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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 New York, New York based Founder operating in the Marketing space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Brian Long
Co-Founder and CEO of Attentive
Brian Long is the co-founder and CEO of Attentive. He previously was the CEO of TapCommerce. Prior to TapCommerce, Brian led mobile products at Pontiflex, a mobile advertising company. At Pontiflex, Brian conceived of the mobile ad product, brought it to market, and scaled it across thousands of mobile apps. Prior to Pontiflex, Brian held various sales management roles at CNET.com (acquired by CBS Interactive), where he worked closely with large advertisers like Dell, Samsung, and AT&T to build performance-based interactive advertising programs.Brian has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently on-leave from NYU, with half of an MBA in Finance & Entrepreneurship.
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About Attentive: Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform for innovative brands and organizations.
Ethan Lo
Co-Founder and Head of Special Projects of Attentive
Ethan Lo is a Co-Founder at Attentive Mobile. Previously, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Twitter, and one of the first engineers at TapCommerce, an ad-tech startup acquired by Twitter in 2014.
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About Attentive: Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform for innovative brands and organizations.
Andrew Jones
Co-Founder and CPO of Attentive
Andrew is the co-founder and head of product at Attentive. Before co-founding Attentive, Andrew served as the vice president of products at TapCommerce. Prior to TapCommerce, Andrew helped lead Agile development teams at Demdex (acquired by Adobe Systems in 2011), the first online advertising Data Management Platform (DMP). Prior to Demdex, Andrew helped build technology products at leading startups and big companies including TheLadders.com and Goldman Sachs. Andrew has a B.S. in Information Systems and Finance from NYU.
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About Attentive: Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform for innovative brands and organizations.
Alan Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Alan founded IAG Research, which became the leading provider of engagement metrics in the television industry, and served as co-CEO until the company was acquired by Nielsen. Alan then served as the CEO of Advertising Solutions for Nielsen, and is currently a venture partner for Greycroft Partners. Alan is a graduate of the New York University School of Law (J.D.), Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (M.P.P.), and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.).
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About Embark, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Eric Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Co-Managing Partner@Peak Opportunity Partners (“POP”). Pop is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on seed and early stage companies. POP makes opportunistic investments that can typically be a company’s first outside capital. Investments include: Blue Apron, Work Fusion(Crowd Computing), Stella Service, Great Bridge ( Earnest Research ), EBTH ( Everything But The House ).
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About Canvs, GoSpotCheck, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Bill Koenigsberg
President, CEO & Founder of Horizon media
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About Horizon media: Horizon Media, Inc. is the largest and fastest growing privately held media services agency in the world.
Harry Kargman
Founder & CEO of Kargo
Harry founded Kargo in 2003, and over the past decade he has grown it from a small start-up shop to the leader in mobile brand advertising. In 2015, Kargo was recognized as one of the America’s fastest growing companies by Inc. magazine. Today, Kargo works with the world’s most prestigious media companies and brands to deliver high quality mobile brand advertising. Kargo’s technology and ad experiences are integrated into the sites and apps of more than 300 of the largest publishers, and its technology powers the campaigns of more than 200 of the most influential brands. Kargo has won more than 7 Mobi and OMMA awards for creative innovation. Harry’s experience building Kargo from the ground up gives him a deep understanding of the latest trends, consumer behavior, and the broader forces reshaping the media and advertising landscape. He holds over fifty patents related to Kargo’s technology and continues to drive the company to innovate around mobile advertising solutions, data products and programmatic technology. Harry is a frequent speaker at advertising and technology conferences including CES, IAB and Advertising Week, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Today Show, Advertising Age, The Wall Street Journal, NPR and dozens of other media outlets. Harry graduated with honors from Harvard College where he is now an advisor to young entrepreneurs through the Harvard Innovation Lab. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.
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About Kargo: Kargo is the leader in mobile brand advertising.
Maurice Harary
Founder and CEO of Fluz
Maurice is a Founder of the Fluz App. He is a serial entrepreneur with a 10-year background in e-commerce. He currently manages over 20 e-commerce sites in the B2B and B2C environment, ranging from interactive learning-based experiences to price-competitive marketplace trading sites. Experience in all areas of e-commerce sites, ranging from custom e-commerce software development to operational planning. He has extensive experience in fashion eCommerce and marketplace selling.
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About Fluz: Reinventing cashback to give you more. Get paid when you shop + when your friends shop. Earn Cashback Forever.
Colin Darretta
CEO & Co-Founder of Innovation Department
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About DojoMojo, Entrepreneur Media, Fast Company, Finn, Grummies, Innovation Department, Innovation Department, WellPath: Innovation Department is a brand studio dedicated to building great companies that will have a long-lasting impact on the way we live.
Alex Song
CEO/Founder of Innovation Department
Alexander Song is the Founder and CEO of Innovation Department, a technology and investment company that creates and develops E-commerce, Media, and SaaS companies. Based in Soho, New York, Innovation Department both creates companies that solve practical, real-world problems and equips early-stage founders with the capital, people, and resources they need to bring their ideas to life. Alex is also the CEO of DojoMojo, a Partnership Marketing Platform with over 1,400 brands. Alex studied Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with Highest Honors, and moved to New York in 2004. He spent 6 years with Goldman Sachs in the Financial Institutions, Investment Banking Division, and was then promoted to join Goldman’s Principal Investment Area, an $20bn private equity fund. Alex then joined Pershing Square Capital Management, a $15bn long-short equity hedge fund, where he focused on public equity investments. Alex’s background in finance brings a unique perspective as he serves not only as an investor, but as strategic counsel to many of the brands he has invested in. Under Alex’s leadership, Innovation Department has helped build a number of companies including WineAwesomeness, WellPath, DojoMojo, ReBloom, Cinematique, and Valyrian Media. Alex has also invested in Pinterest, Dropbox, Lyft, ClassPass, Rubicon Global, and Aloha. Alex continues to pursue technology and venture opportunities regularly.
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About DojoMojo, Innovation Department: Innovation Department is a brand studio dedicated to building great companies that will have a long-lasting impact on the way we live.
Andrew Boryk
Co-Founder and CTO of Lunchbox Technologies
Co-founder at Lunchbox Technologies.
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About Lunchbox Technologies, Tapt: Lunchbox Technologies offers digital marketing and ordering solutions for brick and mortar restaurants.
Elias Guerra
Founder & CEO of Popwallet
Elias is the Founder and CEO of Popwallet, a mobile wallet marketing automation platform.
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About Popwallet: Mobile Wallet Marketing Automation and CX
David A. Steinberg
Founder & CEO of Zeta Global
David Steinberg is currently CEO, Chairman and Co-Founder of Zeta Global, a company known for its reputation as a top-tier big data marketing technology company. Previously, as CEO of CAIVIS, Mr. Steinberg acquired several small companies including those with focuses in big data, customer acquisition (programmatic) and CRM, to form XL Marketing (now Zeta Global). Prior to founding CAIVIS, Mr. Steinberg founded InPhonic, the largest seller of wireless phones and communications products and services on the Internet, with annual revenue in excess of $400 million. InPhonic was #1 on Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies in 2004, the year it went public on the NASDAQ. Mr. Steinberg also served as chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Cellular, a business-to-business and retail wireless communications provider, and Sterling Communications, a communications telemarketing company. Mr. Steinberg was named the Greater Washington Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for communications in 2002. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Faster Cures of the Milken Institute, and the Greater Washington Sports Alliance as well as the Board of Trustees of Washington & Jefferson College. Mr. Steinberg holds a B.S. from Washington & Jefferson College.
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About Caivis, Sol systems, Zeta Global: Zeta offers technology and marketing services to help brands acquire, engage, and retain customers.
Steve Stoute
Founder & CEO of UnitedMasters
Steve Stoute has a proven track record of building successful businesses and has garnered significant recognition as one of the most influential brand marketers in the country. As the Chairman of Carol’s Daughter, a Pegasus portfolio company, he has grown the company’s sales by over 15x in under 5 years by expanding distribution and creating marketing partnerships. Mr. Stoute also serves as founder and CEO of Translation LLC, a leading brand marketing firm that creates and executes innovative promotions between Fortune 500 companies and superstar celebrities in music, sports, fashion and entertainment. With a strong focus on the urban and youth markets and multi-cultural consumers, Mr. Stoute and Translation have built programs for Reebok, McDonald’s, Samsung, Procter & Gamble and Target and has worked with celebrities such as Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z and Gwen Stefani. Prior to founding Translation, Mr. Stoute worked with top music artists as an Executive Vice President at Interscope Geffen A&M.
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About Translation LLC, UnitedMasters: UnitedMasters is a technology platform that gives musicians an alternative to exploitative record label deals.
Joe Teplow
Founder of Rebel
Joe Teplow is the founder of Rebel.
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About Good Today, Rebel: Rebel allows users to send interactive emails with no plug-ins required, increasing engagement, conversions, and actions.
Brett Garfinkel
Co-Founder & CEO of SYLO
Brett Garfinkel is a Co-Founder & CEO at SYLO.
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About SYLO: SYLO provides marketers and creators with 3rd-party validation and standardized measurement to confidently invest in influencer marketing.
Erick Schwab
Co-Founder & COO of SYLO
Erick Schwab is the Co-Founder and COO at SYLO.
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About SYLO: SYLO provides marketers and creators with 3rd-party validation and standardized measurement to confidently invest in influencer marketing.
Amish Tolia
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Leap Services
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Brand Innovators Labs & Co-Founder & Principal at Viking Investment Management. Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Leap.
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About Brand Accelerator, Brand Innovators Labs, Leap, Leap Services, Viking Investment Management: Leap develops a retail platform that enables brands to deploy stores and accelerate growth.
Jonathan Daniel
Co-Founder of Crush Music
Jonathan Daniel is a co-founder of CRUSH MUSIC.
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About Crush Music, Crush Ventures: Crush Music is a full-service management company that provides services worldwide.
Bob McLynn
Co-Founder of Crush Music
Bob McLynn is a Co-Founder of Crush Music in New York City.
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About Asbury Park Brewery, Crush Music: Crush Music is a full-service management company that provides services worldwide.
Amber Atherton
CEO & Founder of Zyper
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About Zyper: Zyper is a machine learning-led community marketing software that helps brands connect with their fans, and fans connect with each other.
Ari Buchalter
Founder and CEO of Place Exchange
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About Place Exchange: The First True Programmatic Exchange for Out-of-Home Media
Richard Gottehrer
Founder & Chief Creative Officer of The Orchard
Richard Gottehrer is the Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of The Orchard. Richard began his career in the music industry as a songwriter, penning classics such as “My Boyfriend’s Back” and “I Want Candy” and was an artist in the 1960s pop group, The Strangeloves. In 1966, he co-founded leading independent record label Sire Records with fellow luminary Seymour Stein. Later, Richard went on to make a name as a multi-platinum producer for well-known music acts, including Blondie, The Go-Go’s, The Raveonettes and Joan Armatrading before co-founding The Orchard in 1997. Today, Richard heads Blue Horizon, one of The Orchard’s premier labels, and Instant Records, which was originally founded in the 1970s and revived in 2013 in partnership with long-time business partner and Orchard co-founder Scott Cohen. Through these, Richard supervises recordings of The Black Angels and Dion for Blue Horizon, and Au Revoir Simone, Queen Kwong, Princess Superstar, Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas for Instant Records. He also produces The Dum Dum Girls for Sub Pop and has worked with The Raveonettes since their inception. His motto is, and has always been “Move forward, even in times of adversity. Move forward.”
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About The Orchard, TVT Records: The Orchard is a music distribution, marketing and sales company for artists and labels to distribute content to digital and mobile outlets.
Arie Abecassis
Co-Founder of ICONYC labs
Arie Abecassis is the Co-Founder at ICONYC labs.
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About Dreamit Ventures, ICONYC labs: ICONYC is a value-add investor and accelerator focused on helping early stage Israeli startups cut time to the US market.
Dave Morgan
CEO & Founder & Vice President, Sports Digital News of Simulmedia
Morgan is the CEO and founder of Simulmedia, a New York based marketing technology company that uses data, science and software to drive business outcomes for advertisers through traditional TV marketing. He previously founded and ran both TACODA, Inc., an online advertising company that pioneered behavioral online marketing and was acquired by AOL in 2007 for $275 million, and Real Media, Inc., one of the world’s first ad serving and online ad network companies and a predecessor to 24/7 Real Media (TFSM), which was later sold to WPP for $649 million. After the sale of TACODA, Dave served as Executive Vice President, Global Advertising Strategy, at AOL, a Time Warner Company (TWX).
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About Simulmedia, Sinclair Broadcast Group: Simulmedia is a TV ad platform that enables predictable, scalable customer growth.
Thomas Oxley
CEO & Founder of Synchron
Thomas Oxley is the CEO at Synchron
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About Defence Science and Technology, Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health, Mount Sinai Health System, Synchron, Synchron, University of Melbourne, VascuLab: Synchron is a bioelectronics medicine company that develops neuromodulation solutions for previously-untreatable nervous system conditions.
Mike Seiman
CEO and Founder of CPXi
Mike Seiman is the CEO & Chairman of CPXi, a global digital media company that he co-founded while still a college student at Hofstra University in the early 2000′s. The company has grown quickly and is now a major player within the crowded online advertising landscape, serving billions of ad impressions in more than 65 countries every day. CPXi continues the rapid growth that led to its inclusion on Inc. Magazine’s list of fastest growing privately held advertising/marketing companies in 2008 and 2009. Mike was selected as a semi-finalist in Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year initiative in 2009, 2010, and 2013. In his free time, Mike currently serves on the Board of Advisors of his alma mater, Hofstra University. He also focuses on numerous philanthropic initiatives including sitting on the boards of the H.E.S. (Hebrew Educational Society non-profit community center) and Children’s International, where he spearheaded the development of a community center in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Also a fan of the arts, Mike has executive produced a feature length film distributed by Lionsgate.
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About CPXi, Digital Remedy: CPXI is a company that offers state of the art design in technology marketing resources to businesses of all kinds.
Ishveen Anand
Founder & CEO of OpenSponsorship
Ishveen Anand is the founder and CEO OpenSponsorship. The startup was born out of her experience as a successful sports agent in India and the UK. OpenSponsorship now has over 2000 athletes, teams and events being managed to brands globally looking for sports marketing opportunities. Ishveen was included in the Forbes 30under30 sports list in 2015 and OpenSponsorship was named a finalist in the 2015 Sports Technology Awards, category of best technology facilitating commercial returns. She graduated from Oxford University. She is of Indian-British origin, now living in New York where OpenSponsorship is based.
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About Nimbus Communications, OpenSponsorship: OpenSponsorship is online platform solely focused on allowing brands to Search, Connect and Sponsor opportunities within professional sports
Adam Singolda
Founder & CEO of Taboola
Adam Singolda is the founder and CEO at Taboola, the largest discovery platform, serving over 450 billion recommendations of articles, blogs, videos, products and apps to over 1.4 billion unique users every month. Taboola serves personalized content recommendations, partnering with the world’s top publishers, brands, and marketers to drive audience development, engagement, and monetization. Taboola also empowers editorial, product, and sales teams with solutions built around real-time page optimization, robust native advertising offerings, and more. Adam has spoken on stage at TEDx, Collision, Kaltura Connect, Business Insider’s IGNITION, ClickZ LIVE, Advertising Week, 360i Marketing Summit, Web Summit, Landmark Ventures Media Technology Summit, Streaming Media, NAB, NewTeeVee, ELEVATE, Meetup, and MIT (Sloan). He has also appeared in broadcast TV interviews on Bloomberg West, CNBC, and Fox Business.
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About Taboola: Taboola is an AI-powered content discovery platform that connects people with content on the web that suits their interests.
Ben Parr
Co-Founder and President of Octane AI
Ben Parr is a journalist, author, entrepreneur, investor, and expert on attention. Through his experience as a technology writer, venture capitalist, and prolific public speaker, Parr has coached dozens of young startups and Fortune 500 corporations on how to get attention for their products. Parr is a co-founder and managing partner of DominateFund, a venture capital firm that invests in and accelerates the growth of early-stage technology, software, and product startups through its expertise in the press, marketing, customer and user acquisition, viral products, and strategic celebrity partnerships. Previously, Parr was the co-editor and editor-at-Large of Mashable, where he wrote more than 2,400 articles on social media and technology, managed Mashable’s editorial team, and interviewed everyone from Ashton Kutcher to Mark Zuckerberg. He also served as a columnist and commentator for CNET. His work has been featured in a variety of media, including CNBC, CNN, Fox News.
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About DominateFund, Octane AI: Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.
Adam R. Gerchen
Co-Founder of Heyday
Prior to its acquisition by Burford, Mr. Gerchen co-founded and was CEO of Gerchen Keller Capital, which grew to $1.3 billion in assets under management in three years. Before co-founding Gerchen Keller, Mr. Gerchen was a portfolio manager at Alyeska Investment Group, a Chicago-based market neutral hedge fund, where he specialized in risk arbitrage and event driven investing. He has also worked as an investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Company in the Industrials and Natural Resources Groups, focusing primarily on the transportation, metals and mining, paper and forest products, and regulated power industries. Mr. Gerchen graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Brown University and received his JD from Harvard Law School, where he was President of the Harvard Association of Law and Business.
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About Burford Capital, Heyday: Heyday offers a digital marketplace space built for sellers to accelerate consumer product brands.
Ronn Torossian
CEO and Founder of 5W Public Relations
Ronn Torossian is the founder and CEO of 5W Public Relations, one of the largest independently-owned PR firms in the United States. With over 20 years of experience crafting and executing powerful narratives, Torossian is one of America’s most prolific and well-respected Public Relations professionals. Since founding 5WPR in 2003, he has led the company’s growth, overseeing more than 200 professionals in the company’s headquarters in midtown Manhattan. With clients spanning corporate, technology, consumer and crisis, in addition to digital marketing and public affairs capabilities, 5WPR is regularly recognized as an industry leader and has been named “PR Agency of the Year” by the American Business Awards on multiple occasions. Throughout his career, Torossian has worked with some of the world’s most visible companies, brands and organizations. His strategic, resourceful approach has been recognized with numerous awards including being named the Stevie American Business Awards 2020 Entrepreneur of the Year, the American Business Awards PR Executive of the Year, twice over, an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year semi-finalist, Metropolitan Magazine’s Most Influential New Yorker, a 2020 Top Crisis Communications Professional by Business Insider, and a recipient of Crain’s New York 2021 Most Notable in Marketing & PR. Torossian is known as one of the country’s foremost experts on crisis communications, and is called on to counsel blue chip companies, top business executives and entrepreneurs both in the United States and worldwide. Torossian has lectured on crisis PR at Harvard Business School, appears regularly on CNN & CNBC, is a contributing columnist for Forbes and the New York Observer, and has authored two editions of his book, “For Immediate Release: Shape Minds, Build Brands, and Deliver Results With Game-Changing Public Relations,” which is an industry best-seller. A NYC native, Torossian lives in Manhattan with his children. He is a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO), and active in numerous charities.
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About 5W Public Relations, JetSmarter: 5WPR, a Public Relations and Communications Firm, specializes in public affairs, government relations & PR on B2C, & B2B market segments.
Ben Barokas
CEO & Founder of Sourcepoint
Prior to founding AdMeld, Mr. Barokas was Vice President of Advertising for JumpTV. He also spent 6 years at AOL in a variety of online advertising leadership positions including senior manager on the team that developed and launched the AOL video platform. Mr. Barokas served on the IAB’s Broadband Committee.
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About Sourcepoint: Sourcepoint is the data privacy software company for the digital marketing ecosystem.
Michael Heller
CEO and Founder of Talent Resources
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About Talent Resources, Talent Resources: Talent Resources is a social media marketing agency that specializes in connecting brands with top-tier celebrities and influencers.
Lampros Kalampoukas
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Alphonso
Lampros Kalampoukas is the Co-Founder of Alphonso.
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About Alphonso, Lucent: Alphonso is a software company that offers TV data and measurement services for brands and agencies.
Jared Augustine
CEO & Co-Founder of Thuzio
Jared is the CEO and Co-Founder of Thuzio, and the Founder of Julius.
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About Julius, Thuzio: Thuzio is a client entertainment platform for b-to-b sales organizations and professionals.
Tink Taylor
Chief Operating Officer, Founder, and President of dotmailer Group
Tink Taylor is COO, Founder, and President of dotMailer and dotDigital Group and has been pivotal in the development of digital marketing since its outset in both the UK and now the US.Serving as a key and influential member of the UK DMA’s Email Council and also the IAB since 2006, Tink’s been judging the Email, Mobile and Agency categories at the UK DMA’s awards for over half a decade. Now chair of the email marketing category, he is constantly striving to help individual organizations, and the industry as a whole to develop and progress.
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About dotAgency, dotmailer Group: dotmailer Group provides digital marketing professionals with SaaS technology solutions and tools, and offers an email marketing platform.
Ragy Thomas
Founder & CEO of Sprinklr
Ragy Thomas is the CEO and founder of Sprinklr, a provider of enterprise software for customer experience management. Sprinklr was last valued at more than $1.8 billion in 2016. He founded Sprinklr in 2009, and the company now has 1900 employees around the world serving global clients such as Microsoft and McDonald’s. Prior to founding Sprinklr, Ragy was the president of Epsilon’s (NYSE:ADS) Interactive Services from 2006 to 2008, and the CTO of Bigfoot Interactive, an email marketing leader that Epsilon acquired in 2005. Ragy earned his M.B.A. in Finance and Information Systems from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and his Computer Science Engineering degree from Pondicherry University in India.
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About Sprinklr, Sprinklr Japan: Sprinklr provides enterprise software for customer experience management.
Josh Backer
Co Founder – President, Advertising & SVP Operations of Unified
Founded Social Suitcase in 2009 – Boutique business development and sales consulting firm specializing in social media monetization products and brand advertising. – Sold to TrafficMarketplace in March 2010 Founded DankApps in 2008 – Bay Partners funded social network application company – Donated thousands of dollars to cause based charities through the “Social Change” brand of applications Founded Teach the People in 2007 – TechCrunch40 company – fbFund grantee Emory University, Atlanta GA – Graduate Instructor, Dept. of Comparative Literature “Sick Lit.: Literature and Discourses of Illness and Disease” The Padeia School, Atlanta GA – Part-time Faculty “Pollack to Smithson: Modern and Contemporary American and European art from 1935-1975” “Art and Politics in the 20th Century”
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About Unified: Unified equips marketers with information and intelligence they need to make the best decisions about their social advertising investments.
Jason Beckerman
Co-Founder of Unified
Jason oversees all product, technology, and organizational strategy at Unified. Prior to co-founding Unified, Jason was co-founder and CEO of Social Suitcase, an innovator in the brand engagement space that was acquired by Connexus. He has held executive roles at a number of social media companies, including his tenure as co-founder and CEO of Teach The People, a Facebook Fund Grant Company and a TechCrunch 40 Finalist. Jason’s experience also extends to financial services and enterprise software, including positions at Merrill Lynch, Siebel, and Salesforce.com. At Salesforce.com he managed the release process for the largest on-demand CRM rollout in the history of the cloud at the time. Jason received a BS in Entrepreneurship and Information Systems from Quinnipiac University and a Masters in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University.
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About Unified, Unified: Unified equips marketers with information and intelligence they need to make the best decisions about their social advertising investments.
Barak Feldman
Co-Founder of eko
Barak Feldman is Co-Founder at Eko.
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About eko: eko is media and technology company pioneering a new medium in which stories told in live action video are shaped by viewers as they unfold.
Tal Zubalsky
Co-Founder & CPO of eko
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Eko, Tal brings his expertise and experience in interactivity, technology, design and music to make the vision a reality. Prior to starting Eko Tal served as a founding partner at 2 tech startups, oversaw design and development of numerous international web projects, and served on the creative team at McCann-Erickson.
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About eko: eko is media and technology company pioneering a new medium in which stories told in live action video are shaped by viewers as they unfold.
Arjun Rai
Founder + CEO of Woofy, Inc.
ON A MISSION TO SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES WITH THE POWER OF VISUALIZED DATA SCIENCE FOR DIGITAL MARKETING AT HELLOWOOFY.COM AND WOOFY.AI. Arjun is a New York City based entrepreneur originally from West Windsor, New Jersey (aka Princeton Junction). Since high school, Arjun has been networking with some of the most well known entrepreneurs and even worked on a few projects and startups of his own. Upon graduation, Arjun pursued his career opportunities and came to New York City where he enrolled at the New York Institute of Technology in 2011 with scholarships and grants. Following a few weeks into college, Arjun launched his second startup, fuelbrite.com, a social media agency focused on small businesses and startups, and a student-focused organization, TheBizDen. After interning at a PR and ad agency in the summer of 2012, Arjun quickly saw the need for yet another startup within the tech space and raised a seed investment round to build it out. That startup became Wrkbench.io which was a virtual collaboration space designed for creative and visual people (we liked to say we make visual conversations). After spending a few years and learning the ins and outs of running a venture backed startup, Rai set out to modernize another industry related to his former passion of social media. The startup would be known as Woofy which is a social media management driven by artificial intelligence to help small to medium sized businesses with digital marketing. Arjun currently lives in New York City with his girlfriend, two cats and a dog. Arjun went to the NYIT School of Management (majoring in Small Business and Entrepreneurship). He also holds several notable awards and is a member of the Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society and Golden Key International Honour Society. Professionally, Arjun is also a member of The One Club, The Art Directors Club, The Advertising Club of NY, Social Media Marketing Society and the IVY Connect Club.
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About Woofy, Inc., wrkbench.io: Woofy is an online social media marketing platform.
Sal Hakimi
Co-Founder of Tenovos
Sal Hakimi is the Co-Founder at Tenovos.
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About Tenovos: Tenovos transforms the way brands connect with customers using stories that inform, inspire, connect, and entertain.
Rob Fishman
Co-Founder of Brat
Rob Fishman is co-founder of Niche and a BuzzFeed contributing editor. He formerly worked at Kingfish Labs and Huffington Post. Rob formerly led social media for The Huffington Post and Aol. His previous company, Kingfish Labs, was acquired in 2012 by BuzzFeed, for which he is now a contributing editor. He holds degrees from Cornell and Columbia University.
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About Brat, Yoke: Brat is a teen-leaning digital production company.
Osman Khan
Co-Founder of Squared Circles
Osman Khan is the Co-Founder of Squared Circles.
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About Squared Circles: Squared Circles is a venture studio that focuses on operations, branding, capital, and talent.
Vickie Segar
Founder & President of Village Marketing
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About Olive Lane, Teddy & Bear, Village Made, Village Marketing, Village Studio: Village Marketing is a creative influencer marketing agency
Tom Florio
Founder / CEO of ENTtech
Tom Florio has spent his career in the entertainment and media industries becoming known as an innovative digital powerhouse. He began his foray into these two sectors initially with print media and thereafter evolving in cohesion with the realms digital media world. Some of the roles he has held include: President of The New Yorker (1994), Senior Vice President Publishing Director of Vogue Magazine (2002-2005) and Publishing Director of Vogue Magazine, Teen Vogue, Bon Appetite and Condé Taste Traveler (2009-2010). As the media world became increasingly digitized, Florio guided magazines like GQ, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair to an increase in both circulation and earnings. Indeed, under his direction at Condé Nast Florio was quickly catapulted into the fashion industry’s highest level. In 2014 he became CEO of Advanstar Fashion Group (a platform with 50+ trade magazines offering media and marketing solutions for the fashion, licensing, life sciences, and powersports sectors). While at the helm, the firm founded Shopthefloor.com which became the fashion world’s most substantive business network, with digital access to showrooms and offering top e-commerce functionality to producer. Florioalso led America’s largest apparel trade show (Magic) to acquiesce 7000 participating brands completing approximately $600 million dollars of business during the three-day conventions. In 2017 Florio founded ENTtech Media Group LLC where he is CEO. This entertainment-tech firm develops web- based written and video content, circulating it to large audiences via social architecture. PAPER media – its signature brand – is an invaluable avenue into wide ranging niches within the popular culture industry, such as: art, fashion, film, music and nightlife. PAPER media has thus become a solid structure with the capacity to support ENTtech’s broad media platform.
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About ENTtech: ENTtech is an entertainment technology ecosystem that delivers a shareable entertainment to a diversed group of audiences.
Seth Besmertnik
Founder & CEO of Conductor
Since founding Conductor, Seth Besmertnik has led the company through multiple financing rounds and extraordinary growth, including Conductor’s successful spin out from WeWork in 2019. Conductor has been nationally recognized as a best place to work for 7 years running, and Seth was named Marketing Technology CEO of the year in 2019. Today, a growing list of the world’s greatest brands, like Citibank, SAP, and CVS, partner with Conductor to humanize marketing and deliver greater value to their customers. Seth speaks at industry events and universities as an expert in customer-first marketing, people-first culture, and entrepreneurship. You can watch his most recent keynote here, follow him on Twitter, or get to know him better on Instagram. You can read his point of view on a variety of topics here, including this post on modern leadership.
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About Conductor: Conductor is a content intelligence platform that enables marketers to create great content, drive qualified traffic, and increase ROI.
Willard Ahdritz
Founder & CEO of Kobalt
Willard Ahdritz is the Founder and CEO of Kobalt, the world’s fastest growing independent music publishing and technology company. As a young Swedish tech entrepreneur in the late 90s, Willard watched the decline of the music industry with a vision for the critical role that technology could play in creating a more efficient, fair and transparent music industry. While most technology companies focused on digital music offerings for consumers, Willard believed that technology could also better serve content creators and copyright owners. Determined to find a solution, Willard founded Kobalt in 2000, focused on developing technology that provides artists, songwriters and copyright owners with the best service globally. Within a decade, Willard and his team grew Kobalt into the world’s largest independent music services company, with over 275 employees in offices around the world. Kobalt now represents over 600,000 songs, 8,000 artists and songwriters and 500 publishing companies worldwide, providing them with global licensing management, works and rights distribution, royalty collection and processing, online data and royalty statements, creative services, synch & brand partnerships, record release management and digital marketing.
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About Kobalt, Kobalt Capital Limited (KCL): Kobalt is a music services company that offers alternative to traditional music business models.
Adam Fields
Chief Architect & Co-Founder of Graphika
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About Graphika: Graphika identifies social communities and influencers within them, mapping spheres of influence on topics & content you care about most.
Barak Shragai
Co-Founder & CEO of IMGN Media
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About IMGN Media: IMGN is a tech-media company specialized in producing and programming social content for Gen Z audiences.
Rayhan Rumman
Founder of EVENTSA
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About EVENTSA, ZURI: Where experiential brand activations happen.
Nick Shiftan
Co-Founder & CTO of Curalate
Nick Shiftan is Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer and Director at Curalate.
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About Curalate: Curalate optimizes digital commerce for discovery.
Joshua Abram
Co-Founder of Dstillery
Joshua Abram is the Co-Founder of Dstillery, Integral Ad Science, and NeueHouse. He is also the Founder & Co-CEO at TMRW Life Sciences, Inc. and Co-Founder, Partner at Coriolis Ventures.
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About Coriolis Ventures, Dstillery, Integral Ad Science, NeueHouse, TMRW Life Sciences: Dstillery is the leading custom audience solutions company, empowering brands and their agencies to maximize the value of customer data.
Michael Katz
Co-Founder and CEO of mParticle
Michael Katz is Founder of mParticle, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Director. Michael Katz is responsible for creating and overseeing the execution of mParticle’s vision of becoming the premier mobile data solution. Michael Katz served as Vice President of Optimization & Analytics at Yahoo where he came via the acquisition of interclick, the company he founded. As former CEO & co-founder of interclick, Michael led the business as it grew organically to $140M in revenue, while expanding gross margin % and EBITDA before its sale to Yahoo for $270 million in 2011. He was also responsible for building and maintaining analyst, auditor, and investor relationships. Prior, he was an Analyst at Accenture and ZEFER.
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About mParticle: MParticle is a customer data platform for multi channel consumer brands.
Jonah Goodhart
Co-Founder of Montauk Labs
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About Montauk Labs, WGI Group: Montauk Labs is an entrepreneurial venture for exploring new and impactful ideas and technologies.
Yasin Abbak
CEO / Founder of The Convoy
Yasin Abbak is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Convoy, a B2B group buying marketplace that helps small and independent businesses access big savings and cut their business expenses. Past: CEO / Founder @FantasyLifeApp (exit), VP @JPMorgan, EFS Director @MorganStanley
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About The Convoy: The Convoy is a B2B Marketplace pooling the buying power of small & independently owned businesses to reduce business expenses.
Will Cohen
Founder and CEO of Top
An industry recognized, innovative business executive with extensive experience in digital, monetization, shopper marketing, retail advertising, product development; including a heavy focus on mobile and social media.
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About HuffPost, Top: Top is a multi-channel engagement platform for brands, giving them the chance to collect privacy-compliant data without the use of cookies.
Alanna Gregory
Managing Partner & Founder of Constellation
Prior to founding Constellation, Alanna Gregory was the founder and CEO of Vive, a YC-backed technology company with the mission of giving all busy women a faster, easier and more convenient way to maintain great-looking hair. Alanna has led product and growth consulting engagements and coached product and growth teams for venture-backed startups and Fortune 500 companies across NY, SF, LA and Europe. Alanna holds a degree in Operations Research Engineering from Princeton University and, following graduation, worked in Thailand as a consultant where she founded Thailand’s first V-Day campaign.
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About Constellation: Constellation builds products that connect with audiences and implement processes for sustained growth.
Divya Narendra
CEO & Founder of SumZero
Divya Narendra is the CEO & Co – Founder of SumZero. Before founding SumZero, Divya was an Associate at Sowood Capital Management, a $3.5B multi-strategy hedge fund located in Boston, MA. At Sowood, Divya analyzed investment opportunities across the capital structure. Prior to this, he was an analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Credit Suisse Securities in NYC. Divya graduated from Harvard College in 2004 with a Degree in Applied Mathematics. He received a J.D. / MBA from Northwestern.
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About SumZero: SumZero is an investment website helping top tier investors share actionable ideas and grow their professional networks.
Scott Young
Co-Founder/ Chief Product Officer of Transmit.Live
Scott Young is Co-founder of Transmit.Live. A veteran of the digital video technology space, Scott has built and contributed to the growth of tech startups from seed stage to IPO and exit.
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About Pitchmob, Transmit.Live: The first ever live video marketplace for large scale broadcasters and advertisers.
Duke Barnett
Co-Founder & President of Transmit.Live
Duke Barnett is the Co-Founder and President of Transmit.Live.
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About Transmit.Live: The first ever live video marketplace for large scale broadcasters and advertisers.
Jeremy Parker
Co-Founder & CEO of Swag.com
Jeremy Parker is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Swag.com.
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About Swag.com: Swag.com helps companies create quality promotional products that people will actually want to keep.
Joshua Orbach
Co-Founder of Swag.com
Joshua Orbach is a Co-Founder at Swag.com.
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About Swag.com: Swag.com helps companies create quality promotional products that people will actually want to keep.
Zack Werner
Co Founder & CEO of Pollen
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About Pollen: Pollen helps small online retailers acquire new users more cheaply and easily than Google or Facebook.
Harm Lyall
Co-Founder and CTO of Pollen
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About Pollen: Pollen helps small online retailers acquire new users more cheaply and easily than Google or Facebook.
Lorne Michaels
Executive Producer & Founder of Broadway Video
Lorne Michaels is an Emmy-Award winning producer and writer, best known as the creator and executive producer of Saturday Night Live. Michaels is also executive producer of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Portlandia, 30 Rock, and other award-winning television shows and films. Michaels’ motion picture credits as a producer include Mean Girls, Wayne’s World, Tommy Boy, and Three Amigos (which he produced and co-wrote with Steve Martin and Randy Newman). His most recent film is 2012’s The Guilt Trip, starring Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen.
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About Broadway Video, Broadway Video Ventures: Broadway Video has grown into an independent studio that produces and distributes original comedic content for every platform.
Alon Alroy
Co-Founder & Chief of Customers & Strategy Officer of Bizzabo
Alon Alroy is Bizzabo’s Chief of Marketing and Customer Success
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About Bizzabo: Bizzabo powers in-person, virtual, & hybrid experiences with the Event Experience OS, an open platform for Event Experience Leaders.
Kobi Wu
CEO & Founder of VisuWall
Kobi Wu Pasmore is the Founder and CEO of VisuWall Technologies.
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About VisuWall: Eye level media and metrics that matter in just a few clicks.
Boris Abaev
Co-Founder of Bidease
Co-Founder @bidease Investment advisor @betastagecapital Board member @rocket10 Father of 3 and an Entrepreneur, Angel investor – Love Startups and building them!
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About Bidease, Cashsquare, Rocket10: Bidease is a mobile DSP that provides advertisers with access to the entire mobile ecosystem through mobile publishers and exchanges.
Nitay Joffe
Founder & CTO of ActionIQ
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About ActionIQ: ActionIQ is a purpose-built enterprise Customer Data Platform solving complex data problems: flow and scale, analytics, and orchestration.
David Steifman
Founder of Energize Marketing
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About Energize Marketing: Energize Marketing provides digital marketing services and innovative solutions to businesses.
Reuven Moskowitz
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Litify
Reuven Moskowitz is the Founder of Litify.
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About Litify: Litify provides technology solutions for law firms by providing a trusted intelligent platform for practice management.
Yali Saar
Co-Founder & CEO of Tailor Brands
Yali Saar is the Co-Founder & CEO of Tailor Brands.
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About Tailor Brands: Tailor Brands is a branding platform that enables users to freely design and create their product logos.
Polina Veksler
Co-Founder and CEO of Universal Standard
Polina Veksler is the Co-Founder and CEO of Universal Standard, a brand she started with her business partner to help disrupt the apparel industry by taking size out of the equation and laying the groundwork for the future of fashion to include women of all sizes. Polina creates and steers the company strategy and oversees everything from operations, communicating the brand’s vision to key stakeholders, raising investment capital, and expanding the brand’s rapid growth trajectory. Polina founded the company with friend, Co-Founder and Creative Director, Alexandra Waldman. Polina’s experience encompases multiple roles as a senior executive at major financial and technology firms including Senior Strategy Manager at Microsoft, Private Equity Investment Director at an international emerging-markets investment firm, and Vice President of Investment Banking at Russia’s largest holding company.
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About Universal Standard: Universal Standard is a operator of an online platform to break the fashion stereotypes and provide women’s clothing.
Alexandra Waldman
Co-Founder & Creative Director of Universal Standard
Alexandra Waldman, is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Universal Standard.
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About Universal Standard: Universal Standard is a operator of an online platform to break the fashion stereotypes and provide women’s clothing.
Brandon Perlman
Founder of Social Studies, Inc.
Brandon Perlman is a content-focused marketing strategist and entrepreneur in New York’s burgeoning startup scene. He is currently the CEO and Founder of Social Studies, Inc. Previously, he was the Director of Marketing Strategy for Hearst Digital Media where he focused on innovation in the digital publishing field. Prior to that he was the Digital Director for DEPARTURES magazine, where he developed the online business for Departures.com centered around luxury travel and lifestyle. Brandon began his career at American Express and holds a B.A. in Electronic Media from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
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About Social Studies, Inc., StyleCaster: The influencer agency and micro-influencer marketing technology for next-generation digital marketers.
Ashley Granata
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member of The Archivist
Ashley Granata is the CoFounder and Chief Marketing Officer of Fashism.com, the place to crowd source instant fashion advice from a mobile device. Ashley heads up all Business Development and Retail Partnerships at Fashism. She has studied at Chelsea College of Art in London and holds a BFA from FIT in New York. She started her career at Bloomingdales.com, launched the Style.com iPhone application, designs a line of accessories (Ashley Jeanne) and is currently the CMO of Fashism.com.
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About The Archivist: The Archivist provides an e-commerce platform intended to sell, rent or buy pre-owned, archive, and vintage fashion and jewelry.
Robert Herrick
CEO & Founder of VISUALHOUSE
Robert Herrick, started his career as an Architect, working for a highly regarded practice in London. From there Robert focused his career to Architectural Visualisation, working for an established architectural illustration studio. In 2006 Robert started his first business, Visualhouse. Then an architectural visualisation studio, working closely with renowned practices in London, New York and the Middle East. Robert grew the business and in 2008 securing a series of major international project contracts including the largest development in US history, Hudson Yards, New York. In 2011 Robert moved to New York establishing the firm’s first US office and continued to grow the business acting as Managing Director. Over the following 4 years Robert and the VH team grew the business into a full “Creative Ideas” agency with 5 international offices operating in London, New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Hong Kong. Visualhouse had established commercial film, rendering, creative and branding divisions, with creatives producing 360 degree campaigns for the luxury property sector. Over the past 7 years Robert has built renowned visual brand stories for landmark buildings and iconic designers such as Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Kohn Pedersen Fox, Daniel Libeskind, Rafael Vinoly, Thomas Heatherwick and many more. In 2013 Robert established the Thompson House Group along with a small group of tastemakers and collaborators in New York. With the core focus of delivering exceptional private member experiences across a growing group of international House’s, Workspaces, Restaurants and Hotels. Today Robert holds the position of CEO & Founder of Visualhouse internationally and the Thompson House Group.
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About : Visualhouse is a creative agency focused on creating compelling brand stories for architecture, design, and the built environment.
Nick Slavin
President and Co-Founder of Curacity
Nick Slavin, Co-Founder and President has a background in real estate and hospitality private equity. Curacity launched in 2015 and is headquartered in Stanford, CT and New York City.
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About Curacity: Curacity is a data analytics company focused on the travel sector.
Josh Reznick
Founder & CEO of Datalot
Josh Reznick has been a communications software developer since childhood and has been helping shape how businesses connect with customers for the past two decades. In 2009, Josh founded Datalot with the goal of creating a unified platform merging digital advertising with phone-based sales processes. Josh is a lifelong resident of Brooklyn, NY
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About Datalot: Datalot delivers digital marketing and analytics solutions for insurance policy sales at scale.
Jojo Hedaya
CEO/Founder of Unroll Me
Jojo Hedaya is the co-founder and CEO of Unroll.Me. His passion for simplicity drives Unroll.Me’s mission to streamline the email unsubscribe process and help users gain control over their inbox. Under his leadership as the head of development, Unroll.Me has gained millions of users in the past five years.
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About Unroll Me: Unroll.Me is an email subscription management service helping users manage their junk email and subscriptions.
Jason Bitensky
CEO & Founder of YW3
Jason Bitensky is the CEO and Founder of YW3.
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About Influential, Jubilee Media, Little Dot Studios, LIVEKINDLY, Upworthy, YW3: YW3 is a marketing firm and revenue accelerator for media and entertainment brands.
Joe Zawadzki
Co-Founder & CEO of MediaMath
MediaMath CEO Joe Zawadzki is a respected pioneer in the online marketing industry, known especially for establishing the demand-side platform sector. With his deep experience in audience targeting and optimization, ad networks and exchanges, and real-time bidding Joe is regularly invited to speak at industry conferences, roundtables and major events. After a decade representing buyers at top-tier agencies and Fortune 500 companies, Joe Zawadzki saw the need to reshape the online marketing landscape by integrating technology, data, analytics, and marketing best practices into a single media platform. He founded MediaMath in 2007, launching a technological revolution with the first demand side platform (DSP) and today, the MediaMath Marketing Operating System, TerminalOne, powers the marketing practice of more than 3,500 brands. Previously, Joe was founder, president and chairman of Poindexter Systems / [x+1], incubated Right Media, and as managing member of Occam’s Razor, shaped AOL’s yield management and DoubleClick’s buy-side optimization strategy. His early career was spent as an investment banker, where he developed his expertise in quantitative analysis and market dynamics, and he remains an active New York technology investor whose portfolio includes AppNexus, AdSafe, 33Across, C3Metrics, Hashable, Accordant and Spruce Media. Joe holds several patents in the area of online methods for dynamic segmentation and content presentation. He is a graduate of Harvard University and was a Teaching Fellow in cosmology, set theory and the history of science. He lives in New York City with his wife, Daria, and their children Dune and Jack, born on the summer and winter solstices respectively.
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About MediaMath: MediaMath develops and delivers digital advertising media and data management technology solutions to advertisers worldwide.
Ryan Urban
CEO & Founder of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
Ryan Urban is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bounce Exchange, Inc the leader in behavioral automation software and analytics. In 2015 he was named an EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. In the same year, under his leadership, Bounce Exchange was ranked number one overall for both employee retention and career development by ComputerWorld, named one of the best places to work in NYC by Crain’s New York and honored as one of Fortune’s top three best places to work. Ryan was formerly Director of Acquisition at Bonobos and prior to that, Brickhouse Security. He has served on the advisory boards of both BabyAge.com and Bonobos. He holds an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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About Wunderkind (formerly BounceX): Wunderkind enables the world’s top brands to better recognize their customers online, providing 1-to-1 marketing at scale.
Andreas Spartalis
Executive Conversion Director & Co-Founder of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
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About Wunderkind (formerly BounceX): Wunderkind enables the world’s top brands to better recognize their customers online, providing 1-to-1 marketing at scale.
Jason Davis
Co-Founder, CEO of Simon Data
Jason Davis is co-founder & CEO at Simon Data.
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About CmomGO, Simon Data, Simon Data: Simon is the enterprise customer data platform that empowers brands to deliver data-driven, personalized customer experiences everywhere.
Matteo Petrelli
Co-Founder & CEO of Exeest
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About Exeest, Vicker: Exeest is a B2B digital market for premium Film, TV, and digital content that provides an integrated experience from discovery to delivery.
Bhargav Patel
Co-Founder/CEO of IQM Corporation
Bhargav Patel is a strategic and technical visionary who leads the product roadmap and marketplace vision for IQM. His primary focus is on mobile infrastructure, advertising trends, and consumer needs. Patel has been building advertising and publishing platforms since 2010, and he’s been involved with multiple startups, one of which earned him first place in the “1176 Challenge Cup” among 64,000 start-up companies sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Toledo University in Ohio.
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About Genuin Inc, IQM Corporation: Leveraging AI and Big Data to Nudge Swing Voters toward active decisions on election.
Kris Qiu
Co-Founder/COO of IQM Corporation
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About IQM Corporation: Leveraging AI and Big Data to Nudge Swing Voters toward active decisions on election.
Glenn Houck
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of LeadQual
Glenn Houck is Co-Founder of LQ Digital. Founded in 2006, LQ Digital has grown to become one of the largest independent Digital Advertising agencies in the U.S. Glenn previously served as Senior Vice President at HomeGain.com, with direct responsibility for sales, marketing, product development and information technology. HomeGain.com was acquired in 2005 by Classified Ventures. In addition, Glenn has served on the board of directors of Laurel House, in Stamford, CT, and currently, serves on the board of directors of Inman News. Glenn holds an MBA from Sacred Heart University and a BA degree in Economics from the University of Virginia.
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About LeadQual, MyVictory Wellness, Sacred Heart University: LeadQual is a full service digital marketing, lead generation, and qualification agency.
Mae Karwowski
CEO, Founder of Obviously
Mae is the CEO and Founder of Obviously, the influencer platform for the world’s iconic brands. Mae has grown this company from a one person start up to a 15 person, global company with a brand roster that includes many Fortune 500 companies. Obviously specializes in building custom networks of influencers for brands, specifically large scale global communities of hundreds to thousands of influencers with the right target audiences. Working with the best brands out there, we build relationships with the influencers that embody their ethos while moving their businesses forward. Before Starting Obviously, Mae ran social media for Gilt City, part of Gilt Groupe. Previous to that she ran social media for Bravo, Coca Cola and UGG with the ad agency 360i. She enjoys playing tennis, snowboarding, corgi .gifs and talking tech and entrepreneurship 24/7.
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About Obviously: Obviously builds and manages influencer networks for the world’s iconic brands.
Rick O’Toole
Co-Founder & CTO of Rockerbox
As CTO, Rick directs the company’s product and technology vision. Most recently, Rick led integrations at AppNexus for companies such as Facebook and Yahoo in addition to being a founding data science engineer in AppNexus’ Marketplace-Analytics group. Rick holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Economics from Harvey Mudd College.
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About Rockerbox: Marketing Measurement for DTC Brands
Udayan Bose
Founder & CEO of NetElixir
Udayan Bose founded NetElixir with a vision to provide online marketers worldwide with a paid search campaign optimization solution capable of delivering magical performance. Udayan recognized the potential of paid search as an essential advertising channel in 2002. Having experienced first hand the complexity involved in running a profitable paid search campaign, he was driven to develop a system that delivers predictable and efficient campaign performance, allowing marketers to fully leverage the power of paid search as a high value sales generator. Prior to starting NetElixir, Udayan was Director of Business Development for iGlobalMedia/PartyGaming, the world’s largest online gaming company. In this role he was responsible for building a new business unit, PartyBingo, that became a major revenue generator for the company. Udayan is a regular speaker at leading industry conferences like Internet Retailer Conference (US), Internet Retailing Conference (UK), eTail and Search Engine Strategies Conferences (US and Germany). He is a guest lecturer at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management; Zicklin School of Business, Baruch, NY and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Udayan holds a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and an M.B.A. from Mumbai University, India.
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About NetElixir: We specialize in SEM. Fanatically analytical. Search advertising mavens. Technology builders. Friendly experts.
Meghan Asha
Founder & CEO of FounderMade
Meghan Asha is the CEO of FounderMade, a platform and conference series that connects best-in-class consumer brands to retailers, distributors and investors. Under her leadership, FounderMade has partnered with innovative brands including Estee Lauder, RXBar, BulletProof Coffee, Vital Proteins, Target and Starbucks. Inspired by her entrepreneur father, Meghan has always had a passion for building and empowering companies. Over her career, she’s experienced entrepreneurship from every angle: She’s worked as an analyst for a venture capital firm, interviewed leaders of technology companies for a weekly internet talk show, and built her own digital media platform. With the firm belief that entrepreneurs need support and connection, she began bringing together business contacts from those earlier jobs as part of an intimate dinner series — which eventually evolved into FounderMade. When she’s not helping consumer brands thrive, you can often catch Meghan on national TV shows like CNN, The Today Show, Fox Business News and QVC. She has also been profiled and quoted as an expert and entrepreneur in business publications like the New York Times, Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine. Meghan currently serves as an advisor and investor in several consumer product and technology startups and is a partner at FounderMade Fund. She received her BS from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Columbia Business School. FounderMade + Meghan Asha has been granted numerous awards and accolades, including: Alive Magazine’s Most Powerful Women in Wellness Featured Entrepreneur in Gary Vaynerchuk + PureWow’s Captain Crush It Campaign Tory Burch’s #EmbraceAmbition Entrepreneur Inc. Magazine “The Death of the Tradeshow” WWD “Beauty Companies Mingle with Potential Investors at Foundermade Event” ELLE “How This Fitness Studio Led by Ex-Cons Ended Up in Saks” AlleyWatch “The Founder Stories You Need to Know From FounderMade” Speaking Experience Keynote Speaker: Impact Travel Alliance SXSW The Marquee Exponent Exchange
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About FounderMade: FounderMade is a consumer discovery platform and event summit series dedicated to helping current and future founders build their business.
James Slezak
CEO and Co-Founder of Swayable
James Slezak is Co-Founder and CEO of [Swayable](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/swayable). He was previously Vice President and Chief of Operations of NYT Global at [The New York Times](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/newyorktimes), a company that creates, collects, and distributes news, information, and entertainment through a daily newspaper and a website. Prior to those positions, he co-founded New Economy Lab and Peers.org. Slezak was also a project lead at McKinsey & Company as well as a partner of Purpose.com. He holds a bachelor’s degree in science from the University of Sydney and a PhD in Experimental Physics from Cornell University.
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About Swayable, Tunism: Swayable is a data platform that predicts changes in consumer opinion and intentions
Shibo Xu
Co-Founder / COO of Refersion
Shibo X. is the Co-Founder at Refersion.
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About Confesh, Refersion, The Confessionals: Track your affiliates, partners, salespeople, and customer referrals. We proudly support Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, and PayPal.
Kevin Fortuna
Founder, CEO of GeistM
Kevin Fortuna is the former Co- Founder of LOT18.
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About AKF Partners, GeistM: GeistM is the #1 Content MarTech platform powering performance marketing for a portfolio of Fortune 100 brands and hyper-growth startups.
Tom Pachys
CEO and Co-Founder of EX.CO
Tom Pachys is co-founder and CEO of EX.CO. Tom’s entrepreneurial spirit started early in life when he began coding at an early age. He eventually joined the elite technology intelligence unit followed. He then join Sundaysky as one of the first team members following by his own tech startup.
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About EX.CO: EX.CO is a technology company used by brands & publishers to turn content into engaging and interactive experiences driving results.
Iain Montgomery
Founder and consultant of Now or Never
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About Now or Never, Victor: Now or Never creates ideas and turns them into new products, services, and businesses.
