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 Internet 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.
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Erica Brescia
Chief Operating Officer of GitHub
Erica Brescia is the co-founder and COO of Bitnami. With over 1 million deployments per month, Bitnami provides the largest source of applications and development environments to the world’s leading cloud service providers, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Platform, and Oracle Cloud Platform. Bitnami-packaged apps are consistent, secure, up-to-date, and can be deployed with a single click, either locally, in a virtual machine, in the cloud, or in a Docker container. Erica is a recipient of the Top 10 Women in Cloud award and serves on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.
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About GitHub, XFactor Ventures: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
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Adam Leibsohn
COO & Advisor of Giphy
Adam is the COO of Giphy. He is a product, marketing and communications strategy specialist with degrees in French, English and Philosophy. His strategies and work have been featured in Fast Company, Wired Magazine, The Harvard Business Review, CNBC and The New York Times; and, he has been listed as one of Details Magazine’s Digital Mavericks.
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About Giphy: Giphy is an online database and search engine that allows users to search, share, and discover GIFs.
Peter Lu
Chief Operating Officer & Co-founder of Jumpcut
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About Jumpcut: Jumpcut creates captivating online courses.
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Ivo Rook
COO & President, North America of 1NCE
Ivo Rook is a recognized IoT pioneer with a long experience in the cellular telecommunications market. He was previously CEO IoT at Vodafone and Senior Vice President at T-Mobile US/Sprint and working as liaison officer to SoftBank Group. As a proven expert on the IoT market, he is an independent advisor to I Squared Capital, a U.S. private equity firm, and board member of Global Telecom, California-based manufacturer of IoT modules and devices. He is also member of the advisory board of Digitize Things Inc, an IoT software development company also based in California, USA. Rook studied Master of Science in Information Technology at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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About 1NCE: 1NCE offers managed connectivity services for IoT solutions at a global flat rate.
Rob Fan
Founder & CTO/COO of Sharethrough USA
Rob leads all product and technology strategy for the company. He is a practitioner, student and teacher of the “lean startup” methodology. In his spare time, Rob, hacks and plays with new technology and advises early-stage startups about the successes and pitfalls he has learned thus far. Prior to Sharethrough, Rob worked as a technology consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton advising various three-letter government agencies. As an early adopter of the Facebook platform, Rob was one of the teaching assistants for the first-ever “Facebook Class” while at Stanford. Rob holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
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About Sharethrough USA: Sharethrough is one of the top global independent omnichannel ad exchanges
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Ellen Patterson
Chief Operating Officer of EVERFI
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About EVERFI: EVERFI is an education technology company that provides learners of all ages education for the real world.
Mike Don
COO of InMarket
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About InMarket: InMarket offers a self-service location-based platform that captures accurate consumer location data, which drives campaign performance.
Andrew Maguire
Chief Operating Officer of Elevate Labs
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About Elevate Labs, Oakhouse Partners: Elevate is a cognitive training tool designed to build communication and analytical skills.
Jake Edsell
Chief Operating Officer of ParkHub
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About ParkHub: ParkHub is a technology company that provides software and hardware for the destination industry.
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Vic Cekvenich
CTO – COO of Apakau
I am a seasoned tech executive and entrepreneur with a proven track record of success. I have over thirty years experience combining a strong technical background and business leadership. I believe that technology must be developed solely to achieve business objectives and to satisfy market demands. I believe innovation happens with small and elite teams of superstars rather than with armies of mediocre players. I also believe that creating an environment of high innovation requires a culture of high-output based on merit; a place where people are rewarded for taking good risks.
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About Apakau: Apakau’s Cloud Proxy is an intelligent, edge-based networking solution that stops (DDoS) attacks against dynamic data.
Roger Liu
Chief Operating Officer of Kneron
Roger obtained a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has 20+ years of semiconductor and AI industry experience. Roger was the former VP for R&D in Sentelic Corp, and also served as COO in Milkyway Silicon Technology.
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About Kneron: Kneron develops an application-specific integrated circuit and software that offers artificial intelligence-based tools.
Simar Mangat
COO of Stream Token
Simar Mangat is the Founder at Stealth Startup.
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About Banner, BitClout, Celo, Filecoin Foundation, kea, Next Alpha, Stealth Startup, Stream Token: Stream is a blockchain-based token that allows livestreamers to accept payments with low transaction fees and no platform lock-in.
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Michael Robson
Chief Operating Officer of Industrious
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About Industrious: Industrious is a premium flexible workspace provider that redefines the workplace experience.
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Todd Parnell
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the Richmond Flying Squirrels of MLB Advanced Media
“Parney” serves as the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the Richmond Flying Squirrels, the Double-A affiliate of Major League Baseball’s San Francisco Giants. In that role he oversees all aspects of the Flying Squirrels’ day-to-day operations in Richmond, including the recent $1.5 million renovation of The Diamond, the Squirrels’ stadium. During their inaugural season, the club quickly established itself as a leader in the community, while smashing corporate and ticket sales expectations as the Squirrels led the Eastern League in both overall and average attendance, welcoming 463,842 fans to The Diamond. Upon completion of the inaugural season, the franchise was recognized as the Richmond Business of the Year by the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce. “Parney” also serves on the Richmond Chapter of the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation Board of Trustees as well as the Richmond Police Athletic League Board of Directors. With his flamboyant personality and 22 years’ experience in minor league baseball, “Parney” has become one of the most popular speakers and guest lecturers in the region. Prior to joining the effort to return baseball to Richmond, Parnell served as the President of the Greenberg Sports Group (GSG), which provides management, consulting, and marketing services to the U.S. sports industry. GSG also manages the overall operations of Minor League Baseball’s Pennsylvania State College Spikes and the Myrtle Beach Pelicans. He held the title of President for both franchises. The 43-year old “Parney” graduated from Messiah College in 1988 with a degree in physical education and a minor in business.
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About MLB Advanced Media: MLB.TV is a website that offers news, schedules, standings, and statistics related to baseball.
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Tony Petitti
Chief Operating Officer of MLB Advanced Media
ony Petitti was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball by Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. on December 4, 2014. Petitti oversees such areas as broadcasting, marketing, youth programs, scheduling, special events, international and other strategic endeavors aimed at growing the game. Petitti served as President & Chief Executive Officer of MLB Network (MLBN), where he oversaw all day-to-day operations, until formally joining the Office of the Commissioner in 2014. The record-setting launch of MLBN, which debuted on January 1, 2009 in 50 million cable and satellite homes, marked the largest in cable television history. Today, MLB Network is widely distributed in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Since its launch, MLB Network has received accolades for its coverage of the biggest events and headlines in baseball, including Spring Training, the trade deadline, the All-Star Game, the Postseason and the World Series. In that time, MLB Network has been honored with a total of 12 Sports Emmy Awards and 37 nominations by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, including consecutive Outstanding Daily Studio Show honors in 2010, 2011 and 2012 for MLB Network’s signature program, MLB Tonight. Petitti joined MLB Network after serving as the Executive Vice President and Executive Producer for CBS Sports, where he oversaw all daily operations, including production, personnel and editorial content. Petitti originally joined CBS Sports in February 1997 as Senior Vice President, Business Affairs and Programming, in which he played a key role in negotiating contracts for continued coverage of the PGA Tour and the network’s return to the NFL. In August 1999, Petitti became the Vice President and General Manager of WCBS-TV in New York before rejoining CBS Sports in 2002. Petitti was named Executive Producer in July 2002 and later appointed Executive Vice President in December 2005. Prior to joining CBS Sports, Petitti served as Senior Vice President, Negotiations for NBC Sports and as Vice President, Programming for ABC Sports. With ABC, Petitti was responsible for the acquisition of college football regular season and bowl games, college basketball, the Little League World Series and NASCAR events. In addition, he is credited for creating the Bowl Championship Series to determine college football’s national champion. Petitti, who began his professional career in the field of law before joining ABC Sports in 1988, graduated from Haverford College in 1983 with a degree in economics and from Harvard Law School in 1986. In May 2006, Haverford selected Petitti as the recipient of the prestigious Lawrence Forman Award, presented to a superior Haverford athlete who has devoted a significant portion of their energy to the betterment of society throughout his or her career. In 2013, Petitti was named to CableFAX Magazine’s Top 100, a list of the most influential leaders in the cable industry. Petitti received the March of Dimes Corporate Leadership Award in 2012, and in 2000, SportsBusiness Journal honored Petitti as part of its “Forty Under 40” profile of the top executives in the industry. Petitti currently resides with his family in Irvington, New York.
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About Activision Blizzard, MLB Advanced Media: MLB.TV is a website that offers news, schedules, standings, and statistics related to baseball.
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.
Stu Smith
COO of Racket.com
Stu is General Partner at Coughdrop Capital and Vice President at Fullscreen (acquired by AT&T/WarnerMedia in 2018), where he runs the Creator Labs, Public Figures, and Creator Partnerships business units. He focuses on fulfilling Fullscreen’s promise of being the most strategic social content company in the world. Stu has spent the majority of his career driving innovation in the entertainment and media space. With nearly 20 years of experience, Stu led the North American launch of CrowdSurge (later merged with Songkick) and helped scale Red Light Management, the largest music management company in the world. Since then, he has held executive positions leading the revenue organizations at Teespring and Omaze.
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About Coughdrop Capital, CrowdSurge, Omaze, Racket.com, WarnerMedia: Let’s make a racket.
Ram Mohan
Chief Operating Officer of Afilias
Ram Mohan is Chief Operating Officer of Afilias Limited. Ram oversees key strategic, management and technology choices for the company in support of the generic top-level domains (gTLDs) .INFO and .ORG, sponsored domains .mobi, .asia, and .aero and country code domains including .IN (India) and .ME (Montenegro). Ram has led the strategic growth of the company in registry services and security as well as new product sectors such as RFID/Auto-ID, global DNS and Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). Before joining Afilias in September 2001, Ram was at Infonautics Corp., a pioneering online database and content distribution company. He held various leadership positions at Infonautics, and led the company to market leadership through product innovation. Ram is the founder of the award-winning CompanySleuth product, and created the Sleuth line of business at Infonautics. He helped architect Electric Library, North America’s most used online reference database in schools and libraries, and Encyclopedia.com, the first free encyclopedia on the Internet. Prior to joining Infonautics, Ram worked with First Data Corporation, Unisys Corporation and KPMG Peat Marwick in a variety of leadership, engineering and technology positions. Ram is also founder of the technology behind TurnTide, an anti-spam company acquired by Symantec. Ram is active in the ICANN community. He is the author (with others) of the Redemption Grace Period (RGP) and the IDN implementation guidelines, now global industry standards. He led the GNSO IDN Working Group, is a co-founder (along with the UN and the Public Interest Registry) of the Arabic Script IDN Working Group. Ram is a founding member of the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), a Board advisory committee comprised of Internet pioneers and technical experts including operators of Internet root servers, registrars, and TLD registries. Ram’s educational background reflects his belief that technology is best used for business advantage and market leadership. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mangalore, an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from Bharathidasan University, and left most of the way through his second Master’s in Computer Science at Philadelphia’s Drexel University in order to take Infonautics public. An inventor, he is the author of several patents. Ram was previously named one of the Philadelphia Business Journal’s 40 under 40. He is a founding member of the ISOC Philadelphia Area Chapter and serves on the advisory boards of several Philadelphia-area startup companies, and is actively involved in cancer-related nonprofits. Ram Mohan served as a Board member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the coordinating body for all domain names and internet addresses from 2008 to 2018.
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About Afilias: Afilias provides back end domain name registry services, DNS, idn and RFID services.
Loren Appin
Co-Founder & COO of Fishbowl
Cofounder & COO of Fishbowl, a social network that connects professionals within companies and industries. Every day employees come to Fishbowl to stay informed about workplace topics, share professional advice, and learn from both peers and senior leadership. Fishbowl has captured more than 25% of the professionals in the select industries the platform is open to, with almost half of users engaging the app daily.
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About Fishbowl: Fishbowl is a social network that connects professionals within relevant communities to have candid and relevant conversations.
Meghna Mann
COO of MetaMap
Meghna Mann is the COO at Mati.
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About MetaMap: MetaMap is a digital trust management platform that empower service providers to reach more customers through customizable trust workflows.
Bradley Deyo
Co-Founder, Co-Chairman & COO of Mars Reel
Bradley Deyo is a Co-founder and COO at Mars Reel.
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About Mars Reel: Mars Reel is a content and consumer products company focused on high school sports and youth culture.
Curtis Davis
COO and Co-Founder of Uhnder
Curtis Davis currently works as Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder at Uhnder, Inc.
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About Uhnder: Uhnder develops a digital automotive radar-on-chip designed to automate systems for safety and better feedback response.
Jordan Harris
Chief Operating Officer & President of Glitch
An experienced operating executive and entrepreneur, Jordan Harris formed the New Media Group at Reed Elsevier. He went on to found Hurricane Interactive and Notara Inc., which pioneered Brand Marketing Automation. He advises non-profits including Eyebeam, a platform for artists to engage society’s relationship with technology.
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About Glitch, Lela: Glitch is the friendly community where everyone builds the web.
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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.
Toby Simpson
Co-Founder & COO of Fetch.AI
Toby Simpson is a producer of the successful a-life Creatures series of games and early developer at Deepmind. His thirty years’ experience in software, ten as a CTO, are now focussed on crypto-economics.
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About Fetch.AI: Fetch.AI develops a decentralized network for digital representatives to find, communicate, and trade with each other.
Martin Tschopp
COO Prosus Ventures of Prosus & Naspers
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About Prosus & Naspers, Prosus Ventures: Prosus is a global consumer internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world.
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Richard Caccappolo
Chief Operating Officer of MailOnline
Richard Caccappolo is currently the Chief Operating Officer of MailOnline.com, the most successful online media site in the world. Prior to MailOnline.com, he was the SVP of iVillage and is one of the leading digital media executives in NYC. He has over 20 years of experience in e-commerce, digital monetization, new media and product development. Mr. Caccappolo served as the Chief Executive Officer of ORCA Digital Services Inc. at oneTXT, Inc., as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of iVillage Inc., as the Chief Technology Officer of Kodak Polychrome Graphics and as Director, Information Systems, Europe at Sun Chemicals. Before joining Sun Chemicals he served as Senior Manager of Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). He has been recognized for leading the development of interactive and community features throughout his career. Mr. Caccappolo received his M.B.A. from New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business and his B.S. from Cornell University.
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About MailOnline: MailOnline is an English-language newspaper website that offers information about world news, entertainment, celebrity news, and more.
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Christian Cerda
Chief Operating Officer of iRobot
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About iRobot, SimpliSafe: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
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Jed Nachman
COO of Yelp
Jed Nachman joined Yelp as Chief Operating Officer in 2016.
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About Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Daniel Goldstein
COO & Co-Founder of Trust & Will
Daniel Goldstein is the co-founder and COO of Trust & Will.
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About Trust & Will: Trust & Will is modernizing the trust and estate planning industry with an easy, fast, and secure way to set up your estate plan online.
Winston Gilpin
COO of Mercury
Winston Gilpin is the Chief Operating Officer at Mercury.
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About Mercury, Mercury Ecommerce: Early-stage venture capital firm investing in SaaS, cloud, and data platforms across Middle America.
COO of Match Group
Navin Ramachandran currently serves as the Chief Operations Officer of The Match Group and General Manager of PeopleMedia. Navin has served in multiple roles since joining the Match Group in 2012, including GM of Match Events and GM of Match Latin America. Prior to Match, Navin held various management and consulting roles at Amyris, i2 Technologies and McKinsey & Company. Navin holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology and a Master’s in Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.
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About Match Group, Match Group, People Media: Match Group is a division of IAC & online dating portfolio that comprises over forty brands around the world.
Ian Clarkson
President & COO of Varsity Tutors
Ian, president and COO of Varsity Tutors, oversees the Company’s product, technology, sales, and tutor recruitment efforts. Prior to joining Varsity Tutors, Ian served as the chief operating officer of Sears Home Services where he oversaw operations in product, technology, sales and field operations, among other roles, with 14,000 people reporting through him. Prior to his role at Sears, he spent 15 years at Amazon, where he worked in a variety of functions including technology, operations, service and retail. Clarkson ran the Seller Services business for Europe, overseeing a variety of products and teams in nine countries. He has a proven track record in building consumer digital products, including launching AmazonFresh as employee No. 1.
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About Nerdy, Varsity Tutors: Varsity Tutors is a live learning platform that connects students and professionals with personalized instruction to achieve any goal.
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Richard Tindal
Co-Founder and COO of Donuts
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About Donuts: Donuts is a domain name registry offering new domain names in multiple languages and character sets.
John Lauten
COO of Minim
John Lauten is a global operations executive who delivers exceptional client experiences and quantifiable results by directly improving operations, systems and processes worldwide while lowering operating expenses. Lauten has built and managed large, diverse global teams and held leadership positions in acquisition integration for both acquiring companies and acquired companies. His expertise and skills include international expansion, supply chain, program management, mergers and acquisitions, process optimization, sales and operations planning, corporate strategy, operations management, and business transformation. During his more than 20-year career, Lauten has helped lead the corporate directions of FOX Racing Shox (as VP of Strategic Operations and Business Development) and Cisco Systems, where he held various executive roles (Director of Business Operations Strategy and Planning; Head of U.S. and Canada Customer Operations; Director of Global Supply Chain Management) as well as additional roles in sales operations and finance. He has an MBA in Finance and International Business from the University of Texas at Austin and a BBA in Marketing from Texas Christian University.
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About Minim, Zoom Telephonics (now Minim): Minim (NASDAQ: MINM) was born as a networking company and now delivers intelligent software to protect and improve the WiFi we depend on.
Roxane Divol
Group Chief Operating Officer of Webhelp
Roxane plays a key role in building Webhelp’s expansion as a global industry leader. Prior to joining Webhelp, Roxane Divol was the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Website Security for Symantec. In addition, Roxane created and incubated Cybercube, a start-up offering cyber analytics platform company that today is funded by Symantec and ForgePoint Capital. Prior to joining Symantec, Roxane was a Partner at McKinsey & Company as a leader of its Technology, Media, Telecom as well as Marketing and Sales Practices. She also created and led McKinsey’s West Coast Executive Women’s Roundtable series. Roxane was – amongst others – named to the Top50 Most Powerful Women in Technology 2017 by the National Diversity Council. Roxane holds dual French and Colombian citizenship. Her cross-cultural experiences have helped her to assess and transform global organizations. She is a director at Wolverine Worldwide and currently sits on the board of the Global Fund for Women. She graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Insead. Roxane is passionate about women’s rights, including access to education, healthcare, jobs, voting rights, and other inequities facing women and people across the globe.
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About Webhelp: Webhelp is a business process outsourcer (BPO), specialising in customer experience and payment management.
Carrie Wheeler
COO of Liquid Web
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About Liquid Web: Liquid Web is a provider of web hosting and managed cloud services.
Shanaz Hemmati
Co-Founder and COO of ZenBusiness
Shanaz runs the technology that runs the company. She has more than 30 years of experience in technology and was previously the Global VP of Information Systems for HomeAway (NASDAQ:AWAY), where she led a global team responsible for data infrastructure and engineering, data tools and products, data science, analytics, CRM and ERP systems.
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About ZenBusiness: Zenbusiness offers business products and services that help business owners in starting, running, and growing a business.
Brian Vargas
Co-Founder & COO of Fitted Laundry
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About Fitted Laundry: Fitted is bridging the gap between laundry and fashion.
Dan Figenshu
Chief Operating Officer / Chief Financial Officer of Rocketrip
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About Rocketrip: Rocketrip helps businesses reduce travel spend by incentivizing employees to save when they travel for business.
Daniel Taylor
COO & Co-Founder of Tipster
Daniel Taylor is the Co-Founder & CEO at AMP.
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About AMP, BlocSide Sports, Dundalk Football Club, Only4stars, Tipster: Tipster gives you personalized style advice from industry experts & tastemakers in fashion, hair, and beauty – anytime, anywhere.
Blake Commagere
Co-Founder and COO of Vault12
Blake Commagere is a growth expert, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and an advisor to several companies in the SF Bay Area. In his career, he has raised over $12 million in VC/Seed funding, started 7 companies, and sold 5 of them. He regularly gives talks on a wide variety of subjects including: Growth Hacking/Viral Marketing, Fundraising, and Building a Positive Culture. He created the social gaming category by building some of the biggest apps ever (over 50 Million players) on Facebook, including the iconic games Zombies, Vampires and Werewolves. Blake wrote and designed the first version of Causes on Facebook, which has over 120 Million users and has raised over $80 million for various charities. Currently, Blake is the Founder & CEO of MediaSpike – a company that is building the first truly social applications for Virtual Reality.
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About Vault12: Vault12 is the first to deliver decentralized digital custody to protect your most precious digital assets.
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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.
Alessandro Prioni
COO of Measurence
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About Measurence: Measurence is an IoT platform that provides actionable analytics for the physical world
Varun Nagaraj
COO of Bidgely
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About Bidgely: Bidgely leverages the power of AI to optimize utility customer engagement and is the choice of leading utilities
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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.
Daniel Florence
COO of Sixt Rental Cars
Prior to joining Sixt in 2017, he spent nearly two decades immersed in North American rental car operations. Florence spent 18 years with Dollar Thrifty in the US, holding various leadership roles within operations, and eventually rising to become Area Director. In 2014, he transitioned to Hertz, where he was appointed as a Vice President of Airport Operations. Florence was then tapped by Car2Go to serve as Chief Operating Officer for North America. Sixt is always at the forefront of mobility, it was the first car rental company with a website and the first to include ride sharing and ride hailing through its new app.
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About Sixt Rental Cars: Sixt Rental Cars is a car and truck rental company also offering limousine service.
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Chris Brown
Chief Operating Officer of hc1
In addition to leading the daily operations of hc1.com, Chris oversees the finance, administrative and legal teams. Chris is a veteran of the software and telecommunications industries and spent the last 5 years as President and CFO of ChaCha. At ChaCha Chris launched the mobile products and guided the company’s growth to the #1 answers service worldwide, answering over 2 Billion questions since its launch in 2008. Prior to ChaCha Chris spent 20 years in the wireless sector where he held a variety of leadership roles in sales operations, finance, customer care, and strategic planning for Verizon Wireless and Nextel Communications. At Nextel Chris led the customer lifecycle improvements that led to Nextel achieving the #1 rank from JD Powers in wireless customer satisfaction. Chris helped Nextel grow from $80M to over $15B in annual revenue during his tenure there. In 2005-2006 he led the planning and implementation of the Sprint – Nextel merger, one of the largest U.S. mergers in history. Chris started his career at Deloitte Haskins and Sells and is a CPA. He has a B.A. from Moravian College and a Graduate Certificate in Strategic Business Leadership from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
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About hc1: Hc1 enables real-time lab stewardship and precision prescribing for health systems, laboratories and physicians.
Suhas Ahuja
Co-Founder, COO of SIERA.AI
Suhas is an experienced entrepreneur with multiple successful exits in the high-tech sector. Suhas leads all of Stocked Robotics’ sales and business development operations globally.
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About SIERA.AI: SIERA.AI is a mobility tech company that helps warehouses and factories increase safety and efficiency of their industrial vehicle fleets.
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.
David Rosenberg
Co-Founder, COO and General Counsel of Gimme Radio
In business school I built a digital music service that created a secondary market for digital goods. While the business ultimately did not succeed, I have received a patent on the process that is highly relevant to the current issues today on the first sale doctrine.
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About Gimme Radio, Zoom: Gimme Radio is a digital music platform designed for passionate music fans.
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Adrian D Souza
Chief Operating Officer of LotLinx
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About Integral Ad Science, LotLinx: LotLinx’ is a SaaS provider of Digital Retailing and Marketing technologies and for the Automotive Industry.
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Ifeanyi Okonkwo
Co-Founder & COO of wifi.com.ng
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About Tizeti, wifi.com.ng: wifi.com.ng is a unlimited wifi internet provider.
Vincent Luciani
Co-Founder and Global COO of Artefact
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About Artefact: Artefact is a digital agency celebrating the long overdue marriage of marketers and engineers.
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Tamra Johnson
COO of Liquid
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About 79 Studios, FlexTeam, Liquid: Liquid is a global vendor and freelancer payments platform providing agile SMBs consolidated payments, automation and business controls.
Andrea Johnston
COO of OpenTable
Andrea Johnston is the COO at OpenTable.
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About OpenTable: OpenTable operates as an online restaurant booking service.
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Dave Coburn
COO of GIVING TECH LABS
Dave is a proven product leader with a passion for bringing innovative technology solutions to small business and Fortune 500 customers. He combines 10 years of experience at Microsoft, leading product and technology teams to develop new online services, with more recent experience leading agile development of online RTB advertising exchanges for direct advertisers and agencies at AdECN and MediaTrust. Dave received a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and earned his MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from University of Washington, Michael G Foster School of Business.
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About GIVING TECH LABS: Innovation Lab creating Sustainable Ventures to address complex social issues – Technology for the Public Interest – #Tech4PI
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.
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Jonathan Francis
Co-Founder & COO of Wing Tel, Inc.
Jonathon Francis is the co-founder and COO of Wing Teal.
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About Elite Daily, Wing Tel, Inc.: Wing is a digital-first phone carrier offering an affordable wireless alternative to the major phone carriers like Verizon and AT&T.
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Kaan Ersun
COO of Solvvy
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About Solvvy: Solvvy is a machine learning startup that reinvents the customer experience by delivering a better self-service platform.
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Darin Buxbaum
Co-Founder, President & COO of WiderCircle
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About WiderCircle: WiderCircle is a provider of an in-personal social platform designed to connect older adults.
Desiree Mejia
COO & Co-Founder of SkyBell
Desiree leads SkyBell’s supply chain operations and contract manufacturing as well as overseeing the development and rollout of SkyBell Connect (the proprietary back-office system which manages all deployed devices). In addition, Desiree is SkyBell’s Principal Executive with respect to growing existing customer relationships, Customer Support and Order Fulfillment. Prior to starting up SkyBell, she served as the COO of LBT, a GPS tracking solutions company.
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About SkyBell: SkyBell HD is making homes and neighborhoods safer with a Video Doorbell that sends live video of your front door to a smartphone.
Keith McDonnell
Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel of Trillium Secure
Keith McDonnell has over twenty-five years experience at multinational companies in the fields of consumer products, software and semiconductors as a Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel. He has a MBA from University of Southern California and JD from John Marshall Law School. Keith has lived in Asia, Europe and the United States. He is fluent in English and Mandarin.
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About Kasle, Trillium, Trillium Secure: Trillium provides in-vehicle cybersecurity protection for connected vehicles.
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.
Diederik Rijsemus
COO & Co-Founder of Naadam
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About Naadam, Something Navy, Thakoon: Naadam is an American clothing company specializing in affordable, luxury cashmere products.
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Brian Kempner
Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel of Litify
Brian Kempner is Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel at FirstMark Capital and focuses on the firm’s operational and legal activities. Brian was previously the President and General Counsel of The New York Observer and Observer.com. He has also served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Legal Officer of Kushner Companies, and Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Utilities & Industries Management Corp. Brian is a member of the New York State Bar.
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About Litify: Litify provides technology solutions for law firms by providing a trusted intelligent platform for practice management.
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Wenda Harris Millard
Vice Chairman, President & Chief Operating Officer of MediaLink
In April 2009, Wenda Harris Millard became President and COO of MediaLink LLC, a leading strategic advisory and business development firm that provides critical counsel and direction to the media, advertising and entertainment industries and to companies and investors that interact with those sectors. Before joining MediaLink, Millard was Co-CEO and President, Media for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. She joined MSLO in July 2007 after three years as a member of its Board of Directors. Millard oversaw MSLO’s media businesses, which include publishing, internet and broadcasting. She was the driving force behind creating cross-platform programs for marketers in TV, digital, magazines and radio. Before MSLO, Millard was Chief Sales Officer at Yahoo! where she led the team that drove revenue from $700 million to over $6 billion in six years and was consistently credited as the number one sales organization in the media industry. On an industry-wide level her work at Yahoo! established brand advertising on the web. Prior to Yahoo!, Millard was Chief Internet Officer at Ziff Davis Media and President of Ziff Davis Internet. Previously, Millard was a founding member of the executive team at DoubleClick, where she served as Executive Vice President responsible for establishing the DoubleClick brand and overseeing the operations of DoubleClick Media. She also served as President and Group Publisher of SRDS, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Family Circle and Executive Vice President/Group Publisher of Adweek, Mediaweek and Brandweek magazines. Millard has received numerous industry awards including being named in 2012 one of the “100 Most Influential Women in Advertising in the Last 100 Years”; the 2011 Oracle Award from Springboard; the 2009 ad:tech Lifetime Achievement Award; the 2007 John A. Reisenbach Award for Distinguished Citizenship; the 2006 “Advertising Person of the Year” Silver Medal Award from the AAF and the 2005 Matrix Award for “Women Who Change the World”. Advertising Age also acknowledged her as a “Digital Media Master” — one of the 20 most influential executives in interactive media. She was the subject of a profile by Tom Brokaw as part of NBC’s “Women to Watch” series. Active on behalf of the advertising industry throughout her career, Millard is past Chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau and former President of the Advertising Club of New York. She has served on the Boards of the Advertising Council, the American Advertising Federation, the Advertising Education Foundation and others. Currently, she serves on the boards of Verifone Inc., Millenial Media and Simulmedia. She also sits on the board of the James Beard Foundation. She served two terms as a Trustee of Trinity College in Hartford. Millard holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Trinity College.
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About MediaLink: MediaLink is a strategic advisory firm that provides strategic advisory and implementation services to companies at all stages.
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Carl Niedbala
Co-Founder & COO of Founder Shield
Carl Niedbala is Co-Founder & COO at Founder Shield.
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About Founder Shield, ReShield, Villanova Venture Community: Founder Shield was created with one goal: to take the stress out of buying insurance for venture-backed startup companies.
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Ăn cứt Chó
COO of Timehop
Rick Webb is the Co-Founder at The Barbarian Group. In 2001, Rick co-founded The Barbarian Group, an award-winning digital ad agency. Rick served as its Chief Operating Officer for the first ten years of the company’s existence. Rick left in 2011 to pursue angel investing in and writing on, technology and advertising. Rick is an Angel Investor in Foursquare, Branch, Circa, Percolate, Sherpaa, Nestio and Timehop. Rick is an Advisor to several other tech startups and marketing services companies, including Hard Candy Shell, and Small Girls PR. Rick currently serves as a Venture Partner at Quotidian Ventures and as a Marketing and Sales Consultant to such startups as Tumblr, Soundcloud and Percolate. Rick is author of Agency: Starting a Creative Firm in the Age of Digital Marketing, released by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015 and an avid writer on technology, advertising, economics and government. Rick graduated from Boston University with a degree in International Economics in 1992.
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About Ads By Nimbus, Timehop: Timehop is your throwback thursday for every day of the week. Timehop also offers Nimbus, a mobile, in-app header bidding solution.
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.
Jennifer Dennard
COO & Co-founder of Range
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About Range: Exploring how software can cultivate healthy, inclusive, and creative organizations.
George Rovis
COO of Seafair
George Rovis is the COO at Seafair.
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About Seafair: Seafair connects leading shipping companies with qualified seafarers across the world.
Jessica Shalek
Co-founder & COO of Common Networks
Jess is the COO and co-founder of Common Networks. Before Common Networks, she was the Head of Business Development and the developer platform Product Lead at Square. She was responsible for all product partnerships, growing Square from 0 partnerships to 30+ in 2.5 years. As product lead for Square’s developer platform she defined, product managed, and launched Square’s public API and developer tools. Prior to Square, Jess worked at Morgan Stanley technology investment banking for 6 years specializing in IPOs. She has a BA (magna cum laude) in Economics from Barnard College and Columbia University.
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About Common Networks: Common Networks is a wireless internet service provider that brings fiber-class internet to homes.
Kristoph Oedman
Co-Founder and COO of ProGuides
Kristoph Oedman is the co-founder and COO of ProGuides.
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About ProGuides: ProGuides is an esports training platform where millions of committed gamers get better.
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Stephan Jacobs
COO of OnNow.tv
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About OnNow.tv: Discover, Share and Promote Livestreams
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
Edmond Wong
Co-Founder & COO of BuzzMob
Edmond Wong is an Operations and Strategy executive focused on delivering great customer experiences while scaling VC and PE backed growth stage companies. He currently advises growth stage companies in consumer products, eCommerce, SaaS and subscription based services and is an angel investor and co-founder of the Asian American Investors Group. Most recently, Edmond was co-founder/COO of Chatter, Inc (Appletree), a SaaS based communication platform that encourages engagement between parents and teachers within K-8 schools. He also co-founded and was COO of BuzzMob, a crowd engagement and fan technology app for live events. BuzzMob connects on-site attendees and delivers exclusive curated content to revolutionize the live event experience. Prior to BuzzMob, Mr. Wong created, built and scaled many iconic fashion and consumer product brands both in the US and worldwide.
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About BuzzMob, UCI Applied Innovation, UCI Paul Merage School of Business, VHA Corp: Connecting classrooms and schools to engage and empower parents and students.
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Hatem Naguib
Chief Operating Officer of Barracuda Networks
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About Barracuda Networks: Barracuda is a provider of powerful, easy-to-use, affordable IT solutions for security and storage.
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Keith Westman
Chief Operating Officer of Otus
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About Otus: Otus is the teaching and learning platform that all school stakeholders use to track and visualize student performance over time.
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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.
Robert Ackerman
Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer—Towers and Small Cells of Crown Castle
Robert C. Ackerman was appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer—Towers and Small Cells in September 2017, responsible for management of all tower and small cell operational groups. Prior to this appointment, he served as Area President since 2002. Bob joined Crown Castle in August 1998 and has over 20 years of experience in the telecom industry. Before joining Crown Castle, he served as a Deputy Commissioner for the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal. Bob holds a BA from the College of Saint Rose in Albany.
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About Crown Castle: Crown Castle Provides communications infrastructure–connecting people & businesses to essential data, technology & wireless service.
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Lawrence Herman
COO of LookSmart
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About LookSmart, Rave Digital: LookSmart is an advertising network solutions company providing performance solutions for online search advertisers and publishers.
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Elliot Schneier
COO and Co-founder of Startups.com
In 1999 Elliot started his first business as a student earning a Marketing/Visual design degree at Florida State University. The opportunity came to fruition while Schneier was tending bar at a high end Martini lounge. Legwork marketing and Promotions focused on branding, web design and marketing literature. Employing students and using school facilities for development allowed for a very competitive pricing model. Elliot was swept into the accelerating commercial real estate market after college. He joined Marcus and Millichap 2004 as an investment specialist. By the time he left Marcus he was ranked 11th in the nation amongst 2000 brokers in total investment properties sold. Elliot and his partner left Marcus to start Capital Commercial Partners Elliot and partner Rick Geisenfeld wanted to find a niche in the multi-family market. In total CCP was involved in 500M dollars in commercial real estate transactions. Schneier was pulled back into technology by Affordit.com co-founder Wil Schroter. It was Elliot and Wil’s goal to provide a simple weekly payment system that would allow the under banked to buy online. Affordit was backed by some very notable entrepreneurs and venture capital firms in Northern and Southern California. Upon leaving his post at Affordit Elliot stepped in as interim president of Boundarylessbrands.com. Boundaryless was a company that offered brick and mortar retailers an online outlet through a revenue sharing model. During this same time period Schneier served as an advisor to daily deal site bulx.com. Bulx and Boundaryless were both acquired in 2011. Elliot went from consumer facing web companies to an international manufacturing business. He was tasked with building out a deliberate and scalable business development process at the worlds largest private super abrasive company. Schneier is currently the COO of fundable.com and a proud partner of Virtucon Ventures. Elliot is passionate about helping start ups grow.
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About Fundable, Startups.com, Virtucon Ventures, Zirtual: Startups.com helps over 1 million startup companies find customers, funding, mentors, and world-class education.
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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.
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Atreedev Banerjee
Chief Operating Officer of Danal
Atreedev has helped MNOs all across Asia, Europe, Middle East, and the Americas, with 19+ years of experience in the wireless mobile industry. He has truly made his mark in the industry, helping launch the next generation of solutions in the fields of mobile identity, authentication, payments, video technologies, and more. As a Chief Operations Officer at Danal, Atreedev has continuously launched numerous strategic partnerships in the US and EU. In addition, he has authored multiple patents in the mobile identity field. In 2017, Danal was awarded by GSMA for “The Connected Life Award – Mobile Connect Award for Authentication & Identity,” with the help of Atreedev and our partnership with Orange’s Check & Go product. In addition, he has spoken at various speaking engagements such as MWC Barcelona, Mobile Connect Summit, MWC Shanghai, Danal’s Mobile Identity Summit, World e-ID & Cybersecurity in France.
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About Danal, Verizon Media: Danal, Inc. is a provider of mobile business solutions, enabling mobile payments, mobile commerce, marketing, and mobile wallet services.
Trever Hansen
Chief Operating Officer & VP Underwriting of Complete Merchant Solutions
Trever Hansen is a Co-Founder of Complete Merchant Solutions LLC and serves as its Chief Operating Officer. Trever Hansen has more than 10 years of industry leadership experience and is responsible for maximizing performance and efficiencies between CMS’ business units as well as overseeing the company’s efforts to streamline processes for the entire merchant lifecycle; from new account boarding, through ongoing merchant support, to customer retention. Prior to co-founding CMS, Trever Hansen served as the Vice President of Operations for a large ISO office of Chase Bank and Wells Fargo Bank. In this role, Trever Hansen oversaw multiple operational functions including underwriting, client boarding, risk management and ongoing loss prevention, deployment, activations, as well as customer and technical support. Trever Hansen pursued his undergraduate degree at the University of Utah.
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About Complete Merchant Solutions: Complete Merchant Solutions is a full-service electronic payments solutions provider.
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Elina Cadouri
Co-Founder & COO of Dock
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About Dock: Making it simple for organizations to build, manage and present instantly verifiable digital credentials.
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Jason Witt
COO of Operative
Jason is Operative’s Chief Revenue Officer responsible for top-line revenue growth and retention. Prior to Operative, Jason ran his own advisory firm that catered to a variety of communications and media clients across both traditional and emerging platforms. Jason was also the Senior Vice President of Global Revenue at Fox Interactive and founder of MySpace Studios, a marketing, advertising and product development division of Fox. Between 2005 and 2009, Jason served in several executive roles within MTV Networks, including Senior Vice President roles within both Affiliate and Ad Sales and founder and General Manager of Digital Fusion. Early in his career, Jason held leadership positions at AOL focused on content programming, business development and commerce platform development. Jason holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Yale and a graduate degree in law from Columbia University.
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About Operative: Operative offers a SaaS-based platform and technology-enabled services to help media industry leaders balance operational efficiency.
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Marcus Arcabascio
Managing Partner, COO of CoastFi
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About CoastFi, Greenpoint Ventures: CoastFi offers smart technology that can install a secure IoT device hotspot for internet connectivity services.
Ross Artale
President & COO of Spectrotel
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About Spectrotel: Spectrotel is a telecommunications company that provides internet, cloud and managed services.
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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.
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Henry Hund
Chief Operating Officer of Conveyor
Henry left big finance to help grow RJMetrics and launch Stitch (Data). He now leads Aptible’s growth efforts, but also tries to do a good job as a husband and father. Henry earned his MBA from Wharton and his BS from Penn State.
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About Aptible, Conveyor, Lorious, Stitch: Conveyor is a software company that makes vendor security reviews fast, frictionless, and accurate for both vendors and customers.
Yari Carrizo
COO of Propzie
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About Propzie: TENNTS is a PropTech company concentrating on rentals and hospitality.
Nathan Kropp
COO & Co-Founder of Contactability
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About Contactability: Lead Management and Marketing Automation
Gerod Carfantan
Chief Operating Officer of Sente Foundry
Gerod Carfantan is the COO at Sente.
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About Sente Foundry: Sente is an international startup investment and innovation platform.
Gerod Carfantan
Chief Operating Officer of Sente Foundry
Gerod Carfantan is the COO at Sente.
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About Sente Foundry: Sente is an international startup investment and innovation platform.
Marc Patterson
Chief Operating Officer of ZeroTier
Marc is ZeroTier’s Chief Operating Officer. A former senior executive with Boingo Wireless and BT, he has delivered award-winning mobile security & remote working solutions supporting small enterprises to multi-billion dollar organizations for over 25 years. Most recently the CEO of a media publishing startup powered by Emmy®-winning broadcast news talent, Marc also chairs Esports & Gaming for the investor non-profit L.A. Venture Association.
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About ZeroTier: ZeroTier is directly connecting the world’s devices through secure software-defined networking.
Dallas Bond
COO & Founder of AdvisoryCloud
Dallas Bond is the Founder and Chief Operating Officer at AdvisoryCloud
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About AdvisoryCloud, ExecReps, The ExecRanks, Verb Ventures: AdvisoryCloud is the leading digital platform for advisory work with 12,000+ advisors helping companies make smarter business decisions.
Itai Kanot
COO & Co-Founder of BeeHero
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About BeeHero: BeeHero is a developer of beehive technology platform intended to maximize crop yields through pollination.
Jason Williams
President and Chief Operating Officer of MyWebGrocer
Jason Williams is the President and COO of Mi9 Retail.
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About Mi9 Retail, Mi9 Retail, MyWebGrocer: MyWebGrocer offers an online ecommerce, marketing and data platform service for grocery chains and packaged consumer goods companies.
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Jeff Tennery
Chief Operating Officer of Alef
Innovative technology executive with over 30 years of leadership in mobile & digital media. Jeff Tennery is a Cheif business development officer for CareerGig
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About Alef, Digics: Changing the way the world lives, works and plays by democratizing access to the edge through our global edge connectivity platform.