Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top San Francisco 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.
Urmas Purde
Co-Founder of Pipedrive
Co-Founder of Pipedrive.
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About Pipedrive: Pipedrive is the global sales-first CRM and revenue platform for small businesses
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Rob Fan
Founder & CTO/COO of Sharethrough USA
Rob leads all product and technology strategy for the company. He is a practitioner, student and teacher of the “lean startup” methodology. In his spare time, Rob, hacks and plays with new technology and advises early-stage startups about the successes and pitfalls he has learned thus far. Prior to Sharethrough, Rob worked as a technology consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton advising various three-letter government agencies. As an early adopter of the Facebook platform, Rob was one of the teaching assistants for the first-ever “Facebook Class” while at Stanford. Rob holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
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About Sharethrough USA: Sharethrough is one of the top global independent omnichannel ad exchanges
Dan Greenberg
Founder & President of Sharethrough USA
Dan Greenberg is the founder and CEO of Sharethrough, a 150+ person SF-based software company that powers in-feed, native ads for premium publishers like Time Inc, Hearst, People and brand marketers like Pepsi and P&G. Dan also acts as the co-chair of the IAB Native Advertising Committee. Dan comes from a research background at Stanford in persuasive technology, and regularly teaches classes in brand content, modern monetization, and viral engineering. Dan was recently named to the Inc “35 Under 35” list, the Forbes “30 Under 30″ list and has been honored as an Ad Age Media Maven. He organizes and hosts the Sharethrough Native Ad Summits, is a regular speaker at advertising and technology conferences, and contributes to industry publications including Forbes, AdAge, and TechCrunch.
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About Sharethrough USA: Sharethrough is one of the top global independent omnichannel ad exchanges
Andrew Gazdecki
Founder and CEO of MicroAcquire
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About Altcoin.io, Bizness Apps, MicroAcquire: MicroAcquire is a startup acquisition marketplace that helps startups find buyers and get acquired.
Michael Perone
EVP, Co-Founder of Opensense
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About 345 Partners, Opensense, Switch9, Inc.: Everyday email, evolved.
Amit Gupta
CEO & Founder of Opensense
Amit spent most of his career in high technology, media, and infrastructure. He co-founded SenderGen in 2013, and spearheaded development on the company’s industry-leading enterprise email signature marketing platform. In 2018, SenderGen became Opensense, where Amit serves as co-founder and CEO. Prior to SenderGen, he co-founded Affle Limited which is a mobile media company with extensive operations in the Asia Pacific. While there, he was responsible for driving new product initiatives and helped to source and complete Microsoft’s strategic investment in Affle. Affle’s flagship product and campaigns later won a top global award by the Mobile Marketing Association. Prior to Affle, Amit worked at Bloomberg New York, and subsequently at Bloomberg London helping to plan and implement major new projects such as “Bloomberg Anywhere” that helped to drive $500M+ in new revenues annually. While there, he also designed and implemented highly scalable system architectures that were used to support millions of users. Systems integration is his specialty. He is a technology enthusiast and likes to get his hands dirty with new projects. He also has spent time at various high technology companies developing virtual reality applications, medical imaging algorithms, neural networks and financial trading systems. Amit holds a B.S. in Computer Science (Honors) from the Johns Hopkins University (USA).
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About Opensense: Everyday email, evolved.
Bobby Narang
EVP, Co-Founder of Opensense
Bobby co-founded SenderGen in 2013, where he led sales and marketing for the company’s industry-leading enterprise email signature marketing platform. In 2018, SenderGen became Opensense, where he serves as co-founder and VP, Sales. Prior to SenderGen, Bobby was sales lead at Intralinks (NYSE: IL), where he was responsible for sales to the largest firms in the financial services industry, as well as selling directly into the C-Suite at firms within the Fortune 1000. As a highlight, In 2013, Bobby secured Intralinks first full enterprise agreement at a major investment bank in New York, marking a significant win for the organization. Prior to Intralinks, was in sales at Yext, where he was responsible for generating new business within a dozen different SMB verticals. Additionally, he served in a Business Development role where he successfully spearheaded the launch of six new vertical-focused product lines. Bobby has a passion for evangelizing cutting-edge technology solutions that disrupt “the old way of doing things.” Bobby holds a BSBA with a concentration in Finance from Boston University.
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About Opensense: Everyday email, evolved.
Aykut Karaalioglu
Founder & CEO of Mobile Action
Aykut Karaalioglu is the founder of Mobile Action, a company specialized in mobile discovery and optimization. He also co-founded Marro.ws, a clipping tool for intellectual people, and Shoppe, a shopping application. Karaalioglu holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Bilkent University. He obtained his master’s degree from Santa Clara University. Karaalioglu currently lives in San Francisco, California.
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About Mobile Action: Leading mobile intelligence company empowering app marketers to thrive in the market.
Dave Garr
Co-Founder, SVP of Customer Experience of UserTesting
Specialties:A/B testing, conversion rate optimization, interactive marketing, market research, multivariate testing, product marketing, social networking, usability
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About UserTesting: UserTesting is an on-demand human insight platform designed to improve customer insights.
Tom Impallomeni
Co-Founder of SuperAwesome
Co-founder & CEO, Tribe VR
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About SuperAwesome, Tribe XR: SuperAwesome offers kid-safe tools and technology for the children’s digital media ecosystem.
Armando Biondi
Co-Founder & CEO of Breadcrumbs.io
Armando Biondi currently works as the Co-Founder and CEO for Breadcrumbs.io. He previously worked at Hootsuite as the global head of growth operations.
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About Breadcrumbs.io: Breadcrumbs.io is a revenue acceleration platform that helps companies in rating and scoring current and potential customers.
Oren Kaniel
Co-Founder and CEO of AppsFlyer
Oren Kaniel is the CEO & co-founder of AppsFlyer, the market leader in Mobile Attribution Analytics. Oren holds a BA in Computer Science, Cum Laude, from the Technion, and an MBA from IDC, as part of an exchange with the Wharton Business School.
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About AppsFlyer: The world’s top brands use AppsFlyer to build great products, create exceptional experiences, and preserve customer privacy.
Reshef Mann
Co-Founder & CTO of AppsFlyer
Reshef Mann is Co-Founder & CTO at AppsFlyer.
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About AppsFlyer: The world’s top brands use AppsFlyer to build great products, create exceptional experiences, and preserve customer privacy.
Jonathan Downey
Founder, CEO, and Head of Product of Candidate Labs
Jonathan Downey is an experienced technology entrepreneur, CEO, and investor, having founded two companies and invested in more than 40 startups. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of a company at the intersection of talent and data. He has built out high-performing teams across a broad set of skills from hardware engineering through cloud services, analytics, and enterprise sales. Over his career he has raised over $100M from leading investors, including A16Z, KPCB, Signalfire, First Round Capital, GV, and Next World Capital, and has secured 6 and 7-figure enterprise engagements with Fortune 500 enterprises including State Farm and Caterpillar. Jonathan is an electrical engineering and computer science graduate from MIT and holds numerous patents. A YC-Combinator alum, Jonathan was named USA Today’s “Small-Business Innovator of the Year” and MIT Tech Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35”. He is an instrument-rated commercial multi-engine pilot and worked at Boeing as an engineer contributing to the development and flight testing of the A160T Hummingbird, a 6,500 lb fully-autonomous helicopter, which broke the world record for longest helicopter flight. and regularly flew within the National Airspace System (NAS).
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About Candidate Labs, SignalFire: The Modern Search Firm Built as a Technology Company
Puneet Mehta
Founder / CEO of Netomi
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About Netomi: An AI-first customer service platform that enables companies to deliver the highest quality customer experiences.
Vijay Chattha
Founder and CEO of VSC
Vijay Chattha joined VSC Consulting as Founder / CEO in 2002.
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About BlackMahal, The100kPledge, VSC, Wareness.io: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.
Victor Ho
Co-Founder & CEO of Fivestars
Victor Ho is the CEO and Co-Founder of FiveStars, a venture-backed startup building a consumer identity platform that personalizes commerce in the real world by harnessing the power of big data, predictive analytics, and cloud-based marketing automation. Previously, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Co.in New York, where he helped multiple Fortune 500 companies build and manage their loyalty and customer retention programs. He was recently selected to Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Victor holds three degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Rubik’s cube enthusiast with a personal best of 45 seconds.
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About Fivestars: Fivestars provides a platform that offers loyalty, marketing, payments, and other services to small merchants and businesses.
Mikael Yang
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ManyChat
Mikael Yang is the Co-Founder and CEO of ManyChat – a platform that helps businesses and professionals engage their audience through messaging apps.
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About ManyChat: ManyChat helps businesses do marketing, sales and support through Facebook Messenger.
Jeremy Bloom
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Integrate
Jeremy Bloom is the only athlete in history to ski in the Olympics and get drafted into the NFL. He is a three-time WorldChampion, two-time Olympian, eleven-time World Cup gold medalist and the youngest member ever inducted into The United States Skiing Hall of Fame. He was also an All-American football player at the University of Colorado and played professional football as a wide receiver and return specialist in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers. While playing with the NFL in Philadelphia for the Eagles, he completed a business entrepreneurship program at Wharton Business School where he studied real estate and finance. Today, he is Founder/CEO of the Marketing Technology company, Integrate and founder of Wish of a Lifetime, a nonprofit organization that grants lifelong wishes to senior citizens. Through Jeremy’s vision and leadership, Integrate is transforming global marketing. The company has raised over $40M of venture capital from Comcast, Foundry Group and Liberty Global. Integrate was named as the “Best New Company” at the American Business Awards in New York City. Jeremy was named by Forbes as 30 under 30, tech executives under the age of 30 making waves in the technology space and in 2013 Jeremy was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Outside of business, Jeremy has continued to maintain his name within the sports world. He does commentary for college football and is an Olympic Sports Television Analyst and has worked for ESPN, Fox, NBC, and The Pac-12 Network.
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About Integrate, United States Ski & Snowboard Association, Wish of a Lifetime, Wish of a Lifetime: Integrate provides a hub for managing and measuring demand generation programs.
Daniel Chu
CEO and Co-Founder of MakersPlace
Daniel Chu is the CEO and co-founder at MakersPlace. He is a product and engineering leader with a passion for applying technologies to drive real-world change.
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About MakersPlace: MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators.
Luke Swanek
Co-Founder & VP Sales of PartnerStack
Luke Swanek is CoFounder & VP of Sales at GrowSumo.
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About PartnerStack: PartnerStack enables companies to accelerate growth with partnerships
Maran Nelson
Founder and Chairperson of Interact
Maran Nelson is the co-founder and CEO of Clara Labs. Prior to launching Clara Labs, Maran serves as founder and chairperson at Interact ATX, Inc.
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About Interact: SaaS zero party data platform: The easiest way to convert curious people into loyal customers and happy clients.
Christopher Wendel
President and Co-Founder of Volta Charging
Chris is a global finance executive with 20 years of experience running large sales teams and raising capital in equity markets. The bulk of this time was with Goldman Sachs in the United States, Germany, and Japan. While on sabbatical in Hawaii, Chris stumbled upon Volta stations at the Kailua Whole Foods. He soon after became an investor and joined Volta as partner and CFO in 2012. Chris lives in Napa with his wife and three children, loves flying, and will challenge you to a tennis match any day of the week. He and his wife each drive a Tesla Model S in fire engine red and metallic blue.
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About Volta Charging: Volta Charging designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations.
Scott Mercer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Volta Charging
Scott Mercer is the founder and CEO of Volta, an electric vehicle charging network with the most-utilized stations in the US. An entrepreneur fascinated by both cars and future-focused technology, Scott founded Volta to bridge the gap between electric vehicles and the mainstream. The network delivers free electric vehicle charging in areas where stations are most needed, as determined by Volta’s proprietary machine learning algorithms. Under Scott’s leadership, Volta is experiencing consecutive 3x year-over-year revenue and footprint growth. Scott launched Volta in 2010 in Hawaii, where he was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Hawaii Venture Capital, 40 Under 40 by Pacific Business News and Hawaii Business’ 20 for the Next 20. Previously, Scott ran a business buying, restoring and selling vintage cars in his early 20s. He sold a restored 1967 Jaguar XKE to seed the beginnings of Volta, which has now raised $62 million in funding. Scott currently rides an electric motorcycle, drives an electric Fiat, and occasionally, a 1971 Alfa Romeo.
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About Volta Charging: Volta Charging designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations.
Laduram Vishnoi
CEO & Founder of Acquire
Laduram Vishnoi is the CEO and founder of Acquire.
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About Acquire, Tagove: Acquire is a unified customer engagement platform that brings all communication, interactions, channels, and tools under one roof.
Tomas Puig
CEO / Founder of Alembic
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About Alembic, Test Kitchen Capital: SaaS, Marketing, Analytics
Matt Schlicht
CEO and Founder of Octane AI
Matt Schlicht is the founder and editor of Chatbots Magazine, the #1 place to learn about chatbots. He is a YC Alum, a Forbes 30 Under 30 winner, and was also previously a product manager at Ustream as well as an advisor to several other startups. Several months ago, Matt decided to launch a community dedicated to messaging and bots. Chatbots Magazine was born and now reaches over 200,000+ people per month. Matt joins us to share his story, how he got into startups and tech, how he created the opportunity to join the team at uStream, how he approaches building products, why he’s so passionate about bots and messaging, what’s next for Chatbots Magazine.
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About Chatbots Magazine, DominateFund, Hamster Pad, Octane AI, ZapChain: Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.
Sebastian Rymarz
CEO and Co-Founder of Heyday
As the Chief Business Officer, Sebastian oversees sales, marketing, business and corporate development. An early U.S. hire, he brings rich experience in financial services and credit risk management. Prior to Fundbox, he was VP at TPG Special Situation Partners and an investment professional at Sageview Capital. Sebastian began his career in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs after graduating with a BS in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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About Heyday: Heyday offers a digital marketplace space built for sellers to accelerate consumer product brands.
Allan Grant
Founder & Executive Chairman of Talkable
Allan Grant is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Talkable. Prior to that, he was the Founder of Hired. He was a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology.
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About Talkable: Talkable is a technology platform that enables marketers to run customizable Refer A Friend Programs.
Neha Sampat
Founder and CEO of Contentstack
Neha Sampat (@nehasf) is Founder and CEO at Contentstack™ – a leading Content Management System (CMS) and Content Experience Platform (CXP), adopted by brands including Best Buy, Chase, Holiday Inn, Icelandair, Morningstar, Express, Miami HEAT, Shell, and Walmart. Previously, Neha was Founder and CEO of Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Built.io®, which was acquired by German software powerhouse Software AG in September 2018. Neha is a recognized industry leader, a proponent of diversity, and an outspoken advocate for women in leadership. She can be found appearing on keynote stages or expert panels discussing her experiences as an entrepreneur, a female leader, or her company’s role in the future of technology. Neha raised a Series A funding round of $31.5M USD for Contentstack, one of the largest for enterprise SaaS software companies. She was one of “50 Women in Tech Dominating Silicon Valley” in 2015, was named in “San Francisco Business Times Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business” in 2017, and is a “San Francisco Business Times 40 under 40” honoree. Neha was also honored as “CEO of the Year” by Aragon Research in December 2018 and Female Tech Trailblazer of the Year in 2020. Most recently, she was recognized as “Best CEO for Diversity” and “Best CEO for Women” in the 2020 Comparably Best Places to Work Awards.
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About Built.io, Contentstack, KurbKarma, raw engineering: Contentstack develops a cloud based content management system intended to power omnichannel content.
Kimball Thomas
Co-CEO/Founder of Baby
Kimball Thomas is the Co – CEO & Founder at Baby.com.br . He earned his MBA from, Harvard Business School. His B.S. (Finance) from University of Utah.
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About Baby, Walrus Health: Baby is an e-commerce retailer of baby products in Brazil.
Rajeev Goel
Co-Founder & CEO of PubMatic
Rajeev co-founded PubMatic in 2006, based on the belief that publishers are underserved from a technology and services perspective, and set out to build an automation software company focused on publishers. Under his leadership, the company has grown and matured into a major enterprise provider with more than 400 employees and 13 locations around the globe. The high pace of revenue and profit growth, is fueled by Rajeev’s commitment to help publishers protect, monetize and manage their most valuable asset – the relationship between consumers, content and brands. Rajeev is a serial entrepreneur who has raised more than $250 million in funding throughout his career. Rajeev serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the IAB. He holds a master’s degree in Computer & Information Technology from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in economics, political science and Spanish from the Johns Hopkins University.
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About PubMatic: PubMatic is an automation solutions company for an open digital media industry.
Raghu Kodige
Founder & Chief Product Officer of Alphonso
Raghu Kodige is the co-founder of Alphonso.
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About Alphonso, LG Ads, Microsoft, Yahoo: Alphonso is a software company that offers TV data and measurement services for brands and agencies.
Josh Curl
Founder & CTO of Hightouch
Josh Curl is the Co-Founder of Hightouch.
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About Hightouch: Hightouch is a data platform that helps sync customer’s data from the data warehouse to their CRM, marketing, and support tools.
Kris Rudeegraap
CEO, CoFounder of Sendoso
Kris Rudeegraap is CEO at Sendoso
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About CoffeeSender, Sendoso: Sendoso helps companies connect and drive revenue with personalized gifts, eGifts, virtual experiences, and more.
Diaz Nesamoney
Founder, President & CEO of Jivox
Diaz Nesamoney founder of Jivox has had two prior successful ventures. He was previously co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly Diaz Nesamoney is an accomplished technology entrepreneur who founded three successful technology companies, all harnessing the power of data to power enterprise and consumer applications. Currently Diaz is Founder, President, and CEO of Jivox, a company that provides a technology platform for data-driven personalized advertising and marketing. He was previously Co-founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly traded company in 1999. Informatica pioneered data integration software as a category and is now the market leader with more than $1 billion in revenue and a $5 billion market capitalization. Before founding Jivox, he founded Celequest and served as its CEO until early 2007, when the company was acquired by Cognos/IBM. Celequest introduced the market’s first business intelligence and analytics appliance, a disruptive innovation that led to its acquisition. Diaz holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India and is the holder of seven technology patents. Diaz is also the author of the first book on using data and technology to personalize digital advertising.
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About Jivox: Jivox offers a cloud-based, data-driven omnichannel platform that personalizes digital advertising and marketing experiences at scale.
Sunil Thomas
Co-Founder and CEO of CleverTap
Sunil is a technologist and drives CleverTap’s strategic vision while also managing investor relations. He has previously held CTO roles at startups and companies like Network18 and Infospace Inc.
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About CleverTap: CleverTap helps digital brands increase user retention and lifetime value with the help of data, personalization, deep-tech and automation
Darren Lachtman
Co Founder of Brat
Darren was previously the senior director of business development for Bedrocket Media Ventures. He has an extensive background in digital media and marketing, working alongside brands like ESPN, EA and Google.
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About Brat: Brat is a teen-leaning digital production company.
Michael Sharkey
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Autopilot
Michael Sharkey co-founded Autopilot and is the CEO. Prior to founding Autopilot, Michael joined his brother Chris to grow start-up Stayz into a top Australian rental booking site (acquired by FairFax Digital in 2006 and again by HomeAway for $225M in 2013). He also co-founded Sharkey Media with his brother Chris, where he helped grow Australian startups, marketing programs, and websites.
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About Autopilot: Switch ON better marketing for your business. The Best Marketing and Customer Data Platform for Ecommerce
Christopher Lien
Founder & CEO of Marin Software
Mr. Lien is Marin’s founder and Chairman of the Board, and rejoined the Company as Chief Executive Officer in August 2016. From September 2015 to August 2016, Mr. Lien has served on boards of private companies as well as Marin Software. From May 2014 until September 2015, Mr. Lien served as executive chairman of Marin Software, and from the founding of the Company in 2006 to May 2014, he served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Lien has been a member of the Board since 2006. Previously, Mr. Lien served as Chief Operating Officer of Adteractive, Inc., an online performance marketing company, from 2004 to 2005. In 2001, Mr. Lien co-founded and served as Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Sugar Media, Inc., a broadband services platform, until its acquisition in 2003 by 2Wire, Inc., a leading supplier of DSL equipment and services, which was subsequently acquired by Pace plc in 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Lien served in various capacities at BlueLight.com, LLC, Kmart Corporation’s ecommerce and Internet service provider subsidiary from 2000 to 2001, including as Chief Financial Officer and acting Chief Executive Officer. Prior to BlueLight.com, Mr. Lien spent 10 years at various investment banks, including Morgan Stanley and Evercore Partners, with his last role as Managing Director. Mr. Lien holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College, where he was elected as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr. Lien’s presence as a member of the Board brings his thorough knowledge of the Company into the Board’s strategic and policy-making discussions. He brings his extensive experience in finance, digital marketing and executive roles in the information technology industry into deliberations regarding the Company’s strategy and operations.
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About Heron Partners, Marin Software, Marin Software: Marin Software Incorporated (NYSE:MRIN) provides a leading cross-channel performance advertising platform used by advertisers and agencies.
Selene Cruz
Founder & CEO of Re:Store
Selene Cruz is the founder and CEO at RE:STORE.
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About Knocknock.TV, Re:Store: Re:Store is a co-working and retail space for cult-favorite online brands.
Harry Zhang
Co-Founder of Lob
Harry Zhang is the Co-Founder and Board of Directors member for Lob. Harry is responsible for the company’s sales and marketing organizations. He built the first version of Lob’s APIs and launched the initial revenue streams for the company. Prior to Lob, Harry worked at Microsoft where he managed Project and Visio field sales, channel partners, and integrated end-to-end marketing activities across all customer segments in the US. Earlier in his career, he held roles at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and Ford Motor Company. Harry was most recently recognized on Forbes 30 under 30 list and holds two degrees in Informatics and Business Administration from the University of Michigan.
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About Lob: Lob provides direct mail and address verification APIs which allows businesses to send personalized mail to their customers.
Leore Avidar
Co-Founder & CEO of Lob
Leore Avidar serves as Co-Founder at Lob.com, Inc. Prior to Lob, Mr. Avidar worked as a Technical Business Developer at Amazon Web Services and as a Quant/Derivative trader at Citigroup.
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About Alt, Lob: Lob provides direct mail and address verification APIs which allows businesses to send personalized mail to their customers.
Aleks Gollu
Founder & CEO of 11Sight
Aleks Gollu is founder, CEO at 11Sight.
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About 11Sight: Inbound Video Call and Customer Engagement Platform For Revenue Teams
Farokh Eskafi
Founder and President and CTO of 11Sight
Farokh Eskafi is founder, president and CTO at 11Sight.
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About 11Sight, Santa Clara University, TagArray: Inbound Video Call and Customer Engagement Platform For Revenue Teams
Kyle Wong
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Pixlee
Kyle Wong is the CEO & Co-Founder of Pixlee, a visual marketing platform that helps brands market and sells with customer photos and videos. The company works with more than 150 brands such as Kenneth Cole, Gaiam, Levi Strauss and Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants to develop a more authentic marketing experience and create stronger relationships with their most passionate customers. Apart from that, he is currently working as a contributor with Forbes magazine and as a leadership council with Ad Council. Kyle attended Stanford University where he studied engineering and co-founded Pixlee out of his dorm room in 2012. He is a mentor for the Stanford Accelerator (StartX) program, where he advises several early-stage VC backed tech startups. Kyle has been featured in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List and is a regular speaker and domain expert on influencer marketing and driving consumer engagement through social media. He is also an active contributor for Forbes and Fortune Magazine where he writes on digital marketing, entrepreneurship, and various leadership and career topics.
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About Ad Council, Forbes Magazine, Pixlee: Pixlee is a user-generated content marketing platform that helps brands to market and sell by using real customer photos and videos.
Raju Sagiraju
CEO/Founder of Dime Development
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About Dime Development: Digital Agency to help brands
Julia Enthoven
Co-Founder and CEO of Kapwing
Julia Enthoven is the Founder of Kapwing.
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About Kapwing: Online editor for modern videos, GIFs, and images
Serge Longin
Co-Founder & CEO of RevenueWell
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About RevenueWell: Automated practice marketing and patient communication suite.
Vijay Chittoor
Co-Founder & CEO of Blueshift
Co-Founder & CEO of Blueshift. Formerly Co-Founder & CEO, Mertado (acquired by Groupon), and early team at Kosmix (acquired by Walmart).
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About Blueshift, Mertado: Blueshift offers the SmartHub CDP, which helps brands deliver relevant and connected experiences across every customer interaction.
Manyam Mallela
Co-Founder, Chief AI Officer of Blueshift
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About Blueshift: Blueshift offers the SmartHub CDP, which helps brands deliver relevant and connected experiences across every customer interaction.
Joe Martin
Founder and CEO of Snatch
Forensic scientist turned entrepreneur and tech company founder. Joe has used his background in to behavioral psychology to take the unlikely step into brand and mobile marketing to huge effect. His first venture ‘Snatch’ – a mobile marketing platform packaged as augmented reality treasure hunt hit the #1 spot on the UK app stores in 2017 and fast became the #1 customer acquisition platform for the majority of over 200 brand partners thanks to the productization of his deeper level understanding of consumer behaviour that resulted in average offer redemptions of 34% (industry average 2%-5%) across a 9 month test period that accumulated over 1 million active users and resulted in Joe being invited to speak at some of the worlds most prestigious tech and marketing events from SXSW, CES, Founders Forum and Cannes Lion. He now returns with his second venture ‘Tickle’ to once again challenge the stat quo and to once again prove that advertising can and should entertain and reward.
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About Snatch, Tickle Global: Snatch is a computer game development company that provides a radical reinvention of the brand experience.
Sebastian Dobrincu
Co-Founder & CEO of Storyheap
Sebastian Dobrincu is a serial tech entrepreneur, engineer and music artist living in Los Angeles, CA. He is best known for being named “Silicon Valley’s Youngest Self-Made Millionaire” and one of the “30 Under 30” by Forbes. Dobrincu is also an angel investor, public speaker and songwriter. Dobrincu debuted his musical career in 2019 with the single “On Your Mind”, followed by “Halfway To The Moon”. Sebastian Dobrincu was born in Bucharest, Romania and moved to the US at 17 to scale his business. He dropped out of Stanford University after moving to Silicon Valley where he established his company’s headquarters. He was first introduced to software in 2009. He had worked with clients ranging from individual employers to startups and Fortune 500 corporations. He is currently the founder and CEO of Storyheap and helps startups as an advisor. He actively invest in promising, motivated and hardworking entrepreneurs and their early stage ventures. He is also a public speaker and featured contributor for publications like Entrepreneur Magazine and Mashable.
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About Brandmates, Shop.io, Storyheap: Analytics and marketing suite for the world’s leading brands and influencers. Reach & engage your community and maximize online performance.
Tyson Quick
Founder & Chief Growth Officer of Postclick
Serial Entrepreneur, Advertising/Marketing Innovator, Postclick & Instapage Founder/CEO
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About Instapage, Mesiab Labs, Postclick: The world’s leading solution for improving digital ad conversions-creating digital experiences that optimize and increase return on ad spend
Joel York
Chairman & Founder , SaaS , Integrated Marketing of Markodojo
Joel York is the Chief Marketing Officer & Enterprise Content Firewall at Accellion.
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About Markodojo: Markodojo is a company that provides clients with market managing software while embracing agile philosophy.
Kamal Shah
Founder, CEO and CTO of fotobabble
Kamal Shah has over 20 years of experience building technology products and companies. Kamal was the Founder and President of Invu Technology for seven years. Prior to that he served as Chief Architect at enterprise software companies Wakesoft and Smashcast and started his career as a software engineer in the early ’90s. Kamal has a Master’s in Engineering from the University of Toronto where he was also the captain and nationally ranked member of the University of Toronto Swim Team.
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About fotobabble, FotoNotes, invu technology: Fotobabble is a software company providing photo- and audio-powered social marketing solutions.
Andrew Sawyer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cured
Andrew is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cured. Andrew was previously a venture capitalist at GE Ventures where he focused on healthcare and life sciences investing and new business creation. Prior to his role in venture capital, Andrew was a healthcare entrepreneur and management consultant focused on the intersection of provider/payer operations and technology. He served as a Director at Nordic Consulting Partners (#46 – INC 5000 list), where he co-founded the Advisory Services practice. In addition, he was Vice President of Consulting Services and a member of the early founding team at Falcon Consulting (#316 – INC 5000 list – acquired by Avaap). He started his career at Epic Systems, where he was an Enterprise Implementation Director and was responsible for launching the Home Health and Hospice product offerings. Andrew holds an MPH in Health Management from Harvard University. He graduated with honors from DePauw University with a dual BA in Economics and Spanish.
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About Cured: a digital marketing & crm platform, built for healthcare organizations
Yi Shi
CEO & Founder of Dotc United Group
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About Avazu, Dotc United Group, Net Impact: DotC United Group creates and architects internet platforms to simplify globalization complexities
Michael Martin
Co-Founder of Avenue 8
Michael is co-founder of Avenue 8.
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About Avenue 8: Avenue 8 is a digital and mobile-first residential real estate brokerage developed for modern real estate agents.
Justin Fichelson
Co-Founder & CEO of Avenue 8
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About Avenue 8: Avenue 8 is a digital and mobile-first residential real estate brokerage developed for modern real estate agents.
Fabio Fleitas
Co-Founder & CTO of Tesorio
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About Tesorio: Tesorio is the cash flow performance platform, which Accounts Receivable, Treasury, and FP&A teams use to manage, predict, and collect cash.
Lauren Nagel
Founder, CEO of Scale It For Me
Lauren Nagel is a data-driven marketer specializing in growth for internet businesses. Lauren’s core expertise is in driving rapid customer, traffic, and revenue growth. Lauren is CEO and Founder at SIFM. She works with each business to establish high-performance, scalable, multi-channel marketing programs to help companies exceed their goals. Throughout her marketing career, she has acted as Chief Marketing Officer for multiple internet businesses.
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About FindKeep.Love, Scale It For Me: Scale It For Me, LLC is a full service marketing consulting firm.
Christian Kletzl
CEO & Co-Founder of UserGems
Christian Kletzl is the CEO & Co-Founder at UserGems
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About UserGems: An AI-powered solution that combines relationship data and trigger events to identify buyers who will most likely buy from you
Eugene Lee
Founder and CEO of Creator Cash
Eugene Lee is a Founder and CEO of Creator Cash.
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About ChannelMeter, Creator Cash: Creator Cash provides insights on earnings and revenue and helps creators manage their youtube channels.
Anil Mathews
Founder & CEO of Near
Anil Mathews is the Founder and CEO of Near. With a technology-centric approach, Anil built Near into the world’s largest source of intelligence on people and places. Anil is a visionary, who continues to steer the fast-growing global business to its next phase. Anil has spent the past 18 years as a serial entrepreneur building successful businesses around engineering, messaging, and social. He is known for creating new market companies with a strategic vision and technology capability that can provide substantial growth. With proven expertise in taking an idea to a company, Anil is an advisor to numerous startups across the globe. He is a member of the Forbes Technology Council, and an active industry speaker.
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About Greater Pacific Capital, Near: Near, the world’s largest source of intelligence on People, Places, and Products, is the global leader in Data Intelligence.
Amnon Mishor
Founder & CTO of Leadspace
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About Leadspace: Leadspace is a B2B customer data platform that drives personalized customer engagement for sales and marketing.
Jim McHugh
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Office of Mperativ
Mperativ provides the first strategic platform to align marketing with sales, customer success, and finance on the cause-and-effect relationships between marketing activities and revenue outcomes.
Despite pouring significant effort into custom analytics, marketers are struggling to convey the value of their initiatives.
By recentering marketing metrics around revenue, Mperativ makes it possible to uncover data narratives and extract trends across the entire customer journey, with beautifully-designed interactive visualizations that demonstrate the effectiveness of marketing in a new revenue-centric language.
As a serverless data warehouse, Mperativ eliminates the complexity of surfacing compelling marketing insights. Connect marketing strategy to revenue results with Mperativ. To learn more, visit us at www.mperativ.io or contact us at info@mperativ.io.
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About Mperativ: Mperativ design and develop marketing software solutions with a focus to increase the revenue of organizations via the platform.
Sachin Bhat
Co-Founder & CTO of Scribe
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About Scribe: Scribe lets you convert all your favorite apps into completely customizable Slack Bots, within 5 minutes.
Brian Wong
Founder and CEO of Kiip
Brian Wong is the co-founder and CEO of Kiip (pronounced “keep”), a category-creating mobile rewards network that is redefining mobile advertising through an innovative platform that leverages “moments of achievement” in games and apps to simultaneously benefit users, developers and advertisers. Backed by Relay Ventures, Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, True Ventures, Digital Garage and others, the company has raised $15.4 million in funding to date. Kiip has been named one of the world’s 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company, listed by Forbes as one of the 4 Hot Online Ad Companies to Put on Your Watch List and included on the Dow Jones FasTech50 List. After skipping four K-12 grades, Brian received his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia at age 18, and shortly after became one of the youngest people to ever receive venture capital funding. He has been recognized with many awards for his accomplishments and leadership, including: the Top 20 Under 20 awards for all of Canada; Business Insider’s Top 25 Under 25 in Silicon Valley, 30 Under 30 in Advertising and 18 Most Important People in Mobile Advertising; Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in 2011 and 2012; Mashable’s Top 5 Entrepreneurs to Watch; iMedia 25; One of AdWeek’s Seven Would-be Mobile Titans; and the AdAge Creativity Top 50. Before starting Kiip, Brian led key publisher and tech partnerships at the social news website Digg.com, where he accelerated the company’s mobile presence by launching the Digg Android mobile app.
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About Kiip: Kiip is a rewards network and mobile application that offers rewards from brands and companies for virtual achievements.
Bob Long
Co-Founder and CEO of Teachable Machines™
Bob Long is a 25-year veteran executive and serial entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Teachable Machines, an AI company delivering state-of-the-art predictive modeling for product and marketing teams; GoFiercely, a wearable bionics company focused on miniaturizing assistive devices for people with disabilities or people who want to enhance their bodily capabilities; and NextSpark, a marketing & creative software design and development agency. Prior to co-founding these companies, Bob was a founder & CEO of MetaCommunications, a SaaS software company that pioneered marketing workflow automation, with a suite of products powering the work of thousands of marketing and creative teams around the world. Bob grew MetaCommunications from $0 to $7.5M ARR, while its flagship product, Workgroups, won the hearts and the minds of teams at companies like 3M, Merck, Pfizer, Ralph Lauren, Allstate, Sony, Hilton, IKEA and Mercedes-Benz. In 2011, Mr. Long co-founded ProofMe, a radically simple feedback & collaboration platform for video, PDFs, images and more. Featuring integrations with Slack, Dropbox, Vimeo, Adobe Creative Cloud and Canva, ProofMe went on to become a cornerstone of creative workflow for tens of thousands of individual creatives and teams alike, including household names like Reebok, Samsung, Discovery Channel, Sony Music and ACM Networks. In 2016 Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad presented Bob Long with the Tech Pioneer award. Bob attributes his passion for entrepreneurship to his father, Robert T. Long, Sr., who founded Thermomass and turned it into an industry standard for insulated concrete walls. Bob Long has studied computer science at Iowa State University, University of Iowa, MIT and Oxford. Over the years, Bob has donated money to children’s cancer research and treatment programs at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital and Mayo Clinic Children’s Center. He has also donated his time to help aspiring entrepreneurs visualize and execute their passions.
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About Creatively App, GoFiercely, Next Spark, Teachable Machines™: Amazingly accurate predictive modeling for product and marketing teams. The future is now.
Nicholas Lau
Co-Founder.Design of Sendbloom
Nick is responsible for design, UI / UX, and front-end engineering at Sendbloom. He’s been lobbying for an in-house chef since the company was first founded. Nick holds a M.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Economics, both from Northwestern.
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About Sendbloom: Tailored outbound messaging for sales
Francis Brero
Co-Founder & CRO of MadKudu
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About MadKudu: MadKudu helps SaaS companies identify, qualify, and engage their leads throughout the buyer journey.
Vik Singh
CEO & Co-Founder of Infer
Prior to founding Infer, Vik was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures (SHV), where he helped the firm identify new ideas as well as evaluate early stage investments. Before SHV, Vik helped create and architect Yahoo! BOSS, an open search platform that runs over 1 billion queries a month. At 24, MIT’s Technology Review listed him as one of the Top 35 under 35 Innovators for his contributions to search. He also worked at Google and Microsoft, both in research and products, helping ship Custom Search and XP SP2 Wireless. At MSR he worked with Turing Award winner Dr. Jim Gray, co-authoring a publication about the SkyServer. Vik has filed 13 patents in the areas of search, social networking, systems, and content optimization. Vik graduated with a Bachelor’s from the University of California, Berkeley in Computer Science.
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About Infer: Infer provides a predictive SaaS platform that helps businesses win more customers
Valerie R. Coffman
CTO and Co-Founder of Swayable
Valerie is a graduate of Johns Hopkins and received a PhD in Physics from Cornell where she wrote software for studying the fracture properties of materials. After graduation, she spent 5 years at the National Institute of Standards and Technology writing open source software for materials science research. For the past three years she has been providing data science consulting to startups, specializing in natural language processing and search engine technology.
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About Swayable: Swayable is a data platform that predicts changes in consumer opinion and intentions
Nader Fathi
Founder & CEO of Kiana Analytics
Nader Fathi is a serial entrepreneur and veteran of the Big Data and IoT industry. He is currently the CEO of Kiana Analytics, a Big Data company that helps brick-and-mortar businesses to strengthen on-site security and understand visitor behavior. He was CEO of SigmaQuest, a Big Data for Supply Chain solution, which he co-founded in 2002. Camstar Systems successfully acquired SigmaQuest in 2010 and Nader lead its Supply Chain Quality practice until 2012. Nader mentors and advises startups as the Executive-in-Residence (EIR) at the University of Southern California Stevens Institute for Innovations and the Plug and Play Tech Center in Silicon Valley. He is currently on the advisory board of Glassbeam, Machine-to-Machine analytics. He has coached Big Data companies in various vertical markets including sports, retail, finance, health/fitness, and environmental analytics. Previously, Nader held executive positions at IntraStage, IKOS, Cadence, and Daisy systems. He started his career as software and chip designer at Xerox Microelectronics.Nader holds a bachelor and masters in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California and completed his coursework toward a Ph.D.
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About Kiana Analytics, Plug and Play Tech Center: Kiana cloud-based software and patented device detection enhance physical security, optimizes operations and delivers proximity solutions.
Josh Dorward
CEO and Co-Founder of Indivio
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About Indivio: Indivio enables brands, and retailers of all sizes to create, test, and optimize Facebook ads using video.
Kenji Hashimoto
CTO and Co-Founder of Indivio
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About Indivio: Indivio enables brands, and retailers of all sizes to create, test, and optimize Facebook ads using video.
Logan Welbaum
Founder of Plai
Logan Welbaum is the Founder at Plai.
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About Plai: Plai is a digital marketing application platform that provides advertising tools to small teams and creators to make marketing easier.
Ethan Anderson
Founder & CEO of MyTime
Ethan is Co-founder and formerly CEO of [Redbeacon](/organization/redbeacon), the 2009 TechCrunch50 and Business Insider Startup 2010 grand prize winner that was acquired by The Home Depot. Prior to Redbeacon, he was a Product Manager at [Google](/organization/google) where he was responsible for launching and managing the [Google Video](/product/google-video) product outside the United States prior to the [YouTube](/organization/youtube) acquisition. He also was Google’s first Product Manager for the fast growing Southeast Asian emerging markets, and a Product Manager on [Google Image](/product/google-images) Search, the top image search product in the world. Before joining Google, Ethan worked in a number of internet strategy and marketing roles at The Clorox Company, Buy.com, and [McKinsey & Company](/organization/mckinsey-company). Ethan graduated with Honors from Harvard Business School and Magna Cum Laude from Duke University, where he earned a BA in Economics and Public Policy Studies. He was recently named to Business Insider’s Silicon Valley 100 and 16 Up-and-Coming Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs You Need to Meet.
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About MyTime: MyTime powers online scheduling, automated marketing and point of sale for mid-market and enterprise service retailers.
KoAnn Skrzyniarz
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Sustainable Life Media
KoAnn Vikoren Skrzyniarz Prior to launching Sustainable Life Media in 2004, KoAnn founded and lead a boutique management consultancy called Organizations That Work, focusing on helping enable breakthrough financial performance through purpose – driven leadership and improved organizational alignment. she served in positions of increasing responsibility launching and leading media properties including magazines, conferences, trade shows and more for a wide range of markets, starting with natural resources (timber, paper, and mining, and ending with a variety of emerging technology sectors including digital video, computer game development and the web.During her tenure she garnered extensive experience in launching and growing countless product brand strategy and integrating it with a global product brand strategy and integrating it with a global product brand portfolio spanning many market sectors. She completed her media tenure as Senior Vice President of a multinational division of United Business Media, overseeing a $ 50 million division with 150 person team.
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About Sustainable Life Media: Sustainable Business Social Network
Andrey Morozov
Founder & CEO of Payment.Ninja
Founder at Payment.Ninja.
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About CardQL, FinHub Global, Payment.Ninja: Payment.Ninja is an online payment gateway that accepts Visa and MasterCard.
Michael McCarthy
Founder, CEO of Inkit
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About Inkit: Reach Enablement Platform (REP)
Nathanael Smith
COO & Co-Founder of Aesthetic
Nathanael Smith is the CEO and Co-Founder of Aesthetic.
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About Aesthetic: Aesthetic automates all the production design work needed by companies, starting with social media graphics.
Shiv Singh
Founder and CEO of Savvy Matters
Shiv Singh is the Senior Vice President of Global Brand and Marketing Transformation at Visa. Shiv was formerly the Global Head of Digital for PepsiCo Beverages (across paid, owned and earned media). Shiv was responsible for all digital engagement across brand marketing, shopper marketing and foodservice marketing. Shiv also lead the company’s foray into real-time marketing and is playing an instrumental role in establishing new consumer insights and measurement methodologies for the business along with new forms of transmedia consumer engagement. Prior to PepsiCo Shiv worked at Vivaki and Razorfish Inc for over twelve years in their New York, London and San Francisco offices serving in his last role there as the Global Social Media Lead. During his tenure there, Shiv worked with companies like Mercedez Benz, Philip Morris International, Citigroup, Microsoft, Victoria Secret and Ford Motor Company. Shiv is the author of the book, “Social Media Marketing for Dummies” and has written for the Harvard Business Review online, Ad Age magazine, Mashable and other publications. Shiv has also served on the Grand Jury of The Effies Worldwide among other global marketing award juries. Shiv sits on the advisory board of Buddy Media and a few startups currently in stealth mode. Shiv got his Bachelors in Business Adminstration from Babson College and his M.Sc. from the London School of Economics.
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About LendingTree, Savvy Matters: Savvy Matters LLC advises startups and Fortune 500 companies alike on marketing and digital transformation.
Emily Kramer
Co-Founder / Marketing Advisor of Mkt1
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About Mkt1: Mkt1 offers advice, workshops and mentorship programs to build and develop marketing in business for startups and b2b sector industries.
Ryan Koonce
CEO & Founder of Mammoth Growth
Ryan Koonce is the Founder & CEO at Mammoth Growth
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About Attribution, Mammoth Growth, Roaring Bull Studios, Whopping Ideas: Mammoth Growth provides data analytics and growth marketing services
Chunbo Huang
CEO, Founder & Chairman of the Board of Citcon
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About Citcon: Citcon is a mobile payment network that enables global merchants to accept payments from consumers.
Barry Perkins
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Tesseract Group, LLC
Investor, Corporate Development, Strategy, Entrepreneur, Idealist, and Positive Deviant “A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd Barry is a driven entrepreneur with exceptional business acumen and leadership skills who loves to develop strategy, guide transformation, lead growth, and deliver exceptional outcomes, leveraging his passion for projects where business and society will benefit from his unique talents, experiences, perspective, thought processes and methodology. For example, strategic social impact healthcare projects at Sutter Health – Institute for Health and Healing, Kaiser Permanente, and the Government of British Columbia. Barry leverages his gift for multi-dimensional thought and passion to help others, balancing theory and research with practical knowledge and extensive project execution experience, to turn vision into reality. He thrives on solving complex challenges, making the impossible possible, through creative & innovative thought, learning, understanding, education, diligent & thoughtful work, and tenacity. Barry has extensive international business, technology (including Artificial Intelligence), and project management experience in startup and enterprise tech, healthcare, addiction, and mental health, incorporating partnerships, social enterprise, and corporate sponsorship, to deliver innovative, end-to-end solutions that exceed expectations and requirements. At MarkLogic, Barry delivered triple-digit revenue growth in MarkLogic’s North American Commercial West Sales Region, drove worldwide revenue growth, and double-digit growth of high-quality leads in MarkLogic’s strategic accounts worldwide. Barry joined Oracle Corporation as a startup, where he quickly established himself as a creative, high impact business leader who identified and exploited market trends and opportunities. During his 28 years at Oracle, he turned vision into results, growing Oracle’s top line revenue in new markets with new technologies, with business solutions that helped companies achieve their goals through strategic, creative and innovative thinking, and thoughtful application of technology. Over a 5-year period, Barry’s team delivered $1B+ with a $350M+ ARR (year 5) in Oracle Software License Revenue. He then created and led the Global PMO for Engineered Systems, a business that reported to Oracle’s President, with an annual sales target in excess of $1B, driving +254% YoY Engineered Systems revenue growth to exceed $1B. While at Oracle, Barry was part of large and complex (Peoplesoft, BEA, Sun) as well as smaller acquisitions (including integration).
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About Global Mental Wellness Foundation, TerraNovo, Tesseract Group, Tesseract Group, LLC, Traction Health, Veed: Management Consulting: Vision – Strategy – Execution
Anand Kishore
Founder / CEO of Aspire
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About Aspire: The influencer marketing platform empowering ecommerce brands to build and cultivate influential communities.
Suhaas Prasad
CTO / Founder of Aspire
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About Aspire: The influencer marketing platform empowering ecommerce brands to build and cultivate influential communities.
Ayyappan Sankaran
Co-Founder & CTO of YuMe
Ayyappan Sankaran is the Co-Founder and CTO of YuMe, Inc.
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About YuMe: YuMe is a provider of digital video brand advertising solutions that drives inventory monetization and more.
Nachiketas Ramanujam
Co-Founder of CreatorStack
Nachiketas Ramanujam is the Co-Founder of Creator Stack.
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About CreatorStack, Homebrew Labs: CreatorStack empower you to launch provide creative career and turn your passion into a profitable venture.
Deobrat Singh
Co-Founder of CreatorStack
Deobrat Singh is the Co-Founder of CreatorStack.
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About CreatorStack: CreatorStack empower you to launch provide creative career and turn your passion into a profitable venture.
Kirill Ulyanov
Founder and Principal Consultant of Lean Digital Agency
Kirill Ulyanov is an experienced engineering leader with a proven track record in building fantastic cross-functional teams and delivering highly performant and scalable online products. Kirill’s technical approach to challenges is methodical with a healthy dose of skepticism. While nourishing and growing his tech organization is always a priority, he thoroughly enjoys solving engineering challenges himself. You can always find Kirill tinkering with something – from refactoring Node applications to optimizing website performance and tweaking AWS configurations. Kirill is currently running a small agency that focuses on helping startups quickly grow their digital marketing presence. They do everything from simple email template development to complex web portals and user-generated content systems. Their primary focus is ramping up technology production while the company is growing up, onboarding internal engineering/marketing teams to take over, and remaining available for ongoing consultations.
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About Lean Digital Agency, Lean GUI: Technology Consulting, Web Software Development and Digital Marketing Support
Eric Lubow
Co-Founder of SimpleReach
I co-wrote Practical Cassandra and was a Datastax MVP for years. If you’re reading this, you probably know me already.
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About Mymee, SimpleReach: SimpleReach is a content data cloud for brands to measure and improve content ROI.
Emre Fadillioglu
Co Founder and CEO of AppSamurai
Emre combines a successful corporate career with serial entrepreneurship as a co-founder of multiple companies. Currently, he leads AppSamurai as the CEO and Co-founder to create a global mobile technology company. AppSamurai is a venture capital-backed startup with mobile growth as its passion.
Having been featured in Europe’s Top 100 Hottest Startups list recently, AppSamurai continues to be a product driven company with its namesake mobile acquisition platform AppSamurai and the first mobile user engagement tool that brings the well-known, mobile native story format into mobile apps and websites; Storyly.
Before AppSamurai, he co-founded Netvent (2013), a digital marketing agency that still operates today, and Growth Tower (2015), a mobile marketing agency. Previously, he worked in finance, sales, and business development roles at PwC, Inta Spaceturk, Enerjisa, and Oracle. His educational background includes a degree in Business Administration from METU (in Turkey) and an Executive Leadership degree from UC Berkeley. Right now, he is focused on scaling AppSamurai with an amazing team of talented people.
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About AppSamurai: AppSamurai is a mobile marketing technology company providing pinpoint solutions with in-house technologies.
Vit Horky
Co-Founder & CEO of Brand Embassy
Vit Horky, Brand Embassy’s co-founder and CEO, loves an unforgettable customer experience. Whether it’s service with a smile at a Starbucks near you (he’s always traveling) or the perfectly timed tweet that draws him back to a company he forgot about, he knows customer experiences are at the heart of customer service. That’s why Brand Embassy was built. Between speaking at international conferences, and cheering on his growing team, you’ll find him musing about the fascinating life of bees.
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About Brand Embassy, NICE inContact, Young Professionals Forum: Digital Transformation: NOW Omnichannel. Agile. Scalable customer service
Samir Addamine
Founder and Chairman of FollowAnalytics
Samir Addamine has dedicated his career to driving innovation in the mobile apps industry. He founded FollowAnalytics beginning 2013, a global company dedicated to customer success using mobile marketing automation. A recognized expert in mobile and digital marketing strategies & technology, Samir is a regular speaker and blogger about the mobile marketing industry (VentureBeat, WSJ, Forrester Research and other analysts have mentioned his work or published his papers) Digital marketing has been the focus of Samir’s career, starting with consulting roles at companies such as Framfab, part of Publicis Digitas LBi and founding a leading interactive agency in France. He holds a Master of Technology degree Universite de technologie de Belfort and a Master of Business from Novancia Business School of Paris
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About FollowAnalytics: Bryj provides a no-to-low code SaaS platform that transforms and powers any UI into amazing UX on app stores worldwide.
Brett Lovelady
Founder and CEO of Astro Studios
Brett Lovelady founded Astro Gaming, LLC in 2006 and serves as its Chief Design Officer and President. Brett Lovelady founded Astro Studios, Inc., in 1994 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. At ASTRO, he acts as Chief Design Officer, juggling a variety of directorships and venturous fireballs. His portfolio of work at ASTRO Studios includes the design direction of the Xbox 360, Alienware PCs & laptops, Nike Triax Watches, the original iPaq for Compaq, 2 BusinessWeek Design of the Decade awards and many other industry blockbusters. Brett Lovelady served as Vice President of Design at both Lunar and Frog Design.
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About Astro Studios: They create multi-dimensional brand experiences that define popular culture.
Matevz Klanjsek
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Celtra
Matevz Klanjsek is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Celtra.
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About Celtra: Celtra is the Creative Management Platform that empowers agencies, media suppliers, and brand leaders
Arnaud Dazin
Co-Founder and CEO of ADVR
Arnaud Dazin is Co-Founder and CEO at ADVR.
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About ADVR, MAP, ThousandEyes: ADVR is the premiere solution for native monetization technologies for VR and AR developers.
