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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Foqal enables you to offer support over Slack and Microsoft Teams, both for external customers or internal use cases such as IT Helpdesk, HR, and Finance. Foqal provides solutions to report, engage, support, and upsell your customers without changing your agent's or team's process. Check us out and schedule a demo at foqal.io or check out our video here: www.foqal.io/agent-support Update: Foqal has received SOC 2 Type 2 certification!

Insync AI is AI Chat as a Service. Conversational AI is an overused term, so the way to think about all the providers is simply this - they are lawnmowers/platforms, you still have to mow your own lawn and hire data scientists, IT Support, devs++ to update your chatbot. Incredibly expensive and labor-intensive. Insync is AI Chat as a Service, we are a landscaper. We do all the work for you, allowing you to concentrate on your core business. Customers like Verizon, Disney, Avast, Floor & Decor++ trust Insync to create amazing AI Chat experiences for their customers and we constantly are adding to their chatbot functionality over time at no additional cost to them. Build your own chatbot and discover how expensive and difficult it is, or work with our team of subject matter experts who will build your chatbot for you for free on our world-class AI a fraction of the cost.

Santa Clara, California, Us

We are a team of AI & Entertainment experts whose mission is to develop the smartest content engine on the planet, and we partnered with leading media companies to achieve that. What if AI increased your site’s retention by 10x? If you are a media publisher and increasing video views, time spent on site, user engagement and of course revenue is vital to you we should talk.lucidvideo.aiIn a world where the competition is fierce, we are here to help you extract previews and insights out of your video content with AI, as well as provide recommendations that will delight your viewers and keep them engaged. Check it out at: lucidvideo.ai Looking forward to hearing from you!

Oakland, Ca, Us

Opera Event (https://operaevent.co/) is at its heart an influencer management platform. Opera Event got its start in eSports, with over 70 eSports team managers using the platform to manage their players and fanbases. We now have 90K influencers deeply involved in the platform. Here are a few bullet points on services we provide:* Create a team of influencers around a brand – an ongoing marketing machine* Activate hundreds or thousands of influencers instantly using a programmatic approach* Complete attribution – we can track and identify KPI’s and ROI for any campaign* Optimize and improve your Facebook ad spend by leveraging IGC (Influencer Generated Content) getting custom video in authentic voice created quickly, cost-effectively, and in any language* Create, grow, and manage an esports teamIf activating influencers at scale is a priority for your brand I'd love to hear from you!

Working with CEO helped close >$80M in Amazon private label seller company brands in 10 months. At Northbound Group we provide consulting services to large Amazon brand sellers. Our unique toolset provides sellers with highly specific data that informs inventory forecasting, cash flow analysis, and down to the ASIN profitability. We help sellers achieve their growth goals and then use our valuation engine to guide them through the process of selling their business for the highest multiple at the right time. Most Amazon sellers will see over 50% of the money they ever take out of their business when they sell. We help these solopreneurs achieve their goals.

Acquired by AppleHired to bring SaaS AI video technology to top media publishers as go to market category▪ Won top broadcast clients in CBS, ABC (Disney), NBC, FOX, Warner Bros, TMZ▪ Strategy to ‘land and expand’ within parent companies (ex. NBC News to Today, MSNBC)Vilynx is changing the face of video! We use Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) algorithms to understand the content of a video. We have created a robust suite of machine learning powered products that are helping top publishers maximize the revenue they generate as well as personalize the user experience around video.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Kred, created by PeopleBrowsr, measures influence in on and offline communities by assessing anyone’s ability to inspire action (Influence) and propensity to engage with others (Outreach). I was hired to develop sales strategy and bring social media marketing and analytics SaaS tools to brands, publishers, and agencies. Also to bring in strategic partnerships around Kred data adoption and drive influencer marketing programs for brands.• Broke Proctor & Gamble business across 12 brands: Mr. Clean, Gillette, Pantene+• New client wins included Coca-Cola, Oracle, Sol Republic, Acxiom, Dolby, Seamless

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Hired and managed national B2B SaaS Sales and AM teams for the world's largest mobile publishing platform• Hired sales manager in SF and account managers in SF, NY, and LA with 8 direct reports• Client wins: Coca-Cola, Proctor & Gamble, Yellow Pages, Bidz, Southern California Edison, Goodyear, Sportsman’s Guide, Victoria’s Secret, Synacor, alaMaula.com (ebay), L’Oreal• Hit 12 month revenue goal in 9 months, company pivoted

Reframe It seeks to transform the nature of the public web by creating a virtual margin alongside any web page on which users can post comments to be shared with other users and read what others have written. Hired to establish new distribution partnerships, advertising sales relationships, and assist Angel round fundraising.• Driving Joint Venture with $15B foreign company to facilitate $18M in country government project.• Created partnership with top 5 systems integrator to distribute process and platform worldwide.

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Brought Topix to market as media entity, created sales strategy, and path to profitability• Hired National Director of Sales, West Coast DOS, RSMs, and Sales Assts. as direct reports• Oversaw DART implementation, sales materials, ad positioning on site, addition of video ads• Forged strategic partnerships with technology partners: Comscore, Rubicon, Kontera, Mochila etc.• Reported to CEO and made monthly face-to-face reports to Board of Directors• Achieved record revenue quarter over quarter

San Francisco, Ca, Us

First sales hire - created sales strategy, drove revenue as individual contributor, then hired team• Advised immediate site redesign to incorporate prominent IAB ad units.• Achieved record revenue month over month, single-handedly sold site inventory out at $12 CPM by December 2006• Helped develop as a product and traveled nationwide pitching new Conversational Marketing product, sold first case studies, and started partnership with MySpace as a result• Hired Director of Sales, East Coast as direct report, later three regional Account Executives• New client wins included: McAfee, Symantec, Microsoft Zune/XBOX/MSN, Electronic Arts, Sony Pictures/Playstation, Lion’s Gate Films, Fox Searchlight, Accenture, Apple, Adobe, Weinstein Company, Verizon FiOS, Sony Ericsson, Best Buy, CNN, Toshiba, NEC, HBO, Tivo, Toyota Scion

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Hired to sell integrated sponsorship packages and media proposals at a wide variety of levels on the largest multicultural sites on the web, namely BlackPlanet, AsianAvenue, & MiGente, InteractiveOne (prev. Radio One Networks) purchased Community Connect• Took over west coast office in disarray, promptly led nationwide team in sales in first full quarter• Territory booked <$200K in 2001 before my hire, I booked $250K in 4Q01 alone and $1.6M in 2002• Led company in sales for 3+ years then hired direct report who rapidly became 2nd in sales • Brought in wide variety of new clients, short list including: Nike, Adidas, T-Mobile, Boost Mobile, Microsoft, AT&T Wireless (CCI’s 1st $1mm/yr. client), Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Coors Light, Puma, and Disney

Hired to develop VAR strategy to sell Handspring’s line of handheld PDAs and Visorphones, two month contract.• Sales channels – B2B enterprise sales, VAR sales, Wireless Service Provider sales. • Made detailed next steps white paper recommendation for internal team build out.

Hired to sell integrated sponsorship packages across 60+ premium online properties, including: Maxim Magazine, Elle, Encyclopedia Britannica, Car and Driver, American Greetings, The Sporting News, and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games site • Sold into select NYC agencies, northeast territory agencies in Boston, and direct clients• Company requested relocation to SF to strengthen west coast sales efforts

Went to IPO while there in 2000Hired to create and sell advertiser programs that effectively capitalized bridal audience• Knot total ad revenue entire 1998 = <$1MM; team booked $16MM sales by 8/99• $8MM+ of the above bookings closed personally, sold record size deals• Changed focus of ad sales efforts by concentrating on relationships in select categories• Ad sales revenue enabled theknot to be first mover and to successful IPO (NAS: XOXO)

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Went IPO in 1998 while thereHired to develop Midwest region by virtue of bringing in new client sales• Handled Midwest territory agencies and direct clients• Helped generate revenues that drove single greatest % 1st day IPO gain in history

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