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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 Social 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.
Daniel Shapero
Chief Operating Officer of LinkedIn
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
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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.
Arthur Leopold
Chief Operating Officer of Cameo
Arthur Leopold is the COO at Cameo.
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About Cameo: Cameo is a marketplace where fans can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people.
Elizabeth Ostrander
Chief Operating Officer of CoVenture Holding Company
Elizabeth Ostrander is the Chief Operating Officer at CoVenture.
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About CoVenture Holding Company: CoVenture provides equity and/or debt financing to tech-enabled companies in areas such as financial services, media, and platform economies
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.
Ann Shepherd
COO and Co-Founder of Him For Her
Ann Shepherd is co-founder of social impact venture Him For Her. She serves on the board of fintech startup HoneyBook. Previously Ann was the Senior Vice President of Marketing at OpenTable.
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About Him For Her: Him For Her is a social venture that accelerates the diversity on corporate boards.
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.
Robert Sydnor
COO of Optimere (ArchiveSocial + Monsido + NextRequest)
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About Optimere (ArchiveSocial + Monsido + NextRequest): Optimere is the leading provider of digital compliance, accessibility, and records management solutions.
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.
Rebekah Monson
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of WhereBy.Us
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About WhereBy.Us: A platform that enables creators to build a media business for their community.
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.
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.
Jared Fliesler
COO of Scribd
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About Scribd: Scribd is an unlimited reading subscription that offers access to books, audiobooks, magazine articles, documents and more.
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.
Soham Khaitan
Co-Founder & COO of Ambi
Co-Founder at Ambi.network.
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About Ambi, Forbes: Ambi is designed to centralize the college experience for students through a productive and powerful social network.
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.
Nate Simmons
Founder & COO of GameOn Technology
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About GameOn Technology: Our technology powers intelligent chat applications across multiple platforms for some of the world’s largest brands.
Eric Bowman
President & COO of Stream
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, S/W Engineer, Media, Fed/Dept. of Def, Healthcare, Beverage Distribution, Sports, Entertainment, etc.
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About SPARC, Stream: Stream is a company behind Stream, a live first OVP that powers video for publishers, professional sports, and top brands.
Josh Yguado
President, COO & Co-Founder of Jam City
Josh Yguado is co-founder, COO and President of Jam City, where he oversees the company’s operations, growth strategies and game portfolio – which has repeatedly dominated the top grossing charts of the Apple and Google Play stores. Before launching Jam City, Josh was Vice President at Fox Entertainment, where he helped Fox in its acquisition of MySpace, its creation of Hulu and its launch of new television networks. His career also includes working at MTV Networks and Univision. Among other honors, SoCalTech named Josh one of its top “50 Most Influential People” in Southern California’s technology industry. A board member of The Young Turks, he received his bachelor’s degree and MBA from Harvard University. He lives in Los Angeles with his family.
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Jason Donnell
COO & Co-Founder of VidMob
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About VidMob: VidMob is a video content creation network and platform where brands can create digital video ads with expert teams.
Cat Lee
Co-Founder & COO of Pace
Cat Lee is the Co-Founder and COO at Pace. Her varied operating roles across people, marketing, product, and engineering enable her to help founders in many different capacities.
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About Pace: Pace is a fitness and social wellness platform that redefines mental health through groups that are effective, fun, social, and challenging.
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.
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.
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.
Lior Gotesman
Founder & COO of Relationship Hero
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About Relationship Hero: Relationship Hero connects people with a relationship expert in a private chatroom or over the phone.
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.
Jack Ottman
Chief Operating Officer of Minds
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About Minds: Minds is a crypto social network and secure messaging app that rewards users with crypto for their efforts online.
Will Crager
Co-Founder & COO of SageSpot
Will Crager is the Co-Founder & COO at SageSpot.
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About SageSpot: SageSpot is the social platform that transforms world-class Creators’ most passionate followers into paid subscribers.
Phil Kaulfield
Founder & COO of ShoppingGives
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About ShoppingGives: ShoppingGives encourages consumers to make an impact through its change commerce technology.
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.
Casin Ward
Co-Founder, Chief Marketing Officer, and COO of Hoo.be
Casin Ward is the COO, CMO, and co-founder of hoo.be.
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About Hoo.be: Hoo.be is a social media platform allowing users to filter their favorite content in one place.
Burton Jablin
Chief Operating Officer of Scripps Networks
Burton Jablin is COO of Scripps Networks Interactive, managing key business functions, including sales, programming, digital, distribution and strategy. Jablin previously served as President of Scripps Networks, named to that role in 2013. As President, he was responsible for the management and development of the company’s portfolio of lifestyle media networks – HGTV, DIY Network, Food Network, Cooking Channel, Travel Channel and Great AmericanCountry – digital content businesses and all other related operations. As part of the original team that launched HGTV in 1994, Jablin supervised production of the network’s original programming slate – first as Executive Producer, then as Vice President of Programming. Upon his promotion to Senior Vice President of Programming and Production in 1997, Jablin oversaw the development, budgeting, production and scheduling for HGTV’s programming and on-air promotion. His role with HGTV expanded in 2000 when he was named the network’s Senior Vice President/GeneralManager, and then again one year later when he was elevated to President. Preceding his current role, Jablin served as President of Scripps’ Home Category business for four years,where his management was instrumental in positioning the company as leading on-air and online content destinations for the home and garden category. Prior to HGTV, Jablin worked for more than 10 years in television news. He began his career as a Researcher at WBBM-TV in Chicago, eventually working his way up to Executive Producer of late night news and special events programming for the CBS-owned station. Jablin then served as ExecutiveProducer for Fox-owned KTTV in Los Angeles.
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About Scripps Networks: Scripps Networks Interactive develops lifestyle content for TV, internet satellite radio, books, magazines, and other media platforms.
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.
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.
Mike Harper
Executive Vice President – COO of zSpace
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About Infinite Z, Pathway For Success LLC., zSpace: zSpace offers a system that enables its users to integrate their normal lives with a desktop-based virtual reality system.
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.
Billie Simmons
COO of Daylight
Billie is the Co-Founder and COO of Daylight.
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About Daylight: Daylight is the first and only digital banking platform in the USA built for LGBT+ people, by LGBT+ people.
Nick Eischens
COO and Co-Founder of Popl
Nick Eischens is the COO and Co-founder at Popl.
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About Popl: Popl allows users to share their social media and contact info with a tap.
Victoria Arch
Chief Operating Officer of Angaza
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About Angaza: Angaza provides a technology that enables businesses to provide affordable life-changing products to people in emerging markets.
Yuriy Smirnov
COO and Co-Founder of Fundraise Up
Yuriy Smirnov COO and Co-Founder of Fundraise Up.
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About Fundraise Up: The new standard in online giving.
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.
Laura Simkins
COO of AFAR
Digital media professional with over 16 years of experience. Special expertise in launches and start-ups. Adept at executing on a vision and communicating across all management levels in an organization. Able to build collaboration among key stakeholders. Strong background in developing long term marketing strategies for building sales while maintaining brand integrity. Proven analytical capabilities. Proactive about identifying solutions to business challenges. Broad experience in operations, consumer marketing, business management, and research.
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About AFAR: AFAR is an online travel guide powered by a community of travelers who share travel experiences through photos and videos.
Chad Baniecki
Co Founder & COO of Disco Melee
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About Disco Melee: ‘Disco Melee’ is a multi-tiered subscription based website founded with 3 main focuses: Streaming, Gaming, and Social Media.
Will Lin
Co-Founder, Partner & COO of 3Q Digital
Will Lin is Co-Founder, Partner & COO at 3Q Digital
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About 3Q Digital: 3Q Digital is a digital marketing agency catering to online advertising and mobile marketing.
Chris Skarupski
Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operating Officer of PlayPhone
Chris Skarupski is the chief financial officer of [PlayPhone](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/playphone#/entity), a social gaming company that provides solutions to wireless carriers. Previously, he held the same position at SendMe. Skarupski holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About PlayPhone: PlayPhone is a social gaming developer providing solutions to wireless carriers.
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.
Gary Ellis
Co-Founder, President & COO of Remesh
Gary Ellis serves as a co-founder and COO at Remesh.
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About Remesh: Remesh offers an AI-powered platform that enables users to have live conversations with their customers at scale.
Paul Hoare
COO of CHER®
Paul Hoare is the COO of CHER®.
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About CHER®: CHER® is a marketplace that makes sharing homeownership simple and flexible.
John Tortora
COO of Sharks Sports and Entertainment
Mr. John Tortora is Chief Operating Officer at Sharks Sports & Entertainment LLC since June 2013. John also serves as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of San Jose Sharks, LLC. He has overseen all legal matters for the hockey team and its parent company. He also worked for the National Hockey League at the organization’s New York headquarters for 14 years. John graduated with a law degree from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1994.
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About Sharks Sports and Entertainment: Sharks Sports and Entertainment owns and operates a number of sports properties.
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
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.
Patrick Aber
Co-founder, COO of Tornado
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About Tornado: Tornado is an investing app that advances financial wellness through community, insights & data for investors at all stages.
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.
Greg Shamo
Chief Operating Officer of Relativity Media
As Relativity Media’s Co-Chief Operating Officer, Gregory Shamo oversees the company’s corporate,business and legal affairs, technology, human resources and operations departments, working alongside Co-Chief Operating Officer Andrew Matthews to manage the company’s day-to-day activities. He has shepherded some of Relativity’s most significant deals, including the acquisition of Overture Films’ marketing and distribution assets, Relativity’s home entertainment distribution agreement with Twentieth Century Fox, a distribution joint venture with EuropaCorp and Relativity’s major finance agreements. Shamo joined Relativity in 2009 as Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs/General Counsel and was promoted to Co-Chief Operating Officer in 2011. He had previously represented the company for two years as outside legal counsel at Loeb & Loeb, where his practice focused on entertainment finance and corporate representation. He represented Relativity’s co-financing film funds with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Universal Studios and its acquisition of Rogue Pictures from Universal Studios, in addition to a broad range of other matters. Prior to working at Loeb, Shamo represented banks and other lenders in commercial and corporate finance matters at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. Before his tenure at Paul Hastings, Shamo maintained a bankruptcy practice at Danning, Gill, Diamond & Kollitz. He began his career with a litigation practice at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. Shamo graduated with distinction with a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University. He earned his juris doctor at the University of Southern California, where he was a notes editor for the Southern California Law Review.
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About Relativity Media: Relativity Media is focused on producing and distributing content in the United States and internationally.
Francesco DeParis
COO of Mirror Contracts
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About Mirror Contracts: Mirror is a financial contracts platform that provides hedging instruments to OTC markets
Jess Page
Co-founder and COO of Open Water
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About Open Water: Sustainable packaging for plastic-free oceans
Sarah Rose
Chief Operating Officer of UrbanSitter
Sarah Rose is the VP of Product at Polyvore where she leads product and design strategy.Prior to joining Polyvore, Sarah was the SVP of Product and Growth at ModCloth where she led product strategy and development, user experience and consumer insights. In addition to this product-focused work, Sarah oversaw the performance marketing teams. She began her career as a consultant, selling and implementing enterprise software systems and later held senior product management roles at MobShop, BabyCenter, and Snapfish by HP. She received her BA from Duke and MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
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About UrbanSitter: UrbanSitter is an online hub connecting families with babysitters through social networks.
Jason Weiss
COO of Whip Media
Jason Weiss serves as the COO of Whip Media Group.
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About Whip Media: Whip Media is transforming the global TV and film content licensing ecosystem with a market leading enterprise software platform.
Korash Hernandez
Co-Founder & COO of Status Money
Korash is the co-founder and COO of Status Money and has more than 15 years of experience in the Banking and Telecom industries. Prior to co-founding Status, Korash spent six years at Citi and Goldman Sachs in New York. Most recently, he was an early employee at Goldman’s new consumer lending unit, Marcus. At Citi, Korash served as the Head of Analytics for Digital Credit Card Acquisitions where he was responsible for developing sophisticated online ad targeting capabilities. Previously, Korash led fraud and credit modeling at T-Mobile for 9 years. Korash holds a Masters degree in Statistics from Washington State University and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics from the University of Oregon.
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About Status Money: Status Money is a social personal finance app that enables people to compare finances and crowdsource advice from peers.
Erline Martin
Chief Operating Officer of Compumatrix
Erline Martin is the Chief Operating Officer and one of the Board Advisors at Compumatrix based in Las Vegas, Nevada, US. Erline has a great recognition and deep proficiency of modern business solutions. Creative and passionate with broad-based transferable skills in sales, marketing and management, she thrives in a fast paced environment. Her education, work experience, ethics and loyalty to the company allow her to make sound, sometimes bold decisions, whilst focusing on the big picture without losing sight of the details. With her ability to focus on solutions rather than problems and as COO Erline encourages the entire Compumatrix staff and membership to fully engage with each other, as “team players.” Erline attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana and came to Compumatrix seven years ago as a member/shareholder. Prior to Compumatrix, she held various positions in Sales and Marketing, including National and International Trainer, Director, Master Distributor, Moderator and Presidency of different companies. In her 19 years of being in the Home based Industry, as President for two Network Marketing Companies and owner of her own Network Marketing Company, Erline received media recognition with press, television and radio coverage, for being one of the first companies to visit China to present and promote company products after the US-China Relations Act of 2000.
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About Compumatrix: Compumatrix provides social media currency monetization, web development, and management services.
Charles Smith
Founder / COO of Extension Entertainment
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About Ataraxia, Extension Entertainment, Social Starts: Extension Entertainment is a social music discovery platform that allows users to find and share music.
Mary Ray
Co-Founder & COO of MyHealthTeams
Mary Ray is the COO, co-founder and visionary behind the MyHealthTeams’ platform. Her deep understanding of consumers has contributed to her success in growing innovative companies from incubated new ventures at public companies to ‘traditional’ start-ups. She personally lost a family member to a three-decade battle with multiple sclerosis, has had friends who’ve battled cancer, who won, and lost. She’s seen her colleagues juggle work schedules to be caregivers to spouses, parents or their children facing a chronic condition. Through the experiences of her friends and family, she’s come to empathize with the loneliness they have experienced, while managing life with a chronic illness. This is what drove her and Eric Peacock to co-found MyHealthTeams. Together they are causing a tectonic shift in healthcare from a physician- and pharmaceutical-driven industry, to a consumer-driven one. Mary is a graduate of the College of William & Mary School of Business and George Mason University. She lives in San Francisco, CA with her husband and son, and is a proud fan of the three-time World Series Champions, the San Francisco Giants.
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About MyHealthTeams: MyHealthTeams creates social networks for chronic condition communities.
Kristi Prigmore
COO of mycoop Technologies, Inc.
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About mycoop Technologies, Inc.: Mycoop is a communication and messaging hub for residential buildings
Dan Hunt
Chief Operating Officer of MassRoots
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About MassRoots: MassRoots is a social network technology platform for the cannabis consumers and community.
Melissa Jankans
Co-Founder, COO of Launchpad
Melissa Jankans (cousin) is the COO for Launchpad and co-founder, and oversees daily operations and management of staff. Previously VP with Fidelity National Financial, she spent 17 years managing portfolios, staff, building and maintaining relationships while exceeding corporate goals and initiatives. Melissa brings her management experience with the ability to oversee multiple projects, provide strategies to achieve pivotal operational business decisions, meet project deadlines, analyze risks, develop budgets and view the overall operational and revenue goals for the company and its Stakeholders. Melissa studied at Portland State University.
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About Launchpad: Launchpad provides industry specific applications for public sector and nonprofit organizations.
Trey Smith
Co Founder / Chief Operating Officer of Set Jet
COO
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About Set Jet, Wurdey: Set Jet is a revolutionary new approach to facilitating private jet air travel.
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.
John vanSuchtelen
Co-Founder and COO/CPO of Songclip (Audiobyte)
John vanSuchtelen is Co-Founder and COO at Audiobyte, Inc.
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About Songclip (Audiobyte): Songclip is the first Social Music API, offering a SaaS technology platform for integrating licensed music on social and digital platforms.
Dagan Martinez-Vargas
COO of Peepsqueeze Inc
10 years in sales and marketing as a representative of clients with global brands. Launched new brands in market. Ran local office with budget of over $150,000. Including all administrative management.
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About Peepsqueeze Inc: User records short video message & invites friends. App sends invite, then collects & connects them all, and sends to recipient.
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
Andy Danner
Chief Operating Officer of ProCamps
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About ProCamps: A best-in-class event management and sports marketing company.
Albert Marko
Co-Founder and COO, Board Of Directors of Favore Media Group
Albert Marko was a Co-Founder and COO of Favore Media Group, where he managed business operations including business development, human resources, sales, communications, and privacy. Albert Marko is an international operations professional with over 10 years building and managing software and scientific products, with extensive experience leading product development for complex medical software and artificial intelligence programs. Prior to joining Favore Media Group, Albert was COO of Bluwave Software, where he oversaw product development, marketing, strategy, revenue, and business operations. Previously, Albert served as the Director of Business Development and Operations Manager for Vectra Networks and Liquid Light Corporation. Albert is currently a board advisor the Malmgren Strategic Institute and runs his own research firm call Northwest Meridian which caters to governments, political parties and the financial sector.
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About Favore Media Group: Favore Media Group is a media company and publisher network focused on product discovery.
Diane deCordova
COO & Founder of Parsec Media
Diane deCordova is the founder and COO of Parsec Media. Previously, Diane spent over two years with Google as a BrandLab lead and video sales specialist lead. She has also worked with Next New Networks as SVP of brand sales and VP of business development for over four years. Prior to joining Next New Networks, Diane spent over one year working with Yahoo! as a director of global alliances. Diane deCordova holds a bachelor’s degree in politics from Princeton University.
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About Adelaide, Parsec Media, Sled: Parsec is the first platform for buying media on CPS – cost per second.
Mendy Raskin
Co – Founder & COO of Bivid
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About Bivid, Raskin Risers LLC: Bivid allows you to capture moments and share it with your friends and others in your location.
David Herr
Chief Operating Officer of Opus-3
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About Opus-3: Opus-3 is a full service Tier 3 data center headquartered in the heart of Dallas and four other global locations.
David Herr
Chief Operating Officer of Opus-3
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About Opus-3: Opus-3 is a full service Tier 3 data center headquartered in the heart of Dallas and four other global locations.
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.
Ted Allen
COO of WAO!
Bilingual Latin America regional expert leveraging strategic innovation and technology to launch new companies and advise clients on digital transformation.
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About WAO!, WAO!: Platform, SaaS, Mobile App, Social Commerce
Chris Fure
Co-Founder, COO of Wonder Transmedia
Chris Fure, COO and acting CEO (former TransGlobal Ventures Partner)
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About Wonder Transmedia: Wonder Transmedia develops intellectual property to be shared across multiple digital media platforms.
Peter Hubshman
Co-Founder & COO of ThreeSpaces
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About ThreeSpaces: ThreeSpaces is a multiple persona identity network that helps members promote themselves and their passionate interests.
Aimee Dunne
Co-Founder and COO of Brazen Global
Aimee Muirnin Dunne is the co-founder and COO of Brazen Global.
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About Brazen Global: Brazen’s technology-enabled membership platform offers customized resources and a global support.
Aimee Dunne
Co-Founder and COO of Brazen Global
Aimee Muirnin Dunne is the co-founder and COO of Brazen Global.
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About Brazen Global: Brazen’s technology-enabled membership platform offers customized resources and a global support.
Zac Cooner
COO & Co-Founder of Cosmunity
Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder of Eventology Solutions Inc.
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About Cosmunity: Cosmunity brings together virtual conventions, event discovery, social connections, and media sharing devoted to geek culture fans.
Fabian Lobera
COO of Pitchengine
Fabian Lobera is the CFO at Language I/O.
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About Language I/O, Pitchengine: PitchEngine is PR platform that enables businesses to create content to share via social networks, search engines and mobile devices.
Sam Krichevsky
Co-Founder/COO of geojam
Sam Krichevsky is the globally recognized, award-winning Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Geojam, a technology and crypto-based economy platform that has innovated the creator landscape that a-list celebrities like Mariah Carey are invested into. Through Geojam Sam launched his own crypto token, $JAM, which is currently traded on some of the biggest crypto exchanges in the world, including KuCoin and Gemini.
Beyond Geojam, Sam’s career spans some of the most dynamic tech, investment and music concepts, including founding TanZ, a full-service live event production company and LaunchHouse, a seed capital investment fund where he served as COO and developed LHX, a nationally recognized accelerator program cultivating top entrepreneurial talent through senior-level mentorship, strategic business development resources, and seed funding. Sam was instrumental in leading the way to establish one of the first public/private partnerships on record in the US through LHX.
A seasoned strategist and startup expert, Sam is an active member of the Recording Academy, the Forbes Business Council and currently serves as a board member and advisor to high profile celebrities alongside music, tech, and entertainment startups around the world. His strategies and investments have landed him and his companies millions in deals/profit, and innovated various industries that turn to his technological advances to run today.
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About geojam, LaunchHouse: Geojam is the ultimate social media platform for music.
Hosna Mogaddedi
Cofounder and COO of Jurni Inc.
Founder & COO at Jurni.
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About Jurni Inc.: Jurni is a positive and safe place where you can be yourself and talk about issues and topics that matter.
Thibaut Munier
Co-Founder & COO of Numberly
Thibaut Munier is a graduate of the EM Lyon Business School. He holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters of Research in Database Marketing from the University of Dauphine in Paris. He conducted research on loyalty marketing and data mining for major airlines. He is passionate about how companies can become data rich through digital channels, and why programmatic CRM is the new future for retention marketing. For over 10 years, he has been working on leveraging machine learning for digital marketing in multiple contexts, from retail to CPG and luxury goods. His current areas of interest are People Based Marketing and incrementality through programmatic media. He is a frequent speaker on data driven strategies, the role of DMPs and the convergence of media and CRM. Amongst the speeches he has given are those for DataLead (Berkeley-ENSAE), Stanford (Center for Professional Development), the Appnexus Summit in NYC, EMLyon (Graduation ceremony), and the Watch Marketing International Conference in Switzerland.
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About Numberly: Numberly is a marketing technologist that helps advertisers build long-lasting relationships with their clients.
Terri Feldman Lubaroff
Chief Operating Officer & Head of Content of Legion M
Terri Lubaroff serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Legion M.
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About Agency for Dispute Resolution, Legion M: Legion M is a fan-owned entertainment company producing a slate of movies, TV, and digital content.
Jordan Weiss
COO of Spitball
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About Spitball: Built by students for students, Spitball is a revolutionary study platform that allows college students to study collaboratively.
Marlin Miller
COO of Care2
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About Care2: Care2 is the world’s largest social network for good.
Christopher Carroll
Partner & Chief Operating Officer of Anthem Marketing Solutions
Mr. Carroll has over 18 years of consumer marketing experience. He is a results-driven professional with a history of creating and implementing dynamic initiatives designed to yield strategic advantages while building brand awareness and increasing sales. Noted for his pro-active, detail-oriented, and innovative leadership approach, with proven expertise and repeated success in direct marketing (including direct media) strategy, database marketing strategy, and CRM. Mr. Carroll has both agency-side and client-side experience. As Vice President of Media for Professional Education Institute (formerly AMS Direct), a for-profit education and training company, he directed a combined advertising budget in excess of $250MM that generated approximately $1B in gross sales. More recently he was Vice President, Financial Products and Services for Professional Education Institute where he oversaw all aspects of this business vertical, including brand management, marketing and sales, product development and new business development. Mr. Carroll holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, and a B.A. in Communications from the University of Notre Dame.
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About Anthem Marketing Solutions: Anthem Marketing Solutions creates analytic marketing strategies and develops media marketing concepts for B2B and B2C marketers.
Grant Warner
Co-Founder & COO of ConnectYard
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About ConnectYard, Howard University, Howard University, XebiaLabs: ConnectYard offers a social engagement platform that enables users to communicate across multiple platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.
Anas Bouassami
COO & Cofounder of Snipfeed
Anas Bouassami is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Snipfeed.
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About Snipfeed: Where creators build empires.
Lauren Kassan
COO & Co-Founder of The Wing
Lauren Kassan is the co-founder and COO of The Wing, a coworking space-meets-social club for women in New York that offers living room-style work space, a locker room, a library, and on-demand blowouts. It’s meant to be both flexible space for professional women about town as well as a community hub for its 600 members. Kassan’s background is in fitness startups. She was the first employee at the New York boutique fitness studio SLT, which now has 12 locations, and rose to become the director of business development. She then worked at ClassPass, where she helped grow the startup’s studio network. Now, Kassan runs day to day operations for The Wing, which has been in-demand since it opened in October 2016, with 3,000 women now on the waiting list, and countless more in other major cities clamoring for their own version.
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About The Wing: The Wing is a network of work and community spaces designed for women.
Lesley Guggenheim
Chief Operating Officer of brightbeam
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About brightbeam: Brightbeam is a nonprofit organization that aims to have better education and a brighter future for every child.
Ryan Paugh
Co-Founder & COO of YEC
Ryan Paugh is the President, COO, & Co-Founder at The Community Company.
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About Forbes Business Development Council, Newsweek Expert Forum, Rolling Stone, The Community Company, YEC: YEC is a community organization that provides entrepreneurs with the resources and social capital they need to succeed.
Mo Firouz
Co-Founder & COO of Heroic Labs
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About Heroic Labs: Heroic Labs builds social infrastructure for games and apps.
Terry Kush
Chief Operating Officer of Majority Action
Terry Kush joined the National Consumers League in January 2009. At NCL, Terry is charged with overseeing operations and finances, strategic planning and organizational development, grants management, board relations, and works with the LifeSmarts Program. Terry works closely with the executive director and senior management to transition the League into its second century of advocacy. In so doing, she lends her marketing background to reviewing NCL briefings, publications, and marketing materials.
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About Majority Action: Majority Action is a non-profit organization that encourages corporations to be socially responsible.
