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 Sales 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.
Jager McConnell
Chief Executive Officer of Crunchbase
Jager is the CEO of Crunchbase. He joined the company as it became a venture-backed startup in enterprise data. Prior to joining Crunchbase, Jager spent 11 years at Salesforce in various roles across sales, marketing, and product development.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
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Courtney Puckett
Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer of Crunchbase
Courtney served as Office Manager at Crunchbase from September 2017 to February 2019, from which she served as Executive Assistant until August 2019, since which she has been serving as Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Gaurav Sharma
Founder & CEO of Saas Labs
Gaurav is a product guy (and a techie) who loves working on disruptive ideas related to consumer internet and big data. He is passionate about building new marketplace based businesses and viral user acquisition.
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About Helpwise, JustCall, Saas Labs, Vinnex, Zuvvu: Saas Labs develops software products that revolve around productivity and business process automation.
Arthur F. Muldoon
CEO & Co-Founder of ArcSpan Technologies
Arthur Muldoon is CEO and Co-founder of ArcSpan Technologies. Previously, he was co-CEO of Amnet US and the CEO and Co-founder of Accordant Media, a leading technology-driven programmatic media specialist company. Accordant Media was acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network in 2016. Over the past 20 years, Art has carved out a digital media career launching innovative solutions to help marketers achieve better audience engagement. Earlier, Art was SVP, Global Data Platforms at Aegis Media; SVP of Client Services and Analytics at BzzAgent; and General Manager, Client Services, Avenue A | Razorfish. Art also led the launch of an e-commerce business at Corbis Images in Seattle and was a corporate strategy consultant in the Media, Entertainment and Telecoms group at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Los Angeles. Earlier, Art was a Corporate Finance Analyst at Lehman Brothers in NYC, focused on high tech. Art holds a BA from Trinity College (CT) and an MBA from the Kellogg School, Northwestern University. He resides in New York City with his wife and two young daughters.
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About ArcSpan Technologies: ArcSpan Technologies is a B2B audience data technology company building an enterprise-class addressable audience data monetization platform.
Heather Morgan
Chief Executive Officer of Salesfolk
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About Demandpath, Forbes Magazine, Inc. Magazine, Salesfolk: Salesfolk helps B2B companies accelerate their sales processes with persuasive copywriting.
Aaron Frazin
Founder and CEO of Detective
Aaron Frazin is the Founder and CEO of Detective.io.
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About Detective: Detective is a digital adoption platform that automates the sales research process.
Jesse Riddle
CEO of Live Life 360
BA – BYU, JD- BYU Law School. 25 years practicing law; 10 years in direct sales industry. Former general counsel to two network marketing companies. Former double-diamond earner in Latin America; former owner of Greater China- license market for a network marketing company. Developed the market to become most profitable for entire company worldwide. Has advised and represented a dozen network marketing companies, domestic and international. Expertise in opening international territories. Established two multi-million dollar law firms. Represented clients such as DirecTV, Comcast, AFNI, Dish Network, Time Warner, Walgreens, Kroger, and Cox Communications.
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About Live Life 360: Live Life 360, Inc, is a start-up direct sales company.
Manoj Ramnani
Founder and CEO of SalesIntel
Manoj Ramnani is the founder and CEO of SalesIntel.io and CircleBack, Inc. He was formerly the CEO of Dub Labs. Manoj holds a master’s degree from The George Washington University – School of Business.
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About CircleBack, SalesIntel: SalesIntel is the top provider of accurate and affordable sales and marketing contact data.
Andy MacMillan
CEO of UserTesting
Andy is Chief Executive Officer of UserTesting and oversees the strategic direction of the company. Prior to joining UserTesting he was CEO of Act-On Software. Andy also held several senior leadership positions at Salesforce, including Chief Operating Officer of the Products Division and Senior Vice President & General Manager of Data.com. In both these roles he helped significantly grow customer adoption of Salesforce products and services. Prior to Salesforce, Andy was Vice President of Product Management at Oracle and Vice President of Product Marketing at Stellent (acquired by Oracle). He started his career as a software developer at EDS. Andy holds a B.A. from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland).
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About UserTesting: UserTesting is an on-demand human insight platform designed to improve customer insights.
Armando Biondi
Co-Founder & CEO of Breadcrumbs.io
Armando Biondi currently works as the Co-Founder and CEO for Breadcrumbs.io. He previously worked at Hootsuite as the global head of growth operations.
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About Breadcrumbs.io: Breadcrumbs.io is a revenue acceleration platform that helps companies in rating and scoring current and potential customers.
Vijay Tella
CEO & Co‑Founder of Workato
Vijay has led creation of market leading integration technologies for over 25 years. Prior to Workato, he was the CEO of Qik, a consumer video communications company acquired by Skype. Before Qik, he helped create two multi-billion dollar integration products. He was part of the team that created world’s first middleware platform, TIB (The Information Bus) at Teknekron Software Systems, which was acquired by Reuters Plc, in 1994. He was also on the founding team and SVP, Engineering of TIBCO through its IPO. As Chief Strategy Officer, he then helped launch Oracle’s Fusion Middleware platform in 2005.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Jack Rimokh
Chairman and CEO of Signal Brands
As a highly respected industry leader, Jack Rimokh started Signal Brands and built one of the world’s largest handbag companies.
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About Signal Brands: Signal Brands is a manufacturer, distributor of licensed fashion handbags, small leather goods and luggage.
Jonathan Downey
Founder, CEO, and Head of Product of Candidate Labs
Jonathan Downey is an experienced technology entrepreneur, CEO, and investor, having founded two companies and invested in more than 40 startups. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of a company at the intersection of talent and data. He has built out high-performing teams across a broad set of skills from hardware engineering through cloud services, analytics, and enterprise sales. Over his career he has raised over $100M from leading investors, including A16Z, KPCB, Signalfire, First Round Capital, GV, and Next World Capital, and has secured 6 and 7-figure enterprise engagements with Fortune 500 enterprises including State Farm and Caterpillar. Jonathan is an electrical engineering and computer science graduate from MIT and holds numerous patents. A YC-Combinator alum, Jonathan was named USA Today’s “Small-Business Innovator of the Year” and MIT Tech Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35”. He is an instrument-rated commercial multi-engine pilot and worked at Boeing as an engineer contributing to the development and flight testing of the A160T Hummingbird, a 6,500 lb fully-autonomous helicopter, which broke the world record for longest helicopter flight. and regularly flew within the National Airspace System (NAS).
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About Candidate Labs, SignalFire: The Modern Search Firm Built as a Technology Company
Peter Clark
Co-Founder & CEO of Journey
Peter Clark is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Our Journey Software.
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About Journey, Our Software Journey: Journey provides a sales platform that enables users to engage, close, and onboard customers in one link.
Domenic Merenda
CEO and Co-Founder of Ceqoo
Domenic Merenda is a seasoned Silicon Valley software executive with a passion for disrupting markets. At BeOpen.com (later PythonLabs) Domenic was an early and influential member of the business development and technology teams, and helped shape the direction of the Python programming language, which was the basis for Google’s search technology.
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About Ceqoo: Ceqoo makes sales teams better by helping sales development reps start faster, produce sooner and become prospecting “rock stars.”
Jim Coover
Pres./CEO of Isagenix International
With more than 35 years’ experience, Jim Coover is widely considered a pioneer in the weight-loss and nutrition industry. He successfully led numerous network marketing companies throughout his career, serving more than 7 million customers and exceeding $1 billion in sales. In 2001, Jim and his wife, expert network marketer Kathy, left retirement to link arms with John Anderson to co-found Isagenix in pursuit of a vision to impact world health and free people from physical and financial pain. At Isagenix, Jim has been instrumental in creating the architecture of one of the most generous, simple, and effective compensation plans in the industry.
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About Isagenix International: Isagenix International LLC is a multilevel marketing company that markets dietary supplements and personal care products.
Dave Carlson
Co-Founder & CEO of Shopventory
Dave Carlson is the Founder and Managing Director of eonBusiness. Dave established eonBusiness in 1997 to meet the needs of start-ups and early development stage companies for building Internet based businesses. He has founded five businesses with three successful exits to date while supporting dozens of other companies. While eonBusiness started as primarily a web development services organization, it transitioned to an incubator and then subsequently a boutique venture capital firm investing in software as a service (SaaS) and mobile opportunities. Dave is actively involved as an advisor to numerous eonBusiness portfolio companies. He also currently serves on the board of directors of mobileStorm for eonBusiness. Dave also serves as a Mentor to the TechStars mentorship driven seed stage investment program. In 2001 Dave founded and incubated GO TOAST and subsequently started eonMedia in 2002. Both companies were acquired in 2003 by aQuantive which was acquired by Microsoft in 2007. Other personal startups include eonBusiness, AllAboardToys.com (acquired in 2008) and HomePoint. Prior to founding eonBusiness, Dave was a senior executive at EchoStar (DISH Network) for 12 years, where he was an integral part of the launch of the DISH Network and the initiation of EchoStar’s global business expansion. Dave’s EchoStar career included a six-year stint in The Netherlands as Managing Director of European, African and Middle Eastern Operations. Dave earned a B.A. in Communications with a minor in Business Administration at Bethany College and a Masters Degree in International Business Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
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About eonCapital, Shopventory, Techstars, Thrive Metrics: Shopventory provides inventory management and sales analytics services for retail businesses.
Alex Hern
Founder and CEO of Tsunami XR
Alex Hern has been an entrepreneur for more than 25 years. During his career, he has focused on early stage companies and on the incubation of technology companies. Alex Hern co-founded and served as a Director of Inktomi Goldman Sachs-led IPO (INKT), which powered and was the search technology for MSN, Yahoo and AOL. He was also the co-founder and Director of Yesmail Alex Brown led IPO (YESM), an email marketing and web directory company, which went public and then sold to CMGI, now ModusLink Global Solutions, for $650 million ten months later. Alex Hern co-founded Military Commercial Technologies a technology commercialization incubator funded by Lockheed and L-3, where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. In addition, Alex Hern co-founded and served as Director of Arcsight (ARST), a cyber security company, which also went public and was sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.5 billion. Alex Hern co-founded and served as Director of CloudShield a network security company which sold to SAIC, a large technology and engineering firm specializing in government and commercial projects. Alex Hern also founded and served on the Boards of NewHomes.com and of Triton Network Systems (TNSI). Alex Hern has also served on the board of Zero Knowledge Systems, a security and encryption company now named Radial Point.
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About Tsunami XR: Tsunami develops and delivers advanced digital collaboration services for teams.
Mikael Yang
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ManyChat
Mikael Yang is the Co-Founder and CEO of ManyChat – a platform that helps businesses and professionals engage their audience through messaging apps.
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About ManyChat: ManyChat helps businesses do marketing, sales and support through Facebook Messenger.
Francisco Larrain
CEO, Co-Founder of Sudo
Francisco Larrain is the Co-Founder & CTO at Topsort.
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About Maxxa, Sudo, Topsort: Sudo is a venture-backed startup that is enabling people to talk to their company’s CRM system.
David Graf
Chief Executive Officer & President of TRANZACT
As TRANZACT’s lead executive since 2003, David ensures that the company’s philosophies and strategies, which are based on clear, open and honest communications with corporate partners, suppliers, clients and employees, are in place during every process and at every level. Before joining TRANZACT, David was President of Mosaic Performance Solutions North America (formerly Paradigm Direct), a direct marketing services company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Mosaic Group, Inc. Mr. Graf co-founded Paradigm Direct in 1997, which became part of Mosaic in December 2000.
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About TRANZACT: MG LLC, a provider of sales and marketing services to insurance companies that does business as Tranzact
Paul Hedrick
Founder & CEO of Tecovas
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About Tecovas: Tecovas is a direct-to-consumer western-wear company that sells cowboy boots.
Gaurav Singh
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Verloop.io
Gaurav Singh is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Verloop.io. He attended Jabalpur Engineering College.
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About Verloop.io: Verloop.io is the world’s leading customer support automation platform.
Scott Cutler
Chief Executive Officer of StockX
Scott Cutler is the CEO of StockX, an online marketplace that enables the buying and selling of high-demand consumer products, including sneakers, streetwear, watches, and handbags. Prior to joining StockX, Cutler served as senior vice president of the Americas at eBay, Inc., from 2017- 2019. From 2015-2017, Scott served as president of StubHub. There, he led the reinvention of the global StubHub brand, expanding the company’s international presence from four to more than 48 countries and launching strategic partnerships across sports and music. Before joining StubHub, Cutler spent nine years as the executive vice president at the New York Stock Exchange, overseeing listings, capital markets, trading, services, and corporate governance. During his tenure there, he helped transform the NYSE into the number one global exchange, leading in tech IPOs, and helping take some of the world’s most iconic brands public. He was responsible for more than $1 trillion in capital market financings. Cutler holds a Bachelor of Science in economics from Brigham Young University and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. He currently serves on the boards of Brookfield Property Partners and Brookfield Property REIT (NASDAQ: BPY and BPR), Vibrant Emotional Health, and is a trustee on the National Advisory Committee for his alma mater BYU. Cutler is also a longtime sneaker collector with a penchant for Jordan 1s.
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About StockX: StockX is an online marketplace to buy and sell limited edition and high demand sneakers.
Robert Khodadadian
President & CEO of Skyline Properties
Robert Khodadadian is proven commercial real estate broker. He has been involved in almost every realm of the real estate industry since he was 20. He has been involved with several leading real estate firms, including Massey Knakal Realty Services and Eastern Consolidated. All through his career, Khodadadian has contributed in the sale of hundreds of properties across Manhattan, Queens, Long Island, the Bronx and other areas, with a diverse range of commercial and residential listings. He has been involved in all aspects of New York’s wide-ranging real estate properties, from multi-family homes to retail stores, offices, SRO’s, IMD’s, retail condos and hotels, as well as investment opportunities including shares, partnership interests, loans and note sales.
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About Audilar, kentstruction, Miren.Co Commercial Real Estate Brokerage, Skyline Properties: Commercial Real Estate Investment Sales
Bastin Gerald
Founder, CEO of Apptivo Inc.
Have a proven track record of taking initiatives and turning them to market-leading products and world-renowned award-winning positions. Established product strategy, recruited top talent and led international development teams that delivered profitable multi-million dollar new business application products covering Finance, Supply Chain Management & Product Lifecycle Management. Established mutually profitable strategic alliances to get favorable positioning for products. Developed aggressive field readiness plans and coordinated with marketing, analyst relations and media relations for several product launches. Authored well-received book targeted at business users and consultants.
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About Apptivo Inc., Profit.co, Sirahu Technologies: Apptivo is an integrated Cloud Suite with over 40+ apps for all types of businesses, including CRM, project management, invoicing, and more.
Larry Merlo
CEO of CVSHealth
Larry Merlo is President and Chief Executive Officer of CVS Health, a pharmacy innovation company that is at the forefront of a changing health care environment. The company, with net annual revenues of $139 billion, touches more than 100 million people each year through its unique combination of assets, including 7,900 retail pharmacies, more than 1,000 walk-in medical clinics, a leading pharmacy benefits manager with more than 70 million plan members, a comprehensive provider of pharmacy services to long term care facilities, and expanding specialty pharmacy services. Under Merlo’s leadership, the company is transforming health care by delivering breakthrough products and services that enable people, businesses and communities to manage health in more affordable, effective ways. As part of this deep commitment to public health, in 2014 the company announced the landmark decision to be the first major retail pharmacy to eliminate tobacco sales in all of its stores. To reflect this broader health care commitment, the company subsequently changed its corporate name to CVS Health. Merlo, a pharmacist by education, joined CVS/pharmacy in 1990 through the company’s acquisition of Peoples Drug. Prior to assuming the role of President and CEO in 2011, Merlo held positions of increasing responsibility, most recently President of CVS/pharmacy. Under his leadership, the company completed some of the most successful acquisitions in the history of retail pharmacy and delivered significant organic growth in major markets across the country. Merlo currently serves on the Board of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) and the University of Pittsburgh’s Board of Trustees. He is also a member of the Business Roundtable. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy.
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About CVSHealth: CVS Health provides an integrated healthcare services offering for its members.
Deepak Anchala
Co-Founder and CEO of Slintel
Deepak Anchala is the Co-Founder and CEO of Slintel.
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About Slintel: Slintel captures technographic-powered buying intent to help companies identify potential buyers in their target market.
Adam Ahmad
Founder & CEO of kea
Adam Ahmad is the Co-Founder & CEO at kea since 2017.
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About kea: kea empowers restaurants to operate more intelligently and own their relationship with customers.
Jeron Paul
Founder and CEO of Spiff
Jeron started his business career as a management consultant at the Monitor Group in Boston. He has worked as a Director of Product Management at Thomson Financial, a Principal at Signal Peak Ventures (formerly vSpring Capital), a $400M early-stage venture capital firm, and more recently as the CEO of Scalar Partners. He is a founder of Capshare and one of the original developers. Yes some business people can code. Jeron loves outdoor endurance events, soccer (indoors and out) and mountain biking. Jeron has a dual concentration degree from BYU in Philosophy and Economics and an MBA from Harvard. He is married with 5 kids.
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About Spiff: Spiff is a compensation platform for revenue and sales organizations that helps automate complex commission processes and motivate sales.
Trevor Templar
Chief Executive Officer & President of Aviso
Trevor has a 22 year track record of executing rapid revenue growth for leaders in the SaaS and Enterprise software space. He has built high-performance teams that deliver customer value to the enterprise space. Prior to joining CipherCloud, Templar served as Area Vice President, Enterprise Sales at Salesforce.com where he led one of the company’s largest revenue-generating business groups with multiple years of 100% plus revenue growth. During this time, Salesforce.com’s revenue grew from $1B to over $4B. Trevor has also held sales and sales leadership roles at Oracle, Baan and PTC where he led some of their largest enterprise relationships. Trevor has a dual masters in MIS and Accounting from Arizona State University. He also has a bachelors in mathematics and economics from St Xavier’s
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About Aviso: AI-Driven Sales Forecasting and Pipeline Management
David Cancel
Founder & CEO of Drift
David Cancel is a serial entrepreneur, podcast host (Seeking Wisdom) and angel investor/advisor. He is best known for creating hypergrowth products and product teams at companies such as Drift, HubSpot, Performable, Ghostery and Compete. David was named the top-ranked CEO by of USA Today and has been featured by media outlets such as The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, Wired, and Fast Company, and has guest lectured on entrepreneurship at Harvard, Harvard Business School, MIT, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Bentley, and other universities. His popular blog has been read by 1M+ entrepreneurs and his Twitter account is considered a “must-follow” account for entrepreneurs, executives and product people. David is also the author of the best-selling book, Conversational Marketing.
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About Drift: Drift is a Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue.
Ming S. Zhao
Chief Executive Officer of Proven Skincare
Ming S. Zhao is a Co-Founder and CEO at Proven Skincare. She is a former Head Of Partnerships at NerdWalled and Private Equity Investor at Bain Capital.
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About Proven Skincare: Proven Skincare develops skincare products intended to allow customers to design and personalize products that fit their lifestyles.
Matthew Darrow
Co-Founder & CEO of Vivun
10+ year enterprise software leader with experience growing businesses, building global teams, and delivering product.
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Krishna Depura
CEO and Co-founder of MindTickle
Krishna Gopal Depura is the CEO and Co-Founder of MindTickle.
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About MindTickle: MindTickle is a software company that offers sales readiness and enablement tools for businesses.
Anand Shah
Co-Founder & CEO of Databook
Anand has 15 years of experience as an expert in consulting Fortune 500 CxOs on how companies create value for shareholders. Before Databook, Anand was an Engagement Partner at Accenture Strategy, leading their engagement with the World Economic Forum on Digital Transformation and prior to that as global lead for their Strategic Insights group. Anand has an MBA from Columbia Business School and London Business School, an MSc in Finance from ICMA and a BEng in Computer Science from Imperial College London.
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About Databook: Databook is an enterprise customer intelligence platform that drives enterprise sales productivity and performance at scale.
Laduram Vishnoi
CEO & Founder of Acquire
Laduram Vishnoi is the CEO and founder of Acquire.
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About Acquire, Tagove: Acquire is a unified customer engagement platform that brings all communication, interactions, channels, and tools under one roof.
Dachi Choladze
CEO & Founder of Pulsar AI
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About Pulsar AI: Pulsar AI is the conversational AI for Auto Dealers that helps schedule appointments with no human involvement.
Muddu Sudhakar
Co-Founcer and CEO of Aisera
Muddu Sudhakar is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at Aisera. Muddu was VP & GM at VMware and Pivotal from 2010 to 2014 for Big Data Analytics and Cloud Services. At VMware and Pivotal he had responsibility for a wide range of projects Big Data Analytics, Cloud Services, Software-defined Storage, Mobile Security at VMware. Muddu was co-founder and CEO of Cetas which was acquired by VMware in 2012. At EMC he was Chief Strategy Advisor & VP/GM for Cloud Information Services. His work involved Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Information Services at EMC. Muddu was CEO and Founder of Kazeon from 2003 to 2010, which was acquired by EMC. Muddu leads Kazeon to be a leader in Information Security, eDiscovery, and Enterprise Search markets. Sudhakar holds a Ph.D. and MS in Computer Science from UCLA. He is widely published in industry journals and conference proceedings and has more than 20 patents in Analytics, Cloud Services, Enterprise Search, Information Management, Distributed systems, Storage technologies, SAN/NAS, Server technologies, Virtualization, Search, Information security, Networking technology, and VLSI chip design.
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About Aisera: Aisera provides AI-driven service solution that automates operations and support for IT, human resources, sales, and customer service.
Mark Lovas
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Trumaker
Mark Lovas serves as Executive Director, Co-Founder, and Chief Executive Officer at Trumaker, Inc.
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About Trumaker: Trumaker is a new kind of men’s apparel brand where every guy gets a client
Lief Larson
Co-founder & CEO of Engage
Lief Larson is the Founder and CEO of Engage, Inc., the creator of the Engage platform that serves clients ranging from The PGA Tour to Mutual of Omaha Mortgage, and designed the Salesfolks.com marketplace launch in 2019. Larson was also the co-founder of Jenny Life, Inc. a venture-backed insurtech start-up that built the world’s first native mobile apps (Apple AppStore & Google Play) for the end-to-end purchase of life insurance without without the need for a medical exam. Larson is a software and human factor engineer with over 20 years’ experience in human-machine dynamics, including eight years in self-service kiosk systems and fifteen in web-based applications, platforms, and SaaS. He has been working in web-based marketing and social media sciences since 2004. He was previously named #8 on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 10 American Entrepreneurs Under 30 list. Lief founded and grew KIOSK.com into one of the world’s largest providers of interactive self-service terminal technology solutions, and subsequently navigated the business to a successful sale. During his tenure in that industry he also built the industry publication and premier industry event. In 2004 Lief was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Kiosk & Self-Service industry association and was inducted into their Hall of Fame. Lief is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship and has been a mentor to over 200 entrepreneurs during the last two decades, including through programs at the Carlson School of Management, TiE Global, Project Skyway, and the Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship. Larson attended the University of Wisconsin (MC) and the University of Minnesota (TC).
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About Engage, Green Bay Packers, Jenny Life, Salesfolks: Engage provides a real-time sales management platform for communication and live chat.
Christopher Shutts
CoFounder and CEO of Logik.io
Chris leads our strategic sales & customer success teams. Chris brings ten years of experience successfully deploying BigMachines solutions to realize business process improvements for our customers. He comes to BigMachines from Case Corporation where he was Business Unit Manager for two global business units. He began his career at Case’s Technology Center for Advanced Manufacturing, where he directed productivity initiatives that included the selection and procurement of new technologies and manufacturing equipment. Chris brings extensive experience in designing, manufacturing, selecting and procuring manufactured products and holds two design patents. Chris earned a BS and MS in engineering from MIT and was awarded a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship at MIT.
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About Logik.io: Logik.io is a next generation configuration technology company focused on improving the selling capabilities of the customers.
Dallin Larsen
Founder & CEO of Vasayo
Dallin Larsen is the founder and CEO of Vasayo, a new direct sales supplement company that prides itself on the most advanced delivery system for health supplements. Larsen believes that “a life of significance is a byproduct of making the ‘best’ choices.”
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About Vasayo: Vasayo is a direct sales company offering supplements with Advanced (Liposome) Delivery Technology for superior nutrient absorption.
Stefan Kalb
CEO and Co-Founder of Shelf Engine
Stefan Kalb is the CEO and Co-Founder at Shelf Engine.
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About Shelf Engine: Shelf Engine is a provider of an automated prediction engine that predicts the perfect amount of perishable goods to order.
Kimball Thomas
Co-CEO/Founder of Baby
Kimball Thomas is the Co – CEO & Founder at Baby.com.br . He earned his MBA from, Harvard Business School. His B.S. (Finance) from University of Utah.
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About Baby, Walrus Health: Baby is an e-commerce retailer of baby products in Brazil.
Kendall Tucker
Founder and CEO of Knoq
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About 186k Ventures, Knoq: Knoq is a technology company that encourages people to talk to their neighbors.
Coral Chung
Founder & CEO of Senreve
Coral Chen Chung is an entrepreneur, former strategy consultant and tech executive. Coral is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of SENREVE, a luxury brand for the millennial professional woman. SENREVE launched in November 2016 to focus on developing beautiful and versatile products that address that “wants” and “needs” of the modern woman. The company has experienced significant growth over the past 3 years and recently closed on a $16.75M Series A investment. Coral has always had a strong passion for luxury retail and consumer brands, which led her to work with the Global COO as well as the CEO of Americas for Prada on marketing, commercialization, distribution related special projects prior to the company’s IPO. Coral started her career at Bain & Company in Hong Kong where she covered the Greater China and South East Asia markets. She advised Fortune 500 companies and global private equity firms on M&A, market entry strategy, and operational improvements. She then moved to Silicon Valley, where she developed a focus on consumer brands, retail and technology. Coral also worked in corporate development at Solazyme (dba TerraVia), and was involved in developing its popular Algenist product, a top performing beauty brand currently sold at Sephora and other luxury cosmetics retailers. Coral was most recently a Principal at Medallia and helped lead the company’s retail vertical. Medallia is a big data analytics and customer experience SaaS company that last summer had a successful IPO valued at ~$4.4B. While at Medallia, she worked with leading luxury and global retail brands like Apple, Nike, Sephora, Tory Burch, and Nordstrom. She is also a supporter of the arts including the San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Opera, the Asian Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Coral is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania and The Wharton School; BA in International Studies, BS in Economics magna cum laude. Coral received her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. She currently lives in the SF Bay Area with her husband and seven-year-old daughter. She was born in China and moved to Southern California as a child when her parents pursued their graduate studies in the US. Coral speaks Mandarin Chinese with native fluency.
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About Senreve: Senreve is a luxury handbag company for the multifaceted modern woman.
Ashok Reddy Gudibandla
Founder, CEO of Automate.io
Founder, CEO at Automate.io.
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About Automate.io: Use tens of cloud apps? Connect them the way you want. Sync data, automate workflows – marketing, sales and more.
Chris Richter
Co-Founder & CEO of FloorFound
Chris is a 15 year veteran startup sales leader and entrepreneur with a proven track record of success with high profile, VC backed B2B SAS and enterprise software companies. Chris has expertise across eCommerce and Social Media and developing market opportunities for companies in the media, financial services, retail, CPG and manufacturing verticals. Chris was an early employee and sales leader with companies including Webify, Bazaarvoice and the Founder of Socialware which has become the market leader in the social media compliance solutions category.
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About FloorFound: FloorFound is a developer of an e-commerce software platform that facilitates returns and resales of oversized products for retailers.
Kris Rudeegraap
CEO, CoFounder of Sendoso
Kris Rudeegraap is CEO at Sendoso
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About CoffeeSender, Sendoso: Sendoso helps companies connect and drive revenue with personalized gifts, eGifts, virtual experiences, and more.
Earl Hesterberg
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director of Group 1 Automotive
Mr. Earl J. Hesterberg, Jr has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Group 1 Automotive Inc. since April 9, 2005. Mr. Hesterberg served as a Group Vice President of North America Marketing, Sales and Service for Ford Motor Co. from October 1, 2004 to April 11, 2005. Prior to joining Group 1 Automotive, he held various senior executive level sales, marketing, general management, operations and customer service positions in the United States and Europe.
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About Group 1 Automotive: Group 1 Automotive owns and operates about 130 franchises at approximately 100 dealerships, as well as about 25 collision service centers
Bradley Bogolea
Co-Founder & CEO of Simbe Robotics
Bradley Bogolea, also known as Brad, is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Simbe Robotics.
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About Simbe Robotics: Simbe Robotics builds automation solutions for shelf auditing and analytics.
Blake Moret
President & Chief Executive Officer of Rockwell Automation
Blake Moret Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Rockwell Automation
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About Rockwell Automation, Rockwell Automation: Rockwell Automation specializes in industrial automation and information, makes its customers more productive.
Shruti Kapoor
Co-Founder & CEO of Wingman
Shruti is the Founder-CEO of Wingman (now Wingman by Clari), which is an actionable conversation intelligence platform that unlocks insights from every sales interaction. As the founder of Wingman, Shruti was also their first salesperson who sold their first million dollars in revenue single-handedly. Despite being an outsider to the SaaS ecosystem and to the US, Shruti has managed to successfully scale the business, been selected to the prestigious YCombinator program, raised funding, and hired a team of 40+ talented folks.
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About Wingman: Wingman is a real-time sales coaching tool for sales representatives.
Rowan Trollope
CEO of Five9
Rowan Trollope joined Five9 as CEO in 2018. Rowan Trollope, is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group, which develops collaboration solutions. He leads a global team responsible for identifying key market transitions in collaboration and managing future growth, expansion, and continued innovation. The group’s portfolio includes collaboration software, devices, infrastructure, and services that enable video collaboration, unified communications, customer contact centers, conferencing, mobility, and desktop virtualization. This includes such solutions as Cisco TelePresence, Cisco Unified Communications Manager, and Cisco WebEx. Prior to joining Cisco, Trollope was the Group President of the SMB and the Symantec.cloud Business Unit where he lead Symantec’s sales, marketing and product development teams in the small and midsized business (SMB) segment as well as Symantec.cloud, the company’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business. He was responsible for driving Symantec’s SaaS strategy and expanding cloud-based delivery and customer support models across the Symantec technology portfolio with a focus on enabling the company to better serve the SMB customer segment. In his time at Symantec he was responsible for the Norton line of consumer products, including Norton Internet Security, Norton AntiVirus and Norton 360; and for key enterprise security solutions, including Symantec Security Information Manager and Symantec Enterprise Security Manager. He holds a variety of patents in computer security and operating systems maintenance.
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About Five9, Forum Ventures, NortonLifeLock: Five9 is a cloud-based call center software company that specializes in sales, marketing, and customer service.
Mark S. Sutton
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of International Paper
Mark Sutton became chairman of the International Paper Board of Directors on January 1, 2015 and CEO of International Paper on November 1, 2014. Immediately prior to becoming CEO, he served as president and chief operating officer with responsibility for leading and running the company’s global businesses. He has been a member of the International Paper board of directors since June 1, 2014. Sutton has been with the company his entire career. He joined International Paper in 1984 as an engineer at the Pineville, La., mill. In 1994, he was named mill manager at the Thilmany, Wisc., mill, which at the time was part of International Paper’s industrial papers business. In 2000, Sutton relocated to Europe to serve as director of European corrugated packaging operations and was promoted to vice president and general manager responsible for all corrugated packaging operations across seven countries in the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) region in 2002. In 2005, he was named vice president of corporate strategic planning and relocated to Memphis. He was named senior vice president, global supply chain, in 2007 and in 2009 became senior vice president, printing and communications papers – the Americas. Sutton was appointed to senior vice president, industrial packaging, in November 2011.
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About International Paper: International Paper manufactures paper and paper-packaging products.
Dave Stamm
CEO of Uptick
David Stamm brings over 25 years of technology experience to the Enkata team. Prior to joining Enkata, Dave co-founded Clarify Inc. in 1990, which in 1994 became the first public company in what is now known as CRM. After Clarify was acquired by Nortel Inc. in 2000, David held several Board of Director positions at technology companies and served on the advisory boards of several venture capital funds. Prior to founding Clarify, Dave co-founded Daisy Systems Corporation in 1980, a computer-aided engineering hardware and software company. David Stamm holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and holds a patent on single-chip microprocessor technology.
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About Uptick: Uptick is the Next Generation Intelligent Customer Success Platform
Dave Stephens
CEO & Co-Founder of FreeAgent CRM
Dave Stephens is the CEO & Co-Founder at FreeAgent CRM.
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About FreeAgent CRM: Leading the way to a better workday
Jason Richelson
CEO and Co-Founder of Bookkeep
Jason Richelson is the CEO and Founder of ShopKeep POS, a cloud-based iPad point of sale service for retailers.The simplest way to make smarter business decisions, ShopKeep® POS is the affordable and complete platform for running a shop from an iPad with real-time reporting on the web.Jason started his career in technology consulting at PriceWaterhouseCoopers but quickly veered onto a different path when he co-founded a tech company, InternetCash, in 1999. InternetCash created a way to pay on E-Commerce sites with prepaid cards sold at retail. After learning everything not to do in a fast-moving tech startup, Jason became the first employee at Bluefin Trading, where he was responsible for setting up all the technology for the new trading operation. He eventually became the assistant trader to the Managing Partner and also helped manage risk for the floor trading operations and upstairs option book.Jason grew impatient with trading and was itching to start a new company. With his partner, Amy Bennett, he opened The Greene Grape wine store in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, in 2004. That led to another wine store in lower Manhattan and then The Greene Grape Provisions store in Fort Greene. The Greene Grape grew to employ more than 70 people and was named the NYC Small Business of the Year in 2009 and Retailer of the Year in 2009 by the New York State Wine & Grape Foundation. As CEO of ShopKeep POS since 2008, Jason has been featured in Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, WWD, ABC News and other nationwide publications. Most recently he has been selected as a NYC Ventures Fellow.More importantly, he is living his dream of using technology to remove the impediments of starting and running a successful retail business by continuing to grow ShopKeep POS into a dynamic service that allows merchants to better track their sales and operations while saving them time and money.
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About Bookkeep, Bookkeep, Global Thirty Three, StaffKeep.com Inc.: Bookkeep.com is a provider of summarized financial automation for retail, restaurant, and ecommerce businesses.
Jade Charles
CEO, Founder of Fragmob
Jade Charles is the founder of Penumbra Labs, a technology consulting group mainly specializing in mobile, blockchain, and web platforms. Previously, he was responsible for the innovation and architecture of the Fragmob platform along with the mobile and social strategy. He is considered an expert in mobile development technologies and online social psychology. In addition to founding Fragmob in 2007, Jade was previously responsible for various celebrity social networks such as Jessica Beil’s Make the Difference Network and Bode Miller’s SkiSpace.com Prior to FragMob, Jade served as CTO of TextAmerica where he was solely responsible for the development of the first hosted mobile photo sharing service in the world as featured in TIME Magazine and The New York Times. Jade Charles attended the University of Hawaii School of Electrical Engineering where he played Division I Football before starting his first company at age 19.
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About Fragmob: Fragmob is a mobile SaaS commerce, CRM, and training platform developer for Independent Sales Reps
William C. Rhodes
President and Chief Executive Officer for Customer Satisfaction of AutoZone
William C. Rhodes, III, was named Chairman of AutoZone during fiscal 2007 and has been President, Chief Executive Officer and a director since March 2005. Prior to his appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Rhodes was Executive Vice President – Store Operations and Commercial. Previously, he held several key management positions with the Company. Prior to 1994, Mr. Rhodes was a manager with Ernst & Young LLP. Mr. Rhodes is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Dollar General Corporation.
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About AutoZone: AutoZone retails and distributes automotive replacement parts and accessories.
Jim Kaskade
Chief Executive Officer of Conversica
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About Conversica: Conversica creates intelligent virtual assistants to serve as virtual team members.
Garin Hess
Founder & CEO of Consensus
Serial SaaS entrepreneur. His last startup was acquired by a public company in 2011.DemoChimp is his latest SaaS heartthrob.
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About Consensus: Consensus navigating through the jungle of sales and marketing one effective automated product demo at a time.
Derek Maxfield
Founder, CEO of Younique LLC
Already a successful entrepreneur, Derek founded NetSteps in 2003, and just a few years later landed on the Inc. Top 500 for two consecutive years. In 2009, his company placed 11th in the nation, and 1st in Utah, as the fastest growing software company in the nation. Derek was recognized by Utah Valley Business Quarterly Magazine twice as No. 1 and No. 8 overall for the area’s fastest growing companies. He studied Computer Science at Brigham Young University, and now with more than 12 years of experience working with some of the very best direct sales companies in the world, he is teaming up with his sister, Melanie, to create an entirely new experience in the direct-sales industry. Derek is also a husband and proud father of five.
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About Younique LLC: Younique LLC is develops and markets cosmetic products.
Sahil Mansuri
Co-founder & CEO of Bravado
Sahil Mansuri is the Cofounder & CEO of Bravado, a community for B2B salespeople. The Bravado community is building the future of sales, one powered by reputation and referrals. Bravado helps thousands of sales reps build their credibility by showcasing the clients they have done business with + testimonials from those customers. Prior to founding Bravado, Sahil was an EIR at Expa – a startup studio in SF where he helped scale growth for a number of portfolio companies. Sahil has led sales teams at Glassdoor and Meltwater, as well as having led marketing and product teams at Virool and SalesPredict (acquired by eBay). Sahil enjoys playing chess, mishitting golf balls, and nerding out about the future of sales.
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About Bravado: Bravado is a community platform for sales professionals.
Juan Calle
CEO of Classic
Juan Diego Calle, a serial entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of .CO Internet S.A.S., the registry operator for the .CO top level domain. Under Juan’s leadership, .CO was launched internationally in July of 2010, and has quickly become one of the most successful domain extensions in history. At the ripe, old age of 20, Juan co-founded TeRespondo.com, the largest online search advertising network in Latin America. The company operated in USA, Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, prior to being acquired by Yahoo, Inc. in 2005. Subsequently, Juan founded FederatedTravel.com, a large, global network of premium travel websites, including popular destination sites like ParisHotels.com, NewYorkHotels.com and LondonHotels.com, among others. A committed triathlete and increasingly competent dad of two, Juan is a voracious learner whose greatest passion is business and entrepreneurship. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Owner-President Management Program.
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About Classic, Straat Investments: Classic is an early-stage startup that engages in search engine and analytics platforms for the classic car industry.
Vladimir Bakuteev
CEO of LiveTex
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About LiveTex, Prosense, Skycoach: LiveTex operates a platform for online communications.
Adam Turner
CEO and Founder of Postscript
Adam Turner is the founder and CEO at Postscript. He was a product manager at StackCommerce. He studied Bachelor of Science in physics at University of Southern California.
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About Postscript: Postscript is an SMS platform that enables brands to communicate and engage with customers through text message marketing.
AJ Bruno
Founder & CEO of QuotaPath
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About QuotaPath: Spreadsheets don’t scale. Let’s automate your sales commissions processes and provide sales reps with the transparency they need to succeed.
Carl A Ortell
Chief Executive Officer of Holman Automotive
Mr. Ortell joined the Holman family of companies in 1986 as an internal auditor, transferring to ARI in 1987. In his time with ARI, he served in multiple operational and financial positions with increasing responsibility, including chief financial officer and chief operating officer, eventually serving as president of the company from 2010-2015. Mr. Ortell led the company through turbulent economic times while continuing to grow the business, expanding to new global markets, and most notably, building on the culture of learning and employee development that put ARI on FORTUNE’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list. He holds a B.S. in Accounting from LaSalle University.
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About Holman Automotive: Holman Automotive is an automotive services company.
Sahil Aggarwal
Co-Founder and CEO of Rattle
Sahil Aggarwal is the Co-Founder & CEO at Rattle.
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About Rattle: Access & manage Salesforce directly from Slack
Mei Siauw
Co-founder and CEO of LeadIQ
Mei Siauw is Founder at Peer.im. Founder at LeadIQ.
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About LeadIQ, Peer.im: LeadIQ is a prospecting platform that makes lead management and sales prospecting simple.
Orville Thompson
CEO & Co-Owner of Scentsy
Orville Thompson is Board of Director at Direct Selling Association. He is also the CEO and co-owner at Scensty.
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About Scentsy: Scentsy is a consumer goods and fragrance company platform.
Shaan Hathiramani
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flockjay
Shaan Hathiramani is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Flockjay. He is a former CXO at Thistle and Portfolio Manager at Balyasny Asset Management L.P. and Alyeska Investment Group. Mr. Hathiramani graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor of arts in Applied Mathematics.
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About Flockjay: Flockjay is an online academy that empowers job seekers with the tools and training they need to break into tech.
Haggai Levi
Co-Founder and CEO of SetSail
Haggai Levi is the co-founder and CEO at SetSail.
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About SetSail: SetSail is an AI-powered platform that combines data and behavioral science to drive more revenue per sales rep.
Douglas Winter
CEO of Seismic
Doug Winter is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Seismic, the global leader in enablement. A veteran entrepreneur, Doug was also a co-founder of Objectiva Software Solutions. He served as COO and general manager at EMC Document Sciences until founding Seismic in 2010.
In collaboration with his co-founders, Doug has grown Seismic from a small startup to an international organization with “unicorn” status, serving more than 2,200 businesses around the world. Seismic is regarded as the undisputed category leader in enablement, and has been named to several of the most prestigious lists for technology companies and startups, including the Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Inc. 5000, and more.
At the helm of Seismic, Doug has been recognized as a top CEO by several media groups and industry associations, including the San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Business Journal, Comparably and more. He has a 97% approval rating on Glassdoor, and under his leadership, Seismic is well-known for its exceptional workplace culture with awards from Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, and the Boston Globe, to name a few.
Doug holds a MSEE and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a BSEE from Virginia Tech. He resides in the greater San Diego area.
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About Seismic: Seismic is a sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform that improves close rates & delivers larger deals for sales teams.
Daniel Wiener
Co-Founder and CEO of Autobound
Daniel Wiener is the Founder and CEO of Autobound. A Denver native, he moved to San Francisco after completing his business studies at the University of Southern California. Daniel has held roles in sales at Oracle, Northwestern Mutual, and Intralinks. He has a passion for creating amazing technology to help people sell more efficiently.
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About Autobound: Empowering BDRs and AEs to personalize their outreach at scale, using CRM and 3rd party insights.
Josh Wexler
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of RevCascade
Josh is responsible for the company’s 49bc unified platform technology, revenue, and strategy. After joining Rubicon Project in May 2008, Josh helped build the company from a start up with 40 employees, to one of the largest independent technology firms focused on the buying and selling of advertising. Previously at Rubicon Project, Josh ran the seller business and most recently was the Head of Buyer Cloud. Josh is considered an industry thought leader and has presented at numerous industry events including ad:tech, Digiday, IAB, and MMA. A seasoned entrepreneur and business leader, Josh loves bringing new ideas to market. Prior to joining Rubicon Project, Josh was a co-founder and CEO of SWMX (SoftWave Media Exchange), a media exchange that automated the radio, cable, and television advertising industry. Earlier in his career, Josh co-founded Hypnotic Hats Ltd., (HYP), a boutique apparel and accessories company popular among celebrities, professional athletes, the fashion elite and music industry icons. HYP became a global brand and was profiled by Esquire Magazine, New York Magazine, ABC TV, and MTV, among others. Josh attended Cornell University where, as a four-year starter on the men’s basketball team, he was a member and captain of Cornell’s 1988 Ivy League Championship team. Additionally, he is a three-time medal winner in the United States Men’s Maccabiah Basketball team. – See more at: http://rubiconproject.com/leadership-team/josh-wexler/#sthash.QL163XyA.dpuf
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About RevCascade: Marketplace automation for brands and retailers
Aleem Mawani
Co-Founder and CEO of Streak
Aleem is the Co-Founder and CEO at Streak.
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About Streak: Streak is the only CRM integrated entirely within your Gmail inbox. Use it to track sales, partnerships, support, hiring, and much more.
Oleg Campbell
CEO and Founder of Reply.io
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About Reply.io: Reply is the leading AI-powered sales engagement platform that automates multichannel touchpoints throughout the sales process.
Tommy McNulty
CEO of AtlasOne
Tommy McNulty is the Founder of AtlasOne, the people operating system for commercial teams. Prior, he was Head of Sales at NerdWallet, where he joined via the acquisition of Fundera where he served as VP of Sales and Customer Success for six years. In his spare time, Tommy is an active angel investor and advisor to early-stage companies. Tommy got his start in business by managing a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu school in Brooklyn where he helped oversee expansion from one to eight locations, where he first learned that “doing good” and “doing good business” are not mutually exclusive.
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About AtlasOne, On Deck, Primary Venture Partners: AtlasOne streamlines people operations to keep sales people moving.
Steli Efti
CEO of Close
Steli is CEO and Co-Founder of Close.io (a platform that makes calls, sends emails, and conveniently automatically tracks all activity) and ElasticSales, where he helps thousands of startups succeed in scaling their sales efforts. He is an alumni of Y Combinator (they helped making companies like Dropbox, Airbnb, 9gag, and more). His company has received funding from Spark Capital, SV Angel, Start Fund, and Omidyar Networks as well as several notable angel investors.
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About Close, Elastic, Pioneer Fund: Close is the inside sales CRM of choice for startups and SMBs.
Elay Cohen
CEO & Co-Founder of Saleshood
Elay Cohen is the Co-founder & CEO of SalesHood, a Sales Enablement Platform Company. Elay is an author and recognized as top Innovative “Mover and Shaker” in sales leadership by Entrepreneur magazine and recognized by LinkedIn as one of the world’s top sales experts. He’s the former Senior Vice President, Sales Productivity at Salesforce from $500M to $3B in revenue and recognized by Marc Benioff as Salesforce’s “2011 Executive of the Year.” He created Partner Relationship Management category and product line at Salesforce. Born in Toronto, Elay lives in San Francisco.
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About Saleshood: SalesHood is the all-in-one sales enablement platform helping companies reduce ramp time, lift attainment, accelerate sales and revenue.
Felipe Diz
Co-Founder & CEO of Zee.Dog
Felipe Diz is a Co-Founder and CEO at Zee.Dog
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About Zee.Dog: Zee.Dog is a lifestyle brand connecting dogs and people by providing premium and design-oriented pet products.
Benjamin Cohen
Founder & CEO of Proton.ai
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About Proton.ai: Proton.ai is an AI-powered sales platform for distributors to gain millions of revenue and reclaim market share.
Christopher W. Cabrera
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of Xactly
Mr. Cabrera is a noted industry expert in issues relating to motivation, sales performance management, sales compensation, and enterprise and on-demand/software-as-a-service delivery models. He was recently named the 2011 “Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year” by the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the USC Marshall School of Business.
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About Xactly: Xactly is the pure-play provider of cloud-based, incentive compensation software.
Rich Waldron
Co-founder & CEO of tray.io
Rich Waldron is the CEO and co-founder of Tray.io.
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About tray.io: Tray.io provides a cloud-based software integration platform for automators.
Truman Hunt
CEO of Nu Skin Enterprises
M. Truman Hunt is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. Hunt has served in various positions with the company since 1994, including Executive Vice President from 2001 to 2003 and General Counsel from 1996 to 2003. From 2005 until 2008, Hunt served as Chairman of the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations, a global trade association for the direct selling industry. He received a B.S. degree from Brigham Young University and a J.D. degree from the University of Utah.
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About Nu Skin Enterprises: Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. is a global direct selling company with operations in 53 markets worldwide
Randy Ray
CEO of Jeunesse Global
Randy Ray has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. He has over forty-two years of experience in the computer industry designing, selling, and installing in excess of $300,000,000 worth of computer hardware and software. Some prominent owners of these major systems include Red Lobster Inns of America, NASA (Space Shuttle Launch Processing System), DOT (National Wheel Rail Simulator System), Personal Blood Storage, and Intercommunity Cancer Centers of America (ICCA).
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About Jeunesse Global: Jeunesse Global is a direct selling platform focused on encouraging healthy living and youth enhancement.
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.
Mark Godley
CEO of LeadGenius
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About LeadGenius: LeadGenius is an end-to-end sales solution that provides companies with a way to generate, qualify, deliver, and convert leads.
Christian Kletzl
CEO & Co-Founder of UserGems
Christian Kletzl is the CEO & Co-Founder at UserGems
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About UserGems: An AI-powered solution that combines relationship data and trigger events to identify buyers who will most likely buy from you
Vivek Joshi
Co-Founder & CEO of Entytle
Vivek is founder and CEO of LumaSense Technologies, a sensor & instrumentation company focused on the energy, cleantech and industrial markets. Vivek brings significant leadership experience to LumaSense Technologies. He is an executive with experience in various industries, spanning private equity, high technology, diversified industrial manufacturing and healthcare. Most recently, Vivek was an Operating Partner at Shah Capital Partners and Senior Vice President of Marketing for Sun Services, a $3.6 billion division of Sun Microsystems. He also served at Webvan as Vice-President of Program Operations, at GE Transportation as General Manager, Off Highway/Transit Systems, GE Corporate as Manager of Corporate Initiatives; Management Consulting with Booz Allen & Hamilton and operational experiences with Johnson & Johnson. Vivek has an M.S. in Chemical Engineering and an M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia , Charlottesville and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from IIT, Mumbai.
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About Entytle: Entytle uses AI and ML to empower manufacturers to unlock installed base value.
Roger Braswell
Founder, CEO & President of Compact Power Equipment
Roger Braswell serves as a CEO at Compact Power Equipment Inc.
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About Compact Power Equipment: Compact Power Equipment operates as a national provider of equipment rental and maintenance services.
Joe Moriarty
CEO & Co-Founder of Raven360
Joe Moriarty has a long history of motivating teams and delivering increased sales for various technology providers. He joined Raven360 in May 2011, previously working with Hybrivet Systems, where he was vice president of sales and marketing. While there, Joe led efforts that delivered a 2003 percent increase in sales from April 2010 through February 2011, when 3M acquired Hybrivet Systems. Joe also served as vice president of sales at TR3 Solutions, where he led the sales group to successfully market a portfolio of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for retail and consumer packaged goods. His work experience also includes director of sales roles for both Sterling Commerce (now IBM), and TR2 Solutions, a cloud-based startup acquired by Sterling Commerce, as well as senior software sales positions at Commerce One, AppNet, and Research and Planning. Joe holds a Bachelor of Science in Resource Economics from the University of Connecticut.
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About Raven360, Raven360: Raven360 provides a sales readiness platform that delivers up-to-date and consistent sales content, training and coaching.
Ashish Koul
Founder & CEO of Acqueon
Ashish Koul is the President and CEO of Acqueon. He is an Entrepreneur and driven senior business executive with 19+ years of experience in growing firms in the technology space. Facilitator and builder of world-class and growth mindset teams with specialty in various industry segments. Proven expertise working with diverse boards, PE firms and building fruitful partnerships with hundreds of clients and delivering multi-million dollar bottom-line growth Acqueon’s conversational engagement software lets customer-centric brands orchestrate campaigns and proactively engage with consumers using voice, messaging, and email channels. Acqueon leverages a rich data platform, statistical and predictive models, and intelligent workflows to let enterprises maximize the potential of every customer conversation. Acqueon is trusted by 200 clients across industries to increase sales, improve collections and re-engage with otherwise-defecting customers, including premier brands such as Servicemaster, Cigna, DBS, Dish Networks, Godaddy and New York Life For more information, go to https://www.acqueon.com or follow us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/acqueon or https://www.ciscoinvestments.com/portfolio/acqueon/
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About Acqueon: Acqueon is an innovative provider of conversational engagement software.
Erik Kostelnik
Co-Founder & CEO of Postal.io
Erik Kostelnik is the co-founder and CEO of Postal.io, a leading offline engagement platform that automates direct mail and gifting in the sales and marketing workflow. Prior to Postal.io, Erik founded TextRecruit, one of the fastest-growing HR technology companies in the world, leading it to acquisition in 2018 by iCIMS, Inc. He also served as the Head of Sales at Wrike from 2014 to 2016 helping it reach #116 in 2015 Deloitte Fastest 500. Erik was named an Upstart 50 Top Inventor by the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2017 and lives in San Luis Obispo, CA with his wife and three kids.
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About Postal.io: Postal.io offers an experience marketing platform helping businesses to generate leads, increase sales velocity, and retain happy customers.
Jonathan Spier
CEO of Rev
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About Rev: Rev reinvents sales development for B2B sales and marketing teams, helping them fuel their funnel with the highest potential prospects.
Paul Salay
Chief Executive Officer of Gladson
Paul Salay is a Chief Executive Officer at Syndigo
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About Gladson, Syndigo: Gladson provides product images, product content, and other related services for the U.S. consumer packaged goods industry.
Max Yoder
CEO, Co-Founder of Lessonly
Max Yoder Lessonly Co-Founder and CEO Lessonly. Max Yoder is grateful that he got cut from the basketball team two years in a row. Out of thousands of applicants, Max was one of 20 recipients of the Orr Fellowship, earning a position at one of Indiana’s most dynamic companies.
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About Lessonly, Quipol: Lessonly is a simple training software that helps teams learn, practice, and do better work.
Mohit Prateek
Founder and CEO of Anakin
Mohit Prateek is the Founder and CEO of Anakin.
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About Anakin: Anakin is a pricing platform that generates pricing data and insights for brands to make smart decisions and increase revenues.
