Top Founders

Jeremiah Wilson . He founded Convirza over 15 years ago. As the patent-holding inventor of The Maculon, the original, passive, remote conversation monitoring device and sales management system, he shaped the call tracking and marketing analytics industry. He's positioned the capital raises and recent acquisition. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – 48 Laws of Power What CEO do you follow? – N/A Favorite...

Artem Borodatyuk . He's the founder of NetPeak Group and cofounder of Seed Fund WannaBiz . He's focused on the development of B2B SaaS product companies. His first SaaS company was an all-in-one SEO platform for professionals called Serpstat.com , with 2000 customers and 100K users. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – From Third World to First What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk Favorite online tool? —...

Shaul Olmert . He's the cofounder and CEO of Playbuzz , an award-winning, storytelling platform that empowers publishers, brands, and agencies worldwide to create interactive content for editorial and commercial purposes. The world's top publishers and brands worldwide use Playbuzz's desktop and mobile-friendly storytelling tools to improve audience engagement, optimize social sharing, increase si...

John Nardone . He's the CEO of Flashtalking , a first generation adtech pioneer. He served as the founding board member of the Internet Advertising Bureau. He's known for his groundbreaking work at Pepsi , Modern Media and Marketing Management Analytics and received the Adtech Industry Achievement Award in 2012. As CEO at [x+1], he helped transform that business into a top-rated data management pl...

Shan-Lyn Ma . She's the CEO and co-founder of Zola . Launched in October 2013, Zola is an online wedding registry for millennials. In just three years, it has become the fastest growing wedding registry in the country, seeing 10x revenue growth year-over-year and 3x growth in 2017. Over seven million guests have attended a Zola wedding and 350 million in gifts have been added by Zola couples. Famo...

Matthew Schiltz. He's an experienced, senior executive with a proven track record in building successful, high growth technology and cloud companies ranging from the private startup stage to public companies. He's responsible for his current company, Conga , and its growth strategy which includes financing, driving global sales and expanding product offerings. His extensive executive management an...

Aseem Badshah . He's the founder and CEO of Socedo which is a twenty person, B2B, social media demand generation company backed by Techstars Ventures , Vulcan Capital and Divergent Ventures . Before this company, he was the founder of Uptown Treehouse , a social media marketing agency working with brands like Uniqlo , Nike , Western Union and Lenovo . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Good to Great Wh...

Stefan Thomas . He's the CTO of Ripple . He's also the producer of the popular " What is Bitcoin? " video and the founder of the largest website for novice bitcoin users, WeUseCoins.com . He created a set of open-source bitcoin libraries called BitcoinJS , which today are maintained and used by Bitcoin businesses of all sizes including BitPay , Blockchain.info , BitAddress , Coinpunk and others. F...

Scott East . He founded his company MSIGHTS in 2004 to help marketers make better decisions with better data and reporting. His experience includes global ads and digital agencies of Fortune 20 telecom and AOL prior to founding MSIGHTS. He understands how to engage marketers as he has 20+ years in this area. His new book, The Cuttlefish Marketer: The Five Essential Traits of a Modern Marketer , fo...

Oscar Nelson . He's the CEO of Musqot , the marketing technology and SaaS company he co-founded after spending 12 years in various marketing roles in small and large companies. Industry-wise, he's had a mixed background from consulting, media, telecommunications and enterprise software. He considers himself a business generalist more than a specialist. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Five Dysfun...

Tim Sae Koo . He's a 26-year old, LA-based native residing currently in San Francisco, California. He's dreamed to become the first Asian American president of the United States to solve impactful problems with a purpose. He found his legacy rules to be inefficient. He studied entrepreneurship at University of Southern California and graduated early to naively start a company and fulfill his origi...

Victor Szczerba . He's the co-founder and CEO of Yeti Data , solving big data problems for customers. Prior experience includes running product strategy at the data division at SAP. He was a McKinsey consultant and sales VP for Tadpole Computer and Utopy. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Zero to One and How to Win Friends and Influence People What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk Favorite online tool?...

Garrett Gunderson . He's the chief wealth architect at Wealth Factory and author of the New York Times' bestseller, Killing Sacred Cows . Wealth Factory helps entrepreneurs optimize cash flow, streamline their finances and keep more of their hard-earned money so they can make more powerful investments in their best wealth sector—their business. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Scaling Up and The War...

Josh March . He's the founder and CEO of Conversocial , a customer engagement solution that helps businesses increase their customer loyalty by enabling effortless, in-the-moment, customer service to social and mobile channels. The largest global firms including Google, Sprint, Hertz and Hyatt Hotels turn to his platform to deliver an amazing, social, first, customer service experience at a large...

Christopher Day . He's been a successful entrepreneur, having sold two companies to a Fortune 100 company before turning 40. He's had businesses from residential painting to investment banking doing cross-border M&A transactions. Along the way, he has found time to mentor other entrepreneurs and participates in helping solve legislative issues to foster entrepreneurial growth in the State of India...

Gil Klein from MobFox where he's the managing director and a C-level executive at Matomy Media Group . Having joined the company in 2006, he's been the member of the executive management team since 2014. He previously served as senior VP of media and senior VP of clients for this particular group. He holds an MBA in International Management from the College of Management in Israel. Famous Five: Fa...

Andrew Pitz . He's an investment manager at Transamerica Ventures , the global venture capital fund of Transamerica that specializes in investing in insurtech, fintech and enterprise software companies. There, he has led the firm's investments in PolicyGenius, Digital Currency Group, Everplans, SmartAsset and Hixme. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Venture Deals What CEO do you follow? – Jonah Goodha...

Christian Geissendoerfer . He's the CEO of Yoose , the leading expert in location-based advertising in Asia and Europe. He's an entrepreneur passionate about building businesses and leading teams. He recently started something parallel to Yoose which is a German Accelerator in Southeast Asia that helps German startups expand into that region. He loves living in Singapore and Vietnam, traveling the...

Bonnie Crater. She's the CEO of Full Circle Insights . She's a 5-time VP of marketing and executive at many software companies in Silicon Valley. She's been named one of the 100 Most Influential Women by the Silicon Valley Business Journal and one of the Top 20 Women to Watch by Sales Lead Management Association. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – N/A What CEO do you follow? – Marc Benioff Favorite onl...

Ron Jacobson . He's the co-founder and CEO of Rockerbox and Hindsight . Ron was a project manager at AppNexus and a proud McGill alumni. Follow him on Twitter . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Made in America What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk and Mark Cuban Favorite online tool? — Spectacle How many hours of sleep do you get?— 7 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it...

Arun Saigal . He's the co-founder and CEO of Thunkable , a Ycombinator-backed startup in San Francisco. Thunkable is a platform that allows anyone to build their own mobile app without needing to know how to code. Prior to Thunkable, Arun was the lead android developer at Quizlet. He also worked at Khan Academy, Aspiring Minds and Google. He holds a BS in electrical engineering and computer scienc...

Ian Blair. He founded BuildFire while he was in college and has grown up to become one of the most successful app builders with 30 employees and close to 10K apps in the app store. His expertise is online marketing and growth hacking. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Good to Great What CEO do you follow? – David Skok and Jason Lemkin Favorite online tool? — Ahrefs How many hours of sleep do you get?—...

Jae Kwon . After graduating from Cornell in 2005 with a BS degree in Computer Science, he worked as a developer at Alexa and Yelp and has co-founded iDonethis , a productivity service. He since worked on open-source projects including a CoffeeScript compiler and interpreter written in Javascript, an end-to-end encrypted email system called Scramble.io , and a cryptocurrency exchange. He invented a...

Mateo Munoz . He's the COO and managing director of the Americas for Duuzra or Duzzra Group. Mateo has been a crucial part of the management team that helped the company turnaround from group consultancy to its second series A and is leading it from its service-based model to a SaaS-based model. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Never Eat Alone What CEO do you follow? – Falon Fatemi Favorite online to...

Sandy Lohr . She's a mother, wife, dog lover and leader of one of the best advertising technology teams in Silicon Beach. Growing up in the industry, she transitioned from client side to tech provider over 2 years ago. Her team strives daily to help local businesses globally find the best customer with her company, MatchCraft .   Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Jab Jab Jab Right Hook What CEO do you...