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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 VP’ operating in the Apps space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Caroline Savello
VP of Commercial of Color
Caroline Savello is the VP of commercial at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Wendy Mckennon
VP of Design of Color
Wendy Mckennon is the VP of Design at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Emily Reuter
Vice President of Strategy and Operations of Color
Emily Reuter is the Vice President of Strategy and Operations at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Alicia Zhou
VP of Research and Scientific Affairs of Color
Alicia Zhou is the VP of Research and Scientific Affairs at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Fatima Sabar
VP of People of Color
Fatima Sabar is the VP of people at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Ashley Chandler
VP of Marketing of Color
Ashley Chandler is the VP of Marketing at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Jonathan Wilner
VP, Product, Software & Services of Fitbit
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About Fitbit: Fitbit offers compact, wireless, wearable sensors that track a person’s daily activities in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.
Shelten Yuen
VP Research of Fitbit
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About Fitbit: Fitbit offers compact, wireless, wearable sensors that track a person’s daily activities in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.
Andrea Chesleigh
VP of Product of Boxed
Andrea Chesleigh is the VP of product at Boxed.
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About Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
Philippe Saint-Just
Co-Founder and SVP of Product of REEF
Philippe Saint-Just is a Co-Founder and SVP of Product at REEF Technology.
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About REEF: REEF Technology is a company that transforms urban real estate such as parking facilities into thriving mobility and logistical hubs.
Tov Arneson
VP of Product of REEF
Tov Arneson is the Vice President of Product at REEF Technology and Co-Founder & Partner at AGG Group. He is a former Co-Founder & CEO at Validated and Co-Founder & COO at Parkt.
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About REEF: REEF Technology is a company that transforms urban real estate such as parking facilities into thriving mobility and logistical hubs.
Chelsea Cain Maclin
VP of Marketing of Bumble
In her role, Chelsea leads Bumble’s global marketing strategies and initiatives, focusing on international campaigns, brand marketing, experiential marketing, and integrated partnerships. Her growing team works cross-functionally to test, develop and implement innovative marketing strategies for the brand across the globe. She helped the company launch its newest vertical, Bumble Bizz. Chelsea has spent her career helping technology-based B2C and B2B businesses grow. She’s passionate about driving exponential yet sustainable, high-quality growth, and believes marketing is a vehicle to build impactful relationships with customers, create digital and physical communities, and ultimately solve societal problems. Chelsea has a passion for women’s equality and supporting women-led businesses, both personally and professionally. Chelsea began her career at rewardStyle, a startup technology company that provides monetization tools and marketing consulting to premier B2C digital publishers and influencers. She led the Publisher Development team, maintaining responsibility for company P&L, and managing a team of consultants serving 8,000 clients like Vogue, InStyle, influential individuals and celebrities. These publishers were primarily female business owners, and Chelsea’s team helped teach them how to utilize technology to market, analyze, and optimize their businesses to build revenue, which resulted in consecutive years of +100% YoY growth in rewardStyle’s revenue. She later moved into private consulting for startup technology companies, advising on marketing and business development with founders and executive team members.
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About Bumble: Bumble is an app that brings dating, friend-finding, and career-building into a single social networking platform.
Mahesh Vellanki
Co-Founder & VP, Growth of Rally
Mahesh Vellanki is an Associate with Redpoint Ventures where he focuses on early-growth investment opportunities in the internet, digital media, mobile, e-commerce, gaming and online education sectors. Prior to joining Redpoint, Mahesh was an Analyst in the technology investment banking division of Citigroup where he focused on internet, digital media, software, hardware and semiconductor companies. He advised a variety of clients on equity and debt financings, as well as strategic business development, M&A and LBO transactions. At Citigroup, Mahesh worked with companies such as Zillow, Groupon, AutoTrader, Synacor and Equinix. Mahesh earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance with honors from the University of Maryland.
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About Rally: Rally provides a blockchain platform for the development of video streaming and gaming apps.
Andrew Savage
VP Head of Sustainability of Lime
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About Lime: Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
David Feller
VP, New Verticals of Gopuff
Highly analytical operator and entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience building, leading, innovating & driving hyper-growth for startups. Deep expertise in consumer, ecommerce, marketplace, and food tech businesses. Hands-on knowledge in marketing, product, growth, strategy, BD, M&A, mobile, data, monetization, fundraising, and management. Founder & CEO of Yummly. Utilizing award-winning product & design, cutting-edge growth marketing, and industry-leading data science, Yummly became the #1 global recipe app and digital kitchen platform for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Built Yummly from the ground up to over 25M registered users with a $0 CAC through hyperfocus delighting users and utilizing innovative approaches to growth, product, data, and monetization. Yummly won major awards including designation as an Apple “Essential” app (given to the top ~100 apps), Webby’s, Davey’s, W3 awards, and was nominated as Best Overall App by Google. Yummly was acquired by Whirlpool. Prior to Yummly, GM of a $500M revenue eBay business, and an early member of both Half.com and StumbleUpon (prior to their acquisitions by eBay). I’m an active mentor, advisor, and investor in early-stage and venture-backed companies.
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About Gopuff: Gopuff is digital delivery service designed to deliver daily essentials within minutes.
Daniel Folkman
SVP, Business of Gopuff
SVP, Business at goPuff
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About Gopuff: Gopuff is digital delivery service designed to deliver daily essentials within minutes.
Charles Migos
Vice President of Product Design of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Mike Acton
VP DOTS (Data-Oriented Technology Stack) Architecture and Runtime of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Laura Palmer
VP of Sales, Americas and EMEA of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Stephen Olmstead
VP, Chief of Staff, Office of the CEO of InVision
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About InVision: InVision is the visual collaboration platform powering the world’s smartest companies.
Brandon Wolf
Vice President, User Enablement of InVision
Brandon Wolf is the Vice President of User Enablement for InVision, overseeing a global support team of 30+ team members including customer advocacy, support engineering, customer education, and internal tools. He is charged with managing divisional personnel, deliveries, growth and scalability to address thousands of tickets per month. Brandon is responsible for InVision’s systematic and customer-first approach, which is an extension of our platform and has consistently earned over 98% ticket satisfaction rating over the last two years. Prior to InVision, Brandon served as the Manager of Customer Advocacy and Support Engineering at Zendesk.
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About InVision: InVision is the visual collaboration platform powering the world’s smartest companies.
Kris Brkljac
VP Of Sales of DisputeSuite
From living on the streets and being homeless as a 21 year old in New York City Kris Brkljac knows the meaning of rags to riches.. Coming from Sydney Australia with a Communication Media Law background Kris was always seeking adventure and a challenge. Being the architect of change Kris took himself from the streets to selling his own company in the span of 5 years. “ It’s all about who is directing your movie and my movie was about being successful without any excuses”. This included being an independent consultant for fortune 500 Companies as head executive strategist Kris changed his direction in a new and unknown field, credit. ” It was new and unchartered waters for me. I was talking to people everyday who were struggling to develop an effective an relevant strategy. It was a perfect fit and I was excited to help”. Chris joined forces with Robert Ellerman and Jim Rivette and they become the Nikola Tesla’s of the credit repair field (the forefront thinkers and innovators of the industry). Kris’s hobbies include Martial Arts,Cultural Anthropology, Health Wellness,Culinary Magic, Hiking, International affairs and enjoying/appreciating life everyday. “ Enjoy your movie” KB.
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About DisputeSuite: DisputeSuite was founded in 2006. At DisputeSuite, our vision is clear: to revolutionize the credit repair industry by creating an
Matt Kamen
SVP Engineering of Foursquare
As vice president of engineering and head of enterprise, monetization, and core technology, Matt oversees some of Foursquare’s most distinctive work, including our revenue-driving engineering products—Pinpoint, Attribution, Place Insights, Native Ads and our Places developer tools—as well as Pilgrim, the venues database, and all of our data science and machine learning teams. Prior to joining Foursquare in 2011, Matt worked in search and web technologies for Goldman Sachs. A musician at heart—he plays the bass—he’s also a luthier. Born and raised in Manhattan and a Harvard graduate, he now lives in Washington Heights with his family.
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Robert Joseph
VP, Engineering in Production of Foursquare
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Mike DeLaet
Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships of Scopely
Mike DeLaet is currently the SVP of Strategic Partnerships at Scopely. Prior to Scopely, Mike was the Founder & CEO of Rogue Games, Inc. based in Los Angeles. Prior to Rogue, he was the SVP of WW BD & Licensing at Kabam and SVP of Global Publishing at Glu Mobile.
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Eric Ma
Senior Vice President, User Acquisition of Scopely
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Christina Dunbar
Vice President, Global Talent of Scopely
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Roland Ligtenberg
Co-Founder and SVP Growth & Innovation of Housecall Pro
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About Housecall Pro: Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners.
Reza Olfat
Co-Founder, VP of Engineering of Housecall Pro
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About Housecall Pro: Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners.
Mathew Spolin
SVP Engineering of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Andy Ellerhorst
Chief of Staff and VP of Operations of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Jonathan Reid
SVP Global Sales & Business Development of AppDirect
rior to AppDirect, Jonathan was Worldwide Managing Director for Cloud and Hosted Sales at Cisco Systems, following Cisco’s acquisition of BroadSoft, the global leader in Cloud Unified Communications. Jonathan has held senior management positions at other successful start-ups including Sylantro Systems and Syndeo Corporation, and performed venture capital and strategy consulting at Accenture. Jonathan holds a 1st class bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Bristol University and MBA from Europe’s leading business school, INSEAD.
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About AppDirect, BroadSoft: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Renee Bergeron
Senior VP & General Manager of Agent Services of AppDirect
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About AppDirect, Ingram Micro: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Joshua Schnoll
VP of Marketing of AppDirect
Previous to AppDirect, Joshua led Product Marketing at FICO and held a variety of marketing, product and strategy roles at Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. He has a BA in International Relations from Pomona College and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, where he was also an International Management Fellow.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Jerry Sherman
VP, User Experience of AppDirect
Jerry spent over 10 years at Salesforce, starting as the company’s first program manager, building the user experience team, and managing a variety of teams in the R&D and product organizations. He has also spent 12 years in management and individual contributor roles at DoubleClick, NetGravity, Netscape, Oracle, and IBM. Jerry holds an MBA from the University of California, Davis, and a Bachelor’s in English from Santa Clara University. In his spare time, he enjoys running, hiking, cooking, and keeping his 1970 Ford pickup truck running.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Michael Cassin
Vice President of Product Management of AppDirect
Prior to his 5 years at Visa, Michael spent 6 years in product leadership roles at PayPal and, before that, 3 years in product at VeriSign. Michael holds an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business and a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering Technology from the State University of New York, University Center at Binghamton. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking in and exploring the great outdoors with his wife and young daughter and honing his skills as an avid home chef.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Lennart Lepner
VP of Finance of AppDirect
Before joining AppDirect, Lennart worked in New York as an investment banker advising financial service clients on mergers and acquisitions and equity and debt financing transactions. Lennart holds a bachelor’s degree with a double major in economics and psychology from Amherst College. In his spare time, Lennart enjoys playing tennis and exploring the greater Bay Area with his wife.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Ty Nam
SVP Customer Success of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Deb Tenenbaum
SVP, Chief People Officer of AppDirect
Deb was previously Chief People Officer at Yapstone where she led efforts to drive hyper-growth through aggressive hiring, redefining processes, cultural transformation, employment branding, and more. She has also led the People and Communications functions at Epicor Software, Charles Schwab, Rearden Commerce, Loudcloud/Opsware, and Netscape. In 2019, she was named one of the year’s Most Influential Women in Payments by PaymentSource. She holds a Bachelor’s from UC Santa Barbara and a Master’s from the University of San Francisco.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Ty Nam
SVP Customer Success of AppDirect
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Deb Tenenbaum
SVP, Chief People Officer of AppDirect
Deb was previously Chief People Officer at Yapstone where she led efforts to drive hyper-growth through aggressive hiring, redefining processes, cultural transformation, employment branding, and more. She has also led the People and Communications functions at Epicor Software, Charles Schwab, Rearden Commerce, Loudcloud/Opsware, and Netscape. In 2019, she was named one of the year’s Most Influential Women in Payments by PaymentSource. She holds a Bachelor’s from UC Santa Barbara and a Master’s from the University of San Francisco.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Fengmin Gong
VP and InfoSec Strategy of Didi
Fengmin Gong is a well-respected cybersecurity technologist with more than 30 years of industry experience. As head of DiDi Labs, Dr. Gong currently drives R&D innovation and strategy for safety, security and user experience on DiDi platforms, and works on developing the next generation of security tools He has held chief scientist and R&D VP roles in a variety of large security corporations, including McAfee and Symantec JV, and served as chief security content strategy officer for FireEye, where he led the development and management of the company’s security initiatives. He is also a serial entrepreneur, having founded several leading security companies, including Palo Alto Networks and Cyphort Inc., and is an angel investor in more than half a dozen startups. Dr. Gong received both his M.S. and D.Sc. in computer science from Washington University, St. Louis. He is a graduate of Xi’an Jiaotong University in China where he completed his B.S. in computer organization and architecture, and M.S. in computer science.
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About Didi: Didi is a mobile platform that offers app-based transportation services.
Steve Woodworth
Vice President of Business Development of Prompt.io
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About Prompt.io: Prompt.io is a simple, scalable solution for communicating with customers in their preferred medium messaging.
David Liakas
Vice President of Business Development and Partnerships of Huvr Inc.
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About Huvr Inc.: Huvr is a global virtual marketplace that helps to connect human walkers to virtual travelers to explore the world in real-time.
Mahau Ma
SVP Corporate Strategy of MuleSoft
Mahau has over 15 years of experience in the technology and enterprise software space. Prior to joining MuleSoft in 2007, Mahau held various positions at TIBCO Software, including roles in sales enablement, customer marketing and partner marketing. Earlier, Mahau spent a number of years investing in enterprise software and networking startups at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Trinity Ventures. Mahau started his career at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and holds an AB in Economics from Harvard University.
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Brent Hayward
VP, Global Channels & Services of MuleSoft
Brent leads MuleSoft’s global channel and services organization, responsible for all aspects of customer and partner success. In this role, Brent leads our global services, support, training and channel organizations, working closely with our systems integration and reseller partners to deliver consistent, world-class solutions and enablement for our customers. Brent brings to MuleSoft over 16 years of experience in software sales and service delivery. Most recently at Oracle, he was Vice President of North America Application Sales for the Oracle Knowledge Product Portfolio where he was instrumental in rapidly expanding both the direct and channel sales operations. Previously, Brent was Executive Vice President of Worldwide Business Development at InQuira, where he drove top line growth through developing and operationalizing InQuira’s worldwide channel and alliances strategy. Brent began his career at Accenture, where he led teams serving Global 2000 clients in the communications, media & entertainment, and high tech industries. Brent holds a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Nima Asrar Haghighi
VP of Digital Demand Generation & Marketing Operations of MuleSoft
Nima Asrar Haghighi is VP of digital demand generation and marketing operations at [Mulesoft](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mulesoft), a technology company that enables users to connect applications and data across devices. He was previously the head of internet marketing at eBay Advertising. During the course of his career, he took up several internet marketing roles at companies such as SEM SEO Expert, Refco, GAO Research, and VTRAC Consulting Corporation. Haghighi holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and an MBA in marketing.
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Kuntal Vahalia
Vice President, Strategic Channels and Global OEM of MuleSoft
Kuntal Vahalia is the vice president of strategic channels at [Mulesoft](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mulesoft), a technology company that enables users to connect applications and data across devices.
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Sandeep Ramani
Regional Vice President of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Ishmeet Singh
Vice President, Customer Success – Americas of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Brent Grimes
Senior Vice President Global Customer Success of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft, reef.ai: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Dan McAllister
SVP Global Alliances & Channels of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Duncan Grazier
VP of Engineering of Weedmaps
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About Glimpse, Weedmaps: Weedmaps is the world’s first marijuana technology and media brand.
Kevin Skibbe
VP of Engineering of BetterCloud
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About BetterCloud: The SaaS Operations leader: Transform employee experience, centralize data protection, and maximize operational efficiency.
Joe Ross
VP, Content of theScore
Joe is responsible for theScore’s content strategy and execution, and oversaw the creation of the company’s innovative ‘mobile first’ newsroom. He began his career with theScore Television Network in 2000, and worked in a variety roles including live television hosting, announcing highlights and writing for theScore.com before moving into content development.
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About theScore, theScore: TheScore creates mobile-first sports experiences through real-time news, scores, fantasy information, and alerts.
Brian Hanley
VP, Mobile Advertising of LionShare Media
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About LionShare Media: LionShare Media develops a media distribution platform-as-a-service to harness the power of converging and emerging technologies.
Jeannie Cho
Vice President, Finance of BlueCat
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About BlueCat: BlueCat builds next-generation IPAM, DNS, and DHCP solutions that connect mobile devices, applications, and the cloud.
Greg Burrell
Co-Founder, VP of Clinical Product & Strategy of Carbon Health
Greg is co-founder and Director of Medicine at Carbon Health. He brings to Carbon a long-standing passion for using smart technology to overhaul the health system and improve the quality of care to patients. He has been advising and leading Bay Area healthcare startups for a number of years and most recently served as Director of Content and Clinical Solutions at CareMessage, Inc. Greg received his medical degree from the University of Chicago, completed his internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco and maintains a faculty appointment as Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF.
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About Carbon Health: Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers a virtual care experience.
Ashwin Pushpala
SVP of OneDrop
Ashwin Pushpala is the SVP at One Drop
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About OneDrop: One Drop is a diabetes management platform that helps people navigate diabetes together.
Wes Brummette
Vice President of Operations of ClickUp
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About ClickUp: ClickUp offers a customizable workplace productivity platform that serves all departments across an organization.
Brendon Thomas
VP, Distribution of Pluto TV
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About Pluto TV, ViacomCBS: Pluto TV is the leading free streaming television service in America.
Ted Bronstein
Vice President of Partnerships of Spin
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About Spin: Spin is a stationless electric scooter company that provides dockless mobility systems.
Co-Founder & SVP Products of BlueStacks
Jay Vaishnav was most recently V.P. of Engineering for the Office of the CTO at Intel and has brought several Cloud-based services for consumers and large-scale Enterprise products to market. He arrived at Intel through its acquisition of Solidcore in June 2009. Jay co-founded Solidcore, where he led R&D and Product Development. Prior to Solidcore, Jay was VP of Engineering at Chingari, Inc., an web-based consumer research company. Prior to Chingari, Jay led the foundational effort at Amazon.com for their store’s product catalog. He arrived at Amazon.com through its acquisition of Junglee. At Junglee, Jay was Director of Technology and led the development of the company’s comparison shopping engine.Jay spent nearly 10 years at Tandem Computers as a key architect and technical leader for the NonStop SQL relational database management system. He began his career at ESVEL, a privately held database management startup, which was acquired by Cullinet Software.
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About BlueStacks: BlueStacks is the 2nd largest PC gaming platform in the world focused on bringing together PC gamers and the entire Android gaming library.
Hanumantha Kavuluru
Co-founder & VP of Engineering of Rafay Systems
Hanumantha(Hemanth) Kavuluru is the Co-Founder & VP of Engineering at Rafay Systems.
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About Rafay Systems: Rafay enables enterprise Platform teams to manage the full lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters and modern applications with ease at any scale.
Brad Sonnenberg
SVP-Business Development and Operations of Comixology
Brad Sonnenberg is Senior Vice President-Business Development and Operations at comiXology. An experienced senior executive in the media and communications sector, Brad has led organizations responsible for business development, legal affairs, finance, and operations. He was Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Adelphia Communications, where he was on the four-person executive committee that revitalized the cable TV and broadband provider and sold it for $17 billion. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Covad Communications, an early pioneer in commercial broadband. Brad’s government experience includes service as General Counsel to the public economic development corporation financing rebuilding at the World Trade Center and surrounding sites, and also in the U.S. Justice Department as an Assistant United States Attorney. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the law school at the University of Chicago. Brad is currently reading Avengers Vs. X-Men from Marvel Entertainment.
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About Comixology: Comixology delivers a cloud-based digital comics platform that enables users to discover, buy, and read comics.
Matt Pillar
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development of Jam City
Matt Pillar is an accomplished executive with more than twenty-five years of experience building, advising, and investing in businesses in Asia and the United States. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at leading mobile gaming company Jam City, formerly SGN Games; Founder and Managing Director at Fire Dragon Enterprises, a global strategic advisory firm; and Senior Fellow with the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, where he teaches a graduate/MBA course on “Doing Business in China/Asia.” In addition to his service on a number of Boards of Directors of consumer-facing media and technology companies over the years, Matt has been a major fundraiser on the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Ronald McDonald House. He currently serves on the Board of Overseers of From the Top and on the Board of Directors of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California. Proficient in Mandarin Chinese, Matt graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in East Asian Studies from Brown University and received a Master in Business Administration degree with Honors from Harvard University, where case studies and lecture material which he co-authored and published have been taught in both the Harvard Business School executive education program and second-year MBA curriculum. He currently writes about China business and strategy at http://www.climbingthegreatwall.com and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/firedragonllc.
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About Fire Dragon Enterprises, Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Robert Zakari
EVP Corporate Development & General Counsel of Jam City
Rob Zakari is EVP of Corporate Development and General Counsel at Jam City, where he helps direct its mergers and acquisitions strategy and advises its executives on critical company priorities. A native of Los Angeles, Rob has held leadership positions at many of its e-commerce companies over the last two decades. Before joining Jam City, he was EVP and General Counsel at e-commerce company The Lucky Group. As founding manager of early-stage venture fund Global Agora, Rob became acting CEO of SUP ATX, guiding its relationships with offshore manufacturers and overseeing its expansion from 2010 to 2012 from a startup to the world’s largest seller of stand-up paddleboards. In 2002, Rob co-founded Zaba Inc. (formerly PeopleData), an online public record search engine that he led as president for seven years until its 2009 acquisition by Intelius. Prior to this, Rob was a VP at early online storage company Xdrive and VP and General Counsel at direct-to-consumer public records reseller US Search before and during its 1999 IPO. A graduate of UCLA and New York Law School, Rob lives in Los Angeles with his family, two Rhodesian Ridgebacks and a BMW motorcycle.
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Josh Brooks
Senior Vice President of Brand Strategy and Marketing of Jam City
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Jeremy Horn
Vice President of Jam City
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Andy Larson
VP of Business Development of HappyCo
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About HappyCo: HappyCo is taking traditional paper based processes out of the dark ages.
Jennifer Tyson
Senior Vice President of HappyCo
Jennifer (Llacera) Tyson is the Senior Vice President at HappyCo.
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About HappyCo: HappyCo is taking traditional paper based processes out of the dark ages.
Chad Richard
SVP Business & Corporate Development of Yelp
Chad Richard joined Yelp as Senior Vice President, Business & Corporate Development in 2015.
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About Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Justin Norman
Vice President, Data Science of Yelp
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About Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Luther Lowe
Senior Vice President of Public Policy & Government Affairs of Yelp
Luther Lowe is the Senior Vice President of Public Policy at Yelp. In this role, he develops and executes Yelp’s initiatives related to competition policy, open data, and consumer free speech. A recent focus of his advocacy was working to persuade the European Commission that Google was in violation of EU competition laws, an effort profiled at length by the New York Times in 2017. In 2018, in naming him to its inaugural ‘New Establishment’ list, Vanity Fair wrote, “No single person in the United States has been a bigger antagonist of Google in the past seven years than Luther Lowe.” Politico called Luther “Google’s chief antagonist in the U.S. and Europe” this year when it reported on the Department of Justice’s fresh investigation into Google’s conduct. Luther joined Yelp as an early employee in 2008, where he was part of a small landing team that opened Yelp’s first remote office in New York City. After serving a year in the Account Executive role, he was tapped to create a new department leading small business outreach, reporting to the COO. In 2011, he handed off the department and became Yelp’s first director of government affairs. Before joining Yelp, Luther was an aide de camp to retired NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Wesley Clark where he primarily assisted in producing General Clark’s best-selling memoir. He has served as a paid staffer on more than a dozen state, local, and federal democratic campaigns. While attending college and serving as a member of the Virginia National Guard, he filed and won a federal lawsuit against the city of Williamsburg, Virginia for the systematic disenfranchisement of student voters. The high profile effort led to increased national awareness about student voter suppression. Luther lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and daughter. He holds a bachelor of arts in Government from the College of William & Mary.
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About Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Dan Kimball
SVP Marketing of Yelp
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About S-Docs Inc., Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Ken Mallon
SVP & Head of Data Products of Samba TV
Digital advertising product leader making insights, targeting and measurement products at scale for both the hand-sold and programmatic world. Held leadership roles in this space since 2000 at top publishers (Microsoft, Yahoo!) and research companies (Dynamic Logic/Millward Brown, Ipsos ASI). Highly trained at top universities (Stanford, Johns Hopkins) in mathematical sciences, extensive experience working with and managing engineers, product/program managers, marketers and various sales roles. Career has been characterized by high-impact innovations in behavioral targeting, closed looped targeting/measurement systems and deep consumer insights products. Rapid prototyping, customer input and iteration development style. Leveraging 15+ year experience in targeting, measurement and insights innovation, combined with 4INFO’s unique secret sauce, to bring industry-leading, closed-loop targeting and sales lift measurement to mobile and cross-screen advertisers. As CPO, I manage both the Data Science and Product Teams at 4INFO. In addition to our science and data driven targeting and measurement solutions for advertisers, we are also building out Platform-as-a-Service solutions for DMPs, data partners, publishers and major advertisers. Our unique ability to make nearly all US smart devices addressable, means our match key can power the future of Martech in amazing ways.
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About Samba TV: Samba TV enables the next-generation TV experience powered by its first-party data and helps viewers engage with relevant media.
Siddhartha Dabral
Co-Founder and Vice President of Platform Engineering of Button
Co-Founder at Button
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About Button: Button is the mobile commerce technology company that is powering a commerce-driven internet.
Samantha Steinwinder
Vice President of Corporate Marketing of Accolade
Samantha Steinwinder is the Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Accolade, Inc. She oversees Corporate Marketing for the healthcare technology innovator that is reinventing the way individuals and organizations experience healthcare. Ms. Steinwinder is a former Managing Partner at The Concept Agency and Vice President of Weber Shandwick. Samantha received a bachelor of arts in Communication at Menlo College.
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About Accolade: Accolade features personalized health and benefits solutions that help to improve experience, outcomes, and healthcare cost for employers.
Brian Li
VP Business Operations of Mezi
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About Mezi: Mezi is an AI-powered personal travel assistant, accessible 24×7, over messaging.
Andy Chen
Senior Vice President of Innovation of Match Group
Andy Chen is chief product officer at Glassdoor, responsible for leading strategy, innovation, and execution among the product, design and community teams. Andy joined Glassdoor from Match Group, where he held several leadership roles within product, innovation and business development. Most recently, Andy was SVP of Match Group’s innovation team, +1Labs, where he led a portfolio-wide effort to drive ideas from conception to strategy to development and to market. Prior to his tenure at Match Group, he co-founded travel technology startup, Traxo. Andy holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated with honors, and a bachelor’s degree in civil structural engineering from Texas A&M University.
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About Glassdoor, Match Group: Match Group is a division of IAC & online dating portfolio that comprises over forty brands around the world.
Tracey Breeden
VP, Head of Safety and Social Advocacy of Match Group
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About Match Group: Match Group is a division of IAC & online dating portfolio that comprises over forty brands around the world.
Beth Wilson
SVP Product, Match.com, Match Mobile & Chemistry.com of Match Group
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About Match Group: Match Group is a division of IAC & online dating portfolio that comprises over forty brands around the world.
Beth Wilson
SVP Product, Match.com, Match Mobile & Chemistry.com of Match Group
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About Match Group: Match Group is a division of IAC & online dating portfolio that comprises over forty brands around the world.
Tyler Kennedy
Co-Founder & VP-Operations of Fetch Rewards
Tyler Kennedy is the Co-Founder & VP-Operations at Fetch Rewards.
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About Fetch Rewards: Fetch Rewards is a mobile shopping platform that rewards shoppers for buying the brands they love.
Ed Mock
SVP – Product & Innovation of Dosh
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About Dosh: Dosh is a free cash back app that finds users money for shopping, dining out, and pumping gas at thousands of merchants & brands nationwide.
Rujul Patel
VP New Business, Marketing & PMM of ironSource
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About ironSource: IronSource is a business platform enabling mobile content creators to prosper in the app economy.
Trevor Lund
Vice President of Finance of Pelion Venture Partners
Trevor joined the Pelion team in 2017. Trevor’s key responsibilities revolve around financial reporting, with duties that include preparation of the GAAP financial statements and assisting in the valuation of the fund’s portfolio companies. Prior to Pelion, Trevor was a Senior Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was charged with managing the day-to-day activities on numerous SEC and asset management engagements. He was also one of two employees chosen by the national office to be mentored by Manhattan-based CEO Bob Moritz; never before, or since, has an employee from the Salt Lake City office been chosen for such an honor. Trevor graduated Cum Laude with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in accounting from Utah State University and is a licensed CPA and member of the UACPA and AICPA.
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About Pelion Venture Partners: Pelion Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs and invests in early-stage B2B software-based companies.
Alex Muresan
VP of Engineering of Foodsmart
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About Foodsmart: Foodsmart is a digital nutrition platform that uses personalized dietary recommendations to improve health outcomes.
Derek Perez
VP of Marketing of Zeality Inc.
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About Zeality Inc.: Zeality Inc. is the leading provider of innovative cloud solutions for delivering immersive media content across all connected devices.
Erik Berg
Co-founder & VP Product of Tomorrow Ideas
Erik Berg is a founder at Wealthfile.com .
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About Earlybirdy, Tomorrow Ideas, Wealthfile.com: Tomorrow Ideas develops an application that helps in protecting family’s financial future.
Kevin McGowan
Vice President Of Product Management of HqO
Kevin McGowan is the Vice President of Product Management at HqO.
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About HqO: HqO helps building owners and property teams thrive with technology that engages tenants and creates the most value for their assets.
Manish Barmecha
VP Product of HqO
Manish Barmecha is WordStream’s Senior Vice President of Product. Manish is responsible for defining WordStream’s product strategy and for product management and design. Prior to joining WordStream, Manish was Head of Product Management in the Software as a Service (SaaS) unit at Infosys, where he helped build the eCommerce and Social Collaboration software businesses. Before that, Manish headed Product Management at Demandware, an eCommerce SaaS company, and held product leadership roles at Art Technology Group (ATG), where he managed multiple product lines, led entry into new markets, and led the integration of an acquisition. Prior to ATG, Manish was a Senior Associate with McKinsey & Company where he served Global 2000 clients on strategy and marketing issues. Manish holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BA (summa cum laude) in Mathematics and Computer Science from Lawrence University.
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About HqO: HqO helps building owners and property teams thrive with technology that engages tenants and creates the most value for their assets.
Anjali Peri
Vice President Business Development of SitterFriends
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About SitterFriends: Book your community’s most trusted babysitters, in a second, for free
Sharon Rechter
EVP of Business Development and Marketing of BabyFirstTV
Sharon Rechter, along with business partner, Guy Oranim, conceptualized and co-founded BabyFirstTV. In her role as executive vice president, she leads the business development and marketing activities for the company – with a clear passion to bring quality, new educational programming to families of babies and toddlers. Rechter has a broad background in television programming and recently served as the vice president and head of operations for The Israeli Network (the Israeli television channel in the U.S.). She was responsible for the general management of the network, and focused on areas including business development, advertising and subscriptions. Before entering the television broadcast industry, Rechter headed the strategic planning department at GNS Advertising in Israel where she was responsible for developing strategic plans for a variety of lifestyle brands. Rechter received her B.A. in business administration from the Arison School of Business and her L.L.B in law from the Radziner School of Law, both at The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel.
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About BabyFirstTV, First Media: BabyFirstTV is an online platform offering satellite TV, games, and smartphone apps for infants, toddlers, and parents.
Jonathan Lowe
VP, Corporate Communications & PR of Letgo
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About Letgo: Letgo is a second-hand shopping app that helps users buy and sell locally.
Vidhya Ranganathan
VP of Engineering of MOJIO
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About MOJIO: Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS provider of choice to build and scale connected mobility services.
Kyle MacDonald
VP of Marketing of MOJIO
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About MOJIO: Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS provider of choice to build and scale connected mobility services.
Joshua Feldman
VP of Product of Raya
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About Raya: Raya is an online membership-based community for dating, networking, and making new friends.
Jorge Rincon
VP North America of Deezer
Jorge A. Rincón is a recognized executive and entrepreneur in the areas of digital media, mobile content, value added services, mobile applications and digital advertising. Rincon joins Deezer to lead the North America region (US & Canada) to exponentially grow Deezer’s subscribers and partnerships. In his most recent venture, Rincón was the Director of Digital Products & Business Development for Millicom. In this role, Rincon lead the strategy and evolution of Millicom’s digital products and services ranging from music streaming, sports video content, movies and tv series, productivity applications and Mobile Money. Prior to Millicom, Rincon served as COO of Adsmovil, the leading Mobile Advertising Network serving the U.S. Hispanic and Latin America markets; part of the Cisneros Group of Companies. Before that, he served as the CEO of LatCel, a US based mobile content provider for wireless carriers and consumers. He also served as COO of StarMedia Networks, a leading mobile and internet portal for the US and Latin America. Born and raised in Venezuela, Rincón arrived to the US in 1991 where he obtained an Industrial Engineering and Information Systems degree from Northeastern University in Boston. Then moved around the US, Asia and Latin America until finally settling in Miami. Rincón has over 20 years of hands on experience and has been featured as speaker in serval recognized industry conferences and is also a board member of the Mobile Marketing Association.
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About Deezer: Deezer is the world’s most diverse, dynamic and personal global music streaming company and includes a unique personalisation model, Flow.
Ernest Hursh
Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Slice Labs
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About Slice Labs: Slice Labs is the first on-demand insurance cloud platform provider, enabling companies to build intuitive digital insurance products.
Elan Mosbacher
SVP of Strategy and Operations of SpotHero
Elan Mosbacher is a Chicago-based startup marketing & business development executive. He is currently SVP of Strategy & Operations at SpotHero. He previously served as VP of Strategy & Business development as well as VP of Marketing , joining the company following the seed round of funding as the company’s first executive hire. Prior to SpotHero, Elan was the 1st marketing hire in venture-backed startups in ecommerce & B2B sofware-as-a-service companies. Elan has a BS in Finance, as well as an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
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About SpotHero: Leading & only independent consumer marketplace for parking in North America.
