SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Norman Crowley is a serial entrepreneur, who founded and sold three businesses for over three-quarters of a billion dollars before the age of forty. He is currently the founder of energy efficiency SaaS company Crowley Carbon and electric car company Electrifi.

Have always been fascinated with technology and interpersonal communications. Have been a multiple-time early-stage sales leader and now co-founded Ringpin with my good friend and business partner Brian Levine to help companies reach customers in more meaningful ways from more places. Live in sunny San Diego with wife and two young kids.

Aleksandr Yampolskiy is a globally recognized cybersecurity innovator, leader, and expert. As co­founder and chief executive officer, Yampolsky has led the company since its beginnings in 2013 to become one of the world's most trusted cybersecurity brands. His vision is to create a new language for cybersecurity by enabling people to work collaboratively across the enterprise and with external parties to build a more secure ecosystem. Prior to founding the company, Yampolskiy was a hands­on CTO at Cinchcast and BlogTalkRadio, the largest online talk radio and podcast hosting platform. Prior to that, he led security and compliance at Gilt Groupe, where he managed all aspects of IT infrastructure security, secure application development, and PCI compliance. Yampolskiy has a B.A. in mathematics and computer science from New York University and a Ph.D. in Cryptography from Yale University.

Forbes 30 Under 30 winner. Successful serial entrepreneur in B2B technology development and SaaS companies. Law degree from University of Heidelberg in Germany. Member of National Small Business Association's Leadership Council

Serial entrepreneur who previously was a founder and CEO of two software companies Momentum Systems and Applied Development Corp who were in the fintech/internet communications and application development tool sectors. Subsequently CEO of one of Canada's largest Accelerators and CEO of Canada's largest funder of start-up companies and with a focus on those commercializing academic IP.

Serial entrepreneur who has successfully bought, built and sold several companies with extreme capital efficiency. Most recently grew ATI revenue 400% (organically and through acquisition) with 37% EBITDA margins, with investors making 9x ROI. Previously built Silversky from startup to $60mm in revenue with $10mm in EBITDA. After recap with Goldman Sachs at $150mm, Silversky was later sold to BAE for $250mm.

Bruce Buchanan is the co-founder, CEO and Chairperson of Rokt. Founded in 2012, Rokt makes e-commerce smarter, faster and better. Rokt uses real time data and decisioning to deliver the next best action for each person in each Transaction Moment™. Rokt's e-commerce partners experience up to 2x profitability while building customer loyalty and engagement. Prior to Rokt, Bruce was Group CEO of low fares airline Jetstar where he put together the original business case and then spent 10 years building what became the most successful low fares airline in Asia Pacific - growing the team to 7000+ and revenue to more than $3B. The seed idea for Rokt grew from Bruce's time at Jetstar. He identified that taking a customer on a purchase journey with a personally relevant checkout experience presented a significant opportunity being underserved by the technology community, and so he set about building the solution. Bruce is currently busy expanding and enhancing the Rokt offering, growing the business to similar levels of success as Jetstar. Bruce lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and children and their rescue pup, Izzy.

🙏 - God First 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦- Husband and Father of twin boys 📈- Entrepreneurial business owner for 23 years 🤝 - 21 years of business networking 👨‍💻 - Franchise Social Media Specialist 💫 - Motivation, Education, Inspiration! Assisting people to make the most of their talents will benefit not only them, but your business too. There are no limits with the right motivation. https://ese.md/exihf

Made in Italy but living in The Netherlands, I am founder of WP-OK.it - where we help small biz with their WordPress sites.

Eugene Khayman founded his first brand, Eparé, in 2012 to share his joy of cooking & entertaining. As Eparé grew, Eugene became involved with an organization called Million Dollar Sellers (MDS), an elite community of over 400 entrepreneurs who, collectively, generate more than 4 Billion dollars annually on the Amazon platform. From being a founding member to pioneering MDS conferences, Eugene is now the organization's COO evangelizing successful MDS businesses while still growing Eparé & other e-commerce brands as a limited partner.

Two-time founder. First exited in 2018. Dedicated to product-led growth and in love with the transition of B2B marketing to B2C experiences. Bostonian by way of GA, KY, AZ, SUI, CA, DC, Chicago.

Tom is the President of Vived Learning. He brings a wealth of knowledge about 3D from healthcare, marketing, and technology industry. He loves learning and finding new ways to engage learners to improve learning outcomes.

Mr. Future of Work is a founder, investor, and creator. He leads Guide, a new-age experience group and collective that owns two brands, Guide and Big Black Tea.

Maury Blackman has 20+ years experience leading mission-driven, high-growth tech companies that make an impact by connecting communities and providing a more transparent world. In 2016, EY named him Northern California's Entrepreneur of the Year for his work as Accela's Chairman & CEO. In 2018 Maury took the helm at Premise Data, a San Francisco company operating a software platform for empowering the world's highest impact institutions and companies to track and comprehend ground truth.

Kevin Bennett is the CEO of MotoRefi, a mission-driven fintech startup revolutionizing consumers' financial relationships with their cars. An experienced CEO, Kevin has spent over 10 years launching and leading startups from early to late stage. He holds an MBA from the University of Virginia, a JD from Georgetown University, and a BA from Brown University.

Married father of 4, World Champion in Rowing, entrepreneur and philanthropist (art), focussing on product, marketing and processes, loves transparency through software platforms (e.g. Salesforce).

A technology and WordPress person turned into CEO. I envision AI automation making the efforts of web developers more effective and boosting business growth. Since childhood I loved studying science and math. Later it turned into being a professional researcher, an astrophysicist. But at some point in my life, I came back from academy to industry and then went deep into WordPress and web development. I enjoyed working with talented engineers building plugins and themes for WordPress, and helping not only in engineering but also in establishing teams and processes for the growth of engineers and a company as a whole. Seeing a great potential in automation of web development, I spent a few years developing AI website builder, a technology that can help millions of engineers and designers to focus on truly creative and important things and to leave routine and time-consuming tasks to the algorithms. Now being a CEO I care about a delicate balance between technology and people. I am passionate about building a company with a great culture which turns great ideas into powerful technological achievements while constantly empathizing with the community.

Co-Founder & CEO Events.com, Co-Founder: Active.com, Former Chairman & Owner: Triathlete Magazine, TEDx Producer, Chairman: La Jolla Foundation. Co-Founder of active.com (The Active Network). Co-Founder, CEO, ActiveEurope.com (Active Europe Network) Active went public before selling: Vista (1.05 billion), subsequently sold several divisions: Global Payments (1.2 billion) 22X Ironman triathlete.

Steve Murphy joined Epicor Software Corporation as Chief Executive Officer in October 2017, bringing over 20 years of technology industry executive management experience to the role. As CEO, Murphy is responsible for providing a long-term strategic vision for the company—with a focus on customer experience and delivering innovative products, services and support that drive business growth.

Tony has grown over 10,000 small businesses and a dozen Fortune 500 companies, including ADP, Ford, and AutoNation and became the Google Partner of the Year. Later, Tony returned to his entrepreneurship roots to bring the strategy, tactics and resources normally reserved for large enterprises to small businesses. He now focused making podcast profitable for hosts and guests with Castocity.

A 20 year veteran in the pet retail space and serial entrepreneur. I own 4 retail pet locations, a marketing company Social Network MD, a finance company Financing Your Way and a SaaS business FormPiper. I thrive on identifying the problem and solving it and helping retailers Drive Success in their businesses.

Co-founder and exCEO at InterviewMe.pl, Zety.com (one of the biggest career advice websites), and Resumelab. Made an exit to BOL in 2019.

I am Parag Goswami, Co-Founder and CEO of Clik.ai. I began my tech career as a software engineer at iTrust Financial Advisors. I later founded HouseThat.in and Integrand Analytics. HouseThat.in was the first online property listing website that generated $10 million+ in property sales in two years. Integrand Analytics was a leading CRE focused knowledge processing outsourcing firm that supported $7 billion+ in loan and investment transactions across the globe between 2013-2018. After this, I founded Clik.ai.

Jimmy Mackin is the CEO of Curaytor, a full-service digital marketing company focused on helping listing agents get more listings. In 7 years, Curaytor has grown to over $10 million in annual recurring revenue and has been featured in Forbes, Inc, The Huffington Post, USA Today, and American Express Open Forum. In 2019, Jimmy co-authored Exactly What to Say For Real Estate Agents, a bestselling book designed to help real estate agents with the most common, critical, and difficult questions they face. Jimmy is also the host of the hit podcast #WaterCooler. With over 115 episodes and 8.5 million minutes watched, the show is a go-to resource for anyone in the real estate industry looking to grow their business in today's digital landscape. Jimmy lives and works in Boston, MA.

Focus: Managing Partner at Unbounded Capital - investing in the Bitcoin (BSV) ecosystem. Unbounded envisions businesses leveraging Bitcoin playing a predominant role in shaping how people interact with and use the internet in the coming decades, and are working to help entrepreneurs achieve that vision. Founder of EasyPoint, Trumpet Player and Composer, Poker Enthusiast

Founder of 3 (1 angel/PFE backed, 2 bootstrapped). Retired financial advisor, turned FA coach (saving athletes from blowing their dough). After +20,000 R&D hours, I've developed a SaaS referral app (CPAs/Attorneys/FAs/Realtors-only). My virgin Saas launch. Scared AND PUMPED for advisor upside. linkedin.com/in/sbrianouellette

Steven Morell is a Growth Hacker, UX Designer, Coder, serial entrepreneur and silicon valley animal. He has founded startups around the world and won multiple awards from the Silicon Valley Forum, BBVA Open Talent and others. He joined AX Semantics back in 2016 and helped growing it the world leading Natural Language Generation Platform for ECommerce.

Senior Market Insurance Distribution Leader. Top .01% producer for captive carrier, developed a successful team before starting retail agency on 6.1.08. Built over 12 years, sold for $1.5MM. Now product, service and consulting firm for producers and agencies. Marketing via IMOs as channel partners with direct sales force.

Sri is a passionate entrepreneur and leader in building high performance organizations that care about their people. He has spent over 20 years in leading organizations in software development and consulting in the U.S. With a unique background in technology, people management, health IT and film writing, directing and production, Sri brings a diverse set of experiences across industries and specialities to build high performing, highly engaged organizations.

When Derek O'Carroll joined Brightpearl three years ago, he took on the biggest risk any CEO can take - a turnaround. Since taking the helm as CEO, Derek has led the retail operations platform from stagnant growth to more than $12 million in revenue, nearly 1,400 customers worldwide, and managing more than $3 billion in orders. Shortlisted for CEO of the Year at the Digital Masters Awards in 2018, the father-of-two is now recognized globally as a retail expert. In the 90s, Derek left his career in chemistry to found Ireland's first online advertising agency and he never looked back. After some painful lessons learned during a market crash that took his business from $9 million in revenue to $900K almost overnight, he moved on to leading Symantec as Senior VP of Norton in EMEA. At Symantec, Derek was responsible $1.7 billion of revenues and 200+ employees globally. There, he learned about value-based management from Jack Welch's protégé Steve Bennett. Derek has taken all of the leadership lessons and playbooks he's learned to date to take Brightpearl to an unprecedented growth rate and an increase in average deal size by 500%. His specialties include building exceptional teams and creating winning environments, simple messaging, zero ambiguity, and training for excellence.

Sales Coach for B2B Tech Startups, Author, Speaker, Podcaster and Ultra-Marathoner. First head of sales @ Blend. 20 years in Silicon Valley with three B2B startups – one unicorn, one exit, one still going.

Entrepreneur building Aikon Labs, the startup behind Ariv.ai and iEngage.ai

Trevor is the co-founder and CEO of Measured, an industry leader in cross-channel media incrementality measurement for portfolio investment decisions. Trevor has spent his 20-year career building and growing enterprise technology companies. He is a pioneer and expert in the cross-channel marketing measurement category, having spent the last 10 years working with advertisers to deploy and benefit from advanced cross-channel measurement technologies. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies and emerging brands across retail, eCommerce, telco, finance, auto and CPG in North America, Europe and Australia. Trevor earned an MBA from the University of Southern California and holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Santa Clara University.

Jeffrey Harris is Founder and CEO of Springbig, a leading provider in cannabis CRM and loyalty marketing technology with over 25 million users across the United States and Canada. Jeffrey has over 15 years of marketing, sales management and client services experience in the incentive marketing and loyalty marketing fields.

Chris Hale is Founder and CEO of Kountable, a San Francisco-based technology company actively solving the world's distribution problem by building a trust network for global trade that integrates, digitzes and optimizes collaboration between qualified big and small players. Its cloud-based global trade platform delivers transparency, governance and efficiency in trade.

Christopher Tufford is the Founder & CEO of Green Apple Pay. He left college after two years to start his first business and has success in a variety of unrelated markets from telecom to iGaming including the largest amateur poker league in Canada, the World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League.

Harris Kenny is the Founder of Intro CRM, a simple CRM for self-employed and early stage founders. He has helped grow dozens of hardware, software, and service companies for over a decade. Harris also hosts the Pipeline Meeting and Hello Blink Show podcasts. He's on Twitter @harriskenny.

Tom Logan is the Co-Founder and CEO of NYC-based Cohley — the tech company that's changing the way brands generate photos, videos and product reviews. Tom leads with a "people first" mentality, continuously moving Cohley up the ranks of "Best Places to work in NYC." Under Tom's leadership, Cohley has achieved triple digit year-over-year growth every year since the company's inception in 2016, and Cohley now calls companies like Unilever, S.C. Johnson and CVS clients. Tom entered the tech world back in 2011 after fortuitously applying to a small startup called Wildfire Interactive — which was acquired by Google less than two years later.

Dru is the President of OMC, the company behind one of the leading SaaS+ search products in the market, Bonsai. Dru is classically trained in Business and Economics with a school-of-hard-knocks education in Software Development. Based in Austin, TX. Foodie and up at 4:30 everyday.

Founder and COO of eAgronom. Worked in multiple startups, latest before eAgronom was Glia, which is series-B entity that has it's business in USA and development in Tartu. Vice President of Estonian Founders Society, the the-facto startup community in Estonia. Masters in software engineering and economics. One of the creators of Estonias first space satellite EstCube 1 ground station. Public speaker in many tech conferences around the world.

Software technologist turned sales geek.

I quit my job to start a martech SaaS startup and then survived the covid recession, raised funds without selling any equity, went from 2 features to 11 within 4 months and raised enough funds to fund our future without the need of any investors.

Bootstrapped online real estate startup in Latin America eventually raising $74m USD, merged with competitor and sold the company for ~$600m. Top Angel investor in Latin America with over 55 investments. Focused on helping build the next get generation of iconic companies in the region with Latitud.

Founder and CEO at Yac. I build products at SoFriendly.com and run Newton Mail now.

Product Manager with more than 25 years building Enterprise products for Digital Identities, detecting and preventing Financial Crime, Payment Security, Network Security and Application Security. Entrepreneur at heart.

Scaling businesses since 1999. Helping B2B Founders grow from $50k to $1Million MRR by building high performing Revenue Teams (#LeadGen #Sales #Success #RevOps)

Kate Sukhenko, CBDO/Founder 4 years experience of work in Europe and 3 years experience of work in China with corporate clients negotiating and signing agreements, piloting and analytics of marketing and investment projects.