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 Founder operating in the Online Portals space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Patrick Nagle
Founder and CEO of Rehab.com
Patrick Nagle is a leading expert on digital strategy and has been featured in major media including Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, CBS News, Forbes, New York Times, and Fox News. Nagle was the first investor and CEO of RateMyProfessors.com, an review site for college students. RateMyProfessors.com was acquired by Viacom’s MTV Networks on January 17, 2007 for an undisclosed sum. In addition to RateMyProfessors.com, Nagle purchased RateMyTeachers.com from California-based Mister Message, LLC on April 2, 2008. RateMyTeachers.com was acquired by an undisclosed private equity group in 2018. At the time of its sale, RateMyTeachers.com reached 20,000,000 annual users. Patrick Nagle is currently the Founder and CEO of Rehab.com, LLC.
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About Rehab.com: Rehab.com connects patients with providers who care.
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David Filo
Co-Founder & Chief Yahoo of Yahoo
David Filo, a founder of Yahoo and Chief Yahoo, has served as an officer of Yahoo since March 1995, and as a member of our Board since June 2014. David also served as a Director of Yahoo from its founding through February 1996. David is involved in guiding Yahoo’s vision and in many key aspects of the business at a strategic and operational level, and is a stalwart of the company’s employee culture and morale. David co-developed Yahoo in 1994 while working towards his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University, and co-founded Yahoo in 1995.
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About Yahoo: Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Christopher Klaus
Co-Founder & CEO of Kaneva
Christopher Klaus is the CEO of Kaneva.
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About CyberLaunch, Kaneva, NeuroLaunch: Kaneva is an online 3D virtual world that supports 2D social networking, shared media, web browsing and online community interaction.
Xuan Yong
CEO / Co-Founder of Workrise
Xuan Yong is a co-founder & CEO at RigUp, a technology company that develops a platform to support the energy workforce.
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About Workrise: Workrise is a marketplace for on-demand services and skilled labor in the energy industry.
Michael Witte
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Workrise
Michael Witte is a co-founder and COO at RigUp, a technology company that develops a platform to support the energy workforce.Previously, Michael has worked as a petroleum engineering consultant at Pressler Petroleum Consultants.
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About Workrise: Workrise is a marketplace for on-demand services and skilled labor in the energy industry.
TK Stohlman
Founder of FanTree
TK Stohlman is a Chief Executive Officer at Autoscale
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About Autoscale, FanPrint, FanTree: FanTree offers an online social media platform that connects fans with offers from athletes, teams, and brands.
Shy Pahlevani
Founder & President of HUNGRY
Shy Pahlevani is a successful D.C.-based serial entrepreneur. After making a name for himself within Washington DC’s burgeoning tech scene, he and his brother Eman Pahlevani founded LiveSafe – a venture backed leading mobile safety communications platform that crowd-sources safety intelligence. The brothers teamed up with long-time friend and business partner Jeff Grass to successfully grow LiveSafe into a global enterprise. Over the next five years, the trio would raise more than $20 million dollars for LiveSafe from 3 tech titan billionaire backers and take the brand international. LiveSafe now actively protects more than 2.4 million people across the Fortune 1,000, universites, and sporting arenas.
Later in 2017, Shy, Eman and Jeff again teamed up to create food-tech platform HUNGRY – the first ever online marketplace connecting local top chefs with businesses in need of office catering. The company grew quickly from a $1 million dollar run rate to nearly $20 million dollar run rate in less than 24 months. HUNGRY launched in several new markets in 2019 and today operates in a $65 billion dollar catering market within D.C., Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston and NYC. Notable investors include JAY-Z, Usher, and the founders of Honest Tea & Whole Foods.
Throughout his startup career, Shy has been recognized as one of D.C.’s Top Young Entrepreneurs & Washington Business Journals’ 40 Under 40. Shy currently resides in the Washington D.C. area where HUNGRY is also based.
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About CrimePush, HUNGRY, LiveSafe: Hungry is a food-tech catering company that connect customers to chefs, delivering fresh food from these chefs to the customers.
Eman Pahlavani
Founder & COO of HUNGRY
Eman Pahlevani is a successful D.C.-based serial entrepreneur. After graduating from law school in 2012, he and his brother Shy Pahlevani founded LiveSafe – a venture backed mobile app company that crowd sources safety intelligence. The brothers teamed up with long time friend and business partner Jeff Grass to successfully grow LiveSafe into a global enterprise. Over the next five years, the trio would raise more than $30 million dollars for LiveSafe and take the brand international.
Later in 2017, Eman, Shy and Jeff again teamed up to create food-tech platform HUNGRY – the first ever online marketplace connecting local top chefs with businesses in need of office catering. The company grew quickly from a $1 million dollar run rate to nearly $20 million dollar run rate in less than 24 months. HUNGRY began launching in new markets earlier this year and today operates in D.C., Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston and NYC. Throughout his startup career, Eman has been recognized as one of D.C.’s top entrepreneurs. Eman currently resides in the Washington D.C. area where HUNGRY is also based.
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About CrimePush, HUNGRY: Hungry is a food-tech catering company that connect customers to chefs, delivering fresh food from these chefs to the customers.
Gerald O’Dea
President, Co-Founder of Advanced Search Technologies, Inc.
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About Advanced Search Technologies, Inc.: We are a privately held Reno, Nevada based corporation with a rich history of search technology innovation, dating back to 1999.
Chad Castorina
VP, Co-Founder of Advanced Search Technologies, Inc.
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About Advanced Search Technologies, Inc.: We are a privately held Reno, Nevada based corporation with a rich history of search technology innovation, dating back to 1999.
Ahmir Khalib Thompson
Co-Founder of Okayplayer.com
Ahmir Khalib Thompson, known professionally as Questlove (stylized as ?uestlove), is an American musician and music journalist. He is the drummer and joint frontman (with Black Thought) for the Grammy Award-winning band The Roots. The Roots has been serving as the in-house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon since February 17, 2014. Questlove is also one of the producers of the Broadway musical Hamilton. He is the co-founder of Okayplayer and OkayAfrica. Additionally, he is an adjunct instructor at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University. Questlove has produced recordings for artists including Elvis Costello, Common, D’Angelo, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Bilal, Jay-Z, Nikka Costa, and more recently, Al Green, Amy Winehouse, and John Legend. He is a member of the production teams the Soulquarians, The Randy Watson Experience, The Soultronics, The Beat Biters (with producers Just Blaze and 9th Wonder), The Grand Negaz, and The Grand Wizzards.
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About OkayAfrica, Okayplayer.com: Okayplayer is an online platform that offers information and content on original, progressive urban music.
Oliver Camilo
Chief Executive Officer / Founder of Moji Keyboard
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About Moji Keyboard: Moji is a digital marketplace for brands and artists to provide custom emoji keyboards for their fans.
Amanda Micallef
Co-Founder & COO of Arsenic
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About Arsenic: Arsenic Magazine is a by-the-people, for-the-people, online lifestyle and culture magazine based in the Arts District.
Katherine Lents
CEO and Founder of ShowUp Media
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About ShowUp Media: ShowUp is an interactive, online video platform for independent web series
Katherine Lents
CEO and Founder of ShowUp Media
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About ShowUp Media: ShowUp is an interactive, online video platform for independent web series
Yaron Ben-Zvi
Co-Founder and CEO of Haven Life
Yaron loves building things that make a difference. That’s how he came to be the co-founder and CEO of Haven Life, MassMutual’s in-house startup that’s setting the pace for innovation in life insurance. Yaron worked with several other startups before launching Haven Life in industries as varied as asset management and media, yet the complexity and opportunity in life insurance kept calling him to the cause. Part entrepreneur, part executive, and part family man, Yaron sometimes struggles to make all these parts work together. A graduate of Wesleyan University and the Wharton School of Business, he believes strongly in the value of a liberal arts education.
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About Haven Life: Haven Life offers an online solution that provides people access to affordable term life insurance products and services.
Loren Ridinger
CO-Founder Market America & SHOP.COM of Market America
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About Market America, Market America, Market America, Market America: Market America Worldwide is a product brokerage and Internet marketing company that specializes in One-to-One-Marketing.
Mark Rosenberg
CEO & Founder of Hip eCommerce
Mark Rosenberg is the CEO & Founder of Hip eCommerce.
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About Hip eCommerce: Hip eCommerce manages and develops online marketplaces for collectibles, including stamps, postcards, and comic books.
Ari Ackerman
Founder & CEO of Bunk1
Like many former campers, Ari never outgrew his love of the camping industry. As a career camper, Ari spent many memorable summers at Camp Winaukee in Lake Winnipesaukee, NH and at Camp Mohawk in White Plains, NY. His twelve year career reached its apex when, as color war captain, he lead his dominant blue team to a landslide victory. Ari hopes that Bunk1.com will serve as a means to give back to an industry that gave so much to him. At Bunk1, Ari is responsible for the company’s growth, strategic development and overall management. He graduated with honors from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management with concentrations in marketing, finance, and entrepreneurship. His background includes product management with the Sunny Delight brand at Procter & Gamble, and with the Marketing department of HFS (now Cendant Corporation). Additionally, he worked on Capitol Hill for the Banking and Financial Services Committee.
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About Bunk1, Miami Marlins: Bunk1 provider of parent portal software to camps.
Chai Mishra
CEO & Founder of The Essential
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About The Essential: The Essential creates an altogether new grocery store for a new era.
John Daniels
Co-Founder, CEO of NavTrac
John Daniels joined NavTrac as Co-Founder, CEO in 2017.
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About NavTrac: Next Gen Yard Management System (YMS)
Tania Yuki
Founder & CEO of Shareablee
Tania Yuki is founder and CEO of Shareablee, a leading provider of social content analytics for business. She has spent most of her career in digital marketing, measurement and analytics, and was recently honored with a Great Mind Award from the Advertising Research Foundation and featured in Fast Company and Forbes as one of 12 women driving digital in New York. Tania began her career as a media and internet attorney, specializing in digital rights management, IP and film financing. After moving to the US from Australia she was seduced by digital and went on to run an online video content network as head of acquisitions and branding and has also led product management for comScore’s Video Metrix, the world’s leading online video ratings service. After leaving comScore she ran the TV Ad Solutions practice with TV advertising company Visible World, where she oversaw sales, product management and research and development and grew revenue more than 50% year over year. Tania is also the founder of wimlink, an organization that holds regular events and seminars promoting entrepreneurship, leadership and the professional development of women.
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About Shareablee, wimlink: Shareablee is an online platform offering audience intelligence, competitive benchmarking, and insights for social media.
Taylor Katzman
Founder & CEO of Provi
Taylor Katzman is the Founder and CEO of Provi.
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About Provi: Provi is a communication platform that simplifies the operations for bars, restaurants, and retailers in ordering booze.
Jan Nugent
Founder & CEO of Branded Online
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About Branded Online, Nogin: Branded Online is a dynamic technology company that delivers enterprise-class ecommerce, marketing, and logistics solutions to brands.
Zack Smith
CEO & Founder of Jobble
Zack Smith is the Founder and CEO at Jobble.
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About Jobble: Jobble is the on-demand marketplace connecting businesses with people looking for flexible work.
Corey Bober
Co-Founder, COO of Jobble
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About Jobble: Jobble is the on-demand marketplace connecting businesses with people looking for flexible work.
Chris Folayan
Founder & CEO of MallforAfrica
Chris is well established successful serial entrepreneur, mentor, and speaker with over 20 years of C level roles experience in marketing, technology, startups, and corporate companies. Born and raised in Nigeria, Chris founded his first venture at age 7 recycled tires with a group of friends which he ran for 2.5 years prior to attending boarding school in Nigeria. He migrated to the U.S to attend college where he decided to teach himself various programming, design and software languages which he used as a foundation to catapult himself into various high level roles in fortune 500 companies, while pursuing a BA degree in marketing. After graduating from San Jose State University, he founded and sold several companies globally, while establishing new companies in Africa, USA, Middle East and Asia. Before Chris founded his current venture, the award-winning Mall for Africa and Mall for the World platform, Chris was the Founder and CEO of OCFX Inc a globally recognized silicon valley based, award winning software agency serving and consulting clients such as SONY, LSI, Cisco, HP, EPSON, TYCO, Accenture, CapitalOne, EMC and many others in over 60 countries. Chris has a learn as you grow, out of the box thinking philosophy that drives strategy and business growth. Chris is also the founder of the Africa Made Product Standards (AMPS) goods standards, which he founded to help companies in Africa develop a standard of quality products and ethics for doing business in Europe and USA. Chris is also the board chairman for the African Diaspora Network which is the largest network of African diaspora in the USA, and a member of the US Nigeria Council. He also serves on several boards and mentors various CEO’s in companies based in Africa.
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About MallforAfrica: MallforAfrica is an online mall that enables Africans to find and purchase items from international retailers.
Alpay Koralturk
Founder & CEO of Kaiyo
Alpay Koralturk, founder and CEO of Kaiyo.
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About Kaiyo: Kaiyo is an online marketplace for pre-owned furniture dedicated to great design, exceptional customer care, and a more sustainable planet.
Evan Gower
Founder and CEO of Box 20
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About Box 20: Box 20 is an online community of media properties in the tech and parenting space.
Fred Helou
Founder & CEO of Vagaro
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About Vagaro: Vagaro is an online platform that allows its users to find salons and spas in their local area and make appointments online.
Jun Yang
Co-Founder,& CTO of Dada-JD Daojia
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About Dada-JD Daojia: Dada-JD Daojia owns and operates an online crowdsourcing logistics portal and provides local instant delivery service.
Aaron Sheinbein
Co-Founder & Webmaster of Find My Family Adoption Reunion Registry
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About Find My Family Adoption Reunion Registry, Intellipaat, Teradata: Find My Family helps adoptees and their biological birth family members locate each other and reunite thru a free process.
Robert Friedman
Co-Founder of Ten-X
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About Ten-X: Ten-X provides online real estate services.
Richard Granville
Founder,Chairman & CEO of Yippy
Richard Granville is the Founder, Chairman & CEO of Yippy company.
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About Yippy: Yippy provides online web destinations and services for schools, educational companies, universities and libraries in North America.
Brandon Wade
Founder & CEO of WhatsYourPrice.com
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About MissTravel, Seeking Millionaire, WhatsYourPrice.com, WhatsYourPrice.com: WhatsYourPrice.com is an online dating website and marketplace where users can buy or sell the opportunity of going out on a first date.
Debra Cannon
Co-Founder of Lulus
Debra Cannon has mixed business savvy with a passion for family and place. Cannon came to Chico State from Oakland as a freshman in 1968. Detours into the counterculture, marriage, and motherhood resulted in a nonlinear degree but a very rewarding student life peppered with the local color of the Chico community. She graduated at the top of her class in 1977 with a bachelor’s in American studies and went on to the University of Oregon School of Library Science. She held library positions with Chico State’s Meriam Library, Butte County, and Chico Unified School District. In 1996, Cannon and her daughter, Colleen Winter, founded LuLu’s Fashion Lounge, a boutique in downtown Chico that blossomed into a retail destination, along with GiGi Shoe Parlour. The duo launched LuLus.com in 2005, and now this successful enterprise occupies a 20,000-square-foot warehouse and employs 115 Chicoans. Cannon recently endowed a scholarship through the Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Business. She is the 2014 College of Business Distinguished Alumna and is among eight to be honored at the Distinguished Alumni Dinner April 11.
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About Lulus: Lulu’s fashion lounge is an online store for women’s dresses,shoes, accessories, and clothing.
Bryan Cheung
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Liferay
Bryan Cheung steers the company’s strategic direction and worldwide business development efforts as one of the founders serving with the company since its inception in 2004. Drawing on his technical experience, understanding of customer needs, and a passion for end users, Bryan leads Liferay in meeting its commitment to deliver focused and effective business solutions to its customers and its community. Bryan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science, and is a sought-after keynote speaker at major IT and open source industry events.
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About Liferay: Liferay makes software that helps companies create digital experiences on web, mobile and connected devices.
Brian Kim
Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Liferay
Brian Kim, Chief Operating Officer and a founding partner, leads the company’s Professional Services Organization and orchestrates the ongoing operations of a fast-growing global organization. He is also managing the strategic growth of the company’s partnership network. Prior to Liferay, Brian worked alongside upper management at HubbardOne on internal company operations. He is also an alumnus of Accenture where he worked with marquée clients within the financial services sector. Brian holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago.
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About Liferay: Liferay makes software that helps companies create digital experiences on web, mobile and connected devices.
Oded Berkowitz
Founder & CEO of MyRegistry.com
Oded Berkowitz is the Founder and CEO of Clipix.com, an online organizational tool launched in February 2012. Oded created Clipix out of a personal need for a tool that would allow him and others to save and share links, documents, photos and video with one click, and provide a visual and organized environment for all of the things we all see online, and want to come back to. He is responsible for the conceptualization and direction of Clipix, specifically in indentifying the company’s positioning in the marketplace, both domestically and internationally. Oded believes that the platform’s user experience and unique features will provide users with the tools needed to easily manage and organize their busy online lives, and thus make Clipix a dominant player in this space. In December 2005, Oded launched MyRegistry.com, a leading Universal Gift Registry, of which he is currently CEO. He has since been responsible for the company’s growth, business direction and corporate partnerships. In the past several years, Oded successfully identified and executed key long term, exclusive and strategic partnership agreements with a multitude of major corporate and media conglomerates, such as NBC Universal, Network Solutions, Condé Nast and others. Such partnerships anchored MyRegistry.com’s credibility and leadership position in the Universal Gift Registry Industry, and created new revenue models for the company’s short and long term growth strategies. Prior to founding MyRegistry.com, Oded spent over twelve years on Wall Street, including six years as a co-Founder and a Senior Partner at Trade.com Global Markets, Inc./BlueStone Capital Partners, LP, a 500 employee full service investment and merchant banking and on-line brokerage firm. At Trade.com, together with his partners, he pioneered the online trading industry. In addition, Oded has extensive experience in guiding and assisting CEOs of private and public companies in developing their businesses, increase market share and revenue for their companies. While at Trade.com, Oded was President of Global Partnerships and was responsible for the firm’s efforts in creating international strategic partnerships and joint ventures. He was responsible for initiating, structuring and negotiating the firm’s worldwide licensing agreement with ABN Amro Bank and their investment of $62.5 million in Trade.com. Oded was also responsible for the creation and growth of the firm’s international sales division, which resulted in relationships with over 240 institutional accounts in 15 countries. He has planned, coordinated and executed over 200 public and private offerings for emerging growth companies. Oded graduated with a Third Officer degree from Acco Nautical College.
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About Clipix, MyRegistry.com: MyRegistry.com is an online gift registry enabling users to create a centralized registry for any gift-giving occasion.
Doug Rybacki
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Filo.co
Doug Rybacki is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Filo. He was a former CTO and CPO at Conga. Doug has an MBA from the University of Washington and a BBA from The University of Texas.
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About Filo.co: Filo.co is a collaborative platform for virtual events, meetings, and workshops.
James R. Boyle
Founder & CEO of Zillion Group
James Boyle has more than 30 years of business experience, including serving as Zillion’s Chief Executive Officer until 2017. Prior to Zillion, he was the president and chief executive officer of John Hancock until 2012. James Boyle’s experience at John Hancock and its predecessor companies includes two decades of ever-increasing responsibilities in finance, operations, technology, customer service, investments, product development, distribution and marketing. He has held leadership roles in businesses including mutual funds, retirement plans, annuities, life and long-term care insurance and registered broker dealers. James Boyle began his career as a CPA with Coopers & Lybrand. He currently is an advisory board member at HLM Venture Partners and sits on a variety of not-for-profit boards of directors.
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About Foresters Financial Services, Zillion Group: Zillion Group, a Norwalk, Connecticut-based technology solution for digital engagement
Austen Collins
Founder, CEO of Serverless
Austen is an entrepreneur and software engineer located in Oakland, CA. His specific focus is on building cheap, scalable Node.js applications while minimizing DevOps requirements as much as possible. An enthusiastic AWS Lambda user from day one, Austen founded the Serverless Framework (formerly JAWS), an open source project and module ecosystem to help everyone build applications exclusively on Lambda, without the hassle and costs required by servers. AWS Lambda can significantly reduce the total cost of ownership of all software projects. Every ambitious developer and company should take advantage of Lambda, and Austen will help you get started.
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About Serverless: Serverless provides development framework for building serverless architectures.
Cristina Carlino
Founder of Archetypes
Cristina Carlino is a mother, poet, songwriter, social entrepreneur and the founder and creator of one of the most beloved personal care brands.
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About Archetypes: Archetypes operates a community website that helps people identify themselves through a universal pattern of behavior called ‘archetypes.’
Stephen Estes
Co-Founder & CEO of Wendi
Stephen Estes is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wendi, a digital assistant for healthcare providers that automates the front desk and back office of a medical practice.
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About Wendi, WeRecover: Wendi is a digital app for healthcare that automates patient screening, insurance verification, scheduling, paperwork, and communications.
Jim McHugh
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Office of Mperativ
Mperativ provides the first strategic platform to align marketing with sales, customer success, and finance on the cause-and-effect relationships between marketing activities and revenue outcomes.
Despite pouring significant effort into custom analytics, marketers are struggling to convey the value of their initiatives.
By recentering marketing metrics around revenue, Mperativ makes it possible to uncover data narratives and extract trends across the entire customer journey, with beautifully-designed interactive visualizations that demonstrate the effectiveness of marketing in a new revenue-centric language.
As a serverless data warehouse, Mperativ eliminates the complexity of surfacing compelling marketing insights. Connect marketing strategy to revenue results with Mperativ. To learn more, visit us at www.mperativ.io or contact us at info@mperativ.io.
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About Mperativ: Mperativ design and develop marketing software solutions with a focus to increase the revenue of organizations via the platform.
David Hack
Founder & CEO of Direct Eats
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About Direct Eats, Natural Commerce: Direct Eats is a distributor and provider in the online food industry.
Sylvio Drouin
Founder of 25c
Currently CEO at Bitlogica Previously CTO at Xtranormal, Tiny Pictures, eTV Co-founded XPLR, Maz Laboratories Advisor at Share Practice, Mixamo, Unity3D, Invested in Haricot.ca, Tripstr, Bitlogica Worked with YouTube, Samsung, NYTimes, Air France, Quest, SyFy, Unity3D, France Telecom, Eicon, Toyota, SingTel and many more.
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About 25c, Bitlogica inc., Unity Technologies, Xplr Software: The Best Way to Tip Online
Rui Delgado
Co-Founder and CEO of Berrymetrics
Rui is the Co-Founder of Pathfinder and its head of external relations and marketing. He’s also the Evernote Small Business Ambassador for Spain. He studied Communication Sciences at the external campus of the University of Wales in Seville, Spain. Previously, he has been the Marketing Strategies Manager of the United Nations Association of the Dominican Republic (UNA-DR) and new media consultant for the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE) in Santo Domingo. Through those two institutions, he has organized conferences, courses, workshops for young people in the Dominican Republic, New York, Washington and Paris, under the programs of the UN, the OAS and the UNESCO.
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About Berrymetrics: A smart analytics dashboard, exclusively tailored for online stores
Abdur Chowdhury
Co-Founder and CEO of Aura Frames
Abdur Chowdhury was the co-founder of Summize which he sold to Twitter in 2008. He then became Twitter’s Chief Scientist. A few years ago, he left and started a new company called Pushd, which is backed by a couple of million in seed funding from various angels, as well as Betaworks. On September 4, 2014 Pushd, Inc. released an Emoji based mobile app called Steven.
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About Aura Frames: Aura Frames is a smart picture frame designed to fill their home with beautiful photos of their family and friends.
Eric Jensen
Co-Founder & CTO of Aura Frames
Eric Jensen is a chief technology officer at Pushd, Inc. He also co-founded Summize, Inc., which was later acquired by Twitter. Prior to Pushd, Inc., Jensen worked at Twitter as a relevance tech lead. Jensen earned his PhD in computer science from [Illinois Institute of Technology](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/illinois-institute-of-technology-chicago).
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About Aura Frames: Aura Frames is a smart picture frame designed to fill their home with beautiful photos of their family and friends.
Momchil Filev
Co Founder & CEO of BestReviews
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About BestReviews: BestReviews is a review website that publishes in-depth reviews of consumer products.
William R. Dexheimer
Founder of ChipRewards
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About ChipRewards: ChipRewards provides web-based healthcare incentive platform.
Trey Hamer
Co-Founder, President & CTO of ChipRewards
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About ChipRewards: ChipRewards provides web-based healthcare incentive platform.
Michael McGee
Co-Founder of The Starter League
Mike McGee is the co-founder of The Starter League, an in-person school in Chicago that teaches beginners how to build web applications. Before The Starter League, Mike’s greatest claim to fame was that his High School mascot was a pretzel. He went to Northwestern for four years where he spent two years being a student and two years in student government – miraculously becoming Student Body President his senior year. In Spring 2011, Mike decided to turn down Obama for America (his first real job offer) to co-found The Starter League. Mike’s latest “dent in the universe” project is Starter School, an immersive, full-time program that will take people from zero to entrepreneur in 9 months.
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About The Starter League: Code Academy is an online interactive platform offering coding lessons in programming languages such as JavaScript, Python and Ruby.
Adam Lovallo
Co-Founder of Course Report
Adam is the former head of user acquisition for LivingSocial and LivingSocial’s first intern. He loves dessert but hates the desert.
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About Course Report, MAU Vegas, Thesis Testing: Helping you research the best coding bootcamps
Liz Eggleston
Co-Founder, Editor of Course Report
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About Course Report: Helping you research the best coding bootcamps
Chad Cooper
Co-Founder & CTO of LandscapeHub
Chad Cooper is CTO @ GiveForward.
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About LandscapeHub: LandscapeHub is a digital, B2B marketplace connecting buyers and suppliers within a central online platform.
Blake Brossman
Founder of PetCareRx
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About PetCareRx: PetCareRx is a fast growing online retailer, the #2 player in online pet health and wellness, and an emerging ecommerce 3.0 leader.
Joshua Mayo
Co-Founder & CEO of AllChurch, LLC
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About AllChurch, LLC: Online company providing beautiful graphics for churches.
Courtney Mayo
Co-Founder & CMO of AllChurch, LLC
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About AllChurch, LLC: Online company providing beautiful graphics for churches.
Lynn Perkins
Founder and CEO of UrbanSitter
As a startup veteran, Lynn has more than 15 years of experience building and growing consumer Internet businesses. Prior to founding UrbanSitter, Lynn served as founder and CEO of Xuny.com and VP of Business Development at Bridgepath.com. At Gap Inc., LaSalle Partners, and Joie de Vivre Hospitality, Lynn gained extensive business and transaction experience. Lynn is passionate about connecting people with each other. Uniting babysitters and parents is her latest quest. Previous accomplishments include introducing three couples who are now married, matching apartment-seeking friends with roommates in rent-controlled units, and numerous job placements. Lynn is a graduate of Stanford University. She and her husband enjoy exploring San Francisco with their three adventurous boys.
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About UrbanSitter: UrbanSitter is an online hub connecting families with babysitters through social networks.
Lauris Liberts
CEO & Founder of Draugiem
Lauris Liberts is Founder and Co-Owner at Draugiem Group.
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About Behappy, DeskTime.com, Draugiem, Draugiem Group, Printful, Vendon: Draugiem offers a social network that enables businesses to connect with their customers in Latvia.
Sina Ghaboussi
Founder & CEO of Electric Driver
My name is Sina Ghaboussi, and I am an entrepreneur and Product Strategy. I have worked in product management and as an entrepreneur within the automotive space for the past fourteen years. My current project is Electric Driver, which helps shoppers demystify, find and buy the right electric car.
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About Electric Driver: We make it easier for shoppers to demystify and find the right electric vehicle.
Rıfat Oğuz
Founder, CEO of Sinemia
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About Sinemia: Sinemia is a social platform for moviegoers and a monthly subscription-based service.
Matt Dunie
Co-Founder, President & CEO of LabArchives
Mr. Dunie has founded or co-founded three information and content application services companies: including Insight Publications, RefWorks, and LabArchives, where he also serves as President. He was also president of academic publisher and technology provider Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (now ProQuest) for eight years. Mr. Dunie has held numerous board positions and currently serves as a Director of ThirdIron, LLC. Bachelor of Science, College of Journalism, University of Maryland at College Park.
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About LabArchives: LabArchives provides a web-based software solution for storing, organizing, sharing and publishing scientific data.
Lech Mazur
Founder & CEO of Advameg
Lech Mazur is Founder & CEO at Advameg.
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About Advameg: Advameg has a set of websites that provide access to reference materials on topics such as science, business, history, health, and more.
Sean Leonard
Founder & CEO of Penango
Sean Leonard, Founder and CEO, is responsible for managing the business, technology direction, and strategy of the company. Sean holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees (’04, ’05) in EECS from MIT, and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School. Prior to founding Penango, Sean worked on technology transactions, patent prosecution, and intellectual property litigation at Morrison & Foerster in San Diego and Tokyo, and the Software Freedom Law Center in New York. Sean also served as a software developer using Java, cell phone and web technologies at the IBM Tokyo Research lab and at IBM Extreme Blue in North Carolina.
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About Penango: Penango improves the security and experience of online communication for businesses, organizations, and users all over the world.
Dmitri Petrov
Founder of NGX Bio
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About NGX Bio: NGX Bio is an online marketplace platform for online DNA sequencing services.
Arran James Stewart
Co-Founder of MyJobMatcher.com
Arran James Stewart is a global keynote speaker and the co-founder of blockchain recruitment platform Job.com. Relying on a decade worth of experience in the recruitment industry, Arran has consistently sought to bring recruitment to the cutting edge of technology. Arran helped develop one of the world’s first multi-post to media buy talent attraction portals, and also helped reinvent the way job content found candidates through utilizing matching technology against job aggregation. Arran is currently launching the first blockchain recruitment platform with Job.com – which aims to be the most secure, efficient, and transparent hiring process ever. As a first-mover in online recruitment technology with a decade of experience in recruitment, Arran’s expertise has been featured in Forbes, Reuters, CoinJournal, and HRTechnologist, among other publications.
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About Job.com, MyJobMatcher.com: MyJobMatcher is an easy-to-use job matching system that intelligently matches jobs to candidates using their uploaded resumes.
Michael McCrary
Founder & CEO of PureSpectrum
Michael McCrary is the CEO at PureSpectrum
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About California Lutheran University, PureSpectrum: PureSpectrum curates the highest quality survey participants from leading panel sources to ensure you get consistent, predictable.
Joe Mathew
Co-Founder & CTO of OpenReel
As co-founder and CTOl, Joe’s forward-thinking ability to develop technology that creates exceptional outcomes for clients ensures OpenReel’s video technology suite is able to seamlessly enable global enterprises to scale branded video creation.
Prior to OpenReel, Joe held senior technology and operations leadership positions at Baystone Media, which was acquired by Internet Brands / Hellman & Friedman.
Following that acquisition, Joe led the technology and operations functions for the healthcare marketing division of Internet Brands, utilizing his expertise in scaling revenue-generating functions of organization to grow the customer base to more than 30,000 and a subsequent acquisition by private equity firm KKR.
Joe has also consulted for several technology companies (such as SpringCM, acquired by DocuSign) and he holds two patents for recording and storing media content.
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About OpenReel: OpenReel’s patented Video Flywheel™ technology enables organizations to record, create, edit, and share with ease so that they can scale video creation with complete brand control.
Gary Bolles
CEO, President, Co-Founder & Board Member of eParachute
Gary A. Bolles is the co-founder of eParachute, creating software and courseware based on the work of “What Color Is Your Parachute?”, the world’s most popular career manual, with more than 10 million copies in print. He is also a partner in Charrette, serving consulting producer for clients including Google, TED, Dropbox, Yahoo, Singularity University, London Business School, L’Oreal, and Red Bull. He is the co-founder of SoCap (SocialCapitalMarkets.net), the conference for “impact” entrepreneurs and investors; Silicon Valley Meets the U.N.; DGREE: The Future of Higher Education; and the co-producer of “Closing the Gap,” a conference focused on solutions for a more inclusive economy. He writes and lectures frequently on the future of work and learning.
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About eParachute: eParachute provides online courses on job hunting for career changers and jobseekers in the U.S. and around the world.
Arthur Meyerovich
EVP of Corporate Partnership, Founder of Squawk-IT
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About Squawk-IT: Fun, new and dynamic commenting platform
Andrew Kurland
CTO & Co-Founder of Greentoe
Andrew Kurland brings over a decade of technology experience to Greentoe.com. As CTO, he is in charge of the technical direction of the company. This includes overseeing the design and development of all functionality related to the company’s consumer website and the retailer partner portal. Before co-founding Greentoe.com, Andrew was a project manager for Deloitte Consulting, where he specialized in implementing large-scale CRM applications using Salesforce.com. During his tenure with Deloitte, Andrew implemented cutting edge customer service and opportunity management tools for Fortune 200 clients including American Express, Sony, Waste Management and Dell. Today, nearly 10,000 people use systems that Andrew helped design and implement. An entrepreneur at heart, Andrew launched his first company at the age of 13, selling autographed memorabilia at local sports collectible shows. “AK Collectibles”, as it was known, quickly became a dominant player in the northern New Jersey market. Andrew grew AK Collectibles to become a major presence on EBay and eventually sold the company in 2004. Andrew graduated in 2007 with a B.A. in Information Systems from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
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About Greentoe: Greentoe is a name your price marketplace bringing market pricing to retail.
Shane Pollack
Founder of Playvuu
Shane Pollack is Founder at Playvuu.
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About Playvuu: PlayVuu offers an online platform to record a song, mix it with beats, and share it.
Jason Tiernan
Co-Founder & Design of Honey
Jason Tiernan is the Product Designer at Instagram.
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About Honey, Instagram: Honey is a simple and beautiful modern intranet. We believe in loving your job and the tools you use at work.
Stan Sandberg
Co-Founder of TravelInsurance.com
Former investment banker, now entrepreneur. Co-founded fastest growing online travel insurance comparison site.
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About TravelInsurance.com: TravelInsurance.com offers the easiest way to compare and buy travel insurance plans online. Founded by Stan Sandberg and Drew Sharma.
Juliette Vassilkioti
Founder of My City Plants
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About My City Plants: Online plant shop in New York City
Stephen Scarr
CEO & Co-Founder of Info
A seasoned entrepreneur with more than 20 years’ experience managing businesses, Stephen Scarr leverages a strong track record of analytical and digital marketing expertise. As Chief Executive Officer of eContext, and parent company Info.com, Scarr directs strategic decision-making and oversees partnerships. Scarr co-founded Info.com in London in 1999 and helped grow the meta-search platform to more than 7 million unique users in 2012. Scarr leads his 50 strong Chicago-based team in the development of eContext, which offers the world’s first categorical repository of search engine marketing keywords.
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About Info: Info.com is a search engine portal that returns results from other search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Ask.
Jacob Hornberger
Founder and President of The Future of Freedom Foundation
Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at the Foundation for Economic Education. He has advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all across the country as well as on Fox News’ Neil Cavuto and Greta van Susteren shows and he appeared as a regular commentator on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show Freedom Watch.
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About The Future of Freedom Foundation: The Future of Freedom Foundation was founded in 1989 by FFF president Jacob Hornberger with the aim of establishing an educational
Getzy Fellig
Founder of Nadanu
Getzy lives in San Francisco with his wife and four children. Growing up, his parents ran a non-profit which allowed him to be involved in the world of charity from a very young age. He co-founded Nadanu with the goal of establishing a new way of thinking when it comes to giving charity a positive experience from beginning to end.
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About Nadanu: Nadanu Technologies provides online and mobile fundraising solutions for churches to collect donations through websites.
Chaim Sztabzyb
Co-Founder of Nadanu
Chaim brings a wealth of programming knowledge and expertise to Nadanu. At a very young age he began to take an interest in technology when he received his first desktop computer: an IBM personal desktop running MS-DOS. As a co-founder of Nadanu, Chaim sought to create a functional yet simple to manage system to increase global giving and donor interaction.
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About Nadanu: Nadanu Technologies provides online and mobile fundraising solutions for churches to collect donations through websites.
Saba Khalilnaji
Founder of Okk Inc.
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About Okk Inc.: Okk is in the toys and hobby goods and supplies industry in vernon.
Yen Pai
Founder of Okk Inc.
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About Okk Inc.: Okk is in the toys and hobby goods and supplies industry in vernon.
Antonia Saint Dunbar
Co-Founder/CEO of Antonia Saint
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About Antonia Saint, Chief, Thinx: Antonia Saint is a retail store that specializes in design and making of a wide variety of women’s shoes.
Anna Lindow
CEO + Co-Founder of Brave Health
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About Brave Health: Brave Health is an online platform that offers therapy and medication management for psychiatric conditions to improve mental health.
Nicholas Helfer
CEO, Co-Founder of Dabado
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About Dabado: Dabado is an online shopping portal that specializes in portable vaporizers and technology.
Andrew Schremp
Founder / CEO of Health Sqyre
Mr. Schremp has extensive experience in the ecommerce, digital marketing/advertising, medical supplies, and healthcare insurance billing arenas, each of which contributes to his short-term and long-term strategies at Health Sqyre. Prior to founding Health Sqyre, Mr. Schremp was a Vice President at Easy Breathe, Inc., an online supplier of CPAP therapy products. Mr. Schremp helped grow Easy Breathe over 4x in revenue in a year and a half. Prior to working for Easy Breathe, Mr. Schremp was a Vice President at Creation Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on recapitalizations and management buyouts of smaller-sized, middle market companies as well as growth investments. Before his two year-stint at Creation Capital Partners, Mr. Schremp was a financial analyst for Wells Fargo Securities, Wells Fargo’s investment banking arm. At WFS, Mr. Schremp was in the Middle Market Group and specialized in mergers and acquisition transactions.
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About Health Sqyre: Health Sqyre is an online medical supplies marketplace.
Larry Hightower
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of ERLink
Larry Hightower is the Founder & CEO at Vxtra Health, Inc.
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About ERLink, Vxtra, Vxtra Health: ERLink is a member-based online community of emergency physicians that provides access to peer-led clinical discussions and case studies.
Charlie Jordan
Founder – CEO of THEOS
Charlie is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at THEOS. Charlie is a hardcore strategist responsible for driving the company’s vision and growth as it provides innovative and unique ways for the beverage alcohol industry to prosper with access to better intel. Under Charlie’s leadership, THEOS has positioned itself to carry the beverage alcohol industry to greater heights. Charlie met Co-Founder Shritesh Bhattarai at Tennessee Technological University.
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About SafeSurv, THEOS: THEOS is the marketplace driving a more connected and data rich environment for beverage suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers.
Pete Martin
Founder / CEO of Votem Corp
Pete is a serial entrepreneur with 5 start-ups including several successful exits generating an average return to investors of 11 times invested capital. He has 20+ years of enterprise technology & software experience and is the author of the upcoming book, “Sparking a Mobile Revolution; How Mobile Voting Will Change the World as We Know It.” Pete is the Founder & CEO of Votem, a mobile / online voting systems company which wants to bring a more secure, accessible, transparent, and verifiable voting platform to citizens in democratic nations around the world.
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About Forbes Technology Council, Votem Corp: Votem® is a blockchain-based mobile voting platform enabling citizens around the world to easily vote online.
Gesche Haas
Founder & CEO of Dreamers & Doers
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About Dreamers & Doers, Founders Pledge: Dreamers & Doers is a private collective for extraordinary entrepreneurial womxn.
Phil Plante
CEO & Co-Founder of Newsphere
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About East Sac Academy, Newsphere: Newsphere builds a connection with students through creativity, communication, technology, and online platform.
Laura Gonzalez
Co-Founder, Chief Marketing Officer of Make My Quince
Laura Gonzalez is Founder, Communications & Marketing Officer at Make My Quince.
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About Make My Quince: Make My Quince is an online platform that offers planning tools and crowdfunding facilities.
Ramona Maurer
Founder of Make My Quince
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About Make My Quince: Make My Quince is an online platform that offers planning tools and crowdfunding facilities.
Chris Cacciatore
Founder of Make My Quince
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About Make My Quince: Make My Quince is an online platform that offers planning tools and crowdfunding facilities.
Fatima Ruiz
CEO/Co-Founder of Make My Quince
CEO/Co-Founder at Make My Quince
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About Make My Quince: Make My Quince is an online platform that offers planning tools and crowdfunding facilities.
Alexander Atamanov
CEO and Founder of Online Patent
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About Hoversurf inc., Online Patent: Online Patent develops an IT-platform for intellectual property management, allowing to automate the typical patent attorney actions.
Akash Bhatia
Co-Founder & CEO of Infinite Analytics
Akash Bhatia graduated from MIT Sloan in June 2012. Prior to MIT Sloan, Akash is the co-founder of India’s first and largest ticketing company, Kyazoonga. Prior to Kyazoonga, Akash was an engineer with Oracle/PeopleSoft in Silicon Valley. He has completed his B.E from College of Engineering, Pune, M.S from University of Cincinnati and an MBA from MIT Sloan.
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About Infinite Analytics: AI platform that democratizes data based consumer insights for companies and individuals to analyze consumer behavior and action on it.
Rajiv Poddar
Founder of Scribie
Rajiv is an Electronics and Telecommunications graduate from NIT Silchar. He joined Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Delhi as a IT Analyst in August 1999 and worked there till 2003. In March 2003, Rajiv moved to Bangalore, India and joined Lucent Technologies where he worked for another 3 years. In 2006 he left Lucent to start his own venture. Since then he has founded two companies and is involved full time in running Scribie.com. At Scribie.com, Rajiv oversees the R&D, Marketing and Business Development activities.
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About Scribie: Scribe, an AI powered online transcription service which provides 99% + accurate transcripts with speed.
Mike Duffy
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of World Chef
Mike Duffy is the co-founder of Ugly Brother Studios. A collaboration with his twin brother Tim, the production company focuses primarily on creating and producing unscripted formats, docu-series and specials for US and international broadcasters. Already, Duffy is overseeing a busy production slate including development across a variety of networks both domestic and international including NBC, Sky, Spike TV and ABC Family. Previously, Duffy served as Executive Vice President at T Group Productions where he managed both development and current and executive produced series such as Invention USA (History Channel), Mystery Diners (Food Network), Storage Hunters, Swamp Hunters and Container Wars (truTV).
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About Ugly Brother, World Chef: World Chef operates an online community that shares cooking shows, food ingredients, and various recipes.
