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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the Sales space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Urmas Purde
Co-Founder of Pipedrive
Co-Founder of Pipedrive.
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About Pipedrive: Pipedrive is the global sales-first CRM and revenue platform for small businesses
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Peter Kazanjy
Co-Founder of Atrium
Pete Kazanjy (LinkedIn, Twitter) is a serial founder, and seasoned early stage Saas executive, advisor, and investor. Pete founded TalentBin, a category-defining talent search engine and recruiting CRM, which exited to Monster Worldwide in early 2014. Pete currently is the founder of Atrium, a proactive sales performance analysis solution, author of Founding Sales, the definitive Startup Sales Handbook, and founder of Modern Sales, the nation’s largest sales operations, leadership, and enablement community.
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About Atrium: Atrium help sales managers with its data-driven management software that provides coaching insights and continuous monitoring.
Gaurav Sharma
Founder & CEO of Saas Labs
Gaurav is a product guy (and a techie) who loves working on disruptive ideas related to consumer internet and big data. He is passionate about building new marketplace based businesses and viral user acquisition.
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About Helpwise, JustCall, Saas Labs, Vinnex, Zuvvu: Saas Labs develops software products that revolve around productivity and business process automation.
Arthur F. Muldoon
CEO & Co-Founder of ArcSpan Technologies
Arthur Muldoon is CEO and Co-founder of ArcSpan Technologies. Previously, he was co-CEO of Amnet US and the CEO and Co-founder of Accordant Media, a leading technology-driven programmatic media specialist company. Accordant Media was acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network in 2016. Over the past 20 years, Art has carved out a digital media career launching innovative solutions to help marketers achieve better audience engagement. Earlier, Art was SVP, Global Data Platforms at Aegis Media; SVP of Client Services and Analytics at BzzAgent; and General Manager, Client Services, Avenue A | Razorfish. Art also led the launch of an e-commerce business at Corbis Images in Seattle and was a corporate strategy consultant in the Media, Entertainment and Telecoms group at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Los Angeles. Earlier, Art was a Corporate Finance Analyst at Lehman Brothers in NYC, focused on high tech. Art holds a BA from Trinity College (CT) and an MBA from the Kellogg School, Northwestern University. He resides in New York City with his wife and two young daughters.
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About ArcSpan Technologies: ArcSpan Technologies is a B2B audience data technology company building an enterprise-class addressable audience data monetization platform.
Garret Vreeland
CCO & Co-Founder of ArcSpan Technologies
After spending many years at advertising agencies, Garret moved into ad sales at about the time the internet was coming of age. He sold his first banner in 1996 on moneymagazine.com (part of Time Inc’s Pathfinder initiative), and has since led sales teams at some great companies. These include premium publishers (Time Inc), portals (Lycos, Yahoo!), search (Looksmart), and performance networks (24/7 Real Media, Right Media and most recently Akamai/Acerno).
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About ArcSpan Technologies: ArcSpan Technologies is a B2B audience data technology company building an enterprise-class addressable audience data monetization platform.
Aaron Frazin
Founder and CEO of Detective
Aaron Frazin is the Founder and CEO of Detective.io.
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About Detective: Detective is a digital adoption platform that automates the sales research process.
Manoj Ramnani
Founder and CEO of SalesIntel
Manoj Ramnani is the founder and CEO of SalesIntel.io and CircleBack, Inc. He was formerly the CEO of Dub Labs. Manoj holds a master’s degree from The George Washington University – School of Business.
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About CircleBack, SalesIntel: SalesIntel is the top provider of accurate and affordable sales and marketing contact data.
Dave Garr
Co-Founder, SVP of Customer Experience of UserTesting
Specialties:A/B testing, conversion rate optimization, interactive marketing, market research, multivariate testing, product marketing, social networking, usability
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About UserTesting: UserTesting is an on-demand human insight platform designed to improve customer insights.
Armando Biondi
Co-Founder & CEO of Breadcrumbs.io
Armando Biondi currently works as the Co-Founder and CEO for Breadcrumbs.io. He previously worked at Hootsuite as the global head of growth operations.
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About Breadcrumbs.io: Breadcrumbs.io is a revenue acceleration platform that helps companies in rating and scoring current and potential customers.
Gabi Lewis
Co-Founder of Magic Spoon
Gabi is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Magic Spoon, a high protein, low carb ‘childlike cereal for adults’. Gabi Lewis Born in Israel and raised in Scotland, Gabi moved to the USA to attend Brown University, where he earned a dual degree in Philosophy and Economics. He has taught English in the Amazon (where he ate his first insect), worked at the world’s largest hedge fund and received numerous grants for social entrepreneurship. He is a competitive powerlifter and once cycled down the world’s most dangerous road in Bolivia. He was one of only a handful of travelers in his group who remained unscathed.
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About Exo, Magic Spoon: Magic Spoon is a food company that provides childlike, low-carbohydrate cereal foods for adult customers.
Greg Sewitz
Co-Founder of Magic Spoon
Greg Sewitz is the co-founder of Magic Spoon. Greg Sewitz is a native of Los Angeles, Greg studied Cognitive Neuroscience and English at Brown University, writing his thesis on the neuroscience of morality. He always assumed he would be a writer, or a scientist—or a science writer.
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About Exo, Magic Spoon: Magic Spoon is a food company that provides childlike, low-carbohydrate cereal foods for adult customers.
Gautham Viswanathan
VP of Product & Co‑Founder of Workato
Gautham created the first integrated middleware platform, BusinessWorks, that became the template for the more cloud integration platforms of today. Gautham was an early employee of TIBCO, where he held several leadership positions – engineering, product marketing & management, and corporate development. BusinessWorks powered TIBCO’s growth from a startup to one of the top names in enterprise software. After TIBCO, Gautham founded and was the CEO of two SaaS startups.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Vijay Tella
CEO & Co‑Founder of Workato
Vijay has led creation of market leading integration technologies for over 25 years. Prior to Workato, he was the CEO of Qik, a consumer video communications company acquired by Skype. Before Qik, he helped create two multi-billion dollar integration products. He was part of the team that created world’s first middleware platform, TIB (The Information Bus) at Teknekron Software Systems, which was acquired by Reuters Plc, in 1994. He was also on the founding team and SVP, Engineering of TIBCO through its IPO. As Chief Strategy Officer, he then helped launch Oracle’s Fusion Middleware platform in 2005.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Dimitris Kogias
Co-Founder and Software Engineer & Architect of Workato
Dimitris Kogias is the Co-Founder and Software Engineer & Architect at Workato.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Harish Shetty
VP of Engineering & Co‑Founder of Workato
Harish has extensive experience leading engineering teams and building highly scalable products. Prior to Workato, he led engineering at two SaaS companies and before that was Director of Engineering and Lead Architect at TIBCO and for products like BusinessWorks, ActiveMatrix and Tibbr.
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About iProfile, Thinkspeed, Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Jonathan Downey
Founder, CEO, and Head of Product of Candidate Labs
Jonathan Downey is an experienced technology entrepreneur, CEO, and investor, having founded two companies and invested in more than 40 startups. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of a company at the intersection of talent and data. He has built out high-performing teams across a broad set of skills from hardware engineering through cloud services, analytics, and enterprise sales. Over his career he has raised over $100M from leading investors, including A16Z, KPCB, Signalfire, First Round Capital, GV, and Next World Capital, and has secured 6 and 7-figure enterprise engagements with Fortune 500 enterprises including State Farm and Caterpillar. Jonathan is an electrical engineering and computer science graduate from MIT and holds numerous patents. A YC-Combinator alum, Jonathan was named USA Today’s “Small-Business Innovator of the Year” and MIT Tech Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35”. He is an instrument-rated commercial multi-engine pilot and worked at Boeing as an engineer contributing to the development and flight testing of the A160T Hummingbird, a 6,500 lb fully-autonomous helicopter, which broke the world record for longest helicopter flight. and regularly flew within the National Airspace System (NAS).
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About Candidate Labs, SignalFire: The Modern Search Firm Built as a Technology Company
Brendan Weitz
Co-Founder & CBO of Journey
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About Journey: Journey provides a sales platform that enables users to engage, close, and onboard customers in one link.
Peter Clark
Co-Founder & CEO of Journey
Peter Clark is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Our Journey Software.
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About Journey, Our Software Journey: Journey provides a sales platform that enables users to engage, close, and onboard customers in one link.
Anil Sevim
Co-Founder & CTO of Journey
Director of Engineering @JUUL Labs, formerly founding engineer @Udemy, growth @Adroll
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About Journey: Journey provides a sales platform that enables users to engage, close, and onboard customers in one link.
Domenic Merenda
CEO and Co-Founder of Ceqoo
Domenic Merenda is a seasoned Silicon Valley software executive with a passion for disrupting markets. At BeOpen.com (later PythonLabs) Domenic was an early and influential member of the business development and technology teams, and helped shape the direction of the Python programming language, which was the basis for Google’s search technology.
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About Ceqoo: Ceqoo makes sales teams better by helping sales development reps start faster, produce sooner and become prospecting “rock stars.”
Jason B. Hart
COO and Co-Founder of Ceqoo
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About Ceqoo: Ceqoo makes sales teams better by helping sales development reps start faster, produce sooner and become prospecting “rock stars.”
Bryan Harmon
Co-Founder of Autoliv
Bryan Harmon is the CEO and co-founder of DreamWare Inc. Car Lister is one of DreamWare’s web application that is transforming the way people buy and sell cars online.An opportunity in business sales at AmeriLife Group led Harmon to Florida, where he was awarded the honor of Rookie of the Year. His eagerness for continuing education guided Harmon to return home to Michigan, where he enrolled at Eastern Michigan University on a scholarship to study Organic Chemistry. There, a government research grant enabled him to synthesize a test inhibitor to inhibit the PAI-1 enzyme. As a top eBay power seller during this time, Bryan began questioning the efficiency of the online selling process, which sparked his desire to change eCommerce. Along his journey, he has assembled a dedicated team, devoted to programming a revolutionary, enterprise level web application.
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About Autoliv: Autoliv is a holding company and a supplier of automotive safety systems.
John Anderson
Founder of Isagenix International
John has worked as a private-label supplement manufacturer and formulator for more than 600 companies, creating more than 2,300 nutritional and weight-loss products. His products are internationally recognized and respected as groundbreaking and incredibly effective. For Isagenix, John took the art of formulation to the highest level, creating revolutionary formulas that work. “At Isagenix, we want the highest quality products for our Associates.” John Anderson, Founder and Formulator.
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About Isagenix International: Isagenix International LLC is a multilevel marketing company that markets dietary supplements and personal care products.
Dave Carlson
Co-Founder & CEO of Shopventory
Dave Carlson is the Founder and Managing Director of eonBusiness. Dave established eonBusiness in 1997 to meet the needs of start-ups and early development stage companies for building Internet based businesses. He has founded five businesses with three successful exits to date while supporting dozens of other companies. While eonBusiness started as primarily a web development services organization, it transitioned to an incubator and then subsequently a boutique venture capital firm investing in software as a service (SaaS) and mobile opportunities. Dave is actively involved as an advisor to numerous eonBusiness portfolio companies. He also currently serves on the board of directors of mobileStorm for eonBusiness. Dave also serves as a Mentor to the TechStars mentorship driven seed stage investment program. In 2001 Dave founded and incubated GO TOAST and subsequently started eonMedia in 2002. Both companies were acquired in 2003 by aQuantive which was acquired by Microsoft in 2007. Other personal startups include eonBusiness, AllAboardToys.com (acquired in 2008) and HomePoint. Prior to founding eonBusiness, Dave was a senior executive at EchoStar (DISH Network) for 12 years, where he was an integral part of the launch of the DISH Network and the initiation of EchoStar’s global business expansion. Dave’s EchoStar career included a six-year stint in The Netherlands as Managing Director of European, African and Middle Eastern Operations. Dave earned a B.A. in Communications with a minor in Business Administration at Bethany College and a Masters Degree in International Business Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
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About eonCapital, Shopventory, Techstars, Thrive Metrics: Shopventory provides inventory management and sales analytics services for retail businesses.
Rares Saftoiu
Co-Founder & CMO of Shopventory
Rares Saftoiu is Co-Founder & CMO at Shopventory.
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About Shopventory: Shopventory provides inventory management and sales analytics services for retail businesses.
Alex Hern
Founder and CEO of Tsunami XR
Alex Hern has been an entrepreneur for more than 25 years. During his career, he has focused on early stage companies and on the incubation of technology companies. Alex Hern co-founded and served as a Director of Inktomi Goldman Sachs-led IPO (INKT), which powered and was the search technology for MSN, Yahoo and AOL. He was also the co-founder and Director of Yesmail Alex Brown led IPO (YESM), an email marketing and web directory company, which went public and then sold to CMGI, now ModusLink Global Solutions, for $650 million ten months later. Alex Hern co-founded Military Commercial Technologies a technology commercialization incubator funded by Lockheed and L-3, where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. In addition, Alex Hern co-founded and served as Director of Arcsight (ARST), a cyber security company, which also went public and was sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.5 billion. Alex Hern co-founded and served as Director of CloudShield a network security company which sold to SAIC, a large technology and engineering firm specializing in government and commercial projects. Alex Hern also founded and served on the Boards of NewHomes.com and of Triton Network Systems (TNSI). Alex Hern has also served on the board of Zero Knowledge Systems, a security and encryption company now named Radial Point.
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About Tsunami XR: Tsunami develops and delivers advanced digital collaboration services for teams.
Mikael Yang
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ManyChat
Mikael Yang is the Co-Founder and CEO of ManyChat – a platform that helps businesses and professionals engage their audience through messaging apps.
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About ManyChat: ManyChat helps businesses do marketing, sales and support through Facebook Messenger.
Francisco Larrain
CEO, Co-Founder of Sudo
Francisco Larrain is the Co-Founder & CTO at Topsort.
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About Maxxa, Sudo, Topsort: Sudo is a venture-backed startup that is enabling people to talk to their company’s CRM system.
Amit Koren
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of Sudo
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About Brim, Sudo: Sudo is a venture-backed startup that is enabling people to talk to their company’s CRM system.
Bhupesh Bansal
Co-Founder, Platform/Infrastructure of Sudo
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About IntroLogic, Sudo: Sudo is a venture-backed startup that is enabling people to talk to their company’s CRM system.
Gaston L’Huillier
Co-Founder, Algorithms/Data Science of Sudo
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About IntroLogic, Sudo: Sudo is a venture-backed startup that is enabling people to talk to their company’s CRM system.
Mitchell Ginzburg
Founder & Chief Operating Officer of TRANZACT
One of the founders of TRANZACT, Mitchell brings more than 25 years of business, marketing, operations and legal experience to his role as manager of TRANZACT’s Insurance and Mortgage business units. His focus is on the operations and growth of those divisions. From 2001 to 2003 Mitchell was Senior Vice President of Mosaic Performance Solutions North America, a wholly owned direct marketing division of Mosaic Group Inc., and formerly served in such a capacity at Paradigm Direct from 1998 to 2000. Before that, Mitchell was the Chief Operating Officer of a South Florida textile business, responsible for its strategic planning and international expansion. He graduated from George Washington University Law School with Honors and practiced corporate law for a prominent Los Angeles law firm.
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About TRANZACT: MG LLC, a provider of sales and marketing services to insurance companies that does business as Tranzact
Paul Hedrick
Founder & CEO of Tecovas
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About Tecovas: Tecovas is a direct-to-consumer western-wear company that sells cowboy boots.
Gaurav Singh
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Verloop.io
Gaurav Singh is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Verloop.io. He attended Jabalpur Engineering College.
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About Verloop.io: Verloop.io is the world’s leading customer support automation platform.
Jenn Knight
Co-Founder & CTO of AgentSync
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About AgentSync: AgentSync is a Producer Management Platform used for broker onboarding, licensing, and compliance requirements.
Bastin Gerald
Founder, CEO of Apptivo Inc.
Have a proven track record of taking initiatives and turning them to market-leading products and world-renowned award-winning positions. Established product strategy, recruited top talent and led international development teams that delivered profitable multi-million dollar new business application products covering Finance, Supply Chain Management & Product Lifecycle Management. Established mutually profitable strategic alliances to get favorable positioning for products. Developed aggressive field readiness plans and coordinated with marketing, analyst relations and media relations for several product launches. Authored well-received book targeted at business users and consultants.
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About Apptivo Inc., Profit.co, Sirahu Technologies: Apptivo is an integrated Cloud Suite with over 40+ apps for all types of businesses, including CRM, project management, invoicing, and more.
Deepak Anchala
Co-Founder and CEO of Slintel
Deepak Anchala is the Co-Founder and CEO of Slintel.
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About Slintel: Slintel captures technographic-powered buying intent to help companies identify potential buyers in their target market.
Adam Ahmad
Founder & CEO of kea
Adam Ahmad is the Co-Founder & CEO at kea since 2017.
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About kea: kea empowers restaurants to operate more intelligently and own their relationship with customers.
Jeron Paul
Founder and CEO of Spiff
Jeron started his business career as a management consultant at the Monitor Group in Boston. He has worked as a Director of Product Management at Thomson Financial, a Principal at Signal Peak Ventures (formerly vSpring Capital), a $400M early-stage venture capital firm, and more recently as the CEO of Scalar Partners. He is a founder of Capshare and one of the original developers. Yes some business people can code. Jeron loves outdoor endurance events, soccer (indoors and out) and mountain biking. Jeron has a dual concentration degree from BYU in Philosophy and Economics and an MBA from Harvard. He is married with 5 kids.
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About Spiff: Spiff is a compensation platform for revenue and sales organizations that helps automate complex commission processes and motivate sales.
KV Rao
Founder of Aviso
K. V. Rao is the co-founder of Silicon Valley-based unicorn Zuora, Inc, which held its IPO on April 12, 2018 (NYSE: ZUO). Rao also served as Zuora’s Chief Strategist and President. Previously, Rao was Director of Technology at WebEx (acq. by Cisco), and also worked for Salesforce.com and SGI. He started his career as the proverbial rocket scientist, as an Associate Scientist at NASA, then spent several years developing products at General Motors. He’s currently CEO of Aviso, serves as a member of the Advisory Board at Zuora, and is a US patent holder in computing technology. Rao earned his Ph.D. in Engineering from Iowa State University, an M.S. from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
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About Aviso: AI-Driven Sales Forecasting and Pipeline Management
Elias Torres
Founder & CTO of Drift
Elias Torres is Founder and CTO at Driftt While I’d love to have sales dev or inside sales reps “man” live chat, it’s not feasible for us. We’re a yearbook company, and more than half our traffic comes from current customers (yearbook advisors working on their books and parents and students who are looking to buy their books). While we’d love to talk with them all the time, too, Sales needs to focus on talking to prospects.
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About Drift: Drift is a Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue.
David Cancel
Founder & CEO of Drift
David Cancel is a serial entrepreneur, podcast host (Seeking Wisdom) and angel investor/advisor. He is best known for creating hypergrowth products and product teams at companies such as Drift, HubSpot, Performable, Ghostery and Compete. David was named the top-ranked CEO by of USA Today and has been featured by media outlets such as The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, Wired, and Fast Company, and has guest lectured on entrepreneurship at Harvard, Harvard Business School, MIT, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Bentley, and other universities. His popular blog has been read by 1M+ entrepreneurs and his Twitter account is considered a “must-follow” account for entrepreneurs, executives and product people. David is also the author of the best-selling book, Conversational Marketing.
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About Drift: Drift is a Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue.
Alex Becker
Co-Founder & CRO of Amuse
Co-Founder of Amuse, a cannabis delivery company founded by some of the most influential companies in cannabis. Co-Founded Internet marketing company Highly Relevant which was acquired by Wpromote, named the Leading Performance Marketing Agency in the new Forrester Wave.
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About Amuse: Amuse is an online retailer that sells and delivers cannabis at the doorstep.
Matthew Darrow
Co-Founder & CEO of Vivun
10+ year enterprise software leader with experience growing businesses, building global teams, and delivering product.
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
John Bruce
Co-Founder & CTO of Vivun
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Claire Bruce
Co-Founder & COO of Vivun
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Dominique Darrow
Co-Founder & CCO of Vivun
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Joseph Miller
Co-Founder, Chief Data Scientist of Vivun
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Omar Zenhom
Co-Founder of WebinarNinja
Omar Zenhom is the co-founder of The $100 MBA, the largest alternative business education online. He’s also the host of an iTunes Best of 2014 podcast, The $100 MBA Show. The $100 MBA Show has delivered 2,000 lessons and counting to over 120,000 daily listeners. Omar is also the co-founder of WebinarNinja, an all-inclusive, easy-to-use webinar platform that allows you to create a webinar in 10 seconds flat.
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About WebinarNinja: WebinarNinja is the most advanced and complete webinar solution.
Deepak Diwakar
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of MindTickle
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About MindTickle: MindTickle is a software company that offers sales readiness and enablement tools for businesses.
Anand Shah
Co-Founder & CEO of Databook
Anand has 15 years of experience as an expert in consulting Fortune 500 CxOs on how companies create value for shareholders. Before Databook, Anand was an Engagement Partner at Accenture Strategy, leading their engagement with the World Economic Forum on Digital Transformation and prior to that as global lead for their Strategic Insights group. Anand has an MBA from Columbia Business School and London Business School, an MSc in Finance from ICMA and a BEng in Computer Science from Imperial College London.
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About Databook: Databook is an enterprise customer intelligence platform that drives enterprise sales productivity and performance at scale.
Laduram Vishnoi
CEO & Founder of Acquire
Laduram Vishnoi is the CEO and founder of Acquire.
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About Acquire, Tagove: Acquire is a unified customer engagement platform that brings all communication, interactions, channels, and tools under one roof.
Dachi Choladze
CEO & Founder of Pulsar AI
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About Pulsar AI: Pulsar AI is the conversational AI for Auto Dealers that helps schedule appointments with no human involvement.
Christos Tryfonas
Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Aisera
Christos Tryfonas is a Co-Founder and the Chief Architect at Aisera.
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About Aisera, Caspida: Aisera provides AI-driven service solution that automates operations and support for IT, human resources, sales, and customer service.
Mark Lovas
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Trumaker
Mark Lovas serves as Executive Director, Co-Founder, and Chief Executive Officer at Trumaker, Inc.
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About Trumaker: Trumaker is a new kind of men’s apparel brand where every guy gets a client
Christopher Shutts
CoFounder and CEO of Logik.io
Chris leads our strategic sales & customer success teams. Chris brings ten years of experience successfully deploying BigMachines solutions to realize business process improvements for our customers. He comes to BigMachines from Case Corporation where he was Business Unit Manager for two global business units. He began his career at Case’s Technology Center for Advanced Manufacturing, where he directed productivity initiatives that included the selection and procurement of new technologies and manufacturing equipment. Chris brings extensive experience in designing, manufacturing, selecting and procuring manufactured products and holds two design patents. Chris earned a BS and MS in engineering from MIT and was awarded a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship at MIT.
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About Logik.io: Logik.io is a next generation configuration technology company focused on improving the selling capabilities of the customers.
Dallin Larsen
Founder & CEO of Vasayo
Dallin Larsen is the founder and CEO of Vasayo, a new direct sales supplement company that prides itself on the most advanced delivery system for health supplements. Larsen believes that “a life of significance is a byproduct of making the ‘best’ choices.”
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About Vasayo: Vasayo is a direct sales company offering supplements with Advanced (Liposome) Delivery Technology for superior nutrient absorption.
David Elkington
Founder & Chairman of XANT.ai
David Elkington is the CEO and Founder of InsideSales.com. Dave has a rich background in technology, venture capital and corporate development. As CEO and Chairman, he has led InsideSales.com to consecutive 50-100% year-over-year growth rates, starting with the company’s inception in 2004. David has been active in the evolution and definition of the inside sales industry and speaks regularly. He is co-author of the groundbreaking Lead Response Management industry study, done in conjunction with James Oldroyd, PhD. (visiting Research Fellow at M.I.T.). David has co-authored articles that have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Kellogg School of Management, Forbes and other academic and industry publications. He is recognized both locally and nationally as a leader and entrepreneur in the cloud computing and inside sales/remote selling spaces. Prior to InsideSales.com, David co-founded Integr8ted Technology Solutions, LLC, a leading e-business consulting and application development firm. Before Integr8ted, he co-founded and served as director of business development for Everfill, Inc., an e-Health distribution company, until the sale of the company. Prior to his entrepreneur years, David worked as a financial analyst for the investment bank firm of Deutsche Bank Alex Brown, in their Baltimore, MD, office. David has also held positions with Merrill Lynch and MiraQuest Capital (a healthcare technology venture capital firm. David serves on the board of ProvoTechX, on the advisory board of the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP), and on the BYU CVLC advisory council. He has a background in computer science and holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Philosophy from Brigham Young University with minors in Business, Japanese and Hebrew.
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About XANT.ai: XANT.ai provides solutions that accelerate revenue by enabling sales teams to build a better pipeline and close more deals.
Stefan Kalb
CEO and Co-Founder of Shelf Engine
Stefan Kalb is the CEO and Co-Founder at Shelf Engine.
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About Shelf Engine: Shelf Engine is a provider of an automated prediction engine that predicts the perfect amount of perishable goods to order.
Kimball Thomas
Co-CEO/Founder of Baby
Kimball Thomas is the Co – CEO & Founder at Baby.com.br . He earned his MBA from, Harvard Business School. His B.S. (Finance) from University of Utah.
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About Baby, Walrus Health: Baby is an e-commerce retailer of baby products in Brazil.
Kendall Tucker
Founder and CEO of Knoq
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About 186k Ventures, Knoq: Knoq is a technology company that encourages people to talk to their neighbors.
Coral Chung
Founder & CEO of Senreve
Coral Chen Chung is an entrepreneur, former strategy consultant and tech executive. Coral is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of SENREVE, a luxury brand for the millennial professional woman. SENREVE launched in November 2016 to focus on developing beautiful and versatile products that address that “wants” and “needs” of the modern woman. The company has experienced significant growth over the past 3 years and recently closed on a $16.75M Series A investment. Coral has always had a strong passion for luxury retail and consumer brands, which led her to work with the Global COO as well as the CEO of Americas for Prada on marketing, commercialization, distribution related special projects prior to the company’s IPO. Coral started her career at Bain & Company in Hong Kong where she covered the Greater China and South East Asia markets. She advised Fortune 500 companies and global private equity firms on M&A, market entry strategy, and operational improvements. She then moved to Silicon Valley, where she developed a focus on consumer brands, retail and technology. Coral also worked in corporate development at Solazyme (dba TerraVia), and was involved in developing its popular Algenist product, a top performing beauty brand currently sold at Sephora and other luxury cosmetics retailers. Coral was most recently a Principal at Medallia and helped lead the company’s retail vertical. Medallia is a big data analytics and customer experience SaaS company that last summer had a successful IPO valued at ~$4.4B. While at Medallia, she worked with leading luxury and global retail brands like Apple, Nike, Sephora, Tory Burch, and Nordstrom. She is also a supporter of the arts including the San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Opera, the Asian Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Coral is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania and The Wharton School; BA in International Studies, BS in Economics magna cum laude. Coral received her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. She currently lives in the SF Bay Area with her husband and seven-year-old daughter. She was born in China and moved to Southern California as a child when her parents pursued their graduate studies in the US. Coral speaks Mandarin Chinese with native fluency.
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About Senreve: Senreve is a luxury handbag company for the multifaceted modern woman.
Wendy Wen
Co-Founder & COO of Senreve
Wendy Wen is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Senreve.
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About Senreve: Senreve is a luxury handbag company for the multifaceted modern woman.
Ashok Reddy Gudibandla
Founder, CEO of Automate.io
Founder, CEO at Automate.io.
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About Automate.io: Use tens of cloud apps? Connect them the way you want. Sync data, automate workflows – marketing, sales and more.
Chris Richter
Co-Founder & CEO of FloorFound
Chris is a 15 year veteran startup sales leader and entrepreneur with a proven track record of success with high profile, VC backed B2B SAS and enterprise software companies. Chris has expertise across eCommerce and Social Media and developing market opportunities for companies in the media, financial services, retail, CPG and manufacturing verticals. Chris was an early employee and sales leader with companies including Webify, Bazaarvoice and the Founder of Socialware which has become the market leader in the social media compliance solutions category.
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About FloorFound: FloorFound is a developer of an e-commerce software platform that facilitates returns and resales of oversized products for retailers.
Kris Rudeegraap
CEO, CoFounder of Sendoso
Kris Rudeegraap is CEO at Sendoso
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About CoffeeSender, Sendoso: Sendoso helps companies connect and drive revenue with personalized gifts, eGifts, virtual experiences, and more.
John Constantine
Co-Founder & Director of KindHealth
John Constantine is Co-Founder of Sozo Global, Inc. John Constantine has 18 years of Network Marketing experience as a top Distributor, owner, and board member of successful Network Marketing companies. He is also Co-Founder of five successful companies in the fields of Direct Sales, Insurance and Healthcare. John Constantine serves as a Director of Sozo Global, Inc.
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About KindHealth: The Digital Platform that simplifies Health Insurance Management.
Bradley Bogolea
Co-Founder & CEO of Simbe Robotics
Bradley Bogolea, also known as Brad, is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Simbe Robotics.
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About Simbe Robotics: Simbe Robotics builds automation solutions for shelf auditing and analytics.
Jeff Gee
Co-Founder and CDO of Simbe Robotics
Jeff Gee is the Co-Founder and Product Designer at Simbe Robotics.
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About Simbe Robotics: Simbe Robotics builds automation solutions for shelf auditing and analytics.
Mirza Shah
Co-Founder & CTO of Simbe Robotics
Mirza Shah is the Co-Founder and CTO at Simbe Robotics.
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About Simbe Robotics: Simbe Robotics builds automation solutions for shelf auditing and analytics.
Shruti Kapoor
Co-Founder & CEO of Wingman
Shruti is the Founder-CEO of Wingman (now Wingman by Clari), which is an actionable conversation intelligence platform that unlocks insights from every sales interaction. As the founder of Wingman, Shruti was also their first salesperson who sold their first million dollars in revenue single-handedly. Despite being an outsider to the SaaS ecosystem and to the US, Shruti has managed to successfully scale the business, been selected to the prestigious YCombinator program, raised funding, and hired a team of 40+ talented folks.
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About Wingman: Wingman is a real-time sales coaching tool for sales representatives.
Jeff Kuei
Founder of Kixie
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About Kixie: The sales engagement platform that boosts sales team performance with ultra-reliable, easily-automated calling & texting for leading CRMs.
Josh Mailman
Founder of Serious Change
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About Serious Change: Serious Change is here to get a secure and sustainable energy system for Britain. Using current research we aim to show the country the
Richard Williams
Co-Founder of Texas Direct Auto
Graduated with a Finance Degree from Stephen F. Austin State University. Co Founded Medianet, a web services company that supplied fortune 500 clients with billing solutions to deregulated energy markets. Co Founded Texas Direct Auto in 2002 and grew it to the largest independent dealer in the United States.
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About Joyride.com, Texas Direct Auto: With over $500M in annual sales, Texas Direct is the largest independent dealership in the nation and is the largest online Dealership.
Dave Stephens
CEO & Co-Founder of FreeAgent CRM
Dave Stephens is the CEO & Co-Founder at FreeAgent CRM.
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About FreeAgent CRM: Leading the way to a better workday
Ryan Manning
Co-Founder & CRO of FreeAgent CRM
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About FreeAgent CRM: Leading the way to a better workday
Jason Richelson
CEO and Co-Founder of Bookkeep
Jason Richelson is the CEO and Founder of ShopKeep POS, a cloud-based iPad point of sale service for retailers.The simplest way to make smarter business decisions, ShopKeep® POS is the affordable and complete platform for running a shop from an iPad with real-time reporting on the web.Jason started his career in technology consulting at PriceWaterhouseCoopers but quickly veered onto a different path when he co-founded a tech company, InternetCash, in 1999. InternetCash created a way to pay on E-Commerce sites with prepaid cards sold at retail. After learning everything not to do in a fast-moving tech startup, Jason became the first employee at Bluefin Trading, where he was responsible for setting up all the technology for the new trading operation. He eventually became the assistant trader to the Managing Partner and also helped manage risk for the floor trading operations and upstairs option book.Jason grew impatient with trading and was itching to start a new company. With his partner, Amy Bennett, he opened The Greene Grape wine store in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, in 2004. That led to another wine store in lower Manhattan and then The Greene Grape Provisions store in Fort Greene. The Greene Grape grew to employ more than 70 people and was named the NYC Small Business of the Year in 2009 and Retailer of the Year in 2009 by the New York State Wine & Grape Foundation. As CEO of ShopKeep POS since 2008, Jason has been featured in Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, WWD, ABC News and other nationwide publications. Most recently he has been selected as a NYC Ventures Fellow.More importantly, he is living his dream of using technology to remove the impediments of starting and running a successful retail business by continuing to grow ShopKeep POS into a dynamic service that allows merchants to better track their sales and operations while saving them time and money.
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About Bookkeep, Bookkeep, Global Thirty Three, StaffKeep.com Inc.: Bookkeep.com is a provider of summarized financial automation for retail, restaurant, and ecommerce businesses.
Jade Charles
CEO, Founder of Fragmob
Jade Charles is the founder of Penumbra Labs, a technology consulting group mainly specializing in mobile, blockchain, and web platforms. Previously, he was responsible for the innovation and architecture of the Fragmob platform along with the mobile and social strategy. He is considered an expert in mobile development technologies and online social psychology. In addition to founding Fragmob in 2007, Jade was previously responsible for various celebrity social networks such as Jessica Beil’s Make the Difference Network and Bode Miller’s SkiSpace.com Prior to FragMob, Jade served as CTO of TextAmerica where he was solely responsible for the development of the first hosted mobile photo sharing service in the world as featured in TIME Magazine and The New York Times. Jade Charles attended the University of Hawaii School of Electrical Engineering where he played Division I Football before starting his first company at age 19.
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About Fragmob: Fragmob is a mobile SaaS commerce, CRM, and training platform developer for Independent Sales Reps
Ben Brigham
Founder, Board Member of Conversica
What if your sales team knew which leads were more likely to result in a conversation? What if you had an autonomous support system to answer FAQs, follow up after sales and generate payment reminders? That is the business solution I’ve passionately pursued as an inventor, founder and patent-holder for more than a decade. I founded AutoFerret.com in 2007, bringing AVA, the first Artificial Intelligence Sales Assistant to the world. By engaging in natural, two-way email conversations with prospects, AVA connected hot leads with salespeople, driving a more efficient sales process. Today, that intellectual property is a key product of Conversica®, the leader in conversational AI for business and the only provider of AI-driven lead engagement software for marketing and sales organizations. More than 1,200 companies use Conversica, including CenturyLink, AT&T and Epson. I was bootstrapping AutoFerret when the economy collapsed. I often say, “Fortune favors persistence,” and I focused on a new product which used AI to work leads autonomously, an Automated Virtual Assistant-AVA. Released in 2009, it was an immediate success. With a customer base, healthy profits, and what I knew would be a billion-dollar opportunity, I took AutoFerret through an A series of funding in 2013, bringing in a management team and a board of directors. I spent 2015 in retirement and started Intelligens in 2016 to provide conversational AI for marketing, sales and finance teams in Latin America. Intelligens was acquired by Conversica in 2017, at which time I accepted an operational role as General Manager of Conversica Latin America. In 2018, Dealer Marketing Magazine named me the Father of Artificial Intelligence in Automotive Retail. I have one patent granted and several more filed. I’m available to speak at events and serve on leadership boards. If I can help you learn how AI can impact an industry, please connect with me.
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About : Conversica creates intelligent virtual assistants to serve as virtual team members.
Vladimir Kozyrev
Co-Founder and CTO of Rainmakers
Vladimir Kozyrev is the co-founder and CTO at Rainmakers. He is a former software developer at theScore, Inc. and was the co-founder of ApptheGame. Vladimir holds a BS degree in computer science from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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About Rainmakers: The career marketplace for top salespeople
Alex Oshmyansky
Founder and chief executive officer of Osh’s Affordable Pharmaceuticals
Alex Oshmyansky founded Osh’s Affordable Pharmaceuticals in September 2016, since which he has been serving as its chief executive officer.
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About Osh’s Affordable Pharmaceuticals: Osh’s Affordable Pharmaceuticals produces generic drugs at low prices.
Garin Hess
Founder & CEO of Consensus
Serial SaaS entrepreneur. His last startup was acquired by a public company in 2011.DemoChimp is his latest SaaS heartthrob.
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About Consensus: Consensus navigating through the jungle of sales and marketing one effective automated product demo at a time.
Derek Maxfield
Founder, CEO of Younique LLC
Already a successful entrepreneur, Derek founded NetSteps in 2003, and just a few years later landed on the Inc. Top 500 for two consecutive years. In 2009, his company placed 11th in the nation, and 1st in Utah, as the fastest growing software company in the nation. Derek was recognized by Utah Valley Business Quarterly Magazine twice as No. 1 and No. 8 overall for the area’s fastest growing companies. He studied Computer Science at Brigham Young University, and now with more than 12 years of experience working with some of the very best direct sales companies in the world, he is teaming up with his sister, Melanie, to create an entirely new experience in the direct-sales industry. Derek is also a husband and proud father of five.
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About Younique LLC: Younique LLC is develops and markets cosmetic products.
Melanie Huscroft
Co-Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Younique LLC
Melanie has a background in advertising, art, marketing, purchasing, and sales. She studied both Advertising and Business Education at Ricks College and Boise State University. She spent 16 years in the home, as a homemaker, wife, and a mother to her four children. Melanie’s passion, creativity, experience in marketing and sales, and flair for fashion and beauty makes for the perfect partnership to team up with her brother, Derek. Melanie’s dedication, passion, and drive to help build a successful direct sales company is centered on her belief in the strength and influence of women in the world today.
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About Younique LLC: Younique LLC is develops and markets cosmetic products.
Christopher He
Co-Founder & CTO of Bravado
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About Bravado, Grady Health System: Bravado is a community platform for sales professionals.
Nelson Lee
Founder of iLife
Nelson Lee is the Founder at iLife Technologies.
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About iLife: iLife is a life insuranceautomation platform for insurance agents, brokers, and customers.
Cyrus Karbassiyoon
CTO & Co-Founder of Scratchpad
CTO and Co-founder at Scratchpad .
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About Scratchpad: Scratchpad is an all-in-one sales efficiency toolkit that allows users to consolidate and streamline the different aspects of sales.
Dmitry Shklyar
Co-owner & Founder of LiveTex
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About EduGram, JobTop, LiveTex: LiveTex operates a platform for online communications.
Adam Turner
CEO and Founder of Postscript
Adam Turner is the founder and CEO at Postscript. He was a product manager at StackCommerce. He studied Bachelor of Science in physics at University of Southern California.
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About Postscript: Postscript is an SMS platform that enables brands to communicate and engage with customers through text message marketing.
Alex Beller
Co-Founder and President of Postscript
Alex Beller is the co-founder and president at Postscript. He was a director of business development at StackCommerce. He studied philosophy at University of Southern California.
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About Postscript: Postscript is an SMS platform that enables brands to communicate and engage with customers through text message marketing.
Colin Turner
Co-Founder and COO of Postscript
Colin Turner is the co-founder and COO at Postscript. He was a systems architect at Integrate. He studied Bachelor of Science in business administration at University of Southern California.
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About Postscript: Postscript is an SMS platform that enables brands to communicate and engage with customers through text message marketing.
AJ Bruno
Founder & CEO of QuotaPath
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About QuotaPath: Spreadsheets don’t scale. Let’s automate your sales commissions processes and provide sales reps with the transparency they need to succeed.
Cole Evetts
Co-Founder & COO of QuotaPath
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About QuotaPath: Spreadsheets don’t scale. Let’s automate your sales commissions processes and provide sales reps with the transparency they need to succeed.
Sahil Aggarwal
Co-Founder and CEO of Rattle
Sahil Aggarwal is the Co-Founder & CEO at Rattle.
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About Rattle: Access & manage Salesforce directly from Slack
Kara Egan
Co-Founder and Superstar Director of Scentsy
Kara is co-founder at Scentsy.
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About Scentsy, Scentsy: Scentsy is a consumer goods and fragrance company platform.
Colette Gunnell
Co-Founder and SuperStar Director of Scentsy
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About Scentsy: Scentsy is a consumer goods and fragrance company platform.
Stefan Stokic
Founder of Slik
Stefan Stokic is the founder of Slik.ai (YC S17), a platform that automate sales for B2B companies.
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About Slik: Slik is a company that helps sales teams automate email marketing and generating leads.
Soroush Ghodsi
Founder of Slik
Soroush Ghodsi is the Co-Founder of Slik.
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About Slik: Slik is a company that helps sales teams automate email marketing and generating leads.
Shaan Hathiramani
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flockjay
Shaan Hathiramani is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Flockjay. He is a former CXO at Thistle and Portfolio Manager at Balyasny Asset Management L.P. and Alyeska Investment Group. Mr. Hathiramani graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor of arts in Applied Mathematics.
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About Flockjay: Flockjay is an online academy that empowers job seekers with the tools and training they need to break into tech.
Haggai Levi
Co-Founder and CEO of SetSail
Haggai Levi is the co-founder and CEO at SetSail.
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About SetSail: SetSail is an AI-powered platform that combines data and behavioral science to drive more revenue per sales rep.
Majed Itani
Co-Founder and Head of Engineering of SetSail
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About SetSail: SetSail is an AI-powered platform that combines data and behavioral science to drive more revenue per sales rep.
