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 California based COO’ operating in the Delivery 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.
Christopher Elliott
Co-Founder & COO of Cheetah
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About Cheetah, Cheetah Technologies: Cheetah is an e-commerce platform offering contactless pickup and delivery of food and supplies.
Jerrin James
COO & Co-founder of Food Rocket
Jerrin James, Co-founder & COO of Food Rocket Ex – Amazon | Ex – Facebook | Ex – Groupon | Last Mile Expert | Six Sigma Black-Belt Exceptional data-driven, highly analytical and technological operations leader and change agent with unusually diverse global experience, James, has a career that displays a consistent track record of positive results and transformation accomplished through leadership roles in different organizations, including technology giants such as Amazon, Facebook, and Groupon. At Amazon, James led operations for multiple fulfillment centers, was in charge of productivity improvements for the Amazon Sortable Network, and launched multiple FCs. James still holds the record to ship out the most number of units out of a single day during peak season at one of Amazon’s legacy buildings. At Facebook, James led Global Logistics and Supply Chain Ops including Global Sourcing, Procurement, FC Operations, Deployment, Transportation, Trade & Compliance and Reverse Logistics, managing a ~$500mm spend. Most recently, James was COO at Driven Deliveries building California’s largest vertically integrated last-mile operator for cannabis from the ground up, servicing consumers all over California, the largest market, in under 60 minutes. James played an instrumental role in raising the first major investment for the company to scale its growth, taking the company public as well as an exit through an acquisition in just under 2 years.
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About Food Rocket: Food Rocket is an application that provides customers with on-demand 10-15 minute free grocery delivery.
Martin Tschopp
COO Prosus Ventures of Prosus & Naspers
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About Prosus & Naspers, Prosus Ventures: Prosus is a global consumer internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world.
Shiri Avnery
COO of Thistle
Shiri Avnery is a COO and Co-Founder of Thistle.
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About Thistle: Thistle is a food and juice company that delivers fully-prepared, plant-forward meals to the doorsteps of its customers.
Anna Chukaeva
COO and Co-Founder of Carta Healthcare
Anna spent over seven years in data analytics. She started as a mathematician and hold a master’s degree in economics. She spent three years doing business development for Credit Suisse Fixed Income derivatives department. After starting her first company in art education space she got her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Carta Healthcare: Carta empowers hospitals to personalize the delivery of care to the individual needs of each patient.
Alex Harris
Co-Founder & COO of Unfurl
Alex Harris currently works as the Co-Founder and COO for Unfurl. He previously worked at TraceAir Technologies as the Director of Customer Success.
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About Unfurl: Unfurl is the Netflix of the restaurant industry
Hatem Naguib
Chief Operating Officer of Barracuda Networks
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About Barracuda Networks: Barracuda is a provider of powerful, easy-to-use, affordable IT solutions for security and storage.
John vanSuchtelen
Co-Founder and COO/CPO of Songclip (Audiobyte)
John vanSuchtelen is Co-Founder and COO at Audiobyte, Inc.
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About Songclip (Audiobyte): Songclip is the first Social Music API, offering a SaaS technology platform for integrating licensed music on social and digital platforms.
Obdul Reid
Chief Operating Officer of Shypr
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About Notyced, PayVM.com, Shypr: Same day delivery technology platform.
Arthur Zonneveld
Co-Founder, COO of Yummy.com
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About Yummy.com: Yummy.com develops online solutions to improve life, including delivery in about 30 minutes and pick up in 10.
Cem Yildirim
CTO/COO of BigZpoon Inc.
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About BigZpoon Inc.: B2B SaaS venture addressing restaurants’ unsolved pain points with preference based menus, disruptive delivery model & food waste management
John Laing
Chief Operating Officer of Food.com
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About Food.com: Food.com, the third largest food site on the web, is an active social network of home cooks.
Antony Bello
COO of á la couch
Antony Bello is the co-founder of á la couch.
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About á la couch: á la couch is a delivery-focused restaurant group
Gary Wlassak
EVP of Operations & COO of EZER Inc.
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About EZER Inc.: EZER Delivery is a same-day freight matching marketplace that automates local delivery.
Audrey Marshall
Co-Founder / Chief Operating Officer of Thematic
My name is Audrey and I’m the Co-Founder / COO of Thematic. My partners, Michelle Phan and Marc Schrobilgen, and I have been connecting content creators with music artists for the past 10 years and decided to productize this manual process in order to service the larger creative economy with an automated platform. My background is in entertainment PR (via Chapman University) and I have led digital strategy for music artists, content creators, and brands, including campaigns for Macy’s, Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas, American Cancer Society, and the L’Oréal luxe family of brands, among others. Certified across the board with YouTube, I have a specific focus on digital rights management for music assets and have helped develop and manage some of the leading beauty, lifestyle, and dance channels on YouTube.
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About Thematic: Thematic is a marketplace enabling creators to use great songs from real artists in their videos.
Eric Shuss
Chief Operating Officer of BitSpeed
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About 4th Law, LLC, Avantiico, BitSpeed, iWithin: BitSpeed offers XFT and security software solution for moving big files through over-taxed global networks.
Bryan Meissner
COO of Evostream
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About Evostream: EvoStream is a global software development company and leading innovator in media server technology
Bryan Meissner
COO of Evostream
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About Evostream: EvoStream is a global software development company and leading innovator in media server technology