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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based Director operating in the E-Commerce space. If you think a Director 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.
Kintan Brahmbhatt
GM, Podcasts (Director) of Amazon
Kintan Brahmbhatt is the Head of Product and Technical Program Management Office for Amazon Music, where he leads global product teams responsible for the Amazon Music experience on Alexa/Echo, mobile, desktop, TV, cars and more. Prior to that, he was the Head of Products and Marketing for IMDb Everywhere at Amazon.com. He drove product strategy IMDb’s mobile business (iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows Phone, http://m.imdb.com), connected devices and web services. He worked on defining the next generation entertainment experiences for Kindle Fire and Amazon Video and launched X-Ray for Vidoes. He started IMDb Games by launching IMDb Trivia game on iPhone. IMDb’s mobile apps have been inducted in Hall of Fame by Apple and have been selected as Editor’s Choice apps by Google. His recent work at IMDb can be found at http://www.imdb.com/apps/ Prior to Amazon, Kintan spent five years at Microsoft’s Unified Communications group as a Program Manager and helped drive several key aspects of Microsoft’s Lync products. Prior to Microsoft, Kintan was the founder of Securamed, a healthcare communication platform. Kintan is actively involved as an advisor and investor for high-tech startups in San Francisco Bay Area. His notable investments include Twilio, Shyp, Lovely, Blueshift, Bloomthat, SourceEasy, Chewse and others. Kintan holds an undergraduate degree from Purdue University, where he studied Computer Science and Economics.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Jonathan Rubinstein
Member of the Board of Directors of Amazon
Jonathan J. Rubinstein has served as a Member of the Board of Directors at QUALCOMM Incorporated since May 2013. Jon was Senior Vice President of Product Innovation for the Personal Systems Group of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) from July 2011 to January 2012 and Senior Vice President and General Manager of Palm Global Business Unit of HP from July 2010 to July 2011. Jon was Chief Executive Officer and President of Palm, Inc. (Palm) from June 2009 until its acquisition by HP in July 2010 and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Palm from October 2007 through the date of acquisition. Jon was Senior Vice President of iPod Division at Apple Inc. (Apple) from 2003 to 2006 and Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering at Apple from 1997 to 2003. Jon is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering. Jon has been a Member of the Board of Directors at Amazon.com, Inc. since December 2010. Jon holds B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Colorado State University.
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About : Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Vicky Gkiza
Director of Product Management, Alexa Shopping of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Ilse De Bruin
Director Global Logistics of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Sujith Ravi
Director of Amazon
Dr. Sujith Ravi is a Director at Amazon. Prior to that, he was leading and managing multiple ML and NLP teams and efforts in Google AI. He founded and headed Google’s large-scale graph-based semi-supervised learning platform, deep learning platform for structured and unstructured data as well as on-device machine learning efforts for products used by billions of people in Search, Ads, Assistant, Gmail, Photos, Android, Cloud and YouTube. These technologies power conversational AI (e.g., Smart Reply), Web and Image Search; On-Device predictions in Android and Assistant; and ML platforms like Neural Structured Learning in TensorFlow, Learn2Compress as Google Cloud service, TensorFlow Lite for edge devices. Dr. Ravi has authored over 90 scientific publications and patents in top-tier machine learning and natural language processing conferences. His work has been featured in press: Wired, Forbes, Forrester, New York Times, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Engadget, New Scientist, among others, and also won the SIGDIAL Best Paper Award in 2019 and ACM SIGKDD Best Research Paper Award in 2014. For multiple years, he was a mentor for Google Launchpad startups. Dr. Ravi was the Co-Chair (AI and deep learning) for the 2019 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers of Engineering symposium. He was also the Co-Chair for ICML 2019, NAACL 2019, and NeurIPS 2018 ML workshops and regularly serves as Senior/Area Chair and PC of top-tier machine learning and natural language processing conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, COLING, KDD, and WSDM.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Mark Yoshitake
Director/GM, Alexa Skills Kit and Multi-Agent Initiatives of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Shari Yoder Doherty
Director of Public Relations, Devices & Services of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
David D. Hampian
Senior Director, Global Integrated Marketing – Twitch of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Daniel Grachanin
Director of Commerce and Analytics of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Matthew Clark
Director, Business Development, Fire TV of Amazon
Matthew Clark serves as director of business development for Amazon’s Fire TV.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Matthew Clark
Director, Business Development, Fire TV of Amazon
Matthew Clark serves as director of business development for Amazon’s Fire TV.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Bruce Wong
Senior Director Data Platform of Stitch Fix
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About Stitch Fix: Stitch Fix is a personal styling platform that delivers curated and personalized apparel and accessory items for women.
An Tran
Director Of Engineering of Stitch Fix
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About Stitch Fix: Stitch Fix is a personal styling platform that delivers curated and personalized apparel and accessory items for women.
Sonja Erickson
Director Of Engineering of Stitch Fix
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About Stitch Fix, Stitch Fix: Stitch Fix is a personal styling platform that delivers curated and personalized apparel and accessory items for women.
Aditya Rathnam
Senior Director of Product of Instacart
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About Instacart: Instacart is an online grocery platform that offers same-day delivery and pickup services for retailers and consumers.
Marta Riggins
Director of Employer Brand and Employee Engagement of Instacart
Marta Riggins is the director of employer brand and employee engagement at Instacart.
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About Instacart: Instacart is an online grocery platform that offers same-day delivery and pickup services for retailers and consumers.
Panpan Wang
Co-Founder & Board of Directors of The Flex Co.
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About The Flex Co.: The Flex Co. is the top-selling sustainable period care brand known for creating a more comfortable period for everyone.
Jon Buscemi
Co-Founder and Executive Creative Director of Greats
Founder/ Creative Director at Greats.
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About Greats, Lotto Sport Italia Spa, Lusso Cloud, Oliver Peoples: Greats Brands is a men’s footwear brand that offers a wide range of classically-inspired sneakers.
Molly Stevens
Director of User Experience Research of Booking.com
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About Booking.com: Founded in 1996, Booking.com is one of the world’s leading digital travel companies, available in 40+ languages and 155,000+ destinations.
Michelle Andino
Director of Merchandising of Hollar
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About Hollar: Hollar is an online dollar store that features toys, apparel, electronics, beauty, accessories, party supplies, to home essentials.
Alex Grigoryan
Director of Engineering of Walmart Labs
Alex Grigoryan is the director of engineering of WalmartLabs. Alex builds application platform at WalmartLabs. He focuses on customer experience, fan of python, Node.js, and react.
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
James Zhang
Sr. Director of Marketing of Walmart Labs
James Zhang is Sr. Director of Marketing at Walmart Media Group. He was previously Head of Rakuten Interactive, a Rakuten USA executive, and a member of Rakuten’s CEO Office. He was China CEO and Global Head of R&D at London-based Powa Technologies, once Europe’s largest startup by capitalization. James’s career spans 9 countries as a country manager and consultant for Samsung Electronics and KPMG. James is a mentor for Techstars, Plug & Play Tech Accelerator, and a Judge for the MIT 100K.
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About Blue Tornado, Red Jasper Worldwide, Splunk, Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Or Zelig
Director of Product Management of Walmart Labs
Or is an experienced product manager and a serial entrepreneur. Or’s greatest passion is technology, and his mind is constantly brimming with new ideas. After his graduation from the IDF, where he lead the development of the next-generation of military data security devices, Or worked as a consultant and later as an entrepreneur; SlickLogin was his second venture in the field of cyber security that was acquired by Google. Today he a lead at Google Accelerators program.
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Gerald Bothello
Director Of Cloud of Walmart Labs
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Brendan Wright
Director – International mobile products of Walmart Labs
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About Walmart Labs: WalmartLabs, the technology division responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
Ryan Stevens
Director of Product of Mayvenn
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About Mayvenn: Mayvenn enables Stylists to sell products directly to their clients without the upfront costs and burdens of holding inventory.
John Lagerling
Director and CBO of Mercari
John Lagerling is the Director, Android Global Partnerships at Google.
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About Mercari: Mercari is a community-powered shopping app from Japan allowing anyone to buy and sell anything from anywhere.
Ravi Jariwala
Senior Director, Public Relations of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Amandeep Singh Juneja
Sr. Director, Cloud Operations and Engineering @WalmartLabs of Walmart
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About American Express, OpenStack, Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Kathryn Wong
Associate Director, CRM Marketing of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Anna Veit
Associate Director, Product Marketing of Walmart
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Lauren Gallo
Senior Director, Brand Marketing & Creative of Nike
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About Adweek, Nike, Shorty Awards: Nike designs, develops, and markets footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessory products.
Pankaj Mehndiratta
Director Of Engineering – Marketing Technologies of Sephora
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About Gap, Sephora, Sephora: Sephora is an online shopping site that offers a range of beauty products such as cosmetics and skincare items.
Alex Milligan
Co-founder & Marketing Director of Nugg
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About Nugg: Nugg allows mmj patients to find and order cannabis-based products from nearby collectives that deliver or offer pickup.
Tannia Hernandez
Assistant Director Of Operations of Good Eggs
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About Good Eggs: Good Eggs is an online grocer and meal kit delivery service with a mission to reinvent the food system, for good.
Hai Habot
Sr. Director of Incubation and Growth of StubHub
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About StubHub: StubHub is an online ticket marketplace enabling fans to buy and sell tickets to entertainment events.
Andrew Koven
Co Managing Director of LDR Ventures
Drew is the Co Managing Director of LDR Ventures. He has successfully incubated, operated, turned around, advised and invested in Consumer Lifestyle brands of products and services worldwide for over twenty years. He is widely regarded as a pioneering force in E-commerce, M-commerce, Omni-channel Retail and Marketplaces. Drew is a thought leader advocating for and advancing the use of Innovative Technologies which support consumer lifestyle brands of products and services. He embraces diversity, impact, inclusion, female and minority led businesses to build market leaders which address systemic and behavioral trend changes and have Impact.
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About LawChamps, LDR Ventures, Shaka Tea, Swagtron, Sweetgreen, Territory Foods, Uber: LDR is a VC firm based in Los Angeles investing In Female & Minority Founders, Consumer Product, Food, E-Comm, Marketplaces & Legal Tech
Samir Shah
Senior Director – AI Foundations of Target
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About Target: Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
Henrique Castro
Member of the Board of Directors of Target
Previously, Henrique served as Chief Operating Officer of Yahoo! Inc. Additionally, he was elected to join the Board of Directors for Minneapolis-based retailer, Target Corp. on March 13, 2013. Henrique is a senior executive with 20+ years experience in leading companies such as Google, Dell and McKinsey, building, scaling and managing business globally. He is recognized by his knowledge of the Media, Internet, Telco/Tech, Retail, Consumer industries and has extensive experience as CEO/GM, CRO, Head of Strategy and Business Development, Sales & Marketing and Operations Lead. Henrique was formerly Google’s President of Media, Mobile and Platforms Worldwide with full responsibility $5bn+ full P&L of Google’s TV Ads, YouTube Ads, Google Display Network, Mobile Ads, AdMob, AdExchange and DoubleClick business globally. He built and scaled the Display, Mobile and Platforms Business from scratch to turn them it into #1 digital business globally with multi-billion dollar revenue and 2000+ people. In this position he lead the team to launch operations in 40+ countries, hired 1000+ people, acquired and integrated Google’s two largest acquisitions. Prior to this position Henrique lead European Sales & Media Solutions and Sales Operations for Google Europe. Before Google, Henrique was Sales & Business Development Director for Dell Western Europe Region where he managed sales and operations across 9 countries for all B2B businesses with revenues of $2+bn and 30%+ growth. Early in career Henrique worked for ABB- Asea Brown Boveri in Corporate/Project Finance and in the Private Equity. Henrique holds a MBA from IMD and MSc in Economics/Business Administration from ISEG. He is fluent in English, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Henrique is also a Board Director of the IAB – Interactive Advertising Bureau – The as industry association, that comprises 500+ leading media and technology companies, to set the agenda to educate marketeers, agencies, media companies and regulators on Interactive Advertising.
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About : Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
Anand Vijay
Director of Engineering of eBay
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About eBay: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Jimmy Su
Head of JD Security Research Center and Senior Director of JD.com
Jimmy Su leads the JD security research center in Silicon Valley. He joined JD in January 2017. Before joining JD, he was the director of advanced threat research at FireEye Labs. He led the research and development of multiple world leading security products at FireEye, including network security, email security, mobile security, fraud detection, and end-point security. He led a global team including members from the United States, Pakistan, and Singapore from research to product releases on the FireEye’s first machine learning based malware similarity analysis Cloud platform. This key technology advance was released on all core FireEye products including network security, email security, and mobile security. He won the Q2 2016 FireEye innovation award for his seminal work on similarity analysis. He earned his PhD degree in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 2010. After his graduation, he joined Professor Dawn Song’s team as a post doc focusing on similarity analysis of x86 and Android applications. In 2011, he joined Professor Song in the mobile security startup Ensighta, leading the research and development of the automatic malware analysis platform. Ensighta was acquired by FireEye in December of 2012. He joined FireEye through the acquisition. JD security research center in Silicon Valley focuses on these seven areas: account security, APT detection, bot detection, data security, AI applications in security, Big Data applications in security, and IoT security.
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About JD.com: JD.com is an internet company and online consumer electronics retailer in China.
Jonathan Seiffer
Board Of Director of Whole Foods Market
Jonathan A. Seiffer has been a Partner of Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. since 1999 and joined Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. in 1994. Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. is an affiliate of Green Equity Investors V, L.P.
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About : Whole Foods Market is a supermarket chain owned by Amazon that exclusively sells natural and organic products.
Caroline Shin
Board of Directors of Vacatia
Caroline is a seasoned travel and hospitality executive who is passionate about building companies that embrace technology to deliver a stellar customer experience. She is currently the CEO of Vacatia, the resort marketplace for family vacationers. Prior to Vacatia, Caroline co-founded Store Vantage, a SaaS scheduling and CRM system for SMBs. She was also SVP of Client Management and Flight Operations at Sentient Jet, a private jet membership company where she oversaw client sales, service and command center operations. Previously, she led global CRM and revenue management functions for Starwood Hotels and Resorts. Caroline started her travel career by being on the founding team of Hotwire, as the lead website architect and later managed supplier relations and P&L for the company. Caroline spent her early career as a technology and strategy consultant at Accenture and Scient, working with Fortune 500 and startup clients. She is also an active early-stage investor, supporting amazing entrepreneurs in various fields from technology to restaurants. Caroline has a degree in Nuclear Engineering from MIT.
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About Vacatia: Vacatia is the resort marketplace for vacationing families, whose mission is to make family vacations better
Keith Cox
Board Director of Vacatia
Keith Cox is Chairman of Vacatia and Chief Executive Officer at VLS. Keith is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded businesses in the resort real estate, consumer technology, venture capital and chain restaurant industries. Keith founded Vacation Listing Service after his experience leading a resort real estate brokerage and fractional ownership company, Resort Equities, which he founded in 2004. Prior to entering the resort industry, Keith co-founded and served as managing director of Brainstorm Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund, which invested in e-commerce and emerging technology companies such as OpenTable.com and Zappos.com. Keith also helped to found, fund and launch consumer internet and mobile technology companies such as Me.com, Santa.com and Lightt, Inc., serving in each case as the Chairman of the board of directors. Prior to Brainstorm Ventures, Keith co-founded and served as CEO of World Wrapps, a west coast chain of gourmet, quick-service restaurants and Hot Concepts Award winner. More recently, Keith conceived of, launched and served as CEO of another growing, venture-backed restaurant chain, Pacific Catch, which is a moderately priced, Pacific-inspired fish house. His previous business experience includes that of strategic management consultant in the consumer practice at Booz-Allen & Hamilton and financial consultant at Deloitte & Touche. Keith obtained two BAs in Business Economics and Sociology at UC Santa Barbara and his MBA at Stanford University.
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About Pacific Catch, Vacatia: Vacatia is the resort marketplace for vacationing families, whose mission is to make family vacations better
Michael Silton
Managing Director and Founder of Act One Ventures
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About Act One Ventures: Act One Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage fund that leads rounds in business software.
Robert Brisco
President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Internet Brands
Bob Brisco is the President & CEO at Internet Brands.
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About CarsDirect.com, Internet Brands: Internet Brands is an internet media company that operates online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets.
Senior Director, Business Operations of Internet Brands
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About Internet Brands: Internet Brands is an internet media company that operates online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets.
Brett Fishman
Director of Engineering of Trumaker
Brett Fishman is Director of Engineering, leading the engineering team at Trumaker. Prior to Trumaker, Brett was Manager of Engineering at Manilla.
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About Trumaker: Trumaker is a new kind of men’s apparel brand where every guy gets a client
Travis Morrison
Senior Director of Product of ZipRecruiter
Travis Morrison is the Senior Director of Product at ZipRecruiter in charge of the Job Seeker portion of the platform. Previously the Head of Product at Workpop. (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/workpop), a tool for employers to hire employees for hourly tasks. He has designed, released, and managed blockbuster online games on mobile and web. Prior to Workpop, Morrison held several management positions at [Zynga](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zynga#/entity) and [Google](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/google#/entity). Morrison holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Duke University.
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About ZipRecruiter: ZipRecruiter is an online employment marketplace, connecting millions of employers and job seekers through mobile and email services.
Wenbo Zhang
Director, Buyer Risk Management of Wish
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About Wish: Wish is an e-commerce shopping app, putting a digital shopping mall of affordable goods directly in the pockets of consumers worldwide.
Mohnish Mohanty
Director of Product of Extend
Mohnish headed consumer products and previously led partner products for major ecommerce platforms at Extend, an API-first protection plan solution for merchants to increase purchase conversion, generate new cross-sell revenue, and build long term trust with their customers. Prior to Extend, Mohnish was a Senior Product Leader at DocuSign, leading the next generation of the Core Signature product. He led cross-functional product strategy and built global products for SMB and Enterprise customer segments, with an emphasis on Financial Services, Insurance, Telco, and Tech verticals. He also led the creation of DocuSign Payments on native mobile apps (iOS and Android). Prior to his role in DocuSign, Mohnish was a management consultant focusing on growing Fortune 500 Technology and Healthcare/Life Sciences businesses. Mohnish advises early to growth stage companies on Product, Strategy, Ops and enjoys coaching product managers.
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About Extend: Extend provides extended warranties as a service to merchants and innovates the broken customer experience associated with them.
Konstantin Guericke
Member of the Board of Directors of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
Konstantin Guericke is a Partner at Earlybird. He is based in Silicon Valley. Konstantin is Co – Founder of LinkedIn, where he has led marketing activities from launch to first six million members and profitability as Vice President of Marketing. Previously, he has been CEO of jaxtr (social communications start-up, over ten million registered users, purchased by SabSe Technologies). Konstantin has long-time entrepreneurial experience as founder of successful startups and he has helped established companies towards increased growth. Currently, he is Board member of several startups and Mentor of student entrepreneurs at Stanford University. Konstantin holds a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University.
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About : StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Dan Ha
Co-Founder, Sr. Managing Director of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Ed Kearney
Director & Advisor of Snappr
Ed has over a decade of experience in photography & videography, including founding the agency Tah Dah Productions. He co-founded GownTown & has a Masters in Engineering.
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About GownTown, Snappr: Snappr is the one-stop-shop for visual content creation, including the largest on-demand photographer and photo editing marketplace
James Chapman
Director of Platform Development of Zazzle
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About Zazzle: Zazzle.com enables users to receive a commission on products that they design, create and sell.
Marc Hibbins
Director of Engineering of Let’s Do This
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About Let’s Do This: Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet.
John Kent
Director of US Partnerships of Let’s Do This
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About Let’s Do This: Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet.
Saulo Marti
Growth Marketing Director of Olist
Saulo Marti is a growth expert, startup advisor and entrepreneur.
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About GLG, Olist, Otto Radio, Inc.: Olist is an SMB commerce enabler ecosystem that specializes in the fields of logistics and capital.
Leah Candiliere
Creative Director of Pamper
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About Pamper: Ultra fresh set of nails. Anywhere you want it.
Shintaro Asako
Executive Officer, CFO, Strategic Investment Director Commerce and Incubation Business Division of DeNA
Shintaro Asako is the CEO of the West Region business unit at DeNA, a global leader in developing and publishing mobile games. He leads the company’s operations and corporate strategy in North America, Europe and the rest of the West. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, DeNA has offices and studios in 12 cities across eight countries with over 2,000 employees and has delivered nearly a dozen titles that hit the top 30 grossing charts on US App Store and US Google Play. In addition to launching hits such as Blood Brothers and Rage of Bahamut, DeNA currently develops and publishes mobile games for popular entertainment franchises such as Star Wars, Marvel, Transformers and Final Fantasy. DeNA reported revenue of 1.8 billion dollars and operating profit of 524 million dollars in the fiscal year ending March 2014. Shintaro joined DeNA West in 2011 serving as Chief Financial Officer before moving to the role of CEO in 2013. Previously, Shintaro was Chief Financial Officer at MediciNova, Inc. from 2005 to 2011. Prior to MediciNova, Shintaro worked at KPMG LLP and Arthur Anderson LLP.
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About DeNA: DeNA is a platform providing social games, e-commerce, and other web services for PCs and mobile devices.
Reese Witherspoon
Co-Founder & Creative Director of Draper James
Reese Witherspoon is an American actress and producer who is also the founder of Draper James.
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About Draper James, Hello Sunshine: Draper James is an online shopping site selling apparels and home accessories.
Rocky Sharma
Sr. Director, Product Management, eCommerce of BuildDirect
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About BuildDirect: BuildDirect is an innovative platform for purchasing and selling quality home improvement materials online
Alex Arkhipov
Engineering Director of Ancestry
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About Ancestry: Ancestry is a web-based platform that helps its users to create their own family tree and help them preserve and share their family history.
Chris Lueck
Board Director of FastSpring
Prior to joining FastSpring, Chris was a co-founder and Managing Partner of Pylon Capital, an entrepreneurial investment firm focused on investing in high growth, technology-enabled service companies. Chris previously managed product development for Nyko Technologies, the leading video game accessory company in North America. Before Nyko, he was a product engineer at Qualcomm, where he worked on the development of mobile communications chips, including the world’s first 3G communications chip. Chris holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia, and an MBA with honors from the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, where he was a Leadership and Academic Scholar.
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About Pylon Capital: FastSpring is the trusted ecommerce partner for companies that sell software around the world.
Shin Nagakura
Executive Managing Director Transcosmos, Inc., Silicon Valley of Infracommerce
Managing Director /Transcosmos Inc.
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About : Infracommerce offers E-commerce technology and services in logistics, online payment, customer service for Latin America
Jonathan Lewis
Managing Director of Copia Global
Jonathan is a social justice activist and social entrepreneur. He is the Founder of some of the most powerful engines in social impact: MCE Social Capital, an innovative social venture that leverages $110 million of private capital to finance small entrepreneurs, and Opportunity Collaboration, an annual strategic business retreat for 450 senior level anti-poverty leaders from around the globe. Jonathan is the co-founder of Copia Global, an Amazon-like consumer catalog serving the base of the economic pyramid in Kenya. He is a General Partner of Dev Equity, and is now finishing his book, The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur.
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About Copia Global: Copia Global provides a consumer catalog order and delivery system intended to serve consumers in the developing world.
Jennifer Piña
Director of Brand Partnerships of MagicLinks
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About MagicLinks: The leader in social commerce for video influencers and the world’s top brands
Luke D’Angelo
Chair Of The Board Of Directors/ Executive Director of AppTech Corp.
Mr. D’Angelo has more than 25 years of experience in investment banking, real estate, venture capital, and capital markets. In 2006, he founded a merchant services company, Transcendent One, Inc. which became an Inc. 500 fastest growing company, ranked at #105. The company was the first “Merchant Owned” company in the United States, offering ownership in the company for customers based on their monthly credit card processing volumes. In 2009, he founded TransTech One, a subsidiary to Transcendent One that had a focus on the bill payment and technology industries. With TransTech One, significant business relationships with utilities, including Sempra Energy were formed. In 2013, AppTech Corp. acquired Transcendent One and TransTech One. Where he currently resides as Chairman of the Board, Executive Director, and Chief Investment Officer.
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About AppTech Corp.: AppTech is a fintech company utilizing innovative payment processing and digital banking technologies to complement core merchant services.
Nate Cavanaugh
Director of UI Engineering of Liferay
Nate Cavanaugh is the Director of UI Engineering at Liferay, the global lead for Liferay’s UX team and one of the co-creators of AlloyUI. He’s passionate about solving problems and loves to create new things, whether it’s design, code or drawings. Nate loves dogs, wakes up every day at 3am, and is one of only 4 nerds in the entire world who does not like Star Wars or Star Trek.
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About Liferay: Liferay makes software that helps companies create digital experiences on web, mobile and connected devices.
Malia Supe
Senior Partner, Global Managing Director, WPP Team Lead of Ogilvy
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About Ogilvy, Ogilvy, WPP: Global brand Strategy, Advertising, Customer Engagement and Commerce, PR and Influence, Digital Transformation, and Partnerships.
Asha Agrawal
Managing Director of Patagonia
Asha Agrawal is the Managing Director at Patagonia.
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About Patagonia: Our values reflect those of a business started by a band of climbers and surfers, and the minimalist style they promoted.
John Goodwin
Brand Creative Director of Patagonia
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About Patagonia: Our values reflect those of a business started by a band of climbers and surfers, and the minimalist style they promoted.
Marc Lickfett
Founder, Managing Director and a non-executive director of King & McGaw.
Marc Lickfett is Founder, Managing Director and a non-executive director at King & McGaw & Knife Aid.
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About King & McGaw., Knife Aid: King & McGaw sells art prints and framed art items online.
Frank Yang
Chief Executive Officer, Design Director and Founder of simplehuman
In 2000, Frank Yang founded simplehuman with a goal to revitalize the trash can industry. Today, not only is the Los Angeles-based company the leader in stainless-steel step cans, but it also has expanded its vision—to design “tools for efficient living”—to more than 100 patented innovations and other products such as sensor soap pumps, kitchen and bathroom organization, and beauty tools. All simplehuman products embody efficient living design, a principle Yang defines as designing each product so it performs its intended task perfectly. To that end, all products are ergonomic, easy-to-clean, highly functional and durable as well. Under Yang’s design direction, in 2004 BusinessWeek/Industrial Design Society of America named simplehuman as one of the top corporations for Industrial Design Excellence. Yang has also garnered international design awards from organizations including reddot, International Housewares Association and I.D. Magazine. simplehuman products are available at fine specialty retailers in including Bed Bath & Beyond, Williams-Sonoma and Sephora as well as the company’s website simplehuman.com.
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About simplehuman: simplehuman designs and manufactures homeware products.
Steve Bennet
Founder and Managing Director of Bodega
Steve Bennet is the founder and managing director of Bodega Partners and is an active participant in the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial ecosystem as start-up CFO, Angel Investor, and Professor. Over the past 20 years, he has been CFO, investor, and/or board member of over 50 technology start-ups, primarily in the software, Internet, and mobile sectors. CFO roles include Revel Systems, iControl Networks, Appstores (acquired by InMobi), Greystripe (acquired by ValueClick), Fliqz (acquired by VBrick Systems), Valchemy (acquired by IBM), GolfWeb (acquired by CBS Sportsline), Orbital Data (acquired by Citrix), TextDigger (acquired by Federated Media), and Pharmacy TV Network (acquired by RMG Networks). Some of these resulted in excellent financial returns to founders and investors, while others did not. Steve has a passion for both entrepreneurship and education. He has taught entrepreneurial finance since 1995 and is currently adjunct faculty at San Jose State University. Previously, he was a lecturer at U.C. Berkeley. His focus is on experiential education and has developed new courses at SJSU, including the Entrepreneurship Lab (ELAB), Venture Lab (VLAB), and the Silicon Valley Experience. He is also on the Steering Committee for the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship and UCLA Venture Capital Fund. Prior to and concurrent with Bodega, Steve was a Venture Partner at Outlook Ventures, Board Member of Sand Hill Angels, Partner at Menlo Incubator and held various financial and management positions at Bay Logics, Digital Microwave, and Arthur Andersen. Steve earned an undergraduate degree in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. He blogs at www.professorvc.com and tweets @ProfessorVC.
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About Bodega, Qvivr, San Jose State University, Sand Hill Angels, Xenio Systems: Bodega is the world’s first virtual goods marketplace, which bridges the gap between diverse social networks and creates a synthesized
Ryan Nelson
Director of Education of Drunk Elephant
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About Drunk Elephant: Drunk Elephant is a non-toxic skin care brand.
Jared Kopf
Member of Board of Directors of Bazaarvoice
Jared Kopf has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2015 and has been a private investor in technology companies since 2009. Previously he was the Vice President in Product Innovation and Corporate Strategy for Rearden Commerce, Inc., a provider of online consumer and business-oriented commerce services, from September 2011 to May 2012 and the Founder and CEO of HomeRun.com, a members-only online social buying club, from November 2009 through August 2011. Prior to founding HomeRun.com, Kopf co-founded AdRoll, Inc., an advertising technology company, in 2006, where he served as CEO from March 2006 to March 2009 and President from March 2009 to January 2010. Kopf also served as a co-founder of Slide, Inc., a social media application developer, from 2005 to 2006. Kopf received a B.A. from Stanford University. He currently serves on the board and is Chairman of AdRoll.
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About : Bazaarvoice helps brands capture, analyze and act upon social data, and enables authentic customer-powered marketing.
Jonathan Cronstedt
Board Director of Kajabi
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About Kajabi: Kajabi operates as an all-in-one knowledge commerce platform designed to help businesses achieve success online.
Sarah Hutnick Landau
Co-founder & Director of Team Member Experience of Drybar
Sarah is Drybar’s Co-founder & Director of Team Member Experience. She plays the role of counselor, coach and quite often, cheerleader. She not only ensures the team feels a connection to the company, but as an incredible DJ, she also brings the party! Sarah graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in finance, and she spent a year at Deloitte Consulting in NYC.
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About Drybar, Squeeze Massage: Drybar is a retail chain exclusively for blow-drying hair for a reduced price compared to traditional salons.
Cameron Webb
Founder & Creative Director of Drybar
Cameron is the co-founder and the creative mind behind Drybar’s branding, identity and website. He got his start in advertising as an art director for Merkley and Partners 12 years ago in NYC. He’s worked on ad campaigns for Mercedes Benz, BMW Motorcycles, Fila, Activision, IKEA and Southern California Honda Dealers. More recently he served as a creative director at the prestigious ad agency Secret Weapon Marketing responsible for the Jack in Box and Southern California Honda Dealer commercials.
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About Drybar, Squeeze Massage: Drybar is a retail chain exclusively for blow-drying hair for a reduced price compared to traditional salons.
Melissa Coker
Founder & Creative Director of Wren Studios
Melissa Coker is the founder of Wren, a women’s apparel brand and creative consultancy. A content disruptor with over a decades worth of senior level leadership experience in the apparel and media industries, Coker got her start as an editor at top fashion publications such as Vogue and W magazines. This unique editorial point of view has allowed her to consistently create a definitive, clear and signature narrative that adds value to brands and meaning to customers. The viral marketing campaign, First Kiss, she created for Wren’s Fall 14 collection is the most viewed fashion film of all time and won a Grand Clio for Prestige Film and the Gold Cannes Lion for Internet Film.
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About Wren Studios: Wren Studios functions as a women’s fashion brand and content studio.
Jason Siciliano
Vice President & Creative Director of SquareTrade
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About SquareTrade: SquareTrade is an independent warranty provider for consumer electronics and appliances.
Raul Predescu
Director of Development of Genesis Digital
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About Genesis Digital: Genesis Digital provides SaaS eCommerce solutions to an ever growing market of innovators.
Samuel Bretzfield
Managing Director/CEO of bGlobal
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About 6Beyond, AIM STEPs, bGlobal: bGlobal offers economical and tailored fit programming services.
Jessica Rhoades
Director, Content Operations & Partnerships of Fandango
Jessica Rhoades manages content operations and partnerships for Fandango’s digital media strategy, which includes the number one YouTube network for movie trailers and movie-related video content. Jessica has been dedicated to content engagement, production, and strategic audience development since catapulting onto the digital content scene by way of Zefr in 2011. Her current role at Fandango encompasses overseeing content operations, distribution, core technology solutions, and partnerships for 9 Fandango brands. Fandango Movieclips was formed after Fandango’s acquisition of Movieclips in April 2014. Since Fandango’s acquisition, Movieclips subscribers have increased by 148%, adding 11 million to its network of now over 18 million subscribers. Video views are also up 20% year-over-year, with an average of 450 million video views per month. Over the past year, the Fandango Movieclips team has published more than 11,000 movie trailers and original videos to its digital network. Fandango is a unit of NBCUniversal. Long before she invaded Silicon Beach, Jessica displayed her operational and creative expertise by producing large scale events throughout Los Angeles and Orange County.
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About Fandango: Fandango is a corporation that sells movie tickets via telephone and Internet.
TJ Stein
Director of Technical Support of Mailchimp
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About Mailchimp: Mailchimp provides marketing automation for e-commerce businesses.
Sterling Roig
Director of Sales for the Eastern Region of WineBid.com
Sterling Roig serves as Director of Sales for the Eastern Region at WineBid.com.
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About WineBid.com: WineBid.com is an online platform for selling and buying wines.
James Bradicich
Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development of beGlammed LLC
James Bradicich is the Director of Marketing and Business Development at beGlammed, the leading on demand beauty service app in North America. At beGlammed, James has secured more than $350,000 in revenue for the company through strategic partnerships, oversees the execution of 400+ events a year, manages three PR/digital agencies, spearheads strategic brand alignments and manages and posts all content across beGlammed’s social media accounts. He also oversees all email marketing, CRM, push, SMS and affiliate programs with Gilt and Rue La La, and seasonal and holiday promotions. He coordinates celebrity and media appointments. James manages several freelance consultants, graphic designers and interns. James formerly worked at Edelman, Ogilvy & Mather, Burson-Marsteller, PMK*BNC, AdEdge Online Marketing and Nicole Miller where he developed expertise in the marketing & PR world. He proudly graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Southern California, where he was the school’s Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) president and squash team captain. He was awarded the Undergraduate Public Relations Faculty Recognition Award upon graduation. James has tremendous management and organizational expertise and is able to manage dozens of projects at once, while remaining polished, professional and poised. He enjoys taking initiative, leading the team and producing strong and measurable quantitative results while encouraging and empowering his colleagues to succeed. James is interested in beauty/cosmetics, entertainment, travel/tourism, fashion, real estate, animals/pets, retail and and the on demand economy. He plans to one day be the CMO of a mid to large sized corporation. Personal: james.t.bradicich@gmail.com Work: james@beglammed.com
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About beGlammed LLC, WarnerMedia: The leading on-demand beauty service sending the industry’s best hairstylists, makeup artists and nail techs straight to your door!
Catalina Girald
Founder, CEO, & Creative Director of Naja
Catalina is the Founder, CEO, and Creative Director of Naja. She started Naja with the goal of empowering women through lingerie — from the wearer to the garment worker. Catalina is also the founder of Underwear for Hope, a program that trains and employs at-risk single mothers to sew Prior to Naja, Catalina travelled the world for 18 months living with nomads in Mongolia. Before becoming an “entrepreneur” she was an attorney in the Mergers & Acquisitions group at Skadden, Arps in New York City. She is a Term Member at The Council of Foreign Relations. Catalina has an MBA from Stanford University and a .1D from Boston College. She lives in New York City and Los Angeles, California.
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About Naja: Naja is a brand of luxury lingerie.
Derek Bradley
Director of operations of Vuori
Derek Bradley has been serving as director of operations at Vuori since June 2018.
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About Vuori: Vuori offers a collection of apparel brands for men and women.
Luis Alvarez
Director of sales of Vuori
Luis Alvarez has been serving as director of sales at Vuori since Jan, 2017.
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About Vuori: Vuori offers a collection of apparel brands for men and women.
Emily Neudorf
Director of Product Marketing and Communications of ChowNow
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About ChowNow: ChowNow helps branded online ordering systems for independent restaurants through the restaurants’ own websites.
Jin Sun Chin
Director of Customer Experience of Cuyana
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About Cuyana: Cuyana is a fashion brand that creates premium women’s essentials.
Noah Judson
Technical Advisor – Board of Directors of CoinBeyond
Founder at CoinBeyond
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About CoinBeyond: Modern Payment Processing, Simplified.
Kirk Bradley
Board of Directors of Oink
Kirk has been evaluating technology solutions for the last 25 years. He served in the IT group at William Mercer before joining Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL) as a member of the technical staff in 1981, where he currently serves as their Executive Technical Advisor.
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About : Oink offers a payment service for children to make purchases online in a manner that is approved and monitored by their parents.
Joe Dahan
Founder & Creative Director of Joe’s Jeans
Joe Dahan is a Founder & Creative Director at Joe’s Jeans.
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About Joe’s Jeans: Joe’s offers a full range of styles for men, women and children through their casual chic denim line and lifestyle collection.
Rex Roberts
Director of Acquisition Marketing of Five Four Club
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About Five Four Club: Five Four Club is an online subscription service that enables men to get a curated package of clothes every month.
Sergey Poroshin
Business Director of Zingaya
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About Voximplant, Voximplant, Zingaya: Zingaya provides online voice calling facilities to website operators through any computer device, directly from a webpage.
Shannon Ong
Executive Director, Client Development of IZEA
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About IZEA, IZEA: IZEA creates marketplaces that connect brands with influential content creators and publishers at-scale.
Jim Aviles
Director of TheDrop.com
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About : A global marketplace and DTC services platform for the $200 billion Streetwear market.
Kenneth McBride
Chief Executive Officer ,Chairman, Board of Directors of Stamps.com
Kenneth McBride has served on our board of directors since August 2012. Since 2001, Mr. McBride has been the Chief Executive Officer of Stamps.com, a Nasdaq-traded provider of Internet-based services for mailing or shipping letters, packages or parcels. Beginning in 1999, he has held various positions at Stamps.com, as President from 2001 until January 2012, as Chief Financial Officer from 2000 to 2004 and as Senior Director of Finance from 1999 to 2000. Mr. McBride is also Chairman of the board of directors of Stamps.com. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of The California Science Center Foundation, a non-profit organization. Prior to Stamps.com, Mr. McBride was a research analyst for Salomon Smith Barney covering several industries in the high technology area. Mr. McBride has also worked as an engineer and manager in the semiconductor industry
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About Stamps.com: Stamps.com offers Internet-based mailing and shipping solutions to its clients.
