Top Founders

Victor Levitin . He's the CEO of CrazyLister and last time he was at The Top was in late 2016. His company, Crazy Lister, has passed 2K customers, about 600K raised and about 30K in 2015 revenue. Each customer pays about $15 in monthly revenue. They've passed 25K in MRR with about 3% gross customer churn each month. They are based mainly in Tel Aviv with their team of 8. Famous Five: Favorite Book...

Jon Ferrara . He's been recognized for pioneering innovation in the customer service management category for many years. Prior to founding Nimble , he was the creator and co-founder of the award-winning customer management product GoldMine. In 1999, Goldmine got acquired by FrontRange and he left to pursue other interests. During those years, he continued to watch the CRM market grow. He saw that...

Victor Rosenman . He's the CEO and founder of Feedvisor . Before founding Feedvisor, he was the founder of an innovative marketing startup and a senior R&D manager at Sun Microsystems. Victor holds a BSc in computer science and an executive MBA from Kellogg Northwestern. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Black Swan What CEO do you follow? –   Jeff Bezos Favorite online tool? — Whatsapp How many ho...

Scott Brinker . He publishes the chief marketing technologist blog known as ChiefMartec.com and is the program chair for Martech Conference Series. He's the author of the book Hacking Marketing published by Wiley. He's also the co-founder of Ion Interactive, a provider of interactive content marketing software to many of the world's leading brands. He has a degree in computer science from Columbia...

Phil Nadel . He's the co-founder and managing director of Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners , one of the largest and most active AngelList syndicates where investors can invest alongside him and Barbara on the same terms in promising high growth startups. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Lean Startup What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk Favorite online tool? — Laughly How many hours of sleep do yo...

Joseph May . He's the founder of the Breton Company . He launched his company in 2016 by running a Kickstarter campaign for a modern day briefcase. Prior to Breton, he worked as an attorney at a couple of different law firms and was director of operations and in-house counsel at a company called Freshly Picked. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Shoe Dog What CEO do you follow? – Steve Jobs Favorit...

Jeremy Ozen . He's the president and co-founder of Vistar Media . He was previously a Goldman Sachs European Special Situations in London monitoring a portfolio of venture investments. He also has a BS in Material Science Engineering and a BSc in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania.  Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Sam Walton's Biography What CEO do you follow? – 3G Capital Founders Favorite...

Dani Golan who oversees strategy, a go-to market, and overall company operations at Kaminario . Previously, Dani served as president and general manager of Performix technology which was acquired by Nice Systems in 2006. Prior to Performix, he served as an executive responsible for leading new ventures at EMC. He holds a BSc of electrical engineering, summa cum laude at Technion – Israel Institute...

Jay Jumper . He's the founder, CEO and President of SIGNiX . As a highly regarded entrepreneur, Jay has worked to establish the company as the leading cloud-based digital signature solution which is a hot space. He has more than 20 years in financial services and technology management experience. Additionally, Jay graduated from University of Tennessee in 1985 with a BS in marketing. Famous Five:...

Niko Skievaski . He's the co-founder of Redox , a modern API for healthcare. He also used to do some work at Epic . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Moments of Magic What CEO do you follow? – Judith Faulkner Favorite online tool? — Calendly How many hours of sleep do you get?— 6 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – Niko would have asked himself to start somethin...

Felix Van de Maele . He's the CEO and one of the co-founders of Collibra which he took the idea of funding to more than years of record growth and industry leadership. He's responsible for the company's global business strategy. Prior to Collibra, Felix served as a researcher at the Semantics of Technology and Applications Research Laboratory at a university in Brussels where he focused on the tec...

Vinod Muthukrishnan . He was first a sailor then a strategist and now an entrepreneur. He was fortunate and has worked in diverse and challenging environments starting with the Merchant Navy, a high energy mobile first financial technology startup where he had a strategy and global sales. Now, he currently serves as co-founder and CEO of a company called Cloudcherry , a tech startup based in Pleas...

Eduardo Gonzales .  Two years ago, he started working on Instagram as a broke college student with a vision to become one of the largest influencers with literally zero dollars in investment. He learned the game and began growth hacking on different Instagram pages. Today, he stands with over 5M followers combined across multiple different niches on Instagram. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Think,...

Oleg Campbell . He was born in Ukraine and starting working as a programmer at the age of 19. He moved to Canada when he was 22 and founded his first startup at 24 successfully. Then at 27, he founded Reply.io and he's currently living between Ukraine and San Francisco building this company. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Losing My Virginity What CEO do you follow? – Jason Lemkin Favorite online to...

Rob Emrich . He's a serial entrepreneur, currently involved in his latest venture as the founder and CEO of The Mobile Majority . He's founded and served as chief executive at 6 startups in social ventures including Road of Life, which distributed as $70M dollar curriculum; BULX , which was acquired by Dealyard in 2011; and Boundaryless Brands, which was acquired in 2011 along with SpeakerSite. Kn...

Alessandro Biggi . He's the CEO at Zooppa , the first open-source creative agency. Previously, he was the CEO and founder of a company called 20lines , an app to share leading short stories acquired by HarperCollins Publisher, in January 2016. He's also worked for JP Morgan, The Boston Consulting Group, and as an adjunct professor in Venice. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Zero to One What CEO do yo...

Gadi Shamia . He's the chief operating officer at Talkdesk , the world's leading call center software platform. It's backed by DFJ, Storm Ventures and Salesforce Venture. Talkdesk has grown 8x over the past 2 years and has over 250 employees along with their thousand customers including Box, Shopify, Dropbox and Weather.com. Prior to Talkdesk, Gadi founded a company that was acquired by SAP and no...

Mike Winn . He's the CEO and founder of the company called DroneDeploy , the leading cloud-software platform for commercial drones and he's on the mission to make the sky successful and productive for everybody. The company focuses on the agricultural and construction industries, but its large customers are from almost every industry across 130 countries. He has collected more than 8M acres of aer...

Andrew Yates . He's the CEO and founder of Artesian and they want to make sellers more effective at engaging with buyers using smart data and new techniques to create the right impact. He's been involved in the sales and marketing for the past 25 years and is aiming to make a difference to people by creating software companies that make a meaningful dent in the universe. Famous Five: Favorite Book...

Ramin Sayar . He's currently the president and CEO of Sumo Logic , an industry-leading SaaS-based company backed by some great VCs and he has an impressive list of customers and partners. Previously, he was the senior VP and GM at VMware, where he developed the product and business strategy and led the fastest growing aspect of that business. Previously, he had multiple executive roles with leadin...

Jeroen Corthout . He's the co-founder and CEO of Salesflare , the intelligent CRM that startups and small businesses love to use. Prior to Salesflare, he was helping companies to implement their new CRM, marketing and sales. Salesflare kicked off when he and his co-founder, Lieven , found a way to automate their CRM data. Salesflare's mission is to automate everything in sales, but the irreplaceab...

Adam Jankovits and his goal is to become an outstanding marketing technologist. He is a person who brings together strengths in marketing, technology and social interaction. He's got an MBA and consultancy background, but also has a strong interest in technology and social-networking skills. His focus right now is on his company, LeadBerry . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Founders at Work What CEO...

Steve McLaughlin . He's one of the founders and CEO of Financial Technology Partners . He is a former senior banker at Goldman Sachs, covering fintech for over 20 years. He was recently named Investment Banker of the Year, ranked number 2 banker in Silicon Valley by The Information, and he's top ranked on Institutional Investors. Online Finance 35 listed him as one of the most influential people i...

Jon Stein . He's the CEO and founder of Betterment . With his passion about making life better and his career experience advising banks and brokers, he founded Betterment in 2008. Jon is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Business School. He holds a Series 72463 and he's a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst). His interests lie in the intersection of behavior, psychology and economics. Wha...

Dean Graziosi —he knows how to create success. From extremely humble beginnings, he started with a firewood business in high school to a collision repair shop and his first real estate deal before he turned 20. From there, he created a multi-million dollar real estate business, became a New York Times best-selling author multiple times,  and is one of the most watched real estate and success train...