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Matt Rodak – Founder & CEO, Fund That Flip

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Matt Rodak is the founder and CEO of Fund That Flip, which provides fast, convenient, affordable capital for experienced real estate investors that buy and rehabilitate residential properties.

Tell us about the early days of Fund That Flip.

Growing up in the Canton, Ohio area, I started a small landscaping business in high school and ended up doing a lot of work for real estate investors. I got an opportunity to see how these investors would take one of the least attractive houses on the blo...

Ryan Margolin – CEO, Professional Hair Labs

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Ryan Margolin is the president and CEO of Professional Hair Labs and owner of iPhixx, an ACiT-certified repair center and digital marketing consultant based in Ireland. Hailing from New Jersey, his aptitude for creativity and avid interest in business began early on.

As a dedicated CEO, Ryan’s decision-making revolves around solutions, not just implementation. He ensures that he applies the best possible strategies, so a direct return on investment (ROI) will be the final outcome every singl...

Brian Roizen – Co-Founder & Chief Architect, Feedonomics

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Brian Roizen is the co-founder and chief architect of Feedonomics, the #1 full-service product feed optimization platform. Feedonomics uses best-in-class technology to optimize product data for hundreds of channels like Amazon, Google Shopping, and Facebook. The company is backed by a 24/7 support team with offices spanning the globe. Clients include over 30% of the top 1,000 internet retailers, including many leading advertising agencies, brands, and retailers.

Brian oversees all of Feedono...

Chad Price – Founder & CEO, Mako Medical

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Chad Price is the founder and CEO of Mako Medical, which “serves as an industry leader on how laboratories should truly support patients and healthcare professionals. Details Matter! The Mako Medical Laboratories team is led by nationally renowned doctors who specialize in methodology development and pathological services. Mako Medical Laboratories’ facilities are equipped with state of the art robotics to ensure accuracy and precision with each sample. Also, each laboratory is outfitted wit...

Stacey Rock – Managing Partner & President, Solvix Solutions

“In 2015, Stacey Rock, a Marlton, New Jersey mother of four gave up her career as an executive assistant at a Fortune 500 company to venture out into the business world on her own. She never imagined the company she launched in 2015 would flourish so rapidly. However, a mere three years later, it landed spot #62 on the renowned Inc. 500 list for growth.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Stacey had a keen sense for fashion during her youth and dreamed of one day becoming a hairdresser for the sta...

Khaled Naim – Co-Founder & CEO, Onfleet

“In the Fall of 2011, I started my MBA program at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. At the time, I was working on a side project with Mikel Carmenes Cavia, a friend of mine from high school (Onfleet‘s Co-Founder & VP Engineering). We were exploring potential solutions to problems using AI / Machine Learning (primarily, sentiment analysis at the time). Shortly after starting my MBA, I met David Vetrano (Onfleet’s Co-Founder & CTO). He had just started his MS in Computer Science with a fo...

Dan Reich – Co-Founder & CEO, Troops

“In the earliest days of Troops, we were asking a simple question: what if updating your CRM was as easy as sending a text message? At the time, six of the top 10 apps in the world were for messaging and it just seemed like the way we worked in our personal lives would creep into our work lives in a very meaningful way. We would joke that Elon Musk was launching rockets into space and landing them back onto floating pads in the ocean, and yet at work, we still felt like data monkeys updating...

Sebastian Eldridge – Co-Founder & CEO, Anchor Worldwide

“I started my first company, Rooster, in 2010 after becoming apathetic to the way the advertising industry worked. There were always, and to a large degree still are, three main silos: Advertising Agency, Production Company, and Media Agency. Each comes with their own fee structure and layers of bureaucracy, not to mention that each agency in the structure has their own agenda. It made for a cumbersome process, and a lot of unnecessary output of funds from the client side.

My goal was to brea...

Jeremy Morgan – CEO, WellBiz Brands, Inc.

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Jeremy Morgan is the Chief Executive Officer for WellBiz Brands, Inc., the nation’s premiere franchiser of three beauty, wellness, and fitness franchise brands: Amazing Lash Studio®, Elements Massage®, and Fitness Together®. With more than 600 locations and 350,000 members across the portfolio, WellBiz Brands builds profitable businesses by franchising emerging, growth-oriented consumer brands that offer exceptional service-based experiences through recurring revenue models. The company is b...

Todd Mostak – Co-Founder & CEO, OmniSci

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Todd is the co-founder and CEO of OmniSci. Todd originally conceived of the idea of a GPU-accelerated analytics platform while conducting graduate research at Harvard on the role of social media in the Arab Spring, after tiring of waiting hours or sometimes days for traditional CPU-based platforms to run analytic workflows over hundreds of millions of tweets. He later joined MIT’s CSAIL as a research fellow, under the supervision of Sam Madden and Turing Award winner Michael Stonebraker, bef...