in IT as well as nine years in the trading industry. Mr. Larmee and and his team have developed custom trading applications for over 175 customers, including traders on the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Stock Exchange. He also ran a software development firm focusing on financial industry applications. Mr. Larmee holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Loyola University Chicago. He has worked as a programmer, instructor, an IT executive and an independent consultant. In addition, he has taught computer science courses at Loyola University Chicago and at Robert Morris University.
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About News Quantified: News Quantified specializes in matching financial news with market data.
Jay Larmee
Co-Founder & CTO of News Quantified
Jay Larmee, who lives in Evanston, Ill., has 25 years of application development experience in IT as well as nine years in the trading industry. Mr. Larmee and and his team have developed custom trading applications for over 175 customers, including traders on the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Stock Exchange. He also ran a software development firm focusing on financial industry applications. Mr. Larmee holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Loyola University Chicago. He has worked as a programmer, instructor, an IT executive and an independent consultant. In addition, he has taught computer science courses at Loyola University Chicago and at Robert Morris University.
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About News Quantified: News Quantified specializes in matching financial news with market data.
Alex Skatell
Founder and President of Independent Journal Review
While in college at Clemson, Alex developed iPhone applications including a top 25 application featured by Gizmodo and in the “What’s Hot” section of the iTunes app store. 4 years after graduating, Alex founded IJReview in a small apartment in Charleston, South Carolina, investing all his savings and weekly paycheck into one goal: reaching a part of America that next generation media companies miss. Today, IJReview is a top 50 website in the country, reaching over 35 million monthly readers and employing more than 50 reporters and writers covering politics and current events across the country. Adding to the business, Alex co-founded IMGE a full service digital agency in 2013. IMGE is based in Alexandria, VA with a team of over 35 working with some of the world’s largest brands and associations. In early 2014, Alex launched Liftbump.com a lifestyle vertical that today reaches over 10 million monthly readers and followed that in 2015 with the launch of Shuffle News — the winner of Mediaposts 2015’s best news application and reached the #1 most downloaded news app on the iTunes app store. Alex has been dubbed a “wunderkind” by the New York Times but his interest in journalism came from a simple lesson learned from watching his father: no one in the Skatell family was allowed to disturb Dad during the evening news. “Click here to view Alex’s post of 2016 Presidential Candidates Reacting to the ABC News / IJReview Debate Partnership.
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About Independent Journal Review, Independent Journal Review: The Independent Journal Review, an American news platform, provides its users with informative content such as political and cultural news.
Bill Simmons
CEO and Founder of The Ringer
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About The Ringer: The Ringer is a digital platform that covers pop culture, technology, and sports.
Ankit Maheshwari
CEO & Founder of Instablogs
Betaout is founded by Ankit Maheshwari (CEO), is listed as Asia’s one of the most inspiring young entrepreneurs and social change maker by Paragon 100 Asia. Prior to Betaout, he founded Instamedia Network – a lifestyle blog network. Instamedia was serving over 20 Million page views before it was acquired by a Dubai based Media Company. He has over 10 years of experience in managing large content teams for Digital content.
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About Betaout, Bluecore, Instablogs: Conversational platform based on news
Adrian France
Co-Founder & Advisor of Odyssey
Being an entrepreneur and living the start-up life is all I know – and is certainly one I love. I am the Chief Creative Officer of Olympia Media Group, a company that I co-founded during my time at Indiana University. I am lucky to have surrounded myself with passionate, driven entrepreneurs like myself that constantly challenge and push me to do better and think bigger every day. Olympia Media Group is a millennial content and marketing company producing niche content connecting affluent and influential target demographics and brands by driving organic conversations. Olympia started in June 2009 at Indiana University by publishing The Odyssey – a weekly full-color newspaper delivered to the dining room tables of fraternity and sorority houses. Today, The Odyssey is located at 39 of the largest universities in the country with a presence via web, tablet, mobile, direct distribution print, user-generated videos and brand evangelists. With a digital presence at more than 85 locations by spring 2014 we will be creating more than 1,000 articles a week, more than 1,000 clients and 1,200 local team members. I am currently seeking entrepreneurial thought leaders with fraternity/sorority backgrounds that are passionate about content creation to add to our team to play a key role in our rapid expansion and content development as we strive to become one of the leaders in millennial content creation this year. Please connect or email me – adrian@olympiamediagroup.com – to hear more about our company, culture and goals.
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About Odyssey: Odyssey is an internet company that specializes in social media, publisher, and platform used to democratize content.
Colby McKenzie
Co-Founder of Enlighten
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About Enlighten, McKenzie Ventures: Enlighten is a place-based cannabis television network, displayed on screens in dispensaries around the nation.
Jeremy Jacobs
CEO, Chairman and Co-Founder of Enlighten
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About Enlighten, EYECONIC.TV: Enlighten is a place-based cannabis television network, displayed on screens in dispensaries around the nation.
Nate Murray
Co-Founder of Fullstack
Nate Murray is a hacker with an emphasis on big data and scalable systems. His projects include scaling web services, web crawling, recommendation systems, and data mining. Previously Nate was an engineer for IFTTT and worked in applied research at AT&T.
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About Fullstack: From empty folder to deployment, their courses show you step-by-step how to build expert web applications.
James Clark
Founder of Netscape
James (Jim) Clark has founded several successful and influential technology companies over the past three decades. Dr. Clark co-founded Silicon Graphics Inc. In 1982 which revolutionized desktop computing by building high-performance workstations that could create and display 3-D images in real time. The company’s technology was eventually licensed to graphics chip manufacturers and is now used in practically every smart phone and computer made. Jim also co-founded Netscape Communications Corp. in 1994. Netscape is credited with launching the rapid growth of the Internet in the mid-1990’s as well as initiating the IPO and Internet stock-market boom during this period. Jim has also started several other successful Internet companies including Healtheon Corporation, which ultimately became WebMD, MyCFO, and Shutterfly. Dr. Clark has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Silicon Graphics, Netscape Communications, Shutterfly, Healtheon, DNA Sciences and WebMD. Dr. Clark was an associate professor at Stanford University, received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah, and Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics from the University of New Orleans. In 1999, Dr. Clark donated the funds to create the James H. Clark Center for Engineering, Biology, and Computer Science (known as Bio-X) at Stanford, where he is presently a Consulting Professor. His main area of interest is Synthetic Biology.
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About Beyond Identity, Netscape, Silicon Graphics: Netscape Communications offers development, marketing, sale, and support of enterprise software solutions.
Alex Lieberman
Founder & CEO of Morning Brew
Alex is the Cofounder @ Morning Brew
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About Morning Brew: Morning Brew is a quick and quality daily e-mail newsletter for the millennial business professional.
Justin Sun
Founder and CEO of Tron
Justin Sun, born in 1990, master of University of Pennsylvania, bachelor of Peking University,founder and CEO of mobile social application Peiwo and TRON, the former chief representative for Greater China of Ripple. 2011 Asia Weekly Cover People; 2014 Davos Global Shaper; 2015 CNTV new figure of the year; 2017 Forbes Asia 30 under 30 entrepreneurs;2015/2017 Forbes China 30 Under-30s; The Only Millennial Student in the first batch of entrepreneurs at Hupan University.
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About Tron: Tron is a decentralized content entertainment protocol based on blockchain technology.
Kellen Giuda
Founder, President & CEO of American Military News
Kellen Giuda is a business executive and the Founder and CEO of American Military News, one of the largest online military news platforms in the world reaching millions of readers every month. AMN’s mission is to inform the general public on the American military, global affairs and culture. Since its founding in 2015, AMN has engaged 54 million readers, and has become the highest, most-rated military news app on Apple and Google’s app stores. As CEO and Founder of KellenProjects, an operations consulting firm, Giuda has served political and private-sector clients since 2010, including serving as National Coalitions Director for former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s 2012 presidential campaign and from 2010-2011, serving as Director of a national public policy campaign consisting of 180 organizations representing seven million people and support from more than 150 legislators. Giuda is a member of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), the Online News Association (ONA) and the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). Previously, Giuda was an architectural project manager in lower Manhattan, New York City at TRA Studio. As project manager, he helped execute the design and construction of multiple buildings in lower Manhattan. Giuda was also a member of TRA’s design team that placed as a finalist in the Redesigning Grand Army Plaza International Urban Design Competition in New York City. Kellen graduated from the University of Miami School of Architecture with a Bachelor of Architecture.
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About American Military News: American Military News is a military and foreign affairs news outlet.
Anthony Goldbloom
Co-Founder and CEO of Kaggle
Anthony Goldbloom is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kaggle.com. He is also the Founder Partner at Founder Collective. Forbes has twice named Anthony one of the 30 under 30 in technology, the MIT Technology Review has named him as one of the 35 Innovators Under 35 and the University of Melbourne has given Anthony an Alumni of Distinction Award.
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About Founder Collective, Kaggle: Kaggle is a platform for predictive modeling and analytics competitions and consulting.
Ben Hamner
Co-Founder & CTO of Kaggle
Ben leads Kaggle’s data science and development teams. Ben is the principal architect of many of Kaggle’s most advanced machine learning projects including current work in Eagle Ford and GE’s flight arrival prediction and optimization modeling.
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About Kaggle: Kaggle is a platform for predictive modeling and analytics competitions and consulting.
Ryan Wegner
Co-Founder of Audm
Ryan Wegner is the Co-Founder of Audm.
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About Audm: Audm is a mobile app that turns long-form print journalism into professionally narrated digital audio.
Matt Halfhill
Founder/CEO of Nice Kicks
Matt Halfhill is the Founder + CEO of Nice Kicks
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About Nice Kicks: Matt Halfhill launched NiceKicks.com in 2006 to provide sneaker enthusiasts with the most up-to-date information and news on sneakers.
Ann Greenberg
Founder and CEO of Entertainment AI ™
Ann Greenberg is a serial entrepreneur and inventor. Ann’s new venture, Entertainment AI™ (Sceneplay, Inc.) is developing groundbreaking, patented systems using AI and Blockchain to automate media creation, distribution and analysis. In 1998, Ann co-founded Gracenote, the world’s largest entertainment data company, and the first crowdsourced company. Gracenote helps consumers to discover and engage with relevant, personalized content across platforms—from smart TVs, to smartphones and the streaming media in their cars. Gracenote was acquired by Nielsen for $560M in 2017. Prior to founding Gracenote, Ann co-founded ION, an early digital studio who worked with David Bowie, Brian Eno, Todd Rungren, The Residents, Primus and leading technology companies. Ann also ran marketing for Edward R Pressman Film Corporation.
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About Entertainment AI ™, Fanpulse: The Smart Content Company – Entertainment AI merges human and machine creativity to engage a new generation.
Cenk Uygur
CEO & Founder of The Young Turks
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About The Young Turks: The Young Turks provides an online news show covering politics, pop culture and lifestyle.
Mike Allen
Co-Founder and Executive Director of Axios Media
Mike Allen is a co-founder and Executive Editor of Axios, the new media company he launched in January with Jim VandeHei and Roy Schwartz. Axios (means “worthy” in Greek) uses “elegant efficiency” and “smart brevity” to deliver top insights and reporting on business, tech, media trends and politics to smart, engaged readers. Mike was a co-founder of POLITICO where he started Playbook, the agenda-driving newsletter that led The New York Times Magazine to dub him “The Man The White House Wakes Up To.” Mike was named to Vanity Fair’s “New Establishment,” and is an alumnus of TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star. He grew up in Orange County, Calif., and graduated from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va.
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About Axios Media: Axios is a media company that delivers vital, trustworthy news, and analysis.
Steven Price
Founder, Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Townsquare Media
Steven Price is Chairman and CEO of Townsquare Media, Inc. Prior to founding Townsquare in 2009, he was Senior Managing Director at Centerbridge Partners, a private equity firm, where he led the firm’s investment efforts in telecom, technology and media. Prior thereto, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Spectrum, Space and Communications) from 2001-2003. For his service, he was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Mr. Price was formerly the President and Chief Executive Officer of PriCellular Corporation, a publicly traded cellular telephone operator. Prior thereto, he was an attorney with Davis Polk & Wardwell. Before practicing law, Mr. Price worked in the mergers and acquisitions department at Goldman Sachs & Co. Mr. Price graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and has a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.
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About 25Madison, Townsquare Media: Townsquare Media, an entertainment and digital marketing services company, operates digital, radio and live event properties in the U.S.
Benjamin F. Kuo
Founder, Editor, and Publisher of SocalTech
Benjamin F. Kuo is the founder of SOCALTECH LLC, and the publisher of socalTECH.com. Kuo initially started socalTECH.com as a hobby, looking to highlight Southern California’s diverse and growing high tech industry. Kuo has been active in supporting Southern California’s high tech industry, and hasserved on the selection committee of the Los Angeles Venture Association’s Annual Venture Capital awards, served as a judge on the Software Council of Southern California’s Software Industry Awards, and is active in many other efforts promoting Southern California’s technology industry. Kuo has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and has worked in a variety of management and development positions at high tech firms in both Southern and Northern California. Outside of his efforts with socalTECH, Kuo has served in a number of technical and marketing positions in the high tech industry. Most recently, he was a Product Manager at QLogic, Inc. in Westlake Village, and has served in a wide variety of roles at Troika Networks, Inc., a venture-backed startup which was successfully acquired by QLogic in 2005. At Troika, Kuo served as a Senior Product Marketing Manager, Software Development Manager, Standards Representative to T11 and other industry groups, and was instrumental in the company’s storage area networking product development. Prior to QLogic and Troika, he worked at IBM San Jose, Micropolis Corp, Echelon Corp. in Palo Alto, and Paracel Inc. in Pasadena. Kuo has been a regular contributor to Storage Magazine and is an author of the book Building SANs with Brocade Fibre Channel Switches, published in 2002. He has also contributed articles to the C/C++ Journal, Multimedia System Design, SysAdmin Magazine, and The Fruit Gardener. Kuo has been active in storage industry standardization organizations, and was co-chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association’s highly successful HBA API efforts, and was responsible for drafting the specification and helping to drive industry adoption of the standard. He has also served as an officer of the NCITS T11.5 Fabric Applications Interface Standard (FAIS) efforts and has been active in other T11 and SNIA standards efforts.
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About QLogic, SocalTech: SocalTech is an information provider that brings news and information about Southern California’s high tech community.
Laila Alawa
CEO and Founder of The Tempest
Laila Alawa started her career at the White House and Congress, and is the CEO and Founder of The Tempest. In 2016, she was honored at the White House Summit on the United State of Women. Since founding The Tempest, Laila has been quoted in nationwide outlets like The New York Times, The Guardian, and CNN Money as a disruptive force in media.
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About Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, Keppler Speakers, LAILA + HUDA, The Tempest: The leading media company by diverse millennial women, for the world.
Kit Codik
Founder and CEO of Liquor.com
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About Dotdash, Liquor.com, The Gap: Liquor.com is a website providing recipes, information and news on cocktails and spirits.
Robin Kabir
Founder of Coinfeed
Robin Kabir is the founder of Coinfeed.
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About Coinfeed: Breaking news and real time trade alerts from your favorite crypto insiders.
Ruben Vardanyan
Founder & CEO of Joomag, Inc.
Dr Ruben Vardanyan is an innovative and result-driven leader with more than a decade of experience in building hi-tech companies. He is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Joomag, a US based SaaS company that provides integrated solution for creating interactive digital publications. Under Vardanyan’s guidance the company developed a series of revolutionary products and became an industry leader. He has extensive experience working with SMBs as well as large enterprises including Fortune 500 companies. He is an angel investor, advisor and serves as a board member for various tech startups. Prior to his Joomag experience, he was the founding CEO of mobile app development company Magy. The company produced several best-seller and award winning apps. In addition to being a master strategist, Vardanyan is an aficionado of all aspects of computer programming, security, databases, software, protocols and web servers. In fact, he co-authored “Principles of C++” and authored “Programming in Macromedia Flash Action Script.” Along with his Executive Education from Harvard, Vardanyan holds a PhD in Computer Science and maintains active involvement in workshops, trainings and is a guest speaker at several international conferences.
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About Joomag, Inc.: Joomag is the all-in-one platform empowering businesses large and small to create, distribute, track, and monetize their interactive content
David Aslanyan
Chief Customer Officer & Co-Founder of Joomag, Inc.
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About Joomag, Inc.: Joomag is the all-in-one platform empowering businesses large and small to create, distribute, track, and monetize their interactive content
Jake McGraw
Co-Founder & CTO of The Block
Jake McGraw is the public policy coordinator at the William Winter Institute and the editor of Rethink Mississippi.A native of Oxford, Jake studied public policy and economics at the University of Mississippi and economic history at the University of Oxford.
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About The Block: The Block is the first and final word in digital assets.
Joseph Varet
President & Founder of Media Greenhouse
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About Media Greenhouse: Media Greenhouse cultivates media ventures through incubation, investment, and advisory.
Bret Cox
Founder, Chairman & CEO of TRUE
Bret Cox is Founder and CEO at True.
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