Tom Dretler
Tom Dretler currently serves as an Executive in Residence at Sterling Partners, as Chair of the Board of the Progressive Business Leaders Network, and as a director and advisor on several other corporate and nonprofit boards. From 1998 to 2011, Tom was President and Chief Executive Officer of Eduventures, Inc., where he built the leading information services company in the education sector. Prior to joining Eduventures, he served as director of a management consulting firm chaired by Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter with a focus on business reengineering and organizational change.
Ihsan Ecemis
Ihsan Ecemis is VP of Technology at Fiksu, a new marketing technology company focused on helping mobile app brands achieve their business goals faster and more cost-effectively. He has previously served as VP of Technology at Plectix BioSystems and CoalesiX Inc. Trained in Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University, Ihsan is an expert in complex systems, distributed adaptive algorithms, machine learning and pattern recognition methods, data mining, and agent based modeling.
Richard Golob
Richard Golob is President, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Founder of GGA Software Services LLC, a leading technology outsourcing company employing over 400 software engineers, mathematicians, and scientists. He has extensive experience working with companies that are developing complex software applications, large database projects, and sophisticated business intelligence algorithms. Prior to co-founding GGA, he served as a board member of numerous early-stage technology companies and as an adviser to a major venture capital firm.
Hans Gieskes
Hans Gieskes has since 2008 been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Cision AB, a leading global PR software and services group listed at the Stockholm Nordic exchange. Hans has a wealth of experience leading high-profile business-to-business and consumer ventures. He served as CEO at Houghton Mifflin Company (HMCO), which he lead into a sale to a PE consortium of Lee, Bain Capital and Blackstone. He was President of Monster.com (MWW) where he grew revenues from $100 million in 1999 to $350 million in 2001. He served as the President and CEO of LexisNexis Group and over a 20 year period held several senior executive roles for LexisNexis' parent company, Reed Elsevier group.
Mark Miller
Mark Miller is CEO of markmillers llc, a middle-market M&A advisory firm, and Chairman of Textbook Revolution, the premier aggregator of free higher education content. Mark has lead a series of successful acquisitions of emerging technology companies including Xplana Learning to Barnes & Noble College Stores, the Daily Jolt to CDI America, and CollegiateLink to StudentVoice LLC. Mark began his career as a successful entrepreneur and executive. He launched, rapidly grew and sold Custom Publishing Group (CPG) to Courier Corp before going on to hold executive roles with PowerProse, Advantage Test Prep, and O'Reilly Media.
Randy Parker
Randy Parker is President at SMBapps LLC, an advisory firm to companies offering SaaS applications to sales and marketing functions in small and medium-sized businesses. Randy previously was Founder and President at Constant Contact (Nasdaq:CTCT), the leading self-service email marketing firm, and also a former Inc. 500 company. In Randy's early career, he held CTO and senior technical roles at Vectis, NoteSystems, and Scenario, Inc.