Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Manager operating in the Social Media space. If you think a Manager 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.
Amina Zamani
Enterprise Sales Manager of LinkedIn
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Sara Chipps
Engineering Manager, Flagship Infrastructure of LinkedIn
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About Girl Develop It, Jewelbots, LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Christian Taylor
Principal Product Manager of LinkedIn
PM at LinkedIn. Former Co-Founder at Chatcast and Payvment (acquired by Intuit). Featured guest and on-air Tech analyst for various television news networks including FOX Business News, Bloomberg TV and NBC. Guest speaker at numerous tech conferences on the subjects of Ad Tech, APIs, User Acquisition, Internet Privacy, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship. Featured in books including Social Media Marketing for Dummies, The Social Customer, and The Social Commerce Handbook.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Howie Fung
Product Manager of LinkedIn
Howie Fung is the Product Manager at LinkedIn.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Sudeep Eldo Cherian
Group Manager, Global Product Marketing – LinkedIn Marketing Solutions of LinkedIn
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Steven Chow
Engineering Manager of LinkedIn
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Deanne Tockey
Senior Insights Program Manager of LinkedIn
Deanne Tockey is a senior insights program manager at LinkedIn.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Seonah Iverson
Product Marketing Manager of LinkedIn
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Ashley Howell
Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing Program Manager & Global Process Lead of LinkedIn
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Emma Yu
Group Manager, Consumer Growth PMM of LinkedIn
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Boris Zamoruev
Manager Software Engineer of LinkedIn
Boris Zamoruev is the Manager Software Engineer at LinkedIn.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Swati Patel
Senior Product Marketing Manager of LinkedIn
Swati Patel is a senior product marketing manager at LinkedIn.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
maxime lamure
Senior Engineering Manager of LinkedIn
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Jeff Becker
Sales Manager of LinkedIn
Jeff Becker is a sales manager at [LinkedIn](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/linkedin#/entity), a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search for jobs, and find potential clients. He is also a co-founder of Earhoox. Previously, Becker has held various managerial positions at LinkedIn. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in economics and business policy from Emory University.
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About Earhoox, Forum Ventures, LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Mindaou Gu
Group Manager & Product Management of LinkedIn
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Meredith Mann
Manager of Talent Insights Consultants of LinkedIn
Meredith Mann is the manager of talent insights consultants at LinkedIn.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Ritesh Maheshwari
Senior Engineering Manager of LinkedIn
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Huangming Xie
Sr. Manager, Data Science of LinkedIn
Huangming Xie is a senior manager of data science at LinkedIn.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Jonathan Pohl
Senior Product Manager of LinkedIn
Jonathan Pohl is a senior product manager at LinkedIn.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Gary Colman
Senior Manager, Grid SRE of LinkedIn
Gary Colman is the Senior Manager for Grid SRE at [LinkedIn](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/linkedin#/entity), a professional networking site. Prior to that, he was a site reliability engineering manager at [Mixpanel](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mixpanel). Gary served as a manager for production engineering at [Facebook](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook#/entity) for over 3 years. Before that, he was a site reliability manager at [Google](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/google#/entity). He has also been employed as a consultant at [Glencore International](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/glencore-international#/entity) and [Morgan Stanley Dean Witter](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/morgan-stanley-dean-witter#/entity), and as a senior systems administrator at [UUNET Technologies](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uunet-technologies#/entity).
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Jack Moore
Sr. Product Manager, LinkedIn Sales Solutions of LinkedIn
Jack Moore is a Senior Product Manager at LinkedIn focused on their Sales Solutions products. In this capacity, he drives the strategy for both the CRM and Marketing integrations, ensuring that customers are able to seamlessly leverage each system’s key insights and efficiently work across those tools. Prior to working on Sales Solutions, he worked on the Marketing Solutions business, owning their Talent Media business, LinkedIn’s unique personalized Dynamic Ads, Texts Ads, and Programmatic Ad buying. Before LinkedIn, Jack spent 11 years working at various startups, including his own Media Production Company, which he started while in High School. Jack holds B.S. in Operations and Information Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Outside of work, he focus his time on exploring new places through photography and local cuisine!
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Simon St.Laurent
Content Manager of LinkedIn
Simon St.Laurent has spent most of his career explaining technology. He is co-chair of the Fluent and OSCON conferences, a Senior Editor at O’Reilly, and a web developer. He has written over a dozen books, including Introducing Elixir, Introducing Erlang, Learning Rails, XML Elements of Style, and XML: A Primer. He spends his spare time making objects out of wood and presenting on local history.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Maria Hardeman
Sr. Customer Success Manager of Large Enterprise of LinkedIn
Maria Hardeman is a Sr. Customer Success Manager of Large Enterprise at LinkedIn.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Peter Turner
Senior Manager – Business Development, LinkedIn Marketing Solutions of LinkedIn
Head of Partnerships for LinkedIn Audience Network.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Anil Mallapur
Manager & Site Reliability Engineering of LinkedIn
Anil Mallapur is the Manager & Site Reliability Engineering at LinkedIn.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Neha Mandhani
Senior Product Marketing Manager of LinkedIn
Neha Mandhani is a senior product marketing manager at LinkedIn.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Daniel Templeton
Senior Software Engineering Manager of Twitter
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About The Apache Software Foundation, The Apache Software Foundation, Twitter: Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
Jennifer Kanyamibwa
Staff Design Program Manager, Misinformation & Privacy and Identity of Twitter
Jennifer Kanyamibwa is a Program Manager, Communication Design at Slack where she leads the strategy and execution of Slack’s internal and external global creative projects.
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About International Crisis Group, Twitter: Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
Sherali Tukra
Engineering Manager – Interests Experience & Relevance of Twitter
Software engineering leader passionate about building highly scalable systems serving millions of users. 10+ years of experience building and leading teams to solve user problems, while working on the full spectrum of software design & development, devops & engineering management. I particularly enjoy leading cross-functional projects, especially those in a not-well understood space.
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About Twitter: Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
Julian Tempelsman
Senior Engineering Manager of Twitter
Julian Tempelsman is the Senior Engineering Manager at Twitter.
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About Twitter: Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
Sharon Ly
Senior Manager of Twitter
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About Twitter: Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
Austin Evers
Global Product Marketing Manager II of Twitter
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About Twitter: Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
Aruna Balakrishnan
Senior Research Manager – Health, Privacy & Identity of Twitter
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About Twitter: Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
Andrea Pasqua
Machine Learning Engineering Manager of Twitter
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About Twitter: Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
Adam Tornes
Staff Product Manager of Twitter
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About Colorado Product, Twitter: Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
Bill Couch
Engineering Manager of Twitter
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About Twitter: Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
Liz Goodno
Senior Manager of Product Communications of Snap
Liz is an international public relations executive with an emphasis on high-growth startups and global expansion.
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About Snap: Snap operates as a privately-owned multinational camera company focusing on multinational technology and social media.
Winston Howes
Security Technical Lead & Manager of Snap
Winston Howes is Technical Lead for Application Security at Snap Inc. An expert in web security, he has led the vision for Snap’s web security efforts. Outside of Snap he has interests in voting security and is an accomplished magician.
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About Snap: Snap operates as a privately-owned multinational camera company focusing on multinational technology and social media.
Cody Powell
Senior Engineering Manager of Snap
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About Snap: Snap operates as a privately-owned multinational camera company focusing on multinational technology and social media.
David Cole
Product Design Manager of Quora
David has led design for a number of startups including Memberly, EtherPad, and Disqus. Prior to joining Quora, he ran a boutique studio focused on experimental online publishing. In his spare time, he designs games of all types and eats sandwiches.
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About IPV, Quora: Quora is a Q&A platform with a mission to share and grow the world’s knowledge.
Aerica Shimizu Banks
Public Policy and Social Impact Manager of Pinterest
Aerica Banks is on the patent strategy team in Google’s DC office. In this capacity she monitors the legislative and legal patent landscape and integrates diversity initiatives into Google’s patent strategy. She leads Google’s sponsorship of BEACON, the campaign to make Washington, D.C. the most supportive ecosystem for women entrepreneurs in the United States. She is the COO of the Asian Google Network, Co-lead for the DC chapter of the Black Google Network, and acts as liaison to the black small business community for the DC region. She was named a 2017 Tech Titan by Washingtonian Magazine and joined the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Social Entrepreneurs. Previously, she was a political appointee in the Obama Administration, worked in government relations for The Pew Charitable Trusts, and advanced environmental justice policies in Washington state. She holds a MSc in Environmental Policy from Oxford University and a BA in Environmental Studies and Public Affairs from Seattle University. She sits on the advisory boards of TechWeekDC, Project 500, and Black Girl Ventures.
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Madhu Punjabi
Product Manager of Pinterest
Madhu is an Entrepreneur in Residence. Madhu worked as a product manager at Pinterest, Facebook, and TellApart. Prior to that, she spent 6 years at Google in Partnerships and Finance on the Google Shopping team.
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Vahid Kazemi
Engineering Manager of Pinterest
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Leslie Nguyen
Engineering Manager of Pinterest
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Clara Timpe
Talent Brand Manager of Pinterest
Clara Timpe is a talent brand manager at Pinterest.
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Derrick Diaz
IT Ops Helpdesk Manager of Pinterest
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Dmitry Kislyuk
Engineering Manager, Computer Vision of Pinterest
Dmitry Kislyuk leads Visual Search at Pinterest, where he has worked on applied computer vision and deep learning for over four years. Most recently, he led the launch of Pinterest Lens, allowing your phone camera to function as a search input to find out more about anything you see, a technology which was subsequently adopted for the Bixby AI assistant. Dmitry studied AI at U.C. Berkeley and Stanford University, and his work is focused on solving practical problems in for novel visual search systems, including visual object detection, and image embeddings for fast and large-scale retrieval.
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Alexander Dymo
Engineering Manager of Pinterest
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About KDE, Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Seth Weisfeld
Product Manager, Growth Traffic of Pinterest
Seth currently works for Pinterest as product manager.
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Bartek Ringwelski
Product Manager of Instagram
Bartek Ringwelski is a VC turned Entrepreneur. SkillSlate empowers to the 16mm individual service providers in the US to market their services to consumers directly.
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About Instagram, Meta: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Brian Dalessandro
Data Science Manager of Instagram
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About Instagram, NYU Stern School of Business: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Lori Malahy
UX Research Manager of Instagram
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About Instagram: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Cemre Güngör
Manager, Product Management of Instagram
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About Instagram: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Norman Vino
Senior Project Manager of Dow Jones
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About Dow Jones: Dow Jones is a news and business information provider that delivers content to consumers and organizations via newspapers and more.
Michael Yormark
Project Manager of Dow Jones
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About Dow Jones: Dow Jones is a news and business information provider that delivers content to consumers and organizations via newspapers and more.
Zeeshan Zaidi
Senior Vice President & General Manager of Artist Services of Ticketmaster
Zeeshan Zaidi is General Manager of Artist Services at Ticketmaster, a division of Live Nation Entertainment. His group works with artists, managers, agents, promoters and labels to help make tours more successful through leveraging Ticketmaster’s marketing reach, data insights, and commerce opportunities. Before joining Ticketmaster, Zaidi spent several years in the startup world in various capacities. He was CEO/co-founder of Host Committee, Inc., a social media and events startup. He also served as COO and Head of Global of LimeWire, the world’s largest file-sharing network, and COO of Selectable Media (formerly Nabbr), a video advertising network. He previously spent seven years in the recorded music industry at Sony BMG in numerous roles, including VP, Digital for RCA and Sr. Director, Marketing for Arista Records. There, he developed the careers of superstar artists such as Avril Lavigne, OutKast, Usher and Dido.
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About Ticketmaster: Ticketmaster is the world’s largest ticket marketplace and the global market leader in live event ticketing.
Derek Cline
Manager, Software Engineering of Ticketmaster
Derek Cline is a manager of software engineering at Ticketmaster in the Core Ticketing Services group. He is leading the effort to make ticketing data available to clients throughout the organization using Kafka Streams. He has been in the software development business for over 15 years and is excited to see where log-oriented architectures will take the industry.
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About Ticketmaster: Ticketmaster is the world’s largest ticket marketplace and the global market leader in live event ticketing.
Marina Radvinsky
HR Manager of Shareablee
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About Shareablee: Shareablee is an online platform offering audience intelligence, competitive benchmarking, and insights for social media.
Nicole Kapner
Sr. Manager Marketing Communications of Bidtellect – Native Intelligence
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About Bidtellect – Native Intelligence: Bidtellect is the leading buy side Native platform built for marketers.
Ekterina Bulat
Operations Manager of Roomster
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About Roomster: The leading multi platform roommate matching & shared housing application. IOS, Android & fully responsive design
Ekterina Bulat
Operations Manager of Roomster
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About Roomster: The leading multi platform roommate matching & shared housing application. IOS, Android & fully responsive design
Callie Stark
Community Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Neha Seelam
Community Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Robin Prywes
Community Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Jenny Mith
Community Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Jessie Stettin
Community Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Nicole Fruth
Community Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Cortney Rhodes
Community Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Jessica Aycock
Community Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Ashley Guo
Community Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Hans Schubert
Community Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Dean Zacharias
Community Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Kaitlin McKee
Community Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Zakaria Enzminger
Content Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Alexus Gould
Community Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Isadora Italia
Community Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Kay Sorin
Content Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Phil Chan
Cultural Programming Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Phil Chan
Cultural Programming Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Austin Kase
Media Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Teresa Lucas
Community Manager of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Lizzy Hanna
General Manager, Distribution of The Engine Group
Lizzy Hanna is the head of Engine Media, where she expertly builds custom media solutions by combining best-in-class data, technology, and creative –all aimed to solve the business challenges of marketers today. Prior, Lizzy was leading teams with specialisms in programmatic, paid social, mobile, video, display media, and ad tech.
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About The Engine Group: A creative community that provides clients with best-in-class communications expertise under one roof.
Lizzy Hanna
General Manager, Distribution of The Engine Group
Lizzy Hanna is the head of Engine Media, where she expertly builds custom media solutions by combining best-in-class data, technology, and creative –all aimed to solve the business challenges of marketers today. Prior, Lizzy was leading teams with specialisms in programmatic, paid social, mobile, video, display media, and ad tech.
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About The Engine Group: A creative community that provides clients with best-in-class communications expertise under one roof.
Jen Padfield
Community Manager of Musely
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About Musely: Musely develops an online platform intended to provide medical skincare treatments through technology.
Paul Lenser
Product Marketing Manager of Sprout Social
Paul Lenser is the product marketing manager at Sprout Social.
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About Sprout Social: Sprout Social provides a platform for businesses to manage social media engagement, publishing and analytics.
Prince Kwateng
Mid Market Sales Manager of Sprout Social
Prince Kwateng is Founder @ Karma Gift List.
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About Sprout Social: Sprout Social provides a platform for businesses to manage social media engagement, publishing and analytics.
Colin Kroll
General Manager of #Vine
As GM of Vine, Colin oversees a variety of areas including product strategy and development, as well as business and technical operations. Vine, a mobile service that lets you capture and share short looping videos, was acquired by Twitter and launched as a standalone service in January, 2013. Prior to joining Twitter and co-founding Vine, Colin was CTO and VP of Engineering at Jetsetter, a hotel booking engine that was acquired by Trip Advisor in 2013. Before that, he was an engineering manager in Yahoo!’s SATG group, which he joined after Yahoo! acquired Right Media, an early pioneer in ad exchanges where Colin began his career as a software engineer.
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About #Vine, HQTrivia, Hype: Vine is an online platform that enables users to create short looping video clips for friends and family.
Brandon Ricks
Client Success Manager of ReachLocal
Brandon Ricks is the Principal of Ricks Entertainment Group, a creative consulting company servicing clients in the media, music and entertainment industry. His work is done through providing thought leadership, strategic direction, and project management for creative projects. Prior to launching Ricks Ent. Group, Brandon worked at I Am Second as the head of Music Marketing. He was the co-producer and project manager of The End of Malice documentary currently streaming on NETFLIX. Brandon received his introduction into the music industry through an internship at Universal Records promotions offices where he learned the art and science of radio relations and record promotion. He has a knack for melding creative ideas with strategic processes in order to bring creative ideas into fruition.
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About ReachLocal: ReachLocal provides online marketing solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Sana Ansari
General Manager, 3Q Accelerate of 3Q Digital
Sana Ansari, General Manager of 3Q Accelerate, has worked in digital marketing since 2009. Sana has worked with a range of clients, from SMBs to enterprise accounts, helping companies make exponential revenue gains and driving profitable spend in verticals including insurance, travel, B2B and eCommerce. Sana’s expertise in cross channel strategy & optimization, re-marketing, landing page optimization, and driving lead quality has been fueled by a data-centric methodology reinforced in all of her team members. In her time at 3Q, she has been responsible for driving some of the agency’s greatest success stories, taking companies with limited budgets and big ideas and turning them into names familiar across the country.
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About 3Q Digital: 3Q Digital is a digital marketing agency catering to online advertising and mobile marketing.
Dan Gilormo
Content Manager of YouNow
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About YouNow: YouNow is the world’s first live social network, empowering users to broadcast themselves from anywhere in real time.
AmyLynn Blair
Office Manager of HIRECODER
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About HIRECODER: OnDemand Platform offering top 1% coders same day via live video chat
Sam A
Account Manager of HIRECODER
A total of 7+ Yrs experience focusing on actionable Marketing strategies that make a difference in engagement and a business’s bottom line(i.e Actual sales). HireCoder Inc is the leading platform for companies to hire top 1% Remote coders Responsibilities included: – Analyzing market trends in IT development. – Growing the vertical by initiating and supporting marketing efforts with content and customer references – Leading demand generation for HireCoder.
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About HIRECODER: OnDemand Platform offering top 1% coders same day via live video chat
Kevin Raposo
Media Relations Manager of EZPR
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About EZPR, KnowTechie: EZPR is a results-focused media relations firm in New York and San Francisco.
Kevin Raposo
Media Relations Manager of EZPR
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About EZPR, KnowTechie: EZPR is a results-focused media relations firm in New York and San Francisco.
Vanessa Castaneda
Corporate Communications Manager of Idealab
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About Idealab: Idealab is a technology incubator that provides resources to allow start-ups to rapidly introduce innovative products and services.
Vanessa Castaneda
Corporate Communications Manager of Idealab
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About Idealab: Idealab is a technology incubator that provides resources to allow start-ups to rapidly introduce innovative products and services.
Dulce Ruiz
Account Manager of Status Labs
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About Status Labs: The Premier Online Reputation Management Firm
Julia DeBari
UX Lead/Manager of Epsilon
UX Lead/Manager. Loves Edutech, mentoring, travel, and UX.
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About Balsamiq, Epsilon: Epsilon is an all-encompassing global marketing company, a leader in creating connections between people and brands.
Kristi VandenBosch
Chief Digital Officer, SVP General Manager of Meredith Xcelerated Marketing
Kristi joined MXM as Chief Digital Officer in 2012, helping to shape a world-class digital agency with unrivaled expertise in creating “content for the hyper-connected,” integrating the customer experience across website, mobile, social, media, commerce and eCRM channels. In addition to leading MXM’s Los Angeles office as SVP, General Manager, she is responsible for overseeing all aspects of MXM’s extensive digital practice, across eight North American agency locations. Formerly CEO of Riney and Publicis Modem in San Francisco, her experience includes leading a regional network for TBWA Worldwide, as North American President of digital agency TEQUILA\, as well as Managing Director tenures at Omnicom’s Direct Partners, and IPG’s Draft Worldwide (now FCB). She has served on the global leadership committees of TBWA and TEQUILA\, and on the Executive Board of TBWA\Chiat\Day in Los Angeles. Her multi-faceted background has led to roles on global marketing teams for Nissan, Infiniti, Sony and Pioneer, with category expertise spanning automotive, CPG, consumer electronics, financial services, entertainment, pharma, beauty, fashion and retail. Kristi works with a number of universities, as well as the American Association of Advertising Agencies, on integrated marketing education programs, and is a frequent speaker on the influence of technology on culture and consumer behavior. Kristi earned her M.B.A. from DePaul University’s Kellstadt School of Business in Chicago, and undergraduate degrees in Advertising Management from DePaul University, and Technical Illustration/Commercial Art from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. She served on the board of directors of NeoEdge, a technology company specializing in ad-enabled casual gaming, and on the advisory board for Involver (acquired by Oracle), which develops applications for marketers across the major social platforms. She also acts as a mentor for the startup accelerator StartEngine, providing strategic consulting to Los Angeles-based technology entrepreneurs. Kristi is an advisor and contributor to DAME magazine (www.damemagazine.com), and currently serves as Co-President of the Board of Directors of ThinkLA, an industry organization promoting Los Angeles as a leading center for marketing, creativity and innovation, and on the Boards of Directors of the American Lung Association in California and The Stewardship Network in Ann Arbor, MI.
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Rob Canning
Senior Global Product Manager of ViaSat
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About ViaSat: ViaSat produces satellite and other digital communication products that enable fast, secure, and efficient communications to any location.
David Hansen
Technical Account Manager of ViaSat
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About ViaSat: ViaSat produces satellite and other digital communication products that enable fast, secure, and efficient communications to any location.
