The Top Entrepreneurs In Money, Marketing, Business And Life

Raj Co-Founded Localytics in 2009, and as CEO until 2017 created the leading mobile engagement platform that is used by many of the world's top brands. Prior to Localytics, Raj spent 12 years building a variety of technology companies. He was a management consultant focused on mobile with Bain & Company and Adventis. At Adventis, Raj worked alongside Steve Jobs at Apple to develop the business framework for the iPhone and led the formation of the multi-billion dollar Disney Mobile venture in Japan. Previously, Raj held sales and marketing leadership positions at Proco Machinery and Requisite Technology. Raj completed his MBA with Honors from the Ivey School of Business and London Business School.

As the co-founder & CEO of InfoScout, Jared leads a start-up that is fundamentally changing the way brands understand and engage consumers in the 21st century. Previously, Jared led research, product & services for Retail Solutions where he shaped how 500+ CPG companies leverage POS data to improve sales and execution at retail. During his tenure, the company was recognized by AMR. Jared’s storied past includes a few hacks at MIT, co-founding the Pat Tillman Foundation, throwing the javelin & playing Australian Rules Football.

ALLEN GANNETT is the founder and CEO of TrackMaven, a marketing analytics platform whose clients have included Microsoft, Marriott, Saks Fifth Avenue, and GE. He has an upcoming book The Creative Curve, on how anyone can achieve moments of creative genius, coming out June 12, 2018 from Penguin Random House.

Software engineer, VC Associate at OpenView Venture Partners, Director Sales & Marketing at InfiniDB, Co-founder & CEO at MarketMuse

Stefan is the only known startup founder to have been successfully sued by David Hasselhoff. His current company pr.co automates and fixes PR for global brands and their agencies. Currently serving 280 companies with content management tools and research automation across geographies, media channels, and company functions.

Patrick Campbell is the CEO of ProfitWell, the software for helping subscription companies with their monetization and retention strategies. ProfitWell also provides free, absolutely accurate subscription financial metrics for over eight thousand companies. Prior to Price Intelligently Patrick lead Strategic Initiatives for Boston based Gemvara and was an Economist at Google and the US Intelligence community.

As an early entrepreneur, Bruce founded his first business at age 16. He was a leader in the consumer practice at Boston Consulting Group and then built Jetstar into the largest low cost airline in Asia with 7,000+ employees. After Jetstar, Bruce revisited his roots and created another world-class company, ROKT. He expanded ROKT from a handful of employees working in Sydney in 2012 to a global team of more than 100 across four continents. His global experience, entrepreneurial spirit, vision for growth, and passion for business exemplify his high standards as a CEO, as well as his determination to build innovative companies.

Nanxi, named Forbes 30 Under 30, is founder and CEO of Enplug. She is also founder of Nanoly Bioscience, which develops polymers that eliminate refrigeration for vaccines. A UC Berkeley alum, Nanxi received an EMMY for producing the Amazon TV show, The Bay.

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.