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 CEO’ operating in the Digital Marketing space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Chairman & CEO of VaynerX
Gary Vaynerchuk is the chairman of VaynerX, a modern-day media and communications holding company, and the active CEO of VaynerMedia, a full-service advertising agency servicing Fortune 100 clients across the company’s 4 locations. In the late 90s, after identifying “the internet” as a land-grab opportunity, Gary transitioned his father’s local liquor store into one of the first wine e-commerce platforms resulting in growing the family business from $3-60MM in sales during a 5-year period. During his time in the family business, Vaynerchuk also started one of the first long-form episodic video shows on YouTube in 2006 called WineLibraryTV, filming 1,000 episodes over a 5-year window. Gary’s wine knowledge, charisma, and uncanny ability to engage with his community landed him appearances on national television with Ellen Degeneres and Conan O’Brien, as well as establishing him as one of the most followed people on social media during its nascent years. Not only did Gary leverage content creation and the rise of social media for his personal brand, but it was the seed which would become the pillar to his now 9-year old advertising agency VaynerMedia, servicing brands with an ever-expanding variety of offerings. Outside of being the Chairman and CEO of his own companies, Gary is a highly sought after public speaker, a 5-time New York Times bestselling author, as well as a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook,Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, and Uber. Gary is currently the subject of DailyVee, an online documentary series highlighting what it’s like to be a CEO and public figure in today’s digital world, as well the host of The GaryVee Audio Experience, a top 50 global podcast, and host of #AskGaryVee, a business and advice Q&A show which can be found on both YouTube and Facebook. Gary also appeared as judge in Apple’s first original series “Planet of the Apps” alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba and Will.i.am on In addition to VaynerMedia, VaynerX also houses The Gallery, a new publishing company started after acquiring leading women’s lifestyle property PureWow in January 2017. In addition to running VaynerMedia, Gary also serves as a partner in the athlete representation agency VaynerSports and restaurant reservations app Resy. Gary is a board/advisory member of Ad Council and Pencils of Promise, and is a longtime Well Member of Charity:Water.
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About Brit + Co, Cinderella Wine, GrapeStory, Resy, American Express Global Dining Network, Vayner Media, Vayner Media, Vayner/RSE, VaynerSports, VaynerX, VCR Group, VeeFriends: VaynerX is a global modern-day marketing and communications company.
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Jay Meattle
CEO & Founder of Shareaholic
Jay started [Shareaholic, Inc.](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shareaholic), a company fanatical about making sharing on the web better, faster, easier, and more measurable. Over 2 million people have used the award winning tools created by Shareaholic. Jay was Vice President of Products at Lookery, an online user-targeting network that offered lightweight, economical targeting data for over 200 million users. Before Lookery, Jay was the Product Manager and founding member of the small team that was responsible for creating and launching [Compete.com](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/compete), now part of the WPP Group [Nasdaq: WPPGY]. In addition, as co-founder of PopSignal, one of Boston’s largest professional networking organizations, Jay is actively contributing to the growth of Boston’s technology startup community. Jay earned a B.S. cum laude in Computer Science from Tufts University. He also minored in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Multimedia Arts. At Tufts he was awarded the MacJannet scholarship. Jay is also a TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Leadership Fellow and in 2012 was named to the TR35 India — MIT Technology Review magazine’s annual list of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35. He loves creating, lives for technology and innovation, and likes making things happen. You can follow Jay on Twitter @meattle or his blog http://www.meattle.com/jay/
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About Shareaholic: Shareaholic is an Audience Engagement platform that helps over 300,000 businesses grow audience engagement, loyalty & conversions.
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Afif Khoury
Founder/CEO of SOCi
Afif Khoury has spent the last decade involved in startups and venture capital investments as an attorney, venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur. Afif is a published geneticist who earned his BS in Neuroscience and Physiology from UCSD in 1998, before attending Law School at Northwestern School of Law (JD 2002) and Business School at Kellogg School of Management. Afif started his legal career as a corporate and securities attorney in Silicon Valley at the premier technology law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) representing technology companies and venture investors across multiple industries and at all stages. Afif left the Silicon Valley office of WSGR to help start their San Diego office, following which he left to open the San Diego office of Gunderson Dettmer (another Silicon Valley-based premier technology law firm). In 2010 Afif raised a seed and early stage fund named Scatter Ventures, which he continues to manage today. Afif is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Axon Venures, a Biotech focused venture fund in Southern California. Between the two fund, Afif has deployed more than $70 million. Afif is a director of the San Diego Venture Group and also founder and CEO of SOCI, Inc., a social data and intelligence technology startup. He is California Board certified as well as a Registered Attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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About Aspen Neuroscience, Axon Ventures, Cradle Genomics, Epic Sciences, EvoNexus, EY, Omniome, Oncternal Therapeutics, Singular Genomics, SOCi: SOCi is a centralized platform for multi-location marketers to reach and engage local customers.
Mark Zagorski
Chief Executive Officer of DoubleVerify
Mark joined DoubleVerify in 2020 as Chief Executive Officer, responsible for oversight of global company operations, expansion into new markets and strategic product innovation – including DV’s CTV/OTT video capabilities. Mark brings over two decades of digital marketing and advertising technology leadership experience to the role, with expertise in CTV/OTT, data analytics and digital advertising optimization. Prior to joining DV, Mark served as the CEO of Telaria (NYSE:TLRA), where he was instrumental in establishing the business as the leading video and CTV monetization platform for premium video publishers. At Telaria, he led consistent growth in revenue and enterprise value, and spearheaded the company’s successful merger with Rubicon Project (NASDAQ:RUBI) – resulting in the industry’s largest independent sell-side advertising platform. Previously, Mark served as CEO of eXelate (Deloitte’s 2014 fastest growing tech company in NYC), where he led the sale of the company to Nielsen and subsequently assumed the role of Executive Vice President, launching the Nielsen Marketing Cloud. Prior to eXelate Mark held C-Level leadership roles at local digital media pioneers WorldNow (acquired by Frankly) and MediaSpan (acquired by Naviga). Mark earned his B.S. in Finance from Gannon University, where he also holds an Honorary Doctorate and his M.B.A. from the University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business. He has been named one of AdWeek’s Martech Superstars, Cannes Lions Judge and an E&Y Entrepreneur of the year Semi Finalist. Mark has been at the forefront of digital disruption since 1997, when he joined Modem Media Poppe Tyson, a pioneering digital ad agency and birthplace of the first banner ad. Following his agency tenure working for clients like IBM, Priceline and Standard & Poor’s, Mark was appointed president of WorldNow, which ushered over 300 TV stations into the digital age. He later helped newspapers evolve online as chief marketing officer and corporate EVP of MediaSpan, where he built its 1400+-affiliate local network. Mark received his MBA from the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School and his B.S. in finance from Gannon University, where he was awarded the university’s Distinguished Alumni Award and an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters (L.H.D.)
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About DoubleVerify: DoubleVerify is a software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics.
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Kevin Long
Co-Founder & CEO of The Dyrt
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About : The Dyrt is consumer subscription software and top ranked camping app, with over 1.5M user-submitted reviews and tips across the U.S.
Oren Kaniel
Co-Founder and CEO of AppsFlyer
Oren Kaniel is the CEO & co-founder of AppsFlyer, the market leader in Mobile Attribution Analytics. Oren holds a BA in Computer Science, Cum Laude, from the Technion, and an MBA from IDC, as part of an exchange with the Wharton Business School.
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About AppsFlyer: The world’s top brands use AppsFlyer to build great products, create exceptional experiences, and preserve customer privacy.
Carlos Octavio Gallardo
CEO of CGWORLDWIDE ADVERTISEMENT LLC
Net Worth : $500,000,000 Millions, Diplomat , CEO – Black Eagle Private Bank & Trust CEO-CGBANCO CORP Age 21
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About CGWORLDWIDE ADVERTISEMENT LLC: CGWORLDWIDE ADVERTISEMENT is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of digital marketing.
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Puneet Mehta
Founder / CEO of Netomi
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About Netomi: An AI-first customer service platform that enables companies to deliver the highest quality customer experiences.
Vishal Jain
Founder, CEO of Sunshy Digital Media Agency
Vishal Jain is a serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple successful businesses in the fields of marketing, e-commerce, design, manufacturing, and more. He is known as one of the best branding experts in the world. He is the founder and CEO of Sunshy Digital Media Agency that partners with clients to boost their business outcomes. He also owns two Social media marketing agencies: Social Media Growth Specialist & Realstagram which helps clients build their influence and generate sales through social media. He has also launched a marketplace for social media service re sellers: Grow Social Influence. He also provides consultancy for clients who need help with their branding and social media marketing: Journey To a Million Dollars. He also owns Sunshy Enterprises which specializes in manufacturing and supplying all kinds of Industrial items. He is also the co-founder of a handmade jewelry store Sunshy Jewels and has authored an e-book that helps people start their own Instagram marketing agency: Ultimate Guide To Start Your Own Instagram Agency. He is founder of Sunshy Group Of Companies and Member of Forbes Council. He dropped out of college 4 years back and since then he has started 8 companies. He always had an urge to start a business but he didn’t want to take financial help from anyone to start it. He googled how to make money online and landed on a few freelancing websites. He started selling Virtual Assistant services on a website called Fiverr which provides you a platform to sell almost any kind of services which you are good at. After few months, he discovered few more freelancing sites like People per hour & UP work and started doing any kind of hourly jobs he could, be it data entry, data research, transcribing, or being an hourly virtual assistant. He saw the demand for designing and social media marketing on these platforms and started learning about it. He watched thousands of youtube videos and read hundreds of articles on quora to develop his skills and started providing digital marketing services on those freelance platforms. He learned a lot of things in his freelance career and with the earned knowledge and money started his own digital media agency Sunshy Digital Media Agency. He still remembers that he made $30 the first month when he started providing freelance services on Fiverr and he worked over 20 hrs a day, 7 days a week. Since Sunshy digital media agency, he has started 2 more agencies dedicated to social media marketing, a manufacturing unit that makes industrial goods, an eCommerce business where he sells limited-edition handcrafted jewelry, and has written an eBook to help people make money starting an Instagram agency.
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About Sunshy Digital Media Agency: SunShy Digital Media Agency is a leading internet marketing firm built to over-deliver for every client it accepts.
Daniel Chu
CEO and Co-Founder of MakersPlace
Daniel Chu is the CEO and co-founder at MakersPlace. He is a product and engineering leader with a passion for applying technologies to drive real-world change.
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About MakersPlace: MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators.
Ari Buchalter
Founder and CEO of Place Exchange
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About Place Exchange: The First True Programmatic Exchange for Out-of-Home Media
Finbarr Taylor
Cofounder, CEO of Shogun
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About Shogun: Shogun is an E-commerce platform that helps brands create unique buying experiences and optimize their online stores.
Bruce Merrill
CEO and Founder of Cleverly | #1 LinkedIn Lead Generation Agency
Passionate about business, obsessed with progress, and continuously learning. “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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About Cleverly | #1 LinkedIn Lead Generation Agency: Scale your leads on LinkedIn and predictably drive more revenue. Check our out client reviews here: https://www.cleverly.co/reviews
Sebastian Rymarz
CEO and Co-Founder of Heyday
As the Chief Business Officer, Sebastian oversees sales, marketing, business and corporate development. An early U.S. hire, he brings rich experience in financial services and credit risk management. Prior to Fundbox, he was VP at TPG Special Situation Partners and an investment professional at Sageview Capital. Sebastian began his career in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs after graduating with a BS in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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About Heyday: Heyday offers a digital marketplace space built for sellers to accelerate consumer product brands.
Ronn Torossian
CEO and Founder of 5W Public Relations
Ronn Torossian is the founder and CEO of 5W Public Relations, one of the largest independently-owned PR firms in the United States. With over 20 years of experience crafting and executing powerful narratives, Torossian is one of America’s most prolific and well-respected Public Relations professionals. Since founding 5WPR in 2003, he has led the company’s growth, overseeing more than 200 professionals in the company’s headquarters in midtown Manhattan. With clients spanning corporate, technology, consumer and crisis, in addition to digital marketing and public affairs capabilities, 5WPR is regularly recognized as an industry leader and has been named “PR Agency of the Year” by the American Business Awards on multiple occasions. Throughout his career, Torossian has worked with some of the world’s most visible companies, brands and organizations. His strategic, resourceful approach has been recognized with numerous awards including being named the Stevie American Business Awards 2020 Entrepreneur of the Year, the American Business Awards PR Executive of the Year, twice over, an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year semi-finalist, Metropolitan Magazine’s Most Influential New Yorker, a 2020 Top Crisis Communications Professional by Business Insider, and a recipient of Crain’s New York 2021 Most Notable in Marketing & PR. Torossian is known as one of the country’s foremost experts on crisis communications, and is called on to counsel blue chip companies, top business executives and entrepreneurs both in the United States and worldwide. Torossian has lectured on crisis PR at Harvard Business School, appears regularly on CNN & CNBC, is a contributing columnist for Forbes and the New York Observer, and has authored two editions of his book, “For Immediate Release: Shape Minds, Build Brands, and Deliver Results With Game-Changing Public Relations,” which is an industry best-seller. A NYC native, Torossian lives in Manhattan with his children. He is a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO), and active in numerous charities.
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About 5W Public Relations, JetSmarter: 5WPR, a Public Relations and Communications Firm, specializes in public affairs, government relations & PR on B2C, & B2B market segments.
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Ben Barokas
CEO & Founder of Sourcepoint
Prior to founding AdMeld, Mr. Barokas was Vice President of Advertising for JumpTV. He also spent 6 years at AOL in a variety of online advertising leadership positions including senior manager on the team that developed and launched the AOL video platform. Mr. Barokas served on the IAB’s Broadband Committee.
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About Sourcepoint: Sourcepoint is the data privacy software company for the digital marketing ecosystem.
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Shafqat Islam
Co-founder & CEO of Welcome
Shafqat Islam is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of NewsCred, the world’s leading content marketing and syndication platform. As CEO, Shafqat manages the strategic growth of the company, pioneering a new content ecosystem for brands and publishers. Since its founding in 2008, NewsCred has grown to a 75+ person team of technologists, journalists, and creative content marketers based in New York, London, and Dhaka. The company is funded by leading investors including FirstMark Capital, FLOODGATE, and IA Ventures. Recently, Shafqat led the company’s acquisition of Daylife, an early technology innovator in the media space. Shafqat has spoken at events including Paley Media Center Summits, Business Insider Conferences, Internet Week, Digital Hollywood, the Digital Content Monetization Summit, AAN Media Conferences, and Wharton Entrepreneurship panels. Prior to NewsCred, Shafqat was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch, running technology teams in NYC and Geneva, Switzerland.
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About Welcome: Welcome is a marketing orchestration platform used by brands to strategically align teams.
Ashutosh Dutt
CEO of ChargeNet Stations
Tosh Dutt is an executive and Subject Matter Expert in Distributed Energy Resources and EV Charging having successfully built and scaled sales organizations in mature startups and new business units of large organizations. His leadership has led to the successful development, finance, and integration of utility and commercial-scale renewable energy and micro-grid projects across the globe involving technologies such as solar PV, thermal storage, advanced energy storage, fuel cells, IoT, biomass co-generation, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Being a renewable energy professional, he is fortunate to embrace the values of Zero Net Energy and Zero Net Carbon in both his professional and personal life and understands how the intersection of plant-based foods, EV charging infrastructure, and distributed energy resources contributes to a zero-carbon footprint to fighting climate change.
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About ChargeNet Stations: ChargeNet Stations specializes in the fields of SaaS, cleantech, electric vehicle supply equipment, and distributed energy resources.
Neha Sampat
Founder and CEO of Contentstack
Neha Sampat (@nehasf) is Founder and CEO at Contentstack™ – a leading Content Management System (CMS) and Content Experience Platform (CXP), adopted by brands including Best Buy, Chase, Holiday Inn, Icelandair, Morningstar, Express, Miami HEAT, Shell, and Walmart. Previously, Neha was Founder and CEO of Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Built.io®, which was acquired by German software powerhouse Software AG in September 2018. Neha is a recognized industry leader, a proponent of diversity, and an outspoken advocate for women in leadership. She can be found appearing on keynote stages or expert panels discussing her experiences as an entrepreneur, a female leader, or her company’s role in the future of technology. Neha raised a Series A funding round of $31.5M USD for Contentstack, one of the largest for enterprise SaaS software companies. She was one of “50 Women in Tech Dominating Silicon Valley” in 2015, was named in “San Francisco Business Times Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business” in 2017, and is a “San Francisco Business Times 40 under 40” honoree. Neha was also honored as “CEO of the Year” by Aragon Research in December 2018 and Female Tech Trailblazer of the Year in 2020. Most recently, she was recognized as “Best CEO for Diversity” and “Best CEO for Women” in the 2020 Comparably Best Places to Work Awards.
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About Built.io, Contentstack, KurbKarma, raw engineering: Contentstack develops a cloud based content management system intended to power omnichannel content.
George Deglin
Co-founder and CEO of OneSignal
George Deglin is the Co-founder and CEO at OneSignal.
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About OneSignal: OneSignal is a customer messaging and engagement platform that allows businesses to create meaningful customer connections.
Diaz Nesamoney
Founder, President & CEO of Jivox
Diaz Nesamoney founder of Jivox has had two prior successful ventures. He was previously co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly Diaz Nesamoney is an accomplished technology entrepreneur who founded three successful technology companies, all harnessing the power of data to power enterprise and consumer applications. Currently Diaz is Founder, President, and CEO of Jivox, a company that provides a technology platform for data-driven personalized advertising and marketing. He was previously Co-founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly traded company in 1999. Informatica pioneered data integration software as a category and is now the market leader with more than $1 billion in revenue and a $5 billion market capitalization. Before founding Jivox, he founded Celequest and served as its CEO until early 2007, when the company was acquired by Cognos/IBM. Celequest introduced the market’s first business intelligence and analytics appliance, a disruptive innovation that led to its acquisition. Diaz holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India and is the holder of seven technology patents. Diaz is also the author of the first book on using data and technology to personalize digital advertising.
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About Jivox: Jivox offers a cloud-based, data-driven omnichannel platform that personalizes digital advertising and marketing experiences at scale.
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Ragy Thomas
Founder & CEO of Sprinklr
Ragy Thomas is the CEO and founder of Sprinklr, a provider of enterprise software for customer experience management. Sprinklr was last valued at more than $1.8 billion in 2016. He founded Sprinklr in 2009, and the company now has 1900 employees around the world serving global clients such as Microsoft and McDonald’s. Prior to founding Sprinklr, Ragy was the president of Epsilon’s (NYSE:ADS) Interactive Services from 2006 to 2008, and the CTO of Bigfoot Interactive, an email marketing leader that Epsilon acquired in 2005. Ragy earned his M.B.A. in Finance and Information Systems from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and his Computer Science Engineering degree from Pondicherry University in India.
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About Sprinklr, Sprinklr Japan: Sprinklr provides enterprise software for customer experience management.
Sam Mallikarjunan
CEO & Co-Founder of OneScreen.AI
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About HubSpot, OneScreen.AI: The world’s first Market Network for real-world media. Performance marketing meets out-of-home on the internet of places.
Scott Bowen
CEO of Tenovos
Scott Bowen is the CEO at Tenovos.
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About Tenovos: Tenovos transforms the way brands connect with customers using stories that inform, inspire, connect, and entertain.
Albert Subbloie
President & CEO of Butterfly
Al Subbloie is the President, Founder, and CEO at Budderfly, Inc. One who combines entrepreneurial passion, hands-on knowledge of successfully growing nascent businesses, and an intuition for identifying non-existent and emerging markets. As CEO, President, and Chairman of Tangoe, he has successfully navigated the tricky waters of founding, growing, bringing public, and globally expanding the leading provider of Connection Lifecycle Management with a current market cap of more than $600M. Since 2010, Al has led Tangoe from annual revenues of $69.5M to $188.9M in 2013, a compounded annual growth rate of 34.1%. He also drove global expansion to more than 190 countries and sales and operational presence throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions, growing Tangoe from a few hundred employees to more than 2,000. His “lead from the front” style inspires both employees and clients. He actively promotes empowerment throughout the ranks encouraging all to “ask forgiveness, not permission.” Despite his aggressive operational tactics, Al maintains a daily focus on the vision and strategy of the company, has a number of patents to his credit, and is successfully moving Tangoe into adjacent and expanding markets. His inspirational approach has resulted in moving markets and teams in support of corporate goals that previously seemed unachievable. In Al’s 32 years of business experience, others have recognized his value and, as a result, he has played an impactful role on the Board of Acsis, Inc., a leading provider of RFID device management technology, which was sold to Safeguard Scientific in December 2005. He currently serves on the Board of NYC-based Operative, Inc. In addition, leading national and global media outlets including CNBC, Fortune, and WSJ, regularly seek Al’s unique perspective and experience on various topics such as business challenges, leadership and management approaches, and taking companies public. Al’s knack for spotting future trends and disruptive technologies resulted in his serial entrepreneurship including co-founding and running Information Management Associates (IMA), which focused on integrated call center solutions for sales, marketing, and customer service capabilities. He also co-founded Buyersedge.com, an Internet company in the field of reverse auctions and later founded Freefire, an ASP e-CRM customer interaction software, supporting email response, chat, and remote telephony solution, which was subsequently acquired by Teletech Holdings. Al started his career at Andersen Consulting. Al credits part of his success to his highly competitive nature. He played varsity football and baseball at Trinity College where he earned his Bachelor Degree in Economics with Honors. Al lives in Connecticut where he spends time on philanthropic activities, serving on the Board of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and nurturing and developing local businesses through his service on the Board of the Connecticut Technology Council.
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About Butterfly: Butterfly specializes offers branding services that includes business strategy, brand identity, packaging, and digital presence.
Aleks Gollu
Founder & CEO of 11Sight
Aleks Gollu is founder, CEO at 11Sight.
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About 11Sight: Inbound Video Call and Customer Engagement Platform For Revenue Teams
Peter Clark
Chief Executive Officer of Forward Media
As CEO of Forward Media, Peter is focused on leading the agency’s growth, product strategy, and overall strategic direction to build a world-class results-based business performance media agency. Peter leverages his experience to drive innovation and a culture that is laser focused on achieving measurable results for our clients. His vision is to build an environment where the people, processes, and products work in full alignment toward achieving success for our employees and partner clients. His goal is to build a team that cultivates a client-first organization and where innovation and technology combine with a drive to succeed. Prior to founding Forward Media Peter had a 25-plus-year career in the advertising, media, and creative industry, both running agencies and at the holding company level.
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About Forward Media: Performance Digital Media Agency
Charles H. Silver
Chairman & CEO of Permission.io
Silver has been building companies and creating liquidity events for shareholders for over 25 years. In the late 1990s, as cofounder of RealAge, Inc., he built the company from scratch, conceived its business plan, raised over $15 million in capital, negotiated key strategic relationships and, most importantly, positioned the company for profitability, which enabled it to survive the dot com bust. In 2007, RealAge was sold very successfully to the Hearst Corporation. Prior to RealAge, Mr. Silver founded and built the Oil Dispatch franchise in Michigan. It grew to be the largest independent quick-oil-change operator in the state and was successfully sold to Jiffy Lube. After graduating from the University of Michigan, and prior to his entrepreneurial career, Mr. Silver served for two years as a staff member for a United States Congressman.
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About Permission.io: Permission.io is transforming digital advertising by enabling brands and consumers to connect on a permission basis.
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Rachel Tipograph
Founder & CEO of MikMak
Rachel Tipograph is the Founder & CEO at MikMak .
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About Brave Commerce, Cleo Capital, MikMak: MikMak is a platform that enables traditional brick-and-mortar brands to gain insights & view the activity of major online retailers.
Don Russell
Chairmen, CEO of IndyBuild
Mr. Russell has more than 25 years of experience and a strong track record of success that includes streamlining operations and maximizing productivity. Prior to launching IndyBuild Corp, he served as President and CEO of Piracy Control Technology. Also, Mr. Russell served as Director of Marketing at Rockstar Beverage Corporation. There, Mr. Russell was responsible for researching and understanding product brand study demographics, producing promotions to target key areas, coordinating product breakouts to maximize productivity, and acting as a liaison between various departments. Mr. Russell gained additional experience by serving as the Creative Director of Expo Theatre Productions, where he prepared and presented client presentations and maintained responsibility for hiring independent contractors. He was also the President and Owner of PM Studios for more than five years, while serving as an A&R director at MCA/Universal Music Grou. Mr. Russell attended Columbia College in Chicago and the University of Phoenix – Chicago campus. He has extensive experience as a performer, producer, manager and director in the entertainment industry. He has performed in or directed several notable productions over the past 10 years. Some of his production credits include: • “Riverdance,” where he served as a principal artist • “Satin Suite,” where he performed as headliner on the Olive Garden Theater stage at Walt Disney World • “Broadway Soul Jam,” where he performed in Amsterdam as a headliner in the very popular and successful musical directed by Maurice Hines Mr. Russell’s innovation in the area of musical theater has captured the attention of many great icons such as: • Oprah Winfrey, on whose show Mr. Russell performed • Gregory Hines, with whom he has performed • President Bill Clinton, for whom Mr. Russell performed for at the opening ceremony for the 1996 Democratic National Convention As sole owner of one of California’s premier recording studios, Mr. Russell has had the opportunity to work with such talents as R. Kelly, Dr. Dre, Jamie Fox, Randy Jackson, Common, Kid Rock, Ludacris, Jermaine Dupri, Be Be Winans, Glenn Jones, Al B Sure, Faith Evans, Jon B, The Brat, Onyx, Ideal, 112, Savion Glover, LeVert, The Gap Band, Terrance Howard, Malik Yoba, Brian McKnight, The Nicolas Brothers, Sinbad, Bernie Mac, and Steve Harvey. Mr. Russell has also directed or produced industrials and tradeshows for such companies as Honda, Seagram’s, McDonalds, Coca-Cola, Fujitsu, Nupremis, AMD, Unisys, and IBM.
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About IndyBuild: IndyBuild is a free entertainment industry platform developed to fully showcase creative and performing artists
David Wright
Co-Founder & CEO of Pattern
Dave Wright is the CEO and founder of Pattern. In less than 5 years, Pattern has become one of the top 5 largest Amazon sellers (in terms of revenue), developed a world-class analytics platform, and has experienced 4 years of revenue growth exceeding 300%. Dave has built a strong culture that is obsessed with the success of Pattern partners, demonstrated by a near-perfect customer retention rate. Prior to Pattern, Dave spent his career as a data fanatic and technology executive. Dave graduated from Brigham Young University with dual degrees in Accounting and Information Systems. Dave graduated in the top 1% of the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University.
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About iServe, Pattern: Pattern is a provider of an accelerator platform for brands to scale faster on major online marketplaces.
Jay Le
Chief Executive Officer of HYPE Agency
Jay is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and philanthropist. He has started several successful start-ups that are making well over $300,000,000 in revenue.
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About HYPE Agency: HYPE Agency is a digital marketing agency that provides marketing services for all business types.
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Spectacular Smith
Founder & CEO of Adwizar
Upon turning after school candy sales into a $2,000 a week business at age 11, Spectacular Smith discovered he was an entrepreneur. That realization would take him first to the heights of popular music, and then to success as a business owner, label owner, author, and beyond. A dancer since the third grade, Smith took his childhood love of performing into the rap group he formed with his brothers, Pretty Ricky. His father was the manager of the group, and owner of indie label. Spectacular contributed musically and also choreographed the group’s explosive stage shows—performances that won them a deal with Atlantic Records. The group went on to huge worldwide success: filling arenas on the Scream IV tour, selling millions of singles and ringtones, and earning huge hits with “Grind With Me,” & “Your Body,” Music stardom was just the first stage of Spectacular Smith’s career. Intrigued by the business possibilities of social media, he turned Pretty Ricky’s Facebook page into his personal laboratory, testing out his theories behind social networks for a full year until he had a new, unbreakable system of gaining and monetizing followers. He then turned those ideas into Adwizar, the dominant social media brand in the urban music space. The company runs the Facebook pages of artists such as Bow Wow, Kevin Gates, Soulja Boy, Master P, Birdman, Bone Thugs N Harmony, and countless others. Adwizar has now grown beyond urban music into dealing with major brands and corporations, athletes, merchandising deals, and more. The company was also featured on Forbes.com for its innovative methods, and has no ceiling on its growth. Smith has not left music behind. He has a record label called Mula Music Group, The label has recently signed West Coast artist Compton Menace, who is ringing up millions of YouTube views for his new single with Chris Brown, “Put On.” After conquering the worlds of music, social media, and publishing, the world is waiting to see what he does next.
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About Adwizar, Amazon, Inc. Magazine, Meta, Spectacular Academy, Viacom: Music Industry’s #1 Company for Growth and Monetization on Social Media – Making Artist, and Brands residual income from their social media.
Robert Wensley
CEO of KORK
Improving the world one day at a time with technology.
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About InvestorLift, KORK: Building the worlds #1 consumer data platform.
Kevin Miller – GR0
CEO of GR0
Kevin Miller grew up in Ormond Beach, FL, before moving to Washington DC to attend Georgetown University. From Georgetown, Kevin moved to California to pursue an entrepreneurial career in one of the tech capitals of the world. Kevin worked at Google at their HQ in Mountain View as well as for smaller firms and startups looking to improve their online advertising strategies. Over years of hard work and dedicated focus, Kevin grew from SEO-amateur into the head of growth and marketing at Opendoor. In 2020, Kevin left Opendoor to co-found GR0, an SEO agency, with his long-time friend Jonathan Zacharias.
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About GR0, The Word Counter: At GR0, our mission is to help brands rank #1 on Google.
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Vijay Chittoor
Co-Founder & CEO of Blueshift
Co-Founder & CEO of Blueshift. Formerly Co-Founder & CEO, Mertado (acquired by Groupon), and early team at Kosmix (acquired by Walmart).
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About Blueshift, Mertado: Blueshift offers the SmartHub CDP, which helps brands deliver relevant and connected experiences across every customer interaction.
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David Perry
CEO & Co-Founder of CARRO
Currenty the CEO & Co-Founder of www.GetCarro.com. Previously Perry was the the CEO and co-founder of Gaikai, the pioneer of game streaming holding the fundamental patents in the space. Gaikai was the first and only acquisition in this sector being acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment for $380M. Gaikai’s game streaming technology is now fundamental in the Sony PlayStation. In 2008 Perry became the Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Acclaim.com, one of the first advocates introducing free-to-play gaming to the western markets, Acclaim was subsequently acquired by Playdom & Disney. Prior to that, Perry founded Shiny Entertainment (a video game development company acquired by Interplay, then again by Atari) known for making hits like Earthworm Jim, MDK & the Matrix games. After 37 years in the business Perry remains one of the best known Video Game Industry veterans, with multiple #1 hits and he was awarded the Development Legend award in 2012. Perry was awarded a Doctorate in Engineering from Queens University, Belfast and a Masters in Game Development from Westwood College. He was one of the longest serving members of the Game Developer’s Conference Advisory Board, and has spoken at TED, E3, Hollywood and Games, Stanford, MIT, USC, UCI, UCLA, DICE, GTC, GDC, AMD, MGS, Digital Hollywood, What Teens Want, 3D Gaming Summit, EurekaFest, The Cove, Casual Connect etc. TAGS: Influencer Marketing, Advertising, Video Games, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Shopify, Tools, Technology, Financing, Funding, Content, Creator, Creators, Celebrities, Press, Media, Influencer & Influencers.
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About Carro, CARRO: The eCommerce Network where modern brands sell more, by working together.
Stas Tushinskiy
CEO & Co-founder of Instreamatic
Stas is CEO and Founder at Instreamatic.AI. Prior to Instreamatic, Stas pioneered digital audio ads market in Russian-speaking countries and built Unisound – a leading digital audio ads sales house and headed business development of a leading mobile music streaming service in Eastern Europe.
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About Instreamatic: Voice Marketing Platform
Rana el Kaliouby
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Affectiva
A pioneer in artificial emotional intelligence (Emotion AI), Rana el Kaliouby, PhD, is co-founder and CEO of MIT spinoff and category-defining company Affectiva, and is the author of Girl Decoded. Rana led the innovation of the company’s award-winning technology, which uses deep learning and massive amounts of data to analyze complex and nuanced emotions and cognitive states from face and voice. She has raised over $50 million in venture and strategic funding for Affectiva, where the company’s technology is used by automotive OEMs and tier 1 suppliers to improve road safety and the in-cabin experience, in addition to 25% of the Fortune Global 500 companies to test content, and in other industries like HR video recruitment and mental health. Rana is now paving the way for Human Perception AI: software that can detect all things human, from nuanced human emotions and complex cognitive states, to behaviors, activities and the objects people use. Prior to founding Affectiva, Rana was a research scientist at MIT Media Lab where she spearheaded the applications of emotion recognition technology in a variety of fields, including mental health and autism research. Rana holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo, a PhD from the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and a Post Doctorate at MIT. Rana is one of few women leading a disruptive AI company. A Muslim-American and passionate advocate, she frequently speaks in press and on stage about innovation, women in technology, ethics in AI and leadership. Forbes recently included Rana in their list of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech, Fortune Magazine included her in their 2018 40 under 40 and she was named one of the three Global Business pioneers by Bloomberg in 2017. Rana is a trustee at the American University in Cairo and a senior advisor to the Technology and Public Purpose project at the Harvard Kennedy School. Rana is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders and a member of the Partnership on AI, alongside founding companies Amazon, Apple, Google/DeepMind and others.
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About Affectiva, Affectiva, Harvard Business School, The World Economic Forum, The World Economic Forum: Affectiva is a developer of an emotion-recognition software designed to analyze subtle facial and vocal expressions.
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Josh McCall
Chairman & CEO of Jack Morton Worldwide
Josh McCall is Chairman and CEO of Jack Morton Worldwide, the world’s leading brand experience agency. He instills an ideas-focused culture that drives the agency to create extraordinary work that transforms client brands and business. Josh has been an integral part of Jack since 1984. Prior to becoming CEO in 2003 and Chairman in 2007, he served in various capacities of increasing responsibility from an Account Executive to Chief Operating Officer. Under his leadership, the agency has expanded its reach across the US, Europe, Australia, Asia and South America and has been recognized for its creativity, winning dozens of awards that include Cannes Lions, Stevies, Ex Awards, PRO Awards, and Webby Awards. Josh’s passion to develop experiences that create emotional connections and strengthen relationships between brands and people pushes the agency to innovate in an increasingly cluttered marketplace. It is this passion that fueled the agency’s recent acquisition of digital shop, Genuine Interactive, enhancing the agency’s core offerings of event marketing, promotional marketing, sponsorship marketing, employee engagement, to include digital, social and mobile. Josh defines industry best practices, trends, and thought leadership by contributing to professional groups and business and trade publications, including Advertising Age and PR Week. He has addressed groups including the Wharton School of Business and The World Congress of Sports. He serves on the boards of the City Year Boston and Metro Lacrosse. Josh earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, completed business and management training at the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and The Kenan-Flagler School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and holds an honorary Doctor of Commercial Science degree from Suffolk University in Boston.
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About Jack Morton Worldwide: Jack Morton Worldwide is an American multinational brand experience agency.
Mark McKenna
CEO of Postclick
Mark McKenna is the Chief Operating Officer at Postclick.
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About Postclick: The world’s leading solution for improving digital ad conversions-creating digital experiences that optimize and increase return on ad spend
Jay Correia
CEO of DreamCo Design
Jay Correia is the Founder & CEO of DreamCo Design, a professional web and app development company founded in 2006 based in Chicago. He is also author of the book ‘Daily Fantasy Sports’, a member of the Board of Directors for the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, pilot, and consultant that serves on numerous start-up advisory boards.
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About DreamCo Design: DreamCo Design is a professional web and app development company that designs, develops, and markets custom websites and apps.
Manish Goyal
Founder & CEO of friendbuy
Manish is founder & CEO of Friendbuy, where his deep e-commerce experience is put to good use. Prior to Friendbuy, Manish managed behavioral targeting solutions for Zappos, Ticketmaster and AT&T U-verse. A serial entrepreneur, Manish was also Founder & VP of Isovia, a provider of mobile solutions to large enterprises. When he’s not starting companies, Manish acts, writes and produces independent films such as the festival darling Kissing Cousins and the short-film comedy Call Center. Manish graduated from MIT with a Bachelors & Masters of Engineering in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
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About friendbuy: Powering referral marketing for the hottest companies in e-commerce.
Arsen Avakian
CEO and Founder of Cooler Screens
Mr. Arsen Avakian is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cooler Screens. He was the Founder of Argo Tea and serves as its Chief Executive Officer before that.
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About Argo Tea, Cooler Screens: Cooler Screens is a developer of interactive digital displays to replace glass doors in store aisles.
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Chaitanya Chandrasekar
Co-Founder & CEO of QuanticMind
Chaitanya Chandrasekar is CEO and a co-founder of QuanticMind, the platform for smarter advertising. Previously, he built and managed the traffic acquisition platform and was part of the data science team at NexTag. He strongly believes in the power of data-driven technology, which can help decipher big data to unlock new ideas and opportunities, and continues to be fascinated by the possibilities of search marketing and its continued evolution alongside new and developing fields such as social and offline conversions.
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About QuanticMind: QuanticMind is a predictive advertising management software for paid search and social channels.
Alexander Jordan
CEO of Firon Marketing
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About Firon Marketing: We are a strategic digital marketing agency committed to optimizing your performance across all social and search platforms.
Andrew Sawyer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cured
Andrew is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cured. Andrew was previously a venture capitalist at GE Ventures where he focused on healthcare and life sciences investing and new business creation. Prior to his role in venture capital, Andrew was a healthcare entrepreneur and management consultant focused on the intersection of provider/payer operations and technology. He served as a Director at Nordic Consulting Partners (#46 – INC 5000 list), where he co-founded the Advisory Services practice. In addition, he was Vice President of Consulting Services and a member of the early founding team at Falcon Consulting (#316 – INC 5000 list – acquired by Avaap). He started his career at Epic Systems, where he was an Enterprise Implementation Director and was responsible for launching the Home Health and Hospice product offerings. Andrew holds an MPH in Health Management from Harvard University. He graduated with honors from DePauw University with a dual BA in Economics and Spanish.
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About Cured: a digital marketing & crm platform, built for healthcare organizations
Justin Fichelson
Co-Founder & CEO of Avenue 8
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About Avenue 8: Avenue 8 is a digital and mobile-first residential real estate brokerage developed for modern real estate agents.
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Corey Pierson
Co-Founder & CEO of Custora
Corey Pierson is the co-founder of Custora, a predictive marketing analytics platform for online retailers based in New York City. Prior to Custora, Corey earned an MBA from Wharton and worked as a business designer at IDEO. He’s also a huge Philly sports fan and an amateur Vitamix chef.
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About Custora: Custora is the leader in advanced customer analytics for the retail industry.
Paul Boruta
CEO & Founder of Slingwave
Marketing and technology + startup CEO & founder
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About Slingrocket, Slingwave: Transforming Data into Real Business Outcomes
Trevor George
Founder and CEO of Blue Wheel Media
Trevor George is a Co-founder & Co-CEO of Recur.
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About Blue Wheel Media, Recur: Blue Wheel are strategists, creatives, producers, and technologists who share a passion for advancing brands through digital marketing.
Don Scales
CEO, Investis Digital of Investis Digital
Don Scales is the CEO of Investis Digital, a global digital communications company that helps world-class businesses manage their corporate brands. He is an interactive industry veteran, with more than 25 years as an executive manager. Before joining iCrossing, Scales was CEO at Agency.com, where he managed all aspects of the agency’s worldwide operations. He had also served as Global COO, North American President, and Western Regional President. In addition, Scales served as Managing Director of Igate Capital, an Internet-centric holding company that focuses exclusively on e-services. In its fifth anniversary issue, BtoB Magazine named Scales one of the top 25 newsmakers for 2000-2005. He was also named to BtoB Magazine’s list of Who’s Who in Search in 2009. Scales is a member of the Board of Directors for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Texas and a member of the Internet Task Force for Make-A-Wish Foundation of America. He has dual undergraduate degrees in Chemical Engineering and Mathematical Physics, and a master of science in chemical engineering from Rice University; he also has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About Investis Digital: Investis Digital is a digital communication company that provides its clients with SaaS platform to manage their digital ecosystem.
Ajay Pattani
Founder/CEO of Perfect Search Media
Ajay is the founder/CEO, resident comedian, & reigning ping pong champion of Perfect Search. He is also a member of the Chicago Founders Circle and Entreprenuers’ Organization (EO), a mentor at the co-working startup space 1871, & a board member of the non-profit organization Streetwise. He holds degrees in Finance & Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & a JD from DePaul University.
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About 1871, Chicago Founders Circle, Packback, Perfect Search Media, SpaceX, YEC: Perfect Search Media is a full-service digital marketing agency.
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Nathan Labenz
Co-Founder and CEO of Waymark
Nathan Labenz is the Founder at Stik.com.
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About SocialProof, Stik, The Writing Center, Waymark: Grow your business with anyone-can-edit video from Waymark.
Jason Field
CEO of BrainStation
Jason Field is the Founder and CEO of BrainStation, the global leader in digital skills training. Over the years, BrainStation has empowered more than 70,000 professionals around the world through corporate training, diploma programs, and certification courses, both online and at campuses in New York, Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver, and Boston. The company has also worked with over 350 corporations in the process of digital transformation, offering cutting-edge employee skills training and a pipeline of emerging tech talent.
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About BrainStation, BrainStation: BrainStation is a global leader in digital skills training, empowering businesses and brands to succeed in the digital age.
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Jack Philbin
Co-Founder, President & CEO of Vibes
As one of the premier thought-leaders in mobile marketing and wireless, Jack spearheads Vibes’ strategic direction and drives the company’s position as the leading provider of mobile relationship management technology solutions for leading brands. An entrepreneur and builder, Jack has specific expertise in business development, strategic client management and consumer marketing. Jack currently serves as Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association North America Board of Directors and on the CTIA Wireless Internet Caucus. Jack was honored with the MMA’s “Outstanding Individual Achievement” award in 2005. Under Jack’s leadership, Vibes was ranked #92 on the 2007 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing US companies and has received numerous awards for their innovation.
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About FireStarter Fund, Mobile Marketing Association, Vibes: Vibes is a mobile marketing software platform.
Sabin Ephrem
Founder, President and CEO of Horizontal
Sabin Ephrem is the founder, president, and CEO of Horizontal Integration.
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About Horizontal: Horizontal designs strategic digital marketing and staffing solutions for Fortune 500 companies.
Rosco Hill
CEO of Perpetua
Rosco Hill is the Chief Executive Officer at Perpetua Labs and Chairman at Draper AI. Before that, he was the Co-Founder at Blend Labs.
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About Perpetua: Perpetua Labs helps brands improve the performance of their ecommerce ads using AI-powered automation.
Ryan Urban
CEO & Founder of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
Ryan Urban is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bounce Exchange, Inc the leader in behavioral automation software and analytics. In 2015 he was named an EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. In the same year, under his leadership, Bounce Exchange was ranked number one overall for both employee retention and career development by ComputerWorld, named one of the best places to work in NYC by Crain’s New York and honored as one of Fortune’s top three best places to work. Ryan was formerly Director of Acquisition at Bonobos and prior to that, Brickhouse Security. He has served on the advisory boards of both BabyAge.com and Bonobos. He holds an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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About Wunderkind (formerly BounceX): Wunderkind enables the world’s top brands to better recognize their customers online, providing 1-to-1 marketing at scale.
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Ian Levitt
President & Chief Executive Officer of Wide Angle Group
Ian Levitt, President and CEO of Wide Angle Group, was born and raised in Los Angeles. Ian grew up playing basketball and dreaming of working for the Los Angeles Lakers. Ian studied sports marketing and management at Indiana University followed by an internship and job with the Basketball Competition Division at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics. After the Olympics, Ian went on to start the WNBA and Los Angeles Sparks at the Great Western Forum. In addition to working with the Sparks, Ian began working for the Los Angeles Lakers and became part of some of greatest moments in NBA history with the opening of Staples Center and being a part of the Lakers’ three NBA Championships. After many years living his dream in professional sports, Ian decided to set his sights on a new adventure, Wide Angle Group. Ian founded WAG nearly 10 years ago and has over 20 years of event production, design, execution, operations and logistical planning experience that has grown WAG’s unique events globally. As his company grew, so did their reputation and today they are doing events all over the world. It is fair to say that Wide Angle Group has grown into its name quite well. Ian believes all of Wide Angle Group’s success stems from living by its motto—“We love what we do!”.
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About Wide Angle Group: Wide Angle Group Limited is a fully integrated industrial/trade media and commerce company
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Dmitri Lisitski
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Influ2
Dimitri is a co-founder and CEO of Influ2. He has more than 15 years of experience in advertising, online media and e-commerce. He is a co-founder of BonusTec, an IT services company sold to GlobalLogic in 2006. Dimitri holds Executive MBA degree from Columbia Business School and London Business School.
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About Influ2: Influ2 is a first person-based marketing platform for B2B marketers to target decision-makers, capture their intent, and track engagement.
Jake Litke
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MediaJel
Jake is a highly-regarded visionary leader with fifteen years in the mobile and advertising industries. Before founding MediaJel with his business partner, Aaron, Jake started the mobile advertising company, Media Cannon. As CEO, he built the company up and led it to a successful exit in 2010. He’s created successful mobile products, ad-tech platforms serving millions of users, and has a proven executive management track record. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of everything, as far we can tell. And no, you won’t beat him at trivia.
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About MediaJel: Digital Marketing platform for Cannabis, CBD, and Alcohol Brands – it’s our thing.
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Glenn Houck
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of LeadQual
Glenn Houck is Co-Founder of LQ Digital. Founded in 2006, LQ Digital has grown to become one of the largest independent Digital Advertising agencies in the U.S. Glenn previously served as Senior Vice President at HomeGain.com, with direct responsibility for sales, marketing, product development and information technology. HomeGain.com was acquired in 2005 by Classified Ventures. In addition, Glenn has served on the board of directors of Laurel House, in Stamford, CT, and currently, serves on the board of directors of Inman News. Glenn holds an MBA from Sacred Heart University and a BA degree in Economics from the University of Virginia.
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About LeadQual, MyVictory Wellness, Sacred Heart University: LeadQual is a full service digital marketing, lead generation, and qualification agency.
Amanda Hite
Co-Founder and CEO of Be The Change Revolutions
Amanda Hite is the Co-Founder and CEO at BTC Revolutions. She started working at age 15 and has been in leadership roles since she was 16 years old. Amanda dropped out of college and worked her way up the corporate ladder in her twenties. She had an early midlife crisis when she turned thirty, feeling an insatiable desire to make more meaningful impact as an entrepreneur. In 2008, the year of the global financial crisis that devastated so many businesses, Amanda with only $64 left in her checking account cashed in her 401k and savings to start her first company. Amanda has a passion for social justice. She’s supported movements to end childhood hunger in America, equality for the LGBTQ community, and she’s implemented transformation models for the world’s most vulnerable. She credits her ability to embrace and lead change to growing up with so much change and adversity. Hite had 32 homes by the age of 18 and she benefited as a kid from programs like food stamps and free school meals. She also grew up gay in southern baptist churches and endured the challenges that followed her father’s injury and honorable discharge from the Army after serving in Desert Storm. Those are just a few of the things that she says motivate the advocacy work she does today and her deep spirit of patriotism. Hite is founding member of the “Changers of Commerce” connected capitalism movement. Amanda is an Advisory Board Member for Share Our Strength’s “Dine Out For No Kid Hungry” and she was recognized with their 2011 Advocate Leadership Award. Amanda has a deep passion for political activism. She is a Federal Club Council member and serves on leadership committees for the Human Right’s Campaign. Hite’s dynamic stage presence has made her a highly sought after International Keynote Speaker. Amanda has been featured as a Social Media influencer and thought leader in several publications, including The Huffington Post, Entrepreneur and Nationʼs Restaurant News. Amanda lives her message of “Be The Change” and, for those who work with her and have heard her speak, that message is forever tattooed in their minds. Amanda and the team at BTC are revolutionizing the way companies think about social media, marketing, and workplace engagement, helping them maximize their impact on their business and in society.
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About Be The Change Revolutions: Be The Change Revolutions is a movement marketing agency that specializes in social media.
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Carl Martin
Founder and CEO of Nobis
16+ years working directly with high growth start-ups and Fortune 500 companies to develop successful digital marketing and business development strategies. This work has included go-to-market programs, website and UI design, mobile marketing, display advertising as well as online lead generation and SEO/SEM strategies that have contributed to or directly resulted in billions of dollars in gross revenue. specialties: marketing strategy, digital marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), pay per click (PPC) management, online media buying, online lead generation, CRM systems, enterprise software, web content management systems (CMS), content marketing, content strategy, content creation, content distribution, web analytics Founder and CEO of Nobis Nobis Interactive is an industry-leading provider of advanced, integrated Digital Marketing Services and Solutions. Nobis is focused exclusively on delivering state-of-the-art services and solutions to both aggressive start-ups and enterprise organizations. As CEO of Nobis, I am responsible for managing key client relationships and overseeing both the company’s overall strategic direction and day-to-day operations. Key clients include: HotelTonight, StubHub, eBay, Guardian Edge, Symantec, Fonality, Ring Central, NatureBox, Maker Media, ModCloth, Decorist, and Vacatia.
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About Nobis: Nobis Interactive is a provider of integrated digital marketing services and solutions.
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Mae Karwowski
CEO, Founder of Obviously
Mae is the CEO and Founder of Obviously, the influencer platform for the world’s iconic brands. Mae has grown this company from a one person start up to a 15 person, global company with a brand roster that includes many Fortune 500 companies. Obviously specializes in building custom networks of influencers for brands, specifically large scale global communities of hundreds to thousands of influencers with the right target audiences. Working with the best brands out there, we build relationships with the influencers that embody their ethos while moving their businesses forward. Before Starting Obviously, Mae ran social media for Gilt City, part of Gilt Groupe. Previous to that she ran social media for Bravo, Coca Cola and UGG with the ad agency 360i. She enjoys playing tennis, snowboarding, corgi .gifs and talking tech and entrepreneurship 24/7.
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About Obviously: Obviously builds and manages influencer networks for the world’s iconic brands.
Udayan Bose
Founder & CEO of NetElixir
Udayan Bose founded NetElixir with a vision to provide online marketers worldwide with a paid search campaign optimization solution capable of delivering magical performance. Udayan recognized the potential of paid search as an essential advertising channel in 2002. Having experienced first hand the complexity involved in running a profitable paid search campaign, he was driven to develop a system that delivers predictable and efficient campaign performance, allowing marketers to fully leverage the power of paid search as a high value sales generator. Prior to starting NetElixir, Udayan was Director of Business Development for iGlobalMedia/PartyGaming, the world’s largest online gaming company. In this role he was responsible for building a new business unit, PartyBingo, that became a major revenue generator for the company. Udayan is a regular speaker at leading industry conferences like Internet Retailer Conference (US), Internet Retailing Conference (UK), eTail and Search Engine Strategies Conferences (US and Germany). He is a guest lecturer at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management; Zicklin School of Business, Baruch, NY and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Udayan holds a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and an M.B.A. from Mumbai University, India.
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About NetElixir: We specialize in SEM. Fanatically analytical. Search advertising mavens. Technology builders. Friendly experts.
Reid Lappin
CEO of VOKAL Interactive
Reid is CEO and a founding partner of VOKAL. He takes the role of lead strategist and operations manager where he directs the company to help cultivate innovation and deliver unique client solutions. Prior to starting VOKAL, he co-founded and managed Fresh From the Hills, an organic farm, catering to restaurants, residential delivery, and farmers markets. Reid is an active volunteer in the entrepreneurship community and a board member at the DePaul Coleman Center for EMerge. He has been featured on CNBC, spoken at PRSA America, and the Extreme Entrepreneur Tour. Additionally, he often guest lectures at several local universities, including DePaul and Northwestern.
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About GoodMogul, VOKAL Interactive: Vokal is a leading-edge digital agency in Chicago, specializing in mobile apps. We design, develop and deploy digital experiences.
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Chuck Elias
Co-Founder & CEO of 42Chat
As senior vice president, strategy & corporate development, Chuck Elias works with FBHS operating unit leadership on strategies across a wide range of strategic initiatives. He also leads the company’s corporate development activities, including mergers & acquisitions. Prior to joining FBHS, Chuck served in senior leadership roles at Supervalu, a $35 billion grocery retailer/wholesaler. Most recently, he was Supervalu’s senior vice president of retail operations. Prior to joining Supervalu, Elias was a managing director for portfolio operations at Ridgeview Capital, a private equity firm. He also held several leadership positions at The Home Depot. Elias holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management, with honors, from the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in Boston.
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About 42Chat: 42Chat make AI Chatbots that provide instant answers and personalized connection over regular text (and other channels)
Aziz Rahim
CEO & Co-Founder of Sabio
Aziz Rahim is the CEO & Co-Founder at Sabio.inc.
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About App Science, Sabio: Sabio offers a CTV platform powered by mobile data.
Rodolfo A. Ganna
President & CEO of Pyhex DR
Rodolfo “Rudy” Ganna has 20 years of experience in Vertical solutions using large Network Infrastructure. He started in 2003 multiple Corporations specialized in Cluster Databases very much focussed in Tourism and Immigration solutions for governments and Tourism Bodies.
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About Pyhex DR: Pyhex DR is a conglomerate of companies devoted to Startups and Entrepreneurs.
Jonathan Ord
CEO & Co-Founder of DealerSocket
As CEO, Jonathan Ord sets vision and drives overall strategy for DealerSocket. Jonathan co-founded DealerSocket in 2001 to create a revolutionary model for industry niche CRM applications. Both DealerSocket and Jonathan have received many accolades including being named Best Overall Company globally in the 2008 Stevie International Business Awards, Best Management Team in the 2009 American Business Awards, one of the Red Herring North American 100 in 2009. Additionally, Jonathan has been honored as one of the most successful young Entrepreneurs and Executives in Southern California, being honored with the 2010 Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award from the Orange County Business Journal
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About DealerSocket: DealerSocket is an industry leading automotive CRM–Customer Relationship Management and dealership training provider, serving auto dealers.
Josh Dorward
CEO and Co-Founder of Indivio
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About Indivio: Indivio enables brands, and retailers of all sizes to create, test, and optimize Facebook ads using video.
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Tom Pachys
CEO and Co-Founder of EX.CO
Tom Pachys is co-founder and CEO of EX.CO. Tom’s entrepreneurial spirit started early in life when he began coding at an early age. He eventually joined the elite technology intelligence unit followed. He then join Sundaysky as one of the first team members following by his own tech startup.
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About EX.CO: EX.CO is a technology company used by brands & publishers to turn content into engaging and interactive experiences driving results.
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Ruben Vardanyan
Founder & CEO of Joomag, Inc.
Dr Ruben Vardanyan is an innovative and result-driven leader with more than a decade of experience in building hi-tech companies. He is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Joomag, a US based SaaS company that provides integrated solution for creating interactive digital publications. Under Vardanyan’s guidance the company developed a series of revolutionary products and became an industry leader. He has extensive experience working with SMBs as well as large enterprises including Fortune 500 companies. He is an angel investor, advisor and serves as a board member for various tech startups. Prior to his Joomag experience, he was the founding CEO of mobile app development company Magy. The company produced several best-seller and award winning apps. In addition to being a master strategist, Vardanyan is an aficionado of all aspects of computer programming, security, databases, software, protocols and web servers. In fact, he co-authored “Principles of C++” and authored “Programming in Macromedia Flash Action Script.” Along with his Executive Education from Harvard, Vardanyan holds a PhD in Computer Science and maintains active involvement in workshops, trainings and is a guest speaker at several international conferences.
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About Joomag, Inc.: Joomag is the all-in-one platform empowering businesses large and small to create, distribute, track, and monetize their interactive content
Andy Monfried
Founder & CEO of Lotame
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About Lotame: Lotame is the leading provider of data enrichment solutions for global enterprises.
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Alex Shevelenko
CEO of RELAYTO Document Experience Platform
/ Founder of RELAYTO ping ceo@relayto.com to discover the first experience platform for interactive documents. Not all docs are created equal. / MD of Glocal Partners: advisory for innovation across borders & incubating RELAYTO/ / Cloud Pioneer: pre-IPO at SuccessFactors (exit to SAP for $3.4B) & Salesforce.com / Advisor: growth & marketing projects leader @ Oliver Wyman / Student & Mentor: Stanford MBA, Penn BSE, BA, speaker on Idea Science™ method / Author (upcoming): The Experience Is The Message. How To Turn Ideas Into Conversations & Actions Why RELAYTO? “MEDIUM was the message” in the 60s. Now the digital noise is at an all-time high. So EXPERIENCE IS THE MESSAGE. And we created a new experience that helps your important business messages win. Learn more on http://RELAYTO.com or ✉ ceo@relayto.com Longer Story RELAYTO/ helps anyone unleash & measure their ideas. Everything changed during my career at fast-growing B2B organizations like SuccessFactors/SAP, Salesforce.com, Oliver Wyman & Microsoft Office … except for the print-optimized PDF. PDF is where your must-read publications, presentations & knowledge goes to die ☠ So I co-founded RELAYTO/ revolution to abolish static, pre-Internet & pre-mobile content on screens (see our rla.to/pitch – it’s a PDF we converted with our own product) RELAYTO/ clients at PwC, Mercedes Benz, Accenture, HYPERLOOP TT, Startupbootcamp already authored 50+ award-winning interactive experiences. And AI-powered platform gets smarter with every document. Join us. Oh. And if you want to create a Guttenberg moment for interactive communications — we are hiring at relayto.com/careers
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About Glocal Partners, RELAYTO Document Experience Platform: RELAYTO helps B2B marketers generate more leads & sales by turning static documents into interactive presentations & webpages
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Robert Tallack
CEO of ConversionPoint Technologies Inc.
Robert Tallack is the CEO of ConversionPoint Technologies, Inc. He brings over 15 years of experience in the health industry, having sold his last consumer products company to a publicly traded pharma company. An industry veteran of the digital marketing business, Robert has developed direct-to-consumer sales and marketing campaigns that have generated millions per month in sales. His ability to build an efficient organization using technology to scale rapidly has contributed greatly to his success. Robert earned his B.A. in health sciences from Queens University, Ontario. Robert also brings a unique background in professional sports having previously been a 3-time World Martial Arts Champion and still holds a world record.
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About Branded Response, ConversionPoint Technologies Inc., Sellpoints: ConversionPoint Technologies Inc., is a leading e-commerce infrastructure technology platform that powers high growth e-commerce sales.
James Glover
CEO of Coherent Path
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About Coherent Path: Coherent Path provides personalization and predictive analytics solutions that enable retailers to focus engagement around strategic goals.
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Vish Sastry Rachakonda
CEO of iQuanti, Inc.
As CEO of iQuanti, Vish focuses on iQuanti’s mission to deliver strong results for the clients through effective use of online and mobile technologies.
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About iQuanti, Inc.: iQuanti is a data-driven digital marketing analytics and solutions company. Featured in Inc.5000 fastest growing list for 5 years.
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Sampo Parkkinen
CEO of Revieve
Co-founder @Revieve. General Partner @LandInChicago. Co-founder & COO @ RapidBlue Solutions (acquired in 2013). Member of Board @PromoRepublic. Mentor, advisor and early stage angel investor in startups.
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About Forbes Technology Council, Gorilla Capital, Impact Engine, LandInChicago, Revieve, Techstars: Market-leading beauty customer-experience personalization solution for beauty brands and retailers
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Steffen Horst
CEO & Co-Founder of Symphonic Digital
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About Symphonic Digital, Symphonic Digital: Symphonic Digital helps SMBs to maximize their ROI from digital advertising, through data-driven, tailored campaigns.
John Hendricks
CEO & Founder of ERGO
John is the founder and CEO of ERGO Interactive, a company that specializes in designing and delivering Smart Content for email and web journeys. John holds degrees in electrical engineering and marketing and has spent his career developing award winning data-drive marketing programs for Blue Chip clients including American Express, Honda, Hyundai, Disney, Ameriprise, TIAA, BlackRock, JPMorgan Chase, H&R Block, Discover and CapitalOne. He was also a cofounder of BoldFish, sold to Siebel in 2003, and Bigfoot Interactive, sold to Epsilon / Alliance Data in 2005.
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About ERGO: ERGO is a marketing automation solution provider that creates intelligent customer experiences inside each email using Smart Content.
Dean Mansfield
President & CEO of Systum
Dean Mansfield, President of Worldwide Field Operations, has spent more than 15 years in the software industry working in global sales and executive leadership roles. In his role, Dean leads Emailvision’s sales, partner and field marketing organization. From 2004-2009, Dean served as President of WW Sales and Distribution at NetSuite Inc. Under Dean’s leadership, revenues grew over twenty fold. Prior to NetSuite, Dean was the VP WW Sales Operations at Brocade Communications, VP of Asia Pacific at Plumtree Software, and SVP WW Sales at McAfee/Network Associates. Most recently, Dean was the President and CEO of Fonality Inc. Dean holds a degree in Law LLB Honors from the University of London.
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About Systum: Systum is a provider of a cloud-based, digital operating platform for small to medium-sized businesses.
Sheldon Owen
Founder and CEO of Vana
Sheldon is a proven entrepreneur and senior business operator with over 20 years of experience developing emerging technology companies. Sheldon is the Founder of Digital Tower, Inc. (dba Muncheez) and the Co-Founder of Unified. Prior to starting Muncheez, Sheldon was the founding CEO of Unified for nearly five years. During his tenure as CEO, Unified successfully raised over $60 million in venture financing, grew to hundreds of customers and 150 employees, made two successful acquisitions, won countless awards, and became one of the industry’s most recognized marketing technology startups. Prior to co-founding Unified, Sheldon held many senior executive roles throughout his career including Vice President at CA Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA), EVP/General Manager at Connexus and Founder of tmpSocial, an early Facebook Marketing Partner. Sheldon is an active startup advisor, mentor, board member, speaker and angel investor. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), an advisor for Techweek, and an advisor to hedge funds and professional investment firms on industry trends in software, marketing technology, mobile, digital advertising, and social media.
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About Vana: Leading recommendation engine and compliant marketing platform for the legal cannabis and CBD industry
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Luke Kervin
Co-CEO & Founder of PatientPop
Luke Kervin is the founder and Co-CEO at PatientPop.
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About PatientPop: PatientPop is the only complete practice growth solution that empowers healthcare providers to thrive in the digital age.
Saurabh Gupta
Founder & CEO of Intellemo
Saurabh is an IIT Delhi alumni (2012 batch B.Tech & M.Tech) and has managed the overall portfolio of Digital Marketing across a career of 7 years. His work included SEM, SEO, Display Ads, Mobile App Marketing & Google Analytics. He is an expert in digital marketing automation. He has contributed to the growth brands like Lenskart.com, Yatra.com and UrbanClap.com before starting his own digital marketing company Intellemo. He aspires to fill the gaps in the last mile delivery of creative ads that perform, by making them easily accessible and flexibly & affordably deliverable for impactful growth of a business.
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About Intellemo: Ready to launch Advertising Content for Instant Marketing
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Arya Bina
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Kobe Digital
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About Kobe Digital: Kobe Digital connects growth-focused brands with their target audiences through customized digital experiences and strategies.
Kaushik Bhatta (KB)
Founder, CEO of B3 Alliance, Inc.
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About B3 Alliance, Inc., Shiva & Company, Inc.: Comprehensive Business Consulting Firm
Michael Balyasny
Co-Founder & CEO of Attendify
Co-Founder of KitApps
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About Attendify: Attendify is a SaaS-based in-person virtual & hybrid event platform, dedicated bridging the gap between event marketing & digital marketing.
Shirley Chen
Founder & CEO of Narrativ
Shirley Chen is the Founder & CEO of Narrativ.
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About Narrativ: Narrativ is a subscription technology platform for brands to acquire new customers through trusted creators, not sponsored content or ads.
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Amit Jain
Founder, CEO of Bridg
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About Bridg: Bridg is a customer data platform that empowers marketers to better understand and reach customers using SKU-level insights.
Anand Kishore
Founder / CEO of Aspire
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About Aspire: The influencer marketing platform empowering ecommerce brands to build and cultivate influential communities.
Ramiro Samuel Soto Berner
Chief Executive Officer of WCN Television Inc
Ramiro’s many years of experience working in television direction (Televisa, C&A Video Hogar, SA de CV) and production (listings include Recta Final, A Nivel de Cancha, sports capsules for special events along with coverage of the 1999 Confederations Cup) enabled him to have a very unique outlook on marketing and developing relationships with sponsors. Ramiro has been celebrated for altering the direction of a very challenging reduction in content and airtime, introducing the now well-known “Product Placement”, which involved having to convince the sponsors to not only accept this change but to also pay an extra price for production believing all along that the change could be both positive and successful. Ramiro received his diploma in Electrical Engineering from ITESO Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara and has completed independent study courses in Playwriting and Screenwriting at UCLA.
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About WCN Television Inc: WCN is a Digital Broadcast Television Company
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Vince Broady
CEO, Founder of Thismoment
Vince Broady is the founder and CEO of thisMoment.com. Prior to founding thisMoment, Broady was Senior Vice President and Head of Yahoo Entertainment between June 2006 and March 2008. As senior vice president, head of entertainment for Yahoo Inc., he managed the strategy and vision for Yahoo’s media properties, including Games, Music, Movies, Originals and Television. Broady joined Yahoo from CNET Networks, where he most recently served as senior vice president of entertainment. In that role, Broady was responsible for CNET’s portfolio of entertainment brands, including MP3.com, TV.com and Metacritic.com. He also oversaw GameSpot, an industry-leading gaming site, which Broady co-founded in 1995 and was later acquired by CNET via the company’s acquisition of ZDNet. Prior to that, Broady served as vice president of product development and general manager of ZDNet’s consumer group. Before launching GameSpot, Broady was executive editor at IDG’s Multimedia World magazine.
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About Thismoment: Thismoment offers the leading content marketing platform for finding, mixing and sharing any digital content anywhere.
Miguel Guerrero
Founder / CEO of Otis AI
Miguel Guerrero is the Founder and CEO of Otis AI. At age 14, he created the world’s largest Minecraft server with no initial capital and grew a community of over 5 million users. Miguel cofounded TABu, a mobile payment processing app for SMBs integrated with over 60% of the POS market share and featured on Apple’s Planet of the Apps television show. Prior to cofounding Otis AI, he founded MeepLabs, a creative software company specializing in cross platform solutions such as React Native to reduce development costs for businesses. Miguel is excited to expand the potential of digital marketing solutions through Otis AI, a technology company he cofounded which has created an automated digital advertising app that aims to empower small business owners.
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About Otis AI: Otis is a digital marketing automation platform for small businesses.
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Keith Thompson
Founder & CEO of Digital Vision Systems
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About Digital Vision Systems: Digital Vision Systems develops, manufactures, and distributes a technology platform for analyzing and correcting vision disorders.
Zohar Dayan
CEO & Founder of Wibbitz
CEO & Founder of Wibbitz, the leading automated video creation company that empowers any team to produce professional short-form video.
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About Wibbitz: Wibbitz is an automated video creation company that empowers any team to produce professional short-form video.
Philipp Tsipman
Founder and CEO of Outfox AI
Philipp Tsipman is the founder and CEO of Outfox AI.
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About Outfox AI: Advertising automation that makes you 2x more efficient
Ryan Frankel
CEO of This App Saves Lives
Ryan Frankel is the CEO and Founder of This App Saves Lives. Previously, he was CEO and Co-Founder of VerbalizeIt, a language translation platform acquired by Smartling in 2016. VerbalizeIt was incubated in Techstars and featured on the ABC TV series, Shark Tank. He is an MBA graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate alumnus of Haverford College where he studied Economics and Spanish and pitched for the varsity baseball team. Prior to Wharton, Ryan was a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs in the Special Situations Group in New York City where he focused on middle market private equity transactions and the operational management of the portfolio companies. He is also a recipient of the 2013 Class of 35 Top Travel Innovators and a frequent columnist in Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Wharton, and OPEN forum by American Express. Ryan is an endurance enthusiast who has enjoyed competing in an Ironman triathlon and multiple marathons.
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About EduPlated, This App Saves Lives: This App Saves Lives (“TASL”) is a free mobile app that rewards drivers who choose not to engage in phone-based distracted driving.
Noah Dinkin
Founder and CEO of Stensul
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About FanBridge, Stensul: Stensul is an email creation platform that gives enterprise marketers the power to generate custom emails while ensuring brand governance.