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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 Social Media Marketing 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.
Kong Pham
CEO & Founder of Jumpcut
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About Jumpcut: Jumpcut creates captivating online courses.
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Jay Meattle
CEO & Founder of Shareaholic
Jay started [Shareaholic, Inc.](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shareaholic), a company fanatical about making sharing on the web better, faster, easier, and more measurable. Over 2 million people have used the award winning tools created by Shareaholic. Jay was Vice President of Products at Lookery, an online user-targeting network that offered lightweight, economical targeting data for over 200 million users. Before Lookery, Jay was the Product Manager and founding member of the small team that was responsible for creating and launching [Compete.com](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/compete), now part of the WPP Group [Nasdaq: WPPGY]. In addition, as co-founder of PopSignal, one of Boston’s largest professional networking organizations, Jay is actively contributing to the growth of Boston’s technology startup community. Jay earned a B.S. cum laude in Computer Science from Tufts University. He also minored in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Multimedia Arts. At Tufts he was awarded the MacJannet scholarship. Jay is also a TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Leadership Fellow and in 2012 was named to the TR35 India — MIT Technology Review magazine’s annual list of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35. He loves creating, lives for technology and innovation, and likes making things happen. You can follow Jay on Twitter @meattle or his blog http://www.meattle.com/jay/
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About Shareaholic: Shareaholic is an Audience Engagement platform that helps over 300,000 businesses grow audience engagement, loyalty & conversions.
Rustin Kretz
Founder, Chief Product Officer, Chairman of the Board of Scorpion
Rustin Kretz is the Founder, Chief Product Officer, and Chairman of the Board at Scorpion. Scorpion is the product of Rustin’s vision. His dedication and leadership have been the driving force behind Scorpion and the foundation for its unprecedented growth and innovative approach to digital marketing for local businesses since 2001.
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About Scorpion: Scorpion exists to better local small businesses and the communities they serve.
Tom Impallomeni
Co-Founder of SuperAwesome
Co-founder & CEO, Tribe VR
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About SuperAwesome, Tribe XR: SuperAwesome offers kid-safe tools and technology for the children’s digital media ecosystem.
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
Robert Gabel
Founder & CEO of Tubular Labs
Robert (“Rob”) Gabel is the founder and CEO of Tubular Labs, the leading marketing and analytics platform that helps companies grow and engage their online video audience on YouTube. Building a marketing and analytics platform for online video unites two of Rob’s passions – online video and online marketing. Rob became fascinated with the promise and power of online video while serving as SVP of Advertising Performance at Machinima, YouTube’s 2nd largest network. Rob broadened his online video experience by consulting to YouTube-centric media companies DanceOn and AwesomenessTV. Rob’s online marketing experience includes serving as a SVP of Marketing for LowerMyBills and VP Marketing for both Inadco and Netflix. As one of the first employees at LowerMyBills, Rob helped the company grow from pre-revenue to over $200 million organically before being acquired by Experian in 2005 for nearly $400 million. Robert Gabel earned his M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and graduated Magna Cum Laude from The Honors College at the University of Houston with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering.
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About Tubular Labs: Tubular Labs is the global leader in video intelligence for the cross-platform world.
Brett Garfinkel
Co-Founder & CEO of SYLO
Brett Garfinkel is a Co-Founder & CEO at SYLO.
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About SYLO: SYLO provides marketers and creators with 3rd-party validation and standardized measurement to confidently invest in influencer marketing.
Erick Schwab
Co-Founder & COO of SYLO
Erick Schwab is the Co-Founder and COO at SYLO.
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About SYLO: SYLO provides marketers and creators with 3rd-party validation and standardized measurement to confidently invest in influencer marketing.
Brian Freeman
Founder and CEO of Heartbeat
Brian Freeman is a Entrepreneur, Consultant & Investor At Present he is Founder of Heartbeat Technologies, Inc of Heartbeat (getheartbeat.co). He also founded Wyldfire, where Ladies are the Gatekeepers. He has been featured for his work in entrepreneurism in Forbes, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Techcrunch, etc. He was Director Channel Partners at MOGL Loyalty, Inc & Investor & Consultant for MobilePay USA an early mobile payments provider.
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About Heartbeat: Heartbeat is a platform for millennial women to join, provide feedback to, and promote brands via their personal networks.
Kate Edwards
Co-Founder and COO of Heartbeat
Kate is the COO and Co-founder of Heartbeat, a Techstars LA company and marketing technology platform that enables brands to connect directly with its 150,000 female millennial brand ambassadors, creating scalable, ROI-focused user-generated content campaigns on social media. She is thrilled to be able to follow her heart and empower the voices of real women at Heartbeat every day. Prior to Heartbeat (http://getheartbeat.co/), Kate worked as the Director of Business Development and Partnerships at innovative matchmaking startup Three Day Rule, which was funded by Match/IAC, and has been featured on numerous podcasts, panels, and tv shows. Prior to working in tech, Kate attended Brown University and worked at top creative advertising agencies JWT and Publicis New York on clients Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson. Kate received her MBA at UCLA Anderson as an Easton Technology Fellow. Kate has also consulted and advised many startups in the Los Angeles area on marketing, operations, strategy, and fundraising.
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About Heartbeat: Heartbeat is a platform for millennial women to join, provide feedback to, and promote brands via their personal networks.
Steve Garrity
Founder of Hearsay Systems
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About Hearsay Systems: Hearsay Systems is reinventing the human-client experience in financial services.
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.
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.
Christopher Lien
Founder & CEO of Marin Software
Mr. Lien is Marin’s founder and Chairman of the Board, and rejoined the Company as Chief Executive Officer in August 2016. From September 2015 to August 2016, Mr. Lien has served on boards of private companies as well as Marin Software. From May 2014 until September 2015, Mr. Lien served as executive chairman of Marin Software, and from the founding of the Company in 2006 to May 2014, he served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Lien has been a member of the Board since 2006. Previously, Mr. Lien served as Chief Operating Officer of Adteractive, Inc., an online performance marketing company, from 2004 to 2005. In 2001, Mr. Lien co-founded and served as Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Sugar Media, Inc., a broadband services platform, until its acquisition in 2003 by 2Wire, Inc., a leading supplier of DSL equipment and services, which was subsequently acquired by Pace plc in 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Lien served in various capacities at BlueLight.com, LLC, Kmart Corporation’s ecommerce and Internet service provider subsidiary from 2000 to 2001, including as Chief Financial Officer and acting Chief Executive Officer. Prior to BlueLight.com, Mr. Lien spent 10 years at various investment banks, including Morgan Stanley and Evercore Partners, with his last role as Managing Director. Mr. Lien holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College, where he was elected as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr. Lien’s presence as a member of the Board brings his thorough knowledge of the Company into the Board’s strategic and policy-making discussions. He brings his extensive experience in finance, digital marketing and executive roles in the information technology industry into deliberations regarding the Company’s strategy and operations.
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About Heron Partners, Marin Software, Marin Software: Marin Software Incorporated (NYSE:MRIN) provides a leading cross-channel performance advertising platform used by advertisers and agencies.
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)
Thomas Kramer
COO, Co-Founder of Paladin
As Co-Founder and Head of Product at Paladin, Thomas focuses on building enterprise software for next-generation media companies. Prior to Paladin, Thomas served as VP of Product at Bent Pixels and as the Senior Director of Content Strategy and Optimization at Maker Studios (The Walt Disney Company), a top multi-channel network (MCN). At Maker, Thomas led a team focused on audience development strategy consulting for many Disney brands (Marvel, ESPN, Disney Animation, and Disney Parks) and online video creators (PewDiePie, GameGrumps, and the Shaytards). Thomas has rich experience working with brands, agencies, and content creators on multi-platform video strategy. He is a co-founder of Ready Influence, an advisory initiative for content creators, and has spoken at several conferences, including Media Summit New York. Thomas is a graduate of the University of Oregon.
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About Measure Studio, Paladin: Paladin is the essential influencer marketing platform for brands and agencies.
Julia Enthoven
Co-Founder and CEO of Kapwing
Julia Enthoven is the Founder of Kapwing.
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About Kapwing: Online editor for modern videos, GIFs, and images
Spectacular Smith
Founder & CEO of Adwizar
Upon turning after school candy sales into a $2,000 a week business at age 11, Spectacular Smith discovered he was an entrepreneur. That realization would take him first to the heights of popular music, and then to success as a business owner, label owner, author, and beyond. A dancer since the third grade, Smith took his childhood love of performing into the rap group he formed with his brothers, Pretty Ricky. His father was the manager of the group, and owner of indie label. Spectacular contributed musically and also choreographed the group’s explosive stage shows—performances that won them a deal with Atlantic Records. The group went on to huge worldwide success: filling arenas on the Scream IV tour, selling millions of singles and ringtones, and earning huge hits with “Grind With Me,” & “Your Body,” Music stardom was just the first stage of Spectacular Smith’s career. Intrigued by the business possibilities of social media, he turned Pretty Ricky’s Facebook page into his personal laboratory, testing out his theories behind social networks for a full year until he had a new, unbreakable system of gaining and monetizing followers. He then turned those ideas into Adwizar, the dominant social media brand in the urban music space. The company runs the Facebook pages of artists such as Bow Wow, Kevin Gates, Soulja Boy, Master P, Birdman, Bone Thugs N Harmony, and countless others. Adwizar has now grown beyond urban music into dealing with major brands and corporations, athletes, merchandising deals, and more. The company was also featured on Forbes.com for its innovative methods, and has no ceiling on its growth. Smith has not left music behind. He has a record label called Mula Music Group, The label has recently signed West Coast artist Compton Menace, who is ringing up millions of YouTube views for his new single with Chris Brown, “Put On.” After conquering the worlds of music, social media, and publishing, the world is waiting to see what he does next.
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About Adwizar, Amazon, Inc. Magazine, Meta, Spectacular Academy, Viacom: Music Industry’s #1 Company for Growth and Monetization on Social Media – Making Artist, and Brands residual income from their social media.
Isaac Mashman
CEO/Founder of Mashman Ventures
Born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida Isaac Mashman is a businessman, podcast host, speaker, and private investor who first got involved in business in 2017. Coming from a rather “humble” family, through business Isaac realized that there was more to life than struggle and stagnancy. It was the perfect solution to his childhood problems. Since starting his journey he has had the opportunity to become the first person in his family to ever travel internationally, has been to multiple states and cities including New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Miami. He’s hosted two podcasts, and in April of 2020 he launched his very own company Mashman Ventures. One of the largest things he attributes to his success has been personal development. He recognized early on that if one was not growing as an individual the chances were, no other areas of his life would be growing either. This is why Isaac launched his newest podcast, “Chase the Vision with Isaac Mashman” and has made it his goal to share his experiences, knowledge, and lessons he has learned along the way with as many people as possible, thus helping them become more capable and in return get the results they want in life. Isaac Mashman specializes in creating, growing and positioning personal brands through his public relations firm Mashman Ventures.
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About Mashman Investments, Mashman Ventures: Mashman Ventures is a public relations firm that specializes in personal branding.
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.
Todd Cronin
Founder of Bandsintown
Todd is the founder of Bandsintown, Inc. He is an entrepreneur, adviser, and product designer from Boston, MA currently living in San Diego, CA. Today, Bandsintown is the largest concert application on iPhone, Android, and Facebook. The app was acquired in 2011 by Cellfish Media and subsequently in 2014, Cellfish Media rebranded to Bandsintown Group. Previously he was an early employee and the sole designer at The Echo Nest, a music intelligence startup in Boston, MA, which was acquired by Spotify in 2014 for $100M+. He studied at Massachusetts College of Art and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a focus on design and information architecture. He started his first company, Ambient Interactive, while still in college.
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About Bandsintown: Bandsintown is a free concert discovery app for concert-goers and touring artists. It was acquired by Cellfish/Bandsintown Group in 2011.
Sebastian Dobrincu
Co-Founder & CEO of Storyheap
Sebastian Dobrincu is a serial tech entrepreneur, engineer and music artist living in Los Angeles, CA. He is best known for being named “Silicon Valley’s Youngest Self-Made Millionaire” and one of the “30 Under 30” by Forbes. Dobrincu is also an angel investor, public speaker and songwriter. Dobrincu debuted his musical career in 2019 with the single “On Your Mind”, followed by “Halfway To The Moon”. Sebastian Dobrincu was born in Bucharest, Romania and moved to the US at 17 to scale his business. He dropped out of Stanford University after moving to Silicon Valley where he established his company’s headquarters. He was first introduced to software in 2009. He had worked with clients ranging from individual employers to startups and Fortune 500 corporations. He is currently the founder and CEO of Storyheap and helps startups as an advisor. He actively invest in promising, motivated and hardworking entrepreneurs and their early stage ventures. He is also a public speaker and featured contributor for publications like Entrepreneur Magazine and Mashable.
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About Brandmates, Shop.io, Storyheap: Analytics and marketing suite for the world’s leading brands and influencers. Reach & engage your community and maximize online performance.
Brian Nickerson
CEO & Co-Founder of MagicLinks
Brian is Co-Founder and CEO of MagicLinks, which empowers YouTube creators with tools for authentic social commerce. Brian also founded Chippmunk, a coupon search engine, and built the Shopping Division of Internet Brands from 0 to 100 employees and $175M in value in 3 years. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree in Engineering and Economics from Dartmouth College, and played third base in the minor leagues for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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About MagicLinks: The leader in social commerce for video influencers and the world’s top brands
Christian Levy
Co-Founder and Head of Engineering of MagicLinks
Co-founder and head of development for Magiclinks.org. Helping YouTubers and other social media content creators monetize shopping trips they inspire through their content.
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About Chippmunk, MagicLinks: The leader in social commerce for video influencers and the world’s top brands
Kamal Shah
Founder, CEO and CTO of fotobabble
Kamal Shah has over 20 years of experience building technology products and companies. Kamal was the Founder and President of Invu Technology for seven years. Prior to that he served as Chief Architect at enterprise software companies Wakesoft and Smashcast and started his career as a software engineer in the early ’90s. Kamal has a Master’s in Engineering from the University of Toronto where he was also the captain and nationally ranked member of the University of Toronto Swim Team.
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About fotobabble, FotoNotes, invu technology: Fotobabble is a software company providing photo- and audio-powered social marketing solutions.
Patrick Baynes
Founder & CEO of Nerdwise
CEO at Nerdwise.
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About 76 Forward, Nerdwise: Nerdwise accelerates each stage of the buying process from prospect discovery to outreach and acquisition.
Ravy Truchot
Founder, President & CEO of Blackdivine
Ravy Truchot is a French Entrepreneur, Owner & Investor. He is the CEO of Blackdivine Group and also the owner and president of the Paris Saint-Germain Academy Florida operating FC Miami City in the USL Premier Development League and the International Center of European Football. Truchot is recognized for creating and developing unique startups in the United States and in Europe while transforming exciting ideas into profitable and successful businesses. Born in France, Ravy Truchot oversees his extensive operations in Miami, New York and Paris.
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About Blackdivine, FC Miami City Soccer Academy, Strive Football Group: Blackdivine is a leading internet company with multiple fast growing websites.
Brandon Perlman
Founder of Social Studies, Inc.
Brandon Perlman is a content-focused marketing strategist and entrepreneur in New York’s burgeoning startup scene. He is currently the CEO and Founder of Social Studies, Inc. Previously, he was the Director of Marketing Strategy for Hearst Digital Media where he focused on innovation in the digital publishing field. Prior to that he was the Digital Director for DEPARTURES magazine, where he developed the online business for Departures.com centered around luxury travel and lifestyle. Brandon began his career at American Express and holds a B.A. in Electronic Media from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
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About Social Studies, Inc., StyleCaster: The influencer agency and micro-influencer marketing technology for next-generation digital marketers.
Martijn Atell
CEO & Founder of VoteBash
Martijn is founder and CEO of VoteBash. At VoteBash, he is responsible for outlining the strategy and managing the company’s operations. He has over 10 years of experience at BMW. Prior to VoteBash, Martijn was at a Silicon Valley tech start-up. Martijn has both worked and lived in the Netherlands, Germany and the United States. With VoteBash he is carrying out the mission to surface the opinions of others and make them more accessible in a universal way. Martijn holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering with honors and a BSc in Information Communication Technology both from Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences.
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About Black Girls CODE, VoteBash, VoteBash Corporate Security: VoteBash is a visual real-time research tool with brand amplification and personalization.
Gerard J. Hall
Founder, President & CEO of SMT (SportsMEDIA Technology)
Gerard J. Hall is the founder, president and chief executive officer of SMT. SMT (SportsMEDIA Technology Corporation) is the pioneer in real-time graphics, tickers, clock-and-score, virtual insertions and social media integration for live televised sporting and entertainment events. Gerard’s career in sports television began in 1988 when, as a graduate student, he developed a wireless, real-time electronic scoring system for PGA events, replacing the standard walkie-talkie communication that was previously used to update leaderboards. He provided this interface from 1988 to 1991 for NBC Sports. Upon graduation from Harvard University in 1981, Gerard won the prestigious St. Andrew’s Scholarship to attend Scotland’s University of Edinburgh where he pursued a Master of Science in computer science. Gerard continued his graduate studies while teaching computer science at the University of Central Florida before leaving in 1986 to work with the Epson Computer Corporation. SportsMEDIA Technology Corporation was formally incorporated in June 1990 with an eye toward offering TV interface technology to other sports television broadcasters. Shortly thereafter, SportsMEDIA signed an exclusive four-year agreement with ESPN to provide interface TV graphics services for NASCAR/IndyCar, NFL, NHL, MLB, NCAA football and NCAA basketball. During the formative years of SportsMEDIA, Gerard was the architect of electronic scoring systems for the PGA Tour, IndyCar and the X Games.
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About SMT (SportsMEDIA Technology): SportsMEDIA Technology is a provider of graphics, statistics and video enhancement software for live television sports broadcast networks.
Sean Naegeli
Co-Founder & Chief Influencer Officer of Mavrck
Sean is responsible for operations and data analytics, growing the company’s influencer base and leading the design of the Splash algorithm.By prioritizing with influencer happiness, he is able to maintain Lean Development and execute front-end product improvements. Prior to Splashscore, Sean worked at a Harvard Medical Hospital, where he led lean and continuous improvement projects.Sean also enjoys hiking, camping and off-roading in his Jeep.
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About Mavrck: Mavrck is an influencer marketing platform that helps to identify and activate micro-influencers for enterprise consumer brands.
Lyle Stevens
Co-Founder & CEO of Mavrck
Lyle is Co-founder and CEO of Splashscore, a leading influencer activation platform, and is responsible for product operations, delivering value to numerous Fortune 500 consumer brands. A self-proclaimed marketing engineer, Lyle continuously found himself searching for ways to make marketing human again. After completing a two-year leadership development program and deploying an enterprise social network & identity services platform for a Fortune 100 company, Lyle discovered a way to identify the most influential individuals, who engage their friends the most and make a “splash” on a social network. In early 2012, Lyle tested his “splash” theory with his two younger brothers, who were competing to see who was better at “trolling.” From there, Lyle set out on a mission to make the social media experience more rewarding for everyone.In his spare time, Lyle also enjoys DJing and music production.
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About Mavrck, Mavrck: Mavrck is an influencer marketing platform that helps to identify and activate micro-influencers for enterprise consumer brands.
Amanda Hite
Co-Founder and CEO of Be The Change Revolutions
Amanda Hite is the Co-Founder and CEO at BTC Revolutions. She started working at age 15 and has been in leadership roles since she was 16 years old. Amanda dropped out of college and worked her way up the corporate ladder in her twenties. She had an early midlife crisis when she turned thirty, feeling an insatiable desire to make more meaningful impact as an entrepreneur. In 2008, the year of the global financial crisis that devastated so many businesses, Amanda with only $64 left in her checking account cashed in her 401k and savings to start her first company. Amanda has a passion for social justice. She’s supported movements to end childhood hunger in America, equality for the LGBTQ community, and she’s implemented transformation models for the world’s most vulnerable. She credits her ability to embrace and lead change to growing up with so much change and adversity. Hite had 32 homes by the age of 18 and she benefited as a kid from programs like food stamps and free school meals. She also grew up gay in southern baptist churches and endured the challenges that followed her father’s injury and honorable discharge from the Army after serving in Desert Storm. Those are just a few of the things that she says motivate the advocacy work she does today and her deep spirit of patriotism. Hite is founding member of the “Changers of Commerce” connected capitalism movement. Amanda is an Advisory Board Member for Share Our Strength’s “Dine Out For No Kid Hungry” and she was recognized with their 2011 Advocate Leadership Award. Amanda has a deep passion for political activism. She is a Federal Club Council member and serves on leadership committees for the Human Right’s Campaign. Hite’s dynamic stage presence has made her a highly sought after International Keynote Speaker. Amanda has been featured as a Social Media influencer and thought leader in several publications, including The Huffington Post, Entrepreneur and Nationʼs Restaurant News. Amanda lives her message of “Be The Change” and, for those who work with her and have heard her speak, that message is forever tattooed in their minds. Amanda and the team at BTC are revolutionizing the way companies think about social media, marketing, and workplace engagement, helping them maximize their impact on their business and in society.
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About Be The Change Revolutions: Be The Change Revolutions is a movement marketing agency that specializes in social media.
Brandon Hill
Co-Founder, Chief Creative Officer of Be The Change Revolutions
Brandon has always been passionate about doing the impossible. That passion and creativity has taken many forms throughout the past fifteen years. His passion for lifelong learning ignited a passion for education and training. That passion manifested in his first company, Lightbulb Media Productions, where he worked with global organizations like Hard Rock International, PayPal, Marriott, and AT&T to write, develop, and successfully deploy enterprise-wide e-learning and technology solutions. But from an early stint in the music business in Orlando and Nashville, and after a brush with musical greatness as a part of Hard Rock’s renowned “ 4Js” Brandon had also developed a fascination for marketing in the age of digital and social media. In 2012, Brandon and Amanda Hite co-founded Be The Change Revolutions – a movement marketing agency dedicated to engaging communities and igniting movements. Since that time, Brandon and BTC’s work have been seen everywhere from Times Square Billboards to Super Bowl halftime shows.
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About Be The Change Revolutions: Be The Change Revolutions is a movement marketing agency that specializes in social media.
Mae Karwowski
CEO, Founder of Obviously
Mae is the CEO and Founder of Obviously, the influencer platform for the world’s iconic brands. Mae has grown this company from a one person start up to a 15 person, global company with a brand roster that includes many Fortune 500 companies. Obviously specializes in building custom networks of influencers for brands, specifically large scale global communities of hundreds to thousands of influencers with the right target audiences. Working with the best brands out there, we build relationships with the influencers that embody their ethos while moving their businesses forward. Before Starting Obviously, Mae ran social media for Gilt City, part of Gilt Groupe. Previous to that she ran social media for Bravo, Coca Cola and UGG with the ad agency 360i. She enjoys playing tennis, snowboarding, corgi .gifs and talking tech and entrepreneurship 24/7.
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About Obviously: Obviously builds and manages influencer networks for the world’s iconic brands.
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.
Josh Dorward
CEO and Co-Founder of Indivio
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About Indivio: Indivio enables brands, and retailers of all sizes to create, test, and optimize Facebook ads using video.
Kenji Hashimoto
CTO and Co-Founder of Indivio
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About Indivio: Indivio enables brands, and retailers of all sizes to create, test, and optimize Facebook ads using video.
Igor Vaks
Founder & CEO of CreatorIQ
Igor Vaks is CEO and Founder of CreatorIQ, a premier SaaS platform that helps agencies, brands and publishers manage private brand advocacy networks, work with creators and execute influencer campaigns. Igor’s career includes twenty years as CTO, CIO and COO building $1B products for companies like Experian and Cendent. Before founding CreatorIQ, Igor was CIO & CTO at Experian Consumer Group and an active angel investor in LA startups.
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About CreatorIQ: The most trusted software to unify and power advanced influencer marketing for the world’s most innovative enterprises
Anya Oleynik
Founder & CEO of Craft Music
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About Craft Music: Craft Music is a social media app, pocket studio, and peer-to-peer marketplace launching in 2019.
Jordan Verroi
Founder & CEO of CapGenius
Jordan Verroi is the founder of CapGenius, LLC. He is also an active investor in Pangea.app, Drum.io and silent investor in a CPG brand in the Food & Beverage industry.
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About CapGenius: CapGenius creates creative content and publishes it through a mobile keyboard.
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.
Alexei Orlov
Founder and CEO of MTM
With experience spanning 30 years, 40 countries, and 50 brands, Alexei Orlov has made life his business and business his life as a seasoned leader in Global Marketing. A proven specialist in global brand strategy, marketing deployment, and operational change management, Alexei’s passionate and dynamic leadership has been a driving force throughout his career. Alexei Orlov is Founder and Global CEO of mtm choice worldwide, a boutique network of skilled practitioners specialising in high-precision brand activation and media optimisation. mtm choice is a family of wholly owned, highly accomplished specialist agencies whose people are well-rewarded and incentivized to deliver growth and the very dest creative solutions for their clients. Bolstered by market-enabling technologies, mtm agencies seek to help brands excel at the “moments that matter” for their customers and consumers. They put high precision, tech enables creativity at the core of their service offerings. The company initially raised in excess of $30 Million and has completed three acquisitions, which are all highly regarded specialist agencies in the field of Brand / Media Activation. mtm choice is currently in negotiations to complete a further $100 Million of funding to support additional Top Tier acquisitions, and a fourth acquisition will be finalised by the end of February 2019. The upcoming year will certainly be a busy one for Alexei Orlov and mtm choice — six more brands are in various stages of negotiation to be acquired by the company. Prior to mtm, Alexei Orlov served as Senior Advisor to the CEO & Chairman of DAS, an international division of Omnicom Group. Prior to DAS, he served as Global CEO of RAPP where he oversaw a dramatic turnaround, attracting new business and leadership talent through a successful rebranding initiative. As Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Volkswagen Group China, Alexei Orlov was responsible for the overall marketing and brand positioning for the Volkswagen Brands portfolio across Greater China and ASEAN. Alexei was jointly responsible for the commercial excellence of the company’s significant regional business as a core member of Volkswagen’s executive team. Alexei served the digital specialist agency Wunderman for eight years as President (Europe), then as Global COO and finally as Executive Vice-Chairman (Worldwide). He also served as the Global Strategic Lead for WPP’s automotive business, where he co-led agencies including Ogilvy & Mather, Wunderman, Mindshare, Y&R and JWT on their work for Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mazda, and Volvo. Before joining Wunderman, Alexei Orlov owned and ran ROCQM and MCW, specialists in brand strategy and commercial recovery. After selling the company to WPP, the company became one of the key cornerstones of what later became RMG Connect, a global strategy service within the WPP portfolio. Prior, Alexei was Global Brand Communications Director for Volvo Cars and Marketing Director of Volvo UK, at the time the second-largest national sales company for the Volvo Corporation. Alexei was the youngest executive to be appointed to a director position at Avon, where he served as Marketing Director of Avon Cosmetics Retail (Europe). At the beginning of his career he was a founding member of the highly-successful Paperchase Retail Group, igniting in him a passion for brand stewardship that carries on to this day. Alexei Orlov has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and honors. In 2012 and 2013, Alexei was awarded CMO of the Year / ASEAN by the World Brand Congress. In 2013, Alexei and his team at Proximity received a Cannes Gold Lion Award for their work creating the People’s Car Project, the largest automotive social media platform with 28 million users and 108 million YouKu followers. Alexei was also invited to be one of the top keynote speakers at the highly-acclaimed Global Brand Forum in 2013. Alexei Orlov’s dynamic insight is reflected in his continued ventures, thought leadership, and everyday philosophies. Originally from the United Kingdom, he currently resides in New York City where he spends leisure time with his beloved family, enjoys nature, and writes poetry.
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About MTM: MTM is an independent global network dedicated to creating value between people and brands at the moments that matter.
Roger Lang
CEO & Co-Founder of Predicta
Roger Lang is the CEO and Co-founder of Predicta.
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About Predicta: Predicta delivers actionable insights to brands by analyzing data from social media, reviews, and blogs within market categories.
Brian Razzaque
Founder & CEO of SocialToaster, Inc.
Brian Razzaque is the Founder & CEO at SocialToaster, Inc. Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Digital Marketing, General Technology, Real Estate, B2B, B2C
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About SocialToaster, Inc., SocialToaster, Inc.: SocialToaster is a fan engagement and loyalty rewards platform that helps clients identify, recruit, engage, and monetize social audience.
Jonathan M. Kaye
Founder & Owner of Tattoo.com
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About Alleyoop, Amplify.LA, Beliade, Bonk Breaker, Cohen Asset Management, HEMP LOVE, KAYO of California, MedMen, Rumpl, Sense Chat, Tattoo.com: Here to entertain, inspire and connect artists and fans of the Tattoo lifestyle.
Corbett Drummey
Co-Founder & CEO of Popular Pays
Founder of Popular Pays.
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About Popular Pays: Popular Pays is a platform that connects brands with creators who make content worth sharing.
Denis Nazarov
Co-Founder of Mediachain
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About Mediachain: Mediachain automatically connects media to its creator and information about it.
Tom Hughes
Chief Design Officer/ Founder of Idealab
Tom Hughes founded Idealab with Bill Gross and Marcia Goodstein in 1996. Prior to working at Idealab, he worked with high-tech clients including IBM and Lotus on corporate and brand identity design and management as well as packaging systems and software interface design. Before starting his own design firm, he was picked by Steve Jobs to be Apple’s worldwide creative director for Business Products. He was responsible for creating the Macintosh product identity and supporting its introduction in 1985. Following Apple, Lotus Development Corporation hired Tom to build an in-house design team to develop and support a new corporate identity and packaging system. Previously, he was Senior Art Director at Polaroid, working with its founder, Dr. Land, on corporate projects and product introductions. His work is included in the Smithsonian collection and has been internationally recognized. Awards include AIGA, Communications Arts Magazine, Print Magazine, and IDEA. When not at Idealab, Tom works with his daughter’s non-profit organization, Swim to Empower, and is an Angel Flight volunteer.
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About Idealab: Idealab is a technology incubator that provides resources to allow start-ups to rapidly introduce innovative products and services.
Tom More
Founder, CEO of Promo.com
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About Promo.com: Promo.com is a video creation platform for businesses and agencies.
Jesse Boskoff
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Status Labs
Jesse Boskoff is an internet entrepreneur with extensive experience in startups, marketing, product development, and more. As co-founder of Status Labs, Boskoff brings over 15 years of direct marketing and operations experience to his role as COO and CMO of Status Labs. Boskoff was also a key member of FanDuel’s marketing team. As one of its first US marketing hires, Boskoff played an integral role in the company’s growth from Series A-funded startup to a company that achieved a valuation in excess of $1 billion in 2015, running the company’s Facebook marketing, SEO, SEM and organic social media teams from July 2012-February 2016. Boskoff was also founder and CEO of RootZoo, a vibrant sports community that attracted over 100,000 registered members and over 4 million monthly page views at its peak.
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About Blue Land Partners, Status Labs: The Premier Online Reputation Management Firm
Darius Fisher
CEO & Co-Founder of Status Labs
CEO & Co-Founder @ Status Labs | Managing Partner @ Blue Land Partners.
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About Blue Land Partners, Page, Status Labs, YPO: The Premier Online Reputation Management Firm
Aaron Fessler
Founder & CEO of TwineSocial
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About TripWorks, TwineSocial: Smart marketers build trust and tell brand stories with curated social media.
Mike More
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of CoPromote
Mike More is CEO and co-Founder of CoPromote CoPromote is a cross-promotion network. The CoPromote network enables marketers to reach 1000x more new people per post by leveraging a large network of like-minded content creators.CoPromote rewrites the rules of social marketing marketing true authentic scalable social sharing, CEO and Founder of Selectable Media.Selectable Media (www.selectablemedia.com), the leading Gen Y online broadcast network. Selectable is in the top 10 on comScore’s March 2009 Video Metrix Key Measures Report, which rates online video content viewership. The report firmly establishes Selectable’s video network as the 5th most popular destination for Internet video viewers aged 12-24, and the 9th most popular video destination across all age groups.With a focus on marketing to Generation Y, Selectable Media broadcasts online video through a proprietary network of more than 400 social networking resource sites. Selectable Media shares the comScore Top 10 with some of the largest players in Internet video including Google, Fox Interactive Media, HULU.com, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Viacom Digital, CBS Interactive, Turner Network, and Disney.
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About CoPromote: CoPromote operates as a free content sharing community.
Jacob Baadsgaard
Founder & CEO of Disruptive Advertising
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About Disruptive Advertising: Disruptive Advertising helps businesses advertise profitably on Google and Facebook with our proprietary software and team of marketers.
Joshua Dirks
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Project Bionic
Joshua Dirks is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Project Bionic, Co-Founder at Thrivelution, and Advisory Board Member of IntellaSphere.
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About Project Bionic, Thrivelution: Project Bionic is a marketing agency that delivers social media planning and services, reputation monitoring, and consulting services.
Markos Symeonides
Co-Founder & CEO of CustomerAdvocacy.com
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About CustomerAdvocacy.com: CustomerAdvocacy.com is a gamification-enabled advocate engagement platform that offers solutions for businesses.
Gaurav Mendiratta
CEO and Founder of SocioSquares – Digital Marketing Agency
Gaurav Mendiratta is the Founder & CEO of Adspringr & he attended University of Pennsylvania in 2003.
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About Adspringr, Ahhaa Inc., SocioSquares – Digital Marketing Agency: SocioSquares is a Marketing Technology company that helps brands in US & India increase their ROI on Social Media.
Chuck Aikens
Founder & CEO of Volume Nine
Chuck Aikens is a search marketing veteran of over 15 years and is the Founder of Volume Nine, a Denver based company specializing in digital marketing and SEO. Also a father of 2 and a pretend scratch golfer. When not on his laptop, you might find him cheering on his favorite team or out enjoying the wonderful state of Colorado
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About Volume Nine: Volume Nine is a Digital Marketing company in Denver, Colorado. We are digital marketing experts who will help grow your business.
Peter Cassidy
Founder, Chief Product Officer of Stackla
Mr. Peter Cassidy founded Stackla Pty Ltd. in 2012 and serves as its Chief Marketing Officer and served as its CPO. Mr. Cassidy founded Stackla after a gradual career evolution from online journalist to product manager. He built his understanding of the power of content during his time as Sports Editor for Macquarie Radio Network. He managed the National Rugby League’s digital product offering via rights holder Telstra and was dragged off the slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro (literally) by Damien to embark on an even more exciting adventure with Stackla. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Media and Communications.
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About Stackla: Stackla is a social content marketing platform that puts user-generated content at the heart of brand marketing.
Daniel Maloney
Co-Founder & CEO of Tailwind
Daniel (“Danny”) P. Maloney is General Manager, Video at AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group, and also CEO and Co-founder of BridesView.com. Danny joined AOL in early 2010 and took on reviving the company’s video business shortly after. Within 12 months, video traffic had grown >500% and AOL climbed as high as #2 in U.S. online video. Prior to AOL, Danny worked at Google, incubating new initiatives across YouTube, display advertising and Google Maps/Local Search. He has also worked for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, and founded an e-commerce company that he ran from 2002-04. Danny is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania’s Jerome Fisher Program for Management & Technology, with degrees from the Wharton School and the School of Engineering.
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About LaunchOklahoma, Tailwind: Tailwind’s mission is to make world-class marketing easy for everyone.
Alex Topiler
Co-Founder & Head of Product of Tailwind
Alex Topiler is a Co-Founder & Head of Product at Tailwind.
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About Tailwind: Tailwind’s mission is to make world-class marketing easy for everyone.
Alison Provost
Founder & Chairman of Touchstorm
Alison Provost is the Founder & Chairman at Diginary Holdings
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About Diginary Holdings, Howdini, Touchstorm, VideoAmigo: Organic Growth. Engineered. • We’re here to connect your brand to the world’s largest audience in today’s video economy.
Dillon Morgan
CEO, Founder of UNUM
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About UNUM: UNUM is a developer of a customizable platform aimed at powering the connection between content and creators.
Jeff LoCastro
Founder/CEO of Neener Analytics
I realized long ago that I love building things; I love the art of creation. I also realized I wasn’t a solo artist, but rather I thrived on the “team.” I also understood that I had more ideas than time, so I better get started and move quickly. All these realizations all seemed quite compatible. I love shaking-the-frame and creating disruptive notions to the status-quo; embarking on a quest to fundamentally rattle an industry, doing something different, and build teams that share my vision . . . all in the name of taking that which was just “okay” and making it great.
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About Neener Analytics: Cognitive-AI that can evaluate financial risk through a 1-click personality assessment using opt-in social media.
Randall Eike
Founder & CTO of SOCXS Technologies
Randall is an accomplished software architect with extensive experience in social, web, gaming, broadcasting, green tech, consumer apps and nature preservation. As CTO, Randall drives product architecture and direction. Randall has built and run a successful software and development business for over 17 years. Prior to Socxs he was President and co-founder of Eike Interactive, a web development agency that designed and architected digital marketing programs for diverse clientele including Sony PlayStation, Genealogy.com (now Ancestry.com), and The Learning Company. Randall has held several leading positions including Engineering manager Broderbund Software and Software Engineer at Banner Blue Software. Randall graduated from Stanford University with an MS in Computer Science and holds a BS in General Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign where he graduated first in his class.
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About SOCXS Technologies: Designed for brand managers, marketers, designers & agencies, the SOCXS Platform gives you a single, Integrated Fan Experience.
Joheem Loh
Founder & CEO of SOCXS Technologies
Joheem has more than 20 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur and engineer. With a passion for technology innovation, Joheem founded Socxs to leverage her extensive social, design, and application experience to simply digital life. Prior to Socxs, Joheem co-founded Eike Interactive a global web development firm extending digital brand presences for Fortune 500 companies including Sony and design agencies such as Omnicom Group. Previously, Joheem held several positions at Fujitsu including engineering, product development and business development. She is currently serving as an advisor in Lafayette College and a mentor at Stanford’s Technology Entrepreneurship Program. Joheem is a full scholarship graduate, with an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and a BS in Electrical Engineering and Physics.
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About SOCXS Technologies: Designed for brand managers, marketers, designers & agencies, the SOCXS Platform gives you a single, Integrated Fan Experience.
Nicholas Evans
Founder of Thinkers360
Nicholas D. Evans is the founder of Innovators360, a boutique innovation and digital transformation consulting firm, as well as Thinkers360. The award winning author of “Mastering Digital Business” and “Business Innovation & Disruptive Technology,” Nick is a globally recognized consultant, speaker and author focused on managing innovation and disruptive technology. Nick was formerly Global Head of Innovation and a VP & GM within the Office of the CTO at Unisys. One of Consulting Magazine’s “Top 25 Consultants,” and one of Computerworld’s “Premier 100 IT Leaders”, he led the Applied Innovation program, an internal and client-facing worldwide initiative, and the company’s focus on disruptive technologies and trends including social, mobile, big data analytics, cloud, IoT, intelligent automation and cybersecurity. He is the author of more than 10 books on business and technology strategy including titles from the British Computer Society, Financial Times Prentice Hall, Tech TV, Microsoft Press and Powersoft Press. With more than 25 years of consulting experience, Nick previously ran the global emerging technology consulting practice at BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting) and well as serving as the national technical director for e-business at PwC. He co-founded the National Internet Consulting Practice for Coopers & Lybrand in 1997. Nick holds a B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. from Southampton University in England. He serves as a frequent advisor to the venture capital and startup community and has served on numerous boards. His extracurricular interests include triathlon having been a member of Team USA and a former U.S. National Champion. Contact him at ndevans@hotmail.com or connect with him at LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasdevans or on Twitter @NicholasDEvans.
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About CIO Online, Innovators360, NextGen Venture Partners, Thinkers360, WGI: Thinkers360 is the world’s first open platform for thought leaders & influencers to share opportunities, promote and advance their expertise
William White
Co-Founder / CTO of Fluence
William White is a co-founder and chief technology officer at [Fluence, Inc.](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fluence). Prior to this position, he worked as a senior technical manager at AOL. He was also employed at Yahoo! and Slacker Radio. White holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from [McGill University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mcgill-university) and a certificate in entrepreneurship from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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About Fluence: Helping curators and creators better connect.
Vera Kopp
Founder & CEO of inCast
Vera Kopp is Founder & CEO at InCast.
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About inCast: inCast is a social media influencers platform.
Jiri Kupiainen
Founder, CEO of Matchmade
Jiri Kupiainen is CEO & founder @ Matchmade.
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About Matchmade: Matchmade is a marketing platform connecting creators and advertisers for targeted and measured campaigns.
RJ Kraus
Chief Product Officer / Co-Founder of Hookit
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About Hookit: Hookit measures and quantifies sports sponsorship value in social and digital media.
Josh Boaz
Managing Director / Co-Founder of Direct Agents
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About Direct Agents: Direct Agents is a full service digital marketing agency that provides brand advertisers with customized online advertising solutions.
Dinesh Boaz
Managing Director / Co-Founder of Direct Agents
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About Direct Agents: Direct Agents is a full service digital marketing agency that provides brand advertisers with customized online advertising solutions.
Ajay Prasad
Founder & CEO of GMR Web Team
Ajay Prasad is a successful entrepreneur and digital marketer with 20+ years of experience in both traditional and online marketing. Formerly a marketer for a few Fortune 10 companies, he is President and CEO at GMR Web Team, a full service digital marketing agency dedicated to helping businesses maximize revenue from the internet. He also owns and operates a seven-figure web based business, GMR Transcription, which he built from scratch and grew by using strategies that he now uses for his digital marketing clients. He continues to invest in web-based startups, including a patent-pending online reputation management tool known as RepuGen.
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About DMIOA, Forbes Agency Council, GMR Transcription Services, Inc, GMR Web Team, RepuGen, SatNav Technologies: GMR Web Team is a result-driven digital marketing and web design agency helping businesses maximize their ROI since 2004.
Heather Delaney
Founder & Managing Director of Gallium Ventures
Heather Delaney runs Gallium Ventures helping companies launch beautifully designed products globally and is an award winning leader in the startup and crowdfunding community. Ex Dynamo PR co-founder. Respected for her straight talking approach, Heather has spent the last 10 years residing between the US and UK, working with international businesses and startups, including Yelp, HTC M3D, and 3Doodler. Having become Dynamo’s Head of Consumer Technology, Heather then launched various specialist branches including SmartHome, Wearable and the world’s first Kickstarter division in a PR agency, which evolved into a specialist crowdfunding subsection. Her experience comprises of product development, strategically launching into various territories, providing messaging and training, training large and small global resellers and distributers, along with advising on production and manufacturing including Asia and reshoring. Silicon Valley born, Heather is passionate about giving back and supporting entrepreneurs on their journey, whether focused on product development for target audiences or changing the way a business markets themselves.
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About Gallium Ventures: Gallium is an award winning strategic communications consultancy which works across early stage startups to large listed companies globally.
Tim McMullen
Founder & CEO of redpepper
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About redpepper: Creative services firm in Nashville offering strategy, marketing, design, and innovation services.
Benjamin Bush
CEO & Founder of 4ME4WE
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About 4ME4WE: Ad-Tech platform sitting at the intersection of Brands, Consumers, Charities.
Peli Beeri
CEO & Co-Founder of Bidalgo
With close to 20 years of online media experience, Peli co-founded Bidalgo in 2010 with a joint vision of creating the leading platform for mobile app user acquisition powered by Artificial Intelligence. To date, Bidalgo is used by hundreds of the world’s leading apps including Postmates, Smule, Huuuge and Pixelberry Studios. From humble beginnings, Bidalgo now generates over $1bn in annual app revenue for its customers; managing hundreds of millions in annual ad spend. Bidalgo now has 100+ employees, holds offices in Tel Aviv, San Francisco, Seoul and London, and is a proud partner of Facebook, Google, Snapchat, Pinterest and Apple. Peli is a happily married father of 2 children and an avid sports addict; continuously competing in triathlon, swimming and mountain biking events.
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About Bidalgo: The world’s first purpose-built platform for cross-channel app marketing
Michael Brams
Founder of 3Top
Michael Brams is a technology executive, investor and entrepreneur. As a technology executive, Michael has spent most of his career building and managing the complex infrastructure required by top-tier quantitative hedge funds and other technology-dependent firms in the financial services industry. In these roles he demonstrated an ability to attract and motivate talented individuals and build strong and adaptable teams that were able to execute consistently under rapidly changing circumstances. For investments, Michael has sought seed stage opportunities in companies with great teams and great ideas. Most of these companies did not yet have a product or revenue at the time of investment. Past investments include Organovo (ONVO), a creator of 3D bioprinting technology, WysDM (EMC), developer of data protection software since acquired by EMC, and Brightscope the leading provider of 401k plan and financial advisor ratings. Before starting his career Michael went to NYU for Film where he also studied computer science.
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About 3Top: 3Top is a U.S.-based startup that changes the way individuals rank, review, and get recommendations for everything.
Peter Mudd
Founder of 3Top
Founder at 3Top
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About 3Top: 3Top is a U.S.-based startup that changes the way individuals rank, review, and get recommendations for everything.
Ghislain de Noüe
Founder of Clickdaily
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About Clickdaily, SYP!: Clickdaily is a subscription based Social Media and Web Presence management agency for small businesses, particularly restaurants.
Moti Cohen
Founder & CEO of Apester
Moti Cohen CEO and Founder of Apester. I love innovation and get thrilled from technology. Musician in heart and soul, game theory and behavior analysis freak.
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About Apester: Apester believes that the evolution of digital storytelling revolves around integrating the reader’s voice into the content.
Ethan Berl
Founder & CTO of Flye
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About Flye: AI marketing platform that gives brands the power to build and understand their audiences, then activate targeted personalized campaigns
Alexander Ball
Founder & COO of Flye
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About Flye: AI marketing platform that gives brands the power to build and understand their audiences, then activate targeted personalized campaigns
Marc Heyneker
Co-Founder & CEO of Revinate
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About Revinate: Revinate is an enterprise-grade, cloud-based platform that helps hotels know more about their guests.
Bonny Morlak
Founder/CEO of Tiltsta
Solving the pain of mobile shopping. Founder/CEO Tiltsta.
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About AlgoFace, bauquist, StartEd Accelerator, Tiltsta, VentureOut: Digital Pop-Up Stores at the intersection of mobile shopping & social media. Exit 2021.
Ben Thomas
Founder of Tiltsta
CTO
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About Tiltsta: Digital Pop-Up Stores at the intersection of mobile shopping & social media. Exit 2021.
Ben Thomas
Founder of Tiltsta
CTO
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About Tiltsta: Digital Pop-Up Stores at the intersection of mobile shopping & social media. Exit 2021.
Dan Curran
Founder & CEO of PowerPublish
Dan Curran is a seasoned marketing and advertising entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of PowerPublish, a comprehensive content publishing accelerator for brand marketers.
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About PowerPublish: PowerPublish is a virtual newsroom that leverages technology and content automation that turns modern brands into power publishers.
Brennan White
Co-Founder & CEO of Cortex
Brennan White is the Co-Founder & CEO at Cortex .
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About Ad Age Collective, Cortex: Cortex is a SaaS AI that enables marketing executives at leading brands to uncover what drives the performance of their visuals.
Matt Peters
Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer of Cortex
Matt Peters is the Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer at Cortex
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About Cortex: Cortex is a SaaS AI that enables marketing executives at leading brands to uncover what drives the performance of their visuals.
Oren Boiman
Co-Founder & CEO of Magisto
I am a scientist and a father. After the birth of our first child, my wife and I shot buckets of digital images. Like every other new parent, we were eager to make home movies to celebrate the new addition to our family. It took us two WEEKS to come up with three minutes of video we were proud of! The irony? I was a Ph.D. student at the time, researching the science of Video Vision.That was when I realized that I could apply my work in Artificial Intelligence to an everyday need for millions of people. That was the day I realized the world needed Magisto.
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About Magisto: Magisto is a platform that provides smart A.I. assistance for video editing, publishing, and marketing.
Michael Seidler
Founder + CEO of Madison Alley Global Ventures
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About Madison Alley Global Ventures: Preeminent strategic M&A and capital advisory firm for digital marketing, advertising, media and technology companies.
Danil Saliukov
CEO & Сo-Founder of Insense
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About Insense: Insense is a data-driven creative platform helping brands to get mobile-first video content from a network of 35,000 video creators
Anand Raj
Founder & CEO of InXero
Seasoned entrepreneur with expertise in multi-tier reseller channel, SaaS, linked data, machine learning, lean startup / customer development and process re-engineering. Built 2 startups to profitability. Vertical Expertise: High Tech, Healthcare, Telecomm President Inventes: Built and run an IT reseller solution business Enterprise Architect at Razorfish / Lante and Dell: Built a highly scalable system connecting Dell with its third party distributors’ order fulfillment resulted in over $30B revenue. Architected many B2B Marketplaces. Lead Lante’s NY City Office Technology Practice. Top Innovators of India: Recipient of India Innovation Gold Medal Award Computer Scientist Government of India: Fundamental research on PROFIBUS Protocol for industrial automation (IoT). Education: B-Tech Computer Engineering (India) – Gold Medalist Authored the course material for ITIL Foundation and ITIL Master Level Certifications accredited by EXIN, which is a global, independent IT examination provider. Authored the book “Manager’s Certificate in IT Service Management” published by SAS Institute. Specialties: Massively Scalable Enterprise Technology Architecture, Lean Customer Development, Bootstrapping, New Product Go To Market, Product Management, Process Re-engineering, Solution Selling, and Product Evangelism SaaStr. Believer. Friend. Optimist. Servant Leader. Doer. Lover of Technology + Beautiful Design. Runner, Yoga & Meditation Practitioner.
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About InXero: InXero is the industry’s first Go-to-Market automation platform for partners
Matt Bare
Founder of Q4Launch
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About Q4Launch: Q4Launch is a marketing company that focuses on destination marketing and hospitality internet marketing services.
Curt Cuscino
Founder & CEO of HypeLife Brands
Curt Cuscino is the Founder & CEO of HypeLife Brands, a progressive brand development & marketing agency helping disruptive lifestyle brands engage the Millennial Generation. Since HypeLife Brands’ inception in 2001, Curt’s team at HypeLife has consistently employed a highly progressive approach to creating powerful, engaging brands and fundable startups in the ever-changing realm of brand, while employing a heavy focus on precision marketing, keenly focused on building customer traction and long-term ROI. His team’s ability to navigate and master change quickly for HypeLife’s select roster of clients — a necessity in the digital age — sets HypeLife apart from your typical agency, enabling them to be far more nimble in tight spaces than many of their larger (and slower-moving) agency competitors. This unique agility makes HypeLife a highly valuable asset for their clients and those who are truly ready to elevate their brand to the next level. Curt is a brand & marketing guru in his own right, as well as a thought leader when it comes to the challenges of future-proofing brands & early-stage startups to fully harness the power within the Millennial Generation through effective Millennial Marketing. He has been featured on a number of radio shows, and was recently interviewed by NPR on the subject for a national Marketplace feature on Millennials, Retail, and the Future of Everything.
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