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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the Event Management 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.
Kevin Hartz
Co-Founder & Chairman of Eventbrite
Kevin is the Co-Founder & Chairman of Eventbrite and an EIR & Venture Partner at Founders Fund. Prior to joining the firm, Kevin was Co-Founder and CEO of Eventbrite. Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company servicing more than 30 countries worldwide. Xoom went public in 2012 and was acquired by PayPal in 2015. Kevin has served as an early-stage investor and advisor to successful start-ups including Airbnb, Lookout, PayPal, Pinterest, Skybox Imaging, Trulia, Uber, and Yammer.
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About Eventbrite, Y Ventures: Eventbrite develops an online platform that lets users find and create events.
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Julia Hartz
Co-Founder & President of Eventbrite
Julia Hartz hopes to inspire people to live more by building the world’s largest marketplace of live experiences. Since founding Eventbrite in 2006 with Kevin Hartz and Renaud Visage, the company has generated over $3 billion in gross ticket sales, with more than $200 million tickets processed to events and experiences around the globe. A key to this growth and success is the people of Eventbrite (fondly referred to as The Britelings), which has grown to nearly 400 employees in six offices around the world. Julia cultivates and advocates for Eventbrite’s award-winning culture (voted Best Places to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area five years running). She has been honored as one of Inc.’s 35 under 35 in 2014 and Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in 2013. Julia is also a frequent speaker on live experiences, consumer trends and entrepreneurship, and has been recently featured in Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg and Inc. Magazine. Previous to Eventbrite, Julia was a TV development executive at MTV and FX Networks.
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About Eventbrite, Eventbrite, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, The Aspen Institute: Eventbrite develops an online platform that lets users find and create events.
Trisha Bousfield
Founder & CEO of Pozvat
Trisha Bousfield has extensive experience in marketing, event planning, sales, management, and operations. In 2010, Ms. Bousfield combined her passion for event planning with her strong entrepreneurial spirit, and founded Pozvat. Prior to Pozvat, Ms. Bousfield was a Project Manager at Google, where she was specifically credited for the creation and success of the Hardware Depot onsite stores. Ms. Bousfield has spent over a decade in prominent philanthropic roles. She has served in numerous capacities for the Buena Vista Auxiliary, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, and the Junior League.
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About Pozvat: Online invitations, group-funded gifts, and thank you cards wrapped up in a neat little bow.
Tal Pink
Founder of Looksy
Tal Pink is an established entrepreneur with over 10 years experience in the internet and startups. One of the early employees of Israeli company ICQ (acquired by AOL), Tal went on to launch Tar Networks (a startup incubator), as well as [Fonogenic](http://www.fonogenic.com) (DRM free music store for independent artists). His latest project, [Dopetracks.com](http://www.dopetracks.com), brings his love of musical collaboration to the web in a fresh new way by connecting producers and emcees in an interactive environment. Tal is an accomplished musician and a world-traveler who has lived in Israel, London, and California.
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About Adly, Dopetracks, Looksy, Sparitual: Fashion and Beauty Social Media
Lee Rubin
Founder & CEO of Confetti
Lee Rubin is the Founder & CEO at Confetti
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About Confetti: Discover unique workplace activities & corporate events that fit your company’s culture, goals & budget.
Gary Knudson
Founder / CEO of AdSport
Founder and CEO of AdSport, a sponsorship consultancy that harnesses the avidity of collegiate and professional sports for its clients. As CEO, Knudson oversees AdSport’s consulting, activation and promotional business, as well as its centralized agency resources, which include evaluations and analytics, strategy, creative, business development, and operations. A veteran sports marketing executive with proven track record of negotiating and activating successful, high-profile, integrated sports sponsorships that deliver equity, volume & share gains for clients, Gary brings a wealth of experience in marketing and promotions honed while working with some of the best brands in the world. Gary has negotiated hundreds of sponsorship agreements and provided counsel to such clients as Chevron, State Farm, Visa, Alltel, Dodge, America West Airlines, Chevrolet and True Value. Gary holds a BS in Organization Communications from Arizona State University where he attended on an athletic scholarship prior to a short stint with the Los Angeles Rams (’89, ’90). Gary resides in Phoenix with his wife, two daughters and son.
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About AdSport: Brand side sport, event & entertainment consultancy. We Evaluate, Negotiate, Activate & Measure.
Eric Schmidt
Co-Founder and CEO of Glue Up
As a leader in the global tech industry, Eric is focused on developing customer-centric products and transforming the way professional communities build and enrich relationships. He has incubated multiple tech startups within the software, mobile, and environmental industries, and has worked with venture capital and private equity investments in the United States and China. He also founded China Entrepreneurs — a community he built into a 20,000+ member network. Eric is an elected member of AmCham China’s Board of Governors. In 2004, sponsored by Nike and Phillips, he traced Marco Polo’s route, cycling 100 days from Beijing, China to Venice, Italy. Eric holds an M.S. and a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has been featured in media such as the BBC, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Barron’s, CCTV, China Daily, and numerous other outlets.
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About Glue Up: Glue Up is an all-in-one engagement management CRM for associations, chambers of commerce, event organizers and marketing professionals.
Nicholas Miller
Co-Founder & CEO of Gather Technologies
As CEO, Nick drives the vision, strategy, and growth of Gather. Quickly after Gather was founded, it’s become the leading event management platform, and Nick has led Gather’s rise as the ultimate growth engine for hospitality businesses of all sizes. Prior to founding and leading Gather, Nick worked at Bain & Company focusing on tech, media, telecom, and private equity.
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About Gather Technologies, Universe Software: Gather is the leading event management software for restaurants and venues.
Jonathan Wygant
Founder and CEO of BigSpeak Speakers Bureau
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About BigSpeak Speakers Bureau: BigSpeak is a full-spectrum speakers bureau providing business speakers to corporations, non-profits, and associations.
Reggie Aggarwal (CEO and Founder)
Founder & CEO of Cvent
Reggie Aggarwal is the CEO and Founder of Cvent, the leader in meetings, events and hospitality software. A lawyer by trade, Reggie founded Cvent in 1999 as a two-person startup, with the goal of making meeting planning easier for his peers in the business community. Reggie was named the #1 SaaS CEO by The SaaS Report in their 2019 Top 50 SaaS CEO list and Entrepreneur of the Year for the Washington, DC area by Ernst & Young. He was also named the most admired CEO in the Washington, DC area by the Washington Business Journal, one of the 100 most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, and a rising star by Forbes Magazine. He has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes and Business Week. He has also been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, the BBC and several other popular news shows.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Chuck Ghoorah (Co-founder)
Co-Founder & President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing of Cvent
Chuck Ghoorah is the co-founder and President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Cvent. Chuck has been instrumental in Cvent’s growth from a two-person startup to an industry-leading global organization. Cvent has helped its more than 30,000 customers manage millions of events.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
David Quattrone
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Cvent
David Quattrone has been with Cvent since the company’s founding, bringing a wealth of expertise in designing and developing large-scale Internet applications. David designed and supervised the development of Cvent’s original beta product as well as all of Cvent’s subsequent product releases, upgrades and redesigns. Prior to co-founding Cvent, David worked at First Consulting Group, a leading provider of information-based consulting, integration, and management services. There, David specialized in large-scale custom Internet/Intranet application design and development. David’s clients included BlueCross/BlueShield Association, United States Postal Service, and MCI. He was also a Consultant with E.J. Bell Systems, a software integration and application development firm, where he helped found the company’s Internet/Intranet development practice. Prior to E.J. Bell Systems, David co-founded Network Resources Group, a New York based firm specializing in Internet software integration and application development. At Network Resources Group, David created the Online Gaming Review, an online publication subsequently acquired by Air Age publishing.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Paolo Privitera
Co-Founder and CEO of Evensi
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About Doochoo, Evensi, Lombardstreet Ventures: Evensi is a platform to discover, experience, ideate, and promote events.
Jesse Lawrence
Founder of TicketIQ
Jesse Lawrence is the Founder of TicketIQ and FanIQ. TicketIQ is a leading ticket commerce platform. TicketIQ sells tickets on it’s website, app and across its social and editorial partners network that reaches over 50 million engaged fans. FanIQ works directly with teams in the NFL, NBA, NHL and MLS along with venues and promoters, all with the goal of selling tickets direct-to-fan. Prior to founding TicketIQ, he had 20 years of business and product development experience, launching and running high-growth busnesses at companies like StarMedia, IAC and MediaMath, where he led 3rd party data partners. After graduating from Columbia Business School, he also spent 4 years at Updata Partners, investing in growth stage companies in adtech and enterprise software.
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About TicketIQ: TicketIQ connects ticket buyers and sellers directly and reaches over 25 million ticket buyers each month.
Derek Andersen
CEO and Co-Founder of Bevy
Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 50+ cities community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. In 2013 Startup Grind will host 20,000 entrepreneurs at 300 events in 20 countries. After founding Vaporware Labs in 2009, he incubated many products (most of which failed spectacularly) including Startup Grind and professional social network Commonred. In 2012 Commonred was sold to Income.com. He is also Ex-Electronic Arts where he worked on games like Burnout, Mirror’s Edge, The Sims, and Need For Speed. Having spent 8-years living outside the United States, he currently lives in Palo Alto California with his wife and two children.
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About Bevy, Startup Grind: Bevy is an enterprise-grade virtual conference and community events platform designed to build, grow, and scale global communities.
Victor Pontis
Co-Founder of Luma
Victor Pontis is a Co-founder at Luma.
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About Luma: Luma provides a platform for people to host virtual classes, record live shows, educate, and find their communities via Zoom.
Massimo Barone
CEO & Founder of SmartCard Marketing Systems Inc. (SMKG:OTC)
Our management team has over 25 years of development and payment expertise and has worked with Banks, Telecom & Payment Acquirers Globally with success. Our most recent success was launched in the Mobile Payment segment in 2012 as the first PIN Debit over smartphones in multiple OS’s with Bancnet Philippines and in 2013 with Vodafone an APN with Mobile Payments over their global network.. Our current release www.genorocity.com an ecosystem for Coupons & Incentives.
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About Axpay, SmartCard Marketing Systems Inc. (SMKG:OTC): SmartCard Marketing Sys Inc. (SMKG:OTC) is a boutique Fintech Payment Co. developing solutions & strategies for EMV & Ecommerce Fintech
Antony Taylor
Founder and CEO of Lyte
Ant Taylor is the founder and CEO of Lyte. Lyte powers mobile ticketing solutions for event owners and fans, providing both a mobile-first alternative to resale websites. Since 2014, Lyte has partnered with over 300 top sports and entertainment brands, including BottleRock Music Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Arkansas Razorbacks Athletics, Mumford & Sons, Stagecoach Music Festival and more. Major ticketing platforms such as Eventbrite, Ticketfly, and Gingerbread Shed, owned by Goldenvoice, have integrated Lyte into their offering. Ant founded Lyte after observing the impact of the secondary ticket market on fans at the London Olympics. Hundreds of thousands of fans have since benefited from the Lyte solution. Before Lyte, Ant was an executive at ad technology pioneer Right Media, acquired by Yahoo in 2007 and ad cofounder of Moat, acquired by Oracle in 2017; two of the top five venture-backed exits in NYC history.
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About Lyte: Lyte is a technology platform that makes it easy for fans to buy, sell, and exchange tickets to live events.
Nathan Hubbard
CEO and Co-Founder of Rival
CEO at Rival.
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About Rival: Rival is a technology company building a platform for live events.
Dynasty Holland
Founder, Product Architect & CEO of EXPOSURE EXPLOSION FESTIVAL
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About EXPOSURE EXPLOSION FESTIVAL, InBetween Living Rehabilitation Center, Tama Industries: The Exposure Explosion Festival is a weekly mash-up of music festivals and small business marketing events.
Richy Orozco
Founder of Catholic Connect
Entrepreneur
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About Catholic Connect: A social networking platform designed to connect catholics to their local communities.
Tommaso Trionfi
Co-Founder and CEO of Tocca
Tommaso co-founded Tocca in January 2018 and he is serving as its CEO. Before then Tommaso was the CEO of Monsoon Commerce, a holding company owned by PE firm Oak Hill Capital, between January 2014 and August 2017, when the last of the holding companies was successfully sold. Prior to joining Monsoon Commerce in January 2014, he had joined Merchantry along side investors Greycroftpartners and eVentures. Before then he was the Chief Executive Officer of Wimba from 2000 to 2009. He led the growth of the company from a Research Institute technology to the leading provider of Web-based SaaS collaboration software for the education market. At Wimba, Tommaso built a team of more than 140 people spanning three countries, and organized marketing, sales, business development, product management and finance into a structured organization before the company was sold to Blackboard (BBBB). Prior to Wimba, Tommaso led business development at Omniticket Network, worked as Chief Operating Officer of Southern Europe for Colorlux, a global engineering company, and served as Chief Operating Officer of Fontenay Industries, where he led operations and key acquisitions. Tommaso received his MBA from INSEAD, and master’s degree in Science and Technology with honors from the University of Grenoble. Tommaso is currently a member of the US council of INSEAD and a trustee of the INSEAD foundation.
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About Tocca: A virtual event solution focussed on demand generation for B2B companies that want to engage with prospects and customers.
Jack Moses
Co-Founder & CEO of LevelChanger
Jack Moses is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor. He is the Co-Founder and VP Marketing of Grand Junction Networks (the pioneer of “Fast Ethernet”), which was acquired by Cisco in 1995 for $348 million. Prior to leading Grand Junction Network’s marketing efforts, Jack worked as a Marketing Executive at 3Com where he oversaw product and marketing for the company’s core computer networking and ethernet technologies. Jack attended Yale University for his undergraduate studies, where he received his B.S. in Economics, and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (GSB), where he received his MBA in Marketing.
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About LevelChanger: Real-time scoring, stats, and analytics for wrestling teams.
Eran Ben-Shushan
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer of Bizzabo
Eran Ben-Shushan is Co-Founder & CEO at Bizzabo.
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About Bizzabo: Bizzabo powers in-person, virtual, & hybrid experiences with the Event Experience OS, an open platform for Event Experience Leaders.
Alon Alroy
Co-Founder & Chief of Customers & Strategy Officer of Bizzabo
Alon Alroy is Bizzabo’s Chief of Marketing and Customer Success
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About Bizzabo: Bizzabo powers in-person, virtual, & hybrid experiences with the Event Experience OS, an open platform for Event Experience Leaders.
Zafar Jafri
CEO & Founder of Inprintz, Inc.
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About Inprintz, Inc.: Inprintz is a large format printing company.
Mitch Thrower
Founder & Chairman of Events.com
He is the Founder and Chairman of Events.com, an innovative cloud-based Event Management Platform provider that provides a state of the art mobile-first SaaS application that enables the full event life-cycle, connecting event organizers and event goers. Events.com enables event organizers to plan, promote, and ticket their events while also providing event goers the tools to discover, register, collaborate, share, and celebrate their experiences. Thrower also serves as Chairman of The La Jolla Foundation, a 501c3 foundation whose primary initiative is Project Active, providing funding, mentoring, encouragement and education to areas of world tension. Specifically — sending sports equipment to children in war zones. Thrower Co-Founded active.com (The Active Network, Inc.). He also launched ActiveEurope.com (Active Europe Network) as Co-Founder and CEO. Active went public before selling to Vista for 1.05 billion. Thrower was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Triathlete Magazine, the world’s largest triathlon magazine where he also served as Chairman. He has also served as the Chief Interactive Officer, Strategist & Senior Correspondent for the Competitor Group (CGI), the active lifestyle industry’s leading media and event entertainment company. Thrower spoke at his university graduation at St. Lawrence University, and has lectured at many colleges such as Stanford University, Anderson School at UCLA, UCSD and the University of San Diego where he served as the “Entrepreneur in Residence” teaching Entrepreneurship. Thrower is an active member of TED.com and the Executive Producer of TEDxLaJolla, an independently organized TED event. He is the Author of “The Attention Deficit Workplace: Winning Strategies for Success in Today’s Fast-Paced Business Environment,” published by Lyons Press and he was author of the popular monthly column, “Starting Lines” in Triathlete Magazine for more than a decade. He was also co-author of the travel guide “The Passport” which, for several years was distributed to 50,000 college students before traveling abroad each year. In 1990, Thrower co-founded his first company and served as CEO of The College/Rail Connection, Inc., serving American Express, AT&T, and Eurail until he sold the venture in 1997. Thrower graduated from the Executive Institute at Stanford University. He holds a MBA from the University of San Diego and a bachelor’s degree from Saint Lawrence University. He has competed in 22 Ironman Triathlons, including 13 World Championships. He is the only photo journalist to ever photograph and film the Ironman Triathlon World Championships while competing in the event. Thrower is an East Coast native whose father, Fred Thrower was a television pioneer as Vice President of NBC, and also as president of WPIX-TV in New York City and is known for his holiday creation of the televised “Yule Log.” Thrower’s mother, Lori, worked as an assistant for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in NYC. Thrower is happily married to his lovely wife Amanda and lives in La Jolla, California.
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About Events.com, La Jolla Foundation, Inc, La Jolla Holding: Events.com is an event management platform that manage, market, and monetize low-key fundraisers, massive festivals, and marathons.
Smita Saxena
Founder and CEO of Stanza
Smita Saxena is Co-founder and CEO of Stanza (stanza.co), which was founded in July of 2012. Saxena previously founded Accevia, Inc which was part of StartX’s inaugural class. Accevia was a secure platform for independent financial advisors to communicate with clients. The platform allowed clients to automatically upload their portfolios and receive automated performance reports. Saxena received her Masters in Financial Mathematics from Stanford University and her Bachelors in Mathematics & Economics from the University of Toronto.
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About Stanza: Stanza is an internet company that creates own events calendars, and share with family, friends, and beyond.
Mark Hinkle
CEO and Co-Founder of Triggermesh
Mark has a long history in emerging technologies and open source. Before co-founding TriggerMesh, he was the Executive Director of the Node.js Foundation with membership including Microsoft, IBM, Google, Intel, PayPal, and other industry leaders. Previously he was the VP of Marketing at The Linux Foundation. Mark joined the Linux Foundation from Citrix were he was the Head of the Citrix Open Source Business Office with participation in numerous trade organizations including the Xen Project, Apache CloudStack, and the Open Stack Foundation. Mark joined Citrix as a result of the acquisition of Cloud.com where he was Vice President of Community. Previously he held the position Vice President of Zenoss, an open source enterprise management company and Director of Technical Support for Earthlink. Mark also has extensive publishing experience as the Editor-in-Chief of LinuxWorld and Enterprise Open Source Magazines and as the author of Windows to Linux Business Desktop Migration Thomson (2006).
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About Triggermesh: Triggermesh develops a serverless management platform for managing functions and event triggers
Julie Roche
Co-Founder of Burbio.com
Start-up co-founder with years of experience in brand management, market research, and product development. Have led teams on dozens of product launches across a variety of consumer product categories, developed marketing plans, and designed consumer product internet strategies. Also have experience leading community non-profit boards in the education and youth sports fields. Currently leading overall vision, product development and marketing for Burbio.com. Experienced with user interface design and prototyping (Axure), front and back-end application development, Ruby on Rails, and user testing. Practiced in lean start up and agile product development methodologies.
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About Burbio.com: Burbio is specializing in aggregating school, government, library, and community event information
Adam Olalde
CEO and Founder of Xtreme Xperience
After a sales and management stint in the luxury concierge industry it didn’t take Adam long to realize that people everywhere, from all walks of life, wanted the same thing: to experience the adrenaline and allure of the world’s finest automobiles in a setting that was heart-pounding, yet safe, but most of all convenient and affordable. In 2012, with a small team, Adam proved his point and hosted the first Xtreme Xperience event. Each day he uses that same mentality to continually improve the program, lead the best team, provide new experiences and, above all, help each one of Xtreme Xperience’s customers check something off of their bucket list and create memories that will last a lifetime.
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About Xtreme Xperience: Xtreme Xperience makes the world’s best exotic cars accessible for everyone to enjoy on real racetracks.
Alfred Johnson
Co-Founder & CEO of Mobilize
Entrepreneur, Investor, Organizer
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About Mobilize: Mobilize is a events management and volunteer recruitment platform that connects mission-driven organizations and supporters.
Allen Kramer
Co-Founder of Mobilize
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About Mobilize: Mobilize is a events management and volunteer recruitment platform that connects mission-driven organizations and supporters.
Marc Hodulich
Founder of CharityBets
Raised in Birmingham, Alabama Graduate of Auburn University, 2002 SEC All-Academic Team as a member of Auburn University track & field team Lives in TriBeCa with his wife Stacey; sons, Chase and Dylan; and dog, Barkley.
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About CharityBets: Select an athletic event. Set a goal. Choose a charity. Friends, family, clients, and colleagues bet on your performance
Lee Heffernan
Chief Executive Officer/Founder of IMG LIVE
Lee Heffernan is the Chief Executive Officer of IMG LIVE and is responsible for the strategic direction of the agency. Lee’s greatest strengths are his strategic thinking, excellent leadership skills and the unique ability to foster a winning culture. Originally a Boston native, Lee attended the College of the Holy Cross on a football scholarship. He has 30+ years of consumer packaged goods and agency business experience. Lee’s career started on the client side at Proctor and Gamble and then he later joined The Coca-Cola Company. While there, Lee had positions of increasing responsibility ultimately leading towards his passion of managing sports activation programs for marquee events such as the Olympic Games, World Cup and Super Bowl. In 1998, Lee switched over to the agency side and founded “Heffernan Interactive”, an experiential marketing agency. The agency was immediately successful and known both for its excellence in program execution as well as its focus on relevant brand communication. The agency roster included many blue chip clients and programs that were designed to help their brands to activate at key properties and events.
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About IMG LIVE: IMG LIVE is an experiential marketing agency.
Salvatore Lupoli
Co-Founder of Alchemista
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About Alchemista, Lupoli Companies: Alchemista provides an online catering service to curate the enhanced food experiences for the most intrepid companies.
Charles Zhuang
Co-Founder of Sparxo Inc.,
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About Sparxo Inc.,: A better way to discover events is a better way to sell tickets.
Ro Valiao
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder of Flipcause
Business executive and entrepreneur passionate about social impact and the nonprofit community. Experience includes renewable energy, technology, and social enterprise. Recognized for identifying problems, contributing innovative solutions, and spearheading change.
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About Flipcause: Fundraising technology and services for nonprofits
Emerson Ravyn
Executive Chairman, Co-Founder of Flipcause
Emerson Ravyn is the CEO and Founder of Flipcause, Inc. Flipcause is an award winning software company that helps thousands of nonprofits across the US optimize their development programs through innovative technology. Mr. Ravyn, a San Francisco Bay Area native, has over a decade of experience building businesses, developing software, and helping nonprofits fundraise. Throughout his career, it became clear to Mr. Ravyn that many nonprofits lacked the technical staff to implement and maintain a modern technology infrastructure. With that in mind, Mr. Ravyn spent the last 5 years working to ensure that any sized organization, regardless of their budgets or technical chops, have access to the tools they deserve at a price they can afford. @emravyn @flipcause
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About Flipcause: Fundraising technology and services for nonprofits
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.
Mark Hodges
Founder and CEO of Hodges Advisory
Mark Hodges joined Baird Capital as an Operating Partner with more than 20 years of experience in business process outsourcing. (BPO). Mark is an acknowledged pioneer of BPO, and was responsible for a research paper which coined the term in 1989. Currently, Mark is the Founder and CEO of Hodges Advisory, LLC, a built-for-purpose advisory firm that counsels founders and their companies on high growth and liquidity alternatives. Mark serves on the board of Myelin and Vitalyst. Prior to Hodges Advisory, Mark served as Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board for EquaTerra, Inc. the global leader in outsourcing and shared services advisory services. Prior to EquaTerra, he served as Managing Partner of Strategy, Corporate Development and BPO Practice for TPI, Inc. Before TPI, Mark was the Vice President of Strategy & Corporate Development at Exult, Inc. Prior to joining Exult, Mark was the Worldwide Director of Gartner’s Dataquest IT Services (ITO and BPO) Vendor Group, and before Gartner, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of G2 Research, Inc. (G2R), where he spent 11 years before it sold to Gartner in January 1999. Mark received his bachelor’s degree in Political Economies of Industrial Societies (Economics and Political Science) from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Hodges Advisory: Hodges advisory positions themselves for multiple liquidity events in an efficient manner.
Beverly Yip
Co-Founder of YummRun
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About YummRun: YummRun is a B2B catering service partner to Executive Administrative and Meeting Professionals.
Kayla Yuen
Co-Founder of YummRun
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About YummRun: YummRun is a B2B catering service partner to Executive Administrative and Meeting Professionals.
Marcus Floyd
Founder of Occur
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About Add2Net, Occur: We exist to fuse all facets of the live entertainment industry and to bring more light to local talent.
Taku Harada
Co-Founder and CEO of Peatix
Taku founded Orinoco together with his former colleagues at Amazon, and has served as its CEO since its inception. Taku also held the position of Representative Director and CEO of YOOX Japan until August 2009. Prior to YOOX, Taku held various positions at Amazon Japan including head of its mobile and online marketing divisions. He also launched the iTunes Music Store in Japan while at Apple in 2005 and led its marketing team. Taku began his career at Sony Music Entertainment’s international business affairs division in Japan. He holds a B.A. from Yale University.
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About Peatix: Peatix is a event registration platform that provides organizers with the tools to create, promote, and sell out events.
Omer Glass
CEO and Founder of GrowthSpace
Omer Glass is the founder and CEO at GrowthSpace. He worked as the VP for Business Development and Strategy at Betalin Therapeutics Ltd., Team Leader and Management Consultant at Shaldor, Co-Founder at Careerologia, Teaching Assistant at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and the Founder and CEO at Economics and Strategic Thinking. He is a graduate of Seth Godin’s alt. with a master’s degree. He also studied in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, with a master’s degree in Behavioral Economics and a bachelors degree in Economics and Psychology.
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About GrowthSpace, GrowthSpace: Growth space is an flexible multi-space like that.
Julie Goldman
Founder & CEO of Original Runner Company
JULIE GOLDMAN perfects life’s Grand Entrances with her non-slip fabric aisle runners. After earning her Master and Doctorate degrees from Columbia University, Julie was inspired by her own wedding to launch her wildly popular business The Original Runner Company in order to provide the world with the first non-slip fabric aisle runners for weddings and special events. After almost fifteen years in the event industry, The Original Runner Company has sold millions of dollars of her unique aisle runners in more than twenty countries. Her celebrated creations have graced the weddings of Kim Kardashian, Kevin Jonas, Robert Herjavec, Fergie & Josh Duhamel, Michael Jordan, Neil Diamond and Tracy Jordan to name a few. Whether creating a Yellow Brick Road, a replica football field, or even a completely glittered aisle runner; Julie’s company can make any dream entrance a reality. The overwhelming success of The Original Runner Company has resulted in Julie appearing on dozens of the TV shows including “Shark Tank” and receiving business awards from Comcast, Dell, American Express and Forbes. Her business has also been featured in over 200 magazines as well as Crain’s NY Business, NY Daily News, NBC news, Lifetime Television, Oxygen, and Fox Business. A well known speaker and adjunct professor on entrepreneurship and small business growth, Julie loves to share what she has learned through her two successful businesses with other business owners.
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About Original Runner Company: The Original Runner Company creates the highest quality fabric aisle runners perfect life’s Grand Entrances.
Ryan Dawkins
Founder + President of Project Sport, LLC
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About Project Sport, LLC: We are running & cycling. Award-winning events + entertainment.
Ashish Mathur
Founder of ishaadiplanner
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About ishaadiplanner: An online Indian Wedding market place and portal
Peter Brown
Founder & CTO of Pathable
CTO, has over 10 years of experience in Internet technology, from concept rapid prototyping, architecture to development, deployment to operations, and branding to promotion. He studied Computer Science at the University of Washington and at Tohoku University in Japan. His first company, Messenger9, sold to WideMile and, after a year spent traveling, he joined SuperOyster as Director of Web Development before co-founding Pathable.
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About Pathable: Mobile event apps and websites for conferences, tradeshows and meetings
Austin Davis
Founder of Blockchain Beach
Founder, Professional Engineer & Tech Entrepreneur – BSIE, MMSE
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About Blockchain Beach: Events, Conferences, News, Media, Education, Networking, Video, Newsletters, Online Content
Chris Sullivan
Founder & CEO of Wasabi 3D
Chris Sullivan has more than 15 years of experience in sales and marketing, most recently as Vice President – Cross Media Integration at Princeton Partners, an award-winning brand marketing agency in Princeton, NJ. He leads a team of 20 people in the development of marketing strategy, creative development and media planning/buying for consumer and B2B clients. Additionally, Chris was the architect of the 3D experiential marketing tour for Western Pest Services. Prior to Princeton Partners, Chris excelled in the direct marketing departments of Foote, Cone, Belding and other agencies. A 1998 graduate of La Salle University, majoring in Communication/Public Relations, Chris was a scholarship student for the men’s soccer team and a member of the Communication Department Board. Outside of the office, Chris enjoys time with his family, playing soccer and guitar, and listening to the Allman Brothers Band.
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About Agency Managment system, dataxu, Princeton Partners, Sullivan Advisory Group, Wasabi 3D: Wasabi 3D is an experiential marketing company that helps companies develop brand interactions with consumers using 3D art.
Aakash Barot
Founder of Alephants
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About Alephants: Alephants allows companies to find and hire local staff for temporary jobs.
David Rudolph
Founder & CEO of PlayOn! Sports
David Rudolph is the CEO at PlayOn! Sports.
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About 2080 Media, PlayOn! Sports: PlayOn! Sports is a high school sports media company that streams events and videos on-demand.
Luke Smith
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Croud
CEO & Founder at Croud, an award-winning global digital agency delivering performance marketing in 110 countries, offices in London, NY, Sydney and Shrewsbury. Having built an in-house team of 145, together with a network of 1,900+ ‘Croudies’, we’re achieving exceptional growth by reinventing the agency model. Croud was recently listed in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 of the UK’s fastest-growing private tech companies, and recognised as one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies in the FT1000. Plus we were incredibly proud to pick up the social innovation award as part of the Tech Track award, for facilitating change in the way people work. Find out more at www.croud.com or I’m always happy to connect with anyone in digital – reach me at luke@croud.com
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About Croud: Croud is a digital marketing agency that provides services including SEO, PPC, content, programmatic, paid social, and analytics
Arun Parimi
Founder & CEO of Arevea Inc.
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About Arevea Inc., BOOKMYCARGO: Arevea is an online end to end event experience platform that enables users to create memorable experiences for any type of event.
Barry Griffin
Founder of Crank, Inc.
Technology leader focused on optimizing processes and profits for clients in the entertainment industry. Brings 20+ years of experience as a major record label professional for RCA, Geffen, Polydor, Giant and Chrysalis.
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About Crank, Inc.: A B2B platform that connects the live performance ecosystem record labels, managers, promoters, venues, PRO’s, etc. together.
Adam Jones
Founder of TOKEN EVENTS
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About TOKEN EVENTS: We’re building a better ticket to events. No fees. No scalping. More $ to artists and teams.
David Burg
Co-Founder of TOKEN EVENTS
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About TOKEN EVENTS: We’re building a better ticket to events. No fees. No scalping. More $ to artists and teams.
Luke Hutchison
Founder & CEO of Perfect Venue
Luke is the founder of Perfect Venue
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About Perfect Venue: Easily manage events with the best event management software for independent venues and hospitality groups.
Tina Fitch
Co-Founder & CEO of hobnob
Tina Fitch is the Co-founder and CEO of Hobnob, the fastest way to organize events and coordinate people. Previously, Tina was the co-founder and CEO of Switchfly, a global software-as-a-service provider that helps travel companies, loyalty programs and financial services institutions engage with their highest value customers. Fitch led Switchfly to work with more than 300,000 travel suppliers, loyalty programs and payment providers globally, including United Airlines, JetBlue, Starwood Hotels, Expedia, Priceline, and American Express. Collectively, more than 20 billion reward points are redeemed through the Switchfly platform annually.
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About hobnob: Design and share virtual meetup invites in seconds. Or, create a private virtual community space and keep in touch in-between meetups.
Sam Franklin
CEO / Founder of Greenvelope.com
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About Greenvelope.com: Uniting beautiful design & streamlined event management tools // elegant, effortless, and eco-friendly digital missives for every occasion
Evelyne White
Co-Founder, CEO of SixPlus
Co-Founder & CEO at BookaLokal and SixPlus. Her passion and energy for hosting food events is only matched by her desire to make it easier for you to do the same.
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About SixPlus: SixPlus is an online marketplace for corporate event professionals to book private dining spaces in restaurants and hotels across the US.
Frank Ramirez
Co-Founder & Head of Product of SixPlus
Co-Founder, CTO (Product Lead) at SixPlus. Frank Ramirez is a co-founder of Bookalokal. A former Senior Consultant with Deloitte, Mr. Ramirez previously served as the technical lead for the design of an interoperable mHealth platform in the country of Tanzania. A native of Miami, he holds a Bachelor of Sciences in Computer Science and an M.P.A from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).
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About BookaLokal, SixPlus: SixPlus is an online marketplace for corporate event professionals to book private dining spaces in restaurants and hotels across the US.
Dennis McKenna
Co-Founder, Exec Chairman of e.Republic
Dennis is CEO and co-founder of e.Republic. Established in 1984, it is the leading media company focused on state and local government and education. Dennis oversees strategy and business development for the firm and is responsible for its market-leading print and digital publishing, business intelligence, and integrated media. A pioneer in the field, Dennis is a trusted advisor to both public- and private-sector leaders in the United States and internationally. Under his leadership, e.Republic’s award-winning publications, websites, over 200 events and highly respected research operations are acknowledged as setting the gold standard in their respective fields. The firm’s work is regularly cited in national outlets, including The New York Times, Forbes, Time Magazine, The Washington Post and USA Today. In 1985, Dennis developed and published California County magazine in partnership with the California State Association of Counties. In 1987, as one of the first to recognize the impact new digital technologies were to have on the public sector, Dennis launched Government Technology, the first national magazine covering information technology in state and local government. Government Technology was followed with the development of other successful media platforms, including Public CIO and Emergency Management. All are recipients of numerous editorial and design awards–with Emergency Management in 2013 and Public CIO in 2009–named “Magazine of the Year” by the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) and Government Technology and Emergency Management named as best publications in their respective categories for the last three years (2011-13) at the Western Publishing Association’s Maggie awards. Seeing the need for stronger analysis and research to support public sector innovation, Dennis developed and oversees management of the Center for Digital Government – the first of its kind research and business intelligence advisory focused exclusively on state and local government. The Center is home to the widely cited Digital States Survey and Digital Government Navigator, a subscription-based market intelligence tool for companies targeting public sector business. In 2009, e.Republic acquired Governing from Congressional Quarterly. Governing is the nation’s leading media platform covering politics, policy and management for state and local government leaders. Since the acquisition, Dennis has brought on former Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser as Publisher and broadened Governing’s offerings – building out its online presence, establishing the Governing Institute and greatly expanding its national events portfolio. In 2011, Governing received the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Award from American Business Media for exceptional editorial content. In 2014, Dennis launched two new initiatives, e.Republic Labs and e.Republic Ventures. Designed to link state and local government to a new generation of innovative civic-tech solutions, e.Republic Labs serves as a catalyst and connector for the development, deployment and scalability of a new generation of government and civic technologies. e.Republic Ventures provides mentorship and capital for a select number of early stage companies to accelerate their entry into the public sector market. Dennis also acquired the regional tech business website Techwire in 2014 and relaunched it as a subscription based news and business intelligence service focused on the nexus of business, technology and public policy in California. Dennis has served as an advisor to the Education Commission of the States to help develop effective strategies for use of information technology in education and was a board member of the Information Technology Association of America’s subcommittee on state and local government. Dennis served as chair of the Technology Task Force for Governor Pete Wilson’s California Mentoring Initiative, serving on the governor’s team representing the state of California at the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future held in Philadelphia in 1997. As a speaker, Dennis has addressed national and international organizations, including the National Governors Association, National Conference of State Legislatures, Little Hoover Commission and Education Commission of the States. He is recognized by FOLIO as one of the most influential people in magazine media and by BtoB Media Business’s “Who’s Who in Business Publishing.”
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About e.Republic: e.Republic is a media and research company focused on state and local government and education.
Aron Kansal
Founder & CEO of SimpleTix
Founder & CEO of SimpleTix.com, the World’s most flexible e-Ticketing Platform. Entrepreneur and software developer by trade. My current role is SimpleTix is to seek out partnerships with other e-commerce platforms, payment gateways, and channel partnership opportunities. Work for an e-commerce platform payment gateway? Please connect with me and we’ll see how we can integrate with each other. Are you an event planner or hosting a festival/concert? Let’s talk about how SimpleTix can be the most cost effective & robust ticketing platform for you.
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About SimpleTix: SimpleTix is an e-commerce company that offers turn-key solutions for event websites and online ticketing.
Brandon Maier
Founder of WestWave Ventures
Brandon Maier has past experience in finance, marketing, and entrepreneurship, and holds a degree in Communications from NYU. His most recent startup endeavor, Jozii.com, is a student based job matching service which amassed over 100,000 student users in the US. Other startup experiences include serving as a Financial Controller for a Bitcoin Exchange and a marketing consultant for companies building out campus brand marketing campaigns. In addition to launching his own startups, Brandon has taken the time to participate in various accelerator programs, including NYU’s Summer Launchpad. Even with his various commitments, Brandon has been dedicated to giving back to the University Entrepreneurship community, regularly speaking on Entrepreneurship as a guest lecturer at NYU, Pace, Penn State, and USC as well as serving as a judge for college pitch competitions which include Princeton’s Tiger Launch, Global Entrepreneurship week and many more. As a member of the Quake team, Brandon handles University Relations, Deal Flow Generation, and Partnerships. To date, Brandon is connected with over 80 University Entrepreneurship programs across the country including Columbia, MIT, and other top tier institutions, all of whom have participated in Quake’s University Investor Series Program.
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About WestWave Ventures: WestWave Ventures is a Los Angeles based company focused on fostering community and innovation in Southern California.
Toby Harris
Founder, President and CEO of Quartz Events
Toby Harris is the Founder, president and CEO of Quartz Events. He attended The University of Manchester in 1990.
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About Quartz Events: Quartz Events produces industry, invitation-only senior executive B2B conference under the brand of scope, impact, connect, and CIO Visions.
Cyril Attia
Founder of BeMyApp
Cyril began his professional career by creating Lynxoft, a startup studio specializing in web and mobile applications. Passionate in digital innovation and fast prototyping, he works on designing and popularizing the concept of corporate hackathons. He started BeMyApp to help entrepreneurs and companies launch MVPs faster. To date, BeMyApp has organized more than 500 events with 200+ clients across 21 countries.
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About BeMyApp, Virtual Conference: BeMyApp organize events for developers. We help companies and developers to connect in order to create new digital innovations.
Thor Wood
Founder and CEO of SNAPSHYFT Labor Marketplace
Founder and CEO of technology startup SnapShyft which he co-founded with Stephanie Corliss, and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A. With over 13 years in executive recruiting and staffing, prior to founding SnapShyft Thor operated his own successful staffing agency working with several high profile third-party logistics companies including industry heavyweight Matson Logistics. He also helped lead N+FOB’s growth from $24M to over $108M in annual recurring revenue and a Top 25 industry ranking. SnapShyft was named a TechCrunch Top Pick for Social Impact, as well as a Top 15 Startup of the Year in 2019, and previously received the Indiana Innovation Award. 500 Startups portfolio company founder | TechCrunch 2019 TOP PICK: Social Impact |Top 15 Startup Of The Year 2019 | Emerging Tech Culture 2019 | Indiana Innovation Award winner 2018 | gener8tor cohort 15 portfolio company founder | Winner Indy Start Up Challenge.
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About SNAPSHYFT Labor Marketplace: Staffing-as-a-Service marketplace for flexible staffing in foodservice & hospitality
Sarah Shewey
Founder and CEO of Happily
Sarah Shewey is the founder and CEO of Happily. Shewey began her event career in 2002 at Harvard’s American Repertory Theater, earning the title of “Best Party of the Year” by the Boston Globe. Her work in creating sustainable weddings and innovative events has been covered by the Associated Press, the BBC, NPR, and Forbes. Shewey is a founding producer of TEDActive, the board president of dublab.com and the executive producer of the Lean UX conference.
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About Happily: Happily is a nationwide network of the best freelance event producers, coordinators and assistants available for hire.
Jenna Sands
Co-Founder of HelloWellness
Jenna Sands co-founded HelloWellness in 2016, an event-hosting company that fosters in-person connections between brands, bloggers, and wellness enthusiasts.
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About HelloWellness: HelloWellness is an event-hosting company that fosters in-person connections between brands, bloggers, and wellness enthusiasts.
Brandon Fuller
Founder + Creative Director of 1215creative
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About 1215creative: 1215creative is an in-house creative agency and production studio based in Los Angeles, California.
PJ Hagerty
Founder/Chief Community Officer of DevRelate.io LLC
Developer, writer, speaker, musician, and Community Advocate, PJ is the founder of DevRelate.io. He is known to travel the world speaking about programming and the way people think and interact.
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About : Developer and Community Relations as a Service
Sourabh Ladha
Co-Founder of Weddingz
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About Weddingz: Weddingz.in – India’s largest Wedding Company.
Joshua Parolin
Co-Founder & CTO of Lennd
Co-Founder, CTO of Lennd.
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About Fondi, Lennd: Operating system for the event production world
Steve Witmer
Product Design Co-Founder of Lennd
Product Design Co-Founder at Lennd
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About Lennd: Operating system for the event production world
Kevin MacCauley
Founder and CEO of Upper Hand
I started Upper Hand and represent our mission, team, shareholders and partners as the CEO. I love doing good, and hate doing bad. I am driven by an innate work ethic to deliver value to sports business owners day in and day out. I am a Believer, Son, Husband, Father and coffee addict.
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About Techstars Sports Accelerator, Upper Hand, Upper Hand, Wiltshire Ventures: Upper Hand is a technology company that provides business management solutions for the sport and fitness industry.
Brandon Wheeler
Founder of Gulf Beach Weddings
Founder and operator of Gulf Beach Weddings in the greater Tampa Bay region. We work with 7 of the “Top 10 Beaches” in Florida for our extensive menu of wedding package options. Whether you’re looking for an intimate wedding with you and you partner or a celebration involving 100 guests, we look forward to being a part of your big day. Congratulations!
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About Gulf Beach Weddings: The Best Company for Florida Beach Weddings!
Symon Perriman
Chief Architect ,President & Founder of FanWide
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About Facebook AI, FanWide: FanWide is a free website and app that connects sports fans from every team in any city with fan clubs and game watch parties at sports bar.
Jeremie Habib
Founder & CEO of Gigwell
CEO and CoFounder at Gigwell.
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About Gigwell, The Advance: Gigwell is building the next generation collaborative gig booking platform for live entertainers and venues.
Antonio Sierra
Co-Founder | VP, Agency Relations of Gigwell
Co-founder of Gigwell.
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About Gigwell: Gigwell is building the next generation collaborative gig booking platform for live entertainers and venues.
Glade Luco
Co Founder & CTO of Gigwell
Co Founder and CTO at Gigwell.
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About Gigwell, The Advance: Gigwell is building the next generation collaborative gig booking platform for live entertainers and venues.
Andy Ray
Co-Founder of Evanios
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About Evanios: Evanios automates IT Operations in complex enterprise environments. Keywords: Monitoring, Event Correlation, Predictive Analytics, AIOps.
Rupal Chawla
Co-Founder of FidGrit
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About FidGrit, New Relic: Most comprehensive Sports and Sports Event Management platform. Our goal is to enable sports professionals with latest tech advancements
Ben Glass
Co-Founder and Head of Partnerships of Curate
Ben Glass is a Co-Founder and Head of Partnerships at Curate.
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About Curate: Curate provides end-to-end event, COGS, and rental management services.
Ryan O’Neil
Founder and CEO of Curate
Ryan O’Neil is the Founder of Curate.
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About Curate: Curate provides end-to-end event, COGS, and rental management services.
Holly Dechelle Smith
Co-Founder and Marketing Director of Curate
Holly Dechelle (Doerflinger) Smith is a Co-Founder and Marketing Director at Curate.
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About Curate: Curate provides end-to-end event, COGS, and rental management services.
Bria Cavitt
Co-Founder & Customer Success Manager of Curate
Bria Cavitt is a Co-Founder & Customer Success Manager at Curate.
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About Curate: Curate provides end-to-end event, COGS, and rental management services.
Whit Hanks
Co-Founder, CFO of Whim Hospitality
A consummate businessman, entrepreneur, husband, father and true Austin native, Whit’s family history is rooted in the city and state of Texas. A former real estate developer and antique dealer, Whit had fun importing a church from Vietnam on a lark, decided to set it up on his parents’ weekend place in Dripping Springs, met Kim and the rest is history. Whit works for fun, generally about 60 hours a week! He enjoys tennis, hiking, photography, and spending a lot of time with his wife. They love to travel to places they have never been, often gathering inspiration and goods to enhance the company’s offerings. Together the couple has 5 children and four dogs. While Whit has had a long, colorful career, it is this phase of his life in the hospitality industry where he is able to positively impact the lives of so many people — employees and guests–in a positive way, helping make their dreams come true. He’s really enjoying this chapter of his life. Unofficial title – Kim’s Handler.
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About Whim Hospitality: Whim Hospitality offers services which include catering, florals, event rentals, tents, event supply, and venue management.
Kim Hanks
Co Founder/CEO of Whim Hospitality
Born in Dallas, Texas but raised in rural Arkansas and California by her mother and both sets of grandparents, the family is of the utmost importance to Kim and plays a critical role in how she and Whit run their company. A lover of all things living, Kim has always been interested in zoology and television broadcasting and dreamt of becoming the next Jack Hannah or Crocodile Hunter. Kim’s path to the hospitality industry was a serendipitous one, taking her from years at a Biotech to a world where she could help bring families together for their most important celebrations. For Kim, nothing is more thrilling than wrangling 300 guests in the unpredictable Texas weather. She loves hiking with Whit and their two dogs, white water rafting and fly fishing with her family and traveling the world. She and her sons love the movies and have been known to dabble in karaoke shows too. One of her best-kept secrets is her ability to spot a good bargain. She buys all of her designer clothes on eBay because she loves buying second hand. Unofficial title – “Jazz Hands Experience Creator.”
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About Whim Hospitality: Whim Hospitality offers services which include catering, florals, event rentals, tents, event supply, and venue management.
Anthony Lee
Founder and CEO of Heroic Voice Academy
Anthony Lee is the Founder of the Heroic Voice Academy, a communications training company. He has an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley, and a MBA from Duke University. He is also a certified trainer in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a study of communication best practices. In his professional career, he find one common theme that illustrates his passion and purpose: Helping leaders develop their heroic voices to solve global challenges. Anthony’s presentation and training skills were developed and fine tuned in a career that includes 18 years with technology startups, 6 years of real estate consulting, and 10 years of event production experience. His communications expertise was developed from the high stakes presentations he gave in the fields of internet security, real estate best practices, and large scale international partnerships. Anthony leads from the stage, and also leads from the back of the room having produced major events including industry conferences and large seminar trainings.
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About Heroic Voice Academy: Communications Training for Global Impact Leaders
Chris Lindsey
Director of Product and Strategy / Co-Founder of PeopleVine
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About PeopleVine: PeopleVine was built for private clubs and member-based business looking to provide premier and elevated experiences for their members.
Mabel Chan
Co-Founder of Albert’s List
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About Albert’s List: Albert’s List is a career marketplace, employment services, and HR marketing agency
Albert Qian
Founder of Albert’s List
Albert Qian is the founder of Albert’s List and a product marketing manager.
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About Albert’s List: Albert’s List is a career marketplace, employment services, and HR marketing agency
Travis Fisher
CEO & Founder of TicketSauce
Travis Fisher is the CEO & Founder at Ticketsauce.
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About TicketSauce: Your complete event management and box office solution.
Lucas Tepman
Founder and CEO of MUSA
Lucas Tepman currently works as Founder and Chief Executive Officer at MUSA. He is also an Investment Analyst at Gratitude Railroad.
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About MUSA: Musa is an events service company that connects local artists with unconventional local venues.
Adam Sherman
Co-Founder and COO of MUSA
Adam Sherman serves as Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at MUSA.
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About MUSA: Musa is an events service company that connects local artists with unconventional local venues.
Magdalena Fraga Lauhirat
Co-Founder, Marketing Chief, and Creative Director of MUSA
Magdalena Fraga Lauhirat currently works as Co-Founder, Marketing Chief, and Creative Director.
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About MUSA: Musa is an events service company that connects local artists with unconventional local venues.
Vlad Enache
Founder & CEO of Ignite
Vlad Enache is a CEO at Ignite.
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About Ignite: Ignite helps create and organize new social experiences through social surveying and crowd planning.
Matt Mastrangelo
Founder / CEO of Groupmatics
After a nearly decade-long career with two professional sports teams, Matt Mastrangelo launched Groupmatics with an approach that blends an inside group sales perspective with a true love of sporting events. Working in the group sales department, Matt recognized the amount of work, responsibility, and hassle that was placed on both the Group Sales Rep and a Group Leader to manage a group outing. He also saw the inefficiencies of the group sales process and realized that teams were losing opportunities for return revenue due to poor process experiences of the buyers. Matt started his career in the ticket sales department with the Cleveland Indians in 2005. In 2006 he was promoted to the role of Group Sales Account Executive, where he worked very closely with non-profit organizations, youth baseball leagues, churches, unions, and corporations to organize group outings ranging from 25 to 5,000+ people. Matt became Group Sales Manager for the Cleveland Browns in 2010. After only two years with the Browns, Matt and his staff grew the group ticket business by a whopping 800%. The NFL recently honored the Cleveland Browns Group Sales department as a best practice for this accomplishment. Matt received his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Communications from Cleveland State University. He currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio with his beautiful wife Nicole, son Anthony and daughter CeCe. He hopes Groupmatics puts the fun back in group ticketing processes for teams and groups across America.
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About Groupmatics: Groupmatics is a white-label group ticketing platform used by professional sports teams and other public event organizations
