Totsy: Guillaume Gauthereau, Co-Founder & CEO
After an international career in the luxury goods industry which propelled him to become the youngest Chief Executive Officer of Lalique North America, Guillaume Gauthereau chose to parlay his talents towards a new purpose. As co-founder & CEO of Totsy.com, Guillaume is one of the key players of a successful team building leading private sale website on the family segment in the US.
Prior to Totsy, Guillaume founded the advisory firm G&G Advisors / Sequoia Lab. G&G Advisors / Sequoia Lab is dedicated to helping corporate and private clients implement sustainable practices and lifestyles, showing them strategies to improve business efficiency while harnessing the power and well-being inherent in greener practices.
A veteran social and green advocate, Guillaume sits on the Board of GustoOrganics, the first USDA certified 100% organic restaurant in the United States. Guillaume is also an advisory board member for the business organization of the internationally renowned artist Alicia Keys, and for BrickHouseSecurity.com a leading online retailer of personal security & safety electronics. He is also Board member of Ayoka Productions, a non-profit group that promotes international grassroots initiatives using short films. He has also been involved with the Clinton Global Initiative for over 3 years.
SeatGeek: Jack Groetzinger, Co-founder
Jack Groetzinger is co-founder of SeatGeek, a web application that accurately forecasts the price of sports and concert tickets in the secondary market. Consumers use SeatGeek to buy tickets when they are cheapest. Ticket brokers use SeatGeekPro™ – SeatGeek’s subscription service – to sell their tickets when prices are at their peak. Groetzinger leads SeatGeek’s forecasting team, which has built an algorithm that predicts prices with 80-85% accuracy. Groetzinger is an entrepreneur who has founded other start-ups, including Scribnia.com, and has acted as management consultant at Bain & Company. Groetzinger holds a B.A. in math and economics from Dartmouth College.
Twitter: @JackGretz
Aprizi: Giff Constable, Co-Founder & CEO
Giff Constable is the co-founder and CEO of Aprizi, a “Pandora for shopping” focused on the long tail of e-commerce. His 16-year career spans multiple VC-backed startups, a startup he bootstrapped and sold, and even M&A/IPO advisory work in Jefferies/Broadview tech practice.
Twitter: @giffconstable
Blog: giffconstable
GroupTabs: Zane Friedman, CEO
Zane Friedman, GroupTabs’ CEO previously served as an account executive at Citysearch, the largest local search directory in the United States. Having worked closely with hundreds of bar and restaurant owners, Mr. Friedman possesses a deep understanding of the marketing challenges faced by food and beverage operators. The first priority of every restaurant or bar is to drive new customers through the doors; this spawned the idea for GroupTabs.
SundaySky: Yaniv Axen, Co-founder & CTO
Yaniv has served as the CTO of SundaySky since co-founding the company. Prior to co-founding SundaySky, Yaniv directed the team of programmers and engineers at Israeli start-up Veon. Yaniv served in an elite intelligence unit of the Israeli Defense Forces for five years and then earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in computer science and his Master’s degree in business administration with cum laude honors from Tel Aviv University.
George brings 19 years of experience in technology businesses to TurnTo, 13 of those in start-ups. Most recently he co-founded and built nTAG Interactive into the leading provider of “Event Data Management” systems; nTAG created the world’s first wearable computers (interactive name badges) for conferences and corporate events. Before that he headed Marketing and Product Management at Lotus spin-off Radnet, sold to Epiphany in 2001. And before that he was a manager at the Boston Consulting Group focusing on information technology and pharmaceutical businesses. George’s first job was as a technology policy analyst for a research arm of the US Congress.
Twitter: @georgeeberstadt
YipIt: Jim Moran, Co-Founder
Jim founded UnHub and 140it with Vin and previously worked at The Blackstone Group.
He graduated from Harvard College in 2005 with a degree in Economics. As a senior in college, he won the 2005 Harvard Business Plan Competition.
Twitter: @jdmoran
SocialAmp: Matt Sunbulli, Co-founder
Matt most recently worked as a digital product and marketing manager for MTV Networks where he strategically advised on digital initiatives for MTVN. In addition, he has collaborated with MTV’s Digital Fusion in creating integrated social media advertising campaigns on MTV digital properties. MTV Networks operates one of media’s most robust ethnography research departments dedicated to understanding and reaching teenage influencers. While at MTV, Matt’s passion was analyzing and understanding how social media and social networks could be used as a more efficient means to identify and engage these influencers to activate and amplify viral messaging.
OpenSky: Kevin Ambrosin, Co-founder
Kevin Ambrosini is the co-founder of OpenSky, a NYC based company reinventing retail. He previously was one of the first 15 employees at Gilt Groupe where he led strategic planning, capital raising and expansion into Men’s, Children, Home, Travel and International. Prior to Gilt, Kevin served as Vice President of Marketing and Distribution at MaxPreps, the leader in hyper-local sports content and communities that was acquired by CBS in 2007. Kevin started his career as a venture capitalist and as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, where he worked on several of the highest profile technology transactions in history, including Google’s $1.7 billion IPO.
Ashford.com: Eli Katz, CEO
Eli Katz is an e-commerce pioneer who has been involved in numerous Internet ventures. He founded FragranceCounter.com (later iBeauty.com) in 1995. Eli joined HomeClick.com as CEO in 2000, and transformed it from a struggling post dot-com boom retailer to a profitable web destination. He founded The Inside Store in 2004. In 2007, Eli partnered with jewelers and watch distributors to acquire Ashford.com, an early retailer of luxury goods online.
Twitter: @eli_katz
