At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CFO’ operating in the Email space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Tivanka Ellawala
Chief Financial Officer of Endurance International Group
Tiv Ellawala’s experience and expertise in a range of financial functions across various industries have prepared him for his role as Chief Financial Officer at Endurance International Group. Tiv believes small businesses are the engine of the economy and loves how technology and the Internet can help grow them worldwide. It’s this passion for small businesses that led him to Endurance. Tiv’s career launched with his navigating the world of mergers and acquisitions at Merrill Lynch in New York, and then in its technology division, in San Francisco. His journey to Endurance then took a 13-year detour to Redmond, WA. While at Microsoft, he focused on strategy, business development and strategic alliances, financial planning, financial controllership and investor relations as well as business operations, ultimately leading to his position as CFO for the Windows Phone Division. When not propelling the journeys of small businesses across the globe, Tiv is also passionate about other types of journeys, including hiking, biking and driving.
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About Endurance International Group: Endurance International Group provides small businesses with the products and technology they need to enhance their online presence.

Marc Montagner
Chief Financial Officer of Endurance International Group
Marc has been the chief financial officer at Endurance since September 2015. Marc Montagner was previously chief financial officer at LightSquared where he was the key architect of a plan of reorganization, which led to a recapitalization of the company and brought in new investors, which included Centerbridge, Fortress and JP Morgan. Previously, Marc had been executive vice president of strategy, development and distribution at LightSquared. Marc also held the role of managing director and co-head of the global telecom, media and technology merger and acquisition group at Banc of America Securities. Prior to this, Marc was senior vice president, corporate development and M&A with the Sprint Nextel Corporation. Prior to joining Sprint Nextel, Marc was a managing director in the media and telecom group at Morgan Stanley. Marc serves on the board of directors at Cogent Communications, a publicly traded company. He serves on the audit committee and the corporate governance committee. He holds a master’s of science degree in Electrical Engineering from the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, in Paris, and a master’s of business administration from Columbia Business School.
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About Endurance International Group: Endurance International Group provides small businesses with the products and technology they need to enhance their online presence.
Maria Shkarlat
Chief Financial Officer of Reply.io
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About Reply.io, Solven.pro: Reply is the leading AI-powered sales engagement platform that automates multichannel touchpoints throughout the sales process.

John Gardiner
Chief Financial Officer of Sitecore
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About DiscoverOrg, Sitecore: Sitecore is a customer experience management company that provides multichannel marketing automation software and web content management.

Michael Vantusko
Chief Financial Officer of Campaign Monitor
Michael Vantusko is the CFO of Campaign Monitor. Prior to joining Campaign Monitor, Mike served as the Chief Financial Officer at Achieve3000, Inc. Mike received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Case Western Reserve University and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from Miami University.
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About Campaign Monitor: Campaign Monitor is an email marketing platform that allows marketers to take control of their email program.

Belinda Montes
CFO, Asia of Gravity4
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About Gravity4, LydianCoin, RedLotus: Gravity4 is the world’s first high-frequency machine-learning marketing OS, built to enhance the advertising and SaaS industries.
Neil Murphy
CFO of Zaius
Neil Murphy is the CFO of Zaius.
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About Zaius: Zaius is a customer data platform designed to empower marketers to grow revenue from existing customers.

Richard Jobes
Chief Financial Officer of Shelf Awareness
Richard Jobes is our chief financial officer. He holds a bachelors degree in accounting from the University of Nebraska, an MBA from the University of Michigan and was a financial strategist for years in cell phone related businesses. He fell in love with cinema via basement classroom viewings of classics like Persona and The Third Man presented by various U of M film societies. Subsequent searches for complete screenplays led him many times to the cozy and well-stocked Borders bookstore in Ann Arbor–works of Dick Francis, C.S. Lewis and The Far Side collections he found there provided escape and perspective during the travails of graduate school. Richard has a deep pain-and-pleasure obsession with Cornhusker college football and women’s college volleyball. He lives in Seattle, near Wide World Books & Maps, and now loves sushi even more than steak.
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About Shelf Awareness: Shelf Awareness publishes two free newsletters, one for general readers and one for people in the book business.

Dennis Gill
Chief Financial Officer of Convex Marketing, Inc.
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About Convex Marketing, Inc.: Convex Marketing is a high performance digital marketing company.

Jeanne Straw
CFO & Vice President of Administration of Catalyst Connection
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About Catalyst Connection: Catalyst Connection is a private not-for-profit organization headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Bill Scanlon
Chief Financial Officer of ThriveHive
Bill Scanlon joined ThriveHive in 2014 as the Chief Financial Officer. Bill’s strong focus on measuring the items that really drive business, and in turn providing actionable reporting, help ensure that ThriveHive meets its goals and can better serve its customers.
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About Propel Marketing, Propel Marketing, ThriveHive: ThriveHive helps in defining business goals and then come up with a custom solution maximized for ROI.

Les Edwards
VP & CFO of Archer Malmo
Les Edwards is the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Archer Malmo since March 2016.
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About Archer Malmo: Archer Malmo combines brand thinking, data and technology to drive short-term results and long-term growth for our clients.

Jack Pearlstein
CFO of Vocus
With 20 years of financial, operational and strategic planning experience working with technology companies, Jack Pearlstein oversees our finance, accounting, legal, and HR and facilities functions. Prior to Cision, Pearlstein was CFO of Six3 Systems, Inc., a leading provider of software development, sensor development and signal processing services to the intelligence community. As a CFO, Pearlstein has led three different companies through their initial public offerings: AppNet, DigitalNet and Solera. Pearlstein is a CPA and received his Bachelor of Science in accounting from New York University. He also holds an MBA in finance from The George Washington University.
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About Cision, Vocus: Vocus provides cloud-based marketing and PR software for companies to acquire and retain customers.
Tom Humbert
CFO of Agent Marketing
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About Agent Marketing: Agent Marketing is a technology and print services company, specializing in real estate marketing tools.
Efrain Torres
Chief Financial Officer of NaviStone
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About NaviStone: NaviStone helps advertisers turn their website visitors into direct mail customers.
Jeffrey Lee
CFO of Topica Inc.
CFO at Topica Inc.
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About Topica Inc.: Topica is an email marketing firm that helps businesses manage content and messaging.

Maria Frolova
CFO of Skycob
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About European tech startups, Skycob: YouTube influencer marketing tool. Helps to find emails of the right influencers to promote your business

Terry Freeburg
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer of Advantage Business Media
As COO and CFO, Terry oversees day-to-day operations of Advantage Business Media including Finance, Digital/IT Development, Production and Audience Development.Terry began her career in publishing in 1984 with Murdoch Magazines’ travel and aviation groups. She followed the sale of Murdoch’s travel group to Reed Elsevier, where she held a series of financial management positions before being named Director of Financial Operations. With Reed Elsevier’s sale of the travel group to NorthStar Travel Media in 2001, Terry was promoted to VP of Finance. She joined Reed New Products (Advantage) in 2003.
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About Advantage Business Media: Advantage Business Media offers print publications, e-newsletters, specialized directories, databases, conferences and events, and more.

Terry Freeburg
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer of Advantage Business Media
As COO and CFO, Terry oversees day-to-day operations of Advantage Business Media including Finance, Digital/IT Development, Production and Audience Development.Terry began her career in publishing in 1984 with Murdoch Magazines’ travel and aviation groups. She followed the sale of Murdoch’s travel group to Reed Elsevier, where she held a series of financial management positions before being named Director of Financial Operations. With Reed Elsevier’s sale of the travel group to NorthStar Travel Media in 2001, Terry was promoted to VP of Finance. She joined Reed New Products (Advantage) in 2003.
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About Advantage Business Media: Advantage Business Media offers print publications, e-newsletters, specialized directories, databases, conferences and events, and more.

Brian Grimes
CFO of HMG
As CFO, Brian Grimes over sees all financial activities for Horizon Marketing Group. Brian also serves as President of Vanguard Financial Consulting, the financial marketing and operations consulting arm of the Horizon Marketing Group family of companies.
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About HMG, Peer360: HMG is a digital-centric marketing agency focused on measurable results.