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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 San Francisco based CEO’ operating in the Content Discovery 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.
Alyssa Ravasio
Founder and CEO of Hipcamp
Alyssa Ravasio is the founder and CEO of Hipcamp. Prior to joining Hipcamp, Alyssa spent more than nine years with the Outdoor Industry Association as a recreation advisory council. Alyssa also worked with Xola as the director of operations.
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About Hipcamp: Hipcamp unlocks access to private land for camping and outdoor recreation.
Stanley Yuan
CEO & Co-Founder of Otto Radio, Inc.
CEO of Otto Radio. Strategist by day, mathematician and economist by training, humanitarian at heart. Love productizing & building. Previous @GoldmanSachs @Columbia
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About hibooks, Otto Radio, Inc.: Transform the time on everyday tasks into opportunities to be entertained and stay informed about the things they care about most
Steve Lee
Co-founder/CEO of Aura Health
Co-Founder & CEO at Aura Health.
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About Aura Health: Aura is a digital wellness ecosystem that provides personalized content & community from therapists & coaches around the world
Vu L. Truong
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, & Director of Aridis Pharmaceuticals
Truong is a founder of Aridis and recently elected to the CEO position in 2014 after having served as the company’s Chief Scientific Officer for the past 9 years. He has over 15 years experience in biopharmaceutical drug development, having held positions of increasing responsibilities in companies which were eventually acquired by larger entities, including Gene Medicine (sold to Megabios), Aviron (sold to Medimmune), and Medimmune (sold to Astra Zeneca). He has a life-long interest and research experience in infectious diseases, focusing on the development of innovative human monoclonal antibodies and vaccines designed to address life threatening infections. His product development experience includes FluMist™, Synagis™ mAb, and a number of other monoclonal antibody based therapeutics. Dr. Truong is the principal architect of the Aridis technologies, which includes a range of anti-infective products and pharmaceutical processing technologies. He received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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About Aridis Pharmaceuticals: Aridis is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel, differentiated therapies for infectious diseases.
Ganna Boiko
Co-Founder & CEO of RoundTeam
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About RoundTeam: RoundTeam is an online content discovery, recommendation and delivery platform that engages online audiences by delivering relevant content.
Shaon Diwakar
Co-Founder & CEO of NewsMaven
Shaon Diwakar is the Co-Founder & CEO at NewsMaven.
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About NewsMaven: NewsMaven provides personalized recommendations on articles of interest for users visiting content-based websites.
Richard Maaghul
CEO of Odem.io
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About Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Odem.io: Odem.io is an education startup company that delivers complete end-to-end custom education programs and experiences.
Peter Simones
CEO & Co-founder of YouFood
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About YouFood: Discover, share, and buy meals you love.
Janne Neuvonen
CEO of BCaster
Janne is the man behind the super popular World Wildlife Fund live stream called “Norppalive”. Norppalive is a slowtv livestream that was built to help a very rare animal – Saimaa Ringed Seal. There were only 50 seals left in the world in the 1970’s and now the population is slowly raising. Norppalive was born as a side project for BCaster and garnered over a million views in just 10 days! Authenticated media flow from nature is now saving the seals from extinction. Janne is an innovator and serial entrepreneur with 2 exits. Now, he is building a 25-member “dream team” from 7 nations to solve all problems around UGC. BCaster is the most ambitious project in Janne’s life and he wants to change the way that people can monetize their own data in future. BCaster is disrupting how UGC is used and monetized globally. Privacy, truth and copyright managing are the base for future internet. With BCaster, Janne wants to end fake news, media piracy and create a totally new kind of media flow with authenticated UGC. Social responsibility and truth are the most important values for Janne. WOW – experiences make the world a better place to live in. That is the future that Janne wants to give to all people in the world.
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About BCaster: BCaster is AI-based media platform that enables sharing, selling and buying picture- and video content.
Jessica Koncz
Founder & CEO of Eatsee
Jess is the founder of Eatsee, a company changing the way that people discover food by connecting customers to restaurants in a visual and personalised way. Jess’s passion for food and content marketing began with an Instagram page @cravenewcastle as a hobby with the goal of showcasing and supporting local cafes and restaurants. Jess soon realised that the hospitality industry lacked good education around content marketing and utilising the power of social media, and so the vision behind Eatsee was born. Jessica is now expanding Eatsee across Australia and the United States, backed by Jason Calacanis and the Launch Accelerator.
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About Eatsee: Eatsee brings the restaurant experience to the Instagram generation through visual menus and our dish based discovery app.
Eric Poindessault
Co-founder & CEO of Biggerpan
Founder at Biggerpan
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About Biggerpan: Predictive A.I. for Mobile
Karina Dealba-Klein
CEO of Leagit
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About Leagit: Pinterest meets tech for all sharing & discovering of quality content
Kelly Goto
Founder & CEO of gotoresearch
Kelly Goto is passionate about helping organizations truly understand and empathize with their customers, so they can deliver products and services that are genuinely meaningful. After more than 20 years on the digital frontier, Kelly knows user experience (UX) as well or better than anybody. As a design ethnographer, she focuses on uncovering how people integrate products and services into their daily lives — what those experiences mean to people, and how to better shape that meaning. Her book, Web Redesign 2.0: Workflow That Works, is an industry classic that’s been translated into 22 languages so far. Kelly currently heads up gotoresearch, the global leader in research-driven strategy and solutions for digital products and connected experiences. The gotoresearch team dives deep into the customer’s world, translating unspoken wants and needs into UX realities. This enables clients such as Samsung, Hyundai, Sony, Target, Verizon, and Pearson Education to relate with customers in new and innovative ways. As a motivational and educational speaker, Kelly’s contagious enthusiasm and keen insights have galvanized audiences around the world. Bizzabo recently named her to its list of 100 Speakers Who Should Be Seen More at Tech Conferences. Kelly travels from San Francisco, CA. And when she’s not tethered to her laptop or dreaming up the next big thing, Kelly enjoys hiking in the mountains and hanging at the beach with her husband and two hilarious, brilliant daughters.
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About gotoresearch: Gotoresearch is a research company that offers street and home interviews, diary studies, and usability testing services.
