Guidebook competitors

Adi Tatarko is the CEO and co-founder of Houzz, the leading platform for home remodeling and design, bringing together both professionals and homeowners via mobile, local and social tools. Adi and her husband and cofounder, Alon Cohen, started Houzz out of challenges that they faced during their own remodeling process. Today, millions of homeowners and more than 1.5 million active home professionals connect through Houzz.com and its mobile apps every month, sharing their photos, advice and product recommendations. Earlier in her career, Adi founded a software company, which developed products and services for the high tech industry. She lives in Palo Alto, CA with her husband and three boys. In her spare time, she still enjoys looking at inspiring home design and renovating the rest of her own house one room at a time.

Oliver Kharraz, MD, is CEO and founder of Zocdoc. Oliver is the most recent doctor in a 300-year family tradition. Over the course of his wide-ranging career, Oliver has accrued comprehensive experience effecting change and building efficiency in large scale healthcare organizations using information technology. Prior to Zocdoc, Oliver was an Associate Principal at the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. During his seven-year tenure at McKinsey & Co., Oliver developed and implemented new patient utilization models for the national health services of a number of governments and major hospital chains. In 1994, Oliver built and sold his first business - a forerunner of early internet software. He later became a resident doctor at the clinic of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, where he earned an MD and a Doctorate in Neuroscience. Oliver also has a Masters Degree in Philosophy from the Jesuit College of Philosophy in Munich. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Born in Germany, Oliver immigrated to the U.S. during his work for McKinsey & Co. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and their twin daughters.

Founder/CEO Webgility, new Dad. Love e-commerce, SaaS, data, analytics, EDM, building teams and helping businesses scale.

Lawrence Coburn is the founder and CEO of DoubleDutch, a company that embraces mobile and social to change the way people work. DoubleDutch makes mobile enterprise applications that leverage game mechanics and social functionality to massively increase engagement and transparency. After starting DoubleDutch in January 2011, Lawrence has made quite an impact in the mobile, enterprise, and geolocation world. He has spoken at many conferences including 2010 CTIA Enterprise & Applications, Enterprise 2.0, Dreamforce, ITEXPO, APPNATION Enterprise Summit, and the Mobile Enterprise Summit. Lawrence is also the geolocation editor for The Next Web, a mentor for UC Berkeley Computer Science students, a mentor at IO Ventures (a San Francisco based incubator), and a member of the Enterprise 2.0 vendor board. A three-time entrepreneur, Lawrence also founded RateItAll, a top ten consumer review property. Prior to his Internet career, Lawrence worked for Nortel Networks in a variety of roles throughout Latin America. When he’s not working or spending time with his family, Lawrence can be found on the basketball court. Despite his advanced years, Lawrence qualified for the Red Bull, King of the Rock, national one-on-one championship in 2010, a point he brings up frequently.

Greg Dukat is the Chief Executive Officer at Revel Systems. Greg is a proven leader with more than 20 years of experience in the enterprise software space serving in executive roles focused on sales and operations, and has served as the chief executive for both publicly-traded and private technology and enterprise software companies. Most recently, Greg was the Chairman, President, and CEO of Comverge, the leading provider of integrated cloud-based demand response, energy efficiency, and customer engagement solutions for electric utilities. Throughout his career, Greg has accelerated growth in numerous organizations by navigating growth into new markets, driving product strategy, leading mergers and acquisitions, propelling effective sales and marketing strategies, and cultivating domestic and international partnerships.