SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Jack Parmer is the CEO at ploy.ly

Kevin Tan is an accomplished entrepreneur and advertising industry technology leader with over 20 years of experience. Kevin is the co-founder and CEO of Eyeota, the global leader in audience data with more than 3.5 billion unique profiles across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.

Peter Daboll has more than 25 years of experience in the science and business of advertising effectiveness. He has spent his career developing and implementing analytical models and testing systems to measure consumer response to advertising. As CEO of Ace Metrix, Peter has led the company in developing innovative metrics and methods for helping advertisers make better, more impactful video creative. Peter was also the CEO of Bunchball, Chief of Insights at Yahoo!, and president and CEO of comScore Media Metrix. He has received numerous industry awards recognizing his leadership in advertising research including a 2011 Great Mind award from the ARF, and is a regular contributor to media outlets and advertising industry associations. Peter recently wrote and published the Amazon Bestselling book, AD-Itude.

Vijay is a serial entrepreneur with a track record of building successful businesses delivering enterprise-class solutions. Before starting Cygilant, he founded AppIQ, an application storage resource management provider acquired by Hewlett Packard in October 2005, and WebManage Technologies, a policy-driven content delivery solution provider acquired by Network Appliance in August 2000.

Chris Treadaway is Founder & CEO of Polygraph Media, a Facebook Marketing Partner in Ad Technology. Chris was previously Group Product Manager of Web Strategy at Microsoft in Redmond and was also a co-founder of Stratfor. He resides in Austin with his wife Kim and daughter Margot.

Eric S. Yuan is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Zoom. Prior to founding Zoom, Eric was Corporate Vice President of Engineering at Cisco, where he was responsible for Cisco's collaboration software development. As one of the founding engineers and Vice President of Engineering at WebEx, Eric was the heart and soul of the WebEx product from 1997 to 2011. Eric proudly grew the WebEx team from 10 engineers to more than 800 worldwide, and contributed to revenue growth from $0 to more than $800M. Eric is a named inventor on 11 issued and 20 pending patents in real time collaboration. In 2017, Eric joined the Forbes Tech Council and was added to the Business Insider list of the 52 Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech. Eric is a graduate of the Stanford University Executive Program.

With over 20 years growing and leading technology companies, Frank Bien built his career on nurturing strong corporate culture and highly efficient teams.. Prior to Looker, Frank was SVP of Strategy for storage vendor Virsto (acquired by VMware) and VP of Strategic Alliances at big-data pioneer Greenplum, leading their acquisition by EMC (now Pivotal). He led Product Marketing and Strategy at early scale-out data warehousing company Sensage and was VP of Solution Sales at Vignette/OpenText. Earlier in his career he held executive roles at Dell and the Federal Reserve.

Dane is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on technology, data, and small business. He has been CEO of a dozen companies like SumAll and Squarespace, mentors of far too many others and had the pleasure of building the careers of thousands will creating billions in equity value and sometimes losing millions.

Travis Stephenson is a software entrepreneur and marketing coach that specializes in all things Facebook and Instagram. Travis has been a soloprenuer for 8 years and has branched out recently to start a SaaS platform called Chatmatic.

Patrick Shea started AdDaptive Intelligence with Co-Founder Kevin O'Malley in 2010 to create technology around gathering and using data to improve targeting and analytics for marketers. Outside of work Patrick is married with two young girls and likes poker, cars and philosophy.

Justin Kline is the co-founder and COO of Markerly, an influencer marketing company focusing on influencer identification and tracking for some of the world's largest and most rapidly growing consumer brands. Markerly partners with brands and infleuncers to create original and authentic content. Influencers share this content to their social media communities to inspire interest, engagement, and to drive purchases. Check out markerly.com to learn more...

Bill Clerico is CEO and co-founder of WePay, where he drives the company's vision, strategy and growth. WePay's payments API is built specifically for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites and small business software. These platforms empower millions of sole proprietors to start and grow their businesses.

Josh is founder and director of go-to-market at Outbound, customer communication technology acquired by Zendesk in May 2017. Josh challenges businesses to rethink communication with customers by centering marketing, sales and service teams on the human relationships they can build using customer data.

NathanLatka.com/Patreon exclusive! Jeremy is a serial entrepreneur with a calling to build enterprise marketing software. He currently is the Co-founder and CEO of Pulse Insights, which uses innovative technology to help enterprises understand customer needs and to efficiently collect user information to deliver richly personalized experiences. Prior to Pulse Insights Jeremy founded UberTags Tag Management system to help companies instantaneously deploy marketing and analytics tags on websites. In 2013 he sold UberTags to [x+1] and stayed on to lead client mgmt and product management teams. Prior to UberTags, Jeremy grew up managing digital experiences at American Express including leading acquisition and product management teams. Prior to that he co-founded Buzz Wireless, which was sold to Vaultus in 2000. He earned an MBA from Columbia Business School and a double degree from Oberlin College in Electronic Music Composition and Economics.

Heidi Yu is the founder and CEO of Boostinsider, one of the Silicon Valley's hottest startups that focuses on using advanced technology to help brands to boost on social media through influencer marketing including SocialBook.io, SocialSaaS.io, SocialAdwords.io, and SocialSDK.io. She is a fashionable nerd, a passionate business woman, and a serial entrepreneur. Miss Yu holds an MBA from Seattle University, and is a well-connected real-life influencer.

Mani Iyer is CEO of Kwanzoo, a leading provider of Account-Based (ABM) Advertising and Retargeting solutions for mid-to-large B2B enterprises. Mani previously founded a software business acquired by Oracle/PeopleSoft. Mani is a serial entrepreneur, industry speaker on account-based marketing, demand generation, B2B marketing and advertising, and a startup adviser.

"Jack is a technology early-adopter, serial entrepreneur, software patent-holder, product evangelist, and combat-decorated Air Force pilot. Before founding Smartling, he served as SVP of Product at eMusic and COO/CTO at SheSpeaks and RunTime Technologies. He also co-founded Trio Development, a software company that created the first personal information manager, which was acquired by Apple in 1993. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also studied linguistics and interned with Professor William Labov, and an MBA from Cameron University in Germany. Jack was named one of Fast Company's "Who's Next" in 2011, and was named a 2013 NYC Venture Mentor by the New York City Economic Development Corporation."

"David Benoliel has spent the past 25 years at the intersection of technology and marketing as a software designer, marketer, salesman, project manager, executive and whatever else it took to keep things running. As a startup junky, he enjoys participating in the creation of things that did not exist before, and working with passionate, smart and committed people who feel the same way that I do. Today he works with leading brands and publishers to deliver high performing, content-driven advertising solutions through a company that he founded in late 2014 called The Real Content Network."

Sean Schroeder is the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of blueriver and co-founder of the Mura Digital Experience Platform. A former front-end developer and designer, he's been on a mission to simplify and enrich lives by helping others find Flow long before he knew it was a thing.

"Doug Girvin is the CEO and Founder of Stantive Technologies Group, whose flagship product, OrchestraCMS is the first and only known Enterprise class Content Management Platform built 100% natively on the Salesforce.com platform. Throughout his career Doug has led teams to focus on helping customers leverage advanced technologies to solve significant, mission critical, business challenges both within and beyond their organizations. Always with a goal of driving business value and improving the user experience, Doug's leap from hardware to software has cemented his professional edict to "bring value to users quickly ~ first, second and always.""

David Benigson founded Signal Media in 2012 with the belief that artificial intelligence would fundamentally change the way businesses worked. As CEO, David has led Signal through multiple funding rounds totalling £8.2m, most recently a £5.8m Series A fundraising in December 2016. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in January 2017.

Marc Daniels specializes in launching SaaS companies and rapidly developing the infrastructure and internal sales organizations to drive multi-million dollar revenue streams. Prior to Results.com Marc was a founding member of Diligent Board Member Services, which sold to private equity for $NZ 941 million in 2016.

Founder and CEO of Cloudlead (formerly EListGuy). I am a motivated, tech savvy and result-driven business leader with a thirst for achieving accelerated revenue growth for a diverse client base. I have been involved in assisting SMEs with head hunting, executive search and building comprehensive B2B databases through outsourcing.

Josh Haynam is the co-founder of Interact Quiz Builder, a tool used by more than 30,000 businesses including The American Red Cross, Home Depot, and Forbes. He's probably seen more quizzes than any other human on earth right now

Luke Beatty serves as the Chairman and CEO of Brandfolder, a digital asset management platform located in Denver. Prior to that, he served as the President of Media Brands at Verizon/ AOL. Luke founded Associated Content, Inc. in 2004 and served as its President & CEO. He sold that company to Yahoo in 2010. Prior thereto, Luke served on the executive management team of WAND, Inc. His expertise is in contextual advertising models, online media collection, and distribution strategies. In his free time, Luke is a youth lacrosse coach and fly fishes around the world. He holds an M.Ed. from Harvard University and a B.A. from Connecticut College.

"Linda Holliday is an entrepreneur who has spent a career at the intersection of media, marketing and tech, building leading-edge strategies, technologies and companies that empower the most demanding marketers and publishers to learn, teach, target, sell, and story-tell across an ever-expanding array of opportunities and challenges. She is the founder and chief executive of Citia, a first and only 3rd party system that creates swipe-able card-based media flows that integrate into the native feeds and flows of mobile media."

"Andrew started a $30M company built on email marketing when email marketing was just getting started. Many know Andrew from his company Mixergy, where he has interviewed over 1,500 entrepreneurs and startup founders, such as the founders of Airbnb, Twitch, Groupon and LinkedIn. In recent years, he has been an angel investor in two of the early chat messaging platform companies (Manychat & Assist) which eventually lead him to build Bot Academy. Bot Academy is an online program that teaches people how to create marketing chat bots, enabling companies to reach potential customers via Facebook Messenger instead of email. With email on the decline and chat apps on the rise, Bot Academy teaches how to build successful marketing campaigns using Messenger. The skills learned at Bot Academy help graduates build consulting companies that build chat bots for their clients or help marketers enhance their email campaigns with Messenger marketing messages."

"Daniel Ha is the CEO and cofounder of Disqus. Daniel studied computer science engineering at UC Davis and interned at big companies before deciding to drop out of school to pursue the startup world. Disqus is the web's most ubiquitous discussion network, reaching over 2 billion unique visitors every month and spanning nearly any topic or type of community imaginable. Backed by Y Combinator, Union Square Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners, Iris Capital as well as many great angel investors. Daniel often writes and speaks about digital media, online publishing, consumer products, and startups. Outside startups, he spends his time on the race track."

As the Founder of 5 start-ups, John has made more mistakes than most. He's currently the CEO of HireMojo, a SaaS Hiring Automation Platform with a RecruiterBot®. He also founded Accolo, an award-winning RPO and was VP of HR at BofA. He has a BS in Math from Notre Dame and was on the US National Rowing Team.

"Expertise and dedication define our company/team. Daniel Rust, a gifted software architect and Mark Michael a bold entrepreneur met in high school. They've been working together ever since. DevHub recognized a gap in the CMS market between website builder and enterprise scale, and pounced, launching DevHub. DevHub received funding from the best VC and angel investors in Seattle, LA, NYC and Silicon Valley. From our downtown Seattle HQ, we successfully help big name global and national clients manage hundreds of thousands of digital products and millions of campaign performance dollars at scale."

Beri Meric is the Co-Founder & CEO of IVY, The Social University (IVY.com) which unites rising leaders through a lifetime of learning, growth, and impact. IVY has 20,000 members and 200,000 followers who support its mission to unlock potential and spark a new renaissance promoting human unity, progress, and fulfillment.

David Barrett started programming at the early age of 6 and has been aspiring to become an expense report magnate ever since. David attended the University of Michigan where he worked in the Virtual Reality Lab, before moving to Texas to write 3D graphics engines for the video game industry. Next he moved to California to join Travis Kalanick in building a peer-to-peer file transfer technology called Red Swoosh, which was acquired by Akamai in 2007. In 2008, David left Akamai to start Expensify and has since been relieving the world's frustrations, one expense report at a time.

"Gil Eyal is the CEO and Founder of HYPR, the World's largest influencer search and discovery directory. Founded in 2013, HYPR offers brands and marketers in-depth audience analytics for over 10 million influencers across major social channels. Gil has revolutionized the way many of the World's biggest agencies and brands are running influencer marketing by focusing on the same data, analytics and audience demographic information relevant to any other form of marketing. Under Gil's direction, HYPR boasts a client base of over 100 Fortune 500 brands, as well as the biggest advertising and PR agencies in the world, including LVMH, Next Models, PepsiCo, Mediacom, Michael Kors, Calvin Klein, Time Inc. and Estée Lauder."

Steven Clausnitzer is CEO of Forever Labs, a Y Combinator company. Prior to Forever Labs, Steven spent 15 years mentoring and developing top-talent at fortune 500 companies including American Express and Wolters Kluwer. Steven has extensive experience in strategic growth, commercialization, and team leadership.

Brandon is the COO and Co-founder of Cirrus Insight – the sales plugin for Gmail and Outlook. The company is #41 on the Inc. 5000 and the fastest-growing company in Tennessee. Brandon once raced his bicycle 508 miles across Death Valley in 35 hours and 7 minutes.

Erica Brescia is the Co-founder and COO of Bitnami. With over 1M deployments per month, the company provides the largest source of application and development environments to the world's largest cloud service providers. In 2016, Erica was the recipient of the Top Women in Cloud award. Erica sits on the board of directors at The Linux Foundation and was an investment partner at XFactor Ventures, which empowers female-led businesses to succeed.

Aydin Acar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Influenster, the leading product discovery and reviews platform, and was recently recognized by Entrepreneur as one of 25 Inspiring Entrepreneurs Under 40 Who Are Creating the Next Big Thing.

Fredrik Skantze is CEO and co-founder of Funnel.io. Prior to starting Funnel he was co-founder of the automotive e-tailer Autoquake in London and worked as Product Director for mobile internet pioneer Openwave in San Francisco. He holds an MBA from Stanford and a Masters Degree in Engineering from MIT.

Sam Saltis is a technology entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in growing online companies and executing digital strategies. Sam is currently the founder and CEO at Core dna, a SaaS Digital experience platform (DXP) that is disrupting the way website properties are built and managed.

Aaron Fulkerson is an information technology businessman and co-founder of MindTouch, Inc. Fulkerson helped pioneer the open core business model, collaborative networks, and the application of Web Oriented Architecture to enterprise software. Prior to co-founding MindTouch, Aaron was a member of Microsoft's Advanced Strategies and Policies division and worked on distributed systems research.

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Steve Hartert is Chief Marketing Officer at JotForm.com, with responsibility for marketing programs, brand management and corporate partnerships. Prior to joining JotForm, he was president of Hartert and Associates, a marketing consultancy that worked with B2B and B2C companies. Steve has more than 25 years of marketing management experience.

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Robert Haydock has a background in the performance optimization of digital marketing and advertising campaigns. He co-founded Zembula in 2016 after seeing a need for a new marketing format that intrigued consumers. Zembula has quickly found its place in the market by delivering consistently better engagement than traditional marketing techniques.

Alan is Chief Executive Officer at Digilant, the paid media arm of ispDigital, in charge of the company's business development and expansion worldwide. He is also President of ispDigital, responsible for Sales, Human Resources and Compliance.

As CEO of WebPT, Nancy Ham is focused on guiding the company through its next phase of growth, bringing with her a wealth of experience in developing, growing, and operating private and public healthcare IT companies. During her robust career, she has achieved powerful results in healthcare IT and was named one of Health IT's 25 Most Powerful Women Thought Leaders by HealthData Management. Prior to WebPT, Nancy served as CEO of Healthagen Population Health Solutions, an Aetna company. There, she oversaw several tech businesses, including Medicity, the market leader in clinical data exchange and interoperability. Nancy also previously served as CEO, president, and a director of MedVentive (later acquired by McKesson), and has held executive roles at Sentillion, ProxyMed, Healtheon/WebMD, and ActaMed Corporation.

Matt Straz is the founder and CEO at Namely, the leading HR platform for mid-sized companies. Matt has grown Namely to over 900 clients, 140,000 users, and has raised $157.8M from leading investors. Prior to Namely, Matt was co-founder of Pictela, an ad tech company he sold to AOL in 2010.