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As a successful co-founder and former military officer, I have built and led successful teams across multiple disciplines as both an entrepreneur and organizational leader. The foundation of my success comes from bringing together the right people who enjoy the challenge of addressing challenging problems.Since my time at West Point, I developed a foundational belief that the application of knowledge is critical to solving the most difficult challenges. Data + Software when tied to business processes and decisions has the ability to substantially impact business and communities.Working with new teams is something I continue to enjoy as a leader, mentor, and investor. I appreciate the opportunity to help shape the future of communities with Madden Media and Arizona through work with TechLaunch Arizona (University of Arizona), StartupTucson, IdeaFunding, and Desert Angels. Having ran successful organizations, this experience provides valuable insight into building successful companies across multiple sectors.

Joe is the CEO of Issuu, the world's leading omni-channel content tools and publishing platform, that through the Issuu Story Cloud, enables millions of marketers, brands and creators and publishers globally to digitally share and monetize their longer form quality content and create content marketing materials. Joe has more than 25 years of experience in start up and growth technology leadership globally covering stints in Asia, Europe and the US, from early stage through to IPO. Joe is a frequent thought and industry leadership contributor to the likes of Inc., Entrepreneur Magazine, Recode, Techcrunch, CNBC, FoxBusiness, Bloomberg and has spoken at conferences and events globally including Web Summit, Founders Forum, Horasis Summit, The Wrap's Grill Summit, The Issuu Generator's Summit among others.He has been the CEO, led sales, BD and Product for some of the leading and most innovative companies in Silicon Valley, backed by the likes of Benchmark, Redpoint, Trinity, Floodgate, True, Baseline, MDV, DAG, Sony, Time Warner among others.Prior to Issuu he served as CEO of Wordnik/Reverb. While at Wordnik, Joe led the creation and execution of a recommendation product plan and strategy and raised over $11.5 million in 2 rounds of funding for from top tier VCs, including MDV, Floodgate, Baseline among others. He also reorganized the company, recruiting top tier back-end, front-end and NLP engineering, product, design/UI, BD, and marketing management from some of the best companies in Silicon Valley.He has spearheaded business models that have created some of the best brand and consumer engagement on the web.Prior to Wordnik, Joe served as interim CEO of SingleFeed, a profitable leading e-commerce feed optimization service with over 400 paying e-tailers as clients. SingleFeed was funded by True Ventures, and under Joe's direction, was successfully sold to Ali Baba.In 2010, Joe completed a role as EIR with Trinity Ventures. Joe spent six months focused on next generation social commerce, community, crowdsourcing and social media.Before Trinity, Joe held roles that included: SVP of Sales and BD at Gaia Online, heading up BD for Multimedia Search and Flickr at Yahoo!, VP, Strategic Accounts and Asia Pacific at publicly listed company, Virage Inc, a provider of video search and publishing services and software.Specialties: Start Up CEO;Board and Advisory roles;Fundraising;Early stage team formation;Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales, BD Hiring and management;

97th Floor is an award-winning, digital marketing agency. Services we offer include content marketing, SEO, PPC, conversion rate optimization, and consulting. In my role as EVP of Operations, I lead 97th Floor's fulfillment team in strategy formation and execution. I am a marketing specialist with more than 11 years of combined digital marketing, content marketing and strategic media planning experience. I have worked with startups, multi-million dollar B2B organizations, and everything in between. I specialize in helping businesses identify and exploit opportunities for growth. Specialties: Digital Marketing, Content Marketing, Social Media Management, SEO, PPC, Marketing Automation, Consulting