Boardroom Media (CEO News)
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 Professional Networking 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.
Jocelyn Mangan
CEO and Co-Founder of Him For Her
Jocelyn Mangan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Him For Her.
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About Him For Her, Snagajob: Him For Her is a social venture that accelerates the diversity on corporate boards.
Sujai Hajela
Co-founder, President & CEO of Mist Systems
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About Mist Systems: Mist built a wireless platform for the Smart Device era that delivers intelligent wireless network products that leverage machine learning.
Zack Onisko
CEO of Dribbble
Zack Onisko is CEO at Dribbble, the global community for designers and creative professionals to showcase, promote, discover, and explore design. Dribbble was founded in 2009 and has grown to become the designer community it is today for tens of millions of people around the world. Dribbble is on a mission to build the world’s best platform for designers to gain inspiration, feedback, education, community, and job opportunities. Before Dribbble, Zack began his career nearly 20 years ago as a web designer before shifting into business and executive roles at Autodesk, Creative Market, Hired.com, BranchOut, Monster.com, and Tickle.com. He is responsible for scaling multiple companies to successful exits over the past decade including the Creative Market acquisition by Autodesk in 2014. Zack is a startup investor and advisor working with Indicator Ventures, Dwell magazine, Reforge, and others.
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About Dribbble: Dribbble is a global community where the world’s top designers share, grow, and get hired.
Rahim Fazal
Co-Founder and CEO of SV Academy
Co-Founder and CEO at SVAcademy.
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About Forbes Technology Council, SV Academy: SV Academy is building the workforce of the future for SaaS GTM
Rika Nakazawa
CEO and Co-Founder of BoardSeatMeet
Rika Nakazawa is an entrepreneur, investor, keynote speaker, and senior leader in the realm of business transformation driven by technology. She is the CEO and Co-founder of BoardSeatMeet, Inc. a public benefit corporation focusing on gender-balancing corporate board rooms by empowering women to build and leverage social capital with modern technology – delivering “High-Performance Board Room of Tomorrow”. She is also Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Ascent Robotics, a Tokyo-based AI software venture. Trilingual in Japanese, German and English, Rika grew up in Japan and moved to the US initially to attend Princeton University as an International Student. Rika has since worked internationally over two decades in senior executive roles in strategy, business development, and marketing with Fortune 500 companies – NVIDIA, Sony, Accenture, American Express – and Silicon Valley startups. She is a technology industry veteran and serves on venture boards in next-gen computing and artificial intelligence ecosystems. Throughout her career, Rika has been an avid advocate for advancing women’s leadership in governance, technology and business across industry verticals and global lines. Rika is also the only woman on the Dean’s Council for Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University, where she addresses the matter of gender parity in STEM Higher Education. Rika is passionate about deepening intersection of human and digital through transformational innovation and the pursuit of purpose-driven collaboration. Rika is passionate about the intersection of the human, the digital, and the physical through innovative experiences. Her non-profit company, BoardtSeatMeet, Inc is her most deliberate venture around this convergence and one that can be powerfully embraced in the current climate of gender balance in corporate governance.
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About Ad-comm Group, Atheer, BoardSeatMeet: BoardSeatMeet is a social impact venture driving gender and racial equity in board rooms with a simple network orchestration platform
Sahil Mansuri
Co-founder & CEO of Bravado
Sahil Mansuri is the Cofounder & CEO of Bravado, a community for B2B salespeople. The Bravado community is building the future of sales, one powered by reputation and referrals. Bravado helps thousands of sales reps build their credibility by showcasing the clients they have done business with + testimonials from those customers. Prior to founding Bravado, Sahil was an EIR at Expa – a startup studio in SF where he helped scale growth for a number of portfolio companies. Sahil has led sales teams at Glassdoor and Meltwater, as well as having led marketing and product teams at Virool and SalesPredict (acquired by eBay). Sahil enjoys playing chess, mishitting golf balls, and nerding out about the future of sales.
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About Bravado: Bravado is a community platform for sales professionals.
Ben Huffman
CEO of Contra
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About Contra: Contra is a networking platform that gives users the freedom and opportunity to work independently.
Biju Ashokan
Co-Founder & CEO of Radius Agent
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About Radius Agent: We’re an online real estate brokerage with a referral marketplace and social community focused on helping agents succeed.
Andrew Tan
Founder & CEO of Ladder
Andrew Tan is the Founder & CEO of Ladder.
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About Goodpoint, Ladder: Ladder is a next-gen professional community platform.
Adam Saven
Co-Founder & CEO of PeopleGrove
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About PeopleGrove: Connect every student and professional with the mentors, advisers and network needed to realize their full potential.
Limor Elbaz
Founder & CEO of Peerlyst
CEO of Peerlyst.
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About Peerlyst: Peerlyst is a Social network exclusively for security professionals.
Fred Bidot
Co-founder, CEO of Swishh
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About Swishh: Swishh is a mobile app that allows its users to instantly exchange contact information with people they meet.
Jae Shin
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of MOMO BOARD
Jae has over 8 years of experience in architecture and design industry including green building design. As a LEED AP, he led and managed the first LEED platinum certification in Asia for Samsung C&T and worked in various prestigious architecture firms such as Atelier Jean Nouvel, Coop Himme(l)blau and Shigeru Ban Architects.
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About MOMO BOARD: Momo Board is a mobile app that specializes in cloud storage, community engagement, bulletin board, messenger, and chat.
Jaron Gilinsky
Founder & CEO of Storyhunter
Jaron Gilinsky is the founder and CEO of Storyhunter.
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About Storyhunter: The video production marketplace and freelancer management platform
Patrick Ewers
CEO and Founder of Mindmaven
Patrick is an executive coach and the founder of Mindmaven, a company that helps professionals generate break-through opportunities from your Network by introducing experience-based relationship marketing best practices. In short, Mindmaven helps professionals drive growth by increasing the overall mindshare they enjoy within their professional network. The more you are “Top of Mind”, the higher their ability to connect you with the right opportunities. Patrick was called Silicon Valley’s top relationship management expert by Forbes. He has had the privilege of working with some of the industry’s heaviest hitters: companies such as First Round Capital, SGI, Fenwick and West, Silicon Valley Bank.
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About Mindmaven: Mindmaven coaches professionals to generate break-through opportunities by introducing experience-based relationship marketing.
Kevin Holmes
Founder & CEO of Founders Network
Kevin started Founders Network to help tech founders achieve success through peer mentorship. Prior to Founders Network, Kevin advised hundreds of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs while relaunching Santa Clara University’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE). Prior to CIE, he helped launch AllDorm.com, an angel funded advertising startup that connected national brands with the college market. Kevin was named “40 Under 40 in Silicon Valley” by the Silicon Valley Business Journal and earned the Belotti Award from Santa Clara University’s Graduate School of Business. He holds a bachelor’s degree and a Master of Business Administration from Santa Clara University and has served on the entrepreneurship faculty at several universities. Kevin is an avid skier and lives in San Francisco with his wife and two daughters.
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About Founders Network: Founders Network offers lifelong peer mentorship to over 600 tech startup founders.
Bhupendra Patni
Founder and CEO of Scouts360
Bhupendra Patni is Founder at Scouts360 Inc.
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About Scouts360: Scouts 360 is an online platform that transforms the current process of finding, growing, and promoting talent in sports.
Paul Zelizer
Co-Founder, CEO and Chief Weirdness Officer of Wisdompreneurs
Paul Zelizer Co-Founder, CEO and Chief Weirdness Officer, Wisdompreneurs At the 2013 Wisdom 2.0 conference, Paul—who was at that time Wisdom 2.0’s director of social media—was asked to lead a breakout session focused on wisdom issues for entrepreneurs. More than 100 people attended, and the energy was so compelling that Paul was drawn to be of further service. Already established as one of the first business and marketing coaches to focus on the needs of the conscious entrepreneur, he joined with Alison Raby to create Wisdompreneurs, dedicated to bringing entrepreneurial skills to transformational leaders and easy-to-implement mindfulness and emotional intelligence practices to the entrepreneurial world. He serves as the Founder, CEO and CWO (Chief Weirdness Officer) of Wisdompreneurs. Wisdompreneurs now serves a dynamic, widely diverse online community of more than 4,000 members, and it hosts a wide range of events; provides training, networking, and real-time educational resources; and includes a publishing arm. Local chapters are active in San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Boulder, Denver, Santa Fe, Newark, London, and Melbourne. Paul blends his responsibilities to the fast-growing Wisdompreneurs brand with his ongoing global coaching practice that supports transformational entrepreneurs in growing their businesses to the next level.
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About Wisdompreneurs: Wisdompreneurs focus is to increase the success and quality of life for transformational entrepreneurs through deep community networking.
Paul Zelizer
Co-Founder, CEO and Chief Weirdness Officer of Wisdompreneurs
Paul Zelizer Co-Founder, CEO and Chief Weirdness Officer, Wisdompreneurs At the 2013 Wisdom 2.0 conference, Paul—who was at that time Wisdom 2.0’s director of social media—was asked to lead a breakout session focused on wisdom issues for entrepreneurs. More than 100 people attended, and the energy was so compelling that Paul was drawn to be of further service. Already established as one of the first business and marketing coaches to focus on the needs of the conscious entrepreneur, he joined with Alison Raby to create Wisdompreneurs, dedicated to bringing entrepreneurial skills to transformational leaders and easy-to-implement mindfulness and emotional intelligence practices to the entrepreneurial world. He serves as the Founder, CEO and CWO (Chief Weirdness Officer) of Wisdompreneurs. Wisdompreneurs now serves a dynamic, widely diverse online community of more than 4,000 members, and it hosts a wide range of events; provides training, networking, and real-time educational resources; and includes a publishing arm. Local chapters are active in San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Boulder, Denver, Santa Fe, Newark, London, and Melbourne. Paul blends his responsibilities to the fast-growing Wisdompreneurs brand with his ongoing global coaching practice that supports transformational entrepreneurs in growing their businesses to the next level.
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About Wisdompreneurs: Wisdompreneurs focus is to increase the success and quality of life for transformational entrepreneurs through deep community networking.
Rodney Fong
President & CEO of San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
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About San Francisco Chamber of Commerce: San Francisco Chamber of Commerce is a preeminent business organization for advocacy, networking, and economic growth.
Rodney Fong
President & CEO of San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
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About San Francisco Chamber of Commerce: San Francisco Chamber of Commerce is a preeminent business organization for advocacy, networking, and economic growth.
