Trade Ledger, established in 2016, is a Corporate Lending Platform for better business lending that supports many lending categories including invoice funding, supply chain financing and debtor financing.Trade Ledger is a complete digital business lending operation (Lending-as-a-Service). We create a channel to support all major types of cash flow lending products and enable faster growth.Our unique understanding of electronic invoicing, and other business transaction technology has enabled the creation of a supply chain transactional network that is at the core of the Trade Ledger platform. This provides unparalleled access to the B2B transaction data that underpins receivables.We use this unique ability to determine payment risk and fraud accurately for any receivable. For our lending customers this equates to unfair advantage through superior underwriting capability and ultimately much needed product innovation to address this underserved market. The platform further enhances our Lender customers’ business via the network effect, whereby the enhanced products drive greater customer adoption, which in turn drives further market demand and product innovation investment.

The Essence fund is designed to support technical founders to seize the market opportunity and help build a company from the 0-to-1 stage.

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We are on a mission here at LAUNCH to support founders and inspire innovation.Our small team of rebels put on the largest startup conference in the world, the LAUNCH festival, the podcast This Week In Startups and we run the LAUNCH Incubator. We invest millions of dollars into 40 promising founders a year, some of which go on to change the world. Most of these founders spend 12 weeks in our very intense -- but fabulously fun -- accelerator.

Stage 2 Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage B2B software companies and sits shoulder to shoulder with leadership teams to operationalize sustainable revenue growth and sales operations. Backed by top go-to-market professionals from leading tech companies, Stage 2 Capital leverages its deep sales expertise to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses in addition to providing capital.

Banzai is the easiest solution for field marketing teams to discover and market professional events. Banzai’s event marketing platform automates and simplifies event outreach, while driving more registrations and more engaged attendees.

Banzai connects people to career-changing experiences. We create Event Marketing Automation solutions that are simple to use, people-focused, and learning-centered. Our community empowers professionals to improve their skill sets and network with the world’s leading companies, such as Facebook, Adobe, ServiceNow, SAP, Blackline, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle. Our suite of Event Marketing Automation solutions maximize audience reach, simplify event invitations, increase the quality of registrations, and prove ROI for field and partner marketers through a single platform.

Tribute is a workplace mentorship app that radically redefines and improves mentorship for both companies and employees. Harnessing the power of personal stories, Tribute creates authentic personal connections through Shared Life Experiences™, interests and goals. Tributementorship.com

The best thing a salesperson can have is the ability to read a prospect's mind. The next best thing is to have Contiq!

Yapstone is a provider of online and mobile payment solutions for global marketplaces, software, and large vertical markets, powering electronic payments for sharing economy platforms, such as HomeAway® and VRBO®, software companies, such as Kigo®, and thousands of apartment and vacation rental companies, homeowners'​ associations, self-storage companies, and many other markets.

Amazon Pay is driving the next frontier of commerce through connected devices of all kinds. We enable merchants to leverage our trusted, seamless buying experience to allow more than 300 million active Amazon customers to purchase from them—online, in-store, and across an array of consumer devices.

WePay was a venture-funded company, growing at over 300% year over year. The company has cornered a unique space within the overall payments market that is both exploding in growth ($100bn in payments, growing at 25% a year) and incredibly inspirational in terms of the customers it serves. WePay was acquired by Chase in October 2017.

The Small Business Web is the trade association for companies selling cloud-based software for small businesses. Over 200 member companies are working together to make the Open Web the best place to build, find and sell software for small businesses. http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com/

ClearStory Data is a data intelligence platform that simplifies data access to internal and external sources, harmonizes disparate data on-the-fly, and enables fast, collaborative exploration across the organization. Organizations are using ClearStory to spot meaningful trends and patterns, and uncover new business opportunities to dominate their market.I'm focusing on developing and driving the growth strategy, overseeing sales and operations and delighting our customers.

Ensuring our customers understand the real value of our innovation. It's time to get onto BusinessObjects BI Suite 4.1 and leverage the value of a unified solution that does it all. Stop playing with the toys and start using real solutions, for real problems.

Evangelizing SAP's Customer Driven Innovation and the impact of Big Data, In-Memory & Analytics for our customers. Ensuring that everyone know's that SAP is more than an ERP company.

Rebuilding PwC's SAP National Practice

SAP acquired Pilot Software in February 2007.

This role was an ever evolving position as Pilot moved from fund raising to a turn-around and now to a traditional start-up company. Responsible for worldwide sales, services and support.

Established a new Line of Business with Accrue, and was responsible for North American operations. This Line of Business was ultimately purchased in a management buy-out and became Pilot Software.

Responsible for developing, implementing and support several of Accrue’s technologies.

Developed new product launches and positioning strategies with various CPG companies including Nestle', Nabisco, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Ocean Spray and Colgate.Provided strategic and market consulting services to Mid-sized CPG companies.

Founded and grew this consulting organization to more than $1 million in revenues. Developed and implemented strategic, acquisition and turn around plans for companies that ranged from startups to Multi-Million dollar consortiums, including Coty, Information Resources, and Del Laboratories.

Held various roles all focused around brand development, M&A and strategic selling.

Founded the Sales Development Group to assist in growing BIC’s current markets, and train sales on understanding and implementing syndicated data to perform category and opportunity analysis. This role required management of third party, internal and external relationships.

Assisted in developing and implementing strategic plans, new product introduction, and sales databases to reduce the sales cycle and improve profitability.