Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based COO’ operating in the Marketing 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.
Peter Lu
Chief Operating Officer & Co-founder of Jumpcut
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About Jumpcut: Jumpcut creates captivating online courses.
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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
Matt McLaughlin
Chief Operating Officer of DoubleVerify
Matt has been responsible for DoubleVerify’s product, engineering and sales operations efforts since 2011. Prior to joining DV, Matt held senior product, operations and executive positions in online advertising for over ten years, including roles at Advertising.com and CUnet. Prior to his commercial experience, Matt served as a nuclear submarine officer in the United States Navy. Matt earned his B.S. in Computer Science from the United States Naval Academy and his M.A. (Cantab.) in History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University.
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About DoubleVerify, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): DoubleVerify is a software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics.
David Bos
COO of Maple Media
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About Maple Media: Maple Media is a mobile media, advertising, and technology company that acquires and operates category-leading, consumer apps.
Kate O’Loughlin
Chief Operating Officer of SuperAwesome
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About SuperAwesome, Tapad: SuperAwesome offers kid-safe tools and technology for the children’s digital media ecosystem.
Amit Agrawal
Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Cyber Infrastructure (p) Ltd
Mr. Amit Agrawal directs CIS’s Operations Quality & Process initiatives that are instrumental in driving major Financial and Operational benefits to CIS and its clients. He plays a vital role in establishing key alliances and building competent teams who are quite adept in using Latest Technology, Frameworks and Techniques; giving CIS a competitive advantage. He is also responsible for providing direction to strategic initiatives at CIS and building up CIS’s technical capabilities.As a technology veteran since 2002, he is leading and managing multiple projects, while maintaining budgets and meeting deadlines. He also steers the development lifecycle of all our web initiatives, mentors the research and implementation of innovative Web/ Mobile & Cloud Solutions. He is responsible for assimilation and adoption of latest technology in the company. Prior to CIS, Mr. Agrawal has served in various managerial roles in global IT companies in the US, Europe, and India. He possesses a number of certificates in Programming Languages, Project Management, Quality Control and Innovation Straategies.He holds a Bachelor’s Degree (BE) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of RGPV and graduated in 2002 and is an MDP alumnae of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), 2007.
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About Cyber Infrastructure (p) Ltd: Cyber InfraStructure Pvt. Ltd. or CIS is a IT and consulting company in Central India.
Steven Gerber
President & COO of Zeta Global
Steven Gerber is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Zeta Interactive. Gerber oversees the day to day management of the Company, encompassing all business lines and the technology platform.He joined Zeta in 2009 via an acquisition. Previously, he was a Senior Vice President at Tranzact LLC, building the company’s digital business and playing a key role in its sale to Veronis Suhler in 2008. He has also held leadership positions at Digitas and Bain & Co. Gerber’s entrepreneurial career began in 1999 as co-founder of HotSocket, a RedHerring Top 100 company in 2000. Gerber holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MBA from Columbia University. Mr. Gerber holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MBA from Columbia University
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About Zeta Global: Zeta offers technology and marketing services to help brands acquire, engage, and retain customers.
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.
Erick Schwab
Co-Founder & COO of SYLO
Erick Schwab is the Co-Founder and COO at SYLO.
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About SYLO: SYLO provides marketers and creators with 3rd-party validation and standardized measurement to confidently invest in influencer marketing.
David Thomas
COO of Clique
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About Clique: Clique is a media and commerce company
Doug Barry
Co-Founder, COO and CFO of PORTL Hologram
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About MSMCi, PopJax, PORTL Hologram: PORTL Hologram offers at-home hologram machines.
Sarah Bergstrand
COO of BitBull Capital
Sarah Bergstrand is the COO at BitBull Capital.
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About BitBull Capital: BitBull Capital is the first cryptocurrency fund of hedge funds.
Kate Edwards
Co-Founder and COO of Heartbeat
Kate is the COO and Co-founder of Heartbeat, a Techstars LA company and marketing technology platform that enables brands to connect directly with its 150,000 female millennial brand ambassadors, creating scalable, ROI-focused user-generated content campaigns on social media. She is thrilled to be able to follow her heart and empower the voices of real women at Heartbeat every day. Prior to Heartbeat (http://getheartbeat.co/), Kate worked as the Director of Business Development and Partnerships at innovative matchmaking startup Three Day Rule, which was funded by Match/IAC, and has been featured on numerous podcasts, panels, and tv shows. Prior to working in tech, Kate attended Brown University and worked at top creative advertising agencies JWT and Publicis New York on clients Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson. Kate received her MBA at UCLA Anderson as an Easton Technology Fellow. Kate has also consulted and advised many startups in the Los Angeles area on marketing, operations, strategy, and fundraising.
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About Heartbeat: Heartbeat is a platform for millennial women to join, provide feedback to, and promote brands via their personal networks.
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.
Steve Johnston
COO of FlexPoint Media
Steve Johnston is the COO of FlexPoint Media, an audience-centric advertising agency that helps campaigns, causes, and companies maximize the impact of their advertising dollars. Prior to FlexPoint and his years as an award-winning sales executive at Google, Steve co-founded GovPredict, an advocacy tech company that received investment from Y Combinator and went on to be acquired by Phone2Action. As a political strategist, he was named to Campaigns & Elections Magazine’s “Rising Stars” list and the American Association of Political Consultants’ “40 Under 40” list based on his directing the digital marketing for the winning campaign in the closest United States Senate election of 2014 and serving as a technology and innovation advisor to the Majority Leader in Congress. Steve speaks frequently about tech, startups, and politics as a guest lecturer at universities and speaker/panelist at tech conferences, and his writing on industry trends has been published on Forbes.com and other online publishers. Steve received an AB degree in Government from Harvard and an MBA in Marketing and Operations Management (joint major) and Entrepreneurial Management from Penn’s Wharton School. Follow him on Twitter @StevenEJohnston.
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About FlexPoint Media, GovPredict, Pioneer Fund: FlexPoint Media is an omnichannel media strategy firm dedicated to helping organizations shape public opinion and win.
Colleen Theis
Chief Operating Officer of The Orchard
As COO, Colleen oversees all client-facing departments for the company’s global digital and physical distribution business, including Client Relations, Acquisition & Retention, Sales & Marketing, and Film, TV & Advertising. She also oversees the UK and European teams. Prior to joining The Orchard, Colleen was Senior Vice President, International of ADA Global. She spent 12 years in London, expanding her international marketing role with Rykodisc and Palm Pictures. Colleen got her start in the music industry in Elektra Records’ international department. She is the proud owner of a ridiculously huge and eclectic record collection (with a particular focus on the New Romantic era) as well as a tattered and tattooed passport, having traveled to some countries no longer found on modern maps in the pursuit of music
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About The Orchard, TVT Records: The Orchard is a music distribution, marketing and sales company for artists and labels to distribute content to digital and mobile outlets.
Annie Tsai
COO of Interact
Two-time C-Level software executive with two decades of industry experience, Annie Tsai is a founder, investor, advisor, published author, and change agent for early and growth stage technology companies. A UC Berkeley grad who studied the interconnectivity of people on the internet and it’s effect on relationships in the physical world, Annie has been fostering her life-long passion for bringing the people back into software. Entrepreneur, Investor, SaaS
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About Interact, The House Fund: SaaS zero party data platform: The easiest way to convert curious people into loyal customers and happy clients.
Ignacio Vidaguren
Partner and COO of Aleph Holding
Ignacio Vidaguren joins IMS as the new COO, responsible for expanding IMS’ products and services, developing new revenue opportunities and overseeing the company’s day-to-day business operations. Ignacio’s background includes an 11-year career at MercadoLibre (NSDQ: MELI) where he served in several executive positions dedicated to sales, marketing and business development and 5 years at McKinsey and Co. Ignacio holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a dual degree in Business Administration and Accounting from Universidad Catolica Argentina, where he was Summa Cum Laude and Valedictorian of his class. Ignacio is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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About Aleph Holding, IMS Corporate: Aleph is a digital media partner that connects those in digital media with the advertisers that rely on them.
Marc Ashley
President and COO of Market America
Marc Ashley is the President and COO of Market America. Marc oversees all corporate operations of Market America Worldwide. He works closely with the Executive Board and Management Group to plan company initiatives, create and implement systems, improve field relations, and implement total quality management techniques. Having served as Board Chairman of the BBB of Central North Carolina, Marc was also a recipient of the Triad Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty award, selected for his leadership, community involvement and career accomplishments. Under Marc’s leadership, Market America Worldwide has grown into an internet retail giant – recognized as one of North Carolina’s fastest-growing companies, one of the Triad’s best companies to work for, and one of the top e-commerce companies in the world in terms of annual retail sales.
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About Market America: Market America Worldwide is a product brokerage and Internet marketing company that specializes in One-to-One-Marketing.
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.
Andrey Kazakov
Chief Operating Officer of Adjust
Andrey K. is the Chief Operating Officer at Adjust.
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About Adjust: Adjust is an analytics platform that helps marketers grow their mobile apps with with tools that measure, automate and protect user data.
Chris Lord
COO of SiteWit
Christopher Lord is the COO at SiteWit.
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About SiteWit, SiteWit: SiteWit is a platform for small business owners to market their website on Google, Bing, and Yahoo and generate leads.
Kweli Washington
COO of Piano
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About Piano: Piano helps organizations understand and influence customer behavior through one complete platform.
Brian Kane
COO & co-founder of Sourcepoint
As an experienced Operations Executive within the online advertising space, Brian has a particular talent for building companies that deliver scalable and differentiated services to digital publishers. As Co-founder and COO of Sourcepoint Brian aims to meet the expanding compensation challenges faced by premium publishers and provide them with content compensation alternatives that foster more open, balanced value exchanges with consumers. Prior to co-founding Sourcepoint, Brian was COO of LiveRail, the ad tech platform acquired by Facebook, working with the executive team on go-to-market strategy, and leading the Technical Services, Human Resources, and Account Management teams. Brian was previously COO of ad optimisation platform Admeld, where he headed up Global Client Services and Human Resources. He was a pivotal contributor to the development of Admeld’s customer centric and employee focused culture – key drivers in the company’s subsequent acquisition by Google. Prior to Admeld he spent 9 years with DoubleClick/Google, where as an early employee, he held various executive roles and helped to build DoubleClick’s Client Services and Operations organization. Brian studied at the University of Miami and the City University of New York-Brooklyn College, and is highly respected as a solutions-oriented and people-focused leader.
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About Admeld, showd.me, Sourcepoint: Sourcepoint is the data privacy software company for the digital marketing ecosystem.
Kenneth Suh
COO of Unruly
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About Unruly: Unruly is an advertising technology company that gets videos watched, tracked, and shared across the Open Web.
Kirk Connors
COO of Growve
Kirk Connors currently works as the COO for Growve. He previously worked at Urban Remedy Inc. as the COO.
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About Growve: Growve is a brand aggregator that specializes in the acquisition and management of wellness and beauty brands.
Tink Taylor
Chief Operating Officer, Founder, and President of dotmailer Group
Tink Taylor is COO, Founder, and President of dotMailer and dotDigital Group and has been pivotal in the development of digital marketing since its outset in both the UK and now the US.Serving as a key and influential member of the UK DMA’s Email Council and also the IAB since 2006, Tink’s been judging the Email, Mobile and Agency categories at the UK DMA’s awards for over half a decade. Now chair of the email marketing category, he is constantly striving to help individual organizations, and the industry as a whole to develop and progress.
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About dotAgency, dotmailer Group: dotmailer Group provides digital marketing professionals with SaaS technology solutions and tools, and offers an email marketing platform.
Murali Swaminathan
COO of Sprinklr
After receiving his Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Wright State University and an M.B.A. from NYU’s Stern, Murali became an executive at Cisco Systems Inc., where he held several key leadership roles. These included the principal lead for the acquisition integration practice for Cisco Engineering, as well as developing the strategy and managing its global data center operations. At Sprinklr, he runs the Engineering, Operations and Services divisions, helping to drive the company forward.
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About Sprinklr, Sprinklr: Sprinklr provides enterprise software for customer experience management.
Vivek Kundra
Chief Operating Officer of Sprinklr
Vivek Kundra currently works as COO for Sprinklr.
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About Outcome Health, Sprinklr: Sprinklr provides enterprise software for customer experience management.
Jim Spare
President & COO of eko
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About eko: eko is media and technology company pioneering a new medium in which stories told in live action video are shaped by viewers as they unfold.
Solange Claudio
President & COO of Zenith
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About Zenith: Zenith is an agency to apply a rigorous and objective approach to improving the effectiveness of marketing.
Thomas Kramer
COO, Co-Founder of Paladin
As Co-Founder and Head of Product at Paladin, Thomas focuses on building enterprise software for next-generation media companies. Prior to Paladin, Thomas served as VP of Product at Bent Pixels and as the Senior Director of Content Strategy and Optimization at Maker Studios (The Walt Disney Company), a top multi-channel network (MCN). At Maker, Thomas led a team focused on audience development strategy consulting for many Disney brands (Marvel, ESPN, Disney Animation, and Disney Parks) and online video creators (PewDiePie, GameGrumps, and the Shaytards). Thomas has rich experience working with brands, agencies, and content creators on multi-platform video strategy. He is a co-founder of Ready Influence, an advisory initiative for content creators, and has spoken at several conferences, including Media Summit New York. Thomas is a graduate of the University of Oregon.
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About Measure Studio, Paladin: Paladin is the essential influencer marketing platform for brands and agencies.
Crid Yu
COO of Fyber – A Digital Turbine Company
Crid Yu is Vice President and Managing Director, North America for InMobi, where he is accelerating the phenomenal growth of the region. Crid is a digital media industry veteran with experience growing transformational businesses at Google and Demand Media. Previously, he held senior leadership positions during his eight years at Google. He was responsible for the top 1000 strategic partners in Google’s US Display Business, and was also a key member of the management team in Asia Pacific, where he established Google’s operations in China, Hong Kong, and Korea. In his role as SVP, Strategic Partnerships at Demand Media, he developed partnerships that expanded distribution and increased revenue. Prior to his career in digital media, Crid was an Associate Principal at the management consulting firm McKinsey and Company. Crid holds both a BS and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Confidently, Fyber – A Digital Turbine Company: Fyber, part of Digital Turbine’s independent Mobile Growth Platform, develops ad monetization solutions trusted by top mobile app publishers
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.
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
Tony Delmercado
COO of Hawke Media
Passionately curious builder with thoughts on how it can be done better. Client relations, team management, witty banter.
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About Hawke Media: Hawke Media provides a host of services that help businesses strategize and realize their potential.
Bill Davies
COO and CFO of Jack Morton Worldwide
Bill Davies leads Jack Morton’s global operations and finance organization including information technology, real estate, insurance and legal. He led the deployment of a cutting-edge global integrated financial system that is utilized by Jack Morton operations around the globe. Bill joined the company in 2002 as EVP, Chief Financial Officer and in 2011 he expanded his role to COO. In his capacity as COO, Bill is responsible for Jack Morton’s corporate development and also oversees Jack Morton’s operations in Detroit. He is responsible for Jack Morton’s merger and acquisition activity and the development and expansion of Jack Morton’s global affiliate program. Bill previously served as Senior Vice President for The Interpublic Group of Companies’ (IPG) Advanced Marketing Services group. Prior to that he worked as CFO of Weber Shandwick Worldwide, one of the world’s leading public relations firms. Bill joined founder Larry Weber at The Weber Group in 1990, where he implemented comprehensive financial systems through a period of significant growth which culminated in Weber’s 1996 acquisition by McCann-Erickson World Group. Bill is a graduate of Brown University.
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About Jack Morton Worldwide: Jack Morton Worldwide is an American multinational brand experience agency.
Brian Smith
Global COO, Mediabrands Insights of IPG Mediabrands
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About IPG Mediabrands: IPG Mediabrands is committed to driving automated buying, pay-for-performance, and digital innovation solutions.
Kanwar Dhaliwal
President and COO of Everflow – Partner Marketing Platform
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About Everflow – Partner Marketing Platform: Amplify your performance and partnerships by upgrading to a smarter Partner Marketing platform.
Lynn Smith
COO of Focused Impressions
Lynn spent most of her career with Standard Register and brings more than 25 years managing integrated communications programs for Fortune 100 companies. Lynn has developed, implemented and led continuous quality improvement projects focusing on both systems and business process through the utilization of best-in-class customer facing technologies. Lynn’s professional expertise centers on aggregating marketing activities that place the customer first when integrating technology systems. This promotes both ease of use and adoption as well as the ability to track and capture customer behavior. In other words, her work has enabled companies to respond, pivot and target marketing strategies quickly and successfully in response to customer activity without distracting internal staff. Her in-depth knowledge of the shortcomings of existing options in the marketplace was the impetus for her to help build the Focused Impressions platform in order to create a better solution for aggregating and managing marketing activity for businesses both large and small. Lynn received a BS in Marketing from Providence College.
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About Focused Impressions: Focused Impressions helps companies drive demand for products and services through their channel partners.
Ben Onnie
COO and Co-Founder of Career Now Brands
COO and Co-Founder at Career Now Brands
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About Career Now Brands: Career Now Brands is a data-driven MarTech company delivering digital solutions to education enrollment & essential employment industries.
Mike Hardenbrook
Co-Founder, COO of Growth Geeks
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About Growth Geeks: Growth Geeks is an online marketplace for high quality, vetted marketing services.
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.
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.
Jeff Smit
COO of Kahala Brands
With more than 35 years of experience in foodservice management, Jeff Smit offers Kahala Brands a passion for excellence, both in providing customers with quality dining experiences and franchisees with top-notch products and support. As Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Smit offers his expertise and passion to all areas of brand operations from Area Development, Project Management, R&D, Purchasing, Distribution and Supply Chain to overseeing Marketing, Franchise Development, Operations, Creative Services and the Interactive Departments. With various parts of the company to oversee, a majority of his work lies in keeping synergy active and communication open between each employee and franchisee. Jeff Smit joined the Kahala Brands family when Cold Stone Creamery® was acquired in 2007. He had served previously as Sr. Vice President of Operations of Cold Stone Creamery since 2005. In 2007 he was named President of Blimpie® and two years later in 2009, was named Chief Operating Officer of Kahala Brands. Prior to joining Cold Stone Creamery,Jeff Smit held both executive and management positions with several restaurant concepts including T.G.I. Friday’s®, Redfish™, Cooperstown™ and Bamboo Club®. While serving as Sr. Vice President for the largest T.G.I. Friday’s franchisee in the country, he was responsible for Restaurant Operations, R&D, Purchasing and new store openings. With such an extensive franchising background, Jeff Smit knows what it takes to run strong and operationally excellent businesses each and every day.
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About Kahala Brands: Kahala Brands is one of the fastest growing franchising companies in the world.
Noah Nierenberg
COO of Datalot
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About Datalot: Datalot delivers digital marketing and analytics solutions for insurance policy sales at scale.
Cory Munchbach
COO of BlueConic
Cory has spent her career on the cutting edge of marketing technology and brings years working with Fortune 500 clients from various industries to BlueConic. Before joining the BlueCrew, she was an analyst at Forrester Research where she covered business and consumer technology trends and the fast-moving marketing tech landscape. A sought-after speaker and industry voice, Cory’s work has been featured in Venture Beat, Wired, AdAge, and AdWeek, as well as spoken at conferences such as FutureM, MITX, and the Association of National Advertisers. A life-long Bostonian, Cory has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Boston College and spends a considerable amount of her non-work hours screaming wildly for all the local sports teams. The rest of that time is spent hanging with her husband, family, and friends; taking their dog for long hikes; at her CrossFit gym; or – most likely of all – reading. Follow Cory on Twitter @CorinneJames.
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About BlueConic: BlueConic’s customer data platform liberates first-party data so companies can transform customer relationships and drive business growth.
Kevin Clarke
CFO & COO of Authentic Brands Group
Kevin’s investment banking experience includes over twenty years of working with companies in a variety of industry sectors. Most of his investment banking experience was spent at Bear Stearns & Co., where he was a senior managing director and head of health care mergers & acquisitions.
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About Authentic Brands Group: Authentic Brands Group is a brand development, marketing, and entertainment company that manages the value of global brands.
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.
Ankit Vyas
COO of IQM Corporation
ANKIT VYAS, is an Industrial designer with more than 5 years of business experience. His engineering background helps him execute the concepts into reality. He is a vision oriented innovation enthusiast, value focused decision maker and a sustainable ecosystem believer. He carries a life centric approach towards any problem & solutions. After designing several industrial products, Ankit set off on a mission to design a solution that would make the world actually a better place. At Oizom, Ankit is trying to discover the hidden patterns and correlations of the environment with a data driven approach. He imagines a future where they will have a complete understanding and command over their environment.
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About Cosire, IQM Corporation, Oizom: Leveraging AI and Big Data to Nudge Swing Voters toward active decisions on election.
Kris Qiu
Co-Founder/COO of IQM Corporation
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About IQM Corporation: Leveraging AI and Big Data to Nudge Swing Voters toward active decisions on election.
Kip Young
President & COO of DoctorLogic
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About DoctorLogic: DoctorLogic offers an EHR-integrated marketing service that helps doctors grow their practice.
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.
Cameron Darby
COO of DealerSocket
Cameron began his career as an attorney at the California litigation firm, Ure, Campbell & Associates, where he served from 1995 to 1998. In 1998 he joined Viking Components, a $250 million computer memory design, manufacturing and sales organization with 240 employees located in offices around the globe.
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About DealerSocket: DealerSocket is an industry leading automotive CRM–Customer Relationship Management and dealership training provider, serving auto dealers.
Timothy Sovay
COO of CreatorIQ
As SVP at theAudience, Tim Sovay is tasked with leading business development and strategic partnerships with large media and consumer brands. He collaborates with the nation’s leading marketers to build deeper relationships with their fans through direct-to-consumer social media channels via a combination of strategy, technology, and a network of over 6,000 influencers. While at theAudience, he has led campaigns for such brands as Ford, American Express, McDonald’s, Sony, 20th Century Fox and CNN/HLN. Over the past 10 years, Tim Sovay has successfully executed digital and social campaigns for some of the biggest film franchises in the industry including The Twilight Saga, Pirates Of The Caribbean, and Pixar franchises in addition to the Academy Award®-winning film The Hurt Locker. He has also helped spearhead eminent indie film campaigns such as Spring Breakers, The Bling Ring, and Marley, all of which used digital and social media as leading components of their marketing strategies. Tim Sovay received his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration & International Relations at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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About CreatorIQ: The most trusted software to unify and power advanced influencer marketing for the world’s most innovative enterprises
Dan Luis
COO of iovox
Current COO @ iovox – global call tracking provider with offices in London, Paris, Sydney, SF Former CEO @ Purple, ClearCaptions, GoAmerica, Wynd Communications Co Founder @ Concila, SureAdhere
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About Concila, Inc., iovox, SureAdhere Mobile Technology: Our mission at iovox is to make data from all phone calls useful, valuable, and actionable.
George Newstedt
Chief Operating Officer of Excalibur Direct Marketing
He has collaborated with the United States Postal Service to help develop more efficient practices. George contributed to the concept and design of USPS Mail Processing Total Quality Management Program, and then spearheaded a similar program internally, making Excalibur the 9th company in the country to gain USPS Quality Certification. George’s solid background in business is a valuable asset. His degree in business administration from Wake Forest University and 10 years experience at Wachovia Bank with responsibilities to grow business give George a keen understanding of what it takes to achieve results.
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About Excalibur Direct Marketing: Excalibur Direct Marketing is a direct marketing and adverting firm.
Gavin Weigh
Co-Founder & COO of Revieve
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About LandInChicago, Revieve, ULLAC: Market-leading beauty customer-experience personalization solution for beauty brands and retailers
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.
Nathanael Smith
COO & Co-Founder of Aesthetic
Nathanael Smith is the CEO and Co-Founder of Aesthetic.
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About Aesthetic: Aesthetic automates all the production design work needed by companies, starting with social media graphics.
Ryan Schram
Chief Operating Officer of IZEA
As Chief Operating Officer and Director, Ryan Schram provides organizational and operational leadership for IZEA, servicing the needs of its team members, brand partners, and social influencers across the globe. Placing company culture and creativity at the center of his approach, Mr. Schram is responsible for the IZEA’s overall operational environment; including the Company’s global client development, marketing communications, campaign fulfillment and influencer ecosystem organizations. He also leads the company’s corporate business development growth strategy domestically and abroad. Schram was appointed to IZEA’s Board of Directors in November 2012. Nearing 15 years of experience in the consumer marketing and technology space, Ryan has an established track record of driving growth, efficiency and profitability for leading-edge companies. In addition to his responsibilities at IZEA, Schram presently serves as an independent Board Member of payment systems innovator Protean, Inc. and as a Senior Advisor at StageLeap, a leading customer experience consultancy firm. Prior to joining IZEA in September 2011 as its first-ever Chief Marketing Officer, Ryan served as Group Vice President at Pleasant Ridge-based ePrize (now HelloWorld), the prominent digital engagement agency that was acquired by private equity firm Catteron Partners in August 2012. Previous to ePrize, Mr. Schram held a variety of leadership positions at CBS/Westwood One and Clear Channel Media + Entertainment. His work has been regularly featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, AdAge, PROMO and AdWeek.
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About IZEA: IZEA creates marketplaces that connect brands with influential content creators and publishers at-scale.
Tyler Easterling
President & Chief Operating Officer of The Brandon Agency
Tyler Easterling, the agency’s president and chief operating officer, is known for her impeccable ability to “get things done,” and loves to check off items on her (long) to-do list on time and on budget. A problem solver and team player, Tyler has worked hard to get where she is today. Whether it’s making sure a media campaign is exactly what a client wants or ensuring that the agency has the right tools and budget to reach the goal, she always handles her responsibilities with good sense and grace. “I think if you see happiness from someone, they are probably succeeding on a daily basis,” says Tyler. Originally from Marietta, Ga., Tyler received her bachelor’s degree in public relations from Ole Miss and her master’s in mass communication and advertising from the University of South Carolina. Prior to Brandon, Tyler worked on several large brands, including Orient-Express, Celebrity Cruises and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Tyler views The Brandon Agency as results-driven, and firmly believes: “we truly want our clients to succeed.” She values accountability, and draws creativity by listening and watching other people. “We know how to measure success,” says Tyler. “The fact that we can share that success with clients really sets this agency apart.” Besides her many work accolades, Tyler counts her family as her biggest blessing, her largest inspiration and her two children her mammoth accomplishment of all. Tyler loves spending time on the beach, but if it’s Sunday, it’s more likely she’s watching NASCAR with family.
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About The Brandon Agency: The Brandon Agency is a full-service, fully integrated advertising agency.
Vanessa Rodriguez Lang
President & Chief Operating Officer of Uhuru Network LLC
Vanessa Rodriguez Lang is the President of Uhuru Network, LLC.
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About Stylishlyme, Uhuru Network LLC: Uhuru is a world-class agency growing businesses by building the full inbound funnel, web design, web development, and digital advertising.
Greg Smith
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Revenue Officer of The TEAM Companies
Passionate about technology and a Catalyst when it comes to using it as an enabler to deliver business growth, customer engagement, new and amazing solutions or just to solve problems, as our CMO Greg leads The TEAM Companies sales and marketing groups and contributes greatly to the development and enhancement of TTC technologies. Greg has been involved in technology and marketing all of his career and held some amazing positions such as Global CIO of McCann Worldgroup, WW CIO of Universal McCann, CIO of Zenith Media, CIO of Initiative Media NA, Interim Global CIO of Ipsos, General Manager at Deluxe Advertising Solutions as well as building two businesses Adserve and iRGONOMIC (now Magnet360). Most recently, Greg has been driving the growth of Deluxe AD Services business as SVP, General Manager. This successful turnaround in a very competitive space is a great example of Greg’s abilities to grow businesses while leveraging people, process and technology. Additionally Greg has shown his ability to grow a business from the ground up. He launched iRGONOMIC in Sept 2011 — a marketing technology firm based in New York focused on innovation and marketing automation. The rapid growth of IRGONOMIC led to its success and, in June 2014, it became part of Magnet360. Magnet360 is a Salesforce consulting and implementation partner, since 2004 and is focused on helping their clients to engage their audiences in order to provide meaningful and measurable engagement for outcomes. Magnet360 was named #34 in Forbes most promising companies in 2014. All of these roles have put Greg on the forefront of technology and have fed his passion for creativity in technology enablement and leadership. Greg has been able to blend inward and outward facing technology solutions and to stay on top of the latest technology offerings while bringing them to life using technology as the core enabler. Thru a high level of commitment and the ability to deliver technology platforms, Greg has been able to drive efficiencies into the process of creating ideas and the execution of the work. A close relationship with Salesforce, Microsoft, Adobe, HP, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter and other industry giants have given him the ability to leverage new technologies and provide a clear vision to organizations and their clients.
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About The TEAM Companies: The TEAM Companies is a leading payroll, business affairs and technology provider.
Wei Jiang
President & Chief Operating Officer of Citcon
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About Citcon: Citcon is a mobile payment network that enables global merchants to accept payments from consumers.
Paul Wimer
COO & President of Greenrose Acquisition Corp
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About Clareo Partners, Greenrose Acquisition Corp: Greenrose Acquisition Corp is a multi-state, vertically integrated company whose strategy is very clear.
Carrie Chitsey
Co-Founder & COO of One Touch Brands
Chitsey Wells, a native Austinite, is a digital technology innovator currently on her 7th company.She loves to stay busy running companies like healthcare (One Touch Telehealth), digital banking (OneTouch Video Chat) and recruiting/HR (Live Video Interviews). She is extremely passionate about youthmental health and the opioid crisis, which led her to start the non-profit Humans Helping Humans andexpand her podcast “Executive Innovation Show” to gain awareness. She is nationally recognized as Top100 Female Founders, Top 50 Mobile Experts and Top 40 Under 40 Marketing executives.
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About BLK24, One Touch Brands: One Touch Brands operationalizes virtual and instant mobile video connection technology for you to connect to your customers.
Jim Goodell
Partner & COO of Astro Studios
Jim Goodell is responsible for determining and overseeing the firm’s long-term strategic direction. Jim employs his many years of brand design agency experience while working with many of today’s leading corporations. He enjoys simplifying complex challenges and applying his personal brand of design methodology as he leads the structuring of multidisciplinary programs. He also shapes the studios’ alternative business models and joint ventures.
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About Astro Studios: They create multi-dimensional brand experiences that define popular culture.
Ashish Dutt
Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of BioQuest Solutions
Ashish is Co-founder and Executive Director of BioQuest and brings on to the table his expertise in Pharma Knowledge Outsourcing. His enterprising contribution to BioQuest’s consultative and outstanding problem-solving capability has been the key to designing some of our smart service-solutions for the industry. In the past 15+ years, he has the experience of leading business operations across geographies, from Opportunity Creation to Delivery, thereby building sustainable business models.
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About BioQuest Solutions: BioQuest provides Strategy, Knowledge Solutions and Services.
Rick Gallagher
Senior Managing Director / Chief Operating Officer / Chief Financial Officer of Progress Partners
Founder of Juniperks.
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About Progress Partners, Progress Ventures: Progress Partners is a corporate advisory firm that works with buyers and sellers of companies to complete M&A or private transactions.
Shaun Roberts
COO of SDA Media
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About SDA Media: SDA Media is a media holding group, built for today. At its core, an attention engine that produces over 5-billion content impressions/mo.
Jib Hunt
COO & Co-Founder of Octane11
I will get your B2B Marketing & Operations house in order. Results driven B2B marketer specializing in building complex martech and adtech stacks, multi-department campaign processes, project management toolsets, AI-driven ideal customer profile lists—complete with in-market FIT and intent signaling, and full attribution reporting across all owned, paid, and earned channels. Companies include Burton Snowboards, Virgin Mobile USA, Ghostery, Sizmek, 1010data and MediaMath.
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About Octane11: Octane11 is a B2B-focused analytics and collaboration platform that connects siloed enterprise data to real business impact
Evan Perlmutter
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Marqii
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About Marqii, Muse Operations: Marqii is a digital operations platform that empowers hospitality businesses to take control of their online information, menus and reviews.
Jason Hanny
Co-Founder and COO of Pet Connect Marketplace®
COO/Co-Founder *Independent Technology Sales: $2M Annual (MICROS) *Dir Strategic Accounts: $20M Accounts (Oracle) *Hospitality: Corporate GM (Legal Sea Foods, Capital Grille) *Pet Owner: 30 Years
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About Pet Connect Marketplace®: Pet Connect Marketplace is a pet-friendly online community with over 100,000 pet-friendly resources
Byron Nelson
Chief Operating Officer of TM Advertising
nobody will be surprised to learn that a man named byron nelson loves golf. and the dallas mavericks. what may be surprising is that his shortstop skills are what got him noticed at his first job. but it was his ability to be logical and a natural problem solver that made him an irreplaceable asset throughout his career. now, with 35 years of experience under his belt, as our coo, byron oversees the operations of the agency, ranging from finance to it to human resources. he takes pride in creating an environment that allows the talent to flourish and develop award-winning advertising year after year. but byron’s passion for maintaining an inspiring and creative culture extends way beyond the walls of tm. as a current board member of both the dallas regional chamber and downtown dallas initiatives, he is happy to lend his support in helping to make our city a more innovative and beautiful place to work and live.
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About TM Advertising: TM Advertising are not the latest marketing buzzword of the day. they are an ad agency.
Ali Ahmad
Chief Operating Officer of Workgroups DaVinci
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About Workgroups DaVinci: Workgroups DaVinci is the end-to-end productivity solution built specifically for today’s marketing and creative teams.
Jonathan Van
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Technium
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About Technium: Global seed fund, incubator, and advisory specializing in IP focused deals
Dede Houston
Co-founder and COO of Myxx
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About Myxx: Myxx is a shoppable marketing platform based on a proprietary personalized List-to-Cart technology with real-time store sales lift analytics
Derek Anderson
COO of Revenue Grid
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About Revenue Grid: Revenue Grid provides guidance and improves sales performance for sales teams.
Jesse Boskoff
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Status Labs
Jesse Boskoff is an internet entrepreneur with extensive experience in startups, marketing, product development, and more. As co-founder of Status Labs, Boskoff brings over 15 years of direct marketing and operations experience to his role as COO and CMO of Status Labs. Boskoff was also a key member of FanDuel’s marketing team. As one of its first US marketing hires, Boskoff played an integral role in the company’s growth from Series A-funded startup to a company that achieved a valuation in excess of $1 billion in 2015, running the company’s Facebook marketing, SEO, SEM and organic social media teams from July 2012-February 2016. Boskoff was also founder and CEO of RootZoo, a vibrant sports community that attracted over 100,000 registered members and over 4 million monthly page views at its peak.
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About Blue Land Partners, Status Labs: The Premier Online Reputation Management Firm
Milos Srdjevic
COO of ActiveCampaign
I am the COO at ActiveCampaign – a web based marketing platform that helps small businesses improve and automate their marketing.
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About ActiveCampaign: ActiveCampaign specializes in email marketing, marketing automation, and sales automation.
Sebastien Delvaux
Co-Founder and COO of Evolved
Co-Founder & COO of Evolved Talent Agency, the world’s largest esports talent agency. Expert in Digital Talent Management, Brand Development and Digital Marketing.
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About Evolved: Esports Consulting Group & Talent Agency for Esports Professionals & Digital Content Creators.
Lenin Batista
co Founder, COO of SprezzaBox
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About SprezzaBox: E-commerce / Retail / Marketing business in the men’s fashion & lifestyle industry.
Andy Danner
Chief Operating Officer of ProCamps
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About ProCamps: A best-in-class event management and sports marketing company.
Colin Barlow
Chief Operating Officer, GroupM Global of GroupM
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About GroupM: Global media investment management company for WPP’s media agencies including Mindshare, MediaCom, Wavemaker, Essence, m/SIX and Xaxis
Gilad Amitai
Co-Founder & COO of Ubimo
Gilad is Co-Founder and COO at leading mobile ad platform Ubimo, where he manages business operations and oversees business development. A seasoned veteran in the online advertising field, Gilad was previously General Manager of Matomy Media, a global display advertising company, where he oversaw strategy and growth of the company’s operations. Gilad was the recipient of the Mobile Marketing Association’s ‘Smarties Award for Innovation’ in 2016 for his contribution to mobile shopper marketing.
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About Quotient Technology, Ubimo: Ubimo is a Location Intelligence SaaS platform that lets enterprises of all sizes see and act on offline consumer behavior.
Sonia Tsao
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Camera IQ
Sonia Tsao serves as co-founder and chief operating officer at Camera IQ, helping brands tell stories that captivate. She is uniquely in tune with how technology impacts the consumer experience. Previously, she headed Brand Strategy at Google Venture-backed mobile commerce app, Spring, where she grew the supply-side community to over 1,000 digital brands. Sonia holds as MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Tufts University.
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About Camera IQ, Chief: Camera IQ is a camera experience manager platform that helps marketers create new worlds that customers love to explore.
James Bartlett
Co-Founder & COO of Lightning AI
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About Lightning AI: Performance advertising software for finding target audiences and automating advertising tasks on Facebook, Google, and Instagram.
Rob Saperstein
COO of SWAG’R Digital Media
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About SWAG’R Digital Media: SWAG’R Digital Media uses gamification, geolocation technologies, and augmented reality to drive real actions with brands.
Dustin Behrens
COO of Firespring
Dustin Behrens is a COO at Firespring.
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About Firespring, Firespring: Firespring provides strategic guidance activated through creative solutions in marketing and tech to help businesses and nonprofits prosper.
Kevin Thomas
President, Print & Chief Operating Officer of Firespring
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About Firespring: Firespring provides strategic guidance activated through creative solutions in marketing and tech to help businesses and nonprofits prosper.
Jim Moran
Chief Operating Officer of Vivial
Jim Moran, Chief Operating Officer, is an experienced operations leader with 15 years in the high-tech industry. His experience spans operations, sales, logistics, finance, marketing, planning and human resources support. Prior to joining Berry, Mr. Moran ran a consulting company specializing in operational efficiencies. Mr. Moran has also held sales and operational positions at STi Prepaid, Teligent and Lucent. Mr. Moran holds a Master’s degrees in Business and Education from Adelphi University and City College in NY, respectively and a Bachelor’s degree from St. John’s University.
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About Vivial: Vivial is ahead of the curve, providing innovative, lead-generating print and online search solutions.
Barry Coleman
Chief Operating Officer of Realeyes
An Operations, Talent, Culture and High-Performance Management guru, he joined the team to provide stability, maturity and experience to the team. He is tasked with scaling the global operations of the company. Barry D. Coleman is a proven leader with successes in both start-up and high-tech environments, who is a big believer in the AI applications of Realeyes and the potential for significant continued innovation from it’s talented group of engineers, data scientists, researchers and customer facing team-members. Barry brings over 20 years of Vice President and Senior Vice President level experience from tech companies like Irdeto and high-growth start ups like Loot Crate. In addition, he has top executive experience with media, technology and private equity companies like Sony Pictures Entertainment, Technicolor and Platinum Equity. He has been an expert for topics in Culture, Talent, HR and Performance, but has also had highly successful stints as General Manager and SVP for IT.
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About Realeyes: Measuring Human Response At The Speed & Scale Of AI
Jag Sidhu
Chief Operating Officer of Selling Simplified
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About Selling Simplified, Selling Simplified: Selling Simplified is a provider of b2b demand generation solutions.
RJ Nicolosi
President & COO of true[x]
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About true[x]: True[x] is a digital ad-tech company offering engagement advertising solutions for brands.
Jacob Riff
COO and Co-Founder of Monsido (now part of Optimere)
Jacob Riff is the COO at Monsido.
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About Monsido (now part of Optimere): Monsido is a SaaS web governance tool which gives organizations visibility over all their digital assets on a regular basis.
Ravi Yegya-Raman
COO of Endorse.gg
Ravi Yegya-Raman is a co-founder at Endorse.
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About Endorse.gg: Endorse.gg connects advertisers to gamers for product sponsorships.
Edward Dingels
Chief Operating Officer of GroundTruth
Edward Dingels is the Chief Operating Officer at GroundTruth.
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About GroundTruth: GroundTruth, the leading location technology company that drives results with real-world data.
Anastasiia Bilous
Chief Operating Officer of New Media Services Pty Ltd
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About New Media Services Pty Ltd: New Media Services Pty Ltd Manage Communications and Content of Consumers.
