David Sobie is the co-founder and CEO of Happy Returns in Santa Monica, CA. Happy Returns was founded in 2015 and pioneered box-free returns for e-commerce retailers, speeding customer refunds and reducing return shipping costs. Happy Returns was acquired by PayPal in 2021. After a period of exponential growth, UPS acquired the company in 2023. […]
Now based in Europe after 20+ years in LA and the Bay Area, Jason is a seasoned pro in building startups, mentoring early-stage companies and scale-ups, and stepping in as a fractional or interim C-suite leader for Seed to Series C stages. With a background that includes being on the founding team at ResortPass and
Roberto is a board member in cybersecurity, AI, Blockchain, IoT, middleware, API security, microservices, DevOps, software, SaaS, cloud and healthcare companies. Roberto has been an executive at five public companies and in a board position of more than 15 that have been acquired. He has experience with Fortune 100 companies on digital transformation initiatives using
Marc Ladin is a co-founder and General Partner at Project Voice Capital Partners, a successor fund to his previous leadership role at VoicePunch VC. At VoicePunch VC, an early-stage venture fund, he built an investment portfolio with a top- quartile return trajectory by finding the most promising AI startups early in their lifecycle. Previously, Marc
Michael McGuire is President of XR Pay, XR’s division dedicated to comprehensive payroll and financial solutions for the advertising and entertainment industries. Michael brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in enterprise hardware, software and services spanning the financial, technology and entertainment industries. He was most recently COO of FilmTrack, the industry leader in
Chandler Hall has spent over 25 years building software and consulting businesses that help companies collaborate more strategically with both their suppliers and their peers in order to reduce cost and inefficiencies in their supply chains. At Italian-headquartered BravoSolution, he led the innovation and global expansion of optimization as a tool for sourcing and procurement,
