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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 New York, New York based CEO’ operating in the 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.
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.
Brian Long
Co-Founder and CEO of Attentive
Brian Long is the co-founder and CEO of Attentive. He previously was the CEO of TapCommerce. Prior to TapCommerce, Brian led mobile products at Pontiflex, a mobile advertising company. At Pontiflex, Brian conceived of the mobile ad product, brought it to market, and scaled it across thousands of mobile apps. Prior to Pontiflex, Brian held various sales management roles at CNET.com (acquired by CBS Interactive), where he worked closely with large advertisers like Dell, Samsung, and AT&T to build performance-based interactive advertising programs.Brian has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently on-leave from NYU, with half of an MBA in Finance & Entrepreneurship.
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About Attentive: Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform for innovative brands and organizations.
Alan Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Alan founded IAG Research, which became the leading provider of engagement metrics in the television industry, and served as co-CEO until the company was acquired by Nielsen. Alan then served as the CEO of Advertising Solutions for Nielsen, and is currently a venture partner for Greycroft Partners. Alan is a graduate of the New York University School of Law (J.D.), Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (M.P.P.), and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.).
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About Embark, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Eric Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Co-Managing Partner@Peak Opportunity Partners (“POP”). Pop is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on seed and early stage companies. POP makes opportunistic investments that can typically be a company’s first outside capital. Investments include: Blue Apron, Work Fusion(Crowd Computing), Stella Service, Great Bridge ( Earnest Research ), EBTH ( Everything But The House ).
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About Canvs, GoSpotCheck, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Bill Koenigsberg
President, CEO & Founder of Horizon media
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About Horizon media: Horizon Media, Inc. is the largest and fastest growing privately held media services agency in the world.
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.
Harry Kargman
Founder & CEO of Kargo
Harry founded Kargo in 2003, and over the past decade he has grown it from a small start-up shop to the leader in mobile brand advertising. In 2015, Kargo was recognized as one of the America’s fastest growing companies by Inc. magazine. Today, Kargo works with the world’s most prestigious media companies and brands to deliver high quality mobile brand advertising. Kargo’s technology and ad experiences are integrated into the sites and apps of more than 300 of the largest publishers, and its technology powers the campaigns of more than 200 of the most influential brands. Kargo has won more than 7 Mobi and OMMA awards for creative innovation. Harry’s experience building Kargo from the ground up gives him a deep understanding of the latest trends, consumer behavior, and the broader forces reshaping the media and advertising landscape. He holds over fifty patents related to Kargo’s technology and continues to drive the company to innovate around mobile advertising solutions, data products and programmatic technology. Harry is a frequent speaker at advertising and technology conferences including CES, IAB and Advertising Week, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Today Show, Advertising Age, The Wall Street Journal, NPR and dozens of other media outlets. Harry graduated with honors from Harvard College where he is now an advisor to young entrepreneurs through the Harvard Innovation Lab. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.
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About Kargo: Kargo is the leader in mobile brand advertising.
Fayez Mohamood
Co-founder & CEO of Bluecore
He is the co-founder and CEO of TriggerMail, a marketing automation company that allows eCommerce companies to personalize emails in real-time. Previously, he was Head of Product at BigDoor where He was responsible for concieving, executing and iterating on gamified loyalty and rewards programs to increase user retention across the websites of major global brands like NFL, Dell, Adobe and Starbucks to name a few.He also co-founded Gameday Tycoon, a simple fantasy sports game that runs on Facebook, as well as Sponty which was a service that allowed people to discover music events in town. In a previous life, He was into microprocessor design and simulation. He developed and integrated the first combined Graphics and Processor Memory Controller simulator at AMD to predict and analyze the performance impact of AMD’s Fusion CPUs. his first rookie Master’s publication when He was a student at Georgia Tech was awarded the Best Paper by the prestigious IBM’s TJ Watson Research, and a subsequent publication was adopted by AMD in one of their CPUs even before He finished graduate school. In addition, He also worked on developing graphical frameworks for Simulink and MATLAB at The Mathworks in Boston. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, where He published several papers on high-performance microprocessor design.
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About Bluecore: Bluecore uses predictive intelligence to automatically connect shoppers to products, content, and offers, wherever they are.
Maurice Harary
Founder and CEO of Fluz
Maurice is a Founder of the Fluz App. He is a serial entrepreneur with a 10-year background in e-commerce. He currently manages over 20 e-commerce sites in the B2B and B2C environment, ranging from interactive learning-based experiences to price-competitive marketplace trading sites. Experience in all areas of e-commerce sites, ranging from custom e-commerce software development to operational planning. He has extensive experience in fashion eCommerce and marketplace selling.
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About Fluz: Reinventing cashback to give you more. Get paid when you shop + when your friends shop. Earn Cashback Forever.
Colin Darretta
CEO & Co-Founder of Innovation Department
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About DojoMojo, Entrepreneur Media, Fast Company, Finn, Grummies, Innovation Department, Innovation Department, WellPath: Innovation Department is a brand studio dedicated to building great companies that will have a long-lasting impact on the way we live.
Alex Song
CEO/Founder of Innovation Department
Alexander Song is the Founder and CEO of Innovation Department, a technology and investment company that creates and develops E-commerce, Media, and SaaS companies. Based in Soho, New York, Innovation Department both creates companies that solve practical, real-world problems and equips early-stage founders with the capital, people, and resources they need to bring their ideas to life. Alex is also the CEO of DojoMojo, a Partnership Marketing Platform with over 1,400 brands. Alex studied Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with Highest Honors, and moved to New York in 2004. He spent 6 years with Goldman Sachs in the Financial Institutions, Investment Banking Division, and was then promoted to join Goldman’s Principal Investment Area, an $20bn private equity fund. Alex then joined Pershing Square Capital Management, a $15bn long-short equity hedge fund, where he focused on public equity investments. Alex’s background in finance brings a unique perspective as he serves not only as an investor, but as strategic counsel to many of the brands he has invested in. Under Alex’s leadership, Innovation Department has helped build a number of companies including WineAwesomeness, WellPath, DojoMojo, ReBloom, Cinematique, and Valyrian Media. Alex has also invested in Pinterest, Dropbox, Lyft, ClassPass, Rubicon Global, and Aloha. Alex continues to pursue technology and venture opportunities regularly.
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About DojoMojo, Innovation Department: Innovation Department is a brand studio dedicated to building great companies that will have a long-lasting impact on the way we live.
Elias Guerra
Founder & CEO of Popwallet
Elias is the Founder and CEO of Popwallet, a mobile wallet marketing automation platform.
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About Popwallet: Mobile Wallet Marketing Automation and CX
David A. Steinberg
Founder & CEO of Zeta Global
David Steinberg is currently CEO, Chairman and Co-Founder of Zeta Global, a company known for its reputation as a top-tier big data marketing technology company. Previously, as CEO of CAIVIS, Mr. Steinberg acquired several small companies including those with focuses in big data, customer acquisition (programmatic) and CRM, to form XL Marketing (now Zeta Global). Prior to founding CAIVIS, Mr. Steinberg founded InPhonic, the largest seller of wireless phones and communications products and services on the Internet, with annual revenue in excess of $400 million. InPhonic was #1 on Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies in 2004, the year it went public on the NASDAQ. Mr. Steinberg also served as chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Cellular, a business-to-business and retail wireless communications provider, and Sterling Communications, a communications telemarketing company. Mr. Steinberg was named the Greater Washington Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for communications in 2002. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Faster Cures of the Milken Institute, and the Greater Washington Sports Alliance as well as the Board of Trustees of Washington & Jefferson College. Mr. Steinberg holds a B.S. from Washington & Jefferson College.
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About Caivis, Sol systems, Zeta Global: Zeta offers technology and marketing services to help brands acquire, engage, and retain customers.
Liad Agmon
CEO of Dynamic Yield
Liad Agmon joined Dynamic Yield Liad as CEO in 2012.Agmon is a serial entrepreneur with rich experience as a startup founder and as a Fortune 500 executive. He founded information security vendor Onigma (acquired by McAfee) and social search company Delver (acquired by Sears Holdings). Following Delver’s acquisition, Liad served as a VP of New Services at Sears Holdings and on the board of its Home Electronics and Outlets business units. Liad served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Bessemer Venture Partners and taught at the Entrepreneurship MBA program in Tel-Aviv University and at the Zell Program of IDC Herzliya. He holds a BA Cum Laude from Tel-Aviv University in Computer Sciences and Film Studies.
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About Dynamic Yield: Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions.
Jaroslaw Gabor
CEO of Bertelsmann
Jaroslaw Gabor is CEO of Bertelsmann Inc., the US headquarters, and CFO of Bertelsmann Education Group. Headquartered in Gutersloh, Germany, Bertelsmann is a media, services and education company that operates in 50 countries around the world. It includes the broadcaster RTL Group, trade book publisher Penguin Random House, magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, service providers Arvato and Be Printers, the music rights company BMG and e-learning provider Relias Learning. The company has more than 112,000 employees and generated revenues of €16.7 billion in 2014. Jaroslaw Gabor joined Bertelsmann in 2006 as Vice President Mergers and Acquisitions after working in various positions at the energy company Eon and at Deloitte. In the following years he assisted with several of the Group’s large transactions such as the sale of various Direct Group businesses, numerous BMG acquisitions and also the merger of Penguin and Random House to become the world’s largest book publisher. At Penguin Random House he was jointly responsible for the integration of the two publishing groups. In parallel, Jaroslaw Gabor worked on the development of the Bertelsmann Education Strategy and the acquisition of Relias Learning. He currently resides in New York.
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About Bertelsmann: Bertelsmann is a transnational media corporation that operates in about 50 countries around the world.
Steve Stoute
Founder & CEO of UnitedMasters
Steve Stoute has a proven track record of building successful businesses and has garnered significant recognition as one of the most influential brand marketers in the country. As the Chairman of Carol’s Daughter, a Pegasus portfolio company, he has grown the company’s sales by over 15x in under 5 years by expanding distribution and creating marketing partnerships. Mr. Stoute also serves as founder and CEO of Translation LLC, a leading brand marketing firm that creates and executes innovative promotions between Fortune 500 companies and superstar celebrities in music, sports, fashion and entertainment. With a strong focus on the urban and youth markets and multi-cultural consumers, Mr. Stoute and Translation have built programs for Reebok, McDonald’s, Samsung, Procter & Gamble and Target and has worked with celebrities such as Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z and Gwen Stefani. Prior to founding Translation, Mr. Stoute worked with top music artists as an Executive Vice President at Interscope Geffen A&M.
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About Translation LLC, UnitedMasters: UnitedMasters is a technology platform that gives musicians an alternative to exploitative record label deals.
Brett Garfinkel
Co-Founder & CEO of SYLO
Brett Garfinkel is a Co-Founder & CEO at SYLO.
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About SYLO: SYLO provides marketers and creators with 3rd-party validation and standardized measurement to confidently invest in influencer marketing.
Amish Tolia
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Leap Services
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Brand Innovators Labs & Co-Founder & Principal at Viking Investment Management. Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Leap.
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About Brand Accelerator, Brand Innovators Labs, Leap, Leap Services, Viking Investment Management: Leap develops a retail platform that enables brands to deploy stores and accelerate growth.
Amber Atherton
CEO & Founder of Zyper
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About Zyper: Zyper is a machine learning-led community marketing software that helps brands connect with their fans, and fans connect with each other.
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
Michael McLaren
Global CEO – B2B Group of Merkle
Michael McLaren has been an Executive Global Group Director for High-Tech and B-to-B Practices at Merkle Inc. since October 2016. Michael McLaren serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer at McCann World Group Holdings Japan, Inc. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of MRM//McCann from April 2014 to May 17, 2016 and also served as its President from May 2013 to 2016. He served as the President of MRM Worldwide, Inc. since May 2013 and also its Chief Executive Officer since April 2014. He served as the President of MRM East Region and Global Client Solutions Director/Chief Client Solutions Director at MRM Worldwide, Inc. until April 2013 and also served as its Worldwide President of MRM since April 2013. He served as Regional Director of McCann Worldgroup Asia Pacific since November 15, 2009. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of McCann Worldgroup Japan from November 15, 2009 to September 2011. He served as the President of McCann EricKson US of McCann Worldgroup since May 2007. Prior to this, he served as Worldwide Director of Global Accounts. Along with his stewardship of key Worldgroup businesses, he has been responsible for the quality and vitality of client relationships across Worldgroup disciplines and has focused on improving and expanding cross-discipline integration. He served as Worldwide Account Director on Worldgroup’s global Microsoft account and Director of Client Services in McCann’s San Francisco agency and led the global expansion of McCann’s responsibilities for Microsoft. He began his advertising career in his native Australia and later worked in Asia and the U.S. with another Interpublic agency, Lowe (formerly, Lowe). Over the years, he has served on such packaged goods clients as Nestle, Unilever, Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson and continue to work with ExxonMobil and Johnson & Johnson, key McCann clients in Asia. He began his marketing career as a Brand Manager for packaged goods giant, Unilever. He served as the Chairman and Director of McCann Worldgroup Japan. He serves as a Director at McCann World Group Holdings Japan, Inc. Michael McLaren received Bachelor’s Degree in Business from the University of New South Wales and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.
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About Merkle: Merkle is a customer relationship management agency that designs, executes and evaluates integrated marketing programs.
Dave Morgan
CEO & Founder & Vice President, Sports Digital News of Simulmedia
Morgan is the CEO and founder of Simulmedia, a New York based marketing technology company that uses data, science and software to drive business outcomes for advertisers through traditional TV marketing. He previously founded and ran both TACODA, Inc., an online advertising company that pioneered behavioral online marketing and was acquired by AOL in 2007 for $275 million, and Real Media, Inc., one of the world’s first ad serving and online ad network companies and a predecessor to 24/7 Real Media (TFSM), which was later sold to WPP for $649 million. After the sale of TACODA, Dave served as Executive Vice President, Global Advertising Strategy, at AOL, a Time Warner Company (TWX).
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About Simulmedia, Sinclair Broadcast Group: Simulmedia is a TV ad platform that enables predictable, scalable customer growth.
Thomas Oxley
CEO & Founder of Synchron
Thomas Oxley is the CEO at Synchron
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About Defence Science and Technology, Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health, Mount Sinai Health System, Synchron, Synchron, University of Melbourne, VascuLab: Synchron is a bioelectronics medicine company that develops neuromodulation solutions for previously-untreatable nervous system conditions.
Corey Weiner
CEO of Jun Group
Corey is one of Jun Group’s founders. He serves as President and Chief Operating Officer, overseeing product development, publisher strategy, finance, business development, and operations. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Jun Group’s mobile platform subsidiary, HyprMX. Prior to founding Jun Group, Corey consulted for SONY USA and the United States government. Corey holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Jun Group: Jun Group runs advertising for brands and publishers. Our mobile-first approach is powered by opt-in, first-party data generated by our SDK.
Franke Rodriguez
Partner & CEO of Anomaly
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About Anomaly: Anomaly is an advertising agency.
Mike Seiman
CEO and Founder of CPXi
Mike Seiman is the CEO & Chairman of CPXi, a global digital media company that he co-founded while still a college student at Hofstra University in the early 2000′s. The company has grown quickly and is now a major player within the crowded online advertising landscape, serving billions of ad impressions in more than 65 countries every day. CPXi continues the rapid growth that led to its inclusion on Inc. Magazine’s list of fastest growing privately held advertising/marketing companies in 2008 and 2009. Mike was selected as a semi-finalist in Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year initiative in 2009, 2010, and 2013. In his free time, Mike currently serves on the Board of Advisors of his alma mater, Hofstra University. He also focuses on numerous philanthropic initiatives including sitting on the boards of the H.E.S. (Hebrew Educational Society non-profit community center) and Children’s International, where he spearheaded the development of a community center in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Also a fan of the arts, Mike has executive produced a feature length film distributed by Lionsgate.
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About CPXi, Digital Remedy: CPXI is a company that offers state of the art design in technology marketing resources to businesses of all kinds.
Ishveen Anand
Founder & CEO of OpenSponsorship
Ishveen Anand is the founder and CEO OpenSponsorship. The startup was born out of her experience as a successful sports agent in India and the UK. OpenSponsorship now has over 2000 athletes, teams and events being managed to brands globally looking for sports marketing opportunities. Ishveen was included in the Forbes 30under30 sports list in 2015 and OpenSponsorship was named a finalist in the 2015 Sports Technology Awards, category of best technology facilitating commercial returns. She graduated from Oxford University. She is of Indian-British origin, now living in New York where OpenSponsorship is based.
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About Nimbus Communications, OpenSponsorship: OpenSponsorship is online platform solely focused on allowing brands to Search, Connect and Sponsor opportunities within professional sports
Raunak Nirmal
CEO of Acquco
Raunak Nirmal is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Acquco. He is also the Founder of Refundlabs.
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About Acquco: Acquco is an e-commerce platform that focuses on acquiring and growing Amazon Marketplace businesses.
Adam Singolda
Founder & CEO of Taboola
Adam Singolda is the founder and CEO at Taboola, the largest discovery platform, serving over 450 billion recommendations of articles, blogs, videos, products and apps to over 1.4 billion unique users every month. Taboola serves personalized content recommendations, partnering with the world’s top publishers, brands, and marketers to drive audience development, engagement, and monetization. Taboola also empowers editorial, product, and sales teams with solutions built around real-time page optimization, robust native advertising offerings, and more. Adam has spoken on stage at TEDx, Collision, Kaltura Connect, Business Insider’s IGNITION, ClickZ LIVE, Advertising Week, 360i Marketing Summit, Web Summit, Landmark Ventures Media Technology Summit, Streaming Media, NAB, NewTeeVee, ELEVATE, Meetup, and MIT (Sloan). He has also appeared in broadcast TV interviews on Bloomberg West, CNBC, and Fox Business.
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About Taboola: Taboola is an AI-powered content discovery platform that connects people with content on the web that suits their interests.
Trevor Kaufman
CEO of Piano
Mr. Trevor Kaufman is CEO of Piano in 2015, based in New York. Prior to becoming CEO of Piano, he was CEO and President of Tinypass. Mr. Kaufman was the Founder of Schematic and served as its CEO. Mr. Kaufman served as Co-Chief Executive Officer of Kaufman-Patric of Enterprises (KPE), a successful New York-based Web design and consulting firm backed by Grey Advertising. He served as CEO of The Content Project. He served as Global CEO of Possible Worldwide, where he led global strategy and guided future efforts for the agency’s 1,200 person staff. He is a leading authority on the future of interactive television and a pioneer in Web site design and development, with over a decade of experience overseeing cutting-edge projects for the world’s leading companies, including Microsoft, Disney, Intel, Discovery, Electronic Arts, Sony, CBS, ABC, Accenture, Yahoo!, Panasonic, Comcast, CNN, PBS, Motorola, Fox, AOL, MTV, BMW, Target, Volkswagen, Pfizer and the NFL. He often serves as a consultant to other organizations seeking to ensure the success of their critical interactive projects, including having worked directly with Al Gore on the 1996 Clinton/Gore online campaign, and with AOL senior management on 2005’s global Live8 event. He has been recognized as one of The Hollywood Reporter’s “Next Generation,” featuring the 35 top Hollywood executives 35 and under, and one of Newsweek’s “Net 50: The Fifty People Who Matter Most on the Internet.”.
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About Piano: Piano helps organizations understand and influence customer behavior through one complete platform.
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.
Nick Brien
CEO, Americas & US of Dentsu Aegis Network
Nick Brien, the former chairman and CEO of McCann Worldgroup, is a strategic consultant, global board advisor and angel investor. With a track record over three decades leading some of the most successful advertising, media and marketing agencies, Brien has a passion for brand marketing and media communications solutions that deliver the greatest possible business impact to marketers. Before joining McCann Worldgroup, one of the world’s largest marketing communications companies, Brien created and led IPG Mediabrands. Previously, he served as the chief executive of Universal McCann. Earlier in his career, Brien held leadership posts at the Publicis Groupe’s Arc and Starcom firms, where he shaped those companies’ media, advertising and integrated marketing offerings. Prior to moving to the U.S. in 2001 and becoming a U.S. citizen in 2010, the British native went from media director to the CEO of Leo Burnett in the U.K. He began his media career in London with Grey Advertising. Brien graduated from the University of the Arts, London, and studied at Kings College in Wimbledon.
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About Dentsu Aegis Network: Dentsu Aegis Network is the first digitally native network that specializes in media, digital and creative communications services.
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.
Michael Heller
CEO and Founder of Talent Resources
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About Talent Resources, Talent Resources: Talent Resources is a social media marketing agency that specializes in connecting brands with top-tier celebrities and influencers.
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.
Michael Houston
CEO, Grey North America of Grey
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About Grey: Grey Group is a global advertising and marketing agency with headquarters in New York City
James Heekin
CEO of Grey
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About Grey: Grey Group is a global advertising and marketing agency with headquarters in New York City
Simon Berg
CEO of Ceros
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About Ceros: Ceros is a cloud-based interactive content creation platform for marketers and designers.
L.A. Reid
Chairman & CEO of Epic Records
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About Epic Records: Epic Records Group operates a recording studio that markets DVDs and videos in jazz and classical releases, as well as rock, pop.
Todd Saunders
CEO of Broadlume (formerly AdHawk)
Todd Saunders is the CEO at AdHawk, a digital advertising software that aggregates and optimizes digital ad data to take the complexity out of digital advertising. AdHawk is a graduate of Techstars Boulder in 2015. Before taking the startup plunge,Todd worked on the AdWords team at Google, where he helped high growth startups and small businesses with their digital advertising strategies. He is an expert at optimizing advertising accounts and improving ROI. Todd is also a contributor at Search Engine Land.
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About Broadlume (formerly AdHawk): Broadlume is the world’s largest provider of digital technology to the flooring industry.
Jared Augustine
CEO & Co-Founder of Thuzio
Jared is the CEO and Co-Founder of Thuzio, and the Founder of Julius.
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About Julius, Thuzio: Thuzio is a client entertainment platform for b-to-b sales organizations and professionals.
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.
Arjun Rai
Founder + CEO of Woofy, Inc.
ON A MISSION TO SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES WITH THE POWER OF VISUALIZED DATA SCIENCE FOR DIGITAL MARKETING AT HELLOWOOFY.COM AND WOOFY.AI. Arjun is a New York City based entrepreneur originally from West Windsor, New Jersey (aka Princeton Junction). Since high school, Arjun has been networking with some of the most well known entrepreneurs and even worked on a few projects and startups of his own. Upon graduation, Arjun pursued his career opportunities and came to New York City where he enrolled at the New York Institute of Technology in 2011 with scholarships and grants. Following a few weeks into college, Arjun launched his second startup, fuelbrite.com, a social media agency focused on small businesses and startups, and a student-focused organization, TheBizDen. After interning at a PR and ad agency in the summer of 2012, Arjun quickly saw the need for yet another startup within the tech space and raised a seed investment round to build it out. That startup became Wrkbench.io which was a virtual collaboration space designed for creative and visual people (we liked to say we make visual conversations). After spending a few years and learning the ins and outs of running a venture backed startup, Rai set out to modernize another industry related to his former passion of social media. The startup would be known as Woofy which is a social media management driven by artificial intelligence to help small to medium sized businesses with digital marketing. Arjun currently lives in New York City with his girlfriend, two cats and a dog. Arjun went to the NYIT School of Management (majoring in Small Business and Entrepreneurship). He also holds several notable awards and is a member of the Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society and Golden Key International Honour Society. Professionally, Arjun is also a member of The One Club, The Art Directors Club, The Advertising Club of NY, Social Media Marketing Society and the IVY Connect Club.
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About Woofy, Inc., wrkbench.io: Woofy is an online social media marketing platform.
Tom Florio
Founder / CEO of ENTtech
Tom Florio has spent his career in the entertainment and media industries becoming known as an innovative digital powerhouse. He began his foray into these two sectors initially with print media and thereafter evolving in cohesion with the realms digital media world. Some of the roles he has held include: President of The New Yorker (1994), Senior Vice President Publishing Director of Vogue Magazine (2002-2005) and Publishing Director of Vogue Magazine, Teen Vogue, Bon Appetite and Condé Taste Traveler (2009-2010). As the media world became increasingly digitized, Florio guided magazines like GQ, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair to an increase in both circulation and earnings. Indeed, under his direction at Condé Nast Florio was quickly catapulted into the fashion industry’s highest level. In 2014 he became CEO of Advanstar Fashion Group (a platform with 50+ trade magazines offering media and marketing solutions for the fashion, licensing, life sciences, and powersports sectors). While at the helm, the firm founded Shopthefloor.com which became the fashion world’s most substantive business network, with digital access to showrooms and offering top e-commerce functionality to producer. Florioalso led America’s largest apparel trade show (Magic) to acquiesce 7000 participating brands completing approximately $600 million dollars of business during the three-day conventions. In 2017 Florio founded ENTtech Media Group LLC where he is CEO. This entertainment-tech firm develops web- based written and video content, circulating it to large audiences via social architecture. PAPER media – its signature brand – is an invaluable avenue into wide ranging niches within the popular culture industry, such as: art, fashion, film, music and nightlife. PAPER media has thus become a solid structure with the capacity to support ENTtech’s broad media platform.
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About ENTtech: ENTtech is an entertainment technology ecosystem that delivers a shareable entertainment to a diversed group of audiences.
Seth Besmertnik
Founder & CEO of Conductor
Since founding Conductor, Seth Besmertnik has led the company through multiple financing rounds and extraordinary growth, including Conductor’s successful spin out from WeWork in 2019. Conductor has been nationally recognized as a best place to work for 7 years running, and Seth was named Marketing Technology CEO of the year in 2019. Today, a growing list of the world’s greatest brands, like Citibank, SAP, and CVS, partner with Conductor to humanize marketing and deliver greater value to their customers. Seth speaks at industry events and universities as an expert in customer-first marketing, people-first culture, and entrepreneurship. You can watch his most recent keynote here, follow him on Twitter, or get to know him better on Instagram. You can read his point of view on a variety of topics here, including this post on modern leadership.
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About Conductor: Conductor is a content intelligence platform that enables marketers to create great content, drive qualified traffic, and increase ROI.
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
Willard Ahdritz
Founder & CEO of Kobalt
Willard Ahdritz is the Founder and CEO of Kobalt, the world’s fastest growing independent music publishing and technology company. As a young Swedish tech entrepreneur in the late 90s, Willard watched the decline of the music industry with a vision for the critical role that technology could play in creating a more efficient, fair and transparent music industry. While most technology companies focused on digital music offerings for consumers, Willard believed that technology could also better serve content creators and copyright owners. Determined to find a solution, Willard founded Kobalt in 2000, focused on developing technology that provides artists, songwriters and copyright owners with the best service globally. Within a decade, Willard and his team grew Kobalt into the world’s largest independent music services company, with over 275 employees in offices around the world. Kobalt now represents over 600,000 songs, 8,000 artists and songwriters and 500 publishing companies worldwide, providing them with global licensing management, works and rights distribution, royalty collection and processing, online data and royalty statements, creative services, synch & brand partnerships, record release management and digital marketing.
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About Kobalt, Kobalt Capital Limited (KCL): Kobalt is a music services company that offers alternative to traditional music business models.
Laurent Hubert
Chief Executive Officer of Kobalt
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About Kobalt, Kobalt: Kobalt is a music services company that offers alternative to traditional music business models.
Simon Mansell
CEO of TBG Digital
Simon founded TBG in 2001 and has grown it into a global force known for delivering results and defying clients’ expectations.
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About TBG Digital: TBG Digital, a Facebook ad optimization platform, enable social network advertisers monitor and optimize global scale campaigns.
John W. Kelly
Co-founder & CEO of Graphika
John Kelly is the founder and CEO of Graphika, a social media intelligence firm founded on technology he invented that blends social network analysis, content analysis, and statistics to solve the problem of making complex online networks understandable. A quantitative social scientist by training, he has a Ph.D. in Communications from Columbia University, and has also studied at Stanford and at Oxford’s Internet Institute. He is also an Affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where he works with leading academics to design and implement empirical studies of the Internet’s role in business, culture, and politics around the world. An entrepreneur by choice, Kelly leads a team of business professionals and data scientists to bring new analytic technologies to market via the Graphika platform.
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About Graphika, Harvard University: Graphika identifies social communities and influencers within them, mapping spheres of influence on topics & content you care about most.
Barak Shragai
Co-Founder & CEO of IMGN Media
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About IMGN Media: IMGN is a tech-media company specialized in producing and programming social content for Gen Z audiences.
Desiree Gruber
CEO of Full Picture
Desiree Gruber has parlayed lifelong interests in fashion, culture, art, entertainment, and technology into a thriving media empire. With her agency, Full Picture, as a foundation, Gruber embodies the modern entrepreneurial spirit. Gruber has been instrumental in building some of the world’s most prestigious brands and properties, ranging from 15 years with Victoria’s Secret to the launch of three hotels with Ian Schrager, as well as guiding the careers of high-profile personalities including Heidi Klum and creating the hit television show Project Runway. Gruber’s career first took shape at Rogers & Cowan, a national public relations agency, where she rose to Vice President of Entertainment and managed various publicity and marketing accounts within the entertainment, music, fashion, and beauty industries while spearheading the overall growth of the firm’s New York office. It was during her tenure there that she helped to conceptualize and develop the landmark Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, an annual project in which she remains an integral partner. Establishing her own agency, Full Picture, in 1999, Gruber set out to synergize the traditionally separate fields of public relations, management, and production. Under her guidance, Full Picture has become a creative force and evolved into a full-fledged multimedia company at the crossroads of the fashion and lifestyle industries. Its many successes include Lifetime’s Project Runway and the trendsetting HSN shopping shows Curations with Stefani Greenfield. Gruber also works with online portals such as MSN and top-line brands including Kraft, Special K and Tylenol to create award-winning branded entertainment. Gruber’s expertise in marketing and branding campaigns, for which she has received over twenty awards, has positioned her among the most respected figures within the media industry. Her experience in forecasting and developing trends has also helped her create an innovative approach to producing original film, television and Internet programming. She was selected as one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs of 2010, and has received a Peabody Award and eight Emmy nominations for executive producing Project Runway. Ms. Gruber has been awarded an official Mayor’s Proclamation by the City of New York for her professional and civic accomplishments. She serves on the Boards of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF in New York and God’s Love We Deliver, an organization that delivers nutritious, freshly prepared meals to people living with HIV/AIDS or other serious illnesses. She has been profiled in such publications as O: The Oprah Magazine, Variety, New York magazine, Gotham and PR Week.
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About Full Picture, Modelinia: An award-winning, bi-coastal agency with a team of highly creative individuals who live and work at the crossroad of fashion
Bill Shope
Co-founder and CEO of Abound
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About Abound: Abound is a marketplace that helps entrepreneurs gain the insights and connections needed to place their products on retail shelves.
Michael Katz
Co-Founder and CEO of mParticle
Michael Katz is Founder of mParticle, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Director. Michael Katz is responsible for creating and overseeing the execution of mParticle’s vision of becoming the premier mobile data solution. Michael Katz served as Vice President of Optimization & Analytics at Yahoo where he came via the acquisition of interclick, the company he founded. As former CEO & co-founder of interclick, Michael led the business as it grew organically to $140M in revenue, while expanding gross margin % and EBITDA before its sale to Yahoo for $270 million in 2011. He was also responsible for building and maintaining analyst, auditor, and investor relationships. Prior, he was an Analyst at Accenture and ZEFER.
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About mParticle: MParticle is a customer data platform for multi channel consumer brands.
Yasin Abbak
CEO / Founder of The Convoy
Yasin Abbak is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Convoy, a B2B group buying marketplace that helps small and independent businesses access big savings and cut their business expenses. Past: CEO / Founder @FantasyLifeApp (exit), VP @JPMorgan, EFS Director @MorganStanley
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About The Convoy: The Convoy is a B2B Marketplace pooling the buying power of small & independently owned businesses to reduce business expenses.
Will Cohen
Founder and CEO of Top
An industry recognized, innovative business executive with extensive experience in digital, monetization, shopper marketing, retail advertising, product development; including a heavy focus on mobile and social media.
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About HuffPost, Top: Top is a multi-channel engagement platform for brands, giving them the chance to collect privacy-compliant data without the use of cookies.
Divya Narendra
CEO & Founder of SumZero
Divya Narendra is the CEO & Co – Founder of SumZero. Before founding SumZero, Divya was an Associate at Sowood Capital Management, a $3.5B multi-strategy hedge fund located in Boston, MA. At Sowood, Divya analyzed investment opportunities across the capital structure. Prior to this, he was an analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Credit Suisse Securities in NYC. Divya graduated from Harvard College in 2004 with a Degree in Applied Mathematics. He received a J.D. / MBA from Northwestern.
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About SumZero: SumZero is an investment website helping top tier investors share actionable ideas and grow their professional networks.
Jeremy Parker
Co-Founder & CEO of Swag.com
Jeremy Parker is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Swag.com.
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About Swag.com: Swag.com helps companies create quality promotional products that people will actually want to keep.
Zack Werner
Co Founder & CEO of Pollen
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About Pollen: Pollen helps small online retailers acquire new users more cheaply and easily than Google or Facebook.
Bruce Buchanan
Chief Executive Officer of ROKT
Bruce Buchanan is the co-founder, CEO and Chairperson of Rokt.
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About ROKT: Rokt is an ecommerce marketing technology that gives customers a personalized and relevant experience while buying online.
Jack Sullivan
CEO of Broadway Video
Jack Sullivan has served as Chief Executive Officer of Broadway Video Entertainment since 2002. Jack joined Broadway Video in 1994. Jack oversees all of Broadway Video’s operations, including the New York based enterprises, production, editorial and ventures divisions and the Los Angeles based primetime television division. Jack began his career as a finance executive for USA Network in New York. He received his juris doctorate degree from Pepperdine University School of Law and his undergraduate degree in business administration from Tulane University.
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About Broadway Video: Broadway Video has grown into an independent studio that produces and distributes original comedic content for every platform.
Kobi Wu
CEO & Founder of VisuWall
Kobi Wu Pasmore is the Founder and CEO of VisuWall Technologies.
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About VisuWall: Eye level media and metrics that matter in just a few clicks.
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.
Richard Awdeh
CEO of CheckedUp
Richard Awdeh, MD, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of CheckedUp, is a dedicated medical technology entrepreneur & highly regarded surgical ophthalmologist who founded CheckedUp in 2012 to create a pathway of revolutionizing the way doctors care for their patients, and empowering patients’ decisions through point of care education. In addition to his work at CheckedUp, Dr Awdeh continues his surgical practice at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, as a Cornea-Refractive Surgeon and Professor. He also has served as Chairman of the FDA Dermatologic and Ophthalmic Drugs Advisory Committee. In 2010, he founded a medical technology incubator, Cirle, that develops state of the art medical devices for use in ophthalmic surgeries. The company maintains a robust research and development pipeline, and developed a 3-dimensional surgical navigation system for eye surgery, which has recently been registered with the U.S. FDA. Previous to CheckedUp, Dr Awdeh attended Emory University where he obtained his BBA in Finance and Computer Science. After completing business school, he went on to Yale University School of Medicine to obtain his M.D. He practiced medicine at Duke University as an Ophthalmologist before moving to Miami, FL to begin his practice at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, the country’s #1 Eye Hospital by US News & World Report for 15 years. Dr. Awdeh serves on the Yale University CBIT Board of Directors and lectures at the Yale University School of Management on Healthcare Innovation and New Venture Creation. He is widely published and lectures around the world on ophthalmic disease and interventions. In his personal time, Dr Awdeh enjoys traveling, visiting his twin nephews, and supporting non-profit benefits such as St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, Seed Global Health, and Amigos For Kids.
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About CheckedUp, Miami Marlins, University of Miami, University of Miami Health System: CheckedUp is a Health-decision technology and patient education platform.
Michael Dill
CEO of Match Marketing Group
Michael Dill is a President at Match Marketing Group.
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About Match Marketing Group: Match Marketing Group is an integrated shopper marketing and retail solutions provider.
Philippe Krakowsky
Chief Executive Officer of IPG
Philippe Krakowsky is Founder & Chief Executive Officer for Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), a leading global provider of marketing services. During recent years, Philippe has played a key role in major strategic actions at the company, including the creation of Mediabrands; oversight of developing digital and emerging media capabilities; establishing a new leadership team at McCann Worldgroup; the merger of Draft and FCB; and encouraging cross-agency, collaborative client teams. His group also manages communications for IPG as well as the company’s award-winning diversity and inclusion activities. Krakowsky has extensive experience devising strategies and building brands, particularly in the professional services arena. Prior to joining IPG, he played a leading role in articulating and differentiating the Young & Rubicam brand to a broad range of audiences – employees, clients, prospects, the financial community and the media – in the period leading up to and following Y&R’s transformation from a private to a public company. Previously, he led the positioning and all communications efforts for BBDO when that agency carved out the niche it still enjoys as advertising’s premier global creative network. Philippe started his career as an entrepreneur in the technology industry, building and ultimately selling an artificial intelligence software development company. He moved into advertising at the heralded New York creative boutique Levine, Huntley, Schmidt and Beaver, where he worked to market both the agency and its clients’ businesses. In 1999, he was inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s “Hall of Achievement,” the premier United States industry honor for marketing services professionals under age 40.
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About Interpublic Group, IPG, IPG Mediabrands: IPG is an advertising and marketing services company delivering custom marketing and advertising solutions.
Reuven Moskowitz
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Litify
Reuven Moskowitz is the Founder of Litify.
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About Litify: Litify provides technology solutions for law firms by providing a trusted intelligent platform for practice management.
Yali Saar
Co-Founder & CEO of Tailor Brands
Yali Saar is the Co-Founder & CEO of Tailor Brands.
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About Tailor Brands: Tailor Brands is a branding platform that enables users to freely design and create their product logos.
Michael Kassan
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of MediaLink
Michael E. Kassan helps bridge the gaps between media, marketers, and technologists. Kassan founded MediaLink in 2003 to be a transformational partner to the world’s leading media, marketing, and technology companies. Bringing these groups together while balancing strategic insight with pragmatic execution, MediaLink guides its clients through an increasingly fragmented media landscape. As Chairman and CEO, Kassan has led the firm’s expansion from strategic advisory into multiple business lines including executive search, financial due diligence, agency benchmarking/reviews, and trade marketing. With a culture focused on both confidentiality and transparency, MediaLink now sits at the epicenter of major cross-industry initiatives and legislation helping to build consensus between government, marketers, and publishers. Kassan maintains a deep commitment to advising the media industry’s leadership. He acts as Special Advisor to numerous CEO’s helping them “break through the noise” in today’s marketplace and advising on issues ranging from corporate strategy and partnerships to M&A. Drawing on a combination of experience, relationships, and insights, Kassan writes extensively as a noted blogger and serves frequently as a moderator and keynote speaker at global industry conferences. He has built instrumental partnerships with the Consumer Electronics Show and the Cannes Lions. He also produces and hosts a radio show on WOR 710 AM and Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio, “Medialinked — Inside Advertising and Media with Michael Kassan.” Prior to MediaLink, Kassan led Initiative Media Worldwide as COO and Vice-Chairman from 1994 to 2001. Kassan helped grow the company’s initial $1.5 billion in billings nearly ten-fold. Prior to Initiative, he was President and COO of International Video Entertainment (Artisan Entertainment). In his first career, Kassan spent ten years as a tax lawyer specializing in the entertainment industry. Kassan currently serves as Chair of the UJA-New York Marketing Communications Committee as well as on the Boards of the American Advertising Federation, the Ad Council, and the Hollywood Radio and Television Society. He served as Chairman of the California State Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry.
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About MediaLink: MediaLink is a strategic advisory firm that provides strategic advisory and implementation services to companies at all stages.
Polina Veksler
Co-Founder and CEO of Universal Standard
Polina Veksler is the Co-Founder and CEO of Universal Standard, a brand she started with her business partner to help disrupt the apparel industry by taking size out of the equation and laying the groundwork for the future of fashion to include women of all sizes. Polina creates and steers the company strategy and oversees everything from operations, communicating the brand’s vision to key stakeholders, raising investment capital, and expanding the brand’s rapid growth trajectory. Polina founded the company with friend, Co-Founder and Creative Director, Alexandra Waldman. Polina’s experience encompases multiple roles as a senior executive at major financial and technology firms including Senior Strategy Manager at Microsoft, Private Equity Investment Director at an international emerging-markets investment firm, and Vice President of Investment Banking at Russia’s largest holding company.
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About Universal Standard: Universal Standard is a operator of an online platform to break the fashion stereotypes and provide women’s clothing.
Vernon K Jones Sr.
Chief Executive Officer of JIG Media
Owned various businesses for the past 26 years. Oversees every aspect of the company. Oversees the following brands – NYC Sports Network, Brooklyn Buzz. NYC Democrats, NYC Teachers
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About JIG Media: JIG Media is a Digital Media Marketing Agency.
Roopesh Nair
CEO of Symphony Talent
Roopesh Nair is a President & CEO at Symphony Talent
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About Hodes, SmashFly Technologies, Symphony Talent: Symphony Talent is a global leader in employer brand and candidate experience solutions for some of the world’s leading brands.
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.
Rick Greenberg
CEO of Kepler Group
CEO of Kepler Group, an independent tech- and analytics-driven digital agency delivering cross-channel impact for leading advertisers worldwide. 20 year marketing and business veteran across brand management (Procter & Gamble, Unilever), management/marketing consulting (Rosetta, First Manhattan Consulting Group), marketing technology (MediaMath), and marketing services (Align Response, Cordiant, Madison Direct Marketing).
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About Kepler Group: Kepler provides global digital & database services to Fortune 500 clients.
Ashley Granata
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member of The Archivist
Ashley Granata is the CoFounder and Chief Marketing Officer of Fashism.com, the place to crowd source instant fashion advice from a mobile device. Ashley heads up all Business Development and Retail Partnerships at Fashism. She has studied at Chelsea College of Art in London and holds a BFA from FIT in New York. She started her career at Bloomingdales.com, launched the Style.com iPhone application, designs a line of accessories (Ashley Jeanne) and is currently the CMO of Fashism.com.
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About The Archivist: The Archivist provides an e-commerce platform intended to sell, rent or buy pre-owned, archive, and vintage fashion and jewelry.
Robert Herrick
CEO & Founder of VISUALHOUSE
Robert Herrick, started his career as an Architect, working for a highly regarded practice in London. From there Robert focused his career to Architectural Visualisation, working for an established architectural illustration studio. In 2006 Robert started his first business, Visualhouse. Then an architectural visualisation studio, working closely with renowned practices in London, New York and the Middle East. Robert grew the business and in 2008 securing a series of major international project contracts including the largest development in US history, Hudson Yards, New York. In 2011 Robert moved to New York establishing the firm’s first US office and continued to grow the business acting as Managing Director. Over the following 4 years Robert and the VH team grew the business into a full “Creative Ideas” agency with 5 international offices operating in London, New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Hong Kong. Visualhouse had established commercial film, rendering, creative and branding divisions, with creatives producing 360 degree campaigns for the luxury property sector. Over the past 7 years Robert has built renowned visual brand stories for landmark buildings and iconic designers such as Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Kohn Pedersen Fox, Daniel Libeskind, Rafael Vinoly, Thomas Heatherwick and many more. In 2013 Robert established the Thompson House Group along with a small group of tastemakers and collaborators in New York. With the core focus of delivering exceptional private member experiences across a growing group of international House’s, Workspaces, Restaurants and Hotels. Today Robert holds the position of CEO & Founder of Visualhouse internationally and the Thompson House Group.
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About : Visualhouse is a creative agency focused on creating compelling brand stories for architecture, design, and the built environment.
Josh Reznick
Founder & CEO of Datalot
Josh Reznick has been a communications software developer since childhood and has been helping shape how businesses connect with customers for the past two decades. In 2009, Josh founded Datalot with the goal of creating a unified platform merging digital advertising with phone-based sales processes. Josh is a lifelong resident of Brooklyn, NY
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About Datalot: Datalot delivers digital marketing and analytics solutions for insurance policy sales at scale.
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.
Jojo Hedaya
CEO/Founder of Unroll Me
Jojo Hedaya is the co-founder and CEO of Unroll.Me. His passion for simplicity drives Unroll.Me’s mission to streamline the email unsubscribe process and help users gain control over their inbox. Under his leadership as the head of development, Unroll.Me has gained millions of users in the past five years.
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About Unroll Me: Unroll.Me is an email subscription management service helping users manage their junk email and subscriptions.
Jason Bitensky
CEO & Founder of YW3
Jason Bitensky is the CEO and Founder of YW3.
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About Influential, Jubilee Media, Little Dot Studios, LIVEKINDLY, Upworthy, YW3: YW3 is a marketing firm and revenue accelerator for media and entertainment brands.
Joe Zawadzki
Co-Founder & CEO of MediaMath
MediaMath CEO Joe Zawadzki is a respected pioneer in the online marketing industry, known especially for establishing the demand-side platform sector. With his deep experience in audience targeting and optimization, ad networks and exchanges, and real-time bidding Joe is regularly invited to speak at industry conferences, roundtables and major events. After a decade representing buyers at top-tier agencies and Fortune 500 companies, Joe Zawadzki saw the need to reshape the online marketing landscape by integrating technology, data, analytics, and marketing best practices into a single media platform. He founded MediaMath in 2007, launching a technological revolution with the first demand side platform (DSP) and today, the MediaMath Marketing Operating System, TerminalOne, powers the marketing practice of more than 3,500 brands. Previously, Joe was founder, president and chairman of Poindexter Systems / [x+1], incubated Right Media, and as managing member of Occam’s Razor, shaped AOL’s yield management and DoubleClick’s buy-side optimization strategy. His early career was spent as an investment banker, where he developed his expertise in quantitative analysis and market dynamics, and he remains an active New York technology investor whose portfolio includes AppNexus, AdSafe, 33Across, C3Metrics, Hashable, Accordant and Spruce Media. Joe holds several patents in the area of online methods for dynamic segmentation and content presentation. He is a graduate of Harvard University and was a Teaching Fellow in cosmology, set theory and the history of science. He lives in New York City with his wife, Daria, and their children Dune and Jack, born on the summer and winter solstices respectively.
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About MediaMath: MediaMath develops and delivers digital advertising media and data management technology solutions to advertisers worldwide.
Ryo Kikuchi
Chief Executive Officer of ZeBrand Inc.
Ryo Kikuchi, Founder of ZeBrand A visionary by nature, Ryo Kikuchi embarked on his entrepreneurial journey at Morisawa, the leading typeface foundry in Japan, where he acted as Chief Innovation Director and developed expertise in new business development, customer acquisitions, and intrapreneurship. His drive and passion led him to form MORISAWA BRAND NEW LAB in 2017, an internal team dedicated to exploring new and emerging ideas that inform and challenge the current state of the font industry. His most current brainchild is ZeBrand, a web-based branding tool and the first of its kind. As its director and founder, Ryo has led his team from product conception to development, eventually launching and revealing the new product at SXSW in 2019. Ryo holds an MBA from NUCB Business School in addition to spending time at the Rhode Island School of Design as a research fellow with John Maeda in the US and the EDHEC Business School in France. He has recently been featured in various media outlets including Forbes, A/D/O by MINI, Entrepreneur, Killerstartup, WORK MILL with Forbes Japan and NHK (the sole public broadcaster in Japan). He has got chosen as the Enterprise and smart data alternates for SXSW PITCH 2020.
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About ZeBrand Inc.: ZeBrand is a brand-building platform built to help emerging businesses brand their way to growth.
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.
Jason Davis
Co-Founder, CEO of Simon Data
Jason Davis is co-founder & CEO at Simon Data.
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About CmomGO, Simon Data, Simon Data: Simon is the enterprise customer data platform that empowers brands to deliver data-driven, personalized customer experiences everywhere.
Brandon Kaplan
CEO of Skilled Creative
Brandon Kaplan is the Founder of SKILLED, an emerging technology creative agency, headquartered in NYC. SKILLED develops best in class conversational experiences for Fortune 500 brands, and has developed the proprietary SKILLSET platform, allowing partners to adjust voice content with agility and without coding.
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About Skilled Creative: Skilled Creatives are group that leveraging tech to help brands speak to humans.
Matteo Petrelli
Co-Founder & CEO of Exeest
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About Exeest, Vicker: Exeest is a B2B digital market for premium Film, TV, and digital content that provides an integrated experience from discovery to delivery.
Andrew Jarecki
CEO of KnowMe
Andrew Jarecki is an Academy-award nominated filmmaker, musician and entrepreneur. Jarecki graduated from Princeton University in 1985, where he also served as the theatrical director. Currently, Jarecki resides in New York City with wife, Nancy, creator of Betty Beauty, Inc., which sells pubic hair dye. He co-founded Moviefone, a service that provides film schedules over the phone and Internet. Launched in 1989, Jarecki’s company was sold to AOL 1999. Andrew Jarecki is best known for his work in the controversial documentary, “Capturing the Friedmans.” The film focused on the investigation of Arnold and Jesse Friedman who faced accusations of child molestation. The film won eighteen international prizes including a nomination for an Academy Award, amidst scrutiny from the child sex abuse victims who claimed it was not factual. Today, Jarecki continues to advocate for Jesse Friedman, who was convicted of child molestation, and having his conviction overturned.
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About KnowMe: The easiest way to make a video using all the media on your phone.
Robert Henderson
CEO of JumpCrew
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About Intelegencia, JumpCrew: JumpCrew is an acquisition marketing platform focused on integrating digital technology and sales solutions.
Bhargav Patel
Co-Founder/CEO of IQM Corporation
Bhargav Patel is a strategic and technical visionary who leads the product roadmap and marketplace vision for IQM. His primary focus is on mobile infrastructure, advertising trends, and consumer needs. Patel has been building advertising and publishing platforms since 2010, and he’s been involved with multiple startups, one of which earned him first place in the “1176 Challenge Cup” among 64,000 start-up companies sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Toledo University in Ohio.
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About Genuin Inc, IQM Corporation: Leveraging AI and Big Data to Nudge Swing Voters toward active decisions on election.
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.
Yaniv Makover
Co-founder & CEO of Anyword
Yaniv Makover is the Co-founder and CEO at Keywee
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About Anyword: Anyword offers publishers and marketers an approach to content distribution and performance measurement.
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.
Mike Albanese
CEO of GALORE Media
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About GALORE Media: A talent driven media company celebrating beauty, femininity, and sex appeal in a fun, unconventional form for generation Y and Z.
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.
Meghan Asha
Founder & CEO of FounderMade
Meghan Asha is the CEO of FounderMade, a platform and conference series that connects best-in-class consumer brands to retailers, distributors and investors. Under her leadership, FounderMade has partnered with innovative brands including Estee Lauder, RXBar, BulletProof Coffee, Vital Proteins, Target and Starbucks. Inspired by her entrepreneur father, Meghan has always had a passion for building and empowering companies. Over her career, she’s experienced entrepreneurship from every angle: She’s worked as an analyst for a venture capital firm, interviewed leaders of technology companies for a weekly internet talk show, and built her own digital media platform. With the firm belief that entrepreneurs need support and connection, she began bringing together business contacts from those earlier jobs as part of an intimate dinner series — which eventually evolved into FounderMade. When she’s not helping consumer brands thrive, you can often catch Meghan on national TV shows like CNN, The Today Show, Fox Business News and QVC. She has also been profiled and quoted as an expert and entrepreneur in business publications like the New York Times, Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine. Meghan currently serves as an advisor and investor in several consumer product and technology startups and is a partner at FounderMade Fund. She received her BS from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Columbia Business School. FounderMade + Meghan Asha has been granted numerous awards and accolades, including: Alive Magazine’s Most Powerful Women in Wellness Featured Entrepreneur in Gary Vaynerchuk + PureWow’s Captain Crush It Campaign Tory Burch’s #EmbraceAmbition Entrepreneur Inc. Magazine “The Death of the Tradeshow” WWD “Beauty Companies Mingle with Potential Investors at Foundermade Event” ELLE “How This Fitness Studio Led by Ex-Cons Ended Up in Saks” AlleyWatch “The Founder Stories You Need to Know From FounderMade” Speaking Experience Keynote Speaker: Impact Travel Alliance SXSW The Marquee Exponent Exchange
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About FounderMade: FounderMade is a consumer discovery platform and event summit series dedicated to helping current and future founders build their business.
James Slezak
CEO and Co-Founder of Swayable
James Slezak is Co-Founder and CEO of [Swayable](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/swayable). He was previously Vice President and Chief of Operations of NYT Global at [The New York Times](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/newyorktimes), a company that creates, collects, and distributes news, information, and entertainment through a daily newspaper and a website. Prior to those positions, he co-founded New Economy Lab and Peers.org. Slezak was also a project lead at McKinsey & Company as well as a partner of Purpose.com. He holds a bachelor’s degree in science from the University of Sydney and a PhD in Experimental Physics from Cornell University.
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About Swayable, Tunism: Swayable is a data platform that predicts changes in consumer opinion and intentions
Andreea Vasilescu Gleeson
Chief Executive Officer of TuneCore
Andreea Gleeson is TuneCore’s CEO. She joined the company in 2015, as a member of the senior leadership team and has made significant contributions to the growth of TuneCore, first as Chief Marketing Officer and most recently as Chief Revenue Officer. She’s helped build TuneCore into one of the most dynamic and innovative companies in the independent music space. Under her guidance, TuneCore has pushed the envelope and innovated, bridging together great product and technology with branding and marketing to create a Best-In-Class service for independent artists, both for today and tomorrow. She has led the launch of leading-edge product and technology solutions, inventive marketing campaigns, aggressive international expansion, groundbreaking artist education, Best-in-Class artist support, as well as forged new store and streaming partnerships while achieving premier status and participating in exclusive innovative beta tests with current stores. TuneCore has become the leading independent DIY digital music distributor because Andreea has prioritized putting artists first by giving them MORE – more services, more support, more money and more global reach. Andreea created key strategic partnerships with YouTube (YouTube Shorts), Facebook (Independent Artist Program) and Spotify (Discovery Mode). In early 2021, Andreea created and launched TuneCore Rewards and TuneCore Certified, two unique artist education and recognition programs which aim to level the playing field for independent artists. Andreea also rose as a fierce advocate for female-identifying creators, commissioning the MIDiA Research study BE THE CHANGE: Women Making Music 2021 to identify why independent female creators remain underrepresented in the music industry, raise awareness on their challenges and begin to incite change through strategic alliances with partners across all areas of the music industry. She came to TuneCore after years as an eCommerce pioneer in the retail industry, having been at the forefront of retail’s digital transformation. She drove the digital strategy growing Hudson Bay and Lord & Taylor’s eCommerce business from the ground up, consistently delivering double to triple-digit comps in both banners, eventually surpassing the sales volumes of the retail giants’ flagship stores. To the music industry, she brings a unique perspective as well as the digital and marketing expertise necessary to modernize the company. Her perspective, originally as an outsider, has helped her build the company, unencumbered by the traditional industry norms and standards.
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About TuneCore: TuneCore is the global platform for independent artists to distribute their music 150+ stores and streaming platforms worldwide
Kevin Fortuna
Founder, CEO of GeistM
Kevin Fortuna is the former Co- Founder of LOT18.
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About AKF Partners, GeistM: GeistM is the #1 Content MarTech platform powering performance marketing for a portfolio of Fortune 100 brands and hyper-growth startups.
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.
Mary Keane-Dawson
Group CEO of Takumi
Mary is a digital maven, entrepreneur and business mentor. In 2013, after c-suite roles at WPP, Steak, Reform and Collective, she co-founded medical technology startup MyHealthPal as well as the women’s networking franchise How She Made It. Both enterprises started in London, but have expanded to the US and Canada. Mary started in advertising sales on Fleet Street in the late 80’s and she has been part of the digital revolution ever since. She has helped guide several of the world’s largest brands’ entry to the disruptive and evolving landscape of digital, including Mazda, Ford, American Airlines, John Lewis, BUPA and British Gas. She is chair of The Guardian Changing Advertising Summit, a speaker, writer and business mentor and coach. She is Global Ambassador for the British Interactive Media Association, on the Board of London Tech Advocates and NED to The Smalls as well as advisor to investors and entrepreneurs.
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About Takumi: Takumi is a platform that gives large brands and advertising agencies access to branded influencer creative at scale.
