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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 CTO’ operating in the E-Commerce space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Adam Marcus
Co-Founder and CTO of B12
Adam is a co-founder and CTO of B12. Previously, he was Director of Data at Locu, a startup that was acquired by GoDaddy. He has written widely on crowdsourcing and data management and processing, including co-authoring a book, “Crowdsourced Data Management: Industry and Academic Perspectives.” Prior to that, he completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT. His dissertation is on database systems and human computation. He is a recipient of the NSF and NDSEG fellowships, and has previously worked at ITA, Google, IBM, and FactSet. In his free time, he builds course content to get people excited about data and programming.
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About B12: B12 offers website building, contact management, online scheduling, payments, invoicing, and SEO services.
William Fong
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Boxed
William Fong joined Boxed as CTO in 2013. Having developed an early love of programming, William has been coding since the age of 9. Prior to Blackgate Ventures, William was Co-Founder and CTO of Astro Ape Studios before being acquired by Zynga and becoming CTO of Zynga Mobile NY. William holds a Bachelors of Computer Science from Rutgers University.
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About Blackgate Ventures, Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO of Amazon
Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Amazon.com in Seattle, Washington. In charge of driving technology innovation within the company, Vogels has broad internal and external responsibilities. He joined Amazon in September of 2004 as the Director of Systems Research. He was named Chief Technology Officer in January of 2005 and Vice President, World-wide Architecture in March of that year. Prior to joining Amazon.com, from 1994 until 2004, Vogels was a research scientist at the Computer Science Department of Cornell University. He mainly conducted research in scalable reliable enterprise systems. From 1999 through 2002 he also held a Vice President and Chief Technology position at Reliable Network Solutions, Inc. From 1991 through 1994 he was a senior researcher at INESC in Lisbon, Portugal. Vogels received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands with Prof. Henri Bal and Prof. Andy Tanenbaum as his advisors. He is the author of many conference and journal articles, mainly on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing systems. Vogels maintains a technology oriented weblog named “All Things Distributed†which he started in 2001 while he was still a scientist at Cornell. It was mainly used to discuss early results of his research. After he joined Amazon.com the nature of the weblog changed to more personal with some general technology and industry writings. Vogels described the deep technical nature of Amazon’s infrastructure work in a paper about Amazon’s Dynamo, the storage engine for the Amazon Shopping Cart.
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Paul Gaffney
EVP & CTO of Dick’s Sporting Goods
Bill Goldberg joined MediMedia as Chief Executive Officer in 2011.
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About Dick’s Sporting Goods, MediMedia, The Aspen Institute: Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
Noah Pryor
CTO of Teachable
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About Teachable: Teachable is a venture-backed company that allows anyone to create and sell online courses.
Marcelo Cortes
Co-Founder & CTO of Faire
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About Faire: Faire is a company that helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores.
Jim Freeman
Chief Technology Officer of Zalando
Jim is CTO at Zalando and represents the customer experience and technology perspectives. Jim joined Zalando’s senior management team in April 2018, having worked for the company in 2016. Prior to his role as SVP Engineering at Zalando, Jim worked for Amazon, where he served in product, technology, and general management leadership roles for Prime Video from 2009 to 2016 and for Alexa Communications from 2017 to 2018. Before that, he worked as Chief Technology Officer at MaxMedia from 2007 to 2009. Jim holds a degree in computer science from the University of Illinois.
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About Zalando: Zalando is a fashion and technology company, currently transforming into a multi-service platform.
Michael Klett
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Chargify
Michael is a former hardware engineer who designed circuit boards for Alcatel, and parts of the XBOX 360 CPU for IBM. After his adoption of Ruby on Rails, Michael left the hardware world in 2007 to pursue web development full-time. He launched his own company, Web Advocate, to create custom e-commerce sites and content management systems, and ran it for two years. Now, as co-founder & Technical Lead of Chargify, Michael leads all of Chargify’s development. He derives particular enjoyment from working on applications that help entrepreneurs. Michael holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Engineering from NC State University. In his free time, Michael enjoys playing soccer, snowboarding, and putting together puzzles with his daughter.
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About Chargify: Chargify is a subscription billing software service that offers a recurring billing and subscription management space.
Francis Duong
Co-Founder & CTO of Flexe
Francis has deep experience as a software engineer and a successful track record as an entrepreneur. Prior to co-founding FLEXE, Francis started and built Ignition Mobile, a Y-Combinator backed mobile analytics company, leading it to a successful exit in 2011. Earlier in his career, Francis spent several years at Microsoft as a Developer for Windows and a PM for Xbox.
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About Flexe: Flexe delivers omnichannel logistics programs for eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, same-day delivery, and network capacity.
David Glick
CTO of Flexe
As CTO, David is responsible for the design and development of the FLEXE technology platform. Before FLEXE, he spent nearly 20 years at Amazon, including five years as the VP of Fulfillment Technology, where he oversaw the development and functionality of the technology within Amazon’s fulfillment centers, as well as the technology for Amazon’s transportation systems for two of those years.
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About Flexe: Flexe delivers omnichannel logistics programs for eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, same-day delivery, and network capacity.
Mahmoud Arram
Co-founder & CTO of Bluecore
He is the co-founder and CTO of TriggerMail; an ecommerce marketing automation company. He had once built the multi-channel user notifications infrastructure -including email- for Sponty, Gameday Tycoon, LoopIt, Canv.as and Moda Operandi. Previously, He led the engineering team at Moda Operandi, the premiere luxury fashion ecommerce retailer. He was responsible for building the email infrastructure, revenue and reporting systems, multi-currency order calculators and on-site merchandising tools. Prior to M`O, He was a software architect at Allurent designing merchandisable shopping experiences for online retailers. He was on the team that lead the transition to a SAAS business and implemented Allurent’s radically simple integration strategy. While on leave from Allurent, He co-founded Gameday Tycoon, a fantasy sports game that runs on Facebook, as well as Sponty which helped people discover indy music events. In a previous life, He worked on a heart monitoring device at Guidant. At 22 He was the youngest person to receive the highest technical award among 3000 engineers. He graduated in 2004 with dual degrees in computer engineering and electrical engineering from Iowa State University on a full merit scholarship. He also tried to teach computers how to read cursive Arabic handwriting at MIT.
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About Bluecore: Bluecore uses predictive intelligence to automatically connect shoppers to products, content, and offers, wherever they are.
Jason Baudendistel
CEO, CTO & Content Manager of Wibbets.com
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About Self Employed, Sixy Press, Wibbets.com: Wibbets.com is the ultimate pro privacy shopping platform.
Ameesh Paleja
Chief Technology Officer of OfferUp
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About OfferUp: OfferUp provides an online and mobile C2C marketplace app for people to buy and sell electronics, furniture, and cars.
Vijay Venkatesh
CTO of MakeSpace
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About MakeSpace: MakeSpace is an on-demand storage company that makes it easy to order, store, and retrieve physical belongings.
Allen Chaves
Chief Technology Officer of Endurance International Group
Allen Chaves leads the product engineering teams and spearheads the vision and strategic technical direction for all the Endurance’s software offerings. He brings with him more than 25 years of engineering leadership, technology strategy, and software architecture experience in several technology companies like Intuit, Ultimate Software, and Sage. An accomplished executive with a proven track record of transforming legacy systems into modern software architectures and delivering highly scalable SaaS systems, Allen ensures Endurance’s products, technology platforms, and software architecture are able to evolve to support emerging customer and market opportunities. Allen holds a bachelor’s of science degree in computer science from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil.
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About Endurance International Group: Endurance International Group provides small businesses with the products and technology they need to enhance their online presence.
Michael Bryzek
Co-Founder / Chairman / CTO of Flow Commerce
Michael Bryzek is the Co-Founder, Chairman, CTO of Flow.io. Prior to that, he was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Gilt Groupe. Michael brings to Gilt Groupe extensive experience in developing user-focused Internet software and a deep passion for leveraging technology. Prior to Gilt Groupe, Michael founded Volunteer Solutions, an Internet-application service provider for the philanthropic sector. Volunteer Solutions was acquired by United Way of America in 2001. Michael then served as chief technology officer for United eWay, the United Way of America’s technology subsidiary. He holds a BSc and Masters in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Flow Commerce: Flow is a platform that enables e-commerce companies to go global.
Pan Pan
Co-Founder, CTO of Pietra
Pan Pan is a co-founder and the CTO of Pietra.
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About Pietra: Pietra is a business-in-a-box platform that provides Creators all the tools they need to build a business.
Lucas Tirigall-Caste
Co-founder, CTO of Society6
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About Society6, Sogma: Society6 is an online marketplace that empowers artists to make their artwork available for sale as a variety of products.
Mukund Balasubramanian
Chief Technology Officer of Photon
Mukund Balasubramanian is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Photon. His strategic technology agenda is the driving force for mobile presences developed by over 25% of the Fortune100 companies. As a trusted technology advisor, CIOs seek his advice on technology direction, design and architecture of enterprise-class mobile and digital presences. Mukund oversees and guides one of the largest pool (over 1500) of trained digital and mobile consultants in the world. He was previously the Vice President of Product development at webMethods (NASDAQ: WEBM), which acquired Infravio for $40mn, where he was the founder and CTO. Infravio was the leading Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) registry and governance company. He has served as an active member and adviser to several standards organizations such as XML schema, W3C Web services architecture and Open Source web services. Mukund has a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
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About Photon: Photon is a technology corporation that provides Strategy Consulting, Creative Design, and Technology Services to global enterprise.
Chris Clark
Co-Founder & CTO of Grove Collaborative
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About Grove Collaborative: Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home and personal care products and is the leader in zero-plastic CPG.
Chris Estreich
Co-Founder & CTO of Tophatter
Chris Estreich Co-founded Blippy Inc. in 2009 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Chris Estreich served as a Senior Software Engineer at Oodle helping build the platform that powers MySpace, Walmart, and Facebook Classifieds. He graduated from Stanford in 2005 with a Degree in Computer Science.
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About Tophatter: Tophatter is revolutionizing the e-commerce landscape with a discovery shopping app that’s truly one-of-a-kind.
Michael Flynn
CTO & Co-founder of Recharge
Michael Flynn currently works as the CTO and co-founder for ReCharge. He previously worked at Sponsumo as the founder.
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About Recharge: Recharge offers subscription management software for e-commerce businesses.
Chris Colinsky
CTO of MeUndies
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About MeUndies: MeUndies brings together sustainable fabric and innovative design to make soft underwear and loungewear for its customers.
Aleksey Klempner
CTO of WAYV
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About WAYV: WAYV is an automated, e-commerce platform serving California’s cannabis industry.
Jonathan Chen
CTO & Co-Founder of Pathover
Co-Founder of FiscalNote, Inc., and Pathover. Inc. Specialized in AI & ML. Inc. 30 Under 30. D.C. 25 Under 25. Valedictorian University of Maryland, College Park.
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About FiscalNote, FiscalNote, Pathover: Pathover is an API-based intelligent optimization and logistics solution for the last mile.
Shinji Kuwayama
CTO of Leap Services
Shinji Kuwayama serves as chief technology officer at Leap Services.
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About Leap Services: Leap develops a retail platform that enables brands to deploy stores and accelerate growth.
Yash Nelapati
Co-founder and CTO of MakersPlace
Yash Nelapati is the co-founder and CTO at MakersPlace.
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About MakersPlace: MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators.
Nick Auger
Co-Founder & CTO of RevZilla
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About RevZilla: The best Motorcycles, Motorcycle Gear & Awesome-sauce. Noteworthy Nuggets from TeamZilla.
Claude Denton
CTO of Zeenk
Claude Denton is the CTO at Zeenk.
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About Zeenk: Zeenk delivers actionable analytics to e-commerce brands selling on Amazon or Shopify
Alex Plugaru
Co-Founder & CTO of Gorgias
Alex Plugaru is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Gorgias.
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About Gorgias: Gorgias is a multi-channel helpdesk integrated for online and e-commerce merchants.
Errol Fagone
Co-Founder, CTO of Zone & Company Software Consulting LLC
Errol Fagone is the Co-Founder and CTO at Zone & Company Software Consulting.
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About Zone & Company Software Consulting LLC: NetSuite sales, implementations, services, and custom development
Dima Soroka
CTO of OroCommerce
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About MageCore, OroCommerce: OroCommerce is the company behind OroCRM, OroCommerce and the OroPlatform.
Rong Yan
Chief Technology Officer of Verishop
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About Verishop: Verishop is a premium lifestyle company that offers everyday luxury in fashion, beauty, home, and more.
Sowmiya Chocka Narayanan
Co Founder and CTO of Lily AI
Sowmiya Chocka Narayanan currently serves Lily AI as co-founder and CTO. Prior to joining Lily AI, Narayanan was a software engineer designer for Texas Instruments, Informatica, and Yahoo!, and mobile apps Pocket Games and Gem Box.
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About Lily AI: Lily AI is the customer intent platform built to power the present and future of ecommerce.
Amy Yuan Zaoshi
Chief Technology Officer of Proven Skincare
Amy Yuan Zaoshi co-founded Proven Skincare in 2017, since which she has been serving as its chief technology officer.
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About Proven Skincare: Proven Skincare develops skincare products intended to allow customers to design and personalize products that fit their lifestyles.
Mike Trionfo
Co-Founder & CTO of Homie
Mike Trionfo is a Co-Founder & CTO at Homie.
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About Homie: Homie is the future of home buying and selling. Customers save thousands of dollars—we’re not focused on commissions. #wegotyourback
Adi Ofer
Chief Technology Officer of FastAF
Adi Ofer is the Chief Technology Officer at FastAF.
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About FastAF: Grocery and other daily essentials from premium brands delivered instantly.
Julian Connor
Co-Founder & CTO of Grailed
Julian Connor is the co-founder and CTO at Grailed. He is a former software engineer at Venmo.
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About Grailed: Grailed is a peer-to-peer marketplace company that offers fashion and lifestyle accessories and apparel for men.
Steven Ou
Founder & CTO of Touch of Modern
Steven Ou is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Touch of Modern,the curated, online shopping destination for men to discover unexpected products, fashion brands and accessories to elevate their lifestyle. Steven leads the strategic vision and development of the company’s technology, including the website, mobile applications and backend infrastructure. Steven, a self-taught coder and computer scientist, started his first company in high school after moving between Argentina, Guatemala, Taiwan and Spain throughout his childhood. After graduating college, Steven moved to San Francisco to join his three cofounders, and lead the technical development of three ventures, Skyara, Ravn and finally Touch of Modern. For Touch of Modern, Steven streamlined all internal processes and automated almost all business functions by building the necessary software and technology in-house. All of the company’s technology is vertically integrated including the website, mobile apps, CRM, inventory system, calendaring system, payments system and fulfillment system.
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About Touch of Modern: Touch of Modern is a curated, online shopping destination for men to discover unexpected products to elevate their lifestyle.
Matt Darling
Chief Technology Officer of Madison Reed
Matt Darling is the chief technology officer of Madison Reed.
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About Madison Reed: Madison Reed is a beauty company revolutionizing the way women color their hair.
Daniel Undurraga
Founder & CTO of Cornershop
Mr. Daniel Undurraga is Founder & CTO at Cornershop.
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About 0BS, Cornershop: Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.
Mark Miller
CTO and Chief Scientist of Agoric
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About Agoric: Agoric provides a framework for programming smart contracts securely and with ease, beyond anything available today.
Denis Ivanov
CTO of Sheikh Shoes
Denis Ivanov is the Chief Technology Officer at Sheikh Shoes since Jan 2016. Previously, Denis was Chief Technology Officer at AMIClubwear, Manager of Software Development at Vision Integrated Graphics Group, Director of Information Technology at Overnight Prints, Director of Information Technology at FarHeap Solutions Inc. and Lead Software Engineer at Overnight Prints. Denis earned his B.S. degree in Information and Computer Science from University of California at Irvine.
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About Sheikh Shoes: Shiekh Shoes began its vision of expansion in 1991.
Leif K-Brooks
Co-founder & CTO of Octane AI
Leif is one of the world’s leading experts at scaling and building chat technologies and has been building chat platforms for the last decade.He is the founder and creator of Omegle, one of the largest chat platforms of its kind. More than a million people use Omegle daily and his technology has powered over 2 billion conversations.
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About Octane AI, Omegle: Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.
Sean Johnson
CTO of Locus Robotics
Sean brings more than twenty years of first-hand experience building complex warehouse management and robotic solutions that are used by thousands on a daily basis. For Sean, usability, data integrity, uptime, response time, simplicity and scalability are the key success measures. His insight and experience has been instrumental in building Locus Robotics’ powerful technology, focusing on solutions that work smarter, integrate better, and keep pace with the market.
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About Locus Robotics: Locus Robotics is a warehouse robotics company that manufactures autonomous mobile robots to support e-commerce.
Geoffrey Van Haeren
President/CTO/Co-Founder of Nogin
Geoffrey Van Haeren is the President, CTO, and Co-Founder at Nogin.
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About Branded Online, Nogin: Nogin delivers commerce solutions to brands in the fashion, CPG, beauty, health, and wellness industries.
Matt Senter
Co-Founder and CTO of Lolli
Matt Senter is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Lolli. Prior to that, he was the Co-founder and CTO of Cosmic, Founder and CEO of Phream, Co-Founder and CTO of SeedMatrix, Founder and CEO at Kungfuters, and Founder and CEO at Senternet.
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About Lolli: Lolli is a rewards app that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.
Sakib Sauro
CTO of Backpack
Hacker at Backpack
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About Backpack: Backpack is a website that connects travelers and shoppers globally.
Vlad Panov
CTO of Portion
I co-founded a startup (RegTech) that was selected into Techstars Barclays 2016 program (one of top 3 incubators). The same startup won multiple awards, including “Most Likely to Scale” from Amazon and was contracted by three global corporations as a software solution. My second successful startup raised $5M in seed round, was accepted into multiple incubators and was acknowledged for technology advances in the field of blockchain. In large corporations (JPMorgan, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley) I managed large groups of developers (up to 30 employees), proposed and won internal contracts to develop new products for that company, and most of them have been praised by major publications (including WSJ and NYT).
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About Portion: A marketplace for NFTs & art.
Gautam Golwala
Co-founder & CTO of Poshmark
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About Poshmark: Poshmark is a social marketplace for fashion where anyone can buy, sell, and share their style with others.
Julio Hernandez-Miyares
Chief Technology Officer of Icaro Media Group
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About Icaro Media Group: Icaro Media Group offers AI technology, real-time analytics, advertising and e-commerce integrations products & services to media companies.
Jun Yang
Co-Founder,& CTO of Dada-JD Daojia
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About Dada-JD Daojia: Dada-JD Daojia owns and operates an online crowdsourcing logistics portal and provides local instant delivery service.
Andrey Krotov
Chief Technology Officer of Net Element
Mr. Krotov has been Chief Technology Officer of the Company since March 1, 2014. Mr. Krotov joined the Company’s predecessor, Net Element, Inc., on January 4, 2011 and was senior software developer from January 4, 2011 until June 1, 2011 and Chief of Development Department of Net Element Russia from June 1, 2011 until March 1, 2014. From October 2008 through December 2010, Mr. Krotov was employed with Interactive Tribe GmbH, a software development company, as a senior software engineer responsible for the creation of architecture and software development. From April 2007 until August 2008, Mr. Krotov was employed with Artsofte, a software development company, as a software engineer. Throughout his career, Mr. Krotov was responsible for the creation of proprietary intellectual property portfolios and managed local and outsourced teams of software developers. Mr. Krotov has a master degree from Ural State Technical University by specialty “Calculating machines, complexes, systems and networks”.
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About ITSP Hub, Net Element: Net Element is a technology-driven group specializing in mobile payments and value-added transactional services.
Chandra Balasubramanian
Chief Technology Officer of CardinalCommerce
Chandra Balasubramanian is the CTO at CardinalCommerce.
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About CardinalCommerce: CardinalCommerce provides digital authentication solutions and products for merchants, financial institutions, and networks.
Gabe Coyne
Co-Founder & CTO of Affinity.is
Gabe Coyne is the Chief Executive Officer at Stix Golf Co.
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About Affinity.is, Prota Ventures, Stix Golf: Affinity.is helps retailers attract more customers through a customer rewarding system that involve celebrities.
Ross Paul
CTO of 1stdibs
As CTO, Ross Paul is responsible for building and maintaining the scalable systems necessary for our rapidly growing business. Ross joins us from MLB.com, where he served as VP of Engineering, helping to develop innovative programs like their stat-casting application, real-time pitch classifier and live mobile streaming video platform, and products for connected devices including video game consoles, Roku and Internet-enabled TVs. Previously, he worked for Lockheed Martin’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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About 1stdibs: 1stdibs is an internet company that offers a marketplace for rare and desirable objects in furniture, fashion, fine art, and jewelry.
Victor Liew Jia Hao
Co-founder & CTO of Xfers
Co-Founder & CTO
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About Xfers: Xfers is a Major Payment Institution approved by the Monetary Authority of Singapore for the provision of e-money issuance services.
Gang “Aaron” Shao
CTO of LetYouKnow, Inc.
Aaron is the Chief Technology Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, overseeing all matters related to product infrastructure, including but not limited to database architecture, website and applications (apps) development and maintenance, algorithm coding and data collection processes.
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About LetYouKnow, Inc.: LetYouKnow.com is an innovative platform where buyers submit their own prices for new cars to get instant results!
Felix Lung
CTO and Founder of Zola
With over 17 years of technology and startup experience, Felix is at the forefront of designing and developing large-scale distributed systems and customer-centric Internet software spanning Internet advertising, machine translation, and e-commerce industries. Prior to becoming CTO and Co-Founder of Zola.com, Felix was the CTO/Co-Founder of Host Committee, a startup focused on disrupting the nightlife industry. Felix served as a Lead Engineer at Gilt Groupe, heading up several teams including the woman’s tech team and the customer excitement team. Before Gilt, he was the Lead Architect for SDL Language Weaver where he was instrumental in transitioning the company from an enterprise software company to a SaaS-based organization serving millions of translations a day. From 1998 to 2003, Felix was a critical piece to the DoubleClick DART adserver team, helping to build a business that served upwards of 2 billion ads a day. He started his career as a software engineer at Intel Corporation. Felix holds a Bachelor’s of Science and Master of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Cornell University.
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About Zola: Zola is a wedding company that reinvents the wedding planning and registry experience.
Randy Jimenez
CTO and Co-Founder of StayTuned
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About StayTuned: StayTuned is building a suite of tools to help high growth e-commerce brands grow even faster.
Liam Stannard
Chief Technology Officer of BigRentz
Liam Stannard is Chief Technology Officer at BigRentz.
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About BigRentz: BigRentz is an online construction equipment rental marketplace with over 2,500 partners with 8,500 rental yards.
Ceazarr Townsend
CTO / Founder of The Convoy
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About The Convoy: The Convoy is a B2B Marketplace pooling the buying power of small & independently owned businesses to reduce business expenses.
Tejas Viswanath
CTO, Co-Founder of ChalDal
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About ChalDal: Chaldal is an online platform for grocery and delivery based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Gabor Angeli
Co-founder and CTO of Eloquent Labs
Gabor Angeli is the Co-founder and CTO at Eloquent Labs.
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About Eloquent Labs: Eloquent Labs supplies artificial intelligence to augment and replace live chat customer support agents at eCommerce companies.
Andrew Reberry
Co-Founder and CTO of TurnCommerce, Inc.
Andrew Reberry is Founder @ TurnCommerce, Inc.
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About HugeDomains.com, TurnCommerce, Inc.: TurnCommerce provides domain investors with a wide variety of web properties.
Samuel Hoffstaetter
Co-Founder and CTO of Short Story
Samuel Hoffstaetter is the Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer at Short Story.
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About Short Story: Short Story is the first online retailer and top rated personal styling service focused exclusively on petite women’s sizing.
Josh Summitt
Co-Founder and CTO of otto by DEVCON
Josh has spent over 12 years in Information Security specializing in finding, exploiting, and patching software vulnerabilities for fortune 500 companies. He has developed several open source tools for the hacker community and has presented these tools in the 2016 and 2017 Black Hat Conferences. Josh is a proven technologist, polyglot software engineer, and creative problem solver. “I had the pleasure of working with Josh Summitt for over 5 years in the security space. This work included web application penetration testing, external network and wireless penetration testing, and development of tools for authorized Phishing campaigns. Josh also developed hacking demos (showing how bad-actors practice their tradecraft) which has been used to raise security awareness for audiences globally. Josh is a very skilled security analyst and would be an asset to any organization that needs to mature its security program.” (Kevin Mitnick, Mitnick Security)
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About otto by DEVCON: otto by DEVCON specializes in the fields of risk management and SaaS.
Jay Smith
Founder & CTO of Webscale
Jay Smith founded Webscale in 2012 and currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer of the Company. Jay received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Colorado State University in 2008. Jay has co-authored over 30 peer reviewed articles in the area of parallel and distributed computing systems. In addition to his academic publications, while at IBM, Jay received over 20 patents and numerous corporate awards for the quality of those patents. Jay left IBM as a Master Inventor in 2008 to focus on High Performance Computing at DigitalGlobe. There, Jay pioneered the application of GPGPU processing within DigitalGlobe.
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About Webscale: Webscale is a multi-cloud SaaS tool that provides access to technology enabling e-commerce businesses to automate their processes.
Harm Lyall
Co-Founder and CTO of Pollen
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About Pollen: Pollen helps small online retailers acquire new users more cheaply and easily than Google or Facebook.
Corey Bertram
CTO of ROKT
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About ROKT: Rokt is an ecommerce marketing technology that gives customers a personalized and relevant experience while buying online.
Dylan Pyle
Co-Founder, CTO of CALA
Dylan Pyle joined CALA as Co-Founder, CTO in 2016.
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About CALA: CALA is a marketplace that provides retail infrastructure for influencers and fashion brands to design and launch their own fashion brands.
Leo Jiang
CTO, Co-founder of Talech
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About Talech: Talech is a POS system that provides merchants with analytics and insights.
Eugene Nonko
CTO and Co-Founder of QuoteLab.com
Eugene Nonko is the CTO and technology officer of MediaAlpha. He is the primary architect of MediaAlpha’s technology platforms and is responsible for the direction and strategy of the company’s technology and analytics capabilities. Previously, Eugene was the VP of R&D at Oversee.net and a senior software engineer at Microsoft.
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About MediaAlpha, QuoteLab.com: QuoteLab is an online marketplace connecting consumers with insurance agents and companies.
Chris Fanini
Founder & CTO of Weebly
Fanini is the co-founder and chief technical officer of Weebly, a tech start-up based out of San Francisco. Weebly is an extremely simple and powerful way for anyone to create a website, blog or online store. More than 20 million people have created a website with Weebly, and 12 percent of the U.S. population visits a Weebly website every month. Chris grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and attended Pennsbury High School. While in high school he started a web hosting company, followed by one of the area’s first wireless ISP’s, which provided high-speed internet and voice services to small businesses who couldn’t get access to Cable or DSL. Chris went on to study IST at Penn State, then moved to San Francisco with his co-founders to start Weebly. Chris has a passion for technology, infrastructure, and the web. He’s an avid snowboarder, angel and real estate investor, and hours away from obtaining his private pilot’s license.
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About Weebly: Weebly is a consumer service that lets people create a website, blog or online store.
Darren Cheng
Co-Founder & CTO of Thanx
Darren is a born-and-raised East-Coaster, currently enjoying the West Coast life. He joined Thanx as employee and engineer #1 in 2011 and has enjoyed cultivating the codebase from its inception to what it is now. Darren received his BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth.
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About Thanx: Guest engagement that delights!
RJ JAIN
Founder ,CEO & CTO of Price.com
RJ Jain is the Founder ,CEO & CTO at Price.com.
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About Price.com, Private Angel Investor: Price.com develops a money savings platform used for comparison shopping, cashback, coupons, price history, and price alerts.
Tim Herby
CTO, Chief Architect & Co-Founder of Mighty Networks
Tim Herby is the Co-Founder, CTO, and Chief Architect of Mighty Networks.
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About Mighty Networks: Mighty Networks is an online platform for creators and brands to build communities.
Luke Ivers
CTO of ItsaCheckmate
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About ItsaCheckmate: ItsaCheckmate is a leading service in integrating 3rd party delivery platforms directly into POS systems.
Bhargava Adepalley
Co-Founder & CTO of Notion Press
Bhargava Adepalley If code is poetry, Bhargava is our resident poet. With an appetite for code, a thirst for Vanilla tea and an uncanny ability to fall asleep in the middle of a conversation, Bhargava brings a whole lot of development experience into the publishing industry. When he isn’t busy playing Farmville in real life or watching his favorite sci-fi movies, he heads the Notion Press development team.
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About Notion Press: Notion Press eBook, print book and book reviews free self publishing platform – Also, check the Notion Press Reviews at notionpress.com
Troy Venis
CTO of BILLMO, LLC
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About BILLMO, LLC: BillMo is a Latin American Mobile Wallet focused on the receive side of a Money Transfer enabling the recipient to spend money digitally.
Josh Scaglione
Co-Founder & CTO of Clyde
Josh Scaglione is the Co-Founder and CTO at Clyde.
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About Clyde: Clyde is a platform that connects retailers to insurance companies to launch and manage product protection programs.
Jim Castillo
CTO and Co-Founder of CHEQ
Jim Castillo is the CTO and Co-Founder at CHEQ.
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About CHEQ: The World’s First Social Order & Payments Platform
Richie Bello
Founder, CTO of Shop Smart Autos
Richie Bello is known as an automotive influencer, big data provider, dealer consultant and trainer. He is the author of many books, 3 of his books on Amazon are Branding for Car Guys, Ten Steps to Sales Mastery, and Prospect like a Gold Miner. With 37 years in the automotive industry, Richie understands your problems. ✔ Poor leads ✔ Employee turnover ✔Lack of trained skilled workforce ✔Data overwhelm ✔Poor or no management reports you need We get it, with his unique experience Richie knew if could make an impact in the auto dealership business. With our agile development team, we have built our platform at a fraction of the time and money that it would typically take to create these features -Full site development – with dashboards -Mobile app launched on both Android and Apple. -Geofencing Technologies -Data reporting created for dealership management -Full Media Platform -Specialized training for results where you need them. With Richie Bello Automotive Influencer at the helm, we have created a company that’s focused on helping you increase profits. -Minority Owned Business -Partners in Technology -Kelley Blue Book -DealerTrack -IHS Market-Polk -Exclusive VIN Specific Leads To Dealers -Data reporting -Coaching automotive dealerships, sales oriented services sales team improvement workshops for Salesman Training Selling Cars The Internet Car Salesman Workshop Converting Callers to Customers Corporate Training.
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About Richie Bello, Shop Smart Autos: Shop Smart Autos is an online portal for selling and buying pre-owned and brand-new vehicles.
DJ Kunovac
Co-Founder & CTO of Skubana
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About Skubana: Skubana is a commerce operations platform powering fulfillment, inventory, and business intelligence for multi-channel retailers.
BT Bitarafan
CTO of iHerb
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About iHerb: iHerb is an e-commerce retailers that offers a wide range products from top brands.
Joe Van Dyk
CTO of Crowd Cow
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About Crowd Cow: Crowd Cow works with small family farms to let users choose their cow and their cut.
Marcos Sainz
CTO of Returnly
Marcos Sainz is CTO at Returnly Technologies,.
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About Returnly: Returnly is the provider of digital return experiences for direct-to-consumer brands.
Braxton Woodham
CTO of Fandango
Braxton Woodham is President, Chief Techology Officer and Co-Founder of Lasso. Prior to Lasso, Braxton was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Tap11, which was acquired by AVOS. He was formerly the CTO of InfoSpace’s mobile division where he was responsible for the infrastructure that serviced approximately 70% of all mobile web traffic in North America. Braxton joined InfoSpace through the acquisition of Moviso, where he served as VP, Technology and lead the development of the V4 Platform, which scaled by more than 100 times to support more than 16 million transactions per month across US, European and Australian carriers. Prior to joining Moviso / InfoSpace, Braxton served as Executive Director of Technology at Sony Music Digital Media Ventures, where he focused on new Internet initiatives including Keyhole, which later became Google Earth. Earlier Braxton served as Lead Propulsion Engineer for two Atlas missions and was a Captain in the United States Air Force.
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About Fandango: Fandango is a corporation that sells movie tickets via telephone and Internet.
Eric Muntz
Chief Technology Officer of Mailchimp
Currently VP of Development at MailChimp, Eric Muntz is passionate about working with designers and engineers to build amazing products. He’s helped create web, desktop, and mobile applications for early-stage startups, small businesses, and the federal government. MailChimp is the world’s largest marketing automation platform, helping more than 16 million small businesses deliver more than a billion emails daily.
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About Mailchimp: Mailchimp provides marketing automation for e-commerce businesses.
Derek Parham
CTO of JOOR
Derek has over 12 years of experience as an entrepreneur and technical lead. He built Google Apps for Business from scratch and served as its technical lead of over 100 engineers for almost six years, growing the product to 40 million customers. The project utilized and developed some of the world’s largest scalable systems, along with shaping what is now referred to as “the cloud”.Derek serves as technical investor and adviser to various start-ups in addition to being involved in the film industry, investing and producing feature films.
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About JOOR: JOOR is an online global fashion marketplace, connecting brands and retailers.
Adem Esen
Co-founder, CTO of Shipday
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About Shipday: SaaS, Mobile App, Local Delivery, E-commerce, Food Delivery
Lloyd Briggs
Chief Technology Officer of SecureBuy
Lloyd Briggs serves as SecureBuy’s Chief Technology Officer. Combining technical expertise and innovation with a customer-centric focus, Mr. Briggs brings over 14 years of experience in the payment processing and global billing services industry. Managing global network and data center operations at CCBill.com, he maintained maximum security, uptime and efficiency for 20,000 active client accounts. As Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Briggs upholds stringent fraud protection and risk management compliance standards while applying ingenuity to support the unique integration requirements of SecureBuy’s customers and partners.
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About SecureBuy: SecureBuy is a leader in global payment fraud prevention and security technology for e-commerce payment processing.
Benlloyd Goldstein
Co-Founder and CTO of Hyphy
Benlloyd Goldstein is the CTO and Co-Founder of Hyphy.
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About Hyphy: Supermall is a social commerce app.
Rajan Ramasamy
CTO & Co-Founder of Stackline
Rajan Ramasamy is a CTO and Co-Founder at Stackline.
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About Stackline: Stackline is a retail intelligence and software company that provides tools, data, and services for e-commerce.
John Goulah
CTO of Primary
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About Primary: Primary is making better clothes for kids and building a better experience for busy parents to shop for them.
Jarrod Cuzens
Co-Founder & CTO of Empyr
Jarrod Cuzens is Chief Architect at Figg.
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About Empyr, Empyr, Figg: Empyr is a card-linked offer engagement platform for national brands and digital publisher.
Stefan Haney
CTO & Strategic Advisor of Foundry Brands
Stefan was a key leader in building Seller Central and the Amazon Marketplace from $9B to over $160B. He brings a proven track record of launching new technology, delivering business results, mission critical programs, projects, and systems in a variety of industries. Stefan lives in Moscow, ID with his wife and kids. When not shuttling his seven kids to activities, you can often find Stefan adventuring on a bicycle.
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About Foundry Brands: Foundry Brands is a platform that supports and acquires online brands.
Randolph Voorhies
Co-Founder / CTO of inVia Robotics
Rand has extensive experience working on robotics projects ranging from autonomous submarines to ground robots to quadrotors. He earned both his Masters and PhD degrees in Robotics from the University of Southern California.
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About inVia Robotics: InVia Robotics provides next-generation robotics warehouse automation solutions for e-commerce distribution centers and supply chains.
Ofir Shalom
Chief Technology Officer of Ordergroove
Ofir is leading Ordergroove’s technology team to build world-class subscription commerce products. Prior to Ordergroove, Ofir was the CTO at GroupCommerce, building a SaaS based eCommerce platform for audience owners. Before his time at GroupCommerce, Ofir was the Vice President of Engineering at TheLadders.com, the leading +$100K online recruitment service. In this position he grew the engineering team from 15 to 65 engineers over the course of five years. Before coming to NYC Ofir spent nine years working in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spent six years building automated testing and monitoring products at Mercury, which got acquired by HP for a $4.5B. He spent three years working for Checkpoint Technology, the leading Internet Security software. Prior to that, had Ofir co-founded an offshore development center in Russia which was sold after three years to a leading IT consulting firm based in Germany. Originally from Israel, Ofir now lives in NJ with his wife Laili and 2 boys Emanuel and Gabriel. In his free time he enjoys any form of aqua sports and playing basketball with the local league.
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About Ordergroove: Ordergroove transforms brands & retailers from episodic transactions to recurring revenue via frictionless, recurring customer experiences.
Helton Souza
Co-Founder & CTO of Labdoor
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About Labdoor: Labdoor is an online marketplace that tests and ranks supplements, providing consumers an easy way to research and buy the best products.
Greg Egan
Co-Founder & CTO of The Landing
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About The Landing: The Landing is a social design platform that empowers everyone to create together.
