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 New York based CEO’ operating in the E-Commerce Platforms 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.
Ari Ojalvo
Co-Founder and CEO of REEF
Ari Ojalvo is the Co-Founder and CEO at REEF Technology.
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About REEF, Thesis Ventures: REEF Technology is a company that transforms urban real estate such as parking facilities into thriving mobility and logistical hubs.
Ankur Nagpal
Founder & CEO of Teachable
Founder of Fedora.
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About Teachable: Teachable is a venture-backed company that allows anyone to create and sell online courses.
Bryan Mahoney
Co-Founder, CEO of Chord
Bryan started his career in Montreal, pursuing a degree in Finance and Entrepreneurship at McGill University. In 1998, during his sophomore year, he founded Dynamo, a digital design studio that would later become his full-time job with a team of thirty-five. Over the course of 15 years, Dynamo established itself as a go-to partner for venture-backed startups in the e-commerce space, including brands like Blue Bottle Coffee, Samsung, the Honest Company, and Glossier. After Glossier launched in 2014, Bryan was tasked with helping the New York-based company build out their own in-house tech team. He ended up taking on the job himself and now serves as their Chief Technology Officer. At Glossier, Bryan’s focus has shifted to overseeing an international team of developers and data analysts as they work to create a forward-thinking experience for customers and build a technology infrastructure from the ground up. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York City.
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About Chord: Chord offers a commerce-as-a-service software that provides businesses with technology and products to access meaningful data.
Raj Pandey
Co-Founder and CEO of ZopSmart
Raj Pandey is the Co-Founder and CEO at ZopSmart.
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About ZopSmart: ZopSmart is a retail technology that provides tools in building e-commerce business.

Corey Pierson
Co-Founder & CEO of Custora
Corey Pierson is the co-founder of Custora, a predictive marketing analytics platform for online retailers based in New York City. Prior to Custora, Corey earned an MBA from Wharton and worked as a business designer at IDEO. He’s also a huge Philly sports fan and an amateur Vitamix chef.
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About Custora: Custora is the leader in advanced customer analytics for the retail industry.
Anurag Ahuja
Co-Founder & CEO of Takeout7
Anurag leads TakeOut7’s strategy and direction. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience in creating and scaling cloud-based solutions for B2B and B2C clients. He has held various C-level and advisory roles at tech start-ups and has consulted on a broad range of business needs for Global 1000 companies in Retail, Technology, Financial Services and Manufacturing. Anurag holds a BS in Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
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About MarketGoal Digital Solution Pvt Ltd, Notify Nearby, Takeout7: Takeout7 is a cloud based technology platform with turnkey solutions for independent restaurants.
Chad Rubin
Co-Founder & CEO of Skubana
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About Skubana: Skubana is a commerce operations platform powering fulfillment, inventory, and business intelligence for multi-channel retailers.

Noam Levavi
Co-Founder and CEO of ByondXR
Noam Levavi is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of innovations in user experience technologies, including several patents in the areas of personalized media delivery and user-interfaces. In 2017, Noam founded ByondXR, a retail-tech startup that empowers brands and retailers to improve sales and customer engagement through a new groundbreaking 3D visualization technology. Using ByondXR’s 3D Commerce Platform, brands can transform into the new digital era, creating experiences to enhance Wholesale, Merchandising and eComm that boost sales and improve efficiency. Prior to founding ByondXR, Noam founded and was the CEO of YCD Multimedia, a world leading on-site digital media provider, helping brands deliver personalized content to their customers, reaching more than 100 million people every month within thousands of venues worldwide, including some of the world’s most recognized brands such as Mercedes, Ferrari, Nike, Chanel, Hugo Boss, AT&T, Microsoft and Coca Cola. In 2008 Noam was honored to be featured by Forbes Israel as one of the country’s most influential young professionals. Prior to establishing YCD, Noam founded Netune, which provided network communication services and Intranet web applications for small and medium sized businesses. Before that, he served as a system communication manager in the Israeli Defense Force’s elite Intelligence Unit. He is a graduate of the Israeli Military Computing and Information Systems Institute. Noam loves sharing his experiences and have been the keynote speaker about consumer behavior and the evolution of digital experiences for The Economist, DLD, DSE and Digital Signage Investor, a guest speaker at Washington University, Parsons School of Design and IDC research college, and contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Frost & Sullivan and Platt Retail Institute. Being a long-time SciFi fan, Noam has been fascinated with advances in virtual reality and human-machine interfaces. He visualizes an emerging reality of digital enhancements to the human body and seamless brain-machine interfaces that extend our mental abilities into a complete and immersive sensory experience, forming new perceptions of reality.
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About ByondXR: ByondXR transforms eCommerce through immersive experiences that increase engagement, conversion and ROI

Kelsey Hunter
Founder & CEO of Paloma
Kelsey Hunter is the Founder and CEO of Paloma.
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About CallParty, Paloma: Paloma helps ecommerce businesses sell directly to customers in messaging channels, with automated personal shopping conversations.

Malik Zakaria
Founder and CEO of Field Engineer
Malik founded fieldengineer.com in 2015.
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About ExterNetworks, Field Engineer: Field Engineer develops a marketplace for on-demand field and network engineers.

Jean Z. Poh
Founder & CEO of Swoonery
Founder, CEO at Swoonery.
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About Rapaport Group, Swoonery: Recommendation-driven e-commerce marketplace for fine jewelry.
Alix Greenberg
Founder & CEO of ArtSugar
Before founding ArtSugar, Alix worked in museum development, and previously in fine art galleries. Alix loves to draw too (she has a BFA from Cornell) – so using her skills and market savvy (she has an MA from Christie’s Education) with her dedication to giving back, she built ArtSugar so everyone can create and anyone can pay it forward. Alix also goes by Portraits For Good and her work can be found on ArtSugar.co.
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About ArtSugar: ArtSugar is the curated e-commerce platform selling eye-catching artwork & home decor objects at an accessible price point.
Roman Iospa
CEO & Founder of StoresAndMarket
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About DevelopAll, Diaton Tonometer, PhotoHand, StoresAndMarket: StoresAndMarket.com is a “Shopping Mall” for Doctors. THE Marketplace for Medical Equipment Manufacturers, Supplies & Services Vendors.

Alan Cutter
CEO of AC Lion
Mr. Cutter: Founded New York City’s premier digital media recruiting agency, AC Lion International, over 15 years ago and continues to lead the growing company as their CEO Brings a reputation to the table for being a negotiator par excellence with over 12 years experience in recruiting and creative staffing solutions Is known as a deep strategic thinker who oversaw AC Lion’s dynamic diversification into sales recruiting Was a former senior manager for OTEC, where he played a critical role in the initial strategic success of its evolution into HotJobs.com Works pro bono as Director of the Career Center for the J2J Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to matching business owners with potential customers and employees Is frequently quoted in Crain’s New York Business, maintaining an active and integral role in numerous community and political causes Earned a Masters Degree in Social Work from Yeshiva University in New York City Was born in Boston and is extremely ecstatic about the string of successes racked up by his hometown sports teams Has a passion for surfing, often traveling the coasts of California and Long Island in search of the perfect wave
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About AC Lion, LionsEye Group, OTEC: Powering Innovation by Bridging the Talent Gap. Recruiting Digital Talent for More Than 20 Years.
Anjelika Kour
Founder and CEO of Brick & Portal
Founder and CEO at Brick & Portal.
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About Brick & Portal: A social e-commerce platform that allows users to curate looks with optimized items from a machine+human e-commerce aggregator.
Bernardine Wu
Founder & CEO of FitForCommerce
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About Dartmouth College, FitForCommerce, National Retail Federation: FitForCommerce provides tools and expertise that help eCommerce businesses articulate requirements, leverage best practices.

Dennis Beloff
Founder, CEO of PerfectaMe
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About PerfectaMe: Mobile App and New Merchandising Standard. Personalized tool for female millennials for fashion styling and social shopping.

Jack McNamara
Founder & CEO of Tru
Jack McNamara is Founder & CEO at TRUEnergy.
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About Tru: Tru is a provider of functional beverages used for energy, focus, power, and refreshment.
Laurence Ramponi
CEO of viax.io
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About Techmates Group, viax.io: A new and modern approach to B2B for Manufacturers and Distributors.

Luke Attebery
Founder, CEO of LIFESTYLECLOTHING.com
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About LIFESTYLECLOTHING.com: LIFESTYLECLOTHING.com DBA The LifeStyleClothing Cooperative is an online retail platform headquartered in NYC.

Jason Nadaf
Founder & CEO of SureDone
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About SureDone: SureDone automates & accelerates multichannel eCommerce by connecting your products, data, partners and more to your online sales channels.

Andrew Max Link
CEO of ELUXR
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About ELUXR: Experience monetization platform for businesses, freelancers and agents