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 United States based CEO’ operating in the Business Development space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Sam Parr
Co-Founder & CEO of The Hustle
Sam is the founder & CEO of The Hustle – one of America’s fastest-growing media companies with a focus on millennials, tech, and culture. He also runs Hustle Con, an annual conference in San Francisco that showcases non-technical startup founders.
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About Hustle Con, The Hustle: The Hustle is helping young professionals make better decisions throughout their day starting with business news.
John Chambers
CEO of JC2 Ventures
Chambers has served as a member of the Board of Directors since November 1993. He served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since November 2006. Chambers, who was appointed Executive Chairman in July 2015, served as Cisco’s Chief Executive Officer from January 1995 until July 2015, and he also served as President from January 1995 to November 2006. He joined Cisco as Senior Vice President in January 1991 and was promoted to Executive Vice President in June 1994, prior to assuming the roles of President and Chief Executive Officer in January 1995. Before joining Cisco, Chambers was employed by Wang Laboratories, Inc. for eight years, where, in his last role, he was the Senior Vice President of U.S. Operations. Chambers led Cisco for more than 20 years. During his tenure as Chief Executive Officer, Cisco’s annual revenue grew from $2.0 billion in fiscal 1995 to $49.2 billion in fiscal 2015. Chambers brings to the Board of Directors his thorough knowledge of Cisco’s business, strategy, people, operations, competition and financial position. Chambers provides recognized executive leadership and vision. In addition, he brings with him a global network of customer, industry and government relationships.
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About JC2 Ventures: JC2 Ventures is a venture firm that helps global startups scale, grow, and create inclusive jobs for the digital future.
David Foley
Sr. Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Energy Partners of Blackstone Group
David I. Foley is a Senior Managing Director in the Private Equity Group and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Energy Partners. David Foley is based in New York and is responsible for overseeing Blackstone’s private equity investment activities in the energy & natural resource sector on a global basis. Since joining Blackstone in 1995, David Foley has been responsible for building the Blackstone energy & natural resources practice and has played an integral role in every private equity energy deal that the firm has invested in, including: Premcor, Kosmos Energy, Foundation Coal, Texas Genco, Sithe Global Power, OSUM Oil Sands, PBF Energy, Global Offshore Wind, GeoSouthern, Alta Resources, Moser Baer, Cheniere and LLOG Exploration. Before joining Blackstone, David Foley worked with AEA Investors in the firm’s private equity business, and prior to that served as a consultant for the Monitor Company. David Foley received a BA and an MA in Economics, with honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from Northwestern University and received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.
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About Blackstone Group: Blackstone is an investment and advisory firm providing financial solutions for investors and clients.
Stephen Schwarzman
Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder of Blackstone Group
Stephen Schwarzman is Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone. Schwarzman has been involved in all phases of the firm’s development since its founding in 1985. The firm is currently the world’s largest independent alternative asset manager with $218 billion Assets Under Management, as of March 31, 2013. Schwarzman is an active philanthropist with a history of supporting education and schools. Whether in business or in philanthropy, he has always attempted to tackle big problems and find transformative solutions. In 2013, he founded an international scholarship program, “Schwarzman Scholars,” at Tsinghua University in Beijing, to educate future leaders about China. At $300 million, the program is modeled on the Rhodes Scholarship and is the single largest philanthropic effort in China’s history coming largely from international donors. In 2007, Schwarzman donated $100 million to the New York Public Library, on the board of which he serves. Schwarzman is also committed to supporting education locally, sending over two hundred students per year to parochial schools in the New York area. Schwarzman is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations, The Business Council, The Business Roundtable, and The International Business Council of the World Economic Forum. He serves on the boards of The Asia Society, The Board of Directors of The New York City Partnership and The Advisory Board of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is a Trustee of The Frick Collection in New York City and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In 2007, Schwarzman was included in TIME’s “100 Most Influential People.” In that same year, he was awarded the Légion d’Honneur of France and promoted to Officier in 2010. Schwarzman holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He has served as an adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management, is on the Harvard Business School Board of Dean’s Advisors and Harvard University’s Global Advisory Council. In 2012, he was awarded an Honorary Degree from Quinnipiac University.
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About Blackstone Group: Blackstone is an investment and advisory firm providing financial solutions for investors and clients.
Cheryl Cheng
Founder and CEO of Vive Collective
Cheryl Cheng joined BRV in 2008. She focuses on early stage consumer and mobile big data opportunities. Cheryl also runs BRV’s alumni entrepreneur and Fortune 500 programs to bring experience and resources to the current portfolio. Prior to BlueRun, Cheryl worked at Clorox and The Sharper Image launching new products and driving retail marketing with partners across Target, Walmart and grocery. Cheryl has a B.A. from Stanford University and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management where she was a Forte Scholar. She is a mentor at Stanford’s Bio-Design for Mobile Health course, a collaboration between Stanford’s School of Medicine and School of Engineering.
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About Vive Collective: Vive Collective is involved in improving quality and access to care by developing, funding, and growing digital health companies.
Emily Kirsch
Founder, Managing Partner & CEO of Powerhouse Ventures
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About Powerhouse, Powerhouse Ventures: Powerhouse Ventures backs seed-stage startups building innovative software to rapidly decarbonize our global energy and mobility systems.
Peter Y. Chung
CEO and Managing Director of Summit Partners
Peter Y. Chung joined Summit Partners in 1994. Prior to Summit, he worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions department of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Based in Summit’s Menlo Park office, Peter is active in the firm’s investment activities in North America, Europe and Asia. During his 19 years with Summit Partners, Peter has invested in more than 25 companies including 13 currently or formerly publicly-traded companies. His prior board seats and investment experience include E-TEK Dynamics (NASDAQ: ETEK, later merged with JDS Uniphase in a transaction valued at over $18 billion), AltoCom (acquired by Broadcom), Card Capture Services (acquired by E*Trade), Ditech Networks (NASDAQ: DITC, later acquired by Nuance Communications), Finisar (NASDAQ: FNSR), GoldenGate Software (acquired by Oracle Corporation), iPayment (NASDAQ: IPMT), NightHawk Radiology Holdings (NASDAQ: NHWK, later acquired by Virtual Radiologic), SeaBright Insurance Holdings (NYSE: SBX, later acquired by Enstar Group Limited), Sirenza Microdevices (NASDAQ: SMDI, later acquired by RF Micro Devices), Splash Technology Holdings (NASDAQ: SPLH, later acquired by Electronics for Imaging) and Winshuttle Holdings. He is currently a director of Acacia Communications, Empower RF Systems, M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings (NASDAQ: MTSI), Trident University International, Ubiquiti Networks (NASDAQ: UBNT) and WebAction. Peter holds an AB in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford University. He is currently a trustee of the California Academy of Sciences and a director of the Asian Pacific Fund. In addition, he serves on the Advisory Boards of the Friends of Harvard Football and the Salvation Army’s Golden State Division.
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About Asian Pacific Fund, California Academy of Sciences, Summit Partners: Summit Partners is an investment firm that is currently investing in to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities.
Noubar Afeyan
Founder & CEO of Flagship Pioneering
Noubar Afeyan is Founder, Senior Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Flagship Ventures, a leading early stage venture capital firm. Noubar also leads the firm’s VentureLabs unit that invents and launches transformative startups. Noubar is a Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management where he has taught courses on technology-entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership since 2000. Noubar lectures widely in the United States and internationally on diverse topics ranging from entrepreneurship, innovation and venture capital to biological engineering, drug discovery, medical technologies and renewable energy. During his 28-year career as inventor, entrepreneur, CEO and venture capitalist, Noubar has co-founded and helped build over 35 successful life science and technology startups. Noubar was Founder and Chief Executive Officer at PerSeptive Biosystems, a leader in the bio-instrumentation field that grew to over $100M in annual sales within six years from its first sales. After PerSeptive’s acquisition by Perkin Elmer/Applera Corporation in 1998, Noubar was Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Applera, where he initiated and oversaw the creation of Celera Genomics. Currently Noubar serves on a number of public and private company boards including CiBO Technologies, Epiva BioSciences, Evelo BioSciences, Joule Unlimited, Kaleido BioSciences, Moderna Therapeutics, Pronutria Biosciences and Seres Therapeutics. Previously, Noubar was a Member of the founding team, Director and Investor in several highly successful ventures including Chemgenics Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Millennium Pharmaceuticals), Color Kinetics (acquired by Philips), Adnexus Therapeutics (acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb) and Affinnova (acquired by AC Nielsen). Noubar received a Technology Pioneer 2012 award from the World Economic Forum in recognition of the breakthrough solar fuel technology being developed at Joule Unlimited. Noubar has served as Chairman of the Global Agenda Council on Chemicals, Advanced Materials and Biotechnology of the World Economic Forum as well as being a member of the Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies. Noubar is a Member of the Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he serves on the board of AmeriaBank and of UWC Dilijan International School, both of Armenia. Previously, Noubar was a Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Directors at National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia, a private-public partnership dedicated to promoting economic development in the former Soviet Republic of Armenia. In 2008 Noubar received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, an award granted to outstanding Americans who have distinguished themselves as United States citizens and who have enabled their ancestry groups to maintain their identities while becoming integral parts of American life. Noubar has authored numerous scientific publications and patents since earning his Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from MIT in 1987. Cygnal is a best-in-class team of biomedical experts and leaders collaborating to revolutionize how the world treats diseases.
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About BIND Therapeutics, Cogen Therapeutics, Cygnal Therapeutics, Ensemble Therapeutics, Flagship Pioneering, Generate Biomedicines, Harvard Business School, Indigo, Joule Unlimited Technologies, Laronde, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Moderna Therapeutics, Omega Therapeutics, Permeon Biologics, Ring Therapeutics, Rubius Therapeutics, Seres Therapeutics: Flagship Pioneering is a venture capital firm that invests in life sciences and healthcare companies.
Todd Rovak
Managing Partner, CEO of Fahrenheit 212
Todd Rovak is the founder of Carefull.
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About Carefull, Fahrenheit 212: Fahrenheit 212 is an innovation consultancy that drives top-line growth by creating transformational new products, brands and businesses.
Mrinal Manohar
CEO and Co-founder of ADAPtive Holdings
Mrinal Manohar is a co-founder and CEO at ADAPtive Holdings, the parent company of CasperLabs.
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About ADAPtive Holdings: ADAPtive Holdings the parent company of CasperLabs.
Dean Foate
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer of Plexus Corporation
Dean Foate is our Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer. Dean joined Plexus in 1984 as a Design Engineer in our Engineering Solutions Group. After holding a number of leadership roles in our engineering organization, he was named president of the business unit in 1992. He was next promoted to Executive Vice President, where he assumed leadership over the company’s strategic growth initiatives. In 2001, Dean became our Chief Operating Officer, which led to his appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer in 2002. In 2013, Dean was named the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Dean holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s degree in engineering management from the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
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About Plexus Corporation: Plexus uses unique Product Realization service model to transform your concepts into branded products and deliver to your target markets.
Ted Virtue
Chief Executive Officer of MidOcean Partners
Ted Virtue is currently the Chief Executive Officer of MidOcean Partners. Virtue graduated from Middlebury College and was a Senior Vice President at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Following this, he was the President of BT Alex, Brown Incorporated, and Executive Vice President and Head of Global Finance at Bankers Trust. After Deutsche Bank’s acquisition of Bankers Trust, Ted became the Chief Executive Officer of DB Capital Partners with oversight for Deutsche Bank’s $35 billion direct investment portfolio. He also serves on the National Advisory Board for Youth, I.N.C.
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About MidOcean Partners: Presence Capital is an investment firm that finances startups developing technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality.
Brent Bellm
Chief Executive Officer of BigCommerce
Brent is the Chief Executive Officer of BigCommerce. A retail and ecommerce veteran of 20 years, Brent has served in a variety of executive leadership positions, successfully growing industry-leading companies including HomeAway and PayPal.
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About BigCommerce: BigCommerce is a SaaS provider for merchants running online businesses.
Anthony Oni
Managing Partner & CEO of Energy Impact Partners
Anthony Oni serves as founder and board member of Cloverly. He previously served as Cloverly’s CEO. Under his leadership, he took the company from an idea to a leading, sustainable service platform that helps brands go carbon neutral. Anthony’s focus on sustainable and social impact extends to his work as managing partner and CEO of Elevate Future Fund at Energy Impact Partners. There, Anthony is creating a more diverse and inclusive energy future by investing in underrepresented founders and entrepreneurs focused on the clean energy transition. With 20 years of energy and utility experience in his previous roles at Southern Company, Anthony has also built philanthropic platforms that are lifting up historically marginalized communities. As the founder and chairman of Ed Farm — an education initiative that aims to equip educators and communities with tools and strategies that support active learning for all students and teachers — Anthony helped create Propel Center, a digital innovation and learning hub, business incubator, and global innovation headquarters for students of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The Propel Center launched with founding partnerships with Southern Company and Apple. Anthony is a graduate of Auburn University. He is also an alumnus of the prestigious fellowship program at The Aspen Institute. Additionally, Anthony has completed executive education programs for disruptive innovation at Harvard University.
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About Cloverly, Energy Impact Partners: Energy Impact Partners is an investment firm focused on companies optimizing energy consumption and improving sustainable energy generation.
Philip Butler
Founder and CEO of Dragonfly
MIT, Yale, Veya, Dragonfly
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About Dragonfly, Veya: Dragonfly engages in acquiring and developing e-commerce businesses.
Nolan Church
Co-Founder and CEO of Continuum Technology
Nolan Church is the co-founder and CEO of Continuum.
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About Continuum Technology: Continuum Technology offers a software that manages executive availability, contracts, invoices, and payments.
Don Gogel
Chairman, President and CEO of CD&R LLP
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About CD&R LLP: Clayton, Dubilier & Rice is a global private equity manager that invests in and builds valuable businesses.
John Hall
CEO of Intapp
John Hall is the CEO of Intapp. Since joining the company in 2004, he has built Intapp into a global leader in business applications and services for professional services firms, serving 700 organizations. He is a regular presenter at industry events, covering topics such as technology and law firm innovation, and how innovation can enable client success. Prior to joining Intapp, John co-founded VA Linux Systems and helped lead the company from its start-up phase to its IPO. He is based in Palo Alto, California.
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About Intapp: Intapp is a provider of industry-specific, cloud-based software solutions that enable connected professional and financial services.
Raymond Debbane
President and CEO of Invus
Raymond Debbane has been a director since August 2007 and became chairman of our board of directors in February 2012. Mr. Debbane is president and chief executive officer of The Invus Group, LLC, which he founded in New York in 1985 as the exclusive investment advisor of Benelux-based Artal Group S.A. In 1999, Artal became the controlling shareholder of Weight Watchers International, Inc., for which Mr. Debbane serves as chairman of the board of directors. He also serves as chairman or director of a number of other companies in which Invus and Artal Group S.A. have invested. Before founding The Invus Group, Mr. Debbane was a manager in the Paris office of The Boston Consulting Group, Inc., where he did consulting work for a number of major European and international companies. Mr. Debbane holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University, an M.S. in food science and technology from the University of California at Davis, and a B.S in agricultural sciences and agricultural engineering from American University of Beirut.
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About Invus: Invus recognizes that every company is unique and that extraordinary business performance cannot be achieved by following a formulaic
Mario Tarabbia
CEO of Outwork
Mario Tarabbia is the founder of PartnerPage.
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About Outwork, PartnerPage: Outwork facilitates partnership between companies within our highly networked economy.
Tom Griffiths
CEO and Co-founder of Hone
CEO and Co-founder, Hone. Passionate about growing the next generation of leaders with a product people love to use. Previously Chief Product Officer, Co-founder, FanDuel. Past life as PhD candidate in machine learning.
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About Hone: Hone provides effective, engaging, and scalable management training to help high-growth companies thrive.
John Fanning
Founding Chairman & CEO of Netcapital
John Fanning is the Founding Chairman & CEO at NetCapital .
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About Napster, Netcapital: Netcapital enables investors to invest in entrepreneurs seeking to raise capital using technology.
Jason Frishman
Founder & CEO of Netcapital
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About Netcapital: Netcapital enables investors to invest in entrepreneurs seeking to raise capital using technology.
Brad Gerstner
Founder & CEO of Altimeter Capital
A securities lawyer, Brad Gerstner graduated from HBS in 2000 and joined General Catalyst. He left GC and became co-CEO of NLG, an early online travel start-up purchased in part by IAC.He co-founded Openlist.com, a local search start up that was self-funded and sold to Marchex (Nasdaq: MCHX);He was a partner at PAR Capital, a multi-billion hedge fund in Boston before launching his own fund – Altimeter Capital – on November 1, 2008.He is on the board of Orbitz, (Nasdaq: OWW) and is an angel investor in private deals including Farecast (sold to Microsoft), Zillow, Real Self, Nor 1, and Silver Rail Technologies. He is also incubating a new start up in the hotel search space called Room 77.
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About Altimeter Capital: Altimeter is a technology-focused investment firm managing a public equity fund and growth-stage private equity funds.
Fred Toney
Co-Founder and CEO of Launchpad Digital Health
Fred founded Launchpad Digital Health in 2013. He spent 20+ years in the technology, medical and digital health markets: Co-Founder, Executive Chairman and CFO of RxList (sold to WebMD); CEO of HealthCentral at its sale and CFO at its IPO on Nasdaq; EVP & CFO of C8 MediSensors which received regulatory approvals of its medical device + medical software application in 27 EU countries. 15+ years in research, investment banking, portfolio management with 100+ companies funded or sold. Current BOD positions include Limelight Health, Hint Health, LifeDojo, Tueo Health, Moving Analytics, Stop, Breathe & Think, Wellstart Health and others.
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About Launchpad Digital Health: Launchpad Digital Health is an early-stage investor and mentor in digital health
Peter Platzer
Co-founder & CEO of Spire Global
Peter Platzer is the Chief Executive Officer of Spire Global, Inc. He cofounded the company in 2012 with a vision to provide satellite-powered data from any location on earth. Platzer is now regarded as one of the pioneers in launching small form factor satellites into space. He has been widely recognized for his visionary leadership and was named a White House Champion of Change in 2013. Platzer was also named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2015 in acknowledgement that Spire’s technology is poised to have a significant impact on business and society. Prior to launching Spire, Platzer trained at CERN and the Max Planck Institute before turning to business with the Boston Consulting Group in Germany, Singapore, and Thailand. Platzer spent nearly a decade on Wall Street as a quantitative trader before leaving finance in 2011 to focus on high frequency and high accuracy data in space. He advised on space commercialization at NASA Ames’ Space Portal while completing an MSS from the International Space University. Platzer co-created and launched CareerTeams at Harvard Business School and currently serves as a Career Coach for students and alumni. Platzer received an MS in Physics from the Technical University of Vienna and an MBA from Harvard, where he was a Baker scholar.
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About Harvard Business School, NASA Ames Research Center, Spire Global, The Boston Consulting Group, The Rohatyn Group: Spire Global is a space to cloud data analytics company utilizing satellites to provide maritime, aviation, and weather tracking.
Jonathan Cogley
CEO of LogicBoost Labs
Jonathan grew up in South Africa and began his software engineering career in London where he founded Thycotic in 1996, moving Thycotic headquarters to the United States several years later. Under Jonathan’s direction, Thycotic has rapidly grown into an innovation leader in privileged account management software, used by more than 180,000 IT administrators worldwide. A champion of IT security, Jonathan has spoken at over 100 enterprise technology events, appeared on The Wall Street Journal Radio, Fox TV and has been featured in notable publications such as The Washington Post, CNET, Yahoo! Finance, PC Magazine and CSO.
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About LogicBoost Labs, Thycotic: LogicBoost Labs has the expertise, experience, funding, and connections to make their startup succeed.
Mark Levitin
CEO of Ecentria group
Mark is a serial entrepreneur with a background in engineering, product development, distribution, and operations. With decades of experience in the outdoor and ecommerce space, Mark is responsible for leading the Company’s business.
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About Ecentria group, OpticsPlanet: Ecentria group is an e-business platform that operates in the retailing industry.
J.R. Kraft
CEO, Founder of Base
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About Base: Base offers investment, acquisition and venture capital services for business development.
Anis Uzzaman
Founder, CEO and Partner of Pegasus Tech Ventures
Anis Uzzaman, Ph.D is the General Partner and founding member of Pegasus Tech Ventures. He serves as the Chief Executive of the company, overlooking overall management and operations. Located in Silicon Valley, USA, Pegasus Tech Ventures provides early stage and final round funding. With several multi-million dollar funds under management, Pegasus Tech Ventures focuses its investment in IT, Health IT, Consumer Internet, Cloud, Big Data, Mobile, Social, Payment Systems and Next Generation Technologies. As a leader of the IBM and Cadence Management Teams, Anis led numerous strategic investments in the software development, microelectronics, and e-commerce space. A serial entrepreneur in the retail and technological sectors, Anis provides mentorship in fundraising, operations, and exit strategy to entrepreneurs. Anis has invested in over 140 startups in the United States, Japan, and South East Asia. Some of the prominent USA startups include Vicarious, Color Genomics, Genius, Rigetti, Affectiva, Afero, LARK and ShareThis. Anis is also an investor and board member of Tech in Asia, the largest tech media blog in Southeast Asia. Anis also sits on the board of directors of Affectiva, Lark, Blue Frog Robotics, Infoteria, and IACC. He holds a B.Eng. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, an M.S. in Engineering from Oklahoma State University, and a Ph.D in Computer Engineering from Tokyo Metropolitan University in Tokyo, Japan. Anis is an honored guest speaker in international conferences, workshops and seminars, has published more than 30 technical papers, and is the author of the “Startup Bible – The Silicon Valley Way of Developing Success” that launched in Japan; “Startup Success – The Six Steps To Building A Successful Startup” that launched in Korea; and “Startuppedia – Guide To Build Startup – Silicon Valley Way” that launched in Indonesia.
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About Pegasus Tech Ventures, Startup World Cup: Pegasus Tech Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based global venture capital firm.
Daren Trousdell
Chairman and CEO of NowVertical Group
Daren Trousdell is the Chairman and CEO at NowVertical Group.
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About Clip Money Inc., NowVertical Group: NowVertical Group helps the world’s best businesses win in the digital economy through powerful data analytics software and services.
Kyle Ballarta
CEO & Founder of Falkon Ventures
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About Falkon Ventures, Humanity 2.0, Laudato Si’ Challenge: Falkon Ventures is a venture capital fund that offers a new solution in the landscape that provides entrepreneurs with support networks.
Guy Marion
CEO & Founder of Brightback
Guy Marion is Chief Marketing Officer at Autopilot, where he spearheads Autopilot’s go-to-market strategy and operations. Guy has spent the past decade at the forefront of the shift towards all things Cloud & SaaS, having helped grow several enterprise companies into successful businesses. Prior to joining Autopilot, Guy served as Senior Director at Zendesk where he helped rapidly grow Zendesk’s core SaaS business. Prior to Zendesk, Guy grew and eventually sold his own company, Codesion, to CollabNet Inc., where he served as VP/GM of Cloud Services. Guy holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Stanford and Ph.D in Paleoceanography from The University of Queensland.
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About Brightback: Brightback offers entreprenurial advice to subscription-based businesses on customer lifetime value.
Suman Radhakrishna
Chief Executive Officer of ThoughtFocus
Chief Executive Officer at ThoughtFocus .
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About TF Payments Inc., TFAvionics, ThoughtFocus, ThoughtFocus: ThoughtFocus is a US based, privately held consulting, software engineering and business process management company.
Charlie Horn
Co-Founder & CEO of Genius Avenue
Charles Horn, also known as Charlie is the Founder of 5Lights, LLC and ProPrivate Equity, LLC. Mr. Horn is a Co-Founder of DirectWeb Administrative Services LLC and also serves as its Chairman. He was the founder of Medical Security Card Company, LLC (also known as ScriptSave) in 1994 and served as its President. Mr. Horn also founded HealthTrans. He served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence of the McGuire Entrepreneurship program at the Eller Business College of the University of Arizona since 2004 and in 2003 he was named an Entrepreneurial Fellow. Mr. Horn was employed by Resource Network, Bala Cynwyd, Pa From 1988 to 1994, employed by Provident American, Norristown, PA from 1985 to 1988, employed By Allnation Life Insurance Co, Wilmington, De From 1979 to 1985 and Self Employed Insurance Agent, Wilmington, De, from 1975 to 1979. He founded Horn Program in Entrepreneurship at the University of Delaware in 2012. He serves as the Chairman of 5Lights, LLC and ProPrivate Equity, LLC. He serves as Chairman of Pet Genius, LLC. He served as Chairman of Medical Security Card Company, LLC from May 1994 to August 2013 and served as its Director. He has been Director of My-Villages, Inc. since June 2016. He serves as Member of Advisory Board at Leading Edge Ventures. Mr. Horn serves on the University of Arizona’s College of Pharmacy National Advisory Board. The University of Arizona McGuire Entrepreneurship Program and Tucson Regional Economic Organization both recognized him as one of the leading entrepreneurs in Arizona. Mr. Horn has been awarded the Thomas R. Brown Excellence in Entrepreneurship award and The University of Arizona McGuire/Anheuser Busch Entrepreneur-in-Residence award. He graduated from University of Delaware, with a BA Degree in 1975.
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About 5Lights, Dr Martha Hall Designs, Genius Avenue: Genius Avenue is a software company that provides tools and products that matched clients’ unique needs.
Tom Gores
Founder and CEO of Platinum Equity
Tom Gores founded Platinum Equity in 1995 and his guidance, core philosophies, and strong principles drive the strategic development and direction of both the firm and its portfolio.Early in his career, Tom Gores was an active investor in smaller businesses, where companies often trade principally on their good word and ability to follow through on what they promise. Here he developed his principles of empowerment, hard work, and integrity. As Tom Gores delivered on commitments made to deal partners, investment bankers, and lenders, Tom Gores’s ability to continually execute larger transactions grew exponentially and made Platinum Equity one of the premiere private equity firms in the world, recognized as one of Forbes’s “Largest Private Companies” within just 4 years of being founded. Believing that a team of outstanding people could meet almost any challenge,Tom Gores began selecting the best and brightest he came in contact with to join him. The result is the Partners and Principals who lead Platinum Equity today. Strong relationships, trust in people, and open communication remain key to Tom Gores and Platinum Equity’s momentum. When it comes to his business, Tom Gores applies philosophies of swift and thorough diligence, sound acquisitions, effective management, and driving value through honest, intelligent operational improvement rather than financial engineering. M&A&O®, his pioneering vision of combining traditional M&A with operational insight, was the direct result of the combination of these philosophies. Top business publications have recognized Platinum Equity as one of the most important private companies in America, most recently ranking 25th on the 2013 Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies and #5 on the 2013 Los Angeles Business Journal list of LA’s Largest Private Equity Companies. Mr. Gores appears on both the Forbes list of the World’s Billionaires as well as the Forbes list of Richest Americans, and is among the youngest individuals ever to appear on either. Tom Gores was born in 1964 and resides primarily in Beverly Hills with his wife and children. When not serving in his role as Chairman and CEO of Platinum Equity, Tom Gores is on either a soccer field or a basketball court coaching youth teams, applying the same principles of hard work and inspiration that Tom Gores does to his business. Tom Gores also maintains active interests in the arts, serving on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees and pursuing interests in music. Tom Gores holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University.
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About Platinum Equity, York Ventures: Platinum Equity is a private equity investment firm that focuses on leveraged buyout investments of established companies.
Moti Rafalin
CEO, Founder and Chairman of vFunction
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About vFunction: VFunction allows enterprises to tackle application modernization and accelerate digital transformation.
Brian Pallas
Founder & CEO of Opportunity Network
Brian Pallas is the CEO, Chairman, and Founder of Opportunity Network. Previously, Brian worked at the Boston Consulting Group. He also gained experience in Private Equity and Investment Banking by working for three different funds and managing the sales process of two companies. Brian earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2014.
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About Opportunity Network: Opportunity Network (ON) is the community for select CEOs and private investors to grow their businesses worldwide.
Damodar Rao Gummadapu
CEO of Techwave
Damodar Gummadapu is the co-founder of Techwave. He is a proven leader, entrepreneur and instrumental for Techwave rapid growth. Damodar has more than 25 years of global experience across various Fortune 500 companies including big 5 consulting companies. He is a Chartered Accountant and Management & Cost Accountant with tremendous experience and vision for role of technology solutions for business growth, optimization and expansion. In his leadership, Techwave is not only grew in size but also expanded globally in to Europe, Middle East and APAC regions. Mr. Gummadapu follows the three principle of success as propounded by Jack Welch and that is to satisfy clients, engage employees and also maintain the cash flow. The company, which started in an apartment with just 3 people, is today a global company with end to end service offerings.
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About Techwave: Techwave is a US-based IT services and solutions company.
Chuck Esserman
CEO and Founder of TSG Consumer Partners
Chuck has over 30 years of private equity investment experience and, together with the partners of TSG, built the first and most experienced consumer focused equity fund in the United States. Chuck oversees current and prospective portfolio investments for the firm and is Chair of the Investment Committee. Prior to TSG, Chuck was with Bain & Company, a leading management consulting company. Chuck received his BS, with top honors, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Stanford, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He has served on the Board of Advisors of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Board of Trust of Vanderbilt University.
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About TSG Consumer Partners: TSG Consumer Partners is an investment firm that focuses on the branded consumer sector.
Melissa Wong
CEO & Co-Founder of Zipline
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About Zipline: Zipline is the operations platform that powers retail’s most complex work.
Rich Lesser
President and Chief Executive Officer , New York of The Boston Consulting Group
Rich became the sixth president and chief executive officer of BCG in January 2013. Based in New York and Beijing, he has been on the firm’s Executive Committee since 2006. Before becoming CEO, Rich was BCG’s chairman for North and South America since 2009 and head of the New York Metro office system starting in 2000. His client work has focused on innovation, strategy, and large-scale transformation in the health care and consumer sectors. In 2009, Consulting magazine named him one of the industry’s most influential consultants. Prior to joining BCG in 1988, Rich worked as a process development engineer and group leader at Procter & Gamble. He holds an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. Read Rich’s recent “Boss Talk” interview with The Wall Street Journal.
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Rob Hale
CEO of Granite Telecommunications
Rob Hale is President and CEO of Granite Telecommunications and a co-founder of Copley Equity Partners. Rob currently serves on Copley’s investment committee and also serves as an entrepreneur in residence to assist the development of Copley’s portfolio companies. Rob founded Granite in 2002 and has grown the company into one of the largest privately held telecommunications services companies in the U.S., with revenues exceeding $1 Billion. Rob is the founder and board chair of Fox Rock Capital, a single family office based in Boston, founding owner of FoxRock Properties, a commercial real estate firm, and is co-owner of the NBA’s Boston Celtics and Boston Cannons of the MLL. Rob lives in the Boston area with his wife and three children. He serves on the Board of Trustees for Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, the South Shore YMCA, and the Massachusetts Soldiers Legacy Fund.
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About Granite Telecommunications: Granite is a leading communications services provider for businesses with multiple locations.
Founder & CEO of Trellis
Pranav Sood is the founder of Trellis and also works as the founder of Sood Partners. He is previously affiliated with Hudson’s Bay Company as the manager for profit improvement and procurement (IT). He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration at Richard Ivey School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in management and organizational studies at University of Western.
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About Sood Partners, Trellis: Trellis is a seed-to-sale cannabis management software that support cultivators, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers.
Hossein Kasmai
Founder & CEO of Franchise Creator, Inc.
Mr. Hossein Kasmai has an extensive experience in the field of franchising. Mr. Kasmai founded many franchise concepts of his own including Guard-A-Kid. Guard-A-Kid founded in 2005, quickly became the industry leader and a very successful franchise in the field of Children and family safety. In only a few months after its initial franchise offering, Guard-A-Kid grew to over 35 franchises and by 2010, only five years after its initial launch, Guard-A-Kid expanded to over 150 franchises in 11 countries worldwide. Mr. Kasmai’s new franchise concept has been ranked among the top 500 franchises for 6 years in a row and ranked in the top 10 new franchises in 2009. For 2 years in a row this franchise was ranked among the top 100 fastest growing franchises in America. In mid 2010, Guard-A-Kid was acquired by an investment entity and continues to maintain its rapid growth and its #1 status in its category. Mr. Kasmai has founded other franchise concepts that are currently in operation including a unique Gift Card exchange franchise concept currently operating as Gift Card Monkey. Read more about this very exciting and unique concept here. As a Professional Engineer and an experienced business person, Mr. Kasmai was previously an executive with Motorola leading a large group of engineers in developing new products.
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About Franchise Creator, Inc.: Franchise Creator is a full service franchise consulting firm.
David Kanbar
Founder & CEO of Brand House Wines & Spirits
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About Brand House Wines & Spirits: Brand House Wines & Spirits is a business incubator that focuses on alcoholic beverage brands.
Louis H. Borders
Founder, CEO of Mercury Startups
Mr. Louis H. Borders is a Founder of Mercury Capital Management, LLC. Mr. Borders founded MyWire, Inc. (Keepmedia Inc.) and serves as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He revolutionized the retail book industry with the founding of Borders, the first book and music superstore chain. Mr. Borders developed the advanced information systems used by the MyWire to manage inventory across diverse geographic and demographic regions. Mr. Borders serves as Principal of Mercury Capital Management, an investment firm. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Webvan from December 1996 to September 1999. He founded Borders Books, a retail bookstore chain in 1971 and served as President and Chief Executive Officer until 1983. He has more than 30 years of experience as a successful entrepreneur. Mr. Borders co-founded Synergy Software in November 1989. He founded Mercury Capital Management in 1995 and serves as its Chairman. He serves as Chairman of KeepMedia Inc. He served as Chairman of the Board of Webvan since December 1996. He served as Chairman of Borders Books from 1983 to 1992. He served as director of Synergy Software, a software consulting company from November 1989 to November 1997. He served as a Director of Webvan Group until February 2001. Mr. Borders holds a B.A in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and completed graduate coursework in mathematics at MIT.
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About Home Delivery Service (HDS Global), Mercury Startups: Mercury’s comprehensive approach for large-scale startup development formalizes effective processes employed by successful precedents.
Eric Mara
CEO of Right Lane Industries
Eric Mara currently works as Chief Executive Officer of Right Lane Industries. He previously worked at Pavis Capital LLC as Jr Partner/Senior Investment Analyst.
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About Right Lane Industries: Right Lane Industries is an industrial holding company that focuses on acquiring manufacturing and industrial services businesses.
Michael Marrow
CEO of Qualfon
Marrow has a strong record of BPO leadership. He was previously chief executive officer of APAC Customer Services, a publicly traded BPO primarily servicing the health, insurance, and wireless communications industries. APAC had service delivery operations across the USA, Asia, and Latin America. Prior to APAC, Marrow was responsible for the contact center service offerings for commercial clients at Affiliated Computer Services (ACS). At ACS, he was instrumental in driving the growth of the company’s contact center businesses. Under his leadership, contact center outsourcing revenue increased tenfold—from $60 million to approximately $600 million—in under five years’ time. He led the expansion of ACS’ offshore customer service and outsourcing capabilities, launching centers in China, the Philippines, India, Central and South America, Europe, and Africa. Marrow holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a master’s degree in education, both from San Jose State University. He is based in Boca Raton, Florida.
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About Qualfon: Qualfon has a strong track record of customer service and back-office processing growth.
Ryan Bednar
Co-founder & CEO of RankScience
Ryan Bednar is Co-founder and CEO at Rank Science.
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About RankScience: SEO Split Testing Platform & Services for Data Driven Companies
Scott Kelly
Founder, CEO and President of Black Dog Venture Partners
Scott is a 20 year veteran in marketing, sales, training and publicity. He has trained over 1,000 sales people, generated hundreds of millions of dollars in sales and has taught marketing at the university level in the United States and Europe. As founder and CEO of Black Dog Promotions, Scott has garnered national media coverage for hundreds regional and national brands and established large fan bases for many in the sports, entertainment and business community.
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About Black Dog Venture Partners, Grand Canyon University, OnPlate Technologies: Black Dog Venture Partners provides venture capital consulting, corporate finance, business development services
Nick Shapiro
Founder and CEO of 10th Avenue
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About 10th Avenue: 10th Avenue builds lasting partnerships with partners and offers life-giving results for business development.
Laura Gonzalez-Estefani
Founder, CEO & General Partner of TheVentureCity First Round
Before founding and becoming the CEO of TheVentureCity, Laura spent 8+ years at Facebook. First three years she worked as Country Manager for Spain & Portugal, becoming the 1st employee in country reporting to the HQ Growth team. She moved to Silicon Valley to lead the Growth, Mobile & Partnerships team for LATAM, leading the Internet.org & connectivity initiatives. After 4 years, she moved to Miami to lead among other strategic projects, the strategy of Facebook in Cuba, the less connected country in the world. Prior to Facebook, Laura has management roles at eBay, Siemens and Ogilvy Group. Back in 2000 she co-founded Esplaya.com, the first international beach tourism digital platform.
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About TheVentureCity First Round: TheVentureCity is a operator-led venture accelerator that makes the global entrepreneurial ecosystem more diverse and accessible to capital.
William Stromberg
President and Chief Executive Officer of T. Rowe Price
Mr. William J. Stromberg, CFA, serves as a Vice President, Director of Equity Research and Portfolio Manager at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. Mr. Stromberg serves as Head of Equity Research at Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Research Division. He has been the Head of Global Equities and Vice President at T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., since 2010 and 1990 respectively. Mr. Stromberg serves as Vice President at T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth Fund Inc. Mr. Stromberg joined T. Rowe Price Group in 1985 and served as its Director of Global of Equity Management Group and Director of Global Research and Equities. He served as Chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee at T. Rowe Price Capital Opportunity Fund Inc. He holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Mr. Stromberg received an M.B.A. from Amos Tuck School, Dartmouth College and a B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University.
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About T. Rowe Price: T. Rowe Price is an investment management firm dedicated to funding technology startups.
Ray Zhou
Cofounder, CEO of Affinity
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About Affinity: Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform built to expand and evolve the traditional CRM.
Bryson Raver
CEO of The Facilities Group
Bryson Raver currently works as the Chief Executive Officer for The Facilities Group.
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About The Facilities Group: The Facilities Group is a facilities holding company that provides facility maintenance services to commercial properties.
David York
CEO and Managing Director of Top Tier Capital Partners
David is the chief executive and a managing director of Top Tier responsible for the management, development and growth of the firm’s fund of funds and co-investment offerings. Beginning in 2000, he led the fund of funds team at Paul Capital, developing an extensive network of relationships with private equity fund managers. He serves on the fund advisory committees of 10 venture capital firms and has extensive operational experience, having founded and managed four different trading desks on Wall Street. David’s Wall Street career spans two decades, including posts at Chase H&Q, Volpe Welty & Co. and Drexel Burnham Lambert. He began his career as an executive consultant at Paine Webber. Mr. York received his B.S.E. in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Southern California.
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About Top Tier Capital Partners: Top Tier Capital Partners is a venture capital fund of funds, co-investment, and secondaries manager investing.
Benjamin Taft
Co-Founder & CEO of Mira
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About Mira: Mira is an operator of a mobile augmented reality company used to provide industrial-grade wearables and hands-free software technologies.
Chris Hollod
Co-Founder and CEO of Tailwind Acquisition
Chris Hollod is a venture capitalist, angel investor, and advisor in Los Angeles, and Hollod is also the Co-Founder and CEO of Tailwind Acquisition Corp., a $334 million public special purpose acquisition company. Hollod is an expert negotiator, and over the course of his career, he has completed more than 150 deals across five different investment entities, including investments in Uber, Airbnb, Houzz, Spotify, Pinterest, Duolingo, Airtable, Oscar Health, Flexport, Casper, and Warby Parker. Hollod is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Hollod Holdings, a venture capital and advisory entity based in Los Angeles that focuses on innovative consumer start-ups. From 2009 to 2017, Hollod was the Venture Partner for multi-billionaire investor Ron Burkle’s family office, The Yucaipa Companies. Hollod was also the Managing Partner of A-Grade Investments alongside actor Ashton Kutcher and talent manager Guy Oseary. The fund invested in more than 100 high-profile consumer technology start-ups and raised outside capital from other reputable investors including Mark Cuban, David Geffen, Eric Schmidt, and Marc Benioff. Prior to becoming a Venture Capitalist, Hollod was an Investment Banker. Hollod graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Vanderbilt University with degrees in Economics, Finance, and Philosophy.
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About Hollod Holdings, Tailwind Acquisition: Tailwind Acquisition is a $334M Purpose-Built SPAC.
Greg Miaskiewicz
Co-founder and CEO of Capbase
Grzegorz Miaskiewicz is the founder and CEO of Capbase.
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About Capbase: Capbase is a digital governance platform that helps startups with their securities transactions.
Tony Hawk
Founder, CEO of Birdhouse Skateboards
Tony has won numerous awards, including Make-A-Wish’s Favorite Male Athlete, Teen Choice Awards’ Choice Male Athlete and Nickelodeon’s Kid’s Choice Awards’ Favorite Male Athlete, beating out such sports icons as Shaquille O’Neal, Tiger Woods, and Kobe Bryant. From video games to skateboards to online media to clothing to world tours, Tony has dominated the Action Sports market with his laid-back style. He is the most recognized Action Sports figure in the world and, according to some marketing surveys, one of the most recognizable athlete of any kind in the United States. Tony regularly appears on television and in films, and hosts a weekly show on Sirius XM. His autobiography, HAWK—Occupation: Skateboarder was a New York Times bestseller and is currently available in paperback. In 2010, Wiley Publishing released How Did I Get Here? The Ascent of an Unlikely CEO. As his income reached a level he never could have imagined, Tony made an effort to give back to the subculture that has given him so much. His Tony Hawk Foundation has donated over $4 million to 525 skatepark projects throughout the United States. The foundation helps finance public skateparks in low-income areas, providing a safe place to skate and helping young skaters from Marathon, Florida, to Sitka, Alaska, build their self-confidence. Skateparks that received financial assistance from the Tony Hawk Foundation currently serve more than 3 million young Americans annually.
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About Birdhouse Skateboards: Birdhouse Skateboards is a skateboard company.
Mario Nawfal
Founder and CEO of International Blockchain Consulting
Mario Nawfal is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at NFT Technologies.
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About International Blockchain Consulting, NFT Technologies: International Blockchain Consulting is an international blockchain consulting group that facilitates end to end ICO support.
Bob Moore
Cofounder & CEO of Crossbeam
Bob Moore is Co-Founder and CEO of Crossbeam, a collaborative data platform that helps companies build more valuable partnerships by discovering which customers and leads they have in common. Moore previously co-founded RJMetrics (acquired by Magento) and Stitch (acquired by Talend). Bob’s writing about technology, startups, and data has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and numerous other publications. Outside of his day job, he serves as Board President of Philly Startup Leaders, is an improv comedy performer at Philly Improv Theater, and is a Trustee of the Glassboro Education Foundation.
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About Crossbeam: Crossbeam is a collaborative data platform that helps companies build more valuable partnerships.
James McCann
CEO of Food Retail Ventures
Retail Tech Investor | Board Member | ex CEO @Ahold @Carrefour @Tesco Investor in some of the most exciting early stage companies in the grocery tech, food tech and consumer goods space.
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About Food Retail Ventures: Food Retail Ventures invests in early stage food and retail technology companies.
Deborah Jackson
Founder & CEO of Plum Alley Investments
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About Plum Alley Investments: Plum Alley Investments is a venture firm investing in early stage technology and healthcare companies with at least one woman founder.
Enzo A. D’Angelo
Co-Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of Tyree & D’Angelo Partners
Managing Partner at Tyree & D’Angelo Partners
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About Tyree & D’Angelo Partners: Tyree & D’Angelo Partners is a private equity investment firm.
James Turner
President & CEO of Intelligent Fiber Network
James Turner (Jim) is the President and CEO of Indiana Fiber Network, LLC (IFN). Jim has extensive experience leading companies that provide critical infrastructure services to the public. Previously, Jim served as president of the regulated utility business at Duke Energy Corporation (NYSE: DUK), currently the nation’s largest electric utility. While at Duke, Jim had overall responsibility for utility operations spanning five states and millions of electric customers. Before that, Jim was president of Cinergy Corp. (formerly NYSE:CIN). Jim helped lead the successful merger and integration of Cinergy into Duke Energy in 2006. Jim was an integral part of the negotiations leading to that merger and also helped lead the merged company’s integration process – including the development of the new business model, design of the organizational structure, identification of key personnel for leadership positions, and identification of synergies and creation of an execution plan to achieve them. Jim also supervised the complex regulatory approval process that was completed well ahead of investor expectations. Jim also served as lead independent director of Pike Corporation (formerly NYSE: PIKE), one of the nation’s leading energy services and infrastructure businesses. Jim led a committee of Pike’s independent directors in the evaluation and execution of a go-private opportunity that produced a 51% premium to Pike’s shareholders when it was successfully consummated at the end of 2014. Immediately before joining IFN, Jim was the chief operating officer of Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP, a 200-attorney business law firm with principal offices in Indianapolis and Louisville. At IFN, Jim is working on sharpening operational execution across the business to improve efficiency, enhance owner value, and advance customer satisfaction. Jim is also working to refine IFN’s business model to ensure the company has the right culture, strategic processes, and operating tools to thrive in an increasingly competitive space. Jim embraces the community and civic leadership, having served in leadership roles on numerous civic and non-profit organizations. He received his law degree cum laude from the Indiana University School of Law in 1984 following completion of his Bachelor’s Degree from Ball State University in 1981. Jim also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2001. Jim and his wife, Leah, were married in 1981 and have been together as a couple since the 8th grade. Their three children, Selena (33), Shannon (31) and Josh (25) currently reside in Brooklyn, NY, Chicago, IL, and Brooklyn, NY, respectively.
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About Intelligent Fiber Network: Intelligent Fiber Network provides fiber transport, internet connectivity, and carrier-grade colocation services.
Michael A Butler
Chief Executive Officer & President of Radius Bank
Since joining Radius Bank in March 2008, Mr. Butler has transformed the Bank into an innovative leader in the financial services industry, one focused on delivering superior customer service and leading-edge technology to its clients. He is an experienced banking executive with an extensive background in all facets of commercial and consumer banking. Prior to joining the Bank, Mike served as President, National Consumer Finance at KeyCorp in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a graduate of Providence College and the ABA’s Stonier Graduate School of Banking. Mike serves as a member of the Financial Services Committee for the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, on the Board of Trustees for Thompson Island Outward Bound, and has been active with the Habitat for Humanity program. He was recently recognized as an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® New England 2016 Finalist.
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About Grasshopper Bank, Radius Bank: Radius Bank is a forward-thinking community bank offering a full complement of convenient, leading-edge personal and business products.
Marlon Evans
CEO of Nex Cubed
Marlon Evans is the CEO at Nex Cubed.
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About Nex Cubed, Nex Cubed Digital Health: Nex Cubed is an investor and innovation partner that invests in, accelerates, and scales frontier tech companies.
Michael Mazzola
Interim CEO of Institutional Limited Partners Association
Mike Mazzola is a Managing Director and Head of MetLife’s Alternative Investment Unit. He has overall responsibility for a global portfolio of limited partnership investments in hedge funds and private equity funds as well as middle market finance activities including senior loans, mezzanine and equity co-investments. Mike originally joined MetLife in 1989 and was focused on private debt and mezzanine, direct private equity and fund investing. From 1999 to 2004, Mike was a founding partner of Inter-Atlantic Fund, a venture capital fund focused on early stage investments in financial services companies. In 2004, he joined Swiss-based Gefinor SA as head of private equity fund advisory activities based in New York City. He rejoined MetLife in September 2007 to head US private equity fund investments. Mike earned a BA in Economics from New College of Florida and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the Simon School of the University of Rochester. Mike serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA), the leading global organization dedicated to the interests of Institutional Limited Partners in private equity.
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About Institutional Limited Partners Association: Institutional Limited Partners Association is a member-driven organization dedicated to advancing the interests of private equity.
Steven Nelson
CEO of Institutional Limited Partners Association
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About Institutional Limited Partners Association: Institutional Limited Partners Association is a member-driven organization dedicated to advancing the interests of private equity.
Drew Wilson
Founder and CEO of Plasso
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About Advise.me, Build It WIth Me, Letter, Plasso, The Industry: Accept payments and sell anything. Plasso is the best way to make money online.
Robert Thompson
Chief Executive Officer of Angevin & Co.
Robert Thompson, Founder and CEO of Punch Bowl Social, was raised in Mississippi and Colorado, surrounded by the southern hospitality that now permeates his award-winning “eatertainment” concept where elevated, scratch-made diner eats and crafted cocktails combine with old school games and Dirty-Modern décor to create an unusually dynamic, social, authentic experience. In 1997 at age 25, Thompson began his career as a restaurateur in Nashville where he blended his passions for restaurants, real estate and design. Seeing an opportunity, Robert signed an ambitious 22,000 Sft. lease on prime real estate next to the honky-tonks and new commercial realities of downtown Nashville. Thompson wrote a business plan, opened a highly successful business and was forever hooked as a restaurateur. Before developing his “crown jewel,” Punch Bowl Social, Robert opened eight other restaurant concepts, earned dozens of awards – including four Best New Restaurant honors in Denver and Nashville. Each of those experiences helped him perfect his vision of combining high-integrity food with social bar experiences in a way that had not been seen before Punch Bowl Social. Thompson opened the first Punch Bowl Social on South Broadway in Denver in 2012. From its beginnings as a single restaurant and bar, the innovative Punch Bowl Social concept immediately established a profound connection with guests who embraced the upscale diner-inspired menu, vintage games and fun, fresh bar offerings. Interior design creativity is cornerstone of the Punch Bowl Social brand and is evident through the Victorian furnishings, Colorado mountain lodge warmth, industrial spaces, modern appointments and dozens of other eye-catching design elements that make Punch Bowl Social so special. The concept was so popular that developers in other states took notice and began courting Thompson to open Punch Bowl Social locations outside of Colorado. Since 2012, Thompson has opened Punch Bowl Social locations in Austin, TX, Portland, OR and Detroit, MI, will put locations in Cleveland, OH and Chicago, IL in 2015, and in Denver’s Stapleton community in early 2016. Given the freedom to dream up the best in innovative eats, drinks, service, ambiance and architecture, Robert Thompson has found great success in developing restaurants that guests wholeheartedly embrace. When Robert is not working, Thompson loves distance running the Colorado high-country and spends every spare moment in the company of his wife and young son.
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About Angevin & Co.: Angevin & Co. provides consultation solutions to improve business from the hotel and restaurants industry.
Sean Chou
CEO of Catalytic
Sean Chou is the CEO and Co-founder of Catalytic, a company he founded in 2015 built on his lifelong obsession with working smarter. The company’s people-friendly automation platform frees up people to do more meaningful work, increases the speed of doing business, and improves the quality of outcomes. Prior to Catalytic, he was the founding CTO and EVP of Services at Fieldglass, a software-as-a-service pioneer acquired in 2014 by SAP for approximately $1 billion.
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About Catalytic: Catalytic offers the easiest platform for digital transformation and the automation of knowledge work.
Joel Mahoney
Co-Founder & CEO of OpenCounter
Joel is a civic technologist and entrepreneur. He was an inaugural fellow at Code for America, and served as a technical advisor to the organization. Before Code for America, Joel founded companies in the health and hospitality sectors. His work has been featured in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times. He won the International Design for Experience Award for his work with the City of Boston, and was one of GovTech Magazine’s Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers in 2012. Joel now serves as CEO at OpenCounter.com, which builds modern permitting and licensing software for local governments.
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About OpenCounter: OpenCounter combines Silicon Valley and public-sector talent to create best-of-class products for modern governments.
Alan Trefler
Founder & CEO of Pegasystems
In a three decade career, Alan Trefler has been a visionary leader, a technology change-agent, an innovative philanthropist and a trusted advisor to business executives around the world. Alan’s unique technology vision and relentless focus on customer success is changing the way many of the world’s leading enterprises engage with their customers today. His life’s work has been to design a platform for living applications that businesspeople can evolve dynamically to manage the constant disruption and change in today’s customer-centric economy. Alan’s recent book, Build for Change, describes a new generation of customers that have unprecedented power to make or break brands and the changes businesses must embrace to succeed in today’s digital world. A best-seller, the book has been reviewed and featured in global media including Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily and Les Echos. Alan founded Pegasystems in 1983 and has built the company into a $600 million provider of strategic applications with more than 3,000 employees in 30 global offices, and growing more than 20 percent annually. Alan’s interest in computers originates from collegiate involvement in tournament chess, where he achieved a Master rating and was co-champion of the 1975 World Open Chess Championship. His passion and support for chess, the game’s community and current champions continues to this day. Alan’s industry recognition includes The American Business Award’s “Software CEO of the Year,” the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council’s “Public Company CEO of the Year” and the Babson College Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs. He frequently presents to international business and technology audiences at industry conferences and has consulted extensively in the use of advanced technology and customer engagement Alan has been interviewed and featured in Global Media including Barron’s, the BBC, Bloomberg Television, The Boston Globe, CNBC, Customerfirst!, Les Echos, Fast Company, Fox Business News, Forbes, Fortune, The Huffington Post, Investor’s Business Daily, The New York Times, Reuters, TheStreet.com, TechCrunch and the Wall Street Journal. He has spoken about and consulted extensively in the use of advanced technologies and the future of software and has been named the inventor of numerous patents for Pega’s distinctive architecture. Alan holds a degree with distinction in Economics and Computer Science from Dartmouth College, where he was a winner of the John G. Kemeny prize in computing. A staunch advocate for education, Alan and his wife Pam established the Trefler Foundation in 1996 to improve educational outcomes. Recently, the Foundation has sponsored Union & Fifth, an innovative non-profit that turns clothing donations into money for charities.
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About Pegasystems: PegaSystems provides business process and customer relationship management solutions for organizations.
Sameer Dholakia
CEO of SendGrid
Sameer Dholakia has over 20 years of experience in successfully bringing high growth, disruptive cloud and enterprise software solutions to market. Prior to joining SendGrid, he served as Group Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud Platforms group at Citrix, driving the company’s product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization. Sameer joined the company in 2010, when Citrix acquired VMLogix, where he served as CEO and doubled revenues during each year of his tenure. Prior to that, he worked for 12 years at Trilogy, where he held key leadership roles in sales, business development and product management and helped the company grow from a start-up to a $300 million business. Sameer received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About SendGrid: SendGrid is a cloud-based customer communication platform that drives engagement and business growth.
Nicholas DeBenedictis
CEO of Aqua America
As a leader in the greater Philadelphia business community, Mr. DeBenedictis has knowledge of the communities and local economies served by PECO. Mr. DeBenedictis’ contribution to the Exelon board is enhanced by his experience as the former CEO of a public company, his experience on the boards of other companies, his experience as a utility executive, and his experience with environmental regulation, all of which bring useful perspectives to the Exelon board’s finance and risk committee and the generation oversight committee. His prior experience as the presiding director and chair of the corporate governance committee of another public company offers additional insight to the functions of the Exelon corporate governance committee.
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About Aqua America: Aqua America, Inc. (Aqua America) is the holding company for regulated utilities providing water or wastewater services in Pennsylvania,
Keith Richman
Co-Founder and CEO of Boosted Commerce
Keith is a successful entrepreneur, investor, and board member. He co-founded Boosted Commerce because he is passionate about taking products that successful sellers have developed and helping scale those products on a global level. Previously, he was a co-founder of Voi Technology, a leading European based mobility company with operations in 34 cities across 11 countries. From 2005 until October 2013, he served as the co-founder and CEO of Break Media, where he developed an expertise in digital marketing across multiple brands and vertical. Prior to Break Media, he was the co-founder and vice president of OnePage, which was acquired by Sybase in 2002, and co-founder of Billpoint Inc., which was acquired by eBay in 1999. Keith currently serves on the board of directors of GrubHub (Nasdaq: GRUB), The Meet Group (Nasdaq: Meet) and Vostok New Ventures (Nasdaq: VNVSDB:SS). Keith received a B.A. in International Relations and M.A. in International Policy from Stanford University.
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About Boosted Commerce, Voi: Boosted Commerce is a CPG platform that buys a variety of verticals and business sizes.
Kyle Widrick
Co-Founder and CEO of Win Brands Group
Kyle Widrick is the founder and CEO of Win Brands Group. He is an experienced and passionate venture capital and brand-building professional based in New York City, with 10+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, operator, and investor.
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About Win Brands Group: Win Brands Group is a holding company that acquires and scales direct-to-consumer brands.
Jeff Epstein
Co-CEO, CFO of Apex Technology
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About Apex Technology, Bessemer Venture Partners, Stanford University: Apex Technology is a special purpose acquisition corporation.
Ram Mukunda
Founder, CEO & President of India Globalization Capital
Mr. Ram Mukunda is Executive Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of India Globalization Capital, Inc. He was Chairman of the Board from April 29, 2005 through December 15, 2005. Since July 2010, Mr. Mukunda has been on the board of directors of the BLA Power Private Limited Board, in Mumbai, India. From January 1990 to May 2004, Mr. Mukunda served as Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Startec Global Communications, an international telecommunications carrier focused on providing voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) services to the emerging economies. Startec was among the first carriers to have a direct operating agreement with India for the provision of telecom services. Mr. Mukunda was responsible for the organizing, structuring and integrating a number of companies owned by Startec. Many of these companies provided strategic investments in India-based operations or provided services to India-based companies. Under Mr. Mukunda’s tenure at Startec, the company made an initial public offering of its equity securities in 1997 and conducted a public high-yield debt offering in 1998. From June 1987 to January 1990, Mr. Mukunda served as Strategic Planning Advisor at INTELSAT, a provider of satellite capacity. Mr. Mukunda serves on the Board of Visitors at the University of Maryland, School of Engineering. From 2001-2003, he was a Council Member at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs. Mr. Mukunda is the recipient of several awards, including the University of Maryland’s 2001 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award and the 1998 Ernst & Young, LLP’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He holds B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics and a M.S. in Engineering from the University of Maryland.
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About India Globalization Capital, Startec Global Communications: India Globalization Capital operates as a materials and infrastructure company in India and China.
Bill Evans
CEO & Managing Director of Rock Health
Bill Evans is the Managing Director of Rock Health, the first venture fund dedicated to digital health. Prior to joining Rock Health, Bill held leadership roles within Roche Diagnostics delivering clinical decision support software and at Genentech developing partnerships expand the use of “real-world data” in the drug development process.
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About Rock Health: Rock Health is a full-service seed fund that invests and supports startups working in digital health.
Nikola Mijic
co-founder/CEO of Matik
Nikola Mijic is a co-founder and CEO at Matik.
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About Matik: Matik provides an online platform that generates personalized customer presentations in minutes.
Carleton (Mickey) Miller
CEO, President & Board Member of Vislink
Mickey Miller is the CEO and President of Vislink Technologies.
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About Vislink: Vislink is a leading global technology business specializing in the provision of advanced communications to the broadcast.
Curtis Simmons
Founder & CEO of Spectrum
Curtis Simmons Founded NWO Art Gallery in 2012. The NWO Art Gallery was built on one principle, making art the fundamental building block of everyday life. We believe wholeheartedly in the advancement of creativity. Together with our artists, we aim to expand upon the traditional gallery format. About two years ago I had an idea for a mobile art application called Spectrum. I secured 1.5 million funding needed for development and I’ve built a skeleton marketing campaign prior to the apps release on the Apple store. I’ve acquired 5,000 email addresses of leading artists as collateral against zero downloads at launch. I’ve done the research, surveyed the market, ran real life experiments, and all results are reading that Spectrum is scalable.
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About Spectrum: Spectrum is a community-based platform for visual artists.
Christopher Tarantino
Chief Executive Officer of Epicenter Innovation
Christopher Tarantino is an award-winning entrepreneur, investor, and international speaker on resilient innovation. He has worked with thousands of high-performing leaders from startups, enterprise, and government organizations like Google, FEMA, Cisco, and other recognizable brands across the globe. With past roles at every level of government as well as growing businesses beyond 7-figures, he is sought after by leaders from both the public and private sectors to transform how they leverage team resilience to drive innovation. His insights have been featured in Inc Magazine, CBS, NBC, as well as a variety of industry publications. He is the Founder/CEO of Epicenter Innovation.
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About Epicenter Innovation, SCOUTbox: Human-centered, resilience-focused innovation consulting.
Kaushik Bhatta (KB)
Founder, CEO of B3 Alliance, Inc.
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About B3 Alliance, Inc., Shiva & Company, Inc.: Comprehensive Business Consulting Firm
William Stringer
Co-Founder & CEO of Chisos Capital
William Stringer is the Co-Founder and CEO of Chisos.
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About Chisos Capital: Chisos Capital writes checks of $15K-50K to invest in idea-and early stage-startup businesses.
William Stringer
Co-Founder & CEO of Chisos Capital
William Stringer is the Co-Founder and CEO of Chisos.
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About Chisos Capital: Chisos Capital writes checks of $15K-50K to invest in idea-and early stage-startup businesses.
Bryant Riley
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of B. Riley Financial
Bryant R. Riley is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of B. Riley Financial Inc.; Chairman of B. Riley & Co., LLC, (B. RILEY), a leading full service investment bank which he founded in 1997; and CEO, B. Riley Capital Management, LLC, a SEC Registered Investment Advisor. Mr. Riley currently sits on the board of privately-held Lightbridge Communications Corp. Earlier, Mr. Riley held Board positions at Alliance Semiconductor Corporation, Aldila Inc., Cadiz Inc., Carreker Corporation, DDI Corp., Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc., Celeritek, Inc., Kitty Hawk Inc., Mossimo Inc., National Holdings Corporation, SI Technologies, Inc., Silicon Storage Technologies, Strasbaugh, STR Holdings, Inc., Trans World Entertainment and Transmeta Corp. Prior to founding B. RILEY, he held a variety of positions in the brokerage industry, primarily as an institutional salesman and trader. From October 1993 to January 1997 Mr. Riley was a co-head of Equity at Dabney-Resnick, Inc., a Los Angeles-based brokerage firm. From 1991 to 1993 he was a co-founder of Huberman-Riley, a Texas-based brokerage firm. Mr. Riley holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Lehigh University.
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About B. Riley Financial, FBR & Co: B. Riley Financial is a diversified provider of financial and business advisory services.
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
Sohail Prasad
Founder & CEO of Destiny (D/XYZ)
Sohail is the Founder & CEO of Destiny (D/XYZ). Sohail is also Founder & former Co-CEO of Forge, the stock market for private companies. He has an extensive background in product management, engineering, and business. As an eighteen-year-old, he was among the youngest founders to go through Y Combinator. Over the years, Sohail has advised and invested in over 100 startups, including notable startups such as Zenefits and Rappi. He continues to invest actively through S2 Capital, and serves as its Founding Partner. Prior to founding Equidate, Sohail managed mobile product at Zynga. He previously joined mobile advertising firm Chartboost as its second engineering hire, and has held roles at Google and the MIT Media Lab. Sohail was awarded TCU’s Texas Youth Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2010, and was later named a Thiel Fellow by the Thiel Foundation. He previously attended Carnegie Mellon University where he studied Electrical & Computer Engineering.
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About Destiny (D/XYZ), S2 Capital: Public Access to Private Tech
Dan Helfrich
Chairman and CEO of Deloitte Consulting
Dan is Chairman and CEO of Deloitte Consulting LLP. As CEO, he leads a $10B business comprised of more than 50,000 professionals who help clients solve their most complex business issues and shape their future with confidence. Prior to this role, Dan led the Government & Public Services practice, with more than 13,000 professionals helping to solve our nation’s biggest challenges across all levels of government, including all 15 US cabinet-level agencies, 44 states, and more than 60 of the top 100 universities. Dan advised government leaders in transforming into more efficient and effective organizations across areas of technology modernization and innovation, human capital, strategy and analytics, customer experience, and enterprise operations. In Helfrich’s more than 20 years with Deloitte, he has led large customer-centric transformations for both public and private sector clients. He also played roles as Deloitte’s chief strategy officer for Human Capital and led the Civilian Government sector. In addition, he writes and speaks regularly on topics such as purpose-driven leadership, elevating citizen and customer experience, and the future of work. Dan holds a BS in international economics and an MBA from Georgetown University. He remains an active Georgetown alum, including serving as the play-by-play announcer for the Georgetown men’s soccer team (where he served as captain during his time at the school). Dan and his wife live in the Washington metropolitan area with their four children.
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About Deloitte Consulting: Deloitte Consulting offers consulting services to technology-based companies.
Domenic Graziosi
CEO of Relationship Science
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About Relationship Science: Relationship Science is a business development tool that provides influential people profiles.
Buck Jordan
CEO & Founder of Wavemaker Labs
Buck Jordan is the Founder and CEO at Wavemaker Labs.
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About Canyon Creek Capital, Miso Robotics, Wavemaker Labs, Wavemaker Partners: Wavemaker Labs is a corporate venture studio and product development incubator.
Karim Mokhtar
Founder and CEO of Mokhtar Group Inc.
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About Malqart, Mokhtar Group Inc., Multilingualinc, Skillset Academy: The only global B2B lead generation and Lead-to-Opportunity service available in the market today.
Amit Kothari
CEO, Founder & Partner of Tallyfy
Amit Kothari is a British founder of several startups.
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About Tallyfy: Tallyfy is beautiful workflow software that lets you document, track and improve all your repeatable processes
Harry Curtin
Chief Executive Officer of BestIT
Harry Curtin is the founder and CEO of Phoenix-based IT firm BestIT. In addition to providing strategic business technology services to companies around the globe, Harry is also the captain of the GTS Pirelli World-Challenge Camaro team with BestIT Racing. Born and raised in New York, Harry began amateur racing in his early 20s at the Jim Russell Racing School in Canada. He started his pro-racing career first in off-road racing in the SCORE Baja 1000 in 2009 & 2010.
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About BestIT: BestIT is a full-service IT firm specializing in the development of business-aligned IT and technology roadmaps.
Ethan Barhydt
CEO & Co-founder of VoiceOps
Ethan Barhydt is Co-founder & CEO at VoiceOps.
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About Clover Intelligence, VoiceOps: VoiceOps is the first and only coaching enablement solution for call centers.
Mark Moses
Founding Partner and CEO of CEO Coaching International
Mark Moses is a founding partner at CEO Coaching International, where he and his team help businesses and individuals increase profitability, drive margin expansion and gain accountability in order to meet business objectives and reach new heights. Moses is a highly successful serial entrepreneur and top business coach who advises entrepreneurs and leaders toward extraordinary results. His firm CEO Coaching International coaches more than 100 CEOs and entrepreneurs in nine countries. He regularly facilitates annual planning sessions for companies, and is also a passionate and energized keynote speaker who covers topics that include what it takes to be a top performing CEO, building the life that you want, overcoming adversity in your business and your life and how to build a $100 million company. In his new book, Make Big Happen: How to Live, Work, and Give Big (Advantage Media Group, Feb. 9, 2016), Mark says if you ask better questions, you will get better results. The book revolves around four critical questions that every business leader should explore on their journey through business and life, and explains how these questions are the foundation of every fast-growing, profitable business and how answering them in the right way can lead to exceptional results. Moses started his first company when he was 19 years old and graduated with a business degree from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1987. Since then, he has successfully built and sold two companies: Student Painters and Platinum Capital Group. He has been president of both EO and YPO Orange County chapters and served on the Board of the Children’s Hospital of Orange County for six years. He has won Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award and the Blue Chip Enterprise award for overcoming adversity. The last company he sold was ranked No. one fastest-growing company in Los Angeles as well as No. 10 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies in the U.S. Aside from his practice, Moses is a devoted father and enjoys spending time with his wife and family in his free time. He has also completed 12 full-distance Ironman Triathlons including the Hawaii Ironman World Championship five times. In November of 2011, Moses won his division at Ironman Arizona, qualifying him for his 5th Hawaii Ironman. He also won the U.S. National Squash Championship in 1992. In 2015, he and his son Mason completed the White Continent Marathon in Antarctica.
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About CEO Coaching International: CEO Coaching International is an executive coaching company.
