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 CEO’ operating in the Marketing Automation space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Brian Long
Co-Founder and CEO of Attentive
Brian Long is the co-founder and CEO of Attentive. He previously was the CEO of TapCommerce. Prior to TapCommerce, Brian led mobile products at Pontiflex, a mobile advertising company. At Pontiflex, Brian conceived of the mobile ad product, brought it to market, and scaled it across thousands of mobile apps. Prior to Pontiflex, Brian held various sales management roles at CNET.com (acquired by CBS Interactive), where he worked closely with large advertisers like Dell, Samsung, and AT&T to build performance-based interactive advertising programs.Brian has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently on-leave from NYU, with half of an MBA in Finance & Entrepreneurship.
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About Attentive: Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform for innovative brands and organizations.
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Jager McConnell
Chief Executive Officer of Crunchbase
Jager is the CEO of Crunchbase. He joined the company as it became a venture-backed startup in enterprise data. Prior to joining Crunchbase, Jager spent 11 years at Salesforce in various roles across sales, marketing, and product development.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Courtney Puckett
Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer of Crunchbase
Courtney served as Office Manager at Crunchbase from September 2017 to February 2019, from which she served as Executive Assistant until August 2019, since which she has been serving as Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Alan Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Alan founded IAG Research, which became the leading provider of engagement metrics in the television industry, and served as co-CEO until the company was acquired by Nielsen. Alan then served as the CEO of Advertising Solutions for Nielsen, and is currently a venture partner for Greycroft Partners. Alan is a graduate of the New York University School of Law (J.D.), Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (M.P.P.), and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.).
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About Embark, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Eric Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Co-Managing Partner@Peak Opportunity Partners (“POP”). Pop is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on seed and early stage companies. POP makes opportunistic investments that can typically be a company’s first outside capital. Investments include: Blue Apron, Work Fusion(Crowd Computing), Stella Service, Great Bridge ( Earnest Research ), EBTH ( Everything But The House ).
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About Canvs, GoSpotCheck, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Fayez Mohamood
Co-founder & CEO of Bluecore
He is the co-founder and CEO of TriggerMail, a marketing automation company that allows eCommerce companies to personalize emails in real-time. Previously, he was Head of Product at BigDoor where He was responsible for concieving, executing and iterating on gamified loyalty and rewards programs to increase user retention across the websites of major global brands like NFL, Dell, Adobe and Starbucks to name a few.He also co-founded Gameday Tycoon, a simple fantasy sports game that runs on Facebook, as well as Sponty which was a service that allowed people to discover music events in town. In a previous life, He was into microprocessor design and simulation. He developed and integrated the first combined Graphics and Processor Memory Controller simulator at AMD to predict and analyze the performance impact of AMD’s Fusion CPUs. his first rookie Master’s publication when He was a student at Georgia Tech was awarded the Best Paper by the prestigious IBM’s TJ Watson Research, and a subsequent publication was adopted by AMD in one of their CPUs even before He finished graduate school. In addition, He also worked on developing graphical frameworks for Simulink and MATLAB at The Mathworks in Boston. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, where He published several papers on high-performance microprocessor design.
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About Bluecore: Bluecore uses predictive intelligence to automatically connect shoppers to products, content, and offers, wherever they are.
Manoj Ramnani
Founder and CEO of SalesIntel
Manoj Ramnani is the founder and CEO of SalesIntel.io and CircleBack, Inc. He was formerly the CEO of Dub Labs. Manoj holds a master’s degree from The George Washington University – School of Business.
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About CircleBack, SalesIntel: SalesIntel is the top provider of accurate and affordable sales and marketing contact data.
Andy MacMillan
CEO of UserTesting
Andy is Chief Executive Officer of UserTesting and oversees the strategic direction of the company. Prior to joining UserTesting he was CEO of Act-On Software. Andy also held several senior leadership positions at Salesforce, including Chief Operating Officer of the Products Division and Senior Vice President & General Manager of Data.com. In both these roles he helped significantly grow customer adoption of Salesforce products and services. Prior to Salesforce, Andy was Vice President of Product Management at Oracle and Vice President of Product Marketing at Stellent (acquired by Oracle). He started his career as a software developer at EDS. Andy holds a B.A. from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland).
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About UserTesting: UserTesting is an on-demand human insight platform designed to improve customer insights.
John Tedesco
CEO of Drip
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About Drip: Drip is the CRM Salesforce didn’t build. The first Ecommerce CRM – ECRM – is built to drive sales, not sales teams.
Vijay Tella
CEO & Co‑Founder of Workato
Vijay has led creation of market leading integration technologies for over 25 years. Prior to Workato, he was the CEO of Qik, a consumer video communications company acquired by Skype. Before Qik, he helped create two multi-billion dollar integration products. He was part of the team that created world’s first middleware platform, TIB (The Information Bus) at Teknekron Software Systems, which was acquired by Reuters Plc, in 1994. He was also on the founding team and SVP, Engineering of TIBCO through its IPO. As Chief Strategy Officer, he then helped launch Oracle’s Fusion Middleware platform in 2005.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Elias Guerra
Founder & CEO of Popwallet
Elias is the Founder and CEO of Popwallet, a mobile wallet marketing automation platform.
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About Popwallet: Mobile Wallet Marketing Automation and CX
Eric Dahan
CEO & Co-founder of Open Influence
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About Open Influence, YPO: Open Influence is a marketing company that helps brands and advertisers engage and grow their desired audiences through social media.
Jesse Leimgruber
Co-Founder & CEO of NeoReach
Jesse is a Stanford Alumni, co-founder of NeoReach and Bloom, Thiel Fellow, and angel investor in a dozen startups. Jesse is a partner at the Alchemist Accelerator, mentor at European Innovation Academy. He frequently guest lectures classes at Stanford University and USC.
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About Alchemist Accelerator, Bloom, Bloom, Clash, NeoReach, Rank Executives: Influencer Marketing For Big Brands
Victor Ho
Co-Founder & CEO of Fivestars
Victor Ho is the CEO and Co-Founder of FiveStars, a venture-backed startup building a consumer identity platform that personalizes commerce in the real world by harnessing the power of big data, predictive analytics, and cloud-based marketing automation. Previously, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Co.in New York, where he helped multiple Fortune 500 companies build and manage their loyalty and customer retention programs. He was recently selected to Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Victor holds three degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Rubik’s cube enthusiast with a personal best of 45 seconds.
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About Fivestars: Fivestars provides a platform that offers loyalty, marketing, payments, and other services to small merchants and businesses.
Diane Keng
CEO & Cofounder of Breinify
Diane Keng is the CEO and co-founder of Breinify, an artificial intelligence and contextual marketing platform for predicting and acting on customers’ highly dynamic interests. Diane is on Forbes 30 Under 30, Enterprise Technology and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, TechCrunch, OZY, and Inc. Magazine. Diane ran three successful businesses before she was 18 and is a noted software innovator who frequently speaks on the intersection of AI, personal data, privacy, and the future of smarter products. Prior to Breinify, she was at Apple and Symantec. She graduated with computer engineering from Santa Clara University.
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About Breinify: Predictive Personalization at Scale
Deepak Anchala
Co-Founder and CEO of Slintel
Deepak Anchala is the Co-Founder and CEO of Slintel.
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About Slintel: Slintel captures technographic-powered buying intent to help companies identify potential buyers in their target market.
Bruce Merrill
CEO and Founder of Cleverly | #1 LinkedIn Lead Generation Agency
Passionate about business, obsessed with progress, and continuously learning. “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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About Cleverly | #1 LinkedIn Lead Generation Agency: Scale your leads on LinkedIn and predictably drive more revenue. Check our out client reviews here: https://www.cleverly.co/reviews
Spence Kramer
Chief Executive Officer of J Walter Thompson
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About J Walter Thompson, TEN6 Creative: J. Walter Thompson is a New York-based global marketing communications provider with over 200 offices in over 90 countries.
David Cancel
Founder & CEO of Drift
David Cancel is a serial entrepreneur, podcast host (Seeking Wisdom) and angel investor/advisor. He is best known for creating hypergrowth products and product teams at companies such as Drift, HubSpot, Performable, Ghostery and Compete. David was named the top-ranked CEO by of USA Today and has been featured by media outlets such as The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, Wired, and Fast Company, and has guest lectured on entrepreneurship at Harvard, Harvard Business School, MIT, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Bentley, and other universities. His popular blog has been read by 1M+ entrepreneurs and his Twitter account is considered a “must-follow” account for entrepreneurs, executives and product people. David is also the author of the best-selling book, Conversational Marketing.
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About Drift: Drift is a Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue.
Brian Zatulove
Co-Founder & CEO of Emotive
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About Emotive: Emotive is a conversational texting platform for eCommerce brands, enabling two way text message communication at scale.
Ricardo Lasa
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer of SiteWit
Ricardo L. joined Kliken as CEO in 2009.Ricardo is a hard working serial entrepreneur that is highly involved in the technology and business community in Tampa Bay. Prior to co-founding SiteWit, Ricardo started Web Piston Website Builder, one of early platforms for small businesses to build their website and market their products and services. Through running Web Piston Ricardo realized there had to be a better way to buy paid search and started to work on SiteWit with Don in 2009. Ricardo is focusing all his efforts now in growing SiteWit and helping Search Engine Marketing firms provide better online marketing for their clients through a simple and cost efficient mechanism. Ricardo holds a bachelors degree in Management information systems, a Master of Business Administration with emphasis in Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and International Management, and a Master of Science in Management Information Systems with emphasis on Database Architecture and User Interface Design, all from the University of South Florida Business School. Ricardo also attended the Harvard Business School Launching New Ventures program in 2009 and is looking forward to joining the HBS Owner/President Management program in 2010. Ricardo sits on the board of directors of the Tampa Bay Technology Forum, the advisory board of the Management Information Systems from the University of South Florida Business School, and the board of directors of Filasa, a real estate development firm headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
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About Kliken, SiteWit: SiteWit is a platform for small business owners to market their website on Google, Bing, and Yahoo and generate leads.
Matt Schlicht
CEO and Founder of Octane AI
Matt Schlicht is the founder and editor of Chatbots Magazine, the #1 place to learn about chatbots. He is a YC Alum, a Forbes 30 Under 30 winner, and was also previously a product manager at Ustream as well as an advisor to several other startups. Several months ago, Matt decided to launch a community dedicated to messaging and bots. Chatbots Magazine was born and now reaches over 200,000+ people per month. Matt joins us to share his story, how he got into startups and tech, how he created the opportunity to join the team at uStream, how he approaches building products, why he’s so passionate about bots and messaging, what’s next for Chatbots Magazine.
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About Chatbots Magazine, DominateFund, Hamster Pad, Octane AI, ZapChain: Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.
Dan McCall
CEO of Influitive
Dan McCall is the Chief Executive Officer at Influitive.
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About Influitive: Influitive helps companies mobilize their advocates to provide more referral leads, reference calls, social media advocacy, product reviews.
Ben Jabbawy
Founder, CEO of Privy
Ben Jabbawy is the founder of Privy, an email list growth platform used by 25,000 marketers around the world. He started Privy after helping his parents market their small businesses, having seen first hand the incredible ROI of email as compared to other popular distribution channels.
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About Privy: Privy specializes in e-commerce marketing for small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Rajeev Goel
Co-Founder & CEO of PubMatic
Rajeev co-founded PubMatic in 2006, based on the belief that publishers are underserved from a technology and services perspective, and set out to build an automation software company focused on publishers. Under his leadership, the company has grown and matured into a major enterprise provider with more than 400 employees and 13 locations around the globe. The high pace of revenue and profit growth, is fueled by Rajeev’s commitment to help publishers protect, monetize and manage their most valuable asset – the relationship between consumers, content and brands. Rajeev is a serial entrepreneur who has raised more than $250 million in funding throughout his career. Rajeev serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the IAB. He holds a master’s degree in Computer & Information Technology from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in economics, political science and Spanish from the Johns Hopkins University.
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About PubMatic: PubMatic is an automation solutions company for an open digital media industry.
George Deglin
Co-founder and CEO of OneSignal
George Deglin is the Co-founder and CEO at OneSignal.
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About OneSignal: OneSignal is a customer messaging and engagement platform that allows businesses to create meaningful customer connections.
Ashok Reddy Gudibandla
Founder, CEO of Automate.io
Founder, CEO at Automate.io.
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About Automate.io: Use tens of cloud apps? Connect them the way you want. Sync data, automate workflows – marketing, sales and more.
Kris Rudeegraap
CEO, CoFounder of Sendoso
Kris Rudeegraap is CEO at Sendoso
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About CoffeeSender, Sendoso: Sendoso helps companies connect and drive revenue with personalized gifts, eGifts, virtual experiences, and more.
Sunil Thomas
Co-Founder and CEO of CleverTap
Sunil is a technologist and drives CleverTap’s strategic vision while also managing investor relations. He has previously held CTO roles at startups and companies like Network18 and Infospace Inc.
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About CleverTap: CleverTap helps digital brands increase user retention and lifetime value with the help of data, personalization, deep-tech and automation
Rick Carlson
CEO & Co-Founder of SharpSpring
Rick is a founder and CEO of SharpSpring. He started with the goal of bringing marketing analytics and automation tools to small and medium businesses on an affordable and easy-to-use SaaS platform. Rick has over 15 years of executive management experience in the technology sector, holding president, CEO, general manager, and board positions at several successful Internet security companies. When Rick is not working on SharpSpring, he is busy with his second, and far more complex start-up – his two sons. Sometimes, Rick still gets to play beach volleyball, and occasionally, his wife politely laughs at his jokes.
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About SharpSpring, SharpSpring: A rapidly growing provider of marketing automation solutions with exceptional ease-of-use and a sophisticated feature-set
Michael Sharkey
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Autopilot
Michael Sharkey co-founded Autopilot and is the CEO. Prior to founding Autopilot, Michael joined his brother Chris to grow start-up Stayz into a top Australian rental booking site (acquired by FairFax Digital in 2006 and again by HomeAway for $225M in 2013). He also co-founded Sharkey Media with his brother Chris, where he helped grow Australian startups, marketing programs, and websites.
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About Autopilot: Switch ON better marketing for your business. The Best Marketing and Customer Data Platform for Ecommerce
Scott Swanson
CEO & Founder of Bonder, Inc.
Scott Swanson has an extensive background in consultative sales to some of the largest corporations and retail distributors in the world. With over 18 years in Global Infrastructure, Advanced Security and Platfrom Development Scott has become a trusted advisor in the design, development and implementation of cutting edge platforms and technology that engage the masses, consumers and exponentially drive revenue. “We have 90+ variations of this post a picture or video and make a statement platform. It’s boring and isolating. My vision is to evolve our current platform to improve how we Interact with each other, Connect and Socialize through yet beyond the device.” ~ Scott
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About Bonder, Inc.: The Worlds First Location Based Communication Platfrom (LBCP)
Jerry Jao
CEO & Founder of Retention Science
Jerry started his path to entrepreneurship at the age 8, making $3 a day by recycling his classmates’ plastic cans after school. Years later, he moved on to e-Commerce and started selling comic books and video games online. He’s been an online entrepreneur ever since and is now CEO and founder of Retention Science. Prior to founding Retention Science, Jerry founded two other e-Commerce marketing technologies. He was an analyst with Morgan Stanley, and an engagement manager with BearingPoint Management Consulting (KPMG Advisory), where he advised FORTUNE 50 companies. He was most recently an advisor to the CFO of Clear Channel, working on digital sales initiatives and iHeartRadio. Jerry currently serves on the Board of Directors of Penango, an enterprise email & cloud security company. Jerry is a graduate of UC Berkeley, where he received a B.S. in Business Administration and a full-tuition scholarship as an Alumni Scholar, and Yale School of Management.
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About Retention Science: Retention Science is an AI-driven platform designed to engage and retain customers.
Jim Kaskade
Chief Executive Officer of Conversica
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About Conversica: Conversica creates intelligent virtual assistants to serve as virtual team members.
Garin Hess
Founder & CEO of Consensus
Serial SaaS entrepreneur. His last startup was acquired by a public company in 2011.DemoChimp is his latest SaaS heartthrob.
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About Consensus: Consensus navigating through the jungle of sales and marketing one effective automated product demo at a time.
Jay Le
Chief Executive Officer of HYPE Agency
Jay is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and philanthropist. He has started several successful start-ups that are making well over $300,000,000 in revenue.
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About HYPE Agency: HYPE Agency is a digital marketing agency that provides marketing services for all business types.
Eric Netsch
Founder/ CEO of Tapcart
Founder @Tapcart. Founder / Engineer @Mobile First Studios • Studied at @University of California, Los Angeles
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About Tapcart: Tapcart is a SaaS platform that enables e-commerce merchants to launch and manage mobile apps for their brands.
Michael Katz
Co-Founder and CEO of mParticle
Michael Katz is Founder of mParticle, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Director. Michael Katz is responsible for creating and overseeing the execution of mParticle’s vision of becoming the premier mobile data solution. Michael Katz served as Vice President of Optimization & Analytics at Yahoo where he came via the acquisition of interclick, the company he founded. As former CEO & co-founder of interclick, Michael led the business as it grew organically to $140M in revenue, while expanding gross margin % and EBITDA before its sale to Yahoo for $270 million in 2011. He was also responsible for building and maintaining analyst, auditor, and investor relationships. Prior, he was an Analyst at Accenture and ZEFER.
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About mParticle: MParticle is a customer data platform for multi channel consumer brands.
Serge Longin
Co-Founder & CEO of RevenueWell
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About RevenueWell: Automated practice marketing and patient communication suite.
Vijay Chittoor
Co-Founder & CEO of Blueshift
Co-Founder & CEO of Blueshift. Formerly Co-Founder & CEO, Mertado (acquired by Groupon), and early team at Kosmix (acquired by Walmart).
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About Blueshift, Mertado: Blueshift offers the SmartHub CDP, which helps brands deliver relevant and connected experiences across every customer interaction.
David Perry
CEO & Co-Founder of CARRO
Currenty the CEO & Co-Founder of www.GetCarro.com. Previously Perry was the the CEO and co-founder of Gaikai, the pioneer of game streaming holding the fundamental patents in the space. Gaikai was the first and only acquisition in this sector being acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment for $380M. Gaikai’s game streaming technology is now fundamental in the Sony PlayStation. In 2008 Perry became the Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Acclaim.com, one of the first advocates introducing free-to-play gaming to the western markets, Acclaim was subsequently acquired by Playdom & Disney. Prior to that, Perry founded Shiny Entertainment (a video game development company acquired by Interplay, then again by Atari) known for making hits like Earthworm Jim, MDK & the Matrix games. After 37 years in the business Perry remains one of the best known Video Game Industry veterans, with multiple #1 hits and he was awarded the Development Legend award in 2012. Perry was awarded a Doctorate in Engineering from Queens University, Belfast and a Masters in Game Development from Westwood College. He was one of the longest serving members of the Game Developer’s Conference Advisory Board, and has spoken at TED, E3, Hollywood and Games, Stanford, MIT, USC, UCI, UCLA, DICE, GTC, GDC, AMD, MGS, Digital Hollywood, What Teens Want, 3D Gaming Summit, EurekaFest, The Cove, Casual Connect etc. TAGS: Influencer Marketing, Advertising, Video Games, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Shopify, Tools, Technology, Financing, Funding, Content, Creator, Creators, Celebrities, Press, Media, Influencer & Influencers.
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About Carro, CARRO: The eCommerce Network where modern brands sell more, by working together.
Michael Bauer
Founder, CEO and Principal Consultant of Brilliant Arc
Michael Bauer is the founder, CEO and principal consultant for Brilliant Arc. Working with companies such as MapQuest, Dex, Joltid (progenitor of Skype), Jabber, and European Directories since 1993, Michael and his teams built the first online mapping system, created one of the first online shopping systems, sold some of the first online advertising, built one of the first content management systems, and created some of the earliest online directories.
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About Brilliant Arc: Brilliant Arc is a knowledge-based software developer transforming data into knowledge to solve its users’ business problems.
George Babich, Jr.
President/CEO of Checkpoint Systems
President/CEO at Checkpoint Systems.
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About Checkpoint Systems: Checkpoint Systems is a multinational manufacturer and marketer of technology-driven integrated solutions.
Douglas Winter
CEO of Seismic
J. Douglas Winter, also known as Doug, co-founded Seismic Software, Inc. and has been its Chief Executive Officer since June 2010. Douglas Winter served as Chief Financial Officer of Objectiva Software Solutions, Inc. He served as the Chief Operating Officer at EMC Document Sciences Corp. Douglas Winter served as the General Manager of Technical Operations at EMC Document Sciences Corp. Prior to joining EMC Document Sciences Corp., Douglas Winter co-founded Objectiva Software Solutions, Inc. and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Previously, he served as General Manager of ONEWORLD Software Solutions California client service centers, establishing their west coast operations and also served as part of their global operations committee, responsible for formulating and executing strategic operations. Douglas Winter also served as Program Manager for Qualcomms 3500 series of CDMA base stations and later was responsible for the product certification and testing of the QUALCOMM Thin Phone (QCP 860/1960). He served as Chairman of the Board of Objectiva Software Solutions, Inc. He serves as a Director of EMC Document Sciences Corp. and Objectiva Software Solutions, Inc. Following his undergraduate work, he worked for three years for Westinghouse where he was an instructor for the US Navys nuclear training program. Douglas Winter holds an MSEE and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BSEE from Virginia Technological University.
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About Seismic: Seismic is a sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform that improves close rates & delivers larger deals for sales teams.
Mark McKenna
CEO of Postclick
Mark McKenna is the Chief Operating Officer at Postclick.
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About Postclick: The world’s leading solution for improving digital ad conversions-creating digital experiences that optimize and increase return on ad spend
Bruce Buchanan
Chief Executive Officer of ROKT
Bruce Buchanan is the co-founder, CEO and Chairperson of Rokt.
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About ROKT: Rokt is an ecommerce marketing technology that gives customers a personalized and relevant experience while buying online.
Alexander Jordan
CEO of Firon Marketing
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About Firon Marketing: We are a strategic digital marketing agency committed to optimizing your performance across all social and search platforms.
Andrew Sawyer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cured
Andrew is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cured. Andrew was previously a venture capitalist at GE Ventures where he focused on healthcare and life sciences investing and new business creation. Prior to his role in venture capital, Andrew was a healthcare entrepreneur and management consultant focused on the intersection of provider/payer operations and technology. He served as a Director at Nordic Consulting Partners (#46 – INC 5000 list), where he co-founded the Advisory Services practice. In addition, he was Vice President of Consulting Services and a member of the early founding team at Falcon Consulting (#316 – INC 5000 list – acquired by Avaap). He started his career at Epic Systems, where he was an Enterprise Implementation Director and was responsible for launching the Home Health and Hospice product offerings. Andrew holds an MPH in Health Management from Harvard University. He graduated with honors from DePauw University with a dual BA in Economics and Spanish.
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About Cured: a digital marketing & crm platform, built for healthcare organizations
Carlos Vega
Co-Founder & CEO of Tesorio
Carlos R. Vega is a Co-Founder at CEO at Tesorio.
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About Tesorio: Tesorio is the cash flow performance platform, which Accounts Receivable, Treasury, and FP&A teams use to manage, predict, and collect cash.
Corey Pierson
Co-Founder & CEO of Custora
Corey Pierson is the co-founder of Custora, a predictive marketing analytics platform for online retailers based in New York City. Prior to Custora, Corey earned an MBA from Wharton and worked as a business designer at IDEO. He’s also a huge Philly sports fan and an amateur Vitamix chef.
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About Custora: Custora is the leader in advanced customer analytics for the retail industry.
Rich Waldron
Co-founder & CEO of tray.io
Rich Waldron is the CEO and co-founder of Tray.io.
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About tray.io: Tray.io provides a cloud-based software integration platform for automators.
Paul Boruta
CEO & Founder of Slingwave
Marketing and technology + startup CEO & founder
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About Slingrocket, Slingwave: Transforming Data into Real Business Outcomes
Andrew Bialecki
CEO of Klaviyo
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About Klaviyo: Klaviyo is a marketing automation and email platform designed to help grow businesses.
Quimby Melton
Co-Founder & CEO of Confection.io
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About Confection.io: Privacy-First Data Generator
Erik Kostelnik
Co-Founder & CEO of Postal.io
Erik Kostelnik is the co-founder and CEO of Postal.io, a leading offline engagement platform that automates direct mail and gifting in the sales and marketing workflow. Prior to Postal.io, Erik founded TextRecruit, one of the fastest-growing HR technology companies in the world, leading it to acquisition in 2018 by iCIMS, Inc. He also served as the Head of Sales at Wrike from 2014 to 2016 helping it reach #116 in 2015 Deloitte Fastest 500. Erik was named an Upstart 50 Top Inventor by the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2017 and lives in San Luis Obispo, CA with his wife and three kids.
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About Postal.io: Postal.io offers an experience marketing platform helping businesses to generate leads, increase sales velocity, and retain happy customers.
Gregory Bailey
Founder, CEO & President of Denim Social
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About Denim, Denim Social, Insure.VC: Denim Social provides social media management and marketing automation software for customers.
Rick Greenberg
CEO of Kepler Group
CEO of Kepler Group, an independent tech- and analytics-driven digital agency delivering cross-channel impact for leading advertisers worldwide. 20 year marketing and business veteran across brand management (Procter & Gamble, Unilever), management/marketing consulting (Rosetta, First Manhattan Consulting Group), marketing technology (MediaMath), and marketing services (Align Response, Cordiant, Madison Direct Marketing).
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About Kepler Group: Kepler provides global digital & database services to Fortune 500 clients.
Jonathan Spier
CEO of Rev
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About Rev: Rev reinvents sales development for B2B sales and marketing teams, helping them fuel their funnel with the highest potential prospects.
Clate Mask
CEO of Keap
As CEO of Infusionsoft, Clate leads the company’s vision, strategy and growth. His entrepreneurial spirit sparked early in his career and evolved into the software industry while he was at About.com. From there, Clate co-founded Infusionsoft with brothers Scott and Eric Martineau as a way to give small businesses a leg up with smart marketing automation tools designed just for them. His passion for helping small businesses grow is the driving force behind the company’s success.
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About Keap: Keap helps small businesses get organized to deliver services and close more business.
Robert Sandie
Co-Founder / CEO of vidIQ
Rob Sandie joined vidIQ as co-founder/CEO in 2012.
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About vidIQ: vidIQ is a YouTube audience development and management suite that provides applications and solutions for marketers.
Jack Philbin
Co-Founder, President & CEO of Vibes
As one of the premier thought-leaders in mobile marketing and wireless, Jack spearheads Vibes’ strategic direction and drives the company’s position as the leading provider of mobile relationship management technology solutions for leading brands. An entrepreneur and builder, Jack has specific expertise in business development, strategic client management and consumer marketing. Jack currently serves as Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association North America Board of Directors and on the CTIA Wireless Internet Caucus. Jack was honored with the MMA’s “Outstanding Individual Achievement” award in 2005. Under Jack’s leadership, Vibes was ranked #92 on the 2007 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing US companies and has received numerous awards for their innovation.
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About FireStarter Fund, Mobile Marketing Association, Vibes: Vibes is a mobile marketing software platform.
Jason Davis
Co-Founder, CEO of Simon Data
Jason Davis is co-founder & CEO at Simon Data.
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About CmomGO, Simon Data, Simon Data: Simon is the enterprise customer data platform that empowers brands to deliver data-driven, personalized customer experiences everywhere.
Dmitri Lisitski
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Influ2
Dimitri is a co-founder and CEO of Influ2. He has more than 15 years of experience in advertising, online media and e-commerce. He is a co-founder of BonusTec, an IT services company sold to GlobalLogic in 2006. Dimitri holds Executive MBA degree from Columbia Business School and London Business School.
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About Influ2: Influ2 is a first person-based marketing platform for B2B marketers to target decision-makers, capture their intent, and track engagement.
Glenn Houck
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of LeadQual
Glenn Houck is Co-Founder of LQ Digital. Founded in 2006, LQ Digital has grown to become one of the largest independent Digital Advertising agencies in the U.S. Glenn previously served as Senior Vice President at HomeGain.com, with direct responsibility for sales, marketing, product development and information technology. HomeGain.com was acquired in 2005 by Classified Ventures. In addition, Glenn has served on the board of directors of Laurel House, in Stamford, CT, and currently, serves on the board of directors of Inman News. Glenn holds an MBA from Sacred Heart University and a BA degree in Economics from the University of Virginia.
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About LeadQual, MyVictory Wellness, Sacred Heart University: LeadQual is a full service digital marketing, lead generation, and qualification agency.
Roy Dekel
CEO of SetSchedule
Roy Dekel is CEO and Co-Founder of SetSchedule, an American software company specializing in big data and AI technologies. Preceding SetSchedule, Roy sold billions in financial products and prior to trends, institutionalized the buy and hold residential lifestyle model managing a lofty residential portfolio. Before moving to California, Roy grew up in Israel, a child of Romanian refugees. He served as a first lieutenant in the Israeli Defense Forces of the Navy Seals. Inspired by his childhood Roy helps charities that focus on the quality of life and education of children.
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About SetSchedule: Your Voice Your Business, SetSchedule is Revolutionizing Business Development Using SAAS, Mobile And Marketplace Products.
Sam Levan
Co-founder & CEO of MadKudu
He is the CEO MadKudu. Anselme received a double M.S. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering Department from the National University of Singapore and from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and a B.S. degree from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, one of the top French engineering schools. He conducted research in the fields of mathematics, statistics and modeling working for CNRS, the largest fundamental research organization in Europe.Granted with Singapore’s scholarship, he extended his studies to analytics and majored in techniques such as singular value decomposition, principal component, factor analysis, ANOVA, and regression analysis.
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About MadKudu: MadKudu helps SaaS companies identify, qualify, and engage their leads throughout the buyer journey.
Reid Lappin
CEO of VOKAL Interactive
Reid is CEO and a founding partner of VOKAL. He takes the role of lead strategist and operations manager where he directs the company to help cultivate innovation and deliver unique client solutions. Prior to starting VOKAL, he co-founded and managed Fresh From the Hills, an organic farm, catering to restaurants, residential delivery, and farmers markets. Reid is an active volunteer in the entrepreneurship community and a board member at the DePaul Coleman Center for EMerge. He has been featured on CNBC, spoken at PRSA America, and the Extreme Entrepreneur Tour. Additionally, he often guest lectures at several local universities, including DePaul and Northwestern.
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About GoodMogul, VOKAL Interactive: Vokal is a leading-edge digital agency in Chicago, specializing in mobile apps. We design, develop and deploy digital experiences.
Ruben Vardanyan
Founder & CEO of Joomag, Inc.
Dr Ruben Vardanyan is an innovative and result-driven leader with more than a decade of experience in building hi-tech companies. He is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Joomag, a US based SaaS company that provides integrated solution for creating interactive digital publications. Under Vardanyan’s guidance the company developed a series of revolutionary products and became an industry leader. He has extensive experience working with SMBs as well as large enterprises including Fortune 500 companies. He is an angel investor, advisor and serves as a board member for various tech startups. Prior to his Joomag experience, he was the founding CEO of mobile app development company Magy. The company produced several best-seller and award winning apps. In addition to being a master strategist, Vardanyan is an aficionado of all aspects of computer programming, security, databases, software, protocols and web servers. In fact, he co-authored “Principles of C++” and authored “Programming in Macromedia Flash Action Script.” Along with his Executive Education from Harvard, Vardanyan holds a PhD in Computer Science and maintains active involvement in workshops, trainings and is a guest speaker at several international conferences.
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About Joomag, Inc.: Joomag is the all-in-one platform empowering businesses large and small to create, distribute, track, and monetize their interactive content
Chad Robley
Chairman & CEO of Mindgruve
Chad is the Cofounder and CEO of Mindgruve (INC. 5000 Company). Since launching the agency in 2001, he has played a key strategic role in helping brands transform their business through marketing and technology. Over the past two decades, he has worked with some of the top global consumer and B2B brands such as Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Qualcomm, Oracle, Merck, Live Nation and House of Blues. Prior to Mindgruve, Chad spent more than a decade as a startup entrepreneur building and scaling early stage businesses into mature, sustainable companies. He is now an angel investor and advisor to fast growth companies. Chad also serves on several company and industry boards in the consumer, technology, healthcare and B2B space. Chad is a regular writer and public speaker on the Convergence of Technology and Marketing, Digital Business Transformation and Customer Acquisition Strategies for Rapid Growth Companies.
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About Ad Age Collective, Bay City Brewing Co, Celebration Wishes, Honeymoon Wishes, Mindgruve, Mindgruve Ventures: A Modern Marketing Agency. Ideas connecting brands to people.
Ethan Anderson
Founder & CEO of MyTime
Ethan is Co-founder and formerly CEO of [Redbeacon](/organization/redbeacon), the 2009 TechCrunch50 and Business Insider Startup 2010 grand prize winner that was acquired by The Home Depot. Prior to Redbeacon, he was a Product Manager at [Google](/organization/google) where he was responsible for launching and managing the [Google Video](/product/google-video) product outside the United States prior to the [YouTube](/organization/youtube) acquisition. He also was Google’s first Product Manager for the fast growing Southeast Asian emerging markets, and a Product Manager on [Google Image](/product/google-images) Search, the top image search product in the world. Before joining Google, Ethan worked in a number of internet strategy and marketing roles at The Clorox Company, Buy.com, and [McKinsey & Company](/organization/mckinsey-company). Ethan graduated with Honors from Harvard Business School and Magna Cum Laude from Duke University, where he earned a BA in Economics and Public Policy Studies. He was recently named to Business Insider’s Silicon Valley 100 and 16 Up-and-Coming Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs You Need to Meet.
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About MyTime: MyTime powers online scheduling, automated marketing and point of sale for mid-market and enterprise service retailers.
Matthew Payne
CEO of Go Text Blast
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About Go Text Blast: B2C text messaging SaaS
Tim Stanley
Founder & CEO of Carepoynt
Tim Stanley was founder and CEO of Tekexecs, and SVP of Enterprise Strategy & Industry Solutions at Salesforce.com. Tim has also held various CXO, Board of Director and other operating roles at Caesars/Harrah’s Entertainment, Multimedia Games, JetBlue Airways, National Airlines, Intel, and Kimberly Clark. He began his career as a US Air Force officer. Tim holds a joint International MBA and Management of Technology degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and Arizona State University, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Washington. He develops and teaches MBA and executive level courses on business, technology, innovation and digital transformation as an adjunct professor at the University of California and for other executive education programs.
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About Carepoynt, InfoWerks, Tekexecs: Carepoynt is the first Rewardsware for Healthcare program, platform and network for patients, providers, employers, payers and partners
Brett Bernstein
Founder & CEO of Gatsby
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About Gatsby: Customer collaboration platform for direct-to-consumer brands
Andrey Morozov
Founder & CEO of Payment.Ninja
Founder at Payment.Ninja.
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About CardQL, FinHub Global, Payment.Ninja: Payment.Ninja is an online payment gateway that accepts Visa and MasterCard.
Michael McCarthy
Founder, CEO of Inkit
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About Inkit: Reach Enablement Platform (REP)
Marc de Kuyper
CEO and Founder of Overproof.com
Marc De Kuyper is the Founder of Lymion Group Inc. (Overproof).
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About Overproof.com: A Lymion Group Inc. applies AI to the Beverage Alcohol industry, offering various SaaS solutions to suppliers, distributors and retailers
John Hendricks
CEO & Founder of ERGO
John is the founder and CEO of ERGO Interactive, a company that specializes in designing and delivering Smart Content for email and web journeys. John holds degrees in electrical engineering and marketing and has spent his career developing award winning data-drive marketing programs for Blue Chip clients including American Express, Honda, Hyundai, Disney, Ameriprise, TIAA, BlackRock, JPMorgan Chase, H&R Block, Discover and CapitalOne. He was also a cofounder of BoldFish, sold to Siebel in 2003, and Bigfoot Interactive, sold to Epsilon / Alliance Data in 2005.
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About ERGO: ERGO is a marketing automation solution provider that creates intelligent customer experiences inside each email using Smart Content.
Richard Fallah
Founder & CEO of Vbout.com
In 2003 i launched my first startup, Talentsbid.com, an Etsy like marketplace for people to trade their talent products and crafts. Although execution failed and the website shut down in 2005 it was a huge learning curve and made me realize the career i would like to pursue. In 2007, i started Siteforbiz.com, a business website design and development company that has been rapidly growing ever since. I make sure i provide what competitors do not and that is the personal direct relationship with our clients, our consultancy expertise, our fast response and our budget conscious pricing. Aside from Siteforbiz.com i work on my own startup Vbout.com. I am also the organizer of a technology startup that provides an open mic for entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas in front of hundreds: http://www.startuppitchnight.com. I am also an active mentor at Tech Launch technology accelerator: http://techlaunch.com/mentors/richard-fallah/ My vision in everything i do is hard work, good work ethics, patience, great communication and positive attitude. I highly encourage balance in ones everyday life and i believe that working where your passion is, is like not working at all! I indulge on every bit of my everyday work experience from the good and bad and i look forward on my days off to get back to work! My areas of strength are: Design Product development Project management Social Media Customer relations Coaching My weaknesses are: Malfunction around negative energy Over caring You can meet me in 30 secs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkp0lpQChuQ&feature=youtu.be Specialties: Business development Customer relations Programming Analysis Design and concept development Project management Social media
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About NYC Marketing Meetups, NYC Technology Startups, Site For Biz, Vbout.com: VBOUT helps marketing teams increase lead generation, nurture and conversion using powerful marketing automation tools.
Michael Balyasny
Co-Founder & CEO of Attendify
Co-Founder of KitApps
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About Attendify: Attendify is a SaaS-based in-person virtual & hybrid event platform, dedicated bridging the gap between event marketing & digital marketing.
Amit Jain
Founder, CEO of Bridg
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About Bridg: Bridg is a customer data platform that empowers marketers to better understand and reach customers using SKU-level insights.
David Tal
CEO & Co-Founder of Verse.io
David Tal is the CEO & Co-Founder at Verse.io.
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About Verse.io: Verse turns new leads into sales ready opportunities through immediate AI-Driven and Human-Powered conversations at scale.
Avi Tal
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Verse.io
Avi Tal is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Verse.io.
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About Verse.io: Verse turns new leads into sales ready opportunities through immediate AI-Driven and Human-Powered conversations at scale.
Miguel Guerrero
Founder / CEO of Otis AI
Miguel Guerrero is the Founder and CEO of Otis AI. At age 14, he created the world’s largest Minecraft server with no initial capital and grew a community of over 5 million users. Miguel cofounded TABu, a mobile payment processing app for SMBs integrated with over 60% of the POS market share and featured on Apple’s Planet of the Apps television show. Prior to cofounding Otis AI, he founded MeepLabs, a creative software company specializing in cross platform solutions such as React Native to reduce development costs for businesses. Miguel is excited to expand the potential of digital marketing solutions through Otis AI, a technology company he cofounded which has created an automated digital advertising app that aims to empower small business owners.
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About Otis AI: Otis is a digital marketing automation platform for small businesses.
Timothy Dwight Wardlaw, Jr.
CEO of Aviata
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About Aviata: Aviata is a marketing automation platform that enables companies to engage via mobile and in-device communications.
Michel Feaster
Co-Founder & CEO of Usermind
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About Usermind: Usermind’s customer experience platform optimizes real-time customer interactions to improve business outcomes.
Leslie Vickrey
Founder & CEO of ClearEdge Marketing
As the CEO and Founder of ClearEdge, Leslie leads the company’s vision on how to best help clients harness the power and potential of marketing. She manages the ClearEdge team of more than 30 marketing professionals, servicing clients across the U.S. and Europe. After a short stint post college graduation in Colorado pursuing a professional career as a ski bum, Leslie began her professional career in marketing for well-known companies such as McDonald’s Corporation and Junior Achievement. However, one taste of working for a technology company and Leslie quickly found a niche in the industry, where she has worked for the past 20 years managing marketing operations and providing consulting services for companies such as Spherion, Ifbyphone, TechServe Alliance, Harvey Nash, Fieldglass, Bartech and Aon Hewitt’s RPO division. In 2004, Leslie co-founded Visient Partners, a marketing and design agency, where she served as Managing Partner. Prior to Visient, Leslie served as Director of Marketing for RiverPoint (formerly DHS & Associates) where she was responsible for enhancing their service-line development process and initiating a sales performance improvement program. Leslie spent her first several years in the IT industry working for Spherion Technology, where she directed award-winning marketing and communications initiatives for their worldwide operations, at the time a billion dollar division. Leslie received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism with an emphasis in Public Relations from Central Michigan University. She is also a founding partner of the Chicago Executive Women’s Networking Group, which cultivates and nurtures relationships among senior-level women in IT leadership roles through quarterly dinner events. Most recently, Leslie co-founded ARA , a nationwide initiative to attract, retain and advance women in technology. Through mentorship programs, networking events and leadership panels, ARA has matched over 100 mentor/mentee pairs and continues to further the conversation about diversity in technology.
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About Attract Retain Advance, ClearEdge Marketing, New Era ADR, RecruitingDaily.com, Women Business Collaborative: ClearEdge Marketing provides marketing solutions to small- and medium-sized professional services and technology firms.
James McDermott
Co-Founder & CEO of Lytics
James McDermott is co-founder and CEO of Lytics. James was previously CEO of Storycode, a mobile software company acquired by Postano and vice president, business development at Webtrends, an analytics and optimization company.
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About Lytics: Lytics helps companies personalize engagement with customers through an advanced Customer Data Platform.
Trey Allison
Co-Founder and CEO of Kronologic
Trey Allison is the Co-Founder and CEO at Kronologic.
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About Kronologic: Kronologic develops a calendar monetization platform that converts sales leads into meetings.
Andy Rossmeissl
Co-Founder & CEO of Faraday
Andy leads the company in its mission to deliver practical, powerful AI to consumer brands. A designer by training and lifelong software engineer, Andy is responsible for Faraday’s product strategy, data science organization, recruiting efforts, and corporate matters. Before co-founding Faraday in 2012, Andy founded Brighter Planet, the celebrated enterprise sustainability platform, where he began his 13-year obsession with creating value from data. Previously, he worked in politics as personal assistant to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and chief of staff to Joe Trippi. An avid technologist, he is also an Eagle Scout.
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About Brighter Planet, Faraday: Faraday helps brands get closer to their customers by optimizing every engagement with AI-driven predictions.
Billy Hwang
CEO of PopPay
He worked for SK telecom, mobile device team for 15 years and led to commercialize the world first mobile game and VOD service in 2000,2001. He has Yonsei Univ. Ph.D in Machine Learning field
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About PopPay: PopPay is Simple, Secure, and Fast. It’s more than a payment solution. Get check on your smartphone at your table and pay with PopPay
Jon West
Co-Founder + CEO + Data Privacy Officer of AddShoppers
Jon West is the Investor at Carolina Angel Network.
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About AddShoppers, AddShoppers, Alyce, Ampjar, Carolina Angel Network: AddShoppers is a robo-marketing platform that increases the profitability of marketing for commerce brands.
Michael Roth
CEO of Interpublic Group
Michael I. Roth is Chairman and CEO of Interpublic (NYSE: IPG), one of the world’s largest organizations of advertising and marketing services companies. Prior to serving in his current role, Roth was a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Since assuming leadership of Interpublic in 2005, Roth has righted the company’s financial course and moved to make it an industry leader by defining new models that provide value to clients in a rapidly-changing media and marketing environment. Prior to his current role, Roth was Chairman and CEO of The MONY Group Inc., a financial services holding company that provides a wide range of protection, asset accumulation and retail brokerage products and services through its member companies. Under Roth’s leadership, The MONY Group diversified its business mix, broadened its distribution channels and enhanced its ability to compete in today’s financial services marketplace. Roth is a member of the Board of Directors for Pitney Bowes Inc., the Ad Council and Ryman Hospitality Properties. He sits on the Leadership Committee of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; the Board of Directors of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy and The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA). In addition, he is a Director of The Baruch College Fund and The Partnership for New York City. He is also a member of the Business Roundtable. A certified public accountant, Roth holds an L.L.M. degree from New York University Law School and a J.D. from Boston University Law School. He is a 1967 graduate of the City College of New York.
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About Interpublic Group: Interpublic Group provides advertising, digital marketing, communications planning, media buying, PR and specialty marketing services.
Paul Yacoubian
Co-Founder and CEO of CopyAI
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About CopyAI, ESO Fund: CopyAI is a startup building AI-powered copywriting tools for business customers.
Pavlo Matviienko
CEO of Adwisely
Pavlo run RetargetApp. He has focused on developing products that help new & experienced online store owners market their products online. Pavlo passionate about product management and advertising in social media. He previously founded the first and the biggest Social Commerce platform in Eastern Europe.
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About Advice Wallet, Adwisely: Adwisely develops a solution that automates advertising campaigns.
Kate Johnson
CEO of Act-On Software
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About Act-On Software: Act-On Software is a cloud-based integrated marketing platform designed for midsize businesses.
Brian Handrigan
Co-Founder & CEO of Advocado
Brian is a proven entrepreneur with a passion for expanding the intersection of technology and communication. He is a true innovator and has been a founder or co-founder of seven companies (in the US and UK). His talent to help clients see “beyond the known” and identify the real problem has resulted in some of the most creative cross channel solutions to date. Brian has over twenty years of experience working with domestic and international clients such as HP, CDW, AAFES, Rolex, Walmart and major health insurance companies.
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About Advocado, GRA MATR: Advocado is a real-time cross-media optimization & audience platform that makes advertising perform better.
Gianni D’Alerta
CEO of Naka LLC
Gianni D’Alerta’s passion resides in identifying and leveraging tech trends. That type of insatiable curiosity is what drew him to the blockchain industry in 2013. He then shared that knowledge and skill set with Decentral/Jaxx (the company that brought Ethereum to life) as the Director of Marketing and Branding. His nearly 20 years of marketing, branding, and technology experience is what makes Gianni an invaluable asset to the Block5 organization.
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About Block5 LLC, Naka LLC: Marketing Consultancy
Joe Davy
Founder & CEO of Banzai
Joe Davy is Co-Founder and CEO of Banzai, a SaaS-based Engagement Marketing company. Banzai, founded in 2016, has nearly 100 employees globally with offices in Seattle’s Pioneer Square, and in Raleigh, North Carolina. Joe is a North Carolina native and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to starting Banzai, Joe was a software engineer at IBM, launched a startup called EvoApp, and was General Manager at Avalara, which went public in 2018 and currently has a $15B market cap. In 2019, he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Enterprise Technology. Joe is an active investor and also serves as a Director of LegalPad and as a board member of the Seattle Symphony.
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About Banzai: Banzai is a leading enterprise SaaS Engagement Marketing platform for virtual events. On a mission to make marketing more human, the company makes it easy for marketers to drive and track ROI on virtual events by targeting new audiences and deepening those relationships. To that end, Banzai covers a wide array of marketing event products. Banzai customers include Argyle, HubSpot, Nutshell, and ActiveCampaign, among thousands of others. Learn more at www.banzai.io.
Darius Fisher
CEO & Co-Founder of Status Labs
CEO & Co-Founder @ Status Labs | Managing Partner @ Blue Land Partners.
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About Blue Land Partners, Page, Status Labs, YPO: The Premier Online Reputation Management Firm
Devon Kinkead
Founder & CEO of Micronotes
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About Micronotes: Micronotes is an AI-enabled cloud-based marketing automation company leverging automated interviews to solve the digital engagement problem.
Jason F. VandeBoom
Founder & CEO of ActiveCampaign
Jason VandeBoom is founder of ActiveCampaign which is a web based marketing platform that helps hundreds of thousands of small businesses improve and automate their marketing.
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About ActiveCampaign: ActiveCampaign specializes in email marketing, marketing automation, and sales automation.
