Aanand Radia
University Ventures
Aanand Radia is a Managing Director at UV. Prior to UV, Aanand was a private equity investor at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, where he focused on Financial Services and Special Situations. Prior to BlackRock, Aanand worked at EdisonLearning (formerly Edison Schools), an early pioneer in the charter school movement and later a diversified K-12 education technology and services company, where he focused on corporate strategy, business development, and new product and finance initiatives. While at Edison, Aanand helped to develop an alternative education product offering delivered through a hybrid/blended learning environment. Aanand started his career at Patriot Capital, a middle market private equity firm, where he made investments across a broad range of industries. Aanand received his B.S. in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University.
Aanand focuses on opportunities in student finance and education to employment pathways. Aanand leads or has co-led the firm’s investments in Galvanize, Revature, Avenica, PrepMD, Vemo Education, as well as a number of the firm’s seed investments including ParagonOne, DesignLab, Shortlist, CareAcademy, Mpower, Meritize.
http://universityventures.comAaron Luo
Caraa Sport
Fashion executive with global supply chain, operations, corporate finance background and experience creating innovative consumer brands and services.
Based in New York City, USA, I am currently focused on building CARAA as the leading luxury accessories brand within the Athleisure market.
I am also spending time with Terracotta Partners, a boutique design, development and production firm based across New York City, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China specialized primarily in managing production for fashion apparel and accessory brands both in the US and overseas. We chartered our company in NYC with the mission of helping emerging and growing fashion labels to gain production scalability.
Previously, I had the pleasure of working at General Electric Company (GE) for almost a decade, where I had the opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best world class leaders in multiple businesses across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
caraasport.comAaron Christopher Cohen
Fueled Ventures
NYC tech veteran Aaron Cohen is Fueled’s resident startup expert and venture director. A three-time cofounder, he is both an alumnus and former staff of DreamIt Ventures, the third best VC accelerator in the world according to Forbes. A passionate advocate for technology’s empowerment potential, he was the C4Q 2014 Volunteer of the Year.
http://fueled.comAaron Cohn
Quiet Ventures
Aaron is a partner at Quiet Ventures, who design useful products worth talking about and build apps for fellow founders who are almost ready to quit their day jobs.
Aaron has a lot of experience and has built: a slackbot to make teams more fulfilled at work; an SMS-based laundry startup that sends you puppy pictures; Founders Friday, a weekly meetup and community; the NYC Salon, a bi-weekly "TED, with friends"; and The Annual "Friends Rent a Ski Mountain" event, where 125+ friends rent a mountain in Upstate NY.
www.quietventures.comAaron Dubin
Goldman Sachs
Aaron Dubin (New York, NY) is a member of the Firm’s Investment Team focused on venture investments. Before that he was an Investment and Portfolio Management Analyst at Pitango Venture Capital, an Israeli venture firm. He holds a BA in Business Administration (cum laude) with Specializations in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya. He is a graduate of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya where he is currently a Visiting Lecturer. He is also a Teaching Assistant in the Johnson-Cornell Tech MBA program.
www.goldmansachs.comAaron Jacobson
NEA
Aaron Jacobson joined NEA as an Associate in 2011 and is focused on information and energy technology investments. Prior to joining NEA, Aaron spent two years at Qatalyst Partners in San Francisco. At Qatalyst, Aaron worked as an Analyst engaged in various M&A transactions which included the sale of PopCap Games to Electronic Arts, the sale of Riot Games to Tencent, the strategic investment in Go Daddy from KKR / Silver Lake / TCV, the sale of Palm to HP and Conexant's sale to Golden Gate Capital, among others. Aaron held summer positions at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs (including with their internal Ventures Group) in Murray HillNew Jersey, as well as at Lehman Brothers’ Investment Banking Division in New York City. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics and Electrical Engineering and carried a minor in Math.
http://www.nea.orgAaron Lorenz
Ramapo College
Abby Lyall
Quake Capital
Abby Lyall manages the cohort operations for Quake's New York office, as well as organizing Quake's UIS, CVP and internship programs for university students.
She brings her entrepreneurial spirit to the Quake team, having founded startups in the ed-tech and media spaces and qualifying as a finalist in the NYU Berkley Center’s $200K Entrepreneurs Challenge.
She previously worked for Morgan Stanley’s private wealth management group, Blackrock's Aladdin technology division and the aviation startup BLADE.
www.quakecapital.comAda Rauch
AXA Venture Partners
Ada joined AXA Venture Partners as an associate in 2020, focused on growth equity investments within enterprise, consumer, digital health, and financial technology. Before joining AVP, Ada was a Senior Associate at Parthenon, where she focused on corporate strategy projects across the consumer, TMT, and healthcare industries. Ada graduated from Princeton University in 2017 with a degree in international relations, where she conducted research on trade and conflict. Before starting at Princeton, she spent time living in India, and is fluent in Urdu. In her free time, she enjoys running in Central Park, traveling and ambitious baking projects.
www.axavp.comAdam Carver
Battlestar Capital
I lead business development and investor relations for AngelList. It's the most rewarding and enjoyable job I've ever had. I connect family offices, venture funds, startups and tech entrepreneurs to support projects that can change the world. I'm also an angel investor and co-founder of The Fund, an NYC pre-seed VC comprised of founders and senior operators or NY venture-backed companies. Contact me to talk startups or other fun ideas.
Adventure beckons.
Adam D. Fried
Edtech Speaker/Presenter
Adam has positioned himself as an innovations leader - embracing and encouraging the development of educational technologies. He is deeply committed to improving learning experiences through radical learning culture transformation. As a pedagogical leader, district superintendent, college instructor, and noted speaker and presenter, Adam has received numerous awards for his creativity and innovation. He serves on several academic boards and is deeply passionate about mentoring EdTech startups in their development process. Adam also has international recognition as a speaker and presenter, along with numerous education and technology publication credits to his name, including conferences and webinars.
Adam Dakin
Dreamit Ventures
Prior to joining Dreamit, Adam has held various senior management roles in sales, marketing, product development, clinical affairs, operations, and general management. His career has focused exclusively on building early stage venture-backed health tech companies. He has co-founded five health technology companies which have raised over $60M in early-stage capital.
http://www.dreamit.comAdam Goulburn
Lux Capital
Adam invests at the intersection of biology, healthcare, technology and data. He is interested in the digitization of healthcare; genomics; coding biology; the microbiome; bionics and cyborgs; brain-computer interfaces; regenerative medicine; synthetic biology; human performance; and other deep sciences.
Prior to joining Lux in 2011, Adam was a Postdoctoral Fellow of Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College, researching regenerative stem cell medicine in association with brain disorders such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease. Originally from Australia, Adam has dual undergraduate degrees in Business and Science and a PhD from the Australian Stem Cell Centre, where he was a Premier Scholar. He has been published in numerous peer-reviewed, scientific journals.
www.luxcapital.comAdam Penenberg
New York University
Published stories in Fast Company, Forbes, Forbes.com, Wired, TechCrunch, the Economist, the New York Times, Washington Post, and Mother Jones, among others. Wrote a weekly media column for Wired News and covered technology for Slate. Currently a contributing writer to Fast Company magazine and He also writes columns for fastcompany.com. Tragic Indifference: One Man's Battle With the Auto Industry Over the Dangers of SUVs (HarperBusiness, 2003) was optioned for the movies while a chapter of Spooked: Espionage in Corporate America (Perseus, 2000) was excerpted in The Sunday New York Times Magazine. Latest book is Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today's Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves, which was excerpted in five publications including Fast Company, Wired UK and the Financial Times, and published in the U.S., U.K., Brazil, Japan, Korea and soon coming out in China. Garnered national attention in 1998 for unmasking serial fabricator Stephen Glass of The New Republic, which was a watershed for online journalism and portrayed in the film "Shattered Glass" (Steve Zahn plays Adam Penenberg).
Adam Plotkin
ff Venture Capital
Adam Plotkin is a Partner at ff Venture Capital. In this capacity, he provides targeted strategic counsel to a range of ffVC investments, with a focus on technological innovation in logistics and manufacturing, insurance-commerce, financial services and media. Adam has experience serving on the boards of CardFlightDrop, LoyaltyFour Mine, and Sure, to name a few.
Prior to ffVC, Adam spent several years in business development, advisory and operational roles with several startups in New York and Los Angeles. Adam was the first hire at Lake Baldwin Management, a Princeton, New Jersey, opportunistic hedge fund, where he was a generalist investor, managing an array of public and private market investments.
http://www.ffvc.comAdam Smith
Bowery Capital
Adam Smith is currently a Venture Partner at Bowery Capital. Previously he was a partner and West Coast Lead of AOL Ventures. Adam's passion for combining Art and Technology began with his first career as a Toy Designer. With degrees in both Physics and Sculpture combined with his enjoyment of design. Adam was accepted into MIT Media Lab Program where he helped create and complete the Toys of Tomorrow Program. Adam's adventures then sent him overseas where he took a position with Telecom Italia in both RomeItaly and Helsinki, Finland before moving back to the States for the the challenging and rewarding position of Product Manager at Google. Adam enjoyed 7 years at Google before joining AOL Ventures.
www.linkedin.com/in/adamdouglassmithAdelyn Zhou
SignalFire
Adelyn Zhou is a business leader and bestselling author who is passionate about the intersection of marketing, automation, and the future of independent work. She has worked with some of the world's top companies and fastest growing startups on growth, blockchain applications, and applied artificial intelligence. She is recognized as a top influencer by Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc., Wired, Hubspot and many others. She started her career at the Boston Consulting Group and later led growth efforts at Amazon (Quidsi), Nextdoor, and Eventbrite. She is an internationally recognized speaker at conferences such as SXSW, CES, Inbound, and DLD.
www.signalfire.comAdi Levanon
Symmetrical Ventures
An operator, investor and mentor. Adi has been actively involved in global startup and venture capital ecosystems for over 10 years, with a myriad of experience on both the investment side along with business and legal operations. Utilizing her experience investing in, and working with startups based in Israel, New York, Los Angeles and the Silicon Valley, she helps entrepreneurs reach product-market fit; maximizing her network and understanding of various technologies, together with business development strategies to identify and secure partnerships. Adi is passionate about disruptive technologies, is constantly curious and loves working with game-changing businesses.
http://symmetricalventures.ioAdrian Rosenkranz
Salesforce
Adrian Rosenkranz is a director of small business growth initiatives at Salesforce.coma customer success platform helping companies connect with customerspartners and employees. Adrian Rosenkranz received his B.S. from Stanford in International Relations."
http://www.salesforce.comAdriel Bercow
K50 Venture Fund
Adriel Bercow is an investor at Kairos K50 Venture Fund, an early stage venture fund investing across all companies accepted to the Kairos K50 program. The K50 program is a global recognition of the 50 most-innovative startups from around the world, with young founders tackling global challenges.
While Kairos invests across a range of categories, Adriel's two interest areas are the Future of Work and Future of Living.
www.linkedin.com/company/kairos-k50-fundAdrien Colombie
Creatives Without Borders
Adrien Colombié is a French award-winning creative designer raised in France & currently living in New York City. After several years working in the best advertising companies in ParisBarcelona and New-York City he quite to travel the world with his backpack for 12 months. He is now back in the Big Apple as a Freelancer and ready to rule the city. Founder of Creatives Without BordersDesign teacherStartups mentorInternational Consultanthe is also a 7 summits climber whenever he is not running a Marathon or writing articles. He has climbed the highest mountainscrossed the driest desertsand ran marathons along the most beautiful beaches. – this is where he finds his inspiration and greatest ideas. And this is what makes his approach to his creative work truly unique…his world is limitless."
http://www.creativeswithoutborders.orgAhmet Tosun
Poltio
Ahmet is the Founder of Poltio, the worlds biggest social polling network for content creators, publishers, brands, and users. You can create any type of interactive Poll, Quiz or Test in seconds to get immediate feedback from thousands and make your own site more interactive.
Prior to founding Poltio, Ahmet worked with the TIMwe Group for just under 10 years. TIMwe is a global provider of mobile engagement solutions. In 2009, he received his B.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering.
www.poltio.comAkiba Covitz
Yellowdig
Senior university administrator, professor, and senior corporate executive, charting the course forward for America's top universities as they fully embrace the online world, while maintaining - and enhancing - the beauty and power of on-campus life.
Alan Lepofsky
Salesforce
With almost two decades of experience in the collaboration software industry, Lepofsky helps organizations improve the way their employees work together to get their jobs done. Lepofsky’s primary research area The Future of Work, focuses on: integrating collaboration and business processes (Purposeful Collaboration), structuring work via Social Task Management, leveraging analytics and digital assistants to work more productively, the strategic impact of mobile computing on business transformation, and measuring workforce culture based on Digital Proficiency instead of age.
www.salesforce.comAlana Tung
Time Warner Investments
Alana Tung is an Associate at Time Warner Investmentswhere she focuses on digital media investments that have the potential to develop strong operating partnerships with Time Warner's divisions (HBOWB & Turner) or disrupt the status quo. Her particular areas of focus include ad-techsocial mediaentertainment and gaming. Prior to joining Time WarnerAlana was an Investment Banking Analyst in Peter J. Solomon Company’s M&A Group. Alana is a graduate of Columbia Universitywhere she received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics."
www.linkedin.com/pub/alana-tung/26/284/4abAlbert Wenger
Union Square Ventures
Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Before joining USVAlbert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (EtsyTumblr). He previously founded or co-founded several companiesincluding a management consulting firm and an early hosted data analytics company. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT."
www.usv.comAlberto Payo
ITespresso.es
Alberto Payoworking as an Editor in Chief at ITespresso.es has a decade of experience in different areas of the mediaincluding radiotelevision and print media."
www.itespresso.esAlberto Pepe
Authorea
Alberto Pepe is the founder of Authorea which is the place to write scientificacademicand technical documents in collaboration. He graduated from the University of CaliforniaLos Angeles with a doctorate degree and majored in Information and Data Science."
www.authorea.comAlejandro Cremades
Onevest
In 2010Alejandro Cremades founded with Tanya Privethe startup investing marketplace Onevest (formerly RockThePost) where they connect early stage startups with investors. After one year of development they were able to launch the platform to the public on November 232011. In less than a yearthe platform was already mentioned by TIME as one of the best crowdfunding platforms in the worldas one of the top 10 digital tools for entrepreneurs by Forbes and as one of the hottest startups to watch by Business Insider. Cremades joined officially as CEO of Onevest on May 12012. Prior to OnevestCremades worked as a lawyer at King & Spalding where he was involved in one of the biggest investment arbitration cases in history which was Chevron v. Ecuador ($113 billion at stake). Cremades is an active speaker and has given guest lectures at the Wharton School of Business and at NYU Stern School of Business. Cremades was ranked number one on Vanity Fair's 30 Under 30 for 2014."
onevest.comAlessandro Piol
AlphaPrime
Alessandro has been involved in the technology industry for over 30 years, first as a software developer, then as a marketing and business development executive both in a large corporation and in a startup, and finally as a venture capitalist. As a VC, Alessandro has invested in software, new media, communications technologies, and infrastructure. He still gets excited about new technologies and ideas and he is always looking forward to learn and contribute to every project he gets involved in. And he is an even greater fan of working with brilliant engineers and talented managers. He is an angel investor, a mentor and an advisor to a number of companies in the New York area. He also co-authored the book "Tech and the City: The Making of New York's Startup Community”. Recently, he started a new firm, AlphaPrime Ventures, investing in technologies that protect people and assets.
alphaprime.comAlessandro Anzani
Smartup Capital
Alessandro was born in Milan. He founded his first venture at the age of 18 and scaled it to market-leader before selling it. He launched eight more companies (five of them in the United States)sold three. He spent four years as Investment Manager in private equitymanaging over $2B in transactions. Owns an angel-investment funda quality-certification firmand a corporate-development consulting firm. He received his Master’s of Business Administration from Cornell University; before that he earned a Master’s in Real Estate Finance and a Master’s of Science in Economics. Before coming to the USA on an Investor VISAAlessandro worked in BrazilFranceRomaniaHolland UKFinland and Italy.
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http://www.smartupcapital.comAlex Dask
ladder.io
Alex has over 7 years of professional experience across corporate strategy, enterprise sales and digital marketing in Sydney, Australia. Throughout his professional journey, Alex discovered his passion for digital marketing and start-ups and is excited to continue this journey with Ladder!
ladder.ioAlex De La Cruz
Dentons
Crossed-trained in conference center operations as flexibility and coverage is needed to maintain successful operation of delivering expert customer service to high profile clientele in a fast-paced result-driven environment.
www.dentons.com/enAlex Dikman `
JVP
Alex is a Principal at the NYC office. Prior to joining JVP, Alex was part of the leadership development program at Amazon in Seattle and held positions of senior product and marketing manager. Before joining Amazon, Alex was an associate at Poalim Capital Markets, the private investment arm of the largest bank in Israel. There, he focused on direct investments in companies across multiple sectors and investments in VC & PE funds. Alex also served as a team leader in the Israeli Prime Minister Office. Alex holds an MBA from Columbia University and a B.Sc. in Economics, Statistics, and Operation Research from Tel-Aviv University.
www.jvpvc.comAlex Evans
Placeholder
Alex is currently a Research Associate at Placeholder, he previously studied Economics and Politcal science at the University of Virginia. Before his time at Placeholder, Alex spent two years studying early stage investments with Lowe's Ventures. On his spare time he enjoys reading and publishing literature on crypto currency. In addition to this, in his list of skills and endorsements, Alex has financial modeling, venture capital and public speaking.
www.placeholder.vcAlex Fair
Medstartr
Alex developed a leading healthcare innovation focused crowdfunding site and created a healthcare CrowdChallenge model to help partners and investors crowdsource and market test the best ideas in healthcare. He leads a team of up to 35 professionals in open innovation, product development, and business development programs for clients and sponsors including GE, Pfizer, Takeda, J & J, HHS, Aetna, the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association and over 70 more.
http://www.medstartr.comAlex Rappaport
Flocabulary
Since co-founding Flocabulary in 2004, Alex has been responsible for defining the company's strategic vision and building the business from the ground up. A musician by training, Alex has bootstrapped Flocabulary into a rapidly-growing, mission-driven edtech company that now reaches millions of students.
Named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business in 2018, Alex is a regular author and speaker on education and entrepreneurship. His articles have appeared in The Hill, Entrepreneur and EdSurge, and he has spoken at conferences and events including Smart Cities, Creative Mornings, TedX and The Yidan Prize Summit in Hong Kong. Alex is a member of the Nationswell Council and has served as a mentor for 4.0 Schools and the StartEd Accelerator. He is also the creator of Big Idea Week, a community-driven entrepreneurship program for elementary and middle schools. Alex graduated from Tufts University and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
www.flocabulary.comAlex Trotta
Citi
Alex Trotta is Vice President of Fintech Acceleration at Citi Bank. His goal is bringing Citi FinTech's mantra of Open Innovation to the world and in doing so, inviting cutting-edge technologies into a Fortune 50 company that is poised to evolve with the new technological climate. Citi's mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.
Alex enjoys working with technology companies to help them better articulate the problem that they are solving and the target market they are solving it for. His ability to easily work with different types of people, from multiple backgrounds, and across various industries has allowed him to provide value in sales, strategy, marketing, and operations.
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Alexa DePasquale
Grey Group
Alexa is a strategic marketer with 5 years of experience vetting early-stage startups and managing client relations with Fortune 500 brands. She has a passion for creating connections between people and businesses and is very well-immersed in the NYC tech scene.
Alexa is now a VP at Grey Group. Grey ranks among the world's top advertising and marketing organizations, serving one-fifth of the FORTUNE 500, in 96 countries.
http://grey.com/globalAlexander G. Rojas
Barst Mukamal & Kleiner LLP
Born in Valhalla, New York, Alexander G. Rojas received his B.A. from Tufts University and his J.D. from the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law. Mr. Rojas is admitted to practice in New York, Connecticut, the Southern, Eastern, and Northern New York Districts of the U.S. District Court, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Mr. Rojas is a member of the New York State and American Bar Associations, and served on the New York State Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section. He is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (ALIA), serving on the Corporate Committee, EOIR Liaison Committee, District Director Committee, National Waivers Committee, National Removal Detention Committee, and as Co-Chair of the Pro Bono Committee in 2006 and 2007. Mr. Rojas’s public service experience also extends to his work with the Putnam Hospital Foundation Center, where he serves as Secretary.
Fluent in Spanish, Mr. Rojas often speaks on immigration and nationality law at conventions and other industry events. The legal community has recognized his work with listings in Who’s Who in American Law and New York Super Lawyers.
Alex has over 25 years of experience in Immigration and Nationality Law.
He represents multinational corporations involved in a wide range of industries including transportation, entertainment, publishing, financial services, media and technology. Alex also heads up the firm’s litigation and removal practice, I-9 compliance, EB-5, and Arts and Entertainment unit. Alex is a frequent speaker before immigration and human resource organizations.
Alexander Gredysa
Co-founder & Managing Partner of VR Global
Alexander Gredysa is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Bridgewater Environmental. His schooling and work experience in finance, technology and entrepreneurship have positioned him as a thought-leader and industry expert featured by the Wall Street Journal, Real Estate Weekly, BizNow, Million Dollar Listing, The Real Deal, Siggraph, Stohler Report, CIO Review Magazine, BGW Strategy, and various Startup Leadership Programs
www.vrglobal.comAlexander Miles
SportsHi
Alexander Miles is Founder & CEO at SportsHi which is an app for high school sports focusing on communication, content and college opportunities.
At SportsHi, their mission is to encourage high school students to play sports by creating a community where all student-athletes can grow.
www.sportshi.io/#Alexander Niehenke
Scale Venture Partners
Alex has over a decade of experience in advising and investing in early and growth stage software startups. At ScaleAlex focuses on opportunities in business software (marketingsalesHRfinance) and vertical software (financial servicescommerceetc). He has been involved with the firm's investments in Bill.comDemandbasePeopleMatterand Sailthru.
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http://www.scalevp.com/team/alex-niehenkeAlexander Opaschowski
Ernst & Young
Alexander C. Opaschowski is an EY Assurance Partner with a focus on the national and international retail and consumer product industry for more than 23 years. He knows very well about the disrupting environment we are operating in and supports clients in understanding current developments, assessing the impact on their businesses, identifying promising opportunities and laying the foundation for sustainable growth. Alexander is currently based in New York and Leader of the German Business Network for North America and Mexico. He is a German Certified Public Accountant and Certified Tax Advisor.
http://www.ey.comAlexander Schaper
fischerAppelt
Alexander is the Director of fischerAppelt's New York office. He has an expertise in market entry consulting, international campaign management, and brand strategy. He is also a Young Professional Ambassador for the German-American Chamber of Commerce.
Alex received a B.A. in International Relations from The George Washington University.
http://www.fischerappelt.deAlexander Tange
ICM Hub Inc.
Alex is an experienced Technology Entrepreneur and talented business developer with a strong network in the US & Germany. His focus is sell, sell, sell and recruit.
Building a startup called ICM Hub in the emerging field of narrow artificial intelligence (A.I.). ICM Hub is developing an AI supported customer interaction technology that automates customer service via chat, text and email for airlines and other passenger transport companies such as rail, bus and car-sharing businesses. Alex helped to bootstrap the company with the help of Startup Chile, Techstars and Parallel 18.
Previously, Alex co-founded a company called nextSociety, that provides an email-based relationship management tool for businesses that helps them to understand what relationships exist across their company-wide teams with a strength of relationship indicator.
www.icmhub.comAlexandra Frumberg
ALX Creatives
Alexandra Frumberg is the Creative Director & Founder of ALX Creatives - a full-service, strategically-driven creative digital agency. Fueled by opportunity, creativity, community and coffee, she has spent over a decade helping companies find their voice and build their brand from the
ground up. Alexandra and her team of talented specialists bring to brands an integrated, holistic approach. By empowering her clients to find their own vision, she helps their big ideas become one powerful story across multiple platforms. Before founding ALX, Alexandra Leigh was the Creative Director at Elite Brands by ways of a successful career in fashion and editorial photography. The agency is headquartered in New York City and recently expanded to Chicago
Alexandre Douzet
TheLadders
As CEO of TheLaddersthe premier online job-matching service for career-driven professionalsAlex is responsible for the company strategyglobal business operationsand product development. He co-founded the company in 2003 with Marc Cenedella and Andrew Kochand grew the member base to more than 6 million since inception. Alex holds an MBA from INSEADan MS from New York Universityand a BS from the University of Lyon III in France. A competitive athleteAlex finished the 2012 Ironman U.S. Championship in 12 hours12 minutes and 21 seconds."
http://www.theladders.comAlexandria Carroll
License to Drift
Alexandria Carroll is a business planning and operations professional whose career trajectory punctuates her strengths in complex problem solving, team building and client service. Alex has experience spanning the tech, retail, finance and advertising industries, where she served in roles that sharpened her analytical and project management skills and fostered out of the box thinking. Alex is the founder of License to Drift®, an upcoming travel and leisure website whose goal is to encourage its consumers to discover new locales, drawing on their personal tastes as a way to spark interest in the offerings of a particular area. Alex is passionate about B2C enterprises and the manifold opportunities to leverage technology to enhance consumer experiences. Her strong customer service orientation was cultivated during her time in the retail industry, where she developed an assortment, inventory management, and markdown strategies that improved shopper experience and optimized profitability. Alex leveraged comparable client management skills during her time in investment research and advertising.
licensetodrift.comAlexis DeSalva Kahler
Mintel
Alexis has a background in corporate retail merchandising, with specific knowledge of the apparel industry. She has previously held merchant and analyst roles at major retailers and has experience in building strategic and innovative assortments and providing insight to assist in merchandising decisions. Alexis also has a love of storytelling, both by bringing ideas to life through creating assortments and by sharing her voice in the written form, spotlighting the latest trends in retail and fashion. She brings product knowledge, analytical perspective and a genuine passion for retail and fashion to her work.
www.mintel.comAli Hamed
CoVenture
Coventure invests in early stage startups and builds software in exchange for equity. He looks for great founderssolving important problems."
medium.com/@alibhamedAlice Kuo
Startup Boost
Alice is a strong community builder who brings people together and stakeholders into partnerships. She is also a connector that bridges the United States with Asian countries.
http://startupboost.orgAlice Leung
Brick & Mortar
Alice started her career in the AEC industry with DPR Construction in the San Francisco Bay Area building UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. She led the Bay Area Skunkworks group and implemented various construction technologies on project sites. In April 2016, Alice relocated to Singapore to help start up the Southeast Asia HQ for DPR Construction as the resident BIM/VDC and construction technology expert and worked on data center projects. After realizing the slow pace of digitization in the construction industry, Alice joined the Brick & Mortar Ventures team to work with startups that want to disrupt the way we design, construct and maintain the built world.
brickmortar.vcAlla Levin
Media Machines Lab
Alla is an experienced entrepreneur with a heavy background in marketing and communications. She has a passion for innovation and building strong game-changing teams. Alla is a co-founder of Black Friday, Russia’s first e-commerce platform for aggregation of event-based discounts with over 15 million active users.
Her love for the startup ecosystem led her to the role of Head of Program at Starta Accelerator, a NYC based program that empowers startups from Europe through an exclusive mentorship program. Alla and her team built successful global companies, contribute funds and other resources to foreign entrepreneurs at seed and pre-seed stages. Starta Accelerator is part of Starta Ventures, a venture capital global brand, the mission of which is to break through traditional venture capital barriers to empower the next generation of tech entrepreneurs.
Now Alla is a head of business development at a startup company Media Machines Lab.
Allison Baum
SemperVirens Venture Capital
Allison Baum is General Partner at SemperVirens, a strategic, early-stage fund focused on the future of work. They invest in workplace tech, health tech, and fintech - anything related to how people work, live, and make money.
Prior to SemperVirens, Allison was an Investor at Trinty Ventures focusing on finding and supporting entrepreneurs redefining the future of work (More on her investment thesis here: https://medium.com/trinity-ventures/investing-in-the-future-of-work-eec30f6455e9) and a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Fresco Capital.
www.sempervirensvc.comAllison Kern
StarVest Partners
Ms. Kern joined StarVest as a Senior Associate in October 2015. StarVest Partners is a New York City-based venture capital firmformed in 1999 to invest in expansion stage technology-enabledbusiness-to-business services companies. Previouslyshe was a Senior Associate at the Emerging Sovereign Groupan emerging markets- focused hedge fund within the Carlyle Group. At the Emerging Sovereign GroupMs. Kern was investment analyst to the CIOfocusing on public equities and emerging markets macro."
http://www.starvestpartners.comAllison Shamon
Version 2.0 Communications
Alli Shamon is a strategic and results-oriented account manager at Version 2.0 where she works withdisruptive B2B technology companies, primarily in the mobility (electric and autonomous vehicle),martech and fintech industries.
www.v2comms.comAllison Williams
Newark Venture Partners
Allison Williams is Director of NVP Labs, a “bridge-to-seed” accelerator program at Newark Venture Partners. NVP Labs invests in early-traction B2B businesses that have strategic alignment with NVP’s corporate LPs (Audible/Amazon, Prudential, Dun & Bradstreet, Panasonic, RWJBarnabas and others). Before moving to venture, Allison became a seasoned leader with CEO and COO experience and a proven track record of driving expansive growth in startup technology companies. As founder and CEO at Yarly, in two and a half years, Allison assembled a talented technical team, built a cross platform mobile application, established a nationwide distributed salesforce and achieved profitability. In mid-2015, Yarly was acquired by YesVideo, a top competitor which powers over 30,000 retail locations, and Allison was retained as an advisor. Since then, Allison has been COO of a multi-national influencer brokerage software company (top clients include L’Oreal and Heineken) as well as Head of Strategy for a leader in the live streaming video space (top clients include Univision and Monumental Sports).
http://newarkventurepartners.comAlly Greifinger
National Football League (NFL)
Ally Greifinger is Director of Integrated Marketing at the National Football League (NFL).
www.nfl.comAlly Mclosky
JP Morgan
A makeshift hobbies section: international travel (32 countries in the past 5 years); behavioral economics; half marathon running (8 races in 10 months on 3 continents in 2016); St. Jude fundraising; boxing; consumer psychology; outdoor/water sports; TED.com; painting/graphic design; self-improvement; stand-up comedy; exploring all there is to do and see in NYC.
http://www.jpmorganchase.comAlly Tam
14W
Currently on the investment team of 14W, working with entrepreneurs to grow businesses in the consumer internet sector.
Previously TMT at Morgan Stanley. Initiated coverage of US Internet Media companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter) under No. 1 Institutional Investor US Media team (Lead Analyst Ben Swinburne), serving as primary equity research associate responsible for the digital advertising vertical.
http://www.14w.comAlton Delane
Dentons
Business professional with extensive experience in business development, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Strong track record of leading teams and executing strategic transactions and business opportunities that drive long-term growth. Proficient in managing multiple projects simultaneously with proven leadership and interpersonal skills.
www.dentons.com/enAman Kandola
Bessemer Venture
Aman Kandola joined Bessemer Venture Partners in 2017 as an investor in the New York City office. Aman focuses on identifying high-potential machine learning, esports, VR/AR, and cybersecurity startups.
Before joining BVP, Aman studied Computer Science and Statistics at Harvard University where he particularly enjoyed learning about new statistical techniques and algorithms. He also worked as a co-founder of a logistics service in New York and a social media mental health software startup based out of the Harvard i-Lab incubator. Aman also worked as a software engineer at Bloomberg LC. For leisure, Aman enjoys playing music, playing video games, dancing on a Bhangra team, and watching sports, most notably Liverpool FC and his hometown New York Knicks.
www.bvp.comAmar Kuchinad
Pretium Partners
Amar Kuchinad is a Senior Managing Director and member of the Executive Committee at Pretium Partners.
He focuses on the use of technology, data, and analytics at Pretium, both for internal business process and decision-making as well as for external commercial opportunities. Prior to joining Pretium in 2019, Mr. Kuchinad was Chief Strategy Officer at Trumid Financial. He joined Trumid from Electronifie, where he was CEO and Founder, upon Electronifie’s acquisition by Trumid in 2017. Previously, Mr. Kuchinad was a Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Kuchinad was formerly a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs where he ran the U.S. portfolio credit trading business and the U.S. structured equity derivatives trading desk and where he was a member of the Securities Division Risk Committee. Mr. Kuchinad began his career at Credit Suisse First Boston after receiving an AB in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College.
Ami Shah
Face2Face
I am a Board Certified Internal Medicine physician and fellow of the American College of Physicians and also fellowship trained in Anti-aging, Regenerative and Functional Medicine as well as Aesthetics and I currently practice Integrative, Personalized Medicine under Ami Anand Shah M.D. PC and I am Founder of Face2Face Health Medical, a practice focused on optimizing children's health and wellness utilizing a multidisciplinary virtual, concierge and on-site practice national model that will launch late 2015 and is inspired by my personal journey with my twins health and wellness from a physician and patient perspective.
http://www.f2fhealth.comAmit Bansal
Digitalis Ventures
Amit is a Principal at Digitalis. He currently represents Digitalis as a Director of Somatix.
Amit is on the board of the Fund for Public Health NYC, an independent, nonprofit organization that connects the NYC Health Department with public and private sector partners to build public health programs.
Prior to Digitalis, Amit was at Mars, Inc. in both corporate strategy and corporate innovation roles. Most recently, he was responsible for developing the business model for a new unit focused on affordable nutrition in the developing world. Amit has also worked in rural healthcare in India at Piramal E-swasthya, a start-up leveraging telemedicine to provide last mile access to primary care. Amit began his career at GE Healthcare in corporate finance, where he held a number of roles in finance, risk, and marketing. He received his M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and his B.A. from Boston College.
http://www.digitalisventures.comAmrita Sharma
Macy's
Macy's, the largest retail brand of Macy's, Inc. (NYSE:M), delivers fashion and affordable luxury to customers at approximately 670 locations in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam, as well as to customers in the U.S. and more than 100 international destinations through its leading online store at macys.com. Via its stores, e-commerce site, mobile and social platforms, Macy's offers distinctive assortments including the most desired family of exclusive and fashion brands for him, her and home. Macy's is known for such epic events as Macy's 4th of July Fireworks® and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade®, as well as spectacular fashion shows, culinary events, flower shows and celebrity appearances. Macy's flagship stores -- including Herald Square in New York City, Union Square in San Francisco, State Street in Chicago, and Dadeland in Miami and South Coast Plaza in southern California -- are known internationally and are leading destinations for visitors. Building on a more than 150-year tradition, and with the collective support of customers and employees, Macy's helps strengthen communities by supporting local and national charities giving more than $69 million each year to help make a difference in the lives of our customers.
http://www.macysjobs.comAmy Chen
NYC Media Lab
Amy Chen develops and leads innovation programs focusing on emerging technologies. She connects industry executives with university faculty and students to experiment, prototype and launch startups with technologies like extended reality (XR), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and 5G wireless. The multi-year sponsorships and partnerships that she leads relate to tangible outcomes: technology adoption, startup formation, job creation, and hiring.
At NYC Media Lab, Amy funds and supports early-stage entrepreneurs who are building scalable ventures. She manages the Combine accelerator program which has a track record of employing the lean startup methodology for finding product-market fit.
http://nycmedialab.orgAndre Coste
Lazare Consulting
Lazare Consulting is a boutique strategic advisory firm dedicated to helping communication companies, technology companies and companies in other sectors define their growth strategy, transform their business, improve their performance and expand internationally. We also advise companies on M&A transactions and access to capital.
In addition to Coste's extensive operational management and strategic finance experience, Coste possesses a comprehensive international expertise in markets as varied as Brazil, China, Germany, India, Japan, the UK, and the US.
http://lazare-consulting.comAndreas Hielscher
Columbia University
Andreas H. Hielscher received his Phd degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University, Houston, Texas, in 1995. After spending 2 years as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, he joined the faculty at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. In September 2001 he moved to Columbia University in New York City, where he is now the Director of the Biophotonics and Optical Radiology Laboratory. He holds joint appointments as Associate Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology.
http://bme.columbia.edu/andreas-h-hielscherAndrew Ackerman
DreamIt Ventures
Andrew is a recovering consultant turned serial entrepreneur startup mentor and angel investor. The Managing Director for DreamIt’s New York program, Andrew is also a contributing writer to AlleyWatch.com. In a previous life, Andrew led Bunk1.com as COO/Head of Product where he built it from scratch to the leading provider of web services to the summer camp industry. In 2008, Andrew moved on to manage a family office where he was responsible for both incubating new ventures and for managing over $50M of alternative assets including hedge, private equity, and venture capital funds.
http://www.dreamitventures.com
Andrew Asnes
RoundHill Entertainment
Andrew Asnes is an entrepreneur, advisor and production executive with broad experience in live entertainment and digital technology. His companies focus on live event production (primarily Broadway, Off-Broadway and Touring Productions), VR, AR and 360-degree video production. In addition, he runs the VR/AR Invest Meetup which fosters an environment for startups and investors in the VR/AR ecosystem to connect, inspire and propel innovation.
Andrew graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Film Studies and received his M.B.A. in Finance, Management, and Marketing.
http://www.roundhillvr.comAndrew Baker
Empire Angels
Andrew Baker is a member of Empire Angels and is an early-stage investor in New York. He is interested in tech startups with an emphasis in IoT and machine learning. Some of his investments include Mah-Ze-Dahr BakeryEnertivJuno and Speakaboos."
http://empireangels.comAndrew Cohen
Brainscape
Andrew is a metrics-obsessed executive and investor focused on high growth opportunities and network effects. Currently, Andrew is the CEO of Brainscape, a web & mobile education platform that is optimizing the learning process for millions of students and professionals.
Beginning as an Excel spreadsheet in a cognitive science lab at Columbia University, where Andrew received his Master's degree in Educational Technology, Brainscape has since evolved into a robust web & mobile learning ecosystem. Millions of people around the world are now using Brainscape to dramatically amplify their study results.
Andrew Colbert
Ziegler
Andrew Colbert joined Ziegler in 2006 as a founding member of Ziegler’s Healthcare Services & IT Corporate Finance practice. He specializes in advising healthcare services and healthcare information technology companies on a spectrum of strategic and financing alternatives including mergers and acquisitionscapital raising transactions and partnership development. Andrew is also involved in Ziegler’s principal investing efforts and serves on the Strategic Leadership Committee at Ziegler."
www.ziegler.com/andrew-colbertAndrew Gluck
irrvrnt.io
We partner with early stage companies anywhere on the spectrum: from inception to startups with significant traction ready to raise their pre-seed (angel) or seed rounds. (We’ve even invested in a few entrepreneurs with ideas to change the world but no formal business plan). We’re also available to help scope out your TAM, workshop business models, and discuss product-market fit. Don’t be shy!
Simply put: we get our hands dirty. As former founders and operators, we’ve been in the trenches before. Our team works directly with founders to understand their needs: whether it’s access to capital or something else like hiring the right team, finding office space, or pivoting to the correct strategy - we’re there every step of the way. The question isn’t if we can help you raise capital - it becomes how much, how quickly, and from which funds.
We move quickly but we’re in this for the long haul. We’re looking for long-term partners. Our team works alongside you before, during, and after the raise (and any subsequent raises). Our goal is to continue to be a resource to you throughout your company’s life-cycle. We engage with 3-5 companies at any given time so we are fully focused on your success. Finally, we invest our own capital alongside, and often before, your angel round.
www.irrvrnt.ioAndrew Hong
ffVC
Andrew joined ff Venture Capital as a Partner Operations Manager in 2018. In addition to his work at ff Venture Capital, he is a Kairos Fellow and the Founder of ZUPP a platform that offers wholesale prices and machine learning-generated recommendations on health & fitness supplements.
Prior to ff Venture Capital, he served as the CEO & Founder of OnTrack, founded KodiBlue, worked as an Associate Vice President at Delta One Solutions, a Technology Consultant at Oracle, and an Analyst at Nielsen. Andrew received a Bachelor's in Marketing and Management Leadership from Boston College.
http://ffvc.comAndrew Kangpan
Two Sigma Ventures
Andrew is an investor at Two Sigma Ventures. They imagine breakthroughs in the way the world approaches investment management, insurance, and related fields by following the scientific method. Their engineers and modelers develop ideas backed by information and improved by iteration. Empowered by extraordinary computing power and vast amounts of data, they build sophisticated predictive models to realize progress.
Andrew was previously an Associate at ff Venture Capital where he was responsible for managing investment due diligence for new and existing portfolio companies. Since 2008ff VC has invested in 80+ companies and created an aggregate market value exceeding $2.5 billion. He was also a Senior Consultant at Prophet, where he worked directly with executive teams at a range of clients across industries on strategic issues.
http://www.twosigma.comAndrew Leary
IPSOS - SMX
Global executive and recognized thought leader in the consumer engagement space, helping Fortune500 brands define their social, mobile and local strategies.
Andrew Mitchell
Brand Foundry
Andrew is the founder of Brand Foundry Ventures and leads its strategy.
A successful entrepreneur with dual experience as an operator and investor, Mitchell has sourced, monitored and executed over 50 early stage investments in the consumer and retail technology space with a total combined enterprise value today of over $3 billion.
He received a B.A from Lafayette College and Six Sigma Accreditation from Villanova University.
http://brandfoundryvc.comAndrew Weisgall
Spruce
Andrew is Cofounder at Spruce Inc. he worked as MBA Associate at Gotham Ventures and Associate at Stanford C. Bernstein.
Prior to spruce he served as Director of Analytics at Betterment. Prior to Betterment, he worked as MBA Associate at Gotham Ventures and Associate at Stanford C. Bernstein.
www.spruce.coAndy Saldana
NY Tech Meetup
Andy is the Director of Operations for NY Tech Alliance (formerly NY Tech Meetup), a non-profit organization that runs the largest Meetup group in the world with over 55000 members and a mission to build a more sustainable and diverse technology industry for all New Yorkers.
Overall, justice and diversity is a huge passion for him and he is a clear advocates for the importance of diversity in the tech community and business culture.
http://nytm.orgAngela Lee
37 Angels
Angela is an educatorentrepreneurand angel investor. She has started several companies in the education sector. Currently she teaches Leadership and Strategy courses at Columbia Business School and is their Executive Director of Teaching Excellence. She has 15 years of experience in marketing strategy and innovation. Her work has been featured on Bloomberg TVMSNBCForbesand CNBC. Angela has a BA from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia Business School."
http://37angels.comAnna Garcia
AGM Ventures
Anna is a results-driven financial services executive with 15+ years of experience in senior roles across capital markets, investment banking, asset management and venture capital. During most of her Wall Street career, she ran a top-ranked fixed income origination/hedging business and had a proven track record of building high impact client relationships and driving revenue growth.
More recently, she has immersed herself in working with and investing in early stage companies where she can contribute her professional expertise and help management teams build viable businesses. She currently serves as an Advisor to two fintech firms and mentor at several start up accelerators in New York City (ERA, Barclays/Techstars, Canadian Technology Accelerator).
www.bloomberg.com/profiles/companies/0688437D:PM-agm-ventures-enterprises-incAnna Kotyza
VentureOut
Anna Kotyza is the Content Director at VentureOut, creating content for VentureOut programs. Holding a strong background in storytelling, film-making, virtual reality, business development, strategy, research, video editing, content creation, and media.
Prior to VentureOut, Anna studied visual and media art production at Emerson University. And currently studying arts, business, technology and innovation in New York University.
Anna Phillips
Goldman Sachs Investment Partners
The Goldman Sachs Investment Partners (GSIP) venture capital and growth equity team has invested more than $6 billion in private opportunities globally. The team partners with entrepreneurs to build disruptive businesses and, since 2003, has invested in over 100 private transactions, including Uber, Facebook, SMS Assist, Spotify, Pinterest, thredUP, foodpanda, GoEuro, Cadre and Compass. The GSIP venture capital and growth equity team is located in New York, Hong Kong and Mumbai.
http://www.gsipventures.comAnna Whiteman
Tribeca Venture Partners
Anna is a Senior Associate at Tribeca Venture Partners. Prior to joining TVP, she was an investment banking Analyst at Credit Suisse and an Associate at VMG Partners, a consumer private equity group in San Francisco, where she focused on deal execution, portfolio oversight, and advisory to companies such as Stone Brewing, Health Warrior, and Quest Nutrition.
Anna has partnered closely with entrepreneurs both in the FinTech space during her time at Credit Suisse while working on the Partnership for New York’s FinTech Innovation Lab and in the branded consumer products space while at VMG. Additionally, Anna serves as Chairman of the Youth Advisory Board at Rockflower Partners, a venture philanthropy fund supporting female entrepreneurs globally.
Anna holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.
http://tribecavp.comAnne Augusta Blum
German Accelerator
Anne Augusta Blum is a Program Manager at the German Accelerator in New York. She is also a mentor at the Founder Institute. She attended Fordham University and Cornell University graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. Prior to working at the German Accelerator, she was a Mobile Developer Partnerships Associate at Facebook in San Francisco.
Anne received a B.S. in Economics from Fordham University and a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.
http://www.germanaccelerator.comAnne Sophie Schmidt
HOF Capital
Anne-Sophie worked at Objective Solutions International, a global executive search firm specialized in Finance and Technology. Her role included the sourcing of senior-level candidates from Senior Associate to Partner level, followed by first-step screening, coaching, salary negotiation and deal closing. She also spent time researching potential new client companies, business lines, and core competitors within the financial services, consulting, and tech industry marketplaces.
Previously, Anne-Sophie worked at Tiqqle, an early stage tech startup focused on bringing hyperlocal chat software to the mobile space, where she was responsible for all marketing and brand strategy efforts. As the head of the New York City Marketing Division, she oversaw the team conducting a field test across Manhattan and the boroughs. Her role also encompassed launching a social media campaign, and hosting promotional events for potential investors throughout NYC.
Anoop Kansupada
The Founders Organization
Anoop has Entrepreneurial mindset with multiple years of experience in the startup world. He's Deeply motivated by participating in the growth of creative and boundary-pushing new ventures with an innovative and ambitious team.
thefoundersorganization.comAnthony Crowell
New York Law School
Anthony W. Crowell is the 16th Dean and President of New York Law School. Since joining NYLS in 2012he has worked closely with the faculty to initiate several bold changesincluding reintroducing NYLS as “New York’s law school” and developing a Strategic Plan focused on driving student outcomes. This includes a historic doubling of clinical programsand significantly enhancing career placementbar performanceand student/alumni engagement. NYLS also introduced the nation’s first two-year J.D. honors program. In October 2013he was recognized by Crain’s New York Business as one of its “People to Watch in Higher Education.” "
http://www.nyls.eduArrun Kapoor
SJF Ventures
Arrun Kapoor is the Managing Director for SJF Ventures’ New York City office. He has been involved as a Board Director or Observer to Jopwell, Voxy, Portfolium, Civitas Learning, RaiseMe, Think Through Learning, FieldView Solutions, ServiceChannel, Truist, and Ayla Networks. He leads the NYC EdLinks program, is a member of the Investment Board of the Social Venture Fund for The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School, and was on the Advisory Board for the University of Texas System, Institute for Transformational Learning. Arrun was most recently with Bain & Company in London and Delhi, where he launched the firm’s internal green practice initiatives. He worked with Bain’s private equity consulting practice and gained experience in a range of industries. Prior to Bain, he was an early employee and Manager with Eurasia Group, a successful political risk consulting business in New York and London. He holds a Master’s in International Political Economics from the London School of Economics and completed a BA from New York University with an economics and business focus.
http://sjfventures.comArthur Bierer
AB Dev Labs
Arthur is a Software Developer, Security/Privacy Champion and Project Manager with 18 years of software experience at Microsoft in gaming, networking, security, privacy, and API design. He is equally adept at learning new technology as well as international global issues and foreign languages. He is active in the Silicon Alley Startup community helping build startups.
He is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of AB Dev Labs. Founded in New York in 2011, AB Dev Labs provides complete startup development solutions for Startup Founders and Entrepreneurs. From product development, customer development and coshoring, they make sure your startup is built on a proper foundation.
http://abdevlabs.comArthur Godiva
WeWork Labs
Arthur Godiva is the founder of Triangle, a consulting firm and university helping companies and people grow from the three angles of innovation, development, and marketing. As a consultant, he has worked with countless growth startups in the venture community either directly or by launching hackathons, labs, incubators, and accelerators for companies like Techstars, Samsung, NYU, and WeWork.
Previously, Arthur was a management consultant and VP for Bank of New York Mellon’s Fintech Innovation Division advising the firm and its clients on Technology UX/Product Management and Business Architecture. Before graduating Baruch College Zicklin School of Business in Computer Information Systems, he ran product for firms like Cablevision and NYC Diamond District, and ran strategy/marketing for nonprofits like Children’s Tumor Foundation, Yankees Foundation, UNCF, and the Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation.
www.wework.com/labsAsael Meir
CohnReznick
Asael Meir is a partner in CohnReznick’s Long Island office and leads the Firm’s Technology and Life Sciences Industry Practice in the Firm's New York offices. With more than 15 years of experience in providing assurance and financial reporting services, Asael serves technology, hospitality, and retail and consumer products companies. He works closely with business owners and management teams of both privately held and publicly listed companies who are seeking guidance on acquisitions, divestitures, and capital formation transactions.
www.cohnreznick.comAsh Kaluarachchi
Started
Ash is the director of StartEd Accelerator (previously known as EDGE EdTech). With 10+ years experience advising and building partnerships for organizations solving problems in education, Ash is passionate about applying technology to solve challenges in education, finance, and machine intelligence.
www.startedaccelerator.comAshley Smith
Openview
Ashley Smith has built a long career helping early-stage startups scale into successful organizations. She was most recently an executive at GitHub (acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion in 2018). Prior to that, she was CMO at GitLab, Head of Marketing at Parse (acquired by Facebook 2013), and got her start in go-to-market in the early days of Twilio (IPO 2016).
openviewpartners.comAshley Tenney
Dentons
As Practice and Business Development Manager for the US Corporate practice at Dentons, I work closely with practice leadership, lawyers and business services professionals to provide operational support to all facets of day-to-day activities. I am also focused on innovative practice management initiatives that support our strategy, with a particular focus on technology and the delivery of customized value to clients through high quality, efficient and cost-effective legal services.
A motivated and innovative self-starter, I strive to proactively work with attorneys and staff to develop and maintain relationships.
http://www.dentons.comAssaf Dagan
Goodgood NYC
Been doing digital since 2003 - from flash banners for some extra cash beck in the dayto full flash sitesdesign and conceptionto mobile devices. I created some communication operationson localeuropean and global scaleusing various technologies and good ideas.
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http://goodgood.nycAzeem Azhar
PeerIndex
Azeem is founder of PeerIndexa startup building an expertise directory for the social Web. Previously he was worked with started oradvised or invested in startups like SeedcampDopplrPowersetNew Energy FinanceZygoTrueKnowledgeMondus.comPlanetOutesouk and AMI Software. He was for a time Head of Innovation at Reuters; and had stints at the BBCThe Economist and The Guardian."
www.brandwatch.com/peerindex-and-brandwatchAzi Cohen
New York Angels
Azi Cohen is a former Israeli living in Long Island NYentrepreneur/CEO with 20 years’ experience managing technology based startup companiesactive angel investor mostly in enterprise software and a member in NY Angels. He is interested in leading exciting startup companiesaccelerating the business and taking such company to the next stage."
http://www.newyorkangels.comBarbara Schloss
SAPio
Barbara is the BCG Secondee at SAPio, working in SAP's Corporate Strategy Group. She is currently developing SAP's strategy and vision for various emerging technologies and partnering with startup accelerators and women in tech organizations in the New York area.
Barbara graduated from M.I.T. with a B.S. in Aerospace and Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering.
http://www.sap.ioBecky Krill
Noodle Partners
Data-driven B2B SaaS marketing leader equipped with the broad, yet critical range of skills required of the demand function. From competitive positioning and content strategy to PPC and CRO, there’s not much I haven’t done when it comes to the digital marketing landscape.
A power-user of a growing list of software solutions, I keep my finger on the pulse of new technologies that offer deeper levels of automation, optimization, and organizational efficiency. I've never been shy about my love of software and have pioneered many expensive software purchases and implementations over the years. For this reason, I’m quite familiar with the B2B software buying process and persona overall.
Ben Askew-Renaut
PackLink.com
Ben Askew0Renaut launched PackLink.com that is an online shipping servicea young and upbeat company experiencing extreme international growth. We offer individuals and business customers a fast and easy way of booking parcel deliveries with the world's top couriers."
http://www.packlink.comBen Chodor
West Corporation
Ben is the President of Digital Communications at West Corporation. They are dedicated to delivering and improving upon new channels, new capabilities and new choices for how businesses and consumers collaborate, connect and transact. They operate at the scale and speed necessary to capitalize on the promise of emerging technologies and the advantages they will provide.
Prior, Ben was the host for HealthTech Talk Live, which broadcasts live weekly on iHeart Radio/Clear Channel nationwide. He would interview front-page emerging health tech innovators and titans about the latest in digital health technology, human ingenuity, biotech medical advancements and health tech capital market trends.
Ben Jackson
For the Win
I run For the Win, a consulting firm that helps high-growth startups attract and retain the best talent.
As Series A and B startups scale, too many lack the processes and tech to effectively manage people. We help our clients embrace the people-first management principles behind successful startups like Dropbox and Airbnb while avoiding the pitfalls that ensnared once-promising businesses like Groupon, Zynga, and Nasty Gal.
Over a period of 3-4 months, we work with our clients to create buttoned-up recruiting, onboarding, and management SOPs before their runway gets eaten up by premature turnover and lost productivity. In the process, we roll out best-in-class tools that make it all work seamlessly and give them visibility into the lead metrics their business depends on.
I'm a technology expert with two decades of hands-on experience in design, engineering, and product management at consumer-facing startups and media companies. Previously, I worked at VICE Media as Director of Mobile, and at The New York Times building their iOS apps during the transition to paid subscriptions.
I've spoken at SWSW, Ignite NY, and events at places like Google and Spotify, and written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Fast Company, among others. I also mentor young developers and volunteer on the curriculum advisory board for C4Q's Access Code, a boot camp for underrepresented groups in tech.
ftw.nycBen Shaw
Barclays
Ben Southworth
Tech City Investment Organisation
Benjamin Southworth is Deputy CEO of Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO). He focuses on helping develop existing and new events for the Tech City cluster and ensuring that the community’s views are communicated to policymakers in government and City Hall. Before joining TCIOBen was involved in a number of tech start-ups and a was a founder of Digital Sizzle and Silicon Drinkabout events in East London."
http://www.techcityuk.comBenjamin Bernstein
Partnership Fund for NYC
Benjamin Bernstein is a Senior Associate at the Partnership Fund for New York City. Prior to joining the Partnership Fund, Benjamin worked at UBS Investment Bank for over five years, focusing on the Consumer Products and Retail sector. Benjamin worked with companies on mergers, acquisitions and capital raising in both the debt and equity markets in addition to providing general financial and strategic advice. Benjamin received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics as well as a Certificate in Political Economy from Princeton University.
http://pfnyc.org/our-investmentsBenjamin Hakoun
FittingBox
Benjamin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Fittingboxa leading SaaS company in the eyewear industry. He is also a speaker at the Sciences-Po Paris and board member of start-up contest Petit Poucet.Benjamin graduated from HEC Paris."
http://www.fittingbox.comBernhard Mehl
Kisi
Kisi develops cloud technology to build secure access control systems that use a combination of sensors and mobile devices to grant facility access to authorized personnel. Designed for commercial and enterprise applications, the Kisi system provides an added layer of intelligence and enhanced experience at all access points of the facility. The system software streamlines access management for operations teams while generating sophisticated data visualizations and personnel tracking for advanced IT departments. For the end user, Kisi works in the background to detect their presence and timely unlock doors for them as they approach. Based in Brooklyn, New York, the company engineering campus is located in Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2012, Kisi has been installed in hundreds of modern offices, campuses, data centers, and high-traffic facilities across the globe. In 2013 the team participated in TechCrunch Disrupt and won New York City's Next Big Idea Competition for their modern approach to access control. Clients include Cushman & Wakefield, TechStars, Oscar Insurance, Harry's and many other fast-growing innovators. The Kisi mission is to devise innovative solutions to critical inefficiencies in access management and physical security.
getkisi.comBill Daddi
Daddi Pr
A consumer brand communications and promotions veteran with more than 20 years experience, Bill began his career as a journalist, holding positions with a variety of news organizations including CNN, WPIX-TV News, The McNeil/Lehrer Report, American Baby Magazine and Consumer Electronics Monthly.
Since then, Bill has specialized in building equity and demand for brands from companies such as Cotton Incorporated, Holcim, P&G, Limited Brands, Johnson & Johnson, KAO Corporation, Sears, Kmart, Bacardi USA, Bristol-Myers Squibb and many others.
Prior to forming Daddi Brand Communications in 2005, Daddi was President of Belsito & Company, a healthcare and consumer marketing agency.
Bo Ren
Samsung NEXT
Bo Ren is an investor, product manager, and writer in NYC. She believes in humanizing tech and building a more diverse and inclusive future. She previously worked for Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr. She is currently building a venture fund for underserved founders.
samsungnext.comBo Wang
Quake
Bo Wang is an MBA student at NYU's Stern School of Business. Bo started his career in security trading infrastructure system with IBM, where he developed security trading platform for major Canadian banks. Bo holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto, with a major in electrical and computer engineering. Bo has also finished all three levels of CFA exams.
www.quakecapital.comBob Jacobson
RSM
Bob Jacobson is a principal at RSM US LLP (RSM) and serves as chairman of the RSM US Board of Directors. He leads the firm’s consulting practice in the West region, which includes risk, technology and financial advisory services.
Jacobson joined RSM in 2002 and has held various leadership positions, including national consulting managing director, national risk advisory service line leader and leader of the upper Midwest risk advisory consulting practice.
He has deep experience serving clients of various sizes and industries, with enterprise risk and compliance services, including providing project management services for complex Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), internal audit and governance-related activities.
Jacobson also specializes in business valuation, fraud investigation, litigation support, readiness for initial public offering (IPO), and process improvement consulting. He is a frequent speaker and published author.
rsmus.comBobby Alexis
Digital Domain 3.0
Experienced entrepreneur, builder, and fundraiser. Love scaling tech companies. I get things done. Currently Head of Mobile and Touring Experiences @ The VOID --> www.thevoid.com Passionateabout emerging tech and its cross industry impact.
www.digitaldomain.comBonny Morlak
Tiltsta
Founder Coach specializing in Seed to product-market-fit.
Serial Entrepreneur with mobile ecommerce focus - UX/UI visionary.
Borahm Cho
Shopify
Co-Founder of Kitchensurfing, product and design guy: A Brooklynite by way of Berlin, Bo began his career at age fifteen, focusing his work and studies on creating interesting social interactions with technology. After working at digital agencies in Germany, he founded Kitchensurfing — a web marketplace where you can hire chefs to cook for you, at home — in 2012. To date, Kitchensurfing has raised $18.7M from Union Square Ventures, Tiger Global and prominent angel investors like David Karp, Founder Collective, Chris Dixon, and Joanne Wilson.
Bo received his BA in communication design in Germany, and has considerable experience in product and service design. Bo has lived in cities around the world, including Hamburg, his birthplace, Konstanz, and Melbourne. In his spare time, Bo hunts ramen.
www.shopify.comBoris Godin
Capco
Boris is Associate Management Consultant, AML Transaction Monitoring Project Manager & Business Analyst- Global Bank, PMO Analyst- Top National Bank, CUNY Baruch Ambassador for Associate Training Program and Lead for Capco Connect Recruiting at Capco.
He is also Founder of Volunteers For Smiles Inc, a non-profit organization which helps people, in need, meet basic needs, orient actionable plans to achieve their desires and provide support so they can successfully function within society and live to their fullest potentials.
www.capco.comBrad Harrison
Scout Ventures
Bradley C. Harrison is an entrepreneur and seasoned business development executive with a passion for technologymediaentertainment and lifestyle. Brad has a great deal of experience launching new ventures. While attending MIThe worked as a Partner in a seed stage venture fundITU Venturesand helped launch a joint MIT-Harvard incubator. While serving as Director of Media Strategy and Development at AOLBrad co-authored 3 patents in searchgeo-taggingand personalizationwith Edmund FishSenior Vice President and General Manager at AOL. Following AOLBrad helped raise $40M in venture funding for a contextual online advertising network. Prior to launching his business careerBrad served in the United States Army for five yearsearning both Airborne and Ranger qualifications and retired as Captain."
http://www.scoutventures.comBrandon Steiner
Steiner Sports
Brandon Steiner is the founder and chairman of Steiner Sports Marketing and Memorabilia, the largest company of its kind in America.
In addition to Steiner Sports, Steiner is a premier motivational and inspirational speaker. Steiner has spoken to world-class organizations such as the New York Yankees, BMW North America, Nike, Live Nation, Cornell University, TEDx and Harvard Business School. Aside from speaking to audiences, Steiner is a permanent fixture in the media as a regular on ESPN NY Radio 98.7 FM and as co-host of Yankees-Steiner.
www.steinersports.comBrendan Brits
BDMI
Brendan joined BDMI from Needham & Company where he was responsible for providing M&A and capital raising advisory services to early-stage technology companies, particularly in digital media and software. His previous work experience includes M&A advisory at BDO Capital Partners and social impact investing at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Brendan holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance from the College of William & Mary. During the few hours a week that Brendan is not chasing new deals, he likes to kick back with his guitar or catch the latest Premier League soccer action.
http://www.bdmifund.comBrendan Feinberg
WeWork
Brendan Feinberg works as a Manager of Finance & Coporate Development at WeWork that provides the spacecommunity and services people need to create their life’s work. He received B.S. in Management from Boston College."
www.wework.comBrendan Ryan
Fragomen
As Managing DirectorGlobal OperationsBrendan holds senior executive responsibility for a range of Fragomen’s international operations. This includes Fragomen's practices in CanadaBelgiumGermanySouth Africathe United Kingdom and its correspondent office in France. Brendan has contributed to several policy and legislative reviews for governmentsincluding preparing testimony for the U.S. Congress and testifying before numerous Australian Senate committees on immigration legislative reform. Prior to joining FragomenBrendan was the Managing Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers’s Australian Global Visa Solutions practice. Brendan also has extensive Australian Government experienceincluding three diplomatic postings to the PhilippinesHong Kong and India; and three years working as the Departmental Advisor to the Minister for ImmigrationParliament HouseCanberra."
www.fragomen.comBrendan Syron
Scout Ventures
Brendan is Venture capital investor focused on identifying, evaluating and executing early stage investments in technology-enabled companies and supporting those businesses through business development, strategic positioning, and financial planning.
http://www.scoutventures.comBrent Farese
Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
Experienced Investor with a demonstrated history of working in the venture capital and blockchain industry. Skilled in Venture Capital legal agreements, Fund Formation, Freedom to Operate (FTO), Trademark Infringement, Design Patents, Intellectual Property Valuation, and Patent Portfolio Analysis. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a Juris Doctor from New York Law School.
www.slwip.com
Brent Lagerman
Condensed
Brent is CEO & Co-founder at Condensed.
Brent leads condensed.io, a tight team of digital branding specialists helping startups find their identity and reach new heights. Brent is also a product designer and co-founder with Keepers Coffee Soda and BollyX.
condensed.ioBrent Stackhouse
Mount Sinai Health System
Brent Stackhouse is the Managing Director of Mount Sinai Ventures, the venture investment arm of the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. His responsibilities include diversifying the portfolio of strategic investments to enhance Mount Sinai’s transition to population health management. He represents Mount Sinai on the board of several portfolio companies, including ambulatory surgery and urgent care centers. He is experienced in public health and health information technology, and serves on Mount Sinai telehealth strategy committee, the Junto Collaborative for health innovation, and is a mentor for the Blueprint Health technology incubator.
www.mountsinai.orgBrett Brody
Source Inc.
Brett joined the VentureOut team in January 2014 as the Director of Business Development responsible for developing the pipeline of programs sponsor and partner outreach and startup due diligence. Prior to VentureOutBrett spent time in consulting, finance, and sales within a number of startups and small institutions. While not at work you can find him playing guitar, checking out local music or cheering on his beloved Knicks. He earned his Bachelor's of Science in Management at Tulane University where he studied Finance and Music and is proud to call New Orleans a second home.
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https://www.ventureoutny.comBrian Aoaeh
KEC Ventures
I am a partner at Particle Ventures. We are institutional seed-stage technology venture investors in Supply Chain & Industrial Intelligence. My subject matter specialization is internet infrastructure, supply chain, and transportation software. Particle is built by the same team that launched KEC Ventures.
I am a self-taught early-stage VC, and I spend most of my time in NYC looking for founders. Let’s talk - even if your product is not yet built. I want to meet founders creating new markets or transforming existing industries. How can I help?
I am also the founding organizer of The New York Supply Chain Meetup. We are building a multi-disciplinary community of practice for people committed to exploring and solving problems in global supply chain networks using modern technology like cloud computing, edge computing, distributed and decentralized ledger technology, robotics, artificial intelligence, industrial internet of things, etc. Join us.
I am most content when I am thinking about and trying to solve ill-defined problems - the types of problems other people may describe as being too difficult and not worth the trouble. I am abnormally enthusiastic about the research process that leads me to develop answers to such problems. I think of myself first and foremost as a research analyst.
I have an obsession for cool mechanical pencils. I never say no to a cup of coffee. I am not afraid to be different, and I embrace uncertainty.
http://www.kecventures.comBrian Cohen
New York Angels
As an angel investor and mentor to entrepreneursBrian now serves as Chairman of the New York Angels who has invested over $53 million into more than 70 early stage technology companies. Brian was the first investor in Pinterest and numerous other industry leading startups. As a social entrepreneurBrian is the founding Board member of Center4NYC’s first technology accelerator devoted to serving the non-profit community. Brian also co-founded Launch.it in May 2012the first direct-to-customerself-publishing PR news platform. Brian holds a Masters Degree in Science Communications from Boston University's School of Public Communications and currently serves on the Dean's Board of Directors.
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http://www.newyorkangels.comBrian Frumberg
VentureOut
Brian is the CEO and founder of VentureOut, which he launched in 2012 while working at Gotham Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund. He started VentureOut as a vehicle to help bridge the gap between the innovators around the world and the opportunities available to them in the New York and San Francisco technology ecosystems.
Brian is also a proud advocate of the New York City's vibrant technology community, a role he plays as a speaker, a mentor, on the Board of Directors of the NYC Innovation Collective, Founding Member of NYC Tech International, a member of the FWD.us Innovation Council and as the Founder of the Chaminade Alumni Entrepreneurs Association.
Prior to VentureOut, Brian’s career has spanned venture, at Gotham Ventures, consulting, supporting early-stage tech startups in NYC, business development, at OTR Global, and sales, as the youngest institutional salesperson globally at Standard & Poor's. Brian received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Richmond.
https://www.ventureoutny.comBrian Hirsch
Tribeca Early Stage Partners
Brian is a co-founder and Managing Partner ofTribeca Early Stage Partners. Prior to his role there, Brian was a founder and Managing Director of GSA Venture Partners, formerly the venture arm of Greenhill & Co (NYSE: GHL). Prior to GSAVP Brian was a Principal at Sterling Venture Partners and a Vice President at ABN AMRO Private Equity.
http://www.tribecavp.comBrian Murphy
CohnReznick
Specialties: Financial Services, Real Estate and Construction
Brian Noguchi
Lab79
3x entrepreneur. Software engineer and designer. Co-founder of Lever and YCombinator S12. Curator for the San Francisco Hub of the Global Shapers, an initiative of the World Economic Forum. Co-author of realtime web framework, Derby, and popular node.js MongoDB library, mongoose. Author of popular nodejs library everyauth. Tinkering and working on a new startup in San Francisco.
lab79.orgBrian Stuckey
Coventure
Brian is a Principal with CoVenture. Previously he held product leadership positions at several early-stage companies in New York.
CoVenture operates three businesses that bridge technology and finance. We invest in pre-seed venture capital and build software for the companies we invest in. We manage direct private credit funds that provide private credit capital to alternative private credit platforms, enabling them to finance the loans they originate. We create crypto funds for individuals, IRAs, and institutions to get simple and easy access to cryptocurrencies.
coventure.vcBridget Jackson
NBC Universal
Having gained her skills by participating in many clubs and institutes, Bridget started her career in 2010 and has been around for nearly nine years. NBCUniversal Media, where she currently works, is an Internet-based leader, where she is a program specialist. In addition to social media, he has many skills and knowledge, and is currently a co-chair of STF.
http://www.nbcuniversal.comBrittany Laughlin
Lattice Ventures
Lattice invests in entrepreneurs who personally understand the problems they plan to solve. Building a lasting business requires a big vision, backed by strong skills and insights and a rooted passion in the outcome is key.
We believe that connections to experienced operators, peers and industry experts at the right time can dramatically accelerate company growth. We believe in funding the best and accelerating our portfolio with the right networks.
We believe there are diversity of needs that are not currently served by technology. We invest in companies pursuing industries hungry for innovation with technologies that are defensible via network effects.
http://www.lattice.vcBrock Bontrager
Scout Ventures
Brock joined Scout Ventures in 2017. As an Associate he focuses on early-stage investments in frontier technologies and software companies.
Prior to joining Scout, he worked in PricewaterhouseCoopers' Corporate Finance division advising startups pursing growth stage investments within the consumer, fintech and digital sectors.
Brock graduated from Boston College in 2015 prior to joining Lazard as an investment banking analyst where he worked on mergers and acquisitions in the consumer space.
Bruce Taragin
Blumberg Capital
Bruce has 23 years experience as a venture capital investor, entrepreneur, technology investment banker, and corporate attorney. Prior to joining Blumberg Capital in 1998, Bruce co-founded and held several senior management positions within technology companies including Charles River Computers. Bruce also structured and managed early-stage technology transactions at Hambrecht & QuistMayer Brown & Platt and Bankers Trust Company. A native of New York, Bruce earned his BA in Finance from Yeshiva University and his MBA and JD from Fordham University.
http://blumbergcapital.comBryan Bui
Oxeon Ventures
I currently am a Director at Oxeon Venturesa seed-stage venture studio focused on building the next generation of healthcare IT/Service companies. Oxeon Ventures is wholly owned by Oxeon Partnersthe preeminent healthcare executive search firm that focuses on the build out of C suite level executive teams and has played an integral part in EvolentQuartetLandmark HealthClover and much more. My mandate is to identify opportunities in the marketbuild out business plans and execute them using the phenomenally talented executives sourced from Oxeon Partners.
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Buddy Shakhashir
Luther
Luther connects you with the best product managers out there and top 1% software developers from our vetted talent pool. Get a guaranteed price quote in minutes.
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http://hireluther.comBunny Yan
Left side of the Fashion
Bunny Yan has been working in the fashion and marketing industries for over 20 years. After experiencing first-hand with the large-scale waste problem these industries produce, she started her company with a focus on 'Upcycle' & 'Storytelling'. Bunny's accomplishments have been featured in Forbes, WWD, she has been invited to the White House and spoke in front of the UN.
www.leftsideoffashion.comByron Deeter
Bessemer Venture Partners
Byron Deeter is a leading investor in SaaS and Cloud. He co-authors Bessemer’s iconic 10 Laws of Cloud Computing and the annual State of the Cloud Report. He created the Bessemer Forbes Cloud 100 and BVP Nasdaq Emerging Cloud Index and works closely with many of the best founders in the cloud world. To date, nineteen of Byron’s investments are valued above $1 billion, including ten IPOs and counting.
www.bvp.comByron Ling
Primary VC
Byron was previously at Gilt Groupe, joining as an early marketer, and later leading the company’s corporate development efforts. He launched the company’s CRM marketing efforts, while working closely with the product team to build out the first loyalty platform. He later led the company’s corporate development efforts, including the sale of Jetsetter to TripAdvisor, debt/equity fundraising, and launching the company’s third-party distribution business. Prior to Gilt Groupe, Byron worked in investment banking at Sagent Advisors, focusing on food, drug and specialty retail M&A.
Byron earned an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. from Case Western Reserve University.
www.primary.vcCal Zarin
Shared Value Media
Cal Zarin is the Founder and Principal of Shared Value Media (SVM).
Founded in 2011, SVM creates scalable corporate partnerships among a network of nonprofits with a measurement framework to quantify both the social and media impact of the investment. SVM’s clients include EmblemHealth, Advantage Care Physicians, 212 LTD, NYC Parks and Rec., SC Johnson, Concept Farm, ThomasArts, among others. Before launching Shared Value Media, Cal led a consulting practice where he supported the fundraising and programmatic objectives of national nonprofits. Prior to that, Cal led the Carat Brand Experience NY office and was a key member of the national Aegis new business team, representing the event marketing capabilities of the holding company in key brand pitches, including SEARS/KMART, Orbitz, Kohler, and others.
http://sharedvaluemedia.comCarlos Baradello
Sausalito Ventures
Dr. Carlos Baradello is an investoradvisor and public speaker. A leading innovation and entrepreneurship practitionerCarlos draws his understanding from his broad global business and academic experiencedeep technical knowledge and understanding of the realities innovators encounter in organizations both large and small. His experience working with hundreds of entrepreneurs around the world has enabled him to gain key lessons for high-growth ventures to scale globally.
http://sausalitoventures.comCarlos Williams
DbC
Carlos is the Founder of Designed by Carlosa design studio that focuses on the tangible value of design. DbC is able to work across industries and capabilitiesaiming to use good strategy to tackle design challenges. Before founding DbC Carlos worked for Bain & Co as a Graphic Coordinator where he worked with Fortune 100 companies to improve their digital strategy & brand identity.
http://studiodbc.comCarly-Ann Fergus
XRC Labs
Carly-Ann Fergus sits at the intersection of Fashion, Technology, and Retail. She serves as the Director XRC Labs, a retail tech accelerator launched in partnership with founding sponsors Kurt Salmon and Parsons School of Design at The New School. As Director, Fergus helps select the portfolio startups, connects them with corporate partners, resources, and industry experts to accelerate their businesses.
With a multifaceted career journey in the fashion industry, her work experience spans from established companies such as Tommy Hilfiger, to start-up brands such as Nahm. She spearheaded the launch of a New York-based women's ready-to- wear brand and served, as Director of Operations, then earned her MA in Fashion Studies, with a focus on Strategic Design and Management at Parsons School of Design. Her thesis research focused on the rise of New York City as a leading global fashion capital and the issues that stem from the lack of access to capital for its rising community of emerging talent. Carly-Ann served as a member of the Selection Committee and Advisory Board for the 2017 - 2018 inaugural CFDA and Accessories Council Elaine Gold Launch Pad (an initiative intended to catapult visionary ideas into viable futures for designers 0-3 years within their professional journey). She strives to be a leading voice for change and innovation in fashion.
www.xrclabs.comCaroline McCarthy
true[x] Media
Caroline McCarthy is the vice president of communications and content at true[x] Mediaa digital advertising company that aims to bring the excitement and creativity of the television commercial to the web. She joined true[x] after spending a year as a freelance editorial director working with both startup and Fortune 500 clients on brand storytellingevent curationand product launches. Previouslyshe had roles at Googleleading influencer outreach and event partnerships for Google+and serving as managing editor of the Think Quarterly brand; and as a journalist and TV commentator for CNET.coma division of CBScovering entrepreneurship and digital culture. Caroline was named to Forbes' "30 Under 30 In Media" list in 2012 and twice to Business Insider's "Silicon Alley 100" list. Caroline serves on the advisory board for Social Media Week NYCis the vice chair of the board of directors at MOUSEand is an ambassador for women's outdoors organization Ladies Trekking. She has also done work with Camp Interactive and was a member of their NY Marathon team in 2010. Caroline is a proud alum of Princeton University."
http://www.truex.comCaroline Murphy
CSG PC
Caroline obtained her Barrister-at-Law degree from the Honorable Society of King’s Inns in Dublin, got admitted to practice at the Bar of Ireland, and is a member of AILA and the Irish American Bar Association of New York.
Caroline is experienced in employment-based, family-based, and investment-based immigration. As part of our EB-5 practice, she has worked with investors in both direct investment and Regional Center petitions, and has counseled individual EB-5 investors on Source of Funds requirements. Caroline has experience with corporate clients and startups seeking E, H and L nonimmigrant visas, as well as a range of extraordinary ability individuals, including entrepreneurs and entertainers. She has broad experience working with Irish individuals on J-1 Intern and Trainee visas.
bmkllp.comCasey Taylor
Female Founders Fund
Casey is a dedicated community professional who works to grow and support organizations that empower the most brilliant founders in the tech startup industry.
Before joining DCG, she served as the Director of Community at Female Founders Fund, an early-stage venture firm that invests promising, women-led companies. In this role she managed post-investment of a fast growing portfolio, in addition to overseeing the firm's own communications, brand strategy, Expert Network, partnerships, and 40+ annual events.
Prior to joining the team at Female Founders Fund (or F Cubed for short), she maintained a 50K+ member community of the world's largest Meetup group, NY Tech Meetup. In this position, Casey was keeper of a massive pipeline of demo applications, helping to vet and coach 200+ tech demos per year for the organization's popular monthly demo event. Additional responsibilities spanned from forum moderation, to crafting tech policy advocacy, to consulting on workforce development projects with the NYCEDC and Mayor's office.
Having found her way to the startup industry from an untraditional path, Casey cares deeply about mentorship and distributing opportunity to those who are commonly overlooked. At Goddard College she customized an Interdisciplinary BA in Communications to focus on the intersection between technology, sociology, gender studies, and sustainability.
http://femalefoundersfund.comCatherine P. Wells
CSG law
Catherine Wells is a member of CSG's management committee, the chair of the firm’s Labor & Employment Law Group and a member of its Litigation Group. As a commercial litigator with more than 25 years of experience, Catherine represents management in all types of employment-related matters, including wrongful discharge, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour issues and other business-related torts. In addition to regularly appearing before the state and federal courts in New Jersey, Catherine routinely handles matters before numerous administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Commission, the United States Department of Labor, the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights and other administrative agencies.
In addition to her litigation practice, she counsels employers in connection with the development and implementation of employment policies, training programs and other workforce management issues.
Catherine graduated cum laude from Seton Hall University and magna cum laude from Seton Hall University School of Law, where she was a member of the Constitutional Law Journal.
www.csglaw.comCaty Rea
Highland Capital Partners
Caty Rea joined Highland in June 2019 after completing her MBA at Harvard Business School. While at HBS, she was a Venture Fellow with Rough Draft Ventures where she sourced and invested in student-founded startups across Harvard, MIT, and the rest of the Boston-area university ecosystem. Between years at business school, she interned at BBG Ventures, a New York-based seed fund focused on female-founded companies.
Prior to HBS, Caty spent 3 years in consulting at McKinsey & Company, working across a variety of businesses in the U.S., Taiwan, and Hong Kong. She also spent time at two early-stage startups, PlacePass in Boston and Homebell in Berlin, Germany.
www.hcp.comCezary Pietrzak
Imgur
I help tech companies grow faster by combining data-driven thinking and human insights into a repeatable growth process (ie NOT growth 'hacking'). I focus predominantly of acquisition, retention and data strategy/platform implementations, and have 10+ years of experience in the following marketing disciplines and tools
imgur.comCharbel Khalife
EY
His career has been focused on financial services mixing strategy, banking, asset management, digital, FinTech, and fundraising. Previous employers include J.P. Morgan, BNP Paribas, and Societe Generale.
http://www.ey.com%20Charlene Gill
La Playa Insurance
Charlene joined La Playa Insurance in 2014, bringing perspective from both underwriting and broking. She has worked for over 22 years in both Personal and Commercial insurance, with the last 14 years being focused on underwriting risks related to the Entertainment Industry. With twin boys, most of her free time is spent cheering on favorite NY sports teams: Jets, Mets, Nets, and of course Let’s Go Rangers!
http://www.laplayainsurance.com/who-we-help/media-and-digital.htmCharles Kergaravat
Klaxoon
Charles Kergaravat is head of international marketing at Klaxoon, an award-winning company that is changing the way businesses harness the power of teams with solutions designed to make meetings more efficient and work practices more collaborative. Charles works closely with Fortune 500 executives and university researchers to help understand, predicate and implement transformations happening in organizations worldwide around the Future of Work. He has conducted multiple studies to measure how new ways of working are effecting and changing work habits at the intersection of people, places and technology.
Charles is very active in the technology scene, working closely with startups, accelerators, and incubators to further entrepreneurship and innovation. Prior to joining Klaxoon, Charles worked over 15 years on Wall Street for Societe Generale and Lehman Brothers. In 2008, he started Velo4Cure to raise funds for cancer research and completed a 3007 km solitary Tour de France by bike.
Charles LaCalle
Dreamit
Charles LaCalle devotes much of his time to analyzing edtech and digital health startups as potential investments for Dreamit. He also heads community management for the 250+ Dreamit portfolio companies.
Prior to joining DreamitCharles worked as an associate at Flatiron Investors, a seed-stage investment firm. He gained operational experience as a project manager at Allied Health Media (education technology) and a product associate at LearnVest (fintech). Charles holds a dual degree in Government and History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University. He is also on the board of StartOutwhich provides mentoring for LGBT founders and is an active mentor in Big BrothersBig Sisters.
http://www.dreamit.com/#meaningful-experienceCharles Chuck Neal
Tribeca Early Stage Partners
Chuck is a long term investor dedicated to working with entrepreneurs to help them achieve their operational and financial goals. Since leaving his investment banking career with Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in New York City, he has invested in many companies from start-up to later stage in a variety of industries. Serving in capacities from CEO to board member to investor, Chuck has assisted in the growth and success of many companies. One area of focus has been community banking. The Neal family has been involved in banking for decades and currently controls two banks in Oklahoma and Missouri.
http://www.tribecaesp.comCharles Smith
SocialStarts
Charles Smith has been an active NY angel investor since the mid2000s who has invested in more than a dozen companies, and has worked for and sat on the boards of ten more. He founded Extension Entertainment, a social music discovery platform. He is the owner of The Ineo Group LLC. Charles spent three years as the Vice President of Etsy Inc., was Vice President of Sales at Tacoda and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Planning at RealMedia.
http://www.socialstarts.comChelsey Nagy
Ladder.io
Chelsey is an experienced marketing strategist. Her passion is helping businesses find missed opportunities for growth and solving them by implementing digital growth strategies. Using data, Chelsey takes the guesswork out of creating marketing strategies for growing businesses looking to increase their bottom line and see huge returns on their marketing investments.
Her strong interpersonal, writing and organizational skills get her noticed by employers and coworkers alike. She has a strong work ethic that is complemented by her ability to problem solve, think quickly and be a passionate leader and manager.
ladder.ioChere Parton
Aetna Health
Ms. Chere Parton serves as COO of Aetna Digital. Previously, Ms. Parton was the National Head of Provider eSolutions for Aetna where she oversaw the strategy, development, marketing and deployment of all electronic solutions offered to the national health care community. Prior to joining Aetna in 2004, Ms. Parton was the Corporate Project Executive for Provider eConnectivity at Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia where she also oversaw the development of the strategy and execution of provider electronic solutions. She has over 20 years of experience in health care and has led provider marketing functions, business process reengineering and contracting negotiation oversight of over $50 million annually. In 2011, she was honored with a Healthcare 11 award recognizing 11 of the nation’s top executives and thought leaders in the healthcare IT industry by eMids Technologies and Healthcare Payer News. Ms. Parton holds a bachelor’s degree from Elizabethtown College and is accredited as a Fellow by the Academy for Health Care Management.
http://aetna.comChip Kennedy
Collectively
Chip is the Co-Founder and Director of Engineering at Collectively, helping startups design, build, and grow their technology. His goal is to bring mission-driven tech startups from idea to market by helping entrepreneurs plan, brand, design, and build their product.
He runs a studio filled with amazing designers, user experience experts, and engineers: all working together to challenge entrepreneurs and help them build technology that matters.
http://docollectively.comChipper Boulas
Firestartr
Chipper is an experienced internet investor and business builder, based in NY. He co-founded Firestartr, a London seed-stage investment platform helping >30 promising entrepreneurs build leading global companies across fintech, marketplaces, new media and cloud/SaaS. Chipper’s current focus is Fintech, with investments including: Transferwise, Pantera, Railsbank, Wagestream, Yoyo Wallet, AngelList.
Chipper previously led Corporate Strategy for eBay in Silicon Valley developing its first mobile strategy and spearheading over $3 billion in strategic acquisitions, including Skype. A management consulting partner in Asia, he co-founded McKinsey’s global Mobile Commerce Initiative, and co-built Booz-Allen’s Jakarta office.
Harvard (Physics), Cambridge (Math), and MIT (Management).
http://www.firestartr.coChris DeMayo
Withum
Chris is a partner at Withum and serves as the firm’s Practice leader for the Technology and Emerging Growth Services Group. With over 15 years of experience, he has dedicated his time to servicing this industry and tech community and has had the privilege of working and building relationships with some of the most well-known and successful technology and emerging growth companies in the space. In addition to servicing his clients, his responsibilities include representing the firm in the marketplace, developing marketplace strategies, leading the growth and success of the firm’s technology and emerging growth practice.
www.withum.comChris Dickey
NYU
Establishing and growing partnerships with international organizations charged with improving public health, including the World Bank, UNICEF, WHO, UNFPA, and WFP.
Designing, developing, delivering, evaluating, managing, and continuously improving educational experiences that incorporate experiential, active, social, and blended learning. Building a diverse and constantly evolving selection of global, continuing educational experiences, including courses and non-credit workshops.
Interested in sustainable, scalable public health programs that increase access to health care; Experienced manager of international program growth via data analysis and reporting using advanced technology tools; Co-Founder of pioneering company that delivers primary health care, diagnostics, approved drugs, and clean water to low income, rural consumers in growth markets; Former General Manager of technology firms focused on improving decision-making by senior executives; German-speaking, Columbia University Doctor of Public Health and Wharton MBA
Specialties: Public Health, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Management, Molecular Biology, Communication, Database design and analytics, Research
Chris Errico
Dentons
Chris Errico is Co-Chair of the firm's US Startup Program and member of the Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies practice at Dentons. Chris is actively engaged in a diverse corporate practice, working with a wide range of fast-growing technology, software, digital media and life science companies at every stage of their development.
Chris regularly counsels emerging growth companies on transactional matters, including venture capital, seed/angel financings; public and private offerings; asset and stock acquisitions; debt financings and mergers and acquisitions. Chris also advises his clients on a daily basis regarding complex securities matters, corporate governance matters, joint ventures, strategic transactions, and general legal issues.
bit.ly/2ywxqNTChris Gorges
Thompson & Prince
managing director at Infinia Group, where he leads Infinia Ventures, a practice dedicated to the startup ecosystem.
Before Infinia, he was at Havas Worldwide New York following a stint as a freelance strategy consultant at a number of creative agencies. He has done strategy consulting work in brand, digital and growth strategy for clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 and the US government
http://thompsonandprince.com
Chris Ho
Vickers Ventures
Mr. Chris Ho joined Vickers in 2016 as a Venture Principal and is based in New York. He assists in sourcing and evaluating international new investments and acquisitions, with a particular focus on technology.
Prior to joining Vickers, Chris worked at ZS Associates, a sales and marketing consulting firm, where he specialized in sales transformation projects. His work ranged from portfolio and business strategy and customer segmentation to incentive compensation plan design and effectiveness diagnostics, across a broad spectrum of industries including high-tech, travel and transportation, and agri-chemicals.
http://www.vickersventure.comChris Meade
SportsRecruits
Chris Meade is Co-CEO & Co-Founder at SportsRecruits
He is specialized in College Sports Recruiting, Business Development, Online Marketing, Operations, Sales.
sportsrecruits.com
Chrisophe Garnier
SparkLabs
Entrepreneur with strong track record in shaping and guiding organizational success in the digital commerce and new media industries. Been capitalizing on my expertise with start-up companies between EuropeNYC and Silicon Valley to launch e-commerce & m-commerce companies between Europe and North America. Vast experience in scaling start-up style businesses to corporate level operationsin both volume and global presence."
http://www.spark-labs.coChristian Busch
German Accelerator
Christian is in charge of the German Accelerator in NYC and is a managing partner at Napali Partners, a boutique consulting and advisory firm. Christian was previously SVP, Head of Marketing at Indiegogo, the world's global crowdfunding platform. .
Before that, Christian was General Manager and SVP Corporate Development for Alloy Digital (now Defy Media). He also served as General Manager for Takkle (acquired by Alloy Digital), and held senior management roles at Cellfish Media, and Bookspan (Bertelsmann/ Time Warner). Christian is on the board of Above Average (Broadway Video’s Youtube studio) and Pruftechnik AG and is an active investor in early-stage startups. Christian is a frequent speaker at industry events, avid traveler and fluent in English, German and Spanish.
Christian Guirnalda
Verizon
Christian Guirnalda currently manages Seed Stage Programs and Investments for Verizon Ventures. Before joining the team in New York, he was part of the Innovation & Incubation team at Verizon Wireless, co-developing products with startups and running an internal VZW accelerator.
Prior to Verizon Christian worked for Patch/The Huffington Post to create hyperlocal content strategies, at American Express building nextgen digital products, and with IBM’s Strategy and Change group advising Fortune 100 publishers, broadcasters, SmartGrid providers and telecoms.
He was a double major in Computing and Information Technology and Manufacturing Management and Consulting at Carnegie Mellon and received his MBA from the University of Michigan.
www.verizon.comChristian Noske
Alliance Ventures
Christian Noske is one of the most dedicated and talented young professionals working with Alliance Ventures that invests in cutting-edge solutions focusing on the mobility needs of the urban population.
www.alliance-2022.com/ventures
Christina Bechhold
Samsung Global Innovation Center
Christina Bechhold is an Investor at Samsung Global Innovation Center that is focued on early stage venture capital investments in software and services. She is a Regular Contributor on the Acceleratorsthe Wall Street Journal’s startup blogas well as a Venture for America mentor. Christina was previously a Managing Director at Empire Angels and a Vice President at Citigroup with background in capital marketsemerging markets and structured finance. Christina graduated cum laude from the honors program of Boston College with a B.S. in Management and majors in Finance and Philosophy."
http://empireangels.comChristoph Sonnen
ADvantage Sports Tech Fund
Christoph Sonnen is Partner at ADvantage Sports Tech Fund.ADvantage invests in early-stage technology companies aimed at shaping the future of sports. ADvantage is backed by leAD Sports, an initiative spearheaded by the grandchildren of Adi Dassler to further sports innovation, and global hybrid venture capital platform, OurCrowd.
www.advantagesportsfund.comChristopher Capra
Emerging Media
Experienced marketing and business development leader with proven success aligning marketing initiatives to drive sales and growth
Select Accomplishments
• 14+ years marketing and public relations experience with startups and large companies
• 11+ years experience in the online and offline gaming market
• Lead PR & marketing strategies that helped 10 venture-backed startups to acquisition in 10 years
• Drove customer acquisition, market share and awareness for online gaming companies
• Developed product placement opportunities in music videos and popular television shows, generating more than 150 million views
• Lead multi-disciplined marketing and public relations teams that successfully executed VIP events, concerts, parties and media relations campaigns
• Planned and executed marketing, public relations and social media initiatives for more than 40 trade shows, conferences, and events resulting in dominant press coverage in local, regional, national, lifestyle and broadcast media
• Formulated and managed branding, positioning and key messaging for disruptive startups and large companies
• Won 10+ PR & marketing awards, including the Best Company Positioning/Branding campaign for the PokerStars World Series of Poker Campaign in 2009
• As Director of Business Development for startup tech consulting company grew revenues from less than $500k to more than $12 million in 4 years
Expertise
Integrated marketing strategy • Public relations strategy • Marketing and public relations execution • Marketing and public relations measurement • Player acquisition and retention • Affiliate development and management • Brand development • Key messaging and positioning • Advertising • Social media • Business development • Online Gaming, Casino & Poker • Media and spokesperson training • Leveraging trade show and conferences • Customer relationship management • B-to-B • Analyst relations • Financial budgeting • P&L • Cross-functional teams • CXO reporting & management
Christopher Gallagher
German American Chamber of Commerce
Christopher is a Senior Manager for the German American Chamber of Commerce. At 120 locations in 80 countries around the world, the German Chamber Network (AHK) offers experience, connections, and services to German and foreign companies. The service portfolio of the AHKs was unified worldwide under the brand name DEinternational. DEinternational simplifies the international comparison of the different AHK services, especially for medium-sized companies.
Before working with the GACC, Christopher worked with the French-American Chamber of Commerce in New York. He also graduated from St. Joseph's with an M.B.A.
http://www.gaccny.com
Christopher Langford
Lowe’s Ventures
Christopher is a successful corporate finance and strategy professional with experience in strategy development, all forms of strategic execution (mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments, joint ventures and partnerships), transactional execution (marketing, due diligence, financial modeling) and leadership of both strategy-based and transaction-based teams.
www.lowes.com/ventures
Christopher T. Errico
Dentons
Chris Errico is Co-Chair of the firm's US Startup Program and member of the Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies practice at Dentons. Chris is actively engaged in a diverse corporate practice, working with a wide range of fast-growing technology, software, digital media and life science companies at every stage of their development.
Chris regularly counsels private and public companies on transactional matters, including venture capital, seed/angel financings; public and private offerings; asset and stock acquisitions; debt financings and mergers and acquisitions. Chris also advises his clients on a daily basis regarding complex securities matters, corporate governance matters, joint ventures, strategic transactions, and general legal issues.
In addition, Chris provides strategic insight and counsel to entrepreneurs on a broad array of issues, including general business strategy, organizational matters, equity financings, intellectual property protection and employment and compensation consulting.
Chris also works closely with Dentons' Health Care practice and Intellectual Property and Technology practice in advising the hospital and surgeon communities. This collaboration covers a broad range of health care services, including advising providers on regulatory compliance; creating accountable care organizations; and helping surgeons develop, protect, commercialize and enforce intellectual property rights.
www.dentons.com/enChuck Doerr
OpenFin
Chuck Doerr is President and COO of OpenFin. He is responsible for the company's technology strategy and business operations. Prior to OpenFinChuck was VP of CDS Technology at IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) where he was responsible for ICE's CDS e-trading and processing technology and software development. Before ICEChuck served as Chief Technology Officer of Creditex where he was responsible for all technology initiatives. He architected the company's award-winning technology platformled software development and managed Creditex's global technology infrastructure.
openfin.co
Clay Shirky
NYU
Clay Shirky is Vice Provost for Educational Technologies. In this role, he designs, develops, and enhances all academic aspects of technology-based teaching and learning, University-wide; oversees the development of NYU’s instructional technology strategy, working with deans, faculty, NYU IT, and other university offices; maintains an inventory of online education offerings; and helps schools use educational technology to recruit new students, help existing students learn and progress, and generate costs savings or new revenues. He chairs the University’s Future of Technology-Enhanced Education Committee.
www.nyu.edu/about/leadership-university-administration/office-of-the-president/office-of-the-provost/academic-affairs/clay-shirky.htmlClem Turner
BMK
General Legal Counsel: Clem has served in a "Business and Legal Affairs" position for two emerging companies and provided business and strategic counseling for numerous companies.
Business Combinations: Clem has handled the mergers of large public corporations and purchases of family-owned proprietorships.
Securities: Clem has counseled a wide range of companies on securities issues, from Fortune 100 public companies to pre-formation start-ups.
Entrepreneurial Law: Clem has represented start-up, emerging and established technology companies in a variety of ways, including Venture Capital Raises, Partnership Agreements, Employment Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements and more.
Entertainment Law: Clem has worked as a production company executive handling all legal aspects of film, television, internet and corporate production. Clem currently represents several production companies and talent.
Connor O'keefe
Quad Partners
Connor joined Quad in 2015 and is a Vice President. He leads efforts in a deal generation, transaction execution and portfolio management. He is currently a Board Member of TargetX, ILSC, Interfolio, Cayuse, and Rubicon. Prior to Quad, Connor worked in investment banking at Moelis & Company. He holds a BBA from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
http://www.quadpartners.comConor Webb
FFVC
Conor is an Associate for ff VC, one of the best performing seed- and early-stage venture capital firms investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. ffVC identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at their inception – across geographies and emerging industries.
Conor graduated from Boston College with a B.S. in Management and Marketing and received his M.B.A. in Private Equity and Finance from The University of Texas in Austin - Red McCombs School of Business. Conor has a lot of experience as an Associate working with Park Street Capital and Seven Peaks Ventures.
http://ffvc.comCoray Luskin
England & Company
Corey Luskin has over 20 years of experience in investment banking and corporate development, and brings extensive experience completing mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and financing transactions, primarily for information services, digital media, financial technology and financial services companies.
Cort Davies
Startup CMO
We help SaaS Startups build replicable, scalable sales and marketing systems so they can takethemselves out of sales for good. Free Training: How To Build A Replicable Sales System To Scale Your SaaS And Take Yourself Out Of Sales For Good.
http://startupcmo.ioCosmin Ene
Laterpay
Cosmin is currently developing and running LaterPaya Payment Infrastructure Platform for digital content provider. Content providers can use the LaterPay platform for creating different paid content business modelse.g. pay per use. Following the claim "Use nowpay later" the users can experience content first and convince themselves before paying for it. LaterPay's technology identifies and tracks user’s devicecreates a real time invoiceaggregates purchases across many websites and provides for their payment when €5 or a certain number of used articles is reached."
www.laterpay.netCourtney Nelson
BDMI Fund
Courtney Nelson is an Investor with BDMI, Bertelsmann’s Venture Capital fund. At BDMI, Courtney is responsible for deal origination, transaction execution, portfolio management and thesis development. She is a board observer or adviser for companies including Food52, Clique Brands, The Athletic, Dashbot, ART19, Zergnet, Wibbitz, Inked Brands, Vemba, and Inverse. Courtney joined BDMI from Catalyst Investors, a NYC-based growth equity firm investing in technology-enabled businesses. Prior to joining Catalyst, she worked at Greenhill & Company in their Mergers & Acquisitions group, where she worked on transactions across various industries with an emphasis on consumer and retail. Her other prior work experience includes positions at Business Insider and Allen & Company. Courtney was recently named as one of Business Insider’s “30 and Under: Rising Stars in Venture.” She holds a bachelor’s degree from McGill University, with concentrations in Finance and French and a minor in European History. Courtney serves as an alumni adviser for McGill and a mentor for BUILD, a non-profit dedicated to proving the power of experiential learning through entrepreneurship and empowering youth in under-resourced communities. She is on the Advisory Board for Venture For America, a non-profit dedicated to creating economic opportunity in American cities by mobilizing the next generation of entrepreneurs and equipping them with the skills and resources they need to create jobs.
http://www.bdmifund.comCraig Frischling
NY Angels
Angel investor and member of The New York Angels.
Experience in specialty chemical industry (cosmetic and drug ingredients), wellness industries (nutrition, weight loss), consumer marketing.
Led privately held global cosmetic ingredient business (Lipo Chemicals) through several stages of its growth. Sold company in 2010. After transitioning business, began angel investing in late 2012.
Private company portfolio includes: Imagine Air (air charter), Selvera (weight loss), Stylinity (fashion tech), Voz Apparel (fashion), Rip van Wafels (food), GameCo (gaming), Gel-e (biotech), True Made Foods, Myndlift (medical), and more.
http://www.newyorkangels.comCraig R. Mullet
Branison Group
Craig is the President of Branison Group. Branison Group provides merger and acquisition (M&A) advisory services to business owners, corporate executives and private equity groups.
http://www.branison.com
Csaba Konkoly
Tiller Partners
Global investor and entrepreneur.
Extensively travelled the world (visited over 70 countries) and worked and lived on 3 continents.
Specialties: startups, venture capital, private equity, business development, fundraising, global macro, hedge funds, trading, global equities, risk management.
Dan Akivis
Arc Companies
With a background in equity research, Dan is currently focused on venture capital LP opportunities as well as direct investments from seed through series B.
The Arc Companies are a group of New York-based companies that focus on the acquisition, development, building, marketing and repositioning of properties, primarily in high barrier-to-entry locations with a view toward long-term growth potential. The group also provides advisory services to third parties. In addition, The Arc Companies is involved in Venture and Start-up investments.
http://www.arcny.comDan Piekarz
Dataart
Business development, technology, and services executive with over 20 years of international experience implementing and leading technical service organizations within the life sciences, healthcare, software, and outsourcing industries. Extensive experience supporting SaaS clinical management, and SaaS CRM solutions.
Specialties: Global operations management, strategy alignment planning
Cross-functional leadership, organizational transformation, sales
US, EU, AP customer service implementations, customer experience focus
Information Technology, SaaS systems implementation, Clinical information systems
Problem management, project management, process design
Root cause analysis, CAPA, clinical regulatory awareness
Shoring, outsource, offshore partnerships, Help Desk
Global hardware provisioning, customer support, customer service
Metric dashboard design, reporting, analysis
Financial planning & control, budget, P&L
EHR, Telemedicine, mHealth
Dani Pascarella
Invided
Prior to founding Invibed, Dani became a stockbroker at age 20 while attending University of Florida and worked at CNBC on the show Mad Money with Jim Cramer. She went on to work as an Investment Specialist at J.P. Morgan, where she managed money for individuals with at least $25 million in investable assets. Dani also holds an M.S. from Columbia University and is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™.
Invibed is part of the NYU Steinhardt EdTech Accelerator powered by StartEd's 2017 Cohort, also participated in Startup Next (powered by Techstars and Google for Entrepreneurs) and Project Entrepreneur (powered by Rent The Runway and UBS)
invibed.comDaniel Braun
Work Genius
Daniel is a passionate Entrepreneur skilled in Digital Strategy, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and eCommerce. He has experience in the internet industry, VC, and Consulting as well as a Bachelor of Science from one of the finest Business Schools in Europe.
Work Genius (formerly MyLittleJob) shapes the Future of Work with AI-enabled freelancing to offload tasks in seconds and to engage up to 250,000 experts through technology.
Daniel's role there? He mostly focuses on acquiring more happy clients right now since that's what counts if you don't want to get eaten up in the most competitive playground in the world.
http://www.workgenius.comDaniel Clark
NYCEDC
Daniel has a love for people, places, and problem-solving. More specifically, he is an Urbanist and Economic Development professional specializing in Public-Private Partnerships, Business Development, and Corporate Attraction. He prides himself on bringing an entrepreneurial approach to all of his work, especially to be the youngest person to get a Business Improvement District across the line and established as a law in NYC.
All of his work at NYCEDC expresses itself in: promoting and growing quality jobs for all New Yorkers and in cultivating dynamic, resilient communities across all five boroughs.
www.nycedc.com
Daniel Gesser
CXense
Dan Gesser is an experienced and innovative sales leader and digital marketer with a proven track record of building customer engagement and ROI in B2B and B2C environments. In his most recent role Dan was Senior Vice President of Sales for Cxense in North America, responsible for new sales and customer success.
Prior to joining Cxense, Dan held a number of Sales Leadership roles at IBM. Dan joined IBM with the 2013 acquisition of the mobile customer engagement start-up, Xtify. He built and led the sales and business development organization for Xtify and was responsible for new customer engagements, working closely with the C-Suite of companies ranging from Coca-Cola to the U.S. Federal Government.
Prior to joining Xtify, Dan held a number of roles at Citi, Overture Technologies, and CGI-AMS. Dan has an MBA from the Ross School of Business at The University of Michigan and a BA from Cornell University.
www.cxense.comDaniel Goetzel
Cyber NYC
Former politico & Director of Innovation Initiatives at Johns Hopkins University.
Current: Executive Director of the Inventors to Founders Initiative at Cyber NYC, a $100 M public-private focused on building a next-generation entrepreneurial ecosystem in New York.
2019-2020 Visiting Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.
cyber-nyc.comDaniel Kraft
ifridge & Company
Daniel Kraft brings years of executive leadership experience across various high technology disciplines. He is the founder and managing director of ifridge & Company and CEO and President of NewsGatora top enterprise-class social software vendor. A proven guru in corporate strategyDaniel has held senior positions in several leading Enterprise Software companiesand as President & CEO at RedDot Solutionshe led the company into the U.S. marketand ultimatelyto a successful acquisition by Open Text. Prior to thathe held senior positions with Commerzbank Securities where he led investment banking transactions in the software market."
http://www.ifridge.comDaniela Zatloukalova
iTutorGroup
Daniela is a seasoned marketing professional with a broad international experience in the education technology field, both in the US, Europe, and Asia. Her career has spanned a variety of leadership roles including business development, global marketing, strategy, and project management. Daniela has worked with clients ranging from Fortune 500 clients to small, medium enterprises. Daniela's specialty lies creative marketing, partnership development, event production and project planning. Currently, Daniela holds a Global Marketing & PR Manager role at iTutorGroup, which is the largest online education platform that leads a revolution in education with its human-to-human platform and service model. Prior to joining iTutorGroup, Daniela has been actively involved in the Silicon Valley accelerator space and continues to spur entrepreneurship and grow startup ecosystems globally. Daniela is passionate about self-development, health, wellness, psychology, and neuroscience.
http://www.itutorgroup.comDanielle Weinblatt
Take The Interview
Danielle is the Founder and CEO of ConveyIQ. She has operational and startup experience from founding to scale and helped create the Digital Interviewing and Interviewing Management sectors. In 2017, she launched Convey-the first Talent Communication software for recruitment. Convey is the only solution that engages candidates from application to onboard integrated into all major Applicant Tracking Systems. She has led the company since inception and has experience launching 3 software products. In 2016, the company was recognized as a Top 10 HR Cloud Solution Provider. ConveyIQ has raised $14M in venture capital.
Danielle has been a contributing writer for Inc. Magazine, The Huffington Post and Wired and was a contributor to the book, "Been There, Run That." In 2014, she was named a Game Changer by Workforce Magazine and a Top Under 30 Entrepreneur by the New England Technology Summit. Danielle was an Arthur Rock Fellow at Harvard Business School and is a member of the Rock 100, a network of founders of high-impact ventures.
ConveyIQ's mission is to build the most innovative products possible that enable employers to create remarkable hiring experiences at scale. Leading brands in over 95 countries work with ConveyIQ to hire the best talent, including Dentsu Aegis, NBCUniversal, Convergys, Equinox, Zappos, and The New York Times.
Danielle attended Harvard Business School where she achieved Honors while founding Take the Interview, a digital interviewing software company. Before HBS, Danielle was a Private Equity Associate at Catterton Partners. She began her career in M&A in Citigroup's Investment Banking Division, focused on Energy, where she was a top-ranked Analyst.
Danielle received a B.S., summa cum laude, in Applied Economics from Cornell University. She graduated in the top 1% of her business school class, Beta Gamma Sigma with Highest Distinction. She is a classical pianist, cellist and was an opera singer.
http://www.conveyiq.comDanish Munir
Genoa Healthcare
Danish Munir joined Genoa Telepsychiatry since 2015 and he is currently the Technology VP. Before this, he also served as CTO and Co-founder of 1DocWay, which is a Web-based Telepsychiatry company. They help clinics that treat behavioral health patients but don't have enough provider capacity by finding them the right providers and equipping them with a purpose built telepsychiatry platform to facilitate remote care delivery. Before his career, Danish attended The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, and earned the bachelor degree in Engineering and Computing information Sciences there.
http://www.genoahealthcare.comDanny Lopez
Blippar
A bi-lingual, driven and experienced leader, I have worked internationally at the highest level in both the private and public sectors. I am a former diplomat and banker with strong business development, communication and leadership skills. After years of watching with admiration what the world of tech is achieving, I am excited to now be a part of it.
web.blippar.comDANNY SCHULTZ
Gotham Ventures
Danny is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Gotham Ventures and enjoys working closely with entrepreneurs to help them achieve their vision. Over the last two decades he has been actively involved with technology companies from startups to public companies in media, ecommerce, mobile and enterprise software.Danny ran Lehman Brothers equity private placement business just prior to co-founding his own start-up, Atlantic Venture Partners, the predecessor to DFJ Gotham and now Gotham Ventures. He began investing as an angel and was fortunate to get very early exposure to the Israeli tech scene going back to the mid-1980s.Danny is attracted to creative and energetic entrepreneurs that seek to disrupt the status quo and loves to see entrepreneurs succeed. His investing is focused on e-commerce, digital media, fintech, mobile and the enterprise. Currently, he is responsible for Gotham’s investments in Yipit and Pickie – e-commerce companies that also thrive on data, an area Danny loves.Danny has led a number of Gotham’s successful investments including XOsoft, acquired by CA, and Pivot, acquired by the CME Group. He was also responsible for Gotham’s investment in Massive through its successful acquisition by Microsoft. His personal investments have included SMARTS, acquired by EMC; Insulair, acquired by Georgia Pacific; Active Impulse Systems, acquired by Phillips; and PassLogix, acquired by Oracle.Danny also enjoys mentoring young VCs and entrepreneurs. He is active with the Kauffman Fellows Program and Endeavor Global and was Co-chair of INGENUITY 2012, New York’s premier startup venture conference.Danny is a graduate of Columbia University with a degree in Economics. He and his family reside in Westchester, New York. In his spare time, he can frequently be found somewhere in Westchester playing hockey, or in nicer weather training for his next triathlon.
http://gothamvc.com/portfolio/daniel-schultzDario Mutabdzija
Blueseed
Dario is the Co-Founder & President of Blueseed. Blueseed is the upcoming startup community on a cruise ship stationed in Silicon Valley’s international waters. Dario studied and/or worked in HawaiiChinaCaliforniaAustria and Bosnia. He received his J.D. and LL.M. in Transnational Business Practice from McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento CAand the University of Salzburg in Austria. Prior to BlueseedDario served as Director of Legal Strategy for The Seasteading Institute. He is passionate about connecting people and businesses around the world."
http://blueseed.comDave Govan
Hitachi
e are on the threshold of the IoT era, where all things are connected to one another through digital technology, transforming the way we do business, the shape of industry, and people's lifestyles.
Anticipating these changes, Hitachi is advancing its 2018 Mid-term Management Plan to become an Innovation Partner for the IoT Era. In fiscal 2016—the first year of its three-year plan with a target date set for fiscal 2018—Hitachi transitioned from a product-out organizational structure to a market-driven one, and worked vigorously to launch the Lumada IoT platform to enable new value creation.
Today, we are engaged in helping resolve a wide range of social issues through the global implementation of our Social Innovation Business—which combines the operational technologies that have been our strength since our founding with the expertise in IT we have amassed over more than half a century, including such new digital technologies as big data analysis and AI.
The needs of our customers and the issues confronting society today are constantly changing. Responding quickly and effectively to those changes requires collaborative creation with customers and partners. We will work with all of you to address shared issues, exchange ideas, and create new value for society by contributing to the enhancement of people's quality of life and the building of a sustainable society.
Dave Grossman
DG Interactive
January 2002, Dave formed DG InteractiveLLC, an interactive marketing agency. His goal was to start a company centered on digital marketing that would integrate the most common aspects of customer’s digital needs: Website design and development with a focus on search engine optimization and online marketing. Dave feels that the key to unlocking value for clients is in building a client’s brand by designing user-friendly sites that potential customers are able to find when they search online. Dave has a strong commitment to customer service and always makes sure the client’s needs are met.
Prior to starting DG Interactive, Dave was a Senior Producer and Search Engine Strategist at ICE Integrated Communications and Entertainment in New York where he managed and consulted on projects for a diverse selection of clients including ForbesFidelity Investments, Canadian Tire, Price, waterhouse, Coopers, and Canon U.S.A.
http://dg-interactive.comDave Zilberman
Comcast Ventures
Dave joined Comcast Ventures in 2006, and is responsible for identifying, executing and managing new investments while supporting existing portfolio companies. His investment focus is on enterprise IT and digital media.
Prior to joining Comcast Ventures, Dave was a business development manager at Flarion Technologies, where he played a pivotal role in the company’s fundraising activities and ultimate acquisition by Qualcomm.
Prior to Flarion, Dave was a communications and media investment banking analyst and asset management associate at Lehman Brothers. Dave holds a B.S. in Management with a concentration in Finance from Binghamton University.
http://Dave%20joined%20Comcast%20Ventures%20in%202006,%20and%20is%20responsible%20for%20identifying,%20executing%20and%20managing%20new%20investments%20while%20supporting%20existing%20portfolio%20companies.%20His%20investment%20focus%20is%20on%20enterprise%20IT%20and%20digital%20media.%20%20Prior%20to%20joining%20Comcast%20Ventures,%20Dave%20was%20a%20business%20development%20manager%20at%20Flarion%20Technologies,%20where%20he%20played%20a%20pivotal%20role%20in%20the%20company’s%20fundraising%20activities%20and%20ultimate%20acquisition%20by%20Qualcomm.%20%20Prior%20to%20Flarion,%20Dave%20was%20a%20communications%20and%20media%20investment%20banking%20analyst%20and%20asset%20management%20associate%20at%20Lehman%20Brothers.%20Dave%20holds%20a%20B.S.%20in%20Management%20with%20a%20concentration%20in%20Finance%20from%20Binghamton%20University.David Antokal
York Advisory Group
David Antokal’s mission is to be a perfect equity partner to small business owners and entrepreneurs through respectful and valuable engagement, building bonds that extend beyond business. His company leads and co-invests in equity investments in growth-ready companies between $5-$50 million of revenue and up to $5 million of EBITDA. They bring to bear a focused group of operating advisors and a supportive network to help make the best decisions for long-term success.
David Beatty
Golden Seeds
David is an entrepreneur and Angel investor. David is currently co-founder and Vice President of Business Development for ProSeeder Technologiesan enterprise funding platform enabling financial firms to collaboratesyndicate and execute private equity and debt transactions. David is an active angel investor and is a Managing Director of Golden Seedsan angel investor group in New York where he is co-head of the Golden Seeds instituteleading workshops for angel investors and entrepreneurs in the US and overseas. David sits on a number of boardsincluding Emoziatechnology to assess a users emotional state and MISa radiology consulting company."
http://www.gorann.comDavid Bigelow
JP Morgan Private Bank
David Bigelow is a Senior Banker at J.P.Morgan’s Private Bank which brings indispensable intelligence and personalized insights to individuals and families across the globe. J.P.Morgan’s Private Bank focuses on helping clients address their long-term financial needs. It develops strategies to help preserve your wealth-so clients can enjoy their life, provides for their heirs and supports the causes they are passionate about.
His passions include my children, his family's Vermont homestead, rugby and fund-raising for high impact non-profits (especially higher education and medical foundations).
am.jpmorgan.com/private-bank/public/gl/en/home?refid=gpslp01&utm_campaign=BrandBanking&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=Google&keyword=jp%20morgan%20private%20bank&linked=search-BrandBanking-google-ppc-jp%20morgan%20private%20bank&gclid=Cj0KCQiA-qDTBRD-ARIsAJ_10yIOW5ZreI_S5Yh5vKiGmiOQEcYP4cmH01T9jCynoqkm4L6buDQm4PUaAsJZEALw_wcBDavid Eun
Samsung NEXT
David founded Samsung NEXT as a startup within Samsung to foster a culture of innovation across our global offices. The mission of Samsung NEXT is to help transform Samsung. We help entrepreneurs and innovators Build, Grow, and Scale software and services businesses. Our suite of services and capabilities allow us to meet and support innovators wherever they are, at any stage in their lifecycle. We do this by making venture investments to gain market intelligence and create collaboration opportunities, by executing on M&A and partnerships to bring new capabilities and talent to existing Samsung products, and by leveraging our own product development expertise to create entirely new software and services businesses and platforms.
www.samsung.com/usDavid Goldberg
Corigin Ventures
Corigin Ventures is a Manhattan based investor of early-stage capital and support. Leveraging operational expertise and cross-industry relationshipswe seek tech-enabled startups in high-growth markets led by inspirational teams. Free of limited partners or sector constraintsCorigin Ventures focuses on Seed and Series A investments."
http://www.vcramblings.comDavid Greenburger
Hitachi Vantara
David builds revenue teams at technology organizations. He works with a few of the best-executing startups in New York City, building high-intensity, culture-first teams. David is an advisor to early-stage startups, Co-organizer of BuildingTheSalesMachine.com - a knowledge sharing platform for Founders, VP's and Directors building revenue organizations.
www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/home.htmlDavid Hauser
Brainchild & Co
David Hauser is the Head of Finance & Operations at Brainchild & Co where he lead Finance and operations across direct-to-consumer companies being incubated in-house at Brainchild & Co. In addition to that he aids in the diligence, sourcing and executing of investments for Brainchild Holdings, Kal Vepuri’s direct investment vehicle.
http://brainchild.coDavid Hochman
Business Incubator Association of New York State
David Hochman is the Executive Director of the Business Incubator Asso- ciation of New York State. He is a board member of the New York State Economic Development Councilco-heading an innovation section. David is also a consultant in technology-based economic developmentserving clients in the government and non-profit sectors. He holds an A.B. in the history of science from Princeton University and an MBA in finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business."
http://bianys.comDavid Horowitz
Genacast Ventures
David is a partner at Genacast Ventures. Prior to GenacastDavid was Managing Director at Comcast Venturesthe venture capital arm of Comcast. David joined Comcast Ventures in 2000 as one of the first employees of the fund. David focused on investments in digital mediaadvertising technologydigital homeeducation and financial technology. David led investments in Entropic (NASDAQ: ENTR)Intellon (NASDAQ: ITLN)Invite Media (acquired by Google)LinkShare (acquired by Rakuten)Nuera Communications (acquired by Audicodes)and XOS Digital (acquired by JumpTV/Neulion.) Prior to Comcast VenturesDavid worked in investment banking at Bear Stearns."
http://www.genacast.comDavid Levy
Tribeca Early Stage Partners
David has been an active entrepreneur and investor in financial software and services for 25 years. From 1994 to 2004 David was co-founder and CEO of CDS, which sold front-office software for high yield bond trading, loan trading and loan syndication. In 2008, David led an angel group that invested in Debtdomain, an early-stage company with an emerging Web platform for new issue book building, CRM, and data rooms in the syndicated loan market. He joined as co-CEO, opened the New York office and built the business to a successful exit in 2013 via a sale to Ipreo, which was then a KKR portfolio company. David stayed at Ipreo as a member of the senior management team through 2018, until its acquisition by IHS Markit.
http://www.tribecaesp.comDavid Magerman
Differential Ventures
David Magerman is a co-founder and managing partner at Differential Ventures.
After a decorated career in quantitative finance, he is using his data science, software development, and statistical modeling expertise to help startups succeed in the global marketplace.
David Matlin
McCarter & English
David Matlin is special counsel to McCARTER & ENGLISH, focusing in the areas of transactional, securities and general corporate law matters. He represents primarily privately- and publicly-owned startup, early stage, emerging growth, and middle market technology and life science enterprises, as well as the investors, executives, and boards of directors who support and lead them in corporate finance transactions, securities offerings, periodic securities law compliance, and mergers and acquisitions.
David had been counsel at SorinRand. He has also been a partner in the New Jersey office of Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corporation and of the Princeton office of Hale & Dorr LLP. David returned to legal practice eager to apply his combined legal and healthcare industry experience to assist our clients in achieving their goals.
www.mccarter.comDavid Melton
Empire Angels
Empire Angels is a member-led, New York City based angel group comprised of experienced young professionals who are attracted to making smart investments in early stage technology ventures with a focus on supporting young, US based entrepreneurs. The group is collaborative and open source, providing a democratic framework with highly filtered deal flow and member training. Empire Angels, through it’s individual members, typically invests between $100k and $250k in Seed, Seed+ and Series A rounds. EA invests in early stage, capital efficient companies led by dedicated, young founders with a clever solution, large target market and initial user engagement, as well as a clear path to meaningful revenue generation in the next 6-12 months. Empire Angels hosts monthly pitch sessions to screen start ups before pursuing due diligence and active negotiations. Empire Angels is not a fund and while members collaborate on due diligence, make individual investment decisions.
http://empireangels.comDavid Mishkin
Oxeon Ventures
As a Director on the Oxeon Ventures Fund team, David focuses on a broad range of activities, including leading the sourcing and diligence efforts of Oxeon’s strategic venture fund, as well as managing Oxeon’s portfolio of more than 50 investments. David is a passionate advocate for healthcare entrepreneurs and an active member of the startup ecosystem in New York City.
http://www.oxeonpartners.comDavid Pakman
Venrock
After 12 years as an internet entrepreneurDavid joined Venrock in 2008 as a Partner and focuses on early stage internet and digital media companies. PreviouslyDavid was the CEO of eMusicthe world’s leading digital retailer of independent music. Prior to joining eMusicDavid co-founded Myplay in 1999which introduced the “digital music locker” and pioneered the locker category. Before Myplayhe was Vice President at N2K Entertainment. He also was the co-creator of Apple Computer’s Music Group.David is a graduate of and a member of the Board of Overseers at University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is an active mentor in New York’s TechStars startup accelerator program. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of ITHAKA and holds a board seat with the New York Venture Capital Association."
http://www.venrock.com/teammember/david-pakmanDavid Powell
iCashout
David Powell is an experienced Program Director focusing on building community and connecting people with ideas. His skill sets include strategic partnerships, content strategy, and influencer outreach. In addition, he has a unique talent for building partnerships that create the resources needed to build companies.
www.mission50.com/enDavid Segura
[Moderator] Angel Investor
David Segura is an accomplished executive and investor. He's capable of scaling organizations and managing growth in a number of industry categories ranging from AdTech to FinTech to Consumer.
He also has invested in over forty companies. Investments include Eaze, Grove Collaborative, Hawthorne, Mogul, StyleSage, Origin Protocol and more.
www.grove.co/homeDavid Sorin
McCarter & English
Dave Sorin is an office managing partner of McCarter & English and Co-Chair of the Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Companies practice. He focuses primarily on privately- and publicly-owned startup, early stage, emerging growth, and middle market technology, tech-enabled and life science enterprises, as well as the investors, executives, and boards of directors who support and lead them. Dave has a long track record of successful representation of growth companies, having been repeatedly recognized by well-known periodicals for a unique combination of legal acumen and sound business judgment. He also brings to bear his broad range of knowledge and experience in counseling enterprises and investors in diverse emerging growth markets, technology industries and life sciences.
www.mccarter.comDavid Studinski
Sailthru
As the director of product management at Sailthru, David assists in the management of 20+ person development team, oversees QA and Implementation groups, plans and maintains product roadmap, specifically core product enhancements, and engages in numerous other activities.
http://sailthru.com
David Teten
HOF Capital
David Teten is a Venture Partner with HOF Capital, an international venture capital fund based in New York. David has a particular interest in fintech, sales tech, and HR tech. He was previously a Managing Partner with HOF Capital and Partner for 6 years with ff Venture Capital, one of the best-performing seed- and early-stage venture capital firms in the U.S. He has served on the boards of Authorea (sold to Wiley), Earnest Research (Observer), Ionic Security, Signup.com, and Whisk (sold to Deem). David also has advised clients such as Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Icahn Enterprises, LLR Partners, Birch Hill Equity Partners, and other institutional investors. He earlier was a serial fintech entrepreneur with two exits. David holds a Harvard MBA and Yale BA, both with honors. He writes regularly at teten.com.
http://www.hof.capital/#second
David Wadler
Vendorful
David was the co-founder and CEO of Twistage, which he led from inception to a profitable multimillion dollar business to an exit by a Fortune 1000 company. Over the course of his career, he has spent time in sales, software development, product management, and hodgepodge of things unrelated to technology.
David became the GM of Rich Media and Cloud Products at Lexmark Enterprise Software after Twistage's sale to Lexmark International. During his tenure there, he became an active angel investor and adviser to startups. Upon his departure from Lexmark, David fully rejoined the startup world as the co-founder/CEO of a new venture.
A graduate of Brown University, he lives in NYC with his wife and two children.
vendorful.comDawn Kikel
37 Angels
Serial entrepreneur and angel investor with experience pre launch through IPO. As an active early stage investor, I am interested in companies in a wide variety of businesses. I make seed and angel investments in early stage companies that represent game changing ideas or technology rather than small upgrades to the status quo. An advisor and mentor in the early aspects of building companies with expertise in strategy, hiring, branding, business development, sales, communications and marketing.
http://www.37angels.comDeanna Dammers
Deep Dive Talent
Deanna Dammers is Chief Talent Officer at Deep Dive Talent.
Experienced collaborator, strategist, partner, and transformer. Focused on innovative organizations particularly in the areas of HealthTech and FinTech. The connector of Startups with VCs, Angel Investors, and partnering opportunities. Maintains a sharp emphasis on making companies more valuable by utilizing solid relationships to uncover untapped opportunities, garner trust of the account, and surpass expectations.
Areas of expertise in healthcare are with initiatives related to the Disruption and Positive Impact of Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning in Improved Healthcare Delivery. Possesses a clear understanding of the current healthcare landscape, assists in the conception and implementation of strategies that result in new markets, new clients and increased revenue.
Areas of expertise in FinTech are to uncover top talent in Blockchain, AI/Machine Learning to assist in the Disruption and Positive Impact of time to market solutions.
deepdiveinsights.comDeb Berman
Skaled
Deb Berman is a Principal at Skaled, a consulting and training company which helps companies to optimize their people, processes, and technology to accelerate business growth for scaling success.
As a leader, Deb has led high-performance Sales, Account Management and Success Management teams specializing in building out repeatable, scalable processes.
http://skaled.com
Deborah Jackson
Plum Alley
Deborah Jackson is the Founder and CEO of www.PlumAlley.co and the Co-founder of the WIM Accelerator. Deborah earned her MBA from Columbia Business School in 1980. In early 2011 she founded JumpThru, a for-profit company whose purpose is to encourage more women to use technology and to create their own wealth by founding successful companies. Deborah has been active in early stage companies both as an investor and founder. She was a member of New York New Media in the late 1990s where she made her first early stage company investments. Since 2009Deborah has been a member of Golden Seedsthe third most active angel network in the nation investing in female founded companies. Her investment portfolio spans from cloud technology and consumer internet to mobile technology companies.
plumalley.co
Deborah Nilson
Deborah A. Nilson & Associates
Deborah Nilson is Founder at Deborah A. Nilson & Associates.
International corporate attorney with 30+ years of experience assisting foreign clients in launching their businesses in the U.S. Practice areas includes the creation of corporations, mergers & acquisitions, commercial leasing, drafting and negotiation of contracts, employment law and intellectual property law.
http://www.nilsonlaw.comDebra Perry
McCarter & English
Debra Perry advises regulated biological product, pharmaceutical, and medical device companies on legal and compliance issues during the development, marketing and distribution phases of their products. She provides strategic planning and risk management guidance regarding FDA submissions, conduct of clinical trials, enforcement issues, and post-approval promotional, marketing and labeling issues.
Deep Gujral
Withum
Deep is a principal and the leader of Withum’s Technology Advisory practice based in New York City. Deep’s team of technology industry specialists provide consulting services including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and capital raising to both venture and private equity-backed companies, ranging from SaaS, e-commerce, marketplace, ad-tech and publishing sectors.
Deep is known for delivering high-value strategic advice to entrepreneurs, private equity, and venture capital firms as they seek to stay at the forefront of the rapidly changing market. He frequently presents and authors articles around technology trends, entrepreneurial strategies and the venture capital landscape. Deep also serves as a mentor and advisor to various tech organizations including 500 Startups, Y-Combinator and Techstars, and is a member of the New York Venture Capital Association, and the National Venture Capital Association.
www.withum.com
Deepa Gandhi
Dagne Dover
Deepa Gandhi is founder and COO of Dagne Dover that combines her fashion acumen with analytical skills and insights. Recognizing her passion for retailshe transitioned from Lehman Brothers to Club Monaco where she honed knowledge of merchandisingplanningand managing a retail supply chain. She now brings this experience to Dagne Dover."
http://www.dagnedover.comDeepen Parikh
Courtside Ventures
Deepen Parikh is a Venture Partner at Interplay Ventures, a Partner at Courtside Ventures, and a Board Member of the New York Venture. He also acts as a mentor of the LA Dodgers Sports & Entertainment Accelerator and a founding member of NextGen Angels NYC.
about.me/deepenparikhDennis Gamiello
Mastercard
Driven product executive with track record of developing talented teams and delivering strong business results. Extensive global experience spanning product, technology, business development, digital payments and security. Currently leading company and industry-wide effort to secure digital payments and enable a great consumer experience.
www.mastercard.us/en-us.htmlDennis Mortensen
x.ai
Dennis Mortensen is the CEO and co-founder of x.ai.
Dennis is an expert in leveraging data to solve enterprise use cases and a serial entrepreneur who’s successfully exited several companies on that theme.
His long-term vision of killing the inbox led to the formation of x.ai and the creation of Amy + Andrew, artificially intelligent assistants who schedule meetings. He speaks frequently to anyone who’ll listen, from the crowds of Web Summit to his building’s doorman, about an optimistic future for AI, productivity, and the future of work.
Dennis was also an accredited Associate Analytics Instructor at the University of British Columbia and the author of Data Driven Insights, on collecting and analyzing digital data.
Originally from Denmark (and keeping his accent), Dennis is now a New Yorker for life.
x.aiDerek Wong
A+E Networks
Derek is an Associate at A+E Networks.
He is passionate about innovation at the intersection of media, technology, and social impact. With professional experiences in strategy, development, and business operations across broadcast, digital, and social media, my goal is to help shape how media and technology organizations will continue to change how content and information are created, distributed, and consumed.
www.aenetworks.comDessy Levinson
645 Ventures
A life-long geekDessy is passionate about nascent technology and is eagerly waiting for the future to become more evenly distributed. She is doing her part by specializing in VR/ARmost recently leading 645 Ventures’ Series A investment in LittlStar.
She spent fifteen years as a creative director, acquiring a deep understanding of the digital consumer mindset while leading marketing initiatives for Colgate PalmoliveGerberCentury 21Mall of America etc. At 645 VenturesDessy brings a rare balance of reason and creativity, enabling her to make investment decisions that are driven in equal measure by logic and vision.
http://645ventures.comDiane Henry
37 Angels
Diane Henry has 10 years experience in building a successful real estate company. Bringing her experience to Rogue Capital, Henry has a passion for helping technology companies start and build their own businesses.
Dietmar Rieg
German American Chamber of Commerce
Dietmar Rieg is the President & CEO of the German American Chamber of Commerce New York since 2013. From 1993 to 2005, he represented Bayern LB in various positions in New York City. From 2006 to 2008, he shifted to the bank’s headquarters in Munich, where he was responsible for the corporate banking business in multiple industries, including energy and telecommunications. He returned to New York in 2008 to take the position of CEO of Bayern LB’s subsidiary office. Since then he has been at the helm of the GACCNY. Mr. Rieg is an economist with a degree from the University of Tuebingen, Germany and also holds an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Dina Fierro
Christian Louboutin
Dina Fierro is a creative thinker and seasoned digital marketer with more than 15 years of professional experience. A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, she explored roles in editorial, marketing and communications before launching, in 2006, one of the first successful fashion and beauty blogs, eye4style.com. Her early immersion in the blogosphere led to a senior role at digital marketing agency Attention, leading the fashion and beauty practice and launching brands including MAC Cosmetics, Clinique, Nine West, and David Yurman in social media. She later joined sister agency HL Group, where she was tasked with developing and leading the then nascent Digital practice as well as strategy for clients that included Amazon Fashion, Bloomingdale's, Bolthouse Farms, Hilton Worldwide Luxury Brands, and Stella Artois. A versatile brand marketer, Dina most recently led global digital initiatives for iconic Parisian designer Christian Louboutin.
Dina has been engaged as a speaker on social media and influencer marketing by Decoded Fashion, Glossy's Hot Topics series, Intersect Fashion Internet Week New York, Social Media Week, and BlogHer, among other events. Passionate about innovation, she serves as a mentor at the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA), a New York-based incubator that provides a roster of hand-selected, participating start-ups with an intensive four-month program designed to advance their progress into exciting, viable businesses.
http://www.christianlouboutin.comDina Ufberg
Connectivity Capital Partners
Dina Ufberg works with the Connectivity Ventures Fund launched in 2015 by the principals of Connectivity Capital Partnersan advisory firm that leverages its unique global network to make introductions that add real economic value to new companies and ventures."
http://www.connectivitycapitalpartners.comDivya Kaveria
Capco
Divya is Principal Consultant at Capco, an FIS™ company that is a global management consultancy with a focus in financial services including banking and payments, capital markets, and wealth and asset management, plus a dedicated energy division. We combine innovative thinking with unrivalled industry knowledge to deliver business consulting, digital, technology and transformational services. Its collaborative and efficient approach helps clients reduce costs, manage risk and regulatory change while increasing revenues.
www.capco.comDJ Smith
The Glimpse Group
D.J. Smith is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at The Glimpse Group. The Glimpse Group is a holding company for a portfolio of startups focused on the virtual and augmented reality industries. At Glimpse, D.J.’s responsibilities include overseeing the production of all VR and AR content as well leading the effort to locate new subsidiary companies. In addition, D.J. is co-organizer of The New York Virtual Reality which is currently the 2nd largest VR meetup in the world with 4500 members.
www.theglimpsegroup.comDmytro Pokhylko
NYCEDC
Dmytro Pokhylko is Director and Vice President of FS, Media, Tech, and entrepreneurship Teams at New York City Economic Development Corporation. He oversees development and implementation of economic policies across the City’s key sectors and key functions of sector teams, including budget development, portfolio structuring, and personnel development. Oversee and manage outside multiple consultant teams conducting work on current initiatives. In terms of community engagement and stakeholder management, he represents the City and helps build consensus at CEO-level public-private dialogues, domestic and international panels and in-person meetings with key stakeholders; coordinate communications for finance-, media- and broadband- focused advisory boards.
www.nycedc.comDoba Parushev
Edison Partners
Born and raised in Bulgaria, Doba began his career with Endeavor in Chile, where he assisted in the search, selection and support of promising entrepreneurs. There he led a technology incubation program in partnership with 3M and a venture debt program sponsored by Banco de Chile. Later he worked in management consulting with McKinsey & Company, and subsequently in venture capital with AXA Strategic Ventures.
www.edisonpartners.comDom Cappuccilli
The Clean Sell
The Clean Sell is a B2B customer development execution firm that works with corporate innovation teams, established companies expanding to the U.S. market and rapid-growth startups.
Dom is also a Senior Consultant at JJellyfish where he leads engagements with startup clients looking to understand product/market fit for Enterprise clients, accelerate market traction, and optimize their go-to-market enterprise sales activities across their entire sales cycle.
http://www.thecleansell.comDomitille Guilloton
GE Ventures
Domitille Role at GE has included:
Strategy: Partner and advisor to senior executives in the development of business strategy, performance optimization, growth opportunities identification.
Pipeline Sourcing and Negotiation: Develop early stage relationships with pipeline company management teams, due diligence on the SaaS management ecosystem, support on warrants modeling and negotiation.
Business Optimization and Analytical Thinking: Simplified portfolio analysis ( ̴100 companies) and improved forecasting process, resulting in 40% time saving for team.
Business transformation: Key member of team creating a GEV partnership playbook to launch new cooperation initiatives, including identifying models, developing case studies and forming the basis of a canvas.
Donna Murdoch
S&P Global Ratings
Donna leads a global team developing innovative learning and talent development solutions across practices and functions at S&P Global Ratings. She develops and executes learning programs for a "people first" digital transformation strategy.
Donna is a global learning and talent development leader with over 15 years of experience driving innovation programs in the workplace, specializing in digital transformation, learning, and adoption using new methods, modalities, and a foundation of adult learning and leadership theory. She applies research and experience to application and practice in a variety of contexts including consulting, NGOs, healthcare, academia, and finance.
Dora Chomiak
37 Angels
Growing the tech start-up ecosystem in Ukraine.
Digital leader. Online marketing and sales; business development; product development; strategy. Collaborative leadership approach that fuels profitable innovation. Clients include startups, Fortune 500 companies and non-profits. Fluent in Ukrainian. Conversant in Russian.
Deploying cool new stuff, from vision to enduring operations.
Razom for Ukraine Board Member-at-Large
Supporter of Hromadske Radio Public Radio Ukraine.
Member of 37 Angels in NYC.
I host TEDxWestVillageWomen.
Visitor to Ukraine for over 25 years.
http://www.37angels.comDouglas Clinton
Loup Ventures
Douglas is Co-founder of Loup Ventures, an early stage venture fund investing in artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual reality, and augmented reality, Doug brings his developed understanding of what successful startups look and feel like along with his vision for the future. He previously spent eight years at Piper Jaffray.
http://loupventures.com
Dr. Felix Moesner
Swissnex Boston
Dr. Felix Moesner is the Director of swissnex Boston and the Consul of the Consulate of Switzerland. Established as the world’s first science consulate" in 2000swissnex Boston is part of a global network of five knowledge outposts including San Francisco (2003)Singapore (2004)China (2007) and India (2009). The mission of swissnex Boston is to promote knowledge exchanges between Switzerland and North America in higher educationtechnologyinnovationscience and the arts. Felix Moesner is a Master and Doctor graduate from ETH Zurich and the University of TokyoAsia’s leading university. As engineer and scientisthe majored in roboticsMEMS and nanotechnologies. Dr. Moesner worked in two consulting firms (IT & executive search) and two blue chip companies (high-tech & financial) at senior management level before joining the Swiss Knowledge Network. Before accepting his position in BostonDr. Moesner was the head of the Science and Technology Office Tokyo at the Embassy of Switzerland in Japanpromoting Swiss ScienceTechnology and Education in Japan and interfacing between Swiss and Japanese governmentsuniversitiesR&D institutions and companies. Together with the US Embassyhe also held the presidency of the Science and Technology Diplomatic Circlewhich is comprised of 80+ diplomatic missions and affiliates such as NSF or NASA in Tokyo since 2005. Several awards and grants underline his proactive commitments."
ny.swissnexboston.orgDr. Richard Park
CityMD
Dr. Richard Park is board-certified in emergency medicine and completed his medical studies at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Dr. Park is the author and co-editor-in-chief of McGraw-Hill’s Intensive Review of Emergency Medicine. His unparalleled education combined with his vision for delivering highly accessible, top-quality medical care has made CityMD the top urgent care in the NY metro area. Dr. Park lives on Long Island with his wife and two children.
http://www.citymd.comDr. Ron Razmi
Kinders
Dr. Ron Razmi is the Founder and CEO of Kinders. He brings extensive clinical, business, and technical expertise to addressing key issues facing healthcare organizations today. He began his career as a cardiologist and was one of the pioneers in application of MRI systems in managing cardiac patients. He built the software system, cardiovascularmri.com, to serve as a platform for education and training of cardiologists in use of MRI in managing their patients. Ron worked with top life sciences companies in strategy, M&A, and product development. He founded Acupera in 2011, a population health management software platform.
Ron completed his medical training at the Mayo Clinic and holds an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
http://kindersco.comDr. Ulrich Quay
BMW i Ventures
Ulrich has been working for the BMW Group for more than 13 years. He has been Managing Director of BMW i Ventures since July 2011. Ulrich is on the board of Chargepoint and MyCityWay. Before heading the Venture Group of BMWUlrich was a department manager in the legal department of BMWboth in Germany and England. He holds a phD in International Private Law."
http://www.bmw.com/com/en/insights/corporation/bmwi_ventures/index.htmlDrew Moffitt
Techstars
Drew Moffitt is Angel Investor at Techstars.
Successful startup entrepreneur (2 startups, 1 exit). Post selling TailBus, founded and lead the creation of four thriving corporate-backed ventures: XOM Materials (European B2B marketplace) for Klockner & Co, Transportation Mobility Cloud (automotive API-based open-framework software development platform) for Ford Motor Company, NextLoan (alternative lending and investment platform) for Reliance Capital, and B2B materials distribution marketplace for Confidential Company.
www.techstars.comEdna Boschat
Tribeca Early Stage Partners
Edna spent the majority of her career in GE Capital’s Treasury group with primary responsibility for the institutional sales and trading of the global commercial paper programs. She took the programs from $20B to over $115B and managed them through the financial crisis. During her years at GE she managed global sales forces, electronic trading platforms, IT conversions and relationships with major asset managers and credit analysts around the globe.
Prior to joining GE, Edna worked at Continental Bank on the credit side and in the capital markets group.
Eduardo Fernandez
ShuttleCloud
Eduardo Fernández is an engineer from MadridSpain and co-founder/CEO of ShuttleCloud. ShuttleCloud is a cloud data migration and synchronization platform. Companies like Google and Comcast and universities like Stanford and Harvard use ShuttleCloud to transfer email and address book datamigrate to Google Apps and merge data when acquiring other companies or going through a corporate rebranding. ShuttleCloud was incubated in 2011 at TechStarshas offices in NYC and Madridand is funded by High Line Venture PartnersSV Angel and Great Oaks Venture Capital."
shuttlecloud.comEdward Daciuk
ExtensionEngine
ExtensionEngine is customizes learning experiences – unique and powerful learning that leverage the latest in learning science and advances in technology to engage the learner and create true learning. They are a service provider that takes a comprehensive approach to create custom online learning, providing ID, UX/UI, development/QA, program management, hosting/support and learner acquisition services.
Edward Salamone
ARC Angel Fund
ARC Angel Fund invests in seed and early-stage companies with high growth potential. We focus primarily on Software, IT, Internet, Tech-Enabled Services, Business Services, Digital Media, Mobile, Healthcare IT, among others. The Fund has a primary focus towards NYC and the surrounding North-East and Mid-Atlantic area companies. ARC Angel Fund invests in industries with which its members have experience, with investments averaging $50,000 to $250,000, each, over the life of the investment. ARC Angel Fund is a member-led Angel Fund. An Angel Fund is, in essence, a hybrid model between an Angel Group and a Venture Fund. The members of ARC Angel Fund range from experienced Angel Investors and Partners in VC Funds, to executives of successful companies. Our members bring their own expertise to the table and can actively participate as much as they like in the Fund's investment decisions.
http://www.arcangelfund.comEdward Tolson
New York Angels
Edward received his B.S. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technologycompleting both programs with a 5.0/5.0 grade point average. Edward was a founding team member of a high frequency trading firmwhere he led the construction of an automated equity trading strategy. Edward then served as Managing Director of JP Morgan's hedge fund subsidiaryHighbridge Capital Managementwhere he spent nine years. Edward is currently the founder and managing partner of Blue Basin Capital Managementa quantitative investment manager.
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www.linkedin.com/in/etolsonEdwin Plotts
Ladder.io
Edwin is the Director of Growth at Ladder.io, a growth technology and services agency that uses proprietary technology and data-driven strategy to increase your ROI.
Edwin grows businesses with impactful analysis + tech-infused creativity, as an ROI-Driven Growth Strategy Architect and Director, Transforming Performance Marketing Into Systemized Solutions/Processes.
ladder.ioeeee
Bowery Capital
Eric is an Analyst at Bowery Capital based in New York. Prior to joining Bowery Capital, Eric was a member of both the Enterprise Marketing and Small Business Acquisition teams at Yext where he worked on lead generation and branding strategy through blogging, search engine optimization, web development, video marketing, social media as well as various paid advertising channels. Before Yext, Eric worked as an Inbound Marketing Manager at HubSpot, which is where he got his introduction to Inbound Marketing while specializing in email marketing and webinar production. Eric has an A.B. in Economics from Princeton University.
www.bowerycap.comElaine Lamb
La Playa Insurance
Elaine joined La Playa’s S&T group in August 2011, bringing 18 years’ experience in commercial broking, including over 10 years working on international and technology business. She works across La Playa’s London and New York offices, supporting clients with both their UK and US operations. Most weekends Elaine can be found on the Golf Course.
http://www.laplayainsurance.com/who-we-help/media-and-digital.htmElena de Amicis
Elena de Amicis is working as Medical Strategist. She has nine years of experience in the health-care industry. Previously she was working for Intouchsolution as a medical strategist.
She has a passion for transforming scientific facts into actionable marketing insights and points of differentiation.
Eleni Delimpaltadaki Janis
New York City Economic Development Corporation
Nurtured across disciplines, industries, and geographies, Eleni combines strong business and investing acumen and expertise in nonprofit strategies and public policy. She is a resilient leader, entrepreneur and corporate manager with serial success developing new businesses, advancing organizational innovation and mobilizing stakeholders for 13+ years.
Eleni started and heads the external partnerships team at NYCEDC powering the agency to develop innovation ecosystems in NYC and accelerate business and job growth through innovations in target industries: cybersecurity, financial services, smart cities, enterprise tech and life sciences.
http://www.nycedc.comEleni Janis
NYC EDC
Eleni Janis is a Vice President at the Center for Economic Transformation at New York City Economic Development Corporation. She leads efforts to accelerate sustainable, impact investing in order to direct more private capital to businesses with positive social and environmental impacts and oversees EDC’s incubator portfolio.
Prior to the NYCEDC, Janis specialized in federal and state public policy advocacy and research in areas including community development, banking, housing, labor, and immigration. Her work spans 15 years in Washington, DC, New York, London and Athens
Eliot Durbin
BoldStart
Eliot is a General Partner at boldstart ventures and has been investing in enterprise startups for over a decade, he is most passionate about supporting teams going to market.
Prior to Boldstart, Eliot cofounded Penny Black in 2008; a private investment firm in NYC investing across broad range of sectors. He also previously founded Templates.com, an online software retailer, sold in late 2002 and worked at the Permal Group, a multi-billion dollar global fund of hedge funds (acquired by Legg Mason in 2006).
Eliot is a graduate of Georgetown University with post-graduate study at Columbia University. He enjoys house music, surfing, and lives downtown in New York City.
www.boldstart.vcElizabeth Vilchis
SamsungNext
Results-oriented professional with 10+ years of experience leading projects on entrepreneurship,engineering, technology, and education. I enjoy setting a vision for solving challenging problems,creating roadmaps, and motivating teams to achieve outlined goals.
http://samsungnext.comElizabeth Young
Reonomy
Navigating CRE markets can be a painfully slow process that is difficult to manage. Assorted processes and tools—some digital, some manual—produce heaps of data. Relevant, up-to-date property specs are buried into the mix, or they're nowhere to be found.
We set out to change all that.
Ellie Wheeler
Greycroft
Partner at Greycroft, an early stage venture capital fund in NYC and LA.
Greycroft invests in internet and mobile startups across the digital ecosystem in both B2C and B2B. Previously spent time at Cisco and in several early stage technology investing roles. Began career in growth equity investing at Summit Partners.
Specialties: Mergers and acquisitions, early stage technology venture capital, digital media, strategy, ecommerce, SaaS, retail technology, business development, entrepreneurial finance
http://www.greycroft.comElliott Levine
HP
Elliott has experience working inside of academia in K-12 and Higher Education, as well as a wealth of startup experience and background as an executive in a Fortune 50 company (the first HP Distinguished Technologist in Education). His skill set crosses sales, marketing, partnerships, alliances, strategic planning, channel/reseller execution, STEM education, columnist and customer/media facing speeches and keynotes.
At HP, his vision is to create technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere — every person, every organization, and every community around the globe. This motivates them — inspires them — to do what they do. To make what they make. To invent, and to reinvent. To engineer experiences that amaze.
Elodie Dupuy
Insight Venture
Elodie Dupuy has been at Insight since 2008focusing on high-momentum consumer internet and SaaS software investments. Elodie is a board member at KaBum!MV Sistemas and Bionexo and works at the board level with Hotel UrbanoElo7 and Vinted. Previously Elodie worked with DailyDealwhich was acquired by Google in 2011Folhamaticwhich was acquired by Sage Group in 2012and Trivagowhich was acquired by Expedia in 2013."
http://www.insightpartners.comEmily Ayoob
Deborah A. Nilson & Associates
Emily is Partner at Deborah A. Nilson & Associates.
Emily began her career with internships in French firm Gide Loyrette Nouel’s Paris and New York offices, where she worked on a variety of corporate and financial regulatory matters. She has in addition completed internships with the New York State Supreme Court and the Federal Trade Commission. She is fluent in both oral and written French. Emily joined Deborah A. Nilson & Associates, PLLC as an Associate in May of 2011.
http://www.nilsonlaw.comEmily Matorin
Pond5
Pond5 is a global media marketplace providing artists around the world with an opportunity to license their work to an international community of media producers and brands. We work with more than 60,000 contributors in 150 countries, with over 10,000 video clips uploaded to our site every day.
www.pond5.comEmmanuel Debuyck
Adwanted
Formerly CEO of a French advertising agency for 17 years, Emmanuel has been a fine observer of the relations between media and advertisers. He now is the CEO of Adwanted, the first multi-channel advertising platform.
www.adwanted.com
Emmanuel Saint-Martin
French Morning
Emmanuel Saint-Martin is a reporter for the weekly Le Point. Reporterhe has covered the war in Iraq. It's New York correspondent for the international news channel France 24 and founder of French-speaking French Morning Webmagazine. He is the author Romain Gubert of "Above alldo not tell anyone ... "(Albin Michel)" The French Arrogance "(Balland). Emmanuel Saint-Martin lives and works in New Yorkthe US. "
http://frenchmorning.com/nyEmre Ozgu
BMK
Emre Ozgu is a Partner at Barst Mukamal & Kleiner LLP. He brings more than fifteen years of professional experience in representing and counseling individuals and corporations on all aspects of U.S. immigration law related to permanent residence (“green cards”) through employment and family sponsorship, a wide range of work visas (H, L, E, O, J and P visas) and other immigration matters. Emre successfully represented hundreds of individuals and corporations before a variety of US administrative agencies and can represent immigration clients in any jurisdiction across the United States. He graduated from Lehigh University with a degree in Economics.
bmkllp.comEric Erli
German Accelerator
Eric Erli is a Marketing and Operations Associate at the German Accelerator. The German Accelerator Tech is a government-backed accelerator program that empowers high-potential German startups and emerging companies to successfully enter the U.S. market and scale their business globally. He graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Political Science.
germanaccelerator.comEric Martineau-Fortin
White Star Capital
Eric is a founder and managing partner of White Star Capital and has close to 20 years of investment banking and VC experience. He was previously a founding member and Partner of Messier & Associésa transatlantic boutique M&A advisory firm in the media and technology space. Eric also worked in mergers and acquisitions at Merrill Lynch in New York and London as well as at ABN AMRO in corporate finance and private equity in ParisLondon and Amsterdam. Over his careerEric has been involved in transactions valued in excess of $10 billion. He has been doing early-stage investments since 2007 and has led multiple investments including LudiaBetaworks and Science Incin which he holds Board seatsDollar Shave ClubBloglovin’ and Summly. Eric graduated from HEC Montreal and holds an M. Sc. in Finance from the ESSEC in France. He was born in Canadais married to a French national and has two American daughters."
http://whitestarvc.comEric Neher
Walmart
Prior to his role as the Head of Merchandising & Content for the Brand Incubation department of Walmart, Eric was the former Vice President of Merchandising at Birchbox. He oversaw a team of 15 and was responsible for the merchandise assortment across the Birchbox women's subscription box and e-commerce site. He was also responsible for driving all aspects of the merchandising function including strategic vision, team operations, budgeting and P&L, vendor relations, and organizational structure. Eric sat on the Birchbox operating team representing merchandising at the executive level. Previous to Birchbox, Eric worked at Lipstick Queen and he graduated from NYC with a BFA in Drama in 2004.
www.walmart.comEric Reiner
Insight Partners
Eric Reiner joined Insight in 2012. He previously worked at Pitango Venture Capital in Israeland at a sports marketing firm in DeerfieldIL. Eric studied Economics and Cognitive Science at Northwestern Universityand completed the Certificate in Engineering Designspecializing in human-centered product and interface design. He also was a part of Northwestern’s NUVention programand co-founded an internet start-up. Outside of workhe enjoys rock climbingSCUBA divingtraveling and cooking."
http://insightpartners.com/team/#!eric-reinerEric Spano
Ernst & Young
Eric Spano is a Senior Consultant in the Advisory Services practice of Ernst & Young LLP, working in the Strategy group. A pragmatic, dedicated professional with over 3 years of experience in external audit, Eric has served biotechnology, retail and
financial services clients.
Eric has in-depth knowledge of Bitcoin and blockchain technologies and is an advisor to several companies, in addition to being the founder of the payment processing startup Bylls. He is also a founding director of the Bitcoin Embassy in Montreal.
Eric is experienced in financial modeling, trend analysis, cost allocation/optimization, business model development and creating value through collaborative teaming and innovative problem solving.
Eric Turner
Tekfen Ventures
Eric is a Senior Associate at Tekfen Ventures. Tekfen Ventures is a corporate venture capital group investing in early-stage industrial technology companies. Eric focuses on deal sourcing, investment execution, and portfolio support.
Eric graduated from The Wharton School with an M.B.A. in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management.
http://tekfenventures.com
Eric Vreeland
Bowery Capital
Eric is an Analyst at Bowery Capital based in New York. Prior to joining Bowery CapitalEric was a member of both the Enterprise Marketing and Small Business Acquisition teams at Yext where he worked on lead generation and branding strategy through bloggingsearch engine optimizationweb developmentvideo marketingsocial media as well as various paid advertising channels. Before YextEric worked as an Inbound Marketing Manager at HubSpotwhich is where he got his introduction to Inbound Marketing while specializing in email marketing and webinar production. Eric has an A.B. in Economics from Princeton University."
www.bowerycap.comEric Wollberg
Gnowbe
Eric Wollberg is the Business Development at Gnowbe
Prior to Gnowbe, Eric was Director of Business Development at VentureOut, Eric sourced the world-class startups that populate our programs. Additionally, he helped develop and run our accelerators, so that our participants have a flawless and fruitful experience.
Eric was also an Israel Government Fellow, working at the Israel Innovation Authority. There he helped bring companies totaling $1.5 trillion in market capitalization to engage with Israeli startups. Eric studied innovation economics at Sogang University and graduated with a degree in economics from New York State’s Public Honors College at Geneseo.
www.gnowbe.comErica Matsumoto
NYC Media Lab
Experienced leader, strategist, and problem solver with over eight years of experience working in the intersection of social impact, economic development, and public private partnerships. Collaborative, results driven, and well versed in leading high performing cross functional teams.
Masters degree in public policy and management from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Undergraduate degree in philosophy from Haverford College. Fluent in Spanish and Japanese.
Specialties & Skills: Public policy, community and economic development, strategy, human centered design, social impact, quantitative and qualitative analysis, international development. Program design and management, program monitoring and evaluation, organizational management, client relationship management, stakeholder management, project and partnership implementation.
http://nycmedialab.org/aboutErik Grimmelmann
NY Tech Alliance
Erik Grimmelmann is the President of the NY Tech Alliance. The NY Tech Alliance was formed through the merger of the New York Technology Council and NY Tech Meetup and has over 60,000 members. Its mission is to represent, inspire, support, and help lead the New York technology community and ecosystem to create a better future for all.
Erik is also an adjunct professor at CUNY. Erik graduated from Michigan University with a Ph.D. in Chemistry, Columbia Business School, and Duke University - the Fuqua School of Business.
nytech.orgErik Hess
Automotive Mastermind Inc.
Erik Hess is the VP Business Operations at Automotive Mastermind Inc. He believes that the best decisions are informed decisions, and that trust is earned through transparency, alignment, and accountability. Prior to his current position, he founded his own company, Go Cashless Inc. which was an Angel Funded FinTech Startup. Along the way, he has founded other startups and consulted at Aviation Leasing Group.
automotivemastermind.com/#/homeErik Jansen
Ultra Capital LLC
More than 20 years of successful technology investing experience. Co-founded the venture capital arm of Pequot Capital, a multi-billion dollar U.S. registered investment adviser focused on public and private technology companies. Pequot grew to offer a diverse range of investment products tailored to the needs of domestic and offshore investors, with an institutional quality infrastructure and an extensive proprietary research platform.
Principal focus on AI, IoT, Blockchain and sustainable technologies.
Native Dutchman who came to the USA after working at Procter & Gamble in Europe.
Frequent speaker at numerous Venture and PE and Impact Conferences.
http://www.ultracapital.comEthan Illfelder
A+E Networks
Ethan is a master in Quantitative Financial and Risk Analytics (QFRA). And he has experienced in venture capital, financial analysis, and non-profit project management. Also, he is an intensive researcher, a techie, and a problem solver who is deeply involved in the startup ecosystem.
Additionally, he has experienced in deal sourcing and due diligence activities, market research authoring, financial modeling, valuation analysis, and business development.
Etienne Fretault
AKITUA
Etienne Fretault is an entrepreneur and angel investor.
Etienne is the CEO & Founder at AKITUA, an investment company active since 2005.
He has more than 30 years of experience in the Sports industry. Back in 2000, he founded SPARTNER, an agency supporting sports stakeholders in the management of their travel and event projects in France and abroad. Today, Spartner operates on 5 continents and manages more than 200 events yearly through their offices in Lyon, Paris, Shanghai, and Tokyo, with a focus on 5 areas of expertise: Motorsport, Professional teams, Sporting events, Training camps, Media sport travel.
www.akituapartners.comEuan Robertson
NYC Economic Development Corporation
Euan Robertson is an Executive Vice President at NYCEDC whoalongside colleague Ann Lileads the Center for Economic Transformation (CET). CET at NYCEDC aims to develop the City’s major business sectors by implementing policy and programmatic initiatives that address current issues faced by each industrycreate good jobsand promote entrepreneurship and economic diversification across the five boroughs. Euan holds an M.A. with Honors from the University of St. AndrewsScotlandand an M.B.A. with Distinction from the London Business School."
http://www.nycedc.comEva Šimeková
Civitta Slovakia
Eva Šimeková has 10+ years of experience in the creation and oversight of budgets in a range of international projects in the area of specific EU related issues and support of SMEs. She has been a business start-up consultant for several companies, overseeing the clarification of legal, business and organizational structures in line with shareholders intentions. Eva has experience as an investment advisor to a range of companies with oversight of legal and financial matters. She has also been active in the non-profit sector, working on a variety of projects and high-level events.
civitta.comEvan Bartlett
ZocDoc
Building a rapidly growing sales team at Zocdoc! Co-hosting a quarterly sales leadership meet-up called Building the Sales Machine.
Experience: sales management, says, forecasting, sales leadership, sales coaching, sales motivation, sales operations, sales enablement, sales growth, scaling, sales compensation, crm, salesforce.com , sales strategy, inbound sales , SDR leadership, hiring process, interviewing, hiring profile creation, international expansion , customer development, execution, france, spain, uk
http://www.zocdoc.comEvan Judge
Dentons
Dentons is the world's largest law firm, delivering quality and value to clients around the globe. Dentons is a leader on the Acritas Global Elite Brand Index, a BTI Client Service 30 Award winner and recognized by prominent business and legal publications for its innovations in client service, including founding Nextlaw Labs and the Nextlaw Global Referral Network. Dentons' polycentric approach and world-class talent challenge the status quo to advance client interests in the communities in which we live and work. www.dentons.com
http://www.dentons.comEyal Bino
ICONYC labs
Eyal Bino is a co-founder and Partner at ICONYC labsa first of its kind accelerator and fund focused on helping early-stage Israeli tech startups build iconic global companies via NYC. Prior to ICONYChe founded and ran the Global Innovator programthe leading NYC-based platform for global early stage technology startups looking to gain strategic access to NY-based investorspotential customers and partners so they can accelerate their growth.
http://iconyclabs.com
Eyal Megged
IronSource
Eyal is a digital media executive with extensive experience in product leadership, business development and, early-stage capital raising.
He sources, manages and cultivates key strategic partnership and M&A endeavors.
www.ironsrc.comFabrizio Renzi
IBM Italia
Core competence: R&b (Research and business) management in multicultural environment. i.e. using research innovation and technology to partner with clients for transforming their business.
In this role he leads all the technical functions that work together with Italian companies for their digital transformation. He is also in charge of bringing IBM research in Italy.
From 2011 to 2013 he was Director of technology & innovation for Italian banks & insurances & financial institutions. In 2009-2010, based in Dubai, was IBM Director of Systems and Technologies for emerging markets (Russia, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa) Since 1997 he worked on leading edge technologies and transformation initiatives for IBM, covering different managerial roles in areas such as: ondemand, ebusiness, ecommerce, client server.
He joined IBM in 1990 as System Engineer in charge of introducing in Italy new technologies and solutions developed in our R&D labs in USA, where he also spent some years of his professional life in international assignments.
He is a member of Confindustria Research Committee, Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari Innovation Board, Milano Ricerca Board of Directors, ISSNAF (Italian Scientist and Scholars North America Foundation) board of trustees. Distinguished member of AAIIC (associazione accademici italiani in Cina)
Master degree in Electronic biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, he also got an International Executive Program diploma from INSEAD in Paris and Singapore.
Keynote speaker in several scientific and technology related events, Renzi is author of more than 350 speeches, papers and publication in scientific and technology related congresses and events. He acted as lecturer and contract professor in several Italian universities.
Specialties: Managing innovation team in international diverse and multicutural environment, bringing innovation to clients while partnering with them on research and innovation.
http://www.ibm.comFady Yacoub
HOF Capital and Co-Founder
Fady is the Co-founder and a Managing Partner at HOF Capital, a global venture capital firm that offers seed and growth funds to tech-based startups. Prior to founding Hof Capital, Fady was active Investor @ Amplify.LA and a business developer at Switch. Fady received a degree in International Finance from the University of Southern California.
http://www.hof.capital
Faisal Kawar
Fintech Collective
Faisal is a member of the investments team at FinTech Collective and is involved across the firm's special projects. Faisal started his career in Private Equity with Abraaj Group, spending time in the Dubai, London, and New York offices. He worked on investments in financial services and technology companies across emerging markets. While at Abraaj, Faisal worked on the Network International exit to Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic and was the lead for the firm-wide digital economy taskforce. Faisal then joined UK-based payments startup IrisGuard, backed by Goldman Sachs and IFC, to head Corporate Strategy, where he led both business development and the fundraising process for the Series A.Faisal is a member of the investments team at FinTech Collective and is involved across the firm's special projects. Faisal started his career in Private Equity with Abraaj Group, spending time in the Dubai, London, and New York offices. He worked on investments in financial services and technology companies across emerging markets. While at Abraaj, Faisal worked on the Network International exit to Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic and was the lead for the firm-wide digital economy taskforce. Faisal then joined UK-based payments startup IrisGuard, backed by Goldman Sachs and IFC, to head Corporate Strategy, where he led both business development and the fundraising process for the Series A.
www.fintech.ioFay-Louise Hayden
VentureOut
Fay-Louise is the Program Director at VentureOut, overseeing strategy and operations for all accelerator programs. A veteran startup advisor, Fay joined VentureOut after eight years working with investors and startups on cross-border and global market strategy across Latin America, Asia & North America. In her role at Venture Out, Fay manages all programming, supporting the startups, mentors, and clients related to those programs, and is a key member of the executive team.
Prior to VentureOut, Fay worked for several years in Private Equity where she managed a portfolio of alternative assets with Acquisition Group Inc and she played a key role in leadership and operations while working as a strategy analyst at Global Impact. Fay has also traveled to over 52 countries and is passionate about working with international startups.
Fay-Louise studied Economics & Political Science at University of Sydney.
https://ventureoutny.comFaye Tannenbaum
MazarsUSA
Faye Tannenbaum is Partner at Mazars USA
As a co-leader of tax services for the Financial Services and Private Equity practices, and a member of the tax leadership team, Faye has over 30 years of experience providing tax compliance and consulting services to some of the largest entities operating within the United States, including private equity companies, banks, broker-dealers and investment management entities, as well as entities operating in the SaaS, manufacturing and retail industries.
Faye additionally serves as the tax leader of the digital asset group at Mazars and has worked on numerous projects involving digital currencies and ICOs.
She received her BS in Accounting from New York University and her MBA in
Accounting and MS in taxation from Fordham University.
mazarsusa.comFernando Gómez-Baquero
Cornell Tech
Fernando Gómez-Baquero is working at Cornell tech as Director of Runway and Spinouts .
He is an innovation economist, nanomaterials engineer, energy nerd, and above all tireless entrepreneur. Fernando is a mentor of an amazing group of companies on diverse topics such as IoT, digital innovations, new materials for transportation, creating better electric vehicles, improving wind and solar power, using social networks for gratefulness.
Fernando Napolitano
Italian Business & Investment Initiative
Fernando is Founder & CEO of the Italian Business & Investment Initiative (IB&II). Since 2008Chairman of BEST Steering Committee. He is also the member of the Board of Directors at Mediaset and of the Advisory Board of the Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Stevens Institute of Technology."
Fernando Soto Serdio
Club De Innovacion
As CVO i'm responsible to lead the complete value management cycle of create, communicate and capture value and leads the company to a differentiated and defensible market positioning. All this spans product development, marketing, pricing and sales.
Value is based on the economic impact of a solution on a customer's business relative to the next competitive alternative, so i always need to have a deep understanding of all our members, how every aspect of their business works, the economics and how competition can affect them.
As part of the value proposition i lead the international relationships in order to provide our members with a powerful network that can accelerate all their innovation processes.
http://www.clubdeinnovacion.comFiona Darmon
Jerusalem Venture Partners
Fiona is an integral part of the leadership team at JVP, overseeing the firms ongoing operations including defining the groups’ strategy as well as leading the raising of numerous funds that have allowed JVP to continue building world class technology companies. Fiona has over fifteen years of experience in venture capital, strategic planning, capital raising and investments in public and private companies, having previously held a variety of executive roles with leading Israeli investment conglomerate, Koor Industries, as well as serving as a founding member of the first Israeli corporate VC – Koor CVC.
www.jvpvc.comFlorian Krisch
Advantage Austria
He joined the team in August 2016 and covers the following industries: startups, fintech, apparel and social media. He is also monitoring disruptive trends in finance and tries to identify future challenges for banking.
Prior to this position, Florian gathered working experience at major Austrian and international banks. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the Vienna University of Economics and Business
http://www.advantageaustria.org/international/index.en.htmlFlorian Seroussi
EverContact
Florian is the CEO of EverContact. Evercontact extracts contact info from the email signatures in their client's incoming email. Their service creates new contacts for them and also auto-updates any changes to their existing contacts.
Previously, he was the founder of Global Roaming Group. Florian has been a director of Group Labotec, of which is a subsidiary of Group ACTI from October 1997 to October 2003. Florian is also the founder and has been President of Group Xplore since its inception in 1996. He was Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of FloVox from October 2004 to June 2006. Florian received a M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University.
www.evercontact.comFoy Savas
AlphaPrime Ventures
Foy Savas is a partner at AlphaPrime Ventures. Throughout his careerFoy has worked with startups as an investorexecutiveadvisorand consultant. As of lateFoy's been spending most his cycles on adtechnovel databasesand machine learning. In the pastFoy's given lectures at universitiesauthored the technical book The Merb Wayand delivered keynotes and talks at various conferences around the worldincluding NYC's TEDxSiliconAlley."
http://alphaprime.comFran Gross
Advantages
With 20+ years of marketing experience, Fran's team and her have taken Advantages from a local printing business in New York City to a multi-million dollar powerhouse branding and communications agency with national clients from the service, retail, manufacturing and not-for-profit sectors. By telling authentic stories through purposeful marketing, they teach brands how to leverage their organizational assets and amplify their reach.
Fran is now dedicated to sharing her intimate journey of brand discovery, which unlocked her potential and resulted in Advantages’ success. Since her first WHY Discovery with Simon Sinek in 2006, she has developed her own unique twist on his iconic Golden Circle and “Start With Why” philosophy. Fran loves sharing what she has learned to inspire others to explore their core values, their mission, vision and the personal “WHY” that will propel them as leaders to excel every day.
http://www.advantages.netFrancesco Genuardi
Consulate General of Italy in New York
Francesco Genuardi is an Italian diplomat with the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary and backed by 23 years of experience in various fields of international relations.
http://www.consnewyork.esteri.it/consolato_newyork/it
Frank DiSanzo
Gartner
Gartner, Inc. is an American research and advisory firm providing information technology-related insight for IT and other business leaders located across the world. Its headquarters are in Stamford, Connecticut, United States.
Frank is also the former CIO of St Peter’s Healthcare System and was rated Top 100 CIO’s in 2015.
http://www.gartner.comFranklin Williams
Skaled Consulting
Franklin is a senior consultant at Skaled Consulting.
Franklin is an experienced sales consultant and professional who has spent the bulk of his career building, scaling, and managing sales teams for success. With a background in technology in both the enterprise and the startup world, his focus has consistently been on setting up teams for success through attainable, repeatable processes that scale with growth.
http://www.skaled.comFrench Founders
Next-Generation Business Club: Connections, events, workspaces and benefits for CEOs, top executives, entrepreneurs and investors around the world.
United by a simple desire to share, exchange and grow their business, community members benefit:
> Privileged relationships with other members, specific to their needs
> Invitations to FrenchFounders events - breakfast, private dinner, conferences
> Benefits specially negotiated with prestige partners - business, travel, and lifestyle
> Privileged access to our co-working spaces around the world
Ganesh Kumar
HOF Capital
Ganesh is an experienced strategist, growth hacker, quant, angel investor, and entrepreneur. He is passionate about ventures that change the world and disrupt the status quo in finance, technology, and B2B SaaS.
Ganesh spent years building disruptive platforms in both startup and enterprise companies. He built one of the first high-frequency trading platforms at Lehman Brothers across four continents. At FactSet Research, he blitz-scaled Derivative Solutions, a fin-tech startup, to hundreds of thousands of users using distributed cloud and machine learning algorithms. Ganesh also has helped PE/VC and F100 companies tackle blue-sky challenges at the Parthenon Group by creating M&A and growth strategies across fin-tech, retail, e-commerce, and biotech verticals.
http://www.hof.capitalGareth Jefferies
NorthZone
Gareth joined Northzone in 2015. His main area of focus is consumer and B2B technology, in particular the fintech ecosystem in London and the rest of the UK. He is involved in Northzone’s investments in fuboTV, Zopa, ComerJob, Crosslend, eProspects.
Prior to joining Northzone in 2015, Gareth spent his formative years at OC&C Strategy Consultants, advising on a mix of pure strategy projects and commercial due diligences across a varied selection of markets, from tech, travel and online gambling to distressed debt and pork sausages!
http://northzone.comGareth Klugh
Falk Ventures
Gareth Klugh is working as COO at Falk Ventures.
Prior to Falk Ventures, He was Senior advisor at Players' Impact and XBorders, LLC and also Co-Founder of Huddle Sports Partners.
Gareth Klugh is experienced in venture capital, strategic planning, business development, operations, management, and issue resolution.
Garrett Klugh
STAR Angel Network
As a managing director of STAR Angel Network. Garrett is responsible for all operations to include; strategy portfolio/relationship management business development screenings deal flow due diligent marketing and communications.
Gaspard de Dreuzy
Kapitall
Gaspard is a serial entrepreneur with experience in the entertainment industryparticularly as an executive producer of video game software. He co-founded three game productiondevelopment and consulting companies and produced titles for PCMicrosoft XboxSony PlayStation and Nintendo Wii systems. He has worked with some of the world’s top game developers and publishers including AtariTHQ and Mattel on popular franchises such as Ready 2 Rumble Boxing. Gaspard was also a senior strategic marketing consultant at Warner Music. A native of ParisGaspard and his wife moved to New York in 2006. He received a Bachelors’ Degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Paris Dauphine."
landing.kapitall.com/homeGaurav Mehta
Berkeley Angel Network
Gaurav is a principal investor who originates and executes private equity and private debt investments in growth stage and middle market companies. Additionally, Gaurav invests his own capital as an independent angel investor (associated with Berkeley Angel Network).
Gaurav currently works for China Orient Asset Management ($160 billion AUM) and previously worked in investment banking for six years at institutions such as Barclays and BMO Capital Markets. Prior to his career in investment banking, Gaurav headed Corporate Development at US Oncology. Prior to US Oncology, Gaurav held a number of roles investing in private and public securities.
As an angel investor, Gaurav seeks investment opportunities in growth-stage companies in the HCIT, healthcare services, consumer, and TMT industries (although open to looking at businesses in other industries).
www.berkeleyangelnetwork.comGaurav Mirchandani
One Paper Lane
Gaurav Mirchandani is Forward thinking tech entrepreneur with experience in investing and building start ups in US and Asia."
http://www.onepaperlane.comGeoff Brown
NYC Cyber Command
In July 2017, Mayor de Blasio established New York City Cyber Command, led by Geoff Brown, the City's Chief Information Security Officer and Head of New York City Cyber Command. NYC Cyber Command is charged with setting Citywide cybersecurity policies, directing response to cyber incidents, and advising City Hall and 100+ agencies on the City's overall cyber defense.
Geoff previously served in the federal government, including work with the National Commission for Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission), supporting the investigation's work with the first responder community in NYC. Geoff is a graduate of Middlebury College.
www1.nyc.gov/site/cyber/index.pageGeorge T Mathews
DXC Technology
DXC is the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change. Created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology is a $25 billion company with a 60-year legacy of delivering results for thousands of clients in more than 70 countries. Our technology independence, global talent and extensive partner network combine to deliver powerful next-generation IT services and solutions.
http://www.dxc.technologyGeri Kirilova
Laconia Capital Group
Geri Kirilova is an Associate at Laconia Capital Group and is responsible for assisting Laconia in all stages of the investment process, facilitating Laconia's operations, increasing its presence and network in the startup and venture community, and supporting the Fund's portfolio companies. Prior to joining Laconia, Geri was a Business Associate at Techstars Internet-of-Things, a mentorship-driven accelerator program partnered with GE, SAP, Verizon, Bosch, and PwC to support companies rewiring legacy industries such as construction, healthcare, and transportation through connected devices, artificial intelligence, and drone technologies. In addition to facilitating program operations, Geri worked directly with the ten portfolio companies on customer acquisition, growth strategy, fundraising, business development, and messaging and storytelling. Additionally, Geri has worked in venture capital in Central and Eastern Europe (LAUNCHub in Sofia, BG and Credo Ventures in Prague, CZ). Beyond the venture space, Geri has operational experience managing a branch of Kweller Prep, a boutique educational services firm, leading hiring, training, sales, program management, client relations, and curriculum development. Geri graduated summa cum laude from New York University Stern School of Business, with a B.S. in Business with specializations in Information Systems and Management.
www.laconiacapitalgroup.comGianluca Galleto
DG Advisors
Entrepreneurial and visionary executive with international public and private sector experience. Works with CEOs and boards, governments, nonprofits and universities. Angel Investor and mentor for startups, with a focus on, and passion for, immigrant entrepreneurship, inclusion an diversity.
Specialties: Global strategy and business development (including capital raising), Innovation and technology, FDI & trade, public-private partnerships, economic development, .
Leveraging a strong technical background in economics complemented by cross-cultural relationship-building, leadership, and management skills. Effective multicultural communicator with an extensive U.S. and global network of top-level relationships in the corporate, government, and institutional investment sectors.
More on specialties and experience:
- Recently completed a strategic advisory project at The Partnership for New York City.
- Provided expert insights in a number of global gatherings such as Barcelona's Smart City Expo, City Innovation Summit, Cities for Life (Medellin), World Bank's CitiSense etc.
- Served NYC's Administration with NYCEDC to promote the growth of NYC innovation ecosystems through partnerships with other cities, and providing support for foreign companies expanding in NYC and NYC companies expanding abroad.
- Former investment management professional with vast and deep international experience.
- Media contributor (CNBC, L'Unita', RAI) on economic affairs.
- Extensive volunteer and advocacy experience in academia, social impact, politics, entrepreneurs support.
- Ran for Italy's Parliament in 2013 in the North American District.
Gianluca Galletto
New York City Economic Development Corporation
Gianluca manages the International Affairs desk at NYCEDC supporting the agency’s economic development strategy and industries initiatives by engaging the international community in order to attract foreign direct investmentshelp NYC businesses access foreign markets and establish international partnerships to exchange best practices. Among the initiatives managed by Gianlucathe World to NYC program connects the most innovative business entrants from around the world with investorsincubatorspartners and city agencies in NYCthe NYC Next Idea business plan competition encourages foreign students and graduates to develop business plans for NYC. An entrepreneur and a consultantprior to joining NYCEDC Gianluca was providing strategic advice to SMEs entering the US and foreign cities on branding and attracting investments and best practices. He has 16 years of experience in investment management10 in advising SMEs and prior experience with the EU. Gianluca holds an MA in International Economics from Yale University and a BA/MA in EconomicsBusiness and Law from Bocconi University in Milan."
http://www.nycedc.comGil Addo
Rubicon MD
Graduated from Yale and Harvard Business School, Gil co-founded RubiconMD, an innovative eConsult service that connects providers to same-day insights from top specialists.
http://rubiconmd.comGil Beyda
Genacast Ventures
Gil Beyda is the Founder & Managing Partner of Genacast Venturesa seed fund formed in partnership with Comcast Ventures to invest in technology-centricInternet start-ups. Gil has invested in Invite Media (acquired by Google)Demdex (acquired by Adobe)DoubleVerifyPacklateEnterproidMortar DataLeadiD and YieldMo."
http://www.genacast.comGil Fuchsberg
Ny Angels
Gil Galanos
Israel & Co.
Gil Galanos is the CEO of Israel & Co.a nonprofit that builds greater understanding of and appreciation for Israel among present and future leaders. Prior to joining Israel & Co. in 2011Gil served as Executive Directorand is still acting Presidentof the U.S. Israel Business Council (USI)a trade association he founded in 2010. USI brings together investorsentrepreneurs and business executives across key growth sectors including digital mediahealthcareinternetcleantechmedical devicesmobilesoftwareand telecom to spur innovation and promote business between the U.S. and Israel. From 2006 to 2010Gil acted as the Deputy Economic Minister to North America for the Government of Israel Economic Mission. In this positionhe formed and organized business delegations to and from Israelprovided advisory services to Israeli companies in the U.S.served as a key liaison between Israeli companies and American investorsand developed strategic partnerships between Israeli and U.S. companies and organizations. Gil’s early work experience includes various roles in the Israeli high-tech arenaworking for companies such as Comverse Technologies (CMVT) and Intel Corporation (INTC). Gil has a BSc in Information Systems from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Gil lives in New Jersey with his wife and three daughters."
http://israelandco.orgGiordano Bruno Contestabile
Tilting Point
Giordano Bruno Contestabile is VP of Product Management and Revenue at Tilting Pointa new generation games partner for top independent development studios. Giordano previously worked at PopCap Games (acquired in 2011 by Electronic Arts for $1.3B)most recently as Executive Producer of the Bejeweled franchiseoverseeing a portfolio of products that included Bejeweled Blitza top 10 grossing mobile game and one of the longest running free-to-play titles globally. Giordano previously managed PopCap’s mobile gaming businessand PopCap’s business operations in Asia Pacific. An active angel investorGiordano has invested in The RealRealTonxGranifyInvinoNomikuKyck and Kanvas"
http://www.tilting-point.comGordon Meyer
VR AR Association
Gordon Meyer is a 20+ year industry veteran & innovation consultant with a wealth of experience working at disruptive companies. He is the CEO of EngineBloc, a boutique innovation and growth studio for post-seed startups. He also serves as NY Chapter President for the VR AR Association, teaches Blockchain at Columbia College Chicago Online, and serves on the board of advisors for BWG Strategy.
Gordon has been featured on NPR’s All Tech Considered, as well as publications such as INC Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Skift and Brandchannel among others. In 2018 he was named one of the “30 people to watch in Augmented Reality” by Next Reality News. In 2015 he was named “Top 40 under 40 Brand Marketers” by Brand Innovators a premier Marketing industry think tank.
Grant Biggar
Tribeca Angels
Grant is an active investor and advisor to early stage FinTech companies in New York and London. He also invests outside of FinTech where there is an opportunity for innovation and disruption. Grant has extensive global experience, having run and established businesses in Asia, the UK and New York. Grant was one of the earliest Creditex employees, joining in 2000. Grant led the Creditex team in Europe and Asia as they leveraged technology to introduce transparency and efficiency into previously inefficient and opaque derivative markets. By 2008 the Creditex European business was the market leader and dominant provider of credit derivative execution services to the European interdealer market. In a high profile sale in 2008, Creditex was sold to Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) for more than $600mm. Following the sale, Grant moved to New York and was promoted to President of Creditex and also became a member of the Senior Management team of ICE. In this role, Grant oversaw the integration of Creditex into ICE and navigated the business through the regulatory and market evolution that occurred post the financial crisis. Having been through the life cycle from start-up to sale and integration into a public company, Grant now focuses on using his experience to advise and support early stage businesses at the beginning of that journey.
Areas of Expertise
Electronic trading, fixed income, credit derivatives, interdealer brokerage, capital markets, senior management, strategic planning, generating liquidity in illiquid markets, international strategies.
Education
University of Auckland, BCom
New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants (NZICA)
Greg Notch
NHL
Greg Notch is a highly accomplished, results-oriented technology leader with over 20 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure projects, security programs, and enterprise systems. A decisive leader, thriving in fast-paced environments, building, and managing teams, and delivering transformative technology.
Specialties: Security, Systems architecture, network design, data center implementations, operating systems, hosting strategies, performance optimization and troubleshooting.
www.nhl.comGreg Obrien
Noodle Partners
Before this role, Greg O’Brien (Chief Operating Officer) was the Senior Vice President of QuinStreet, a leading performance media and marketing business. Greg previously served as Chief Executive Officer of the The CollegeBound Network LLC, an educational recruitment marketing company based in New York, where he led and managed the development of new products and services and grew the company’s client base across various sectors. Prior to joining CBN, Greg served as a Managing Director with McFarland Dewey & Co., LLC, a boutique investment bank, where he led the firm’s Education practice. Mr. O’Brien currently serves as adjunct faculty for UNC Chapel Hill’s MBA Program. He holds an M.B.A. from New York University and a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University.
www.noodle-partners.comGregg Archibald
Gen2 Advisors
Gregg Archibald is a marketing researcher and strategist dedicated to helping the research industry navigate the waves of change that are making the field both more challenging and more exciting. Gregg has spent most of his career helping Fortune 500 companies and advertising agencies deepen their knowledge of consumer trends and insights and using that knowledge to drive profit and growth.
At Gen2 Advisors he is dedicating his expertise and experience to fostering robust growth and healthy bottom lines in the research industry itself. After more than 20 years of experience with companies like AT&T, Capital One, Marriott, and GE Financial, the excitement and enthusiasm for marketing research is still there. He holds an MBA from the University of Memphis. He spends his time in Richmond, VA with his son and two dogs (one is a blue-ribbon Frisbee dog).
Gregory Daniels
Zoom Video Communications
Gregory transforms vision and strategy into execution and meaningful business outcomes. He's a global technology and business leader with 10+ years of experience successfully designing and delivering strategies, and managing portfolios of revenue-producing, cost-saving, and risk-mitigating programs and projects for multinational companies and organizations. He is currently the CIO Office Program Manager in the Global Office of the CIO at Zoom Video Communications.
zoom.usGregory Karelitz
Hubspot
HubSpot is the world’s leading inbound marketing and sales platform. Since 2006, HubSpot has been on a mission to make the world more inbound. Today, 31,000+ customers in more than 90 countries use HubSpot’s software, services, and support to transform the way they attract, engage, and delight customers. HubSpot's software has helped companies worldwide change how they market and sell, while our innovative approach to company culture has helped redefine transparency and autonomy in the modern workplace.
www.hubspot.com
Guido Geissler
Macquarie Group
Nathaniel Abrams is a vice president of JPMorgan Chase in New York, where he helps make strategic investments. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a leading global financial services firm with operations in more than 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small-business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management and private equity. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands.
www.macquarie.com/us/corporateGus Warren
Samsung NEXT Ventures
He has spent his career as a venture capitalist and operating executive for start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Currently Managing Director at Samsung NEXT Ventures, he and his team are always on the lookout for great startups and entrepreneurs who are building software that could complement Samsung’s global hardware footprint. They have offices in Korea, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, Tel Aviv, and Berlin.
In addition to his work with Samsung NEXT, he serves on the advisory boards of several early-stage companies and Red Bear Angels, a network of alumni that invest in Cornell-affiliated start-ups.
samsungnext.com/venturesGuy Franklin
SOSA
Guy Franklin is the General Manager of SOSA NYC and the founder of "Israeli Mapped in NY". SOSA, a global network of tech innovation hubs, was founded in 2013 by 25 leading Israeli investors and hi-tech entrepreneurs. SOSA brings together the world’s most innovative startups and entrepreneurs, and delivers cutting-edge ideas to corporations and investors looking to enhance their business.“Israeli Mapped in NY”is an interactive platform that maps the Israeli startups operating in NY. Israeli Mapped in NY helps to show the Israeli innovation and creativity to the world and promote the Israeli startups community in NY to investors and other players in the startups eco-system in NY.
sosa.coHabib Kairouz
Rho Capital Partners
Habib is a Managing Partner of Rho Capital PartnersInc. a private equity firm with $1.5 billion under management and offices in New YorkPalo Alto and Montreal. Rho's business units span various classes of private equity investmentsincluding venture capital in early stage and growth equity technology and healthcare companies (Rho Ventures and Rho Canada)and fund investments in all classes of venture capital and private equity funds (Rho Fund Investors)."
http://www.rho.comHadley Harris
Eniac Ventures
Hadley was a two-time entrepreneur in the mobile technology space. From 2007-2011 he was an executive at Vlingoacquired by Nuance Communications for $22500where he held the roles of Head of Business & Market Strategy and Vice President of Marketing. At VlingoHadley was responsible for the firm’s user acquisition and monetization. In the early years Hadley also lead Vlingo’s efforts in business development and finance. After Vlingo he became CMO of Thumba mobile social platform that boasted the 2nd highest user engagement next to Facebook. At Thumb he was responsible for all of the company’s marketing and business development activities until they were acquired in spring of 2012 by Ypulse. Before heading to VlingoHadley worked at Charles River Ventures where he spent time helping with mobile investments while looking for a young startup to join. Prior to thatHadley held a variety of roles including Corporate Strategy for Samsung and Product Management at Microsoft. He began his career as a software developer and engineering team manager for Pegasystems."
http://eniac.vcHaithem Elembaby
Harbinger Strategy
As a startup founder with multiple exits, He thinks there are a lot of things broken with the way that entrepreneurs approach sales and marketing in today’s complex market. His team’s focus in 2018 is to make sure they can help as many people as they can scale their businesses without running out of money. He has knowledge of various fields that is helpful for startups and also can provide insight into many areas such as Team Building & Strategic Planning, Corporate Innovation & Partnerships, Growth Hacking & Lead Generation, Marketing & Community Engagement, Seed & Venture Capital, Emerging Trends & Digital Technology.
http://harbingerstrategy.comHan Jing
Differential Ventures
Previously, he working on sourcing post-Series A companies at Startupbootcamp. In addition, he was an associate at Silver Field Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm. In another life, Han was an engineering lead at Walmart Labs in the Bay Area overseeing development in the eCommerce and R&D division. He’s led efforts in personalizations, adtech, and health and wellness in the engineering org. On the side, he taught coding at Hack Reactor and Redwood City School District. He is actively involved in the Chicago Booth Angels network.
Han earned a Masters in Business Administation from the The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley.
www.differential.vcHanel Baveja
Insight Ventures
Hanel Baveja joined Insight in 2017. Previously, she was on the business development team at Vettery, a tech talent hiring marketplace based in New York where she focused on customer retention and platform visibility. Hanel also worked as a research assistant for the Harvard Institute of Quantitative Social Science and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Hanel graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Economics. While at Harvard, she was on the Executive Board of the Harvard College Consulting Group, where she managed projects for three Fortune 500 clients, and was a member of The Signet Society. She spent a semester abroad in Aix-en-Provence, France studying Art History and French.
Outside of work, she enjoys reading short stories and long-form journalism, trying new restaurants, and traveling.
www.insightpartners.comHannah Oiknine
Babbler
Hannah previously worked at Growit Agencyan agency for French companies who enter the US marketas an account manager. Thenshe founded Babbler the first real-time media relations platform for the digital age and The only opt-in network that lets media and PR pros instantly share newscontent and messages in a single platform."
http://babbler.frHarry O'Sullivan
Bowery Valuation
Harry is the Vice President of Finance for Bowery Valuation. Their goal is to redefine the commercial appraisal space through big data, advanced technology, and extensive expertise. Their proprietary platform allows their appraisers to work smarter and faster, which means we can deliver unparalleled accuracy and consistency, in a fraction of the time.
Previously, Harry was an associate at ff Venture Capital in 2016, where he was associate-managing the Due Diligence team. He primarily conducted analyses of new and follow-on investments, coordinated deal flow processes, helped source new deals, and worked closely with the AI NexusLab.
http://boweryres.comHeather Binnie
Empire Angels
Heather has strong expertise in content strategy and Acquisition that she developed during her time at CBS, Verizon and throughout her life.
Heather is currently working cross-functionally across Verizon’s business team in product, operations NBA innovation and marketing to drive content implementation and general strategy.
Heather McGowan
Heather McGowan is an internationally recognized keynote speaker on the future of work and the future of learning.
Heather guides corporate executives to re-think and re-frame their business models, and their understanding of team and organizational structures, to be resilient and successful in changing markets. Her corporate clients range from start-ups to publicly traded, Fortune 500 companies, including Autodesk and BD Medical.
She is the co-author of the book Disrupt Together: How Teams Consistently Innovate (Pearson).
www.linkedin.com/in/heathermcgowanHeather Myers
Spark No. 9
Spark No. 9 helps design and launch businesses people love. We are delivering a new kind of strategy--the kind that is road-tested and instantly actionable.
We help you find and keep your first customers. We develop creative campaigns to represent a range of positions for your product, we test them with potential customer targets, and we identify the match between product and customer that fits your business goals.
Our rigorous in-market testing validates your customer strategy. The result: early traction, efficient spending, and risk-managed growth.
Spark No. 9 is composed of a cross-disciplinary team of strategy & business experts, creative talent, customer acquisition specialists, and product developers who support every stage of new business development.
http://sparkno9.comHeather Stockton
Deloitte Consulting
Heather Stockton is the Global Offerings Leader & Global Consulting Talent & Leadership Partner at Deloitte Consulting. With more than 20 years of experience, she develops and executes strategic plans, acting as a business advisor to align human resources, governance, business strategies and operations.
Heather has helped build and lead one of the largest Human Capital advisory businesses in Canada. She was a Canadian Director and was the Chair of the Talent and Leadership Development & Rewards Committee for Deloitte Canada. She was also on the Governance Committee. Heather has also been featured in the Financial Post for her expertise on leadership at Canadian corporations.
www2.deloitte.com/us/en/services/consulting.htmlHenry Toole
RRE Ventures
Henry joined RRE in 2017, where he spends his time working with companies and entrepreneurs in a number of different industries. He is primarily focused on finding new opportunities in SaaS, FinTech, healthcare, and consumer, but will constantly be exploring new areas for investment.
Henry started his career at Microsoft in strategy and marketing roles within the Windows and Devices organization. After that he joined Casper, where he worked on the data and analytics team. Henry graduated from Yale University with a BA in History. In his spare time you can find Henry snowboarding, golfing, listening to a good podcast, and occasionally traveling back home to Massachusetts.
http://www.rre.comHernan Botbol
Taringa
Hernán Botbol is an Argentine entrepreneur and current director of Taringa!. This 10-year-old website is the largest social network in Latin America. Botbol currently lives in Silicon Valleywhere he is leading the company's expansion to the region. In addition to Taringa!Hernán directs Wiroosa web hosting companythe record label 432 hzand the music streaming platform for Taringa! "
taringa.netHolly Zimmerman
XRC Labs/Golden Seeds
Holly is a Managing Director at XRC Labs where she brings over 20 years of investment experience across consumer product sectors at various stages of growth. Prior to joining XRC, Holly led the consumer practice at Golden Seeds, a venture capital firm and angel network that has invested in over 100 women-lead businesses. In the Equity Research department at both Citigroup and Lehman Brothers, Holly led the firms' consumer products equity research before transitioning to the technology and media sectors. She has been consistently recognized by Institutional Investors’ All American Research Team, ranking No, 1 in each of her coverage areas including: Cosmetics, Household Products, Internet portals and E-Commerce.
Holly has also held positions at Jennison Associates, a New York based Money Management Firm, and as a Consultant with McKinsey & Company. Prior to graduating from Harvard Business School, she worked in Brand Management at Proctor & Gamble and in Mergers & Acquisitions at First Boston. Holly is also a consultant and project coordinator for Harvard Business School’s Community Partners, which provides pro-bono advisory services to nonprofit organizations.
www.xrclabs.comHugh Seaton
Aquinas
A lifelong learner, I'm passionate about creating systems&processes that make learning more effective, impactful and easier. I am lucky that I get to do that every day with our company, Aquinas. Working with rockstars in technology, learning science, and psychology, I have the privilege of seeing our team innovate solutions that address real needs in the corporate learning market.
I believe immersive technologies like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality will change the way we experience new ideas and revolutionize learning. At the same time, new means of connecting workers to learning make learning reinforcement a powerful tool for training and workforce development. Advances in AI mean personalization of learning is poised to take entirely new directions.
Hugo Facchin
Try The World
Innovative and problem-solving business executive, with major successes in international operations, supply chain management, product development and organizational design.
Proven leadership and management expertise in fast-paced entrepreneurial environment, leading and supporting exponential growth through disruptive product strategy paired with continuous supply chain optimization.
Board member of several fast growing start-up, I am always savvy to tackle more challenges !
http://www.trytheworld.comIan Myers
SMBC
Ian Myers is Corporate Advisory at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, a core member of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), working together with other members of the Group to offer customers highly sophisticated, comprehensive financial services globally.
Prior to SMBC, Ian worked worked on the Stanford Silicon Valley New Japan Project designed to increase ties between Japan and Silicon Valley through networking, policy research, events, and academic inquiry at Stanford Asia Pacific Research Center. He holds MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University.
http://www.smbc.co.jp/globalIhar Mahaniok
Facebook
Ihar is an Engineering Manager at Facebook and Angel Investor at Empire Angels.
As an Engineering Manager at Facebook, he manages a team building a Facebook Local Discovery product, that helps Facebook users to find great local businesses, has overseen the launch of the "Local" bookmark in Facebook iOS & Android apps - which made the Facebook app one of the best tools to discover places nearby, and facilitated the launch of food ordering utility on the Facebook iOS & Android apps.
As an Angel Investor at Empire Angels, for the last 6 years Ihar has invested in early stage startups that solve old problems in new ways and has an investment portfolio that includes companies such as Instacart, and Meldium and Screenhero which were both acquired.
http://angel.co/mahaniokIlan Abehassera
Willo
Ilan previously founded Producteev acquired by Jive Software in November 2012. He has been an Business Angel in fantastic startups: Wit.ai (acq'd by Facebook) Sunrise (acq'd by Microsoft) Checkr.ioOKPandaCircaAlgolia and 15 others.
www.willo.com
Ilan Elbase
Effective Capital
Ilan Elbase is the Founder and Managing Partner of Effective Capital since 2012. Ilan previously conducted numerous transactions as a Director at M&A boutique Financière Cambon for 5 years. He started his career in New York at Goldman Sachs and Calyon. Ilan graduated from ESSEC Business School and the University of Richmondwhere he received a Bachelor of Science in Finance."
http://www.effective-capital.comImraan Ahmed
Armory Square Ventures
Imraan Ahmed is a General Partner of Armory Square, having joined the fund in 2018, and serves on the Firm’s Investment Committee. Mr. Ahmed has more than 15 years of experience as an operator, advisor and investor in New York, Silicon Valley and emerging Tier II/III regions. He is passionate about empowering early stage entrepreneurs disrupting traditional industries, advancing fundamental societal issues and unleashing our human potential through technology. Mr. Ahmed is particularly interested in technology enabled healthcare transformation and leads the firm’s investing efforts in the sector.
Previously, Mr. Ahmed was a Principal with Radius Ventures. Since inception, the firm has invested ~$200 million in over 40 healthcare companies across three funds. In his role at Radius, Mr. Ahmed focused on leading the firm’s healthcare technology investing and portfolio management efforts. He worked with several Radius portfolio companies including Aethon (acquired by ST Engineering), Healthsense (acquired by Great Call), Management Health Solutions, Tabula Rasa Healthcare (NASDAQ: TRHC) and Tactile Medical (NASDAQ: TCMD).
In addition, Mr. Ahmed is a co-founder of Touch of Gray and KF20 Capital. These angel syndicates focus on investing in technology enabled seed, early commercial and expansion stage companies across a variety of sectors. Representative investments include ACV Auctions, Explorer Surgical, HENRY the Dentist, Maven Clinic, OMNY and Simile / DepthKit.
Prior to entering the venture capital industry, Mr. Ahmed’s career spanned a diverse range of entrepreneurial, investing and advisory roles. He was the Co-Founder of Atlantis Health System, initially conceived to modernize and de-fragment the home healthcare industry. He also served as an investor with New Heritage Capital, a Boston based private equity fund that focuses on investing in high growth, family and founder owned businesses. Mr. Ahmed began his career in investment banking, initially with KPMG Corporate Finance and then Merrill Lynch, where he focused on executing M&A for healthcare, technology and media companies.
Mr. Ahmed holds a BS in Finance from The University of Maryland, College Park where he was a QUEST Honors Program Fellow and an MBA from Columbia Business School. In addition, he is a Kauffman Fellow and serves as Co - Chair of the organization’s NY Chapter.
http://www.armorysv.comImre Hild
iCatapult
In 2012Imre became CEO of iCatapulta tech accelerator and business development company which takes local (CEE-region) technologies to the global market. Imre is also the Entrepreneur-In-Residence with Primus Capitala Budapest-based venture capital funda serial entrepreneurand a business angel investing with a focus on mobile internet startups and projects. After earning a BS and an MBA at Cornell UniversityHild began at McKinseymoving on to the conduit securitization practice of Lehman Brothers. In 2003 he returned to Hungary and founded a number of innovative technology and real estate companies."
http://www.icatapult.coInaki Berenguer
Pixable
Inaki is a Spanish entrepreneurfounder and CEO of Pixablea mobile startup founded in 2009 at MIT. Pixable is a mobile photo browser used by more than 7 million people to discover and enjoy social photos in a daily basis. The company raised over $7MM in venture capital from Highland Capital Partners and Menlo Ventures and has over 60 employees. Pixable was acquired in 2012 for $30MM by SingTelthe world's second largest telecom operator. He continues working at Pixable/SingTellaunching two new products internally: Photofeed and Contactive."
http://www.pixable.comIngrid Brockova
Deputy Foreign Minister of Slovakia
Ms. Brocková was born in 1963. She holds a Doctorate in Economics from the Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, which she obtained in 1991. In 1999 she obtained a Masters in International Public Policy from the SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C. From 1989 to 1991, Ms. Brocková was a Financial Officer in ZSNP a.s. In 1993, she entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, serving as Deputy Director of the Department of International Economic Cooperation. Then, in 1996, she was posted to the Embassy of the Slovak Republic to the United States where she served as Economic Officer. In 2000, she returned to Bratislava and was appointed Deputy Director of the Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, later in 2001 she became Director of the Department. From 2001 to 2008, she served as Country Manager at the World Bank office in Bratislava. Prior to her nomination as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to the OECD, Ambassador Brocková served as Director General for Economic Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic from September 2, 2015 – November 1, 2017. From October 18, 2011 – August 31, 2015 she served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to the OECD.
Ipek Bakir
Education Consortium
Ipek was most recently a member of the research team at the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education, where she conducted cost and efficiency analyses of educational programs.
Irene Fuchs
German American Chamber of Commerce
Irene worked with more than 150 German startups in the past 3 years on their US market entry strategy and runs the STEP Program in New York – a 5 day intensive business program for German startups to explore and experience New York’s tech scene, meet potential business partners, clients and investors. Before working for the German American Chamber of Commerce she worked for a startup herself, helping the founders to set up the office, enter the US market and to grow the company from 2 to 40 people in 2 years. After finishing her studies in business economics and multiple stays abroad in Sydney, Madrid and Los Angeles she worked as project manager for a leading hidden champion in Germany highly involved in international projects involving 46 subsidiaries and topics as transfer pricing, M&A, CRM and sales.
http://www.stepusa.ioIshan Sinha
Point72 Ventures
Ishan Sinha is a technology investor based out of NYC with experience in both public and private markets. He is broadly interested in the internet and fintech, with a particular emphasis on emerging markets. He received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University.
Ishan was a part of the initial team at Point72 Ventures, where he’s worked on over 25+ early and growth stage transactions. Point72 Ventures is the early-stage venture capital strategy funded exclusively by Steve Cohen and eligible employees of Point72 Asset Management. They invest in emerging technologies that have the potential to transform the financial services industry. Prior to helping launch Point72 Ventures, Ishan was a long/short equity analyst at Point72’s hedge fund, where he focused on global technology and financials stocks. He began his career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs.
http://p72.vcItai Zarmi
Cyber Innovative
Itai is passionate about building businesses, strong teams and long-term customer relationships. As a sales leader he has driven high growth go-to-market strategies in companies like Morningstar and Thomson Reuters. Itai has lived in EMEA for many years and is fluent in Hebrew.
cyberinnovativetech.comIulia Mic
VentureOut
Iulia Mic is a Marketing Associate at VentureOut and is responsible for planning and implementing marketing campaigns, including content, social media, email, and web. Born in Romania, Iulia has recently joined the team in pursuit of her dream to work and gain international experience in NYC.
Prior to VentureOut, Iulia spent the past few years working in marketing and sales and participating in cultural programs around the world. Iulia has a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and a Master’s in Statistics.
ventureoutny.com
Ivan Cestero
I'm a teacher, program manager and educational innovator working at a startup N-12 private school in NYC. I also work with Breaker, an ed startup, running design challenges and PD.
My passion is for project-based and experiential education, particularly using the world of social innovation as a lens for real-world problem solving. I see design as a foundational tool for developing these critical non-cognitive or "soft" skills. My goal is to develop viable and scalable models for such work, for example with our current student-led Design 4 Impact startup.
I arrived here by teaching in many different contexts and countries, on the one hand; and through my experience in the social enterprise space, on the other. Despite (or perhaps because of) the sad state of our institutionalized education at most ages, I feel it's a great time to be an ed innovator as experiential, emergent, network-based and public-facing work gains more currency. It's high time to revolutionize K12 ed, create new and hybrid models, and connect schooling with both industry and personal fulfillment.
Ivy Teng Lei
IvyTL
Ivy is the Founder and CEO of IvyTL, with a goal to: identify, build, and set-up key tracking analytics and KPIs for publically-traded companies in Hong Kong; draft, refined and finalized public park experiences with New York City Housing Authority and partners; design branding, digital and traditional assets, including website and newspaper ads, for Brooklyn’s largest tutoring center; and establish brand guidelines, advertisements, and value proposition for Bay Ridge’s first dual-language preschool.
After graduating from Pace University, Ivy has a lot of experience, working at IPG, Gap, and Ladder.io. Ivy also takes part in a lot of service work.
Iyah Romm
CityBlock Health
Iyah Romm is cofounder and CEO of Cityblock, a New York City start-up focused on improving the health of underserved urban populations.
During early career positions at the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission and Commonwealth Care Alliance, Mr. Romm began a fundamental re-thinking of the services, technology, and payment models that drive health care.
www.cityblock.comJabber Al-Bihani
Komeeda
Jabber Al-Bihani Jr. is a community builder developing meaningful relationships and experiences through the all-powerful food. Growing up in the diverse neighborhood of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Jabber was exposed to global tastes at a young age. His appreciation for food was inspired by the flavorful dishes made by his friends’ immigrant mothers and the nostalgic stories and memories they shared with the feasts.
After completing his studies in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Temple University, Jabber ventured off for his first backpacking trip through the Middle East and Europe. Further fascinated by food-centric cultures he encountered and memorable food adventures with fellow travelers; Jabber returned home with a new sense of purpose. Komeeda was created to recreate those food experiences he was enriched by throughout his life. Today, Jabber operates Komeeda with his skilled team and also operates as an experiential marketing, business development, and creative branding consultant for the culinary world. Through his works, he has created a “kommunity” comprised of restaurants, bakeries, chefs, foodies, and resources coming together to bring New Yorkers and it’s guests to the table for Fun Eating Experiences.
http://www.komeeda.coJack Conery
Harbinger Strategy
Jack Hidary
Alphabet X: AI@X & Quantum@X
Jack has been recognized for his leadership by organizations such as the World Economic Forum and the National Committee on US-China Relations. He is a founding member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) a group created by President Bill Clinton to bring together government, the private sector, and non-profits to solve the big problems of our day. Jack studied at Columbia University and was awarded a fellowship in Clinical Neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study brain imaging.
Jacob Jackson
MedStack
Jacob is working at the nexus of startups, technology, and healthcare. He is developing successful business ventures that advance healthcare and our transition to a clean energy future. His current work focuses on healthcare security and technology adoption and is informed by rigorous medical research as a team member at innovative laboratories at McMaster and UBC.
medstack.coJacob Loewenstein
Samsung Next
Jacob Loewenstein leads AR/VR business development and product strategy at Samsung Next, Samsung’s software and services innovation arm. He received his MBA at MIT Sloan, where he co-founded VR/AR@MIT, which is dedicated to fostering VR/AR/MR innovation. Additionally, he was a founding Co-Organizer of the Reality, Virtually Hackathon at the MIT Media Lab, the biggest VR/AR hackathon. Prior to MIT, he worked in revenue strategy and business development at BuzzFeed and as a internal management consultant at Bridgewater Associates. He received his BA, Cum Laude, from Princeton University, where he studied the intersection of Media Theory and Public Policy.
Jacob is based in New York and has previously lectured on VR and AR at AWE, AR in Action at NYU/MIT, Illuminate Global at Harvard, and Hacking Arts at the MIT Media Lab. He has also lectured on digital media at Princeton.
http://samsungnext.comJacob Yormak
Story Ventures
Jacob is Founder & Partner at Story Ventures. Story is an early stage venture fund based in NYC. They invest activley in entrepreneurs with big visions that leverage technology and the proliferation of data to change the way people interact with the world. Sectors they have targeted include cybersecurityenergy infrastructuretelecompaymentslendingcomputer processingdata analytics/visualizationautonomous movement/connected carcomputer visionand urban infrastructure.Jacob's background as a lawyer for start-up companies allows Story Ventures to help founders navigate the often-overlooked day-to-day challenges of running a company (e.g. structuring financingsmaking executive hiresmanaging cap tablesand protecting IP)."
www.storyventures.vcJaewon Peter Chun
ARK-i Labs
For the past fifteen years Jaewon has been working in the world of investing. His experiences are focused on the realm of urban development making him a resource for anyone looking to discuss urbantech projects or smart cities.
arkilabs.comJake Dunlap
Skaled
Jake Dunlap is a top-level sales executive and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience, working with global 2000 and start-up companies, and specializing in talent acquisition, brand marketing, decision-making, operations, and sales processes. In 2013, he founded Skaled, a revenue-innovation firm focused on replicable ways to generate new customers for growing companies, as well as innovating sales process for established organizations. Previous to Skaled, Jake served as Head of Sales & Customer Success for Chartbeat, Vice President of Sales at Glassdoor, and Senior Sales Manager at CareerBuilder. Jake holds an MBA in international business from Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business, as well as a BS in entertainment management from Missouri State University.
skaled.comJake Henderson
Current
Relentlessly pursuing the agile, test-driven discipline of growth marketing, Jake is a life-long learner that continuously finds new ways to grow companies. Jake currently works for Current, a financial technology company that provides collaborative banking solutions, starting with a smart debit card and app for parents to provide better financial education for their kids.
Before this, he worked at Ladder, a growth marketing agency that uses proprietary technology and data-driven strategy to increase your ROI.
Jake Kupperman
Revel Ventures
Jake is an investor with Revel Ventures.
Jake Levine
Capco
Jake is A passionate, ambitious, and well-rounded leader with the desire to attain a successful career that will utilize his skills from previous professional experiences, along with his prior education and communication skills.
He is currently working at Capco as Associate. Prior to Capco, he worked for Align, Eller College of Management, urboox.com, and Rentrak. He received B.A. in Marketing from University of Arizona, Eller College of Management.
www.capco.comJames Haft
CryptoOracle
James has been at the forefront of the global investment banking and venture capital industries, focusing on emerging markets and early stage finance in the digital, wireless, mobile media and communications businesses. He has been advisor to over 50 venture-backed entities, co-founded NXTPLabs, a leading tech accelerator in Latin America and co-founded PALcapital, a NY based merchant bank and early stage VC fund.
Previously, James was the MD of Latin American Equity Capital Markets at INGBarings, Founder and MD of Emerging Markets Investment Banking at Furman Selz, and MD of Asian Investment Banking in Hong Kong for Bear Stearns, where he was responsible for the first listing of a Chinese company on the NYSE.
He is a Founder and board member emeritus of Urban Arts Partnership and Chairman of the USA of WeForest.
James received an AB in Economics and Art History from Vassar College and a JD/MBA from Emory University.
cryptooracle.ioJames Hill
Edison Partners
Currently sourcing investments for Healthcare ITInteractive MarketingFinTechand Enterprise 2.0. Perform financial analysisdue diligenceand market research for potential investments and portfolio companies. Research legal matters related to venture capital financingprivate equitymergers and acquisitionsinitial public offeringsand spin-offs.
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www.linkedin.com/in/jamesdonaldhillJames Steinberg
Trusu
James is the Co-founder of Trusu. Trusu is digitizing imported goods all the way to the end customer in Asia.
James Tieng
Exceed Capital Partners
James Tieng is a Managing Director and co-founder of Exceed Capital. He is a member of the Investment Committee.
With over 12 years of investing experience, James has led and completed 14 platform transactions (majority and minority deals), having deployed over $1.5 billion of equity in education, software, business services, and digital media companies. His investments have ranged in enterprise value from less than $10 million to over $1 billion. James has served as a member of the Board of Directors for 10 public and private companies.
Prior to joining Exceed, James was a Principal at Quad Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on the education sector. Previously, he was with Apax Partners, where he focused on financial, business and digital services investments around the world. Prior to Apax, James was an investment professional at Irving Place Capital. He began his career at McKinsey & Company, where he worked on strategy, M&A and corporate finance engagements across a variety of industries.
James received an MBA from Harvard Business School and earned an AB in Economics from Princeton University with certificates in Finance and Political Economy.
http://exceedcapital.globalJamie Fialkoff
HIT Lab
Prior to joining HITLAB, Jamie worked at Columbia Business School, where she designed and facilitated original learning programs on innovation for the Executive Education Program.
Jamie is a licensed social worker and brings with her an extensive passion for improving the lives of others. Before her time at Columbia, she worked as an individual therapist, primarily with individuals with eating and weight disorders. In addition to working directly with clients, Jamie was involved in the research and design of a mobile health technology app as part of a novel treatment for eating disorders. She also has experience working with underserved youth and individuals with disabilities.
Jamie received her Bachelor’s in Psychology from Bryn Mawr College, her Master’s degree in Developmental Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and her Master’s degree in Social Work from Fordham University.
http://hitlab.orgJan Chmelík
CzechInvest
Jan Chmelík serves as the Director of East Coast Operations at CzechInvest. Prior to his current role he was the Aerospace Sector Manager at CzechInvest, an Administrative Assistant at Siemens Czech Republic, and worked in intern capacities at CzechInvest and Czech Trade, and as a trainne at the European Development Agency. Jan received both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in International Relations and European Studies from Metropolitan University Prague.
http://www.czechinvest.orgJan Lucanus
Reelwurld
Jan Lucanus is a Founder/CEO at Reelwurld, the social-filmmaking technology company that is reimagining every phase of the production process to integrate the audience
He is also a 2nd generation comic book writer that loves to bring people together. His current focus is bringing the audience into the film production process, using the comic book shared universe model to usher in the next evolution of filmmaking: the crowdsourced cinematic universe. His proof-of-concept is a mobile-1st social-film series called "JFH", about an app that's like Uber for heroes - hire a hero or become one and get paid. Anyone with a phone can join the cast, and the trailer for the series won the HBO Cinemax Urban Action Showcase Award for Best Trailer in November 2018.
He is an alumnus of NYU Tisch Film, recipient of the Black Filmmakers Foundation Creative Fellowship, has consulted with majors such as Universal Music Group on Transmedia Storytelling, and is an inductee into the Martial Arts Hall of Fame.
http://see.thereelwurld.comJana Lee
Sencor
Janille Fagundo
Prudential Financial
As the Director of Learning & Assessment, Future of Work at Prudential, Janille Fagundo is responsible for helping to lead a culture of continuous learning and development to enable employees to respond to future workforce requirements and be ready for the changing demands of the business.
Janille is also a strong advocate for professional development and inclusion, serving as the co-lead for the Red Shoe Movement aimed at fostering discussion around career development through mutual mentoring circles and as a board member of Prudential’s Business Resource Group, Juntos.
www.prudential.comJared Klee
IBM
Inorganic strategy, acquisitions and strategic partnerships lead for IBM Industry Platforms, including Watson Financial Services and Blockchain. Deep experience from strategy ideation and definition through deal execution.
Previously AI product management and global sales leader. Launched, built, and led AI product and sales teams from product ideation through multi-million revenues.
Deep AI and NLP expertise, sitting at the intersection of business need and technology potential. Governance board and lead for IBM Research initiatives to create the next generation technology for risk and compliance.
Banking regulatory compliance domain expert, focused on the use of AI to improve quality and reduce cost for regulatory management and know your customer.
www.ibm.comJared Sorin
McCarter & English
Jared is an attorney with the law firm McCarter & English, LLP and a member of the firm's Early Stage, Emerging Growth and Venture Capital Practice Group.
His practice group focuses on the representation of early stage and emerging growth tech and tech-enabled companies as well as the financial institutions, investors, directors, and executives who support and lead them, advising entrepreneurial clients in a broad range of industries in the areas of general corporate, transactional and securities law matters.
www.mccarter.comJason Black
RRE Ventures
Jason is an Analyst at RRE where he devotes much of his time to analyzing deals in machine learning, cybersecurity, and B2B SaaS. Prior to joining RRE, Jason worked at Microsoft where he developed Office’s first dedicated startup analysis and early warning system. Jason holds a BA from Harvard University in Psychology with a minor in Computer Science. While there, Jason founded the Harvard College Tech Review where he served as Editor-in-Chief, worked as a freelance designer and photographer and co-Founded two student startups.
http://www.rre.com
Jason E. Klein
On Grid Ventures LLC
Jason E. Klein is an experienced media CEO and builder of digital and traditional businesses who has led two successful turnarounds. He is founder and CEO of On Grid Ventures LLCan advisory and investment firm in digital mediamarketingand information; a Managing Director at Empirical Media; a member of New York Angels; Board Member and Chair of External Relations for Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York; and a mentor at several NYC-area incubators. Mr. Klein holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB from Dartmouth Collegewhere he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude in computer science. "
http://www.ongridventures.comJason Harris
Flatiron Investors
Jason Harris is Venture Partner at Flatiron Investors. Prior to thathe worked in the strategic development department at GeistM. Before this he worked for 5 years as a trader at Amherst Securities Group. He is alsoa Certified Financial Analyst and earned his BS at New York University.
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Jason Palmer
New Markets Venture Partners
Jason Palmer is General Partner at New Markets Venture Partners, one of the nation’s leading education-focused venture capital firms. As a double-bottom line investor, New Markets focuses on innovative, high impact, early and growth stage edtech companies that improve student outcomes while building profitable organizations.
Jason has been affiliated with New Markets since 2011 and became a General Partner in 2016 after three years at the Gates Foundation. Jason brings twenty years of experience as an education technology entrepreneur, executive, and investor, and focuses on fund strategy, supporting portfolio companies and leveraging deep connections with industry leaders.
Jason holds a B.A. in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and also serves on the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education Foundation Board.
http://newmarketsvp.comJason Raziano
Corigin
Jason Raziano is an Investor at Corigin Venturesa New York based early – stage venture capitol firm supporting founders who are impacting the future of consumer behavior and daily living. Prior to that Jason served as an associate at Primary Venture Partners while bringing experience in Derivatives and Foreign exchange with leading company’s such as BNP Paribas and Morgan Stanley. Jason holds a B.S. in Finance from the Villanova University."
http://www.corigin.comJason Shuman
Primary Venture Partners
Jason Shuman is an entrepreneur and VC with experience in direct to consumer eCommerce, marketplaces, RETech and SaaS. He is Principal at Primary Venture Partners, a Seed-stage venture capital firm helping NYC’s most promising founders build market-defining companies.
Jason enjoys collaborating with people that seek to solve problems and provide valuable solutions. His sectors of interest include marketplaces, digital health, real estate tech, FinTech, the future of living, aging in place tech and the internet of things.
www.primary.vcJason Spinell
Slack Fund
Jason Spinell currently invests and manages the Slack Fund - Slack's early-stage investment fund focused on supporting teams building and shaping "The Future of Work."
Previously Jason was the Ventures Director at Undercurrent, an organizational design and strategic consultancy located in NYC, LA, and the UK. He led Undercurrent's investment efforts, focusing opportunistically on early-stage companies seeking to promote an "Ever Better Future" and improve industries that have historically lacked digital sophistication.
slack.com/developers/fundJavier Rosas
SaleMove
Over the years I have been fortunate enough to have worked with great people across different continents at innovative companies. As a sales leader and student of sales I am dedicated to the process and even more so the people involved.
I am passionate about building high performing teams, turning promising ideas into reality and helping people around me get better.
Top producer in every role as an individual contributor and built top teams at various stages to great success. Lead Top of the Funnel Sales (Lead Gen), Closers (Inside and Field), Sales Operations, and Customer Success teams.
Specialties: Enterprise Software Sales/Saas Software; Experience selling to a wide range verticals including but not limited to healthcare specialties, hospitals, financial services, ecommerce, apparel, software, technology, manufacturing , agencies, universities, publishing... at all levels.
Experience hiring, developing, and retaining talented sales professionals, business development, inside/outside sales, sales training, and sales process development.
Jay Heller
Nasdaq
Jay Heller is Head of IPO Execution Team & Capital Markets at Nasdaq with 20+ years of experience in the financial markets. His specialties include Trading, Banking, IPO's, Syndicate, and Equity Capital Markets, Sales - Financial Markets.
Prior to Nasdaq, he was Director of Institutional Trading and Sales at American Capital Partners at American Capital Partners, a sell-side boutique that in addition to institutional and retail brokerage and trading services, also provides high-quality independent research and investment banking services. He received B.S. in Management Science & Economics from Kean University.
http://www.nasdaq.comJay Kapoor
MESA Global
Jay Kapoor works as a Digital Media Advisor and Investor at MESA Global that focuses on investingcapital raising and advisory for startups in digital mediaentertainmentconsumer services with personal focus and ecpertise on opportunities in Sports Media and Live Entertainment"
http://www.mesaglobal.comJay Norris
Guesst
Some would say Jay is an innovative strategic dealmaker, experiential marketer, cultural currency developer & disruptive platform builder with over 20 years of experience. Jay thinks of himself as a consummate serial entrepreneur and visionary with the sincerest empathy for all go-getters!!
Jay is a systemic leader, organized team player with excellent communication and negotiation skills, well abreast with the knowledge of innovative and sustainable solutions for maximum ROI and the biggest DTC ( Direct to Consumer) advocate on the planet!
guesst.coJay Po
Bessemer Venture
Bessemer Venture Partners is a leading venture capital firm that invests in breakthrough consumer, enterprise and healthcare technology founders from our six offices around the globe: Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, Boston, Israel, and India. We admire those who aren’t afraid to break with convention and are driven to push the limits of what is possible with technology and product. Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), Instructure (NYSE: INST), Mindbody (NASDAQ: MB), Shopify (NYSE: SHOP), Yelp (NYSE: YELP), LinkedIn, Pinterest, Blue Apron, Periscope, Twitch, Wix (NASDAQ: WIX) and Ovascience (NASDAQ: OVAS) are a few of the companies we have been fortunate to partner with. Founded in 1911, with $4.5 billion under management, Bessemer Venture Partners enjoys the longest running record of success in venture capital, tracing our roots back to the Carnegie Steel Empire.
www.bvp.comJay Zhou
Granite Ventures
Jay is an Investment Principal at Granite Venturesa venture capital firm that has managed over $1 billion and has invested in more than 200 technology companies. Past notable investments include: Siebel Systems (Acquired by Oracle for $5.8B)Shutterfly (NASDAQ: SFLY)Convio (NASDAQ:CNVO)Mercury Interactive (Acquired by HP for $4.5B). Current Investments include: AnaplanSmuleHirevueTelltale Gamesetc. As an entrepreneur-turned-VCJay brings over 6 years of startup and venture capital experience."
www.linkedin.com/in/jayzhaolinkedinJayme Ttsutsuse
Ladder
ROI-driven growth marketer with experience generating and scaling new business revenue. As the first business development and marketing hire at three startups, I love testing new approaches, watching numbers excessively, and building campaigns that drive sustainable results.
At IBM, I work on campaign strategy for IBM Z and LinuxONE.
ladder.ioJean Lee
Google
Experienced Advisor with a demonstrated history of working in retail x tech industry. Formerly head of strategic development of Ralph Lauren digital & ecommerce division. Trained in investment banking & private equity.
Broad skills and deep experience in corporate innovation, strategic planning, partnerships, corporate innovation, organizational effectiveness, operational efficiencies / process improvement, corporate finance, and project and relationship management.
http://www.google.comJeanne Meister
Future Workplace
Jeanne is a workplace visionary and activist driving her clients to think differently about work, the future workplace and the future workforce. She is a Partner of Future Workplace, a HR Advisory and Research firm assisting organizations in re-imagining and re-inventing how they operate in the future workplace.
http://www.futureworkplace.comJeff Fernandez
Grovo
Jeff Fernandez is passionate about empowering people to do their best work.
In 2010, Jeff founded Grovo to reinvent learning for the enterprise. Today, the fast-growing SaaS startup provides companies in 190 countries with the learning technology, content, and expertise to effectively develop their people. Jeff is now a Board Member at Grovo after leading the company as its CEO for 7 years.
Currently, Jeff is traveling and spending time with family before starting the next adventure.
Prior to Grovo, Jeff served as product manager at Clickable (acquired by Syncapse), a web service that brings simplicity to online advertising. Previously, he led business development and sales for Doostang (acquired by Universum Global), an online career networking community.
Originally from Dumont, N.J., Jeff graduated with highest honors from Harvard College, where he penned his thesis on maximizing human performance (Coaches' Motivational Techniques and Individual Athletic Performance). Jeff has spoken at events including TEDx, SXSW, Internet Week, and ASU+GSV, and has contributed to Inc, Fast Company, Forbes, and more. He currently lives in New York City with his wife Cori.
Jeffery To
Salesforce
Jeff brings industry solutions to market and drives rapid adoption.
He is currently the Global Head of Insurance at Salesforce, partnering with top financial services companies and innovative solution providers to re-think digital experiences for employees and customers. Jeff founded FinTech Garage (www.fintechgarage.com) to work with emerging companies in AI, IoT, Blockchain, Telematics, RegTech, and process automation.
Jeff was named one of ACORD's Top 10 InsurTech Leaders for 2017. He was an Innovator Award Winner at IBM and played executive roles in IBM's growth initiatives, including Smarter Cities, Smarter Healthcare, and the Retail Emerging Business Opportunity Group.
Certified Trained Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, PMP, PMI-Agile Certified, LIMA-Certified Licensing Practitioner (Tech & Consumer Product Licensing), Certified Management Accountant (CMA), CPHIMS, ITIL V3.
www.salesforce.comJeffrey Kaufman
Griffin Securities
Mr. Kaufman joined Griffin Securities, in January 2013, as Managing Director. Mr. Kaufman has over 30 years’ experience in institutional sales, research and trading. Mr. Kaufman had been a partner at Kaufman Bros. for 9 years and played a major role in the development of the Company’s institutional sales, research and trading departments. Mr. Kaufman has been Managing Director, Institutional Sales at Morgan Joseph where he provided general investment banking services to numerous types of companies and played a major role in dozens of secondary’s and IPOs. Mr. Kaufman has been Senior Institutional Equity Salesperson at Moness, Crespi & Hardt & Co. where he specialized in research sales and trading. Mr. Kaufman earned a BBA from Baruch College, and holds Series 7, 24, and 63 licenses.
http://www.griffinsecurities.comJeffrey Reitman
Canapi Ventures
Prior to joining Canapi, Jeffrey Reitman was a Principal at Nyca Partners, another fintech-focused venture capital firm. While at Nyca, Jeffrey primarily spent his time working on investments in the alternative credit, digital advice, and financial infrastructure sectors.
Before Nyca, Jeffrey worked in J.P. Morgan’s Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group, focusing on the specialty finance sector. Jeffrey started his career as a co-founder, board member, and the chief technology officer of GXStudios, Inc., a media and entertainment company responsible for creating multiplayer web-based games.
Jeffrey received his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University.
www.canapi.comJeffrey Shlefstein
Withum
Based in Withum's New York office and a member of the Start up and Emerging Growth in Consumer Products and Technology groups, Jeff has over 25 years of professional accounting experience.
He specializes in providing advisory services (accounting, audit and tax) to a variety of industries including retail, engineering and construction, technology (Israeli) and start-ups. He offers a hands-on approach and assists them with all of their financial matters, including but not limited to, tax strategies, business plans, mergers and acquisitions and sales of companies.
Jennifer Chen
Dipp
Jennifer is a Taiwanese-American entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience in branding, UX/UI design, digital marketing, product development, business management, cross-country sourcing and terms of trade, tourism and technology innovations. She is the founder of dipp Inc.
During her days in Asia, Jennifer ran an international import/export company, LS Asia, bridging SEA with Chinese lighting manufactures in sourcing, purchasing, cross-country shipments.
Before founding dipp, Jennifer was a co-founder at a tourism cultural portal, WhirlingTurkey, based in Istanbul, promoting sustainable tourism and providing a fair wage to our destination specialists.
Since October 2016, Jennifer's newest and latest venture is focus on revolutionizing digital advertising through high quality user-generated content. We focus on building an AI recommendation engine that programmatically pairs and distributes UGC with branded services to allow discovery and shopping in one.
Jennifer is a passionate member in the startup ecosystem and is always available to offer her expertise to other fellow entrepreneurs in the areas of marketing, branding and foreign trades.
withdipp.comJennifer Hajj
Galileo
Jen is passionate about health care delivery transformation and loves spending time at the intersection of public policy, strategy, and innovation. Prior to joining Galileo, Jen spent 13 years at Sachs Policy Group (SPG). At SPG, Jen served as a senior expert on New York State Medicaid policy and government programs across SPG’s client base and led SPG’s innovation practice.
She received her B.A. in public health studies with departmental honors distinction from the Johns Hopkins University, her M.P.H. from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and her M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
galileohealth.comJens Daum
German American Chamber of Commerce
Jens is the Senior Manager for the Legal Department and Business Development at the German American Chamber of Commerce (GACC). The GACC New York offers a wide range of services to the Northeastern and Western states. Benefiting from being close to Silicon Valley the California branch mainly supports trendsetting industry sectors such as IT, biotechnology, renewable energies, semiconductors, and nanotechnology.
Jens received his Master's of Law from Fordham University before gaining a lot of experience as an Associate and Partner at Wendling & Coll. and Jung & Coll.
http://www.gaccny.com/en
Jeremy Harper
ER Accelerator
Jeremy is a strategist with an analytical mind and passion for working with startups. Born in Canada and raised in LondonJeremy spends his spare time catching his breath on rugby and soccer fields across NYC. Prior to joining ERAJeremy has worked as a senior strategy consultant on the Booz Allen Hamilton team and as a communications planner with Unilever. Jeremy received a B.A. from Brown University."
http://eranyc.comJeremy Robbins
NYC Office of the Mayor Bloomberg & Executive Director
Jeremy Robbins is a Policy Advisor and Special Counsel in the office of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Director of the Partnership for a New American Economythe bipartisan coalition of more than 450 business leaders and mayors making the case that smarter immigration laws will help the companies better compete and create American jobs. Prior to joining New York City governmentJeremy clerked for a federal appellate judgepracticed law at a large national law firmand worked on human rights issues in Argentina. Jeremy holds a B.A. from Brown University and a J.D. from Yale Law School."
http://www1.nyc.govJesse Glass
Empire Angels
Jesse Glass is an active angel investor through the Empire Angels network. Empire Angels is a member-ledNew York City based angel group comprised of experienced young professionals who are attracted to making smart investments in early stage technology ventures with a focus on supporting youngUS based entrepreneurs. The group is collaborative and open sourceproviding a democratic framework with highly filtered deal flow and member training. Empire Angelsthrough it’s individual memberstypically invests between $50k and $150k in both seed and Series A rounds. "
http://empireangels.comJesse Podell
Startupbootcamp FinTech
Jesse is Managing Director for Startupbootcamp FinTech New York. He is responsible for all aspects of the program including startup outreach and working with its excellent partners. A lifetime New Yorker, Jesse spent twelve years in trading and business development roles at financial insitutions such as Jefferies, KCG and Susquehanna. In 2012 he entered the NYC fintech startup scene and has never looked back.
Jesse is a founding board member of Hannah Banana Foundation, a non-profit that helps chronically and terminally ill patients when they're in care, and is a mentor for Career Gear, a national nonprofit organization offering interview clothing and job counseling to men in need.
www.startupbootcamp.orgJessica Brondo Davidoff
Admittedly
Jessica Brondo Davidoff is founder and CEO of Admittedly a venture-backed ed tech startup that offers a free platform for high school students on web and mobile that helps them get accepted to their dream colleges. Jessica Brondo Davidoff received her B.A. from Princeton University in Public & International Affairs."
http://admittedly.comJessica Gerber
37 Angels
Jessica is a trusted advisor with over twenty-five years of experience of strategies and solving critical business issues for companies of all sizes.
At 37 Angels, Jessica is an active member of the women investor community and is passionate about investing in early-stage companies lead by both men and women.
Prior to 37 Angels, Jessica worked for Ernst & Young and as the vice-president of Avalere Health where she developed a deep health care expertise.
http://www.37angels.comJessica Lauretti
LAURELS
Jessica Lauretti is an artist, entrepreneur and thought leader based in New York City. She has a diverse background working at the intersection of art, politics and culture and has expertise in immersive tech, social impact and new media. She has been featured on most major broadcast and digital media outlets as well as honored with several awards and nominations.
Her professional career spans the bleeding edge of the startup media & tech world from a global executive role at immersive tech startup RYOT to a development role at social impact startup Purpose and a production role at new media disruptor VICE. She is currently Founder & Principal at LAURELS, a consulting practice that works with CEOs and startups. She is an award-winning Creative Director and Executive Producer who has spoken at keynote events around the world and serves on the Advisory Council of Google News Lab's Journalism 360 Program.
www.thelaurelsconsulting.comJessica Lin
Workbench
I am a co-founder and VC at Work-Bench, an enterprise-focused venture fund and community in New York City.
My investment area of focus is in future of work and future of teams.
At Work-Bench, we have been building a new kind of enterprise venture fund that leads with community and that supports the greater NYC enterprise ecosystem, with our 32K sq ft home and hub for enterprise tech here in NYC, and 200+ events a year to bring together and connect leading enterprise startups and forward-thinking Fortune 500s.
My role draws on my previous lives in both the corporate and startup worlds: in Learning & Development at Cisco Systems, and leading an innovation and design fellowship in South Africa at Harvard University.
I am also a longtime GED instructor, and am passionate about transforming workforce development through tech.
I believe teachers are key to closing the skills gap, and why I bring together educators and employers for Teacher's Tech Tours.
http://work-bench.comJessica Peltz-Zatulove
MDC Ventures
Jessica Peltz is the Investment Director at kbs+ Venturesfocusing on sourcing deal flow and making investment recommendations for early stage tech startups looking to transform the media and advertising industry. She is a frequent speaker within the NYC startup communityand specializes in helping connect marketers with emerging technology. Jessica’s cutting edge collaborations were often featured in the trades such as MashableAdageMobile Marketerand Mediapost. Jessica has a BA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Businesswith a double concentration in Marketing and International Relations.
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www.mdc-partners.com/about-mdc/venturesJim Herbold
Herbold Consulting
Jim Herbold is a passionate go-to-market leader who fuses sophisticateddata-driven sales and marketing strategies with disruptive product inputs to yield hyper revenue growth. He has helped three companies achieve dramatic growth and exits: Box (A-round VP Sales hire to EVP Global Sales to IPO and $2BN+ valuation)EmailLabs (< $1MM to $20MMacquisition by Lyris)and AboveNet (E-round investorIPO$1.4BN acquisition by Metromedia Fiber Networks)."
www.linkedin.com/in/jimherbold?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=0AP7&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2CclickedEntityId%3A74035%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH%2Cidx%3A1-1-1%2CJim Spaeth
Sequent Partners
Jim co-founded Sequent Partners over 13 years ago. During that time, he has consulted on media and brand metrics for many of the country’s foremost media, associations and marketers. Jim also founded USA TouchPoints, the cross-platform, consumer journey measurement system developed by Sequent Partners.
Prior to co-founding Sequent Partners, Jim served as President of ARF, The Advertising Research Foundation, for seven years. Under Jim's leadership, ARF expanded its scope to incorporate all aspects of market research practice on a global basis, including marketing and media ROI, CRM, brand valuation, digital marketing and the transformation of the research function to a business discipline focused on value creation.
Prior to his leadership role at ARF, Jim spent over a decade developing new research tools to improve clients' business performance at PEAC ViewFacts, ScanAmerica and ASI. He has also led the media research and planning function at General Foods and Young & Rubicam.
Jo Schneier
Trusty Care
Joseph Schneier is the founder and CEO of Trusty.care, a company dedicated to improving the financial and health outcomes of older adults. He has been working at solving complex social issues for the past twenty years. With a commitment to leaving the world a better place, Jo has been privileged to build products around early childhood literacy, foreign language acquisition, workforce development and has also conducted research on behalf of the Department of State, USAID, Johns Hopkins SAIS, and many other organizations.
Mr. Schneier is a frequent speaker and mentor and has recently spoken at TEDMed, Lake Nona and StartupHealth JP Morgan. He is a mentor at Cornell, NYU, Columbia and Wharton. Cognition is a Techstars and StartupHealth company and won the 1776 Challenge Cup.
trusty.careJoe Daniels
McCarter & English
As a business lawyer, Joe represents startup to publicly-held technology, life science and consumer companies, venture capital and private equity funds and investment banks in a wide range of seed and venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other public offerings. Joe regularly advises a broad range of startups, venture-backed companies and VC funds, and have led hundreds of venture and strategic financing transactions. He has helped companies and private equity firms handle scores of merger, acquisition and disposition transactions. Additionally, he has represented issuers and underwriters in dozens of IPOs and follow-on public offerings involving companies in the technology, life sciences and consumer sectors, including leading investment banks such as Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley and Oppenheimer.
Joe also serves as outside general counsel for numerous companies, assisting them with everything from day-to-day business transactions to multinational strategic alliance transactions ranging from technology and distribution partnerships to joint ventures. He focuses on representing clients involved in high-growth sectors, and have experience with a broad range of industries, including adtech, AI, biotech, blockchain, cleantech, consumer, cryptocurrency, digital media, ecommerce, energy, IoT, fintech/financial services, life sciences, mobile, semiconductor, software, UAVs and telecommunications. He frequently speaks at events addressing a wide range of topics crit