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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 Director operating in the Search Engine 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.
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.
Richard Katzman
Board of Directors of Noodle
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About : Noodle is an organization that connects students with schools, programs, resources, and experts.
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.
Elisha Carsrud
Account Director of Yext
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Rachel Martin
Director of International Partnerships of Yext
Rachel Martin is Director of Global Partnerships, Yext.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Tammy Rechtin
Director, Enterprise Sales of Yext
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
David “Rev” Ciancio
Director Partner Marketing of Yext
David is a senior marketing, branding and digital strategist with 20 years of experience in digital marketing and business development, specializing in hospitality marketing, content and local SEO. He has led many clients to new levels of local, national and international success in the hospitality, financial service and entertainment sectors, and recently joined Yext as their director of partner marketing. Rev is an “expert burger taster” and pens burgerconquest.com one of the world’s top 3 Burger blogs where he provides marketing insight and tips.
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About LuckyDiem, Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Erin Pfiffner
Design Director of Yext
Erin Pfiffner leads the design team for Pages product and Professional Services at Yext. She has over seventeen years of branding and digital design experience across agency, in-house, consulting, and entrepreneurial environments. Erin is a dual-degree graduate from the University of Denver’s Art & Digital Media Studies programs, who’s focused her career on designing for emerging technologies that drive tangible marketing outcomes. When she’s not pushing pixels around on a screen she tries to do nice things for other people and empower females of all ages.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Ryan Linden
Senior Director, Client Delivery of Yext
Ryan is currently the Senior Director of Client Delivery at Yext, where he has helped grow the Enterprise Client Success organization over the past 6 years holding various positions in Operations & Services. He currently leads the teams responsible for Onboarding and Implementation at Yext. Prior to his role at Yext, he worked as an Associate at KPMG LLP focused in the Media and Technology industries.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Sally Payze
Senior Director, Support of Startpage
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About StartMail, Startpage: Startpage is the world’s most private search engine.
Andy Lisk
Sr Director, Global Customer Experience of eBay
Andy Lisk serves as senior director at ebay where he focuses on global customer experience.
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About eBay: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Anand Vijay
Director of Engineering of eBay
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About eBay: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
Diane Irvine
Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Yelp
Diane Irvine has served as Chairperson of the Board of Directors at Yelp since November 2011. Previously, Diane served as Chief Executive Officer of Blue Nile, Inc., an online retailer of diamonds and fine jewelry, from February 2008 to November 2011 and as President from February 2007 to November 2011. Diane also served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Blue Nile from May 2001 to November 2011 and she served as Chief Financial Officer of Blue Nile from December 1999 to September 2007. From February 1994 to May 1999, Diane served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc., a timberland management and wood products company. From September 1981 to February 1994, Diane served in various capacities, most recently as a Partner, with Coopers and Lybrand LLP, an accounting firm. Diane formerly served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc., a live entertainment ticketing and marketing company, from August 2008 to January 2010 and Davidson Companies, an investment banking and asset management company from January 1998 to January 2009. Diane holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from Illinois State University and an M.S. in Taxation from Golden Gate University.
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About : Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Courtney Stuart
Regional Director, Enterprise Sales of Yelp
Courtney Stuart is Head of North American Sales at RebelMouse. He’s helping brands and publishers leverage RebelMouse’s social content management system to create content experiences & communities which continually reach and grow audiences across the social web. Prior to RebelMouse, Courtney spent 3+ years on the executive team at Criteo as VP of Eastern Region Sales, where he built the region from scratch and scaled revenues 10X – making a significant contribution to Criteo’s successful 2013 IPO. Prior to Criteo, Courtney held a number of leadership positions at Howcast, Vibrant Media and Yahoo! Courtney is a graduate of St. Lawrence University. Specialties: Sales Leadership, Demand Generation, Lead Generation, Branding, Advertising, Online Media, Sales, SaaS, Online Advertising, Digital Marketing, Advertising Sales Management, Social Media Marketing, Media Sales, Business Development.
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About DoubleClick, RebelMouse, Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Darnell Holloway
Senior Enterprise Account Director of Yelp
Darnell Holloway is Director of Local Business Outreach at Yelp.
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About Yelp, Yelp: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Robert Gibbs
Member of the Board of Directors of Yelp
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About Bully Pulpit Interactive: Yelp operates an online platform that connects people with local businesses.
Alexander Strunkin
Director of Product Management, Indeed Incubator of Indeed
Alexander has over 10 years experience building great products. He’s had roles from technical cofounder of a funded startup, to Engineering and Software management roles at Microsoft and Limeade.
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About Indeed, Pioneer Fund: Indeed is an employment-related metasearch engine for job listings.
Anji Greene
Director, Information Security Architecture of Indeed
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About Indeed: Indeed is an employment-related metasearch engine for job listings.
Justin Lo
Director, Business Operations of Indeed
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About Indeed, SumSavy: Indeed is an employment-related metasearch engine for job listings.
Michael Kirchhoff
Senior Director – Content of BrightEdge
Michael has been a Digital Media technology Professional since 1996. Michael’s emphasis has been to create websites that build and engage audiences and produce revenue. As a hands-on executive, Michael has extensive experience bridging the gap between marketing and technology. In his career, Michael has led global SEO, PPC, Content Marketing and Social Media strategies to achieve a companies audience and revenue goals. His experience with numerous Content Management Systems and his thirst for technology has enabled him to build taxonomies and intelligent content strategies and solutions that served as a foundation for scaling organic search traffic, improved on-site visits, CTR and user experiences for personalization and semantic display. Outside of Michael’s geeky goodness, he is active in exercise, travel, speaking engagements and family.
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About BrightEdge: BrightEdge, an SEO platform delivering an uplifted ROI, enables marketers to increase revenue from organic search.
Louis Walcer
Director, Kevin M. McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences of Cornell University
Louis Walcer is a Director, Kevin M. McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences at Cornell University.
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About Cornell University: Cornell University is an American private Ivy League and federal land-grant research university located in Ithaca, New York.
Oliver Gao
Associate Director, Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy of Cornell University
Transportation systems, the environment (especially air quality), and sustainable development are the research interests of Oliver Gao. He addresses various issues in urban/regional transportation planning, engineering, air-quality impact and conformity, and related transportation policies. Most of Gao’s research involves the intensive application of mathematical and probability theories, statistical/econometrical methods (estimation, inference, hypothesis testing, forecasting), scientific computing, and information technology (GIS, temporally and spatially indexed transportation/environment database).
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About Cornell University, Cornell University, Cornell University, Cornell University: Cornell University is an American private Ivy League and federal land-grant research university located in Ithaca, New York.
Shari Kearl
Assistant Director, Business Relationship Management of Cornell University
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About Cornell University: Cornell University is an American private Ivy League and federal land-grant research university located in Ithaca, New York.
Carla Gomes
Professor / Director Institute for Computational Sustainability of Cornell University
Carla Gomes is a Professor of Computer Science and the director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell University. His research area is Artificial Intelligence with a focus on large-scale constraint-based reasoning, optimization, and machine learning. Recently, He is become deeply immersed in the establishment of new field of Computational Sustainability.
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About Cornell University: Cornell University is an American private Ivy League and federal land-grant research university located in Ithaca, New York.
Sarah Christen
Director IT Infrastructure of Cornell University
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About Cornell University: Cornell University is an American private Ivy League and federal land-grant research university located in Ithaca, New York.
Jo Ann Difede
Professor and Director of Program for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Studies of Cornell University
Difede is Director of the Program for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Studies and a Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is an internationally recognized expert in the assessment and treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and a pioneer in the application of virtual reality technology to the treatment of PTSD. Difede has worked with those who have experienced burns, terrorism, motor vehicle accidents, industrial accidents, air disasters, and life-threatening illness during the past fifteen years. She has also worked extensively with New York City firefighters, rescue and recovery workers, emergency services personnel, and other disaster relief workers. Difede has consulted to major corporations affected by the WTC attack, including Marsh McLennan. Difede supervised the crisis center for Marsh in the immediate aftermath of the attack and has continued to advise them on establishing mental health services for their employees who escaped, as well as their bereaved families. She has worked with other major corporations by establishing and supervising their mental health screening and treatment programs. As an attending psychologist, Difede is a consultant to the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Burn Center for all inpatients and ambulatory patients who require evaluation and treatment for the psychological sequelae to burns. As such, she supervised the care of all burn patients who survived the WTC attack and their families, as NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Burn Center received all burn survivors of the WTC attack. Difede has received numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and private foundations to develop treatments for PTSD following terrorism, burns, and other traumas. She is currently Principal Investigator of NIH funded awards to develop interventions to treat PTSD following burn injury and terrorism in both civilians and disaster relief workers. Following the WTC attack of September 11, 2001, the NIH granted one of the few supplements awarded to Difede to extend her treatment studies to WTC survivors. She has written numerous articles and book chapters on the assessment and treatment of PTSD, and is regularly invited to address national conferences on these topics. Of note, Difede has published the first report of the successful use of virtual reality technology for the treatment of PTSD following the WTC and is now developing virtual reality treatments for PTSD following other types of traumas. Difede’s work has also been featured in many popular media outlets including the New York Times, Crains Business, Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, Washingtonian Magazine, National Public Radio, The MacNeill-Lehrer Report, NBC, CBS, ABC with Peter Jennings, and CNN.
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About Cornell University: Cornell University is an American private Ivy League and federal land-grant research university located in Ithaca, New York.
Daniel Wong
Director, Product Marketing of Veritone
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About Veritone: Veritone has created a future-proof AI platform that comprehends and transforms multiple forms of data to create actionable intelligence.
Mark Decker
Director of User Experience of Veritone
User experience leader with solid business execution and understanding of Information Technology in the Automotive Industry. Years of success optimizing user engagement for organizations small and large. Expert in creating a compelling user experience with results that improve brand loyalty, customer stickiness and usability.
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About Veritone: Veritone has created a future-proof AI platform that comprehends and transforms multiple forms of data to create actionable intelligence.
Paul Cramer
Managing Director, Enterprise Radio of Veritone
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About Veritone: Veritone has created a future-proof AI platform that comprehends and transforms multiple forms of data to create actionable intelligence.
Vikas Mahajan
Senior Director, Information Security of American Red Cross
Vikas Mahajan, CISSP, is Sr. Director, Information Security Operations, for the American Red Cross. With more than two decades of experience, his areas of responsibility include Identity Management, Threat and Vulnerability Protection, PCI compliance and Data Loss Prevention. Prior to joining the Red Cross, he served in Executive and Management positions with LIkeMinds consulting, AARP, and PwC’s security and privacy practice.
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About American Red Cross: The American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education.
Greg Nist
Director of MarkLogic
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About MarkLogic: MarkLogic Data Hub is a highly differentiated data platform that eliminates friction at every step of the data integration process.
Justin Makeig
Director, Product Management of MarkLogic
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About MarkLogic: MarkLogic Data Hub is a highly differentiated data platform that eliminates friction at every step of the data integration process.
Puneet Talwar
Founder, CEO & Director of Munch Ado
Founder, CEO & Director at Munch Ado.
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About AY Digital, Bravvura, Bravvura Ventures, Munch Ado: Munch Ado is a fully-managed marketing / e-commerce growth platform for restaurants.
Brittany Kuehl
Director of Client Services of Native Rank
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About Native Rank: Digital Agency: Digital Marketing and Advertising Platform and Intelligence Engine
Corrissa Gillan
Director, Native Rank Premier of Native Rank
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About Native Rank: Digital Agency: Digital Marketing and Advertising Platform and Intelligence Engine
Corrissa Gillan
Director, Native Rank Premier of Native Rank
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About Native Rank: Digital Agency: Digital Marketing and Advertising Platform and Intelligence Engine
Nate Manning
Director of Business Development of Native Rank
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About Native Rank: Digital Agency: Digital Marketing and Advertising Platform and Intelligence Engine
Ravi Ranganathan
Member of the Board of Directors of Kosmix
Ravi Ranganathan is Member of the Board of Directors at Kosmix.
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About : Kosmix is a search engine that allows users to perform advanced searches via multiple filters.
Dani Giandomenico
Senior Director Usability & Design of EpikOne
Founded in 2012 by CEO and lead strategist Dani Giandomenico, IXIS sought to revolutionize how brands leverage data and achieve desired outcomes. By bringing together qualitative and quantitative data solutions, the IXIS team was able to provide our clients with an interactive experience and integrated strategy, unlocking comprehensive insights to strengthen their competitive positioning and gain market share. Today, the team continues to expand on that vision, utilizing cutting edge technologies and forward thinking strategies to offer bespoke solutions for our clients.
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About EpikOne, Ixis: EpikOne is a mix of an ad agency, search marketer, data analyst, web developer, and usability expert all rolled into one powerhouse online
Andy Wibbels
Director of Marketing of Lucidworks
Andy Wibbels is a marketing professional who has worked at several startups over the last decade including Get Satisfaction, Mindjet, Six Apart (now SAY Media), Keas, InMobi, Q2 Learning, Intrepid Learning Solutions and currently at LucidWorks where he is Director of Marketing. Andy is the author with of Blogwild: A Guide for Small Business Blogging (2005, Portfolio) and was a contributing author to Online Marketing Superstars (Kaplan, 2005) and Social Media Superstars (Entrepreneur Press, 2010) and Business: The Ultimate Resource (Basic Books, 2006).
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About Lucidworks: Lucidworks connects experiences throughout the entire user journey to meet customer and employee intent in the moment.
Shelley Muse
Director, Customer Excellence of Lucidworks
Shelly Muse joined Lucidworks in 2018 in the newly created Customer Excellence organization and is focused on driving operational excellence within the Customer Success, Professional Services, Training, and Technical Support teams to ensure engagement and success for both customers and Lucidworks employees throughout the customer journey. Before joining Lucidworks, Shelly worked at Guidance Software where she ran the professional services organization. Prior to this, she was a big data/business intelligence consultant for customers across the globe.
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About Lucidworks: Lucidworks connects experiences throughout the entire user journey to meet customer and employee intent in the moment.
Bobby Gormsen
Director, Executive Search of Riviera
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About Riviera: Riviera is an innovative Executive Recruiting firm focused exclusively on software Engineering, Product and Design executive search.
Karen Francis
Lead Independent Director of Telenav
Karen C. Francis joined AcademixDirect in 2009 and serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. She brings a valuable combination of marketing, technology and educational experience to the education marketing company. She was most recently Chairman and CEO of Publicis & Hal Riney, an advertising agency based in San Francisco and owned by global holding company Publicis in Paris, France. Prior to that, she held senior executive positions with Procter & Gamble, General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Internet Capital Group and Bain & Company management consulting. Karen serves on the Board of Directors of Mamapedia.com and has contributed as an advisor to technology companies for the last ten years, including comScore, XL Tech Group, Redloop Media and Scanscout. She also served as a member of the Board of Trustees for Dartmouth College for nine years, honing her expertise in the trends and issues facing higher education today. The owner of a zinfandel vineyard in Healdsburg, California, Karen is an avid wine collector and is a member of the Napa Valley Vine Trails Coalition. She enjoys hiking and cycling. Karen holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College. She studied at l’Université de Toulouse, France and speaks French.
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About Telenav: Accelerating towards a connected car future with smarter, easier, safer innovation.
Mitch Tuchman
Director of Inuvo
Mitch Tuchman’s experience pioneering America’s first online investment advisory service helped him define and codify the retirement needs of working Americans. Rebalance IRA is grounded in this understanding. Mitch and business partner Scott Puritz founded Rebalance IRA with the single goal of helping people retire with more money. Rebalance IRA clients get the same sophisticated investment advice and personalized treatment offered by exclusive wealth management firms, but at a fraction of the cost. As founder and CEO of MarketRiders, Mitch conceived of and built a service for do-it-yourself investors to manage their own retirement portfolios. Modeled after strategies used by elite university endowments, pension funds, and foundations, MarketRiders today helps individual investors manage more than 12,000 portfolios valued at over $4 billion. Those investors have saved over $40 million in yearly fees and have enjoyed less risk in the process, a testament to Mitch’s desire to help working Americans retire with more. Mitch has 25 years of experience in venture capital, public finance, and technology. He was a subadvisor to Apex Capital, LLC, on its $200 million technology and special situations portfolio and managed its venture capital fund.
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About Inuvo, Rebalance: Inuvo delivers superior results for advertisers and publishers by connecting consumers with the right advertisers at the right time.
Jeremy Wallace
Senior Director, Programmatic Media Sales, East of Inuvo
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About Inuvo: Inuvo delivers superior results for advertisers and publishers by connecting consumers with the right advertisers at the right time.
Jeremy Wallace
Senior Director, Programmatic Media Sales, East of Inuvo
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About Inuvo: Inuvo delivers superior results for advertisers and publishers by connecting consumers with the right advertisers at the right time.
Lisa Sheets
Senior Director of Global Customer Retention of Coveo
Lisa Sheets is Senior Director of Global Customer Retention leading a talented team with a clear understanding that customer growth and retention can only be achieved through attainment of business results and customer success. Prior to Coveo, Lisa was Senior Client Executive at Oracle, formerly Taleo, supporting some of the company’s largest Fortune 100 customers for their Human Capital Management SaaS Solutions. She joined Coveo in 2013 to start a similar team and since then has built its Global Customer Retention Team achieving market leading customer renewal rates and expansion objectives. With over 30 years of engineering, sales and management experience, her career has included positions with Honeywell, DuPont, Westinghouse and Lucent Technologies. In addition to being KCS v6 certified, Lisa also attained her Six Sigma Greenbelt Certification during her tenure as IT Project Manager at Honeywell. Lisa holds a Masters in Management from Rutgers University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. She resides in Chapel Hill, NC with her husband and two children – both currently attending college – as well as several four-legged fur kids (dog, three cats and two horses). She is an avid equestrian with a focus within the discipline of dressage.
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About Coveo: Coveo designs intelligent enterprise search and predictive insights platforms for businesses.
Leo Annab
Director of Coveo
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About : Coveo designs intelligent enterprise search and predictive insights platforms for businesses.
Ali Hanyaloglu
Senior Director of Product Marketing of Coveo
Ali Hanyaloglu is Coveo’s Senior Director of Product Marketing.
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About Coveo: Coveo designs intelligent enterprise search and predictive insights platforms for businesses.
Ali Hanyaloglu
Senior Director of Product Marketing of Coveo
Ali Hanyaloglu is Coveo’s Senior Director of Product Marketing.
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About Coveo: Coveo designs intelligent enterprise search and predictive insights platforms for businesses.
Erik Whaley
SVP & Managing Director of Location3 Media
Erik Whaley is the Chief Operating Officer at Location3 Media.
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About LOCALACT, Location3 Media, Location3 Media: Location3 is the digital marketing agency that delivers enterprise-level strategy with local market activation for global brands.
Joshua Allen
Director of Marketing of Location3 Media
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About Location3 Media: Location3 is the digital marketing agency that delivers enterprise-level strategy with local market activation for global brands.
Andrew Rulnick
Sr. Director of Digital Marketing & Analytics of Design A
Former GoDaddy. TTEC & Google. Sr. Director of Digital Marketing! Pro Cruiserweight/Heavyweight Boxing Debut 2022.
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About Design A: Design A innovates traditional and digital marketing. They have a proprietary method and process that helps customers reduce waste.
Tom Trewinnard
Director of Development of Meedan
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About Meedan, Meedan: Creative tools for journalists and translators.
Cable Green
Director of Open Education of Creative Commons
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About Creative Commons: Creative Commons helps you share your knowledge and creativity with the world.
Cable Green
Director of Open Education of Creative Commons
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About Creative Commons: Creative Commons helps you share your knowledge and creativity with the world.
Steven Hillenius
Executive Vice-President and Director of Semiconductor Research Corporation
In addition to his governance responsibilities for SRC as a member of the SRC Office of the Chief Executive (OCE), Steve Hillenius is responsible for managing the Global Research Collaboration. Prior to joining SRC, Dr. Hillenius served as Director for the Integrated Circuit Device Technology Department at Agere Systems where he was responsible for semiconductor research and technology development at Bell Laboratories and Agere Systems. Dr. Hillenius worked at Bell Laboratories/Agere Systems from 1981 until 2006. Prior to that position, he was an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Virginia from 1978 to 1981, where his research involved low temperature solid-state physics. Dr. Hillenius has eight patents in the area of semiconductor device structures and has published over 70 articles and book chapters on semiconductor devices and processing. He is a fellow of the IEEE and a member of Sigma Xi, AAAS and APS. Dr. Hillenius has served in many volunteer and elected positions within the IEEE, including president of the Electron Devices Society, member of the Education Advisory Board, and a member of the Technical Advisory Board and the Board of Directors. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Virginia in 1979.
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About Semiconductor Research Corporation: Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) is the world’s leading technology research consortium. With member companies,
Michael Phillips
Director, Contracts & Intellectual Property of Semiconductor Research Corporation
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About Semiconductor Research Corporation: Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) is the world’s leading technology research consortium. With member companies,
Scott Smith
Assistant Director, Cyber Division of Federal Bureau of Investigation
Scott S. Smith is Assistant Director of the Cyber Division. Mr. Smith began his career as a special agent with the FBI in January 1996. Since then, he has been assigned to the Cleveland Division, the Counterterrorism Division, the Dallas Division, the Human Resources Division, and the Pittsburgh Division. Prior to his appointment with the FBI, Mr. Smith served as a deputy sheriff in Lake County, Ohio, with the Lake County Narcotics Agency for seven years. He holds a bachelor’s degree in criminology from Eastern Michigan University.
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About Federal Bureau of Investigation: Federal Bureau of Investigation is a threat-based and intelligence-driven national security and law enforcement agency.
William Sessions
Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation
William S. Sessions served three presidents as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, earning a reputation for helping to modernize the agency’s forensic procedures and for increasing diversity to include more women and minorities. He was also associated with innovative approaches to discouraging young people from using drugs. Prior to joining the FBI, Sessions was the chief judge for the U.S. District Court in western Texas, where he had previously been appointed United States Attorney. Sessions is currently a partner in Holland & Knight’s Washington, D.C. office with a practice focus primarily in alternative dispute resolution procedures. He is the recipient of the Chesterfield Smith Award from Holland & Knight, the firm’s highest individual recognition given to a firm partner. Sessions serves as an arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Association, the International Center for Dispute Resolution and for the CPR Institute of Dispute Resolution. He holds a J.D. from Baylor University School of Law.
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About Federal Bureau of Investigation, Holland & Knight: Federal Bureau of Investigation is a threat-based and intelligence-driven national security and law enforcement agency.
Gordon Parnell
Member of the Board of Directors of Integrated Device Technology
Gordon Parnell has been a Member of the Board of Directors at IDT since January 2008. Gordon brings to IDT extensive general and financial management experience, which is especially relevant to his role as Chairman of the Audit Committee. Gordon has served as Vice President of Business Development and Investor Relations at Microchip Technology Incorporated (“Microchip”) since January 2009. Prior to this role, Gordon served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Microchip from May 2000 to December 2008. Prior to his role as Chief Financial Officer, Gordon served as Vice President, Controller and Treasurer at Microchip. Gordon holds a Finance / Accounting qualification with the Association of Certified Accountants from Edinburgh College, Scotland.
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About : Semiconductor designer & developer
Flavia Neves
Director of Advertising of Boxfish
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About Boxfish: Boxfish is a patented suite of text analytics and AI algorithms engineered to extract relevant, hidden audiences.
Scott Nagely
Director of BookLawyer
Scott Nagely is a director at BookLawyer.
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About BookLawyer: BookLawyer is a free legal information site where people find answers to their legal questions.
Diego Mora
Latin America Director of vLex
Diego Mora is VP Sales at vLex.
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About vLex: vLex offers the professional, governmental, and academic markets with legal contents and solutions.
Susan Cunningham
Director, U.S. and Global Market Strategy of vLex
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About vLex: vLex offers the professional, governmental, and academic markets with legal contents and solutions.
Heidi Buck
Director and Founder, BEMR Lab of United States Navy
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About United States Navy: We are the United States Navy, our Nation’s sea power – ready guardians of peace, victorious in war.
Alexander Maue
Associate Director Microbiome Products and Services of United States Navy
Alexander Maue is the Associate Director & Scientific Program Manager at Taconic Biosciences.
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About Taconic Biosciences, United States Navy: We are the United States Navy, our Nation’s sea power – ready guardians of peace, victorious in war.
Tony Edward
SEO Director of Tinuiti
Tony Edward is the SEO Director at Tinuiti .
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About New York University School of Professional Studies, Search Engine Land, Thinking Crypto, Tinuiti: Tinuiti is a data-driven digital marketing agency specializing in full-service online marketing.
Aaron Levy
Group Director & SEM of Tinuiti
Aaron Levy is the Group Director & SEM at Tinuiti.
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About Tinuiti: Tinuiti is a data-driven digital marketing agency specializing in full-service online marketing.
Andy Taylor
Director of Research of Tinuiti
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About Tinuiti: Tinuiti is a data-driven digital marketing agency specializing in full-service online marketing.
Richard Pembroke
Director of Matchdeck Ltd
Richard Pembroke has co-founded several successful companies both in the UK and South Africa. They include Datanet Marketing Services Ltd that was sold in March 2000 to FTSE listed Eckoh Technologies and Rivals Digital Media (RDM), a digital publishing business with offices in London and Cape Town that was acquired by AIM listed UK Betting Plc in December 2003. Richard Pembroke has extensive experience in running businesses in Africa including two years managing Global Africa Network’s interests in West Africa. Richard Pembroke is also Chairman of IDM Holdings an integrated financial services company that employs over 300 people in South Africa having been a seed investor and non-executive director since 2004. Richard Pembroke returned to the UK in July 2010 after 7 years in Africa and co-founded Frontier Market Intelligence (now Matchdeck) with Chris Pilling in 2012.
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Trent Blacket
Director of Mooter Media
Trent Blacket is Director @ Mooter Media.
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About Mooter Media: Mooter develops and provides digital media solutions, including a contextual targeting and analysis platform and search engine marketing.
Philseok Kim
Program Director of ARPA-E
Philseok Kim is the Program Director at ARPA-E.
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About ARPA-E, SLIPS Technologies: ARPA-E advances high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too early for private-sector investment.
Steve Bell
Director of Blastoff Labs
Steve Bell is the Director at Blastoff Labs.
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About Blastoff Labs, ReSound: Blastoff Labs is a search engine marketing agency that designs and operates automated large-scale e-commerce for growing enterprises.
Trish Stines
Director of Client Services of Boostability
Trish Stines has over 15 years of experience developing and managing partner relationships. Prior to working at Boostability, Trish spent 10 years at Dex/RH Donnelley in numerous positions including Product and Channel Marketing Manager. Trish also spent three years at Webvisible, serving as the Director of Partner and Business Development where she was instrumental in large-scale partnership acquisition and relationship management. Most recently at Deluxe Corporation, Trish identified, developed, and maintained strategic partnerships as the Business Development Executive. Trish has proven her ability to profitably grow and maintain business relationships at all levels. Her efforts have resulted in millions of dollars of incremental revenue throughout her career.
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About Boostability: Internet Marketing for Local Businesses
Trish Stines
Director of Client Services of Boostability
Trish Stines has over 15 years of experience developing and managing partner relationships. Prior to working at Boostability, Trish spent 10 years at Dex/RH Donnelley in numerous positions including Product and Channel Marketing Manager. Trish also spent three years at Webvisible, serving as the Director of Partner and Business Development where she was instrumental in large-scale partnership acquisition and relationship management. Most recently at Deluxe Corporation, Trish identified, developed, and maintained strategic partnerships as the Business Development Executive. Trish has proven her ability to profitably grow and maintain business relationships at all levels. Her efforts have resulted in millions of dollars of incremental revenue throughout her career.
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About Boostability: Internet Marketing for Local Businesses
Eran Rubens
Director, Workstation Technology of FoxyTunes
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About FoxyTunes: FoxyTunes was acquired by Yahoo in January 2008.
Susan Wiker
Group Director of Operations, SEO of Huge
Susan Wiker is an Associate Director of SEO at Huge, a global experience agency based in Brooklyn. She has nearly a decade of SEO experience with a strong focus on creating content that speaks to both users and search engines. During her career she has worked with companies across a variety of industries including Fodor’s, Verizon, and Google.
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About Huge: Huge redefines what’s possible for the world’s most ambitious brands.
Derek Fridman
Group Creative Director of Huge
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About Huge: Huge redefines what’s possible for the world’s most ambitious brands.
Jason Whiting
Managing Director, Business Development of Huge
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About Huge: Huge redefines what’s possible for the world’s most ambitious brands.
Arron Goodin
Managing Director of AdLift
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About AdLift: AdLift is a premium digital marketing and advertising company offering 360 digital marketing solutions.
Cody Wilson
Founder,Director of Defense Distributed
Cody Rutledge Wilson is an American crypto-anarchist. He is the founder/director of Defense Distributed, a non-profit corporation dedicated to the restoration and protection of natural human rights.
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About Defense Distributed: Defense Distributed is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the restoration and protection of natural human rights.
Allen Arnold
Director of Sales of UpCity
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About UpCity: UpCity helps businesses find service providers they can trust.
Julie Conroy
Research Director of Aite Group
As Research Director of Aite Group’s Retail Banking & Payments practice, Julie Conroy covers fraud, data security, and anti-money laundering issues. She has more than a decade of hands-on product management experience working with financial institutions, payments processors, and risk management companies, including a number of years leading the product team at Early Warning Services. Julie is often quoted in numerous media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, U.S News and World Report, American Banker, and the New York Times. Julie is fluent in Spanish and holds an M.A. in International Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a B.A. in Business Administration from the Michigan State University Honors College.
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About Aite Group: Aite Group is an industry analyst firm covering business, technology, and regulatory issues in financial services industry
Alois Pirker
Research Director, Wealth Management of Aite Group
Alois Pirker is the research director for Aite Group’s Wealth Management practice, specializing in trends in the wealth management market. He has published extensively on topics including digital transformation in wealth management, the registered investment advisor space, financial planning, separately managed accounts, and advisor-focused platforms and tools.
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About Aite Group: Aite Group is an industry analyst firm covering business, technology, and regulatory issues in financial services industry
Kelly Goeller
Director of Client Care of EggZack
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About EggZack: Automated Sales and Marketing System
Kelly Goeller
Director of Client Care of EggZack
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About EggZack: Automated Sales and Marketing System
Nicolas Chambers
Director of Channels of Indix
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About Indix: Businesses use the Indix Product Platform to improve the size & quality of their digital catalog & develop new ways to buy & sell products.
Vincent Tobiaz
CEO / Digital Marketing Director of SEO Smooth
Web Designer, Web Developer, Internet Marketing and product improvement/UI connoisseur. Prefers to be called Vinnie. Vincent has done freelance Web Design and Development since 1998 & search engine marketing/optimization and social media marketing/optimization since 2005. Through his earlier years, studied in the Information Technology field with his CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) certification, working for well known companies such as Cox Communications and smaller companies such as travel agencies. Vincent is a devout fan of the startups world and joined in around the mid 2000’s freelancing by myself and with various Web Design, Development and Internet Marketing companies. Eventually the freelancing grew into something more than just freelancing and started a company called SEO Smooth. Having worked with hundreds of Windows and Linux servers, different Web site programming languages and everything related to the field. After exhausting himself running a company 70-110 hours a week for 5 years he decided to go back to the corporate world with 40 hour a week job at Destination Rewards and still maintain SEO Smooth on the side. He programed emails in HTML and CSS and send them using a custom system that reach millions of people per week. He makes emails compatible with all email clients and mobile email clients, making them as well as you possibly can with @Media CSS statements and also does some search engine optimization for them.
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About SEO Smooth: Our business is the marketing science of your business.
William Slawski
Director of SEO Research of Go Fish Digital
With over 22 years of SEO experience and a Juris Doctor Degree from Widener University School of Law, Bill is a leading expert on Google’s patents as related to SEO. Bill is the Director of SEO Research at Go Fish Digital and Editor of SEO by the Sea. The author of over twelve-hundred posts on his site, Bill informs readers upon patents and papers directly from the search engines. Bill’s experience ranges from Fortune 500 companies to local businesses near his hometown in Carlsbad,Ca. Bill is a contributing author to Moz, Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch. This year he has also spoken at SMX West
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About Go Fish Digital: Go Fish Digital is a digital marketing company focused on search engine optimization and online brand management.
Andrew Nelson
Director of Paid Media of Silverback Strategies
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About Silverback Strategies: Digital Performance Marketing Firm
Derek Lyman
Co-Founder & Director of Dexrex Gear
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About Dexrex Gear: Dexrex Gear is an IT company that provides text data management services for instant message networks and mobile text messages.
Mari Erickson
Brand and Media Director of Game Thrift LLC
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About Game Thrift LLC: We are the place for gamers to find the games they need and the community they want.
Taylor Somerville
Managing Director of Savage Partners
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About Savage Partners: A leading boutique retained executive search firm focused on partnering with expansion staged, growth technology companies worldwide.
Justin Lund
Managing Director of Savage Partners
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About Savage Partners: A leading boutique retained executive search firm focused on partnering with expansion staged, growth technology companies worldwide.
Justin Lund
Managing Director of Savage Partners
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About Savage Partners: A leading boutique retained executive search firm focused on partnering with expansion staged, growth technology companies worldwide.
