Jason Navallo's Blog, page 28

Keith Byrd – Co-Founder & Partner, Transportation Impact

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Keith Byrd began his 25-year career in the parcel industry with UPS, where he held a variety of positions. Before leaving UPS in 2008, he served as a senior sales manager, covering North and South Carolina. In 1995, Byrd was assigned to the UPS corporate office in Atlanta, GA. Having earned numerous accolades while with the world’s largest shipping company, Keith envisioned starting a company that could leverage his industry experience to help companies minimize operating costs.

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James Kyle – Founder, President & CEO, Millennium

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James Kyle is currently the president and CEO of Millennium, a national distributor of fiber-optic networks serving the communications industry. James’ vision of having a distribution business designed to deliver solutions to markets where network owners and contractors struggle to receive products and resources they need to be successful began in 2003 and today has over 9 distribution centers around the country that offers just-in-time inventory, same day/next day shipping, and local delive...

Adam Robinson – Co-Founder & CEO, Hireology

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Adam Robinson is co-founder and CEO of Hireology, a venture-backed hiring and talent management platform named a Top 50 Best Workplace by Inc., a Top Company Culture by Entrepreneur, and #94 in 2016 and #332 in 2017 on the Inc. 500 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies. He’s the author of The Best Team Wins: Build your Business Through Predictive Hiring, the host of The Best Team Wins Podcast, and a weekly columnist for Inc. He was named a Top 25 Industry Game Changer by Workfo...

Steven Woods – Co-Founder & CTO, Nudge.ai

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Currently co-founder and CTO at Nudge.ai, which uses artificial intelligence to help salespeople find useful trigger events at their target accounts. Letting AI do the heavy burden of research allows sales professionals to focus on selling, while never missing a chance to turn latent demand into active demand.

Prior to that, co-founder and CTO of Eloqua, a company I helped guide to a market-leading position in marketing automation, while growing it to a $100 million revenue run rate, through...

Gary Boomershine – Founder & President, RealEstateInvestor.com

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Gary has worked in a variety of emerging growth markets for more than 24 years in Silicon Valley and India. He’s been successful in emerging markets and public markets in a broad range of industries including residential and commercial real estate, private lending, enterprise software, and high tech manufacturing.

Gary’s early career was in management and technology consulting at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and in enterprise software sales. During the previous 10 years, he founded an...

Brian Mattingly – Founder & CEO, Welcomemat Services

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Brian is the founder and CEO of Welcomemat Services, a digital and disruptive direct mail marketing company specializing in targeting people who have recently moved. Through Brian’s leadership, the brand has grown to over 60 franchise locations with national coverage and was named the #1 Advertising Franchise in 2017 according to Entrepreneur Magazine.

Prior to founding Welcomemat Services, Brian spent nearly a decade working in the enterprise software space.

Brian is an experienced communic...

Mike Wior – Co-Founder & CEO, Omnivore

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As co-founder and CEO of Omnivore, Mike Wior leads his team in bringing to market powerful and seamless technologies transforming how the hospitality industry engages with consumers. His major focus is driving and establishing strategic partner and stakeholder relationships that are key in growing Omnivore. With an extensive background in cloud and security solutions for organizations including Wells Fargo, Adobe, and Google, Mike also serves as a board member and advisor for several fast-ri...

Jeffrey Pruitt – Founder, Chairman & CEO – Tallwave

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Jeffrey Pruitt is founder, chairman & CEO of Tallwave, a business design and innovation company that helps organizations build, bring to market, and scale great products. He also serves as general manager of Tallwave Capital, Arizona’s most active venture capital firm in Arizona that is focused on B2B technology companies. Jeffrey is an Arizona native and brings nearly 20 years of technology-focused leadership to his post.

Jeffrey earned his bachelor’s in accounting from Arizona State Univer...

Alex Sumetsky – Co-Founder & CEO, OceanTech

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Alex is the co-founder and CEO of OceanTech, an IT asset disposition company established in 2005. OceanTech has been featured on the Inc. 5000 twice, in 2015 and 2017. Other companies include Ocean Holdings, a real estate firm established in 2011 that operates 50,000 square feet of commercial space, and OT Hardware, an enterprise IT hardware brokerage business. The latest venture Alex helped co-found is WipeOS.com, a data sanitization solution.

Tell me about your early career.
Started OceanT...

King White – Founder & CEO, Site Selection Group

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King White is founder and CEO of Site Selection Group, where he manages the daily operations including strategic planning, account management, business development, marketing, and corporate operations. King has over 20 years of experience in site selection, economic incentives, and corporate real estate across the globe. He has completed over 1,000 projects including call centers, data centers, distribution centers, headquarters, manufacturing plants, retail, and information technology opera...