The Top Entrepreneurs In Money, Marketing, Business And Life

Formerly CEO & Co-founder of Geekatoo, scaled from idea to 7000 providers nationwide, sold for $20M in 2016. Now CEO & Co-Founder of Bestfoodtrucks.com. Also a musician who plays live EDM, @cinematronica on Instagram.

Jobscience is the #1 provider of Staffing and Recruiting Software on the Salesforce platform, with more customers, awards, deployments, users and development investment. We invented recruitment on the Force.com platform so that recruiters could be more successful.

Marc Smookler has founded 6 companies 2 of which have been acquired and 3 of which are market leaders in their respective spaces the leading brick-and-mortar retail analytics company (IdealSpot.com), a leading online retailer (SakeSocial.com), and a cutting-edge marketing services platform (Written.com). Marc's companies have generated over $300M in lifetime revenues and sold over 150,000 products worldwide. His current focus, IdealSpot, matches brick-and-mortar businesses to their ideal locations by mapping local demand for their product or service. Marc is also a partner/mentor for Austin tech incubator/fund(s) Capital Factory and Techstars, and invests and serves as a board member/advisor for a number of companies in the B2SMB/B2C spaces.

Roz Lemieux is the Director of Blackbaud Labs. Blackbaud (BLKB) is the world's leading software company powering social good. Over 18+ years in campaign tech, Roz has served as the CEO of Attentive.ly (now a Blackbaud company), founding partner at Fission Strategy, and Executive Director of the New Organizing Institute (NOI).

Greg Tanaka is CEO and Founder of Percolata. Percolata helps retailers optimize their retail sales teams giving retailers up to a 30% sales uplift using the same labor budget. They do this by using sensors data to schedule the right number and composition of salespeople to handle the forecasted shopper profiles using proprietary deep learning technology. Percolata has closed their Series A in 2017 and is funded by Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures and others. They have had contracts with over 40 different retail brands in the United States, Europe and Asia. The company is based in Palo Alto with a R&D office in Shenzhen, China. Greg is also on the Palo Alto City Council. Previously, he served on the Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission and the Infrastructure Blue Ribbon Commission, and he started the imaging group and held other senior business roles at Rambus, a leader in Intellectual Property. Greg has also played key roles at two other venture backed startups and at Syno

Building stuff since i was young. Had 1 'real' job where I was hired as an assistant, built their website, their intranet, their parent company...Started web firm, grew it to about 10 people. Started startup which never really took off (trackmypeople.com). Moved on to a large agency where we grew from 5 to 80 people. In charge of sales. Moved to Prezly about 3 years ago, never looked back

Emeric started his career in 1996 as a business lawyer in Washington DC. He launched his first startup in France in 2000. After 3 semi-failed Saas projects in the social media space, he finally got traction with Agorapulse, a social media management software launched in 2012. It got to $5M in ARR and is growing 80% per year.

Bret has over 15 years of experience in affiliate marketing software development and business. He is the CEO of LinkTrust, a recognized leader in the affiliate & referral tracking. His experience in building businesses, working with teams and developing enterprise software has honed him into a valuable mentor.

Simon Grabowski is the CEO and founder of GetResponse. With only $200 in his pocket, Simon created the first version of GetResponse in 1998 to solve a business problem he needed an easy way to build an email marketing list and send drip content to customers at preset intervals. The product worked so well that Simon established GetResponse with the mission to bring big-company technologies to small businesses. Over the years, his vision and leadership has attracted a team of over 300 highly-skilled employees to create an innovative online marketing platform known for great design, simplicity, and an unmatched user experience.

Bryan Miles is CEO & Co-founder of BELAY. Bryan (alongside his wife, Shannon) leads a US-based virtual solutions company that has over 550 people on payroll, all working from home, virtually. Prior to starting BELAY, Bryan worked for companies in the tech and construction industries. Bryan obtained his B.A. in Business from Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Mount Vernon, OH, which is where he met his wife, Shannon, who also co-founded BELAY.

Deboprio Ghosh is a serial entrepreneur and founder at Rewango, an AI and ML based retail analytics and proximity marketing technology. He also was the Co-Founder and CTO of Sustanalyze, a company that develops AI and ML based simulation software for chemical and materials R&D.

Paras Chopra is the Founder & CEO of Wingify, an India based fast-growing software company that makes globally admired technology products like Visual Website Optimizer (VWO) and PushCrew With a background in computational biology, machine learning, online marketing and web technologies, Paras started Wingify in early 2009. Twice featured in the Forbes list, in 2014 the Forbes India "30 Under 30" List followed by 2016 top "promising young leaders and game changers" under the age of 30 in Asia, Paras believes in customer obsession, innovation, experimentation & failure, and data driven decisions. Paras is an avid reader & his interests include philosophy, science, and business.

Pushkar is the founder of Aeroleads which is a bootstrap prospect generation software startup with over 20,000+ users. When not working, he likes to work on finishing his time machine!

Todd Olson is CEO and Co-Founder of Pendo, a product experience platform that helps product managers deliver successful products. Before Pendo, Todd served as VP of Products at Rally Software Development which he led through its public offering. Todd joined Rally via its acquisition of 6th Sense, a company he founded and served as President and CTO.