SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Eugene was one of the first investors to spot SEMrush. After joining the company as a Chief Strategy Officer he helped to more than quadruple company revenue and raised over $40m from Tier 1 investors. Before SEMrush, Eugene was a partner at Target Global, pan-european venture fund that invests in consumer Internet space. There Eugene was in charge of late stage pipeline and worked on number of notable transactions including Lyft and Delivery Hero. Eugene started his VC career as Senior Associate and then Partner at Foresight Ventures. Foresight Ventures was focused on early stage US technology companies and was ranked top 10 Russian VC Firm by Forbes In 2013.

Through Exponea, Peter spread his personalized, customer-focused experiences to over a billion consumers. Under his leadership, Exponea has become one of the fastest growing European SAAS companies. Exponea's product vision was fuelled by his CEO experience from Slevomat which became number one daily deal site in 6 countries, with revenues of over €100 mil in less than 4 years. Peter's philosophy is to help his employees to become future business leaders and founders, while instilling them with strong personal and business ethics.

I started in the Internet Marketing space in 2000, when I co-founded one of the world's first email service providers, CoolerEmail. As a pioneer in responsible email marketing, we grew CoolerEmail into a global software company specializing in marketing communication with over 1,500 clients. In 2010, after spending several years designing and implementing a more comprehensive way to meet the needs of small and mid-sized businesses, I launched GreenRope, a cloud-based platform that simplifies and consolidates a company's sales, marketing, and operations. GreenRope currently provides technology solutions to over 3,000 companies worldwide. In 2017, I had the opportunity to write and publish, CRM For Dummies, part of the globally acclaimed "For Dummies" series of books. In the book, I cover strategies and tactics that help businesses design and implement a successful CRM strategy.

Knak is the first email creation platform built for enterprise teams. We empower marketers, writers, and designers to collaborate and create beautiful, responsive, on-brand emails quickly - no coding required. Knak integrates with the most popular marketing automation platforms, including Marketo, Eloqua, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

Rocket scientist with 25 yrs experience helping enterprises make 100s millions in net income gains using AI. My mission is to reduce poverty as companies invest these gains to lowering prices which lowers cost of living for you and I.

Erik Matlick guides vision and corporate strategy at Bombora, bringing over 15 years in founding, board and executive management experience. Prior to Bombora, Erik was the founder and CEO of several advertising technology companies including Madison Logic. He also founded IndustryBrains and MediaBrains. Erik began his career in ad sales at Ziff-Davis and divides his time between Miami and New York.

Steve Pockross brings 20+ years of startup, Fortune 500, and nonprofit experience to his role as CEO Verblio. He has also served in leadership roles at LiveOps, Tendril, Western Union, Marketing Technologies Group, and HSBC. Steve received his MBA from Kellogg School of Business and his MA from Wesleyan University.    

Ray joined RedSeal as CEO in February 2014. Prior to RedSeal he was a general partner at Venrock, one of RedSeal’s founding investors. At Venrock he invested in 53 companies including over a dozen in cybersecurity including Vontu, PGP, P-Cube, Imperva, Cloudflare, CTERA, and Shape Security. He is on the board of Check Point Software Technology, Ltd. an original Venrock investment, and Team8, both Tel Aviv–based companies.