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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 Director operating in the Apps space. If you think a Director 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.
Dev Patel
Director of Strategic Growth of Infobip
Dev Patel has been serving as Director of Strategic Growth at Infobip since January 2019.
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About Infobip: Infobip specializes in omnichannel engagement powering a range of messaging channels, tools, and solutions for advanced customer engagement.
Allie Donovan
Senior Director of CRM & Retention of Boxed
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About Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
Shari Shapiro
Senior Director, Global Fleet Expansion & Regulatory Excellence of Lime
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About Lime, Lime: Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
Maggie Gendron
Director, Strategic Development 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.
Eric Jones
Director Corporate Development of Gopuff
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About Gopuff: Gopuff is digital delivery service designed to deliver daily essentials within minutes.
Boo Wong
Director, Live Entertainment of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Stephen Palmer
Development Director of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Scott Cunningham
Member, Board of Directors of DisputeSuite
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About OwnBackup: DisputeSuite was founded in 2006. At DisputeSuite, our vision is clear: to revolutionize the credit repair industry by creating an
George Wisniewski
National Sales Director of DisputeSuite
George Wisniewski is Owner at Expert Credit Systems.
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About DisputeSuite, Expert Credit Systems: DisputeSuite was founded in 2006. At DisputeSuite, our vision is clear: to revolutionize the credit repair industry by creating an
Ganesan Rathinam
Founder, Executive Director, Chain-Sys Corporation of Chain Sys
Ganesan is a post graduate from Electrical Engineering department of IIT Chennai with his bachelors from Electronics and Communications Department of AC College of Engineering and Technology. He has extensive experience in VLSI design, Software Systems Design and Development, Project Management, Marketing, Business Administration, Contracts. Currently is the Executive Director of Chain-Sys Corporation, USA. Before his current role with Chain-Sys, he was associated with Unisys Corporation, DSRC, Tata Unisys and Bharat Electronics. Presented a paper on “Test Patterns” at the First International Conference on VLSI Design held in IIT Chennai (1984). He has traveled widely in the USA, India, Canada, Europe, Singapore and the Middle East. His other interests are Story Telling, Creative Design, Painting, Swimming, Hiking, Canoeing and Kayaking. He speaks Tamil, English, Hindi and a little Telugu and Kannada.
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About : Offers ChainSys Smart Data Platform for data migration, integration, quality and analytics and Smart BOTs for testing automation.
Leah Malone
Managing Director, Strategic Client Group in Sales of Foursquare
Leah is Senior Regional Director of Brand Partnerships at Foursquare, where she oversees key strategic client initiatives for New York and various eastern regions. She has had a hand in many of Foursquare’s largest brand and agency partnerships and most exciting creative executions, as well as the launch of Foursquare’s media and analytics products, Pinpoint and Attribution. She leads the charge in Foursquare’s evolution from social-focused media to meaningful location intelligence partnerships on behalf of some of our largest clients. Don’t let her gentle and fun demeanor fool you — Leah knows a thing or two about toughness as a former nationally-traveling competitive Roller Girl, and co-owner and founder of Beverly’s dba Essex Café Group, LLC on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About Foursquare, Foursquare, Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Sarah Spagnolo
Director, Communications and Editor-at-Large 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.
Linda Walsh
Director of Communications of AppDirect
Creative ideas, innovative campaigns, and a relentless approach have defined Linda’s career in public relations. Linda’s aptitude for combining balance and risk has helped her reinvent conventional ideas to achieve results for her clients. Prior to joining InkHouse, Linda forged her professional path at the Horn Group where she worked with both public and private clients in the high tech sector. Her ability to promote highly technical concepts in national and industry trade publications resulted in bottom-line results for her clients. Linda then transitioned to a broader scope of work at The Castle Group where she continued to expand her expertise into the consumer PR market. Leading her accounts through a changing media landscape, Linda has made a name for herself with clients, media, bloggers and social media outlets.
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About AppDirect, InkHouse, InkHouse, SutherlandGold Group: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Prakash V
Director of Technical Program Management of AppDirect
Prakash Vippa is the Director of Technical Program management at [AppDirect](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/appdirect), a cloud service marketplace and management company. He leads Outbound Product Management team and TPM teams. Prior to that, he was the Principal Product Manager at Big Air Studios and Oracle. Vippa holds a master’s degree in computer engineering from Auburn University.
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About AppDirect: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Rajeev Bansal
Sr. Director Product Management 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.
Vladimir Smirnov
Director, Technical 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.
Vladimir Smirnov
Director, Technical 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.
Dick Green
Director of Liberty Global Corporation & Shaw Communications Inc. Chairman of Space Sciences Inst. of StackUp
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About : Stackup is an Artificial Intelligent Patent Pending System that Measure & Report all online reading & learning done across the web.
Dan Diephouse
Director of Product Management of MuleSoft
Dan Diephouse is the CEO of Cargocast. He was a product manager at MuleSoft for Mule iON, the world’s first integration Platform as a Service. There he’s focused on helping connect everything together: cloud services, applications, databases, mobile devices – even toasters. He will only rest once everything has an API and data flows seamlessly between them. He has a over 10 years of experience in integration and middleware spaces including co-founding Apache CXF, an open source web services framework; launching Tcat, an enterprise Tomcat application server;, helping shape Mule, the most popular open source ESB, and consulting with many of the world’s top
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About Cargocast, MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Mark Burton
Member of the Board of Directors of MuleSoft
Mark Burton has 30 years of sales and marketing experience, highlighted by executive sales roles at MySQL AB and Informatica. At MySQL, as EVP of Worldwide Sales and Alliances, he contributed as the sales executive building a worldwide sales engine monetizing the MySQL open source brand and culminating in a $1 billion acquisition by Sun Microsystems in February 2008. At Informatica, Mark held roles as senior vice president of Americas Sales and eventually group vice president of Worldwide Sales and Alliances. His contribution helped grow Informatica from $12m to over $150m in sales resulting in a successful IPO in April 1999 and a secondary offering in September 2000. Other positions include several vice president of sales and marketing roles in early stage companies, executive-in-residence at Partech International Venture Partners, and regional sales management at Oracle, among others. Mark serves on the board of directors of open-source leaders Zend and MuleSource as well as on the advisory board for Jaspersoft.
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About : MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Jake Morgan
Senior Director of Solutions Engineering – RCG – North America; Office of the CTO of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft, Open Web Application Security Project: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Ahyoung An
Director, Solutions 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.
Youngme Moon
Director of Handy
Youngme E. Moon is an Independent Non-Executive Director at Unilever Plc, an Independent Outside Director at Rakuten, Inc. and a Professor at Harvard Business School. She is on the Board of Directors at Unilever Plc, Unilever NV, Rakuten, Inc., The Honest Co., Inc., Blade LLC, Handy Technologies, Inc., Lola Travel Co., Inc. and Sweetgreen, Inc. Dr. Moon was previously employed as an Independent Director by zulily, Inc., an Independent Non-Executive Director by Avid Technology, Inc., a Professor by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Member-Governors Board by The American National Red Cross. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and a doctorate degree from Stanford University.\
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About Handy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rakuten: Handy, formerly Handybook, is an app through which users can book cleaners, plumbers, handymen, and other household service providers.
Rogelio Alvarez
Director of Business Development and Sales of Duolingo
Rogelio Alvarez is the Director of Business Development and Sales at Duolingo.
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About Duolingo: Duolingo is a language-learning education platform that offers 98 total courses across nearly 40 distinct languages.
Bret Henning
Sr Director and Information Technology of Tandem Diabetes Care
Bret Henning is currently the Sr. Director of Information Technology at Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. Bret is responsible for worldwide IT operations including infrastructure, cloud computing, collaboration technologies, enterprise applications, DEVOPS, call center and voice technologies. At Tandem Bret was involved in building the company from an early stage startup through product commercialization. He brings a diverse portfolio of experience managing everything from Facilities to Connected Heath. His background includes more than 30 years of hands-on experience in technology for electronics and medical device companies.
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About Tandem Diabetes Care: Tandem Diabetes Care develops medical devices for the treatment of diabetes offering diabetic insulin pumps for adults and children.
Carson Kahn
Co-Founder & Board Director of Spindle (www.spindle.app)
Named a Goldman Sachs 100 Entrepreneur for his innovations across AI and Natural Language Processing, Carson Kahn is currently the co-founder of Spindle (www.spindle.app), a no-code AI startup backed by Accel Partners (Slack/Dropbox/Facebook), Caffeinated Capital (IFTTT/Notion/Airtable), and diverse Fortune 100 executives. Previously, he served as President of Brainspace AI (acquired by Reveal with $200 million from K1 Capital), the world’s leading natural language analytics engine, originally backed by the CIA. Mr. Kahn is also a Member of the Board of Advisors for Computer Science at the University of Colorado; Stanford University AII; UC Santa Cruz Center for Excellence in Data Science Research; and Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC); and advises venture-backed startups in AI/ML, PaaS, FinTech & InfoSec as a Techstars Mentor and angel investor. Mr. Kahn also invests with the $100 million Pandemic Impact Fund (PIF), Thiel-backed VC firm SI Capital, and Transpire Ventures. His work has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, and elsewhere; and he has been tapped for expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and Future of Work by members of the Congressional Caucus on AI & National Economic Council. Previously, Mr. Kahn served as CEO (promoted from CTO) of JPMorgan In–Residence business Volley ML, saving Fortune 500 firms >$52 million in real labor annually with the first fully autonomous training & sales enablement platform for financial & health services. Named a Goldman Sachs 100 Entrepreneur for Volley’s innovations, Mr. Kahn designed, built, and sold Volley’s machine learning platform alongside an NLP team from Google, the NSA/CIA, Carnagie Mellon, and Goldman Sachs, seeded by $10 million from JPMorgan, Silicon Valley Bank, Zuckerberg Ventures, and execs from Goldman, Apple, and Facebook; before being recruited to lead Brainspace AI prior to its acquisition. Formerly, as Head of Product and co-founder at Keystone Learning Systems (KLS), the first LMS to offer cloud-native analytics and ML features for U.S. secondaries supporting >355,000 accounts, Mr. Kahn helped pioneer its now widely-imitated “extended enterprise” deployment model, before co-leading the entity sale to SPPEF Stirup Partners. On the heels of an externship at Google (via the ATLAS Institute), he formerly spanned product & technical marketing on the founding team at Vetica.com, whose real-time collaboration product Draftboard garnered users like Adobe & AOL while generating revenue from day 1. When the product was acquired by UK investors, Vetica launched Chalk.com, today the one of the 10 most popular learning analytics platforms in North America. A Black Belt in Karate and avid sportsman, Mr. Kahn can frequently be found training in a racquetball court or behind the wheel of an ATV. In his spare time, Mr. Kahn also moonlights behind a jazz piano near his home in the East Cut, San Francisco. Media Contact: Stacey Murray (stacey.murray.consulting@gmail.com) Press Kit: carsonkahn.com/press-kit
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About Spindle (www.spindle.app), Stanford University, Techstars, University of Colorado: An intelligent Decision Analytics platform for generating apps that simulate the ROI of business decisions without statistics or code.
Ben DeJarnette
Local Director of WhereBy.Us
Entrepreneurial Journalism Community Manager at LION: Local Independent Online News Publishers.
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About LION: Local Independent Online News Publishers, WhereBy.Us: A platform that enables creators to build a media business for their community.
Charles Prober
CEO, Board of Directors of Tile
Charles “CJ” Prober is CEO of Tile. He is an entrepreneurial leader who has a broad mix of operational, strategic and transactional experience with a strong track record of success over the past 20 years. I have a passion for building and operating consumer experiences that are at the cutting edge of hardware, media and technology.
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About Tile: Tile creates devices connected to a mobile app, helping users locate their personal items.
Alex Milligan
Co-founder & Marketing Director of Nugg
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About Nugg: Nugg allows mmj patients to find and order cannabis-based products from nearby collectives that deliver or offer pickup.
Bubba Murarka
Director of Twin Prime
Bubba Murarka is a partner at DFJ, where his current responsibilities include leading early stage investments in consumer internet and mobile technology companies. Bubba currently serves on the boards of Circle CI, Highlight, Kiwi, and Twin Prime. Prior to joining DFJ, Bubba led product development for Facebook for Android and started the Facebook Home project. At Facebook, Bubba also led business development deals with key strategic partners including Microsoft, Netflix,Yahoo, Dentsu and Terra Networks. Previously, Bubba spent seven years in technical and product roles at Microsoft, where he acted as group program manager for Bing’s Bay Area development team, delivering components of Windows, MSN Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search and early versions of Bing Social. He started his career at Microsoft in Seattle as part of the original threedegrees team focused on social products. Bubba holds BS and MS in computer science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where he served as the sole student member of the California State University Board of Trustees, and he continues to focus philanthropic efforts on increasing access to education.
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About : Twin Prime, a company that came out of stealth this week
Pavel Bocharov
Art Director & Co-Founder of Wheely
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About Wheely: Wheely is a luxury ride-hailing service, allowing customers to book chauffeur-driven journeys both on-demand and pre-booked through an app.
Travis Keyser
National Director of Service Network Operations of Urgently
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About Urgently: Urgently features a roadside assistance industry to the benefit of global brands and roadside assistance professionals.
Ulysses Davalos
Director, Advertising Monetization of Pluto TV
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About Pluto TV, Pluto TV: Pluto TV is the leading free streaming television service in America.
Bray Patrick-Lake
Director, Strategic Partnerships of Evidation Health
Bray is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Evidation Health. She develops collaborations to support the design and implementation of participant-centered studies, and serves on the All of Us National Advisory Panel, the Digital Medicine Society Scientific Leadership Board, and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Health Science Policy Board. Previously, Bray led engagement for the Duke Clinical Research Institute Project Baseline Study Coordinating Center and served as co-chair on the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director that authored the Precision Medicine Initiative’s Cohort Program. Bray holds a BS degree from the University of Georgia, and an MFS degree from National University.
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About Evidation Health: We enable and empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes.
John Roberts
Co-Founder, Director of Comixology
John D. Roberts is the co-founder of comiXology and a pioneer in digital comics. Prior to launching comiXology, John led Marvel’s first digital comics initiative, “dotComics,” in the early 2000s where he also created the precursors to today’s motion comics. John has over 20 years of experience in the tech field, working with such diverse group of companies as Pepsi, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sunoco, DC Comics, Disney, Pokemon, National Geographic, Touchstone, Nickelodeon and Lionsgate. Currently John works closely with leading and emerging comics creators in unique and innovative ways to continue innovating the digital comic experience. John also spearheads comiXology Submit, a self-publishing portal that enables independent creators to reach comiXology’s global audience of comic book fans. John holds a BFA in drawing from Kutztown University. John’s currently reading Aquaman from DC Entertainment.
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About Comixology: Comixology delivers a cloud-based digital comics platform that enables users to discover, buy, and read comics.
Arik Crissi
Director of Operations of Elefund
Arik Crissi carries the entrepreneurial spirit and conceptually draws out the values and embedded principles of sustainability in business; from economics to social and environmental traits. Arik takes a hand on approach to analysis by literally dissecting gizmos and business models seeking fundamental principles and competitive advantages of innovative technologies and approaches.
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About Elefund: Elefund is a thesis-driven, micro venture capital focused on investments in early-stage technology companies.
Lin Sun
Director of Open Source of Solo.io
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About Istio, Solo.io: Solo.io develops tools to help the enterprise adapt and make the most of innovative cloud technologies.
Chris Gaun
Director of Product of Solo.io
Physics nerd turned tech geek. Manage Gloo Platforms at Solo.io
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About Solo.io: Solo.io develops tools to help the enterprise adapt and make the most of innovative cloud technologies.
Diane Irvine
Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Yelp
Diane Irvine has served as Chairperson of the Board of Directors at Yelp since November 2011. Previously, Diane served as Chief Executive Officer of Blue Nile, Inc., an online retailer of diamonds and fine jewelry, from February 2008 to November 2011 and as President from February 2007 to November 2011. Diane also served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Blue Nile from May 2001 to November 2011 and she served as Chief Financial Officer of Blue Nile from December 1999 to September 2007. From February 1994 to May 1999, Diane served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc., a timberland management and wood products company. From September 1981 to February 1994, Diane served in various capacities, most recently as a Partner, with Coopers and Lybrand LLP, an accounting firm. Diane formerly served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc., a live entertainment ticketing and marketing company, from August 2008 to January 2010 and Davidson Companies, an investment banking and asset management company from January 1998 to January 2009. Diane holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from Illinois State University and an M.S. in Taxation from Golden Gate University.
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About : Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Courtney Stuart
Regional Director, Enterprise Sales of Yelp
Courtney Stuart is Head of North American Sales at RebelMouse. He’s helping brands and publishers leverage RebelMouse’s social content management system to create content experiences & communities which continually reach and grow audiences across the social web. Prior to RebelMouse, Courtney spent 3+ years on the executive team at Criteo as VP of Eastern Region Sales, where he built the region from scratch and scaled revenues 10X – making a significant contribution to Criteo’s successful 2013 IPO. Prior to Criteo, Courtney held a number of leadership positions at Howcast, Vibrant Media and Yahoo! Courtney is a graduate of St. Lawrence University. Specialties: Sales Leadership, Demand Generation, Lead Generation, Branding, Advertising, Online Media, Sales, SaaS, Online Advertising, Digital Marketing, Advertising Sales Management, Social Media Marketing, Media Sales, Business Development.
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About DoubleClick, RebelMouse, Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Darnell Holloway
Senior Enterprise Account Director of Yelp
Darnell Holloway is Director of Local Business Outreach at Yelp.
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About Yelp, Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Robert Gibbs
Member of the Board of Directors of Yelp
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About Bully Pulpit Interactive: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Elizabeth Driscoll
Business Development Director of Spaceflight Industries
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About Spaceflight Industries: Spaceflight Industries provides small-satellite services and solutions to enable new applications through the commercialization of space.
Jamie Fiore
Sr. Director, Marketing of Match Group
Jamie Fiore is the Sr. Director of Marketing at Match.com.
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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.
Ramanand Reddi
Senior Director of Product Management of Match Group
Ramanand Reddi is the Senior Director of Product Management at Match.com.
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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.
Anthony Turner
Director of Logistics of Freevi
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About Freevi: FlightDeck 3D delivers quality 3D viewing without the use of glasses.
Martin Christien
Director of Content Services 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.
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.
Katie Muto
Senior Director, Product of 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.
Nick Whalen
Director Of Engineering of HqO
Nick Whalen is the director of engineering 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.
John Bosch
Director of Customer Success of 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.
Ken Wetcher
Regional Medical Director of Ginger
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About Ginger: Ginger is an on-demand mental health company providing around-the-clock access to emotional support via coaching, therapy, and psychiatry.
Stefanee Horwitch
Human Resources Director of Booksy
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About Booksy: Booksy is an online platform for finding and booking beauty and wellness appointments.
David McLaughlin
Director, Global Developer Ecosystem, Developer Relations of Google Launchpad Accelerator
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About Google Launchpad Accelerator: Launchpad Accelerator helps startups from around the world in developing the world’s greatest apps.
Savannah Bridge
Director of Client Happiness of Affinity.is
If you said that you saw our Director of Happiness, Savannah Bridge, with anything but a smile on her face… I would call you a liar. She has a positive attitude with every problem she faces and the ability to troubleshoot just about anything! Glass half full? Ask Savannah…and she would say it is. To top it off, Savannah has done it all! Seriously. She’s been in customer service…worked in a restaurant…a clothing stores…a shoe store…a plant nursery….a university student center…a ceramic painting studio….even a ZOO! Talk about well-rounded. She also graduated from Philadelphia University in 2009 with a BS in Interior Design, so when we’re picking out colors for our office walls, we know where to turn. How did she end up with Affinity you ask? After leaving school Savannah discovered her passion for web/graphic design…even going as far as teaching herself HTML when she first moved to Seattle (Savannah is not a Seattle native…she actually grew up in Colorado where her family still resides). She started her last role at Thinkspace where she was an admin assistant, but like I said before, with that go-get-em’ attitude Savannah was the Director of Operations by the time she left. While there she was able to nurture her love of customer service (yes, I said love) and technology. Affinity really has gained a gem in the way of Savannah Bridge. Savannah spends most days ensuring clients are beyond thrilled with both the Affinity.IS team and our core offerings. Away from the “office” her hobbies are about as lengthy as her resume. Whether at home or traveling the US, she continues to spread the happy with her long-time boyfriend and friends. She loves to cook, including her favorite recipes of Bridgeritos (yup, a totally made up name) and chili. Running? Ya, she loves to do that too…any 5/10k that has a cool theme (like jingle bells, bubbles, even chocolate) and Savannah is down. But best part of all? She loves to get a little nerdy. Yup, she is a self-proclaimed nerd. Video games? Comic books? Sci-fi? Savannah loves it all and here at Affinity, we love her!
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About Affinity.is: Affinity.is helps retailers attract more customers through a customer rewarding system that involve celebrities.
Andrew Hitti
Director Of Engineering of Raya
Co-Founder of Worldview.
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About Raya, Worldview: Raya is an online membership-based community for dating, networking, and making new friends.
Mikael Hed
Board of Directors of Rovio Entertainment
Investor, Executive Chairman at Kaiken Entertainment Ltd.
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About Evli Growth Partners, Kaiken Entertainment Ltd., Rovio Entertainment: Rovio Entertainment is an entertainment media company that develops, publishes, and distributes video games.
Daniel Gnecco
Director of Business Development of MOVL
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About MOVL, Skyline Capital Partners: MOVL enables users to discover multi-screen content available on smartTVs through their mobile devices.
Jasen Balmat
Director of Moderation of OkCupid
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About OkCupid: OkCupid is an online dating website that uses quizzes and multiple-choice questions to find a match for the user.
Jennifer Payne
Director of Sales of Miles
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About Miles: Miles is a startup that offers rewards for traveling, regardless of the mode of transportation.
Luke D’Angelo
Chair Of The Board Of Directors/ Executive Director of AppTech Corp.
Mr. D’Angelo has more than 25 years of experience in investment banking, real estate, venture capital, and capital markets. In 2006, he founded a merchant services company, Transcendent One, Inc. which became an Inc. 500 fastest growing company, ranked at #105. The company was the first “Merchant Owned” company in the United States, offering ownership in the company for customers based on their monthly credit card processing volumes. In 2009, he founded TransTech One, a subsidiary to Transcendent One that had a focus on the bill payment and technology industries. With TransTech One, significant business relationships with utilities, including Sempra Energy were formed. In 2013, AppTech Corp. acquired Transcendent One and TransTech One. Where he currently resides as Chairman of the Board, Executive Director, and Chief Investment Officer.
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About AppTech Corp.: AppTech is a fintech company utilizing innovative payment processing and digital banking technologies to complement core merchant services.
Jason Kuo
Director of Fuhu
Jason Kuo brings nearly a decade of experience in product management as well as customer relations. Prior to Fuhu, Mr. Kuo has built his experience working at several of the world’s top consumer products companies such as Disney, Nike and The Children’s Place. Mr. Kuo is a graduate of Boston University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
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About Fuhu: Fuhu is a designer and seller of cloud-served software, apps and products and services for children.
Ian Kennedy
Director of Media-Technology Partnerships of SmartNews
Director, Media-Technology Partnerships
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About SmartNews: SmartNews is a news app that helps users find quality news beyond the filter bubble.
Lakmini Wijesundera
Co-founder, Director and Chief Executive Officer of Boardpac
Lakmini Wijesundera has over 18 years of experience in technology management and global distribution. As the Chief Executive Officer of BoardPAC, she oversees all aspects of BoardPAC business and is the driving force behind BoardPAC’s successful global expansion. Lakmini has been the recipient of several prestigious industry recognition awards such as being the first Sri Lankan to be nominated for the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program of Asia Pacific 2017, the winner of the Entrepreneur of the Year in 2016, Exporter of the Year and the Gold Award in the large category awarded by the Women’s Chamber of Industry & Commerce, the winner of Women in Management IT Leader of the year in 2016, the winner of the female ICT Leader of the year 2014 awarded by Computer Society of Sri Lanka ( CSSL) and has been selected to the 50 most powerful women in business awarded by the Echelon Magazine in 2014. Lakmini also holds the Chief Executive Officer role in Ironone Technologies which is a leading Software and solutions company with offices in USA, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Prior to co-founding BoardPAC, Lakmini has been engaged in several progressive business initiations which included two technology startups. She formerly was the Manager of the Information Technology and Software Development division at Lanka Bell and was a key member of the start up Ceycom Global Communications. Lakmini also champions a charitable program called Give2Lanka.org and participates in entrepreneurial startup mentoring programs in her spare time. Lakmini has a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering from the University College London, University of London and has a M.Sc. from Imperial College, University of London, United Kingdom.
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About Boardpac, Ironone Technologies: BoardPAC is a Board Management Software that is available worldwide for large corporations and mid tier corporations.
Tara Robertson
Director, Marketing Strategy and Operations of Sprout Social
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About Sprout Social: Sprout Social provides a platform for businesses to manage social media engagement, publishing and analytics.
Carl Eppers
Director of Employer Partnerships of Baby Doctor, Inc.
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About Baby Doctor, Inc.: Baby Doctor, Inc. was a healthcare startup that offered pediatric services on demand
Emily Rose Prats
Marketing Director of Baby Doctor, Inc.
Emily Rose is a digital marketer with years of start-up and small business experience. An NYU graduate, she is now a brand storyteller specializing in strategy, content creation, social media, influencer relations, partnership building, and event marketing. She’s currently with tech start-up Baby Doctor after her efforts yielded the 200% year-over-year online sales growth at her last company.
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About Baby Doctor, Inc.: Baby Doctor, Inc. was a healthcare startup that offered pediatric services on demand
Eric Todd
Creative Director of Playdom
Eric Todd is the vice president of Product at Playdom/Disney Interactive, where he is designing the next generation of social games. His recent credits include Marvel Avengers Alliance, Disney City Girl, and Gardens of Time. Previously, he worked for more than a decade at Maxis, where he shipped Spore and other notable games.
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About Playdom: Playdom is an online social network of game developers.
Matt Harris
Managing Director Bain Capital, Board Observe of BILLMO, LLC
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About : BillMo is a Latin American Mobile Wallet focused on the receive side of a Money Transfer enabling the recipient to spend money digitally.
David Steinberg
Director of SEQL
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About Radius Networks, SEQL: SEQL is an athletic recruiting platform that connects high school amateur athletes and collegiate coaches.
Lawrence Chan
Director of Finance of Livelike
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About Livelike: LiveLike is an entertainment company that provides on-demand sports VR media content.
Patrick Trepanier
Director, Product Marketing of SweetLabs
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About SweetLabs: SweetLabs provides app distribution solutions for app developers and device makers.
Michael Daugherty
Member of Board of Directors of NETSHIELD
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About : NETSHIELD is a breach prevention company that offers intranet breach prevention appliances and advanced mobile and IoT security.
Tammy Smith
Director of Marketing of Omnivore
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About Omnivore: Omnivore offers a point-of-sale integration API allowing uniform access to the POS systems.
Kinh DeMaree
Director of Talent of Axiom Zen
Kinh is the Head Talent Huntress at Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio in Vancouver, SF, and Santiago. Previously, she was a senior technical recruiter at Facebook, Mixpanel, Google, and Anheuser-Busch.
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About Axiom Zen: Axiom Zen is an idea catalyst and product foundry.
Sarah Nicholson
Director of Marketing of Babyscripts
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About Babyscripts: Babyscripts is a clinically validated, digital healthcare company that delivers risk-specific care to pregnant mothers at any time.
Justina Tong
Director, Customer Operations and Patient Services (COPS) of Babyscripts
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About Babyscripts: Babyscripts is a clinically validated, digital healthcare company that delivers risk-specific care to pregnant mothers at any time.
Aaron Brethorst
Director of User Experience of Twistle
Aaron Brethorst is the director of UX at Twistle. He has over fourteen years of experience creating user-focused software. His work has included both enterprise software at Microsoft as the User Experience Program Manager for Visual Studio and consumer software as the mobile architect for NBC News Digital.
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About Cocoa Controls, Twistle: Twistle is a health care platform that helps healthcare providers connect with patients, keeping them on track for faster recovery.
James Bradicich
Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development of beGlammed LLC
James Bradicich is the Director of Marketing and Business Development at beGlammed, the leading on demand beauty service app in North America. At beGlammed, James has secured more than $350,000 in revenue for the company through strategic partnerships, oversees the execution of 400+ events a year, manages three PR/digital agencies, spearheads strategic brand alignments and manages and posts all content across beGlammed’s social media accounts. He also oversees all email marketing, CRM, push, SMS and affiliate programs with Gilt and Rue La La, and seasonal and holiday promotions. He coordinates celebrity and media appointments. James manages several freelance consultants, graphic designers and interns. James formerly worked at Edelman, Ogilvy & Mather, Burson-Marsteller, PMK*BNC, AdEdge Online Marketing and Nicole Miller where he developed expertise in the marketing & PR world. He proudly graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Southern California, where he was the school’s Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) president and squash team captain. He was awarded the Undergraduate Public Relations Faculty Recognition Award upon graduation. James has tremendous management and organizational expertise and is able to manage dozens of projects at once, while remaining polished, professional and poised. He enjoys taking initiative, leading the team and producing strong and measurable quantitative results while encouraging and empowering his colleagues to succeed. James is interested in beauty/cosmetics, entertainment, travel/tourism, fashion, real estate, animals/pets, retail and and the on demand economy. He plans to one day be the CMO of a mid to large sized corporation. Personal: james.t.bradicich@gmail.com Work: james@beglammed.com
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About beGlammed LLC, WarnerMedia: The leading on-demand beauty service sending the industry’s best hairstylists, makeup artists and nail techs straight to your door!
Paresh Patel
Managing Director and Founder of Scout Finance
Paresh Patel is Chairman & Co-Founder of Scout Finance. Paresh is also Founder and Managing Partner of Sandstone Capital, a value-focused hedge fund focused on investments in public and private companies. Prior to Sandstone Paresh established Sparta Group, the family office for a $1b+ technology entrepreneur in the United States. Paresh is an investor in several category-defining private companies including: SKS (IPO 2010), Micromax Informatics, Flipkart, A123 Systems (IPO 2009) and Relicore (acq: 2006). Paresh has a BA from Boston College in Economics and Art History. Paresh has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Natural Order Acquisition Corp., Sandstone Capital, Scout Finance, Scout Finance: Application to change how investors perform financial analysis and manage their research process, especially from mobile devices.
Emily Neudorf
Director of Product Marketing and Communications of ChowNow
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About ChowNow: ChowNow helps branded online ordering systems for independent restaurants through the restaurants’ own websites.
Tucker Taft
Director of Language Research of AdaCore
S. Tucker Taft is Director of Language Research at AdaCore. Tucker led the Ada 9X language design team, culminating in the February 1995 approval of Ada 95 as the first ISO standardized object-oriented programming language. His specialties include programming language design, compiler implementation, high-integrity software, integrated development environments, real-time systems, and parallel programming. Since 2001, Tucker has been a member of the ISO Rapporteur Group that developed Ada 2005, and is now finalizing Ada 2012. Most recently Tucker has been designing and implementing the parallel programming language ParaSail. Tucker received an A.B. Summa Cum Laude degree from Harvard University, where he has more recently taught compiler construction and programming language design.
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About AdaCore, Verisk: AdaCore is a provider of integrated web application development environment.
Erin Carr
Director, Customer Operations of SafetyCulture
Erin Carr is the director of customer success at SafetyCulture.
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About SafetyCulture: SafetyCulture is the operational heartbeat of working teams around the world.
Burt Herman
Product Director, User Platform of Condé Nast
Burt is director of innovation projects for the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, parent organization of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philly.com. Previously, he co-founded Storify, a social media storytelling platform used by top media organizations, brands and non-profit organizations that has won numerous awards for journalism innovation. Burt is also co-founder of Hacks/Hackers, the largest global grassroots movement bringing together journalists and technologists. Burt earlier covered stories around the world for The Associated Press as a correspondent and bureau chief for 12 years. He was a 2009 Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University, where he earlier graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
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About Condé Nast, Hacks/Hackers: Condé Nast publishes magazines, websites, and tablet and smartphone applications.
Max Prin
Global Technical SEO Director of Condé Nast
Max Prin is the Global Technical SEO Director at Condé Nast. Max supports Condé Nast’s SEO efforts by developing tools, automations, and processes through research and testing. Max is also in charge of developing and publishing TechnicalSEO.com.
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About Condé Nast: Condé Nast publishes magazines, websites, and tablet and smartphone applications.
Zak Williams
Director of Business Development of Condé Nast
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About Condé Nast: Condé Nast publishes magazines, websites, and tablet and smartphone applications.
Kevin O’Leary
Senior Director of Marketing | Executive Team Member of PetDesk
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About PetDesk: PetDesk offers CRM software for pet care providers to promote pet health.
Shona Fenner
Director of Customer Success of PetDesk
Shona Fenner serves as a director of customer success at PetDesk.
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About PetDesk: PetDesk offers CRM software for pet care providers to promote pet health.
Jay Alexander Taylor
Creative Director of WOSH
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About WOSH: WOSH is the carwash that comes to you where you want it… when you want it.
Jelani Bee
Director of Operations of WOSH
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About WOSH: WOSH is the carwash that comes to you where you want it… when you want it.
Jeff Farnsworth
Co-Founder and Managing Director of PROLIFIQ
Jeff serves as the Director of Technology and co-founder of Prolifiq, overseeing systems architecture, user experience design, client application development, and server infrastructure. Pursuing a love of art, history, and mathematics, Jeff earned his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Oregon in 1997. Following an affinity for technology, he left architecture to work for the Portland Trail Blazers, where he met Hemingway. Together with Anh, they started a little company named H2F Laboratories, which ultimately became Prolifiq Software.
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About PROLIFIQ: PROLIFIQ is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of sales enablement, account planning, and content enablement.
Luke Beard
Co-founder & Creative Director of Exposure
Luke Beard, co-founder and creative director of Exposure Labs, is dedicated to making it visual storytelling available to the world. He’s spent his career telling stories through design and photography, helping construct the aesthetics of companies like WillCall, Hipstamatic, and Buffer as a designer and developer. Now, with Exposure Labs, his vision is the release photo-centric social products powerful enough for the largest brands but simple enough for anyone in the world to use.
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About Exposure: Exposure is a web tool and a community of passionate photographers and storytellers that allows users to create photo narratives.
Sanjeeb K. Rajput
Chief Revenue Officer and Member of The Board of Directors of NameDrop App
Sanjeeb K. Rajput is the Chief Revenue Officer & Member of the Board of Directors of Empaxis Data Management, Inc. In his role as Chief Revenue Officer, Mr. Rajput is responsible for overseeing all marketing, sales, business development, pricing, corporate development, & revenue management functions at Empaxis. He is focused on driving new client acquisition while accelerating growth and reinforcing Empaxis’s position as a leader in investment management middle-office & back-office outsourcing, RPA & digital TAMP solutions for wealth managers, hedge funds, family offices, FinTechs, banks, institutions, RIAs, broker-dealers, & asset managers worldwide. Mr. Rajput joined Empaxis from Folio Financial, Inc., where he was National Sales Manager & Head of Sales of Folio Institutional. He was responsible for maximizing sales, creating & implementing strategic sales plans, & was a member of the Senior Executive Management Leadership Team. Mr. Rajput also recruited, hired, managed, coached, mentored & led Folio’s National Sales & Relationship Management Teams. Prior to joining Folio, Mr. Rajput was Founder & CEO of Rajput Ventures, which provided management consulting services to RIAs, wealth managers, asset managers, broker-dealers, family offices, banks, trust companies, TAMPs, TPAs, clearing firms & custodians. Mr. Rajput also served as a Venture Capitalist, Senior Advisor, & Angel Investor to several early, mid, & late-stage FinServ, AdvisorTech, WealthTech, & FinTech startups. Before starting his own firm, Mr. Rajput was Senior Vice President & Head of Business Development for Royal Bank of Canada. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Sales for Fidelity Investments – Fidelity Clearing & Custody Solutions, & Vice President of Sales & Relationship Management for Pershing, LLC. Mr. Rajput received his MBA (with Honors) in Strategic Management and a BS in Business Management from National Louis University. He holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 securities licenses.
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About NameDrop App: NameDrop App is here to revolutionize how people can Securely share information with Businesses/Tradeshows/Conferences or fill forms.
Emma Maybury
Director of Partnerships of Cargo
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About Cargo: Cargo helps rideshare drivers earn more money and better ratings by providing products to passengers.
Karan Yaramada
Founding Member & Director of Extra Duty, Inc.
Karan Yaramada is the Co-Founder and Director of Extra Duty. An entrepreneur and thought leader in IT, Karan founded and built Jade Global from zero to 800 employees and $40m in revenue in 14 years. An alumnus of Harvard Business School, Karan exemplifies the company’s deep rooted culture of maximizing value from the latest technology to address some of the biggest business challenges. His unflinching passion for leading through innovation forms the DNA of Jade Global. Under his leadership, the company has grown and scaled new heights to be ranked in the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. for seven years in a row. Karan’s commitment to innovation culture has empowered employees, built high performing team and created leaders. He has redefined leadership by inspiring and rewarding people to unlock their potential and transform them to achieve extraordinary things. Karan is responsible for overall strategy, product vision, and business growth of Extra Duty.
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About Extra Duty, Inc., Forbes Business Council, Kanverse.ai: A SaaS platform, specializes in security services exchange for off-duty law enforcement officers.
Anthony Rojas
Executive Director of Extra Duty, Inc.
Anthony Rojas is the Co-Founder and Director of Extra Duty responsible for managing the global delivery and business operations. Over 30 years of successful military service in Naval Special Warfare with a reputation for meeting the most challenging organizational goals and objectives. A focused individual recognized for “making seemingly impossible situations work”. Anthony founded Extra Duty with a mission to create the most advanced, automated off-duty management software for police departments and other government agency use leveraging his experience and knowledge in Special Operations, Law Enforcement, and Government Personal Protection Services. Anthony is responsible for all aspects of Business Operations including providing expert analysis and insight into product design, development, and marketing services.
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About Extra Duty, Inc., US Navy: A SaaS platform, specializes in security services exchange for off-duty law enforcement officers.
Straith Schreder
Director of Brand Marketing of BitTorrent
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About BitTorrent, VICE Media Group: BitTorrent is a protocol that creates advanced technologies to efficiently move large files across the internet.
Rogue Robertson
Founder, Co-Managing Director of Bdayfreeday
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About Bdayfreeday, Bdayfreeday: Smart phone app location based free offers on your birthday
Rogue Robertson
Founder, Co-Managing Director of Bdayfreeday
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About Bdayfreeday, Bdayfreeday: Smart phone app location based free offers on your birthday
Liz Fetter
Director of Talend
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About Cloudastructure, Fox Factory, McGrath RentCorp, National Association of Corporate Directors, Talend: Talend specializes in cloud data integration and data integrity.
Ken Merritt
Managing Director, Merritt & Merritt & Moulton of Drive Fit
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About : Drive Fit creates cognitive training tools for driving.
