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 California based CEO’ operating in the Marketing 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.
Jake Paul
CEO & Founder of TeamDom
Jake Paul is the Founder and CEO at TeamDom. He dropped out of high school and relocated to Los Angeles at 17, without a single meeting lined up. Jake became a Viner before becoming a Vloger. Also Jake has racked up over 15 million social media followers, and 3.5 billion video views, categorizing him as one of the top 20 social media influencers and a leading brand ambassador. Jake also lends his efforts to the acting world — starring as “Dirk” on Disney Channel’s Bizaardvark, “Lance” in the YouTube Red Original Movie Dance Camp and “Dugan” on Fox Digital’s new movie Mono.#Bloodynosegang
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About TeamDom: TeamDom is a media conglomerate that builds brands, stories, celebrities, and businesses around teen entertainment and media.
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Kong Pham
CEO & Founder of Jumpcut
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About Jumpcut: Jumpcut creates captivating online courses.
Jager McConnell
Chief Executive Officer of Crunchbase
Jager is the CEO of Crunchbase. He joined the company as it became a venture-backed startup in enterprise data. Prior to joining Crunchbase, Jager spent 11 years at Salesforce in various roles across sales, marketing, and product development.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Courtney Puckett
Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer of Crunchbase
Courtney served as Office Manager at Crunchbase from September 2017 to February 2019, from which she served as Executive Assistant until August 2019, since which she has been serving as Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Andrew Gazdecki
Founder and CEO of MicroAcquire
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About Altcoin.io, Bizness Apps, MicroAcquire: MicroAcquire is a startup acquisition marketplace that helps startups find buyers and get acquired.
Amit Gupta
CEO & Founder of Opensense
Amit spent most of his career in high technology, media, and infrastructure. He co-founded SenderGen in 2013, and spearheaded development on the company’s industry-leading enterprise email signature marketing platform. In 2018, SenderGen became Opensense, where Amit serves as co-founder and CEO. Prior to SenderGen, he co-founded Affle Limited which is a mobile media company with extensive operations in the Asia Pacific. While there, he was responsible for driving new product initiatives and helped to source and complete Microsoft’s strategic investment in Affle. Affle’s flagship product and campaigns later won a top global award by the Mobile Marketing Association. Prior to Affle, Amit worked at Bloomberg New York, and subsequently at Bloomberg London helping to plan and implement major new projects such as “Bloomberg Anywhere” that helped to drive $500M+ in new revenues annually. While there, he also designed and implemented highly scalable system architectures that were used to support millions of users. Systems integration is his specialty. He is a technology enthusiast and likes to get his hands dirty with new projects. He also has spent time at various high technology companies developing virtual reality applications, medical imaging algorithms, neural networks and financial trading systems. Amit holds a B.S. in Computer Science (Honors) from the Johns Hopkins University (USA).
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About Opensense: Everyday email, evolved.
David Kopp
Chief Executive Officer of Healthline Media
David leads the Healthline Media team. His 25 year career spans publishing, digital advertising, consumer services, and clientside marketing for both big brands (Disney and Yahoo!) as well as more entrepreneurial ventures. David believes that people need better tools, education, and support in order to achieve good health, and he’s confident that Healthline’s purpose-driven team will make the world stronger and healthier. He also talks a lot about sugar: if you want to live a long, healthy life, minimize your sugar intake.
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About Healthline Media: Healthline Media is the 2nd largest and fastest growing consumer health publisher in the world, reaching 85 million people a month.
Afif Khoury
Founder/CEO of SOCi
Afif Khoury has spent the last decade involved in startups and venture capital investments as an attorney, venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur. Afif is a published geneticist who earned his BS in Neuroscience and Physiology from UCSD in 1998, before attending Law School at Northwestern School of Law (JD 2002) and Business School at Kellogg School of Management. Afif started his legal career as a corporate and securities attorney in Silicon Valley at the premier technology law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) representing technology companies and venture investors across multiple industries and at all stages. Afif left the Silicon Valley office of WSGR to help start their San Diego office, following which he left to open the San Diego office of Gunderson Dettmer (another Silicon Valley-based premier technology law firm). In 2010 Afif raised a seed and early stage fund named Scatter Ventures, which he continues to manage today. Afif is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Axon Venures, a Biotech focused venture fund in Southern California. Between the two fund, Afif has deployed more than $70 million. Afif is a director of the San Diego Venture Group and also founder and CEO of SOCI, Inc., a social data and intelligence technology startup. He is California Board certified as well as a Registered Attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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About Aspen Neuroscience, Axon Ventures, Cradle Genomics, Epic Sciences, EvoNexus, EY, Omniome, Oncternal Therapeutics, Singular Genomics, SOCi: SOCi is a centralized platform for multi-location marketers to reach and engage local customers.
Aykut Karaalioglu
Founder & CEO of Mobile Action
Aykut Karaalioglu is the founder of Mobile Action, a company specialized in mobile discovery and optimization. He also co-founded Marro.ws, a clipping tool for intellectual people, and Shoppe, a shopping application. Karaalioglu holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Bilkent University. He obtained his master’s degree from Santa Clara University. Karaalioglu currently lives in San Francisco, California.
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About Mobile Action: Leading mobile intelligence company empowering app marketers to thrive in the market.
Nick Hedges
CEO of MomentFeed
A 20-year veteran of the Internet and software as a service (SaaS) industry, Nick comes to MomentFeed having been President and CEO of Velocify, the leading consumer sales acceleration platform. Nick helped orchestrate the successful sale of the company to Velocify partner and leading cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry, Ellie Mae. A widely recognized thought leader on organization transformation, technologies, and sales strategies, Nick has held senior positions at Bain & Company, Accenture.com, and Ogilvy. He was named one of the 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management. A Fulbright Scholar, Hedges holds an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree with first-class honors from Manchester University.
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About ICE Mortgage Technology, MomentFeed, uberall: MomentFeed is a platform that helps multi-location brands optimize for proximity search in order to connect customers with brands.
C.J. Bowden
CEO of Turgo
CJ is currently CEO and co-founder of Turgo and Eyez.GG. His experience includes building enterprise value at high-growth public companies (Yahoo! and Criteo), scaling small and mid-sized organizations, and ramping lean start-ups and distressed businesses through capital raises and efficient operations. He brings extensive gaming expertise and mobile gaming networks having built the U.S. advertising business for Miniclip (now owned by TenCent). He has strategic leadership and tactical execution knowledge across sales, business development, marketing, operations, and change management.
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About Turgo: Turgo is a key player in the video advertising and distribution industry.
Michael Ritter
Founder & CEO of Maple Media
Michael Ritter is the Founder and CEO of Maple Media, a mobile apps and games company backed by private equity firm Shamrock Capital. Maple Media is a mobile media, advertising and technology company that acquires, manages and operates mobile applications focused on the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. Popular titles include Snowboard Party: World Tour, Skateboard Party, Minesweeper Classic, Sudoku 🙂 and CalConvert. Previously he was SVP of Business & Corporate Development for Jam City, a large social and mobile game company based in Los Angeles where he oversaw mergers & acquisition activities, publishing, licensing, distribution, sales, legal and partnerships for social and mobile games. Michael was also the Founder and Publisher of Saturday Night Magazine, which at the time, he built into the largest circulated monthly collegiate lifestyle and entertainment magazine in the country.
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About Fantasy Baseball Arbitration, Maple Media: Maple Media is a mobile media, advertising, and technology company that acquires and operates category-leading, consumer apps.
Andy MacMillan
CEO of UserTesting
Andy is Chief Executive Officer of UserTesting and oversees the strategic direction of the company. Prior to joining UserTesting he was CEO of Act-On Software. Andy also held several senior leadership positions at Salesforce, including Chief Operating Officer of the Products Division and Senior Vice President & General Manager of Data.com. In both these roles he helped significantly grow customer adoption of Salesforce products and services. Prior to Salesforce, Andy was Vice President of Product Management at Oracle and Vice President of Product Marketing at Stellent (acquired by Oracle). He started his career as a software developer at EDS. Andy holds a B.A. from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland).
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About UserTesting: UserTesting is an on-demand human insight platform designed to improve customer insights.
David Shadpour
Founder & CEO of Social Native
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About Social Native: Social Native is a technology platform for creating high performing branded content.
Armando Biondi
Co-Founder & CEO of Breadcrumbs.io
Armando Biondi currently works as the Co-Founder and CEO for Breadcrumbs.io. He previously worked at Hootsuite as the global head of growth operations.
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About Breadcrumbs.io: Breadcrumbs.io is a revenue acceleration platform that helps companies in rating and scoring current and potential customers.
Jonathan Nelson
CEO, Omnicom Digital of Omnicom Group
Jonathan Nelson co-founded Organic, the very first digital agency, in 1993, and served as Organic’s CEO for seven years. Currently, Jonathan is CEO of Omnicom Digital where he oversees strategy for Omnicom’s digital assets globally. Described as a “serial entrepreneur,” Jonathan has played a critical role in founding and building a number of companies. In 1999, Jonathan took two companies public: Accrue Software, Inc., a web measurement and analysis company that he founded in 1995, and Organic. Later, he guided Organic through its subsequent re-privatization. Jonathan is widely recognized as an industry thought leader, appearing in print in The New York Times, USA Today, Forbes, Newsweek, and Adweek and on television on CNN, CNBC, and MSNBC. His numerous accolades include being named one of the top 100 young innovators of the century by MIT’s Technology Review in 1999, and one of the top entrepreneurs of 1997 by Red Herring Magazine. He was inducted to Advertising Age’s Hall of Fame in 2001 for his “indelible imprint” on the Internet industry. Jonathan sits on numerous boards in the media and finance industries. A passionate musician, he is the co-owner of two San Francisco venues and co-produces San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass annually in Golden Gate Park.
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About Omnicom Group: Omnicom Group provides advertising and marketing communications services for their clients.
Oren Kaniel
Co-Founder and CEO of AppsFlyer
Oren Kaniel is the CEO & co-founder of AppsFlyer, the market leader in Mobile Attribution Analytics. Oren holds a BA in Computer Science, Cum Laude, from the Technion, and an MBA from IDC, as part of an exchange with the Wharton Business School.
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About AppsFlyer: The world’s top brands use AppsFlyer to build great products, create exceptional experiences, and preserve customer privacy.
Vijay Tella
CEO & Co‑Founder of Workato
Vijay has led creation of market leading integration technologies for over 25 years. Prior to Workato, he was the CEO of Qik, a consumer video communications company acquired by Skype. Before Qik, he helped create two multi-billion dollar integration products. He was part of the team that created world’s first middleware platform, TIB (The Information Bus) at Teknekron Software Systems, which was acquired by Reuters Plc, in 1994. He was also on the founding team and SVP, Engineering of TIBCO through its IPO. As Chief Strategy Officer, he then helped launch Oracle’s Fusion Middleware platform in 2005.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Jonathan Downey
Founder, CEO, and Head of Product of Candidate Labs
Jonathan Downey is an experienced technology entrepreneur, CEO, and investor, having founded two companies and invested in more than 40 startups. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of a company at the intersection of talent and data. He has built out high-performing teams across a broad set of skills from hardware engineering through cloud services, analytics, and enterprise sales. Over his career he has raised over $100M from leading investors, including A16Z, KPCB, Signalfire, First Round Capital, GV, and Next World Capital, and has secured 6 and 7-figure enterprise engagements with Fortune 500 enterprises including State Farm and Caterpillar. Jonathan is an electrical engineering and computer science graduate from MIT and holds numerous patents. A YC-Combinator alum, Jonathan was named USA Today’s “Small-Business Innovator of the Year” and MIT Tech Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35”. He is an instrument-rated commercial multi-engine pilot and worked at Boeing as an engineer contributing to the development and flight testing of the A160T Hummingbird, a 6,500 lb fully-autonomous helicopter, which broke the world record for longest helicopter flight. and regularly flew within the National Airspace System (NAS).
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About Candidate Labs, SignalFire: The Modern Search Firm Built as a Technology Company
Eric Dahan
CEO & Co-founder of Open Influence
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About Open Influence, YPO: Open Influence is a marketing company that helps brands and advertisers engage and grow their desired audiences through social media.
Puneet Mehta
Founder / CEO of Netomi
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About Netomi: An AI-first customer service platform that enables companies to deliver the highest quality customer experiences.
Alex Mehr
CEO, Co-Founder of Retail Ecommerce Ventures
Alex Mehr is the co-founder and co-CEO of Zoosk.com.
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About Mentorbox, Retail Ecommerce Ventures, Zoosk: Retail Ecommerce Ventures create thriving online stores where physical-first operations previously struggled.
Vijay Chattha
Founder and CEO of VSC
Vijay Chattha joined VSC Consulting as Founder / CEO in 2002.
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About BlackMahal, The100kPledge, VSC, Wareness.io: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.
Jesse Leimgruber
Co-Founder & CEO of NeoReach
Jesse is a Stanford Alumni, co-founder of NeoReach and Bloom, Thiel Fellow, and angel investor in a dozen startups. Jesse is a partner at the Alchemist Accelerator, mentor at European Innovation Academy. He frequently guest lectures classes at Stanford University and USC.
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About Alchemist Accelerator, Bloom, Bloom, Clash, NeoReach, Rank Executives: Influencer Marketing For Big Brands
Daniel Machock
CEO of Outspoken
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About Appetize, Outspoken, Outspoken: Outspoken is the most experienced SMS and MMS messaging platform in the US.
Robert Gabel
Founder & CEO of Tubular Labs
Robert (“Rob”) Gabel is the founder and CEO of Tubular Labs, the leading marketing and analytics platform that helps companies grow and engage their online video audience on YouTube. Building a marketing and analytics platform for online video unites two of Rob’s passions – online video and online marketing. Rob became fascinated with the promise and power of online video while serving as SVP of Advertising Performance at Machinima, YouTube’s 2nd largest network. Rob broadened his online video experience by consulting to YouTube-centric media companies DanceOn and AwesomenessTV. Rob’s online marketing experience includes serving as a SVP of Marketing for LowerMyBills and VP Marketing for both Inadco and Netflix. As one of the first employees at LowerMyBills, Rob helped the company grow from pre-revenue to over $200 million organically before being acquired by Experian in 2005 for nearly $400 million. Robert Gabel earned his M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and graduated Magna Cum Laude from The Honors College at the University of Houston with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering.
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About Tubular Labs: Tubular Labs is the global leader in video intelligence for the cross-platform world.
Victor Ho
Co-Founder & CEO of Fivestars
Victor Ho is the CEO and Co-Founder of FiveStars, a venture-backed startup building a consumer identity platform that personalizes commerce in the real world by harnessing the power of big data, predictive analytics, and cloud-based marketing automation. Previously, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Co.in New York, where he helped multiple Fortune 500 companies build and manage their loyalty and customer retention programs. He was recently selected to Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Victor holds three degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Rubik’s cube enthusiast with a personal best of 45 seconds.
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About Fivestars: Fivestars provides a platform that offers loyalty, marketing, payments, and other services to small merchants and businesses.
Mikael Yang
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ManyChat
Mikael Yang is the Co-Founder and CEO of ManyChat – a platform that helps businesses and professionals engage their audience through messaging apps.
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About ManyChat: ManyChat helps businesses do marketing, sales and support through Facebook Messenger.
Vishal Jain
Founder, CEO of Sunshy Digital Media Agency
Vishal Jain is a serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple successful businesses in the fields of marketing, e-commerce, design, manufacturing, and more. He is known as one of the best branding experts in the world. He is the founder and CEO of Sunshy Digital Media Agency that partners with clients to boost their business outcomes. He also owns two Social media marketing agencies: Social Media Growth Specialist & Realstagram which helps clients build their influence and generate sales through social media. He has also launched a marketplace for social media service re sellers: Grow Social Influence. He also provides consultancy for clients who need help with their branding and social media marketing: Journey To a Million Dollars. He also owns Sunshy Enterprises which specializes in manufacturing and supplying all kinds of Industrial items. He is also the co-founder of a handmade jewelry store Sunshy Jewels and has authored an e-book that helps people start their own Instagram marketing agency: Ultimate Guide To Start Your Own Instagram Agency. He is founder of Sunshy Group Of Companies and Member of Forbes Council. He dropped out of college 4 years back and since then he has started 8 companies. He always had an urge to start a business but he didn’t want to take financial help from anyone to start it. He googled how to make money online and landed on a few freelancing websites. He started selling Virtual Assistant services on a website called Fiverr which provides you a platform to sell almost any kind of services which you are good at. After few months, he discovered few more freelancing sites like People per hour & UP work and started doing any kind of hourly jobs he could, be it data entry, data research, transcribing, or being an hourly virtual assistant. He saw the demand for designing and social media marketing on these platforms and started learning about it. He watched thousands of youtube videos and read hundreds of articles on quora to develop his skills and started providing digital marketing services on those freelance platforms. He learned a lot of things in his freelance career and with the earned knowledge and money started his own digital media agency Sunshy Digital Media Agency. He still remembers that he made $30 the first month when he started providing freelance services on Fiverr and he worked over 20 hrs a day, 7 days a week. Since Sunshy digital media agency, he has started 2 more agencies dedicated to social media marketing, a manufacturing unit that makes industrial goods, an eCommerce business where he sells limited-edition handcrafted jewelry, and has written an eBook to help people make money starting an Instagram agency.
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About Sunshy Digital Media Agency: SunShy Digital Media Agency is a leading internet marketing firm built to over-deliver for every client it accepts.
Katherine Power
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Clique
Katherine Power is the Co-Founder and CEO of Clique Media Group (CMG), the parent media company of WhoWhatWear (fashion), MyDomaine (lifestyle) Byrdie (beauty) and Obsessee (new omni-channel platform, specifically targeted at Gen-Z). In 2006, Katherine left her editorial role at ELLE to launch Who What Wear with her co-founder, Hillary Kerr. The goal was to disrupt the DNA of the magazine industry with a simple idea: do it digitally. By bringing print magazine sensibilities to the online space, CMG was born to offer readers elevated and curated access to their core passions: fashion, beauty, home and shopping. At CMG, Katherine drives all business operations, advertising and brand partnerships, along with the development of branded technology products. Just within the last year, Katherine has led the charge on exciting new initiatives for CMG, which include announcing the brand’s first foray into product with the launch of the Who What Wear collection at Target, a Series B round of funding that Amazon participated in, international expansion to the UK and Australia, and the acquisition of Wantering, a Canadian startup and social shopping search engine. Additionally, a third co-authored book, The Career Code, which serves as the modern girl’s guide for creating your own professional success, came out in the spring of 2016. As a leader that constantly innovates about what readers and consumers might want next, Katherine and her CMG team are continuing to enhance their offerings and user experience for the new generation of consumers.
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About AVALINE, Clique, MERIT Beauty, Sonoma Brands, Versed, Who What Wear: Clique is a media and commerce company
Jeremy Bloom
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Integrate
Jeremy Bloom is the only athlete in history to ski in the Olympics and get drafted into the NFL. He is a three-time WorldChampion, two-time Olympian, eleven-time World Cup gold medalist and the youngest member ever inducted into The United States Skiing Hall of Fame. He was also an All-American football player at the University of Colorado and played professional football as a wide receiver and return specialist in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers. While playing with the NFL in Philadelphia for the Eagles, he completed a business entrepreneurship program at Wharton Business School where he studied real estate and finance. Today, he is Founder/CEO of the Marketing Technology company, Integrate and founder of Wish of a Lifetime, a nonprofit organization that grants lifelong wishes to senior citizens. Through Jeremy’s vision and leadership, Integrate is transforming global marketing. The company has raised over $40M of venture capital from Comcast, Foundry Group and Liberty Global. Integrate was named as the “Best New Company” at the American Business Awards in New York City. Jeremy was named by Forbes as 30 under 30, tech executives under the age of 30 making waves in the technology space and in 2013 Jeremy was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Outside of business, Jeremy has continued to maintain his name within the sports world. He does commentary for college football and is an Olympic Sports Television Analyst and has worked for ESPN, Fox, NBC, and The Pac-12 Network.
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About Integrate, United States Ski & Snowboard Association, Wish of a Lifetime, Wish of a Lifetime: Integrate provides a hub for managing and measuring demand generation programs.
David Nussbaum
Founder and CEO of PORTL Hologram
David Nussbaum is the Founder and CEO at PORTL Inc.
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About PORTL Hologram: PORTL Hologram offers at-home hologram machines.
Daniel Chu
CEO and Co-Founder of MakersPlace
Daniel Chu is the CEO and co-founder at MakersPlace. He is a product and engineering leader with a passion for applying technologies to drive real-world change.
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About MakersPlace: MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators.
Joe DiPasquale
CEO of BitBull Capital
Joe DiPasquale is the founder and CEO of Regroup, recognized through industry awards as the leading mass notifications company. He completed his MBA at Stanford University and his BA at Harvard University. Previous experience includes Deutsche Bank’s Technology Investment Banking Group, General Motors’ Strategic Initiatives Group, venture capital at HighBAR Partners, and strategy consulting at Bain and McKinsey.
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About BitBull Capital, Regroup Mass Notification, StartOut: BitBull Capital is the first cryptocurrency fund of hedge funds.
Brian Freeman
Founder and CEO of Heartbeat
Brian Freeman is a Entrepreneur, Consultant & Investor At Present he is Founder of Heartbeat Technologies, Inc of Heartbeat (getheartbeat.co). He also founded Wyldfire, where Ladies are the Gatekeepers. He has been featured for his work in entrepreneurism in Forbes, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Techcrunch, etc. He was Director Channel Partners at MOGL Loyalty, Inc & Investor & Consultant for MobilePay USA an early mobile payments provider.
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About Heartbeat: Heartbeat is a platform for millennial women to join, provide feedback to, and promote brands via their personal networks.
Robin Bordoli
Chief Executive Officer of NextRoll
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About NextRoll: NextRoll is a marketing technology company delivering products ambitious companies rely on to grow their businesses.
Daniel Negari
CEO and Founder of XYZ
Daniel Negari is ICANN’s youngest registry operator. With offices in Santa Monica and Las Vegas, Daniel and the .xyz team are bringing choice, accessibility, and innovation to the internet with the .xyz and .College domain extensions. As both a veteran and visionary in the domain name industry, Daniel has positioned .xyz as the platform for every website, everywhere, for the next generation of internet users. Since 2008, Daniel has bought and sold over $100 million in premium domain names in the aftermarket. In addition to his domain investing activities, Daniel launched a successful third level domain registry .com.de, in 2010. Daniel has leveraged these experiences and has established .xyz as the largest and fastest growing new domain extension with over 760,000 registrations within six months of launching. Daniel graduated from the University of Southern California, where he received several prestigious distinctions, including the USC Technology Scholar Award and USC Networking Award.
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About XYZ: The go-to ending for your domain. For every website, everywhere.
Diane Keng
CEO & Cofounder of Breinify
Diane Keng is the CEO and co-founder of Breinify, an artificial intelligence and contextual marketing platform for predicting and acting on customers’ highly dynamic interests. Diane is on Forbes 30 Under 30, Enterprise Technology and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, TechCrunch, OZY, and Inc. Magazine. Diane ran three successful businesses before she was 18 and is a noted software innovator who frequently speaks on the intersection of AI, personal data, privacy, and the future of smarter products. Prior to Breinify, she was at Apple and Symantec. She graduated with computer engineering from Santa Clara University.
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About Breinify: Predictive Personalization at Scale
Finbarr Taylor
Cofounder, CEO of Shogun
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About Shogun: Shogun is an E-commerce platform that helps brands create unique buying experiences and optimize their online stores.
Deepak Anchala
Co-Founder and CEO of Slintel
Deepak Anchala is the Co-Founder and CEO of Slintel.
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About Slintel: Slintel captures technographic-powered buying intent to help companies identify potential buyers in their target market.
Bruce Merrill
CEO and Founder of Cleverly | #1 LinkedIn Lead Generation Agency
Passionate about business, obsessed with progress, and continuously learning. “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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About Cleverly | #1 LinkedIn Lead Generation Agency: Scale your leads on LinkedIn and predictably drive more revenue. Check our out client reviews here: https://www.cleverly.co/reviews
Scott Mercer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Volta Charging
Scott Mercer is the founder and CEO of Volta, an electric vehicle charging network with the most-utilized stations in the US. An entrepreneur fascinated by both cars and future-focused technology, Scott founded Volta to bridge the gap between electric vehicles and the mainstream. The network delivers free electric vehicle charging in areas where stations are most needed, as determined by Volta’s proprietary machine learning algorithms. Under Scott’s leadership, Volta is experiencing consecutive 3x year-over-year revenue and footprint growth. Scott launched Volta in 2010 in Hawaii, where he was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Hawaii Venture Capital, 40 Under 40 by Pacific Business News and Hawaii Business’ 20 for the Next 20. Previously, Scott ran a business buying, restoring and selling vintage cars in his early 20s. He sold a restored 1967 Jaguar XKE to seed the beginnings of Volta, which has now raised $62 million in funding. Scott currently rides an electric motorcycle, drives an electric Fiat, and occasionally, a 1971 Alfa Romeo.
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About Volta Charging: Volta Charging designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations.
Mark Ellis
Co-founder & CEO of Liftoff
Mark Ellis is a co-founder and CEO at Liftoff.
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About Liftoff: Liftoff is a mobile app marketing and retargeting platform which uses post-install data to run true CPA-optimized campaigns.
Gary Guseinov
CEO of Business Hangouts
Gary Guseinov is a principal at International Equity Partners LLC. Gary is a seasoned technology-marketing executive, he founded web development and e-commerce firm Digital Media in 1994, where he served as the chief executive officer. In 1998 co-founded Synergy, a performance based online marketing firm, where he served as the President/CTO. During his tenure at Synergy he generated over $2 billion in revenues for its clients including GoToMyPC/Citrix, Oracle, Chase, Nortel, HP, Bank of America, and CitiBank. In 2003 Gary co-founded US Tech Support, a NASDAQ company, and raised over $50M from multiple institutional investors. US Tech Support provides internet security, cloud storage and live remote technical support services that work together to ensure maximum safety for consumers in a digital world.
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About Business Hangouts, inCast, International Equity Partners, iolo technologies, RealDefense: With over 2.5m enterprise users, Business Hangouts is the only webinar app fully integrated with G Suite.
David Osman
Co-founder, CEO of Storygize
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About Storygize: Storygize is a native technology platform designed to empower digital media buyers to achieve maximum results with minimum effort.
Stephen Ehikian
Co-Founder & CEO of Airkit
Stephen Ehikian is Co-Founder and CEO at Airkit.
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About Airkit: Airkit is a customer engagement platform that enables brands to quickly build digital customer experiences.
Brian Zatulove
Co-Founder & CEO of Emotive
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About Emotive: Emotive is a conversational texting platform for eCommerce brands, enabling two way text message communication at scale.
Laduram Vishnoi
CEO & Founder of Acquire
Laduram Vishnoi is the CEO and founder of Acquire.
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About Acquire, Tagove: Acquire is a unified customer engagement platform that brings all communication, interactions, channels, and tools under one roof.
Tomas Puig
CEO / Founder of Alembic
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About Alembic, Test Kitchen Capital: SaaS, Marketing, Analytics
Sean Doherty
CEO of Wurl
CEO at WURL, Inc.
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About Wurl: The Wurl Network connects the world’s largest digital brands with the world’s largest streaming services.
Tim Vanderhook
Co-Founder & CEO of Viant
As the Co-Founder, President and CEO of Viant, Tim sets and drives the overall direction and business strategy for the company and each of its brands. In 1999, Tim, along with brothers Chris and Russ identified the high growth potential of digital advertising and founded the interactive advertising platform Specific Media during those early stages of internet advertising. Tim’s vision led the development of behavioral targeting technology that created ground-breaking interest-based digital advertising practices. He led the company’s evolution from a small family business to an industry-leading multinational corporation.
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About Myspace, Viant, Viant, XUMO: Viant is an advertising software company enabling the execution and measurement of digital advertising through a cloud-based platform.
Justin Choi
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Nativo
Justin Choi is a serial entrepreneur and founder of three successful companies across different technology sectors. Justin currently serves as Founder and CEO of Nativo, the most advanced advertising technology platform that helps brands create meaningful connections with consumers and empowers publishers with breakthrough monetization solutions. Prior to Nativo, Justin founded and led two companies to highly successful exits: Cie Games, a mobile app development firm acquired by Glu Mobile for $100M that built two top 25 grossing games, including the #1 mobile racing game, and attracted over 50M players; and Cie Digital Labs (CDL) an interactive agency that provides innovation consulting and custom app development services to major brands. Justin continues to serve as a CDL board member and acts as head of product strategy and development, and is an investor and board member at numerous organizations. A thought leader in digital media, advertising, gamification, and app development, Justin has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, Bloomberg West, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, AdWeek and other national publications.
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About Cie, Nativo: Nativo is an advertising technology platform for brand advertisers and publishers to scale, automate, and measure native ads.
Matt Schlicht
CEO and Founder of Octane AI
Matt Schlicht is the founder and editor of Chatbots Magazine, the #1 place to learn about chatbots. He is a YC Alum, a Forbes 30 Under 30 winner, and was also previously a product manager at Ustream as well as an advisor to several other startups. Several months ago, Matt decided to launch a community dedicated to messaging and bots. Chatbots Magazine was born and now reaches over 200,000+ people per month. Matt joins us to share his story, how he got into startups and tech, how he created the opportunity to join the team at uStream, how he approaches building products, why he’s so passionate about bots and messaging, what’s next for Chatbots Magazine.
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About Chatbots Magazine, DominateFund, Hamster Pad, Octane AI, ZapChain: Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.
Sebastian Rymarz
CEO and Co-Founder of Heyday
As the Chief Business Officer, Sebastian oversees sales, marketing, business and corporate development. An early U.S. hire, he brings rich experience in financial services and credit risk management. Prior to Fundbox, he was VP at TPG Special Situation Partners and an investment professional at Sageview Capital. Sebastian began his career in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs after graduating with a BS in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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About Heyday: Heyday offers a digital marketplace space built for sellers to accelerate consumer product brands.
Mahi de Silva
Co-founder & CEO of Amplify.ai
Mahi is the Co-founder & CEO at Amplify.ai. Previously, Mahi was responsible for commercial activities for Opera’s consumer mobile products and services. Before joining Opera, Mahi was co-founder and CEO of AdMarvel, Inc., the global leader in mobile advertising platforms, acquired by Opera in 2010. Prior to AdMarvel, Mahi co-founded Frengo Corporation, a mobile social media platform. Mahi also spent 10 years at VeriSign, where he was part of the startup management team. From 2002 to 2006, he served as senior vice president and general manager of Wireless and Digital Content Services at VeriSign, where he built the world’s leading mobile messaging and mobile entertainment business with revenues exceeding $600M per year. Prior to VeriSign, he served in various technology leadership roles at Taligent, Apple and NCR Corporation.
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About Amplify.ai, Opera Mediaworks: Amplify.ai is the developer of the first enterprise-class Conversational AI platform
Jed Simon
Founder & CEO of FastPay
Jed Simon is the founder and CEO of FastPay, providing liquidity and financial workflow solutions to the digital media industry. Formerly, Simon was an investment banking analyst program at Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York working on IPOs, debt finance transactions, and M&A for media companies. After joining DreamWorks SKG in 1996, Simon managed aspects of its finance, distribution, marketing, and new media businesses, and was a senior executive at DreamWorks Records before assisting in the sale of the company to Universal Music Group. His last position with DreamWorks was Vice President of International Distribution and Marketing for DreamWorks Pictures, based in London.
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About DreamWorks Studios, FastPay: FastPay is the definitive financial platform for digital media.
Ashutosh Dutt
CEO of ChargeNet Stations
Tosh Dutt is an executive and Subject Matter Expert in Distributed Energy Resources and EV Charging having successfully built and scaled sales organizations in mature startups and new business units of large organizations. His leadership has led to the successful development, finance, and integration of utility and commercial-scale renewable energy and micro-grid projects across the globe involving technologies such as solar PV, thermal storage, advanced energy storage, fuel cells, IoT, biomass co-generation, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Being a renewable energy professional, he is fortunate to embrace the values of Zero Net Energy and Zero Net Carbon in both his professional and personal life and understands how the intersection of plant-based foods, EV charging infrastructure, and distributed energy resources contributes to a zero-carbon footprint to fighting climate change.
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About ChargeNet Stations: ChargeNet Stations specializes in the fields of SaaS, cleantech, electric vehicle supply equipment, and distributed energy resources.
Neha Sampat
Founder and CEO of Contentstack
Neha Sampat (@nehasf) is Founder and CEO at Contentstack™ – a leading Content Management System (CMS) and Content Experience Platform (CXP), adopted by brands including Best Buy, Chase, Holiday Inn, Icelandair, Morningstar, Express, Miami HEAT, Shell, and Walmart. Previously, Neha was Founder and CEO of Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Built.io®, which was acquired by German software powerhouse Software AG in September 2018. Neha is a recognized industry leader, a proponent of diversity, and an outspoken advocate for women in leadership. She can be found appearing on keynote stages or expert panels discussing her experiences as an entrepreneur, a female leader, or her company’s role in the future of technology. Neha raised a Series A funding round of $31.5M USD for Contentstack, one of the largest for enterprise SaaS software companies. She was one of “50 Women in Tech Dominating Silicon Valley” in 2015, was named in “San Francisco Business Times Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business” in 2017, and is a “San Francisco Business Times 40 under 40” honoree. Neha was also honored as “CEO of the Year” by Aragon Research in December 2018 and Female Tech Trailblazer of the Year in 2020. Most recently, she was recognized as “Best CEO for Diversity” and “Best CEO for Women” in the 2020 Comparably Best Places to Work Awards.
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About Built.io, Contentstack, KurbKarma, raw engineering: Contentstack develops a cloud based content management system intended to power omnichannel content.
Kimball Thomas
Co-CEO/Founder of Baby
Kimball Thomas is the Co – CEO & Founder at Baby.com.br . He earned his MBA from, Harvard Business School. His B.S. (Finance) from University of Utah.
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About Baby, Walrus Health: Baby is an e-commerce retailer of baby products in Brazil.
Rajeev Goel
Co-Founder & CEO of PubMatic
Rajeev co-founded PubMatic in 2006, based on the belief that publishers are underserved from a technology and services perspective, and set out to build an automation software company focused on publishers. Under his leadership, the company has grown and matured into a major enterprise provider with more than 400 employees and 13 locations around the globe. The high pace of revenue and profit growth, is fueled by Rajeev’s commitment to help publishers protect, monetize and manage their most valuable asset – the relationship between consumers, content and brands. Rajeev is a serial entrepreneur who has raised more than $250 million in funding throughout his career. Rajeev serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the IAB. He holds a master’s degree in Computer & Information Technology from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in economics, political science and Spanish from the Johns Hopkins University.
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About PubMatic: PubMatic is an automation solutions company for an open digital media industry.
George Deglin
Co-founder and CEO of OneSignal
George Deglin is the Co-founder and CEO at OneSignal.
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About OneSignal: OneSignal is a customer messaging and engagement platform that allows businesses to create meaningful customer connections.
Ashok Reddy Gudibandla
Founder, CEO of Automate.io
Founder, CEO at Automate.io.
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About Automate.io: Use tens of cloud apps? Connect them the way you want. Sync data, automate workflows – marketing, sales and more.
Kris Rudeegraap
CEO, CoFounder of Sendoso
Kris Rudeegraap is CEO at Sendoso
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About CoffeeSender, Sendoso: Sendoso helps companies connect and drive revenue with personalized gifts, eGifts, virtual experiences, and more.
Diaz Nesamoney
Founder, President & CEO of Jivox
Diaz Nesamoney founder of Jivox has had two prior successful ventures. He was previously co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly Diaz Nesamoney is an accomplished technology entrepreneur who founded three successful technology companies, all harnessing the power of data to power enterprise and consumer applications. Currently Diaz is Founder, President, and CEO of Jivox, a company that provides a technology platform for data-driven personalized advertising and marketing. He was previously Co-founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly traded company in 1999. Informatica pioneered data integration software as a category and is now the market leader with more than $1 billion in revenue and a $5 billion market capitalization. Before founding Jivox, he founded Celequest and served as its CEO until early 2007, when the company was acquired by Cognos/IBM. Celequest introduced the market’s first business intelligence and analytics appliance, a disruptive innovation that led to its acquisition. Diaz holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India and is the holder of seven technology patents. Diaz is also the author of the first book on using data and technology to personalize digital advertising.
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About Jivox: Jivox offers a cloud-based, data-driven omnichannel platform that personalizes digital advertising and marketing experiences at scale.
Steven B. Dunn
CEO of Munchkin
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About Munchkin: Munchkin is an online store selling products for parents, babies and pets.
Sunil Thomas
Co-Founder and CEO of CleverTap
Sunil is a technologist and drives CleverTap’s strategic vision while also managing investor relations. He has previously held CTO roles at startups and companies like Network18 and Infospace Inc.
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About CleverTap: CleverTap helps digital brands increase user retention and lifetime value with the help of data, personalization, deep-tech and automation
Jordan Rothstein
Founder, CEO of King Tide Creative
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About Furious M, King Tide Creative, Raziel, TravelZeeky: King Tide is a full-service creative agency specifically and intricately designed to surpass the reach of the modern branding machine.
Keith Zubchevich
Chief Executive Officer of Conviva
Keith Zubchevich was appointed Conviva’s President and CEO in 2021 with more than a decade of driving company success at Conviva, most recently as Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to joining Conviva in 2008, Keith was Vice President of Business Development at Riverbed Technology, where he was instrumental in developing the industry leader’s go-to-market strategy and key partner relationships as the company went public. Previously, as Director of Operations at Cisco, he was responsible for storage-switching and optical solutions for both the Sales and Worldwide Channels groups, and led the launch of Cisco’s MDS storage networking technology effort, which garnered revenues of $244 million in two years. Prior to Cisco, Keith was a Regional Vice President with McDATA, where he was a member of the core team that designed and implemented the company’s sales and channel coverage model. Earlier in his career, Keith held sales management roles in the open systems divisions of Digital Equipment Corporation and StorageTek. Keith brings a wealth of leadership expertise and functional capabilities to the role. He has held a range of executive positions, from sales and marketing to corporate and business development, across a variety of industry-leading technology companies, as well as emerging startups. Keith holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from San Diego State University.
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About Conviva: Conviva is the continuous measurement and engagement platform for streaming media.
Sanjit Singh
Chief Executive Officer of Adapt
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About Adapt, Alchemist Accelerator, CommSafe AI: Adapt provides access to millions of business contacts organically compiled from publicly available sources.
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
Christopher Lien
Founder & CEO of Marin Software
Mr. Lien is Marin’s founder and Chairman of the Board, and rejoined the Company as Chief Executive Officer in August 2016. From September 2015 to August 2016, Mr. Lien has served on boards of private companies as well as Marin Software. From May 2014 until September 2015, Mr. Lien served as executive chairman of Marin Software, and from the founding of the Company in 2006 to May 2014, he served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Lien has been a member of the Board since 2006. Previously, Mr. Lien served as Chief Operating Officer of Adteractive, Inc., an online performance marketing company, from 2004 to 2005. In 2001, Mr. Lien co-founded and served as Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Sugar Media, Inc., a broadband services platform, until its acquisition in 2003 by 2Wire, Inc., a leading supplier of DSL equipment and services, which was subsequently acquired by Pace plc in 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Lien served in various capacities at BlueLight.com, LLC, Kmart Corporation’s ecommerce and Internet service provider subsidiary from 2000 to 2001, including as Chief Financial Officer and acting Chief Executive Officer. Prior to BlueLight.com, Mr. Lien spent 10 years at various investment banks, including Morgan Stanley and Evercore Partners, with his last role as Managing Director. Mr. Lien holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College, where he was elected as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr. Lien’s presence as a member of the Board brings his thorough knowledge of the Company into the Board’s strategic and policy-making discussions. He brings his extensive experience in finance, digital marketing and executive roles in the information technology industry into deliberations regarding the Company’s strategy and operations.
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About Heron Partners, Marin Software, Marin Software: Marin Software Incorporated (NYSE:MRIN) provides a leading cross-channel performance advertising platform used by advertisers and agencies.
Scott Swanson
CEO & Founder of Bonder, Inc.
Scott Swanson has an extensive background in consultative sales to some of the largest corporations and retail distributors in the world. With over 18 years in Global Infrastructure, Advanced Security and Platfrom Development Scott has become a trusted advisor in the design, development and implementation of cutting edge platforms and technology that engage the masses, consumers and exponentially drive revenue. “We have 90+ variations of this post a picture or video and make a statement platform. It’s boring and isolating. My vision is to evolve our current platform to improve how we Interact with each other, Connect and Socialize through yet beyond the device.” ~ Scott
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About Bonder, Inc.: The Worlds First Location Based Communication Platfrom (LBCP)
Selene Cruz
Founder & CEO of Re:Store
Selene Cruz is the founder and CEO at RE:STORE.
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About Knocknock.TV, Re:Store: Re:Store is a co-working and retail space for cult-favorite online brands.
Leore Avidar
Co-Founder & CEO of Lob
Leore Avidar serves as Co-Founder at Lob.com, Inc. Prior to Lob, Mr. Avidar worked as a Technical Business Developer at Amazon Web Services and as a Quant/Derivative trader at Citigroup.
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About Alt, Lob: Lob provides direct mail and address verification APIs which allows businesses to send personalized mail to their customers.
Aleks Gollu
Founder & CEO of 11Sight
Aleks Gollu is founder, CEO at 11Sight.
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About 11Sight: Inbound Video Call and Customer Engagement Platform For Revenue Teams
Jerry Jao
CEO & Founder of Retention Science
Jerry started his path to entrepreneurship at the age 8, making $3 a day by recycling his classmates’ plastic cans after school. Years later, he moved on to e-Commerce and started selling comic books and video games online. He’s been an online entrepreneur ever since and is now CEO and founder of Retention Science. Prior to founding Retention Science, Jerry founded two other e-Commerce marketing technologies. He was an analyst with Morgan Stanley, and an engagement manager with BearingPoint Management Consulting (KPMG Advisory), where he advised FORTUNE 50 companies. He was most recently an advisor to the CFO of Clear Channel, working on digital sales initiatives and iHeartRadio. Jerry currently serves on the Board of Directors of Penango, an enterprise email & cloud security company. Jerry is a graduate of UC Berkeley, where he received a B.S. in Business Administration and a full-tuition scholarship as an Alumni Scholar, and Yale School of Management.
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About Retention Science: Retention Science is an AI-driven platform designed to engage and retain customers.
Kyle Wong
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Pixlee TurnTo
Kyle Wong is the CEO & Co-Founder of Pixlee, a visual marketing platform that helps brands market and sells with customer photos and videos. The company works with more than 150 brands such as Kenneth Cole, Gaiam, Levi Strauss and Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants to develop a more authentic marketing experience and create stronger relationships with their most passionate customers. Apart from that, he is currently working as a contributor with Forbes magazine and as a leadership council with Ad Council. Kyle attended Stanford University where he studied engineering and co-founded Pixlee out of his dorm room in 2012. He is a mentor for the Stanford Accelerator (StartX) program, where he advises several early-stage VC backed tech startups. Kyle has been featured in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List and is a regular speaker and domain expert on influencer marketing and driving consumer engagement through social media. He is also an active contributor for Forbes and Fortune Magazine where he writes on digital marketing, entrepreneurship, and various leadership and career topics.
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About Ad Council, Forbes Magazine, Pixlee: Pixlee TurnTo ia a Social UGC, Influencer Marketing, and Ratings & Reviews company.
Franky Bernstein
Founder & CEO of Kickback
Franky Bernstein is Founder & CEO at Markett.
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About Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, InterWallet, Kickback, Markett: Kickback is a social shopping app that gives users exclusive brand discounts, cash back, and significant incentives to recommend friends.
Phaedra Anestassia Randolph
Founder & CEO of Spero Foods
Phaedra Anestassia Randolph founded Spero Foods with the mission to recreate dairy & eggs from plants, making products that are nutritious, scalable, and delicious.
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About Spero Foods: Spero Foods specializes in the fields of big data, food tech, plant-based products, and predictive modeling.
Raju Sagiraju
CEO/Founder of Dime Development
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About Dime Development: Digital Agency to help brands
Lonny Olinick
CEO, Recorded Music of Kobalt
CEO, Recorded Music at Kobalt Music & CEO at AWAL.
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About AWAL, Kobalt: Kobalt is a music services company that offers alternative to traditional music business models.
Jim Kaskade
Chief Executive Officer of Conversica
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About Conversica: Conversica creates intelligent virtual assistants to serve as virtual team members.
Charles H. Silver
Chairman & CEO of Permission.io
Silver has been building companies and creating liquidity events for shareholders for over 25 years. In the late 1990s, as cofounder of RealAge, Inc., he built the company from scratch, conceived its business plan, raised over $15 million in capital, negotiated key strategic relationships and, most importantly, positioned the company for profitability, which enabled it to survive the dot com bust. In 2007, RealAge was sold very successfully to the Hearst Corporation. Prior to RealAge, Mr. Silver founded and built the Oil Dispatch franchise in Michigan. It grew to be the largest independent quick-oil-change operator in the state and was successfully sold to Jiffy Lube. After graduating from the University of Michigan, and prior to his entrepreneurial career, Mr. Silver served for two years as a staff member for a United States Congressman.
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About Permission.io: Permission.io is transforming digital advertising by enabling brands and consumers to connect on a permission basis.
Julia Enthoven
Co-Founder and CEO of Kapwing
Julia Enthoven is the Founder of Kapwing.
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About Kapwing: Online editor for modern videos, GIFs, and images
Mark Fidelman
Founder & CEO of Raynforest
Mr. Fidelman is currently eVP of Sales at MindTouch the leading open source collaborative networking company. He was a former eVP of Sales at TASER (Nasdaq: TASR). He spent 6 years at A.T. Kearney as a Director.
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About Fanatics Media, Raynforest: Raynforest provides solutions that enable brands to connect with influential people to promote their products, services or causes.
Toby Gabriner
Chief Executive Officer of Bitly
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About Bitly: Bitly is a link management platform that helps brands deliver and measure their marketing efforts across all channels.
Rory Cutaia
Founder, Chairman, Pres. & CEO of VERB Technology Company
Rory originated the concept of bBooth and the idea that it could be used as a revenue-generating casting vehicle for TV shows. Rory created the Company’s business plan and marketing strategies, financed its start-up costs, including all research and development, then assembled a world-class management team of successful Hollywood, entertainment, and technology veterans to execute his vision to disrupt the talent discovery and fan engagement industries. Keenly focused on building shareholder value, Rory provides the vision and leadership for his management team and sets the goals and objectives for the Company’s growth and expansion. A successful serial entrepreneur, Rory’s previous endeavors include Founder, Chairman and CEO of telecom technology icon, The Telx Group, which he built and sold in 6 years for approx. $250M, returning 18x invested capital to early investors; and Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Allied Fiber, a new nationwide fiber-optic network, being deployed along railroad rights-of-way; among other successful endeavors.
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About VERB Technology Company: VERB Technology Company specializes in business-focused interactive video webinars, CRM, sales, and marketing applications.
Jay Le
Chief Executive Officer of HYPE Agency
Jay is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and philanthropist. He has started several successful start-ups that are making well over $300,000,000 in revenue.
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About HYPE Agency: HYPE Agency is a digital marketing agency that provides marketing services for all business types.
Eric Netsch
Founder/ CEO of Tapcart
Founder @Tapcart. Founder / Engineer @Mobile First Studios • Studied at @University of California, Los Angeles
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About Tapcart: Tapcart is a SaaS platform that enables e-commerce merchants to launch and manage mobile apps for their brands.
Zach Suchin
Founding Partner & CEO of Brand Knew
Zach is an entrepreneur and investor based out of Los Angeles & New York. Born and raised in Los Angeles to a family deeply immersed in the entertainment industry, he absorbed pop-culture and took great interest in the media and technology sectors. Throughout high school, he worked for executive management at Sony, 20th Century Fox, ICM and The Firm. He earned bachelor degrees in both Political Science and Film at Emory University, while marketing high-profile weekly events for college students, featuring recording artists such as Akon, Jermaine Dupri, Ludacris, Outkast and Jeezy. In 2006, Zach moved back to Los Angeles with an increased knowledge of digital marketing and developed College Tonight with Jason Schutzbank, which in its first 12 months of operation, won the Mashable award for Best Event-Based Social Network and was published in Generation MySpace as one of the top 15 social networking sites on the Internet. What started as a conduit between local businesses and college students, became a more robust collegiate platform. The Quad consisted of a retail outfit, collaborative tools and Greek community features. Suchin led the company through a substantial venture round, eventually taking the small-cap company public in late 2007. This made Suchin the youngest CEO of a publicly-traded company in the United States. With Zach at the helm, the company grew past a market capitalization of over $100 million. He and Jason sold their share of the company in early 2009. The duo then co-founded Brand Knew to help both start-ups and veteran brands better navigate the digital landscape. Suchin is credited with having invented the developmental venture equity model now popularized by boutique digital agencies, guest lectures in new media at UCLA and Boston University, and has been a technology contributor on BloombergTV. Zach sits on the board of directors for several portfolio companies and the steering committees for various non-profit organizations, serving as the Digital Chair for YaLa Academy. He remains intimately involved in the creative direction of Brand Knew’s clients and chairs both the Brand Knew Opportunities conferences and the Causathon event series.
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About Brand Knew: Creative Collective & Strategic Advisory
Spectacular Smith
Founder & CEO of Adwizar
Upon turning after school candy sales into a $2,000 a week business at age 11, Spectacular Smith discovered he was an entrepreneur. That realization would take him first to the heights of popular music, and then to success as a business owner, label owner, author, and beyond. A dancer since the third grade, Smith took his childhood love of performing into the rap group he formed with his brothers, Pretty Ricky. His father was the manager of the group, and owner of indie label. Spectacular contributed musically and also choreographed the group’s explosive stage shows—performances that won them a deal with Atlantic Records. The group went on to huge worldwide success: filling arenas on the Scream IV tour, selling millions of singles and ringtones, and earning huge hits with “Grind With Me,” & “Your Body,” Music stardom was just the first stage of Spectacular Smith’s career. Intrigued by the business possibilities of social media, he turned Pretty Ricky’s Facebook page into his personal laboratory, testing out his theories behind social networks for a full year until he had a new, unbreakable system of gaining and monetizing followers. He then turned those ideas into Adwizar, the dominant social media brand in the urban music space. The company runs the Facebook pages of artists such as Bow Wow, Kevin Gates, Soulja Boy, Master P, Birdman, Bone Thugs N Harmony, and countless others. Adwizar has now grown beyond urban music into dealing with major brands and corporations, athletes, merchandising deals, and more. The company was also featured on Forbes.com for its innovative methods, and has no ceiling on its growth. Smith has not left music behind. He has a record label called Mula Music Group, The label has recently signed West Coast artist Compton Menace, who is ringing up millions of YouTube views for his new single with Chris Brown, “Put On.” After conquering the worlds of music, social media, and publishing, the world is waiting to see what he does next.
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About Adwizar, Amazon, Inc. Magazine, Meta, Spectacular Academy, Viacom: Music Industry’s #1 Company for Growth and Monetization on Social Media – Making Artist, and Brands residual income from their social media.
Serge Longin
Co-Founder & CEO of RevenueWell
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About RevenueWell: Automated practice marketing and patient communication suite.
Kevin Miller – GR0
CEO of GR0
Kevin Miller grew up in Ormond Beach, FL, before moving to Washington DC to attend Georgetown University. From Georgetown, Kevin moved to California to pursue an entrepreneurial career in one of the tech capitals of the world. Kevin worked at Google at their HQ in Mountain View as well as for smaller firms and startups looking to improve their online advertising strategies. Over years of hard work and dedicated focus, Kevin grew from SEO-amateur into the head of growth and marketing at Opendoor. In 2020, Kevin left Opendoor to co-found GR0, an SEO agency, with his long-time friend Jonathan Zacharias.
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About GR0, The Word Counter: At GR0, our mission is to help brands rank #1 on Google.
Vijay Chittoor
Co-Founder & CEO of Blueshift
Co-Founder & CEO of Blueshift. Formerly Co-Founder & CEO, Mertado (acquired by Groupon), and early team at Kosmix (acquired by Walmart).
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About Blueshift, Mertado: Blueshift offers the SmartHub CDP, which helps brands deliver relevant and connected experiences across every customer interaction.
David Perry
CEO & Co-Founder of CARRO
Currenty the CEO & Co-Founder of www.GetCarro.com. Previously Perry was the the CEO and co-founder of Gaikai, the pioneer of game streaming holding the fundamental patents in the space. Gaikai was the first and only acquisition in this sector being acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment for $380M. Gaikai’s game streaming technology is now fundamental in the Sony PlayStation. In 2008 Perry became the Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Acclaim.com, one of the first advocates introducing free-to-play gaming to the western markets, Acclaim was subsequently acquired by Playdom & Disney. Prior to that, Perry founded Shiny Entertainment (a video game development company acquired by Interplay, then again by Atari) known for making hits like Earthworm Jim, MDK & the Matrix games. After 37 years in the business Perry remains one of the best known Video Game Industry veterans, with multiple #1 hits and he was awarded the Development Legend award in 2012. Perry was awarded a Doctorate in Engineering from Queens University, Belfast and a Masters in Game Development from Westwood College. He was one of the longest serving members of the Game Developer’s Conference Advisory Board, and has spoken at TED, E3, Hollywood and Games, Stanford, MIT, USC, UCI, UCLA, DICE, GTC, GDC, AMD, MGS, Digital Hollywood, What Teens Want, 3D Gaming Summit, EurekaFest, The Cove, Casual Connect etc. TAGS: Influencer Marketing, Advertising, Video Games, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Shopify, Tools, Technology, Financing, Funding, Content, Creator, Creators, Celebrities, Press, Media, Influencer & Influencers.
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About Carro, CARRO: The eCommerce Network where modern brands sell more, by working together.
Stas Tushinskiy
CEO & Co-founder of Instreamatic
Stas is CEO and Founder at Instreamatic.AI. Prior to Instreamatic, Stas pioneered digital audio ads market in Russian-speaking countries and built Unisound – a leading digital audio ads sales house and headed business development of a leading mobile music streaming service in Eastern Europe.
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About Instreamatic: Voice Marketing Platform
Luigi Picarazzi
CEO of Digital Media Management
As President & CEO of Digital Media Management (DMM), Luigi Picarazzi leverages years of experience as a digital manager, web producer and network executive to help Hollywood’s most notable brands engage online audiences. Since founding DMM in 2010, Picarazzi has grown the independent agency beyond digital management and talent representation to also include five distinct divisions with a variety of services. In response to social media’s surging role in marketing to consumer, Picarazzi launched DM2, a creative agency that provides design and development support for innovative projects. DMedia later joined the DMM family to create publishing destinations for the huge communities the agency was establishing such as Felicity Huffman’s WhatheFlicka.com. As the firm’s production studio, DStudio creates original social video concepts like the web series, ‘Really Important Questions’ with star client, Elizabeth Banks. Over the last five years, Picarazzi has grown Digital Media Management’s Beverly Hills team to 45 employees and serve as Hollywood’s premier marketing and social media partner.
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About Digital Media Management: Digital Media Management helps Hollywood’s biggest brands navigate social media channels, activate fan bases and secure brand partnerships
Joe Martin
Founder and CEO of Snatch
Forensic scientist turned entrepreneur and tech company founder. Joe has used his background in to behavioral psychology to take the unlikely step into brand and mobile marketing to huge effect. His first venture ‘Snatch’ – a mobile marketing platform packaged as augmented reality treasure hunt hit the #1 spot on the UK app stores in 2017 and fast became the #1 customer acquisition platform for the majority of over 200 brand partners thanks to the productization of his deeper level understanding of consumer behaviour that resulted in average offer redemptions of 34% (industry average 2%-5%) across a 9 month test period that accumulated over 1 million active users and resulted in Joe being invited to speak at some of the worlds most prestigious tech and marketing events from SXSW, CES, Founders Forum and Cannes Lion. He now returns with his second venture ‘Tickle’ to once again challenge the stat quo and to once again prove that advertising can and should entertain and reward.
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About Snatch, Tickle Global: Snatch is a computer game development company that provides a radical reinvention of the brand experience.
Erik Huberman
Founder and CEO of Hawke Media
Forbes 30 Under 30. Erik Huberman is a brand marketing expert, serial entrepreneur and founder of Hawke Media, a full-service outsourced CMO for brands like Red Bull, Verizon, Evite and Eddie Bauer. Prior to Hawke, Erik founded, grew and sold Swag of the Month, and grew Ellie.com’s sales to $1 million in four months. Erik is also an Inc. Top 25 Marketing Influencer and received a 2016 Telly Award.
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About Hawke Media, Hawke Ventures: Hawke Media provides a host of services that help businesses strategize and realize their potential.
Douglas Winter
CEO of Seismic
Doug Winter is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Seismic, the global leader in enablement. A veteran entrepreneur, Doug was also a co-founder of Objectiva Software Solutions. He served as COO and general manager at EMC Document Sciences until founding Seismic in 2010.
In collaboration with his co-founders, Doug has grown Seismic from a small startup to an international organization with “unicorn” status, serving more than 2,200 businesses around the world. Seismic is regarded as the undisputed category leader in enablement, and has been named to several of the most prestigious lists for technology companies and startups, including the Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Inc. 5000, and more.
At the helm of Seismic, Doug has been recognized as a top CEO by several media groups and industry associations, including the San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Business Journal, Comparably and more. He has a 97% approval rating on Glassdoor, and under his leadership, Seismic is well-known for its exceptional workplace culture with awards from Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, and the Boston Globe, to name a few.
Doug holds a MSEE and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a BSEE from Virginia Tech. He resides in the greater San Diego area.
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About Seismic: Seismic is a sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform that improves close rates & delivers larger deals for sales teams.
Chris Babel
CEO of TrustArc
Chris Babel is the CEO of TRUSTe and a recognized authority on Internet trust and privacy. Chris possesses over a 15 years of experience building online trust, and since joining TRUSTe five years ago has overseen its transformation into the leading global data privacy management company. Chris is a privacy thought leader, as he frequently speaks at industry events such as the IAPP Data Protection Congress, the Privacy Identity Innovation Conference and the IoT Privacy Summit. He is also widely quoted as a privacy expert in well-known publications such as PCWorld, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. Before joining TRUSTe, Chris spent over a decade building online trust, most recently in the security industry as Senior Vice President and General Manager of VeriSign’s worldwide Authentication Services business, where he was responsible for strategy, sales, marketing, product and support. Chris also previously managed VeriSign’s SSL and Managed Security Services business. In these roles he helped grow the businesses though the launch of new products to enterprise and small/medium businesses, international expansion in EMEA and Asia and through acquisition and integration of a number of companies. Chris holds a BA in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences and Economics with Highest Distinction from Northwestern University and lives with his wife and three sons in San Francisco.
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About TrustArc: TrustArc provides solutions to manage privacy compliance for the GDPR, CCPA, and other global privacy regulations.
