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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 New York based CEO’ operating in the Event Management 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.
Lee Rubin
Founder & CEO of Confetti
Lee Rubin is the Founder & CEO at Confetti
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About Confetti: Discover unique workplace activities & corporate events that fit your company’s culture, goals & budget.
Eran Ben-Shushan
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer of Bizzabo
Eran Ben-Shushan is Co-Founder & CEO at Bizzabo.
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About Bizzabo: Bizzabo powers in-person, virtual, & hybrid experiences with the Event Experience OS, an open platform for Event Experience Leaders.
David Wachsman
CEO of Wachsman
David Wachsman is a world-renowned blockchain expert and thought leader. He is a regular speaker at the most highly recognized technology conferences around the world and his commentary is regularly featured by mainstream media outlets globally. In late 2015, David founded Wachsman to provide professional public relations services to the rapidly growing financial technology industry with cryptocurrency and blockchain at its foundation. Wachsman has since become a global organization with more than 70 employees based in offices in New York City and Dublin. David and his team have represented and acted as communications advisors to many of the most indispensible organizations in blockchain, including Dash, Crypto Valley Association, Bitcoin Suisse AG, CoinDesk, IOHK, Lisk, Steemit, tZERO, Jaxx, and Coinsource. Before founding Wachsman, David led the day-to-day operations for a boutique public relations agency in Manhattan and held roles in advertising, political affairs, and biotechnology.
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About Wachsman: Wachsman is a global, communications-based strategy consultancy.
Alfred Johnson
Co-Founder & CEO of Mobilize
Entrepreneur, Investor, Organizer
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About Mobilize: Mobilize is a events management and volunteer recruitment platform that connects mission-driven organizations and supporters.
Taku Harada
Co-Founder and CEO of Peatix
Taku founded Orinoco together with his former colleagues at Amazon, and has served as its CEO since its inception. Taku also held the position of Representative Director and CEO of YOOX Japan until August 2009. Prior to YOOX, Taku held various positions at Amazon Japan including head of its mobile and online marketing divisions. He also launched the iTunes Music Store in Japan while at Apple in 2005 and led its marketing team. Taku began his career at Sony Music Entertainment’s international business affairs division in Japan. He holds a B.A. from Yale University.
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About Peatix: Peatix is a event registration platform that provides organizers with the tools to create, promote, and sell out events.
Omer Glass
CEO and Founder of GrowthSpace
Omer Glass is the founder and CEO at GrowthSpace. He worked as the VP for Business Development and Strategy at Betalin Therapeutics Ltd., Team Leader and Management Consultant at Shaldor, Co-Founder at Careerologia, Teaching Assistant at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and the Founder and CEO at Economics and Strategic Thinking. He is a graduate of Seth Godin’s alt. with a master’s degree. He also studied in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, with a master’s degree in Behavioral Economics and a bachelors degree in Economics and Psychology.
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About GrowthSpace, GrowthSpace: Growth space is an flexible multi-space like that.
Julie Goldman
Founder & CEO of Original Runner Company
JULIE GOLDMAN perfects life’s Grand Entrances with her non-slip fabric aisle runners. After earning her Master and Doctorate degrees from Columbia University, Julie was inspired by her own wedding to launch her wildly popular business The Original Runner Company in order to provide the world with the first non-slip fabric aisle runners for weddings and special events. After almost fifteen years in the event industry, The Original Runner Company has sold millions of dollars of her unique aisle runners in more than twenty countries. Her celebrated creations have graced the weddings of Kim Kardashian, Kevin Jonas, Robert Herjavec, Fergie & Josh Duhamel, Michael Jordan, Neil Diamond and Tracy Jordan to name a few. Whether creating a Yellow Brick Road, a replica football field, or even a completely glittered aisle runner; Julie’s company can make any dream entrance a reality. The overwhelming success of The Original Runner Company has resulted in Julie appearing on dozens of the TV shows including “Shark Tank” and receiving business awards from Comcast, Dell, American Express and Forbes. Her business has also been featured in over 200 magazines as well as Crain’s NY Business, NY Daily News, NBC news, Lifetime Television, Oxygen, and Fox Business. A well known speaker and adjunct professor on entrepreneurship and small business growth, Julie loves to share what she has learned through her two successful businesses with other business owners.
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About Original Runner Company: The Original Runner Company creates the highest quality fabric aisle runners perfect life’s Grand Entrances.
Maureen Ryan-Fable
Group CEO / CEO – Americas of First Protocol
Prior to launching First Protocol US in 2004, Maureen held several senior event management positions, including Director of Events at Billboard Magazine and The New York Stock Exchange. A shareholder and Board Director of First Protocol, Maureen leads the operational and management team in the US, while also overseeing large complex international accounts including First Protocol’s Managed Services offering.
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About First Protocol: First Protocol is an international events agency.
Luke Smith
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Croud
CEO & Founder at Croud, an award-winning global digital agency delivering performance marketing in 110 countries, offices in London, NY, Sydney and Shrewsbury. Having built an in-house team of 145, together with a network of 1,900+ ‘Croudies’, we’re achieving exceptional growth by reinventing the agency model. Croud was recently listed in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 of the UK’s fastest-growing private tech companies, and recognised as one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies in the FT1000. Plus we were incredibly proud to pick up the social innovation award as part of the Tech Track award, for facilitating change in the way people work. Find out more at www.croud.com or I’m always happy to connect with anyone in digital – reach me at [email protected]
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About Croud: Croud is a digital marketing agency that provides services including SEO, PPC, content, programmatic, paid social, and analytics
Marc Aberle
Chief Executive Officer of Youpooly Corp.
Chief Executive Officer at Youpooly Corp. and Sparq Events. Handles horses and creative minds. Orchestrated 10.000+ transactions at counter Father of two. Submarine Captain.
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About Sparq Events, Youpooly Corp.: Youpooly is a community marketplace for people to publish, discover and access private events around the world.
Evelyne White
Co-Founder, CEO of SixPlus
Co-Founder & CEO at BookaLokal and SixPlus. Her passion and energy for hosting food events is only matched by her desire to make it easier for you to do the same.
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About SixPlus: SixPlus is an online marketplace for corporate event professionals to book private dining spaces in restaurants and hotels across the US.
Steve Corrick
Americas CEO of Comexposium
Steve Corrick joined Comexposium as Americas CEO in October 2016, based in Los Angeles. He took responsibility for the Digital Marketing and Security businesses, and more recently the Franchise portfolio. Previously, Steve held several leadership positions at UBM including Senior Vice President and Portfolio Director of the Manufacturing Group and Vice-President of Sales for the Electronics Group. In these roles, Steve was at the center of key strategic initiatives encompassing event launches, acquisitions and key partnerships in events and media. He helped develop new events throughout North America and launched the Advanced Manufacturing’s Groups international business. Steve is a graduate of Manchester University and began his event career at event organizer Andry Montgomery in London, prior to moving to California where has spent over 25 years. He has considerable experience of US and International B2B Markets, having worked in various sectors including technology, medical, food & beverage, art and manufacturing.
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About Comexposium: Comexposium is an event organizer.
Ron Guirguis
CEO, U.S. of MSL
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About MSL: MSL is Publicis Groupe’s Global Public Relations and Integrated Communications Partner.
Pierre Metrailler
CEO of SpotMe
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About SpotMe: SpotMe is a mobile platform that allows anyone in Marketing, Sales or HR to easily build the app they need to engage their audience.
Toby Daniels
Co-founder & CEO of Crowdcentric
Toby is the co-founder and CEO Crowdcentric. Crowdcentric wants to design a future where technology and humanity come together to create a more open, connected and sustainable world. Crowdcentric is based in New York and works with a global network of partners and collaborators, fulfilling its mission through three cross-functional divisions: Media, Creative Services & Labs. Crowdcentric Media owns and operates Social Media Week, a leading media and news platform and worldwide event that takes place in 26+ cities around the world with the mission of capturing, curating and sharing the most meaningful ideas, trends, and best practices with regard to technology and social media’s impact on business, society and culture. Prior to Crowdcentric, Daniels was the Managing Director of Online Creative Communications, a London based digital agency which he managed for 7 years. As a thought leader on a range of topics at the cross-section of media, technology and communications, Toby has been featured extensively in mainstream and trade media, including articles on CNN.com, The NY Times, The Next Web, Huffington Post, BBC, PSFK and Fast Company. He speaks regularly at conferences and has given talks at PdF Latin America in Santiago Chile, Social Media Brazil in São Paulo, PDMA’s Co-Creation Conference, Phoenix, SXSW, Austin and Digital Hollywood, Los Angeles. In 2013, The Next Web named Toby as one of New York’s 50 NYC Tech Entrepreneurs You Need to Know About. In addition to his professional endeavors, Toby is also a passionate contributor to a number of non-profit organizations, including CampInteractive, for which he has served as a senior board member for 7 years. Toby is also a founding board member of PVBLIC Foundation an in-kind grant-making organization that harnesses the power of unused media assets to drive social change.
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About Crowdcentric: We host conferences, publish trends, insights and industry news and deliver branded content and experiential marketing for brands.
Ben Lillie
Co-Founder and CEO of Caveat
Ben Lillie is the Co-Founder and CEO of Caveat. He is also the co-founder of The Story Collider.
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About Caveat: Caveat is a live event space and publishing company dedicated to refining and experimenting talks, conversations, and experiences.
Ohad Twig
CEO, Co- founder of Booth Guru
Ohad Twig is the CEO and co-founder of Booth Guru.
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About Booth Guru: Booth Guru provides B2B trade-show exhibitors an AI based SaaS platform for managing every step of an event.
Shyam Dudaka
Founder & CEO of India Running
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About India Running: India Running is the leading online community for sports enthusiasts who want to discover and register for running and related activities.
Jon Corzine
CEO & CIO at JDC-JSC L.P. of JDC – JSC L.P.
Jon S. Corzine is the founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of the JDC-JSC L.P. , a global macro/event driven hedge fund. Prior to founding JDC-JSC L.P., he managed his family office, actively investing and overseeing his philanthropic activities. Mr. Corzine served the State of New Jersey as a United States Senator from 2001-2006 and as its 54th Governor from 2006-2011. As Senator, Mr. Corzine served on the Banking, Intelligence, Foreign Relations, Budget, Energy, and Joint Economic Committees. He also chaired the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) in 2003 and 2004. As Governor, he implemented policies to support children and families including reforming education funding, instituting early childhood education, providing paid family leave, and expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit Prior to entering public service, Mr. Corzine served as the Senior Partner of Goldman Sachs from 1994-1999, transforming it from a private partnership into a public company. He began his career at Goldman in 1976 as a bond trader and became co-manager of the Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities Division. In 1980 he was named partner. He joined the Management Committee in 1984 and served as the CFO from 1991-1994. Mr. Corzine served as the Chairman and CEO of MF Global from March 2010 until October 2011. Mr. Corzine has served on the University of Chicago’s Board of Trustees as well as an ex-officio member of Princeton University’s Board of Trustees. He was the J.L. Weinberg Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Princeton in 2010 and 2011. Mr. Corzine is currently working with Fairleigh Dickinson University to establish the graduate School of Public and Global Affairs as Chair of its Advisory Board, while also serving as a visiting lecturer on politics and public policy at the University’s UK Wroxton campus. Mr. Corzine has served on several civic boards including the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the New York Philharmonic, the New York Child Study Center, and the NYC Partnership. In addition, he has also served as Co-Chair of the National Commission on Capital Budgeting under President Clinton, Chair of the Treasury’s Government Borrowing Committee, and Chair of the Public Securities Association. He is currently a member of the International Board of Covenant House. Mr. Corzine was born in January of 1947 in Taylorville, Illinois. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois in 1969, graduating Phi Beta Kapa, and earned his MBA from the University of Chicago in 1975. Mr. Corzine served in the United States Marine Corps (R) from 1969-1975.
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About JDC – JSC L.P.: JDC – JSC L.P. is a global macro/event driven hedge fund launching in the 4th quarter of 2017
Robin Fisher
Founder & CEO of BLACE
Robin Fisher, one of New York’s most successful professional leasing experts, is now an independent Real Estate Advisor who has based the foundation of her practice on protecting the best interest of tenants in the Big Apple’s competitive and cutthroat real estate market. With over a decade of experience of working with large corporations, Robin Fisher is equipped with the professional skills of finding the ‘right fit’ for her clients through heavy research and excellent troubleshooting skills. Fisher has had experience in tenant representation, corporate advisory, asset repositioning and various other aspects of the leasing process. Her reputation as someone who can handle complex cases is widely recognized and her talents in the real estate market are adorned by a series of awards and respectable titles she has earned through years of hard work. She is a member of various organizations like Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), Young Men’/Women’s Real Estate Association (YMWREA) where she served as the Vice Chairman in 2010, Real Estate Women (AREW) and Executive’s Association of New York (EANYC). In 2010, Robin Fisher was one of Commercial Magazine’s ‘Top Women’ and the Guest of Honor in a Women of Valor event in the following year. Organizations like St. Francis Food Pantries and Shelter and Enterprise Foundation have benefited greatly from Fisher’s active volunteer work over the years.
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About BLACE: Blace is an online marketplace for booking unique event spaces.
Alejandra Chaparro
Founder & CEO of 17 Entertainment, INC
Alejandra Chaparro is an award-winning journalist with more than 12 years’ experience in the media industry including posts in Miami, New York and Los Angeles spanning her career in the US. She has directed editorial content strategy and execution for Hispanic publishers such as Univision, Terra Networks, CNN (en Español), and Mamaslatinas.com across a range of lifestyle topics including beauty, food, fashion and travel. Her areas of expertise include PR and conducting media training for artists and companies. Alejandra launched 17 Entertainment Inc. in 2011 to provide content execution, social media, and event planning for the corporate and small business sectors. Some of her clients are Liberty Mutual, Safeco insurance, LatinLingua, LatinaCool.com and Allesig Group. Alejandra was born in Colombia, where she started her career in Bogota before moving to Quito, Ecuador and then to New York City. She’s collaborated with a variety of magazines, newspapers, radio and websites in Miami for over 10 years.
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About 17 Entertainment, INC: Dedicated to the planning and organization of small, medium, and large events.
Cheryl Gentry
Founder and CEO of OnSite Planner
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About Glow Global Events, OnSite Planner: Onsite Planner is a software platform to help you manage the many moving parts of onsite logistics and coordination.
Jennifer Grove
Founder and CEO of Repeat Roses
Jennifer Grove is the founder and CEO of Repear Roses.
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About Repeat Roses: Repeat Roses extracts, rehabilitates, and provides floral arrangements to people in the community.
Hersh Narula
President & CEO of Imagine Management
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About Imagine Management: Imagine Management is a social media development and consultation business.
Hannah Dehradunwala
Founder & CEO of Transfernation
Hannah Dehradunwala is the co-founder and CEO of Transfernation. She used to be the deputy program director, strategic initiatives of Counselling Pakistan. She earned her degree at New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
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About Transfernation: Technology driven platform designed to sustainably ensure extra food from events and individuals supports those in greatest need.
Christopher Seshadri
Co-Founder & CEO of PhotoSesh
Constantly looking to improve broken business models and misunderstood situations. “Life is about hard work, relationships, and (let’s be honest) – a little bit of luck. However, if you’re not working hard and you don’t have the right relationships, you may never benefit from any luck that comes your way!” – Christopher Seshadri
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About PhotoSesh: The Easiest Way to Find, Book, & Pay for a Highly Rated Affordable Photographer! Use PhotoSesh Now On-Demand or PhotoSesh at a later date!
Danit Zamir
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Bloomerent
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About Bloomerent: A marketplace to share your floral centerpieces with another event in your area.
Julia Capalino
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Bloomerent
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About Bloomerent: A marketplace to share your floral centerpieces with another event in your area.
Elliot Tomaeno
Founder & CEO of Astrsk
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About Astrsk: ASTRSK is a public relations agency built for high growth brands
David Becker
Co-Founder and CEO of zkipster
David is a former senior media consultant and executive producer at the Swiss National Radio and Television. David is based in New York City and heads partnerships, marketing, data science and the global team. Goal: Keep things simple and make them work.
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About zkipster: Guest list management software for live, virtual, and hybrid events.
Geert DeBecker
CEO of EventBrowse.com
Highly experienced online entrepreneur, who has successfully created, developed and managed 4 Internet and eCommerce companies into profit and international expansion. Results-oriented, enthusiastic and motivational people leader, with very sharp business insight and analytical skills. Proven ability to manage ideas from plans into viable businesses. Core competencies include: * Strategic Marketing – Business Modeling. * Product and Service Development. * Defining, Creating & Optimizing Applications for Operations. * Team Recruitment & Team Building. * Turn around failing Organizations, Products and Services. * Executive Level Negotiations & High Level Communications.
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About EventBrowse.com: Only the best conference and business events
