Top Founders

Tatu Koistinen , the CEO of Bonusway . His background is in loyalty and digital marketing and he has many growth stories to share. He's now building the most social e-commerce loyalty platform on earth. He's currently focused on building the leadership and culture of the business and he's also an Ironman triathlete. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Halo Effect What CEO do you follow? –   n/a Favo...

K.C. Kanaan . He's the CEO and co-founder of Envoy America – a Scottsdale, Arizona based national company that operates a wide-sharing platform and mobile application that matches seniors and patients that can't drive or don't want to drive themselves with driver companions. K.C. is a senior executive with more than 30 years of general management, operational sales and marketing experience. He's k...

Lisa Tamayo . She's the CEO of Scollar , an open platform, multi-functional, smart collar for pets. She has over 25 years of experience in entrepreneurship and financial and strategic planning. She's the co-founder of Green Building Studio which was acquired by Autodesk in 2008. She's also the chairman of SoCo Nexus , an incubator accelerator in Northern California. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – P...

Mikus Opelts . He's the CEO at Giraffe360 . He started this company 7 years ago, in February of 2010, when he got involved with Giraffe Visual which provides interactive visualization services. It has now developed into something so much more. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – How Google Works What CEO do you follow? –   Elon Musk Favorite online tool? — Trello Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— Yes If you...

Anders Fredriksson . He's a Swedish, serial entrepreneur who recently moved to San Francisco to build his sales technology startup, ProLeads . He's an engineer with a business mind and currently holds both CEO and CTO titles. Previously, he built and scaled ArrivalGuides.com as the founding CTO. Prior to that, he was the founder and CEO of Tablefinder.com, which he sold. He studied computer engine...

Devon Wijesinghe . He's the founder and CEO of InsightPool . He co-founded the business in 2012; and, within a short time led the company from 2 to 60 employees. He is currently revolutionizing marketeering and sales across many social platforms. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do you follow? –   Travis Kalanick Favorite online tool? — Pardot Do you get 8 ho...

Nick Caruso . He's the CEO and founder of Illumineto . He's the VP of Sales in Eastern US & Canada with Notable Solutions and he was there for 6 years. Before that, he was at Kofax as a federal sales manager and he also served the country in the Marine Corps as a Captain. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Built to Last What CEO do you follow? –   Drew Houston Favorite online tool? — API.ai Do you get...

Ken Marlin . He's the founder and managing partner of Marlin and Associates – an award winning mergers and acquisition business focused on investment banking. They are headquartered in New York city with offices in San Francisco, Washington DC and Toronto. Ken is also the author of The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street: 11 Key Plans From Battlefield to Boardroom which was published in Septemb...

Steven Benson . The founder and CEO of Badger Maps – the number one sales app in the Apple app store which helps salespeople become more successful. Badger shows salespeople their customers and leads on the map and connects them with their calendar to build a daily route. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Tools of Titans What CEO do you follow? –   N/A Favorite online tool? — Baremetrics Do you get 8...

Andrew Gryaznov . He's an artificial intelligence and a cloud computing evangelist based in Dublin, Moscow. He's the founder of JSX Exchange – the cloud computing commodity exchange and has built several other services and tools ranging from SshTo.net, Plottico, and many others. Andrew is also a telecom and Linux expert and finalist at the GSOC 2005 Summit. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Startup Ow...

David Darmanin .   He's the CEO and founder of HotJar . Over the 12 years before founding HotJar, he generated hundreds of millions of dollars in growth consulting small to Fortune 500 businesses. He's got multiple teams, developed brands, and ran hundreds of tests for his clients spanning across 19 languages, 12 currencies, and 13 different industries. HotJar is now used in over 150 sites around...

Rami El Chamaa . He's the CEO and founder of Appointlet . He started earlier as a digital marketing manager at Eastline Marketing where he led lead generation, SEO, email marketing, and content marketing. Before that, he was with Ernst & Young. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Lean Startup What CEO do you follow? –   Elon Musk Favorite online tool? — Intercom Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— No If you c...

Manuel Opitz:  He is currently the founder of Mecuris . Before founding the company as the CEO, he worked as a medical IP broker in innovation management and as a technology scout in China. He graduated in Industrial Engineering and he has taken a keen interest in optimizing healthcare process chains by digitalization and 3D printing. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Thinking Fast and Slow What CEO d...

Francisco Larrain who has been an entrepreneur for most of his life. He was born and raised in Chile and is the co-founder and CEO of Sudo . He founded a company called Zappedy – a payment technology company that was backed by Eric Schmidt and acquired by Groupon. More recently, he led a project engineering team of a hundred plus people for Groupon's local business. Now, he's working on enabling h...

Eric Berman:  Since graduating from UCST, he's been a serial entrepreneur and business operator. He grew his first company to 400K and just missed out on going public. He has been a consultant for many other businesses and is now the CEO and founder of Brandetize , a full service, performance-based, marketing agency that partners with thought leaders such as Brian Tracy, Jack Canfield and many oth...

Matt Ekstrom . He's one of the founders of Prospectify and formerly co-founded HiringSolved. He's in-charge of all things revenue for Prospectify, which is a promising sales and intelligence platform. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Sales Acceleration What CEO do you follow? –   Gary Vaynerchuk Favorite online tool? — Google Search and HubSpot Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— No If you could let your 2...

Wayne Silbermann . He has founded a number of startups from South Africa including one of the first world's music discovery services which was originally founded by Mark Shuttleworth. His most recent venture, Sortd , is a new email platform that's on a path to fundamentally changing the way people communicate and manage work. Sortd has ranked as the number 1 app for Gmail on Product Hunt. Famous F...

Daniel Araujo . He's the CEO at Attentive. US – a competitive intelligence platform that gives real-time information to teams that use SalesForce, Hubspot, Pipedrive or Full Contact. He's the next Googler, loves data visualization and all things technology. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Peak What CEO do you follow? –   Jeff Bezos Favorite online tool? — HubSpot Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— Roughl...

Eric Bouck . He's the CEO and founder of Propeller , a CRM that lets you sell from gmail. Prior to Propeller , Eric was the co-founder and CEO of Zigzag Software which was eventually sold to Samsung. He also spent some time working as a director for Samsung. He also worked as a Group Product Manager at Dell EMC and spent 4 years with this company. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Inspired What CEO do...

Manuel Silva . He's a partner at Santander InnoVenture. Prior to that, he was the founding member of BBVA Ventures which focused on lending, new platforms, financial inclusion, and private banking. He's worked across Latin America and Europe and holds a BA in Business Administration from CUNEF, a MSc in Political Science, and a MPhil in Development Economics. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – N/A What...

Glen Coates . He's the co-founder and CEO of Handshake . It focuses on putting the right product on every shelf in every store. He goes between Sydney, San Diego and New York City. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Five Dysfunctions of a Team What CEO do you follow? – Dave Yarnold Favorite online tool? — Boomerang for Gmail Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— Yes If you could let your 20-year old self,...

Josh Muccio:  He's the host of The Pitch Podcast and he recently launched Season 2 on January 11 th . Before The Pitch Podcast , he was the founder of iHeart Repair, which he sold in 2014. He is a father of 2, soon to be 3. Josh is 29 and he loves the tech world. He's in Florida and loves skiing and takes 2 ski trips every winter. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Slight Edge What CEO do you follo...

Gal Har-Zvi:  He's a passionate entrepreneur who lives and breathes B2B sales, marketing, and everything in between. He's one of the founders of Valueshine Ventures , the technology holdings company and a successful online marketer for various software categories and verticals. He's currently the CEO and founder of the company called Unomy . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Pitch Anything What CEO do...

Eric Boggs : He's the CEO at RevBoss – a sales prospecting SaaS company. RevBoss helps B2B sales teams grow pipelines and win more customers. Prior to RevBoss, he was the founder and CEO at Argyle Social and was a one-man sales team at Bronto Software. Eric is in North Carolina with his wife and 3 small children. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Things About Hard Things What CEO do you follo...