Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top New York based CEO’ operating in the Social Media space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Alex Chung
Co-Founder & CEO of Giphy
Alex Chung is currently the founder and CEO of GIPHY. His latest startups include Artspace, a leading ecommerce destination for contemporary art, The Fridge, a private social network acquired by Google, and General Displays a GE venture developing GE’s next generation of HDTVs. He has also directed media technology for MTV, NBC, Comcast, Charter, and managed future technologies for Paul Allen’s R&D lab. He was one of the early architects of interactive television and started his career as a hardware engineer at Intel. He was named on Business Insider’s Top 25 most influential technologists in New York and has degrees in philosophy, electrical/computer engineering, and graphic design.
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About Giphy: Giphy is an online database and search engine that allows users to search, share, and discover GIFs.
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David Siegel
CEO of Meetup
David Siegel is the CEO at Meetup.
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About Columbia University, Meetup: Meetup brings people together in thousands of cities to do more of what they want to do in life.
Joshua Stylman
Co-Founder, Managing Partner & CEO of Threes Brewing
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About TeamSnap, Threes Brewing: Threes Brewing is a brewery, bar & event space.
Banu Guler
Founder & CEO of Co–Star
Founder and CEO of Co-Star, the hyper-personalized, social astrology app bringing astrology into the 21st century. Fashion industry veteran, working with brands such as Diane von Furstenberg, Alex & Ani, Ann Taylor, VFILES, and Michael Kors. Began career as a graphic designer. After realizing the power of digital in the fashion space, shifted focus to creating immersive, digital experiences to integrate community and content into commerce. Studied psychology at NYU. Scorpio.
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About Co–Star: Co–Star is a real-time horoscopes bringing astrology into the 21st century.
Brett Garfinkel
Co-Founder & CEO of SYLO
Brett Garfinkel is a Co-Founder & CEO at SYLO.
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About SYLO: SYLO provides marketers and creators with 3rd-party validation and standardized measurement to confidently invest in influencer marketing.
Ulrik Bo Larsen
Founder & CEO of Falcon.io
Ulrik Bo Larsen founded Falcon Social in 2010 after working in the groove between marketing and technology for an A-list of global clients such as PANDORA Jewelry, Carlsberg, Georg Jensen, JWT, IUM, Mindshare and MediaEdge CIA. Prior to Falcon, Ulrik founded and ran the digital agency Mingler, producing data-driven, social campaigns and assets for a global audience. He also created the first Scandinavian social network and led it to a successful exit to Danish media company – JP/Politikens Hus.
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About Falcon.io: Falcon.io provides an SaaS platform that allows marketing departments to create, launch and measure social media campaigns in real time.
Ben Anderson
Co-Founder and CEO of Amino Apps
Benjamin Anderson is a co-founder and CEO at Amino Apps.
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About Amino Apps: Amino Apps enables people to discover, develop, and express their interests and passions.
Yael Vizel
CEO & Co-founder of Zeekit (a Walmart company)
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About Zeekit (a Walmart company): Zeekit is a technology company, a part of the Global Tech department at Walmart, specializing in virtual dress-up technology.
Alex Collmer
Founder & CEO of VidMob
Alex Collmer is the founder and CEO of VidMob, the world’s largest video creation platform.As the web transitions to a video-driven medium, Collmer recognized the need for businesses to have access to the world’s best video creators who could produce quality content for a variety of platforms that was affordable. Since founding the company in 2015, Collmer has raised more than $13M and counts the leading brands and agencies as clients. Combing an elegant interface with a roster of more than 5000 video creators enables anyone to maximize their video presence and make a brand impact with video. An engineer by training, Collmer’s career has always been at the intersection of technology, design, and consumer entertainment as those sectors have evolved. Prior to founding VidMob, Collmer was the co-founder and CEO of Autumn Games, a premier publisher of video game franchises. Under his leadership, Autumn Games developed successful partnerships with such personalities as Jimmie Johnson, the 7-time NASCAR champion and companies like Def Jam, the leading urban culture brand, as well as the award-winning fighting game franchise, Skullgirls. Previously, Collmer was a founder and board member of the New York Video School, an online film school focused on empowering people all over the world to become “video literate” (www.nyvs.com). Collmer received a B.S. from Cornell University’s School of Engineering and was a certified E.I.T. in the field of structural engineering in the state of New York. Collmer sits on the board of several technology and media companies and has spoken at numerous universities and conferences on entrepreneurship and media. In his spare time, he coaches little league soccer and baseball.
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About VidMob: VidMob is a video content creation network and platform where brands can create digital video ads with expert teams.
Zachary Hamed
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Clay
Zachary Hamed is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Clay.
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About Clay: The most beautiful and private home for the people and relationships in your life.
Matthew Achariam
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Clay
Matthew Achariam is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Clay.
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About Clay, Custora: The most beautiful and private home for the people and relationships in your life.
Julie Anne Quay
Founder and CEO of VFILES
Julie Anne Quay is VFILES Founder and CEO and has over 20 years of experience in the fashion and media industries. Quay was Executive Editor for V Magazine before founding VFILES, and has worked for VH1, Vogue Japan and Australia, style.com, Steven Meisel, Richard Avedon, and more leading industry figures.
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About VFILES: VFILES—connect, discover, collaborate, and be a part of what’s next.
Michael Houston
CEO, Grey North America of Grey
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About Grey: Grey Group is a global advertising and marketing agency with headquarters in New York City
James Heekin
CEO of Grey
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About Grey: Grey Group is a global advertising and marketing agency with headquarters in New York City
Andre Swanston
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Tru Optik
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About Tru Optik: Tru Optik is the Only Audience Measurement and Data Management Platform Built for OTT
Tamanna Dhamija
Founder & CEO of Convosight
Tamanna Dhamija is a Founder & CEO of Convosight.
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About Babydestination, Convosight: Convosight provides a management platform for community builders to help them grow and monetize their Facebook groups.
Tania Yuki
Founder & CEO of Shareablee
Tania Yuki is founder and CEO of Shareablee, a leading provider of social content analytics for business. She has spent most of her career in digital marketing, measurement and analytics, and was recently honored with a Great Mind Award from the Advertising Research Foundation and featured in Fast Company and Forbes as one of 12 women driving digital in New York. Tania began her career as a media and internet attorney, specializing in digital rights management, IP and film financing. After moving to the US from Australia she was seduced by digital and went on to run an online video content network as head of acquisitions and branding and has also led product management for comScore’s Video Metrix, the world’s leading online video ratings service. After leaving comScore she ran the TV Ad Solutions practice with TV advertising company Visible World, where she oversaw sales, product management and research and development and grew revenue more than 50% year over year. Tania is also the founder of wimlink, an organization that holds regular events and seminars promoting entrepreneurship, leadership and the professional development of women.
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About Shareablee, wimlink: Shareablee is an online platform offering audience intelligence, competitive benchmarking, and insights for social media.
John S. Shriber
Co- Founder & CEO of Roomster
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About Roomster: The leading multi platform roommate matching & shared housing application. IOS, Android & fully responsive design
Ragy Thomas
Founder & CEO of Sprinklr
Ragy Thomas is the CEO and founder of Sprinklr, a provider of enterprise software for customer experience management. Sprinklr was last valued at more than $1.8 billion in 2016. He founded Sprinklr in 2009, and the company now has 1900 employees around the world serving global clients such as Microsoft and McDonald’s. Prior to founding Sprinklr, Ragy was the president of Epsilon’s (NYSE:ADS) Interactive Services from 2006 to 2008, and the CTO of Bigfoot Interactive, an email marketing leader that Epsilon acquired in 2005. Ragy earned his M.B.A. in Finance and Information Systems from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and his Computer Science Engineering degree from Pondicherry University in India.
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About Sprinklr, Sprinklr Japan: Sprinklr provides enterprise software for customer experience management.
Arjun Rai
Founder + CEO of Woofy, Inc.
ON A MISSION TO SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES WITH THE POWER OF VISUALIZED DATA SCIENCE FOR DIGITAL MARKETING AT HELLOWOOFY.COM AND WOOFY.AI. Arjun is a New York City based entrepreneur originally from West Windsor, New Jersey (aka Princeton Junction). Since high school, Arjun has been networking with some of the most well known entrepreneurs and even worked on a few projects and startups of his own. Upon graduation, Arjun pursued his career opportunities and came to New York City where he enrolled at the New York Institute of Technology in 2011 with scholarships and grants. Following a few weeks into college, Arjun launched his second startup, fuelbrite.com, a social media agency focused on small businesses and startups, and a student-focused organization, TheBizDen. After interning at a PR and ad agency in the summer of 2012, Arjun quickly saw the need for yet another startup within the tech space and raised a seed investment round to build it out. That startup became Wrkbench.io which was a virtual collaboration space designed for creative and visual people (we liked to say we make visual conversations). After spending a few years and learning the ins and outs of running a venture backed startup, Rai set out to modernize another industry related to his former passion of social media. The startup would be known as Woofy which is a social media management driven by artificial intelligence to help small to medium sized businesses with digital marketing. Arjun currently lives in New York City with his girlfriend, two cats and a dog. Arjun went to the NYIT School of Management (majoring in Small Business and Entrepreneurship). He also holds several notable awards and is a member of the Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society and Golden Key International Honour Society. Professionally, Arjun is also a member of The One Club, The Art Directors Club, The Advertising Club of NY, Social Media Marketing Society and the IVY Connect Club.
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About Woofy, Inc., wrkbench.io: Woofy is an online social media marketing platform.
Tarik Sansal
Founder & CEO of Romio
Tarik Sansal is an internet entrepreneur. He is currently the founder and CEO of Romio, a smart social real estate search engine which leverages neighborhood networks (Romio is going live shortly). Previously, Tarik was the founder of onTargetJobs.com, currently #3 vertical job site behind Dice and Linkedin. Tarik created the original strategy for onTargetJobs.com and assembled the original management team by bringing in Allen Paschal as CEO and Curt Thompson as CFO. onTargetJobs.com is a Warburg Pincus backed company (WarburgPincus.com). Prior, Tarik started InvestmentPositions.com, a job site focused on recruitment of investment professionals which evolved into RecruitmentBox, a multi vertical recruitment technology provider to vertical publishers. Tarik started his careers in investments. He was the 1st investment analyst at Moon Capital (www.MoonCapital.com), the emerging markets hedge fund. He is passionate about leveraging socially conscious internet ventures to make a positive social impact. He also has ideas around new alternative investment models which leverage a socially conscious approach to deliver superior returns to investors. Tarik wrote white papers which were published and reference in financial media such as The Financial Times.
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About Romio: Romio let’s you book “trusted” local services (Housekeeper, Runner, Dog Walker…) through recommendations from local experts and friends
Beri Meric
Founder & CEO of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Simon Mansell
CEO of TBG Digital
Simon founded TBG in 2001 and has grown it into a global force known for delivering results and defying clients’ expectations.
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About TBG Digital: TBG Digital, a Facebook ad optimization platform, enable social network advertisers monitor and optimize global scale campaigns.
John W. Kelly
Co-founder & CEO of Graphika
John Kelly is the founder and CEO of Graphika, a social media intelligence firm founded on technology he invented that blends social network analysis, content analysis, and statistics to solve the problem of making complex online networks understandable. A quantitative social scientist by training, he has a Ph.D. in Communications from Columbia University, and has also studied at Stanford and at Oxford’s Internet Institute. He is also an Affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where he works with leading academics to design and implement empirical studies of the Internet’s role in business, culture, and politics around the world. An entrepreneur by choice, Kelly leads a team of business professionals and data scientists to bring new analytic technologies to market via the Graphika platform.
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About Graphika, Harvard University: Graphika identifies social communities and influencers within them, mapping spheres of influence on topics & content you care about most.
Barak Shragai
Co-Founder & CEO of IMGN Media
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About IMGN Media: IMGN is a tech-media company specialized in producing and programming social content for Gen Z audiences.
Pete Cashmore
Founder & CEO of Mashable
Pete Cashmore is the founder and CEO of Mashable, the leading source of news, information & resources for the Connected Generation. Pete founded Mashable in 2005 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland when he was 19. His passion for sharing how web tools and social networks were transforming human interactions and reshaping cultures drove him to create Mashable. Always an entrepreneur, Pete has continued to push Mashable to evolve from a tech blog to a global media company built around technology. He leads Mashable’s strategy and his innate sense of the web and its community, are core to the company’s operations and future growth. He has been described as the “Sage of Media” and considered one of the most influential voices of his generation– on and offline. Pete was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2012. He was featured on Forbes 30 under 30 list, named one of Ad Age’s 2011 influencers, and was named a Young Global Leader by The World Economic Forum.
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About Mashable: Mashable is a media company for the connected generation and voice of digital culture.
Aneto Okonkwo
Co-Founder & CEO of Chatdesk
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About Chatdesk: Supercharge your support team and transform customer service into sales
Tony Haile
CEO of Scroll
Tony Haile CEO of Chartbeat since 2016.
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About Chartbeat, Scroll: Scroll is creating a sustainable experience that puts amazing content in front of engaged users without all the noise.
Hassan Miah
CEO and Co-Founder of Robin8 Inc
Hassan Miah has nearly three decades of experience in the entertainment industry, which began when he was based in Los Angeles working as a Partner in KPMG Peat Marwick where he was an entertainment and business valuation consultant. He then moved to Creative Artists Agency (CAA), where he served as the head of new media and began to expand into the digital space, which was still in its infancy. Since then Hassan Miah has been able to combine his passion for new media and entertainment to create services that help music and video fans. He was the CEO of Xing Technology Corporation, the first consumer MP3 recording company. He is the Founder and CEO of UrFilez (www.urfilez.com), a cloud-based digital music company with proprietary recommendations technology. He also spent time at the Intel Capital, where he was the Managing Director of Media & Entertainment.
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About One Llama Labs, Inc, Paybby, Radio One Llama, Robin8 Inc: influencer search engine and marketplace, Robin8, an influencer search engine and marketplace.
Miranda Tan
CEO & Founder of Robin8 Inc
Tan has over 10 years experience in PR and marketing. Prior to MyPRGenie, Tan was the president of Excite Media Group, where she specialized in PR and marketing for start-ups and fast growth companies including McKinsey & Company, National Imaging Associates (acquired by Wellpoint), MindTree Consulting, Cognizant Technology Solutions, NYU, Opinion Research Corp and Peoplesoft (acquired by Oracle). Prior to Excite Media Group, Tan founded ExcitePR, a $2 MM hi-tech PR agency. Tan merged ExcitePR with a $15M PR and marketing firm in Silicon Valley. Tan has a BS from Cornell University and a JD from St. John’s University School of Law. She is admitted under the New York Bar.
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About Robin8 Inc: influencer search engine and marketplace, Robin8, an influencer search engine and marketplace.
CJ Dunne
Co-Founder & CEO of SageSpot
CJ Dunne is the Co-Founder & CEO at SageSpot.
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About SageSpot: SageSpot is the social platform that transforms world-class Creators’ most passionate followers into paid subscribers.
Alex Rahaman
CEO and Founder of StrikeAd
Alex Rahaman is the Partner at Idekapital Fund.
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About Adimo, FluxLoop, Idekapital, Shenorock Ventures, StrikeAd, Urban Analytix: StrikeAd Fusion, a proprietary technology platform for agencies and advertisers to plan, execute, and evaluate their mobile advertisements.
Victor Kaufman
Chief Executive Officer of Savoy Pictures Entertainment
Victor A. Kaufman is Vice Chairman of IAC and serves in the Office of the Chairman. In this position, Mr. Kaufman oversees all strategic planning, financial and legal matters for IAC. Previously, Mr. Kaufman had served in the Office of the Chairman and as Chief Financial Officer from November 1997 through October 1999. He has been a director of the Company since December 1996. Prior to joining the Company, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Savoy Pictures Entertainment, Inc. since March 1992. Mr. Kaufman was also the founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tri-Star Pictures, Inc. from 1983 to December 1987, at which time he became President and Chief Executive Officer of Tri-Star’s successor company Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.
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About IAC, Savoy Pictures Entertainment: Savoy Pictures Entertainment
Alexander Jordan
CEO of Firon Marketing
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About Firon Marketing: We are a strategic digital marketing agency committed to optimizing your performance across all social and search platforms.
Jeremy Frommer
Founder & CEO of Creatd
Jeremy Frommer is an American financier and entrepreneur based in New Jersey. His career includes over two decades on Wall Street, working as a hedge fund and portfolio manager, and on the sell-side of the financial industry, building and selling two financial services companies. He is CEO of Jerrick Ventures Inc., a company that acquires, develops and produces content across all forms of media. Frommer is depicted in Michael Lewis’ novel Flash Boys. In 2012, Frommer discovered the “Guccione Collection,” a large collection of unpublished works and photos owned by Bob Guccione, the founder of the Penthouse empire. Frommer graduated magna cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany, with a B.A. in philosophy, and studied at the London School of Economics.
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About Creatd, Vocal: Creatd is an IT company that provides technologies that solve problems for the creative community.
David Karp
Founder & CEO of Tumblr
David Karp, a web developer and entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Tumblr, a micro blogging platform and social networking website. Prior to that, he worked at Davidville, UrbanBaby, Frederator Studios, and Tekserve. David Karp was born on July 6, 1986, and currently resides in New York, United States.
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About Tumblr: Tumblr, a microblogging platform and social networking website, enables users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.
Sam Ben Avraham
Founder & CEO of Liberty Fairs
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About Liberty Fairs: Liberty Fairs, the newest brainchild of Sam Ben-Avraham ushers in a new era in fashion trade events.
Michael Kassan
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of MediaLink
Michael E. Kassan helps bridge the gaps between media, marketers, and technologists. Kassan founded MediaLink in 2003 to be a transformational partner to the world’s leading media, marketing, and technology companies. Bringing these groups together while balancing strategic insight with pragmatic execution, MediaLink guides its clients through an increasingly fragmented media landscape. As Chairman and CEO, Kassan has led the firm’s expansion from strategic advisory into multiple business lines including executive search, financial due diligence, agency benchmarking/reviews, and trade marketing. With a culture focused on both confidentiality and transparency, MediaLink now sits at the epicenter of major cross-industry initiatives and legislation helping to build consensus between government, marketers, and publishers. Kassan maintains a deep commitment to advising the media industry’s leadership. He acts as Special Advisor to numerous CEO’s helping them “break through the noise” in today’s marketplace and advising on issues ranging from corporate strategy and partnerships to M&A. Drawing on a combination of experience, relationships, and insights, Kassan writes extensively as a noted blogger and serves frequently as a moderator and keynote speaker at global industry conferences. He has built instrumental partnerships with the Consumer Electronics Show and the Cannes Lions. He also produces and hosts a radio show on WOR 710 AM and Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio, “Medialinked — Inside Advertising and Media with Michael Kassan.” Prior to MediaLink, Kassan led Initiative Media Worldwide as COO and Vice-Chairman from 1994 to 2001. Kassan helped grow the company’s initial $1.5 billion in billings nearly ten-fold. Prior to Initiative, he was President and COO of International Video Entertainment (Artisan Entertainment). In his first career, Kassan spent ten years as a tax lawyer specializing in the entertainment industry. Kassan currently serves as Chair of the UJA-New York Marketing Communications Committee as well as on the Boards of the American Advertising Federation, the Ad Council, and the Hollywood Radio and Television Society. He served as Chairman of the California State Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry.
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About MediaLink: MediaLink is a strategic advisory firm that provides strategic advisory and implementation services to companies at all stages.
Justin McLeod
Founder and CEO of Hinge
Founder and CEO of Hinge.
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About Hinge: Hinge is a social discovery network helping users meet new people through an application.
Greg Maffei
President & CEO of Liberty Media
Greg Maffei is the President and CEO at Liberty Media.
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About Liberty Broadband, Liberty Media, Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings Inc, Qurate Retail, Qurate Retail: Liberty Media operates in the video and online commerce, media, communications, and entertainment businesses.
Alex Blumberg
Co-Founder and CEO and Podcast Businessman of Gimlet Media
Alex Blumberg is a CO-Founder and CEO and Podcast Businessman at Gimlet Media. He received a B.A. from Oberlin College and is currently an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University. From 1999-2014 he was the producer for the public radio show This American Life and his stories were regularly featured on the show. From 2007-2014 he was the executive producer of the television version of This American Life. Prior to This American Life, he worked as a freelance radio reporter, contributing to This American Life, the Savvy Traveller and Chicago Public Radio. In 2008 he collaborated with National Public Radio economics correspondent Adam Davidson to co-host the Planet Money podcast, which posts new episodes twice weekly. In August 2014, he started Gimlet Media along with Matthew Lieber. Initially pitched as the American Podcasting Corporation (APC), Gimlet Media is a podcasting business. Blumberg documented the startup process in the first season of a podcast hosted on Gimlet Media, titled StartUp. The second season follows “Dating Ring”, another startup company. Apart from StartUp, Gimlet Media has launched several other podcasts, including Mystery Show, Surprisingly Awesome, and Reply All. The company has raised $1.5 million in seed funding. After raising most of its initial capital from investment firms Betaworks, Lowercase Capital, and Knight Enterprise Fund, Gimlet invited the listeners of its shows to help raise the last $200,000 through crowdfunding platform Alphaworks. In December 2015, Gimlet closed a Series A round of funding that raised $6 million at a $30 million valuation.
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About Gimlet Media: Gimlet Media is a developer of a digital media network platform that focuses on producing quality narrative podcasts.
David Bialek
Co-Founder & CEO of ReKTGlobal
With over 25 years in the sports marketing & media world, Dave made the jump to esports with his co-founding of ReKTGlobal. Dave has spearheaded the creation of multiple advertising platforms in the place-based, streaming media and sports advertising space. He is credited with building two groundbreaking initiatives in collegiate sports. First, he led a sales team to create the iconic Allstate Field Goal Net program in NCAA Football. Second, he invented a “profile” position on NCAA and NBA basket stanchions, with which State Farm has become synonymous. The stanchion sign is widely considered to be the most impactful signage position in all of sports. For this latest pursuit, Dave became a recipient of the prestigious Sports Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 award. His work in the traditional sports marketplace can be seen far and wide, and he’s bringing the very same creative approach to the esports ecosystem.
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About ReKTGlobal: ReKTGlobal is a business authority in e-sports and competitive gaming.
Georgene Huang
CEO & Co-Founder of Fairygodboss
Georgene Huang is founder of Fairygodboss.com, an employer review site and community for working women.
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About Fairygodboss: Fairygodboss is the largest career community for women. Free for women, we help employers recruit and hire women.
Frankie Vittorini
CEO of uSTADIUM
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About uSTADIUM: uSTADIUM is a platform for sports fans to engage and make money on their opinions.
Yaniv Makover
Co-founder & CEO of Anyword
Yaniv Makover is the Co-founder and CEO at Keywee
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About Anyword: Anyword offers publishers and marketers an approach to content distribution and performance measurement.
Brendan Eapen
Co-Founder & CEO of In/spree
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About In/spree: In/Spree is a new social media shopping platform that connects influencers, brands, and retailers.
Jon Brodsky
CEO of YouNow
Jon Brodsky is the CEO at YouNow.
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About YouNow: YouNow is the world’s first live social network, empowering users to broadcast themselves from anywhere in real time.
Mae Karwowski
CEO, Founder of Obviously
Mae is the CEO and Founder of Obviously, the influencer platform for the world’s iconic brands. Mae has grown this company from a one person start up to a 15 person, global company with a brand roster that includes many Fortune 500 companies. Obviously specializes in building custom networks of influencers for brands, specifically large scale global communities of hundreds to thousands of influencers with the right target audiences. Working with the best brands out there, we build relationships with the influencers that embody their ethos while moving their businesses forward. Before Starting Obviously, Mae ran social media for Gilt City, part of Gilt Groupe. Previous to that she ran social media for Bravo, Coca Cola and UGG with the ad agency 360i. She enjoys playing tennis, snowboarding, corgi .gifs and talking tech and entrepreneurship 24/7.
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About Obviously: Obviously builds and manages influencer networks for the world’s iconic brands.
Mike Albanese
CEO of GALORE Media
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About GALORE Media: A talent driven media company celebrating beauty, femininity, and sex appeal in a fun, unconventional form for generation Y and Z.
Udayan Bose
Founder & CEO of NetElixir
Udayan Bose founded NetElixir with a vision to provide online marketers worldwide with a paid search campaign optimization solution capable of delivering magical performance. Udayan recognized the potential of paid search as an essential advertising channel in 2002. Having experienced first hand the complexity involved in running a profitable paid search campaign, he was driven to develop a system that delivers predictable and efficient campaign performance, allowing marketers to fully leverage the power of paid search as a high value sales generator. Prior to starting NetElixir, Udayan was Director of Business Development for iGlobalMedia/PartyGaming, the world’s largest online gaming company. In this role he was responsible for building a new business unit, PartyBingo, that became a major revenue generator for the company. Udayan is a regular speaker at leading industry conferences like Internet Retailer Conference (US), Internet Retailing Conference (UK), eTail and Search Engine Strategies Conferences (US and Germany). He is a guest lecturer at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management; Zicklin School of Business, Baruch, NY and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Udayan holds a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and an M.B.A. from Mumbai University, India.
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About NetElixir: We specialize in SEM. Fanatically analytical. Search advertising mavens. Technology builders. Friendly experts.
Andrew Konya
Co-Founder, CEO of Remesh
Andrew is a physicist by training and began a Ph.D. program in Chemical Physics at Kent State University with a focus on theoretical modeling & supercomputing. Through his research, Andrew became interested in artificial intelligence and has spent the past eight years applying AI and machine learning algorithms to a wide range of problems from material science and bio-sensing to peacekeeping with the United Nations. In 2014 he co-founded Remesh with the goal of using AI to turn a live audience into a conversational representative intelligence.
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About Remesh: Remesh offers an AI-powered platform that enables users to have live conversations with their customers at scale.
Clarkson Logan
Founder & CEO of Maestro
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About Maestro: Maestro is a cloud music platform enabling users to access and manage their entire music library on demand from any connected device.
Mary Keane-Dawson
Group CEO of Takumi
Mary is a digital maven, entrepreneur and business mentor. In 2013, after c-suite roles at WPP, Steak, Reform and Collective, she co-founded medical technology startup MyHealthPal as well as the women’s networking franchise How She Made It. Both enterprises started in London, but have expanded to the US and Canada. Mary started in advertising sales on Fleet Street in the late 80’s and she has been part of the digital revolution ever since. She has helped guide several of the world’s largest brands’ entry to the disruptive and evolving landscape of digital, including Mazda, Ford, American Airlines, John Lewis, BUPA and British Gas. She is chair of The Guardian Changing Advertising Summit, a speaker, writer and business mentor and coach. She is Global Ambassador for the British Interactive Media Association, on the Board of London Tech Advocates and NED to The Smalls as well as advisor to investors and entrepreneurs.
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About Takumi: Takumi is a platform that gives large brands and advertising agencies access to branded influencer creative at scale.
Eric Silverberg
Founder & CEO of SCRUFF
Eric is the founder & CEO of SCRUFF – one of the largest gay social dating apps in the world. Prior to SCRUFF, he was a Software Engineer at Microsoft and a Product Manager at Google. He has a BS in Computer Science from Stanford and an MBA from MIT Sloan.
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About SCRUFF: SCRUFF is the top-rated, safest and most reliable social app for more than 15 million gay, bi and trans and queer men worldwide.
Mark Fishman
CEO of Screenshop
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About : Screenshop is a revolutionary new way to shop looks right from your social media feed.
Jordan Verroi
Founder & CEO of CapGenius
Jordan Verroi is the founder of CapGenius, LLC. He is also an active investor in Pangea.app, Drum.io and silent investor in a CPG brand in the Food & Beverage industry.
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About CapGenius: CapGenius creates creative content and publishes it through a mobile keyboard.
Ayman Hariri
CEO & Co-Founder of Vero
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About Vero: Vero is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of mobile application, social media, and Online Media.
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.
Alexei Orlov
Founder and CEO of MTM
With experience spanning 30 years, 40 countries, and 50 brands, Alexei Orlov has made life his business and business his life as a seasoned leader in Global Marketing. A proven specialist in global brand strategy, marketing deployment, and operational change management, Alexei’s passionate and dynamic leadership has been a driving force throughout his career. Alexei Orlov is Founder and Global CEO of mtm choice worldwide, a boutique network of skilled practitioners specialising in high-precision brand activation and media optimisation. mtm choice is a family of wholly owned, highly accomplished specialist agencies whose people are well-rewarded and incentivized to deliver growth and the very dest creative solutions for their clients. Bolstered by market-enabling technologies, mtm agencies seek to help brands excel at the “moments that matter” for their customers and consumers. They put high precision, tech enables creativity at the core of their service offerings. The company initially raised in excess of $30 Million and has completed three acquisitions, which are all highly regarded specialist agencies in the field of Brand / Media Activation. mtm choice is currently in negotiations to complete a further $100 Million of funding to support additional Top Tier acquisitions, and a fourth acquisition will be finalised by the end of February 2019. The upcoming year will certainly be a busy one for Alexei Orlov and mtm choice — six more brands are in various stages of negotiation to be acquired by the company. Prior to mtm, Alexei Orlov served as Senior Advisor to the CEO & Chairman of DAS, an international division of Omnicom Group. Prior to DAS, he served as Global CEO of RAPP where he oversaw a dramatic turnaround, attracting new business and leadership talent through a successful rebranding initiative. As Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Volkswagen Group China, Alexei Orlov was responsible for the overall marketing and brand positioning for the Volkswagen Brands portfolio across Greater China and ASEAN. Alexei was jointly responsible for the commercial excellence of the company’s significant regional business as a core member of Volkswagen’s executive team. Alexei served the digital specialist agency Wunderman for eight years as President (Europe), then as Global COO and finally as Executive Vice-Chairman (Worldwide). He also served as the Global Strategic Lead for WPP’s automotive business, where he co-led agencies including Ogilvy & Mather, Wunderman, Mindshare, Y&R and JWT on their work for Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mazda, and Volvo. Before joining Wunderman, Alexei Orlov owned and ran ROCQM and MCW, specialists in brand strategy and commercial recovery. After selling the company to WPP, the company became one of the key cornerstones of what later became RMG Connect, a global strategy service within the WPP portfolio. Prior, Alexei was Global Brand Communications Director for Volvo Cars and Marketing Director of Volvo UK, at the time the second-largest national sales company for the Volvo Corporation. Alexei was the youngest executive to be appointed to a director position at Avon, where he served as Marketing Director of Avon Cosmetics Retail (Europe). At the beginning of his career he was a founding member of the highly-successful Paperchase Retail Group, igniting in him a passion for brand stewardship that carries on to this day. Alexei Orlov has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and honors. In 2012 and 2013, Alexei was awarded CMO of the Year / ASEAN by the World Brand Congress. In 2013, Alexei and his team at Proximity received a Cannes Gold Lion Award for their work creating the People’s Car Project, the largest automotive social media platform with 28 million users and 108 million YouKu followers. Alexei was also invited to be one of the top keynote speakers at the highly-acclaimed Global Brand Forum in 2013. Alexei Orlov’s dynamic insight is reflected in his continued ventures, thought leadership, and everyday philosophies. Originally from the United Kingdom, he currently resides in New York City where he spends leisure time with his beloved family, enjoys nature, and writes poetry.
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About MTM: MTM is an independent global network dedicated to creating value between people and brands at the moments that matter.
Jake Poses
Founder & CEO of Jumprope
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About Jumprope: Jumprope is a platform where users can create, discover, and share how-to videos and tutorials.
Naj Austin
Founder &CEO, Somewhere Good of Ethels Club
Naj Austin is the founder and CEO of Somewhere Good and Ethel’s Club. She has spent her career building digital and physical products that make the world a more intersectional and equitable space. She was named one of Inc’s 100 Female Founders transforming America, a Huffpost Culture Shifter of 2020 and Time Out New York’s 2020 list of women making NYC better.
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About Ethels Club, Somewhere Good: An immersive wellness platform centering people of color. By us, for you.
Jeremy Fischbach
CEO of MyNeighborhood
Jeremy Fischbach is the co-founder and CEO of ‘Happy’ (www.happytheapp.io), a start-up that aims to change the culture of support in the United States by significantly expanding the number of people who can provide and receive the critical component of mental health, emotional support. Jeremy has a BA in psychology from Princeton and a JD from NYU Law School.
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About MyNeighborhood: MyNeighborhood is a local social network with the purpose of bringing people together that help and support themselves in the time of
Álvaro De La Fuente
Co-Founder / CEO of Artisroom
I was born in Spain, however I have lived in New York City for 12 years. Attending Babson College, a truly global university, has given me unique assets beyond my curriculum. I have experienced and collaborated with people from all walks of life and every corner of the globe.
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About Artisroom: Platform for artists in music, art, & fashion to build a portfolio and create connections
Zohar Dayan
CEO & Founder of Wibbitz
CEO & Founder of Wibbitz, the leading automated video creation company that empowers any team to produce professional short-form video.
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About Wibbitz: Wibbitz is an automated video creation company that empowers any team to produce professional short-form video.
Richard Steggall
Founder & CEO of Urban FT Group, Inc.
Richard Steggall, the CEO of Urban FT, which is recognized as one of the most progressive and successful FinTech companies in the Financial Services industry today, is a results-driven entrepreneur with a record of success and a passion for accelerating and capitalizing on emerging opportunities. At Urban FT, Richard and team are enabling financial institutions to deliver an exceptional customer experience through the world’s first, and most capable, FinTech Core. Urban FT’s X-35 FinTech Core™ is positioned to clean up this challenging ecosystem and help financial institutions stay on the bleeding-edge of innovations when it comes to providing their end-users with superior Digital Banking Experiences, Money Movement capabilities, Identity Verification and Account Opening options, and Behavioral Insights, all of which enhance overall user engagement. A FinTech veteran, directly before founding Urban FT, he was founder & CEO of Waspit Group Inc., a banking alternative for students. Before entering the FinTech space he spent 17 years in IT&T, serving as COO of UK-based Burlington Rye Plc and head of corporate strategy for NASDAQ-listed and U.S.-based Kit Digital Inc. (formerly Roo Media Inc.). In these roles, he was responsible for the growth strategies of private and public companies in North America, the U.K. and Asia. Throughout his experience, Richard has focused on acquisitive and capital growth, and led IPOs (including via reverse mergers) across the globe.
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About Urban FT Group, Inc.: Urban FT helps FIs deliver exceptional customer-driven digital experiences by providing the industry’s first and most capable FinTech Core.
Majd Maksad
Founder & CEO of Status Money
Majd is the co-founder & CEO of Status Money. He has more than 10 years of experience in the Consumer Lending and Credit Cards industry. Prior to co-founding Status Money, Majd was the Head of Decision Management for Citi Global Digital Payments in New York. In that role, he led the financial modeling for deals with American Airlines, PayPal, Apple, Samsung, and Google. Majd previously held senior roles at Citi in Digital Marketing, Product Development, and Portfolio Analytics. Prior to Citi, Majd developed credit and fraud risk models at Discover Cards in Chicago. Majd holds Masters and Bachelors degrees in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.
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About Status Money: Status Money is a social personal finance app that enables people to compare finances and crowdsource advice from peers.
Geoff Bartakovics
Co-founder and CEO of Tasting Table
Geoff Bartakovics (born 1977) is an American businessman and entrepreneur. He is the cofounder and CEO of Tasting Table,[1] a digital media brand targeted toward influential foodies. Bartakovics is also a board member or advisor to a number of other digital brands and start-ups, including Trigger Media Group, Inside Hook, Pixafy and Gathered Table. Before launching Tasting Table in 2008, Bartakovics was a business manager in asset-backed finance at UBS Investment Bank. He studied English literature at the University of Chicago, and studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Hamburg as a Fulbright Scholar. In 2012, he was named one of Out magazine’s OUT 100
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About Artifact Ventures, Pixafy, Tasting Table: Tasting Table is the modern media brand for a new generation of food & drink enthusiasts.
Ilya Lagutin
CEO of Aitarget
Entrepreneur @ adtech space. Specialties: advertising, data management, big data, programmatic buying, Facebook Ads. CEO of Facebook Marketing Partner company Aitarget.
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About aidata.me, Aitarget: A single solution for the full scope of advertising tasks on Facebook and Youtube — from making creatives to campaign optimization.
Michael Rothman
Co-Founder, CEO of Fatherly
Michael is the co-Founder, & CEO at Fatherly, a digital lifestyle guide for men entering parenthood.
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About Fatherly: Fatherly operates as a digital media brand for dads.
Dax Martinez-Vargas
CEO/Creator of Peepsqueeze Inc
Entreprenuer. TV/Online commercial film director in the Director’s Guild of America. represented in commercials by Smuggler Inc. He’s worked in the On-Air Promos department at MTV in NYC from 2005 – 11. He’s directed and produced many forms of creative content, including over 100 commercials for on-air/on-line content.
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About Peepsqueeze Inc: User records short video message & invites friends. App sends invite, then collects & connects them all, and sends to recipient.
Bruce Spector
CEO and Founder of BuzzVote
Bruce Edward Spector is a technology action junkie. He has been creating and investing in innovation for over twenty years. As the founder of WebCal (acquired by Yahoo) he created the web’s first scalable personal information platform now Yahoo Calendar and PIM. He worked in senior management at Yahoo where his business card read “turbo yahoo”. Since then he has started an incubator, ATTAP (All Things to All People) Technologies, Inc which developed PersonalDNA.com, LifeIO.com, and BuzzVote.com.
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About BuzzVote: BuzzVote is a user-generated social polling and viral voting platform for Android and iOS devices.
Darius Fisher
CEO & Co-Founder of Status Labs
CEO & Co-Founder @ Status Labs | Managing Partner @ Blue Land Partners.
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About Blue Land Partners, Page, Status Labs, YPO: The Premier Online Reputation Management Firm
Michael Lebowitz
Founder and CEO of Big Spaceship
Michael Lebowitz is Founder and CEO of Big Spaceship, a globally-recognized marketing agency that creates connected experiences, products and services. Since launching the agency in 2000, he has defined the strategy and vision for Big Spaceship, while working closely with the agency’s clients, including BMW, Capital One, Google Play, Google Maps, Ken Burns, Nestle-Purina, Organic Valley, Samsung, West Elm, and YouTube. At Big Spaceship Michael has assembled “a crack team of digital inventors,” according to Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies” list, and has led the company to be named one of Advertising Age and Crain’s New York Business Best Places to Work for multiple years in a row. Big Spaceship’s multidisciplinary team structure and progressive culture have been profiled by Harvard Business School, with the case study now taught at business schools in 40 countries. Speaking on creativity, innovation and the evolution of business, Michael speaks across the globe and has engaged audiences at top industry events including Cannes Festival of Creativity, SXSW, Click:NY, Forge Conference, Advertising Week, Click:London and ad:tech, as well as at business schools including NYU Stern, Long Island University and SLU’s Institute for Private Business. He frequently chairs and sits on juries for creative awards and influential industry organizations including the IAB Agency Advisory Board and annual MIXX Awards, The One Club, Society of Digital Agencies and The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, among others. And has led the agency to win countless awards of its own including an Emmy Award nomination for the agency’s work with HBO Voyeur, Cannes Lions, Clios, Webbys, Andys, and One Show Interactive Pencils, as well as numerous IAB MIXX, Webby, Shorty, FWA, Communication Arts, W3 and Pixel Awards, among others. Michael was also named among the 2010 Creativity 50 and the 2008 OMMA Online All-Stars.
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About Big Spaceship, Harvard Business School, NYU Stern School of Business: Big Spaceship creates the experiences, products, platforms, and content that help brands build meaningful relationships with consumers.
Aaron Fessler
Founder & CEO of TwineSocial
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About TripWorks, TwineSocial: Smart marketers build trust and tell brand stories with curated social media.
Rachel Zisser Kaplowitz
Co-founder & CEO of Honey
Rachel is the CEO of Honey. With over 10 years of business development and sales experience, Rachel leads the growth and sales operations at Honey. Before Honey, she led the sales team at Condition One, a venture-backed TechStars company. Rachel earned her MBA at NYU Stern and her BA at Columbia University.
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About Honey: Honey is a simple and beautiful modern intranet. We believe in loving your job and the tools you use at work.
Mike More
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of CoPromote
Mike More is CEO and co-Founder of CoPromote CoPromote is a cross-promotion network. The CoPromote network enables marketers to reach 1000x more new people per post by leveraging a large network of like-minded content creators.CoPromote rewrites the rules of social marketing marketing true authentic scalable social sharing, CEO and Founder of Selectable Media.Selectable Media (www.selectablemedia.com), the leading Gen Y online broadcast network. Selectable is in the top 10 on comScore’s March 2009 Video Metrix Key Measures Report, which rates online video content viewership. The report firmly establishes Selectable’s video network as the 5th most popular destination for Internet video viewers aged 12-24, and the 9th most popular video destination across all age groups.With a focus on marketing to Generation Y, Selectable Media broadcasts online video through a proprietary network of more than 400 social networking resource sites. Selectable Media shares the comScore Top 10 with some of the largest players in Internet video including Google, Fox Interactive Media, HULU.com, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Viacom Digital, CBS Interactive, Turner Network, and Disney.
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About CoPromote: CoPromote operates as a free content sharing community.
Fenner Stevens
CEO of Muze
Fenner Stevens serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Muze.
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About Muze: Muze is a creative messaging app that expands how users can communicate.
Ray Carbonell
CEO of Qnary
Ray Carbonell is the CEO of Qnary. Ray was Qnary’s employee #1 and was paramount for Qnary’s growth and fundraising, playing a key role at finances, sales and building Qnary’s global footprint. Prior to being named CEO, Ray acted as Global President of Qnary, where he oversaw Qnary’s business units across the US, Europe, and Asia. Ray is a very curious, creative and data-driven executive, who is passionate about building and scaling businesses. Ray holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from ESADE Business School, and Master’s Degree in Finance from ESADE and the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.
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About Qnary: Qnary is an award-winning executive reputation management and talent branding solutions company.
Jason Hirschhorn
CEO + Chief Curator of REDEF
Jason Hirschhorn joined Sling Media in December, 2006 to preside over the newly created Sling Media Entertainment Group. The Sling Media Entertainment Group was formed to define and create even richer and more engaging experiences for Slingbox customers as well as their family and friends. Jason Hirschhorn is tasked with delivering entirely new applications and services enabled by the Slingboxâ marriage of familiar TV programming and richly interactive Web-connected devices. Before joining Sling Media, Hirschhorn was a Founding Partner at TripleH Media Advisors, a digital media consultancy. Before TripleH, Jason was Chief Digital Officer at MTV Networks . At MTV Networks, Jason was responsible for the company’s digital media businesses and interactive strategy. In April 2009, Hirschhorn joined MySpace as its Chief Product Officer and in February 2010 was promoted to co-President.
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About REDEF: REDEF is an interest blog that covers pop, tech, and media every day.
David Bauer
Chief Executive Officer of Distractify
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About Distractify: Distractify creates and covers what’s trending on the internet.
Katy Kasmai
Cofounder CEO of Xocracy
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About Xocracy: Xocracy is a social media platform for quick and easy voting.
Loic Moisand
CEO & Co-Founder of Synthesio, an Ipsos Company
Loic is responsible for overall company operations and strategic direction. Under his leadership, Synthesio has grown from a startup to the leading Social Listening Platform that it is today. Loic and Synthesio continue to grow customers and revenue by leading and innovating in the social media intelligence space. Loic holds an MBA from ESSEC Business School in Paris and is a speaker and advisor at conferences and events globally.
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About Synthesio, an Ipsos Company: Synthesio is a global Leader in the latest report on Social Listening Platforms published by an independent research firm.
John West
Founder & CEO of Whistle
John West, the founder, chairman & CEO of Whistle Sports, is an entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience launching and building companies. In 1989, West started Enstrat, an environmental services company, which was sold seven years later. In 1996, West joined Mitchell Madison Group, a management consulting firm, and was subsequently elected partner. In 1999, he founded and became chairman of Silver Oak Solutions, a financial software and advisory company that was acquired by CGI, a publicly traded IT outsourcing company, in 2005. In 2008, he formed Whistle to provide young sports fans with engaging content across social media platforms. West holds a BS in engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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About Whistle, Whistle: Whistle is a global sports and entertainment company that creates, curates, and distributes positive brand safe original content.
Tomas Hoyos
Co-Founder & CEO of Voro
Tomas Hoyos is the co-founder and CEO of Voro.
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About Voro: Voro is a developer of a doctor’s recommendation platform designed to make community healthier.
Lance Neuhauser
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of 4C Insights
Lance Neuhauser is CEO at 4C Insights
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About 4C Insights, The Echo System: Scope by 4C™ is the leading self-service intelligence platform for marketers to drive business outcomes across closed ecosystems.
Luke Smith
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Croud
CEO & Founder at Croud, an award-winning global digital agency delivering performance marketing in 110 countries, offices in London, NY, Sydney and Shrewsbury. Having built an in-house team of 145, together with a network of 1,900+ ‘Croudies’, we’re achieving exceptional growth by reinventing the agency model. Croud was recently listed in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 of the UK’s fastest-growing private tech companies, and recognised as one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies in the FT1000. Plus we were incredibly proud to pick up the social innovation award as part of the Tech Track award, for facilitating change in the way people work. Find out more at www.croud.com or I’m always happy to connect with anyone in digital – reach me at luke@croud.com
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About Croud: Croud is a digital marketing agency that provides services including SEO, PPC, content, programmatic, paid social, and analytics
Danny Feltsman
Founder and CEO of lifeArk
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About lifeArk: lifeArk helps parents share life experience and establish meaningful, lasting, and significant relationships with their kids
Nicholas Cuomo
Co-founder and CEO of Allstar
Entrepreneur, former pro-gamer, viral video maker, and lover of esports. Over 15 years of experience in art direction, digital marketing, product development and sales leadership.
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About Allstar: Allstar develops technology that enables gamers to effortlessly capture, personalize, and share their greatest gaming moments.
Arkadiy Dorokhov
Chief Executive Officer of Trend Capital
Arkadiy Dorokhov is the CEO of Trend Capital Holdings.
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About Bloom, Trend Capital: A tech-enabled digital marketing platform .
Ryan Moonyoung Jang
Founder & CEO of Envicase
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About Envicase: Envicase is a new mobile-application-based social network service where you showcase your world of goods.
Robert Savage
CEO & Editor in Chief & Head of Track Research of Tracx
Robert Savage runs a start up fund, CCTrack Solutions which is backed by CITIC Capital. The focus of the fund is FX trading systematically, and Robert Savages entire career has been focused on FX space starting with his work as a Quant strategist at Goldman. He is now successfully steering a start-up hedge fund in the FX market, and will be sharing his expertise on how the buy side can drive value from their sell side counterparts, discussing whether and agency or principal based model is the best way forward in FX.
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About BNY Mellon, Tracx: Tracx is a cloud-based social media management system providing business analytics solutions through the social web.
Nick Zhou
CEO and Co-founder of Everlasting Footprint
Mr. Zhou has 12 years of experience in the IT industry. He has been the CTO since 2012. Prior to EF, Mr. Zhou was the President and CEO of Nicholas Chou (formerly MP Marketing Center), a marketing firm, and Founder of Chinese Food DIY, a food company. Mr. Zhou received his Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Wuhan University, his Masters of Business Administration from University of Maryland, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Ohio State University.
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About Everlasting Footprint, Supercharge Blockchain: Everlasting Footprint is a platform for anyone to curate, preserve, and share life stories.
Greg Alkalay
Founder & CEO of batteryPOP
Greg Alkalay is the Co-Founder and CEO of batteryPOP, the online and mobile video network exclusively for 6-11 year olds, where kids are in command of what “POPS.” Recently named among Café Mom’s Top 10 Mom-Approved Sites, the network features curated and unique content ranging from cartoons, live action series, and exclusive interviews covering top trending celebrities and topics for kids. A veteran of the children’s entertainment industry, Greg launched batteryPOP after 12 years with Nickelodeon. Most recently, he served as Head Writer for Nick On-Air Promotions and Nick@Nite Creative Advertising, where he honed in on crafting content that truly resonated with youth audiences, focusing on show launches, custom branded content, and original short form programming. A Princeton University graduate, Greg’s passion for youth entertainment is further inspired by the enthusiasm of his own two children, Harper (3) and Dylan (6 months).
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About batteryPOP: batteryPOP is an online platform that features a variety of videos, cartoons, blogs, and games for children.
Rob Key
CEO of Converseon.AI
Rob Key joined Converseon as CEO in 2008.
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About Converseon.AI: Converseon.AI Provides Human-Centered MLaaS Solutions for Social and VoC Data and Insights to Leading Consumer-centric Brands
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
Robin Lincoln-Codjoe
Co-Founder & CEO of Adler Social
Robin Lincoln-Codjoe is the CEO & Co Founder at Adler Social.
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About Adler Social: Adler Social offers affordable social media management solutions for small and medium sized businesses.
Stefan Singer
Co-Founder & Co- CEO of Adler Social
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About Adler Social: Adler Social offers affordable social media management solutions for small and medium sized businesses.
Anson Wang
Founder & CEO of Jobstore.com
Anson is the Founder and CEO of Jobstore.com, which creating a way to help employers search and hire tech talent faster, easier and cheaper. Anson’s experience has been taking startups from concept through funding, product development, business model development, distribution, and acquisition. He has been through three acquisitions and his core interests are in Internet, software, mobile and social media.
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About Jobstore.com: No.1 Online Job Advertising Platform in Southeast Asian Region.
Kell Rakowski
CEO/Founder of Lex
Kell Rakowski is the CEO and co-founder of Lex.
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About Lex: Lex is a text-based social app for women, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary.
Adnan Ahmed
President and CEO of Marketwired
Adnan Ahmed, Chief Strategy Officer and Resonate GM, will help Marketwired create a 3-5 year long-term strategy. With a special expertise in leading new business launches and product introductions, Ahmed brings to Marketwired more than 18 years’ experience building successful businesses within Fortune 500 and start-up environments. He most recently served as Vice President and General Manager, tradePortal.dnb, the world’s leading source of commercial information and insight on businesses, where he conceived, developed and managed D&B’s first global B2B marketplace to connect buyers and suppliers. Prior to that, as Vice President, Corporate Strategy he improved D&B’s footprint in high-growth international markets such as China and Australia. Defining the strategy and vision for the business, including understanding global trends and unmet customer needs, he created winning product and marketing strategies driven by market needs. Earlier, he was managing partner at Vergence Consulting where he provided strategy and operations consulting to private equity portfolio companies and small- to mid-sized businesses. He also held senior leadership positions at Danaher (Accu-Sort Systems Inc.), Motorola (Mobile Devices Business) and Evidian, Inc (subsidiary of BULL). Adnan received his Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Arts in Electronics, cum laude, from Dartmouth College, and his MBA with focus on Strategy and Finance from Harvard Business School.
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About Marketwired: Marketwired is a social communications company that provides solutions for global press release distribution and more.
