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 COO’ operating in the E-Commerce space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Jared Yaman
Co-Founder, COO of Boxed
Prior to Blackgate Ventures, Jared was a corporate attorney at Proskauer before becoming a Co-Founder at Astro Ape Studios. Most recently, he was made upper level management at Zynga Mobile NY where he oversaw high profile mobile properties. Jared holds a J.D. from Fordham University and a Bachelor’s in Economics and Business from Michigan State University. Unbeknownst to most, Jared is actually Troy Aikman’s younger, stronger, better looking brother.
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About Blackgate Ventures, Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
Mike Kuchera
Co-Founder & COO of StarStock
Mike Kuchera is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of StarStock.
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About Flick, StarStock: StarStock is a marketplace for sports fans and card hobbyists to buy, sell, and invest in their favorite athletes.
Minesh Shah
COO of Stitch Fix
Minesh Shah serves as the COO of Stitch Fix.
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About Stitch Fix: Stitch Fix is a personal styling platform that delivers curated and personalized apparel and accessory items for women.
Elizabeth Ostrander
Chief Operating Officer of CoVenture Holding Company
Elizabeth Ostrander is the Chief Operating Officer at CoVenture.
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About CoVenture Holding Company: CoVenture provides equity and/or debt financing to tech-enabled companies in areas such as financial services, media, and platform economies
Candace Denton
COO of Plug and Play Brand & Retail
Candace connects larger corporations with strategic investment, business development, licensing, and acquisition opportunities within Plug and Play’s startup community by way of individual introductions (deal review sessions) and events. Candace also develops acceleration programs that provide funding, corporate, and advisory resources to startups of strategic interest to a corporation.
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About ICONIQ Capital, Plug and Play Brand & Retail: Solving the biggest problems top brands, retailers, and industry players face today.
Don Nelson
EVP, Chief Operating Officer of Cimpress
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About Cimpress: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Stephan Jacob
Founder & COO of Cotopaxi
Stephan Jacob has been serving as Chief Operating Officer at Cotopaxi since November 2013.
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About Cotopaxi: Cotopaxi is an outdoor brand with a humanitarian mission at its core.
Allison Barr Allen
Co-Founder & COO of Fast
Allison Barr Allen is the co-founder and COO of Fast, the world’s fastest online login and checkout platform. Previously, Allison was the head of global product operations for the Money Team at Uber, where she helped scale Uber from 2,000 employees to more than 26,000 worldwide. Allison’s team launched and scaled Uber’s payments, risk, and compliance products globally, including on-demand payments, cash products, debit cards and credit cards. Prior to Uber, Allison served as a healthcare strategy consultant at PwC. In addition to her role at Fast, Allison is a limited partner at Operator Collective, a venture capital firm that brings together leaders from diverse backgrounds to invest in the next generation of enterprise technology. Allison is also deeply committed to supporting entrepreneurs through Trail Run Capital, her angel investment fund. Allison graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders.
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About Fast: Fast provides an online login and checkout solutions designed to provide users with a secure shopping experience.
Jeffrey Kolovson
Co-Founder and COO of Faire
Jeffrey Kolovson is the co-founder and COO of Faire.
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About Faire: Faire is a company that helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores.
Kramer LaPlante
Co Founder & COO & Co Owner of MVMT
Kramer LaPlante is Co Founder | COO at MVMT Watches.
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About MVMT: MVMT (pronounced movement) is a watchmaker company, founded on the belief that style shouldn’t break the bank.
Kramer LaPlante
Co Founder & COO & Co Owner of MVMT
Kramer LaPlante is Co Founder | COO at MVMT Watches.
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About MVMT: MVMT (pronounced movement) is a watchmaker company, founded on the belief that style shouldn’t break the bank.
Mohit Saxena
Founder & COO of Rizort
Mohit Saxena is the Founder of Rizort, Rizort is a first of its kind luxury vacation marketplace that enable users to plan and book a memorable vacation, designed and curated around specific intent and experience to create perfect memories. Prior to Rizort Mohit, was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer at InMobi. He oversaw all things tech, including infrastructure, application management, and IT during its growth and scale phase. Before InMobi, Mohit managed technology operations at Virgin Mobile, designing and deploying their post-paid billing system and their pre-paid revenue recognition system. Mohit earlier worked at AT&T and has contributed to many patents filed in the telecommunications area. Fascinated by small ideas that turned into global powerhouses, and innovation, simplicity, and the potential of technology have always been his passions. InMobi is a both a passion and a dream come true for him. Mohit has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Mohit’s passion for technology doesn’t stop at work and is always on the look-out for ways that he can use it to make his life easier.
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About InMobi, Rizort: Rizort is a luxury vacation marketplace that brings immersive vacation planning and booking services for travelers.
Jonathan Um
Co-Founder, COO of Hollar
Co-Founder & COO at Hollar.
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About Hollar: Hollar is an online dollar store that features toys, apparel, electronics, beauty, accessories, party supplies, to home essentials.
Blake Orlandi
COO of Book of the Month
In late 2015, we relaunched Book of the Month, as a monthly subscription e-commerce service that provides avid readers a with fun, convenient, and affordable way to discover and buy new books each month. Today, the business has over 250k subscribers, over 50 employees, 3-years of revenue growth above 50%, and strong profitability.
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About Book of the Month: Relaunched in 2015, Book of the Month is a curated eCommerce service for fiction readers with a primary audience of millennial women.
Luisana Mendoza de Roccia
COO, Co-Founder & President of Maisonette
Luisana Mendoza de Roccia is the co-founder and COO at Maisonette.
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About Maisonette: Maisonette is a children’s clothing and lifestyle e-commerce site.
Taylor Wang
Founder & COO of Mayvenn
Taylor Wang is Founder at Mayvenn.
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About Groop Swoop, Mayvenn: Mayvenn enables Stylists to sell products directly to their clients without the upfront costs and burdens of holding inventory.
Christopher Elliott
Co-Founder & COO of Cheetah
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About Cheetah, Cheetah Technologies: Cheetah is an e-commerce platform offering contactless pickup and delivery of food and supplies.
Lori Flees
SVP and Chief Operating Officer, Walmart Health & Wellness of Walmart
Lori Flees is Senior Vice President, Next Gen Retail and Principal, Store No 8. In this role, Lori leads the incubation of new businesses (via Store No 8) and builds strategic partnerships that will help Walmart define, enable and win the next generation of retail. Lori is also responsible for our growth strategies and partnerships in digital media/entertainment (including day-to-day leadership of our VUDU platform) and in Health and Wellness in close collaboration with the Walmart US Stores leadership. Lori joined Walmart in 2014 as SVP, Corporate Strategy and had responsibility for Corporate Strategy, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis, Mergers & Acquisitions and Integration (Acceleration). In this role, Lori worked with Walmart’s senior leadership to define the company’s priorities and align the organization to execute. This included an aggressive corporate development agenda which comprised the acquisition and integration of Jet.com, several additional eCom acquisitions, some International portfolio divestitures as well as key strategic or joint-venture partnership agreements in healthcare and supply chain. Prior to joining Walmart, Lori spent over 17 years at Bain & Company where she was a partner in the global strategy consulting firm. While at Bain, Lori worked with clients to develop growth strategies (organic and acquisitive) and to drive performance, improvement & organizational alignment. Prior to Bain, Lori held roles at Intel Corporation and General Motors. Lori has a bachelor’s degree in management systems from Kettering University (formerly General Motors Institute) and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.
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About Walmart: Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Amit Mathradas
President and COO of Avalara
Amit Mathradas manages growth operations at Avalara, overseeing sales, marketing, business development, customer experience, and professional services. Throughout his career, Amit has focused on serving the small business category with tools and services to help that segment grow and thrive in the global economy. Prior to Avalara, Amit was general manager and head of the small and medium business segment for North America at PayPal. He also served in senior leadership roles at Web.com and Dell, focusing on serving the needs of small businesses by developing partnerships and go-to-market strategies
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About Avalara, PayPal: Avalara develops a platform that automates the major steps of tax compliance, all in the cloud.
Jaden Levitt
Co-founder and COO of Pietra
Jaden Levitt is a co-founder and the COO of Pietra.
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About Pietra: Pietra is a business-in-a-box platform that provides Creators all the tools they need to build a business.
Mukund Ramachandran
COO of Dynamic Yield
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About Dynamic Yield: Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions.
Jonathan Magolnick
COO of Carewell
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About Carewell: Carewell is a family-run company that provides advocacy for caregivers and an e-commerce site for home health products.
Sree Menon
Chief Operating Officer of Tophatter
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About Chief, Neythri, Tophatter: Tophatter is revolutionizing the e-commerce landscape with a discovery shopping app that’s truly one-of-a-kind.
Mo Zhou
Co-Founder, President & COO of Choosy
Mo Zhou is a co-founder at Choosy.
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About Choosy: Choosy is an on-demand social shopping platform where users influence every collection to match their favorite style inspirations.
David Thomas
COO of Clique
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About Clique: Clique is a media and commerce company
Jessica Murphy
Co-Founder & COO of True Fit
Co-Founder | VP Operations at True Fit
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About True Fit: True Fit provides an intelligent data platform created for fashion retailers to find online stores.
John Mulligan
EVP, COO of Target
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About Target: Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
Motti Danino
Chief Operating Officer of OroCommerce
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About OroCommerce: OroCommerce is the company behind OroCRM, OroCommerce and the OroPlatform.
Jennifer Scott
COO, Finance of eBay
Jennifer is an international Executive with over 20 years experience in profitably growing businesses.From brand giant, Diageo, to digital leaders Expedia, eBay & Virgin Media, and hands-on experience raising cash for start ups and advising small businesses.
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About eBay: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Tomo Matsuo
Co-Founder, COO & President of Yardline
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About Yardline: Yardline is an offering Capital-as-a-Service technology for e-commerce platforms, marketplaces, and direct capital providers.
Fred Licon
Chief Operating Officer of ePlata
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About ePlata, Plata Pay: ePlata is a mobile platform that enables its users to conduct online and peer-to-peer transactions.
Jason Buechel
Chief Operating Officer of Whole Foods Market
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About Whole Foods Market: Whole Foods Market is a supermarket chain owned by Amazon that exclusively sells natural and organic products.
Nandan Sheth
President & Chief Operating Officer of Acculynk
Nandan Sheth serves as President and COO of Acculynk. Mr. Sheth’s responsibilities cover corporate development, business development, alliances, product strategy and operations. Before joining Acculynk, Mr. Sheth co-founded Harbor Payments where he served as the Chief Operating Officer. Harbor Payments was sold to American Express in December 2006 where Mr. Sheth served as a Vice President & General Manager within the Global Commercial Card group. Prior to Harbor Payments, Mr. Sheth started a payment technology company which served the credit and receivables industry. Mr. Sheth has also worked at major banks, professional service firms and Fortune 1000 corporations across North America and Europe. Mr. Sheth has held senior positions at Goldman Sachs, Deloitte & Touche, AT&T, IBM and has worked with clients such as JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, HSBC, LloydsTSB and National Westminster Bank. Mr. Sheth holds a Bachelor of Science Degree with Honors in Computing Science from City University (London, UK) as well as an MBA from Cass Business School (London, UK).
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About Acculynk, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), First Data, Splitit: Acculynk provides software-only services that secure online payment transactions for issuers, merchants and payment processors.
Michael Ferchak
Co-Founder & COO of Public Goods
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About Public Goods: Making healthy products affordable
Matthew Chaiken
Co-founder & COO of Blink Health
Matthew is the co-founder and COO of Blink Health. He has been responsible for overseeing the creation of the first e-commerce experience in pharmacy and currently oversees product, engineering, marketing, customer experience and analytics across the company. Prior to co-founding Blink, Matthew served as an investment professional at Marble Arch Investments – a New York-based investment firm – where he was responsible for many of the firm’s technology and consumer product investments. Prior to his time at Marble Arch, Matthew was an investment professional at Merchants’ Gate Capital, specializing in the retail, industrials and business services industries. Before joining Merchants’ Gate, Matthew served as an investment banker for Citigroup after graduating from Yale with a BA in Biology.
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About Blink Health: Blink Health is a web-based application that enables users to search for medical prescriptions online and pick them up from any pharmacy.
Ian Arthurs
COO of TaskRabbit
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About TaskRabbit: TaskRabbit is a platform that matches up users with help on furniture assembly, moving, and other handyman services.
Kim Dixon
Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of FedEx
As executive vice president and chief operating officer of FedEx Office and Print Services, Inc., an operating company of FedEx Corp., Kim Dixon leads a domestic network encompassing 2,000 retail stores, 600 same-day couriers and 18 commercial print production facilities serving nearly 200,000 customers a day. She’s spent her 25-year career creating personalized retail experiences building customer loyalty. At FedEx Office, Kim directs retail strategy, merchandising, operations planning, transportation operations, real estate, field operations and product management. Kim’s leadership is evident from a consumer, small business and large enterprise perspective, as FedEx Office drives innovation; helping start-ups grow into thriving businesses. With expert print capabilities and customized packing and shipping, FedEx Office also enables large companies to move quickly and manage their image consistently across geographically dispersed locations. Under Kim’s leadership, FedEx Office has seen growth of FedEx OnCampus, opening locations across the country, each tailored to the printing, packing and shipping needs of hotels; convention centers; universities and corporate campuses. The eCommerce boost creates a growing demand for parcel handling services and FedEx Office is well-positioned to provide this convenience value to customers. Before joining FedEx in 2010, Kim spent 14 years at Sprint Nextel, where she rose through the ranks in retail operations, sales and marketing. As a senior vice president of consumer sales and distribution, Kim was responsible for the development and execution of the company’s consumer channel strategy and operations. Kim currently serves on the board of directors for James Avery Jewelry and Telephone and Data Services, Inc. (TDS). She also served on several non-profit boards in her community. Additionally, Texas Diversity Magazine named Kim to their 2018 Dallas Power 50 Award. In 2013, the Dallas Business Journal recognized Kim as one of the top women in business in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where she lives with her husband and two children.
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About FedEx: FedEx provides customers and businesses worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce, and business services.
Sam Avshalom
COO of Variety Fun
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About Variety Fun: Variety Fun is an online a monthly subscription-based snack foods delivery service for business and home.
Wiley Zhang
COO of Acquco
Wiley Zhang is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Acquco. He is also the Co-Founder of RefundLabs.
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About Acquco: Acquco is an e-commerce platform that focuses on acquiring and growing Amazon Marketplace businesses.
Sameer Gulati
President & Chief Operating Officer; Advisor (Current) of Plastiq
As Chief Operations Officer, Sameer has responsibility for Lending Club’s operations and corporate strategy, including managing customer support and our customer-facing operations. Before joining Lending Club,Sameer was a partner and leader of the Digital Banking & Consumer Credit practice at McKinsey & Company in London, UK. During his 11 years with McKinsey, he advised global and emerging financial services institutions on key initiatives in retail banking, consumer credit, digital payments, and risk management. He is a well-respected thought leader, regularly speaking at banking and fintech conferences and authoring documents on financial services and credit card issues, trends, and seminal financial service sector topics. Prior experience includes several years in technology roles at Cambridge Technology Partners and Integral, where he implemented solutions for financial services players. Sameer holds an MBA in strategy and entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BTech in chemical engineering and computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi.
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About Plastiq: Plastiq offers a bill pay service for businesses to better manage their cash flow.
Will Freund
COO of Harry’s
Will Freund is the chief operating officer of [Harry’s Grooming](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/harrys#/entity), a platform that allows its users to buy razors, German engineered blades, and shaving creams. Previously, he was the senior vice president of operations at [Harry’s Grooming](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/harrys#/entity). Prior to Harry’s Grooming, Freund was the director of operations at Gilt Groupe. He holds a bachelor’s degree from The Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from New York University.
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About Harry’s: Harry is a developer of an online platform used to sell shaving equipment and accessories for men.
Joanne Hsieh
Chief Operating Officer of Walker & Company Brands
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About Walker & Company Brands: We make health and beauty simple for people of color.
Michael C. Johnson
President & Chief Operating Officer of Locus Robotics
Mike is a 20-plus-year serial entrepreneur, having formed and grown three previous startups implementing warehouse technologies for Fortune 500 companies.
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About Locus Robotics: Locus Robotics is a warehouse robotics company that manufactures autonomous mobile robots to support e-commerce.
Jamie Marshall
Founder & COO of Snackpass
Jamie Marshall is the COO and founder at Snackpass.
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About Snackpass: Snackpass is a social commerce platform that focuses on mobile order pickup at local restaurants.
Lisa Popovici
Co-founder & COO of Cartloop
Lisa Popovici currently works as the Co-founder and COO forCartloop. He previously worked at Ecommerce Brands as the Founder and CEO.
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About Cartloop: Cartloop is a conversational SMS marketing and text marketing platform for e-commerce.
Adam Berkowitz
Co-Founder/Chief Operating Officer of Pharmapacks
Adam Berkowitz is a Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Pharmapacks.
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About Pharmapacks: Pharmapacks is an e-commerce company that offers products for daily health and wellness needs.
Jimmy Rodriguez
COO of 3dcart
Jimmy Rodriguez is the CTO and co-founder of 3dcart. Joining the company in 2004, Jimmy began managing business development and technical planning; presently he oversees daily operations and the overall strategic vision of the company using feedback from customers and merchants to improve the 3dcart platform. With a background of web programming and e-commerce development, Jimmy specializes in merging and optimizing social media, search engine optimization, marketing, business management, productivity, and user friendly interfaces for the e-commerce industry. Jimmy attended UNY in Venezuela where he studied Industrial Engineering and Operations obtaining a Bachelor of Science.
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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.
Adam Regelmann
Co-Founder & COO of Quartzy
Adam Regelmann (MD / PhD) is the Co – Founder of Quartzy. Adam has conducted research in Chemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Immunology Labs. He holds an MD and PhD from Columbia University. His PhD thesis provided the primary data for a $2 million NIH award. He is also a Board Certified in Internal Medicine, completing residency at Washington University in St. Louis. Adam currently functions as the scientific voice of Quartzy. He is passionate about Quartzy’s mission to enable discovery by providing tools to solve the many problems that plague research. He personally invites you to contact him regarding your thoughts about Quartzy or about science in general. Email : adam@quartzy.com .
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About Quartzy: The world’s leading solution for consolidating lab communication, inventory management, and lab supply purchasing.
Erin Robbins O’Brien
COO of GinzaMetrics
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About GinzaMetrics: GinzaMetrics offers an SEO and content marketing platform that provides recommendations and competitor analytics to agencies and marketers.
Yarkin Ilicali
Chief Operating Officer of Kaiyo
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About Kaiyo: Kaiyo is an online marketplace for pre-owned furniture dedicated to great design, exceptional customer care, and a more sustainable planet.
Elliott Darvish
Co-Founder, COO & CFO of Switch
Co-Founder and Co-Ceo of Switch
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About Switch: Unlimited access to luxury, designer jewelry.
Andreas Bergmann
COO and Co-Founder of Ella Paradis Inc.
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About Ella Paradis Inc.: Ella Paradis is an eCommerce startup company positioning itself to become the market leader in the sexual wellness market.
Ben Conway
COO/Co-Founder of VNTANA
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About VNTANA: Democratizing 3D for the world through the only automated 3D Collaboration Platform.
Erich Litch
President & Chief Operating Officer of 2Checkout
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About 2Checkout: 2Checkout is the leading all-in-one monetization platform for global businesses.
Sina Mobasser
Founder & COO of Tapcart
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About Tapcart: Tapcart is a SaaS platform that enables e-commerce merchants to launch and manage mobile apps for their brands.
Ali Kriegsman
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Bulletin
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About Bulletin: Bulletin operates as a wholesale marketplace and community that connects premium brands and retailers.
Colin Turner
Co-Founder and COO of Postscript
Colin Turner is the co-founder and COO at Postscript. He was a systems architect at Integrate. He studied Bachelor of Science in business administration 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.
Siavash Shiva
COO & General Counsel of ShareGrid
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About ShareGrid: The largest marketplace for creatives.
Toby Hemmerling
Chief Operating 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.
Rachel Jarrett
President & COO of Zola
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About Zola: Zola is a wedding company that reinvents the wedding planning and registry experience.
Tapasya Bali
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer (Board Director) of YOGASMOGA
Tapasya Bali is an Indian American entrepreneur. She is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of YOGASMOGA – a yoga inspired, wellness and technical apparel company. The highlights of the company included an authentic approach to wellness, proprietary development of technically advanced performance fabrics and a domestically scalable – Made in USA supply chain. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for the company. Tapasya is a seasoned executive with experience across a broad range of financial roles from managing trading strategies to company valuations and capital raising. She has a track record in building and operating businesses, leading strategic initiatives that grow revenue and leading operationally focussed teams. Tapasya is significantly influenced by her upbringing in the Himalayan region of India and the culture of yoga. In addition to being the Founder & COO of YOGASMOGA, Tapasya is a Co-Founder of the Namaskar Foundation –– a 501(c)(3) non-profit, that fosters corporate social responsibility. Tapasya holds an MBA from New York University and was previously a director at the Swiss Investment Bank – Credit Suisse. Tapasya is both a naturalized citizen of the United States of America and an Overseas Citizen of India.
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About Namaskar Foundation, YOGASMOGA: YOGASMOGA designs, manufactures and retails athletic apparel and accessories.
Howard Hochhauser
CFO & COO of Ancestry
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About Ancestry: Ancestry is a web-based platform that helps its users to create their own family tree and help them preserve and share their family history.
Kendra Kawala
Co-Founder & COO of Maker Wine
Kendra Kawala is the Co-Founder and COO of Maker Wine.
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About Maker Wine: Maker Wine connects wine lovers to premium canned wines from best-in-class independent producers.
Marisa Sharkey
Co-founder and President and Chief Operating Officer of Birdies
Marisa Sharkey is the President & Co-Founder of Birdies. Marisa is a corporate strategy leader with a 20 year track record of leadership across retail and merchandising organizations as the Group Vice President of Strategy at Ross Stores and as a Senior Manager at Bain & Company. Marisa received her MBA from The Wharton School and her BS from Cornell University. Marisa lives in Sacramento with her husband and two daughters.
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About Birdies: Direct-to-consumer brand that designs stylish flats that feel like slippers thanks to their exclusive cloud-like comfort technology.
Roger Pavane
Managing Director COO, Head Of Sales & Marketing of Fractionality.com
A strategic, highly driven executive with over 18 years of proven experience in facilitating and developing sales and marketing in SaaS platform technology and growing revenue by understanding client needs and identifying matching solutions. Experienced leader working with hypergrowth, dynamic digital media companies. Expertise in delivering leadership in multiple facets such as relationship management, P&L, technical, industry relationships, and negotiating contracts. A builder and leader of sales managers, account managers and partners who communicates priorities and relevant reports and KPIs to the executive team. Long-standing passion for executing sales and marketing, nurturing customer relationships, and managing P&L. Leads hundreds of simultaneous high-stakes projects by creating clear strategies for their successful conclusion. Capable of combing detailed and complex data finding strengths and weaknesses that favor or hurt, respectively, clients, ensuring all queries get answered, and ultimately providing the best possible opportunities for success. Thrives by making difficult but necessary decisions that promote the sale of technological solutions, consultative engagements, and top-quality technology software products, for increased revenue and overall profitability. Expertise in overseeing technology improvement initiatives and aligning information services with business goals in B2B, B2C, mobile, AI, SaaS PaaS software cloud-based technologies. A leader who can build, assess and develop top tier sales and marketing teams, has vision for the future, but can also execute a roadmap with clear measurable results. Accomplishments across the Tenure ~ Efficiently trained teams and nurtured organizations in software application monetization, Video & Media, Fintech, Subscription Services, Pay-Walls, Gaming, Blockchain, Affiliate, Search, Mobile, Display marketing, AdTech, Marketing-tech, mobile apps, Internet, social media, commerce, LBS location-based services, The Internet of Things (IoT), e-commerce, mobile marketing, consumer/enterprise platforms-services SaaS and other emerging enterprise trends and technologies. ~ Expertly converted business deals by utilizing strong negotiating skills that enhanced +$100MM in revenue, strategic partnerships, including development and execution of go-to-market strategies that revitalize new ventures. ~ Successfully coordinated with IT colleagues to define client needs and maintain business ownership of the “revenue technology stack” including marketing automation, salesforce automation/ CRM, digital channels (e.g. the web and social), business intelligence, and data management. ~ Proficiently increased revenue by 60% from $2M to $3.2M in 90 days for early stage OTT SaaS Company focused in social, mobile, local, and the Cloud that disrupts direct to consumer mobile video communication and messaging. ~ Planned, designed and executed sales and marketing speeding up strategies, adds positive revenue results from all targeted revenue streams combined from $70M to $192M in 24 months. SKILL AREAS: SaaS Subscription Management Paywall E-commerce Micro-Payments Digital Advertising & Marketing OTT Video & OTT Messaging CRM Online Conversion Identity Management Online Marketing Emerging Technology Video Platforms Social Media Telecom Online Advertising Mobile Advertising Publishers Ad Networks Video Platforms Brand Engagement Product Management Sales Channel Development Revenue Growth Strategic Planning Team Leadership/Training Relationship Building Revenue Forecasting Account Management Contract Negotiation Deal Structure, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Start-Ups
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About Fractionality.com, Fractionality.com: Business Development, Positioning, Venture Accelerator
Phil Kaulfield
Founder & COO of ShoppingGives
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About ShoppingGives: ShoppingGives encourages consumers to make an impact through its change commerce technology.
Sara Garson
Co-Founder, COO of Coterie
Sara Garson is the co-founder and COO of Coterie. She is also the Director of 25Madison.
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About 25Madison, Coterie: Coterie offers a curated selection of elevated party supplies, because gathering with friends should be effortless.
Dave Goldberg
COO and Founder of Short Story
Dave Goldberg is the COO and Founder of Short Story.
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About Short Story: Short Story is the first online retailer and top rated personal styling service focused exclusively on petite women’s sizing.
Casey Hester
Co-Founder and COO of otto by DEVCON
Casey comes to DEVCON with a publishing career spanning nearly two decades, managing operations and creating new digital products. Her current obsessions are kombucha, tom ka soup and turning her house into a botanist’s greenhouse.
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About otto by DEVCON: otto by DEVCON specializes in the fields of risk management and SaaS.
Meredith Han
COO of SoundCommerce
Meredith Han leads products and services at SoundCommerce. Meredith is a veteran technology product and direct-to-consumer commerce executive with tenure at Amazon.com where she launched the health & personal care business; Kosmix, acquired by Walmart to become Walmart Labs; and Brooks Running, a Berkshire Hathaway company where she led direct-to-consumer efforts as Head of Ecommerce for nine years. Meredith enjoys exploring the outdoors with her husband, and keeping her three kids and the trains running on time.
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About Flyhomes, SoundCommerce: SoundCommerce is a data platform that drives profitable growth, customer experience, and CLV for brands and retailers.
Bonnie Iavaroni
Chief Operating Officer of The Turning Point
In 1999, two years after receiving a culinary arts degree from the prestigious Culinary Institute of America, Bonnie Iavaroni began her career at Turning Point, as the Head Chef of the Little Silver location. She has been instrumental in the success and growth of the company; her corporate management team oversees the successful day to day restaurant operations. Bonnie Iavaroni also was the lead in the development of the Turning Point’s award-winning menu. Bonnie Iavaroni has over 22 years’ experience in the restaurant industry.
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About The Turning Point: Turning Point Restaurants provides breakfast brunch, lunch and fresh food items.
Adam Lynch
COO of Marinelayer
Adam Lynch is the COO at Marinelayer.
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About Marinelayer: Mike Natenshon started making custom shirts because we couldn’t find any that fit and felt like the old staples in his rotation.
Brian Kim
Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Liferay
Brian Kim, Chief Operating Officer and a founding partner, leads the company’s Professional Services Organization and orchestrates the ongoing operations of a fast-growing global organization. He is also managing the strategic growth of the company’s partnership network. Prior to Liferay, Brian worked alongside upper management at HubbardOne on internal company operations. He is also an alumnus of Accenture where he worked with marquée clients within the financial services sector. Brian holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago.
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About Liferay: Liferay makes software that helps companies create digital experiences on web, mobile and connected devices.
Jeff Hardy
Chief Operating Officer of Underground Cellar
Jeff Hardy is the Chief Operating Officer at Underground Cellar.
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About Bling Capital, i-5O, Lakehouse Ventures, Persona, Rhino, Underground Cellar: Underground Cellar is an online wine marketplace to discover, buy, and store premium wines.
Mark Geller
COO & Co-Founder of Happy Returns
Entrepreneur and executive with strong background in product/development, strategy, and marketing. Cofounder and COO of Happy Returns, an e-commerce service, technology, & logistics provider based in Los Angeles. Previously, led the mobile effort at NordstromRack.com | HauteLook, the online off-price division of Nordstrom, including creating and leading HauteLook’s Return to Rack program. Prior to HauteLook, worked in PM roles at Google, United Online, and several startups.
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About Happy Returns, Launchpad LA: Happy Returns provides comprehensive return solutions for leading online and omni-channel retailers and their customers.
Jonathan Hsu
Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operating Officer of AppNexus
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About AppNexus: AppNexus operates a cloud-based software platform that enables and optimizes programmatic online advertising.
Jessie Dixon
COO of Havenly
Jessie is returning to her Colorado roots, having spent time in California leading merchandising & strategy at Walmart.com, and in Chicago, getting her MBA from Kellogg. Jessie may be the resident e-commerce expert on the team, but she secretly wishes she could be a professional organizer. Besides making sure that Havenly stays on track, she spends her time teaching Lee how to sale shop, and playing with her two adorable (and redheaded!) kids.
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About Havenly: Havenly is a Denver-based online interior design company and e-commerce platform.
Alain Miguel
Chief Operating Officer of Modalyst
Alain Miguel created a polo collection while an undergrad at Yale. The polos sold well locally, but dissolved due to a newfound love for financial services at JP Morgan. However, the dark side of Wall Street didn’t suit him well. After four years in finance, he ditched the industry in pursuit of an MBA at MIT Sloan. As every successful startup needs a drop-out, Alain has since left MIT to follow his entrepreneurial dreams at Modalyst.
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About Modalyst: Modalyst is a dropshipping platform for e-commerce businesses.
Autumn Manning
President & COO of Cratejoy
Autumn Manning is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of YouEarnedIt.
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About Cratejoy, Kazoo, Motley Fool Ventures: Cratejoy is an online platform that enables users to build their own subscription business.
Michael Rahimzadeh
Co-Founder/ COO of Lensabl
Michael Rahimzadeh is co-founder at Lensabl.
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About Lensabl: Lensabl offers an online prescription lens replacement service.
Emerson Yenokida
CFO & COO of NTWRK
Emerson Yenokida is the CFO and COO at NTWRK.
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About NTWRK: NTWRK is the definitive live streaming video commerce platform developed specifically for Gen-Z and Millennials.
Sergey Gusev
Co-Founder and COO of Scentbird
Sergey Gusev is Founder of Scentbird Inc. Sergey Gusev has a deep expertise in leading product development in the consumer startup space. Prior to joining Scentbird, he was Head of product development for Social Mart (a large CPC Ad Network). A seasoned entrepreneur, he sold his first company at age 22. He is an expert in growth hacking and gamification, as well as Product Development, UI and UX design and project management. He is an avid cook and loves to explore raw and vegan food. He calls New York City home. He holds a Specialist Degree in Economics/ International Business from Perm State University in Russia.
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About Scentbird: Scentbird enables its users to choose and get supply of sample designer fragrances on a monthly basis before buying them.
Eugenio Labadie
Co-founder and COO of Ten Thousand
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About Ten Thousand: Ten Thousand provides innovative training essentials built on simplicity and focus.
Katie Engel
COO of Tundra
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About Tundra: Tundra is the modern wholesale marketplace with the largest selection of wholesale products in the US
Karen To
Chief Operating Officer of Wanelo
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About Wanelo: Wanelo (from Want, Need, Love) is an online community and social platform for shopping.
Trey Sisson
Co-Founder and COO of BABOON TO THE MOON
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About BABOON TO THE MOON: BABOON is a manufacturing that provides highest-grade materials for adventure essentials.
Ben MacAskill
COO of SmugMug
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About SmugMug: SmugMug is a photo sharing website that allows its users to store, share and sell their photos online. They also own & operate Flickr.
Charles Liu
Chief Operating Officer of Away
Charles Liu is the COO at Away.
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About Away: Away is a modern travel and lifestyle brand designed with thoughtful features that solve real travel problems
Eric Jaffe
Co-Founder and COO of ChowNow
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About ChowNow: ChowNow helps branded online ordering systems for independent restaurants through the restaurants’ own websites.
Tom Scotty
COO of RedShelf
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About RedShelf: RedShelf is a distributor of digital learning materials for the higher education community.
Gart Davis
Co-Founder/COO of Spoonflower
Gart Davis is the co-founder of [Spoonflower](http://www.spoonflower.com), a web site that allows crafters to print custom fabric and sell their designs. From its launch in 2002 until January 2008, Davis was president and chief operating officer of Lulu.com, a self-publishing site founded by Bob Young. Prior to Lulu he served as VP of Operations at Prosoft, a training company, and as CEO of the Chapel Hill Group, an Internet education and strategy group. He has a BA from Cornell University.
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About Spoonflower: Spoonflower is an online community built around fabric and textile design offering custom fabric, wallpaper, gift wrap and decal printing.
Daniel Parks
Co-Founder / COO of inVia Robotics
Dan has a rich background in software development and robotics innovation. Prior to joining inVia, Dan was the head of software and customer support at CAMotion, an innovative motion control and industrial automation company focused on high speed robotic solutions for material handling.
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About inVia Robotics: InVia Robotics provides next-generation robotics warehouse automation solutions for e-commerce distribution centers and supply chains.
Sam Howarth
Co-Founder and COO of BUMP
Sam Howarth is the co-founder and COO at BUMP.
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About BUMP: BUMP is a social peer-to-peer marketplace for authentic streetwear and sneakers.
Erin Brockman
Chief Operating Officer of Ordergroove
As the COO of Ordergroove, Erin is focused on accelerating revenue growth, building and scaling a world-class team and culture, and ensuring strong value delivery for clients. She is directly responsible for Ordergroove’s Client Services teams, including Client Development and Client Solutions, Subscription Marketing, Human Resources as well as companywide Operations. Prior to Ordergroove, Erin served in leadership roles at Yodle for 6 years, first as SVP of Client Services and then as Chief Human Resources Officer, where she helped scale Yodle’s marketing automation SaaS business from start-up to $160M+ in revenue, 50,000 customers and over 1,200 employees. Previously, Erin was Vice President of Operations and Customer Service at Yahoo! HotJobs for 8 years where she successfully led the transition from high-growth start-up to an industry-leading media and recruitment solutions business. Before Yahoo!, Erin held management positions at a number of high tech start-up organizations and spent several years in Change Management consulting at Accenture. Erin is a graduate of Cornell University with a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations. She lives in Tribeca with her husband, John, and baby Grayson where they enjoy trying out all the great restaurants in their neighborhood.
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About Ordergroove: Ordergroove transforms brands & retailers from episodic transactions to recurring revenue via frictionless, recurring customer experiences.
Blake Pridham
Co-Founder & COO of Adventure Bucket List
Blake Pridham is the Product Manager at Yervana.
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About Adventure Bucket List, Dish Cooking Studio, Yervana Services Inc: Adventure Bucket List is a SaaS and e-commerce empowering adventure venders.
Shibo Xu
Co-Founder / COO of Refersion
Shibo X. is the Co-Founder at Refersion.
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About Confesh, Refersion, The Confessionals: Track your affiliates, partners, salespeople, and customer referrals. We proudly support Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, and PayPal.
Jessica Crothers
Co-Founder and COO of Good Buy Gear
COO and Co-Founder at Good Buy Gear.
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About Good Buy Gear: GoodBuy Gear is a managed marketplace that enables parents to safely and sustainably circulate quality-used baby & kid products they love
Amitaabh Malhotra
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Omnyway
Amitaabh Malhotra is an entrepreneurial executive who has been leading innovative FinTech, Mobile and Payments companies globally for over 20 years. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder at Omnyway Inc, a contextual digital platform for retailers that focuses on providing online to offline experiences as well as acceptance of alternate payment types to Retailers in the US. Omnyway pioneered the concept of no integration QR based payment acceptance at physical retail in the US and is currently the driving force behind successful programs such as Kohl’s Pay and WeChat Pay acceptance in the US. He is leading the move into Livestream Commerce as the Third Rail of Retail with the new Omnyway offering VISX. Prior to Omnyway, Amitaabh was the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of DeviceFidelity, Inc., a pioneer in mobile payments and NFC enablement, where he was responsible for creating the first plug and pay NFC devices in the world – establishing the groundwork for architectures now being deployed in iOS, Android and MPOS devices. He also launched the award winning “moneto”, that pioneered a single app backed by a cloud based platform that combined mobile banking, mobile payments, peer-to-peer transfers, card-linked offers, international remittance, and pluggable NFC. DeviceFidelity was acquired by Square in 2015, and Cachet Financial acquired moneto in 2014. Amitaabh started his career at Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies) where he headed up New Product Introductions for mobile networks. He was a pioneer in the emerging CDMA technology that now forms the basis of high speed wireless communications worldwide. Amitaabh also held executive roles at Superconductor Technologies, where he was responsible for commercializing the adoption of High Temperature Superconductors worldwide. He then moved his focus to emerging smart devices and the optimization of app performance over high latency wireless links as an executive at Venturi Wireless. Amitaabh focuses on the cross section of design and function, and strongly believes that experiential commerce will be the key to the evolution and adoption of hyper utility apps Commerce.
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About Centaur Partners, Omnyway: Livestream commerce with integrated global payments
Tim Tierney
Co-Founder & COO of Stock Mfg. Co.
Tim Tierney is Founder @ Stock Manufacturing Company.
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About Stock Mfg. Co.: Stock Mfg. Co. is an American-made clothing brand that designs and manufactures premium men’s clothing in their Chicago factory.
Julie Rogers
Co-Founder & COO of Ten Little
Julie Rogers currently works as the Co-Founder and COO for Ten Little. She previously worked at Jet as the Associate Director.
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About Ten Little: Ten Little is a modern marketplace that guides parents to the right products and resources for their kids at every stage.
Raj Armani
Co-Founder & COO of Besharam
Raj Armani is the Co-Founder & COO at Besharam
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About Besharam: India’s #1 Adult Lifestyle Web Store.