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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based CEO’ operating in the Billing space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Chris Tsai
Co-Founder & CEO of Resolve
Chris Tsai is the Co-Founder & CEO at Resolve.
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About Resolve: Resolve is a B2B payments platform that offers buy now, pay later billing for business purchases.
Seth Cohen
CEO of OODA Health
Seth is CEO and Co-Founder of OODA Health. Previous to OODA Health, Seth served as the Vice President of Sales and Alliances for Castlight Health. At Castlight, Seth led the team responsible for market partnerships and key national accounts. Seth was one of the earliest employees at Castlight and served on the leadership team. Seth is currently a member of Castlight’s board of directors. Prior to Castlight, Seth was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey, Seth was a member of the Healthcare Payer and Provider Practice and a founding member of McKinsey’s Center for Healthcare Reform. Seth earned an MBA from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School. Seth completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University as a Phi Beta Kappa.
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About OODA Health: OODA Health is a healthcare technology company that offers a software billing platform for providers, payers, patients, and insurers.
Dan Burkhart
CEO & Co-Founder of Recurly
Dan co-founded Recurly with a deep appreciation for the combination of commerce, marketing, business analytics and good user experience design. Dan brings extensive experience from his background of 14 years in roles spanning internet marketing, product marketing, strategic partnerships, business development and corporate development for eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY), and NBC Internet. While at eBay, Dan led the Global Buyer Engagement team, the eBay Global Affiliate Program and the eBay Portal and Partner organization. Prior to eBay, Dan was a Sr. Director of Business Development for NBC Internet, where he played a key role in building the company from $20MM in revenue to $120MM. Dan attended the University of Pennsylvania’s, Wharton School for his undergraduate degree in economics and received his MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children. Outside of the office, Dan enjoys being a dad, and taking full advantage of the many benefits of living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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About Recurly: Subscription billing management SaaS platform powering 2,000+ brands including Sling TV, BarkBox, Asana, FabFitFun, Cinemark & Twitch
Levon Brutyan
CEO & Co-founder of Collectly
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About Collectly: Collectly helps healthcare orgs increase collections, automate billing operations, and elevate patient financial experience.
Jeremy Almond
CEO of Paystand
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About Forbes Finance Council, Founders Network, Paystand, Sharkbait Labs, University of California, Santa Barbara, ZipZap: Paystand is a cloud-based billing and payment platform for B2B companies.
Kuldip Hillyer
Founder, CEO of Kugamon
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About Kugamon: CPQ (Configure Price Quote), Q2C (Quote to Cash), and SRM (Subscription Management) for Salesforce
René Lacerte
CEO & Founder of Bill.com
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About Bill.com: Bill.com is a provider of cloud-based software that simplifies and automates back-office financial operations.
Vijay Sajja
CEO / Founder of Evergent Technologies, Inc.
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About Evergent Technologies, Inc.: Fast, Flexible, Scalable Subscription, Billing and User Management for Global Cloud Video Service Providers.
Honor Gunday
CEO & Founder of Paymentwall
Honor Gunday is the founder and CEO of Paymentwall. Before launching Paymentwall, Gunday was the CEO of OutCubator, a virtual incubator that launched innovative startups such as Adperk.com (incentivized video advertising platform), MiNeeds (services marketplace), Rofo.com (a search engine), and Zurna.com (a Turkish social network). While working on Zurna, he and his team pioneered virtual currency payments by integrating with various mobile and offline payment methods to monetize the userbase. Honor started his professional career as a program manager at Expedia.com. He worked with 12 cruiselines and unified them on a single platform and launched the initial version of the Cruise product, creating one of the world’s largest cruise agency. Gunday graduated with a B.S in Technology Management from Stanford University and speaks fluentl English, French, Spanish and Turkish.
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About FasterPay, Paymentwall, Terminal3: Paymentwall is a global payments platform which provides 150 local payment methods, incl. credit cards and e-wallets, in 200+ countries.
Sandeep Jain
Co-founder and CEO of MonetizeNow
Prior to starting MonetizeNow, Sandeep was Vice President of Business Development @InMobi. Sandeep has hands-on experience in Engineering, Product Management & Business Development in diverse enterprise industries like Routing, Network Security & Mobile Advertising. Sandeep is also a consultant to early stage startups on product and app growth strategies.
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About Leela Labs Inc., MonetizeNow: World’s First Integrated Quoting & Billing Platform built for the Modern SaaS Enterprise
Dipesh Desai
Founder/CEO of BillTrim
Dipesh Desai is a technology entrepreneur looking to make an impact on the world. He cofounded BillTrim with Anu. He believes BillTrim is the future for all the bills.
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About BillTrim, ExcelNow!, igopal, University of Houston: Upload your monthly bills, we’ll reduce them!
Matt Dubois
CEO of Chargezoom
SaaS Entrepreneur
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About Chargezoom: Chargezoom is an embedded finance company offering integrated payments.
Alexandr Agapitov
CEO & Founder of Xsolla
Agapitov is a Partner of the Xsolla Capital fund – a $50 million venture capital fund focused on royalty based deals exclusively within the video game market. Xsolla Capital is the premier partner within the $100 billion video game industry, the largest segment of the global entertainment industry. Xsolla Capital provides independent video game developers with capital and access to innovative tools and markets to launch games. Xsolla Capital was born out of Xsolla, Inc, the foremost global publishing and distribution platform in the video game industry. Xsolla Capital & Xsolla Inc. are headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California with offices globally.
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About 80 Level, Slemma, Xsolla, Xsolla Capital, YPO: Xsolla is the video game business engine with a set of tools and services that help to operate and sell more games.
Gabriel Manjarrez
CEO of Maxitransfers
Gabriel Manjarrez is the Chief Executive Officer at Maxi Transfers.
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About Maxitransfers: Maxitransfers offers business services such as money transfer, bill payment, pre-paid long-distance calling and top-ups.
Ashwini Batchu
Founder & CEO of MCSquared Health
Ashi Batchu is the Founder and CEO of MCSquared Health. His organization’s goal is to radically simplify and modernize the way in which Americans pay for their health care. Ashi has 10+ years of experience in health care. He previously worked at University of California—San Francisco (UCSF), Columbia University Medical Center, Genentech, the US Department of Veterans Affairs, along with various smaller organizations and non-profits. Ashi earned his Master’s in Public Health with a specialization in Healthcare Administration from Columbia University. He also holds a Bachelor’s in Medical Anthropology from Case Western Reserve University (where he serves as the Bay Area Alumni Chapter President). He’s an active member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and Healthcare Financial Management Association. He also sits on the board for Alameda Family Services.
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About MCSquared Health: MCSquared Health simplifies the medical billing process so patients and providers can focus on what’s most important: care.
Harald Trautsch
Co-Founder & CEO of everbill
Harald is the CEO and co-founder of everbill, a Silicon Valley based company providing SAP-like services for startups and SMBs. Harald is a serial entrepreneur and a passionate electronic engineer, with a strong focus on human-centered design and business modeling. He holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Development, received a dual MBA from the University of Minnesota – where he is a Carlson Scholar – and the Vienna University of Economics and Business, with honors, and is an alumnus from Stanford University’s d.school. Since his first startup at the age of 21, Harald has started several successful ventures. With Dolphin Technologies (Vienna, Austria), now market leader for insurance telematics in the German speaking market, he invented a telematic control system for parking heaters in passenger cars, a world’s top-seller for more than 10 years, and kick-started insurance telematics in Austria. In 2007 he co-founded Blue Monkeys (Vienna, Austria), a software and app development company, and in 2012 he started everbill, Inc. in Mountain View, an online invoicing service. From 2007 to 2012 he was CMO with Octo Telematics, and has also been a delegate for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology regarding eCall, the prospective automatic crash notification infrastructure for cars. He led the national eCall platform at the Austrian level, contributed to the European platform in Brussels, and published several research papers. Harald has been a visiting lecturer at a number of universities and is currently teaching Marketing & Sales and Entrepreneurship at the Austrian University for Applied Sciences. From 2007 to 2011 he has been responsible for the content and presentation of the largest IT road-show in Austria, supporting thousands of entrepreneurs in applying new tools and technologies. He has also been a recurring keynote speaker at many international industry conferences. Beside other awards Harald was elected 2nd place “Austrian Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2003, received “Best Start-Up” at the AT Kearney “Best Innovator” awards in 2007, and the Austrian State Award for Multimedia & eBusiness in 2009. In 2013 he won the US-A Biz Award from the Austrian Chamber of Commerce.
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About Blue Monkeys, CrossFit Viertel Zwei, Dolphin Technologies, everbill, goSmart Mobility, iVoting: everbill, a SaaS-based application, helps startups and SMEs create invoices and estimates, and share them with customers and suppliers.
Nishant Nair
Founder & CEO of RecVue
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About RecVue: RecVue’s Order-to-Cash platform helps modern businesses automate complex billing models, enabling them to scale at speed.
Patrick Clements
Founder & CEO of SherpaDesk
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About bigWebApps, SherpaDesk: SherpaDesk is a cloud hosted customer support platform that assists IT businesses in tracking client requests and invoicing time.
Andrey Baskov
Founder, CEO of Metric.ai
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About Metric.ai: Metric.ai helps digital agencies replace spreadsheets with the modern tool for managing finances and operations.
Adam Kleinberg
CEO & Co-Founder of ChikPea Inc.
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About ChikPea Inc.: Telecom Order Management (TOM) and Subscription Relationship Management & Subscription Billing (O2B) solutions Salesforce native
Rachel Norman
CEO and Founder of Better
Rachel Norman is the CEO and Founder of Better.
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About Better: Better advocates on its users’ behalf to reduce their medical bills.
