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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 Marketing Automation 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.
Brian Long
Co-Founder and CEO of Attentive
Brian Long is the co-founder and CEO of Attentive. He previously was the CEO of TapCommerce. Prior to TapCommerce, Brian led mobile products at Pontiflex, a mobile advertising company. At Pontiflex, Brian conceived of the mobile ad product, brought it to market, and scaled it across thousands of mobile apps. Prior to Pontiflex, Brian held various sales management roles at CNET.com (acquired by CBS Interactive), where he worked closely with large advertisers like Dell, Samsung, and AT&T to build performance-based interactive advertising programs.Brian has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently on-leave from NYU, with half of an MBA in Finance & Entrepreneurship.
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About Attentive: Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform for innovative brands and organizations.
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Ethan Lo
Co-Founder and Head of Special Projects of Attentive
Ethan Lo is a Co-Founder at Attentive Mobile. Previously, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Twitter, and one of the first engineers at TapCommerce, an ad-tech startup acquired by Twitter in 2014.
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About Attentive: Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform for innovative brands and organizations.
Andrew Jones
Co-Founder and CPO of Attentive
Andrew is the co-founder and head of product at Attentive. Before co-founding Attentive, Andrew served as the vice president of products at TapCommerce. Prior to TapCommerce, Andrew helped lead Agile development teams at Demdex (acquired by Adobe Systems in 2011), the first online advertising Data Management Platform (DMP). Prior to Demdex, Andrew helped build technology products at leading startups and big companies including TheLadders.com and Goldman Sachs. Andrew has a B.S. in Information Systems and Finance from NYU.
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About Attentive: Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform for innovative brands and organizations.
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
Bill Tai
Co-Founder of Treasure Data
Bill Tai started in VC in 1991 and has had 22 IPOs from his early stage investments. He has served a Board Director for 8 publicly listed companies as a result. He is founding investor and Chairman of Treasure Data (acquired by ARM / Softbank in the largest all cash acquisition in their history), Founding Chairman of IPinfusion, Founding Chairman and CEO of iAsiaWorks (listed on NASDAQ through Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs). He is among the original seed investors in Zoom Video, Canva, SafetyCulture, and Wish.com, and early angel in ColorGenomics, Tweetdeck/Twitter. He supports conservation and economic empowerment via ACTAI Global, a 501(c)3 he founded and Chairs. Originally trained as a computer chip designer (BSEE, Honors, Illinois), he joined LSI Logic, a seminal Silicon Valley startup formed by the CEO of Fairchild Semiconductor, then completed an MBA at Harvard. He was was issued badge #A001 at TSMC (NYSE:TSM), now a $250 Billion leader in semiconductors. He also holds a HonD PhD from, and is an Adjunct Professor of ‘Innovation and Economic Development’ at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.
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About Bitfury Group, Canva, CRV, Scribd, Treasure Data, Zoom: Treasure Data is an enterprise customer data platform that offers end-to-end, fully-managed cloud service for big data.
Alan Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Alan founded IAG Research, which became the leading provider of engagement metrics in the television industry, and served as co-CEO until the company was acquired by Nielsen. Alan then served as the CEO of Advertising Solutions for Nielsen, and is currently a venture partner for Greycroft Partners. Alan is a graduate of the New York University School of Law (J.D.), Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (M.P.P.), and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.).
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About Embark, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Eric Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Co-Managing Partner@Peak Opportunity Partners (“POP”). Pop is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on seed and early stage companies. POP makes opportunistic investments that can typically be a company’s first outside capital. Investments include: Blue Apron, Work Fusion(Crowd Computing), Stella Service, Great Bridge ( Earnest Research ), EBTH ( Everything But The House ).
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About Canvs, GoSpotCheck, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Manoj Ramnani
Founder and CEO of SalesIntel
Manoj Ramnani is the founder and CEO of SalesIntel.io and CircleBack, Inc. He was formerly the CEO of Dub Labs. Manoj holds a master’s degree from The George Washington University – School of Business.
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About CircleBack, SalesIntel: SalesIntel is the top provider of accurate and affordable sales and marketing contact data.
Dave Garr
Co-Founder, SVP of Customer Experience of UserTesting
Specialties:A/B testing, conversion rate optimization, interactive marketing, market research, multivariate testing, product marketing, social networking, usability
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About UserTesting: UserTesting is an on-demand human insight platform designed to improve customer insights.
Gautham Viswanathan
VP of Product & Co‑Founder of Workato
Gautham created the first integrated middleware platform, BusinessWorks, that became the template for the more cloud integration platforms of today. Gautham was an early employee of TIBCO, where he held several leadership positions – engineering, product marketing & management, and corporate development. BusinessWorks powered TIBCO’s growth from a startup to one of the top names in enterprise software. After TIBCO, Gautham founded and was the CEO of two SaaS startups.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Vijay Tella
CEO & Co‑Founder of Workato
Vijay has led creation of market leading integration technologies for over 25 years. Prior to Workato, he was the CEO of Qik, a consumer video communications company acquired by Skype. Before Qik, he helped create two multi-billion dollar integration products. He was part of the team that created world’s first middleware platform, TIB (The Information Bus) at Teknekron Software Systems, which was acquired by Reuters Plc, in 1994. He was also on the founding team and SVP, Engineering of TIBCO through its IPO. As Chief Strategy Officer, he then helped launch Oracle’s Fusion Middleware platform in 2005.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Dimitris Kogias
Co-Founder and Software Engineer & Architect of Workato
Dimitris Kogias is the Co-Founder and Software Engineer & Architect at Workato.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Harish Shetty
VP of Engineering & Co‑Founder of Workato
Harish has extensive experience leading engineering teams and building highly scalable products. Prior to Workato, he led engineering at two SaaS companies and before that was Director of Engineering and Lead Architect at TIBCO and for products like BusinessWorks, ActiveMatrix and Tibbr.
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About iProfile, Thinkspeed, Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Elias Guerra
Founder & CEO of Popwallet
Elias is the Founder and CEO of Popwallet, a mobile wallet marketing automation platform.
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About Popwallet: Mobile Wallet Marketing Automation and CX
Wes Biggs
Founder & CTO of Popwallet
Wes Biggs is the founder and CTO of Popwallet.
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About Popwallet: Mobile Wallet Marketing Automation and CX
Alex Dahan
Founder of Open Influence
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About 0x Ventures, Open Influence, The Automation Fund: Open Influence is a marketing company that helps brands and advertisers engage and grow their desired audiences through social media.
Jesse Leimgruber
Co-Founder & CEO of NeoReach
Jesse is a Stanford Alumni, co-founder of NeoReach and Bloom, Thiel Fellow, and angel investor in a dozen startups. Jesse is a partner at the Alchemist Accelerator, mentor at European Innovation Academy. He frequently guest lectures classes at Stanford University and USC.
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About Alchemist Accelerator, Bloom, Bloom, Clash, NeoReach, Rank Executives: Influencer Marketing For Big Brands
Victor Ho
Co-Founder & CEO of Fivestars
Victor Ho is the CEO and Co-Founder of FiveStars, a venture-backed startup building a consumer identity platform that personalizes commerce in the real world by harnessing the power of big data, predictive analytics, and cloud-based marketing automation. Previously, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Co.in New York, where he helped multiple Fortune 500 companies build and manage their loyalty and customer retention programs. He was recently selected to Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Victor holds three degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Rubik’s cube enthusiast with a personal best of 45 seconds.
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About Fivestars: Fivestars provides a platform that offers loyalty, marketing, payments, and other services to small merchants and businesses.
Luke Swanek
Co-Founder & VP Sales of PartnerStack
Luke Swanek is CoFounder & VP of Sales at GrowSumo.
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About PartnerStack: PartnerStack enables companies to accelerate growth with partnerships
Deepak Anchala
Co-Founder and CEO of Slintel
Deepak Anchala is the Co-Founder and CEO of Slintel.
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About Slintel: Slintel captures technographic-powered buying intent to help companies identify potential buyers in their target market.
Bruce Merrill
CEO and Founder of Cleverly | #1 LinkedIn Lead Generation Agency
Passionate about business, obsessed with progress, and continuously learning. “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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About Cleverly | #1 LinkedIn Lead Generation Agency: Scale your leads on LinkedIn and predictably drive more revenue. Check our out client reviews here: https://www.cleverly.co/reviews
Elias Torres
Founder & CTO of Drift
Elias Torres is Founder and CTO at Driftt While I’d love to have sales dev or inside sales reps “man” live chat, it’s not feasible for us. We’re a yearbook company, and more than half our traffic comes from current customers (yearbook advisors working on their books and parents and students who are looking to buy their books). While we’d love to talk with them all the time, too, Sales needs to focus on talking to prospects.
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About Drift: Drift is a Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue.
David Cancel
Founder & CEO of Drift
David Cancel is a serial entrepreneur, podcast host (Seeking Wisdom) and angel investor/advisor. He is best known for creating hypergrowth products and product teams at companies such as Drift, HubSpot, Performable, Ghostery and Compete. David was named the top-ranked CEO by of USA Today and has been featured by media outlets such as The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, Wired, and Fast Company, and has guest lectured on entrepreneurship at Harvard, Harvard Business School, MIT, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Bentley, and other universities. His popular blog has been read by 1M+ entrepreneurs and his Twitter account is considered a “must-follow” account for entrepreneurs, executives and product people. David is also the author of the best-selling book, Conversational Marketing.
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About Drift: Drift is a Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue.
Brian Zatulove
Co-Founder & CEO of Emotive
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About Emotive: Emotive is a conversational texting platform for eCommerce brands, enabling two way text message communication at scale.
Zach Wise
Co-Founder of Emotive
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About Emotive: Emotive is a conversational texting platform for eCommerce brands, enabling two way text message communication at scale.
Ricardo Lasa
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer of SiteWit
Ricardo L. joined Kliken as CEO in 2009.Ricardo is a hard working serial entrepreneur that is highly involved in the technology and business community in Tampa Bay. Prior to co-founding SiteWit, Ricardo started Web Piston Website Builder, one of early platforms for small businesses to build their website and market their products and services. Through running Web Piston Ricardo realized there had to be a better way to buy paid search and started to work on SiteWit with Don in 2009. Ricardo is focusing all his efforts now in growing SiteWit and helping Search Engine Marketing firms provide better online marketing for their clients through a simple and cost efficient mechanism. Ricardo holds a bachelors degree in Management information systems, a Master of Business Administration with emphasis in Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and International Management, and a Master of Science in Management Information Systems with emphasis on Database Architecture and User Interface Design, all from the University of South Florida Business School. Ricardo also attended the Harvard Business School Launching New Ventures program in 2009 and is looking forward to joining the HBS Owner/President Management program in 2010. Ricardo sits on the board of directors of the Tampa Bay Technology Forum, the advisory board of the Management Information Systems from the University of South Florida Business School, and the board of directors of Filasa, a real estate development firm headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
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About Kliken, SiteWit: SiteWit is a platform for small business owners to market their website on Google, Bing, and Yahoo and generate leads.
Matt Schlicht
CEO and Founder of Octane AI
Matt Schlicht is the founder and editor of Chatbots Magazine, the #1 place to learn about chatbots. He is a YC Alum, a Forbes 30 Under 30 winner, and was also previously a product manager at Ustream as well as an advisor to several other startups. Several months ago, Matt decided to launch a community dedicated to messaging and bots. Chatbots Magazine was born and now reaches over 200,000+ people per month. Matt joins us to share his story, how he got into startups and tech, how he created the opportunity to join the team at uStream, how he approaches building products, why he’s so passionate about bots and messaging, what’s next for Chatbots Magazine.
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About Chatbots Magazine, DominateFund, Hamster Pad, Octane AI, ZapChain: Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.
Ben Parr
Co-Founder and President of Octane AI
Ben Parr is a journalist, author, entrepreneur, investor, and expert on attention. Through his experience as a technology writer, venture capitalist, and prolific public speaker, Parr has coached dozens of young startups and Fortune 500 corporations on how to get attention for their products. Parr is a co-founder and managing partner of DominateFund, a venture capital firm that invests in and accelerates the growth of early-stage technology, software, and product startups through its expertise in the press, marketing, customer and user acquisition, viral products, and strategic celebrity partnerships. Previously, Parr was the co-editor and editor-at-Large of Mashable, where he wrote more than 2,400 articles on social media and technology, managed Mashable’s editorial team, and interviewed everyone from Ashton Kutcher to Mark Zuckerberg. He also served as a columnist and commentator for CNET. His work has been featured in a variety of media, including CNBC, CNN, Fox News.
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About DominateFund, Octane AI: Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.
Ben Jabbawy
Founder, CEO of Privy
Ben Jabbawy is the founder of Privy, an email list growth platform used by 25,000 marketers around the world. He started Privy after helping his parents market their small businesses, having seen first hand the incredible ROI of email as compared to other popular distribution channels.
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About Privy: Privy specializes in e-commerce marketing for small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Allan Grant
Founder & Executive Chairman of Talkable
Allan Grant is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Talkable. Prior to that, he was the Founder of Hired. He was a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology.
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About Talkable: Talkable is a technology platform that enables marketers to run customizable Refer A Friend Programs.
Rajeev Goel
Co-Founder & CEO of PubMatic
Rajeev co-founded PubMatic in 2006, based on the belief that publishers are underserved from a technology and services perspective, and set out to build an automation software company focused on publishers. Under his leadership, the company has grown and matured into a major enterprise provider with more than 400 employees and 13 locations around the globe. The high pace of revenue and profit growth, is fueled by Rajeev’s commitment to help publishers protect, monetize and manage their most valuable asset – the relationship between consumers, content and brands. Rajeev is a serial entrepreneur who has raised more than $250 million in funding throughout his career. Rajeev serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the IAB. He holds a master’s degree in Computer & Information Technology from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in economics, political science and Spanish from the Johns Hopkins University.
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About PubMatic: PubMatic is an automation solutions company for an open digital media industry.
Ali Sammour
Founder of FLATLAY
ali sammour joined FLATLAY as founder in 2016.
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About FLATLAY: The end to end social commerce automation platform for brands, customers & creatives.
Ashok Reddy Gudibandla
Founder, CEO of Automate.io
Founder, CEO at Automate.io.
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About Automate.io: Use tens of cloud apps? Connect them the way you want. Sync data, automate workflows – marketing, sales and more.
Kris Rudeegraap
CEO, CoFounder of Sendoso
Kris Rudeegraap is CEO at Sendoso
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About CoffeeSender, Sendoso: Sendoso helps companies connect and drive revenue with personalized gifts, eGifts, virtual experiences, and more.
Sunil Thomas
Co-Founder and CEO of CleverTap
Sunil is a technologist and drives CleverTap’s strategic vision while also managing investor relations. He has previously held CTO roles at startups and companies like Network18 and Infospace Inc.
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About CleverTap: CleverTap helps digital brands increase user retention and lifetime value with the help of data, personalization, deep-tech and automation
Tink Taylor
Chief Operating Officer, Founder, and President of dotmailer Group
Tink Taylor is COO, Founder, and President of dotMailer and dotDigital Group and has been pivotal in the development of digital marketing since its outset in both the UK and now the US.Serving as a key and influential member of the UK DMA’s Email Council and also the IAB since 2006, Tink’s been judging the Email, Mobile and Agency categories at the UK DMA’s awards for over half a decade. Now chair of the email marketing category, he is constantly striving to help individual organizations, and the industry as a whole to develop and progress.
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About dotAgency, dotmailer Group: dotmailer Group provides digital marketing professionals with SaaS technology solutions and tools, and offers an email marketing platform.
Josh Backer
Co Founder – President, Advertising & SVP Operations of Unified
Founded Social Suitcase in 2009 – Boutique business development and sales consulting firm specializing in social media monetization products and brand advertising. – Sold to TrafficMarketplace in March 2010 Founded DankApps in 2008 – Bay Partners funded social network application company – Donated thousands of dollars to cause based charities through the “Social Change” brand of applications Founded Teach the People in 2007 – TechCrunch40 company – fbFund grantee Emory University, Atlanta GA – Graduate Instructor, Dept. of Comparative Literature “Sick Lit.: Literature and Discourses of Illness and Disease” The Padeia School, Atlanta GA – Part-time Faculty “Pollack to Smithson: Modern and Contemporary American and European art from 1935-1975” “Art and Politics in the 20th Century”
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About Unified: Unified equips marketers with information and intelligence they need to make the best decisions about their social advertising investments.
Jason Beckerman
Co-Founder of Unified
Jason oversees all product, technology, and organizational strategy at Unified. Prior to co-founding Unified, Jason was co-founder and CEO of Social Suitcase, an innovator in the brand engagement space that was acquired by Connexus. He has held executive roles at a number of social media companies, including his tenure as co-founder and CEO of Teach The People, a Facebook Fund Grant Company and a TechCrunch 40 Finalist. Jason’s experience also extends to financial services and enterprise software, including positions at Merrill Lynch, Siebel, and Salesforce.com. At Salesforce.com he managed the release process for the largest on-demand CRM rollout in the history of the cloud at the time. Jason received a BS in Entrepreneurship and Information Systems from Quinnipiac University and a Masters in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University.
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About Unified, Unified: Unified equips marketers with information and intelligence they need to make the best decisions about their social advertising investments.
Rick Carlson
CEO & Co-Founder of SharpSpring
Rick is a founder and CEO of SharpSpring. He started with the goal of bringing marketing analytics and automation tools to small and medium businesses on an affordable and easy-to-use SaaS platform. Rick has over 15 years of executive management experience in the technology sector, holding president, CEO, general manager, and board positions at several successful Internet security companies. When Rick is not working on SharpSpring, he is busy with his second, and far more complex start-up – his two sons. Sometimes, Rick still gets to play beach volleyball, and occasionally, his wife politely laughs at his jokes.
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About SharpSpring, SharpSpring: A rapidly growing provider of marketing automation solutions with exceptional ease-of-use and a sophisticated feature-set
Jeff Kuei
Founder of Kixie
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About Kixie: The sales engagement platform that boosts sales team performance with ultra-reliable, easily-automated calling & texting for leading CRMs.
Michael Sharkey
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Autopilot
Michael Sharkey co-founded Autopilot and is the CEO. Prior to founding Autopilot, Michael joined his brother Chris to grow start-up Stayz into a top Australian rental booking site (acquired by FairFax Digital in 2006 and again by HomeAway for $225M in 2013). He also co-founded Sharkey Media with his brother Chris, where he helped grow Australian startups, marketing programs, and websites.
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About Autopilot: Switch ON better marketing for your business. The Best Marketing and Customer Data Platform for Ecommerce
Scott Swanson
CEO & Founder of Bonder, Inc.
Scott Swanson has an extensive background in consultative sales to some of the largest corporations and retail distributors in the world. With over 18 years in Global Infrastructure, Advanced Security and Platfrom Development Scott has become a trusted advisor in the design, development and implementation of cutting edge platforms and technology that engage the masses, consumers and exponentially drive revenue. “We have 90+ variations of this post a picture or video and make a statement platform. It’s boring and isolating. My vision is to evolve our current platform to improve how we Interact with each other, Connect and Socialize through yet beyond the device.” ~ Scott
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About Bonder, Inc.: The Worlds First Location Based Communication Platfrom (LBCP)
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.
Ben Brigham
Founder, Board Member of Conversica
What if your sales team knew which leads were more likely to result in a conversation? What if you had an autonomous support system to answer FAQs, follow up after sales and generate payment reminders? That is the business solution I’ve passionately pursued as an inventor, founder and patent-holder for more than a decade. I founded AutoFerret.com in 2007, bringing AVA, the first Artificial Intelligence Sales Assistant to the world. By engaging in natural, two-way email conversations with prospects, AVA connected hot leads with salespeople, driving a more efficient sales process. Today, that intellectual property is a key product of Conversica®, the leader in conversational AI for business and the only provider of AI-driven lead engagement software for marketing and sales organizations. More than 1,200 companies use Conversica, including CenturyLink, AT&T and Epson. I was bootstrapping AutoFerret when the economy collapsed. I often say, “Fortune favors persistence,” and I focused on a new product which used AI to work leads autonomously, an Automated Virtual Assistant-AVA. Released in 2009, it was an immediate success. With a customer base, healthy profits, and what I knew would be a billion-dollar opportunity, I took AutoFerret through an A series of funding in 2013, bringing in a management team and a board of directors. I spent 2015 in retirement and started Intelligens in 2016 to provide conversational AI for marketing, sales and finance teams in Latin America. Intelligens was acquired by Conversica in 2017, at which time I accepted an operational role as General Manager of Conversica Latin America. In 2018, Dealer Marketing Magazine named me the Father of Artificial Intelligence in Automotive Retail. I have one patent granted and several more filed. I’m available to speak at events and serve on leadership boards. If I can help you learn how AI can impact an industry, please connect with me.
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About : Conversica creates intelligent virtual assistants to serve as virtual team members.
Garin Hess
Founder & CEO of Consensus
Serial SaaS entrepreneur. His last startup was acquired by a public company in 2011.DemoChimp is his latest SaaS heartthrob.
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About Consensus: Consensus navigating through the jungle of sales and marketing one effective automated product demo at a time.
George Stoitzev
Founder of BlueReceipt
George Stoitzev currently works as the Founder of BlueReceipt.
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About BlueReceipt: BlueReceipt develops a Shopify plugin that uses text marketing to boost revenue.
Eric Manlunas
Managing Partner and Founder (US & SE Asia) of Wavemaker Partners
Eric is a co-Founder and Managing Partner with Wavemaker Partners, a cross border early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Los Angeles and Singapore. He is a two-time start-up entrepreneur turned venture capitalist with a strong passion for early-stage investing. Eric co-founded Wavemaker following its merger with Frontera Group, a prior early-stage boutique venture capital firm he founded in 2003. Eric has a proven track record as an early investor in over 230 early-stage ventures, of which half remain active and growing. Those companies have collectively received over $1B in growth capital. Eric also served in a concurrent capacity as a Partner of a Los Angeles-based value hedge fund from late-2002 until its sale to a San Francisco-based commercial bank in mid-2006. Prior to Frontera, Eric founded Sitestar in mid-1999. Sitestar is an Internet service provider in the rural markets of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Upon helping steer Sitestar in becoming one of the largest independent ISPs in the region, Eric successfully divested his remaining ownership stake in December 2002. Prior to that, Eric’s first startup was Interfoods, an online specialty foods venture he founded in early 1997. Within 3 years, Interfoods grew to become a mid-sized specialty foods provider in its market and was successfully acquired in late 1999. Eric began his career as a consulting associate with Arthur Andersen’s retail management consulting division from 1991-1995. He earned a B.S. in Communications from Florida International University and an M.B.A from Pepperdine University. Eric is currently a member of the board of a number of emerging companies. He is also a Trustee of the Philippine Development Foundation, an organization committed to social development initiatives in the Philippines, Eric’s country of origin.
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About Wavemaker 360, Wavemaker Partners: Wavemaker is a crossborder early-stage VC firm that focuses on early-stage tech startup opportunities.
Eric Netsch
Founder/ CEO of Tapcart
Founder @Tapcart. Founder / Engineer @Mobile First Studios • Studied at @University of California, Los Angeles
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About Tapcart: Tapcart is a SaaS platform that enables e-commerce merchants to launch and manage mobile apps for their brands.
Sina Mobasser
Founder & COO of Tapcart
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About Tapcart: Tapcart is a SaaS platform that enables e-commerce merchants to launch and manage mobile apps for their brands.
Andrew Katz
CTO and Co-Founder of mParticle
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About mParticle, Something New: MParticle is a customer data platform for multi channel consumer brands.
Michael Katz
Co-Founder and CEO of mParticle
Michael Katz is Founder of mParticle, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Director. Michael Katz is responsible for creating and overseeing the execution of mParticle’s vision of becoming the premier mobile data solution. Michael Katz served as Vice President of Optimization & Analytics at Yahoo where he came via the acquisition of interclick, the company he founded. As former CEO & co-founder of interclick, Michael led the business as it grew organically to $140M in revenue, while expanding gross margin % and EBITDA before its sale to Yahoo for $270 million in 2011. He was also responsible for building and maintaining analyst, auditor, and investor relationships. Prior, he was an Analyst at Accenture and ZEFER.
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About mParticle: MParticle is a customer data platform for multi channel consumer brands.
Serge Longin
Co-Founder & CEO of RevenueWell
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About RevenueWell: Automated practice marketing and patient communication suite.
Vijay Chittoor
Co-Founder & CEO of Blueshift
Co-Founder & CEO of Blueshift. Formerly Co-Founder & CEO, Mertado (acquired by Groupon), and early team at Kosmix (acquired by Walmart).
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About Blueshift, Mertado: Blueshift offers the SmartHub CDP, which helps brands deliver relevant and connected experiences across every customer interaction.
Manyam Mallela
Co-Founder, Chief AI Officer of Blueshift
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About Blueshift: Blueshift offers the SmartHub CDP, which helps brands deliver relevant and connected experiences across every customer interaction.
David Perry
CEO & Co-Founder of CARRO
Currenty the CEO & Co-Founder of www.GetCarro.com. Previously Perry was the the CEO and co-founder of Gaikai, the pioneer of game streaming holding the fundamental patents in the space. Gaikai was the first and only acquisition in this sector being acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment for $380M. Gaikai’s game streaming technology is now fundamental in the Sony PlayStation. In 2008 Perry became the Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Acclaim.com, one of the first advocates introducing free-to-play gaming to the western markets, Acclaim was subsequently acquired by Playdom & Disney. Prior to that, Perry founded Shiny Entertainment (a video game development company acquired by Interplay, then again by Atari) known for making hits like Earthworm Jim, MDK & the Matrix games. After 37 years in the business Perry remains one of the best known Video Game Industry veterans, with multiple #1 hits and he was awarded the Development Legend award in 2012. Perry was awarded a Doctorate in Engineering from Queens University, Belfast and a Masters in Game Development from Westwood College. He was one of the longest serving members of the Game Developer’s Conference Advisory Board, and has spoken at TED, E3, Hollywood and Games, Stanford, MIT, USC, UCI, UCLA, DICE, GTC, GDC, AMD, MGS, Digital Hollywood, What Teens Want, 3D Gaming Summit, EurekaFest, The Cove, Casual Connect etc. TAGS: Influencer Marketing, Advertising, Video Games, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Shopify, Tools, Technology, Financing, Funding, Content, Creator, Creators, Celebrities, Press, Media, Influencer & Influencers.
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About Carro, CARRO: The eCommerce Network where modern brands sell more, by working together.
Jason Goldberg
Co-Founder & President of CARRO
President & Co-founder of VYRL.
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About CARRO: The eCommerce Network where modern brands sell more, by working together.
Michael Bauer
Founder, CEO and Principal Consultant of Brilliant Arc
Michael Bauer is the founder, CEO and principal consultant for Brilliant Arc. Working with companies such as MapQuest, Dex, Joltid (progenitor of Skype), Jabber, and European Directories since 1993, Michael and his teams built the first online mapping system, created one of the first online shopping systems, sold some of the first online advertising, built one of the first content management systems, and created some of the earliest online directories.
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About Brilliant Arc: Brilliant Arc is a knowledge-based software developer transforming data into knowledge to solve its users’ business problems.
Paul Bola
Founder of DocMate.com
Paul Bola is a Seasoned Technologist and Serial Entrepreneur in the Healthcare Sector. He has been involved in building products and services for over 10 years. Paul started his professional career at the age of 19 years old working for a fortune 100 company, Cardinal Health as a Systems Analyst. Paul traveled across the United States working with colleagues who were twice his age. He was attending online business school and received a full scholarship 2 years in a row while traveling and managing a fulltime job. Paul Bola started his first company at the age of 21 years and setup an offshore team in New Delhi which consists of 40+ software developers, designers, quality assurance experts etc. He managed at the age of 21 to bring in over 1.3 million dollars in sales in the first year of business. Paul has started and sold companies in the areas of software development, website development, digital marketing and healthcare communication platforms. Paul Bola has helped over 300 healthcare practices across the nation bring their bottom line up by 20%-60% respectively using his broad knowledge and latest digital marketing techniques. Paul has also taught courses in practice operations, digital marketing and ICD-10 Billing for doctor medical education units. Paul built an online doctor and patient booking platform from scratch including: specifications, design, development, marketing, sales and made the company profitable within the first 3 months.
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About A1 Healthcare Technologies, Bridging Technologies, Denefits, DocMate.com: DocMate is a secure doctor and patient communication platform which helps retain existing patients and connect new ones.
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
Joel York
Chairman & Founder , SaaS , Integrated Marketing of Markodojo
Joel York is the Chief Marketing Officer & Enterprise Content Firewall at Accellion.
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About Markodojo: Markodojo is a company that provides clients with market managing software while embracing agile philosophy.
Andrew Sawyer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cured
Andrew is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cured. Andrew was previously a venture capitalist at GE Ventures where he focused on healthcare and life sciences investing and new business creation. Prior to his role in venture capital, Andrew was a healthcare entrepreneur and management consultant focused on the intersection of provider/payer operations and technology. He served as a Director at Nordic Consulting Partners (#46 – INC 5000 list), where he co-founded the Advisory Services practice. In addition, he was Vice President of Consulting Services and a member of the early founding team at Falcon Consulting (#316 – INC 5000 list – acquired by Avaap). He started his career at Epic Systems, where he was an Enterprise Implementation Director and was responsible for launching the Home Health and Hospice product offerings. Andrew holds an MPH in Health Management from Harvard University. He graduated with honors from DePauw University with a dual BA in Economics and Spanish.
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About Cured: a digital marketing & crm platform, built for healthcare organizations
Rohit Narayan
Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer of Cured
Rohit is Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer of Cured. Prior to Cured, he was a Principal Solution Engineer at Salesforce and a founding member of their Healthcare team, where he focused on helping healthcare organizations use modern technology to execute on broader strategic initiatives and manage the ever-changing industry and consumer needs. Prior to Salesforce, Rohit worked at Epic Systems as an Application Director and Application Success Owner running large revenue cycle implementations. Rohit graduated from the University of Michigan with a dual BA in Economics and German. He is also a graduate of the LEAD: Corporate Innovation program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Cured: a digital marketing & crm platform, built for healthcare organizations
Ashmer Aslam
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Cured
Ashmer is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Cured. Prior to Cured, Ashmer was a Principal Enterprise Architect at Salesforce where he focused on driving cloud architecture in healthcare and life sciences as well as product innovation across the platform. Ashmer was a strategy and management consultant responsible for leading major Fortune 50 client engagements in the healthcare, life sciences, financial services and public sector verticals at Accenture. He began his career at Epic Systems, where he was a clinical application director and one of the first members of the Oncology application implementation team. Ashmer graduated from Northwestern University with a dual BA in Economics and Neurobiology.
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About Cured: a digital marketing & crm platform, built for healthcare organizations
Carlos Vega
Co-Founder & CEO of Tesorio
Carlos R. Vega is a Co-Founder at CEO at Tesorio.
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About Tesorio: Tesorio is the cash flow performance platform, which Accounts Receivable, Treasury, and FP&A teams use to manage, predict, and collect cash.
Fabio Fleitas
Co-Founder & CTO of Tesorio
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About Tesorio: Tesorio is the cash flow performance platform, which Accounts Receivable, Treasury, and FP&A teams use to manage, predict, and collect cash.
Corey Pierson
Co-Founder & CEO of Custora
Corey Pierson is the co-founder of Custora, a predictive marketing analytics platform for online retailers based in New York City. Prior to Custora, Corey earned an MBA from Wharton and worked as a business designer at IDEO. He’s also a huge Philly sports fan and an amateur Vitamix chef.
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About Custora: Custora is the leader in advanced customer analytics for the retail industry.
Nitay Joffe
Founder & CTO of ActionIQ
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About ActionIQ: ActionIQ is a purpose-built enterprise Customer Data Platform solving complex data problems: flow and scale, analytics, and orchestration.
Paul Boruta
CEO & Founder of Slingwave
Marketing and technology + startup CEO & founder
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About Slingrocket, Slingwave: Transforming Data into Real Business Outcomes
Quimby Melton
Co-Founder & CEO of Confection.io
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About Confection.io: Privacy-First Data Generator
Rob Heiser
Co-Founder & Board Member of Segmint
Rob Heiser co-founded Segmint Inc, a fast-growing marketing technology company based in Akron, Ohio. He currently serves as Segmint’s president and CEO. Heiser is also co-founder, president and CEO of WiredViews Inc., a boutique digital marketing agency. Previously, Heiser was chief technology officer of SupplierInsight (acquired by Procuri), where he led the application and product development of the first commercially available Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) application. Heiser was also manager of internet applications and one of the founding employees of Xtrasource, Inc. (acquired by Sento in 2003). Heiser’s experience as an accomplished entrepreneur and his cross-industry expertise regarding all facets of data analytics, delivery channels and marketing technologies have provided him superior success in developing, launching and growing seven technology-driven businesses. His deep industry knowledge and experience also allow him to serve as an authoritative source regarding current and emerging trends impacting the constantly evolving digital marketplace. Heiser holds a Bachelor’s of Business Administration degree in Management and Information from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.
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About Segmint, WiredViews, Inc.: Segmint is a digital marketing solutions provider that organizes unstructured data to create meaningful and actionable insights.
Eric Lunt
Co-Founder of Signal
Prior to joining BrightTag, Eric was co-founder and CTO of FeedBurner, which Google acquired in 2007. After the acquisition, Eric remained at Google in a senior technology role. Prior to FeedBurner, Eric co-founded and served as CTO at Spyonit.com (acquired by 724 Solutions), served as lead technical architect at Digital Knowledge Assets (creators of the collaborative personal publishing software “sceneServer”), and helped to lead the application architecture team in Accenture’s next generation technology group known as “Project Eagle.” Eric graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering and a Certificate in Applied Computational Mathematics. In addition to his work at BrightTag, Eric is a senior technology advisor to Twitter and he also sits on the board of Gnip. Eric was recognized as one of Crain’s Tech 25 for his contributions to drive technology growth in Chicago.
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About FireStarter Fund: Signal is an independent SaaS provider of data onboarding and real-time identity resolution.
Erik Kostelnik
Co-Founder & CEO of Postal.io
Erik Kostelnik is the co-founder and CEO of Postal.io, a leading offline engagement platform that automates direct mail and gifting in the sales and marketing workflow. Prior to Postal.io, Erik founded TextRecruit, one of the fastest-growing HR technology companies in the world, leading it to acquisition in 2018 by iCIMS, Inc. He also served as the Head of Sales at Wrike from 2014 to 2016 helping it reach #116 in 2015 Deloitte Fastest 500. Erik was named an Upstart 50 Top Inventor by the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2017 and lives in San Luis Obispo, CA with his wife and three kids.
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About Postal.io: Postal.io offers an experience marketing platform helping businesses to generate leads, increase sales velocity, and retain happy customers.
Jed Danner
Co-Founder & CTO of Postal.io
Jed Danner is the Co-Founder and CTO at Postal.io.
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About Postal.io: Postal.io offers an experience marketing platform helping businesses to generate leads, increase sales velocity, and retain happy customers.
Gregory Bailey
Founder, CEO & President of Denim Social
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About Denim, Denim Social, Insure.VC: Denim Social provides social media management and marketing automation software for customers.
Sachin Bhat
Co-Founder & CTO of Scribe
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About Scribe: Scribe lets you convert all your favorite apps into completely customizable Slack Bots, within 5 minutes.
Anna Wang
Co-Founder & CTO of Copysmith
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About Copysmith: The world’s best AI copywriter. Use AI to write copy for ads, product descriptions, social media posts, landing pages, blog posts, and more.
Robert Sandie
Co-Founder / CEO of vidIQ
Rob Sandie joined vidIQ as co-founder/CEO in 2012.
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About vidIQ: vidIQ is a YouTube audience development and management suite that provides applications and solutions for marketers.
Tanu Venkatesh
Founder of Power Router
Tanu Venkatesh is the founder of Power Router which is a sales automation software to help teams automate their inbound demand.
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About Power Router, Ziguar: Power Router helps sales teams drive better results through powerful automation.
Jack Philbin
Co-Founder, President & CEO of Vibes
As one of the premier thought-leaders in mobile marketing and wireless, Jack spearheads Vibes’ strategic direction and drives the company’s position as the leading provider of mobile relationship management technology solutions for leading brands. An entrepreneur and builder, Jack has specific expertise in business development, strategic client management and consumer marketing. Jack currently serves as Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association North America Board of Directors and on the CTIA Wireless Internet Caucus. Jack was honored with the MMA’s “Outstanding Individual Achievement” award in 2005. Under Jack’s leadership, Vibes was ranked #92 on the 2007 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing US companies and has received numerous awards for their innovation.
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About FireStarter Fund, Mobile Marketing Association, Vibes: Vibes is a mobile marketing software platform.
Alex Campbell
Co-Founder of Vibes
Alex Campbell is an entrepreneur who co-founded Vibes in 1998. Alex holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has received numerous accolades including Red Herring’s Top 25 Tech Rebels, Crain’s Chicago Business “40 Under 40” and induction into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 2009.
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About FireStarter Fund, Vibes: Vibes is a mobile marketing software platform.
Jason Davis
Co-Founder, CEO of Simon Data
Jason Davis is co-founder & CEO at Simon Data.
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About CmomGO, Simon Data, Simon Data: Simon is the enterprise customer data platform that empowers brands to deliver data-driven, personalized customer experiences everywhere.
Glenn Houck
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of LeadQual
Glenn Houck is Co-Founder of LQ Digital. Founded in 2006, LQ Digital has grown to become one of the largest independent Digital Advertising agencies in the U.S. Glenn previously served as Senior Vice President at HomeGain.com, with direct responsibility for sales, marketing, product development and information technology. HomeGain.com was acquired in 2005 by Classified Ventures. In addition, Glenn has served on the board of directors of Laurel House, in Stamford, CT, and currently, serves on the board of directors of Inman News. Glenn holds an MBA from Sacred Heart University and a BA degree in Economics from the University of Virginia.
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About LeadQual, MyVictory Wellness, Sacred Heart University: LeadQual is a full service digital marketing, lead generation, and qualification agency.
Francis Brero
Co-Founder & CRO of MadKudu
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About MadKudu: MadKudu helps SaaS companies identify, qualify, and engage their leads throughout the buyer journey.
Shibo Xu
Co-Founder / COO of Refersion
Shibo X. is the Co-Founder at Refersion.
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About Confesh, Refersion, The Confessionals: Track your affiliates, partners, salespeople, and customer referrals. We proudly support Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, and PayPal.
Vishu Ramanathan
Founder of Buildout
Vishu Ramanathan is CEO of Buildout, the leading end-to-end marketing software for commercial real estate.He founded the company in 2010 with fellow software developer Jason Tillery. His background is in software development where he specializes in bridging complex business problems with people and technology to form a solution. Before founding Buildout, Vishu spent 10 years with Business Logic, now Next Capital, and also worked as an independent software developer in industries with sophisticated problems, including finance, logistics and trade regulation.
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About Buildout: Buildout is an end-to-end solution that provides a marketing platform for commercial real estate.
Federico Treu
Founder of Cubeyou
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About Cubeyou: Cubeyou is an AI powered consumer intelligence platform.
Ruben Vardanyan
Founder & CEO of Joomag, Inc.
Dr Ruben Vardanyan is an innovative and result-driven leader with more than a decade of experience in building hi-tech companies. He is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Joomag, a US based SaaS company that provides integrated solution for creating interactive digital publications. Under Vardanyan’s guidance the company developed a series of revolutionary products and became an industry leader. He has extensive experience working with SMBs as well as large enterprises including Fortune 500 companies. He is an angel investor, advisor and serves as a board member for various tech startups. Prior to his Joomag experience, he was the founding CEO of mobile app development company Magy. The company produced several best-seller and award winning apps. In addition to being a master strategist, Vardanyan is an aficionado of all aspects of computer programming, security, databases, software, protocols and web servers. In fact, he co-authored “Principles of C++” and authored “Programming in Macromedia Flash Action Script.” Along with his Executive Education from Harvard, Vardanyan holds a PhD in Computer Science and maintains active involvement in workshops, trainings and is a guest speaker at several international conferences.
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About Joomag, Inc.: Joomag is the all-in-one platform empowering businesses large and small to create, distribute, track, and monetize their interactive content
David Aslanyan
Chief Customer Officer & Co-Founder of Joomag, Inc.
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About Joomag, Inc.: Joomag is the all-in-one platform empowering businesses large and small to create, distribute, track, and monetize their interactive content
Ethan Anderson
Founder & CEO of MyTime
Ethan is Co-founder and formerly CEO of [Redbeacon](/organization/redbeacon), the 2009 TechCrunch50 and Business Insider Startup 2010 grand prize winner that was acquired by The Home Depot. Prior to Redbeacon, he was a Product Manager at [Google](/organization/google) where he was responsible for launching and managing the [Google Video](/product/google-video) product outside the United States prior to the [YouTube](/organization/youtube) acquisition. He also was Google’s first Product Manager for the fast growing Southeast Asian emerging markets, and a Product Manager on [Google Image](/product/google-images) Search, the top image search product in the world. Before joining Google, Ethan worked in a number of internet strategy and marketing roles at The Clorox Company, Buy.com, and [McKinsey & Company](/organization/mckinsey-company). Ethan graduated with Honors from Harvard Business School and Magna Cum Laude from Duke University, where he earned a BA in Economics and Public Policy Studies. He was recently named to Business Insider’s Silicon Valley 100 and 16 Up-and-Coming Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs You Need to Meet.
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About MyTime: MyTime powers online scheduling, automated marketing and point of sale for mid-market and enterprise service retailers.
Frank Renfro
Founder of Naybur
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About Naybur: Referral sharing platform for Neighbors
Tim Stanley
Founder & CEO of Carepoynt
Tim Stanley was founder and CEO of Tekexecs, and SVP of Enterprise Strategy & Industry Solutions at Salesforce.com. Tim has also held various CXO, Board of Director and other operating roles at Caesars/Harrah’s Entertainment, Multimedia Games, JetBlue Airways, National Airlines, Intel, and Kimberly Clark. He began his career as a US Air Force officer. Tim holds a joint International MBA and Management of Technology degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and Arizona State University, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Washington. He develops and teaches MBA and executive level courses on business, technology, innovation and digital transformation as an adjunct professor at the University of California and for other executive education programs.
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About Carepoynt, InfoWerks, Tekexecs: Carepoynt is the first Rewardsware for Healthcare program, platform and network for patients, providers, employers, payers and partners
Brett Bernstein
Founder & CEO of Gatsby
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About Gatsby: Customer collaboration platform for direct-to-consumer brands
Andrey Morozov
Founder & CEO of Payment.Ninja
Founder at Payment.Ninja.
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About CardQL, FinHub Global, Payment.Ninja: Payment.Ninja is an online payment gateway that accepts Visa and MasterCard.
Michael McCarthy
Founder, CEO of Inkit
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About Inkit: Reach Enablement Platform (REP)
Matt McCullough
Founder, CTO of Inkit
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About Inkit: Reach Enablement Platform (REP)
Harbinder Khera
Founder & CEO of Mindmatrix
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About Mindmatrix, RE BackOffice: MindMatrix is the only software in the marketplace that offers PRM, Channel Marketing Automation, Channel Sales Enablement, Direct Sales En
Jay Baer
Founder, content marketing strategy, social media strategy, word of mouth strategy, CX strategy of Convince & Convert
Jay Baer is an American marketing consultant, speaker, and the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Youtility. He is the founder of Convince & Convert, a strategy consulting firm that helps prominent companies gain and keep more customers through the smart intersection of technology, social media, and customer service. Being the founder of five companies, Baer has worked with over 700 brands including Nike, Cold Stone Creamery, Sony, ExactTarget, and ConocoPhillips since 1994, including 25 of the Fortune 1000. His Convince & Convert blog is ranked among the world’s top marketing resources. In his early career, Baer was a political campaign manager on congressional, gubernatorial and Arizona initiative campaigns. He also served as a political consultant advising campaigns on marketing including direct mail and radio strategies. Baer is a graduate of the University of Arizona (1991) with a major in political science and a minor in communications.
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About Convince & Convert, Penguin Random House, Penguin Random House: We help you get better at social media and content marketing through audits, creation of strategic plans,
Marc de Kuyper
CEO and Founder of Overproof.com
Marc De Kuyper is the Founder of Lymion Group Inc. (Overproof).
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About Overproof.com: A Lymion Group Inc. applies AI to the Beverage Alcohol industry, offering various SaaS solutions to suppliers, distributors and retailers
John Hendricks
CEO & Founder of ERGO
John is the founder and CEO of ERGO Interactive, a company that specializes in designing and delivering Smart Content for email and web journeys. John holds degrees in electrical engineering and marketing and has spent his career developing award winning data-drive marketing programs for Blue Chip clients including American Express, Honda, Hyundai, Disney, Ameriprise, TIAA, BlackRock, JPMorgan Chase, H&R Block, Discover and CapitalOne. He was also a cofounder of BoldFish, sold to Siebel in 2003, and Bigfoot Interactive, sold to Epsilon / Alliance Data in 2005.
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About ERGO: ERGO is a marketing automation solution provider that creates intelligent customer experiences inside each email using Smart Content.
Nathanael Smith
COO & Co-Founder of Aesthetic
Nathanael Smith is the CEO and Co-Founder of Aesthetic.
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About Aesthetic: Aesthetic automates all the production design work needed by companies, starting with social media graphics.
Richard Fallah
Founder & CEO of Vbout.com
In 2003 i launched my first startup, Talentsbid.com, an Etsy like marketplace for people to trade their talent products and crafts. Although execution failed and the website shut down in 2005 it was a huge learning curve and made me realize the career i would like to pursue. In 2007, i started Siteforbiz.com, a business website design and development company that has been rapidly growing ever since. I make sure i provide what competitors do not and that is the personal direct relationship with our clients, our consultancy expertise, our fast response and our budget conscious pricing. Aside from Siteforbiz.com i work on my own startup Vbout.com. I am also the organizer of a technology startup that provides an open mic for entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas in front of hundreds: http://www.startuppitchnight.com. I am also an active mentor at Tech Launch technology accelerator: http://techlaunch.com/mentors/richard-fallah/ My vision in everything i do is hard work, good work ethics, patience, great communication and positive attitude. I highly encourage balance in ones everyday life and i believe that working where your passion is, is like not working at all! I indulge on every bit of my everyday work experience from the good and bad and i look forward on my days off to get back to work! My areas of strength are: Design Product development Project management Social Media Customer relations Coaching My weaknesses are: Malfunction around negative energy Over caring You can meet me in 30 secs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkp0lpQChuQ&feature=youtu.be Specialties: Business development Customer relations Programming Analysis Design and concept development Project management Social media
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About NYC Marketing Meetups, NYC Technology Startups, Site For Biz, Vbout.com: VBOUT helps marketing teams increase lead generation, nurture and conversion using powerful marketing automation tools.
