Top Founders

René Lacerte . He's the founder and CEO of Bill.com , the leading business payments company. He's a fintech industry vettor and has been working to simplify business payments since 1999, when he founded PayCycle , which was later acquired by Intuit in 2009. Bill.com is now working to help bridge the digital divide between banks and businesses by partnering with 3 of the top US banks and 45% of the...

Laurent Le Moal . He brings extensive knowledge of digital payments in emerging markets to PayU where he serves as the CEO. He culminated an 11-year career at PayPal as general manager for continental Europe, Russia, Middle East and Africa, leaving a billion dollar development vision across diverse geographies. Prior to PayPal , he founded an Italian startup called Talent Manager. He built a 40-pe...

Jonathan Epstein . He's the current senior VP for international at Sentient Technologies, the maker of Sentient Ascend, the first conversion optimization solution that is powered by evolutionary artificial intelligence. Epstein has been in many companies at the forefront of technology and media including GameSpot , which he's the founding CEO, and Omek which was sold to Intel and GameSpy which was...

Joe Koufman . He's responsible for introducing at least 3 married couples in countless contacts to establish business relationships. In early 2014, he parlayed his passion for connecting people and founded a company called AgencySparks , which is essentially a dating service for brands and marketing agencies. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Challenger Sale What CEO do you follow? – Jeff Hilimire...

Ryan Stewart . He's a digital marketing expert with over 8 years of client facing experience. He currently owns and operates Webris , a Miami-based digital marketing agency specializing in SEO and content marketing. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Attached What CEO do you follow? – N/A Favorite online tool? — SEMrush How many hours of sleep do you get?— 8 If you could let your 20-year old self, know...

Trevor Wolfe . He's the CEO and co-founder of Delvv.io . He started his career in New York, where he held product innovation and marketing positions for Kantar and TNS. He also led the marketing for New York brands, Gerson Lehrman Group, along with Moveline—which is a tech startup in NYC Company and Morgan Stanley. Throughout his career, he's launched over a dozen analytics and research products a...

Varun Chandran . He's the founder and CEO of Corporate360 , a big data marketing software startup. He bootstrapped the company in 2012, grew the business into multimillion dollars in revenue with international clients and 40 employees across 5 countries. Prior to Corporate360, he worked for some of the leading technology companies like SAP, Oracle, Dell and Netapp in 3 different countries. He's a...

Oli Gardner . He's the co-founder of Unbounce . He's seen more landing pages than anyone in the planet. He's a prolific international speaker and he's on the mission to rid the world of marketing mediocrity by using data-informed copywriting, design, interaction, and psychology to create a more delightful experience for marketers and customers alike. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – How to Deliver a...

Martin Garcia . He's the CEO and founder of FLYX.Systems . He's also a mechatronics engineer and co-founder of Ilumexico , a solar power lighting company for rural communities in Mexico. He's got an MSc in drone design at University of Southampton and is an alumni of Singularity University at NASA Ames California, USA and later, a teaching fellow for space and robotics. FLYX.Systems is a company t...

Eric Min . He's the CEO and founder of a company called Zwift.com . Eric is a tech entrepreneur, a lifelong cyclist and is now spreading fitness through virtualization and gamification. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Crossing the Chasm What CEO do you follow? – Max Levchin Favorite online tool? — Slack How many hours of sleep do you get?— 6 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, wh...

BJ Lackland . He has spent over 15 years as an investor in startups. As an investor, he's been in VC and Angel and is now the CEO of Lighter Capital , where he oversees over 200 alternative investments in early stage tech companies. As an executive, he's been on the executive team of 3 companies including CFO of a public tech company called Power Efficiency Corp. He's raised and uploaded over $150...

Khaled Naim . He's the CEO and co-founder of the company called Onfleet , a software company that makes it easy for businesses to manage local delivery operations. He holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and studied computer engineering at The University of Michigan. He grew up between London and Dubai. He's currently residing in San Francisco. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Ven...

Peter Kortenhoeven . He's a creative person with a great deal of experience in the gaming industry. He started after graduation at the Academy of Arts as an animator at Coded Illusions . He became a lead animator at Triumph Studios shortly afterwards. One of his key successes has been the successful Overlord series. As lead artist, he worked on many different, yet, unreleased games. From a need to...

David Barrett . He started programming at the early age of 6 and has been inspired to become an expense reporter ever since. He attended the University of Michigan where he worked in a virtual reality lab before moving to Texas to write a 3D graphic engine for the industry. Then, he moved to California to join a name that is probably familiar to many of you, Travis Kalanick , in building a peer-to...

Dale Beaumont . He's an award winning technology entrepreneur, international speaker and author of 16 best-selling books. He started his first business at age 19 and has been building companies ever since. One of those companies is now a multi-million dollar enterprise which enabled Dale to become an investor, philanthropist, and has given him the opportunity to set foot in over 70 countries. Famo...

Maria Gotsch . She's the president and CEO at the Partnership Fund for New York City , which is the investment arm of the Partnership for New York City . In addition to leading the funds operations, Maria has spearheaded the creation and operation of a number of fund strategic initiatives including The Fintech Innovation Lab . Prior to joining the fund in 1999, Maria was a managing director at a c...

Gaurav Dhillon . He's an early investor in a company called SnapLogic . He joined in 2009, when he saw the potential of how companies integrate applications data and devices for digital business. He spearheaded SnapLogic's rapid growth and overseas strategies, products, and operations. He's previously the co-founder and CEO of Informatica . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Power of Habit What CEO...

Garth Moulton . He's invested and has advised a number of technology startups and was responsible for revenue growth for the channel for Pipl Inc .  After 11 years of sales experience in the Bay area, Mr. Moulton had the perfect startup journey with Jigsaw, which was drawn up from 2 guys with a whiteboard to a $175M exit, in 2010, to Salesforce . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Speed of Trust Wh...

Benjamin Cohen . He's the CEO and leading T-REX , with a strong vision for the future of enterprise financial technology and its impact on marketing and making markets more transparent and efficient. He's built the T-REX team and the T-REX software platform by combining the most sustainable elements of finance with modern SaaS technology. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Influence What CEO do you fol...

Pablo Estevez . He's a Mexican entrepreneur who co-founded HolaGus , an artificial intelligence company that focuses on automating customer service and sales via chat for Spanish speaking countries. Since founding his company, he has been distinguished for receiving awards like The Diamond Winner by MassChallenge. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do you follo...

Peter Aronson . He's an award-winning journalist who's has been featured on NPR and Marketplace. He's also been a vice president in the corporate world. Now, his startup helps Mexico transform that notorious Mexican tap water into perfectly drinkable clean-tasting purified water. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Founder's Dilemma What CEO do you follow? – N/A Favorite online tool? — HubSpot CRM D...

Alex Mehr . He's the founder of Zoosk , which filed to go public in 2014. His current venture is MentorBox , a unique and new self-help concept. Before that, he was an aerospace scientist at NASA. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – How to Win Friends and Influence People What CEO do you follow? – Jeff Bezos Favorite online tool? — Trello Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— I try at least 8 If you could let y...

Sean Ellis . He's the founder and CEO of GrowthHackers.com , he coined the term "growth hacking" in 2010 after using it to ignite growth for Dropbox , Eventbrite , LogMeIn and Lookout . He also founded and sold customer insights company Qualaroo , growing it to millions of dollars in recurring revenue. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do you follow? – Peep La...

Kenny Ewan . He is in charge of the overall strategic direction for WeFarm where he oversees the day-to-day activities of the business. After graduating, he spent 7 years in Peru running an international NGO, specializing in work with indigenous communities. Kenny played the lead role in developing WeFarm, before launching it as a startup in 2015. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Chaos Monkeys What C...

Tyler Tate . He's the CEO of Crema.co , the coffee market place. Previously, he co-founded TwigKit , which is an enterprise search software and was the first design lead at Nutshell , which is a SaaS CRM platform. In each case, he used product strategy and design thinking to play its part in envisioning, designing and building products from the ground up. He's also co-authored the book called Desi...