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 Web Design 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.
Vlad Magdalin
Co-founder & CEO of Webflow
Vlad Magdalin is the founder and CEO of Webflow, a company that is working on empowering designers and entrepreneurs to design, build, and launch websites and applications without having to learn how to code. In a past life, he studied to become a 3D animator with dreams of working at Pixar, but happened to fall in love with the power of programming for the web midway through art school. Most days, you can find him on Twitter yelling into the cloud about how NoCode is going to change the world. At home, he’s outnumbered by two unstoppable daughters and an amazing wife, who constantly remind him that there’s so much more to life than growing the business bottom line.
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About Webflow: Webflow is a visual web design platform, CMS, and hosting provider for building production websites and prototypes.
Avishai Abrahami
Co-Founder & CEO of Wix
Avishai Abrahami is our Co-Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2010 and was our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director since October 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Avishai was the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Arel Communications & Software Ltd., a private Israeli company specializing in communication technology. In 1998 he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a private company which develops software for managing data centers, and he served as its Chief Technology Officer from 1998 until 2000 and its Vice President of Product Marketing from 2000 until 2003. In 1993, he co-founded AIT Ltd., a private Israeli software company, and served as its Chief Technology Officer until the company’s sale in 1997. Avishai served in the Israeli Defense Forces’ elite computer intelligence unit from 1990 until 1992.
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About Utsav Kraft, Wix: Wix provides a platform for the development of cloud data services for millions of registered users worldwide.
Daniel Street
CEO of Scorpion
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About Scorpion: Scorpion exists to better local small businesses and the communities they serve.
Jay Larson
Chief Executive Officer of Optimizely
Jay Larson is Optimizely’s CEO. Previously, Jay worked as chief executive officer of Birst. Jay holds a BA degree from Harvard University and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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About Optimizely: Optimizely is a platform that provides digital experience solutions.
Srinivas Balasubramanian
CEO of Photon
Srinivas Balasubramanian is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Photon, the leading Cloud to Consumer UX™ Company. Srinivas Balasubramanian has a track record of building category dominating, highly profitable companies with significant market value. Since 2007 when he took over as full time CEO at Photon, the company has worked with hundreds of customers including a significant percentage of the Fortune 100 and generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Prior to taking over as CEO of Photon Infotech, Srinivas Balasubramanian was a Senior Vice President at webMethods, a Nasdaq listed middleware technology company reporting to the CEO. Prior to that, Srinivas Balasubramanian was Founder, President and CEO of Infravio Inc, a Cupertino, CA based company which was a leading provider of Web Services and SOA infrastructure software that coined the term and created the category “SOA Governance”. Infravio was acquired by webMethods for $38mn in cash in 2006. Srinivas Balasubramanian served in various capacities at Infravio – initially as founding CEO responsible for raising the initial institutional Venture capital round in 2000. Thereafter, he served as Chief Strategist of the company between 2001 and January 2005 where he was responsible for closing a strategic financing round from NetIQ Corp and for closing a large number of the early customers. In January 2005, Srinivas Balasubramanian took over as CEO of Infravio. As CEO, he replaced the executive management team and drove the company to a thought and customer leadership position in the emerging Web Services and SOA market until its ultimate sale to webMethods in September 2006, which he architected. Srinivas was earlier an equity and derivatives trader at JP Morgan and Credit Lyonnais Securities at Mumbai, India. At Credit Lyonnais, he headed the largest institutional trading in the country that won almost every award on offer at the time he ran it. Srinivas has an MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta and is a graduate from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani.
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About Photon: Photon is a technology corporation that provides Strategy Consulting, Creative Design, and Technology Services to global enterprise.
Brady Brim-DeForest
CEO of TheoremOne
Brady Brim-DeForest is the Chief Executive Officer of Theorem.
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About Codex, Halmos Ventures, International Academy of Web Television, International Academy of Web Television, TheoremOne, TheoremOne: We are an engineering and innovation firm. We solve complex business problems through optimization of process, technology, and culture.
Finbarr Taylor
Cofounder, CEO of Shogun
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About Shogun: Shogun is an E-commerce platform that helps brands create unique buying experiences and optimize their online stores.
Chris M. Willliams
Founder & CEO of pocket.watch
Chris M. Williams is the Founder & CEO at pocket.watch.
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About pocket.watch, pocket.watch: Pocket.watch is a new studio creating global franchises from the YouTube stars and characters loved by Generation Alpha.
Zack Onisko
CEO of Dribbble
Zack Onisko is CEO at Dribbble, the global community for designers and creative professionals to showcase, promote, discover, and explore design. Dribbble was founded in 2009 and has grown to become the designer community it is today for tens of millions of people around the world. Dribbble is on a mission to build the world’s best platform for designers to gain inspiration, feedback, education, community, and job opportunities. Before Dribbble, Zack began his career nearly 20 years ago as a web designer before shifting into business and executive roles at Autodesk, Creative Market, Hired.com, BranchOut, Monster.com, and Tickle.com. He is responsible for scaling multiple companies to successful exits over the past decade including the Creative Market acquisition by Autodesk in 2014. Zack is a startup investor and advisor working with Indicator Ventures, Dwell magazine, Reforge, and others.
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About Dribbble: Dribbble is a global community where the world’s top designers share, grow, and get hired.
Patrick Gavin
CEO of Consumer Media Network
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About Consumer Media Network, Gavin, UpCity: Consumer Media Network builds web properties that drive high-converting, high-intent traffic.
Joseph Ellis
CEO of Vidrovr
Joe is a PhD candidate at Columbia University working on video searching and indexing. He has published research in the areas of multimodal information processing, computer vision and machine learning. He has worked at Google, IBM Research, and MITRE.
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About Vidrovr: Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video.
Deboshree Dutta
Founder & CEO of Criya
Deb is a Tech entrepreneur & Product Management Leader with over a decade of experience leading global Product, UX & Engineering teams at companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Cisco etc. She is also invited to the FORBES leadership council and co-leads the Women in Product Bay area chapter. Deb is the Founder & CEO of Criya- a platform with a mission to empowers creatives to launch their virtual design studio in minutes and start working with clients instantly. Criya is a YCombinator W22 company. At PayPal, Deb was Head of Product leading a global team of product managers responsible for driving PayPal’s AI powered Customer Success experiences. Prior to joining PayPal, Deb was Head of Product at Hitachi’s smart city IoT group. Deb is also the Founder of Deesignplay blog – with a global following over 150,000 and has been featured on Apartment Therapy, Kitchn, Omysa etc. Visit Deb’s blog on Instagram (@deesignplay) and website (www.deesignplay.com) Deb was awarded the EB-1 (A) Green Card by the US Govt for her contributions in the Product Management space in the industry. This category of Green Card is reserved for individuals that the US Govt deems has demonstrated Extraordinary abilities and has generated significant value (through revenue and impact) in the related field. Deb is a strong Advocate for Women in Tech & Leadership and is a Featured Speaker at several events – ProductCon2019, Product Event 2019, – keynote speaker at UC Berkeley, Santa Clara business school, HPE panelist – Product School instructor – TV interview at RegalixTV – Won Expat Women’s hackathon in “Girls in STEM” track – Launched the Women in tech platform at Hitachi Data Systems Bay Area chapter
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About Criya, PayPal: Empowering creators and enabling their business
Grant Michael Leingang
President / CEO of BLVCK DIVMOND
Grant Michael Leingang is President and CEO for BLVCK DIVMOND in Las Vegas. He has been a digital entrepreneur since the age of 15 and holds a true passion for technology. BLVCK DIVMOND focuses on developing organizations, businesses, and foundations. Their work passion is simple and derived from a belief that BLVCK DIVMOND’s company operations will be a different experience. Leingang has created assets for many high-end brands like CORE Hydration. He has been known to utilize software and deliver original entrepreneurial visions using creative cost-effective methods that result in a positive ROI.
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About BLVCK DIVMOND, Illest, PDX ADVERTISING, WE’RE A CULT, INC.: Creative direction, web design and development. Project direction and management. Graphic design. SEO. Social media development. UX design.
Gonzalo Gil
CEO of 3dcart
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About 3dcart, Shift4Shop: 3DCart provides an easy-to-use e-commerce solution suite to design any type of online business portals.
Ryan Carson
Founder & CEO of Treehouse
Ryan Carson is the Founder and CEO of Treehouse.
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About Treehouse: Treehouse is an online technology school that guides students from zero to job-ready for the tech industry in 6-12 months.
Tobias Dengel
CEO of WillowTree
Tobias Dengel is the CEO of WillowTree® Apps, Inc., a leading mobile applications and web development company based Charlottesville, VA. Previously, Tobias co-founded Leads.com. As President of the company, he managed its rapid expansion as an early pioneer in packaging online search products, including Google, Yahoo!, MSN and AOL, together for sale to small businesses. After growing to over 60 employees in 2 years, Leads.com was sold to Web.com, where Tobias continued to work in an executive role until 2009. Prior to starting Leads.com, he was SVP & General Manager of AOL Local & Yellow Pages. He previously held a variety of roles in the AOL Business Affairs department, including VP, International. Tobias began his career as an Analyst at the management consulting firm AT Kearney. He holds a BSE in Finance (Wharton) and a BSE in Systems Engineering, both from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About WillowTree: WillowTree is a mobile innovation agency creating beautiful digital products designed to drive growth for brands.
Jordan Rothstein
Founder, CEO of King Tide Creative
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About Furious M, King Tide Creative, Raziel, TravelZeeky: King Tide is a full-service creative agency specifically and intricately designed to surpass the reach of the modern branding machine.
Jacob Garlick
Founder & CEO of RevSite
Jacob Garlick is “passionate about creating meaningful products that help businesses grow their sales fast.” He loves his family, talking business, and cars.
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About RevSite: RevSite helps in building customized, mobile-enabled websites.
Thayer Sylvester
Co-Founder & CEO of Carve Designs
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About Carve Designs: A Mill Valley, Calif.-based apparel maker.
Fredrik Thomassen
CEO & Founder of Superside
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About Superside: Superside is an always-on design company that delivers great design at scale to Enterprise teams.
Dennis Velasco
Founder and CEO of Xtendly
There’s 5 things that I’m super passionate about: 1) Creating inspiring organizational cultures in order to help my team live their dreams by reaching levels of success that they never thought were ever possible. 2) Finding ways to deliver wow-like customer experiences that turn into life-long relationships and evangelism. 3) Innovating new but SIMPLE ways to solve REAL world problems. 4) Having FUN because life ain’t worth living unless you can “stop and smell the roses”. 5) Growth hacking. Today, I lead a boutique digital marketing and software development firm with the best-of-the-best talent located around the world in the USA, Philippines & Latin America. Our focus is helping Small to Medium-sized businesses improve their digital presence, increase website traffic and boost lead conversions. We do this as an “all-in-one” managed WordPress service at an affordable monthly pay-as-you-go fee.
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About Xtendly: Xtendly is a marketing-as-a-service firm that offers website design, modern marketing, and cloud software services.
Alex Krailo
CEO of Datamart
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About Datamart: Datamart is a global full-service software development company that offers technical consulting and software engineering services.
Gary M. Lowenthal
CEO of Boyds Collection
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About Boyds Collection: Boyds bears have been making people smile for over 30 years.
Kevin Eichelberger
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Blue Acorn iCi
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About Blue Acorn iCi: Blue Acorn iCi is an e-commerce consulting firm that helps online retailers increase sales, profitability, and ROI.
Dennis Pence
Co Founder & CEO of Coldwater Creek
Co Founder & CEO of Coldwater Creek.
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About Coldwater Creek: Coldwater Creek is a specialty direct mail retailer of apparel, gifts and jewelry.
Todd Khozein
Founder & Co-CEO of SecondMuse
Todd Khozein is the Founder & Co-CEO ,Director of Secondmuse Foundation.
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About SecondMuse, Secondmuse Foundation: SecondMuse is an innovation and collaboration agency.
Rehan Fernando
CEO of EIGHT25MEDIA
Rehan Fernando is the chief executive officer of EIGHT25MEDIA.
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About EIGHT25MEDIA: EIGHT25MEDIA is a full-service digital agency that offers strategic consulting, web design, and mobile app development.
Christopher White
Founder/CEO of Sneakers Apps
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About Forbes New York Business Council, Rad Hires, Sneakers Apps: Sneakers Apps is a full-service digital product development agency focused on helping brands launch and grow their businesses.
Arvind Sarin
Chairman & CEO of Copper Mobile
Arvind Sarin is the Founder and CEO of Copper Mobile, he oversees Mobile Application development for the company and manages several clients. He holds a Masters in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University, and an MBA from McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. Arvind has been associated with Fujitsu, WICAT, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Ranbaxy, BARC, and Impiger.
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About Copper Mobile: Copper Mobile is a preferred digital transformation partner that has specialized in enterprise mobile app development since 2010.
Ross Blankenship
Managing Partner and CEO of Angel Kings
Ross Blankenship (https://angel.co/ross-blankenship) is a media expert on startups, entrepreneurship, and angel investing; Ross Blankenship is a 3x entrepreneur, 7x bestselling author, angel investor and expert on the next billion-dollar startups (https://www.udemy.com/user/ross-blankenship/) and how to invest money with angel investments and venture capital (http://rossblankenship.com). Ross Blankenship has written extensively on the topics of venture capital and angel investing, and is also an early-stage angel investor in America’s hottest, must-watched startups: both software and hardware companies. Ross Blankenship advises the media on important topics from startups to entrepreneurship. Ross Blankenship has invested in early technologies ranging from multi-factor authentication (MFA) to digital assets such as Ethereum and Bitcoin: According to a recent interview with Ross Blankenship, “Investing is about discovering the next-big thing. It’s about spotting the trends, identifying problems, and understanding solutions. Having been on both sides of the equation: as an entrepreneur and investor, I can spot pain points for both consumers and enterprises. I can also spot big profit opportunities. For example, I was one of the first investors in a technology of a modified version of the blockchain called “Ethereum”… I studied Ethereum, smart contracts, and literally interviewed and met with everyone on this planet who would tell me about what they were building with Ethereum.” In another recent interview with Ross Blankenship in which he discussed focus and what it means to be an entrepreneur, “The first challenge is the focus. I have to make sure I am not doing ten things at once, but I am doing one if not two things all the time. The time motif returns, i.e., there’s never enough time to get everything done in a day, so prioritize those things that are most likely to be profitable – professionally and personally. If you only have a certain amount of time, you have to focus. I inspire entrepreneurs to find one or two products or services that they are passionate about but to limit their focus to just those.” Ross Blankenship continues to advise America’s top startups and be a member of technology development communities from the West Coast to the East Coast.
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About Angel Kings, Blankenship Ventures, Stonehawk Investment Group: Angel Kings is a software and mobile app development firm that builds America’s top startups.
JB Osborne
Co-Founder & CEO of Red Antler
JB is currently the CEO of Red Antler, a brand company based in Brooklyn that he co-founded with Emily Heyward and Simon Endres. JB started his career at Saatchi & Saatchi, working for clients such as Procter & Gamble, General Mills, and the award winning international launch of Air Tahiti Nui. An entrepreneur at heart, he left Saatchi to open the New York office of Consortium, a New Zealand ad agency. In August 2007, JB founded Red Antler, where he works with clients on brand positioning, user experience, business strategy and marketing. JB has a Bachelors degree in Business, Magna Cum Laude, from Cornell University. He is an advisor and board member to several startups, and serves on the Entrepreneurship at Cornell Advisory Council. A Philadelphia native, he currently lives in DUMBOl with his wife, his dog Brodie, and a lot of plants.
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About Red Antler: Red Antler is a brand company that works with startups and new ventures.
Nitzan Shaer
Co-Founder and CEO of WEVO
Co-Founder and CEO at WEVO.
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About WEVO: WEVO is a customer experience company that offers a solution for pinpointing WHY visitors are not engaging.
Jay Correia
CEO of DreamCo Design
Jay Correia is the Founder & CEO of DreamCo Design, a professional web and app development company founded in 2006 based in Chicago. He is also author of the book ‘Daily Fantasy Sports’, a member of the Board of Directors for the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, pilot, and consultant that serves on numerous start-up advisory boards.
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About DreamCo Design: DreamCo Design is a professional web and app development company that designs, develops, and markets custom websites and apps.
Jeff Pieta
CEO of AIS Inc
Jeff Pieta is the CEO at AIS Inc. Jeff was born and raised in working-class Brookfield, IL. His first entrepreneurial endeavor was selling greeting cards and stationary door-to-door at age 12. During teenage years, an interest in technology led to informal sales of computer hardware and consulting. At age 17, recommended by high-school technology teacher George Lowen, Jeff was selected to lead tech support for LADSE, a 400 employee special education cooperative. Jeff was the first of his family to enter college, accepted into University of Illinois’ College of Engineering, where he met future business partner Sean Casey. Jeff dropped out after the first semester to focus time and financial resources on growing AIS for the next 9 years, eventually building an experienced executive team to continue strong growth and relinquish him of daily duties. This allowed Jeff to co-found Shiftgig in 2011, while retaining majority ownership of AIS.
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About AIS Inc: AIS Inc. provides full-service IT solutions in Chicagoland.
Sam Ben Avraham
Founder & CEO of Liberty Fairs
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About Liberty Fairs: Liberty Fairs, the newest brainchild of Sam Ben-Avraham ushers in a new era in fashion trade events.
Vishal Joshi
Co Founder & CEO of Joy
Vishal Joshi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Joy.
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About Joy: Joy helps users with their wedding, from engagement to honeymoon and everything in-between.
Polina Veksler
Co-Founder and CEO of Universal Standard
Polina Veksler is the Co-Founder and CEO of Universal Standard, a brand she started with her business partner to help disrupt the apparel industry by taking size out of the equation and laying the groundwork for the future of fashion to include women of all sizes. Polina creates and steers the company strategy and oversees everything from operations, communicating the brand’s vision to key stakeholders, raising investment capital, and expanding the brand’s rapid growth trajectory. Polina founded the company with friend, Co-Founder and Creative Director, Alexandra Waldman. Polina’s experience encompases multiple roles as a senior executive at major financial and technology firms including Senior Strategy Manager at Microsoft, Private Equity Investment Director at an international emerging-markets investment firm, and Vice President of Investment Banking at Russia’s largest holding company.
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About Universal Standard: Universal Standard is a operator of an online platform to break the fashion stereotypes and provide women’s clothing.
Harnil Oza
CEO & Founder of Hyperlink InfoSystem
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About Hyperlink InfoSystem: Hyperlink InfoSystem is a mobile app development company that providers information technology services.
Sheffie Robinson
CEO & Founder of Shamrck Business
Sheffie Robinson is a serial entrepreneur, software engineer, and sociologist that specializes in solving racial and gender equity with technology. She is currently the CEO of Shamrck Software and the creator of Shamrck Education, an artificial intelligence platform designed to bring data mining and predictive analytics to career and technical education programs. She has over 20 years of experience in technology development and over 15 years of experience in retail sales and marketing. She has spent significant time in her career working to impact gender and racial equity to enhance diversity and inclusion. She is a second time founder, her first company being a fintech product that brought banking services to virtual currencies. Sheffie is a graduate of Thomas Edison State University with a degree in Sociology and is currently pursuing her MBA at Georgia Southern University. Sheffie has been named the Top 10 under 40 and a Top CEO by the Mississippi Business Journal In addition to her business, she regularly mentors startups on product development, branding, and project management to help them stay lean as they build a business. Her work with underrepresented founders has helped her to become a steward for diversity, equity, and inclusion. In her personal life, Sheffie is a military spouse and mother of 3 hailing from their current duty station in Vicksburg, MS, but she’s a Georgia native. She also enjoys virtual live-action roleplay and is a huge Anime fan.
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About Bantunium Labs LLC, Bantunium Ventures LLC, Shamrck Business: Shamrck Business is a complete website and business management suite for small businesses powered by human-assisted artificial intelligence.
Shimmie Horn
Owner, President & Chief Executive Officer of Triumph Hotels
SHIMMIE HORN, President and CEO of Triumph Hospitality
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About Triumph Hotels: Triumph Hotels operates seven small luxury NYC hotels, owned by Shimmie Horn.
Don Scales
CEO, Investis Digital of Investis Digital
Don Scales is the CEO of Investis Digital, a global digital communications company that helps world-class businesses manage their corporate brands. He is an interactive industry veteran, with more than 25 years as an executive manager. Before joining iCrossing, Scales was CEO at Agency.com, where he managed all aspects of the agency’s worldwide operations. He had also served as Global COO, North American President, and Western Regional President. In addition, Scales served as Managing Director of Igate Capital, an Internet-centric holding company that focuses exclusively on e-services. In its fifth anniversary issue, BtoB Magazine named Scales one of the top 25 newsmakers for 2000-2005. He was also named to BtoB Magazine’s list of Who’s Who in Search in 2009. Scales is a member of the Board of Directors for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Texas and a member of the Internet Task Force for Make-A-Wish Foundation of America. He has dual undergraduate degrees in Chemical Engineering and Mathematical Physics, and a master of science in chemical engineering from Rice University; he also has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About Investis Digital: Investis Digital is a digital communication company that provides its clients with SaaS platform to manage their digital ecosystem.
Brian Moran
CEO of SamCart
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About SamCart: SamCart is an e-Commerce platform designed to enable direct-to-consumer brands’ growth.
Steven Schwartz
Chief Executive Officer of Varfaj Partners
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About Varfaj Partners: Varfaj Partners is a technology & strategy consulting firm based in New York, NY.
Artyom Keydunov
CEO of Cube Dev
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About Cube Dev, Statsbot: Cube Dev is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of open source, analytics, databases, and developer tools.
Darpan Munjal
Founder & CEO of Squadhelp
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About Squadhelp: A leading naming platform offering a unique combination of crowdsourcing, smart technology and agency level services for brand naming
Brandon Smith
CEO & Founder of M33 Labs
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About M33 Labs: Developing the next generation of the desktop computer. Space is the ultimate workspace experience.
Marcos Mena-Brena
Founder & CEO of Geekbears
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About Geekbears: Democratizing the design and development of business apps
Nagesh Challa
Founder & CEO of Waagu
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About Waagu: Waagu offers a collaborative customer engagement platform for content, web, and mobile customer interactions.
Stephanie Rosenbaum
CEO of TecEd
Stephanie Rosenbaum is CEO of TecEd, Inc., whose clients include Google, VMware, Varian Medical Systems, Ford Motor Company, Cisco Systems, and a wide variety of smaller firms. Stephanie has attended all but two of the past UPA/UXPA conferences and presented at most of them; she is also active in ACM SIGCHI, received the STC’s Rainey Award for Excellence in Research, and was awarded an IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000. She co-authored a chapter on ROI in Cost-Justifying Usability, contributed an invited chapter on “The Future of Usability Evaluation” to Maturing Usability, and spoke at a recent IEEE conference on Communication in a Self-Service Society. Judith Ramey is professor emerita at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she chaired the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering and directed the Laboratory for Usability Testing and Evaluation. She recently served as interim dean of the College of Engineering, and now administers the University of Washington Royalty Research Fund, a program that redirects intellectual-property revenues as seed money to fund new research efforts across the university. Judy has facilitated workshops at many UPA/UXPA and SIGCHI conferences. She has edited or co-edited two journal special issues on usability and co-edited Field Methods Casebook for Software Design on user experience field research methods. Thea van der Geest is a professor in the Department of Media, Communication and Organisations at the University of Twente and research professor in Media Design at HAN University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. She leads a research center and teaches graduate courses on topics such as Human-Centered Design for New Media and Personalized Service Design. She is principal investigator and supervisor of numerous e-government service R&D projects, reported in journals such as Technical Communication and Government Information Quarterly.
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About TecEd: TecEd is a user experience research and design company.
Kelly Watkins
CEO of Abstract
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About Abstract: Abstract is the design workflow management system that empowers design teams and stakeholders to seamlessly manage, version and collaborate.
Itai Sadan
Co-Founder & CEO of Duda
Itai Sadan is the co-founder and CEO of DudaMobile. Prior to founding DudaMobile, Sadan was a director at SAP, where he managed the SAP Discovery System program and led relationships with IBM, HP and Fujitsu. He also worked for Amdocs and Finjan and founded InterSight, a start-up for data storage. He has more than a decade of experience in business development, partner management, program management and development and has a Bachelor of Science in computer science and mathematics from the Ben Gurion University in Israel.
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About Duda, Duda: Duda is a responsive website builder for digital marketing agencies, hosting companies, and online directories.
Brendan McCorkle
Partner & CEO of Jarvus Innovations
Brendan McCorkle is the Co-Founder, Advisor at TrekIT Health
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About CareAlign, Jarvus Innovations: Jarvus is a web software engineering firm passionate about building impactful systems and companies.
Oleg Sotnikov
CEO of AppMaster.io
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About AppMaster.io, G1 Software: AppMaster.io is a no-code platform to create and publish web and mobile applications with AI-generated source code.
James J. Peterson
CEO of Microsemi
Mr. James J. Peterson is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of Microsemi Corporation.He served as President of LinFinity Microelectronics, Inc., a manufacturer of linear and mixed signal integrated from 1997 to 1999 and as its Vice President of Sales from 1996 to 1997. We acquired LinFinity Microelectronics, Inc. in 1999. Prior to joining LinFinity Microelectronics, Inc., Mr. Peterson served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Corporate Communications of Texas Instruments Storage Products Group from 1984 to 1996. Mr. Peterson was a Director of STEC, Inc., a storage solutions technology company based in Santa Ana, California, from 2003 to 2009. Mr. Peterson possesses significant experience in our industry and contributes detailed knowledge of our Company’s strategy and operations to the Board of Directors.
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About Microsemi: Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions.
Jonathan Kogan
Co-Founder, CEO of RPA Tools
Enjoy building businesses and a big fan of innovation that benefits society and impacts culture. Currently helping startups and small businesses by designing and implementing, custom, no-code tech stacks that scale. On Deck fellow (No-Code Cohort #1).
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About RPA Tools: We create custom tech stacks for startups and small businesses with no-code tools, custom integrations, and automations.
Steve Eilers
Chief Marketing Officer/CEO of Boost Marketing
Steve has been an internet entrepreneur since he was 13 years old, and has spent over half of his life on building and growing successful online businesses.
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About Boost Marketing: Boost Marketing offers innovative technology for Amazon sellers and leverage the platform for its own house brands.
Chad Robley
Chairman & CEO of Mindgruve
Chad is the Cofounder and CEO of Mindgruve (INC. 5000 Company). Since launching the agency in 2001, he has played a key strategic role in helping brands transform their business through marketing and technology. Over the past two decades, he has worked with some of the top global consumer and B2B brands such as Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Qualcomm, Oracle, Merck, Live Nation and House of Blues. Prior to Mindgruve, Chad spent more than a decade as a startup entrepreneur building and scaling early stage businesses into mature, sustainable companies. He is now an angel investor and advisor to fast growth companies. Chad also serves on several company and industry boards in the consumer, technology, healthcare and B2B space. Chad is a regular writer and public speaker on the Convergence of Technology and Marketing, Digital Business Transformation and Customer Acquisition Strategies for Rapid Growth Companies.
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Alex Shevelenko
CEO of RELAYTO Document Experience Platform
/ Founder of RELAYTO ping ceo@relayto.com to discover the first experience platform for interactive documents. Not all docs are created equal. / MD of Glocal Partners: advisory for innovation across borders & incubating RELAYTO/ / Cloud Pioneer: pre-IPO at SuccessFactors (exit to SAP for $3.4B) & Salesforce.com / Advisor: growth & marketing projects leader @ Oliver Wyman / Student & Mentor: Stanford MBA, Penn BSE, BA, speaker on Idea Science™ method / Author (upcoming): The Experience Is The Message. How To Turn Ideas Into Conversations & Actions Why RELAYTO? “MEDIUM was the message” in the 60s. Now the digital noise is at an all-time high. So EXPERIENCE IS THE MESSAGE. And we created a new experience that helps your important business messages win. Learn more on http://RELAYTO.com or ✉ ceo@relayto.com Longer Story RELAYTO/ helps anyone unleash & measure their ideas. Everything changed during my career at fast-growing B2B organizations like SuccessFactors/SAP, Salesforce.com, Oliver Wyman & Microsoft Office … except for the print-optimized PDF. PDF is where your must-read publications, presentations & knowledge goes to die ☠ So I co-founded RELAYTO/ revolution to abolish static, pre-Internet & pre-mobile content on screens (see our rla.to/pitch – it’s a PDF we converted with our own product) RELAYTO/ clients at PwC, Mercedes Benz, Accenture, HYPERLOOP TT, Startupbootcamp already authored 50+ award-winning interactive experiences. And AI-powered platform gets smarter with every document. Join us. Oh. And if you want to create a Guttenberg moment for interactive communications — we are hiring at relayto.com/careers
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About Glocal Partners, RELAYTO Document Experience Platform: RELAYTO helps B2B marketers generate more leads & sales by turning static documents into interactive presentations & webpages
George Avery
CEO of Native Rank
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Vadim Peskov
CEO & Co-founder of Diffco
Seasoned executive within startup and corporate establishments. Expert knowledge of software development, stellar supervising and management skills, extensive experience with multiple web/mobile projects of high complexity, which require deep and critical understanding of businesses, markets, industries and target audiences. Started 3 companies from ground up and made them into successful businesses across the globe. Very successful in building relationships with customers, partners, investors; taking charge of critical problems, and delivering on customer expectations. Customer focused and result driven.
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About Alchemist Accelerator, Diffco: Mobile apps and AI solutions development for Startups and Enterprises
Philip Tadros
Founder, CEO of doejo
Founder of doejo where we design and develop brands through software. We help people get to market based on their intentions, resources and goals.
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About Bow Truss Coffee Roasters, Columbia College Chicago, doejo, TextHog: web design & website development
TK Herman
Co-Founder CEO & President of Aptera Software
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About Aptera Software, SkyZone: Aptera is a Custom Software Development partner specializing in creating Mobile Apps, Web Apps and Websites for enterprise-level companies.
Deena Bronz
Co-Founder and CEO of KitNipBox
Deena Bronz has extensive experience in entrepreneurship, consumer goods, e-commerce, and Product Management (PM) within the technology industry. Prior to co-founding KitNipBox, she was the Director of Product Management at MarkLogic, one of first and largest Big Data startups. Prior to MarkLogic, she was the Founder and CEO of a successfully acquired social commerce website that achieved industry leading conversion rates. Before founding her startup, Ms. Bronz ran a senior PM team at Symantec, where she and her team brought a number of new data center management products to market, exceeding customer adoption goals by 2x. Prior to that, Ms. Bronz developed and launched six new products to market as a Sr. PM at Symantec, achieving vast customer adoption and growing the P&L for these products from scratch to outperform revenue targets. Ms. Bronz has also held PM, Operations Planning, and Corporate Strategy roles at Level 3 Communications, where she managed a $75M P&L and received repeated recognition awards for her leadership and outstanding performance. Ms. Bronz holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and has also attained a Master of Science degree in Engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems with high distinction from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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About KitNipBox: A monthly box of goodies for your cat!
Adrian Bubela
Founder & CEO of SEVEN
Founder and CEO of IT Company SEVEN with a demonstrated 18-year history of working in the software development and IT industry. During this time I have developed a proven track record in leading teams to deliver strategic projects that produce real benefits, achieving business goals with cost-effective, efficient and innovative IT solutions. My team and I focus on projects which really make a difference for such important industries аs healthcare, transportation, construction, and government agencies. Software development for our clients helps people accomplish more and change their lives for the better. Also, I invest in promising startups, mentor them from initial conception to the finished product. Throughout my career, I have developed a wide variety of skills and expertise. These include Strategic Business Planning, Business Analysis Management, Sales and Marketing Management, Negotiation, Project Engineering among others.
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About SEVEN, Vixit: The full-service IT company that for 11 years has been a reliable 360º technological partner
Dawn Verbrigghe
Founder & CEO of Jottful
Jottful was founded by Dawn Verbrigghe. Dawn is a marketing expert with more than 20 years of experience in marketing and design, including seven years as a faculty member at Parsons the New School for Design. She loves helping small business owners achieve their dreams through creative and inexpensive marketing that attracts just the right customers.
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About Jottful: Jottful is a SaaS content management system (CMS) for making & managing small-business websites.
Michael Scott Cohen
CEO of Harper+Scott
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About Harper+Scott: Harper+Scott is a creative marketing agency focused on design and manufacturing of branded merchandise.
Brenna Hardman
Founder and CEO of Buy Side Design
Brenna Hardman is a Chicago trading gal whose passions are financial media, trading, food and her family. She loves being in front of the camera! Whether it’s to explain complicated option strategies or showing how to shuck oysters and make a mean chicken coconut curry soup – she’ll do it all! In media, she has successfully proposed and launched a new daily show on CBOE TV called “Pre-Market Pulse” where she does all her own research and writing. On the show, she covers a broad spectrum of market-related topics from Chinese ADRs, Foreign ETFs to equity options and structured products. Before that, she was hosting a special daily equity option segment for Jon Najarian’s Optionmonster show. She also has professional experience with trading at the CME Group and was the first to propose and work on a show that covers foreign exchange with a focus on RMB futures. Brenna has been quoted in Barron’s, Markets Media and Bloomberg news reports, serving as a guest on various media outlets. For past firms, she wrote daily market recaps that were sent to institutional traders, hedge funds and proprietary traders. She is a graduate of the Finance Honors program at DePaul University, studies Mandarin Chinese and maintains active Series 3, 4, 7, 24, 56 and 63 NFA & FINRA registrations. She has passed Papers 1, 2 and 3 with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC).
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About Buy Side Design: Buy Side Design is a creative marketing studio for the financial industry.
Kevin Kading
CEO of Intelagy
Kevin H Kading CEO and Director of M&A, is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Kading Companies S.A. since its founding in 1995. Between 1979 and 1995, he held various positions at several investment banking firms, ranging from retail sales to Regional Vice President. From 1995 on, Mr. Kading has founded and participated in a number of public and private companies. He has been a member of the Securities Traders Association both nationally and in New York since 1995. Mr. Kading was a founder, officer, and Chairman of the Board of Advanced Reconnaissance Corp. from 1997 to February 2006. Mr. Kading was a founder and officer of Syringex Medical, Inc., from October 1997 to June 2004.
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About Accelerated Technologies Holding, Intelagy, Phantom Fiber: Intelagy provides API linked payment gateway accepting credit cards & ACH payments.Offers services web design,hosting,internet marketing.
Twyman Clements
Co-Founder and CEO of Space Tango
Twyman Clements is a Space Systems Engineer for Kentucky Space, LLC, a company based in Lexington, KY, which develops entrepreneurial space platforms for research and educational purposes. Before working full-time at Kentucky Space, Mr. Clements was a graduate assistant in the Space Systems Lab at the University of Kentucky. While there he worked on near space balloons, payloads for suborbital flight, was the lead mechanical engineer for KySat-1, the state’s first orbital spacecraft, and helped develop the architecture and hardware for research systems currently installed aboard the International Space Station. Currently with Kentucky Space, LLC, Mr. Clements works on developing hardware and experiments that use microgravity to seek unique outcomes.
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About Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation (KSTC), Space Tango: Space Tango designs and builds hardware and software platforms that enable microgravity research.
Alice Rossiter
Founder and CEO of Alice’s Table
Alice is founder and CEO at Alice’s Table. She envisions a world where lifestyle blogs are realized through events. She is building the network of flexible creative talent ready to host fun-filled maker events across the country. Alice surrounds herself with the arts and entrepreneurship. She pursued this intersection at the University of Pennsylvania where she studied Visual Studies and Consumer Psychology. She went on to get her masters degree in Art Business from the Sotheby’s Institute in New York City, before joining the start-up community.
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About Alice’s Table: Alice’s Table brings women together to learn new skills, and live a social and creative lifestyle.
Calvin Tran
CEO of Hype Well
Founder at Hype Well
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About Hype Well: Hype Well executes, manages, and optimizes customer’s all social media and online marketing efforts.
Deven Patel
Founder & CEO of Alter
Founder and CEO of Alter, a domain marketplace that connects entrepreneurs with premium business names. Prior to Alter, he was founder and chief executive officer of Cyfe, a SaaS startup which offers an all-in-one dashboard software that helps businesses easily monitor, analyze, and share all of their vital business data from one single location in real-time.
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About Alter: Alter is a domain marketplace that connects entrepreneurs with premium business names.
Roy Loomis
CEO of Ecommerce Partners
Roy brings over 30 years of technology, management, leadership and entrepreneurial experience to the team. Since joining the company, Roy has been focused on ensuring that ECP delivers exceptional client service and that the internal processes efficiently and effectively support the business. Prior to his position at ECP, Roy was a Partner at Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Though his responsibilities varied throughout his 21 years at Accenture, Roy specialized in managing large, complex systems integration projects for telecommunications companies. He also gained expertise in management, business development, and marketing strategy. In 2005, after his career at Accenture, Roy along with his wife and business partner Claudia, acquired world-renowned multi-channel pet specialty business Cherrybrook. Roy and Claudia have expanded Cherrybrook’s web presence, rolling out an ecommerce site that features a comprehensive catalog of items and exceptional usability and service. They created the concept for and launched three award-winning pet specialty brick-and-mortar stores emphasizing the healthiest, highest quality items for pets. Cherrybrook was recently awarded Pet Business Magazine’s Retailer of Excellence award and was selected by New Jersey residents as the Best Pet Specialty Store in Northern New Jersey
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About Ecommerce Partners: ECommerce Partners is a e-commerce and interactive agency that provides support for large and mid-companies.
Vinod Subbaiah
FOUNDER & CEO of Asahi Technologies LLC
After a successful career designing and developing software applications for legal businesses in New York, Vinod followed through on his personal dream – harnessing technology to help startups, small and medium businesses with their business challenges. Since 2005, Vinod has worked relentlessly to nurture the three core ingredients for driving excellence – a) process driven approach b) team passionate about technology c) unrelenting commitment to quality
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About Asahi Technologies LLC: Asahi Technologies is a premier web development firm, committed to offering the highest quality service and business value to it clients.
Jason Monberg
Chief Executive Officer of Presence
Jason Monberg is CEO of Presence. He is a product executive, entrepreneur, investor, and startup advisor with 18 years of experience leading product strategy, development, and consulting for consumer and enterprise software products. Prior to Presence Jason was the vice president of product management for MarkLogic where he was responsible for product strategy and vision. He helped grow the company to an $80 million annual run rate. Prior to MarkLogic, Jason was vice president of application products at Composite Software, a leading provider of data virtualization software, where he was part of the founding team that grew annual revenue from zero to over $20 million, acquired by Cisco. Before Composite Software, Jason was president and founder of Carbon Five, a consulting firm specializing in agile software development for fortune 500 clients and start-ups. Jason has founded three other start-ups, raising over $20 million in funding, and has acted as a start-up advisor for companies such as Balsamiq and BluGloss. Jason holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Wesleyan University. When not deep in work, Jason believes in unplugging and spending time with his wife and three kids.
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About Balsamiq, Presence: Presence is a software company that specializes in digital product strategy and development consulting, Web, Mobile, VR, and Salesforce.
Haisha Chen
Founder & CEO of Strikingly
Haisha Chen is Founder & CEO at Striking.ly.
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About Strikingly: Strikingly is an online web platform enabling individuals to build mobile-optimized websites.
Frederic Lasnier
Chairman & CEO of Pentalog
Frederic Lasnier is a passionate entrepreneur and globetrotter who founded Pentalog together with four university mates in France in 1993. Starting from 1997, he has opened 8 branch offices in Europe, 1 in Asia, 1 in the USA and 1 in Canada. His skills & expertise: – Offshore, low cost solutions – HR-based businesses – International project sponsoring – Digital strategies – Venture capital and startups – Eastern European development opportunities
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About Pentalabbs, Pentalog: IT Services and Outsourcing Company
Liz Bacelar
Founder and CEO of TheCurrent
Bacelar is a global leader on open innovation for fashion and retail. She is the founder of TheCurrent, an open innovation firm connecting fashion, retail and luxury brands with ground-breaking ideas & technologies. Prior to that she founded, grew and exited Decoded Fashion, a top global event series connecting Fashion & Technology in New York, London, Milan and Tokyo. In 2016, Liz also launched FlowJourneys with WIRED UK editor-in-chief David Rowan.
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About Decoded Fashion, TheCurrent: TheCurrent is the leading platform for open innovation in the fashion and retail markets.
Waqas Pitafi
CEO of DevBatch
Tech Entrepreneur, InfoSec Expert, Founder & CEO of DevBatch, iPhone, Android, HTML5 apps/games and Rails developer
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About DevBatch, P@SHA: Best mobile app development company in USA with 200+ Apps. Get Android, iPhone, iPad and web application Development services.
Sam Wilcoxon
Co-Founder, CEO of Ask Lorem
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About Ask Lorem, Storetasker: Instant access to high-quality & affordable freelance talent. (We’re hiring!)
LaVern Sula
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Next Stage Development
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About Next Stage Development: Next Stage Development provides domain and website-related services.
Keemia Ferasat
Founder & CEO of Style Salute
Keemia Ferasat is the founder & CEO of Style Salute, a mission-driven digital media, and entertainment company with a global audience footprint of 400 thousand a month across platforms. Focused around the core values of individuality and creativity, Style Salute delivers content and experiences that speak to an audience that’s highly engaged across a variety of devices and destinations, from original content and email newsletters, to live experiences and social storytelling. Our audience is comprised of self-made dreamers who are smart and passionate, always seeking out the next thing and living to their full potential in every aspect of their lives. As a next-generation women’s media company, Style Salute is changing the way content speaks to and represents women, always sparking the conversations that matter most. Delivering on that mission, Keemia is driven every day to celebrate women and to help them see, feel and own their power — walking the walk in all that she does.
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About Style Salute: Style Salute is a digital media and entertainment company dedicated to inspiring young women to live a smarter, more stylish life.
Brian Grady
CEO of Gorilla Group
Brian Grady is a CEO at Gorilla Group
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About Gorilla Group: Gorilla Group provides innovative e-commerce solutions for enterprise, B2B, and direct-to-consumer brands.
Bjorn Stansvik
CEO & Founder of MentorMate
Björn Stansvik is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cohereum
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About Cohereum, MentorMate, Techstars: Web, Application, & Mobile Development
Armen Mardirousi
CEO of Neolynx
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About Neolynx: Neolynx is a website development, marketing research, and consulting company.
Marian Phelan
CEO and Co-Founder of Hashrocket
Marian Phelan is a co-founder and now the sole owner of Hashrocket. She is a strong supporter of the software community, Marian has funded and overseen several technology conferences. She is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience building and operating successful businesses in multiple markets, including hospitality, real estate, and the Web. She believes in flat organizations, team-oriented structure, and environments where collaboration can flourish.
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About Hashrocket: Hashrocket specializes in design, development, consulting and training for Ruby on Rails, iOS, Android and Ember.js.
Dan Gardner
CEO, Co-founder of Code and Theory
Dan Gardner is the CEO of leading digital agency Code and Theory. Dan has more than a decade of experience designing cross-platform products and brand experiences for clients in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. From pioneering the modern digital landscape with the reinvention of over seventy five major publications such as Bloomberg, Vogue, Mashable, and The LA Times, to defining a new standard for how brands like Maybelline New York communicate their stories. Dan has reimagined the digital space, most recently focusing on the relationship between government and citizenry through sites like NY.gov and has radically redrawn the map of challenges a creative agency can confront in today’s digital world. Code and Theory’s work has garnered dozens of awards over the years, including Webby’s, AD&D, Cannes Lions, and One Show, the agency was also named to Fast Company’s list of Most Innovative Companies in 2016.
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About Code and Theory: Code and Theory is a creatively-led agency that creates products, content and campaigns across physical and digital worlds.
Susan White Morrissey
Founder & CEO of White + Warren
Susan established White + Warren 20 years ago, as a luxury, yet accessible cashmere label. Her background in retail and wholesale helped foster an understanding and passion for the industry. The original mission of the brand, which still remains paramount today was to build a business model with integrity, develop and retain a strong corporate community, seek out manufacturers that take pride in utilizing responsible processes, and support charitable initiatives near and dear to the company’s heart. White’s years of experience have enabled a unique insight into all steps of the process, from concept to customer. As CEO, White brings her extensive expertise to the leadership of White + Warren, where she continues to proudly steer operations at the label’s beautiful NYC showroom off of Bryant Park. White resides in New York City. Outside of the office White loves to cook for family and friends, and go for long bike rides along the Hudson River.
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About White + Warren: The largest collection of cashmere clothing. Visit the White + Warren online shop for contemporary cashmere sweaters, cardigans and more.
Andrew Greenstein
CEO & Head of Product of SF AppWorks
Andrew is a product and online marketing specialist and the CEO of SF AppWorks, a digital agency based out of San Francisco. Andrew and his team are digital problem solvers – they provide strategic consultation and technical solutions to help people achieve business goals. This includes custom web development (responsive web and mobile), content management, interactive marketing experiences, UX optimization, marketing automation, digital publishing, architectural consulting, and thinking up creative ways to engage customers with memorable online experiences. Before founding SF AppWorks with his long-time technology partner Darius Zagrean, Andrew worked in business development at Metacafe. Before that, he was the founder and CEO of the TechCrunch 50 finalist Bojam, an online music collaboration platform. In his spare time, he plays the drums in a pop cover band, competes in a local basketball league, and generally enjoys meeting people and learning new things. He holds a law degree from UCLA and a BA in Journalism from UC Irvine. You can follow him on the Twitter handle @abgr26.
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About Handlebar.ai, SF AppWorks, Sportme: SF AppWorks is an app design and development shop located in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Alex Porter
CEO of Location3 Media
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About LOCALACT, Location3 Media: Location3 is the digital marketing agency that delivers enterprise-level strategy with local market activation for global brands.
Eric Peerless
President & CEO of Mad Development
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About Mad Development, Since1910.com: Strategy, UX, UI, Design & Technology Solutions
George DeMet
Founder and CEO of Palantir.net
George DeMet is the founder and co-owner of Palantir. For nearly two decades he’s helped high-profile corporate, educational, cultural, and non-profit clients develop effective online strategies. George is an active open source advocate, serving on the Advisory Board of the Drupal Association, as well as several of the organization’s committees. He’s helped organize many open source community events, including DrupalCon Chicago in 2011, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and other industry events. Outside of his professional activities, George enjoys consuming and commenting on all kinds of culture, including books, movies, music, and video games. He’s a particular fan of science fiction, and has a different robot shirt for every day of the week.
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About Palantir.net: Palantir® is a digital consultancy that works to strengthen humanity by helping others discover, create, and share knowledge.
Patrick McKenna
Chief Executive Officer of DMi Partners
Patrick’s primary goal as DMi Partners’ CEO is to maximize growth: in profitability for clients, in performance for employees and contractors, and in DMi Partners’ top and bottom-line. After graduating cum laude from Harvard University, Patrick worked for Joseph P. Kennedy II’s Citizens Energy Corporation where he participated in the start-up of two healthcare ventures. Shortly after returning to Philadelphia, Patrick founded DMi Partners with Adam Weil and his college roommate, James Delaney. Patrick weaves the Ignatius principle of community service into both his daily life and DMi Partners’ culture. He is a member of the Board of Trustees at YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School and PHMC subsidiary, The Bridge. He is also a lifelong volunteer at the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp and annually organizes DMi Partners’ participation in the Martin Luther King Day of Service. Patrick lives in Center City, Philadelphia, with his wife, Michele, and their five children.
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About DMi Partners: DMi Partners is a performance marketing agency specializing in e-commerce site design and development, search engine & email marketing.
Alana Range
CEO & Creative Director of Radish Lab
Alana is the founder, CEO, and Creative Director at Radish Lab, an interactive agency focused exclusively on social impact projects. An award-winning journalist turned digital media producer, storyteller, and project manager of all things pixelated, Alana’s been in the industry for over 12 years. She’s worked across three continents but is a Brooklyn girl at heart, not to mention a born-and-raised Canadian, which makes her really nice. Her work has been recognized internationally in publications like Fast Company, the Guardian, CBC, NPR, Discover Magazine, and Mashable. Radish Lab was founded in 2012 from a shared desire to work with excellent people on meaningful projects. They’ve built world-class interactive experiences for the American Museum of Natural History and designed international ad campaigns for the UN Foundation.
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About Radish Lab: Radish Lab is a full-service interactive creative agency focused on people and projects changing the world.
Todd Brook
Founder & CEO of envisionit
Todd Brook i s Founder & CEO at Envisionit Media.
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About Engagement Multiplier, envisionit: Envisionit is a digital marketing agency that provides data, analytics, tracking, optimization, and targeting solutions to its clients.
David Head
Co-Founder, CEO of Sixty
I’ve been a part of the freelance economy since 2010: first as a business owner building an ecommerce company, then as a freelancer, then as a creative agency owner, then as a freelance marketplace operator. Through my journey I’ve been fortunate enough to see what life here is like from all angles. I saw both first hand and through the lenses of other clients and freelancers, the frustrations and inefficiencies of the freelance economy, as well as the dreams and potential of it. At the heart, freelancers want career sustainability and fulfillment, while clients want project efficiency and security. Both are trying to forge the career of their dreams. The impediment is a lack of technology. Our world isn’t built yet for the freelance economy, where everything revolves around the project. It’s built for the employment economy where everything revolves around your role at a company. I founded Sixty to build the this technology layer.
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About Sixty: Infrastructure for the freelance economy.
Eric Schaffer
CEO of Human Factors International
Eric is the world’s thought leader on mature and industrial strength user experience (UX) operations—with methodology, tools, standards, training, certification, and cost-effective staffing. His book Institutionalization of UX: A Step-by-Step Guide to User Experience Practice (now in its second edition) provides a roadmap for companies to make usability a systematic, routine practice throughout their organizations. He co-developed The HFI Framework™, an ISO-certifiable process for user-centered design, built on principles from human-computer interaction, ergonomics, psychology, computer science, and marketing. His experience includes UX design, consulting, and training projects for over 100 Fortune 500 clients, and leading projects in omni-channel UX strategy, innovation, design, and persuasion engineering. Eric is actively engaged with HFI staff and clients around the world and is working to disseminate UX design methods globally. Eric has a longstanding interest in persuasion design. He pioneered the development of methods to optimize Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust (PET Design), and has applied these methods to increase conversion for organizations such as the California State Government, Fidelity, Macy’s, MetLife, REI, Taj Hotels, and Vodafone. He has led development of the HFI courses on persuasion engineering and has taught them worldwide. Eric is a Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE). He earned his MS and PhD in Applied Psychology, specializing in Human Performance, from Stevens Institute of Technology. His BA is in Psychology from Clark University. Earlier affiliations include CL Mauro Associates, AT&T Long Lines, and Bell Labs. In 1981 Eric founded Human Performance Associates, the precursor to Human Factors International, Inc., which was incorporated in 1988.
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About Human Factors International, Human Factors International, Human Factors International: HFI is the world leader in user-centered design and the creator of the popular animated UX videos and the highly sort after usability trade
Brandon Baker
Founder & CEO of HubTheme
Brandon Baker is the Founder and CEO of HubTheme and Hubly.io.
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About HubTheme, Truu Digital: HubSpot Custom Themes, Modules & Services
Ohad Eder-Pressman
Co-Founder, CEO of Stackbit
For a more up-to-date profile: www.ohadpr.com
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About AppSharp, Stackbit: Stackbit is a website designing and development company.
Christine Alemany
Founder, Chief Executive Officer of Trailblaze Growth Advisors
Leading expert in demand generation, product marketing and sales enablement. Christine has over 20 years of experience in reinvigorating brands, building demand generation programs and launching products for various startups and Fortune 500 companies including Dell, Cole Hahn, Citigroup, Topps and Nextel. Achieves stretch goals by evangelizing initiatives and metrics-driven marketing. Education includes MBA from Columbia Business School.
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About Trailblaze Growth Advisors, Tribeca Cloud: Our mission is to help mature startups and mid-size organizations create a roadmap to kick their revenue generation engine into high gear.
Mazy Holiday
Founder and CEO of WhatBox
Mazy Holiday is an American tech entrepreneur who founded WhatBox and iStand Today. Prior to that, Mazy served as the president of Mazy Holiday, LLC. She holds a master’s degree in installation sculpture. Mazy has been recognized with various awards including an American Small Business Champions award in the SCORE and Sam’s Club 2017 American Small Business Championship, as well as being named 2016 CEO of the Year – Rising Stars by the Birmingham Business Journal.
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About WhatBox: WhatBox is a new product design company.
