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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 United States based Advisor operating in the Mobile space. If you think a Advisor 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.
Jolene Lewis Valentine
Advisor of CustEx
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About : If Google’s a nice-to-have, CustEx is a must-have. Try living without a voice.
Emil Michael
Advisor of Welcome
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About : Welcome converts shoppers into customers by providing them with real-time product expertise.
Scott Silverman
Advisor of Welcome
Scott Silverman is the SVP, Global Revenue at Vungle
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About NextGen Venture Partners, Vungle: Welcome converts shoppers into customers by providing them with real-time product expertise.
Tom Hildebrandt
Scientific Advisory Board of Noom
Tom Hildebrandt is Advisor at Noom.
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About : Noom is a psychology-based digital health platform used to provide intelligent nutrition and exercise coaching.
Noah Shanok
Advisor of Rev.com
Noah is furthering the movement to bring personalized, on-demand, quality, and always-current audio content to listeners everywhere. He was the founding VP of Sales for StubHub, an online ticket market- place that sold to eBay in January 2007. Noah also worked as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and as a fixed-income trader at JP Morgan Chase & Co. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS from Skidmore College. In his spare time, Noah enjoys youth mentoring, mountain biking, skiing, golf (even though he is terrible!) and things that go fast.
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About : Rev’s speech-to-text services are powered by artificial intelligence and perfected by a community of skilled freelancers.
Sue Nokes
Advisory Board Vice Chairman of Asurion
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About : Asurion helps people get the most out of their technology by providing expert help and product insurance and warranties.
Dick Boyce
Investor and Advisor of Actiview
Mr. Boyce is a partner of TPG, head of TPG’s Operating Group and a member of the firm’s leadership committees. From 1997 through 1999, Mr. Boyce was President of CAF, Inc., a consulting firm that provided operating oversight and support to various companies owned by TPG. During much of this period, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of clothing retailer J. Crew Group, Inc., while providing operating oversight to the remainder of the TPG portfolio. Prior to joining TPG, Mr. Boyce was employed by PepsiCo, Inc. from 1992 to 1997, most recently as Senior Vice President of Operations for Pepsi-Cola North America. Other roles at PepsiCo, Inc. included Chief Financial Officer, General Manager of the Canadian Business Unit, and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Strategic Planning. Mr. Boyce was previously a partner at Bain & Company and worked in sales and marketing at Union Carbide Corporation before business school. Mr. Boyce received a B.S.E. with honors from Princeton University and received his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He serves on the board of directors of Burger King Corporation. Mr. Boyce has previously served on the boards of directors of Gate Gourmet International, J. Crew Group, Inc., Kraton Polymers LLC, ON Semiconductor Corporation and Network General Corporation.
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About : Accessibility tools for the blind and deaf, catered towards entertainment.
Peter Hershberg
Member of the Advisory Board of The Trade Desk
Peter Hershberg is an entrepreneur, company advisor, and active angel investor, who has successfully founded, funded, and exited several start-ups over more than twenty years in online advertising and technology. Peter Co-Founded leading search and social media marketing firm, Reprise Media, in February, 2003 and served as Co-Chief Executive Officer until December, 2009. The company was acquired by Interpublic Group (IPG) in April, 2007. From April, 1999 to February, 2002, Peter served as the Vice President of Strategic Development at Ask.com. In this role, he created long-term strategies and functioned as a key decision maker in the company’s new business ventures. He was also the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rotomedia, a consulting and advertising firm for web marketers and publishers. Rotomedia was acquired by Ask Jeeves in April, 1999. Peter was named as a finalist at Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2005 and 2007.
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About : The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Craig Gephart
Branding Advisor of Ripio
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About : Ripio is a bitcoin and digital payments company that provides electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America.
Craig Gephart
Branding Advisor of Ripio
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About : Ripio is a bitcoin and digital payments company that provides electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America.
Chackan Lai
Vice President, Risk Advisory & Innovation of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Stanley Kim
Advisor of Pinscreen
Stanley Kim is co-founder of Pinscreen. Prior in founding Pinscreen, he was Executive-in-Residence of Shasta Ventures. He became CEO of Trickplay for five years and in 2009, he was a Principal at Samsung. He also worked as Vice President of Broadbase Software and CEO and founder of PANOP ($110M M&A exit). Stanley studied at Stanford University and was currently residing at San Francisco, California.
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About : Revolutionizing digital communication and online human interactions with user-generated and personalized 3D virtual avatars.
John Sabella
Special Advisor of MagMo
John has been a leader in digital media technology for over 20 years and brings significant experience and a long track record of success. He joined PubMatic in 2017 as VP, Engineering and was responsible for the product vision and technical execution of SDK and Unified Ad Server technology. In his current role of Chief Technology officer, John is responsible for establishing the company’s technical vision and positioning PubMatic for future growth. John previously served as vice president of engineering at DoubleClick. At that time, DFP was a new product, with one customer. During John’s tenure, they experienced growth to over 3,000 publishers worldwide. In addition to delivering DFP, John was responsible for delivering DFA and DartMail. John was also in charge of the development for NetGravity’s on-prem ad server system after the merger. At DoubleClick, John began and grew the product management function. After DoubleClick, John joined adMarketplace as COO & CTO, where he was in charge of product management. While there, John created and delivered eBay Keywords, in partnership with eBay. John then joined NYC-based ad network Undertone as CTO. At Undertone, John created the ad server to support their rapidly growing business. John also built and delivered the extensive video and rich-media ad system that Undertone was known for. Prior to PubMatic, John was CTO at Vungle. At Vungle, a large CPI-based in-app video ad network, John was able to overhaul the infrastructure, enabling the company to fulfill its ambitious growth trajectory. John also delivered a new SDK that was MRAID compatible, providing the flexibility to empower the in-app video user experience. John is a graduate of Columbia University.
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About MagMo, PubMatic: MagMo, “Magazine Moment,” is a photo sharing app that creates short stories using pictures and text for brands using social media
Mike Huskins
Advisory Board of GoCoin
Mike Huskins is Advisory Board at GoCoin.
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About : GoCoin develops a payment gateway for online and retail merchants to accept bitcoin as a payment method.
David Gzesh
Advisory Board of GoCoin
David Gzesh is Advisory Board at GoCoin.
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About : GoCoin develops a payment gateway for online and retail merchants to accept bitcoin as a payment method.
Rodney Mayers
Advisor of On Second Thought
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About : On Second Thought is a messaging app that enables its users to undo and edit messages before they get to the recipient’s phone.
Howard Gitten
Advisory Board Member, Technology Attorney at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP of Gustie
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About : Gustie creates disruptive retail products, services, and solutions for brands and businesses
Lev Walkin
Member of the Advisory Board of Trucker Path
Lev Walkin is Sr. Director of Platform Technology at Machine Zone.
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About : Trucker Path provides a software platform designed for the trucking industry.
Ullas Shah
Advisor of VOLANSYS TECHNOLOGIES
Ullas has 20+ year of experience in field of international taxation, transfer pricing, IFRS consulting. Ullas is a commerce graduate and a fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is also a Certified Public Accountant (AICPA-USA). Presently, he is associated with a renowned auditing firm. Apart from conventional areas of professional practice, he is also involved in nonconventional aspects of advisory and assurance like merger and amalgamations, system audits, risk management, valuation etc. Ullas holds degree of CA from ICAI-INDIA and CPA from AICPA-USA.
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About : VOLANSYS is a Digital Transformation and Product Realization company offering an integrated portfolio of IoT services, solutions and IPs
Chip Goetzinger
Advisor of Vinli
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About : Vinli is a universal car-to-cloud data computing platform that turns any car into a connected car.
Amit Singhal
Advisor & Angel Investor of Mezi
Amit Singhal is a senior vice president and software engineer at Google Inc., a Google Fellow, and the head of Google’s core ranking team. He has worked in the field of search for over fifteen years, first as an academic researcher and now as a Google engineer. His research interests include information retrieval, its application to web search, web graph analysis, and user interfaces for search. Prior to joining Google in 2000, Amit was a senior member of technical staff at AT&T Labs Singhal is also the author of two publications: Efficient Multicast Algorithms for Switch based Irregular Heterogeneous Networks of Workstations and Terabit Switching: A survey of Techniques and Current Products. Singhal obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from IIT Roorkee, India, and his M.S. from the University of Minnesota. He also holds a Ph.D.in computer science from Cornell University.
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About Singhal Foundation, Sitare Foundation: Mezi is an AI-powered personal travel assistant, accessible 24×7, over messaging.
Nickhil Jakatdar
Advisor & Angel Investor of Mezi
Nickhil Jakatdar is the CEO & Founder of Vuclip. Prior to Vuclip, Nickhil was instrumental in the founding and running of three successful startups. Nickhil led Praesagus, CommandCAD, and Timbre Technologies through financing, tremendous growth, and eventual acquisition. Nickhil received his M.S. and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. He has been the recipient of many awards from various organizations. He has to his credit more than 30 patents and 20 conference papers.
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About : Mezi is an AI-powered personal travel assistant, accessible 24×7, over messaging.
Mark Boyce
Advisor of Cargofy
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About : Easiest way to find loads for owner-operators
David Tominsky
Advisor of Cargofy
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About : Easiest way to find loads for owner-operators
Mitchell Hochberg
Board Advisor of Deserve
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About : Deserve offers fair credit products for young people and a cloud-based credit card platform for businesses.
Ramamoorthi Ravi
Board Advisor of Deserve
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About : Deserve offers fair credit products for young people and a cloud-based credit card platform for businesses.
Ramamoorthi Ravi
Board Advisor of Deserve
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About : Deserve offers fair credit products for young people and a cloud-based credit card platform for businesses.
Paul Cheng
Advisor of Kochava
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About BiologyWorks, Famecast Media: Kochava is a provider of secure, real-time data solutions for mobile and connected devices.
Mary Yang
Advisor to CEO of Smule
As CPO of Smule, Mary Yang has led the company’s product and engineering teams, focusing on strategy, design, and innovation. Since Mary joined Smule, she has helped define the company’s vision and set the roadmap for Smule’s platform and portfolio, re-organized the development team into squads focusing on different business areas, and doubled the size of Smule’s global community to 50 million monthly active users. She is a seasoned product leader and entrepreneur in the global mobile consumer market space. Prior to Smule, Mary co-founded the U.S. incubator of Renren and built the firm’s international product line. Under her leadership, two mobile social applications targeting global markets were launched and acquired later. She continues to mentor multiple startups and is an advisor to the Chinese Entrepreneurs Organization. Mary holds a M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Tsinghua University.
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About Smule: Smule develops music-making apps that connect people online.
Prem Jain
Advisor and Investor of SitterFriends
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About Pensando: Book your community’s most trusted babysitters, in a second, for free
Emily White
Advisor of VSCO
Emily White is founder and CEO of a new company, still under wraps. Formerly C.O.O. at Snapchat, Inc. While at Facebook (2010-2013) Emily held several key roles most notably running Business Operations at Instagram. At Google, (2001–2010) Emily ran North America, Asia Pacific & Latin America Online Sales & Operations, and the Emerging Businesses channel. She is on the board of the National Center for Women in I.T., and lululemon, Inc. Emily received her B.A. in Art History from Vanderbilt University.
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About : VSCO is a creative channel that builds creative tools, spaces, and connections driven by self-expression.
Rachael Worthington Walker
Advisor of Tales2Go
Rachael Worthington Walker consults on a wide variety of educational programs and multimedia projects with a special focus on children’s literacy. She has more than twenty years of experience in developing key partnerships with nonprofit organizations, corporations and public agencies to benefit at-risk children and families. She has conceptualized innovative programs, launched national campaigns, coordinated special events and developed original content for projects involving film, television, web, and print for the National Education Association, the Afterschool Alliance, Reading Is Fundamental, HarperCollins Children’s Books, PBS, Reach Out and Read, and WETA’s Learning Media initiatives (Reading Rockets, Colorin Colorado and AdLit.org).
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About : Tales2Go is a mobile audiobook service that streams thousands of titles to desktops and mobile devices.
Robin Jayaswal
Advisor of College Pulse
Robin Jayaswal is the Software Engineer at Stripe.
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About Stripe: College Pulse is a polling platform designed to aggregate and share student public opinion on college campuses.
Eran Egozy
Advisor of JoyTunes
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About : JoyTunes is a musical instrument teaching app that develops music learning software for anyone to learn to play a musical instrument.
Tom Phillips
Member of the Board of Advisors of Dalet
Tom Phillips joined Media6Degrees (m6d) as CEO in October 2009. He was founding publisher of Spy magazine in 1986, the original media chief for Starwave Corporation in 1993 (creators of ESPN.com, NFL.com, ABCnews.com and NBA.com), and CEO of Deja.com in 1998. After a stint as a venture partner at Insight Ventures, he joined Google in 2006 and managed media platforms and the DoubleClick integration before establishing the Search & Analytics team to pioneer new uses of Google data on behalf of major advertising clients. He holds a BA in Applied Math from Harvard and a MBA from Stanford.
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About : Dalete is a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation.
Scott Bonham
Member of the Board of Advisory of LocoMobi
Scott Bonham is a co-founder of GGV Capital and brings a combination of technology investing and marketing experience. Scott has been instrumental in building the firm and helping GGV’s portfolio companies navigate technology and marketing hurdles in the U.S., China, and Europe. Scott also serves on the board of directors for Magna International and is involved with many startups in the U.S. and Canada. Committed to encouraging innovation in Canada, Scott is the co-chair of the C100 which provides mentorship and access to growth capital for Canadian entrepreneurs. Prior to joining GGV, Scott was a Vice President at Capital Group Companies and a consultant at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Scott also spent four years at Silicon Graphics in various marketing roles and started his career as a systems engineer and maintenance foreman at a General Motors assembly plant. Scott earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (First Class Honors) from Queen’s University, Canada and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About : LocoMobi is reinventing parking technology. LocoMobi is the only provider of unified physical, mobile and cloud-based parking technology.
Dave Labuda
Founder, Chairman & Senior Innovation Advisor of MATRIXX Software
Dave Labuda Founder, CEO & CTO MATRIXX was co-founded in 2008 by telecom industry veteran Dave Labuda. His revolutionary vision: making it possible for every Telco & Digital Service Provider to realize the benefits of digital transformation. Dave Labuda co-founded Portal Software in 1994, creating the first real-time billing and revenue management solution for internet and communications service providers. As CTO, he led the architectural design and product strategy of the company. After stepping into the CEO role in 2004, he successfully sold the company to Oracle in 2006. Dave then served as CTO of Oracle’s Communications Global Business Unit until February 2008, providing architectural vision for the new organization and acting as a key advisor on several strategic acquisitions. He started his career at Sun Microsystems working for 8 years in the UNIX Operating Systems group. Dave also serves as a board member for Aria Systems. He holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and has 13 patents issued with several more pending.
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About MATRIXX Software: Provider of a digital commerce platform designed to monetize 5G
Akshay Pottathil
Board Advisor of Passport
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About : Passport specializes in enterprise business applications and payments for parking and transportation.
Keith Chen
Board Advisor of Passport
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About : Passport specializes in enterprise business applications and payments for parking and transportation.
Tim McCarthy
Advisory Board Member of Cloud Lending
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About : Cloud Lending is a company that develops software for the financial lending industry.
Rafael Grossmann
Advisor of HealthCode.io
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About : Collaborate Faster & Further! Discover and chat with innovators, clinicians and investors globally. Available on iOS and Android.
Rafael Grossmann
Advisor of HealthCode.io
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About : Collaborate Faster & Further! Discover and chat with innovators, clinicians and investors globally. Available on iOS and Android.
Richard Tallman
Strategic Advisor of Vungle
COO at Vungle.
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About : Vungle transforms how people discover and experience apps that delivers the highest value users through engaging video ads.
Chris Metcalfe
Advisor of Sirqul
Chris Metcalfe has experience across early stage finance, product marketing, and corporate strategy. He advises Pacific Northwest technology startups, is a co-founder of Context Relevant, former senior analyst at early stage venture capital firm Atlas Venture, and former senior product marketing manager for Isilon Systems (now part of EMC). Chris is president and co-founder of Korvata Inc., a member of the Foster MBA Class of 2015, has bachelors degrees in computer science and economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in Media Technology from the MIT Media Lab where he was a Motorola Fellow and member the 1999 Millennium Mt. Everest Expedition science team. For more info see: https://linkedin.com/in/chrismetcalfe/
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About : Sirqul enables startups and ecosystems to leverage application templates, platform, & APIs to create solutions and ecosystems rapidly.
Mike DiFranza
Advisory Board Member of Corner Media, Inc.
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About : Platform Company with Location-Based Consumer Targeting
Dave Lauer
Co-founder & Technical Advisor of Fdbk
Dave Lauer is Co-Founder & CTO of KOR Group LLC, specializing in Market Structure and Technology. Dave has extensive experience designing and building the infrastructure that underpins many modern electronic trading systems and several years experience as a quantitative analyst and trader on high-frequency trading desks. Dave’s current work focuses on massively scalable technology, predictive analytics, complex systems design and consultation for organizations working to better understand and navigate modern equity markets. Dave’s previous work includes technology architecture at Verdande Finance and IEX Group, public advocacy at Better Markets and electronic trading at Allston Trading and Citadel Investment Group. Dave was also an early employee at Tervela in its formative stages. In his spare time, Dave collaborates on the maintenance and advancement of Cowbird.com, an innovative online photo-narrative storytelling network. Dave sits on several for-profit and non-profit boards, including as Independent Director for Aequitas.
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About Fdbk, KOR Group, Springer Nature Group, Urvin AI: Fdbk offers a private, mobile-friendly channel for receiving & responding to feedback in real-time.
Stephen Zocchi
Advisor of PubNub
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About : PubNub Data Stream Network is a secure global Data Stream Network that enables mobile and web developers to build and scale real-time apps.
Ophir Samson
Venture Advisor of Telegraph Hill Capital
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About : Telegraph Hill Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on start-up companies primarily in North America.
Brian Rabben
Advisor of SafeChats
ex-Googler | Founder & CEO @ Growth🔮 Wizards | Mr. @WolfOfGrowth 🐺 • AngelList → http://bit.ly/Angel-Of-Growth 👼 • LinkedIn → https://bit.ly/Mister-Wolf 🐺 — 12+ years of ⤴ obsession… ⤴ is hard. Startup ⤴ is harder. 🏆 To win, you need a full tank of GaaS*⛽ 💡 Intrigued? Read the ↓↓↓ , connect with me, then message me. Urgent ⤴ problem? Request a call here → bit.ly/Call-The-Wolf 🐺 🤓 I science so good, you’ll swear it’s magic.✨ — ⤴Growth🔮 Wizards✨ can help you: 1.) Install & configure advanced multichannel analytics platforms 2.) Design & implement a growth experimentation framework that produces predictable, repeatable, scalable growth 3.) Select & prioritize the best short, medium, & long-term growth experiments to run within this framework 4.) Assemble & manage a team of growth experts (analysts, community managers, data scientists, distribution hackers, growth marketers, PR ninjas, social media mavens, & more) to execute the tactical building blocks of these experiments for you** 5.) Set & achieve realistic, data-driven growth targets 6.) Hire & train new & current team members 7.) Guide & optimize your first/next round of funding 😎 Or, all of the above. 🎓 Or, we’ll teach you and your team how to do any/all of the above. • We charge $150-500 per hour for all of the above (except SEO***) • Our hourly rate varies according to task complexity & project duration — *GaaS = “Growth As A Service” 🔥 ⛽️ 🔥 **We may offer a unique, pay-per-action pricing model to companies with significant historical performance data. ***Contact Brian for an SEO proposal.
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About : SafeChats is an ultra-secure communications solution for wealth managers, tax professionals, mortgage brokers, creative agencies and others.
Norman F. Krasner
Chief Science Advisor of NextNav
Dr. Norman F. Krasner is a Chief Science Advisor at nextnav. Dr. Norman F. Krasner has over 40 years of experience in communications systems R&D and digital signal processing design. Co-founder and Chief Scientist of SnapTrack, which pioneered the use of Assisted GPS currently used in hundreds of millions of cell phones throughout the world for E-911 and location based services. SnapTrack was acquired by Qualcomm in 2000. Dr. Krasner holds 78 U.S. patents and many foreign patents. He holds a BSEE from M.I.T. and M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.
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About : NextNav operates a platform intended to offer indoor location services and applications.
Bill Perkin
Automotive Marketing Advisor of CellARide
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About CellARide: Pioneering Automotive Marketing Technology One Message At A Time!
Marc Savas
Advisor of Wendi
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About : Wendi is a digital app for healthcare that automates patient screening, insurance verification, scheduling, paperwork, and communications.
Jeff Morgan
Advisor of Wendi
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About : Wendi is a digital app for healthcare that automates patient screening, insurance verification, scheduling, paperwork, and communications.
Jay Webster
Advisor of BrandAds
Jay is currently President of Choose Energy, a Kleiner Perkins backed energy company located in San Francisco, CA. Previously, Jay has served as Chief Product Officer for Sharethrough & Quova, Inc., GM of Lead Generation for Yahoo!, GM of Performance Marketing and CTO of Blue Lithium, VP of Engineering for Adteractive, Inc., as well as President and CTO for Fathom Online, a Search Engine Marketing firm. Jay holds a bachelor’s degree from U.C. Santa Cruz in Biology.
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About : Extreme Reach Digital (formerly BrandAds) measures the effectiveness of video advertising across media vendors and channels.
Eugene Shteyn
Board Advisor of R3I Ventures
Research into innovation success rates shows that 9,000 raw ideas result in just 1 successful product. Furthermore, only 1% of issued US patents are commercially valuable. If you use traditional invention and IP development methods, including random brainstorming, you are likely to have expensive low-quality assets and a lot of dead wood in your portfolio. I use my experience as an inventor, entrepreneur, IP licensing professional, and educator to help companies improve their innovation success rate. Our client list includes both top technology brands and startups. We create value by applying systematic innovation methods described in detail in our book, “Scalable Innovation: A Guide for Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and IP Professionals.” http://www.amazon.com/Scalable-Innovation-Inventors-Entrepreneurs-Professionals/dp/1466590971/ For consulting and speaking engagements, please contact me directly at eugeneLI @ inventionspring.com
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About Stanford University, Zoic Capital: R3i Ventures is a cross border angel investment fund and advisory.
David Scacco
Board of Advisory of Polymorph
David Scacco has 20+ years of experience as an operator, investor and advisor. Scacco started his career in the field of advertising and marketing in his hometown of Chicago. Shortly after moving to the California Bay Area Scacco joined Google in early 2000 and holds the distinction as the company’s first advertising sales executive. During his 7 years at Google, Scacco established and led a strategic sales/business development team and contributed to the overall growth of the company. Since 2008 Scacco has been a Partner at OpenPath Investments.
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About : Polymorph is a white-label SaaS monetization platform for publishers to maximize revenue, reduce costs and deliver better ad experiences.
Adam Towvim
Advisor of TrueData
Adam Towvim is President and co-founder of TrustLayers, a new company commercializing MIT research into a real-time policy engine. He has over two decades of experience with data and privacy. Prior to TrustLayers, Adam was Jumptap’s vice president of Business Development, where he was responsible for Jumptap’s data, audience monetization, and privacy strategy. While at Jumptap, Adam co-founded the DAA’s Mobile Advisory Committee. Prior to Jumptap, Adam led Radialpoint’s entry into the US security market to create a $25mm subscriber data business. Before Radialpoint, he directed Lightbridge’s product management organization to define new subprime growth areas. Adam has also served as a consultant with Diamond Management & Technology Consultants (now PwC Diamond Advisory), where he served on the interim executive launch team of Switzerland’s first true 3G operator and Europe’s first app marketplace. Before Diamond, he led launch teams for American Management Systems’ US and European Mobile Telecom practice. Adam holds a BA from Columbia University, where he studied under Alan Westin, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business.
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About Brandeis International Business School, Chameleon Collective, Chameleon Collective, Jumptap, Nth Party, TBD Angels: TrueData is a mobile data platform that works with app publishers who generate mobile data & the companies who need data for ad targeting
Mark Dorner
Board of Advisory/ Member of SetSchedule
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About : Your Voice Your Business, SetSchedule is Revolutionizing Business Development Using SAAS, Mobile And Marketplace Products.
Celeste Ford
Member of the Board of Advisors of Illuminate Ventures
Celeste Ford is the Founder and CEO of Stellar Solutions. Stellar Solutions is a global provider of systems engineering, integration and program management expertise, and a recognized leader in government and commercial programs related to the aerospace field, focusing on high-impact projects and satisfying customer critical needs in alignment with employees’ dream jobs. Celeste is a proven leader of the Stellar constellation of companies, which includes Stellar Solutions, Inc. (aerospace engineering services), Stellar Solutions Aerospace Limited (UK-based affiliate), QuakeFinder (the humanitarian R&D division of Stellar Solutions) and the Stellar Solutions Foundation. She is a valued member of the board of multiple organizations in the private and public sectors. She is a recognized and respected personality in her field; having served on congressional commissions as well as on panels focused on entrepreneurship and women in business. She is also an active advocate of community and charity outreach.
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About : Illuminate Ventures invests in early-stage high-tech companies delivering B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile solutions
Kathy Levinson
Member of the Board of Advisors of Illuminate Ventures
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About : Illuminate Ventures invests in early-stage high-tech companies delivering B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile solutions
Don Keller
Member of the Board of Advisors of Illuminate Ventures
Don Keller is the Founder of Joinder. He attended Boston College Law School in 1979.
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About Joinder: Illuminate Ventures invests in early-stage high-tech companies delivering B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile solutions
Nancy Heinen
Member of the Board of Advisors of Illuminate Ventures
Nancy Heinen joined SV2’s Board of Directors in 2009, became Vice Chair 2011, and became Chair in 2012. She has participated in the Education grant round and Partner Advisory Board, and served as Co-leader of this year’s International grant round. Nancy is an experienced corporate lawyer and senior executive in both small and multinational corporations. Most recently, Nancy was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Apple, Inc. In September 1997 Steve Jobs recruited Nancy as a key member of a small executive team at Apple focused on turning around Apple’s struggling computer business and leading its successful re-emergence as an industry leader and consumer product powerhouse. Nancy was the chief legal officer responsible for overseeing all legal matters and government affairs for Apple worldwide until May 2006. In 1994, Nancy went to work for Steve Jobs as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at NeXT Software, Inc. where she managed all legal matters and was a member of the executive management team and secretary to the Board of Directors. She was counsel for NeXT in its acquisition by Apple in February 1997. Before her work at NeXT, Nancy served as group counsel and assistant secretary at Tandem Computers Incorporated (prior to its acquisition by Compaq) where she managed legal affairs for US sales and marketing operations and various operating divisions. Previously, Nancy was in private law practice in San Francisco and Palo Alto. Following 25 years of corporate and law firm experience, Nancy is now focused on philanthropy and matters of social justice. She is particularly interested in access to quality education and the creation of economic opportunities for disadvantaged women. Nancy currently serves on several advisory boards including the Advisory Board of the University of California Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy. She also consults with individuals, start-ups and nonprofit institutions looking to develop their organizational capacity for growth. Nancy received an B.A. with honors in Psychology and English from the University of California at Berkeley and holds a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall).
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About : Illuminate Ventures invests in early-stage high-tech companies delivering B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile solutions
Steve Strandberg
Member of the Board of Advisors of Illuminate Ventures
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About : Illuminate Ventures invests in early-stage high-tech companies delivering B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile solutions
Steve Strandberg
Business Advisory Council Member of Illuminate Ventures
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About : Illuminate Ventures invests in early-stage high-tech companies delivering B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile solutions
Judy O’Brien
Member of the Board of Advisors of Illuminate Ventures
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About : Illuminate Ventures invests in early-stage high-tech companies delivering B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile solutions
Nancy Heinen
Member of the Board of Advisors of Illuminate Ventures
Nancy Heinen joined SV2’s Board of Directors in 2009, became Vice Chair 2011, and became Chair in 2012. She has participated in the Education grant round and Partner Advisory Board, and served as Co-leader of this year’s International grant round. Nancy is an experienced corporate lawyer and senior executive in both small and multinational corporations. Most recently, Nancy was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Apple, Inc. In September 1997 Steve Jobs recruited Nancy as a key member of a small executive team at Apple focused on turning around Apple’s struggling computer business and leading its successful re-emergence as an industry leader and consumer product powerhouse. Nancy was the chief legal officer responsible for overseeing all legal matters and government affairs for Apple worldwide until May 2006. In 1994, Nancy went to work for Steve Jobs as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at NeXT Software, Inc. where she managed all legal matters and was a member of the executive management team and secretary to the Board of Directors. She was counsel for NeXT in its acquisition by Apple in February 1997. Before her work at NeXT, Nancy served as group counsel and assistant secretary at Tandem Computers Incorporated (prior to its acquisition by Compaq) where she managed legal affairs for US sales and marketing operations and various operating divisions. Previously, Nancy was in private law practice in San Francisco and Palo Alto. Following 25 years of corporate and law firm experience, Nancy is now focused on philanthropy and matters of social justice. She is particularly interested in access to quality education and the creation of economic opportunities for disadvantaged women. Nancy currently serves on several advisory boards including the Advisory Board of the University of California Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy. She also consults with individuals, start-ups and nonprofit institutions looking to develop their organizational capacity for growth. Nancy received an B.A. with honors in Psychology and English from the University of California at Berkeley and holds a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall).
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About : Illuminate Ventures invests in early-stage high-tech companies delivering B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile solutions
Jen Herman
Advisor of PlayMob
Jen has 20+ years experience in digital and mobile entertainment with a focus on strategic partnerships, business development, licensing, distribution and marketing. She has worked with leading entertainment and gaming companies including Viacom/MTV, Electronic Arts, Zynga and a number of mobile start-ups. Ms. Herman holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About KITE: Playmob is the gaming engagement platform for brands with purpose.
Todd Nuckols
Board of Advisors of GoCanvas
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About DPL Financial Partners: GoCanvas helps organizations automate their business processes, eliminate paperwork and collect and share information via mobile devices.
Tod Dykstra
Advisory Board of Streetline
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About : Streetline builds solutions to manage vehicle parking through the customized design and application of new sensing technologies.
Noah Judson
Technical Advisor – Board of Directors of CoinBeyond
Founder at CoinBeyond
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About CoinBeyond: Modern Payment Processing, Simplified.
Dan Purdy
Director of Door to Discovery – WWU, MBA Professor, Board of Advisors of CoinBeyond
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About : Modern Payment Processing, Simplified.
Kim Thies
Advisor of Sabio
Kim Thies is the VP Controller at Universal Studios Hollywood.
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About Sabio, Universal Studios Hollywood: Sabio offers a CTV platform powered by mobile data.
Jim Harrer
Advisor of Hostme
Jim Harrer is a successful start-up CEO, turnaround CEO, interim CEO and an experience change management practitioner. In 1986, Jim founded Mustang Software to develop a line of modem communication software. In 1994 he took that company public (NASDAQ:MSTG), only to be crushed by the World Wide Web in late 1995. Left for dead by wall street, Jim reinvent the company during 1996. In 1997 Jim created a new email response management system called Mustang Message Center. This product handled email inbound email to generic mailboxes (sales@, support@) for companies like Nordstrom, Dow Jones, Carnival Cruise Lines, and others. In 2000 the company was acquired for $290m. In 2001, Jim assisted a young Internet Professional Services company, Web Associates, perform a turnaround. As their turnaround CEO Jim streamlined operations, put a new marketing program in place and improved sales processes, billing and time management. In 2002, Jim led a turnaround for Starbase Corp. (NASDAQ:SBAS). Starbase was a 300 person, $50m+ sales, with offices around the globe. Jim rebuilt the sales and marketing departments from scratch. Starbase was cleaned up and sold to Borland in early 2003. In 2005, Jim founded EventMingle, an event-based social networking solution for the trade show industry. EventMingle’s technology was sold in 2010. In 2011, Jim became President of Alchemy Solutions and led the turnaround of the company. In 2013, Jim joined TrueBlue, Inc (NYSE:TBI) as their Vice President of Application Development where he champions innovation and strategy through internally developed applications.
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About BestHour Kickboxing, Hostme, HRM Fit Club: Hostme is a modern, cloud-based reservation and table management system for restaurant owners.
Waheed Qureshi
Advisor of Welkio
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About Mesmer: Modern Visitor Registration For iPad
Jesse Dundon
Advisor of Welkio
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About : Modern Visitor Registration For iPad
Jim McDonough
Advisor of Welkio
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About : Modern Visitor Registration For iPad
Josh Engroff
Advisory Board Member of PlaceIQ
Josh Engroff has been a media and technology entrepreneur for the past 15 years. During that period, Josh led the creation of advertising technology products – ad servers, programmatic demand side platforms, data management platforms – as well as media properties visited by half a billion people worldwide, for brands such as Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek, Jango, Discovery Networks, and Sony. Josh began his career as cofounder of the consumer software firm Dash.com (voted Best Shopping Tool of 1999 by Time), which raised over $40 million in institutional financing from Omnicom and others. Most recently, Josh served as the GM of Mobile for the ad tech firm Dstillery, following the successful sale of Josh’s previous company, EveryScreen Media, to Dstillery in June 2013. Josh is an angel investor in several NYC companies, including NeueHouse and EveryScreen Media, among others.
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About : PlaceIQ provides location intelligence services that enable advertisers to reach mobile brand audiences for marketing activities.
Asher Siddiqui
Advisor of AJUA
Investment professional with ~20+ years of experience in mergers & acquisitions, venture capital, capital raising, portfolio management, corporate restructuring, corporate turn-arounds, corporate and investment strategy, business development, managing and investing in startups, as well as participating in several non-executive (board director, investment committee and board of advisors) roles. Was part of the global leadership team at 500 Startups in Silicon Valley, helping 500 survive a difficult transition, raised significant capital, brought in a strategic investor/shareholder and launched the Opportunity Fund (securing anchor LP’s for a 1st close at 45% of the target). Prior to 500, was Global Head of M&A / Corporate Development at Etisalat Group, led over 36+ advanced stage TMT deals valued at approximately ~$34bn and closed 20+ deals (9+ M&A transactions and 12+ VC deals) valued at ~$7bn+ across the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Asia.
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About : Ajua captures and organizes customer experiences in Africa, to understand consumers to drive business growth, and give consumers options.
Reid Williams
Advisor of AJUA
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About : Ajua captures and organizes customer experiences in Africa, to understand consumers to drive business growth, and give consumers options.
Deep Nishar
Member, Board of Advisors of MUrgency
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About : MUrgency Inc. is a holding company for multiple businesses playing the role of the idea generator, incubator, accelerator& growth hacker
Jim Young
Lead Tech Advisor of MUrgency
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About MUrgency: MUrgency Inc. is a holding company for multiple businesses playing the role of the idea generator, incubator, accelerator& growth hacker
Jim Young
Lead Tech Advisor of MUrgency
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About MUrgency: MUrgency Inc. is a holding company for multiple businesses playing the role of the idea generator, incubator, accelerator& growth hacker
William A Sanger
Member, Board of Advisors of MUrgency
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About : MUrgency Inc. is a holding company for multiple businesses playing the role of the idea generator, incubator, accelerator& growth hacker
Asia Kwan
Advisor of Emoki
Asia Kwan is a co-founder @ Emoki.
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About : Emoki is a messaging startup that aims to innovate how people communicate, interact with, and share information.
Saul Lopez
Advisor of Emoki
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About : Emoki is a messaging startup that aims to innovate how people communicate, interact with, and share information.
Ted Sanford
Advisor of 1World Online
Ted Sanford is co-founder and CEO of FlashSoft. Ted has over twenty years of experience in high tech start-up sales, business development and strategic alliances. As CEO of Baccel, Ted had responsibility for planning and executing against all corporate goals. In his position as VP Business Development at Infravio (acquired by webMethods) he created and managed reseller relationships with IBM and BEA. As VP Business Development at Confluent (acquired by Oblix), he managed the BEA, TIBCO, Netegrity and Oblix relationships. While VP Strategic Alliances at AppStream (acquired by Symantec), Ted established and managed relationships with CA, Sun, IBM and Microsoft, delivering the majority of corporate revenue. As founder and VP Business Development at 3Cube (acquired by Oracle), Ted was instrumental in OEM relationships with Qwest and Netscape. Ted earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington and his Juris Doctorate degree from San Francisco Law School.
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About : 1World Online is a blockchain-powered platform that unifies the values of data and advertising into an all-in-one engagement driven model.
Sudip (Dip) Chakrabortty
Board of Advisors of mPulse Mobile
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About : mPulse Mobile, the leader in mobile health engagement, drives improved health outcomes and efficiencies by activating healthcare consumers
Brooks Pickering
Advisor – Finance, Market Development, Executive Management of JrPixels
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About : JrPixels is a Growth Engine that provides turn-key growth solutions for modern businesses.
Victoria Yampolsky
Advisor – Finance, Investments, Valuations, CPA/CFA of JrPixels
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About : JrPixels is a Growth Engine that provides turn-key growth solutions for modern businesses.
Roger Studner
Advisory Board Member of JrPixels
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About : JrPixels is a Growth Engine that provides turn-key growth solutions for modern businesses.
William Seery
Advisory Board Member of JrPixels
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About : JrPixels is a Growth Engine that provides turn-key growth solutions for modern businesses.
Daniel Fowler
Advisory Board Member of JrPixels
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About : JrPixels is a Growth Engine that provides turn-key growth solutions for modern businesses.
Todd Hollander
Board of Advisors of Sober Grid
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About : Sober Grid is a digital health application focused on creating mobile communities that engage people into chronic disease management.
William Weld, Former Governor Massachusetts
Board of Advisors of Sober Grid
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About : Sober Grid is a digital health application focused on creating mobile communities that engage people into chronic disease management.
Shinzen Young
Advisor of Brightmind
Shinzen Young, the author of the Science of Enlightenment talks, is a meditation teacher and contemplative scholar. Shinzen has trained extensively in each of the three major Buddhist meditative traditions: Vajrayana, Zen, and Vipassana. His intellectual interests include the dialogue between Eastern internal science and Western technological science. Shinzen leads meditation retreats in the mindfulness tradition throughout the world, and has helped establish several centers and programs.
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About Brightmind: Brightmind helps you quickly move beyond the beginner level of meditation practice through customized and practical instruction.
Augusto Vidaurreta
Board Advisor of Mobiquity
Augusto Vidaurreta joined GSD Venture Studios as Chief Strategy Officer in 2020. As a co-founder of Top Secret Nutrition, Gus Vidaurreta designs and markets high quality and unique nutritional supplements in the sports nutrition, weight management and general health segments. Previously, Vidaurreta’s diversified ventures have ranged from real estate development to natural gas exploration. He has held significant ownership levels in Adjoined Consulting, P&O Packaging and Horizon Bank. In 1988 Vidaurreta founded The Systems Consulting Group (SCG), a full service information systems consulting firm acquired in 1995 by Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP), at which he continued to serve as a Vice President until 1998. Prior to SCG, he worked in the consulting division of Arthur Andersen (now Accenture). A co-author of the 2001 book Business is a Contact Sport, Vidaurreta also co-founded RAM Strategy, Inc., a consulting, training and executive coaching firm built around Relationship Asset Management (RAM), the main topic of the book. He has lectured on the topic of RAM at The World Bank, American Express, Centex Rooney, Trivest, the Miami Chamber and more than 15 higher education institutions. Vidaurreta holds an MBA from the University of Florida and a Bachelor of Science in business from Florida International University. He has enjoyed several honorary alumni distinctions and speaking opportunities from both institutions. Vidaurreta resides in Miami Beach with his wife and two daughters.
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About GSD Venture Studios, RAM Strategy: Mobiquity provides mobile engagement solutions that engage fans and customers with interactive mobile photo booths.
Michael Heffernan
Board Advisor of Mobiquity
Heffernan spent nearly two decades at Citigroup, most recently as head of regional sales institutional equities for Citi Markets and Banking, the investment-banking arm of Citigroup. During his tenure, Citi’s seven regional sales offices were consistently recognized as Wall Street’s top equity-sales team. Heffernan has extensive experience in setting policy in institutional equities, equity research and capital markets, and has worked with hundreds of companies across a broad spectrum of industries in crafting and executing their IPO, private placement and secondary offerings. Earlier in his career, Heffernan served in a number of senior roles for Salomon Brothers, including vice president of institutional-equity sales, head of the company’s Boston office and interim co-head of national sales. Previously, he headed the Boston office for NatWest Markets. He started his career with E. F. Hutton, where he held positions in institutional sales and trading. Heffernan is a graduate of Georgetown University and holds an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business.
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About : Mobiquity provides mobile engagement solutions that engage fans and customers with interactive mobile photo booths.
Jonathan Patrizio
Head of Technical Advisory, Alexa Evangelist & Solutioning Director of Mobiquity
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About Mobiquity: Mobiquity provides mobile engagement solutions that engage fans and customers with interactive mobile photo booths.
Brian Lurie
Board Advisor of Mobiquity
During his time at Gardner Denver, a manufacturer of industrial compressors, blowers, pumps, loading arms and fuel systems, Brian Lurie developed a global strategy that combined geographically scattered IT teams into a single entity. This included creating a single-instance enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and a Web and mobile game plan for the company’s new aftermarket initiatives. The subsequent growth led to private-equity firm KKR acquiring the company with its facilities and offices in 33 countries and revenues of almost $2.5 billion annually. Previously, Lurie was senior vice president and CIO of Teleflex, a manufacturer of medical devices used in critical care and surgery procedures. Before Teleflex, Lurie served as vice president, information technology, at Stryker Orthopaedics, which designs, develops, manufactures and sells reconstructive, trauma and sports-medicine orthopedic products, He was a founding member of Stryker’s Business Technology Council, a cross-divisional Stryker entity. Lurie was CIO for Penn Engineering and Manufacturing, managing an international IT staff in corporate, field and consultant positions before Stryker. From 1984 through 1994, he worked for the Unisys Corp. Lurie has received many accolades including the CIO Leadership Networks 2008 Top 10 Leaders & Innovators Award and Premier 100—Computerworld magazine 2009. In 2011, he was profiled in “The Transformational CIO” by Hunter Muller and “The 11 Secrets of Highly Influential IT Leaders” by Marc J. Schiller. He was also featured in CIO Review magazine’s “Meet the CIO 2013.” He sits on the panel for the Global Technology Confidence Indicators (GTCI), an executive research and analysis unit at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., and is a charter member of the Temple University Computer and Information Sciences Advisory Board. Lurie received a Bachelor of Arts degree in computer and information sciences from Temple University and conducted postgraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and Gallup’s Leadership Academy.
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About : Mobiquity provides mobile engagement solutions that engage fans and customers with interactive mobile photo booths.
Jonathan Patrizio
Head of Technical Advisory, Alexa Evangelist & Solutioning Director of Mobiquity
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About Mobiquity: Mobiquity provides mobile engagement solutions that engage fans and customers with interactive mobile photo booths.
William Fields
Industry Advisor of the Advisory Board of NXT-ID
William Fields is a former President and CEO of Wal-Mart Retail Stores Division and Chief Executive Officer of Blockbuster Entertainment Group, a division of Viacom, Inc. During his 25-year career with Wal-Mart, William Fields held numerous senior executive positions within the organization, including Assistant to Wal-Mart Founder, Sam Walton; Senior Vice President of Distribution and Transportation; and Executive Vice President of Wal-Mart, Inc. culminating in the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of the Wal-Mart Retail Stores Division. William Fields was responsible for over 2,000 stores and 300,000 employees, generating approximately $68 billion in annual revenues.
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