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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the Human Resources 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.
Shuo Wang
Co-Founder & CRO of Deel
Shuo Wang co-founded Deel in 2018. Most recently, Shuo was a co-founder and CTO of Aeris Cleantec. Shuo holds a BS degree in Robotics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Deel: Deel is a payroll and compliance platform for international employees and contractors.
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Jack Mardack
Co-Founder of Oyster®
Jack Mardack is the Co-Founder of Oyster.
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About Oyster®: Oyster is a Distributed HR platform that empowers companies to hire, pay, and care for talented teammates regardless of location.
Brynne Kennedy
Founder and Chairwoman of Topia
Brynne Kennedy is the Founder and former CEO of Topia, the talent mobility suite that helps companies move their employees between locations. Brynne founded Topia after working in investment banking and private equity. She has raised more than $100 million in venture capital funding for Topia and grown the company to operate worldwide. Topia contributes a % of revenue to support refugees and at-risk populations, and Brynne has pledged a % of personal exit proceeds to charity. Brynne holds an MBA from London Business School and a BA from Yale, where she was a Division 1 gymnast.
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About Mobility4All, Topia, Topia: Topia is a talent mobility platform that enables employees to work remotely.
Lennie Sliwinski
Co-Founder of Trusted Health
Lennie Sliwinski is the co-founder and CEO of Trusted Health. Prior to co-founding Trusted Health, Lennie served as the director of marketing at Hired, Inc.
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About Trusted Health: Trusted Health is a labor marketplace for healthcare professionals.
Matt Pierce
Co-Founder of Trusted Health
Matt is a future of work thought leader who is passionate about the impact flexible workforce solutions can bring to the healthcare industry. As the President of Trusted Health, he is responsible for defining the vision and go-to-market strategy for the company. Prior to joining Trusted, Matt was a General Manager at tech talent marketplace Hired, where he oversaw product and go-to-market strategy for the company’s contingent worker division. Prior to that, he started his career at TEKsystems, the world’s largest provider of IT staffing. While there, Matt progressed from a technical recruiter to the company’s executive leadership program. In 2018, Matt was named one of Staffing Industry Analyst’s 40 Under 40. He is CCWP certified, served as a Board Member for the Risk Management Association, and advises organizations in the future of work category.
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About Trusted Health: Trusted Health is a labor marketplace for healthcare professionals.
Ashutosh Garg
CEO & Co-Founder of Eightfold
Ashutosh Garg is the CEO and co-founder of eightfold.ai and a true guru of all things AI, with 10 years of information retrieval, machine learning and search experience. Previously, he was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of BloomReach. Prior to that, he was at IBM research. He is also a prolific publisher/inventor, with a book on machine learning, 30+ papers, and 50+ patents. Ashutosh holds a BTech from IIT-Delhi and a PhD from U of Illinois UC. Ashutosh has numerous awards, including best thesis award at IIT Delhi, IBM Fellowship and outstanding researcher award at UIUC.
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About Eightfold: Eightfold is a developer of a talent intelligence platform used to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
Varun Kacholia
CTO and Co-Founder of Eightfold
Varun Kacholia is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Eightfold.
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About Eightfold: Eightfold is a developer of a talent intelligence platform used to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
Aakash Kumar
Founder & CEO of Shiftsmart
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About Shiftsmart: Shiftsmart is a labor-management marketplace connecting part-time workers with open shifts across multiple platforms.
Richard Bronson
CEO and Founder of 70 Million Jobs
Richard’s story begins on Wall Street, where he worked at several large investment banks. He became a partner at the infamous Wolf of Wall Street firm, Stratton Oakmont, then went on to found his own financial services firm, which he grew to 500 people, generating $100 million in annual revenue. Unfortunately, some of his business practices were outside the law, and despite having paid everyone back, he was convicted of securities fraud, and served two years in a federal prison. Upon release, he was destitute and homeless, but got back on his feet, and became Director of Defy Ventures, a prominent non-profit in the reentry space. In 2016, he left Defy to launch 70MillionJobs, where he serves as CEO.
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About 70 Million Jobs, Commissary Club, The Yard: 70MillionJobs is the first national, for-profit employment platform for people with criminal records.
Xuan Yong
CEO / Co-Founder of Workrise
Xuan Yong is a co-founder & CEO at RigUp, a technology company that develops a platform to support the energy workforce.
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About Workrise: Workrise is a marketplace for on-demand services and skilled labor in the energy industry.
Michael Witte
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Workrise
Michael Witte is a co-founder and COO at RigUp, a technology company that develops a platform to support the energy workforce.Previously, Michael has worked as a petroleum engineering consultant at Pressler Petroleum Consultants.
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About Workrise: Workrise is a marketplace for on-demand services and skilled labor in the energy industry.
Genevieve Wolff Jurvetson
Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder of Fetcher
Genevieve Wolff Jurvetson is the chief marketing officer and co-founder of Fetcher. Prior to co-founding Fetcher, Genevieve served as the senior director of marketing at Apartment List. She also held positions at various companies including Klout, Goldman Sachs, Brookwood Associates, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Delta Airlines. Genevieve holds an MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Sloan School of Management and a BS degree from Georgia Institute of Technology.
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About Fetcher: Fetcher provides an AI-powered sourcing platform designed to automate the recruitment process.
Chris Calmeyn
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of Fetcher
Co-founder, Chief Product Officer at Scout.
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About Fetcher: Fetcher provides an AI-powered sourcing platform designed to automate the recruitment process.
Tolonda Michele Tolbert
Co-Founder and Head of Strategy and Culture of Eskalera
Tolonda M. Tolbert, Ph.D., is the Co-Founder, and Head of Strategy and Culture at Eskalera, Inc. She comes to the role with almost two decades of hands-on experience in Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) and culture change. Prior to that, she served as Senior Director of the Inclusive Leadership Initiative and Consultant for Catalyst, partnering with global organizations to build their capacity to create and sustain inclusive workplaces, specializing in D&I strategy, curriculum design, and implementation. She also led the Employee Resource Leadership Initiative (ERLI) with a mission to engage and connect affinity group leaders to share ideas and best practices while learning how to amplify inclusion. Previously she led special anti-bias projects at the Anti-Defamation League’s A World of Difference Institute and GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network). She was also a staff developer at Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility and a faculty member at NYU’s Silver School of Social Work teaching graduate and faculty courses on Inclusive Pedagogy. She holds a BA from the University of Colorado, Boulder and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University, she is a published writer, independent scholar, and community activist.
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About Eskalera: Eskalera improves employee engagement, productivity, and growth to help large and medium-sized companies transform their HR operations.
Tom Golisano
Founder and Chairman of the Board of Paychex
B. Thomas Golisano — entrepreneur, philanthropist, and civic leader — is the founder and chairman of the Board of Paychex, Inc., headquartered in Rochester, New York. With more than 12,000 employees and 100 office locations nationwide, Paychex is a leading national provider of payroll, human resource, and benefit outsourcing solutions for more than a half-million small and medium-sized businesses. Mr. Golisano served as Paychex’s president and chief executive officer from 1971, when he founded the company, until October 2004. Mr. Golisano and Paychex have consistently been recognized by the business, financial and national media. Mr. Golisano was listed among the FORBES top 10 bosses in the U.S. for three consecutive years, beginning in 2002; the annual ranking is based on chief executives who provide the best balance between their compensation and shareholder return. Mr. Golisano also appeared in CHIEF EXECUTIVE magazine’s 10th Annual CEO Growth 100 list in May 2001. Mr. Golisano has demonstrated an ongoing dedication and commitment to a variety of civic issues and organizations. In 1985 he launched his first philanthropic endeavor by establishing the Golisano Foundation, which awards grants to organizations providing opportunities for those with intellectual disabilities. His personal philanthropic contributions to hospitals, educational institutions and other organizations have totaled more than $250 million. In recognition of his achievements and endeavors, Golisano has received numerous awards and holds honorary doctorate degrees from five different colleges and universities. Mr. Golisano is a member of the board of directors of several private companies and institutions.
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About Grand Oaks Capital, Paychex: Paychex together with its subsidiaries, provides payroll, human resource, and benefits outsourcing solutions for all businesses.
Morgan Mercer
Founder, CEO of Vantage Point
Morgan Mercer is the founder of the VR-based enterprise training company, Vantage Point. Vantage Point’s suite of immersive training tools is initially aiming at tackling Anti-Sexual Harassment and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training. Mercer was recently regarded as one of the Top 10 Female Tech Innovators [in history] by TechRadar and has been featured in 4+ dozen publications including WIRED, NPR, The Economist, Vogue and more. Mercer was regarded by the UN Women chapter as a “Champion of Change” in the ‘Era of Equity’.
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About Vantage Point: We create experiences that change the way you think. Vantage Point is the future of workforce learning.
Rory Veevers-Carter
Co Founder of JabaTalks
Mr. Veevers-Carter is an experienced international business development strategist, with over 25 years experience in the high technology sector. In 1984 he joined IDS, an export management company, becoming its President in 1986. The following year he co-founded Intral International, an international high technology marketing company with Department of Defense clearance to hold a Master Distribution license, and in 1989 he joined ImageFile to develop the European document image business of GeneSys Data Technologies (sold to Hermes). In 1991 he founded EuroFax to develop a public fax network in the Netherlands. By 1994 he had teamed up with Elektroson (owned by Phillips and a VC company) as National Sales Manager to develop the U.S. market for software publishing products. In 1995 he co-founded GoldenWare Travel Technologies and spear headed the marketing and sales operations. In 2011 he co-founded FlightLookup offering services to Airline and the Travel Industry. Mr. Veevers-Carter holds a BS in Business Administration from Babson College.
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About JabaTalks, WeatherPlanner: JabaTalks is an automated voice interview tool that combines the resumé review process with an automated first round phone screen
Joseph Quan
CEOa and Founder of Knoetic
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About CPOHQ, Knoetic, Twine: Knoetic is the all-in-one platform built for Chief People Officers. Powerful people analytics & the world’s #1 CPO community (CPOHQ).
Ankit Somani
Co-Founder of AllyO
Ankit Somani is the Chief Product Officer at HireVue. He is responsible for leading the Product, Business Intelligence, Data Science, and I/O Psychology Teams. Before joining HireVue, Ankit co-founded AllyO, an innovative chatbot and conversational AI tool that was acquired by HireVue to help deliver personalized, automated conversations for high volume recruitment. He has 10+ years of Product Management and Software Engineering experience at Google and Oracle. Ankit holds an MS in Thermal-Fluid Sciences & Economic Decision Analysis from the Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
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About AllyO, HireVue: AllyO tackles workplace engagement challenges, from hi to goodbye through the world’s first AI powered HR Communications Platform.
Sumir Meghani
Co-Founder & CEO of Instawork
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About Instawork: Instawork is the on-demand staffing app for gig workers and hospitality businesses.
Athena Karp
CEO & Founder of HiredScore
Athena Karp is the founder and CEO of HiredScore, an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500. HiredScore leverages the power of data science and machine learning to deliver deep hiring efficiencies, enhance talent mobility, and help organizations adapt for the future of work. HiredScore has won best-in-class industry recognition for delivering business value and transformation in the HR industry. Prior to founding HiredScore, Athena was an investor in New York, most recently at Altaris Capital, where she managed and sourced healthcare investments in highly regulated data environments. Previously, she was an Investment Banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, focused on public technology and media companies. Athena is a member of the technology advisory board of Belmont Charter Network schools, and founder and board member of Belmont Sprouts, which builds urban gardens and healthy eating experiences. She formerly served on the board of the Community Education Alliance of West Philadelphia, a network of charter schools with over 1,000 disadvantaged students, focused on preparing youth for the workforce and a successful life. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers. Athena holds a BSFS in international politics from Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is also actively involved in rebuilding West Philadelphia and creating a sustainable model for poverty alleviation through various boards and initiatives.
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About HiredScore: HiredScore is an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500
Kevin Wall
Founder and CEO of PTK Capital
Kevin Wall is an American media entrepreneur, global event producer, investor and activist. He is the CEO and founder of the investment fund PTK Capital, the co-founder and co-chairman of Dreamscape Immersive, a location-based virtual reality start up, and the founder and CEO of Control Room, a Los Angeles-based production company. The first person to receive an Emmy Award for interactive content, Wall is noted for his role in the development and adoption of media technologies including online and multi-platform distribution and media practices such as international rights acquisition and licensing.
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About Control Room, Craton Equity Partners, Dreamscape Immersive, Live Earth, PTK Capital, Sustainable Holdings: PTK Capital invests in businesses that benefit the human condition in the areas of Entertainment, Wellness and their intersection.
Tom Wamberg
CEO and Co-Founder of Wamberg Genomic Advisors
CEO, Wamberg Genomic Advisors
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About Uniphy Health, Wamberg Genomic Advisors: Bringing genomic products to policyholders and employees around the world through trusted life insurance and employee benefit brokers.
Tiffany Pham
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mogul
Tiffany Pham is the Founder & CEO of Mogul, an award-winning worldwide platform enabling women to connect, share information, and access knowledge from each other. A coder, she developed the first version of Mogul, which now reaches 18 million women per week from over 196 countries and 30,470 cities worldwide. Mogul was named one of the Most Exciting Startups of 2016 by Business Insider, one of the Top NYC Startups to Watch by Entrepreneur Magazine, named one of the Best Websites for Finding Top Talent by Inc. Magazine, one of the Top Websites for Marketing Your Company Online by Forbes, and has been honored and recognized by Bustle, City of Fort Worth, City of New York, City of Paris, and Harvard Business School. Tiffany was named one of Forbes “30 Under 30” in Media, Business Insider “30 Most Important Women Under 30” in Technology, ELLE Magazine “30 Women Under 30 Who Are Changing the World,” Good Housekeeping “Awesome Women Award” Winner, Alice Paul “Equality Award” Honoree, Cadillac “IVY Innovator” Award Winner, SmartCEO Magazine “Smart CEO Award” Winner, “Innovation & Inclusion Award” Winner for Social Entrepreneurship, NY Business Journal “Woman of Influence” Winner, Tribeca Film Festival “Innovation Award” Fellow, and SE “Top 100 Social Entrepreneur.”
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About Columbia University in the City of New York, Discovery, Macmillan, Mogul, Mogul Global Fund, Simon & Schuster: At Mogul, our vision is to unlock the world’s greatest potential.
Scott Byrne-Fraser
Technical and Co-Founder of hundo.careers
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About hundo.careers, hundo.careers: hundo.careers is an end-to-end entry-level talent solution that helps forward-thinking companies engage with Gen Z talent.
Kaitlyn Knopp
Founder and CEO of Pequity
Creator of systems nuts and bolts, scrubber of process, creative ideator.
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About Pequity: Pequity automates HR workflows from offers to promotions and transfers which helps companies save time, money, and talent.
Shashank Saxena
Co-Founder & CEO of VNDLY
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About VNDLY: VNDLY offers a vendor management SaaS platform that helps manage contingent workforce needs.
Narayana Surabhi
Co-Founder & President of VNDLY
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About VNDLY: VNDLY offers a vendor management SaaS platform that helps manage contingent workforce needs.
Ennie Lim
Co-Founder & CEO of HoneyBee
Empathy is underrated in today’s demanding world. We’re often too busy with our Instagram accounts to reflect the lives we *wish* we led to be present in the one we’re living now, one where compassion for the people around us is in short supply. My life after divorce wasn’t a pretty picture. I struggled mightily — my self esteem took a big hit, as did my finances and credit. But going through all that made me see how important it is to feel in control of your financial life, and it made me want to help others take control of theirs. HoneyBee empowers hundreds of HR leaders to provide their employees with the tools to help cover their bills, expenses and financial emergencies without relying on high interest credit cards, payday loans or raiding their retirement savings. It’s a compassionate solution offered by caring employers who want to see their employees thrive without the distraction of financial distress. I wish a solution like this had been available when I was in the depths of financial distress, and it’s a source of great pride to me now to be part of a solution that so many have come to rely on to improve their financial health. Because I’ve been there, too.
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About HoneyBee: B2B Fintech, Insurtech
Max Zschoch
Co-Founder of HoneyBee
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About HoneyBee: B2B Fintech, Insurtech
Courtney Guertin
Founder & CTO of Ease
Courtney Guertin graduated from the University of Minnesota – Institute of Technology with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Japanese. Worked as the lead developer at a couple of startups in the Twin Cities before starting his own company. Provides technology due diligence services for a private equity firm. Very passionate about new technologies and starting businesses.
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About Ease, Eightbit.me: Ease is a benefits administration software designed for small businesses, insurance brokers, and insurance carriers.
David A. Reid
Founder and CEO of Ease
David Reid has 30 years of experience working in the employee benefits and group insurance industry. After working as a wholesale distributor of group-based benefit products for two major insurance companies, Mr. Reid became a consultant and agent for Unison Benefits Management, a leading provider in the Minneapolis/St. Paul marketplace that was eventually acquired by Gallagher Benefit Services Inc. In 1999, Mr. Reid was among the first to venture into the world of online technology designed for employee benefits enrollment and communication. Prior to founding EaseCentral, he founded Apprize Technology Solutions, an industry leader in benefits enrollment technology.
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About Ease: Ease is a benefits administration software designed for small businesses, insurance brokers, and insurance carriers.
Matt Sunbulli
Co-Founder & CEO of Fishbowl
Matt Sunbulli is Cofounder, CEO and Chief Product officer of Fishbowl, a a social network that connects professionals within companies and industries to have workplace conversations. Fishbowl was acquired by Recruit Holdings Co., which also owns Indeed.com and Glassdoor, in 2021. Previously he was CEO and Cofounder of Social Amp, the first CRM platform optimizing Facebook’s Open Graph for business. Social Amp was acquired by Merkle Inc., a leader in CRM database marketing, in February 2012. Matt’s work has been showcased at the Direct Marketing Association Conference and Exhibition, ad:tech Digital Marketing Conference and Facebook’s F8 Developers Conference. Social Amp’s work with Levi’s, Estee Lauder and 1-800-Flowers.com has been widely showcased in the social commerce industry. Prior to Social Amp, Matt served as a digital product manager at Viacom MTV Networks where he pioneered the release of new digital and social technologies and launched the first video blog. He is a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
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About Fishbowl, Fishbowl: Fishbowl is a social network that connects professionals within relevant communities to have candid and relevant conversations.
Loren Appin
Co-Founder & COO of Fishbowl
Cofounder & COO of Fishbowl, a social network that connects professionals within companies and industries. Every day employees come to Fishbowl to stay informed about workplace topics, share professional advice, and learn from both peers and senior leadership. Fishbowl has captured more than 25% of the professionals in the select industries the platform is open to, with almost half of users engaging the app daily.
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About Fishbowl: Fishbowl is a social network that connects professionals within relevant communities to have candid and relevant conversations.
John Tippett
Co-Founder & Head of Product of SeekOut
John Tippett is the Co-Founder & Head of Product at SeekOut.
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About SeekOut: SeekOut gives companies a competitive edge in recruiting hard-to-find and diverse talent.
Aravind Bala
Co-Founder & CTO of SeekOut
Aravind Bala is the co-founder and CTO of Seekout.
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About SeekOut: SeekOut gives companies a competitive edge in recruiting hard-to-find and diverse talent.
Vikas Manocha
Co-Founder & Head of Engineering of SeekOut
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About 101 Apps, SeekOut: SeekOut gives companies a competitive edge in recruiting hard-to-find and diverse talent.
Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski
Co-Founder of Braintrust
As a founder, operator, advisor and angel investor, Gabe has helped numerous companies launch, navigate growth and scale. Before starting Upshift, Gabe led Co-Founded CalFinder Group and bootstrapped sales to $20m in sales. Calfinder continues to be one of the fastest growing marketplaces in home services. Prior to Calfinder Gabe sold his first company at 21 years old. Gabe serves on the boards of Calfinder and Metta Institute. In addition to investing and helping founders scale sales he is also actively involved in incubating additional businesses.
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About Braintrust, Upshift Partners: Braintrust is a blockchain-powered freelancer marketplace that connects skilled tech experts with clients.
Brian Flynn
Co-Founder of Braintrust
Brian is a private investor and serial entrepreneur focused on the software, internet/digital media and mobile sectors. Brian co-founded and/or invested in 22 private companies. Of that group, 9 exited, 10 are independent and 3 were shut down. Some of his private investments include AdMovate (sold to Yahoo!), IMsecure (sold to Checkpoint), Pixoart Design (sold to 51.com), Ultris (sold to Saba), Fotolog (sold to Hi-Media), Qpod (sold to Groupon) and other companies which are independent (Relevad, Wheelhouse, Mixbook, Meltwater, iDentalSoft, Cleanshelf, Pinkoi, Chairish, Markable, CFOPlans). He is also an LP in Infinity Venture Partners, a Japan-China mobile Internet fund. Brian spends his philanthropic time mentoring early stage technology entrepreneurs in Ghana, Africa. He currently serves on the Board of the Meltwater Foundation which runs MEST (Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology). Earlier in his career, Brian served as Head of Corporate Development at Macromedia where he managed strategy, investments and acquisitions and facilitated the sale of the company to Adobe for $3.9 billion. He also was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley & Co. and Robertson Stephens where he closed more than 40 mergers, acquisitions and financings. Specialties: Entrepreneurship, early stage investments, M&A, corporate development and strategy. Software, internet/digital media and mobile.
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About Braintrust, Wheelhouse: Braintrust is a blockchain-powered freelancer marketplace that connects skilled tech experts with clients.
Adam Jackson
Founder & CEO of Braintrust
Adam is a serial technology entrepreneur and investor that has spent his career creating and deploying capital into software systems that make complex tasks simple and intuitive. He’s started 4 VC-backed companies and an asset management company over the last 16 years. Since August, 2017 he has served as Managing Partner & CTO of Cambrian Asset Management, a blockchain asset management company. He is also co-founder and CEO of Freelance Labs, Inc., the company building a new tokenized talent network called Braintrust which raised a $5m seed round in 2018. In 2012, he co-founded and served as CEO of Doctor On Demand, a healthcare service that provides Video Visits with board-certified physicians and psychologists. Doctor On Demand delivers services through employers, health systems, health plans, and directly to consumers and has raised $165M in VC. His previous business, DriverSide was founded in 2007 and was acquired by Advance Auto Parts in September of 2011. His first venture-backed business, MarketSquare, founded in 2004, was the first online local shopping destinations on the Internet. It was acquired by Intuit in September of 2006. He is an angel investor in 45+ companies/projects, including: LTSE, Seated, Bolt, Placer, Aktana, Skale Labs, Protocol Labs, JCTurbo, Apero Health, Rapportive, MyTime, Automatic, Womply, Superhuman and Zenefits.
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About Braintrust, Cleanshelf, Womply: Braintrust is a blockchain-powered freelancer marketplace that connects skilled tech experts with clients.
Nolan Church
Co-Founder and CEO of Continuum Technology
Nolan Church is the co-founder and CEO of Continuum.
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About Continuum Technology: Continuum Technology offers a software that manages executive availability, contracts, invoices, and payments.
Pembe Candaner
Co-Founder & President of JobzMall
Pembe Candaner is the Founder & President of JobzMall Inc. Previously she served as the CEO of Adecco SA Turkey, General Manager of Lee Hecht Harrison, and CEO of Kariyer.net, the largest employment portal of Turkey. She is a member of TUSIAD (Turkish Industry and Business Association), the top business association of Turkey and Society for Human Resource Management. As a vocal activist of Women Rights, Candaner hosted her TV show at national ‘Artı Bir TV’ channel about Woman Leaders and Entrepreneurs. She has also lectured in Bogazici University (Bosphorus University) and UCI (University of California in Irvine) on Development of Woman Leaders, Talent Management, Protocol and Etiquette and Intercultural Relations. Additionally to her career in private sector, she authored 4 books. Candaner has been awarded as the Business Woman of the Year 2003.
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About JobzMall: JobzMall is a next-generation, cloud-based job finding platform empowering both the job seeker and employer with unprecedented innovations.
Nathan Candaner
Co-Founder of JobzMall
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About JobzMall: JobzMall is a next-generation, cloud-based job finding platform empowering both the job seeker and employer with unprecedented innovations.
Joshua Reeves
Co-Founder & Head of Gusto of Gusto
Head of Gusto and Co-Founder. On a mission to create a world where work empowers a better life. Building for the long term. [We’re hiring!]
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About Gusto, Gusto: Gusto provides a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management solution for businesses.
Tomer London
Co-Founder and CPO of Gusto
Tomer leads Product and Design at Gusto. He’s responsible for the development and execution of the product roadmap and for making Gusto’s product vision a reality. Tomer is passionate about creating products that have a true impact on people’s lives while promoting equity and human values. He believes that the key to doing this successfully is to build experiences people truly and passionately love. Before co-founding Gusto, Tomer was the CEO and co-founder of Vizmo, a customer support startup. His prior experience includes computer systems research at Intel, serving as a commander in the Israeli Air Force, and working on product development at Bump Technologies. Tomer was selected to the 2013 Inc. 30 Under 30 list. Tomer holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He was born and raised in Haifa, Israel where he helped grow his family’s small business. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Sara and his daughter Shira.
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About Gusto: Gusto provides a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management solution for businesses.
Edward Kim
Co-Founder and Head of EPD of Gusto
Edward Kim is the Co-Founder and Head of EPD at Gusto.
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About Gusto: Gusto provides a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management solution for businesses.
Tigran Sloyan
Co-Founder and CEO of CodeSignal
Tigran Sloyan is the Co-Founder/CEO at CodeFights.He also Worked at Google and Oracle.He graduated in CS and Math from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About CodeSignal, Gobeyondresumes: CodeSignal is the leading technical interview solution, helping the world #GoBeyondResumes.
Sophia Baik
Co-Founder of CodeSignal
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About CodeSignal: CodeSignal is the leading technical interview solution, helping the world #GoBeyondResumes.
Don Charlton
Founder & Board Chairman of JazzHR
Don Charlton is the Founder and Chairman of JazzHR. Don loves to inspire young minds—not just to work for great companies—but to build great companies just as he built (and is building) The Resumator. Don launched The Resumator in 2009 to give wings to his entrepreneurial spirit and fulfill his passion for creating exceptional user experience. Blending his love of art with programming, he earned a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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About : JazzHR is easy, powerful, and affordable recruiting software purpose-build for SMBs. SaaS ATS for masses.
Henry Shao
Co-Founder & CEO of Zippia
Henry is the founder and CEO of Zippia, Inc. Henry is a passionate technology entrepreneur who have started 4 software companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He brought innovations to the real estate industry through Movoto.com. Prior to founding Movoto, he co-founded MediSpark, which was acquired by iScribe and then Caremark, as well as Cranite Systems, a wireless security software company. Henry has also held a number of business and product management positions at Applied Materials and FormFactor. Henry holds Master of Science degrees in both management and in engineering from Stanford University, and a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University. https://www.zippia.com
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About Zippia: Zippia offers every person access to all of their career options and how those various paths will impact their professional lives.
Chris Kolmar
Co-Founder and VP of Marketing of Zippia
Chris helped co-found Zippia four years ago which helps college students and recent grads find jobs that fit them. He was previously the Sr. Director of Marketing at Movoto and graduated from Pomona College.
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About Zippia: Zippia offers every person access to all of their career options and how those various paths will impact their professional lives.
Michelle Davey
Founder & CEO of Wheel
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About Wheel: Wheel is a healthcare technology company that brings together the tech infrastructure and clinicians to power virtual care and telehealth.
Griffin Mulcahey
Co-Founder, Chief Compliance & Strategy Officer of Wheel
Griffin Mulcahey is the Founder and Chief Revenue & Regulatory Officer at Enzyme Health.
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About Wheel: Wheel is a healthcare technology company that brings together the tech infrastructure and clinicians to power virtual care and telehealth.
Firmin Zocchetto
Co-Founder and CEO of PayFit
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About PayFit: PayFit offers technology that simplifies and automates payroll and HR processes for small and medium-sized businesses.
Jerome Ternynck
Founder and CEO of SmartRecruiters
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About SmartRecruiters: SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform that helps companies with talent acquisition.
Douglas Feirstein
Co-Founder of Hired
Douglas Feirstein is also known as Doug, is a Co-Founder of Hired, Inc. Douglas Feirstein served as the Chief Executive Officer of Money4Gold Holdings, Inc. since May 7, 2009. He co-founded LiveOps, Inc. in March 2000 and served as its Advisor. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of usell.com, Inc. (formerly, Upstream Worldwide, Inc.) from May 7, 2009, to July 10, 2012. From March 2000 to January 2004, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of LiveOps, Inc. In 2005, Douglas Feirstein founded Pink Package, LLC, d/b/a My Gold Envelope a predecessor to MGE, and since the date of MGE’s acquisition of My Gold Envelope and served as its Manager. He served as an Executive Officer of MGE. Prior to LiveOps, he was involved in developing call center operations and technologies for catalog and electronic retailing organizations. Douglas Feirstein was selected as a Director for his proven track record of success and his extensive experience managing the growth of young companies from start-up through to maturity. He served as a Director of usell.com, Inc. since May 7, 2009. He served as a Director of LiveOps, Inc. since March 2000 and Money4Gold Holdings, Inc. since May 7, 2009. He holds Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from the University of Florida.
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About Hired, Jeevz, Liveops, uSell: Hired is a career marketplace that matches tech talent with innovative companies.
Bill Boebel
Founder & CEO of Pingboard
CEO and founder of Pingboard.
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About Capital Factory, Pingboard: Pingboard is a real-time, collaborative org chart that makes it easy to organize teams and workforce planning.
Robert Eanes
Founder & CTO of Pingboard
Founder & CTO at Pingboard
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About Pingboard: Pingboard is a real-time, collaborative org chart that makes it easy to organize teams and workforce planning.
Steve Sarowitz
Founder and Chairman of Paylocity
As Founder and Chairman, Mr. Sarowitz started Paylocity in 1997 with a small investment and a tremendous vision. His goal was to fill a gap in the marketplace by providing a solution with in-house like technology supported by the service and liability protection of an outsourcing solution. Steve’s vision combined with his passion for software development led to the first release of Paylocity’s award winning SAAS platform in 2002. Prior to founding Paylocity, Steve worked at Robert F. White, which was then the nation’s leading independent payroll service. He later managed two privately-held payroll companies. His 20 years of experience working in the industry with both large and small providers helped him mold Paylocity into a best in breed provider. A Sierra member since college, he takes environmental issues seriously. Aside from helping to develop a paperless payroll solution (Web Pay), Steve instituted a “Green Team” within the company. Additionally, prior to moving to our current corporate headquarters, he worked with the architects making sure every possible environmentally safe effort was taken. Passionate about giving back to the community, Paylocity participates in many local events; Steve’s probable favorite being the annual JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge. An avid runner, Steve is a 3 time winner of the MSE (Most Senior Executive) category! Steve formerly served as President to the Independent Payroll Providers Association (IPPA) and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana.
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About Paylocity: Paylocity (NASDAQ: PCTY) is a leading provider of cloud-based payroll and human capital management (HCM) software solutions.
Sanish Mondkar
Founder & CEO of Legion Technologies
Sanish Mondkar is the Founder & CEO at Legion.
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About Legion Technologies: Legion Technologies features an AI-powered workforce management platform that optimizes labor efficiency and employee engagement.
Subrat Nayak
Co-Founder & Chairman of Vetty
Subrat Nayak is the Co-Founder and Chairman at Vetty.
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About Vetty: Vetty is an Identity and Background Screening Recruiting Marketplace.
Bejoy John
Co-Founder and CTO of Vetty
Bejoy John is the Co-Founder and CTO at Vetty.
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About Vetty: Vetty is an Identity and Background Screening Recruiting Marketplace.
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.
Raj Vattikuti
CEO & Founder of Complete Business Solutions
Raj Vattikuti is a philanthropist and serial entrepreneur who has founded a string of successful enterprises including Altimetrik, Covansys, Synova, Vattikuti Ventures, Vattikuti Technologies, and Davinta Technologies. Raj believes enterprises make a difference not only by leveraging or introducing new technologies but also by attracting, assessing, and transforming talent within their organizations. Raj formed Altimetrik in 2012 with a vision to create a global company that accelerates digital transformation for the most influential companies in the world. Altimetrik takes a holistic approach for its clients that leverages technology, data, and cultural transformation. While technology makes digital transformation possible, Raj believes it is people that create true transformation. Through his different ventures, Raj has supported leading global players in healthcare, manufacturing, automotive, retail, travel & hospitality, and financial services. In 1997, Raj founded a non-profit corporation—the Vattikuti Foundation—which serves communities in Michigan and India. In Michigan, the Foundation established the Vattikuti Urology Institute at Henry Ford Health in Detroit and the Vattikuti Digital Breast Diagnostic Center at Beaumont Health in Royal Oak. In India, the Vattikuti Foundation focuses on developing the infrastructure to connect and coordinate with people in poverty through the Poverty Alleviation Program. The Foundation also works with other causes around the globe. These initiatives strive to improve the lives of those they serve today and into the future. Raj is a graduate of the College of Engineering, Guindy with a degree in electrical engineering. He holds a post-graduate degree in electrical and computer engineering from Wayne State University. He was conferred an honorary doctorate of business administration by Bryant University. In 2001, he was conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the IT industry by Dykema Gossett at the third annual Michigan IT Summit. He is also the recipient of TiE Detroit 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award, the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship in 2002, and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
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About Altimetrik Corp., Complete Business Solutions, Davinta: Complete Business Solutions provides affordable business solutions for accounting, payroll, human resource, and personnel needs.
Joel Scott
Co-Founder & COO of SV Academy
Joel Scott is Co Founder & COO at SV Academy.
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About SV Academy: SV Academy is building the workforce of the future for SaaS GTM
Rahim Fazal
Co-Founder and CEO of SV Academy
Co-Founder and CEO at SVAcademy.
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About Forbes Technology Council, SV Academy: SV Academy is building the workforce of the future for SaaS GTM
Ian Siegel
CEO and Co-Founder of ZipRecruiter
Ian co-founded ZipRecruiter with a mission to make hiring easier. Ian has held Executive Product and Technology Leadership roles at companies such as, CitySearch, Stamps.com, and Rent.com.
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About ZipRecruiter: ZipRecruiter is an online employment marketplace, connecting millions of employers and job seekers through mobile and email services.
Nico Simko
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Clair
Nico is Clair’s Chief Executive Officer and one of its Co-Founders. He manages the company’s overall strategic direction and its relationships with its shareholders and customers. Prior to co-founding Clair, he was at J.P. Morgan, leading the M&A due diligence process on a broad range of payments companies for the firm’s Wholesale Payments division. He managed M&A, investment and partnerships due diligence on 10+ payments FinTechs worth over $25 billion. Originally from Switzerland and Argentina, Nico holds a B.A in Economics from Harvard University.
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About Clair: Clair is a mission-driven digital banking platform that is breaking the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle by offering flexible on-demand pay to America’s workforce.
Alex Kostecki
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Clair
Alex is Clair’s Chief Operating Officer and one of its three Co-Founders. He oversees the company’s banking, product, and technical operations, ultimately ensuring that Clair is able to deliver a best-in-class financial experience for its customers. Previously with Deloitte Consulting in New York City, Alex was the lead Manager on M&A deals for clients in the payments space, from ideation to close. Alex led several strategy projects for credit card launches, customer service strategies, and marketing strategies, generating upwards of $5 million in revenue. Alex has been published in the Wall Street Journal, and holds an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
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About Clair: Clair is a mission-driven digital banking platform that is breaking the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle by offering flexible on-demand pay to America’s workforce.
Adrien Dewulf
Co-Founder of Heroes Jobs
Adrien Dewulf is the Co-Founder at Heroes Jobs.
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About Heroes Jobs: GenZ professional social network
Tristan Petit
Co-Founder of Heroes Jobs
Tristan Petit is the Co-Founder at Heroes Jobs.
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About Heroes Jobs: GenZ professional social network
Cyriac Lefort
Co-Founder of Heroes Jobs
Cyriac Lefort is the Co-Founder at Heroes Jobs.
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About Heroes Jobs: GenZ professional social network
Will Patterson
Founder and CEO of CareRev
CEO & Founder CareRev.
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About CareRev: CareRev is an online technology platform where hospitals and outpatient facilities can directly access per diem medical staff.
Mathew Caldwell
Founder, CEO of Rocket Power
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About Rocket Power: RocketPower provides recruiting, staffing, and flexible outsourcing solutions to solve any critical talent challenges.
Ahryun Moon
Co Founder, CEO of GoodTime.io
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About GoodTime.io: GoodTime uses employee data to schedule interviews faster and cheaper for enterprises
Peter Lee
Co Founder, CTO of GoodTime.io
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About GoodTime.io: GoodTime uses employee data to schedule interviews faster and cheaper for enterprises
Jasper Sone
Co Founder, CPO of GoodTime.io
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About GoodTime.io: GoodTime uses employee data to schedule interviews faster and cheaper for enterprises
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.
Aaron Matos
CEO and Founder of Paradox
Aaron Matos founded Paradox because he saw an opportunity to transform the recruiting experience for organizations and talent by freeing up people’s time from mundane tasks through the power of assistive intelligence. He is an experienced entrepreneur and a recognized technology leader. Aaron’s passion for recruitment has driven him to start several successful companies in the talent acquisition technology market; which have served tens of thousands of clients and millions of job seekers. Under Aaron’s leadership as the former founder/former CEO of Jobing.com and Recruiting.com, his companies achieved industry-leading growth and 3 consecutive Inc. 500 awards. Prior to becoming a tech executive, Aaron spent over 8 years as an HR professional.
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About Paradox, Recruiting.com: Paradox is an AI company that helps companies capture and screen candidates, improve conversions, and answer all candidate questions.
Olivia Matos
Co-Founder of Paradox
Olivia Matos is the Co-Founder of Paradox.
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About Paradox: Paradox is an AI company that helps companies capture and screen candidates, improve conversions, and answer all candidate questions.
Tom White
Chief Product Officer/Co-Founder of AI Data Innovations
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About AI Data Innovations: AI Data Innovations provides human annotation services for a variety of machine learning and AI applications.
Cesar Carvalho
Co-Founder & Global Chief Executive Officer of Gympass
Cesar Carvalho is the Co-Founder and Global CEO at Gympass.
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About Gympass: Gympass is a fitness discovery platform connecting the world’s network of fitness facilities to companies and its employees.
William Peng
Co-Founder & CEO of Northstar
William Peng is the Co-Founder and CEO of Northstar and a General Partner of Red Swan Ventures. William has a background in both sides of the table: venture investing and operational startup roles. Previously, William was a venture investor at Raptor Ventures, a leading early-stage tech venture capital firm in NYC. Prior to that, William spent time in operational roles, as Product Manager of Analytics at drop.io (acquired by Facebook), and was Mobile Product Lead and Interaction Designer at Hot Potato (acquired by Facebook). Prior to that, he was an Analyst at RRE Ventures, where he focused on investments in early-stage consumer internet, digital media, and location-based services. William began his career at Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, the strategic venture arm of Bertelsmann. William graduated from Princeton with a degree in Operations Research and Financial Engineering. In his spare time, he likes to make ice cream from scratch.
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About Northstar, Red Swan Ventures: Northstar is a financial wellness benefit that makes it easy for companies to offer personalized financial advice about comp and benefits.
Matt Matteson
Co-Founder and CTO of Northstar
Matt Matteson is the Co-Founder and CTO of Northstar. He attended the Colorado School of Mines.
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About Northstar: Northstar is a financial wellness benefit that makes it easy for companies to offer personalized financial advice about comp and benefits.
Angela Antony
Founder and CEO of Scoutible
Angela Antony is the Founder and CEO of Scoutible, the world’s first game-based hiring platform, which uses machine learning to track soft skills through gameplay and uncover the best candidates for a job. Angela spent nine years at Harvard, focusing her psychology, business, and law degrees on labor market issues across society. After Harvard, she worked at the White House under Obama as part of the National Economic Council, during which time she was writing a book about her Harvard research titled Invisible Handcuffs, which ultimately became the primary research underlying Scoutible. Scoutible was recently named one of Inc Magazine’s 8 Most Innovative Startups of the Year and Angela was named to Inc’s Female Founders 100 list.
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About Scoutible: Scoutible is a video game-based hiring platform.
Tyler Law
CPO & Co-Founder of Scoutible
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About Scoutible: Scoutible is a video game-based hiring platform.
Deevee Kashi
Founder & CEO of Deed
Deevee Kashi is the CEO and founder of Deed. He previously worked at The Butter Group as a Director of Promotions and Marketing.
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About Deed: Deed provides a social impact platform to connect people with causes and businesses with social impact.
Zev Eigen
Founder, Chief Data Scientist of Syndio
Zev J. Eigen is a data scientist focused on cutting edge applications in HR, labor and employment law, and legal services. A former professor at Northwestern, and visiting professor at Yale and NYU, Dr. Eigen was honored as one of “40 Under 40 Rising Legal Stars” by the National Law Journal, and is frequently quoted in the media as an expert on big data and predictive analytics.
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About Syndio: Syndio is a technology company that helps companies measure, achieve, and sustain workplace equity.
Ben Wright
Founder & CEO of Velocity Global
Ben Wright is the Founder & CEO at Velocity Global, LLC.
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About Velocity Global: Velocity Global is a global employment solutions provider that has reinvented the way companies expand overseas.
Pankaj Jindal
Co-Founder of Sense
Pankaj Jindal is a Co-Founder at Sense Talent Labs.
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About Sense: Sense is a smart talent engagement and communication platform that helps companies find, recruit, and deploy talent.
Anil Dharni
Co-Founder/CEO of Sense
Anil Dharni is the Senior Vice President, Studio Operations at GREE International Inc. Anil was the President & COO of Funzio, which was acquired by GREE in May 2012. Before Funzio, Anil co-founded mobile game company, Storm8. He oversaw Storm8’s business operations including marketing, customer support, business development, legal, and human resources. Before Storm8, Anil was the VP of Products and UED at hi5 Networks, Inc., where he drove the product roadmap and key product initiatives including hi5 coins (virtual currency), games, and platform.
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About Sense: Sense is a smart talent engagement and communication platform that helps companies find, recruit, and deploy talent.
Aneel Bhusri
CEO & Co-Founder of Workday
Aneel Bhusri is co-founder and chief executive officer at Workday. He is also a member of the company’s board of directors, and served as chairman of the board from 2012 until May 2014. Aneel has been a leader, product visionary, and innovator in the enterprise software industry for more than 20 years.In addition to his role at Workday, Aneel serves on the boards of Intel, Cloudera, Okta, and Pure Storage. He is also an advisory partner at Greylock, a leading venture capital firm that he has been associated with since 1999.
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About Workday: Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company’s human resources and financial management activities.
Geoffrey Tisserand
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Figure
Geoffrey Tisserand is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Figure.
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About Figure: Figure is a compensation platform that helps companies figure out how to pay their employees by making data driven decisions.
David Yang
Co-Founder, CEO of Yva.ai
David Yang, Ph.D., Co-founder Yva.ai, Founder and Chairman ABBYY, member of Band of Angels, Silicon Valley based serial entrepreneur specializes in AI, founded 12 companies. Dr. Yang is a globally recognized thought leader, speaker and advisor in the areas of AI, Artificial Neural Networks, People Analytics, employee surveys, HR metrics, HR strategy, talent measurement, workforce analytics, performance management and Organizational Change. He’s the Founder & Chairman of the Board of ABBYY – world leading developer of AI, Content Intelligence, Text Analytics with 1200 employees in 14 offices in 11 countries. More than 50 million users and thousands of enterprise customers in 200 countries rely on ABBYY’s solutions including: PwC, McDonalds, Xerox, Toyota, Yum!Restaurants, Deloitte, PepsiCo, Volkswagen, UCSF. World leading RPA vendors, including UiPath, BluePrism, Robiquity among others rely on ABBYY’s AI technologies. Currently Dr. Yang is dedicated to Yva.ai, the company that develops a real-time Ethical AI People Analytics, Continuous Engagement and Performance Management Platform which helps organizations save millions of dollars by predicting resignations of key employees, identify opinion leaders, Toxic Managers and Conflicts. Yva’s neural network was trained to predict resignations with up to 86% accuracy analyzing corporate communication (tested on historical data blind tests). Dr. Yang created Cybiko, world first hand-held wireless communication computer for teenagers; co-founded iiko, new generation AI powered restaurant and hospitality industry solution; co-founded Plazius, a customer loyalty and mobile payment platform; founded a number of creative art-based ventures, including: FAQ-Café studio, DeFAQto; co-founded Ayb Educational Foundation and Ayb School. Dr. Yang also a frequent keynote speaker and author of numerous patents and scientific publications. The World Economic Forum in Davos named him as one of the top 100 World Technology Pioneers.
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About ABBYY, Band of Angels, Findo, iiko, Platius, Yva.ai: Predictive People Analytics Platform
Miles Jennings
Founder, COO, President of Recruiter.com
Founder and COO at Recruiter.com.
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About Recruiter.com: Recruiter.com is a leading on-demand recruiting platform that provides flexible talent acquisition solutions for startups to the Fortune 100
Bill Wade
Founder and CEO of Company.com
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About ACE Security, Company.com, Gaming Network Solutions: Company.com is a provider of enterprise quality operational resources to help start, run and grow businesses.
Scott Burgess
Founder & CEO of Continu
Scott Burgess is the Founder & CEO of Continu.
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About Continu: Continu is the World’s First Learning Amplification Platform™ helping companies train teams better!
Greg Jakacki
Founder & Principal Scientist of Codility
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About Codility: Codility is a SaaS platform that helps tech recruiters and hiring managers engage, recruit, and train stronger engineers, faster.
Ryan Ogle
Co-Founder of Ripple
Ryan Ogle is the co-founder of Ripple and former CTO of Tinder. Engineer-turned-entrepreneur. He passionate about creating new products – like Ripple – and building businesses around them.
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About Ripple: Ripple is a mobile-first alternative to LinkedIn that addresses some of the problems common to the aging.
Kapil RANA
Founder of HostBooks Limited
An entrepreneur, Kapil is a qualified CPA and Fellow Chartered Accountant, a first class management and law graduate, advance qualification in information systems. He is a kind of personality who keep on kindling and challenging the fire of knowledge, so that it does never vanish. Pursuing the same trait, Mr. Rana is all set for his new venture, ‘Doctorate in Business Administration. He is the founder and chairman of HostBooks Limited, along with experience on strategic management, corporate development & structuring of multinational organizations. He resides in California (Bay Area) and spends his time off playing squash and debating service innovation, politics, sports and of course, corporate. Specialties: Architects of #hostbooks, business start up, corporate structuring, financial planning, operations strategy and product development.
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About : HostBooks is an Accounting Solutions company that provides a comprehensive platform for TDS, GST, eWay Bill, Accounting, Tax, and Payroll.
