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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 Email 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.
Mathilde Collin
CEO and Co-Founder of Front
Mathilde Collin is the co-founder and CEO of Front.
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About Front: Front is the leader in customer communication that brings teams together to offer tailor-made service at scale
Laurent Perrin
CTO and Co-Founder of Front
Laurent Perrin is the CTO and co-founder at Front.
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About Front: Front is the leader in customer communication that brings teams together to offer tailor-made service at scale
Rahul Vohra
Founder & CEO of Superhuman
Rahul Vohra is the Founder and CEO at Superhuman. He is also the Technical Advisor at BOLDstart Ventures and Investor & Advisor at Partender and Investor of sendwithus and EasyPost. Rahul Vohra is a former CEO and Co-Founder of Rapportive and Game Designer at Jagex. Rahul received a bachelor of arts in Computer Science at the University of Cambrigdge.
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About Clubhouse, LinkedIn, Rapportive, Superhuman, The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund: Superhuman is a software platform that weaves social insights into a workflow.
Vivek Sodera
Co-Founder of Superhuman
Co-Founder: Superhuman, LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP) | Seed Investor: SaaS, Future of Work, productivity, collaboration, messaging, creator economy, no-code/low-code, automation, data platforms, prosumer, consumer (mobile, social, fintech), select moonshots
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About Superhuman: Superhuman is a software platform that weaves social insights into a workflow.
Conrad Irwin
Co-Founder & CTO of Superhuman
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About Superhuman: Superhuman is a software platform that weaves social insights into a workflow.
Kyle Porter
CEO and Co-Founder of Salesloft
Kyle Porter is the co-founder and CEO of SalesLoft. SalesLoft generated explosive growth over the past two years, serving over 1,200 clients and 30,000 business professionals while boosting revenue over 2,000 percent in 2015. Kyle led the team from four employees in 2014 to over 85 in 2016, who were honored together as Atlanta’s No. 1 best place to work in a survey by Atlanta Business Chronicle.
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About Salesloft: Salesloft helps thousands of the world’s most successful selling teams drive more revenue with The Modern Revenue Workspace™.
Rob Forman
Co-Founder, President & Chief Strategy Officer of Salesloft
Rob Forman is a co-founder, president, and chief strategy officer at SalesLoft. Prior to this, Rob spent over two years at HireIQ Solutions as a co-founder and CTO.
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About Salesloft: Salesloft helps thousands of the world’s most successful selling teams drive more revenue with The Modern Revenue Workspace™.
Jay Meattle
CEO & Founder of Shareaholic
Jay started [Shareaholic, Inc.](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shareaholic), a company fanatical about making sharing on the web better, faster, easier, and more measurable. Over 2 million people have used the award winning tools created by Shareaholic. Jay was Vice President of Products at Lookery, an online user-targeting network that offered lightweight, economical targeting data for over 200 million users. Before Lookery, Jay was the Product Manager and founding member of the small team that was responsible for creating and launching [Compete.com](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/compete), now part of the WPP Group [Nasdaq: WPPGY]. In addition, as co-founder of PopSignal, one of Boston’s largest professional networking organizations, Jay is actively contributing to the growth of Boston’s technology startup community. Jay earned a B.S. cum laude in Computer Science from Tufts University. He also minored in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Multimedia Arts. At Tufts he was awarded the MacJannet scholarship. Jay is also a TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Leadership Fellow and in 2012 was named to the TR35 India — MIT Technology Review magazine’s annual list of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35. He loves creating, lives for technology and innovation, and likes making things happen. You can follow Jay on Twitter @meattle or his blog http://www.meattle.com/jay/
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About Shareaholic: Shareaholic is an Audience Engagement platform that helps over 300,000 businesses grow audience engagement, loyalty & conversions.
David Filo
Co-Founder & Chief Yahoo of Yahoo
David Filo, a founder of Yahoo and Chief Yahoo, has served as an officer of Yahoo since March 1995, and as a member of our Board since June 2014. David also served as a Director of Yahoo from its founding through February 1996. David is involved in guiding Yahoo’s vision and in many key aspects of the business at a strategic and operational level, and is a stalwart of the company’s employee culture and morale. David co-developed Yahoo in 1994 while working towards his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University, and co-founded Yahoo in 1995.
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About Yahoo: Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Joe Teplow
Founder of Rebel
Joe Teplow is the founder of Rebel.
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About Good Today, Rebel: Rebel allows users to send interactive emails with no plug-ins required, increasing engagement, conversions, and actions.
Ben Jabbawy
Founder, CEO of Privy
Ben Jabbawy is the founder of Privy, an email list growth platform used by 25,000 marketers around the world. He started Privy after helping his parents market their small businesses, having seen first hand the incredible ROI of email as compared to other popular distribution channels.
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About Privy: Privy specializes in e-commerce marketing for small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Allan Grant
Founder & Executive Chairman of Talkable
Allan Grant is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Talkable. Prior to that, he was the Founder of Hired. He was a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology.
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About Talkable: Talkable is a technology platform that enables marketers to run customizable Refer A Friend Programs.
Tink Taylor
Chief Operating Officer, Founder, and President of dotmailer Group
Tink Taylor is COO, Founder, and President of dotMailer and dotDigital Group and has been pivotal in the development of digital marketing since its outset in both the UK and now the US.Serving as a key and influential member of the UK DMA’s Email Council and also the IAB since 2006, Tink’s been judging the Email, Mobile and Agency categories at the UK DMA’s awards for over half a decade. Now chair of the email marketing category, he is constantly striving to help individual organizations, and the industry as a whole to develop and progress.
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About dotAgency, dotmailer Group: dotmailer Group provides digital marketing professionals with SaaS technology solutions and tools, and offers an email marketing platform.
Michael Sharkey
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Autopilot
Michael Sharkey co-founded Autopilot and is the CEO. Prior to founding Autopilot, Michael joined his brother Chris to grow start-up Stayz into a top Australian rental booking site (acquired by FairFax Digital in 2006 and again by HomeAway for $225M in 2013). He also co-founded Sharkey Media with his brother Chris, where he helped grow Australian startups, marketing programs, and websites.
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About Autopilot: Switch ON better marketing for your business. The Best Marketing and Customer Data Platform for Ecommerce
Peter Bauer
Co Founder & CEO of Mimecast
Peter Bauer founded Mimecast in 2003 with CTO, Neil Murray. With the support of angel investors, loyal customers and a strong management team, Peter has overseen eight consecutive years of continual growth. He relocated to Boston in August 2011 to help drive the expansion of Mimecast’s US business, and was instrumental in securing $62m of Series C funding from global private equity firm, Insight Venture Partners in September 2012. Peter’s career began in South Africa, where, after studying marketing and founding a successful distribution company, he trained as a Microsoft systems engineer and began working with corporate messaging systems. He founded his first technology company, FAB Technology, in the mid-nineties. A leading integrator of new internet and messaging technologies, the business grew rapidly and was acquired in 1998 by Idion, a JSE-listed technology business. Peter became Idion Managing Director, a role he stayed in until, observing trends in internet business services, he decided to move to the UK.
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About Mimecast: Mimecast is a SaaS-based email management platform enabling companies to administer business communications and data.
Vivek Sharma
Founder & CEO of Movable Ink
Vivek is leading the charge to make email a more dynamic and relevant communication channel for marketers and consumers. With a background in both sales and product development, Vivek brings a potent combination of engineering talent and business savvy to his role as Movable Ink’s CEO. Prior to co-founding Movable Ink, Vivek headed Eastern North American and EMEA sales for Engine Yard. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles at Blue Martini and Cisco Systems. Vivek graduated with a BS in Computer Science from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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About EasyPrep, Movable Ink: Movable Ink activates any data into personalized content in any customer engagement.
Sanjay Jeyakumar
CTO & Co-Founder of Abnormal Security
Sanjay Jeyakumar is CTO and co-founder of Abnormal Security. He was a founding engineer at TellApart (acquired by Twitter for $500M+) and a lead engineer at Google working on search technology and the launch of Android.
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About Abnormal Security: Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises and organizations from targeted email attacks.
Ryan Noon
Co-Founder & CEO of Material Security
Ryan Noon currently works as the CEO for Material Security. He previously worked at Dropbox as the Engineering Manager.
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About Material Security: Material Security is an email security company that develops data-driven security software to protect an organization’s users and data.
Abhishek Agrawal
Co-Founder & CTO of Material Security
Abhishek Agrawal currently works as the Co-Founder and CTO for Material Security. He previously worked at Dropbox as the Senior Product Manager.
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About Material Security: Material Security is an email security company that develops data-driven security software to protect an organization’s users and data.
Eduarda Bardavid
Co-Founder & CEO of Drag
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About Drag: The Everything Inbox for teams. One single place to support customers, manage tasks and close deals, from the place teams love – Email.
Nathan Barry
CEO & Founder of ConvertKit
Nathan Barry. I design software, write about anything that interests me, and teach other people to design. I recently published The App Design Handbook, a guide to designing beautiful iOS applications. I’ve created a few iOS apps for myself including OneVoice, Fluent, and Commit. OneVoice is probably the most interesting, but Commit is still my favorite. The most days in a row I’ve achieved is writing 1,000 words a day for 230+ days in a row. You should give Commit a try. Legend is my software design company where I release my apps and do consulting work. Contact me there if you have a project you would like to hire me for. Outside of work I enjoy traveling, snowboarding, ballroom dancing, and especially spending time with my wife and son.
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About ConvertKit: ConvertKit is an email marketing software that helps online creators earn a living through email marketing.
Aleem Mawani
Co-Founder and CEO of Streak
Aleem is the Co-Founder and CEO at Streak.
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About Streak: Streak is the only CRM integrated entirely within your Gmail inbox. Use it to track sales, partnerships, support, hiring, and much more.
Oleg Campbell
CEO and Founder of Reply.io
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About Reply.io: Reply is the leading AI-powered sales engagement platform that automates multichannel touchpoints throughout the sales process.
Lea Endres
Co-Founder & CEO of NationBuilder
Lea Endres is the Co-Founder & CEO at NationBuilder.
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About NationBuilder: NationBuilder is a community organizing software platform that helps people organize and build community-based relationships.
Jim Gilliam
Founder & Executive Chairman of NationBuilder
Jim Gilliam is the founder and CEO of 3dna, a startup building internet tools to shake up a broken political system. Previously, he co-founded Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films, building a non-profit grassroots media company of a million members and producing four documentaries. In the late 90’s, he launched Business.com as its Chief Technology Officer, and worked at Lycos, one of the first internet search engines.
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About NationBuilder: NationBuilder is a community organizing software platform that helps people organize and build community-based relationships.
Dave Baggett
Co-Founder & CEO of Inky
Dave Baggett is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Inky. As co-founder and COO of travel search provider ITA Software, he oversaw software development, operations, and customer relations, expanding the company to 500 employees. Google acquired ITA for $700M in April 2011. Dave has a B.S./B.A. in Computer Science and Linguistics from the University of Maryland, College Park and a S.M. in Computer Science from MIT. He is a Board Member of the Maryland Innovation Initiative, a Trustee of the University of Maryland College Park Foundation, and a Member of the UMCP Computer, Math & Natural Sciences Board of Visitors and Chair of its Entrepreneurship Task Force.
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About Inky: Inky is a cyber-security company that secures email against phishing.
Simon Smith
Co-Founder & COO of Inky
Simon Smith is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Operations Officer at Inky. Prior to joining Inky, Simon was VP of Software Operations at ITA Software and managed the team responsible the for SaaS and data operations, a purview involving hundreds of servers and 24/7 support. Simon’s infrastructure handled millions of travel search queries per day, and serviced virtually all major US airline and travel intermediary websites. Prior to ITA, Simon managed a Computer Sciences Corporation team that performed vulnerability analysis for the US Air Force. Simon holds a Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree from Texas A&M University.
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About Inky: Inky is a cyber-security company that secures email against phishing.
Tom Kulzer
Founder & CEO of AWeber Communications
Tom Kulzer is a Founder & CEO at AWeber Communications.
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About AWeber Communications: AWeber provides email marketing software that include newsletters emailing, autoresponding, and RSS-to-email converting features.
Steve Weiss
Founder & CEO of MuteSix
Steve Weiss is an entrepreneur specializing in building Online Marketing Machines acquiring users at scale. His main skill sets lie in both the execution and the building/training of teams that execute high-level growth hacking and customer acquisition initiatives. Over the last 2 years, he has invested most of his time on both Facebook Ads for eCommerce customer acquisition and building high volume sales lead generation funnels for B2B customer acquisition.
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About MuteSix: MuteSix is a performance marketing agency specializing in Facebook advertising and Google Adwords.
Jeremiah Cathey
Co-Founder and CRO of Wigzo Technologies
Jeremiah Cathey is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Wigzo Technologies.
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About Wigzo Technologies: Contextual Marketing Platform for Web and In-App
Jason Stockman
Co-Founder & Front-End Developer of ProtonMail
Jason is responsible for designing ProtonMail’s user interface and front end encryption.He has over 10 years of experience working for large organizations such as Epson, 3M, Versace, and the Red Cross as well as startups.
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About Codecopia, ProtonMail: ProtonMail is an internet software company that provides an easy to use secure email.
Dan Kurzius
Co-Founder of Mailchimp
Co-founder of MailChimp. Web application developer specializing in UNIX (LAMP) and client-side scripting technologies.
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About Mailchimp, The Rocket Science Group: Mailchimp provides marketing automation for e-commerce businesses.
Jojo Hedaya
CEO/Founder of Unroll Me
Jojo Hedaya is the co-founder and CEO of Unroll.Me. His passion for simplicity drives Unroll.Me’s mission to streamline the email unsubscribe process and help users gain control over their inbox. Under his leadership as the head of development, Unroll.Me has gained millions of users in the past five years.
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About Unroll Me: Unroll.Me is an email subscription management service helping users manage their junk email and subscriptions.
Alex Lieberman
Founder & CEO of Morning Brew
Alex is the Cofounder @ Morning Brew
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About Morning Brew: Morning Brew is a quick and quality daily e-mail newsletter for the millennial business professional.
Matt Paulson
Founder of MarketBeat.com
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About MarketBeat.com: MarketBeat provides real-time financial data and objective market analysis.
Oren Barak
Co-Founder and CEO of Glicq
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About Glicq: Glicq is a platform to collaborate with co-workers.
Stephen Crossland
CEO & Founder of Lead Rover
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About Lead Rover: Lead Rover provides marketing and adverting strategies to improve business sales.
Scott Kurnit
Founder & CEO of Keep Holdings
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About Keep Holdings: Keep Holdings offers products focusing on advertising, commercial email, and e-commerce to enhance the link between consumers and brands.
Greg Kraios
Founder / CEO of 250ok
Founder/CEO at 250ok.
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About 250ok, MailboxPark: Email analytics and deliverability platform
Wick Egan
Co-Founder of Point
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About Point: Point helps the user to easily save snippets of text, templates, and other content, and re-use them effortlessly on any website.
Chuck Piluso
Co-Founder, President & CEO of Data Storage Corporation
Chuck Piluso is the Vice President at Secure Infrastructure & Services. Chuck is also the Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer at Data Storage Corporation since February 2001. Prior to Data Storage Corporation (DSC), Chuck founded North American Telecommunication Corporation, a facilities-based Competitive Local Exchange Carrier licensed by the Public Service Commission in 10 states, serving as the company’s Chairman and President from 1997 to 2000. Between 1990 and 1997, Chuck served as Chairman and Founder of International Telecommunications Corporation, a facilities-based international carrier licensed by the Federal Communications Commission. Chuck founded ITC in 1990 and grew it from two to 135 employees with $170 million in revenues in 1997. The company had operations and agreements in many countries including Russia, Israel, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Dominican Republic, Chile and Canada. During his tenure, Chuck grew the company to the fifth largest facilities-based international carrier in the USA within five years. Chuck’s career in the telecommunications industry began in 1978 when he joined ITT Corporation’s Telephone Equipment Division. Over the years, Chuck was promoted from sales to sales management, marketing and business development in ITT’s Long Distance Division until 1984. Chuck left ITT to become the general manager of the New York region for United Technologies Communications Corporation. In that position, Chuck managed union technicians, sales, installation and customer service. Currently, Chuck serves on the Board of Governors at Saint John’s University and the Board of Trustees of Molloy College. Chuck earned his Bachelor’s degree, Master of Arts in Political Science and Public Administration and Master’s in Business Administration from St. John’s University. Chuck also served as a Professor in the University’s College of Business from 1986 through 1988.
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About Data Storage Corporation, Secure Infrastructure & Services: Data Storage Corporation was incorporated in the state of Delaware on August 21, 2001.
Alexander Garcia-Tobar
CEO & Co-Founder of Valimail
Alexander is currently a CEO at Valimail.
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About Founder Institute, Valimail: Valimail is an email security company that offers zero-trust, authentication-based solutions for organizations.
Peter Goldstein
CTO & Co-Founder of Valimail
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About Valimail: Valimail is an email security company that offers zero-trust, authentication-based solutions for organizations.
Richard Fallah
Founder & CEO of Vbout.com
In 2003 i launched my first startup, Talentsbid.com, an Etsy like marketplace for people to trade their talent products and crafts. Although execution failed and the website shut down in 2005 it was a huge learning curve and made me realize the career i would like to pursue. In 2007, i started Siteforbiz.com, a business website design and development company that has been rapidly growing ever since. I make sure i provide what competitors do not and that is the personal direct relationship with our clients, our consultancy expertise, our fast response and our budget conscious pricing. Aside from Siteforbiz.com i work on my own startup Vbout.com. I am also the organizer of a technology startup that provides an open mic for entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas in front of hundreds: http://www.startuppitchnight.com. I am also an active mentor at Tech Launch technology accelerator: http://techlaunch.com/mentors/richard-fallah/ My vision in everything i do is hard work, good work ethics, patience, great communication and positive attitude. I highly encourage balance in ones everyday life and i believe that working where your passion is, is like not working at all! I indulge on every bit of my everyday work experience from the good and bad and i look forward on my days off to get back to work! My areas of strength are: Design Product development Project management Social Media Customer relations Coaching My weaknesses are: Malfunction around negative energy Over caring You can meet me in 30 secs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkp0lpQChuQ&feature=youtu.be Specialties: Business development Customer relations Programming Analysis Design and concept development Project management Social media
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About NYC Marketing Meetups, NYC Technology Startups, Site For Biz, Vbout.com: VBOUT helps marketing teams increase lead generation, nurture and conversion using powerful marketing automation tools.
Denise McCort
Co-Founder of Helpmonks
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About Helpmonks, Razuna: Team Email Management. Simplified. Helpmonks is the ridiculously easy way to get your team email under control with a shared inbox.
Nick Francis
Co-Founder & CEO of Help Scout
Nick Francis is a Co-founder & CEO at Help Scout.
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About Help Scout: Help Scout offers a help desk invisible to customers, that helps companies deliver outstanding customer support.
Dimitris Georgakopoulos
Co-Founder of Outseta
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About Helidoni Foundation, Outseta: Outseta provides SaaS, email marketing, CRM, and reporting tools services.
Noah Dinkin
Founder and CEO of Stensul
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About FanBridge, Stensul: Stensul is an email creation platform that gives enterprise marketers the power to generate custom emails while ensuring brand governance.
Matt Keiser
Founder & CEO of LiveIntent
Matt Keiser is the Founder and CEO of LiveIntent. He formed LiveIntent with the vision of solving problems that have been plaguing the email industry for years. Prior to LiveIntent, Matt co-founded and served as the President of Datran Media (now PulsePoint), where he architected the underlying technology for their suite of performance-marketing and audience measurement solutions. Matt is a founding partner and co-chair of the investment committee of Grape Arbor VC, one of NY’s most active teams of angel investors. He is also the co-founder of Perky Jerky and is on the advisory council for the Rosenbach Museum of Philadelphia.
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About LiveIntent, Perky Jerky, Traffix: Liveintent is a people-based marketing technology platform that generates a customer graph while driving sales and revenue.
Senad Dizdar
CEO & Founder of cloudHQ
Senad has more than 23 years of development and management experience in area of storage, high-availability, security, and databases. From 2000-2011, he was a team lead and manager in Oracle responsibile for Oracle Database Backup and Recovery and Oracle Secure Backup. Before Oracle, Senad was a founding engineer and architect of Hewlett Packard’s OpenView DataProtector backup and recovery product. He lives in San Francisco, CA.
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About cloudHQ, Showzey: cloudHQ is a SaaS email management company that focusses on Gmail.
Elie Ashery
Founder, President & CEO of Gold Lasso
Elie is a true entrepreneur who has dedicated his career to Internet marketing and new media. He is responsible for the vision and strategy execution for Gold Lasso and helps to lead the innovation behind the Company’s products and services. Elie’s career as an Internet marketer has been chronicled in numerous media outlets including Entrepreneur Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine and The Washington Post. As a thought leader, Elie has written a variety of articles for trade journals and blogs covering a wide range of Internet marketing topics from strategy to ethics and speaks regularly at trade events. In 2007 he was asked to provide research and write the forward for the book The Complete Guide To E-mail Marketing by Bruce Brown. Elie donates his time to both religious and secular charities as well as provides entrepreneurial mentorship. As a loyal Maryland Terrapin, Elie hold an executive masters degree in business administration and bachelors degree in finance in addition to serving as an adjunct professor of strategy and game theory at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
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About Gold Lasso, Robert H. Smith School of Business, Tech Council of Maryland: Gold lasso is the industry leader helping publishers monetize subscriber engagement using native ads and email automation technologies.
Jodie Ball
Founder of FunnelFiller
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About FunnelFiller: B2B Business Intelligence prospecting, lead gen, & sales for $1
Mark-Ethan Jermain
Founder of Attlo
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About Attlo: Email as never seen before. Literally.
Jason F. VandeBoom
Founder & CEO of ActiveCampaign
Jason VandeBoom is founder of ActiveCampaign which is a web based marketing platform that helps hundreds of thousands of small businesses improve and automate their marketing.
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About ActiveCampaign: ActiveCampaign specializes in email marketing, marketing automation, and sales automation.
Alex Babin
CEO/Co-Founder of ZERØ
Alex Babin is CEO at ZERO.
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About ZERØ: ZERØ is an AI-powered email management technology that automates time-consuming administrative tasks for lawyers.
Josh Schanker
President and Founder of BookBub
Josh is a serial entrepreneur who has launched, sold, advised, and invested in various startups. His previous companies include Sombasa Media, an email marketing firm he grew and sold to About.com, and Sconex, a social networking site for teens bought by Alloy Media. Josh holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.
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About BookBub: BookBub is a free service that helps connect millions of readers to books and author’s they’ll love.
Nicholas Ciarelli
Founder of BookBub
Nick is a digital media entrepreneur. He is the founder of Think Secret, a news site dedicated to publishing reports about Apple for nearly a decade, that tussled with the company over First Amendment issues. Nick was also one of the early team members at The Daily Beast, serving in a product role. Nick holds a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.
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About BookBub: BookBub is a free service that helps connect millions of readers to books and author’s they’ll love.
Conor McCluskey
Co-Founder & CEO of BombBomb
Conor has more than 15 years of experience in sales, marketing and entrepreneurship. He co-founded a service company in the multi-family housing industry and grew its annual revenue from $50K to $1.7M. In just 4 years, he took a set of outdoor advertising accounts and grew revenue 660%. He is also an owner in a vineyard and winery called Proper Wines in Walla Walla, Washington where Proper was recently named Best New Winery by Seattle Mag. In addition, his passion and purpose is raising money for the development of small businesses and communities in Kenya.
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About BombBomb, Proper Wines: BombBomb software is helping to build better business relationships with video messaging.
Darin Dawson
President, Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer of BombBomb
Darin Dawson is the President, Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer
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About BombBomb: BombBomb software is helping to build better business relationships with video messaging.
Michael Osborne
Co-Founder & CEO of SmarterHQ
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About SmarterHQ: SmarterHQ is a personalization platform that makes easy for marketers to increase revenue and customer relationships.
Francesco Tripepi
Founder & CEO of Doky Inc
Francesco Tripepi a Serial entrepreneur who founded Doky in 2013.He is with 20 years’ experience delivering world class technology solutions for global B2B and B2C clients.
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About Doky Inc: Doky provides powerful, pre-configured workspaces in the cloud that aid individual and team productivity, communication and collaboration.
David Setzer
Founder & CEO of Mailprotector
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About Mailprotector, Virtual Connect Technologies: Mailprotector started in 1999 providing a MS Exchange Spam Filter, helping to pioneer the managed email security industry.
George Schlossnagle
Chief Evangelist & Co-Founder of SparkPost
George Schlossnagle is the Co-Founder and Chief Evangelist of SparkPost.
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About Message Systems, SparkPost: SparkPost is an email delivery and optimization platform that helps companies send and analyze their email communications.
Usman Sheikh
Founder and CEO of xiQ
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About xiQ: The xiQ platform collects data from the internet, social media and public records and converts it into personalized, real-time intelligence.
Jonathan Aizen
Founder & CEO of Amitree
Jonathan has been founding and working for web companies since 1994. He has extensive experience with building solutions that touch on the intersection of technology and society, with particular focus on revolutionizing Internet advertising to bring value to consumers and advertisers. In 2006, he founded Dapper and as COO, he led the company’s efforts in transforming online advertising into a vehicle for a better experience of the Web. Dapper was acquired by Yahoo! in 2010. Prior to Dapper, he worked for Alexa Internet and help build the Internet Archive. He holds a degree in computer science from Cornell University. Jonathan is founder and CEO of Amitree, which aims to make complex life processes more manageable. Amitree’s product, Closing Time, helps home buyers navigate the process of buying a home, organizing the dozens of mission-critical tasks into a simple, easy-to-understand checklist that is customized for each buyer’s unique situation. Until October 2012, Jonathan was General Manager of Yahoo!’s market-leading dynamic advertising solution, Smart Ads. In this role, he was responsible for leading the Smart Ads senior leadership team to develop and execute a cohesive strategy, generate revenue growth, and ensure operational excellence. He also worked on helping key clients and internal stakeholders understand how to incorporate dynamic ads into their online marketing strategy, as well helping them make sense of the overall online advertising landscape.
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About Amitree: Amitree transforms the chaos of business email into an AI-powered deal organizer, project manager, and virtual assistant.
Mark Lu
Co-Founder of Famous.co
Co-Founder
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About Famous.co: Famous Industries produces software that allows anyone, to sell anything, anywhere. Design with Amaze Free, Amaze Pro, Amaze SMB
Jeremy Lizt
Co-Founder of Rapleaf
Jeremy Lizt is an Advisor at Datavant.
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About Rapleaf: Acquired by TowerData in 2013, Rapleaf provides comprehensive data about email addresses and the people behind them.
James Delaney
Chief Operations Officer & Founder of DMi Partners
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About DMi Partners: DMi Partners is a performance marketing agency specializing in e-commerce site design and development, search engine & email marketing.
Kon Leong
CEO & Founder of ZL Technologies
Kon Leong is CEO and Co-founder of ZL Technologies, a provider of enterprise-class unstructured information governance software. For two decades, Mr. Leong has been immersed in large-scale information technologies to solve “big data” issues for enterprises and has worked for many of the world’s largest corporations to deploy massively scalable solutions for eDiscovery, records management, and regulatory compliance. Mr. Leong has special expertise in data privacy, a topic on which he regularly lectures at industry events, including international summits held by esteemed organizations such as ARMA and IAPP. He also serves as a guest contributor for business and technology publications such as Fortune and Harvard Business Review. Mr. Leong earned an MBA with Distinction from the Wharton School and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Concordia (Loyola) after a year at the Indian Institute of Technology. For contact and company info, please visit zlti.com
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About ZL Technologies: ZL Technologies develops and distributes enterprise-level software related to information governance and electronic content archiving.
Matthew Conlin
President, Co-Founder of Fluent
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About Fluent: Fluent creates marketing programs that deliver better digital advertising experiences for consumers and measurable results for advertisers.
Branndon Stewart
Founder & Strategic Advisor of OutboundEngine
Branndon started OutboundEngine in 2012 to help small businesses take advantage of the benefits of content, email and social media marketing. Prior to starting OutboundEngine, he spent 15 years helping several Austin-based startups become category leaders, including Motive (IPO), Troux Technologies and Boundless Network. Most recently, Branndon served as VP of Marketing at Boundless Network where he helped the company grow from $8M to more than $30M in annual revenue.
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About OutboundEngine, Press Sports App: OutboundEngine is super simple marketing software combined with a team of experts who make it work for you.
Daniel Rodic
Co-Founder of Exact Media
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About Exact Media: Reinventing Direct Mail through e-commerce parcels
Volodymyr Zastavnyy
CEO and Founder of Newoldstamp
Volodymyr Zastavnyy is the CEO and founder of Newoldstamp.
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About Newoldstamp: Newoldstamp is an email signatures marketing platform that turns user’s email into a powerful advertising tool.
Jeff LoCastro
Founder/CEO of Neener Analytics
I realized long ago that I love building things; I love the art of creation. I also realized I wasn’t a solo artist, but rather I thrived on the “team.” I also understood that I had more ideas than time, so I better get started and move quickly. All these realizations all seemed quite compatible. I love shaking-the-frame and creating disruptive notions to the status-quo; embarking on a quest to fundamentally rattle an industry, doing something different, and build teams that share my vision . . . all in the name of taking that which was just “okay” and making it great.
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About Neener Analytics: Cognitive-AI that can evaluate financial risk through a 1-click personality assessment using opt-in social media.
Jesse Lipson
CEO & Founder of Levitate
A self-taught software programmer and entrepreneur, Jesse has been involved in internet technologies since 1999, when he co-founded a software company focused on the personalization of online advertising. In 2001, he became President of Rapidata.net, a pharmaceutical marketing research company. In just two years, he helped grow revenues at Rapidata.net by over 500% and laid the foundation for the company’s acquisition by Greenfield Online (SRVY). Subsequent to Rapidata.net, Jesse co-founded the internet services firm novelProjects and served as the company’s CEO. Over the past five years, novelProjects has evolved into ShareFile, an internet software company where Mr. Lipson currently serves as President and CEO. ShareFile has grown from zero to over 20,000 customers and over 150 full-time employees.
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About Levitate, ShareFile: Levitate helps relationship-based businesses keep in touch with clients, prospects, and referral sources.
Landon Ray
Founder and CEO of Ontraport
Landon Ray, Ontraport founder and CEO, is a serial entrepreneur whose personal mission is to educate, motivate and enable others to realize their goal of starting and growing their own business. At the age of 25, Landon transformed himself from a street-corner flower vendor into one of the nation’s top securities day traders in only twelve months. After beating the odds on Wall Street and again during the Great Recession, Ray has taken his research and personal experience and created ONTRAPORT, a small business automation platform and related family of services, which reflects his passion for educating and supporting entrepreneurs.
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About Ontraport: A breakthrough web app where CRM meets automation to power your marketing, sales and business systems all in one place.
Amir Borna
Founder and CEO of Tagatoo
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About Tagatoo: Tagatoo’s patented email application reshapes the way people craft and deliver emails by adding clear intent between senders and receivers.
Spencer Pingry
CTO & Co-Founder of Zaius
Spencer Pingry is the CTO and Co-Founder of Zaius.
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About Zaius: Zaius is a customer data platform designed to empower marketers to grow revenue from existing customers.
Ohad Shperling
Founder & CEO of Personalics
Ohad joined Carmel in June 2010 Over 8 years of experience in project management, business development and strategy consulting both in a growing startup (Discretix), and in corporate settings (Intel, NBC Universal, and Infosys) Served as an engagement manager in Wharton Small Business Development Center, where he led 6 consulting teams to grow startup businesses in the spaces of Mobile Applications, Personal Finance, Ecommerce, and Healthcare IT Served as a combat platoon commander and brigade operations officer (Res) in an IDF elite unit
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About Personalics: Smart Advertising and Predictive Customer Behavior
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.
John Mutter
Co-Founder and Editor-In-Chief of Shelf Awareness
John Mutter is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Shelf Awareness. He was the longtime executive editor of bookselling at Publishers Weekly and executive editor of the former PW Daily for Booksellers. He enjoys reading anything funny or mysterious and loves maps, crossword puzzles, running, visiting bookstores, travel and watching Jenn Risko demonstrate the fine art of business.
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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.
Mitchell Eisen
Co-Founder & CTO of Real Magnet
Mitchell Eisen is the CTO and co-founder of Real Magnet, a leading Marketing Automation and Email Service Provider (ESP). Mr. Eisen has more than two decades of experience in Email and Digital Marketing technologies, including SMTP protocols, encryption, authentication, and SPAM filtering techniques. Mr. Eisen is the chief architect of Real Magnet’s Marketing Automation platform and has a deep understanding of both the technological flexibility of marketing automation and its exciting user implications. He is a frequent and engaging speaker on Marketing Automation, Email Marketing, and Email Deliverability strategies and best practices. Prior to founding Real Magnet, he had a leadership role in television, film and advertising production and technology.
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About Real Magnet: Real Magnet simplifies marketing automation with its intuitive design & seamless integration with leading CRMs.
Josh Boaz
Managing Director / Co-Founder of Direct Agents
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About Direct Agents: Direct Agents is a full service digital marketing agency that provides brand advertisers with customized online advertising solutions.
Dinesh Boaz
Managing Director / Co-Founder of Direct Agents
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About Direct Agents: Direct Agents is a full service digital marketing agency that provides brand advertisers with customized online advertising solutions.
Jimmy Kim
CEO and Co-Founder of Sendlane
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About Sendlane: Sendlane turns online shoppers into loyal, lifetime customers with email & SMS marketing.
Jay Wagener
Co-Founder of iChange
Jay Wagener is a Co-Founder of iChange Networks, Inc. Mr. Wagener runs an overflowing private practice in Pasadena, California. He is an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Saybrook Graduate School. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Stanford University. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Clark University. He did his Internship at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. He then went on to do a two-year Research Fellowship at the UCLA Psychology Department.
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About iChange: iChange operates a social network that helps its users reach their goals in weight loss and wellness.
Charlie Sheng
Co-Founder & CMO of MailTime
Charlie Sheng is the Co-Founder & CMO at Measurable AI.
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About MailTime, Measurable AI: MailTime is a mobile messenger application for iOS and Android devices.
Micael Oliveira
Founder and Chief Data Scientist of Orankl
Micael Oliveira is a Founder of Orankl.
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About Amplemarket, Orankl: Orankl offers smart email marketing services and reviews.
Luis Batalha
Founder of Orankl
Luis Batalha is a Founder of Orankl.
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About Amplemarket, Orankl: Orankl offers smart email marketing services and reviews.
Matt Quirie
CEO & Founder of ROI·DNA
Founded ROI DNA where we help top brands and startups reach new levels of revenue growth. We’ve generated over a billion in new revenue for our clients including Virgin America, Dropbox, Malwarebytes, Salesforce, Sofi and many more. Having fun growing with the amazing people on this team, creating a seriously awesome culture and advising startups on the next level growth strategies…
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About ROI·DNA: We’re a full service digital agency, delivering deep, functional solutions built on incisive expertise across the digital space.
Cashman Andrus
Founder & CTO of Yesware
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About Yesware: All-in-one toolkit for sales professionals. Everything you need to prospect, schedule meetings and follow up.
Paul Lee
CEO and Co-Founder of Threadloom
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About Threadloom: Product discovery, Shopping, Search, Newsletters
Gregg Freishtat
CEO, Co-Founder of SalesWise
Gregg Freishtat is a technology executive with over 20 years of experience leading innovative and transformative companies. He founded four venture-backed start-ups, all of which had successful exits. Deeply rooted in venture capital and management of internet technology companies, he has led several companies through acquisition and has had a hand in developing disruptive technologies in convergence of telecom/internet, personal finance/online banking, web based analytics and digital media/online marketing and currently relationship intelligence. Freishtat is an active private equity investor, is the inventor on 11 patents, and has served on many BOD’s including: Telet, Proficient Systems, VerticalOne, Vertical Acuity, Marketworks, Relevant Knowledge, OutWeb, Camp Kudzu, Jewish Federation, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, S1, USA.net, Saleswise, Greensky Credit, and many others. Freishtat is also a frequent speaker at business and technology venues including Internet World, Comdex, CES, MIT Forum, Venture Atlanta, American Banker, Kellogg Business School, and many others. Freishtat received an undergraduate degree from Boston University and was awarded his J.D. from the University Of Maryland School Of Law. Specialties: Setting strategic direction and overseeing execution, growth and/or exit of Internet Technology businesses. Significant M&A, capital strategy, and board governance experience.
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About SalesWise: SalesWise provides leaders with real-time visibility into everything their team is doing to manage their accounts.
Jason Parekh
CTO, Co-Founder of SalesWise
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About SalesWise: SalesWise provides leaders with real-time visibility into everything their team is doing to manage their accounts.
Altaf Shaikh
Founder & CEO of ListEngage
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About ListEngage: ListEngage is a full-service interactive marketing company that focuses on email marketing, social media, and mobile marketing campaigns.
Paul Everton
Founder of MessageControl
Paul Everton joined MessageControl as Founder in 2015.
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About Konverse, MessageControl, Yapmo: Human Layer Email and Messaging Security
Kevin O’Brien
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of GreatHorn
Experienced technical/business development leader, with track record of accelerating growth in the start-up space. Focused on helping early-stage teams find, understand, and solve high-value market problems. Extensive background in information security and data privacy. Well recognized in the industry, frequently published in a variety of sources on a wide range of topics related to data protection and information security. Technical background in a variety of domains, including DLP, IP protection, data analytics, cloud (SaaS, PaaS), and virtualization platforms. Occasional Python and C/C++/C# coder. Early team member at @stake, QAS, Contact Networks, and CloudLock.
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About GreatHorn: GreatHorn provides protection for cloud email systems, via advanced threat detection, automated defense, and integrated incident response.
Matt Thazhmon
Founder & Chief Product Officer of Jeeng
Matt Thazhmon is the Founder of ioRevolution Inc. (alternate name: PowerInbox) and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
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About Jeeng: Jeeng provides a revolutionary algorithm that helps create automated & personalized messaging which fuel engagement and monetization.
Todd Marks
Founder, President & CEO of Mindgrub Technologies
Todd Marks is the Founder, President & CEO at Mindgrub.
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About Mindbuzz, Mindgov, Mindgrub Cafe, Mindgrub Robotics, Mindgrub Technologies, Mindgrub Technologies, NextGen Venture Partners, SpotWashApp, viaPlace: A technical agency + creative consultancy, designing and engineering enterprise business solutions that define a company’s digital presence.
Christopher DeFelice
Co-Founder & CPO of Mozzo Analytics
Over 10 years of experience of with front-end development. Co-founder of web development company that focuses on data-intensive problems. Multiple years of industry experience at companies such as EDS and Towers Perrin.
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About Mozzo Analytics: Mozzo Analytics builds solutions that eliminate the need to folder, organize or track important nuggets embedded within unstructured data
Maria Picone
Co-Founder & CIO of Mozzo Analytics
15 years of development experience applying technical solutions to data-intensive problems. Founder of web development company. Primary focus in the area of database development and server integration.
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About Mozzo Analytics: Mozzo Analytics builds solutions that eliminate the need to folder, organize or track important nuggets embedded within unstructured data
