Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Director operating in the Internet space. If you think a Director 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.
Dev Patel
Director of Strategic Growth of Infobip
Dev Patel has been serving as Director of Strategic Growth at Infobip since January 2019.
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About Infobip: Infobip specializes in omnichannel engagement powering a range of messaging channels, tools, and solutions for advanced customer engagement.
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Aya Miyaguchi
Executive Director of Ethereum Foundation
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About Ethereum Foundation: Ethereum is a platform and a programming language that helps developers to build and publish next-generation distributed applications.
Jared Murrell
Director of GitHub
Jared Murrell is the Director at GitHub.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Jeremy Adams
Director, Business Development – BD/Alliances of GitHub
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About Cellar Door Coffee Roasters, GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Kyle Daigle
Senior Director, Strategic Programs of GitHub
Kyle Daigle is the Senior Director, Strategic Programs at GitHub.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Jamie Jones
Director, Field Architecture of GitHub
Jamie Jones is the Global Head of Field Services at GitHub.
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About Dcode, GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Nathan Henderson
Director of Solutions Engineering – AMER East of GitHub
Nathan Henderson is the Director of Solutions Engineering – AMER East at GitHub.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Danielle Leong
Director Of Engineering of GitHub
Danielle Leong is the Director Of Engineering at GitHub.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Matt Duff
Director of Delivery – Professional Services of GitHub
Matthew Duff is the Director of Delivery – Professional Services at GitHub.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Matt Duff
Director of Delivery – Professional Services of GitHub
Matthew Duff is the Director of Delivery – Professional Services at GitHub.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Nick Hasty
Director of Product, Discovery & Machine Learning of Giphy
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About Giphy: Giphy is an online database and search engine that allows users to search, share, and discover GIFs.
Giovanni Gardelli
Senior Director, Ad Targeting Products of Verizon Media
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Mozan Totani
Director, Head of Data Center Development and Delivery of Verizon Media
Mozan Totani is the Regional Manager, Amazon Web Services Infrastructure Operations.
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About Amazon Web Services, Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Niranjan Nagar
Sr. Director, Product Partnerships of Verizon Media
Niranjan is the Sr. Director of Product Management at Verizon Media focused on product partnerships. He is an accomplished entrepreneur and a business leader with over 20 years of experience in digital entertainment and software services. He has extensive experience in software engineering, strategic planning, partnership and digital marketing working for leading software companies like Facebook, Electronic Arts, Listen.com/RealNetworks. Prior to Samsung, he was at Facebook focused on the growth of the games business, developing marketing strategy for mobile and console game publishers, and driving the integration of the Facebook platform on Playstation and the Xbox game consoles. He also co-founded SingShot, a karaoke based social networking service and a founding team member and VP of Engineering at Listen.com that created the Rhapsody music service. Niranjan has a MS in Computer Science from Drexel University and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Karnatak University in India. He is also a graduate of the SEP at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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About Meta, Samsung NEXT, Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Alison Bellach Sonderegger
Director of Engineering of Verizon Media
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Christopher Vincelli
Director, Global Partnerships of Verizon Media
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About Millennial Media, Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
James Hughes
Director, Publisher Sales of Verizon Media
James Hughes is the director of publisher sales at Verizon Media.
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Mujibur Wahab
Director of Engineering of Verizon Media
Mujib is a Director of Engineering at Oath, a subsidiary of Verizon. He leads the global teams responsible for providing service authentication, authorization, key management, access management, traffic protection, and UGC moderation solutions and infrastructure. Mujib also oversees the development of Athenz (www.athenz.io), an open source platform for X.509 certificate-based service authentication and fine-grained access control in dynamic infrastructures.
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Anthony Winters
Director of Verizon Media
Anthony Winters is currently the Director of the Detroit office of Oath: (a division of Verizon) overseeing both Detroit and New York Automotive Business. Prior to Oath, Anthony ran the Detroit Yahoo Sales office for the last 3 years and served as an Account Director on the FCA business. Before embarking on his sales career, Anthony held senior account management roles at BBDO, FCB, Bozell and CME covering Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Harley Davidson and the Red Wings accounts. Anthony also worked in government relations at the American Association of Advertising Agencies in Washington DC. Anthony is a long time member of the Detroit Advertising community and currently serves as the Vice President of the Adcraft Club of Detroit, Vice Chair of the D Show Creative Awards and on the board of the Detroit Advertising Association. Anthony is also a member of 313 digital.
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Steve Reich
Account Director, Publisher Sales of Verizon Media
Over 16 years of experience building businesses and managing strategic partners in the technology and media industries with a consistent track record of exceeding revenue goals at startups and large global companies Subject Matter Expertise: Digital Advertising Solutions, Mobile Monetization, Programmatic, Business Intelligence, E-commerce, Social Media, Content Licensing & Acquisition, OTT, and more
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Faith Murphy
Sr. Director, SMB Partnerships of Verizon Media
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Faith Murphy
Sr. Director, SMB Partnerships of Verizon Media
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
George Bonaci
Director of Growth Marketing & Campaigns of Samsara
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About Quartzy, Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Amy Weicker
Director of Marketing of SaaStr
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About SaaStr: SaaStr is a blog about web services.
Amy Weicker
Director of Marketing of SaaStr
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About SaaStr: SaaStr is a blog about web services.
Lisa Besserman
Managing Director and Head of Innovation at JP Morgan Chase
Lisa Besserman, Founder of Startup Buenos Aires accelerator, has been named as Business Insider’s “Top 100 Most Influential Women in Tech”, and the “Business Innovator of Latin America” by the Council of the Americas. She has also been credited as “The Woman Behind Argentina’s Startup Revolution”. Lisa is a Google Mentor and has been a judge for dozens of startup competitions around the world. She was recognized as a successful entrepreneur in Forbes magazine and an International spotlight entrepreneur from the U.S Department of State. Lisa has been featured in prominent publications such as Bloomberg TV, CNBC, Entrepreneur Magazine, TechCrunch and Fortune as a startup expert. Currently, Lisa serves as the Managing Director at Expa VC, focusing on pre-seed investments. Prior to Expa, she was the Head of Indeed’s global corporate Incubator in Austin, Texas.
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About Expa: Expa supports early-stage startups through expertise, access, and funding.
Marcus Chan
Director of Content of NerdWallet
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About NerdWallet: NerdWallet develops a financial platform to help people find the right credit cards and mortgage rates.
Christian Oestlien
Director, Product Management of YouTube
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Shimrit Ben Yair
Senior Director of Product Management of YouTube
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
T Jay Fowler
Director of Product Management, Music of YouTube
T. Jay Fowler is a product manager with experience at KPMG Consulting, Wired, Yahoo, Inc., and design consultancies. T. Jay Current holds the Vice President of Product and Engineering role at MOG.
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About Yahoo, YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Andy Berkheimer
Director of Engineering of YouTube
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Will Aldrich
Director of Product Management, YouTube Premium of YouTube
Will joined Smule in January 2017. Previously, he was SVP of Product at SurveyMonkey from April 2011 to May 2016. Prior to that, he was VP of Product at TripIt, a Webby-award winning travel service that was acquired by Concur Technologies in January 2011. At TripIt, Will was responsible for product management, design and customer care. Prior to that, Will was Senior Director of Product at Yahoo!, responsible for the Profiles, Mash and Photos teams. Before Yahoo!, Will co-founded and ran product for vVault (now part of Biscom) and spent 3 years before that at CNET. Will received a BA in Foreign Affairs from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Prachi Gupta
Engineering Director of YouTube
Prachi Gupta is an engineering director at YouTube.
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Pablo Paniagua
Director of Product Management of YouTube
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Oona King
Global Director Diverse Marketing of YouTube
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Erika Rottenberg
Member of the Board of Directors of Wix
Erika Rottenberg has served as a member of our Board of Directors since October 2014. From July 2008 until September 2014, Erika was Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of LinkedIn Corporation, the world’s largest professional networking company on the internet. Prior to LinkedIn, Erika served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for SumTotal Systems, Inc., a talent management enterprise software company, from March 2004 to July 2008. Prior to SumTotal, Erika served in several roles, including most recently as Vice President, Strategic Development and General Counsel, at Creative Labs, Inc., a computer peripheral and digital entertainment product company. Erika was also an attorney with the Silicon Valley-based law firm of Cooley LLP and, prior to law school, was a school teacher in Anchorage, Alaska. Erika serves on the board of directors of the Girl Scouts of Northern California and the Silicon Valley Law Foundation. She holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law and a B.S. in Special and Elementary Education from State University of New York at Geneseo.
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About : Wix provides a platform for the development of cloud data services for millions of registered users worldwide.
Henry Pickavet
Editorial Director of TechCrunch
Henry Pickavet is the Editorial Director at TechCrunch. Prior to joining TechCrunch, Henry had a hand in a number of online and print publications, including InternetNews.com as chief copy editor and Government Technology Magazine as managing editor. He also did a stint in Sydney as group editor of RBI Australia’s manufacturing group, which is when he also developed an affinity (a love, really) for cricket. He has a bachelor’s in English from California State University, Chico, and a master’s in Liberal Studies from the New School for Social Research in New York.
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About TechCrunch, TechCrunch: TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis.
Jessica Brunner
Director of Brand Marketing of TechCrunch
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About TechCrunch: TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis.
Emma Comeau
U.S. Director of Events of TechCrunch
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About TechCrunch: TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis.
Travis Bernard
Senior Director, Subscriptions and Audience Insights of TechCrunch
Travis Bernard is a Senior Director at TechCrunch, focusing on subscriptions, audience insights, and audience development. Travis has been with AOL and TechCrunch since 2013. Prior to joining AOL and TechCrunch, Travis worked on the agency side of marketing and advertising with LM&O and New Media Strategies (now Meredith Xcelerated Marketing) in Arlington, VA. Travis is originally from Maryland, and he graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
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About TechCrunch: TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis.
Floris Bauer
Member of the Board of Directors of Cut.com, Inc.
Floris Bauer is a Member of the Board of Directors at CUT.COM.
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About : Cut makes little stories of some interest.
Catherine J. Friedman
Board of Director of Yahoo
Catherine J. Friedman has served as an independent consultant serving public and private growth companies since 2006. Prior to that, Ms. Friedman held the position of Managing Director at Morgan Stanley from 1997 to 2006 and Head of West Coast Healthcare and Co-Head of the Biotechnology Practice at Morgan Stanley from 1993 to 2006. Ms. Friedman has been a director of Board of XenoPort Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, since 2007 and also serves on its Audit and Governance Committees. Ms. Friedman joined the Board of Enteromedics, a publicly traded medical device company in 2007 and also serves as the Chair of its Audit Committee. She has been a Board member of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula for seven years, where she serves on the Executive and Program committees.
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About : Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Eric Brandt
Board of Director of Yahoo
Eric Brandt has served as a member of their Board since March 2016. Mr. Brandt served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Broadcom Corporation (“Broadcom”), a global supplier of semiconductor devices, from February 2010 until February 2016, and he served as Broadcom’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from March 2007 until February 2010. From September 2005 until March 2007, Mr. Brandt served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Beginning in 1999, he held various positions at Allergan, Inc., a global specialty pharmaceutical company, including Executive Vice President of Finance and Technical Operations and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Allergan, Mr. Brandt spent ten years with The Boston Consulting Group, a privately-held global business consulting firm, most recently serving as Vice President and Partner. Mr. Brandt is a director of Lam Research Corporation, a wafer fabrication equipment company, and Dentsply Sirona Inc., a dental products company.
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About : Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Mike Shebanek
Sr. Director, Accessibility of Yahoo
Mike Shebanek is the Head of Accessibility at Facebook.
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About Meta, Yahoo: Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Cecile Lal
Snr. Director, Business Operations and Strategy of Yahoo
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About Yahoo: Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Michael Natkovich
Director Engineering/Senior Principal Engineer of Yahoo
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About Yahoo: Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Shira Kates
Director of Product Design, Yahoo Ad Products of Yahoo
Shira Kates has worked in tech since 1998, but can sometimes pass for a millennial. She leads design on Yahoo’s ad management platform. Previously, she was a content strategist for Google. She has held a variety of other exciting jobs including running covered-wagon cookout tours in Yellowstone Park. Shira has an MBA in Design Thinking and loves designing experiences that improve life. You should check out Shira’s talk because she can show you how to run your own design sprints, contribute to product vision without stepping on your project manager’s toes, and win a hackathon, even if you were an English major.
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About Yahoo: Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Seth Sundberg
Director of Sales of 70 Million Jobs
Seth is a California Bay Area native, a former NBA basketball player, a former branch manager of a national mortgage company and a former inmate in a federal prison. He was incarcerated for tax fraud and served 5 years for his offense, and is now committed to making the transition back into society better for other formerly incarcerated men and women.
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About 70 Million Jobs, Commissary Club, Inside Out Goodness, SEVEN FOOT FINANCE: 70MillionJobs is the first national, for-profit employment platform for people with criminal records.
Francesca ReDavid
Global Marketing Director of IAC
Francesca ReDavid is the Director of Product & Growth at Care.com.
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About Care.com, IAC: IAC is a media and Internet company with more than 150 brands and products serving consumer audiences.
Spencer Rosen
Director of Global Business Development of Zendrive
Spencer Rosen helps executive teams make decisions about strategic partnerships and investments to drive exponential revenue growth and enhance product market fit. Over the past two years he has supported the launch and dramatic growth of Verizon Telematics’ connected car consumer aftermarket product, Hum — which now counts more U.S. subscribers, miles traveled, and driver behavior data points than all competitors combined. Rosen has thrived as an automotive/mobility industry specialist with Verizon for the past 8 years by applying his prior experience and ongoing passion for helping tech startups grow. He loves working with top talent from across the auto-tech ecosystem, from start-ups to multinationals, to solve hard problems while bridging the adoption of technology for safer driving today to driverless vehicles in the future. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and their six year old son.
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About Verizon Telematics, Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Marissa Bowman
Senior Director, Customer Success of Zendrive
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About Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Jay Harris
Director of Product Management of Zendrive
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About Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Albert Pereta
Executive Creative Director of Pinterest
Albert Pereta is a Creative Director of product design at Pinterest and a Creative Advisor for a few startups. He oversees design quality and leads innovation initiatives within the company. He’s originally from the beautiful town of Barcelona where he studied design and bounce between design studios and advertising agencies. He moved to New York to get his MFA Design as Entrepreneur at SVA. After returning to his hometown he founded UnitCo: a product design agency consulting for companies between NY and BCN. After a couple of years, he founded Icebergs: a visual organization app for creatives. Icebergs got acquired by Pinterest in 2014 and he moved to San Francisco to join the Product Design team. When he’s not working you can find him in the woods, baking bread or cooking a mean paella.
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Tim Belonax
Design Director of Pinterest
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About Double Issue, Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Ryan Bell
Marketing Director at Comcast SportsTech of Boomtown Accelerators
Ryan A Bell is recipient of the Presidential Award for his volunteer work with Special Olympics and the youth in Oakland. He is a writer for The Good Men Project and a branding/marketing specialist for companies of all sizes. He also happens to be the most connected man on Periscope.
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About Boomtown Accelerators: Boomtown’s bespoke accelerator programs help startups turn ideas into profitable, scalable businesses.
Jose Vieitez
Co-Founder, Director and Portfolio Manager of Boomtown Accelerators
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About Boomtown Accelerators, The Farm Atlanta: Boomtown’s bespoke accelerator programs help startups turn ideas into profitable, scalable businesses.
Greg Lind
Director of Platform of Transparent Path spc
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About Buildly, Transparent Path spc: Real-time, end-to-end visibility for perishables — using IoT sensors, blockchain security, and predictive AI.
Brian Lohse
Senior Director, Commercial Platforms of Alarm.com
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About Alarm.com, Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Colin Ulen
Senior Director Of Engineering of Alarm.com
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Romain Serman
Executive Director Bpifrance USA of Bpifrance
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About Bpifrance: Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity.
Charlotte Ginsburg
Member of the Board of Directors of Save the Redwoods
Charlotte Ginsburg serves as Director for Catalina Sea Ranch, LLC. The health of the environment has always been important to her and the future of our planet. Charlotte also serves on the board of the Aquarium of the Pacific, and is active with the Cabrillo Aquarium, the Palos Verdes Land Conservancy, Save the Redwoods and other environmental projects. Charlotte lives in Rancho Palos Verdes and has always had a love for the ocean and its inhabitants.
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About : Save the Redwoods is an organization that protects and restores redwood forests and connects people with their peace and beauty.
Michael Gambacorta
Director, Product Management & Marketing Analytics of Central Park Digital
Over 15 years of experience in product management, digital marketing, programmatic advertising, data analytics, and strategic business planning. Bachelors Degree: Columbia University. Masters Programs in Computer Information Systems and Data Science. Areas of Expertise: Big Data Analysis, Product Management, Marketing Automation, Data Mining, Software Development Management, Statistical Analysis, Real-Time Reporting, Web & App User Tracking, Data Visualization, Database Management, Mobile Advertising, Google & Amazon Cloud Services.
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About Central Park Digital: Central Park Digital is New York City’s premier digital marketing, online advertising, & big data analytics firm.
Evan Sawyer
Director, Growth & Operations Strategy of Fair
Evan Sawyer is the director of growth and operations strategy at Fair.com.
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About Fair: Fair is a car leasing company that is revolutionizing the car-as-a-service concept.
Baek Kyoum Kim
Principal, Director of Investments of Hashed
Lead strategic investment initiatives at Hashed. formerly at AWS and co-founder of a logistics startup
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About Hashed: Hashed is the crypto assets fund and community builder.
Katie Kimball
Director of Growth and Strategy of Innovation Department
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About DojoMojo, Innovation Department: Innovation Department is a brand studio dedicated to building great companies that will have a long-lasting impact on the way we live.
Kieran Campbell
Managing Director of Wilbur Labs
Managing Director at Wilbur Labs
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About Wilbur Labs: Wilbur Labs is a startup studio that builds companies and helps teams to accelerate their growth.
Robin Pam
Director of Product Marketing of Optimizely
Robin Pam is the director of product marketing at Optimizely.
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About Optimizely: Optimizely is a platform that provides digital experience solutions.
John Lagerling
Director and CBO of Mercari
John Lagerling is the Director, Android Global Partnerships at Google.
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About Mercari: Mercari is a community-powered shopping app from Japan allowing anyone to buy and sell anything from anywhere.
Masumi Nakamura
Senior Director / Engineering Manager of Mercari
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About Mercari, Techstars: Mercari is a community-powered shopping app from Japan allowing anyone to buy and sell anything from anywhere.
Tamara Greasby
Director & Data Science of The Trade Desk
Tammy Greasby is Director of Data Science at The Trade Desk where she and her team build scalable data science products to make the internet better. Despite having access to half a petabyte of new data every day (the platform sees about nine million queries every second!), they also spend a lot of time thinking about missing data problems. Tamara has a Ph.D. in Biostatistics and in her free time, loves to trail run. Prior to The Trade Desk she has worked on related problems at Facebook, Snapchat, and Oracle Data Cloud.
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About The Trade Desk: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Bennett Crumbling
Director – TV of The Trade Desk
Bennett Crumbling leads The Trade Desk’s strategy & business development within the $300B TV advertising ecosystem. Bennett is an angel investor in early stage companies. He is especially interested in data-centric companies that solve logical problems for consumers & knowledge workers inside of industries such as marketing & advertising, media, ecommerce & consumer services and real estate
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About The Trade Desk: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Alexei Ilinykh
Director Product & Engineering of VentureBeat
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About Condorly, VentureBeat: VentureBeat is an online technology news platform that is engaged in technology publication and events business.
Karl Weaver
OEM Business Development Director of Rivetz
Karl is OEM Bus Dev Director (North America and Northeast Asia) for Oasis Smart SIM, Prior to Oasis, Karl worked for Rivetz Corp, Massachusetts start-up to promote developer tools for design-in of TEE-enables applications on Smartphones for payment and security. Karl also spent 5 years working in China for Gemalto (and Trustonic) as Rainmaker for design in of embedded Mobile NFC Payments & TEE security technologies to the OEM Smartphone/Tablet PC ecosystem. He possess a B.S degree in Business Management from Salve Regina University, Certification in Mandarin Chinese Language, Customs and Culture from National Taiwan Normal University – Mandarin Training Center and Certification in Broadband wireless communications from University of Washington (Seattle).
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About Rivetz: Rivetz is a developer of a hardware-based cyber-security system used to offer a simplified approach to cybersecurity.
Vlad Kachur
Co-Founder, Director of Promolta
Vlad Kachur create strong marketing directions to help musicians be seen and establish new fans. Promolta’s co-founder believes every musician deserves to be recognized for his or her talent and hardwork.
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About Promolta: A self service advertising platform to promote videos in targeted blogs, websites, mobile apps, games and social networks.
Zachary Smith
Managing Director, Bare Metal of Equinix
Zac is a passionate business builder with a focus on infrastructure services, including cloud platforms, hosting services, automation software and financial transaction clearing. Prior to Packet, Zachary was an early employee and key member of the management team at Voxel, a NY-based cloud hosting company with a focus on infrastructure automation that sold to Internap (NASDAQ: INAP) in 2011 for 35MM. Zac is a closet musician, having attended Juilliard as a double bass major and promptly switching to software-driven infrastructure after graduation. He lives is NYC with his wife and two young boys.
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About Equinix, MerchantPlus, Voxel (Internap): Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Peter Van Camp
Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Equinix
Peter Van Camp has served as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors at Equinix since April 2007. Prior to becoming Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, Peter served as Equinix’s Chief Executive Officer and as a Member of the Board of Directors since May 2000 and as President since March 2006. In addition, in December 2005, Peter was re-elected as Chairman of the Board of Directors, having previously served in that capacity from June 2001 to December 2002. From January 1997 to May 2000, Peter was employed at UUNET, the Internet division of MCI (formerly known as WorldCom), where he served as President of Internet Markets and as President of the Americas region. During the period from May 1995 to January 1997, Peter was President of Compuserve Network Services, an Internet access provider. Before holding this position, Peter held various positions at Compuserve, Inc. during the period from October 1982 to May 1995.
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About : Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
David Fonkalsrud
Director, Global Public Relations of Equinix
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About Equinix, Racepoint Global: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Andrew Bruckner
Senior Director, Marketing Insights & Analytics of Equinix
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Ramchandra Koty
Director Of Engineering of Equinix
Ram is a technology leader at Equinix who has held variety of roles in the areas of Enterprise/B2B Integration, Web & Mobile Development, Continuous Delivery Ecosystem, APIs & Developer Experience. He has a long and varied history of working with different technology stacks, a passion for solving niche technology challenges and enjoy bringing new and disruptive solutions and services to the organization.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Rao Lingampalli
Director, Global Network Architecture of Equinix
Rao Lingampalli is currently Director of Network Architecture at Equinix leading optical network architecture and solutions development for Equinix global data center network interconnection services. His group is responsible for inter data center optical connection networks architecture and designs, intra data center optical interconnects, submarine cable landing station termination solutions, and optical transport SDN. He has nearly 25 years of experience in service provider and optical networking industries. He is a frequent invited speaker and panelist at optical networking conferences and customer events. He holds Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology with fiber optical communications specialization and Executive MBA from Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
David Anderson
Global Alliance Sales Director of Equinix
David Anderson is the Equinix Global Alliance Director for the Equinix-Microsoft strategic alliance. He has been at Equinix since 2014. Prior to that, David spent more than 20 years with Microsoft working in various roles, with a focus on cloud computing for his last 10 years. His roles included worldwide sales lead for Office 365, director of the Azure strategic on-boarding team, andrunning the Azure deal desk. He worked for the Hosting Solutions group within the Communication Sector at Microsoft, working with Managed Service Providers to enable multi-tenant, Hosted Messaging and Collaboration on top of Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. Starting in 2010, he worked with the Microsoft Azure team, helping customers and partners to realize the benefits of the public cloud. Immediately prior to joining Equinix, his role was to enable the Microsoft field, customers, and provider partners to sell and implement Azure ExpressRoute –secure, private connectivity for the public cloud.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Vaughn Eisler
Director, Business Development (Security) of Equinix
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Vaughn Eisler
Director, Business Development (Security) of Equinix
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Arun Mukerjee
Regional Sales Director of Quantcast
Arun Mukerjee is a global sales leader with over a decade of international experience in the Digital Advertising landscape. As Sales Director at Quantcast in New York, Arun and his team of strategic account executives partner with pioneer brands in the b2b space, such as Microsoft, WordPress, Vonage and their agencies, to deeply understand consumer behavior. Leveraging best in class real time programmatic technology, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, to reach influence, and convert prospective customers.
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About Quantcast: Quantcast helps create a more personalized digital world.
Mike Galgon
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
Mike Galgon is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He loves partnering with Founders to build world-class companies. Beyond working with pre-launch studio projects, Mike represents PSL on the boards of Ad Lightning, Taunt, Gradient, and Attunely. Mike has had a long career as an entrepreneur and investor in the Pacific Northwest. Mike co-founded aQuantive, which boasted both the largest independent digital agency in the world (Avenue A|Razorfish) and the largest marketer-side ad serving platform (Atlas), prior to selling to Microsoft in 2007. After leaving Microsoft in 2009, Mike served on the boards of Buuteeq (sold to Priceline), Energy Savvy, Market Leader (sold to Zillow), Real Networks, Flexe, Pixvana, and Pipeline Deals. Outside of work, you’ll find Mike in the outdoors: backpacking, camping, surfing, telemarking, snowshoeing, wakeboarding, biking, running, etc., etc.. More trails than macadam, but he’ll get it in regardless. And, when possible, you’ll find him with at least one of his four daughters. Mike has also served on the boards of a variety of non-profit organizations, including Global Partnerships (a leading impact investor focused on market-based solutions to global poverty), The Bush School, The Thacher School, and Summit Public Schools (a leading national charter school network). Mike studied Economics at Duke University, Getting It Done as a Diving / Mine Countermeasures Officer in the US Navy, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Pioneer Square Labs: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Ben Gilbert
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
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About Acquired.FM, Glow, Iteratively, Pioneer Square Labs, Taunt: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Geoff Entress
Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
Geoff Entress is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He was formerly a venture partner with Voyager Capital and Madrona Venture Group. Prior to PSL, Geoff was the most active angel investor in the region and has invested in over 200 private Pacific Northwest companies during the last two decades. Geoff represents PSL on the Board of Directors for JetClosing. He is also a current investor in over eighty private companies in the region and is a board member of Hiya, Meritage Soups, Bonanza, Foodee and LiquidPlanner. Geoff is also a long-time member of the Executive and Screening committees of the Alliance of Angels, the largest angel investor organization in the Pacific Northwest, as well as serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington, the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Notre Dame and the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. A former securities lawyer and financial analyst, he has also held positions at Perkins Coie, Jones Day, UrbanEarth.com, Salomon Brothers, The Prudential Home Mortgage Company, Mellon Bank, Priority Investment Management and Duquesne Capital Management. Geoff is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Notre Dame.
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About Judys Book, Pioneer Square Labs: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Julie Sandler
Co-founding General Partner and Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
Presidential Leadership Scholar at Presidential Leadership Scholars.
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About Pioneer Square Labs, Presidential Leadership Scholars, PSL Ventures, University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Greg Gottesman
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
Greg Gottesman is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. Prior to PSL, Greg served as one of the three initial Managing Directors of Madrona Venture Group, where he worked for almost 20 years. He also co-founded and led Madrona Venture Labs. Greg represents PSL on the boards of Boundless, Cash, LumaTax, and NextStep. He is also the founder, current board member, and former CEO of Rover.com. “Venture is about finding truly great entrepreneurs and supporting their efforts in every way possible. The rest is noise.”
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About Boltive, Pioneer Square Labs, Rover: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
T.A. McCann
Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs
T.A. McCann is a serial entrepreneur. He was founder and CEO of Senosis (acquired by Google), Gist (acquired by Blackberry) and Rival IQ, a leader in marketing analytics. Previously, he was an EIR at Polaris Venture Partners, Vulcan Capital where he built Vulcan Labs and Providence Health Services, focused on quantified health ideas and investments. He also held senior roles at Microsoft leading Exchange and the Mobile Services divisions. In addition to his own startup experience, he is an active angel investor in companies including SkillJar, CreativeLive, Assist, Migo and Vendor Hawk and on the board of Guidant Financial, Volt Athletics, and Splash.org. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Washington Foster School of Business and active TechStars mentor. Prior to his startup career, he was a professional sailor having competed in 2 America’s Cups (won one, lost one) and the Whitbread Round the World race. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, where he attended on a full swimming scholarship.
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About Gist, Microsoft, Pioneer Square Labs, Rival IQ: Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio and venture capital fund that creates and launches technology startups.
Raju Panjwani
Member of Board of Directors of Cemtrex
Raju is an accomplished executive with over 35 years of experience, including 20 years on Wall Street, and 20 years as an entrepreneur and business builder. Raju was a Managing Director with Morgan Stanley, where he spent 18 years in several senior roles in risk management, audit, strategy and being the Chief Operating Officer and Country Head for the Firm’s India office. Since leaving Morgan Stanley in 2005, Raju has considerable experience in emerging Asian markets, with a reputation built on focused execution, high integrity and strong relationships. He has excellent connectivity in US and India with a proven track record in negotiating complex joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions, and capital raises, particularly within the technology sector. Raju is a CPA in New York State and spent several years with Price Waterhouse and other accounting firms prior to joining Morgan Stanley.
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About : Cemtrex drives innovation in many sectors, including smart tech, VR & AR, advanced electronic systems, and intelligent security systems.
Will Johnson
Brand Director of Teikametrics
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About Teikametrics: Teikametrics is an e-commerce optimization platform designed for retailers on online marketplaces.
Carson Kahn
Co-Founder & Board Director of Spindle (www.spindle.app)
Named a Goldman Sachs 100 Entrepreneur for his innovations across AI and Natural Language Processing, Carson Kahn is currently the co-founder of Spindle (www.spindle.app), a no-code AI startup backed by Accel Partners (Slack/Dropbox/Facebook), Caffeinated Capital (IFTTT/Notion/Airtable), and diverse Fortune 100 executives. Previously, he served as President of Brainspace AI (acquired by Reveal with $200 million from K1 Capital), the world’s leading natural language analytics engine, originally backed by the CIA. Mr. Kahn is also a Member of the Board of Advisors for Computer Science at the University of Colorado; Stanford University AII; UC Santa Cruz Center for Excellence in Data Science Research; and Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC); and advises venture-backed startups in AI/ML, PaaS, FinTech & InfoSec as a Techstars Mentor and angel investor. Mr. Kahn also invests with the $100 million Pandemic Impact Fund (PIF), Thiel-backed VC firm SI Capital, and Transpire Ventures. His work has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, and elsewhere; and he has been tapped for expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and Future of Work by members of the Congressional Caucus on AI & National Economic Council. Previously, Mr. Kahn served as CEO (promoted from CTO) of JPMorgan In–Residence business Volley ML, saving Fortune 500 firms >$52 million in real labor annually with the first fully autonomous training & sales enablement platform for financial & health services. Named a Goldman Sachs 100 Entrepreneur for Volley’s innovations, Mr. Kahn designed, built, and sold Volley’s machine learning platform alongside an NLP team from Google, the NSA/CIA, Carnagie Mellon, and Goldman Sachs, seeded by $10 million from JPMorgan, Silicon Valley Bank, Zuckerberg Ventures, and execs from Goldman, Apple, and Facebook; before being recruited to lead Brainspace AI prior to its acquisition. Formerly, as Head of Product and co-founder at Keystone Learning Systems (KLS), the first LMS to offer cloud-native analytics and ML features for U.S. secondaries supporting >355,000 accounts, Mr. Kahn helped pioneer its now widely-imitated “extended enterprise” deployment model, before co-leading the entity sale to SPPEF Stirup Partners. On the heels of an externship at Google (via the ATLAS Institute), he formerly spanned product & technical marketing on the founding team at Vetica.com, whose real-time collaboration product Draftboard garnered users like Adobe & AOL while generating revenue from day 1. When the product was acquired by UK investors, Vetica launched Chalk.com, today the one of the 10 most popular learning analytics platforms in North America. A Black Belt in Karate and avid sportsman, Mr. Kahn can frequently be found training in a racquetball court or behind the wheel of an ATV. In his spare time, Mr. Kahn also moonlights behind a jazz piano near his home in the East Cut, San Francisco. Media Contact: Stacey Murray (stacey.murray.consulting@gmail.com) Press Kit: carsonkahn.com/press-kit
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About Spindle (www.spindle.app), Stanford University, Techstars, University of Colorado: An intelligent Decision Analytics platform for generating apps that simulate the ROI of business decisions without statistics or code.
Eric Aroesty
Co-Founder & Director of Steady
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About Steady: Steady removes barriers to earn through its income intelligence that supports hourly, 1099 and mixed-earners in earning more.
Phil Carter
Director of Growth of Quizlet
Phil joined Trinity Ventures in 2013 after graduating from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. While in business school, Phil led early business development efforts as one of the first employees at Wheelz, a venture backed peer-to-peer car sharing startup that was ultimately acquired by Relay Rides. Previously, Phil also worked for three years at Bain & Company, where he consulted for enterprises in the energy industry and worked on due diligence efforts for multiple top-tier private equity firms across the technology, auto, insurance, and retail sectors. At Trinity, Phil focuses on consumer investments in mobile, commerce, and digital media. He is particularly interested in mobile services that improve the way people live their lives. Phil loves spending time in the outdoors hiking, cycling, camping, and mountain climbing.
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About Quizlet: Quizlet is a learning platform that uses activities and games to help students practice and master what they’re learning.
Laura Oppenheimer
Marketing Director of Quizlet
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About Quizlet: Quizlet is a learning platform that uses activities and games to help students practice and master what they’re learning.
Bryson Meunier
SEO Director of Vivid Seats
Bryson Meunier is the SEO Director at Vivid Seats, an SEO veteran with more than 14 years experience both agency and in-house, and a thought leader in permission marketing as a columnist for Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and .Net Magazine and a frequent speaker on SEO and mobile marketing. As a marketer, Bryson focuses on creating relevant content that compels digital audiences to share it organically. Search, social and mobile marketing have a unique ability to qualify prospects with queries, interests and context, and marketers should be taking advantage in order to improve the user experience while increasing traffic and revenue for the brand. He currently does this in-house for Vivid Seats, a national ticket marketplace headquartered in Chicago. Prior to joining Vivid Seats in July 2014, Bryson worked for almost 9 years in a large digital agency, Resolution Media, where he created the SEO product, was the SEO strategy lead for Resolution’s largest clients, and created a bleeding edge digital audience segmentation product. Bryson is a pioneer in understanding how mobility changes SEO and a recognized expert in mobile SEO. His thoughts on mobile SEO have been published by Forrester Research, eMarketer, .Net Magazine, Mobile Marketer, CIO Magazine, B2B Magazine, Mediapost, DM News, Search Engine Land and others. He currently writes a monthly mobile marketing column for Marketing Land. Bryson has been a featured speaker at both search (SMX, SES, SIS) and mobile marketing (Mobile Insider, Mobile First Look, Digiday Mobile, CTIA, Mobile Monday, etc.) conferences and in various webinars for MarketingProfs University, SEMPO, Mobile Marketer etc. Prior to joining Resolution Media in 2005, Meunier did enterprise SEO and paid search for Walgreens.com. Meunier holds a BA in English from The Ohio State University, where he graduated summa cum laude with distinction in English. He lives in Park Ridge, IL with his wife and three kids.
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About Vivid Seats: Vivid Seats operates as an online ticket marketplace that connects fans with event ticket sellers.
Andy Gorski
Sr. Director of Marketing of Best Buy
Andy Gorski is the Vice President Brand & Promotional Marketing at Best Buy.
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About Best Buy, Best Buy, Best Buy: Best Buy is a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services offering consumer electronics and more.
Nancy Tiran
Sr. Director, Procurement: Strategic Sourcing, Lifecycle & Risk Management of Best Buy
Nancy Tiran is the Sr. Director, Procurement: Strategic Sourcing, Lifecycle & Risk Management at Best Buy.
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About Best Buy: Best Buy is a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services offering consumer electronics and more.
Joseph Serrano
Director of Digital Strategy of Best Buy
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About Best Buy: Best Buy is a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services offering consumer electronics and more.
Scott DeToffol
Director, Digital Product Management of Best Buy
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About Best Buy: Best Buy is a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services offering consumer electronics and more.
