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 Columbia based CEO’ operating in the Social Media Marketing 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.

Markos Symeonides
Co-Founder & CEO of CustomerAdvocacy.com
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About CustomerAdvocacy.com: CustomerAdvocacy.com is a gamification-enabled advocate engagement platform that offers solutions for businesses.

Ali Tajsekandar
Founder & CEO of Wishpond
Ali Tajsekandar is a Founder & CEO at Wishpond.
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About Wishpond: Wishpond is an all-in-one marketing suite that enables users to generate and nurture leads.

Jeremy Epstein
CEO of Never Stop Marketing
Technology’s greatest potential is to increase the ability and ease with which connections are forged and understanding between people is built. Those relationships then blossom into new and better ways of doing, well, pretty much everything. That’s why every move in my career has been a step forward on a clear-cut mission—to inspire people, organizations, and companies to treat their stakeholders as people, use great technology in a smart way to do it, and drive tangible results at the same time. Specialties Building word-of-mouth marketing engines that scale effectively, are measured relentlessly, and operated efficiently. Inspiring people to innovate and kicking them in the butt to follow through.
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About Never Stop Marketing: Neverstop is multidisciplinary agency, credited with pioneering what everyone now refers to as experiential marketing.
Rusty Brett
CEO of Lift Division
Rusty Brett is a long time entrepreneur based in the Midwest and is primarily focused on the InsureTech space. He has owned and operated marketing and web design agencies, as well as commercial insurance agencies.
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About Lift Division: Lift Division helps good companies grow. We are experts in web design and lead generation via SEO, Paid Search, Content Marketing & more.
Zachary Chester
Chief Executive Officer / Cofounder of ShoutExchange
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About ShoutExchange: Connecting brands with influencers on social media platforms. Influencers get free products and money to post about brands they love!

Jennifer Maloney Adab
Founder & CEO of Brix Media Co.
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About Brix Media Co.: Brix Media Co. is North America’s leading PR & Influencer Marketing Agency focused on social innovation.

Mike Zaneis
President & CEO of Trustworthy Accountability Group
Mike Zaneis is the Co-Founder at Brand Safety Institute.
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About Brand Safety Institute, Georgetown University, Trustworthy Accountability Group: A first-of-its-kind cross-industry accountability program to create transparency in the digital ad industry.
Linden Schwark
Founder and CEO of Vancouver SEO Agency
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About Vancouver SEO Agency: Vancouver SEO Agency is a results orientated company that uses ethical SEO services to dominate the competiton.
Linden Schwark
Founder and CEO of Vancouver SEO Agency
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About Vancouver SEO Agency: Vancouver SEO Agency is a results orientated company that uses ethical SEO services to dominate the competiton.