At COO (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 Boston based COO’ operating in the Marketing space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Sarah Bergstrand
COO of BitBull Capital
Sarah Bergstrand is the COO at BitBull Capital.
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About BitBull Capital: BitBull Capital is the first cryptocurrency fund of hedge funds.
Jessica Murphy
Co-Founder & COO of True Fit
Co-Founder | VP Operations at True Fit
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About True Fit: True Fit is a consumer experience platform leveraged by apparel and footwear retailers to decode fit and size and connect shoppers with only what they love. It has organized and connected the broadest footwear, apparel and shopper data in the world to provide best in class fit recommendations covering the industry’s brands and styles, driving shopper confidence and loyalty.
Bill Davies
COO and CFO of Jack Morton Worldwide
Bill Davies leads Jack Morton’s global operations and finance organization including information technology, real estate, insurance and legal. He led the deployment of a cutting-edge global integrated financial system that is utilized by Jack Morton operations around the globe. Bill joined the company in 2002 as EVP, Chief Financial Officer and in 2011 he expanded his role to COO. In his capacity as COO, Bill is responsible for Jack Morton’s corporate development and also oversees Jack Morton’s operations in Detroit. He is responsible for Jack Morton’s merger and acquisition activity and the development and expansion of Jack Morton’s global affiliate program. Bill previously served as Senior Vice President for The Interpublic Group of Companies’ (IPG) Advanced Marketing Services group. Prior to that he worked as CFO of Weber Shandwick Worldwide, one of the world’s leading public relations firms. Bill joined founder Larry Weber at The Weber Group in 1990, where he implemented comprehensive financial systems through a period of significant growth which culminated in Weber’s 1996 acquisition by McCann-Erickson World Group. Bill is a graduate of Brown University.
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About Jack Morton Worldwide: Jack Morton Worldwide is an American multinational brand experience agency.
Lynn Smith
COO of Focused Impressions
Lynn spent most of her career with Standard Register and brings more than 25 years managing integrated communications programs for Fortune 100 companies. Lynn has developed, implemented and led continuous quality improvement projects focusing on both systems and business process through the utilization of best-in-class customer facing technologies. Lynn’s professional expertise centers on aggregating marketing activities that place the customer first when integrating technology systems. This promotes both ease of use and adoption as well as the ability to track and capture customer behavior. In other words, her work has enabled companies to respond, pivot and target marketing strategies quickly and successfully in response to customer activity without distracting internal staff. Her in-depth knowledge of the shortcomings of existing options in the marketplace was the impetus for her to help build the Focused Impressions platform in order to create a better solution for aggregating and managing marketing activity for businesses both large and small. Lynn received a BS in Marketing from Providence College.
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About Focused Impressions: Focused Impressions helps companies drive demand for products and services through their channel partners.
Cory Munchbach
COO of BlueConic
Cory has spent her career on the cutting edge of marketing technology and brings years working with Fortune 500 clients from various industries to BlueConic. Before joining the BlueCrew, she was an analyst at Forrester Research where she covered business and consumer technology trends and the fast-moving marketing tech landscape. A sought-after speaker and industry voice, Cory’s work has been featured in Venture Beat, Wired, AdAge, and AdWeek, as well as spoken at conferences such as FutureM, MITX, and the Association of National Advertisers. A life-long Bostonian, Cory has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Boston College and spends a considerable amount of her non-work hours screaming wildly for all the local sports teams. The rest of that time is spent hanging with her husband, family, and friends; taking their dog for long hikes; at her CrossFit gym; or – most likely of all – reading. Follow Cory on Twitter @CorinneJames.
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About BlueConic: BlueConic’s customer data platform liberates first-party data so companies can transform customer relationships and drive business growth.
Rick Gallagher
Senior Managing Director / Chief Operating Officer / Chief Financial Officer of Progress Partners
Founder of Juniperks.
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About Progress Partners, Progress Ventures: Progress Partners is a corporate advisory firm that works with buyers and sellers of companies to complete M&A or private transactions.
Ravi Yegya-Raman
COO of Endorse.gg
Ravi Yegya-Raman is a co-founder at Endorse.
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About Endorse.gg: Endorse.gg connects advertisers to gamers for product sponsorships.
Sheryl Schultz
Founder, President & COO of CabinetM
Sheryl Schultz is the Founder, President & COO at CabinetM.
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About CabinetM, Crowdly, Golden Seeds, Golden Seeds: MarTech Stack Management Platform
Sarah Haig
COO & Co-Founder of Silverside Detectors
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About Silverside Detectors: Silverside Detectors Inc. develops radiation detectors that can be installed in urban and transit infrastructure for nuclear detection.
Scott A. Spry
Chief Operating Officer of Phoenix Marketing International
Scott brings over 30 years experience in business strategy development, sales management, data-driven marketing, market planning, marketing communications, market research, organizational design and the business application of new technologies. Prior to co-founding Cambridge Brand Analytics, which was acquired by Phoenix in 2004, his experience includes COO of Yankelovich Partners, a major research firm; Co-founder and President of AIM Marketing, a database marketing company; Director of Sales & Marketing for a company owning broadcast outlets, newspapers and providing database and direct marketing services to Fortune 500 companies; and several other sales, marketing and general management positions within a major business services company. Scott has an MBA from the University of Detroit, and a B.S. in Business with a concentration in Information Systems from the University of Michigan.
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About Phoenix Marketing International: Founded in 1999, Phoenix Marketing International is one of the fastest growing marketing services firms in the United States.