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 Founder operating in the Advertising Platforms space. If you think a Founder 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.
Alan Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Alan founded IAG Research, which became the leading provider of engagement metrics in the television industry, and served as co-CEO until the company was acquired by Nielsen. Alan then served as the CEO of Advertising Solutions for Nielsen, and is currently a venture partner for Greycroft Partners. Alan is a graduate of the New York University School of Law (J.D.), Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (M.P.P.), and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.).
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About Embark, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Eric Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Co-Managing Partner@Peak Opportunity Partners (“POP”). Pop is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on seed and early stage companies. POP makes opportunistic investments that can typically be a company’s first outside capital. Investments include: Blue Apron, Work Fusion(Crowd Computing), Stella Service, Great Bridge ( Earnest Research ), EBTH ( Everything But The House ).
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About Canvs, GoSpotCheck, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Oren Kaniel
Co-Founder and CEO of AppsFlyer
Oren Kaniel is the CEO & co-founder of AppsFlyer, the market leader in Mobile Attribution Analytics. Oren holds a BA in Computer Science, Cum Laude, from the Technion, and an MBA from IDC, as part of an exchange with the Wharton Business School.
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About AppsFlyer: The world’s top brands use AppsFlyer to build great products, create exceptional experiences, and preserve customer privacy.
Reshef Mann
Co-Founder & CTO of AppsFlyer
Reshef Mann is Co-Founder & CTO at AppsFlyer.
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About AppsFlyer: The world’s top brands use AppsFlyer to build great products, create exceptional experiences, and preserve customer privacy.
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.
Anjit Anand
Founder of Promolta
Anjit Anand is eager and passionate about helping musicians get discovered through social media and deep publisher network. Promolta’s co-founder takes her mission seriously in helping people reach their dream.
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About Promolta: A self service advertising platform to promote videos in targeted blogs, websites, mobile apps, games and social networks.
Jesse Leimgruber
Co-Founder & CEO of NeoReach
Jesse is a Stanford Alumni, co-founder of NeoReach and Bloom, Thiel Fellow, and angel investor in a dozen startups. Jesse is a partner at the Alchemist Accelerator, mentor at European Innovation Academy. He frequently guest lectures classes at Stanford University and USC.
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About Alchemist Accelerator, Bloom, Bloom, Clash, NeoReach, Rank Executives: Influencer Marketing For Big Brands
Stephen Gill
Co-Founder & CEO of Tiller
Stephen Gill is a visionary technology entrepreneur and leader, whose passion for the digital marketing space inspired him to found Tiller in 2015. His passion? To make advertising better. Stephen has spent the last ten years building yield optimization platforms and tools to help publishers maximize advertising revenue. Gill’s first foray in adtech began during college at Rowan University, where he built NoLimit Interactive Media, a digital marketing agency specializing in search, performance marketing and lead generation for a portfolio of major brands. The organization started from his dorm room and quickly grew into into a full service agency. The experience led him to found Red Online Marketing Group, a diversified technology and digital media organization. Today, the organization leverages its technology with hundreds of publishers. Their self-service ad platform helps advertisers to deploy and optimize complex digital marketing campaigns across multiple channels. The thrill of helping publishers better monetize their properties drove Stephen to launch Tiller, a patent-pending native advertising platform for publishers to manage, measure, and maximize their native advertising across multiple content recommendation partners. Stephen’s influence was also instrumental to the growth of digital marketing company Leadnomics, where he is a co-founder. His leadership landed the organization spot #26 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies. Stephen is also an active angel and advisor to over 20 technology and e-commerce companies, which includes three exits. Stephen is a thought leader in advertising technology, digital marketing, and entrepreneurship. He is a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council, Vistage, and an active attendee of Summit Series. When he’s not working, Steve enjoys fitness, food (paleo) and travel — his latest adventures include Thailand, white water kayaking and biking through the Redwoods.
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About 50onRed, Leadnomics, RightAction, Tiller: Tiller is the leading optimization platform for native and recommended content.
Paolo Privitera
Co-Founder and CEO of Evensi
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About Doochoo, Evensi, Lombardstreet Ventures: Evensi is a platform to discover, experience, ideate, and promote events.
Amber Atherton
CEO & Founder of Zyper
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About Zyper: Zyper is a machine learning-led community marketing software that helps brands connect with their fans, and fans connect with each other.
Ari Buchalter
Founder and CEO of Place Exchange
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About Place Exchange: The First True Programmatic Exchange for Out-of-Home Media
Christopher Wendel
President and Co-Founder of Volta Charging
Chris is a global finance executive with 20 years of experience running large sales teams and raising capital in equity markets. The bulk of this time was with Goldman Sachs in the United States, Germany, and Japan. While on sabbatical in Hawaii, Chris stumbled upon Volta stations at the Kailua Whole Foods. He soon after became an investor and joined Volta as partner and CFO in 2012. Chris lives in Napa with his wife and three children, loves flying, and will challenge you to a tennis match any day of the week. He and his wife each drive a Tesla Model S in fire engine red and metallic blue.
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About Volta Charging: Volta Charging designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations.
Scott Mercer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Volta Charging
Scott Mercer is the founder and CEO of Volta, an electric vehicle charging network with the most-utilized stations in the US. An entrepreneur fascinated by both cars and future-focused technology, Scott founded Volta to bridge the gap between electric vehicles and the mainstream. The network delivers free electric vehicle charging in areas where stations are most needed, as determined by Volta’s proprietary machine learning algorithms. Under Scott’s leadership, Volta is experiencing consecutive 3x year-over-year revenue and footprint growth. Scott launched Volta in 2010 in Hawaii, where he was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Hawaii Venture Capital, 40 Under 40 by Pacific Business News and Hawaii Business’ 20 for the Next 20. Previously, Scott ran a business buying, restoring and selling vintage cars in his early 20s. He sold a restored 1967 Jaguar XKE to seed the beginnings of Volta, which has now raised $62 million in funding. Scott currently rides an electric motorcycle, drives an electric Fiat, and occasionally, a 1971 Alfa Romeo.
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About Volta Charging: Volta Charging designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations.
Ambrose Wang
Co-Founder of MediaAlpha
A serial entrepreneur that has been deeply involved in the online marketing and advertising industry for over 15 years. Ambrose is an active co-founder of MediaAlpha, Inc, a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange.
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About MediaAlpha, QuoteLab.com: MediaAlpha is an advertising technology company that develops programmatic advertising platforms.
Alex Collmer
Founder & CEO of VidMob
Alex Collmer is the founder and CEO of VidMob, the world’s largest video creation platform.As the web transitions to a video-driven medium, Collmer recognized the need for businesses to have access to the world’s best video creators who could produce quality content for a variety of platforms that was affordable. Since founding the company in 2015, Collmer has raised more than $13M and counts the leading brands and agencies as clients. Combing an elegant interface with a roster of more than 5000 video creators enables anyone to maximize their video presence and make a brand impact with video. An engineer by training, Collmer’s career has always been at the intersection of technology, design, and consumer entertainment as those sectors have evolved. Prior to founding VidMob, Collmer was the co-founder and CEO of Autumn Games, a premier publisher of video game franchises. Under his leadership, Autumn Games developed successful partnerships with such personalities as Jimmie Johnson, the 7-time NASCAR champion and companies like Def Jam, the leading urban culture brand, as well as the award-winning fighting game franchise, Skullgirls. Previously, Collmer was a founder and board member of the New York Video School, an online film school focused on empowering people all over the world to become “video literate” (www.nyvs.com). Collmer received a B.S. from Cornell University’s School of Engineering and was a certified E.I.T. in the field of structural engineering in the state of New York. Collmer sits on the board of several technology and media companies and has spoken at numerous universities and conferences on entrepreneurship and media. In his spare time, he coaches little league soccer and baseball.
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About VidMob: VidMob is a video content creation network and platform where brands can create digital video ads with expert teams.
Jason Donnell
COO & Co-Founder of VidMob
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About VidMob: VidMob is a video content creation network and platform where brands can create digital video ads with expert teams.
Sahil Jain
Co-Founder and CEO of AdStage
Sahil Jain is the CEO and Co-founder of AdStage. Prior to founding AdStage in May 2012, Sahil co-founded his first company, Y-Combinator backed Trigger.io at 20. He dropped out of UC Berkeley, where he studied Philosophy and Econ, to join AOL Corp Devt. at 19, dropped out of High School to join Yahoo! Mobile as an automation engineer at 17 and worked in the professional video game industry before that.
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About AdStage, inresto: AdStage is an advertising technology startup powering paid marketers to understand the business impact of their campaigns.
Dino Vendetti
Founder & Managing Director of Seven Peaks Ventures
Dino has spent his career as an entrepreneur, investor, and exec in leading technology companies and is focused on building and growing the tech eco-system in Oregon. He founded Seven Peaks Ventures in Bend OR to work with and support the most promising entrepreneurs throughout the northwest.
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About OSU-Cascades, Seven Peaks Ventures: Seven Peaks Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on funding highly scalable software businesses.
Brendan Eich
Founder of Basic Attention Token
Brendan Eich joined Brave Software as CEO in 2015.
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About Basic Attention Token, Brave: The Basic Attention Token is the new token for the digital advertising industry.
Jim McKelvey
Founder & CEO of Invisibly
Jim co-founded Square, where he now serves as a Director. Jim is also a General Partner at FINTOP Capital and Green Visor Capital. He serves as a Director of the St. Louis Federal Reserve and as a Trustee to Washington University in St. Louis. Jim’s first venture was co-founding Mira Digital Publishing in 1990, which is a leader in electronic publishing for scientific conferences. In 2013, he founded the LaunchCode Foundation, currently bringing free computer education and jobs to 5 US cities. In addition to his businesses and philanthropy, Jim is a glassblowing artist and co-founded one of the nation’s top glass centers, Third Degree Glass Factory. He has published two books on computer programming and one on glassblowing. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.
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About Arch Grants, FINTOP Capital, Invisibly, LaunchCode, Mira Smart Conference, Square, Third Degree Glass Factory, Washington University in St. Louis: Invisibly puts the power of your data back in your hands.
Kaan Gunay
Co-Founder & CEO of Firefly
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About Endeavor, Firefly: Firefly is a mobility based advertising and data platform that allows rideshare drivers to make money through digital advertising.
Justin Choi
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Nativo
Justin Choi is a serial entrepreneur and founder of three successful companies across different technology sectors. Justin currently serves as Founder and CEO of Nativo, the most advanced advertising technology platform that helps brands create meaningful connections with consumers and empowers publishers with breakthrough monetization solutions. Prior to Nativo, Justin founded and led two companies to highly successful exits: Cie Games, a mobile app development firm acquired by Glu Mobile for $100M that built two top 25 grossing games, including the #1 mobile racing game, and attracted over 50M players; and Cie Digital Labs (CDL) an interactive agency that provides innovation consulting and custom app development services to major brands. Justin continues to serve as a CDL board member and acts as head of product strategy and development, and is an investor and board member at numerous organizations. A thought leader in digital media, advertising, gamification, and app development, Justin has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, Bloomberg West, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, AdWeek and other national publications.
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About Cie, Nativo: Nativo is an advertising technology platform for brand advertisers and publishers to scale, automate, and measure native ads.
Shaun Zacharia
Co-Founder & President of TripleLift
Prior to founding Triple Lift, Shaun led custom engineering solutions at AppNexus for the industry’s largest marketers like eBay and WPP. At AppNexus, Shaun was also critical in consulting the industry’s largest media networks including Collective and Microsoft. Shaun graduated summa cum laude from Georgia Tech with a BS in Computer Engineering.
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About TripleLift: TripleLift is the programmatic technology company for native, branded content and OTT.
Ari Lewine
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of TripleLift
Ari Lewine is Co-Founder of TripleLift, Inc. and serves as its Chief Strategy Officer. Ari Lewine leads. He also serves as Co-Chair of the IAB Native, Content & Social Committee at IAB. Most recently, he served as head of the performance sales team at AppNexus. He started his entrepreneurial endeavors at 17 when he purchased University Trucking. He holds a BSBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.
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About IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau), TripleLift: TripleLift is the programmatic technology company for native, branded content and OTT.
Eric Berry
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of TripleLift
Eric Berry is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TripleLift, Inc. Eric Berry is building the TripleLift, Inc. to be the leader in social and visual amplification. Prior to TripleLift, he was a Leader on the client services and product architecture teams at AppNexus, and was an Attorney at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Eric Berry received Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Computer Science from MIT and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
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About TripleLift: TripleLift is the programmatic technology company for native, branded content and OTT.
Chris Forman
CEO & Founder of Appcast
Chris Forman is the CEO and Founder of Appcast. As the former Founder & CEO of StartWire, CEO of AIRS, and Chief Development Officer of The Right Thing, Chris has worked in the recruiting industry for 20 years, developing smart recruiting tools that have helped hire millions of people around the globe. He’s been part of the team that has won the HR Tech Top Product of the Year award on three different occasions and numerous ReSIs, and was named Innovator of the Year by TATech in 2017. Close
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About Appcast, StartDate Labs: Appcast is a job advertising platform that enables employers to promote their open positions.
Ragy Thomas
Founder & CEO of Sprinklr
Ragy Thomas is the CEO and founder of Sprinklr, a provider of enterprise software for customer experience management. Sprinklr was last valued at more than $1.8 billion in 2016. He founded Sprinklr in 2009, and the company now has 1900 employees around the world serving global clients such as Microsoft and McDonald’s. Prior to founding Sprinklr, Ragy was the president of Epsilon’s (NYSE:ADS) Interactive Services from 2006 to 2008, and the CTO of Bigfoot Interactive, an email marketing leader that Epsilon acquired in 2005. Ragy earned his M.B.A. in Finance and Information Systems from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and his Computer Science Engineering degree from Pondicherry University in India.
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About Sprinklr, Sprinklr Japan: Sprinklr provides enterprise software for customer experience management.
Christopher Lien
Founder & CEO of Marin Software
Mr. Lien is Marin’s founder and Chairman of the Board, and rejoined the Company as Chief Executive Officer in August 2016. From September 2015 to August 2016, Mr. Lien has served on boards of private companies as well as Marin Software. From May 2014 until September 2015, Mr. Lien served as executive chairman of Marin Software, and from the founding of the Company in 2006 to May 2014, he served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Lien has been a member of the Board since 2006. Previously, Mr. Lien served as Chief Operating Officer of Adteractive, Inc., an online performance marketing company, from 2004 to 2005. In 2001, Mr. Lien co-founded and served as Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Sugar Media, Inc., a broadband services platform, until its acquisition in 2003 by 2Wire, Inc., a leading supplier of DSL equipment and services, which was subsequently acquired by Pace plc in 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Lien served in various capacities at BlueLight.com, LLC, Kmart Corporation’s ecommerce and Internet service provider subsidiary from 2000 to 2001, including as Chief Financial Officer and acting Chief Executive Officer. Prior to BlueLight.com, Mr. Lien spent 10 years at various investment banks, including Morgan Stanley and Evercore Partners, with his last role as Managing Director. Mr. Lien holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College, where he was elected as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr. Lien’s presence as a member of the Board brings his thorough knowledge of the Company into the Board’s strategic and policy-making discussions. He brings his extensive experience in finance, digital marketing and executive roles in the information technology industry into deliberations regarding the Company’s strategy and operations.
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About Heron Partners, Marin Software, Marin Software: Marin Software Incorporated (NYSE:MRIN) provides a leading cross-channel performance advertising platform used by advertisers and agencies.
Eric Mathewson
Founder & CEO of WideOrbit
Eric Mathewson is the Founder and CEO of WideOrbit, the leading provider of advertising management solutions for media companies. Since its founding in 1999, WideOrbit has grown to be the media management platform of choice for over 70% of US television stations.
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About Prescient Capital, WideOrbit: WideOrbit provides advertising management software for major media companies.
Tal Chalozin
CTO & Co-Founder of Innovid
Tal Chalozin is co-founder and CTO of Innovid, the leading connected TV and video advertising platform for advertisers to engage consumers across all screens and channels. Tal leads Innovid’s long-term technology vision, global product creation and implementation, and business development efforts, as well as identifying and developing emerging trends and opportunities for product innovation and digital TV/OTT collaborations. He has forged partnerships with Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Samsung, Roku and Hulu, amongst others, to help advertisers bring interactive video to viewers everywhere. Tal is a serial entrepreneur and tireless global leader in video technology. In addition to serving as Innovid’s CTO, Tal is a board member for the IAB’s Digital Video Center of Excellence and for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He has been named a 2018 inductee in the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Achievement for his significant impact on the industry via mentorship, inspiration, volunteerism and training. Previous accolades include being named a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, one of the “Best Young European Entrepreneurs” by Businessweek, a member of Multichannel News’ “40 Under 40” Class of 2016, and to Cynopsis Digital’s 2016 “It List.” Prior to Innovid, Tal co-founded GarageGeeks – a non-profit organization and one of Israel’s largest hacker spaces and innovation hubs boasting more than 8,000 members. Tal also served as an officer in an elite computer unit in the Israeli Air Force for over eight years where he led the development of several military products with high algorithmic complexity. Tal owns several global patents in digital video technology, and he is a regular speaker at global events, including Cannes Lion, CES, The Drum’s Programmatic Punch, IAB, MWC, NAB, TVOT, AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O, Broadcasting & Cable’s Advanced TV, Wired Magazine’s NEXTFEST, Le Web’s Digital Innovation Conference, Ars Electronica, and eConsultancy’s Creative Programmatic.
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About Garagegeeks, Innovid: Innovid is the only independent omni-channel advertising and analytics platform built for television.
Zvika Netter
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Innovid
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About Innovid: Innovid is the only independent omni-channel advertising and analytics platform built for television.
Kunal Gupta
Founder & CEO of Polar
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About Polar: Polar provides digital media technology to publishers and advertisers.
Alex Bornyakov
Co-Founder of Adtelligent Inc.
Alex Bornyakov is the Co-Founder at Adtelligent.
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About Adtelligent Inc., Intersog, WannaBiz: Adtelligent Inc. is a sell side ad technology company providing holistic demand management and intermediation solutions for publishers.
Richy Orozco
Founder of Catholic Connect
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About Catholic Connect: A social networking platform designed to connect catholics to their local communities.
Rob Emrich
Founder & CEO of The Mobile Majority
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About Alliance for Audited Media, The Emrich Foundation, The Mobile Majority, YPO: We help brands realize the full potential of mobile.
Tuomo Riekki
Founder & CPO of Smartly.io
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About Smartly.io: Powering beautifully effective ads
Boris Abaev
Co-Founder of Bidease
Co-Founder @bidease Investment advisor @betastagecapital Board member @rocket10 Father of 3 and an Entrepreneur, Angel investor – Love Startups and building them!
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About Bidease, Cashsquare, Rocket10: Bidease is a mobile DSP that provides advertisers with access to the entire mobile ecosystem through mobile publishers and exchanges.
Matthew Morrison O’Connor
Co-Founder of AdQuick
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About AdQuick: AdQuick is a marketplace to buy and sell outdoor advertising.
Connor Burden
Co-Founder of AdQuick
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About AdQuick: AdQuick is a marketplace to buy and sell outdoor advertising.
GauravJit (Raj) Singh
CEO & Founder of DroneCast
GauravJit (Raj) Singh is the CEO & Founder at DroneCast .
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About DroneCast, Singh Ventures: DroneCast is Drone-based aerial advertising startup.
Robert Frederick
CEO, President & Co-Founder of Sirqul
Robert Frederick, founder and CEO of Sirqul, has been focused on connected communities of devices, people, and businesses since 1993. He was inspired by the boundless future potential of smart connected devices and leveraged this passion to attend MIT, to work on projects in the MIT Media Lab, and to join one of the first startups focused on standards that would later be called BlueTooth in the late nineties. The startup’s licensed product, DeviceTalk.com, was a central server running Intelligent Agents that used event-based logic to complete actions on behalf of its users via simple commands and conditional triggers. Identity and Presence was important then and still tends to be important now. Amazon acquired the company in 1999, and Robert led the internal team, Amazon Anywhere, that focused on making it possible to interact with Amazon Anywhere, Anytime, on Any device. After becoming the technical co-founder of Amazon Web Services and setting the stage for Amazon to become profitable leveraging the Cloud, Rob started Sirqul to create an Intelligence of Things (IoT) ecosystem on top of the cloud that also works at the edge. Sirqul has numerous partners that span Retail, Smart Buildings, Autonomous Vehicles, and Robotics.
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About GripWire, Sirqul: Sirqul enables startups and ecosystems to leverage application templates, platform, & APIs to create solutions and ecosystems rapidly.
Martin Anazco
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Jampp
Martin co-founded Jampp in 2011 – a mobile app marketing platform that combines advanced technology (Big Data, Real Time Bidding and Machine Learning) with a team of mobile marketing experts to deliver millions of users to iOS and Android apps globally. Previously, in the year 2000, he co-founded and ran Livra.com (Livra Panels) which became the leading online market research company in Latin America. In 2008, after continuous growth the company was acquired by publicly listed IPSOS – one of the top market research organisations world-wide. Martin was born in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina. He graduated in Economics from the University of San Andres in Buenos Aires (Honors Thesis: “Selling Information Good on the Internet: Give before you sell”).
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About Jampp, Livra Panels: Jampp is the growth platform of choice for on-demand apps worldwide. We unlock programmatic UA and RTGT to drive incremental performance
Diego Meller
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Jampp
Diego co-founded Jampp in 2013 – The company is a performance marketing platform for retargeting and acquiring app customers. The company combines behavioural data with predictive and programmatic technology to generate revenue for advertisers by showing personal, relevant ads that inspire consumers to purchase for the first time, or more often. Jampp’s 90 people team serve a global client base from offices in San Francisco, Singapore, London, Berlin, São Paulo, Cape Town and Buenos Aires. Previously, in the year 2000, Diego co-founded and ran Livra.com which became the leading online market research company in Latin America. In 2008, after continuous growth the company was acquired by publicly listed IPSOS – one of the top market research organisations world-wide.
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About Jampp, Livra: Jampp is the growth platform of choice for on-demand apps worldwide. We unlock programmatic UA and RTGT to drive incremental performance
Michael Shehan
Co-Founder & CEO of SpotX
Mike Shehan is the CEO & Founder at SpotX.
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About Ardent Venture Partners, SpotX: SpotX is a video advertising platform that enables publishers to monetize content across desktop, mobile, and connected TV devices.
Nick Slavin
President and Co-Founder of Curacity
Nick Slavin, Co-Founder and President has a background in real estate and hospitality private equity. Curacity launched in 2015 and is headquartered in Stanford, CT and New York City.
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About Curacity: Curacity is a data analytics company focused on the travel sector.
Sergey Sholom
Co-Founder & CEO of MobileGo
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About GameCredits, GNation, MobileGo: A cryptocurrency aiming to bring smart contract technologies to the world of mobile gaming.
Stephanie Sprangers
Co-Founder & CEO of Glamhive
Stephanie Sprangers is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Glamhive, the online personal styling service that brings expert personal stylists and makeup artists – recruited directly from Hollywood and Instagram – to everyone. Stephanie is a lifetime style-seeker and tech executive turned entrepreneur. With vast experience in the affiliate marketing and digital rewards space, she launched Glamhive as a place for the average consumer to share images of their outfits and get rewarded for the purchases they drive. The company started at the helm of the fashion blogger phenomenon and at its core made all fashionistas “bloggers” with a referral commission in the form of points. Realizing that people wanted more personalized style help, Stephanie expanded her vision to create a virtual styling platform that would democratize personal styling by creating a way for people to work with the influencers, stylists, and makeup artists that they admired in traditional and social media. With Sprangers’ leadership, Glamhive has developed proprietary software that allows stylists to take clients through a styling experience that is 100% online which means people can work with stylists anywhere in the world. Glamhive has partnered with 100+ retail partners. The company’s platform development and launch was funded by investors including Jonathan Sposato, Chairman of PicMonkey and Geekwire, Marc Kwiatkowski of Facebook, the Seattle Angel Conference, and a syndicate of other early stage investors. Stephanie Sprangers is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Glamhive, the online personal styling service that brings expert personal stylists and makeup artists – recruited directly from Hollywood and Instagram – to everyone. Stephanie is a lifetime style-seeker and tech executive turned entrepreneur. With vast experience in the affiliate marketing and digital rewards space, she launched Glamhive as a place for the average consumer to share images of their outfits and get rewarded for the purchases they drive. The company started at the helm of the fashion blogger phenomenon and at its core made all fashionistas “bloggers” with a referral commission in the form of points. Realizing that people wanted more personalized style help, Stephanie expanded her vision to create a virtual styling platform that would democratize personal styling by creating a way for people to work with the influencers, stylists, and makeup artists that they admired in traditional and social media. With Sprangers’ leadership, Glamhive has developed proprietary software that allows stylists to take clients through a styling experience that is 100% online which means people can work with stylists anywhere in the world. Glamhive has partnered with 100+ retail partners. The company’s platform development and launch was funded by investors including Jonathan Sposato, Chairman of PicMonkey and Geekwire, Marc Kwiatkowski of Facebook, the Seattle Angel Conference, and a syndicate of other early stage investors. Stephanie Sprangers is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Glamhive, the online personal styling service that brings expert personal stylists and makeup artists – recruited directly from Hollywood and Instagram – to everyone. Stephanie is a lifetime style-seeker and tech executive turned entrepreneur. With vast experience in the affiliate marketing and digital rewards space, she launched Glamhive as a place for the average consumer to share images of their outfits and get rewarded for the purchases they drive. The company started at the helm of the fashion blogger phenomenon and at its core made all fashionistas “bloggers” with a referral commission in the form of points. Realizing that people wanted more personalized style help, Stephanie expanded her vision to create a virtual styling platform that would democratize personal styling by creating a way for people to work with the influencers, stylists, and makeup artists that they admired in traditional and social media. With Sprangers’ leadership, Glamhive has developed proprietary software that allows stylists to take clients through a styling experience that is 100% online which means people can work with stylists anywhere in the world. Glamhive has partnered with 100+ retail partners. The company’s platform development and launch was funded by investors including Jonathan Sposato, Chairman of PicMonkey and Geekwire, Marc Kwiatkowski of Facebook, the Seattle Angel Conference, and a syndicate of other early stage investors. Founder & CEO
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About Glamhive: Glamhive brings personal stylists and makeup artists – recruited directly from Hollywood and Instagram – to everyone.
Auwal Odidi
President, Co-Founder of Waypoint Media
Auwal Odidi has 6 years of experience in business development and marketing, and has held positions at two Fortune 500 companies. At the age of 15, Auwal founded a then-leading gaming publisher which went on to become a well-known name in the industry; at the age of 16 he attempted to go pro in Counter Strike 1.6, but sadly only made it to CAL-m. He holds an MBA from Schulich School of Business.
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About Waypoint Media: Waypoint Media makes large scale, targeted advertising through eSports and Gaming content creators possible.
Kevin Hsu
VP. Optimization, Co-Founder of Waypoint Media
Kevin was part of AppNexus’ Optimization Team before Waypoint, prototyping and developing advanced yield optimization products for the company’s largest clients, including CPX and Microsoft. Legend has it that when he’s not busy massaging meaning out of an endless sea of numbers he can be found in Union Square doing the robot. He holds a B.S. in Digital Electronics and Controls Engineering from Harvey Mudd College.
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About Waypoint Media: Waypoint Media makes large scale, targeted advertising through eSports and Gaming content creators possible.
Auwal Odidi
President, Co-Founder of Waypoint Media
Auwal Odidi has 6 years of experience in business development and marketing, and has held positions at two Fortune 500 companies. At the age of 15, Auwal founded a then-leading gaming publisher which went on to become a well-known name in the industry; at the age of 16 he attempted to go pro in Counter Strike 1.6, but sadly only made it to CAL-m. He holds an MBA from Schulich School of Business.
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About Waypoint Media: Waypoint Media makes large scale, targeted advertising through eSports and Gaming content creators possible.
Jason Bitensky
CEO & Founder of YW3
Jason Bitensky is the CEO and Founder of YW3.
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About Influential, Jubilee Media, Little Dot Studios, LIVEKINDLY, Upworthy, YW3: YW3 is a marketing firm and revenue accelerator for media and entertainment brands.
Jarrod Cuzens
Co-Founder & CTO of Empyr
Jarrod Cuzens is Chief Architect at Figg.
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About Empyr, Empyr, Figg: Empyr is a card-linked offer engagement platform for national brands and digital publisher.
Andy Stackpole
Co Founder of Individual Digital
Andy is a co-founder of Individual Digital, Inc. and has twenty-four years of mergers and acquisitions experience in the consumer products industry. Most recently, he is the founder and Managing Partner of Trinity Investment Partners, a Connecticut-based private equity firm. Prior to founding Trinity, he was a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division of Merrill Lynch where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance for many of the world’s leading companies in the consumer products industry. Andy was also a Managing Director with Bear Stearns, where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions in the consumer products and media sectors. The majority of Andy’s career was spent at SBC Warburg (now UBS) and its predecessors, where he was co-head of the U.S. Mergers & Acquisitions department. Andy was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he was awarded an International Affairs Fellowship. He holds a BA from Trinity College, an MPA from the Kennedy School at Harvard, and an MBA (as a Fellow Nominee) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he lectures frequently on Corporate Finance.
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About Individual Digital: Individual Digital, a digital media company, develops an online advertising platform delivering targeted advertising and marketing messages.
Jim DiLorenzo
Co Founder & President of Individual Digital
Jim is a co-founder of Individual Digital, Inc. Jim has over twenty years experience in media and has built businesses in digital, sports, television and film. Jim’s partners and customers have included many of the world’s leading media companies, including Time Warner, News Corp., Viacom, Disney, CBS, Canal Plus, Electronic Arts and the Universal Music Group. In the digital realm, Jim created livemansion.com, the first social network built around the production of a feature film. In addition to livemansion.com, Jim helped build audiostreet.net into a successful independent music community. A creative entrepreneur with global experience, Jim has distributed programming to over 100 countries and co-produced events on six continents, including Davis Cup Tennis, World Championship Boxing, and the Rolling Stones. He is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, CT and is married with two children.
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About Individual Digital, RewardJet: Individual Digital, a digital media company, develops an online advertising platform delivering targeted advertising and marketing messages.
Gordon Trotter
Co-Founder & Advisor of Individual Digital
Gordon is a co-founder of Individual Digital, Inc. A native of New Zealand, Gordon has been immersed in technology since graduating Victoria University in Wellington in 1995. Gordon began his career as a business analyst and consultant working with or for some of NZ’s largest companies including The National Bank of New Zealand, Health Benefits Ltd, Gen-I (Formerly Computerland NZ) and The New Zealand Dairy Board. Gordon left New Zealand in 2000 to play semi professional rugby and eventually settled in New York in 2002. Once established in New York he created 27east.com, Inc., a design, hosting and internet software solutions company. Gordon served as the CEO of 27east and provided services to a variety of companies across a broad spectrum of industries including Information Technology, Fitness, Real Estate, Media (online, offline and sales), Retail and Apparel. A seasoned entrepreneur, Gordon also founded, co-founded and helped established several other companies whilst building 27east. Gordon eventually sold 27east in 2007 but continued to provide freelance IT and Web consultancy services to the new owner and others until 2009, when he joined Individual Digital, Inc. Gordon is married with 2 children.
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About Individual Digital: Individual Digital, a digital media company, develops an online advertising platform delivering targeted advertising and marketing messages.
Kevin Dorry
Co Founder,Creative Director & partner of Individual Digital
Kevin is a co-founder of Individual Digital. Kevin has been involved with the Internet since 1993 and in 1996 founded Axis360, a web development and marketing company. Over the course of the next 12 years Kevin and his team at Axis360 built some of the most recognizable websites in the world. Kevin has been called on by such clients as Pfizer, Citibank, Johnson & Johnson, Yahoo!, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and American Express to help transform and grow their businesses online. His work has received numerous awards and has been nationally recognized in major publications and websites such as Print magazine and Communication Arts. Kevin is based in New York City. He is an avid runner, triathlete, cook and pilot as well as a father of two young daughters.
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About Individual Digital: Individual Digital, a digital media company, develops an online advertising platform delivering targeted advertising and marketing messages.
Bhargav Patel
Co-Founder/CEO of IQM Corporation
Bhargav Patel is a strategic and technical visionary who leads the product roadmap and marketplace vision for IQM. His primary focus is on mobile infrastructure, advertising trends, and consumer needs. Patel has been building advertising and publishing platforms since 2010, and he’s been involved with multiple startups, one of which earned him first place in the “1176 Challenge Cup” among 64,000 start-up companies sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Toledo University in Ohio.
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About Genuin Inc, IQM Corporation: Leveraging AI and Big Data to Nudge Swing Voters toward active decisions on election.
Kris Qiu
Co-Founder/COO of IQM Corporation
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About IQM Corporation: Leveraging AI and Big Data to Nudge Swing Voters toward active decisions on election.
Chandra Kholia
Head of Engineering & Co-Founder of Chalk Digital
Babak is responsible for developing business results through people at xAd. Babak started his career as a technical recruiter and later branched out to all functional areas of HR when he got his first taste of start-ups. Babak held multiple HR leadership positions at various software and technology companies, including Phoenix Technologies (acquired by private equity firm in 2010), MySQL (acquired by Sun Microsystems for $1B in 2008), Taleo Corporation (successful IPO in 2005), Zambeel and QRS Corporation (now Inovis). Babak’s mission in life is to help people live to their potential every day and at work. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from UC Davis.
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About Chalk Digital: Chalk Digital is an ad tech company that develops mobile advertising platform designed to promote brands, products, services, and events.
Satoru Yukie
Co-Founder of Chalk Digital
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About Bernardo International, Chalk Digital: Chalk Digital is an ad tech company that develops mobile advertising platform designed to promote brands, products, services, and events.
Ron Jacobson
Co-Founder & CEO of Rockerbox
Ron is building Rockerbox to be the leader in Momentum-Marketing. Prior to Rockerbox, Ron lead the Real-Time Product group at AppNexus, spoke at AppNexus’ 2012 Summit and founded AppNexus’ Marketplace-Analytics group. Ron graduated with great distinction from McGill University with a double major in Computer Science and Economics.
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About Rockerbox: Marketing Measurement for DTC Brands
Rick O’Toole
Co-Founder & CTO of Rockerbox
As CTO, Rick directs the company’s product and technology vision. Most recently, Rick led integrations at AppNexus for companies such as Facebook and Yahoo in addition to being a founding data science engineer in AppNexus’ Marketplace-Analytics group. Rick holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Economics from Harvey Mudd College.
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About Rockerbox: Marketing Measurement for DTC Brands
Aziz Rahim
CEO & Co-Founder of Sabio
Aziz Rahim is the CEO & Co-Founder at Sabio.inc.
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About App Science, Sabio: Sabio offers a CTV platform powered by mobile data.
Joe Camacho
Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer of Sabio
Joe Camacho is the Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer at Sabio.inc.
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About Sabio: Sabio offers a CTV platform powered by mobile data.
Andy Monfried
Founder & CEO of Lotame
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About Lotame: Lotame is the leading provider of data enrichment solutions for global enterprises.
Asif Ali
Founder of Reduce Data
Founder of Reduce Data.
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About AccuKnox, Reduce Data: Data optimized advertising platform
Andy Lin
Founder and CEO of YO-KAI EXPRESS
Andy is the Founder and CEO of Yo-Kai Express, the future autonomous restaurant. Andy has been working on this project since 2015. Prior to this, Andy developed a last mile community delivery app back to 2013. Andy is an energetic entrepreneur and he loves to explore different technologies. Andy earned his Electrical Engineering Master degree in UC Irvine and has worked in Semiconductor industry more than 12 years. Andy not only focus on developing autonomous restaurant to serve people 24/7 anytime anywhere but also trying to reduce the food waste by ordering as needed. In the meantime, Andy also put lots of effort to develop the green energy to support the future power shortage. He and his team are working on reusable power storage and try to provide zero emission and zero noise power solution to public.
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About YO-KAI EXPRESS: YO-KAI EXPRESS is the tech company that innovates the future autonomous restaurant solution delivering gourmet food B2B and B2C
Igor Vaks
Founder & CEO of CreatorIQ
Igor Vaks is CEO and Founder of CreatorIQ, a premier SaaS platform that helps agencies, brands and publishers manage private brand advocacy networks, work with creators and execute influencer campaigns. Igor’s career includes twenty years as CTO, CIO and COO building $1B products for companies like Experian and Cendent. Before founding CreatorIQ, Igor was CIO & CTO at Experian Consumer Group and an active angel investor in LA startups.
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About CreatorIQ: The most trusted software to unify and power advanced influencer marketing for the world’s most innovative enterprises
Frank Renfro
Founder of Naybur
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About Naybur: Referral sharing platform for Neighbors
Zack Dugow
Founder & CEO of Insticator
Zack Dugow is Founder and CEO of Insticator.Under Zack’s leadership at Insticator the company has continued to grow revenue over 100% year over year. Insticator has over 40 employees, over 700 publishers and over 15,000 different advertisers utilizing the platform and has reached over 2 billion people. Early on Zack established helpful partnerships with large international companies (such as Orange Telecom) and has led Insticator to be recognized throughout the enterprise tech community as one of the Top 5 Gamification Companies (Business2Community) and internationally as one of the Top 10 Startups to Change the World (BBVA).
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About Insticator: Insticator is the global leader in increasing engagement for publishers through interactive content.
Andy Ulery
Co-Founder of Aequus Ads
Currently co-founder at Aequus and sales consultant at Squads.com . 15+ years in adtech monetization strategy for publishers and demand networks across BD, sales and operations. Has founded 4 startups.
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About Aequus Ads, Squads: Aequus Ads is a SaaS-based in-app bidding and mediation platform.
Vivian Rosenthal
Founder of Snaps
Vivian is the founder of Snaps, the innovative AI technology behind the largest chatbots, voice skills and social messaging apps for brands including Marriott, Nike Jordan, Ad Age & VICE. Vivian was named one of Creativity Magazine’s top 50 Global Creatives and she has spoken at numerous conferences on the intersection of design, advertising, and technology. She won the Microsoft Storytelling Award for the US in the brand category and was selected as one of the five women CEOs for the L’Oréal Next Awards, honoring women in technology and advertising. Vivian has appeared on Good Morning America with Sheryl Sandberg to help her promote women leaders and entrepreneurs and spoke on Bloomberg TV, as well as being featured in Fast Company, Wired, WSJ, Adweek and other publications. She is a two time TEDx speaker and received a B.A. from Brown University and a Masters in Architecture from Columbia University.
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About Snaps: Snaps is a Conversational Automation Platform for eCommerce.
Edwin Fu
Founder and CEO of Placements.io
Edwin Fu is the founder and CEO of Placements.io.
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About Placements.io: Placements.io is the monetization infrastructure for companies that sell media.
Frank Rice
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Searchable.com
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Deep Rock Ventures, Inc. (DRV), Frank is the visionary behind the proprietary technology driving the mobile marketing platforms, applications and Patents to be delivered by DRV. Frank brings over 30 years of business entrepreneurial experience and leadership skills as well as a visionary in both internet and web based technologies. Frank is a founding pioneer in the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) industry, leading his team from 1997 through 2000 to build and launch one of the first nationwide private VoIP infrastructures in the United States. A highly innovative and disruptive technology that became instrumental in eviscerating long distance charges, which saved consumers tremendous sums of money. This technological breakthrough sparked a flurry of mergers and acquisitions including the acquisition one of Frank’s business relationships and major equipment providers for 24 Billion dollars. Beginning in the year 2000 and for several years following, Frank spent much of his time as an angel investor, entrepreneur, speaker and mentor in various other business ventures. In early 2007 until mid 2008, Frank assisted another organization in Internet Technology and the sales of Web Based Education for one of the world’s largest online ecommerce training companies. He was responsible for a 300% growth in his region within the first year. Recognizing an insatiable demand in the exploding area of mobile commerce and other web-based properties, Frank embraced his entrepreneurial spirit once again moving forward in 2011 with the design, development and implementation of a new business model. Searchable.com, an easy and affordable solution for the small and medium business (SMB’s) owner community to advertise and market to the growing number of mobile consumers. Over the last several years, Frank’s vision is to deliver a highly affordable, socially interactive, mobile marketing platform to the world of SMB’s empowering them with the ability to promote and compete for mobile consumers in this growing marketplace seamlessly. Searchable.com delivers a socially interactive mobile commerce platform directly connecting mobile consumers and local businesses together in real time seamlessly without the use of third party aggregators and others alike, thus creating economic sustainability on a global scale unlike any other platform currently available.
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About MobiDart, Searchable.com: Humanizing Mobile Shopping – A Mobile Advertising and Shopping Platform Supporting Local Businesses
James G Brooks, Jr.
Representative and Founder of GlassView
James G. Brooks, Jr. is the founder and CEO of GlassView, a mission-driven video platform set out to change the way advertisers reach authoritative audiences, and get their videos watched, engaged with and shared. During his eleven year career in Digital Media, J.’s work has spanned from agency to publisher to now running the technology platform of GlassView. He has risen through the ranks of the publishing powerhouse Conde Nast, where during his tenure he executed the majority of US digital advertising campaigns for Vogue and Wired online. Subsequent to Conde Nast, J. ran Business Development and Strategic Partnerships for Guest of a Guest. Most recently, J. was at the London based startup, Unruly Media, where he continued to foster his relationships with global 100 publishers and Fortune 500 advertisers, mastering the intricacies of running successful video campaigns. In addition to his work in Digital Media, J. has two years experience in the financial services sector as an Associate at Morgan Stanley, where he worked in wealth management for a multi-billion dollar Barron’s top 100 team with the primary responsibility of raising institutional and retail investment assets. Throughout his career, J. has sought to forge strong connections between top tier publishers (and their audiences) and the advertisers who are seeking to reach those audiences.
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About GlassView: GlassView’s mission is to ensure clients’ videos appear on top-tier sites reaching the most engaged influential audiences.
Jateen Parekh
Founder & CTO of Jelli
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About Jelli: Jelli operates as a cloud-based advertising company for the radio market in the United States.
James Avery
Founder & CEO of Kevel
Founder and CEO of Adzerk. Started Kevel in 2010 to productize the ad server built while running Zerk Media and The Lounge and Ruby Row ad networks. Co-founder of TekPub, a developer focused screencast and training site. Advisor to Max Foundry LLC and Co-Founder of Epic Win Hosting.
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About Kevel: Kevel is a developer of ad-serving APIs to help developers build server-side ad platforms.
Amit Jain
Founder, CEO of Bridg
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About Bridg: Bridg is a customer data platform that empowers marketers to better understand and reach customers using SKU-level insights.
Eric Busby
Co-Founder / President of AdCritter
Entrepreneur: Software, Ad Tech
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About AdCritter, ceADvisory: SaaS advertising platform providing SMBs the ability to create & manage Targeted TV, Internet and Digital Billboard campaigns.
Gabriel Smith
Founder / CEO of AdCritter
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About AdCritter, ceADvisory: SaaS advertising platform providing SMBs the ability to create & manage Targeted TV, Internet and Digital Billboard campaigns.
Majd Maksad
Founder & CEO of Status Money
Majd is the co-founder & CEO of Status Money. He has more than 10 years of experience in the Consumer Lending and Credit Cards industry. Prior to co-founding Status Money, Majd was the Head of Decision Management for Citi Global Digital Payments in New York. In that role, he led the financial modeling for deals with American Airlines, PayPal, Apple, Samsung, and Google. Majd previously held senior roles at Citi in Digital Marketing, Product Development, and Portfolio Analytics. Prior to Citi, Majd developed credit and fraud risk models at Discover Cards in Chicago. Majd holds Masters and Bachelors degrees in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.
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About Status Money: Status Money is a social personal finance app that enables people to compare finances and crowdsource advice from peers.
Korash Hernandez
Co-Founder & COO of Status Money
Korash is the co-founder and COO of Status Money and has more than 15 years of experience in the Banking and Telecom industries. Prior to co-founding Status, Korash spent six years at Citi and Goldman Sachs in New York. Most recently, he was an early employee at Goldman’s new consumer lending unit, Marcus. At Citi, Korash served as the Head of Analytics for Digital Credit Card Acquisitions where he was responsible for developing sophisticated online ad targeting capabilities. Previously, Korash led fraud and credit modeling at T-Mobile for 9 years. Korash holds a Masters degree in Statistics from Washington State University and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics from the University of Oregon.
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About Status Money: Status Money is a social personal finance app that enables people to compare finances and crowdsource advice from peers.
Andrew Fischer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Choozle
Andrew Fischer co-founded Choozle, Inc. in 2012 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Andrew Fischer headed sales and business development for a startup called Passenger.
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About Choozle: Choozle is an independent and self-service digital advertising software platform.
Jeffrey Finch
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Choozle
Jeffrey Finch is a Co-Founder of Choozle.
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About Choozle, Flare Pistol Media: Choozle is an independent and self-service digital advertising software platform.
Kaci Beerbower
Founder & CEO of stratEDGE App
I help people meet and exceed their marketing goals. Professionals and business owners enjoy working with me because I can point them to the best services, resources, and methods for their needs. I’m well-versed in devising and implementing high-impact marketing strategies and digital media to achieve shared vision and objectives: – Skilled at using advanced knowledge of cutting-edge marketing and online technologies. – Demonstrated ability to utilize a wide variety of marketing tools to develop new strategies to market companies to new clients. – Effectively utilizes tools and research methods to analyze markets and identify target audiences. – Creates engaging content for websites and blog posts. Exemplary communication and interpersonal skills; ensure the ability to network skillfully and build mutually beneficial relationships. – Thrives in challenging, fast-paced, and high-pressure environments by utilizing outstanding problem solving, leadership, and organizational abilities. While others take pride in meeting all standards set before them, my passion is to deliver service beyond organizational expectations, creating a win-win scenario for everyone involved. Please feel free to message me on LinkedIn with any thoughts, comments, or questions about my work—I’m always interested in making new professional acquaintances. – Interested in what I’m up to? Follow my custom LinkedIn hashtag to keep up with my latest content #postsbykaci.
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About BA&M, stratEDGE App: stratEDGE discovers the social media platforms that earn online campaigns the most money to maximize return on advertising spend.
Brian Handrigan
Co-Founder & CEO of Advocado
Brian is a proven entrepreneur with a passion for expanding the intersection of technology and communication. He is a true innovator and has been a founder or co-founder of seven companies (in the US and UK). His talent to help clients see “beyond the known” and identify the real problem has resulted in some of the most creative cross channel solutions to date. Brian has over twenty years of experience working with domestic and international clients such as HP, CDW, AAFES, Rolex, Walmart and major health insurance companies.
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About Advocado, GRA MATR: Advocado is a real-time cross-media optimization & audience platform that makes advertising perform better.
David Johnson
CEO, Founder of Cphere
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About Cphere, Evolved Ventures, Grassp Health: Marketing Intelligence powered by CompliantC™
Bob Greenberg
Founder, CEO / Senior Creative Director of R/GA
Bob Greenberg—founder, chairman and CEO of R/GA—has been a pioneer in the advertising and communications industry for nearly four decades. He leads the vision for R/GA, an agency that serves as the digital partner for Fortune 500 companies and world-renowned brands, including Nike, Beats by Dr. Dre, Unilever, L’Oréal Paris, Samsung, Google, and Johnson & Johnson. R/GA is one of the world’s most influential agencies, emphasizing the importance of business transformation, product/service innovation and breakthrough communications. The agency has offices in New York, Chicago, Austin, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland, and internationally in London, Bucharest, Stockholm, São Paulo, Chile, Buenos Aires, Sydney, Singapore and Shanghai. Bob, along with his brother Richard, founded R/Greenberg Associates (R/GA) in 1977 with the idea of creating a company that valued design but also focused on developing leading-edge motion graphics and live-action film and video production. The company created groundbreaking visual effects for movies such as Alien, Predator, Se7en and Zelig. To date, R/GA’s body of work spans 400 feature films and 4,000 television commercials. Bob has evolved the company several times since its founding, transforming it from a world-class movie title shop, to a digital studio, to a major digital advertising agency and today, to an all-in-one full-service agency, product and service innovator and consultancy. Now in its fifth business model, R/GA has become one of the most successful integrated marketing services companies, creating everything from new products and digital services to social and mobile campaigns to broadcast commercials. Bob serves on the boards of numerous schools and organizations, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Ad Council, the Tisch School of the Arts (Dean’s Council Advisory Board), NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, Parsons The New School for Design and the Berlin School of Creative Leadership. He is also a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Bob has won almost every industry award for creativity, including the Academy Award, D&AD, and Cannes Lions. Among his most notable awards are the Cannes Lions lifetime achievement Lion of St. Mark, Honorary Royal Designer for Industry (HonRDI) from the Royal Society for Arts, the ANDYs Bravery Award, the 2007 BDA Lifetime Achievement Award, Clio Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Communications in 2003, and the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design. He was also the Cannes International Advertising Festival Cyber Jury President in 2004 and 2013, served as a member of the 2005 Titanium Jury, and President of the Titanium and Integrated Jury in 2010.Bob was also recently inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame and the Creative Hall of Fame.
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About R/GA: R/GA offers advertising and marketing services.
Gary Gannaway
CEO, Founder & Principal Investor of Worldnow
Worldnow’s CEO Gary is responsible for the day-to-day-operations and leads the company’s product development, technology and revenue strategies. His mission and vision have lead the company to be the #1 CMS/Video/Mobile provider for media management, reaching 91% of US HH. Prior to founding Worldnow in 1998, he was the founder and CEO of Genesis Entertainment where he introduced the Barter concept to off Network Shows. Prior to selling Genesis Entertainment in 1994 to Ronald Perelman’s New World, Genesis Entertainment was the only company in television history to launch 100% of its pilot shows. In 1992, Gary was awarded Merrill Lynch and Ernst & Young’s Entertainment Entrepreneur of the year. Currently Gary sits on the board of the Department of Neurosurgery at John Hopkins University Medical Center. He funded and co-pioneered a new approach for the treatment of head traumas which has now become industry standard in Neuro Critical Care Wards across the country.
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About Worldnow: Worldnow is the only integrated multimedia & monetization platform that unifies WCM, VCM, OTT, Analytics, Advertsing, Mobile & Social.
Tim O’Shaughnessy
President, Founder & CEO of Graham Holdings
Tim O’Shaughnessy is the President, Founder & CEO of Graham Holdings & he Attended Georgetown University in 2000.Timothy O’Shaughnessy became president and chief executive officer of Graham Holdings, effective November 2015. O’Shaughnessy joined the Company as president in 2014 to oversee investments and acquisitions, and to help set a new direction following the sale of The Washington Post. Previously, he served as chief executive officer of LivingSocial, which he co-founded in 2007. During his tenure, the e-commerce and marketing company grew sales to nearly $2 billion. A native of Minnesota and the youngest of four children, O’Shaughnessy was born in 1981. Following his graduation from Georgetown University in 2004 with a BSBA in Marketing, Operations and Information Management, he joined AOL as a product manager. In 2006, he moved to Revolution Health, where he rose to vice president of product development. During that time, he and three others developed a successful series of apps for Facebook. That company grew into LivingSocial, where O’Shaughnessy was CEO for seven years. O’Shaughnessy is a member of the Executive Committee of the Federal City Council. He is married to Laura Graham O’Shaughnessy, a daughter of Donald E. Graham. She is CEO of SocialCode, a social marketing technology company, wholly owned by Graham Holdings. The O’Shaughnessys live in Washington, DC, and have two young children.
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About Graham Holdings: Graham Holdings Company is a diversified education and media company whose operations include educational services.
Gilad Amitai
Co-Founder & COO of Ubimo
Gilad is Co-Founder and COO at leading mobile ad platform Ubimo, where he manages business operations and oversees business development. A seasoned veteran in the online advertising field, Gilad was previously General Manager of Matomy Media, a global display advertising company, where he oversaw strategy and growth of the company’s operations. Gilad was the recipient of the Mobile Marketing Association’s ‘Smarties Award for Innovation’ in 2016 for his contribution to mobile shopper marketing.
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About Quotient Technology, Ubimo: Ubimo is a Location Intelligence SaaS platform that lets enterprises of all sizes see and act on offline consumer behavior.
Or Shani
Founder & CEO of Albert Technologies
Or Shani is founder and CEO of Albert Technologies, makers of Albert, the first-ever artificial intelligence platform that plugs into a digital marketer’s existing tech stack and operates it. Or and a team of 80 data scientists, engineers, and mathematicians spent eight years reverse-engineering human logic and intuition to unravel the conscious and subconscious decisions humans make throughout multi-channel digital marketing campaigns. A collection of over 200 intelligent skills working in concert, Albert processes and analyzes audience and tactic data at scale, autonomously allocating, optimizing and evolving campaigns across paid search, social and programmatic channels. Or took Albert Technologies (formerly Adgorithms), public in 2015, raising $42 million on the London Stock Exchange. In 2016, Albert Technologies (then Adgorithms), ranked #98 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500—a list of the country’s fastest-growing companies—with an annual growth rate of 992%. Albert Technologies attributes its growth to overwhelming demand for Albert and the platform’s ability to alleviate legacy data and technology complexities for top brands. Harley-Davidson, for example, announced in 2016 that it credits 40% of its New York City sales to Albert, which subsequently spurred further adoption by a number of its U.S. and global franchises. In 2017, lingerie retailer Cosabella completely replaced its digital agencies with AI after its drastic uplift in sales with Albert. And iconic global jeans designer EVISU recently revealed that Albert increased its digital sales ROI by 500% through its year-long, fully automated digital efforts in the U.S., UK, Canada Australia, and Singapore. Or Shani is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and the Young Presidents Organization (YPO). In 2017, Or was a finalist in the EY Entrepreneur Awards, named an “Innovator of the Year” by the prestigious Stevie Awards and “Most Innovative CEO” by CEO World. Or regularly contributes to publications, including Forbes, VentureBeat, Wired, AdExchanger, MarTech Today, CMO.com, Marketing Land, and others.
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About Albert Technologies: Albert is an artificial intelligence marketing platform for the enterprise, driving fully autonomous digital marketing campaigns.
Craig McLaughlin
President, CEO & Founder of Bridge2 Solutions
Craig McLaughlin is our President and Chief Executive Officer and the founder of Bridge2 Solutions. Craig is the primary architect and has overseen the development of Bridge2 Rewards. Craig has extensive knowledge and background in software development and process management. Craig�s experience includes CIO of a Southeast incentive firm, where he developed their incentive and promotion platform and over 10 years with Accenture as a senior manager, developing multimillion dollar software applications for Fortune 100 companies. Craig has a Bachelors of Arts degree in Computer Business from Furman University.
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About Bridge2 Solutions: Bridge2 Solutions is the leading innovator in the world of incentive, consumer and performance rewards.
HP Jin
Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Telenav
HP co-founded Telenav in 1999 and has led the company to become a global leader in location-based services (LBS), automotive navigation and location-targeted mobile advertising. Telenav was the first company to launch GPS navigation services for mobile phones to the world, and today its product reaches more than 100 countries on mobile phones and within vehicles. Telenav was also the first LBS company in the USA to IPO when it began publicly trading on NASDAQ in May 2010. Telenav has subsidiaries in US, China, Europe and South America. Prior to starting Telenav, HP served as a Senior Strategy Consultant for the McKenna Group and a Business Strategy and Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company. HP has also served as a Technical Director at LINCSS/Loral Space Communication. HP holds a Ph.D. in Guidance, Navigation and Control (Aeronautics and Astronautics department), a Ph.D. minor in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China.
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About Telenav: Accelerating towards a connected car future with smarter, easier, safer innovation.
Eric Zdenek
CEO and Co-Founder of TSN Advertising
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About TSN Advertising: Truck-Side Advertising company with campaigns for dozens of Fortune 250 companies in 28 markets across the US and Canada
Michael Rucker
Co-Founder & COO of OmniVirt
Michael Rucker is the Co-Founder and COO of OmniVirt, a 360° VR advertising and distribution platform. Prior to OmniVirt, Michael spent 7 years at YouTube holding a variety of different leadership positions. Michael led YouTube’s content strategy across its 5 main verticals: Entertainment, Music, Sports, News, and Education. Joining YouTube in 2007, Michael helped drive YouTube’s growth from its early days, launching YouTube’s first monetization products to leading consumer marketing for the site across Asia-Pacific. Michael has touched both the consumer and business side of the digital video business.
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About OmniVirt: Leading Immersive Advertising (VR/AR) Platform
Alex Sherman
CEO & Co-Founder of PromoteIQ
Alex Sherman is the co-founder and CEO of Spotfront. Prior to Spotfront, Alex was a product manager at MediaMath.
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About PromoteIQ: Vendor Marketing Platform for E-Commerce
Peter Schwartz
CTO & Co-Founder of PromoteIQ
Peter Schwartz is Co-Founder and CTO of Spotfront.
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About PromoteIQ: Vendor Marketing Platform for E-Commerce
Joshua Rogers
Co-Founder of AdAppIO
Joshua Rogers is an Internet entrepreneur with substantial background in strategic consulting and capital markets. Prior to co-founding AdAppIO with Egor Lavrov, in 2014, Joshua was the Partner and Head of the Strategy Group for KPMG in Russia where he sold and led board-level strategic consulting projects for top companies in Financial Services, Energy and Transportation. With a background in building brand equity while in growth oriented consulting (McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, KPMG, Russian Mortgage Advisors) and managing billion dollar portfolios in banking (driving growth at Bank of America, Wachovia and Bank of New York), Joshua is a veteran of creating organizations that deliver. In addition to AdAppIO, Joshua has also founded ArtSeeApp, to help connect art buyers and art galleries through technology. At AdAppIO Joshua manages the sales, marketing and business development as well as fund raising for the company.
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About AdAppIO, ARTSEE, ENVITAE, GURU: AdAppIO is an intelligent mobile ad revenue maximizer platform that guarantees 100% improvement in ad revenue for app developers.
Andrew Landis
Founder & CEO of LuckyDiem
Andrew Landis is the Founder & CEO of LuckyDiem.
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About LuckyDiem: The Largest Card-Linked Offer Platform with Gamified Loyalty and Rewards Program.
George Levin
Founder and CEO of Getintent
George Levin is CEO & Co-Founder of Getintent. He holds a dual Master’s Degree in both Mathematics and Marketing. After five years of studying mathematics, George decided to change his field dramatically and in 2007 began his career in online advertising. Attracted to accountability and predictability, George’s main areas of interest and expertise revolve around programmatic and machine learning. His professional passion for learning more about the advertising technology ecosystem led George, together with his fellow mathematician student Vladimir Klimontovich, to found the programmatic platform Getintent. With headquarters in New York, Getintent is one of the leading players in the global programmatic platform industry.
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About Getintent: Getintent is offering a highly customizable AI-powered programmatic suite for agencies, publishers, broadcasters and content owners.
