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 CRM 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.
Mathilde Collin
CEO and Co-Founder of Front
Mathilde Collin is the co-founder and CEO of Front.
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About Front: Front is the leader in customer communication that brings teams together to offer tailor-made service at scale
Laurent Perrin
CTO and Co-Founder of Front
Laurent Perrin is the CTO and co-founder at Front.
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About Front: Front is the leader in customer communication that brings teams together to offer tailor-made service at scale
Urmas Purde
Co-Founder of Pipedrive
Co-Founder of Pipedrive.
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About Pipedrive: Pipedrive is the global sales-first CRM and revenue platform for small businesses
Parker Harris
Co-Founder, EVP Technology of Salesforce
Parker Harris founded salesforce.com along with Marc Benioff, Dave Moellenhoff and Frank Dominguez in the spring of 1999. As Executive Vice President, Harris oversees the development of all software for salesforce.com. Prior to founding salesforce.com, Harris developed web application and salesforce automation expertise at Left Coast Software, a private consulting company he co-founded, as well as at Metropolis software, an early pioneer in field sales force automation subsequently acquired by Clarify. Harris has over twelve years of software engineering and management experience. He graduated from Middlebury College with a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce Ventures: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Brad Birnbaum
CEO & Founder of Kustomer
Brad is an innovator and a trailblazer in creating disruptive enterprise technologies. He has spent more than 20 years as a C level executive and a serial entrepreneur, building companies and solutions for customer service and support. Mission driven and passionate, he believes in leading with purpose and building solutions that solve real world problems. As co-founder and CEO of Kustomer, Brad set out together with Jeremy Suriel and the Kustomer team to build something the world desperately needs: a modern, customer-centric platform for building applications while modernizing the customer support tool landscape. Before founding Kustomer, Brad co-founded Assistly which was acquired by Salesforce and rebranded as Desk.com; making it the Salesforce SaaS SMB support solution. Brad began his career by founding eShare Communications while in college. As Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Product Development at eShare Technologies, he took part in revolutionizing community chat and launching the first chat tool used for customer support. eShare was later sold to Melita International where he continued his role as CTO for the larger entity which rebranded as eShare Communications. Brad held executive roles at Divine Interventures, eAssist and Talisma all the while focusing on improving customer support for enterprise companies. Additionally, Brad lead the community chat team at AOL and was CTO for Airtime. Brad contributes regularly to Forbes where he writes about trends that affect the customer service industry today. As a born and raised New Yorker, Brad insists on building the next great NYC based tech startup. Brad serves as Kustomer’s Chairman of the Board. Birnbaum served as a Justice Louis Brandeis Scholar at Brandeis University and a Simon’s fellow at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he conducted advanced organo-metallic research in chemistry. Birnbaum has been published in a variety of publications and has also served as a technical editor for some of Macmillan’s best-selling Java and Internet books. Birnbaum holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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About CRMXchange, Kustomer: Kustomer is an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM platform specializing in customer service.
Jeremy Suriel
CTO & Founder of Kustomer
Jeremy is a seasoned tech founder with a deep knowledge and expertise in software development & architecture.Jeremy was Co-founder and Chief Architect of Assistly. Previously he was a Co-founder of eAssist, then a Co-founder & CTO at Goowy Media which was acquired by AOL.
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About Kustomer: Kustomer is an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM platform specializing in customer service.
Richard Smullen
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Pypestream
Richard is the CEO and founder of Pypestream, a secure mobile messaging platform that uses real-time chat to transform the way brands and businesses connect with customers. Through ‘Pypes’ listed in a searchable catalogue, businesses are provided with a direct connection to their customers for increased engagement, automated customer service, and in-message payment processing. The ultimate customer engagement tool, further loyalty is derived by using proprietary AI and chatbot technology to allow conversations at scale. A serial entrepreneur, Richard previously co-founded Genesis Media LLC, a real-time video advertising platform, and is a board member of SouthWinston LLC, a New York-based, global private equity and VC fund.
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About dhomain llc, Pypestream, SouthWinston: Pypestream is conversational artificial intelligence built for scale.
Bryan Mahoney
Co-Founder, CEO of Chord
Bryan started his career in Montreal, pursuing a degree in Finance and Entrepreneurship at McGill University. In 1998, during his sophomore year, he founded Dynamo, a digital design studio that would later become his full-time job with a team of thirty-five. Over the course of 15 years, Dynamo established itself as a go-to partner for venture-backed startups in the e-commerce space, including brands like Blue Bottle Coffee, Samsung, the Honest Company, and Glossier. After Glossier launched in 2014, Bryan was tasked with helping the New York-based company build out their own in-house tech team. He ended up taking on the job himself and now serves as their Chief Technology Officer. At Glossier, Bryan’s focus has shifted to overseeing an international team of developers and data analysts as they work to create a forward-thinking experience for customers and build a technology infrastructure from the ground up. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York City.
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About Chord: Chord offers a commerce-as-a-service software that provides businesses with technology and products to access meaningful data.
Erez Marom
Founder / Owner of Workiz
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About Workiz: Workiz is a provider of an online platform for managing home services work teams.
Idan Kadosh
Founder / Owner of Workiz
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About Workiz: Workiz is a provider of an online platform for managing home services work teams.
Kim Stiefel
CEO & Co-Founder of Repeat
Kim Stiefel is the CEO and Co-Founder of PRZM.
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About Repeat: Repeat is a SaaS platform that enables consumer-packaged-goods brands to turn one-time buyers into repeat customers.
Harsha Pamulaparthi
Founder and CEO of Standav Corp.
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About Standav Corp.: Standav offers CRM, CPQ , API Integration delivery and Contract Analytics
Francisco Larrain
CEO, Co-Founder of Sudo
Francisco Larrain is the Co-Founder & CTO at Topsort.
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About Maxxa, Sudo, Topsort: Sudo is a venture-backed startup that is enabling people to talk to their company’s CRM system.
Amit Koren
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of Sudo
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About Brim, Sudo: Sudo is a venture-backed startup that is enabling people to talk to their company’s CRM system.
Bhupesh Bansal
Co-Founder, Platform/Infrastructure of Sudo
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About IntroLogic, Sudo: Sudo is a venture-backed startup that is enabling people to talk to their company’s CRM system.
Gaston L’Huillier
Co-Founder, Algorithms/Data Science of Sudo
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About IntroLogic, Sudo: Sudo is a venture-backed startup that is enabling people to talk to their company’s CRM system.
Ari Greenberg
Co-Founder and President of BCV
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About BCV, Brightline Trains: BCV is a full service social media provider focused on the hospitality industry.
David Boskovic
Founder & CEO of Flatfile
David Boskovic is the founder and CEO at Flatfile.
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About Flatfile: Flatfile is the premier data onboarding platform for businesses. Built for your customer, Flatfile is already trusted by hundreds of teams.
Eric Crane
Co-Founder & COO of Flatfile
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About Flatfile: Flatfile is the premier data onboarding platform for businesses. Built for your customer, Flatfile is already trusted by hundreds of teams.
Bastin Gerald
Founder, CEO of Apptivo Inc.
Have a proven track record of taking initiatives and turning them to market-leading products and world-renowned award-winning positions. Established product strategy, recruited top talent and led international development teams that delivered profitable multi-million dollar new business application products covering Finance, Supply Chain Management & Product Lifecycle Management. Established mutually profitable strategic alliances to get favorable positioning for products. Developed aggressive field readiness plans and coordinated with marketing, analyst relations and media relations for several product launches. Authored well-received book targeted at business users and consultants.
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About Apptivo Inc., Profit.co, Sirahu Technologies: Apptivo is an integrated Cloud Suite with over 40+ apps for all types of businesses, including CRM, project management, invoicing, and more.
Boaz Hecht
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SkyGiraffe
Boaz Hecht is the Co-founder and CEO of SkyGiraffe.
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About SkyGiraffe: SkyGiraffe is an enterprise mobility platform that mobilizes back-end data, enabling employees to manage business processes on any device.
Matthew Darrow
Co-Founder & CEO of Vivun
10+ year enterprise software leader with experience growing businesses, building global teams, and delivering product.
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
John Bruce
Co-Founder & CTO of Vivun
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Claire Bruce
Co-Founder & COO of Vivun
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Dominique Darrow
Co-Founder & CCO of Vivun
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Joseph Miller
Co-Founder, Chief Data Scientist of Vivun
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Alex Meshkin
Co-Founder & CEO of Flow Health
Alex Meshkin is currently Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of GroupMD, a patient care social network enabling healthcare providers to effectively communicate, collaborate and coordinate care. Additionally, Meshkin is Executive Chairman of huvi, a social commerce platform, enabling consumers to buy and sell digital movies. huvi works in partnership with major Hollywood studios to reduce piracy, monetize consumer to consumer transactions and enable a secondary market for digital goods. In 1999, at the age of 19, Meshkin launched his first consumer internet start-up and experienced the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. In the years that followed, Meshkin became the CEO of Toyota Motorsports’ flagship NASCAR racing team, Bang! Racing. Toyota selected the young Meshkin from 83 NASCAR race team candidates; to lead Toyota’s factory supported NASCAR racing team. Toyota’s partnership with Meshkin created one of the most successful racing organizations in its first year of operations. In 2004, Bang! Racing made NASCAR history – setting numerous milestones. As the principal owner of Bang! Racing, Meshkin became the youngest team owner in NASCAR history and the team became the most successful first year NASCAR race team – winning Toyota’s first two races in their inaugural season. Bang Holdings, the parent company of Bang! Racing was also a success off the race track. In its first year of operations, Bang generated over $15 million in revenues; partnered with Vertrue to form a joint venture; and with their strategic technology partner eBay created and operated a NASCAR consumer membership and affinity marketing club. By the age of 23, Meshkin was one of NASCAR’s elite team owners and a recurring guest on Fox News Channel and CNBC Squawk Box; and featured in numerous publications, including Fortune, Sporting News, Racer, Associated Press and Sports Illustrated. Bang! Racing sponsors included, Toyota Motor Sales, DuPont, Viacom (Showtime Networks), Line-X, Valvoline and Snap-On Tools. In 2005, the race team was acquired by Toyota Motorsports and Bill Davis Racing. The technology divisions were merged in 2006 into Cloverleaf Partners and the NASCAR membership club became FastTrack Savings operating as DealPass.com. Prior to Bang! Racing, Meshkin founded and operated a global software development company and interactive agency with a focus on healthcare and pharmaceuticals with clients such as Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly. Additionally, Meshkin served as Director of Product and Strategic Development of cyberCFO, a venture funded financial services firm and later as VP and GM at Cloverleaf Partners. Keep up with Alex on Twitter @alexmeshkin. And to learn more about please visit his blog at http://alexmeshkin.com and LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/meshkin. Check out his videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/alexmeshkin
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About Flow Health, GroupMD: Flow Health is a collaboration platform based of universal health data, combining data from all sources around a patient
Nate Smith
Founder & CEO of Lever
Nate is on a mission to build the next generation of enterprise software. He’s our tech visionary and the author of DerbyJS, our JavaScript framework for realtime, collaborative applications. DerbyJS is the first and only open source MVC framework that syncs all data via Operational Transformation, the same algorithm that powers Google Docs. Nate attended Olin College where he majored in electrical and computer engineering. Prior to Lever, Nate was a product manager on the Google Search team. He led the first major redesign of Google’s image search UI, which launched in July 2010.
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About Lever: Lever is a talent acquisition suite that provides talent leaders with the solutions they need to build strong relationships with candidates.
Peter Gassner
Founder and CEO of Veeva
Peter is responsible for the overall direction and management of Veeva Systems. In 2010, Peter was named to the PharmaVOICE 100, which recognizes the 100 most influential people in the life sciences industry. Peter is a twenty year veteran of the software industry. Prior to founding Veeva, Peter was Senior Vice President of Technology at salesforce.com where he had responsibility for building the salesforce.com platform including product, marketing and developer relations. During Peter’s tenure, salesforce.com completed its public offering and grew the technology into the most successful SaaS platform in the industry. Before salesforce.com, Peter was with PeopleSoft for 9 years as both Chief Architect and General Manager of PeopleTools. Peter led a team of over 450 professionals who provided the development, strategy, marketing and customer support for PeopleSoft’s technology platform. PeopleTools was widely regarded in the industry as the best application platform of its day. Peter began his career with IBM in relational database development and research at IBM Silicon Valley Lab and then at IBM Almaden Research Center where he had the privilege of working closely with some of the inventors of relational database technology. Peter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Oregon State University.
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About Veeva: Veeva Systems is a provider of cloud-based business solutions for the global life sciences industry.
Zachary Hamed
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Clay
Zachary Hamed is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Clay.
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About Clay: The most beautiful and private home for the people and relationships in your life.
Matthew Achariam
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Clay
Matthew Achariam is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Clay.
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About Clay, Custora: The most beautiful and private home for the people and relationships in your life.
Tiago Paiva
Founder and CEO of Talkdesk
Tiago Paiva is the Founder of Talkdesk, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
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About Talkdesk: Talkdesk offers an enterprise contact center platform that allows companies to make the customer experience a competitive advantage.
Ryan Leslie
Founder/CEO of SuperPhone
Ryan Leslie, Co-founder & CEO, SuperPhone // direct cell: +1-646-887-6987 Grammy nominated recording artist, multi-platinum producer, and avid technologist. Ryan is the architect and ultimate case study for SuperPhone, Disruptive Multimedia (DMM)’s simple CRM for creators. In addition to logging studio time with Madonna, Jay-Z, Kanye West and Beyoncé, he launched the first internet pop star Cassie, who sold over 650K albums fueled by an aggressive pre-Twitter social media campaign on MySpace. Bravely opting to remove his latest album from iTunes, he used an inbound SMS campaign powered by SuperPhone to earn over $560K in D2C revenue from just 15K fans, a 4x multiple of royalties received on his major label debut which sold 180K copies. He holds a BA in Government from Harvard.
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About SuperPhone: SuperPhone is an intelligent mobile messaging platform that helps enterprise retail brands acquire, and engage with mobile customers.
Collin Wallace
CEO and Co-Founder of ZeroStorefront
Collin Wallace is the CEO and co-founder at ZeroStorefront.
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About ZeroStorefront: ZeroStorefront connects local business applications to drive more orders and better customer experiences.
Sridhar Vembu
CEO and Founder of Zoho
Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of [Zoho Corp.](/organization/zoho) (formerly AdventNet Inc.), the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications. He co-founded AdventNet in 1996, and has been CEO since 2000. AdventNet has transformed itself from a modest beginning as a software company serving network equipment vendors to a be an innovative online applications provider. It has maintained growth and profitability, without needing outside capital. Prior to AdventNet, Sridhar worked as a wireless systems engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. where he was fortunate to work with some of the leading minds in wireless communications. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
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About Site24x7, Zoho: Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration, and productivity applications.
John Rudolph
Founder of Music Analytics
John is an advisor to many media and tech firms, as well as an investor. He is a trusted advisor to seed stage and large companies with a specialty in the creative industries, media rights and business structuring.
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About Music Analytics: Media and tech advisory services
Josh Curl
Founder & CTO of Hightouch
Josh Curl is the Co-Founder of Hightouch.
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About Hightouch: Hightouch is a data platform that helps sync customer’s data from the data warehouse to their CRM, marketing, and support tools.
Tejas Manohar
Founder of Hightouch
Tejas Manohar is the co-founder of Hightouch.
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About Appupa, Carry, Hightouch: Hightouch is a data platform that helps sync customer’s data from the data warehouse to their CRM, marketing, and support tools.
Kashish Gupta
Founder of Hightouch
Kashish Gupta is the co-founder of Hightouch.
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About Carry, Hightouch: Hightouch is a data platform that helps sync customer’s data from the data warehouse to their CRM, marketing, and support tools.
Chinedu Eleanya
Founder and CEO of Mulberry Technology
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About Mulberry Technology: Mulberry develops personalized product protection solutions used to help brands unlock additional revenue.
Olivier Pailhès
Co-Founder and CEO of Aircall
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About Aircall: Aircall is a cloud-based call center software that integrates with CRM, productivity, and helpdesk tools.
Brian O’Neal
Founder & CTO of CINC
Brian designed and launched the technology operations program for CINC. Prior to his role in founding the company, Brian was lead software architect and senior application developer at CDC Software and CareerBuilder.com. Previously, Brian worked with cutting edge mobile phone development for Panasonic in the late 1990s. He led teams that built and integrated contact management systems for mobile devices with client software such as Microsoft Outlook and other PIM software.
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About CINC: CINC provides an integrated buyer lead generation and management solution for top-producing real estate brokers and agents.
Armen Adjemian
Co-Founder & CEO of DISQO
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About DISQO, Survey Junkie: DISQO develops an audience insights platform designed to connect brands and people.
Josh Mailman
Founder of Serious Change
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About Serious Change: Serious Change is here to get a secure and sustainable energy system for Britain. Using current research we aim to show the country the
Alex Wirth
Co-Founder of Quorum
Alex is a cofounder of Quorum primarily responsible for business development and customer success. Originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, Alex is currently a senior at Harvard studying Government and Economics. A lex interned in the Office of the Chief of Staff at the White House, in Senator Jeff Bingaman’s (D-NM) office, and was a U.S. Senate Page. Alex started the Campaign for a Presidential Youth Council where he conducted over 60 meetings on Capitol Hill. These meetings led to the introduction of three bipartisan resolutions supported by six U.S. Senators and eighteen Members of Congress. Alex was appointed by Secretary Clinton as the youngest member in history to the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. Alex has spoken at the United Nations, the Clinton Global Initiative, and the World Forum for Democracy.
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About Quorum: Quorum is software built for public affairs—one place for stakeholder engagement, legislative tracking, and grassroots advocacy.
Jonathan Marks
Co-Founder of Quorum
Jonathan is a cofounder of Quorum primarily responsible for product design and development. Originally from Brookfield, Wisconsin, Jonathan is currently a senior at Harvard studying Chemical and Physical Biology with a focus in computational biochemistry and Computer Science. Jonathan is a 2014 Rhodes and Marshall Finalist, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, an HHMI Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Fellow, Herchel Smith Fellow, and a twice-published author in peer-reviewed journals. Recognized by the international Undergraduate Awards as a Highly Commended Scholar, his work was recently selected as among the top 25 internationally in the life sciences. Jonathan is the emeritus Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Undergraduate Research Journal and a four-year member of Harvard’s top-20 ranked Division I Varsity Swim Team.
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About Quorum: Quorum is software built for public affairs—one place for stakeholder engagement, legislative tracking, and grassroots advocacy.
Jerry Jao
CEO & Founder of Retention Science
Jerry started his path to entrepreneurship at the age 8, making $3 a day by recycling his classmates’ plastic cans after school. Years later, he moved on to e-Commerce and started selling comic books and video games online. He’s been an online entrepreneur ever since and is now CEO and founder of Retention Science. Prior to founding Retention Science, Jerry founded two other e-Commerce marketing technologies. He was an analyst with Morgan Stanley, and an engagement manager with BearingPoint Management Consulting (KPMG Advisory), where he advised FORTUNE 50 companies. He was most recently an advisor to the CFO of Clear Channel, working on digital sales initiatives and iHeartRadio. Jerry currently serves on the Board of Directors of Penango, an enterprise email & cloud security company. Jerry is a graduate of UC Berkeley, where he received a B.S. in Business Administration and a full-tuition scholarship as an Alumni Scholar, and Yale School of Management.
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About Retention Science: Retention Science is an AI-driven platform designed to engage and retain customers.
Fredrik Thomassen
CEO & Founder of Superside
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About Superside: Superside is an always-on design company that delivers great design at scale to Enterprise teams.
Dave Stephens
CEO & Co-Founder of FreeAgent CRM
Dave Stephens is the CEO & Co-Founder at FreeAgent CRM.
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About FreeAgent CRM: Leading the way to a better workday
Ryan Manning
Co-Founder & CRO of FreeAgent CRM
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About FreeAgent CRM: Leading the way to a better workday
Praful Saklani
Co-Founder and CEO of Pramata
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About Pramata: Pramata helps B2B enterprises maximize revenue by knowing the exact contract details and order history for each customer.
Charles Bonello
Co-Founder, CEO of Vivvi
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About RTP Ventures, Vivvi: Vivvi provides child care and early learning services for families and tools for recruitment, retention, and productivity to employers.
Ben Newton
COO and Co-Founder of Vivvi
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About Vivvi: Vivvi provides child care and early learning services for families and tools for recruitment, retention, and productivity to employers.
Dennis Velasco
Founder and CEO of Xtendly
There’s 5 things that I’m super passionate about: 1) Creating inspiring organizational cultures in order to help my team live their dreams by reaching levels of success that they never thought were ever possible. 2) Finding ways to deliver wow-like customer experiences that turn into life-long relationships and evangelism. 3) Innovating new but SIMPLE ways to solve REAL world problems. 4) Having FUN because life ain’t worth living unless you can “stop and smell the roses”. 5) Growth hacking. Today, I lead a boutique digital marketing and software development firm with the best-of-the-best talent located around the world in the USA, Philippines & Latin America. Our focus is helping Small to Medium-sized businesses improve their digital presence, increase website traffic and boost lead conversions. We do this as an “all-in-one” managed WordPress service at an affordable monthly pay-as-you-go fee.
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About Xtendly: Xtendly is a marketing-as-a-service firm that offers website design, modern marketing, and cloud software services.
Ben Lilienthal
Co-Founder & CEO of ScreenMeet
Ben has successfully started and sold two Internet communications infrastructure companies. The first one, Nascent, to CMGI in 1999 and then Vapps, in 2008, to Citrix. He earned his MBA from NYU and his BA from Amherst College. He is a member of the Henry Crown Fellows Class of 2010 at the Aspen Institute.
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About ScreenMeet: ScreenMeet – Enterprise Remote Suppor
Benjamin Howard Lilienthal
Co-Founder & CEO of ScreenMeet
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About ScreenMeet: ScreenMeet – Enterprise Remote Suppor
Abinash Tripathy
Founder & CEO of Helpshift
Abinash Tripathy Co-Founder & CEO, Helpshift, is utilizing his 20 years of experience with technology and CRM to re-imagine CRM for the post-PC era. Prior to founding Helpshift, Abinash created and ran a number of early and growth stage companies where he was responsible for conceptualizing and delivering the world’s first IP-based Voicemail/Unified communications, Mobile Photo Messaging (in Japan) and MMS products to the market. He started his career at Oracle where he wrote the first in-house CRM solution.
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About Helpshift: Helpshift is a conversational customer service platform that leverages AI, bots, and messaging-based communication.
Rory Cutaia
Founder, Chairman, Pres. & CEO of VERB Technology Company
Rory originated the concept of bBooth and the idea that it could be used as a revenue-generating casting vehicle for TV shows. Rory created the Company’s business plan and marketing strategies, financed its start-up costs, including all research and development, then assembled a world-class management team of successful Hollywood, entertainment, and technology veterans to execute his vision to disrupt the talent discovery and fan engagement industries. Keenly focused on building shareholder value, Rory provides the vision and leadership for his management team and sets the goals and objectives for the Company’s growth and expansion. A successful serial entrepreneur, Rory’s previous endeavors include Founder, Chairman and CEO of telecom technology icon, The Telx Group, which he built and sold in 6 years for approx. $250M, returning 18x invested capital to early investors; and Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Allied Fiber, a new nationwide fiber-optic network, being deployed along railroad rights-of-way; among other successful endeavors.
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About VERB Technology Company: VERB Technology Company specializes in business-focused interactive video webinars, CRM, sales, and marketing applications.
Geoffrey Nudd
CEO and Founder of ClearCare
Geoff founded ClearCare after personal experience as a family caregiver.He realized that there had to be a better way to give transparency to family members leading to ClearCare’s early point-of-care innovations and a cycle of ongoing innovation in partnership with ClearCare’s customers. Geoff has over fifteen years of experience in software development and is an alumnus of companies such as Motorola, Andersen Consulting, and Merrill Lynch. Prior to launching ClearCare, Geoff successfully sold his last venture to a Google/Facebook company. Geoff received his B.A. from Northwestern and M.B.A. from Kellogg.
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About ClearCare: ClearCare is a web-based software solution that helps home care agencies efficiently focus on what’s important: providing better care.
Meng Sui
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of EEnovate Technology
Meng Sui currently works as the Co-Founder and CEO for Eenovate Technology. He previously worked at Greenberg Traurig as the Patent Paralegal.
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About 4C Air, EEnovate Technology: EEnovate Technology provides software and CRM solutions for businesses throughout the State of California.
Saritha Katikaneni
Co-Founder and VP Marketing of Zenoti
Saritha Katikaneni is a Co-Founder and the Vice President of Marketing at Zenoti.
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About Zenoti: Zenoti is a provider of cloud-based software for the spa and salon industries.
Cyrus Karbassiyoon
CTO & Co-Founder of Scratchpad
CTO and Co-founder at Scratchpad .
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About Scratchpad: Scratchpad is an all-in-one sales efficiency toolkit that allows users to consolidate and streamline the different aspects of sales.
Vahe Kuzoyan
President & Co-Founder of ServiceTitan
As co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Vahe is the principal domain expert and product visionary behind ServiceTitan’s innovations. Vahe’s father is a plumber, and Vahe built ServiceTitan as a “thank you” to his dad and fellow contractors. Vahe holds degrees in Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Business Administration from the University of Southern California.
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About ServiceTitan: ServiceTitan is a service management software that helps home services businesses generate more leads and close more sales.
Toby Scammell
Founder & CEO of Womply
Toby Scammell is the founder and CEO of Womply, a technology company that helps small businesses attract, engage, and retain more customers. Mr. Scammell founded Womply in 2011 after seeing first-hand how underserved America’s small businesses were by technology. Today, he leads the strategic vision for many of the company’s core functions and works closely with all members of Womply’s executive team, with a particular focus on the intersection of product development and go-to-market activities. Under Mr. Scammell’s leadership, Womply has acquired more than 100,000 paying small business customers, become the leading software partner to America’s credit card processing industry, raised $50 million in growth funding, and expanded to hundreds of employees across offices in San Francisco; Portland, Oregon; and Lehi, Utah. Mr. Scammell is a serial entrepreneur with a strong business background. Prior to founding Womply, he co-founded Feastery, where he spent over a year solving customer acquisition and loyalty problems for restaurants in San Francisco. Before that, he was a successful associate consultant at Bain & Company, one of the world’s top management consulting firms. During high school and college, Toby started and ran a variety of small online businesses including a Costco-delivery service and company that sold advertising to local restaurants, bars, and lounges. Mr. Scammell graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in international relations, with an emphasis in global business.He is an active angel investor and advisor to a variety of startups.
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About Womply: A local commerce platform that provides apps, APIs, marketing, and financial tools for over 500,000 American businesses.
Cory Capoccia
Co-Founder, Chief Business Development Officer, and President of Womply
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About Verifi, Inc., Womply: A local commerce platform that provides apps, APIs, marketing, and financial tools for over 500,000 American businesses.
Kuldip Hillyer
Founder, CEO of Kugamon
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About Kugamon: CPQ (Configure Price Quote), Q2C (Quote to Cash), and SRM (Subscription Management) for Salesforce
Brad Bostic
Founder, Chairman & CEO of hc1
Brad Bostic has been founding, leading, and investing in high-growth technology companies for the past 25 years. Frustrated by the prevalence of one-size-fits-all, trial and error patient care, Brad founded hc1 to save lives, save money, and eliminate wasteful practices with precision health insights that empower patients, providers, and health plans to make tailored care decisions. Today, the hc1 Platform analyzes billions of live data points across 20,000 provider locations to personalize care, improve outcomes, and eliminate waste for tens of millions of patients each year. By transforming lab and prescription data into personalized healthcare insights with cloud computing and machine learning, hc1 is the leader in critical insights, analytics, and solutions for precision health. Brad is among the top innovators in healthcare according to Becker’s Healthcare and was recognized as the 2020 Dynamic Leader of the Year by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce.
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About hc1, Health Cloud Capital: Hc1 enables real-time lab stewardship and precision prescribing for health systems, laboratories and physicians.
Tyson Quick
Founder & Chief Growth Officer of Postclick
Serial Entrepreneur, Advertising/Marketing Innovator, Postclick & Instapage Founder/CEO
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About Instapage, Mesiab Labs, Postclick: The world’s leading solution for improving digital ad conversions-creating digital experiences that optimize and increase return on ad spend
Taylor Justice
Co-Founder & President of Unite Us
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About Unite Us: Unite Us provides a collaboration and coordination software, streamlining the delivery of health and social services.
Andrew Price
Co-Founder/Director of Outreach of Unite Us
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About Decisive Point, Unite Us: Unite Us provides a collaboration and coordination software, streamlining the delivery of health and social services.
Eric Best
CEO & Founder of SoundCommerce
Eric Best joined SoundCommerce as CEO and Founder in 2018.
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About SoundCommerce: SoundCommerce is a data platform that drives profitable growth, customer experience, and CLV for brands and retailers.
Aleem Mawani
Co-Founder and CEO of Streak
Aleem is the Co-Founder and CEO at Streak.
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About Streak: Streak is the only CRM integrated entirely within your Gmail inbox. Use it to track sales, partnerships, support, hiring, and much more.
Vijay Sajja
CEO / Founder of Evergent Technologies, Inc.
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About Evergent Technologies, Inc.: Fast, Flexible, Scalable Subscription, Billing and User Management for Global Cloud Video Service Providers.
Zafar Jafri
CEO & Founder of Inprintz, Inc.
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About Inprintz, Inc.: Inprintz is a large format printing company.
Fred Hsu
Founder of UserCare
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About UserCare: UserCare is customer service software that helps companies deliver exceptional customer service by blending support, CRM and data analytics.
Colin Day
Founder & Chairman of iCIMS
Colin Day is chairman and CEO of iCIMS. After getting his start as a recruiter at Comrise Technology, an IT staffing firm, Day founded iCIMS in 2000 with a vision to deliver applicant tracking software emphasizing ease-of-use and an unparalleled customer service. Under his leadership, iCIMS has grown to become the largest standalone provider of talent acquisition software in the industry and stands among Forbes top 100 fastest-growing private cloud companies in the country. As CEO, Day maintains a deep commitment to customer needs and a clear vision for corporate fortitude, leading iCIMS to thrive with thirteen years’ profitability, three straight years of 30%+ growth and eleven consecutive years as one of the Inc. 500|5000 fastest growing companies in the nation. In 2015, iCIMS reached $100 million in recurring revenue and garnered increased investment from Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLC (SGE), building upon its initial $35 million minority growth equity investment in 2012. With Day at the helm, the company’s customer base now exceeds 3,200, securing brands such as Enterprise Holdings, Jamba Juice, Rackspace, and Rite Aid. Day believes in a contrarian approach to entrepreneurship, beginning with a keen focus on creating a dedicated suite of hiring solutions and followed by a revolutionary approach to defining platform-as-a-service within the talent acquisition technology space. He has been widely recognized as a dynamic business leader, named one of the Highest Rated CEOs on Glassdoor.com for Small and Medium Companies, twice as a Superstar in HR technology by HRO Today, one of NJBIZ magazine’s Forty Under 40, and Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in the Information Technology Software category. iCIMS has been recognized as one of Glassdoor.com’s 50 Best Medium-Sized Companies to Work For and has spent five consecutive years ranked as one of the Best Places to Work in New Jersey by NJBIZ. Day’s commitment to a better environment fosters corporate responsibility programs that ensure the company is a zero sum consumer of fossil fuels and gives employees the opportunity to participate in community events to benefit various environmental institutions.
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About iCIMS, VM Digital: iCIMS is a talent cloud company that helps organizations to attract, engage, hire, and advance the right talent.
Lea Endres
Co-Founder & CEO of NationBuilder
Lea Endres is the Co-Founder & CEO at NationBuilder.
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About NationBuilder: NationBuilder is a community organizing software platform that helps people organize and build community-based relationships.
Jim Gilliam
Founder & Executive Chairman of NationBuilder
Jim Gilliam is the founder and CEO of 3dna, a startup building internet tools to shake up a broken political system. Previously, he co-founded Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films, building a non-profit grassroots media company of a million members and producing four documentaries. In the late 90’s, he launched Business.com as its Chief Technology Officer, and worked at Lycos, one of the first internet search engines.
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About NationBuilder: NationBuilder is a community organizing software platform that helps people organize and build community-based relationships.
Benjamin Cohen
Founder & CEO of Proton.ai
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About Proton.ai: Proton.ai is an AI-powered sales platform for distributors to gain millions of revenue and reclaim market share.
Francois Nadal
CEO & Founder of OneUp
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About OneUp: OneUp is an online accounting software for small business owners and accountants.
Zachary Goldstein
Founder & CEO of Thanx
Zach Goldstein is the founder and CEO of Thanx. He is passionate about retail customer retention and satisfaction and the Sacramento Kings. Dartmouth College (BA) and Stanford Graduate School of Business (MBA).
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About Thanx: Guest engagement that delights!
Aaron Newton
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Thanx
Aaron Newton is at his best when he is working on highly technical, user facing challenges that combine numerous technologies to create something novel. He is well versed in agile development concepts, product management, hiring and management. The ideal product is one that enriches my life in some way; I don’t have to be the primary customer, but it’s nice to be one of them.
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About Thanx: Guest engagement that delights!
Darren Cheng
Co-Founder & CTO of Thanx
Darren is a born-and-raised East-Coaster, currently enjoying the West Coast life. He joined Thanx as employee and engineer #1 in 2011 and has enjoyed cultivating the codebase from its inception to what it is now. Darren received his BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth.
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About Thanx: Guest engagement that delights!
Luke Kanies
Founder and CEO of Clickety
Luke Kanies is the Founder and CEO of Clickety. He also founded Puppet and Puppet Labs in 2005 out of fear and desperation, with the goal of producing better operations tools and changing how we manage systems. He has been publishing and speaking on his work in system administration since 1997, focusing on development since 2001. He has developed and published multiple simple sysadmin tools and contributed to established products like Cfengine, and has presented on Puppet and other tools around the world, including at OSCON, LISA, Linux.Conf.au, and FOSS.in. His work with Puppet has been an important part of DevOps and delivering on the promise of cloud computing. He serves as a board member for the Technology Association of Oregon.
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About Clickety, Puppet: Clickety is a computer software company that produces CRM software for every non-sales job.
Dennis W Shuler
Founder, President of Core Strengths Management Consulting LLC
Dennis W Shuler is the Executive Advisory Board Member at Springbuk.
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About Bain Capital, Core Strengths Management Consulting LLC, Kinetic Consulting: Consulting Practice
Fred Shilmover
President & Founder of InsightSquared
Prior to InsightSquared Fred headed global IT and was an associate at Bessemer Venture Partners. His background includes an SMB consultancy he founded as well as corporate development at Salesforce.com.Fred has a B.A. from Tufts and an MBA from Harvard Business School. In his off time Fred is an avid wakeboarder.
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About InsightSquared: InsightSquared is a revenue intelligence platform that provides sales intelligence solutions for forecasting, accuracy, and decision-making.
Zhou Sha
Co-Founder & CEO of Percept.AI
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About Percept.AI: Percept.AI is an AI-powered virtual agent technology provider.
Parsa Rohani
Chief Executive Officer, Founder of Neudesic
As the leader of the executive team, Parsa is responsible for the vision, direction and investment decisions of the company. Parsa’s vast experience with Microsoft solutions and products, coupled with his design, deployment and implementation skills, gives Neudesic the agility and strength necessary to succeed. Prior to co-founding Neudesic, Parsa worked at Microsoft for ten years as an architect within the company’s services division. He provided extensive and in-depth technical direction to Microsoft’s most strategic partners and customers. He also served in managerial roles and served as the Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Planning for a network storage company. His technical expertise ranges from advanced hardware design and computer vision to the development of coarsely integrated, distributed computing architecture for a variety of applications and industries. Parsa earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. He currently resides in Laguna Beach, Calif.
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About Neudesic, PriceSpider: Neudesic is a Microsoft Gold Certified and Managed Partner with a proven track record of providing reliable, effective solutions based on
Tim Marshall
Chief Technology Officer, Founder of Neudesic
As the leader of the technology team, Tim is responsible for defining the technological trail Neudesic blazes to empower organizations in understanding and leveraging business solutions using the Microsoft Technology Platform. Tim’s wealth of experience in different technologies, along with his extensive expertise across a wide breadth of vertical markets, enables him to assist organizations in making proper technical decisions that help them achieve their visions. His involvement with the technical aspect of the business is deep, as evidenced through his expert presentations at major industry events and his work with development teams nationally. Prior to co-founding Neudesic, Tim was a well-respected software architect at Microsoft. His technical expertise has enabled many organizations in a wide variety of industries to execute their technical vision. Tim received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from California State University, Fullerton. He currently resides in Irvine, Calif.
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About Neudesic: Neudesic is a Microsoft Gold Certified and Managed Partner with a proven track record of providing reliable, effective solutions based on
Augie K Fabela II
Co-Founder and CEO of Fastforward.ai
Augie K Fabela II is the Co-Founder and CEO at Fastforward.ai.
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About Fastforward.ai, Veon: FastForward.ai is a social media engagement and commerce platform company
Romeo Ganescu
Co-Founder and CPO of Fastforward.ai
Romeo Ganescu is the Co-Founder and CPO at FastForward.ai.
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About Fastforward.ai: FastForward.ai is a social media engagement and commerce platform company
Ray Liu
CEO and Founder of Origin Wireless
Ray Liu is the Founder and CEO of Origin Wireless.
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About Origin Wireless: Origin Wireless is a m2m (machine to machine) services company providing solutions to various industries and verticals.
Jasbir Singh
Founder, Head of Strategy, CTO & Growth Marketing of Wavespot
As a Founder and CTO, Jasbir manages Wavespot’s product roadmap.
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About Pronto Networks, Wavespot: Wavespot is a social relationship management service for local businesses.
Nagesh Challa
Founder & CEO of Waagu
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About Waagu: Waagu offers a collaborative customer engagement platform for content, web, and mobile customer interactions.
Nancy Marzouk
CEO & Founder of MediaWallah
Nancy founded MediaWallah in 2013. She saw a gap and pitfalls in how marketers were leverage their data and the need to connect fragmented data to an individual to drive better cross channel media plan results in real-time. As CEO & Founder of MediaWallah, she is responsible for all aspects of the company’s vision, strategy, and execution. Over the past 17 years Nancy Marzouk has been recognized as a thought leader and revenue powerhouse in digital marketing and ad tech. Her strategy and tactics have helped many digital companies grow into major acquisition targets. She was most recently the CRO at TagMan (acquire by Ensighten) where she managed sales, marketing, product implementation, client management, and business development. Nancy has a strong reputation in the digital media industry and has held other executive roles at IgnitionOne (acquired by Dentsu), x+1 (acquired by Rocket Fuel) , DRIVEpm (acquired by Microsoft) and Ask Jeeves ( acquired by IAC/Interactive Corp). Nancy is a battle-tested digital expert with a wealth of ad tech and online marketing knowledge. She frequently spoke at serval OMMA events, Digiday events, at the iMedia Agency Summit, Web 2.0, Ad:tech and many other prestigious event. She also has write Op-ed pieces for publications such as Adweek and been quoted in industry trades such as Ad Exchanger, ClickZ and Mediapost.
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About MediaWallah: MediaWallah offers a highly scalable cloud based user mapping Data as a Service (DaaS) platform for large brands.
Demetri Themelis
Co-Founder and CEO of Knock
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About Knock: Knock is a software-as-a-service platform that provides sales and marketing services for residential property management companies.
Tom Petry
Co-Founder & CPO of Knock
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About Knock: Knock is a software-as-a-service platform that provides sales and marketing services for residential property management companies.
Diya Obeid
Founder, CEO & President of JobDiva
As the Chief Executive Officer of JobDiva, Mr. Diya Obeid is responsible for setting the business and technology strategy of the company. With over 30 years of experience in IT consulting services, he has been an iconoclastic force in the recruitment industry. His longstanding commitment to technology and process improvement is evident by several pending patent applications for technologies related to search and the recruitment process. Mr. Obeid is also the founder of Axelon Services Corporation, a national Information Technology staffing and consulting organization established in 1977. The company is a preferred supplier to the largest and most successful companies in telecommunications, banking, brokerage, pharmaceutical and utility among others. Axelon has been recognized as the most favored supplier due to its customer service, quality, rapid delivery, and competitive pricing. Axelon’s success is directly related to its creation of innovative recruitment processes and technologies, embodied by JobDiva.
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About JobDiva: JobDiva Leading Global Applicant Tracking System.
Eduardo Toloza
CEO & Founder of SatisFactor
Entrepreneur, CEO / CIO /CTO – Project/IT Manager – Full Stack Web Developer.. Ambassador at MIT Professional Education
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About SatisFactor: SatisFactor is a tool in spanish to measure the loyalty of a customer to a company. We offer surveys via Web & Email.
Clint Oram
CSO & Co-Founder of SugarCRM
Clint Oram is a Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder. Clint helped found SugarCRM in 2004 with the goal of enabling companies around the world turn their customers into loyal fans. Today, he leads marketing and corporate development strategy for the company. Clint was one of the original architects and developers of the Sugar application and has focused on building out the product, company, partners and community in a variety of executive roles. Prior to co-founding SugarCRM, Clint held senior roles in the development, professional services and product management organizations at Epiphany, Octane Software and Hewlett Packard. He has 20 years of experience in the enterprise software industry and over 15 years designing and building award-winning CRM software solutions. Clint holds a BS in computer science from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and is the co-author of multiple CRM software patents. Clint enjoys traveling and speaking at conferences on a variety of customer experience and entrepreneurship topics, and has visited SugarCRM customers and partners in over 25 countries.
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About SugarCRM: With Sugar, you let the platform do the work—no blind spots, no busy work, and no roadblocks.
Deborah Weinswig
CEO & Founder of Coresight Research
Deborah Weinswig is the CEO & Founder at Coresight Research.
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About Coresight Research, Fung Group, PHARUS: Coresight Research provides research and advisory services to firms navigating the intersection of retail and tech.
