The Top Entrepreneurs In Money, Marketing, Business And Life

I'm ambitious and tenacious. I like working and connecting with people and I enjoy the fact that the simple interactions we have with one another can have a big impact. I try to keep that in mind as I go through my day. I've had the privilege of enjoying some terrific success through many of my endeavors but I've also experienced some spectacular failures. Success is my preferred outcome however, in my experience, failure seem to be part of the foundation of success- much to my chagrin.

Sabrina Parsons is CEO of Palo Alto Software, the company behind the best-selling business management software, LivePlan. Palo Alto Software is dedicated to serving the needs of entrepreneurs and small-business owners, and offers an entire suite of software and tools to help startups plan, manage, market, and grow their business. Sabrina has overseen the transformation of Palo Alto Software from a desktop software company to a cloud-based software company.

Catherine is CEO and Co-Founder of CityGrows, the first self-service operating platform for local government, and has extensive experience in startups, digital marketing and civic technology. She created a social impact marketing agency, co-founded Hack for LA, and served as Commissioner for Innovation for Los Angeles.

12 years working in brazilian software industry, first as a marketing professional, and as entrepreneur since 2012. Its CEO and cofounder from Ramper, a B2B prospecting automation software and one of the more fast growing brazillian startup that started in 2016 and today has more than 700 customers.    

Paul has worked with video and big data files for three decades and he understands the complexities of sharing those files. His experience in the broadcasting and cable industry and the contacts he nurtured through the years helped him to establish latakoo inside some of the biggest broadcasting companies. Paul has won numerous awards, including Emmys, for investigative journalism. He has a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Texas and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School with a focus on entrepreneurship.

David Hood, CEO of VanillaSoft, is a successful software entrepreneur with extensive international experience in finance, business development, sales, and marketing. Under his leadership, VanillaSoft has grown over the past decade from a small start-up to a leader in the sales engagement market.

Paul Statham, CEO & Founder of Condeco Software, has established several successful and innovative businesses, including two exited companies. He has helped to shape the relationship between real estate and technology, establishing Condeco as one of the foremost providers of workspace management technology.

I am a technopreneur with 8+ years of experience in Product Development and Software Architect. In past, worked with MNCs on embedded and e-learning products. Built an Astrology website when in college and created AstrologyAPI.com in 2016. My areas of expertise include NodeJS, Core JS, Java, Android, PHP, AWS & Machine Learning and now Growth and Sales My interests are in Tech, Philosophy, History, and Astrology.

With 17 years leadership experience under his belt and a Ted Rogers MBA specialized in management of technology and innovation (gold medal 2014), Pete is currently CEO of Auvenir, a Deloitte venture that is assisting small to medium audit firms leverage technology to enhance the capabilities of CPAs in the financial audit industry. He is passionate about driving exponential change to for the betterment of all society. He has built and grown a number of businesses globally from launching the first car-sharing operation in Western Australia to steering international growth of a Newfoundland (Canada) natural health product company.

Kimia is the Co-founder and CEO of Ghostit (winner of top 10 companies to watch for 2018), speaker, and host of Content and Coffee.

I started my professional life as a venture analyst in an angel investment network. Then, I co-founded a startup studio helping entrepreneurs from ideation to web development with my current partner. Nowadays, I am responsible for the growth and sales of UserGuiding.

Heath Wells is the CEO and Co-Founder of NuORDER, a B2B eCommerce platform that is revolutionizing the wholesale industry. Heath is an entrepreneur at heart, starting his first Internet-based business at the age of 15 in Adelaide, Australia. From 2004-2008, Heath served as the Managing Director at Furst Media in Australia, where he and partner Olivia Skuza led the company to great success across publishing, creative, and digital commerce. Today NuORDER is the leading B2B eCommerce platform. Headquartered in Los Angeles, and with offices in New York and London, NuORDER helps 800+ brands & 260k retailers transact over $2B in GMV annually. Heath's passion, spirit for positive change, and unrelenting drive have been key factors in NuORDER's current success, while his natural tendency for big thinking continues to propel the company's creative innovation and shape the industry.    

David is CEO of OpenBack, the mobile engagement platform which uses edge computing and machine learning to make push notifications smarter. David also co-founded www.ding.com, the $500m business that enables millions online and from 600k+ stores top-up the family of a loved one back home in over 120 countries.

Ravikiran Annaswamy is Founder and CEO of Innohabit Technologies. He is incubating various innovative products using analytics and deep learning. His current business focus is on bringing Electric Mobility to Indian market and has launched various technology products like Fulcharge.com in this space. He works closely with global programs like Founders Institute (Fi.Co) and Unreasonable Institute as Mentor and Coach for early stage startups. He is on the global team of IEEE 5G and is responsible for vision & strategy for future applications and services like Tactile/Haptic Internet, IOT, AR, VR Applications. He has over 23 years of business experience as Entrepreneur and as Business Leader at Nokia Siemens Networks and Siemens AG. He was Business Head for Indian market, led Global Product Management and was General Manager for BSS Solutions. He championed Intrapreneurship by working as Innovation head for Bangalore site of Nokia Siemens Networks. He is a thought leader and speaker at various prestigious

Christian Owens is the founder and CEO of Paddle. Prior to Paddle, Christian created his first software business from his bedroom at the age of 14. Having grown the business to over $1m in revenue he decided to quit school at 16 to focus on building startups, and founded Paddle when he turned 18.

João Romão, 30, is the founder of GetSocial.io a content & social analytics platform that helps companies like Adobe, AT&T, Sky News and MTV to better understand how audiences share their content. João is a member of the World Economic Forum (Global Shaper) and a board advisor at CIONET.    

Maarten is founder and CEO of Limecraft, dedicated to giving media professionals the best possible solution to manage their digital workflows. Prior to this, as a programme manager for the R&D department of VRT (the Belgian public service broadcaster), he introduced several innovative technologies in the business, including Artificial Intelligence for computer assisted manufacturing and automatic indexing of audiovisual media. These experiences eventually led to the incorporation of Limecraft and its unique selling proposition. Author of several distinguished publications and often invited as a speaker to conferences, Maarten is an acknowledged subject matter expert on a range of topics including multimedia techniques, semantic technologies and media production infrastructure. Relying on his critical appreciation of current and future trends, and capitalising on his extensive experience as a systems architect, he strives to move media technology beyond the state of the art.

Recovering lawyer (degrees from Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala and Duke in the US, accredited to practice in Guatemala and NY). Investpreneur (investor and entrepreneur). Co-Founder at Nahual Ventures, ExeBoard, Edoo, and SoyFri. Dreamer. Guatemalan born and living in New York. I serve as Board Member in my family's business since 2015, as well as in the Guatemalan Stock Exchange, two startups, and Fundegua, a Foundation I co-founded aimed at promoting culturally and research driven aid in education and health in Guatemala and as a Trustee at Universidad Francisco Marroquin. This experiences gave me the insights and understanding to co-found ExeBoard.