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 United States based COO’ operating in the Service Industry 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.
Wayne Heller
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Republic Airways Holdings
Wayne Heller provides executive operational leadership for the subsidiaries of Republic Airways Holdings and has more than 30 years’ experience in the airline industry. He joined Chautauqua Airlines as Vice President of Flight Operations and, in February of 2002, became Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer. In Addition to flight operations he also has responsibility for all maintenance and engineering. Mr. Heller has his commercial pilot license and is a licensed dispatcher.
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About : Republic Airways Holdings is a holding company that operates Chautauqua Airlines.
Michael Witte
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Workrise
Michael Witte is a co-founder and COO at RigUp, a technology company that develops a platform to support the energy workforce.Previously, Michael has worked as a petroleum engineering consultant at Pressler Petroleum Consultants.
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About Workrise: Workrise is a marketplace for on-demand services and skilled labor in the energy industry.
Michael Webb
President and Chief Operating Officer of Service Corp International
Michael R. Webb is a 25 year veteran of the company and was recently appointed as President and Chief Operating Officer in February 2016. Mike joined the company in 1991 when SCI acquired Arlington Corp., a regional funeral and cemetery consolidator where he served as Chief Financial Officer. He then led SCI’s global Corporate Development effort in the 1990’s. He has served as Executive Vice President since 2002 and was elected Chief Operating Officer in 2005. Prior to joining Arlington Corp., he held various executive financial and development roles at Days Inns of America and Telemundo Group Inc. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Georgia.
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About Service Corp International: SCI is North America’s provider of funeral and cemetery services, with shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
Josef Matosevic
Chief Operating Officer of The Manitowoc Company
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About Helios Technologies, The Manitowoc Company: Manitowoc Company Inc is an American global company specializing in products for the food service industry.
Hari Viswanathan
Co-Founder and COO of ZeroDown
Hari Viswanathan is the co-founder and COO of Zerodown. Previously, Hari was a staff software engineer at Zenefits. He holds a PhD. in computer engineering from Rutgers University and a bachelors in electronics and communication engineering from PSG College of Technology.
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About ZeroDown: ZeroDown is a real estate startup that focuses on providing an affordable homeownership solution.
Ram Mohan
Chief Operating Officer of Afilias
Ram Mohan is Chief Operating Officer of Afilias Limited. Ram oversees key strategic, management and technology choices for the company in support of the generic top-level domains (gTLDs) .INFO and .ORG, sponsored domains .mobi, .asia, and .aero and country code domains including .IN (India) and .ME (Montenegro). Ram has led the strategic growth of the company in registry services and security as well as new product sectors such as RFID/Auto-ID, global DNS and Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). Before joining Afilias in September 2001, Ram was at Infonautics Corp., a pioneering online database and content distribution company. He held various leadership positions at Infonautics, and led the company to market leadership through product innovation. Ram is the founder of the award-winning CompanySleuth product, and created the Sleuth line of business at Infonautics. He helped architect Electric Library, North America’s most used online reference database in schools and libraries, and Encyclopedia.com, the first free encyclopedia on the Internet. Prior to joining Infonautics, Ram worked with First Data Corporation, Unisys Corporation and KPMG Peat Marwick in a variety of leadership, engineering and technology positions. Ram is also founder of the technology behind TurnTide, an anti-spam company acquired by Symantec. Ram is active in the ICANN community. He is the author (with others) of the Redemption Grace Period (RGP) and the IDN implementation guidelines, now global industry standards. He led the GNSO IDN Working Group, is a co-founder (along with the UN and the Public Interest Registry) of the Arabic Script IDN Working Group. Ram is a founding member of the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), a Board advisory committee comprised of Internet pioneers and technical experts including operators of Internet root servers, registrars, and TLD registries. Ram’s educational background reflects his belief that technology is best used for business advantage and market leadership. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mangalore, an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from Bharathidasan University, and left most of the way through his second Master’s in Computer Science at Philadelphia’s Drexel University in order to take Infonautics public. An inventor, he is the author of several patents. Ram was previously named one of the Philadelphia Business Journal’s 40 under 40. He is a founding member of the ISOC Philadelphia Area Chapter and serves on the advisory boards of several Philadelphia-area startup companies, and is actively involved in cancer-related nonprofits. Ram Mohan served as a Board member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the coordinating body for all domain names and internet addresses from 2008 to 2018.
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About Afilias: Afilias provides back end domain name registry services, DNS, idn and RFID services.
Tim Haynes
President and Chief Operating Officer of ServiceMaster
Tim Haynes was named president of American Home Shield in 2015. Haynes served as senior vice president and chief information officer of ServiceMaster since 2014 and played an instrumental role in driving many of the technology initiatives that have helped fuel growth. Haynes brings a strong track record in strategic business and technology planning, global IT systems and project management and leveraged technology as an enabler of growth in all ServiceMaster businesses. Haynes previously served as vice president of information technology for the American Home Shield, ServiceMaster Clean and Merry Maids business units of ServiceMaster. Prior to that, he served as the IT general manager for global sales finance for Nissan Motor Limited and lead infrastructure services group for Nissan Americas. Before Nissan, he served as the director, application development, for General Motors Acceptance Company. Haynes also worked in various roles managing IT systems for Accenture and Global Crossing. Haynes holds a bachelor’s of business administration degree in computer information systems from Walsh College of Accountancy and Business Administration and a master’s of science degree in information technology from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About ServiceMaster: The ServiceMaster Company, LLC is a leading provider of essential residential and commercial services.
Ifeanyi Okonkwo
Co-Founder & COO of wifi.com.ng
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About Tizeti, wifi.com.ng: wifi.com.ng is a unlimited wifi internet provider.
Matt Stern
Co-Founder & COO of Mira
Matt Stern is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Mira. He is also one of the thirty inaugural students in Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young’s Academy for Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation at USC.
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About Mira: Mira is an operator of a mobile augmented reality company used to provide industrial-grade wearables and hands-free software technologies.
Clinton Pyatt
Chief Operating Officer & SVP of Government Affairs of Medbox
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About Medbox: Medbox develops prescription vending machines that dispense medication based on biometric identification samples.
Trever Hansen
Chief Operating Officer & VP Underwriting of Complete Merchant Solutions
Trever Hansen is a Co-Founder of Complete Merchant Solutions LLC and serves as its Chief Operating Officer. Trever Hansen has more than 10 years of industry leadership experience and is responsible for maximizing performance and efficiencies between CMS’ business units as well as overseeing the company’s efforts to streamline processes for the entire merchant lifecycle; from new account boarding, through ongoing merchant support, to customer retention. Prior to co-founding CMS, Trever Hansen served as the Vice President of Operations for a large ISO office of Chase Bank and Wells Fargo Bank. In this role, Trever Hansen oversaw multiple operational functions including underwriting, client boarding, risk management and ongoing loss prevention, deployment, activations, as well as customer and technical support. Trever Hansen pursued his undergraduate degree at the University of Utah.
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About Complete Merchant Solutions: Complete Merchant Solutions is a full-service electronic payments solutions provider.
Sam Howarth
Co-Founder and COO of BUMP
Sam Howarth is the co-founder and COO at BUMP.
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About BUMP: BUMP is a social peer-to-peer marketplace for authentic streetwear and sneakers.
Clark Winter
COO of Heli
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About Heli: Travel Marketplace & Booking Software
Yari Carrizo
COO of Propzie
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About Propzie: TENNTS is a PropTech company concentrating on rentals and hospitality.
Tim Tesluck
COO of Field Complete
As Chief Operating Officer, Tim is responsible for overseeing all daily operations.
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About Blast Sourcing, Field Complete: Software for real estate contractors to manage their operations
Kevin Walbridge
Executive Vice President & COO of Progressive Waste Solutions
Mr. Walbridge joined Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd. in 2012 and assumed the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer on January 1, 2014. His experience in the waste industry is varied and spans almost 30 years. His career has taken him to a variety of national and international locations, including a stint in Saudi Arabia with Browning-Ferris Industries Ltd. (BFI) (1982-1983). After BFI, he opened a branch of his family’s business in Phoenix, AZ. Mr. Walbridge was with Waste Management from 1985 to 1996, becoming President of Waste Management of Alameda County, CA, in 1993. In 1996, he returned to his family’s business, National ServAll, Inc. in Ft. Wayne, IN until Republic Industries bought the company in 1997. Mr. Walbridge was with Republic Services, Inc. from 1997 through late 2011, serving most recently as their Executive Vice President, Operations. Mr. Walbridge holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management with a minor in Natural Resources from Ball State University in Muncie, IN. He is also a graduate of Yale’s Corporate Environmental Program. Mr. Walbridge is past president of the Detachable Container Association. He is a past Chairman and currently a member of the board of directors for the Environmental Research and Education Foundation.
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About Progressive Waste Solutions: Progressive Waste Solution’s story is one of innovation, growth and a commitment to environmental sustainability.
Jonathan Compas
Chief Operating Officer of Helinet Aviation Services
Jonathan is the Chief Operating Officer of Helinet. Jon joined Helinet in 2015 as the General Manager overseeing responsibilities for the day-to-day operations of its Van Nuys Headquarters. Prior to joining Helinet, Jonathan led sales at Apex Fuels. With revenues exceeding $135 million, Apex Fuels became the 109th fastest growing private company in the U.S. on the Inc. 500. After graduating from UC Davis, Jonathan entered the National Football League, spending time as an offensive lineman for the Raiders, Buccaneers, Patriots, and Redskins. Following the NFL, he returned to graduate school at the University of San Diego, where he completed his Master’s at the School of Business Administration.
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About Helinet Aviation Services: Helinet Aviation Services is a diversified helicopter transportation provider located in Van Nuys, California.
Chris Woods
COO and Co-Founder of Tunesat
Chris Woods is an accomplished composer, musician, producer and engineer with more than 15 years of experience in the music business and sound processing technologies. A graduate of the Berklee School of Music, he’s created music branding packages for numerous television networks, including Fox Sports, Versus and Big Ten. Since co-founding TuneSat in 2007, Woods has been instrumental in building the company’s technological portfolio, including the surveying, acquisition and development of audio fingerprinting algorithms. His personal knowledge of practical music royalty collection issues gives him unique insight into how and why the system for monitoring, reporting and collection of music on television, radio and the internet needs to change.
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About Audiam, Tunesat: TuneSat is an audio fingerprint technology monitoring TV channels and websites around the world.
Alicia Siman
COO of Oliver
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About BCG Digital Ventures, Oliver: Oliver helps citizens around the world with their travel visa needs.
Tom Herzog
Chief Operating Officer of Netsmart Technologies
Mr. Tom Herzog is responsible for leading solution and technology strategies; focused on person centric design to optimize workflow, efficiencies and outcomes. These teams work in collaboration with both clients and partners to deliver comprehensive solutions for the Health and Human Services community. Responsibilities include development, engineering, technology, innovation, IT, human resources and operational functions. Prior to joining Netsmart, Mr. Herzog was Senior Vice President and General Manager for Technologies and Medical Devices, at Cerner for 11 years. Herzog oversaw the development, growth and global delivery of solutions to optimize acute care patient workflow, medical device interoperability, clinical imaging and technology innovations. He led strategies focused on hospital workflow improvements, with technology as an enabler, resulting in driving patient safety. In prior roles at Cerner, he was responsible for business development, third party relationships, technology specialists and operations. Additional experience for Mr. Herzog includes leading teams to automate systems; integrating record, financial, document management and information systems. He has been recognized for his ability to create innovative approaches and strategies that deliver results through vision and building strong teams. Mr. Herzog earned a bachelor’s degree in business management and human relations from Mid-America Nazarene University.
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About Netsmart Technologies: Netsmart Technologies supplies on-demand and enterprise-wide software solutions for health and human services providers.
Lars Rissmann
Chief Operating Officer of Groomit for Pets
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About Groomit for Pets: Groomit is on demand platform, offering in home pet grooming services. Convenient at pet owners time & place.
William Decker
President & COO of MAXEX
Mr. Decker serves as COO of MAX and brings 31 years of community banking, capital markets, information technology, fixed income, portfolio management, and mortgage banking experience to the Company. Prior to joining MAX, Mr. Decker was the founder and CEO of Lydian Data Services, a residential mortgage conduit with over 700 correspondents electronically linked to 8 out of the top 10 Wall Street dealers generating nearly $40 billion per annum in loan volume (1999-2010). Mr. Decker also founded and served as President of Lydian Trust Company, the bank holding company of Lydian. Together with its subsidiaries (Lydian Wealth Management, Lydian Data Services, and Lydian Private Bank), the company did over $130 million in revenue. Prior to Lydian, Mr. Decker served as the President of two community banks: VirtualBank and Enterprise National Bank, where he also served as Chairman and CEO. Prior to that, he spent his career in banking, portfolio management and trading with senior positions at First Atlanta/Wachovia, Southeast Bank, Barnett Bank, and Bank South. Mr. Decker received a BS in Finance from the University of Denver.
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About MAXEX, MAXEX: MAXEX is the first digital mortgage exchange for buying and selling residential loans through a central clearinghouse.
Steve Herbowy
Co-founder, COO of Pelvalon
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About Pelvalon: Pelvalon, Inc., a medical device company, develops solutions for women suffering from loss of bowel contro.
Kasper Kubica
Chief Operating Officer, and Director of Clutch
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About Clutch: Clutch provides high-quality information technology consulting services.
Jessie Essman
Co-Founder & COO of Forager
Jessie Essman is a Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Forager.
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About Forager: Forager is a company building technology to automate cross-border logistics.
Michael Lukemire
President & Chief Operating Officer of Scotts Miracle-Gro
Mike was named chief operating officer in December 2014. He is responsible for the Company’s worldwide portfolio of consumer brands and products. He has accountability for overall leadership of all aspects of the Global Consumer business including Marketing, Sales, Research and Development and Global Supply Chain. He is also responsible for the Company’s Scotts LawnService business, as well as leading growth in emerging growth areas. Mike began his ScottsMiracle-Gro career in 1995, and has had several progressive assignments, including director, operations; vice president, manufacturing; and senior vice president, Global Supply Chain. He was also executive vice president, global technologies and operations, responsible for Global Supply Chain, Research and Development and Business Transformation. Mike also served as regional president, responsible for leading the Company’s Business Development, Marketing and Sales efforts in the southeastern U.S. He eventually led the North American sales function until March 2014, when he was named executive vice president for the entire North American business. Mike had 16 years of business unit and operations management experience before joining ScottsMiracle-Gro, with leadership assignments at Nabisco, Kraft-General Foods and Kroger. He earned bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and biology at Georgetown College (Kentucky) and attended Kraft Executive Management School at Southern Methodist University. Besides his family, Mike has two passions. He loves to play golf and he loves the Cincinnati Bengals. His love for the Bengals started when he attended the 1981 Freezer Bowl when they played against the Chargers in -50 degree weather.
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About Scotts Miracle-Gro: ScottsMiracle-Gro is dedicated to a beautiful world with industry-leading lawn, garden and outdoor living products and services.
Mary Thompson
Chief Operating Officer of Neighborly Brands
Mary Thompson is the chief operating officer of Neighborly (Dwyer Group). As COO Mary oversees the ongoing business operations within Neighborly. Working hand-in-hand with 13 brand presidents, she leads the execution of strategies. Prior to her appointment as COO, Mary served as executive vice-president of Neighborly and president of Mr. Rooter® for nine years.
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About Neighborly Brands: Neighborly is a services provider focused on repairing, maintaining, and enhancing customers’ homes and businesses.
Mike Zei
COO & Co-Founder of TenantBase
Mike Zei is the COO & Co-Founder at TenantBase
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About TenantBase: TenantBase is a technology-enabled commercial real estate platform built to revolutionize the leasing process for tenants and brokers.
Zachary Zelner
Chief Operating Officer of Penny Delivers
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About Penny Delivers: Penny Delivers is a food delivery company that processes, delivers, and fulfills orders on behalf of the restaurants.
Dave Jenks
COO of Strata Products Worldwide
Dave Jenks joined Strata in January 2013 after 16 years with Joy Global Incorporated. He served as the Global Products Director, Regional Sales Manager, Manager of Commercial Accounting and Regional Controller for the Underground Mining Division, which gave him extensive knowledge and experience in business development, strategic planning and project management. As Chief Operating Officer of Strata Worldwide, Jenks will lead Strata in the business development and product growth of its leading safety technologies in all countries around the world.
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About Strata Products Worldwide: A leading global provider of products, services and technologies that promote a higher level of safety in the mining and energy sectors.
Christina Sears
Chief Operating Officer & Founder of Connexion Point
Christina Sears brings 25 years of senior leadership, facilitation, and corporate communications success to Connexion Point. Christina is a company founder and Member of the Board. Responsible for the education, quality, communications, and culture divisions of the company, she specializes in the evolution of excellence through specialized curriculum and continuing education programs in the healthcare field. Senior client, agency, and association corporate communications experience and a background in professional facilitation leadership drive her emphasis on lifelong learning and on ensuring company goals and directives are clearly assimilated by the Connexion Point team and client expectations exceeded.
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About Connexion Point: A provider of technology-enabled healthcare services
Hilary Barr
COO of Sudzy
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About Sudzy: Sudzy provides effortless, one-click FREE laundry pickup and dropoff services, by partnering with high quality local laundromats.
Richard Fontenot
COO of Eezy
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About BlueCotton, Eezy, Vecteezy: Eezy is a provider of free and premium design resources for content creators.
Jason Vego
Co-Founder/COO of Itaska Mobile Dog Grooming
Jason is an award-winning communicator and storyteller with experience in internal and external communications, journalism, marketing, and project management. He is a skilled writer and designer that can effectively engage audiences, use communications to support business goals, and communicate elaborate topics in simple messages. He is able to capture the voice and tone of just about anyone and cater communications to any audience.
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About Itaska Mobile Dog Grooming: Itaska lets people get a professional mobile dog groomer brought directly to them in one of our customized grooming vans.
Natalie Brede
COO / CoFounder of MERCH ROADIE
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About MERCH ROADIE: The only tour case with a touch screen robot inside to vend your merch. Design patent pending.
Albert Feng
COO of Motif
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About Motif: This startup aims to let customer service reps easily and immediately take over the screen of a user who needs help.
Daniel Kessler
President & COO of Energage
Daniel Kessler is the President & COO at Energage.
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About Energage: The Energage platform helps you unleash performance and realize the full potential of your workforce.
Edward Sweeney
COO of Pine Hill Group
Edward Sweeney is the COO at Pine Hill Group.
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About Pine Hill Group: Pine Hill provides financial management and accounting services.
Shawn Cosby
Founder/COO of AMV
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About AMV: AMV digital marketing technology and services to clients across North America.
Christine Dodson
COO & Co-Founder of Mamava
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About Mamava: Mamava delivers design solutions for nursing mamas on the go, making the world a friendlier place for women to pump or breastfeed.
Robert Vogel
Chief Operating Officer of ActiveWorx
As Miria’s Chief Operating Officer, Bob is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of Miria’s software development, project delivery, consulting and customer support services. Bob also oversees corporate operations and internal information technology that supports Miria’s employees located throughout the US and abroad. Along with board members, Bob serves on the leadership team that sets the overall strategy and direction for Miria. Bob brings over 20 years of operations, customer service and sales experience to the team. His operational and customer service knowledge and experience span several industries which include; business solutions, data capture & enterprise mobile applications, security technology solutions, and controls automation & manufacturing IT. Most recently, as Vice President Technical Services at Avanceon, Bob was responsible for Avanceon’s engineering group, offshore development, recruiting & hiring initiatives, and the company’s IT infrastructure, where he implemented a virtual and cloud based IT strategy, improving the global companies ability to access, communicate, and share information with customers, vendors and their employees within their corporate headquarters and satellite offices located throughout the US and overseas. As Vice President of Data Solutions and Support at LScan Technologies, Bob established, staffed and managed a technical and customer support network which included both web based and live phone support. As Director of Technical Operations for Konica, Bob directed a staff of 130+ field technicians, network consultants, and technical managers that provided pre and post-sales support to a multi-state customer account base. Bob is a graduate ofDeVryUniversityand holds a degree in Electronics.
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About ActiveWorx: ActiveWorx is a software solutions provider for Data Capture & OCR, AP Automation, and Payment Automation and optimization.
Mark Dzwonczyk
President and Chief Operating Officer of Vello
Mark joined Callvine as Chief Operating Officer in 2010. Prior to Callvine, he launched [Vello](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vello) – The Conference That Calls You ™ – in 2007, taking the start-up from its early ideas to a fully operating conference call company. Prior to Vello, Mark founded Sigpro, a VOIP products and services company, which was successfully sold to GuestTek, the world’s leading provider of hospitality broadband services in 2005. At Sigpro, Mark bootstrapped the company with customer revenue from a classic Silicon Valley garage to a company with design and manufacturing operations in Asia filling a worldwide product distribution pipeline for its award-winning products. Mark received a BSEE summa cum laude from Tufts University, an MS in Aeronautics from MIT and spent several years teaching at Stanford University’s Information Systems.
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About Vello: Vello provides audio conferencing services.
Kyle D. Johnson
EVP & COO of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation
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About Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation: Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is the largest provider of dredging services in the United States.
Pete Furness
Chief Operating Officer of ACI Solutions
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About ACI Solutions: Founded in 2001, AfGlobe Communications Inc. (doing business as ACI Solutions Inc.) is a Secure Cloud and Infrastructure Service.
Jonathan Harris
COO of BuyerPrice Inc.
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About BuyerPrice Inc.: BuyerPrice is a revolutionary new way to buy your home for less.
Jonathan Harris
COO of BuyerPrice Inc.
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About BuyerPrice Inc.: BuyerPrice is a revolutionary new way to buy your home for less.
Lisa Farmen
COO & Founder of Crystal Clear Technologies
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About Crystal Clear Technologies: CCT’s patented nano-coating made from shrimp/crab shells binds to toxic metals, and filters them out of wastewater in a non-hazardous state
Stuart Zwagil
COO of Syren Media
Sirens media, the production company behind real housewives of new jersey, has appointed stuart zwagil as chief operating officer. Zwagil joins the company, part of the leftfield entertainment group, from 44 blue productions, where he spent 13 years overseeing production on series including spike’s deadliest warrior and emmy-nominated syndicated series family court with judge penny. He also oversaw business affairs, finance and human resources during his tenure with the company. Zwagil has more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of production, including finance, budgeting, cost analysis and the creation and implementation of innovative production models. “stuart’s robust background and depth of experience in all aspects of tv production made him an ideal fit for us,” sirens co-founder rebecca toth diefenbach said in making the announcement tuesday. “we’re excited to have him on board as sirens continues on its aggressive growth path.” prior to 44 blue, zwagil also worked as a freelance line producer and west coast production supervisor at mtv and nickelodeon, working on specials including the kids’ choice awards and more. He started his career as a production manager for comedy central.
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About Syren Media: Syren Media produced unscripted/reality/documentary space and other programes.
David Ragland
COO of Pristine Pools
David Ragland has an extensive background in the swimming pool business. David began his career with swimming pools at the age of 14 when he worked as a chlorine carrier for a local swimming pool supply store in Farmington Hills, Michigan. David quickly learned the business and enjoyed his part time position and by age 16 he was one of the stores top sales producers. By the age of 18 David was promoted to a management position and was recognized with the Midwest regions award for customer service. As David continued to work his way through school along with managing store operations he began to find his true love for swimming pool field work. At age 20 David found himself with a new employer and a new position as field operations supervisor for a very well known and respected Commercial Pool Management Company in Bloomfield, Michigan. At his new position David was able to oversee the operation of nearly 100 commercial pools. From here he dealt with everything from customer relations to major onsite repairs and installations. David again had great success with his new employer and was well liked and respected by both other employees and customers. After six wonderful years with his employer David decided it was time to pursue green pastures and venture into business with his sister. Along with the help and support of both family and friends David and Stacy formed Pristine Pools Inc.
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About Pristine Pools: Pristine Pools is a swimming pool maintenance, repair, and service company.
Michael Hickerson
Founder – COO of HouseGoat, Inc.
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About HouseGoat, Inc., Step Labs: HouseGoat enables its customers to reduce or eliminate the cost of selling a home.
Ian Roth
Chief Operating Officer of Ridiculous Lifestyle
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About Ridiculous Lifestyle: Clothing Label/ Entertainment Blog
Ian Roth
Chief Operating Officer of Ridiculous Lifestyle
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About Ridiculous Lifestyle: Clothing Label/ Entertainment Blog
Steven Oh
Chief Operating Officer of Linkpoints
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About Linkpoints: Since 2013, LinkPoints has been developing products and services in the field of Internet of Things