Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top York based CEO’ operating in the E-Commerce space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Nitesh Banta
Co-Founder & CEO of B12
Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.
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About B12, Getaround, Rough Draft Ventures, Stellar Capital: B12 offers website building, contact management, online scheduling, payments, invoicing, and SEO services.
Chieh Huang
CEO of Boxed
Chieh Huang joined Boxed as CEO in 2013.Director Zynga NY, CEO Astro Ape, Venture for America Entrep. Board Member, NY Mobile Startups Meetup Organizer. Before founding Blackgate Ventures, Chieh was Director of Zynga Mobile NY and CEO of Astro Ape (acquired by Zynga). Originally a corporate attorney at Proskauer, Chieh is currently an Entrepreneur Board Member of Venture for America and can be seen hosting the NY Mobile Startups Meetup. Chieh earned his J.D. from Fordham University and has a Bachelor’s of Economics from The Johns Hopkins University.
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About Blackgate Ventures, Boxed: Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
Neil Blumenthal
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Warby Parker
Neil Blumenthal is a co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker, a transformative lifestyle brand that offers designer eyewear at a revolutionary price, while leading the way for socially-conscious businesses. Prior to launching Warby Parker in 2010, Neil served as Director of VisionSpring, a non-profit social enterprise that trains low-income women to start their own businesses selling affordable eyeglasses to individuals living on less than $4 per day in developing countries. In 2005, Neil was named a Fellow for Emerging Leaders in Public Service at NYU Robert F. Wagner School for Public Service. In 2012, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company. In 2013, he became a member of the United Nations’ Global Entrepreneurs Council and was named one of Crain’s “40 Under Forty”. In 2013, he received an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. Neil serves on the board of RxArt and on the United Nations Global Entrepreneurs Council. A native of New York City, Neil received his BA from Tufts University and his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was both a Social Enterprise Fellow and a Leadership Fellow. Neil lives in Greenwich Village with his wife Rachel Leigh, the founder of Cricket’s Circle.
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About Warby Parker: Warby Parker is a lifestyle brand that offers designer eyewear while being a socially conscious business.
David Gilboa
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Warby Parker
Dave Gilboa is the co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker, a transformative lifestyle brand offering designer eyewear at a revolutionary price while leading the way for socially conscious businesses. In 2015, Fast Company named Warby Parker the most innovative company in the world. Prior to Warby Parker, Dave worked at merchant bank Allen & Company and Bain & Company. Dave has worked extensively with non-profit organizations, and serves as a founding member of the Entrepreneur Board of Venture for America, an organization dedicated to mobilizing graduates as entrepreneurs in low-cost cities. He is a member of the Aspen Institute’s 2014 Henry Crown Fellowship class and the Aspen Global Leadership Network, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, and was recognized as part of “The Next Establishment” by Vanity Fair. Born in Sweden and raised in San Diego, Dave graduated with a BS in Bioengineering with Honors from UC Berkeley and holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. With the ultimate goal of making safe, routine vision tests more accessible and convenient for the millions of adults who wear prescription glasses, Warby Parker introduced Prescription Check in 2017, a mobile refraction service designed in-house that, if you are eligible, allows an eye doctor to assess your vision and provide an updated prescription within 24 hours.
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About Warby Parker: Warby Parker is a lifestyle brand that offers designer eyewear while being a socially conscious business.
Ari Ojalvo
Co-Founder and CEO of REEF
Ari Ojalvo is the Co-Founder and CEO at REEF Technology.
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About REEF, Thesis Ventures: REEF Technology is a company that transforms urban real estate such as parking facilities into thriving mobility and logistical hubs.
Marc Lore
Founder & CEO of Jet
Marc Lore is the Founder and CEO of Jet. He was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Wizkids, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Topps Company, Inc. (NASD: TOPP) and a leading game manufacturer. Prior to joining Wizkids, Marc was the co-founder and CEO of The Pit, Inc., an Internet market-making collectible company constructed as an alternative to eBay. The Pit, Inc. was successfully sold to the then publicly traded Topps Company in 2001. Prior to ThePit, Marc held various investment banking positions, including as Executive Vice President of Sanwa International Bank in London where he was head of the bank’s Risk Management Division. Before Sanwa, he was Vice President and Global Head of Emerging Markets Risk Department at Credit Suisse First Boston in London. In 2000, he was named by The Sunday Times Magazine of London as one of Britain’s top ten “new high-tech entrepreneurs and whiz kids.” Marc graduated from Bucknell University, where he received a B.A. in Business Management/Economics, cum laude, and is currently on leave from the Wharton University School of Business MBA program. He is also a C.F.A. (Chartered Financial Analyst). Marc has two young daughters, Sierra and Sophia, with his wife, Carolyn.
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About Jet, Walmart: Jet operates an e-commerce platform that allows its member to shop online from various retailers.
Jeff Braverman
CEO and Owner at Nuts.com of Nuts.com
Jeffrey Braverman is the CEO at Nuts.com.
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About Kopper’s Chocolate, Nuts.com: Nuts.com is a multi-channel retailer of the finest nuts, dried fruit, snacks and pantry staples.
Rachel Drori
Founder and CEO of Daily Harvest
Rachel Drori is the founder and CEO of Daily Harvest, a platform is serving the needs of modern consumers by turning freezers into personalized pantries stocked with clean food, quickly prepared and replenished as it is consumed. Daily Harvest was launched as a solution to Rachel’s own daily challenge: squeezing in nourishing fruits and vegetables into her busy life. She has built Daily Harvest into one of the fastest-growing consumer brands in the U.S. Prior to starting Daily Harvest, Rachel harnessed her skills as a customer-centric marketing executive, leading teams at Gilt Groupe, American Express, and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. Rachel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She currently resides in New York City with her family
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About Daily Harvest: Daily Harvest is a customer-first platform that provides subscription-based food delivery services to offer healthy frozen foods.
Matt Meeker
Founder and CEO of BarkBox
Mr. Matt Meeker is a Co-Founder of Bark & Co. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Meeker co-founded Wee Web, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. He serves as Vice President of Member Experience at MeetUp, Inc. He co-founded MeetUp, Inc. in 2002 and served as its Advisor. He serves as a Venture Partner of Resolute Ventures, Inc. He served as the President at Bark & Co. He was an Entrepreneur in Residence at DogPatch Labs. He is the Organizer of .
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About BARK, BarkBox, Resolute Ventures: Barkbox is a subscription-based e-commerce and content company for dog lovers.
Ankur Nagpal
Founder & CEO of Teachable
Founder of Fedora.
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About Teachable: Teachable is a venture-backed company that allows anyone to create and sell online courses.
Ryan Babenzien
Founder / CEO / Investor of Greats
Babenzien began his career managing clients at ICM Partners. Towards the end of the 1990s, he began consulting with fashion companies, including Eckō Unltd. and Mecca. He later worked for Puma, eventually landing with K-Swiss. Babenzien served as the director of lifestyle and entertainment marketing for that company, and then the Global Director of Entertainment Marketing. Babenzien became the CEO of Boast in 2010, re-establishing the retail brand that had been founded in 1973. Babenzien worked with Andy Spade to revive the company, and began showing collections for both men and women in advance of the company’s 40th anniversary. In 2013 Babenzien founded the online footwear company Greats Brand with Jon Buscemi. He knew that he wanted to create a high quality footwear brand that was sold direct to the consumer rather than through 3rd party retailers.
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About Greats, Greats: Greats Brands is a men’s footwear brand that offers a wide range of classically-inspired sneakers.
Michael Reitblat
CEO & Co-Founder of Forter
Michael is the Co-Founder and CEO of Forter, the leading payment fraud prevention solution. Prior to founding Forter, Michael was the VP Product & International Operations at Pango Parking where he was in charge of the deployment and adoption of Mobile Wallet technologies worldwide. In 2008, before its acquisition by PayPal, Michael led Product at Fraud Sciences, where he faced some of the most challenging questions in the cyber security ecosystem. Michael’s fascination with online fraudsters began following a successful “self experimentation with the Internet” phase as a teenager and an even more successful period of service as an intelligence officer in the early days of the Israeli Cyber Command.
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About Forter: Forter offers a fraud solution that helps retailers grow sales, lower costs, and improve customer experience via its Decision as Service.
Joey Levin
CEO of IAC
Appointed to the position in June 2015, Levin is responsible for the strategic leadership of IAC and its operating businesses. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of IAC. Prior to this, Joey Levin was the CEO of IAC Search & Applications, overseeing the desktop software, mobile applications, and media properties that comprise IACs Search & Applications segment and was responsible for setting overall strategy and maximizing opportunities across IACs Search and Applications brands. In November 2009, Levin was appointed as CEO of Mindspark Interactive Network, a consumer software company that builds, markets and delivers a wide range of consumer software products. Prior to this, Levin served as Senior Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions and Finance for IAC, and has held various roles within IAC since joining the company in 2003.
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About IAC, TurnKey Vacation Rentals: IAC is a media and Internet company with more than 150 brands and products serving consumer audiences.
Jonathan Regev
Co-Founder, CEO of The Farmer’s Dog
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About The Farmer’s Dog: A smarter, healthier pet food — delivered. #longlivedogs
Melanie Travis
Co-Founder and CEO of Andie
Melanie Travis is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Andie.
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About Andie: Andie is a designer and manufacturer of one-piece women’s swimsuits and sells them to consumers through its e-commerce platform.
Fayez Mohamood
Co-founder & CEO of Bluecore
He is the co-founder and CEO of TriggerMail, a marketing automation company that allows eCommerce companies to personalize emails in real-time. Previously, he was Head of Product at BigDoor where He was responsible for concieving, executing and iterating on gamified loyalty and rewards programs to increase user retention across the websites of major global brands like NFL, Dell, Adobe and Starbucks to name a few.He also co-founded Gameday Tycoon, a simple fantasy sports game that runs on Facebook, as well as Sponty which was a service that allowed people to discover music events in town. In a previous life, He was into microprocessor design and simulation. He developed and integrated the first combined Graphics and Processor Memory Controller simulator at AMD to predict and analyze the performance impact of AMD’s Fusion CPUs. his first rookie Master’s publication when He was a student at Georgia Tech was awarded the Best Paper by the prestigious IBM’s TJ Watson Research, and a subsequent publication was adopted by AMD in one of their CPUs even before He finished graduate school. In addition, He also worked on developing graphical frameworks for Simulink and MATLAB at The Mathworks in Boston. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, where He published several papers on high-performance microprocessor design.
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About Bluecore: Bluecore uses predictive intelligence to automatically connect shoppers to products, content, and offers, wherever they are.
Jennifer Hyman
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Rent the Runway
Jennifer Hyman is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rent the Runway, a fashion company with a technology soul that is disrupting the way women get dressed. In her role, she sets the strategic priorities of the business and leads the company in growing all areas of the business, including marketing, technology, product, and analytics. She co-founded Rent the Runway in 2009 with Jennifer Fleiss, and has since raised $126 million in venture capital, growing the business to over 6 million members, 950 employees and 400 designer brands. Jennifer has been honored with numerous recognitions including: Forbes’ “Women Entrepreneurs to Watch”, TriBeCa Film Festival’s “Disruptive Innovation Awards”, Fortune Magazine’s “Trailblazers, 11 People Changing Business in 2013,” “Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs,” and “40 Under 40”; Inc. Magazine’s “30 Under 30”; and Fast Company’s “Most Influential Women in Technology.” She has been a featured speaker at Fortune Brainstorm Tech, the Forbes Women’s Summit, Tech Crunch Disrupt, and Marie Claire’s Power Trip, and has appeared as a guest on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, and CNN Money, among many others. In 2015, Jennifer launched the Rent the Runway Foundation with Jennifer Fleiss to inspire and ignite the next generation of female entrepreneurs. The foundation’s first initiative, in partnership with UBS, is Project Entrepreneur, a venture competition and educational program designed to provide women entrepreneurs nationwide with the tools to build high-growth, high-impact businesses. Prior to Rent the Runway, Jennifer was the Director of Business Development at IMG where she focused on the creation of new media businesses for IMG’s Fashion Division. She also ran an online advertising sales team at WeddingChannel.com and was an in-house entrepreneur at Starwood Hotels, creating Starwood’s first wedding business which was recognized on the Oprah Winfrey Show for its innovation. She received her BA from Harvard University and MBA from Harvard Business School. Jennifer is a Bloomberg Fellow, a TechStars mentor, and a member of both the Entrepreneurship Board at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Women in Business Board at Harvard University. She is an investor in and advisor to several high-growth startups throughout the U.S.
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About Brit + Co, Rent the Runway, Zalando: Rent the Runway is an online e-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories.
Rahul Gandhi
Cofounder and CEO of MakeSpace
Rahul is a Co-Founder and the CEO at MakeSpace. Previously, he was a Principal at High Peaks Venture Partners based in the firm’s New York City office where he was responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities across a wide range of sectors and supporting portfolio companies. Prior to joining High Peaks, Rahul was a Senior Manager on AOL’s Corporate Development team where he helped evaluate, manage, and structure numerous high-profile acquisitions and investments for the company. His previous experience also spans across investment banking for Banc of America Securities and venture capital for both Genacast Ventures and Comcast Interactive Capital. Rahul graduated from the George Washington University with high honors and holds both an MS in Accounting from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is an active participant in the Columbia Venture Community (CVC) and serves on the board of the New York Venture Community (NYVC).
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About MakeSpace: MakeSpace is an on-demand storage company that makes it easy to order, store, and retrieve physical belongings.
Michael Waxman
Co-Founder & CEO of Sundays for Dogs
Michael was born and raised outside of Cleveland, Ohio, and went to college at Yale. He dropped out after his freshmen year to start a tech company, but returned later and graduated. He now lvies in New York City. Michael has built Grouper (a social club), Biography (“life-graphing”), Qomments (a comments system based on Q&A), Paper Buff (a social news reader), and QNA (a mini Quora for your website).
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About Grouper, Sundays for Dogs: Sundays for Dogs engages in the online retail of dog foods that are made by an air-drying method.
Maurice Harary
Founder and CEO of Fluz
Maurice is a Founder of the Fluz App. He is a serial entrepreneur with a 10-year background in e-commerce. He currently manages over 20 e-commerce sites in the B2B and B2C environment, ranging from interactive learning-based experiences to price-competitive marketplace trading sites. Experience in all areas of e-commerce sites, ranging from custom e-commerce software development to operational planning. He has extensive experience in fashion eCommerce and marketplace selling.
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About Fluz: Reinventing cashback to give you more. Get paid when you shop + when your friends shop. Earn Cashback Forever.
Bryan Mahoney
Co-Founder, CEO of Chord
Bryan started his career in Montreal, pursuing a degree in Finance and Entrepreneurship at McGill University. In 1998, during his sophomore year, he founded Dynamo, a digital design studio that would later become his full-time job with a team of thirty-five. Over the course of 15 years, Dynamo established itself as a go-to partner for venture-backed startups in the e-commerce space, including brands like Blue Bottle Coffee, Samsung, the Honest Company, and Glossier. After Glossier launched in 2014, Bryan was tasked with helping the New York-based company build out their own in-house tech team. He ended up taking on the job himself and now serves as their Chief Technology Officer. At Glossier, Bryan’s focus has shifted to overseeing an international team of developers and data analysts as they work to create a forward-thinking experience for customers and build a technology infrastructure from the ground up. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York City.
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About Chord: Chord offers a commerce-as-a-service software that provides businesses with technology and products to access meaningful data.
David Goldhill
Co-Founder & CEO of Sesame
David Goldhill is the founder and CEO of Sesame.
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About Game Show Network, Sesame: Sesame is a healthcare superstore, with over 10,000 medical practices offering affordable prices for care in-person or online.
Aron Schwarzkopf
Co-Founder & CEO of Kushki
Aron Schwarzkopf is the Co-Founder and CEO at Kushki.
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About Kushki, New York Angels, Techstars: Kushki offers clients an integrated payments platform and omnichannel solutions for e-commerce, m-commerce, and physical stores.
Neha Singh
Founder & CEO of Obsess
Neha Singh is the Founder & CEO of Obsess, a platform for Immersive Mobile Commerce.
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About Obsess: Obsess is a platform for immersive mobile commerce.
Raj Pandey
Co-Founder and CEO of ZopSmart
Raj Pandey is the Co-Founder and CEO at ZopSmart.
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About ZopSmart: ZopSmart is a retail technology that provides tools in building e-commerce business.
Bowie Cheung
Co-founder & CEO of Pepper
Bowie is the co-founder and CEO of Pepper, where he’s partnering with restaurant wholesalers across the country to build a more transparent, technology powered food supply chain. Before co-founding Pepper in 2019, Bowie was the first General Manager for Uber Eats and Director of US & Canada Operations at Uber Technologies, and prior to that a management consultant at Bain & Company. He holds degrees in engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Business.
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About Pepper: Building the digital operating system for the food supply chain
Patrick Freuler
Founder and CEO of Audicus
Patrick Freuler is the founder of Audicus, an internet platform that aims to make hearing aids more affordable. He previously worked at McKinsey and Bain Capital, before co-founding Imperdivel, a leading social e-commerce platform in Brazil. Patrick holds BSc. and MSc. in engineering from MIT.
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About Audicus: Audicus is an e-commerce startup that offers high-tech, affordable hearing aids online.
Liad Agmon
CEO of Dynamic Yield
Liad Agmon joined Dynamic Yield Liad as CEO in 2012.Agmon is a serial entrepreneur with rich experience as a startup founder and as a Fortune 500 executive. He founded information security vendor Onigma (acquired by McAfee) and social search company Delver (acquired by Sears Holdings). Following Delver’s acquisition, Liad served as a VP of New Services at Sears Holdings and on the board of its Home Electronics and Outlets business units. Liad served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Bessemer Venture Partners and taught at the Entrepreneurship MBA program in Tel-Aviv University and at the Zell Program of IDC Herzliya. He holds a BA Cum Laude from Tel-Aviv University in Computer Sciences and Film Studies.
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About Dynamic Yield: Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions.
Neal Desai
CEO of Kafene
CFO in the consumer lending space. Responsibilities include capital structure design and execution, planning and valuation modeling, loan portfolio risk assessment, loss modeling and provisioning, debt and equity capital partnerships, performance reporting and design, cash flow management and analysis, treasury management, and accounting. Experienced statistical trader with more than 15 years of demonstrated capital markets success. Expertise in futures relative value and systematic trading with advanced proficiency in ETFs and equity derivatives.
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About Kafene: Kafene is a mission driven startup with the goal of empowering flexible ownership.
Jessie Zeng
Founder & CEO of Choosy
Jessie Zeng is the founder of Choosy.
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About Choosy: Choosy is an on-demand social shopping platform where users influence every collection to match their favorite style inspirations.
Andy Aranda
Founder and CEO of Breazy
Andy Aranda is the Founder and CEO of Breazy, Inc.
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About Breazy: Ecommerce, Alternative Wellness
Joy Tang
CEO & Founder of mai (Markable AI)
Joy Tang is the CEO and founder of Markable.ai, the leading AI computer vision company for the retail sector. It has raised over $5.2M and closing another $6M round from tier one global VCs with billion dollar clients on most continents. Before building Markable’s world class team, Joy won a Gold Medal in Math Olympics in China at age 16 and was the TV anchor of a Chinese television program for ten years. Joy then attended MIT on a full scholarship, with majors in math and economics. Joy sold her first start up, a social media platform for international students built together with Berkeley students to a Chinese company in her last year of college. After college, she worked as a lead machine learning quantitative scientist for seven years that built financial high frequency AI trading programs generating a daily six-figure profit while causing traditional wall street to crash in 2008. Joy left high frequency trading to create Markable.ai, upon noticing a huge gap in the market between e-commerce and digital content. This gap inspired her to develop the AI technology to make all forms of visual digital content such as photos, videos and livestream content immediately shoppable. Markable.ai has a goal to deliver the ultimate shopping therapy for consumers; the future of AI driven fast e-commerce; and the future of AI driven green, user-engaged advertising.
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About mai (Markable AI): Mai is the leading AI visual discovery shopping engine that makes any photo or video content shoppable
Amish Tolia
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Leap Services
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Brand Innovators Labs & Co-Founder & Principal at Viking Investment Management. Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Leap.
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About Brand Accelerator, Brand Innovators Labs, Leap, Leap Services, Viking Investment Management: Leap develops a retail platform that enables brands to deploy stores and accelerate growth.
Raphi Mahgerefteh
Founder and CEO of Allurez
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About Allurez: Expert online jewelry retailers of diamonds and fine jewelry specializing in customized engagement rings, pendants, & earrings. Allurez.com
Sophia Edelstein
Co-Founder & CEO of Pair Eyewear
Sophia Edelstein is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pair Eyewear.
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About Pair Eyewear: Pair Eyewear is an eyewear brand designed and made specifically for children.
Brian Berger
Founder & CEO of Mack Weldon
Brian Berger is founder & CEO of Mack Weldon
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About BDB Ventures, Mack Weldon: Mack Weldon is an e-commerce company that sells men’s underwear, t-shirts, and socks.
Jack Carlson
Founder, CEO, and Creative Director of Rowing Blazers
Jack Carlson is the Co-Founder, CEO, and Creative Director at Rowing Blazers.
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About Rowing Blazers: Rowing Blazers is a youthful, irreverent menswear label dedicated to the idea that the classics can be cool.
Max Ritz
Co-Founder, Co-CEO of The Loyalist
Max is an MBA student at Columbia Business School, focusing on investment management and entrepreneurship. He is an InSITE Fellow and was involved in startup and growth-stage companies prior to business school. He has founded and helped lead two successful startups to acquisitions, both with his brother, and worked on the investment team at Innovation Endeavors, a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv co-founded by Eric Schmidt. Most recently, Max worked at SoFi, a portfolio company of Innovation Endeavors that blends technology and marketplace lending to intelligently address specific debt and loan sectors. Max holds a BA from The University of Maryland, where he captained the University’s lacrosse team.
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About The Loyalist: End-to-end merchandise platform focused on audience monetization for media companies, entertainers and online-influencers.
Nadia Boujarwah
CEO & Co-founder of Dia&Co
Nadia Boujarwah went to Harvard Business school with the express goal of starting her own company. When she dove into the plus size market for women and saw how underserved this market was, she knew she had discovered her customer. After surveying hundreds of influential bloggers, Nadia co-founded Dia&Co, a company that, based on an online style survey, mails each subscriber a hand-picked box of garments to try on in the comfort of her own home. Today, Dia&Co has over 50 employees and has raised over $6 million. Listen to this week’s episode to find out how Nadia and her team are inspiring radical self-acceptance through style and transforming the shopping experience for plus sized women.
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About Dia&Co, Founder Collective: Dia&Co sells plus size clothing and accessories via a try at home model.
Morgan Hirsh
Founder & CEO of Public Goods
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About Public Goods: Making healthy products affordable
Geoffrey Chaiken
Co-founder & CEO of Blink Health
Geoffrey Chaiken is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Blink Health. As the first e-commerce company to bring prescriptions online, Blink Health solves the prescription drug pricing problem in the US by offering patients amazingly inexpensive Rx prices. Patients simply pay for their prescriptions online, before picking them up at their preferred pharmacy or having them delivered to their home. Previously, Geoffrey was the founder of Marinus Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: MRNS), a specialty pharmaceutical company developing novel treatments for severe epilepsy. Prior to founding Blink Health, Geoffrey was at Brave Warrior Advisors, where he was one of three investors managing $3 billion. At Brave Warrior, Geoffrey led the firm’s successful investment throughout the technology and pharmaceutical supply chains. Geoffrey has a BA in Biology and Philosophy from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Geoffrey has been named Fortune’s 40 Under 40 and several other lists of top leaders in healthcare and business.
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About Blink Health: Blink Health is a web-based application that enables users to search for medical prescriptions online and pick them up from any pharmacy.
Yael Vizel
CEO & Co-founder of Zeekit (a Walmart company)
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About Zeekit (a Walmart company): Zeekit is a technology company, a part of the Global Tech department at Walmart, specializing in virtual dress-up technology.
Amir Schlachet
Co-founder & CEO of Global-e
Amir Schlachet is Co-founder & CEO at Global-e.
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About Global-e: Global-e is cross-border e-commerce enablement platform that enables brands and retailers to deliver purchase experiences to customers.
Frederick Smith
CEO & Founder of FedEx
Frederick W. Smith is chairman and chief executive officer of FedEx Corporation, a $45-billion global transportation, business services and logistics company. Smith is responsible for providing strategic direction for all FedEx Corporation operating companies, including FedEx Services, FedEx Express, FedEx Ground and FedEx Freight. FedEx serves more than 220 countries and territories with operations that include 634 aircraft and over 90,000 vehicles. More than 300,000 team members worldwide handle more than 10 million shipments each business day. Since founding FedEx in 1971, Smith has been an active proponent of regulatory reform, free trade and “open skies agreements” for aviation around the world. Most recently, he has advocated for vehicle energy-efficiency standards and a national energy policy. FedEx has continued to strengthen its industry leadership over the past 40 years, and has been widely acknowledged for its commitment to total quality service. FedEx Express was the first service company to win the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 1990. FedEx has consistently been ranked on FORTUNE magazine’s industry lists, including “World’s Most Admired Companies,” “100 Best Companies to Work For” and is on FORTUNE’s “Blue Ribbon Companies List. Smith is co-chairman of the Energy Security Leadership Council, a Trustee for the United States Council for International Business and a member of the Business Roundtable. He served as chairman of the U.S.-China Business Council and is co-chairman of the French-American Business Council. Smith has served on the boards of several large public companies and the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Mayo Foundation Boards. He was formerly chairman of the Board of Governors for the International Air Transport Association and the U.S. Air Transport Association. Smith has received numerous civic, academic and business awards including the Global Leadership Award from the U.S—India Business Council, the George C. Marshall Foundation Award; and the Circle of Honor Award from the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation. In addition, Smith is a member of the Aviation Hall of Fame, served as co-chairman of both the U.S. World War II Memorial Project and the campaign for the National Museum of the Marine Corps and was named a top CEO by both BARRON’S magazine and CHIEF EXECUTIVE magazine. Born in 1944 in Marks, Miss., Smith attended Yale University, where he earned a B.A. in 1966. Smith served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1966-1970.
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About FedEx: FedEx provides customers and businesses worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce, and business services.
Arun Gupta
CEO and Co-Founder of Grailed
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About Grailed: Grailed is a peer-to-peer marketplace company that offers fashion and lifestyle accessories and apparel for men.
Ilya Avshalumov
Co-Founder & CEO of Variety Fun
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About Variety Fun: Variety Fun is an online a monthly subscription-based snack foods delivery service for business and home.
Sharron Battle
Founder & CEO of Derbywire
Sharron Battle is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of selfiepay and Derbywire.
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About Derbywire, selfiepay: Derbywire is a mobile social marketplace allowing individuals to store, sell, and buy digital content.
Raunak Nirmal
CEO of Acquco
Raunak Nirmal is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Acquco. He is also the Founder of Refundlabs.
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About Acquco: Acquco is an e-commerce platform that focuses on acquiring and growing Amazon Marketplace businesses.
Anthony Girand
CEO, Co-Founder of VoyagerMed
Anthony has over 15 years of experience as a Private Wealth advisor on Wall Street. He left Forbes Family Trust in 2014 to start VoyagerMed and has been spearheading the company’s digital operations ever since. Contact Anthony at anthony@voyagermed.com
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About VoyagerMed: A medical tourism marketplace faciliating access to life changing medical innovations from trusted doctors around the world.
Ali Asaria
CEO of Tulip Retail
Ali Asaria was formerly the CEO and founder of Well.ca, Canada’s largest online health, baby and beauty store. Prior to founding Well.ca, Ali worked at Research In Motion (RIM) where he independently developed BrickBreaker, the most popular Blackberry game that is now on more than 15 million devices worldwide. In 2005, Ali was RIM’s youngest patent recipient. Prior to RIM, Ali worked in Microsoft’s Redmond office on the Office 2007 User Interface Team.
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About Tulip Retail: Tulip Retail is a mobile app platform built exclusively for next generation store associates to offer a world-class omnichannel experience.
Court Cunningham
Founder & CEO of Orchard
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About Orchard: Orchard is an online platform for buying and selling residential real estate.
Jeffrey Raider
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Harry’s
As co-founder of both Harry’s and Warby Parker, Jeff Raider aims to build companies and brands that people like more. Harry’s ambition is to create exceptional shaving and personal care products that better meet the needs of modern men. Prior to Harry’s, Raider co-founded Warby Parker, the transformative lifestyle brand that offers designer eyewear at a revolutionary price while leading the way for socially conscious businesses. In May 2019, Harry’s Inc. announced a combination with Edgewell Personal Care to create a next-generation consumer products platform. Raider will serve as co-president of US operations at Edgewell upon the transaction closing.
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About Harry’s, Warby Parker: Harry is a developer of an online platform used to sell shaving equipment and accessories for men.
Andy Katz-Mayfield
Founder & Co-CEO of Harry’s
Andy Katz-Mayfield is co-founder and co-CEO of Harry’s. Prior to co-founding Harry’s, Andy worked at Brighter.com for business development and strategy position. He holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a BA degree in public policy from Duke University.
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About Harry’s: Harry is a developer of an online platform used to sell shaving equipment and accessories for men.
Spencer Hewett
Founder & CEO of RADAR
Founder & CEO at RADAR (formerly Skip)
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About RADAR: RADAR is an RFID and computer vision platform that automates inventory management, analytics and checkout in physical stores.
Neil Vogel
Chief Executive Officer of Dotdash
Neil Vogel is the CEO Dotdash.
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About Diskbase, Dotdash, FirstMark, The Balance, VeryWell: Dotdash’s vibrant brands help over 100 million users each month find answers, solve problems, and get inspired.
Gregory Struck
Chief Executive Officer of Noops
Gregory Struck has been described as a mission driven passionate entrepreneur who loves working with people and leading teams. Gregory is the Co-‐Founder of Hungryroot, named one of Inc Magazine’s Most Talked About New Startups of 2015. Formerly he led operations at this venture-‐backed startup offering innovative fresh, and delicious vegetable centric meals. Gregory was named to Business Insiders 2015 class of SILICON ALLEY 100, naming the 100 most influential people in technology. Prior to founding Hungryroot Gregory Co-‐Founded and led operations for Long Island Iced Tea Corp. (OTCQB: LTEA) a growth-‐oriented CPG company focused on the ready-‐to-‐drink (“RTD”) iced tea segment in the beverage industry. He sold his stake in the company to PE Firm Cullen Investments in 2013. Earlier in his career he flourished in operations at Shake Shack (NYSE: SHACK) then he was recruited to lead management operations for The One Group’s (NASDAQ:STKS) flagship multi level hospitality concept STK in NYC. Born in South Africa and raised in the United States Gregory is a graduate of the D’Amore-‐McKim School of Business at Northeastern University where he double majored in Entrepreneurial Studies and Business Management. Post College Gregory was awarded the International Culinary Center Hard Work Scholarship to attend the ICC’s Culinary Entrepreneurship program, which he completed before going to work for Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group. In his spare time Gregory gives back to causes he is passionate about. He is a mentor at Food: X, the #1 startup innovation food accelerator in the world. Gregory is also an advocate for animal rights and is an ambassador for The Good Food Institute, a non-‐profit and think tank whose mission focuses on cultivating sustainable and animal free foods to address animal cruelty and feeding a universally growing population. On the subject of food innovation; Gregory has been quoted in The Boston Globe as well as other respected news outlets.
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About Noops: Noops is an omnichannel brand of better for you plant-based snacks
Alban Denoyel
Co-Founder & CEO of Sketchfab
Alban is a 32-year-old French entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Sketchfab – the #1 platform to publish and explore 3D content online and in VR. Prior to Sketchfab, he launched a low cost web agency, and worked for 4 years in the 2D world of photojournalists. He loves making things (usually with wood or in 3D). He graduated from ESSEC Business School (Paris, France).
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About Sketchfab: Sketchfab provides a platform to publish and find 3D models online
Reham Fagiri
Co-founder & CEO of AptDeco
Reham is the co-founder and CEO of AptDeco, a marketplace for buying and selling used furniture. AptDeco is a vertically integrated platform combining both the marketplace and logistics in one. Prior to AptDeco Reham worked at Goldman Sachs in various engineering and management positions where she built various internal technology applications. She also managed large scale engineering teams focusing on designing, building and launching new technology applications. Reham holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Maryland, College Park and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About AptDeco: AptDeco is a peer to peer marketplace for buying and selling furniture.
Alex Adelman
CEO and Co-Founder of Lolli
Alex Adelman is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Lolli. Alex was previously the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Cosmic (acquired by PopSugar, then Ebates). He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and currently resides in New York, New York. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in Economics.
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About Lolli: Lolli is a rewards app that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.
Andrea Xu
Founder & CEO of Umamicart
Andrea Xu is the Founder and CEO of Umamicart.
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About Umamicart: Umamicart is an online grocery store that focuses on delivering Asian products and groceries.
Andrew Vagenas
CEO of Pharmapacks
Andrew Vagenas is a co-founder and CEO at Pharmapacks.
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About Pharmapacks: Pharmapacks is an e-commerce company that offers products for daily health and wellness needs.
Yu Chen
Founder & CEO of PingPong
Robert Chen co-founded PingPong Global Solutions Inc. in 2015 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. As CEO, Robert is focused on transforming the payment industry to make selling easy everywhere in the world for e-commerce sellers. Prior to co-founding PingPong Global Solutions Inc., Robert’s career included 10 years as a Manager at Deloitte Consulting in New York. Robert holds an M.S. in Mathematics from University of Connecticut and a B.S. in Mathematics from Fudan University in Shanghai.
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About PingPong: The first, and only, international Fintech company to focus exclusively on global eCommerce Marketplace sellers.
Zach Ehrlich
Founder and CEO of Stoop
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About Stoop: Stoop is a marketplace platform for furnished home rentals and urban residential space.
Brian M. Fenty
CEO & Co-Founder of TodayTix
Brian has led and managed varied private investments across a broad range of industries, focusing on product and talent. He is an active adviser to start-ups, growth stage companies and management teams. Previously an MD at Hamilton Investment Partners. Currently, Brian serves on the Board of The Institute for Arts and Humanities at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he received his Bachelors degree in Marketing and Entrepreneurship.
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About TodayTix: TodayTix is the premier digital gateway to shows, arts, and cultural experiences.
Alpay Koralturk
Founder & CEO of Kaiyo
Alpay Koralturk, founder and CEO of Kaiyo.
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About Kaiyo: Kaiyo is an online marketplace for pre-owned furniture dedicated to great design, exceptional customer care, and a more sustainable planet.
Christian Gheorghe
CEO and co-Founder of Resonance Companies, Inc.
Always seeking to maximize the value to users from technology innovation,Christian Gheorghe has wide-ranging entrepreneurial experience in the design, architecture, development, and deployment of enterprise performance management software. Gheorghe was formerly senior vice president and chief technology officer at SAP, where he drove the technology direction of SAP’s EPM and GRC business units before, during, and after the acquisition of Business Objects. Gheorghe joined SAP from OutlookSoft, where he significantly expanded the vision of OutlookSoft’s unified application platform with the release of OutlookSoft 5 and the subsequent acquisition of OutlookSoft by SAP. His successful track record of building and leading companies led to the sales of Saxe Marketing (marketing analytics), Customer Insight (customer relationship management), TIAN Software (business activity monitoring), and OutlookSoft (corporate performance management).
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About Resonance Companies, Inc.: Resonance builds creation-driven fashion brands that are valuable and sustainable using our proprietary SaaS platform, create.ONE.
Michael Bramlage
Chief Executive Officer of Quidd
Michael Bramlage is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Quidd, a platform for buying, trading and using premium, rare digital goods. As CEO, he oversees corporate direction and strategy at the company, facilitating company activity in product development, user acquisition, marketing, and partnerships. Prior to Quidd, Bramlage founded the mobile apps division at Topps. As VP & General Manager of the newly formed Topps Digital, he was responsible for the launch of multiple top-grossing apps, growing annual revenue from zero to eight figures during his tenure. Prior to this, he was Head of Product at Nokia. In under three years, he oversaw the conception, design, development, and launch of 18 new versions of the company’s mobile app store, Ovi Store, for Series 40, Symbian and MeeGo devices. Bramlage began his career at Microsoft. While working on Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger) he established the industry’s first instant messaging interoperability agreements, brokering and implementing technical and data partnerships with Yahoo!, Facebook and LinkedIn. Bramlage is a native of Detroit, Michigan and a graduate of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. In his spare time, he is an obsessive record collector and proud owner of several extremely rare vinyl pressings.
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About Quidd: Quidd is the marketplace for buying and selling digital collectibles. Over 2.1B assets issued. Backed by Sequoia.
Paul Feller
Chairman & CEO of Icaro Media Group
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About Cronus Equity Consultancy, Icaro Media Group: Icaro Media Group offers AI technology, real-time analytics, advertising and e-commerce integrations products & services to media companies.
Charles-Albert Gorra
Founder & CEO of Rebag
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About Rebag, Trendlee: Rebag is an e-commerce platform and retail store that buys, sells, and trades second-hand luxury handbags.
Christine Hunsicker
Founder & CEO of CaaStle
Christine Hunsicker is the Founder and CEO of CaaStle, the revolutionary B2B technology platform empowering retailers and fashion brands to strategically participate in a new sharing economy. As consumers have embraced a shared economy in everything from music to transportation, Hunsicker identified an enthusiastic consumer appetite for a new economy for fashion and apparel. One that is access-oriented rather than just ownership-based. In 2011, she founded Gwynnie Bee, the first everyday fashion rental subscription service enabling women to discover and experience great clothing without limitations. By leveraging technology, Hunsicker pioneered the Clothing as a Service (CaaS) model, blending traditional ownership with a new form of access. As Gwynnie Bee shipped millions of boxes to customers, evidence of this consumer appetite for rental was apparent. It was time to roll out the ultimate vision for the company in 2018 with the launch of the CaaStle platform. CaaStle is a proprietary cloud-based, managed service that empowers retailers to provide CaaS to their customers as a complement to their existing retail business. Many retailers from Ann Taylor to Vince to Express to multiple contemporary brands soon to be announced, have already embraced the CaaStle Platform. In six short years, Hunsicker’s vision of creating a new economy for apparel is in full swing. A 1999 graduate of Princeton, Hunsicker quickly rose to a leadership role as the COO of the startup Right Media. Right Media transformed the ad exchange industry, an accomplishment that led Yahoo! to purchase the company and its technologies for $850M in 2007. Hunsicker maintained her entrepreneurial spirit by joining Drop.io as COO. Soon thereafter, Facebook acquired the company. With an outstanding pedigree of leading successful startups, Hunsicker has been recognized in Inc. Magazine’s Most Impressive Women Entrepreneurs, Crain’s 40 Under 40 annual power list as well as the National Retail Federation’s List of People Shaping Retail’s Future.
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About CaaStle, Gwynnie Bee: CaaStle offers a fully managed service that allows retailers to offer Clothing as a Service.
Yaniv Sarig
Co-Founder and CEO of Aterian
Yaniv Sarig is a Co-Founder and CEO at Mohawk Group.
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About Aterian: Aterian is the leading consumer product platform. Formerly Mohawk Group.
Britt Bunn
CEO and co-founder of The Inside
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About The Inside: The Inside is a home furnishings brand that unlocks your shortcut to a chic home, for every style and budget.
Tal Zvi Nathanel
CEO of SHOWFIELDS
Tal Zvi Nathanel serves as the CEO and Co-founder of SHOWFIELDS.
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About SHOWFIELDS: The most interesting store in the world
Amy Jain
Co-Founder & CEO of BaubleBar
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About BaubleBar: BaubleBar is a one-stop retailer for affordable, on-trend fashion jewelry.
Tessa Gould
CEO of Made by Nacho
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About Kindred, Kinship, Made by Nacho: Made by Nacho is an e-commerce company that delivers cat-crafted, feline-only cat food with natural vitamins and minerals.
Joshua Silberstein
Co-Founder & Co CEO of Thrasio
Silberstein is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Thras.io
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About Thrasio: Thrasio is a next-generation consumer goods company reimagining how the world’s most-loved products become accessible to everyone.
Devaraj Southworth
Co-Founder and CEO of Thirstie
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About The Second Chance Foundation, Thirstie, Yureekah: E-commerce solutions for beverage alcohol brands.
Bill Shope
Co-founder and CEO of Abound
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About Abound: Abound is a marketplace that helps entrepreneurs gain the insights and connections needed to place their products on retail shelves.
Alana Branston
Co-Founder & CEO of Bulletin
Our stores feature products from female-led brands that, until now, have only sold on the internet. Instead of wholesale or consignment, Bulletin rents sections of our store on a month-to-month basis, which has lowered the barrier to entry for physical retail. Now, digital brands can quickly plug into our in-store community. The coolest part? Bulletin gives 10% of all store proceeds to Planned Parenthood of NYC.
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About Bulletin: Bulletin operates as a wholesale marketplace and community that connects premium brands and retailers.
David Rosenblatt
CEO of 1stdibs
David Rosenblatt is the CEO of 1stdibs.com. From 2004 through 2008, Rosenblatt served as the CEO of DoubleClick, the leading provider of digital marketing technology and services. Prior to becoming CEO, Rosenblatt held several executive positions at DoubleClick, including President from 2000 – 2005. Following Rosenblatt’s sale of the company to Google in 2007 for $3.2 billion,he served as Google’s President of Global Display Advertising until 2009. He is currently Chairman and co-founder of Group Commerce, Inc.David is also a board member of Twitter and Narrative Science, Inc..Rosenblatt graduated Magna Cum Laude from Yale University and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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About 1stdibs, Group Commerce, Narrative Science: 1stdibs is an internet company that offers a marketplace for rare and desirable objects in furniture, fashion, fine art, and jewelry.
Benjamin Cogan
Co-CEO and Co-founder of Hubble Contacts
Benjamin Cogan is a Co-CEO and Co-founder at Hubble Contacts. He is also the Co-Founder of Willow Underwear and Advisor at Mockingbird. Mr. Cogan is a former Senior Customer Insights Associate at Harry’s Grooming and Associate at The Boston Consulting Group. Benjamin received an AB in Philosophy at Princeton University.
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About Hubble Contacts: Hubble is a contact lenses maker and retailer.
Jesse Horwitz
Co-CEO and Co-founder of Hubble Contacts
Jesse Horwitz is a Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Hubble Contacts. He is a former Investment Analyst at Columbia Investment Management Company and Founder of Gadfly Capital. Mr. Horwitz graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York with a bachelor of arts in Economics and Mathematics.
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About Hubble Contacts: Hubble is a contact lenses maker and retailer.
David Heath
CEO & Co-Founder of Bombas
Dave Heath is a Founder at Bombas.
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About Bombas: Bombas is a comfort-focused apparel brand with a mission to help those in need. One Purchased = One Donated.
Shan-Lyn Ma
Co-Founder & CEO of Zola
Shan-Lyn Ma is Co-founder and CEO of Zola, the wedding company reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience by combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology. Zola launched in 2013 and quickly became the fastest growing wedding company in the country. Today, Zola carries over 500 brands—from registry staples to up-and-coming designers—and over half a million couples have used the platform. The company’s suite of tools includes: the premier all-in-one wedding registry, free wedding websites, a guest-list manager, customizable checklist and beautiful save the dates and wedding invitations. Before starting her company, Shan was Chief Product Officer of Chloe + Isabel. Prior to that, Shan was Gilt Groupe’s first Product Lead where she led key new business launches, including their successful foray into mobile. Additionally, she was Creator and General Manager of Gilt Taste, the brand’s food and wine division. Before her time at Gilt, Shan held product and marketing roles at Yahoo!. She holds a degree in BCommerce with First Class Honours from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and an MBA from Stanford University.
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About Zola: Zola is a wedding company that reinvents the wedding planning and registry experience.
Benjamin McKean
Founder & CEO of Hungryroot
Ben McKean is a Founder and CEO of Hungryroot. Prior to Hungryroot, Ben was a Vice President and General Manager at Groupon, overseeing their food and beverage business. Ben came to Groupon through the acquisition of Savored, which he founded in 2009. Savored was the nation’s leading provider of yield management technology to the restaurant industry servicing over 2,000 leading restaurants nationwide. Prior to Savored, Ben worked in Merrill Lynch’s technology investment banking group. Ben is graduate of Georgetown University and currently lives in New York City.
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About Groupon, Hungryroot: Hungryroot is a provider of an artificial intelligence-powered personalized grocery service.
Serge Kassardjian
CEO and Co-Founder of StayTuned
Serge Kassardjian is the co-founder and CEO of StayTuned Digital, a conversational messaging company. He was the Global Head of Media Apps for Google Play and Android. He led global business development efforts with Media companies including Entertainment, Video, Sports, News, Virtual Reality and Cable verticals. He was on the launch team for Daydream Virtual Reality, Android TV and various Nexus devices. He also worked on incubation businesses in Google’s GeoCommerce division, focused on Payments and Offers and was a member of the original Google Wallet launch team doing merchant partnerships. He was also the co-founder of NextRev Commerce (an AR and VR company helping brands and retailers build immersive commerce solutions), a Venture Capital Investor at Globespan Capital Partners and Corporate Development Director in Sony Music’s Global Digital Business. He started his career as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. He received his MBA from Harvard and Bachelors and Masters in Engineering from Stanford where he was the President of his class. Tedx Talk: http://bit.ly/sergekasstedx
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About StayTuned: StayTuned is building a suite of tools to help high growth e-commerce brands grow even faster.
Erin Moennich
CEO of Draper James
Erin Moennich is the CEO at Draper James.
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About Draper James: Draper James is an online shopping site selling apparels and home accessories.
Yasin Abbak
CEO / Founder of The Convoy
Yasin Abbak is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Convoy, a B2B group buying marketplace that helps small and independent businesses access big savings and cut their business expenses. Past: CEO / Founder @FantasyLifeApp (exit), VP @JPMorgan, EFS Director @MorganStanley
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About The Convoy: The Convoy is a B2B Marketplace pooling the buying power of small & independently owned businesses to reduce business expenses.
Matt Hornbuckle
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Stantt
Matt Hornbuckle is the Co-Founder and CEO of Stantt. Hornbuckle started by scanning the bodies of more than 1,000 men ranging in age from 25 to 35. Each scan was composed of about 200 body measurements. He narrowed these down to three main measurements that would determine how well a shirt would fit: chest width, waist width and arm length. Using the data collected, Hornbuckle created each new size from digital models of various body builds.
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About Stantt: Stantt is an e-commerce platform that focuses on men’s apparel.
Kathryn Harrison
CEO and CoFounder of MAGPIE
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About DeepTrust Alliance, MAGPIE: MAGPIE is a technology platform to create and manage digital assets from real world collectibles.
Ganesh Srivats
CEO of Moda Operandi
Ganesh Srivats is the CEO of Moda Operandi, Inc. Prior to joining Moda Operandi, Ganesh served as the vice president at Tesla.
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About Moda Operandi: Moda Operandi is a platform for emerging fashion designers and retailers.
Ben Jones
Founder and CEO of Ohi
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About Ohi: Ohi provides incredible post-purchase experiences that accelerate your brand’s growth
Simon Kim
CEO of CLO Virtual Fashion
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About CLO Virtual Fashion: CLO Virtual Fashion develops true-to-life, 3D garment simulation technology for fashion and film/gaming industries.
Josh Wexler
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of RevCascade
Josh is responsible for the company’s 49bc unified platform technology, revenue, and strategy. After joining Rubicon Project in May 2008, Josh helped build the company from a start up with 40 employees, to one of the largest independent technology firms focused on the buying and selling of advertising. Previously at Rubicon Project, Josh ran the seller business and most recently was the Head of Buyer Cloud. Josh is considered an industry thought leader and has presented at numerous industry events including ad:tech, Digiday, IAB, and MMA. A seasoned entrepreneur and business leader, Josh loves bringing new ideas to market. Prior to joining Rubicon Project, Josh was a co-founder and CEO of SWMX (SoftWave Media Exchange), a media exchange that automated the radio, cable, and television advertising industry. Earlier in his career, Josh co-founded Hypnotic Hats Ltd., (HYP), a boutique apparel and accessories company popular among celebrities, professional athletes, the fashion elite and music industry icons. HYP became a global brand and was profiled by Esquire Magazine, New York Magazine, ABC TV, and MTV, among others. Josh attended Cornell University where, as a four-year starter on the men’s basketball team, he was a member and captain of Cornell’s 1988 Ivy League Championship team. Additionally, he is a three-time medal winner in the United States Men’s Maccabiah Basketball team. – See more at: http://rubiconproject.com/leadership-team/josh-wexler/#sthash.QL163XyA.dpuf
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About RevCascade: Marketplace automation for brands and retailers
Jeremy Parker
Co-Founder & CEO of Swag.com
Jeremy Parker is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Swag.com.
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About Swag.com: Swag.com helps companies create quality promotional products that people will actually want to keep.
Zack Werner
Co Founder & CEO of Pollen
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About Pollen: Pollen helps small online retailers acquire new users more cheaply and easily than Google or Facebook.
Bruce Buchanan
Chief Executive Officer of ROKT
Bruce Buchanan is the co-founder, CEO and Chairperson of Rokt.
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About ROKT: Rokt is an ecommerce marketing technology that gives customers a personalized and relevant experience while buying online.
Andrew Wyatt
CEO, Co-Founder of CALA
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About CALA: CALA is a marketplace that provides retail infrastructure for influencers and fashion brands to design and launch their own fashion brands.
Simon Enever
Co-Founder & CEO of quip
Industrial Design Consultant, now founder and CEO of quip – A Modern Oral Care brand www.simonenever.com www.getquip.com
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About quip: quip designs and delivers oral care products, advice, and services.
Bill May
Co-Founder & CEO of quip
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About quip: quip designs and delivers oral care products, advice, and services.
Greg Davidson
CEO & Co-Founder of Lalo
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About Lalo: Lalo is a modern baby and toddler brand built for today’s families.
