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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 Washington based Founder operating in the Internet 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.
Alex Jones
Founder of Infowars.com
Alexander Emerick Jones is an American far-right radio show host and conspiracy theorist. New York magazine has described Jones as “America’s leading conspiracy theorist,” and the Southern Poverty Law Center describes him as “the most prolific conspiracy theorist in contemporary America.”
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About Infowars.com: Infowars.com is an online news source owned and managed by Alex Jones.
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Tom Davidson
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of EVERFI
Tom Davidson picked the “CEO” slip out of the hat at a recent EverFi staff party and has yet to be fired by the Board of Directors. Davidson ran for the Maine State Legislature while a senior at Bowdoin College in 1994 and spent the better part of three terms working to bring education technology to students in the Pine Tree State. As Chairman of the Utilities and Energy Committee, Davidson led a successful effort with Governor Angus King to provide laptops to every Maine seventh grader as well as to create a major expansion of the wiring of schools and libraries across the State. After deciding that he needed to tell his children one day that he actually once earned a paycheck, Davidson left the Legislature in 2000 and began investing in early-stage technology companies in the education and social media spaces. He was a Venture Partner with Village Ventures, a network of venture capital firms across the U.S. Davidson graduated from Bowdoin College devoid of any academic honors of any consequence.
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About EVERFI, GrowthSpur: EVERFI is an education technology company that provides learners of all ages education for the real world.
Jon Chapman
Co-Founder and President of EVERFI
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About EVERFI: EVERFI is an education technology company that provides learners of all ages education for the real world.
Blaine Ludy
Story Producer & Co-Founder of Cut.com, Inc.
Blaine Ludy is the Story Producer & Co-Founder at Cut.com.
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About Cut.com, Inc., Super Frog Saves Tokyo: Cut makes little stories of some interest.
Jason Hakala
Head of Production & Co-Founder of Cut.com, Inc.
Jason Hakala is the Head of Production & Co-Founder at Cut.com.
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About Cut.com, Inc., Super Frog Saves Tokyo: Cut makes little stories of some interest.
Yifan Zhang
CEO & Co-Founder of Loftium
Yifan Zhang is the CEO and Co-Founder of Loftium.
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About Loftium: Loftium is a technology startup that offers premium rental experiences at affordable rates with built-in income.
Sonny Ganguly
Co-Founder of WeddingWire
Sonny Ganguly is the Co-founder of WeddingWire Inc. Sonny leads WeddingWire’s marketing strategy, customer acquisition, and business development. Prior to joining WeddingWire, Sonny was in a management program at Wal-Mart where he led marketing, sales, and retail strategy development. Before this experience, Sonny spent four years at Kraft Foods where he managed numerous consumer brands, including the JELL-O business with P&L responsibility for over $800 Million. During his tenure, his brands’ reached record volume, revenue, and profitability levels. Sonny has structured partnerships with companies such as NBC, MTV, Conde Nast (Modern Bride and Brides magazines), Mattel, Universal, Dole, Reynolds, Costco, and Safeway. Sonny holds a B.A. in Economics with a focus in Management and Marketing from The University of Pennsylvania. He attended Harvard Business School for his M.B.A. where he served as President of the Marketing Club.
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About Kraft Heinz, WeddingWire: WeddingWire is an online marketplace to help engaged couples plan their weddings.
Mike Galgon
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
Mike Galgon is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He loves partnering with Founders to build world-class companies. Beyond working with pre-launch studio projects, Mike represents PSL on the boards of Ad Lightning, Taunt, Gradient, and Attunely. Mike has had a long career as an entrepreneur and investor in the Pacific Northwest. Mike co-founded aQuantive, which boasted both the largest independent digital agency in the world (Avenue A|Razorfish) and the largest marketer-side ad serving platform (Atlas), prior to selling to Microsoft in 2007. After leaving Microsoft in 2009, Mike served on the boards of Buuteeq (sold to Priceline), Energy Savvy, Market Leader (sold to Zillow), Real Networks, Flexe, Pixvana, and Pipeline Deals. Outside of work, you’ll find Mike in the outdoors: backpacking, camping, surfing, telemarking, snowshoeing, wakeboarding, biking, running, etc., etc.. More trails than macadam, but he’ll get it in regardless. And, when possible, you’ll find him with at least one of his four daughters. Mike has also served on the boards of a variety of non-profit organizations, including Global Partnerships (a leading impact investor focused on market-based solutions to global poverty), The Bush School, The Thacher School, and Summit Public Schools (a leading national charter school network). Mike studied Economics at Duke University, Getting It Done as a Diving / Mine Countermeasures Officer in the US Navy, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Pioneer Square Labs: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Ben Gilbert
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
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About Acquired.FM, Glow, Iteratively, Pioneer Square Labs, Taunt: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Greg Gottesman
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
Greg Gottesman is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. Prior to PSL, Greg served as one of the three initial Managing Directors of Madrona Venture Group, where he worked for almost 20 years. He also co-founded and led Madrona Venture Labs. Greg represents PSL on the boards of Boundless, Cash, LumaTax, and NextStep. He is also the founder, current board member, and former CEO of Rover.com. “Venture is about finding truly great entrepreneurs and supporting their efforts in every way possible. The rest is noise.”
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About Boltive, Pioneer Square Labs, Rover: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Jerome Armstrong
Co-Founder, Advisor, former Board Executive of Vox Media
Jerome Armstrong is a co-Founder, advisor, and a former board executive of [Vox Media](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vox-media). He is also the owner of [Webstrong](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/webstrong), a provider of web applications for businesses. Armstrong obtained a Bachelor of Applied Science degree and a Master of Science degree from Portland State University.
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About Vox Media: Vox Media is an operator of an online media publishing agency created to influence editorial properties and premium advertising.
Ambrose Wang
Co-Founder of MediaAlpha
A serial entrepreneur that has been deeply involved in the online marketing and advertising industry for over 15 years. Ambrose is an active co-founder of MediaAlpha, Inc, a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange.
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About MediaAlpha, QuoteLab.com: MediaAlpha is an advertising technology company that develops programmatic advertising platforms.
Rob Lawson-Shanks
CTO & Co-Founder of LifeFuels
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About LifeFuels: LifeFuels is changing the way consumers approach hydration and nutrition by empowering them to create personalized beverages on the go.
Susan Tynan
Founder & CEO of Framebridge
A few years ago, Susan Tynan framed four National Parks posters. When they rang up at $1600, she funneled her sticker shock into a revolutionary idea. She felt sure that if someone made high-quality custom framing easy and affordable, people would frame a lot more—and they have. Since 2014, Tynan has grown Framebridge from the ground up. After four years of record growth, the company opened their first retail location in March 2019. Prior to Framebridge, Tynan held product and business development roles at several consumer technology startups including LivingSocial, Taxi Magic, and Revolution Health. She began her career at Accenture and served as a management advisor on technology and customer service for the Obama White House. Tynan is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Harvard Business School.
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About Framebridge: Framebridge is a custom framing startup that provides an online custom framing service.
Richard Tindal
Co-Founder and COO of Donuts
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About Donuts: Donuts is a domain name registry offering new domain names in multiple languages and character sets.
Robb Monkman
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of React Mobile
Robb Monkman is the Founder and CEO of React Mobile, Inc a leading provider of enterprise safety technology. A seasoned entrepreneur with experience launching multiple products, from idea to exit. Several years ago, Robb was the victim of an armed robbery and hostage situation that left a lasting impression on him. He soon learned that thousands of people every day were in situations where they desperately need help but couldn’t make a call. He made it his mission to solve this problem, founding React Mobile to create a simple yet powerful personal safety platform that today is transforming the way people call for help in emergencies. React Mobile is making tomorrow a safer place and already helping people all over the world.
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About React Mobile: React Mobile is a robust cloud based SaaS platform that provides enhanced safety solutions to protect employees of our enterprise customers.
Odysseas Papadimitriou
CEO & Founder of WalletHub
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About Evolution Finance, WalletHub: WalletHub is a leading personal finance website that helps consumers make smarter financial decisions.
Dmitry Dain
Co-Founder of Virgil Security
Dmitry Dain is the Co-Founder at Virgil Security, Inc.
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About NextGen Venture Partners, Virgil Security: Virgil Security provides easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use cryptographic software and services for use by developers and end-users.
Bryan Mistele
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of INRIX
Bryan Mistele, Founder & CEO of INRIX, a leading provider of traffic information, connected car services and transportation analytics. Bryan Mistele grew up in Detroit, spent time in Boston and now live in the Seattle area. Bryan Mistele got his Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan (go Blue!) and then his MBA at Harvard. Bryan Mistele worked at Ford Motor Company and Microsoft prior to starting INRIX.
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About INRIX: INRIX enables smarter mobility by empowering cities, people & businesses with data & insights to make movement greener, safer & faster
Rand Fishkin
Founder & CEO of SparkToro
Rand Fishkin is CEO of SparkToro and author of Lost & Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World. He previously co-founded Moz and Inbound.org. He enjoys pasta, cocktails, income equality, dismantling the patriarchy, and, most of all, his marriage to award-winning author Geraldine DeRuiter.
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About SparkToro: SparkToro is a software company offering a search engine to discover any target audience’s influential publications, channels, and people.
Marc Wolf
CTO and Co-Founder of Ikeja Wireless
Marc Wolf is the CTO and co-founder of Ikeja Wireless.
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About Ikeja Wireless: Ikeja is a wireless network provider that uses bespoke solutions to provide internet connectivity to locations.
Marc Barros
Co-Founder & CEO of Moment
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About Moment, Techstars: Moment operates as a global marketplace for creatives.
Eugene Nonko
CTO and Co-Founder of QuoteLab.com
Eugene Nonko is the CTO and technology officer of MediaAlpha. He is the primary architect of MediaAlpha’s technology platforms and is responsible for the direction and strategy of the company’s technology and analytics capabilities. Previously, Eugene was the VP of R&D at Oversee.net and a senior software engineer at Microsoft.
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About MediaAlpha, QuoteLab.com: QuoteLab is an online marketplace connecting consumers with insurance agents and companies.
Robert Frederick
CEO, President & Co-Founder of Sirqul
Robert Frederick, founder and CEO of Sirqul, has been focused on connected communities of devices, people, and businesses since 1993. He was inspired by the boundless future potential of smart connected devices and leveraged this passion to attend MIT, to work on projects in the MIT Media Lab, and to join one of the first startups focused on standards that would later be called BlueTooth in the late nineties. The startup’s licensed product, DeviceTalk.com, was a central server running Intelligent Agents that used event-based logic to complete actions on behalf of its users via simple commands and conditional triggers. Identity and Presence was important then and still tends to be important now. Amazon acquired the company in 1999, and Robert led the internal team, Amazon Anywhere, that focused on making it possible to interact with Amazon Anywhere, Anytime, on Any device. After becoming the technical co-founder of Amazon Web Services and setting the stage for Amazon to become profitable leveraging the Cloud, Rob started Sirqul to create an Intelligence of Things (IoT) ecosystem on top of the cloud that also works at the edge. Sirqul has numerous partners that span Retail, Smart Buildings, Autonomous Vehicles, and Robotics.
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About GripWire, Sirqul: Sirqul enables startups and ecosystems to leverage application templates, platform, & APIs to create solutions and ecosystems rapidly.
Jim Xiao
Founder & President of Mason
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About Mason: Smarter from start to finish with Mason.™
Jim Manzi
Founder and Partner of Foundry.AI
Jim was founder, CEO and Chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies (APT), which became the world’s largest purely cloud-based predictive analytics software company. Prior to founding APT, Jim worked at AT&T Laboratories, and was a partner at Mercer Management Consulting. Jim received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was subsequently awarded a Dean’s Fellowship in statistics to the doctoral program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Applied Predictive Technologies, Foundry.AI, Vizual.ai: Foundry.ai is a technology studio focused on data science.
Ned Brody
Founder & Partner of Foundry.AI
Ned Brody is the Founder & Partner at Foundry.ai.
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About Foundry.AI, Vizual.ai: Foundry.ai is a technology studio focused on data science.
Logan Soya
Founder & CEO of Aquicore
Prior to founding Aquicore, Logan worked extensively in the IT and Telecom industries and has delivered numerous complex multi-million dollar management systems both domestically and internationally for high-profile global telecom and media operators. Logan also helped start a research initiative based on highly secure Quantum Encryption. Logan Soya received a BS in Physics, an MS in Systems Management and has his MBA from Georgetown University and London Business School. During his MBA at Georgetown he worked with Foundation Capital, a top-tier Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm. Logan has always had a passion for energy and is excited to take some of the best practices in IT and Telecom management systems to create better building energy management.
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About Aquicore: Aquicore is an information technology company that offers a cloud-based software designed for asset operations platform for the CRE sector.
Simon Yu
CEO & Co-Founder of StormX
Simon started his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 19. After his family declared bankruptcy, he was forced to drop out of college at the University of Washington and find a full-time job to pay for rent and food. His full-time wage was still not enough for him to go back to school so he started selling Korean tacos out of his apartment to students studying late night on campus. The tacos went viral, and he was able to start a food truck with two friends after returning and graduating with a full-time scholarship. He quickly turned and scaled that business into a $500,000 business with ten employees in less than two years before joining Calvin at StormX. During his time at StormX, Simon has helped grow revenue more than 800%, user growth of 3000%, and raised funding to scale a small start-up started in a dorm room to a seven-person company. He is a visionary who is able to see the long-term potential in every aspect of scaling a multi-billion dollar business opportunity.
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About CakeCodes, StormX: StormX is a Blockchain and micro-task company that provides crypto cashback.
Malik Khan
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of LTN Global Communications
Khan co-founded LTN and serves as its executive chairman of the Board. From July 2005 to July 2007, Khan served as Chairman and CEO of NexTone, Inc., a session border controller (“SBC”) company. From 2004 to 2005, Khan served as Chairman and CEO of Converged Access, Inc., an integrated IP voice and data solutions company. Prior to that, Khan was founder, Chairman and CEO of Sitara Networks from 1996 to 2004 and co-founder and Chairman of Indus River Networks from 1996 to 2000. Khan served as entrepreneur-in-residence at Flagship Ventures during 1996. From 1984 to 1996, Khan was employed by Motorola Inc. and served in a variety of executive roles, including Vice President and General Manager of Motorola’s Network Systems Division. Khan holds a B.Sc and M.Sc in Chemical Engineering from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About LTN Global Communications: LTN provides IP-based video transport solutions focusing on the quality and reliability of videos delivered over the Internet.
Yousef Javadi
Co-Founder, President and CEO of LTN Global Communications
Javadi is a co-founder of LTN and its President and CEO. He is an accomplished entrepreneur and executive leader in both telecom services and IP technology. Javadi brings over 25 years of experience at starting, growing, and running global businesses. Most recently, Javadi was President of NexTone Communications, a privately held provider of software products. Earlier, Javadi was President of Sprint International, where he ran all of Sprint’s businesses, alliances, and relationships outside of the U.S. Under Javadi’s leadership and direction, Sprint built its next generation global Internet backbone. Prior to that, he held increasingly important corporate executive positions, including: head of the billion dollar North American operations of Primus Telecom; president of a wireless messaging unit at G.E. Capital; and vice-president of global sales and marketing at OTI, a start up satellite company that was sold to MCI. Javadi holds a B.Sc and M.Sc in Engineering from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About LTN Global Communications: LTN provides IP-based video transport solutions focusing on the quality and reliability of videos delivered over the Internet.
Yair Amir
Co-Founder & CSO of LTN Global Communications
Amir is a co-founder and the Chief Science Officer at LTN. He is an established expert in building messaging systems and C3I systems. Amir is the initiator of the Spread group communication and messaging toolkit (www.spread.org), which is used in thousands of installations around the world in commercial, academic and government settings. He also led the development of Secure Spread, which includes the first robust key agreement protocols. Amir is a creator of the Spines overlay network platform and the SMesh wireless mesh network, the first seamless 802.11 mesh with fast, lossless handoff (www.smesh.org), as well as the Backhand load balancing and Wackamole NxWay fair-over web clustering projects (www.backhand.org). Amir also serves as a Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Distributed Systems and Networks lab (www.dsn.jhu.edu) at Johns Hopkins University. Amir’s academic research has been funded by DARPA, NSF, NASA, and the NSA. He was nominated for the agency-wide “Performer with Significant Technical Achievement” DARPA award for 2004, and was awarded the DARPA Dynamic Coalitions program “Bytes for Buck” trophy in 2002. Amir holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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About LTN Global Communications: LTN provides IP-based video transport solutions focusing on the quality and reliability of videos delivered over the Internet.
Franck Rougier
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Kirio Inc
Franck Rougier is a passionate entrepreneur and tech evangelist who founded Kirio to serve the construction industry. Kirio, Inc. is a Seattle based IoT hardware and software manufacturer designing, developing, and deploying the Kirio Smart Home and Energy Management System. Franck earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic University, and his Master Degree in Sensor Based Robotics and Controls from New York University. Previously, Franck was president at Blue Helios Inc., a software development consulting company serving the alternative investment industry. He also worked in the supply-chain management (PKOH) and financial (BAC) industries.
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About Kirio Inc: Kirio is an intelligent software platform that uses a deep learning algorithm to deliver true home automation, efficiency and comfort.
Brandon Andrews
Co-Founder of Gauge (Gauge.AI)
Brandon Andrews is co-founder of Gauge; an AI-driven mobile market research platform connecting brands to consumers and influencers to identify opportunities and avoid mistakes. As Senior Consultant at Values Partnerships he leads the company’s work on technology and entrepreneurship, including leading a nationwide casting tour focused on bringing more diverse ideas and voices to ABC’s Shark Tank and building inclusive ecosystems. Named a Global Innovation Fellow by the U.S. Department of State, he has traveled the world speaking and hosting events on entrepreneurship and innovation.
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About Gauge (Gauge.AI): Gauge connects decision-makers with the diverse culture leaders charting our future. Look around the cultural corner. Decide with confidence
Brandon Schulz
Co-Founder & CEO of Violet
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About Violet: Violet is a Commerce API Platform enabling any app to integrate universal checkout in weeks instead of years.
Eric Koester
CEO and Founder of Kingmaker Labs
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About Creator Institute, Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business, Intrapreneur Institute, Kingmaker Labs, NextGen Venture Partners: Startup studio developing new products are services focused on our changing habits at home, at school and at work.
Ofer Saban
Co-Founder, CTO of Memomi
Ofer Saban is a Co founder & CTO at Memomi Inc.
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About Memomi: Memomi is a smart mirror software that transforms the luxury shopping market.
Ryan Healy
Founder & President of Brazen
Ryan Healy is the COO and Co-Founder of Brazen Careerist, a professional networking site that helps members create new relationships to advance their careers. He Co-founded Brazen Careerist in late 2007 after gaining national notoriety in the HR & Recruiting sectors through Employee Evolution, his community based blog about Young Professionals in the workplace. Ryan has been named one of the country’s top Human Resource thought leaders by World at Work and Accenture, and is a recognized workplace expert for the young workforce, appearing in print publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Business Week and as a spokesperson for the new generation of young professionals on 60 Minutes and PBS Nightly News. Prior to founding Brazen Careerist, Ryan worked as a Financial Consultant for IBM Global Business Services in Washington D.C. He holds a B.S. in Business from Pennsylvania State University.
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About Brazen: Brazen is a virtual event platform that helps organizations create better engagement through chat-based online events.
Faridun Nazarov
Co-Founder and COO of Fourstay
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About Fourstay: 4stay – SaaS enabled online marketplace for student and intern housing.
Maziar Rezakhani
Founder of Cyoo
Maziar Rezakhani is the founder of Cyoo LLC. He studied at Washington University.
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About Cyoo: Cyoo is a real time location sharing and map based social media platform.
Sam Sadeghi
Co-Founder and CEO of Cyoo
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About Cyoo, Federal Aviation Administration: Cyoo is a real time location sharing and map based social media platform.
Dave Curry
Board Chairman, Founder of Demand Energy Networks
Dave is a successful entrepreneur having founded, taken public, and exited two companies for nearly $1B and has over 30 years of combined telecommunications and software industry experience. Prior to starting Demand Energy in 2008, he was President & CEO of World Wide Packets, a layer-2, point-to-point Ethernet switch vendor to Comcast, Clearwire, & AT&T that was acquired by Ciena in 2008. Before World Wide Packets, he co-founded Architel, a provisioning software telecom OSS vendor to Verizon, Cable & Wireless, BT, NYNEX, and GTE that was taken public in 1998 and subsequently acquired by Nortel in 2000. In 1996, Dave was selected Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year for his leadership at Architel.
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About Demand Energy Networks: Demand Energy Networks specializes in the fields of energy storage, battery systems, software, microgrids, and renewables integration.
Dean Graziano
Founder & CEO of KeeperAI
Dean has more than 15 years of experience in entrepreneurial ventures, including as the founder of Visible Technologies Inc., an industry-leading online reputation management and social media software company located in Bellevue, Washington. Dean started Visible Technologies in 2005 in his apartment with two employees , and in four years expanded the company to 110 employees and $16MM in revenue. In 2009, Visible Technologies was voted the second-fastest-growing companies in Seattle/Puget Sound, listed #170 on Inc. Magazine’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies, and was a Top Performer in the 2009 Forrester Wave Report. Dean led the company to more than $50MM in funding, which included investors such as Joe Grano – Centurion Holdings, WPP, Ignition Partners, and In-Q-Tel. In 2007, Dean was also part of the founding team at Reach Machines, a media-planning software company, which merged in 2008 with another local start-up called Fyreball. The combined company is now called Meteor Solutions (www.meteorsolutions.com). Meteor Solutions was acquired in October 2012 by Covario, a leading search marketing and digital agency. Dean lives in Seattle with his wife Marian and their three kids. He sits on several advisory boards and is highly active in the Seattle start-up community. He is an inventor and holds patents in the social media Industry, patent #7,720,835
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About KeeperAI, Launch Consulting Group, The Movement Company: SaaS, Corporate Team Development, Culture
Dale Dell’Ario
Founder and CTO of Ario
Dale is the Founder and CTO of Ario, a company he started as a result of his interest and work in lighting, and the realization that the environment created by built spaces can and should be as dynamic as nature. Prior to Ario he was a mechanical engineering consultant developing products for commercial and medical companies. Before that his design career included nearly 20 years with medical companies, Olympic Medical, and SpaceLabs medical, building photo therapy and monitoring products in the roles of mechanical engineer, project manager, program manager, and engineering manager. He contributed to the development of commercial and computing products in similar roles for Hinds-Bock Co,, Ridge Computers, and Hewlett-Packard. His technical expertise lies in Product and Industrial design, and includes design management, engineering analysis, and regulatory compliance. Personal interests include lighting as functional art sculpture, home building, small land owner forestry, and yoga.
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About Ario: Ario creates circadian lighting solution that makes it easy for people to lead healthier lives.
Bing Chen
Co-Founder and Product Lead of Ario
Bing Chen is the founder of Ario.
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About Ario: Ario creates circadian lighting solution that makes it easy for people to lead healthier lives.
Russell Wilson
Founder and Executive Chairman of TraceMe
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About TraceMe: TraceMe is a technology company connecting athletes, influencers, celebrities through new social media platforms.
Avi Hoffer
Founder & CEO of Experchat, Inc
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About Experchat, Inc: Digital Marketplace for Top Beauty & Fashion Experts
Srdjan Marinovic
Co-Founder and CTO of SignalFrame
Srdjan Marinovic is the Co-Founder and CTO at SignalFrame.
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About SignalFrame: SignalFrame is a software company that maps and relates wireless signals to power a new class of graph-based proximity services.
Alex Guirguis
Founder and CEO of Off The Record
Alex Guirguis is the co-founder and CEO at OffTheRecord.com. He previously worked at Amazon and Expedia as a Software Engineer. Alex has a bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
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About Off The Record: Off The Record is the smart way to fight any traffic ticket.
Juan Castrence
Co-Founder & Lead UX Designer of Grafiti
Juan Castrence is a Co-Founder and the Lead UX Designer at Grafiti.
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About Grafiti: Grafiti is a search engine for graphs, charts, facts, info-graphics, data, and insights.
Chris Diorio
CEO, Founder of Impinj
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About Impinj, University of Washington: Impinj is a provider of RAIN RFID solutions that deliver Item Intelligence to retail, healthcare and other industries.
Sureyya Ciliv
Founder and Chairman of Kuika
Süreyya Ciliv is the CEO of Turkcell since January 2007. Before joining Turkcell, he held executive positions in Microsoft Corporation. In 1997, Ciliv was appointed the Country Manager for Microsoft Turkey and in 2000 he was promoted to the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA, USA. He held executive positions in the Microsoft Worldwide Sales, Marketing and Services Group from 2000 till 2007. Ciliv was the head of Field Readiness Strategy and Systems Division of Microsoft, before he joined Turkcell. Between 1988 and 1997, Ciliv served respectively as Vice President, President and Chairman of Novasoft Systems, an enterprise document and workflow management company he co-founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He started his business career as a software development engineer at Metagraphics in Massachusetts where he was later promoted to be the director of international sales and marketing. Ciliv has a MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1983 and BSE degrees in Computer Engineering and Industrial & Operations Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1981.
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About Kuika: Kuika turns an idea into an enterprise-level web and mobile application without coding.
Michael Luciani
CEO and Co-Founder of The Tuesday Company
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About The Tuesday Company: The Tuesday Company builds software that helps organizations strengthen relationships with supporters to drive community, activism.
Ryan Geithman
Co-Founder and President of Ember Entertainment
Ryan Geithman serves as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director at Ember Entertainment.
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About Ember Entertainment: Ember Entertainment is an independent mobile game developer.
Brian Ballard
CEO and Co-Founder of Upskill
Brian Ballard passion is pioneering new technology developments and catalyzing the evolution of mobile paradigms. As the CEO and Co-Founder of APX Labs, Brian uses his background in national intelligence systems and computer engineering to position APX Labs as a competitive business in mobile application and wearable computing development for military and industrial markets. He previously served as the Chief Technology Officer of Mav6, where he was involved in the development of emerging networking technologies and embedded systems for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance applications in government and the military intelligence. Brian spent more than a decade working as a field operations officer and engineer and for the National Security Agency where he developed cutting edge solutions for the intelligence community. In support of technology policy and decision making, Brian served on the Technology Insight-Gauge, Evaluate, Review (TIGER) committee of the National Academy of Sciences, focusing on modeling and simulation and the impacts of technology decisions on national policy. Brian holds an M.S. and B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a MBA and Masters of Technology Management from the University of Maryland.
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About Upskill: Upskill provides wearable technology to connect hands-on workers from the factory to the warehouse to the jobsite.
Joe Hruska
Co-Founder & Advisor of RescueTime
Joe has a long history with multi-platform environments, having been responsible for networks that included mission critical Unix based applications, Windows desktops, and Linux database servers. His clients have included Fortune 100 companies like British Petroleum, the SAFE project for the State of Utah, Division of Child & Family Services, and non-profits like AREA – Alaska Robotics Education Association. Prior to co-founding RescueTime, Joe was the President and CTO of Integrity Solutions, Inc. a custom ISV and software integration company. ISI was successfully acquired by investors in November 2006. For RescueTime, Joe builds the data collectors for both the Mac and the PC, works on the REST web service, and does magical things with MySQL.
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About RescueTime: RescueTime is a web-based time management tool that tracks the activities and duration of a users’ computer usage.
Firoz H. Lalji
Co-Founder of Zones
Firoz H. Lalji has lived the ultimate American success story. Born of Indian ancestry in the East African country of Uganda, Lalji became the principal provider for his household at 24 when Idi Amin ousted his family from their home and their sugar-cane processing and coffee plantation business. Lalji immigrated with his family to Canada in 1971, completely impoverished. He banked on his finance skills honed while earning his degree at the London School of Economics to navigate the sea of obstacles in his entrepreneurial ambition. In Vancouver, BC, he swiftly built a life for his family, founding the successful Kits Cameras photographic retailer chain in 1973 that eventually numbered 225 locations in both Canada and the Unites States. Lalji moved to Washington state in 1981 and, following the sale of Kits in 1997, he co-founded Zones, Inc. in 1988–a nationwide provider of progressive technology solutions to business and public sectors. In 1989, he found the real estate investment company Fana Capital Corporation. Lalji had reinvented and revolutionized Zones, shaping the company into the fifth largest private company headquartered in Washington for 2013. In hopes of fueling success for other emerging minority entrepreneurs, Zones, under Lalji’s leadership, was a founding corporate partner of the University of Washington’s annual one-week immersive Minority Business Executive Program. Lalji additionally established the Program for African Leadership, a public charity which supports the development of the next generation of African leaders by providing funding for 15 participants at the London School of Economics annually, as well as other programs to benefit his home continent of Africa.
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About Zones: Zones simplifies information technology by providing end-to-end capabilities and acting as a singular point of contact for hardware
Michael Kong
Co-Founder and CTO of GiveCampus
Mike was a long-time engineer at Facebook, where he was responsible for making sure the world’s most-used social network was up and running.
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About GiveCampus: GiveCampus is a social fundraising and engagement platform for educational institutions.
Andy Skalet
CTO and Co-Founder of BrandVerity
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About BrandVerity: Making it effortless to discover and remediate brand issues online with best-in-class data, automation and exceptional customer experience
Robert Gara
Co-Founder of WompMobile
Robert Gara is co-founder of WompMobile, a SAAS company that optimizes websites for greater page-load speed, higher conversions and an all-around better user experience. Robert spearheads the company’s business development initiatives and works closely with business owners to tailor strategies – bringing to life more inspiring shopping experiences – to gain a competitive edge with mobile. Prior to joining WompMobile, Robert spent 15 years in corporate communications working at the intersection of business, politics and society.
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About WompMobile, WompMobile: WompMobile is a SAAS platform that converts websites to AMP pages and Progressive Web Apps – helping clients earn more with mobile.
Madison Miner
Founder and CEO of WompMobile
As founder and CEO, Madison successfully transformed WompMobile from a free service that made online snow reports accessible on mobile devices to an industry leader in mobile ecommerce solutions. Madison has a strong computer science and engineering background, and is the primary architect of WompMobile’s proprietary platform, which today delivers mobile experiences for some of the world’s largest, most recognizable companies. Madison is a frequent speaker, having led presentations at multiple Google events, including AMP Conf. He’s covered topics ranging from Accelerated Mobile Pages and Progressive Web Apps to the digital disruption that’s forcing retailers to rethink the status quo. Madison is a fierce advocate for faster, more performant mobile websites, and has been working at the cutting edge, combining greater performance with smaller screens.
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About WompMobile: WompMobile is a SAAS platform that converts websites to AMP pages and Progressive Web Apps – helping clients earn more with mobile.
Ryan Vogel
Co-Founder & CEO of Pure Blue Tech
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About Pure Blue Tech: Revolutionary low-fouling membranes that produce more with less energy. We aim to shift economics of desalination and food processing.
Adam Greenberg
Co-Founder & CFO of Pure Blue Tech
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About iUNU, Pure Blue Tech: Revolutionary low-fouling membranes that produce more with less energy. We aim to shift economics of desalination and food processing.
Meagan Metzger
Founder and CEO of Dcode
Meagan Metzger is the founder and CEO of Dcode, a privately owned company that connects the emerging technology industry and government to drive commercial innovation in the federal market. Meagan is also a General Partner at Dcode Capital, a venture capital firm that invests alongside top-tier venture firms in commercially-successful, high-growth technology companies in areas that are of high priority across the U.S. government. Meagan serves on the Board of Directors for the Defense Entrepreneurs Forum (DEF) and for The Alliance for Commercial Technology in Government (The-Alliance).
Prior to Dcode, Meagan worked as Chief Operating Officer of a government-focused mobile and cloud company, growing it 200% year-over-year. Meagan was also previously Chief Strategy Officer at a government-facing IT and Acquisition support consultancy and established it as one of the fastest-growing small businesses on Washington Technology’s Fast 50 for three years in a row. Through her various roles, Meagan has worked closely with senior leadership across DoD and civilian agencies, using her expertise in federal IT acquisitions and commercial technologies to drive innovation into multi-billion-dollar IT programs. Meagan holds degrees in both Applied Science and Technology and Business Administration/Marketing from The George Washington University.
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About Dcode: Dcode is a privately-owned company connecting the tech industry and government to drive commercial innovation in the federal market.
Steven Chen
Co-Founder and CEO of PFP Cybersecurity
Steven Chen is a Principal of Blu Venture investors. Currently Cofounder and CEO of Power Fingerprinting (cyber security), Board observer of ThreatQuotient, Board member of TrackOFF and N5 Sensors. Formerly founder and CEO of 3eTI (acquired by EFJohnson in 2006). Also served as CEO of Totus Solutions, CTO of EFJohnson, and VP of PCB Piezotronics.
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About Blu Venture Investors, PFP Cybersecurity: PFP is a cloud-based analytics that enables integrity assessment-as-a-service using dynamic power behavior analysis.
Mark Liffmann
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Omnidian
Mark Liffmann is co-founder and CEO of Omnidian — the nation’s first performance assurance provider for residential solar systems. A fifteen-year veteran of the solar industry, he co-founded the residential and light commercial business at SunPower and developed a $500 million global enterprise. He previously held executive leadership positions at Clean Power Research, enerG2 and Solar Depot (Soligent). Mark is an advisor to Seattle-based developer of utility-scale solar, TUSSO, and serves as a resource for entrepreneurs, business leaders and policy makers as Chapter Director of e2 and Environmental Entrepreneurs. He holds degrees in Physics and Public Policy from Stanford, and Economics and Law from Harvard University. “We believe capital investments in solar energy need protection and we founded Omnidian to provide lifetime performance assurance to the homeowner and portfolio-scale residential system owners.
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About Omnidian: Omnidian is a provider of comprehensive protection plans for investments in residential and commercial solar energy systems.
David Kenny
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Omnidian
A Stanford University alumni with a MS & BS in Mechanical Engineering, David has a deep background in solar operations, including building and running the nation’s second largest residential fleet. Before co-founding Omnidian, Dave was Senior Director at SunRun, managing and leading the second largest leased residential fleet in the world — including field operations, quality assurance, systems performance and field service network. He has over 12 years of solar and clean tech experience at Sunrun, Metrus Energy and MMA Renewable Ventures. Now, David is the visionary behind our proprietary analytical platform. His vision for our proprietary technology garnered the attention and support of the Department of Energy, resulting in a significant grant supporting the “accelerated development of highly impactful solar technologies.”
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About Omnidian: Omnidian is a provider of comprehensive protection plans for investments in residential and commercial solar energy systems.
Ray Szylko
Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder of Omnidian
As co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Omnidian, Ray is responsible for business development and strategic partnerships. With over 24 years of executive leadership experience and a track record for identifying and forging strategic alliances, he most recently served as Managing Director of Advisory in Financial Services for KPMG. He previously served as a senior executive with Washington Mutual Bank’s Commercial Division — where he launched a $2 billion business line, as Head of Product for Bank of the West, and as SVP with financial services provider, Account Now. In the solar industry, he transformed the global customer acquisition strategies for SunPower. Ray holds an MBA in Corporate Strategy from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and an undergraduate degree in Business Economics and Public Policy from Indiana University.
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About Omnidian: Omnidian is a provider of comprehensive protection plans for investments in residential and commercial solar energy systems.
Steven Adair
CEO & Founder of Volexity
Steven Adair is the founder and President of Volexity, Inc, an information security firm specializing in assisting organizations with incident response, digital forensics, threat intelligence, network security monitoring, and trusted security advisory. Steven currently leads a team of experts that frequently deal with advanced and complex cyber intrusions from nation-state level intruders targeting everyone from small think tanks to large global defense contractors.
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About Volexity: Volexity is a security firm that assists organizations with incident response, digital forensics, trusted advisory, and threat intelligence.
Amit Shafrir
co-Founder of Quiv
Amit is co-Founder of Quiv.com He was president and a board member of Badoo/Bumble, worlds largest online/mobile dating service . Amit was co-founder of companies in the Senior-Technology space like OurParents (sold), SaferAging & Lert.ly He is the former President of AOL Premium Services. Where he also served as GM of AOL’s Digital Media Services and was responsible for AOL’s Music services, MUSICNET@AOL, and AOL Music Now. Amit also served as GM of ICQ. Prior to AOL, Amit held senior position at Amdocs, the global leading supplier of customer care, billing and operations support software, provides services to companies like AT&T, Sprint, Nextel and T-Mobile. Amit has over 20 years of experience in software development. He holds a BA and MBA degrees from Tel Aviv University.
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About : A platform that connects users with experts, enabling them to ask questions, in return for a charitable donation to the expert’s cause.
Tyghe Speidel
Co-Founder and VP, Technology and Strategy of Lynk Global
Tyghe Speidel is the Co-founder and VP, Technology & Strategy at UbiquitiLink. Tyghe manages and coordinates UbiquitiLink’s technology development activities, and coordinates internal engineering resources and priorities. Prior to UbiquitiLink, Tyghe was the Principal Spacecraft Systems Engineer at NexGen Space where he was responsible for system design and technology application on NexGen Space technical projects. Tyghe also worked as a Management Consultant for Accenture developing supply chain analytics and simulation capabilities for the DoD. While at Accenture, Tyghe founded and was the global lead for Accenture’s commercial space community of practice, which he created to develop a portfolio of projects and clients for the firm in the commercial space sector. Tyghe gained his experience in orbital mechanics, satellite navigation and control, and spacecraft systems design as a mechanical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on terrestrial satellites and a Mars rover. He holds a BS and M. Eng in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University.
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About Lynk Global: Lynk allows to partner with mobile network operators to connect existing mobile phone customers to each other.
Tom Seery
Executive Chairman/ Founder of RealSelf
Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the medical aesthetics and internet industry. Strong business development professional skilled in Digital Strategy, Social Media, Leadership, Business Development, and Growth Marketing Strategy. Podcaster, speaker and educator in aesthetic consumer trends and attitudes, practice marketing, and entrepreneurship. Actively support non-profits and medical institutions that expand reconstructive surgical capacity in communities around the world.
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About RealSelf: RealSelf is an online community where people can ask questions, share experiences and connect with doctors providing cosmetic treatments.
Ali Vira
Co-Founder of WeMeta
Ali Vira Co-Founder at WeMeta.
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About WeMeta: WeMeta is the premier platform to buy, sell, and manage NFT land.
Kwame Boler
CEO & Co-Founder of neu
Working tirelessly to bring cleaning into the 21st century and with the help of a phenomenal team, make high quality, on-demand cleaning a pain of the past.
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About neu: neu is a reliable platform that provides quality cleans, on-demand.
Jeffrey Sieracki
Co-Founder and CTO of Reality AI
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About Reality AI, University of Maryland College Park: Reality AI offers a complete engineering environment for Edge AI / Tiny ML product development using sensors.
Luca Pivato
Founder and CEO of Recoup
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About Recoup: Recoup is a philanthropic engine that brings businesses, consumers and non-profits together via e-commerce and f-commerce platforms.
Andrew Morris
Founder & CEO of GreyNoise Intelligence
Cybersecurity person, former musician, high school dropout.
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About GreyNoise Intelligence: GreyNoise is a cybersecurity company that reduces false positives by filtering pointless Internet background noise.
Cliff Sharples
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Fexy Media
Cliff Sharples is the Co-CEO and Founder, Fexy.
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About Fexy Media: The gold standard for online food journalism
Lisa Aufranc Sharples
Founder & Co-CEO of Fexy Media
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About Fexy Media: The gold standard for online food journalism
John Vincent Lee
CEO & Founder of Loopie
John Vincent Lee is the CEO and Co-Founder of Loopie LLC and Portraitist at Seattle Serendipity. Mr. Lee was an Assistant Product Manager at VisitorGO and Creator, Page Manager at HowTheOtherHalfLives Gallery.
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About Loopie: Providing an alternative to doing laundry, and an opportunity to work from home through our peer-to-peer managed marketplace.
Melody Furze
Co-Founder & Director of Educational Development of Novel Effect
Chief of Education and Learning at Novel Effect.
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About American Printing House for the Blind, Novel Effect, University of Northern Colorado: Bringing people together, one story at a time.
Melissa Hammersley
Co Founder and Chief Product Officer of Novel Effect
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About Novel Effect: Bringing people together, one story at a time.
Nate Miller
Founder & VP of Data Science of Unearth
Award winning designer and team leader with more than a decade of experience envisioning and developing digital products
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About Unearth: Unearth provides a collaboration software powered by IoT and remote sensing to help built-world industries make maps and manage data.
Brian Saab
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Unearth
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About Unearth: Unearth provides a collaboration software powered by IoT and remote sensing to help built-world industries make maps and manage data.
Jenn Risko
Co-Founder and Publisher of Shelf Awareness
Jenn Risko is the co-founder and publisher of the Shelf. She has held sales, marketing and management positions during the past 15 years with book publishers such as Rand McNally, Insiders’ Guides and National Academies Press. When she isn’t planning parties, cooking with her daughter, or at spin class, you’ll find her on her deck enjoying a drink and hatching her latest plan to take over the universe so she can keep John Mutter in fine wine and calamari.
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About Shelf Awareness: Shelf Awareness publishes two free newsletters, one for general readers and one for people in the book business.
Cody Semrau
Founder & CEO of BetterMynd
Cody Semrau is the founder and CEO of BetterMynd.
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About BetterMynd: Online therapy for college students
Lev Volftsun
CEO and Co-Founder of Sestra Systems
Lev Volftsun is the chief executive officer of Sestra Systems.
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About Sestra Systems: Sestra’s TapWise brings IoT to the beverage industry, building more profitable and eco-friendly programs.
Kamal Jain
Co-Founder and CEO of Faira
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About Faira: Faira is a real estate technology platform that is revolutionizing the way people buy and sell homes.
David Rothstein
Founder & CEO of EIN Presswire
David Rothstein is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer at EIN Presswire.
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About EIN News, EIN Presswire: EIN Presswire is Everyone’s Internet News Presswire™, and we are the world’s leading online newswire and news distribution service.
Jeff Aden
Founder, EVP Sales, Marketing & Business Development of 2nd Watch
Jeff has over 20 years of business management operations, business development, product management, P&L management, sales and marketing management experience. He has been a member of executive teams and boards that have raised $40M in private equity, venture capital and debt financing. In his role as Executive Vice President of Strategic Business Development at 2nd Watch Jeff is responsible for the company’s global strategic initiatives including strategic partnerships, business development, M&A, and opening new markets. Prior to co-founding 2nd Watch Jeff was running a $200M P&L for Ambassador Group (ticker: EPAX) a marketing company, where he was able to provide executive leadership and results that increased revenue and margin through a treacherous economic environment. He was also responsible for the customer experience and operations of global delivery. Prior to joining Ambassadors Group Jeff lived and worked in Taiwan as a consultant. Prior to being an ex-patriot Jeff held a number of roles in a regional finance company. Jeff holds a Master of International Management degree and a B.A. from Whitworth University. He enjoys time with his family outdoors as often has he can find time to fly fish, golf, ski and run.
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About 2nd Watch: 2nd Watch is an AWS Premier Partner and a Microsoft Azure Gold Partner that provides consulting and managed cloud services to enterprises.
Kristina Svensson-Piavent
Co-Founder of Yuduyu, Inc.
Eight countries, five sectors, highly multilingual. Leading the recruitment revolution.
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About Yuduyu, Inc.: The Next-Gen Resume & Recruitment Platform
Dan McCarty
Founder & CEO of CrystalCommerce
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About CrystalCommerce, Entrepreneurs’ Organization: Crystal Commerce designs and develops enterprise e-commerce platforms that enable users to launch online stores and more.
Serene Almomen
Co-Founder & CEO of Senseware
Senseware’s CEO and co-founder, Serene Almomen, holds a Ph.D. degree in IT and is a certified PMP, SCM, ITIL, and SCJP. Before Sesnseware, Serene spent over 11 years managing large, mission critical projects overseeing teams as large as 40 people and managing an annual budget of at least $10M. She has a track record of delivering projects on time and budget and growing revenue by an average of $1M a year. She is an expert in self-managed and control systems. Serene’s background balances perfectly between technical & business knowledge.
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About George Mason University, Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business, Senseware: Senseware web enables any physical environment using modular plug-and-play wireless sensor network
Robert Schulte
Founder & CEO of LumaTax
Robert Schulte is the Founder & CEO at LumaTax, Inc.
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About LumaTax, Pioneer Square Labs, Strassa: LumaTax is a software company that enables small businesses to comply with sales and use tax regulations with touch-of-a-button simplicity.
Douglas Cole
Co – Founder & CTO of Estately
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About Estately: Estately is a real estate search site where users can search for information on houses for sale on a map and view detailed descriptions.
Steven Rogers
Founder & CEO of Centripetal Networks
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About Centripetal Networks: Centripetal Networks Inc. is dedicated to protecting organizations from advanced threats by operationalizing intelligence-driven security.
Haizheng Zhang
Founder, CEO of Starmerx
Zhang Haizheng holds Master of Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and also Doctor of Computer science from university of Massachusetts USA, He have served in Microsoft’s Bing search, and AMZN in the United States as a Software Engineer and commercial data mining engineers. In 2013, he returned to China and started “Starmerx Electronic Commerce Co.”.He has been awarded with the national honorary titles such as “science and technology leader”, overseas high-level talents of “peacock plan” high-end entrepreneurial talent of “double hundred plan” etc.
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About Starmerx: Starmerx is a Chinese cross-border e-commerce platform.
Kyle Kesterson
Founder & CEO of Freak’n Genius
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About Freak’n Genius: Connecting Books, Games, and Toys to the Internet
Chase Jarvis
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of CreativeLive
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About CreativeLive: CreativeLive is the world’s leading live, online classroom for creative entrepreneurs.
Kristopher Schroeder
CEO and Founder of Grey Market Labs
Kristopher Schroeder is the CEO and founder at Grey Market Labs.
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About Grey Market Labs: Grey Market Labs® is a Certified B-Corp founded with the mission to protect digital life.
Kristian Alcaide
COO & Co-Founder of Pingle
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About City of Seattle, Pingle: Pingle is a software as a service (SaaS) solution that eliminates the busy work of managing credentials for the maritime industry.
