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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 based CEO’ operating in the Mobile space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
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.
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Chieh Huang
CEO of Boxed
Chieh Huang joined Boxed as CEO in 2013.Director Zynga NY, CEO Astro Ape, Venture for America Entrep. Board Member, NY Mobile Startups Meetup Organizer. Before founding Blackgate Ventures, Chieh was Director of Zynga Mobile NY and CEO of Astro Ape (acquired by Zynga). Originally a corporate attorney at Proskauer, Chieh is currently an Entrepreneur Board Member of Venture for America and can be seen hosting the NY Mobile Startups Meetup. Chieh earned his J.D. from Fordham University and has a Bachelor’s of Economics from The Johns Hopkins University.
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About Blackgate Ventures, Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
Oleg Tscheltzoff
Co-Founder & CEO of Fotolia
Oleg Tscheltzoff is Co-Founder & CEO at Fotolia. Oleg Tscheltzoff is the Investor of LOTS18. Oleg Tscheltzoff is one of the top serial internet entrepreneurs but also a successful angel investor with over 30 investments, board member, serious innovator, provocateur, disruptor, and connector. As an entrepreneur, Oleg has leveraged a global vision and knowledge of international business, management and marketing to develop successful online businesses. In 2004 Oleg co-founded Fotolia.com, the first global online social marketplace for creative digital stock images. As president, he led the company to the world’s largest microstock photography site. Prior to Fotolia, Oleg co-founded Amen, the leading Internet hosting company in France, which was sold in 2004 to Vianetworks (NASDAC Symbol VNWIE).
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About 90 Seconds, Aircall, Birchbox, Bird, Calm, Carta, Customer.io, Dealroom.co, Doctrine, eFounders, Farfetch, Fotolia, Molotov TV, Opendoor, PandaDoc, PayFit, Robinhood, SimpliField, StarOfService, Stash Financial, talent.io, Tempow, WeWork: Fotolia is an image bank that offers a crowdsourced library, which includes royalty-free images, vectors, illustrations and video clips.
Oscar Salazar
CEO of CitiVox
Oscar Salazar is one of the most influential figures in the modern tech industry. Salazar is the Founding-CTO and Architect of Uber. He was responsible for the creation of the initial prototypes for Uber’s customer app, driver app and dispatch engine. Salazar is also the founder of Citivox, Pager and RIDE. Citivox is an international company designed to enable NGOs and individuals to report and monitor electoral fraud, crime and infrastructure problems. Pager is an Uber like concept designed to connect patients with high quality health care providers. RIDE is an application that enables co-workers to carpool to work. Salazar graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Universidad de Colima in Mexico. He later earned a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Calgary in Canada and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications.
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About CitiVox, Pager, Ride, Uber: Local social media mobile platform that allow users to create interest-based communities.
Ryan Rzepecki
founder and CEO of Social Bicycles
Ryan Rzepecki was the founder and CEO of NYC-based JUMP Bikes (acquired by Uber in 2018), focused on developing innovative solutions for urban transportation. Early in his career, Rzepecki worked as a planner in the bikes division of New York City’s Department of Transportation. During that time, he worked extensively to bring bike facilities to more New Yorkers. It was this experience that led him to design a high-tech bike share model that he entered in the Copenhagen Design Competition. By 2010, he founded the company under its original name Social Bicycles, and set out to realize his vision of using bicycles as a smarter, cleaner, and more fun mode of urban transportation. His company pioneered “smart bike” technology, allowing bike share to go dockless and become more accessible and convenient for riders. In 2013, Rzepecki was named one of the 100 Coolest People in Tech by Business Insider and one of the Top 100 City Innovators Worldwide by UBM’s Future Cities. He received his master’s degree in urban planning from Hunter College of the City University of New York and his bachelor’s degree in marketing and international business from Pennsylvania State University.
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About Social Bicycles: Social Bicycles provides a scalable bikeshare technology.
Saeju Jeong
CEO & Co-Founder of Noom
A serial entrepreneur from a young age, Saeju has always an intense desire to help people. He sits on South Korea’s Ministry of Science & Technology’s steering committee and the board of Chonnam Hospital, South Korea’s largest private hospital.
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About Noom: Noom is a psychology-based digital health platform used to provide intelligent nutrition and exercise coaching.
Clark Valberg
Co-Founder & CEO of InVision
Clark Valberg is the CEO and Co-Founder of InVision, the digital product design platform used to make the world’s best customer experiences. InVision is the cornerstone of the product design process for more than 3 million people at tens of thousands of companies, including eighty percent of the Fortune 100 and brands like Airbnb, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, Slack, Starbucks and Uber. He is a former Co-Founder of Epicenter Consulting.
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About InVision: InVision is the visual collaboration platform powering the world’s smartest companies.
Arthur F. Muldoon
CEO & Co-Founder of ArcSpan Technologies
Arthur Muldoon is CEO and Co-founder of ArcSpan Technologies. Previously, he was co-CEO of Amnet US and the CEO and Co-founder of Accordant Media, a leading technology-driven programmatic media specialist company. Accordant Media was acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network in 2016. Over the past 20 years, Art has carved out a digital media career launching innovative solutions to help marketers achieve better audience engagement. Earlier, Art was SVP, Global Data Platforms at Aegis Media; SVP of Client Services and Analytics at BzzAgent; and General Manager, Client Services, Avenue A | Razorfish. Art also led the launch of an e-commerce business at Corbis Images in Seattle and was a corporate strategy consultant in the Media, Entertainment and Telecoms group at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Los Angeles. Earlier, Art was a Corporate Finance Analyst at Lehman Brothers in NYC, focused on high tech. Art holds a BA from Trinity College (CT) and an MBA from the Kellogg School, Northwestern University. He resides in New York City with his wife and two young daughters.
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About ArcSpan Technologies: ArcSpan Technologies is a B2B audience data technology company building an enterprise-class addressable audience data monetization platform.
Rishi Malhotra
Co-Founder & CEO of JioSaavn
Rishi Malhotra is Co-Founder and CEO of Saavn, India’s leading music streaming service. Rishi has led the company through significant and rapid user growth, while helping to secure partnerships with companies like Twitter, Facebook, Google, Shazam, T-Mobile, and Sonos. He is focused on driving the global Saavn team to deliver award-winning mobile products, big data systems for media, and industry-defining business innovation. Saavn is on track to become one of the largest streaming music companies in the world by 2017. Saavn is backed by leading institutional investors including Tiger Global, Bertelsmann Media, Liberty Media, Steadview Capital, and Mousse Partners. Previously, Rishi was VP, HBO On Demand and Multi-Platform for Home Box Office, Inc., where he pioneered HBO’s SVOD products, digital distribution, and original VOD content for many HBO franchises.
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About [212]Media, JioSaavn: Saavn is a music streaming service for Indian, Bollywood, and International content.
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.
Jackson Vaughan
CEO & Co-Founder of Whim
CEO and Co-Founder of Whim
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About Whim: Contacts ranked by availability and proximity
Sharad Devarajan
Co-Founder & CEO of Graphic India
Sharad Devarajan is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Graphic India Pte. Ltd. since 2011. For Sharad, Graphic India is the culmination of his lifelong dream to launch characters, heroes and stories that tap into the unique creativity and culture of India but appeal to audiences worldwide. In the same way the West has created superheroes or Japan launched anime, Graphic India is transforming the perception of India in animation from being an ‘outsourcer” to being ‘the source.’ Sharad overseas all aspects of the business and has had nearly two decades of experience in the character entertainment industry. Sharad is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Liquid Comics, an entertainment company that uses the medium of graphic novel storytelling to develop original content for various media platforms. Sharad was previously the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Publisher of Virgin Comics LLC a company he co-founded, with Sir Richard Branson, authors Deepak Chopra, Gotham Chopra and filmmaker Shekhar Kapur. Sharad is also a Producer / Executive Producer on a number of theatrical live-action film and television projects in development including The Leaves with Summit Entertainment; Ramayan 3392AD with Mandalay Entertainment; The Sadhu with producer Mark Canton (‘300’ ‘Immortals’); Dominion: Dinosaurs Versus Aliens with filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld (‘Men in Black’ trilogy); Coming of Rage, with filmmaker Wes Craven (‘Scream’); Gamekeeper, with filmmaker Guy Ritchie (‘Sherlock Holmes’); and Marked, with Emmy-Award Winning writer James Manos Jr. (Sopranos, Dexter); Devarajan also worked with filmmaker John Woo (Mission Impossible 2; Face Off) as Executive Producer on the animated web series, “John Woo Presents: 7 Brothers. In 2010, Sharad led a project with the Open Hands Initiative, to bring together a group of American and Middle Eastern students with disabilities to work together and create a new superhero that reflected their shared challenges & values. The superhero, “Silver Scorpion,” received worldwide acclaim for promoting advocacy for the rights of people with disabilities in the Middle East. President Clinton honored the students at the Clinton Global Initiative, stating that the comic book “will help to establish trust and understanding between cultures, to empower young people with disabilities.” In 2004, Sharad worked with Marvel as the creator of a new reinvention of Spider-Man as an Indian boy growing up in Mumbai, transforming “Peter Parker” into “Pavitr Prabhakar”. Unlike traditional translations of western characters into foreign markets, the new series, “Spider-Man: India” was heralded as one of the industry’s first “trans-creations.” For his activities, Sharad was featured as CNNfn’s ‘Maverick in The Morning’ and covered in numerous media including WSJ, Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Fox News, CNN, and NPR’s Fresh Air. He has been a speaker at various events including, TEDX Gateway, Fortune Magazine’s Global Forum, FICCI and Harvard Business School. Sharad holds a BFA from Syracuse University and an MBA from Columbia University where he is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School teaching, Media Marketing and Entrepreneurship; Transmedia & Transcreation; and Just Capital & Cause Driven Marketing.
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About Columbia University in the City of New York, Graphic India, Liquid Comics: Mobile Content & Character Entertainment Company
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.
Nabeel Alamgir
CEO & Co-founder of Lunchbox Technologies
CEO & Co-founder of Lunchbox, Former CMO of Bareburger.
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About Bareburger, 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
Coley Parry
CEO and Founder of FriendHealth
Coley Parry is the Founder & CEO of FriendHealth.
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About FriendHealth: FriendHealth is a risk-bearing provider that deploys multidisciplinary care teams and proprietary technology to bring health home.
Thomas Pasquet
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Ogury
Thomas Pasquet is an entrepreneur and business angel within the Digital Advertising market. After graduating from Grenoble Ecole de Management and a Master entrepreneur HEC, he co-founded the company BeeAd. BeeAd was the first outstream Adnetwork with innovative formats and was sold to e-buzzing group (Teads). After developing BeeAd in Europe (Uk, Italy, Spain, Germany), he left e-buzzing with his business partner Jean. BeeAd is now making around 50 million revenue worldwide. After this experience, they created Ogury Ltd, a British company focused on mobile advertising with a technology that allows the advertiser to chase new clients.
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About Ogury: Ogury is building a world of highly effective and sustainable advertising, anchored in consumer privacy protection.
Neal Desai
CEO of Kafene
Neal Desai is the founder and CEO of Kafene, a fintech that is a one-stop-shop point-of-sale payment partner and underwriting technology platform that helps merchants offer flexible lease-to-own (LTO) purchase options for prime and nonprime consumers, helping retailers satisfy demand for furniture, appliances, electronics, tires and other goods.
Kafene utilizes more than 20,000 data inputs in tandem with best-in-class artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to underwrite, approve, and enable payment in a near-instantaneous manner, while creating a best-in-class customer experience.
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About Kafene: Kafene is a mission driven startup with the goal of empowering flexible ownership.
Chris Stang
Co-Founder & CEO of The Infatuation
Chris Stang is the Co-Founder & CEO of The Infatuation,and also serves as CEO of Zagat. Since its inception in 2009, Stang has been the architect of The Infatuation’s editorial voice, creative vision, and marketing strategy. Today his role still encompasses all those things, but also includes pushing the company forward into new arenas, including the development of The Infatuation’s EEEEEATSCON food festival, and leading the company’s recent acquisition of Zagat from Google. He was nominated in 2015 for a James Beard Award for Humor Writing, and in 2019 the Financial Times called him “arguably the most influential restaurant reviewer in America.” Prior to taking on The Infatuation full time, Chris was the Vice President of Marketing at Atlantic Records, working closely with many of the label’s biggest acts including Coldplay, Bruno Mars, Skrillex, Gnarls Barkley, and the Panic! At The Disco.
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About The Infatuation, Zagat: The Infatuation is a website, app, newsletter, and recommendation platform that helps users find restaurants for every situation.
Oliver Kharraz
CEO & Co-Founder of Zocdoc
Oliver Kharraz, MD, is CEO and founder of Zocdoc. Oliver is the most recent doctor in a 300-year family tradition. Over the course of his wide-ranging career, Oliver has accrued comprehensive experience effecting change and building efficiency in large scale healthcare organizations using information technology. Prior to Zocdoc, Oliver was an Associate Principal at the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. During his seven-year tenure at McKinsey & Co., Oliver developed and implemented new patient utilization models for the national health services of a number of governments and major hospital chains. In 1994, Oliver built and sold his first business – a forerunner of early internet software. He later became a resident doctor at the clinic of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, where he earned an MD and a Doctorate in Neuroscience. Oliver also has a Masters Degree in Philosophy from the Jesuit College of Philosophy in Munich. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Born in Germany, Oliver immigrated to the U.S. during his work for McKinsey & Co. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and their twin daughters.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Zocdoc: Zocdoc is a digital marketplace company that connects healthcare patients and doctors.
Ned Kenney
Co-Founder & CEO of Laughable
Finance/biz dev background + tech nerdery + comedy fanaticism + millennial mandate to ‘do what I love’ –> starting Laughable. If you like comedy or podcasts, you should download our iOS app here: laughable.com/download _ _ _ The evidence is building that we’ve built something special: – 92% of our 275+ reviews are for 5 stars — a higher percentage than that of any other app focused on comedy or podcasts. – Our average user spends 3.5 hours per week listening to podcasts and 25 minutes per week directly engaging with our UI (i.e. tapping, typing, swiping, etc.). – Apple has featured us in the App Store multiple times, including in the ‘New Apps We Love’ section of the App Store homepage, an honor reserved for only a few hundred apps each year out of of more 2m+ iOS apps total. _ _ _ Other Links: – Android users can sign up to be notified when we have an app ready for them: laughable.com/android – We recently announced Laughable 2.0, which allows you to subscribe not only to podcast series, but also to individual artists. You can read more about 2.0 here: laughable.com/blog/april2017announcements – More on our long-term vision for Laughable: laughable.com/blog/helloworld – The ‘Unified Theory of Laughable’: laughable.com/blog/unifiedtheory – My thoughts about the future of comedy and podcasting: laughable.com/blog/nkthoughts16 – An FAQ for podcasters and comedians: laughable.com/artist-resources Instagram: @nedkenney Email: n@laughable.com
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About Laughable: A better way to discover comedians and podcasts
Daniela Perdomo
Co-founder & CEO of goTenna
Daniela Perdomo is founder and CEO of goTenna, which is advancing universal access to connectivity by decentralizing it. goTenna’s mesh networks are used by consumers as well as the U.N., Google, FEMA, Raytheon, the French Army, US Special Operations Forces & the City of New York. Daniela Perdomo is founder & CEO of goTenna, which is advancing universal access to connectivity by decentralizing it. goTenna’s specialized hardware pairs with regular smartphones to create long-range, mobile mesh networks independent of traditional communications networks. goTenna’s technology is used by consumers as well as the United Nations, Google, FEMA, Raytheon, the French Army, US Special Operations Forces, and the City of New York.
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About goTenna: GoTenna is advancing universal access to connectivity by building intelligent and scalable mobile mesh networks.
Ben Anderson
Co-Founder and CEO of Amino Apps
Benjamin Anderson is a co-founder and CEO at Amino Apps.
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About Amino Apps: Amino Apps enables people to discover, develop, and express their interests and passions.
Maximus Yaney
CoFounder & CEO of Kangaroo
Maximus Yaney is a disruptor, entrepreneur, engineer, and avid inventor. A serial dreamer and company builder, Maximus is Co-Founder and CEO of Kangaroo.
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About Ellis Carpet Cleaning, Kangaroo: Kangaroo is an electronics company that provides simple home security systems.
Corey Weiner
CEO of Jun Group
Corey is one of Jun Group’s founders. He serves as President and Chief Operating Officer, overseeing product development, publisher strategy, finance, business development, and operations. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Jun Group’s mobile platform subsidiary, HyprMX. Prior to founding Jun Group, Corey consulted for SONY USA and the United States government. Corey holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Jun Group: Jun Group runs advertising for brands and publishers. Our mobile-first approach is powered by opt-in, first-party data generated by our SDK.
Jeremy Levy
Co-Founder & CEO of Indicative
Mr. Jeremy Levy co-founded Indicative, Inc. in 2013 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Levy co-founded meetMoi, LLC and served as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Levy oversaw meetMoi’s technical architecture and engineering. Prior to meetMoi, he worked for Morgan Stanley, where he helped design and build the content management, workflow and trade approval systems. He has over 10 years of experience in the full life-cycle of software development ranging from design to execution. Prior to meetMoi, Mr. Levy served as software architect working in industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to finance. He worked for Pfizer, where he designed and implementED its Intranet portal for its 12,000 person sales force. He began his career as a developer at Joltage, an infrastructure services business. Mr. Levy holds a BS from Syracuse University.
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About Deciding by Data Podcast, Indicative: SaaS company that provides behavioral analytics solutions.
Sharron Battle
Founder & CEO of Derbywire
Sharron Battle is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of selfiepay and Derbywire.
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About Derbywire, selfiepay: Derbywire is a mobile social marketplace allowing individuals to store, sell, and buy digital content.
Michael Jaconi
Co-Founder and CEO of Button
Michael Jaconi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Button, the mobile commerce platform that maximizes the value of every tap. Jaconi formerly served as the CEO of Rakuten Loyalty and Executive Officer of parent company Rakuten. Michael helped build Rakuten Loyalty from a fledgling state to a multi-million dollar business in less than two years and led Rakuten’s $100M investment in Pinterest, helping bolster Rakuten’s position as one of the most innovative and aggressive global internet companies. Prior to his tenure at Rakuten, Jaconi co-founded two public affairs companies and has been a lifelong entrepreneur. Prior to his tenure at Rakuten Loyalty, Jaconi co-founded two public affairs companies in Washington, D.C. and served in a variety of capacities within various political campaigns.
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About Button: Button is the mobile commerce technology company that is powering a commerce-driven internet.
Jay Bregman
Founder and CEO of Thimble
Jay Bregman is the Founder & CEO of Thimble.
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About Thimble: Thimble is an insurance producer enabling small businesses to succeed on their own terms.
Ali Asaria
CEO of Tulip Retail
Ali Asaria was formerly the CEO and founder of Well.ca, Canada’s largest online health, baby and beauty store. Prior to founding Well.ca, Ali worked at Research In Motion (RIM) where he independently developed BrickBreaker, the most popular Blackberry game that is now on more than 15 million devices worldwide. In 2005, Ali was RIM’s youngest patent recipient. Prior to RIM, Ali worked in Microsoft’s Redmond office on the Office 2007 User Interface Team.
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About Tulip Retail: Tulip Retail is a mobile app platform built exclusively for next generation store associates to offer a world-class omnichannel experience.
Ajay Yadav
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Roomi
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About Dada Room, Forbes, Forbes Real Estate Council, Roomi: Roomi is a free mobile platform that helps people find flexible, affordable co-living solutions.
Allon Bloch
Co-Founder and CEO of K Health
Allon Bloch is the CEO and Co-founder of K Health. Previously he served as the CEO of Vroom, the largest online car retailer in the U.S, Co-CEO of Wix, the world’s leading website publishing platform, and CEO of mySupermarket, a digital platform that empowers consumers to find the best prices for their groceries. Allon is also a former venture capitalist, serving as a Venture Partner with Greylock’s Europe/Israel fund and a General Partner at JVP. He holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and is based in New York.
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About K Health: K Health is a data-driven digital primary care system that uses AI to deliver personalized primary care.
Bo Han
CEO of Buzzer
Bo led Twitter’s efforts in Global Live Sports Content Partnerships, and was responsible for driving partnerships with the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, and PGA as well as with broadcasters – Disney/ESPN, FOX, NBC and Turner. Prior to joining Twitter in 2012, Bo started in the industry as a Global Account Director at Microsoft Corporation in New York, working with key and strategic global partners. Bo received his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and earned his MBA at Columbia Business School in New York, New York.
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About Buzzer: Buzzer is a notification-driven mobile platform for live sports personalized for fans.
Laurence Zimmerman
Founder/CEO of Landover Wireless Corp.
Laurence Zimmerman has been successfully engaged in the global wireless telecommunications industry since 1991. He has over 25 years of experience building, strategically planning, and investing in growth companies in the telecom industry. Laurence is an experienced spectrum license holder who has acquired and developed national and regional footprints of 38 GHz, 3.5 GHz, 2.6 GHz and 1600 MHz/MMDS licenses and developed strategic relationships creating additional value in the spectrum assets. Laurence was the Founder, Principal, and Board Member of two Nasdaq-listed companies: Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. (now Fiber Tower) and National Wireless Holdings Inc. Laurence was an early seed investor and one-time largest individual shareholder of Nasdaq-traded Winstar Communications (now StraightPath), the largest 38 GHz last-mile broadband solution in the US. Laurence founded Landtel, a European broadband wireless provider which won spectrum licenses in Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, and several Eastern European countries, and built high-speed internet access on 3.5 GHz and 2.6 GHz. Laurence was the co-founder and control shareholder of Bazillion, Inc., one of the first nationwide toll-quality VoIP service providers in the US addressing the residential market. Laurence re-entered the telecom market in 2007, pursuing opportunities driven by the accelerating demand for mobile bandwidth, emerging technologies, and spectrum scarcity. In April 2008, Laurence founded Landover Wireless to build a nationwide mobile broadband platform utilizing the 600 MHz spectrum band.
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About Landover Wireless Corp.: Landover Wireless is a mobile broadband operator building nationwide services for enterprise customers.
Tyler Faux
Co-Founder & CEO of Supergreat
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About Supergreat: Supergreat is a beauty community of real people reviewing the beauty products that work for them.
Jeff Krahel
CEO & Co-Founder of Playbook
Founder at Fitner Media.
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About Playbook: Playbook is the #1 creator economy platform for talent in the fitness & athletic industry.
Jeff Krahel
Co-Founder & CEO of Playbook
Jeff Krahel is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Playbook.
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About Playbook: Playbook is the #1 creator economy platform for talent in the fitness & athletic industry.
Edrizio De La Cruz
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Arcus
Edrizio De La Cruz is Founder at Regalii.
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About Arcus: Arcus is a payments-as-a-service platform, fueling smarter, faster, integrated, and more accessible financial services.
Shawn Melamed
Co-Founder and CEO of Spiral
Shawn Melamed is a serial fintech entrepreneur that founded Spiral. He is the former Managing Director of Morgan Stanley’s Technology Business Development and Innovation Offices. He also founded software company Correlix, which was acquired by TSA, and led StrikeNet to its M&A with TMX Group.
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About Spiral: Spiral is a provider of a banking solution for the charitable sector.
John S. Shriber
Co- Founder & CEO of Roomster
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About Roomster: The leading multi platform roommate matching & shared housing application. IOS, Android & fully responsive design
Aaron Albert
Co-Founder/CEO of Mine’d
Co-Founder/CEO at Mine’d
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About Mine’d: The Emotional Network – Daily, live guided emotional health sessions
Ashwini Anburajan
Founder & CEO of Social Data Collective
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About Social Data Collective: Social Data Collective allow consumers to trade data from a variety of sources for high quality products and services offered.
Rodger Desai
CEO of Prove (formerly Payfone)
Rodger Desai is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Payfone, Inc. Previously, Rodger served as co-founder and CEO of Rave Wireless, Inc. Rave’s service is now deployed at over 300 universities. Prior to Rave Wireless, Rodger was co-founder and CEO of the Vettro Corp., an innovator in mobile banking and brokerage, LBS apps, and J2ME. Rodger started his career as an executive in Accenture’s telecom practice after engineering management positions at ExxonMobil and GE. He has also assisted in initiatives that leverage the use of mobile phones in emerging markets for social causes, such as disease surveillance in Iraq, and micro-financed village phone programs in Asia. Rodger graduated from RPI and attended the Harvard Business School.
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About Prove (formerly Payfone): Prove is the modern way of proving identity with just a phone.
Tarik Sansal
Founder & CEO of Romio
Tarik Sansal is an internet entrepreneur. He is currently the founder and CEO of Romio, a smart social real estate search engine which leverages neighborhood networks (Romio is going live shortly). Previously, Tarik was the founder of onTargetJobs.com, currently #3 vertical job site behind Dice and Linkedin. Tarik created the original strategy for onTargetJobs.com and assembled the original management team by bringing in Allen Paschal as CEO and Curt Thompson as CFO. onTargetJobs.com is a Warburg Pincus backed company (WarburgPincus.com). Prior, Tarik started InvestmentPositions.com, a job site focused on recruitment of investment professionals which evolved into RecruitmentBox, a multi vertical recruitment technology provider to vertical publishers. Tarik started his careers in investments. He was the 1st investment analyst at Moon Capital (www.MoonCapital.com), the emerging markets hedge fund. He is passionate about leveraging socially conscious internet ventures to make a positive social impact. He also has ideas around new alternative investment models which leverage a socially conscious approach to deliver superior returns to investors. Tarik wrote white papers which were published and reference in financial media such as The Financial Times.
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About Romio: Romio let’s you book “trusted” local services (Housekeeper, Runner, Dog Walker…) through recommendations from local experts and friends
Brian M. Fenty
CEO & Co-Founder of TodayTix
Brian has led and managed varied private investments across a broad range of industries, focusing on product and talent. He is an active adviser to start-ups, growth stage companies and management teams. Previously an MD at Hamilton Investment Partners. Currently, Brian serves on the Board of The Institute for Arts and Humanities at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he received his Bachelors degree in Marketing and Entrepreneurship.
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About TodayTix: TodayTix is the premier digital gateway to shows, arts, and cultural experiences.
Samer Hamadeh
Founder & CEO of Zeel
Samer is an entrepreneur-in-residence at Lightspeed Venture Partners, which he joined in January 2010. Samer is currently founder & CEO of Zeel.com. Relaunched in December 2012, Zeel gives consumers the power to book same-day, in-home massage appointments via app or website in under a minute. Prior to that, Samer Hamadeh was co-founder and CEO of Vault.com, the most trusted name in career information, which was sold in October 2007 to Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a New York-based media-and-communications private-equity firm. Before co-founding Vault, Samer was an associate at the Los Angeles management consulting firm LEK Consulting, where he focused on corporate and business strategy. Prior to that, Samer co-founded and managed a customized-textbook printing company, worked at the Chevron Corporation, and co-authored The Internship Bible and America’s Top Internships (Random House/Princeton Review). Samer sits on the board of the non-profit PeaceWorks Foundation and is a board observer, angel investor, and/or advisor in two dozen early-stage companies, including GrubHub, SalesCrunch, Insidr.com, Splurgy, and PublicStuff. Samer is also a mentor at several accelerators, including Blueprint Health, NYCSeedStart, and First Growth Venture Network, as well as a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and the Georgetown McDonough School’s Entrepreneurship Advisory Board. A David Rockefeller Fellow, Samer holds a BS in chemistry and an MS in chemical engineering from Stanford University.
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About Lightspeed Venture Partners, One Voice Movement, Venture for America, Zeel: Zeel delivers on-demand massage from vetted therapists.
Nicolas Jodal
CEO of GeneXus
Nicolás Jodal holds a Systems Engineering degree from Uruguay’s State University. Together, with engineer Breogán Gonda, he co-created GeneXus, the world-class leading tool for developing mission-critical applications in multiple platforms using artificial intelligence. This achievement earned them a National Engineering Award, which is presented by the National Engineering Academy of the Republic of Uruguay. At present, Mr. Jodal is the CEO of GeneXus, the Uruguayan company that developed the eponymous software. GeneXus has clients in over 45 countries including Japan, China, United States, and Mexico; it is also present in European countries such as Spain, Italy and Germany, and in all of South America. In addition to creating GeneXus with Mr. Breogán Gonda, Mr. Jodal has also taken part in the establishment of GeneXus Consulting, K2B, and ThalesLab. His track record has made him an authority on technical and scientific matters related to information technology, artificial intelligence, innovation, and entrepreneurship. His input is frequently sought by global media outlets, as well as by various governments. In addition, he receives numerous invitations to speak at national and international events, including: • 14th CIO Mexico Summit. • Astur Foundation, series of lectures on “Trade Openness and Innovation”, Central Bank, Uruguay. • 7th and 6th Summit of the Americas. • CIFTIS – China (Beijing) International Fair for Trade in Services, China http://www.ciftis.org/. • TEDx Montevideo, Uruguay. • Pecha Kucha, Uruguay. • Americas Innovation Forum (FIA) in Punta del Este, Uruguay. • 8th Strategic Conference on Financial Technology and Marketing, Guatemala. • Knowledge Base Development, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan. • Lectio Inauguralis at Uruguay’s Catholic University. • GeneXus Meetings in Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico, United States and Japan. An active advocate for entrepreneurship, Mr. Jodal currently leads ThalesLab, a Company Builder, jointly with Ms. Sylvia Chebi. ThalesLab has been selected to participate in the Startup School Founder Track program in Silicon Valley with the purpose of driving innovation through technology in key sectors such as agriculture, mobile finance, and entertainment.
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About ABYA, GeneXus: GeneXus is a web and mobile application development powerhouse that builds enterprise software and applications for its clients.
Julie Hansen
CEO, US of Babbel
Julie Hansen is CEO U.S. at Babbel. Based in the company’s New York office she is leading the US expansion of the world’s top-grossing language learning app. Before joining Babbel, Julie was the COO and President of Business Insider. Under her leadership the news site became the most visited business outlet on the internet. Prior to Business Insider, Hansen held top management roles at sports site NCAA.com, Condé Nast Publications, and Time Inc. Julie has over two decades of experience growing digital media companies, launching interactive web sites, deploying mobile apps, and leading online and offline marketing campaigns. She began her career at Penguin Books, publishing learning software for literature among other products.
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About Babbel: Babbel is the market-leading app for language learning.
Joshua Stern
Co-founder, CEO of Wine n Dine
Joshua Stern is co-founder and CEO of Wine n Dine. Prior to Wine n Dine, Joshua founded I Know The Chef, the first restaurant concierge app.
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About Wine n Dine: Wine n Dine is a Visual Menu company that helps restaurants create & distribute menus online with our many in house tech solutions – SaaS
Matt Bailey
Founder and CEO of GameOn
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About GameOn: The future of engaging superfans. If it’s on, it’s on.
Heath Ahrens
Founder and CEO of Talkz
Heath Ahrens is the founder of iSpeech, a text-to-speech (TTS) and speech recognition (ASR) provider. In 2009, Ahrens pioneered a new solution to distracted driving, DriveSafe.ly®, an award winning mobile app downloaded over 20 million times. DriveSafe.ly® reads text messages and emails aloud in real time and allows voice response, hands-free. In addition to winning the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show app competition, DriveSafe.ly® won the 2010 Mashable Award for Best Mobile App. The leading distracted driving application has been written about in Consumer Reports, Wall Street Journal, major tech blogs such as TechCrunch and VentureBeat and featured on CNN, CNET, ABC, and FOX. To date, iSpeech apps have received over 30 million downloads. In 2010, Heath was named to NJBIZ’s “40 under 40”. Ahrens has spoken about speech technology and distracted driving at SpeechTEK 2011, CTIA 2010, Mobile Voice Conference 2010 and 2011 and TEDx. He most recently gave the keynote address at the NJTC 2011 Regional Commercialization Conference. Ahrens continues to grow iSpeech®, delivering human quality speech and recognition to developers and businesses through simple APIs and SDKs. The iSpeech Cloud has been used over a billion times. Bringing speech everywhere through partnerships with developers and Fortune companies, iSpeech’s mission remains: “Speech-enable the Web and the world.”
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About iSpeech, Talkz: Talkz provides text and voice into every message.
Johnson Okonkwo
UX Engineer & CEO of Dyces
Johnson is an Internet Entrepreneur who founded Bleu Squad and Dyces. He currently heads Dyces as the CEO and Lead UX Expert. Johnson attended Eagle Heights Int’l School in Delta, Nigeria. He stopped attending class in Year 11 to focus on his love for technology and design engineering. He taught himself to code the basics of Swift programming while preparing to launch his social media app, Bleu. In 2017, he moved to NYC to continue his work on bleu which ended in June of 2018. Johnson currently leads as an advisory leader in various US tech companies looking to scale into African countries.
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About Dyces: Dyces is a technology company that provides financial technology and other related services.
Michael Bramlage
Chief Executive Officer of Quidd
Michael Bramlage is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Quidd, a platform for buying, trading and using premium, rare digital goods. As CEO, he oversees corporate direction and strategy at the company, facilitating company activity in product development, user acquisition, marketing, and partnerships. Prior to Quidd, Bramlage founded the mobile apps division at Topps. As VP & General Manager of the newly formed Topps Digital, he was responsible for the launch of multiple top-grossing apps, growing annual revenue from zero to eight figures during his tenure. Prior to this, he was Head of Product at Nokia. In under three years, he oversaw the conception, design, development, and launch of 18 new versions of the company’s mobile app store, Ovi Store, for Series 40, Symbian and MeeGo devices. Bramlage began his career at Microsoft. While working on Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger) he established the industry’s first instant messaging interoperability agreements, brokering and implementing technical and data partnerships with Yahoo!, Facebook and LinkedIn. Bramlage is a native of Detroit, Michigan and a graduate of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. In his spare time, he is an obsessive record collector and proud owner of several extremely rare vinyl pressings.
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About Quidd: Quidd is the marketplace for buying and selling digital collectibles. Over 2.1B assets issued. Backed by Sequoia.
David Lighton
Founder & CEO of SendFriend
David Lighton is a CO-Founder of Lithium Finance.
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About Lithium Finance, SendFriend, Yale University: SendFriend leverages the blockchain to make remittance transactions less expensive, faster, and more secure.
Michael Provenzano
Co-Founder/ CEO of Vistar Media
CEO & Co-Founder of Vistar Media
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About BrandVerge, Vistar Media: Vistar Media turns movement data into actionable insights about consumer behavior.
Michael Twersky
CEO of Whyline
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About Whyline: Whyline offers a complete solution for all virtual queueing and appointment scheduling needs.
Samir Arora
Founder and CEO of Sage Digital
Samir Arora is an American entrepreneur, inventor and investor. He is best known as a veteran of Apple Computer and a serial founder, investor and CEO in Silicon Valley with a passion to lead team of incredible people to perform the impossible. He is listed as one of the 100 Internet Pioneers along with Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen and others, and as the 21 people that shaped the World Wide Web at the 1st Web Innovators Awards by CNET. Samir started his career at Apple, and currently is the founder & Group CEO of Sage Digital Corp and serves as a Managing Partner of the venture firm Information Capital. At Sage, Samir is building a platform for experts, publishers and businesses: Sage Plus for Experts currently is an invite-only platform or experts, talent and celebrities and their teams. He was the CEO of Mode Media /Glam Media and founder and CEO of one of the first web site building platform company NetObjects.
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About Foodie Top 100, Information Capital LLC, Mode Media Japan, Project Bento, Sage Digital, Woodside Incubator: Sage Digital is a AI-driven platform for verified experts to manage their online presence
Zuben Mathews
CEO & Co-Founder of Brigit
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About Brigit: A financial health app helping every American build a brighter financial future.
Adam Perold
Co-founder, President & CEO of Element
Adam Perold is the Co-Founder, President, and CEO at Element.
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About Element: Element develops and distributes mobile-based platforms for digital identity.
Tiernan Kennedy
CEO of Umba
Tiernan Kennedy is the co-founder and CEO of umba. He has been working in technology firms for the past six years. A graduate of computer and electronic engineering from Trinity College Dublin, Tiernan has worked on a large number of software projects in the cloud and mobile space. Tiernan has worked with companies such as Novo Nordisk, Saatchi and Saatchi and Faberge during his time at Resolute Digital. He then went on to become the Senior Director of Engineering at Canary, managing all of their properties including their iOS, Android and Web Apps.
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About Umba, Umba: Umba is an African digital bank, offering free bank accounts and financial services to our customers
Christopher White
Founder/CEO of Sneakers Apps
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About Forbes New York Business Council, Rad Hires, Sneakers Apps: Sneakers Apps is a full-service digital product development agency focused on helping brands launch and grow their businesses.
Deena (Gianoncelli) Fox
Founder & CEO of Brightfox
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About Brightfox: Brightfox is the world’s first talent experience platform.
Tim Attia
CEO of Slice Labs
Tim Attia is the cofounder and CEO of Slice Labs, a technology Startup providing on-demand insurance for the on-demand economy. Slice has reimagined and redesigned insurance by providing a straightforward, cost-effective, easy-to-use solution that provides coverage to on-demand workers on a transactional basis, so they’re only paying for coverage while they’re working. Tim began his career with a large technology and management consulting firm, and has since continued to worked with major global insurance carriers on technology and distribution. He is excited to use his background in insurance and financial technology to apply intelligent design, data and technology to solving the gaps and risks facing the growing on-demand workforce. Tim holds an Electrical Engineering degree from McGill University, and has over 20 years’ experience in the insurance technology industry.
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About Slice Labs: Slice Labs is the first on-demand insurance cloud platform provider, enabling companies to build intuitive digital insurance products.
Adarsh Alphons
Founder and CEO of Wardrobe
Adarsh Alphons is the founder and CEO of Wardrobe. Prior to Wardrobe, Adarsh founded ProjectArt—currently the nation’s largest art school, without owning a single building. Adarsh’s expertise in catalyzing underutilized resources into productivity, building asset-light organizations and ability to bring self-interested partners together for a common cause made ProjectArt a leader in its field and a nationally-scaled enterprise. He is a CNN Hero, Columbia University Community Scholar and a 40 Under 40 in Global Art Business.
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About Wardrobe: Wardrobe is a peer-to-peer luxury clothing rental app focused on sustainability.
Jeremy Friedman
Founder, CEO of Spiral Connect
Jeremy is the Founder and CEO at Spiral Connect. Prior to that, he was the SVP of Schoology at PowerSchool and the Founder and CEO of Schoology. He is a recognized education technology thought leader and frequently sought speaker at industry events. Jeremy was selected as one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Education. He co-founded Schoology while an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis earning his BA in Economics.
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About Spiral Connect: Spiral Connect is an app that is useful for stores a person’s personal information.
Thomas Lee
CEO of Galileo
Tom is a board-certified internist who completed training at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He’s interested in improving the quality of care through team-based decision making and an integrative philosophy of care that includes evidence-based medicine and biologic plausibility.
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About Galileo: Galileo — a next-generation health care delivery model designed for the future.
Justin Effron
Co-Founder & CEO of ALICE
Justin Effron is the Co-Founder and of ALICE.
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About ALICE: ALICE connects every department of a hotel with one platform for all staff communication and guest requests.
Christopher Grewe
CEO & Founder of American Prison Data Systems
Chris is an entrepreneur with a passionate belief in the power of education to change lives for the better. Chris has more than 25 years of experience leading start-up, turnaround, and mature educational publishing businesses to substantial revenue growth and profitability. He co-founded and was CEO of the Princeton Review in Japan, and has worked since in senior business development and publishing roles at Scholastic, Kids Discover, Triumph Learning, Troll Communications, and MetaMetrics.
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About American Prison Data Systems: American Prison Data Systems utilizes advances in edtech to help make quality education more accessible to incarcerated learners.
Walter Jin
CEO of Pager
Walter Jin is CEO at Pager.
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About Pager, Three Fields Capital: Virtual care technology platform that provides communication, collaboration, navigation, and care coordination solutions.
Rohit Pursram
CEO of Activation, Inc.
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About Activation, Inc., CIP Capital, Imperative, Stealth Startup: Connecting Brand Enthusiasts on Mobile
Sean Engelking
Co-Founder and CEO of Starship
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About Starship: Starship is mobile health savings account (HSA) with automated investing built for humans.
Lakmini Wijesundera
Co-founder, Director and Chief Executive Officer of Boardpac
Lakmini Wijesundera has over 18 years of experience in technology management and global distribution. As the Chief Executive Officer of BoardPAC, she oversees all aspects of BoardPAC business and is the driving force behind BoardPAC’s successful global expansion. Lakmini has been the recipient of several prestigious industry recognition awards such as being the first Sri Lankan to be nominated for the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program of Asia Pacific 2017, the winner of the Entrepreneur of the Year in 2016, Exporter of the Year and the Gold Award in the large category awarded by the Women’s Chamber of Industry & Commerce, the winner of Women in Management IT Leader of the year in 2016, the winner of the female ICT Leader of the year 2014 awarded by Computer Society of Sri Lanka ( CSSL) and has been selected to the 50 most powerful women in business awarded by the Echelon Magazine in 2014. Lakmini also holds the Chief Executive Officer role in Ironone Technologies which is a leading Software and solutions company with offices in USA, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Prior to co-founding BoardPAC, Lakmini has been engaged in several progressive business initiations which included two technology startups. She formerly was the Manager of the Information Technology and Software Development division at Lanka Bell and was a key member of the start up Ceycom Global Communications. Lakmini also champions a charitable program called Give2Lanka.org and participates in entrepreneurial startup mentoring programs in her spare time. Lakmini has a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering from the University College London, University of London and has a M.Sc. from Imperial College, University of London, United Kingdom.
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About Boardpac, Ironone Technologies: BoardPAC is a Board Management Software that is available worldwide for large corporations and mid tier corporations.
Nikesh Desai
Founder & CEO of InvestingChannel, Inc.
Nikesh is a founder and CEO of InvestingChannel. As CEO, he leads the company’s overall strategic direction. Nikesh and Bob started the consultancy Giant Step Strategies which served as the initial underpinning of InvestingChannel. They successfully helped major financial media companies with their ad strategies which created the demand and impetus for InvestingChannel. He has been the key figure in building the largest exclusive consortium of financial destinations at InvestingChannel. Prior to building Giant Step Strategies and InvestingChannel, Nikesh served as the Vice President of Business Development at TheStreet.com where he implemented strategic initiatives and new technologies, including partnerships, contextual advertising, co-registration, customer acquisition/lead generation and many other programs to increase revenue, drive traffic and enhance site performance. He was one of the original members of PeoplePC’s business development team and was instrumental during its IPO process and sale to EarthLink. Nikesh focused on product development, sales, strategic partnerships and acquisition activities. He started his career as an investment banker with Robertson Stephens involved in public offerings and mergers & acquisitions aggregating over $1 billion with Internet and software companies. Nikesh aspires to be a traveling food critic while trying to hit every major soccer stadium across the world.
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About InvestingChannel, Inc.: Our mission is to be most innovative and scalable marketing platform in financial services.
Kwang Suk (David) Kim
Co-CEO & President of InvestingChannel, Inc.
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About InvestingChannel, Inc., L2: Our mission is to be most innovative and scalable marketing platform in financial services.
Brendan Alper
Founder & CEO of Hater
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About Hater: Hater is a dating app that matches people based on the things they hate.
Susannah Vila
Co-Founder, CEO of Caretaker
Susannah Vila is the Co-Founder and CEO of Caretaker.
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About Caretaker: Caretaker builds property management automation software for small and medium sized landlords and property managers.
Emeka C Anen
Founder & CEO of THRONE
Emeka serves as a Founder and CEO at THRONE. THRONE’s is creating technology based tools in order to add value to the sneaker and streetwear ecosystem. THRONE’s first product is a peer-peer marketplace available for download on iOS now. Learn more at www.THRONE.xyz.
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About THRONE: THRONE is a mobile-first marketplace created to faciliate buying , selling and discovery within the footwear community.
Rakesh Gupta
Chairman & CEO of KiwiTech
Rakesh is the founder and CEO of Kiwitech, a digital interactive production and publishing house with over 300 APP’s in the companies production portfolio. Prior to founding Kiwitech, Rakesh was the founder and CEO of Aptara Corp, a leading Digital publishing & production company with over 4000 employees. The company was acquired in 2008 and was started from Rakesh’s kitchen table.
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About KiwiTech, KiwiVenture Partners: KiwiTech is a growing innovation ecosystem that’s home to more than 500 portfolio companies and 2000 investors.
Harnil Oza
CEO & Founder of Hyperlink InfoSystem
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About Hyperlink InfoSystem: Hyperlink InfoSystem is a mobile app development company that providers information technology services.
Vishal Agarwal
Founder & CEO of ItsaCheckmate
Vishal Agarwal serves as a Founder & CEO at ItsaCheckmate.
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About Forbes Technology Council, ItsaCheckmate: ItsaCheckmate is a leading service in integrating 3rd party delivery platforms directly into POS systems.
Justin McLeod
Founder and CEO of Hinge
Founder and CEO of Hinge.
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About Hinge: Hinge is a social discovery network helping users meet new people through an application.
Shachar Golan
Founder & CEO of Baby Doctor, Inc.
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About Baby Doctor, Inc.: Baby Doctor, Inc. was a healthcare startup that offered pediatric services on demand
Ludovic Huraux
Co-founder & CEO of Shapr
Ludovic Huraux is the Founder of Shapr Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Ludovic Huraux served as an Associate at Industries & Finances Partenaires SA and joined it in 2005. He served as Investment Professional at Perfectis Private Equity.
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About Shapr: Your daily dose of inspiring people to meet!
Marah Lidey
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Shine
Marah Lidey is the cofounder of Shine Text, helping people live more intentionally through the power of daily messaging. Her expertise lies at the intersection of millennials and messaging. Lidey previously directed mobile and social for brands like DoSomething.org, American Express, and Viacom. She earned her BA in Journalism at the University of Georgia and currently resides in Brooklyn. A World Economic Forum Global Shaper and one of the “Top 35 People to Watch in NYC Tech” by Built in NYC, Lidey also actively advocates for increasing racial and socioeconomic diversity in technology and entrepreneurship.
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About Shine: Shine is a self-care app and community for people with anxiety and depression.
Naomi Hirabayashi
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Shine
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About Shine: Shine is a self-care app and community for people with anxiety and depression.
Krystle Mobayeni
Founder & CEO of BentoBox
Krystle Mobayeni, CEO and Founder of BentoBox, knows that today, the restaurant experience starts online. With BentoBox, she helps restaurants engage with their customers online, serving as a real partner and embodying the idea of hospitality every step of the way.
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About BentoBox: BentoBox empowers restaurants to own their presence, profits, and relationships, directly through their website.
Stefanie Lemcke
Co-Founder and CEO of GoKid
Stefanie Lemcke is a Co-Founder and CEO at GoKid.
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About GoKid: GoKid is a carpool and shared mobility solution for schools, leagues, teams, and active families.
Liat Zakay
CEO and Founder of Donde Search
Liat Zakay is the CEO and founder of Donde Search. Prior to founding Donde Search, Liat was the head of Computer Networks Course at Magshimim. She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and economics from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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About Donde Search: Transforming the online shopping experience using AI, Computer Vision and NLP to develop Intuitive Visual Discovery for Retailers
Bob Luther
CEO at Lex Products Corp of LEX TM3 SYSTEMS
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About LEX TM3 SYSTEMS: LEX TM3 SYSTEMS is a manufacturer of heavy-duty connectors.
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.
Daniel Ramot
Co-Founder and CEO of Via
Daniel Ramot is the co-founder and CEO of Via. Prior to Via, Daniel built supercomputers designed to discover new pharmaceutical drugs at D. E. Shaw Research, and developed avionic systems for F-15s and F-16s for the Israeli Air Force. He has a PhD in neuroscience from Stanford University and is a graduate of the Israel Defense Forces’ elite Talpiot program.
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About Via: Via is a re-engineering public transit company that develops and provides on-demand public mobility solutions for commuters.
Rajesh Cherukuri
Co- founder & CEO of GIN – Get It Now Inc.
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About GIN – Get It Now Inc., REVR – Real VR: GIN is a luxury concierge service for fashion, with great brands and personal curation.
Jason Field
CEO of BrainStation
Jason Field is the Founder and CEO of BrainStation, the global leader in digital skills training. Over the years, BrainStation has empowered more than 70,000 professionals around the world through corporate training, diploma programs, and certification courses, both online and at campuses in New York, Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver, and Boston. The company has also worked with over 350 corporations in the process of digital transformation, offering cutting-edge employee skills training and a pipeline of emerging tech talent.
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About BrainStation, BrainStation: BrainStation is a global leader in digital skills training, empowering businesses and brands to succeed in the digital age.
Kirill Suslov
Founder and CEO of TabTrader
Kirill Suslov is the Founder and CEO at TabTrader.
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About TabTrader: TabTrader is the mobile crypto trading terminal.
Nancy Marzouk
CEO & Founder of MediaWallah
Nancy founded MediaWallah in 2013. She saw a gap and pitfalls in how marketers were leverage their data and the need to connect fragmented data to an individual to drive better cross channel media plan results in real-time. As CEO & Founder of MediaWallah, she is responsible for all aspects of the company’s vision, strategy, and execution. Over the past 17 years Nancy Marzouk has been recognized as a thought leader and revenue powerhouse in digital marketing and ad tech. Her strategy and tactics have helped many digital companies grow into major acquisition targets. She was most recently the CRO at TagMan (acquire by Ensighten) where she managed sales, marketing, product implementation, client management, and business development. Nancy has a strong reputation in the digital media industry and has held other executive roles at IgnitionOne (acquired by Dentsu), x+1 (acquired by Rocket Fuel) , DRIVEpm (acquired by Microsoft) and Ask Jeeves ( acquired by IAC/Interactive Corp). Nancy is a battle-tested digital expert with a wealth of ad tech and online marketing knowledge. She frequently spoke at serval OMMA events, Digiday events, at the iMedia Agency Summit, Web 2.0, Ad:tech and many other prestigious event. She also has write Op-ed pieces for publications such as Adweek and been quoted in industry trades such as Ad Exchanger, ClickZ and Mediapost.
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About MediaWallah: MediaWallah offers a highly scalable cloud based user mapping Data as a Service (DaaS) platform for large brands.
Michael Faye
CEO, Co Founder of Taptap Send
Michael is co-founder of GiveDirectly, Segovia, and Taptap Send. He has worked extensively in enterprise technology as an Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company, with international governments at the United Nations Millennium Project, and operating large-scale field projects while earning his PhD in Business Economics from Harvard. Michael also holds a BA from Harvard in Mathematics and Classics (although he didn’t know Segovia is an aqueduct) and was recognized as a top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy.
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About GiveDirectly, Segovia, Taptap Send: Taptap Send is an app that lets immigrants send money back home.
Donald Leka
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Jumptuit
Creator of Jumptuit and the Glide OS Donald Leka, Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Jumptuit Group, is a technology executive with over 15 years of experience creating industry-changing and award-winning cloud and data service technologies including Jumptuit and Glide OS. The ethos underlying Mr. Leka’s career from exploration to innovation to market, from Glide through Jumptuit, has been one of creating value, empowering individuals and protecting the sanctity of data. Mr. Leka’s Jumptuit Data Science and Engineering Teams developed Jumptuit’s Nexus Framework that maintains dynamic awareness of activities and relevant events, understanding the associations between activities and events and the conditions in which they occur, autonomously providing highly nuanced and individualized relevant information, insights and predictions. Mr. Leka also created the Data Rights Matrix that autonomously enforces data privacy and market sector and jurisdictional regulations in data exchange. Mr. Leka led the Glide OS product team, commercializing cloud-based services in 2005 before any of the big tech companies offered such a platform or services with the Glide Operating System and its Productivity App Suite that competed effectively with Google Docs, Gmail and MS Office. Glide received numerous awards including PC World’s Top 100 Products and Laptop Magazine’s Top 50 Web Apps. Mr. Leka and his work have been featured in WSJ, NYT, WaPo, Forbes, CNET, PCWorld, etc., and on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, and more. Mr. Leka is the co-author of the Amazon top selling book, “Cloud Computing: The Glide OS Story, Solving the Cross-Platform Puzzle.” Mr. Leka has been a featured speaker at Harvard Business School, MIT, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, TEDx, AllThingsD with Walt Mossberg, NYU, American U, U Miami, and most recently interviewed at Davos 2020 World Economic Forum. Mr. Leka ranked Number 51 In the Top 100 Most Influential Cloud Professionals. (Onalytica, July 2015) Jumptuit ranked Number 29 In the Top 100 Most Influential Cloud Brands. (Onalytica, July 2015)
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About Jumptuit: Tomorrow’s Intelligence Today
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.
Ross Clark
CEO & Co-Founder of Sanctuary
Ross Clark currently works as the CEO and Co-Founder for Sanctuary. He previously worked at EPIX as the Senior Vice President.
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About Sanctuary: Sanctuary is a mystical products and services company that provides illuminating experiences to millennials.
Justin Wisz
CEO of Truthify
Justin Wisz is CEO at Truthify, and Venture Partner at RTP Ventures. He was previously Co-Founder at Vestorly, Inc. Justin Wisz was employed at Fisher Investments. He was founder of 2 digital advertising firms.
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About ForwardPro, Truthify: Mobile applications that leverage AI to change the way people communicate and companies advertise and connect with their clients/prospects.
