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 Social Network 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.
Michael Lynn
Founder & CFO of Pray.com
Michael is the founder of pray.com, a social impact company for Non-Profits and Faith Organizations. Pray.com’s vision is to create a world where everyone leaves a legacy of helping others. Pray.com’s private social network gives Faith Organizations and Non-Profits the ability to organize their membership, run small groups & events, and raise funds for causes they care about most.
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About Pray.com: Pray.com is the #1 app for daily prayer & faith-based audio content
Rory Parness
Chief Financial Officer of Foursquare
As CFO, Rory leads the company’s financial planning, accounting and operations. Prior to joining Foursquare, Rory served as CFO at several companies in the technology, healthcare and music industries. He spent 13 years as a finance executive at Jive Records where it grew from a small boutique hip hop label to the world’s largest independent record company and a multi-billion dollar exit. He has extensive experience in finance and leadership in the technology, media, healthcare and entertainment industries.
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Todd Morgenfeld
CFO of Pinterest
Todd Morgenfeld is the chief financial officer at Pinterest since October 5, 2016. Prior to his current role, Morgenfeld worked as vice president, finance at Twitter. His previous positions include senior vice president, treasury, financial analytics and corporate development at Hewlett-Packard, director at Silver Lake Partners, and associate at Goldman Sachs.
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About Pinterest: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
David Granville-Smith
Executive Vice President And Chief Financial Officer of A+E Networks
David “Digger” Granville-Smith is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of A+E Networks. Granville-Smith joined A+E Networks as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in July 2014. In December 2016, he was named to his current position. Granville-Smith leads all key financial functions across A+E Networks, including A&E®, History®, Lifetime®, LMN®, FYI™, H2®, Crime & Investigation Network®, History en Español™, Military HISTORY®, LRW®, A+E Studios™, A&E Indie Films®, A+E Networks International®, A+E Networks Digital® and A+E Networks Consumer Products™. In addition, Granville-Smith oversees the Production, Operations, Engineering and Information Technology departments and is responsible for the Corporate Development, Strategy, Investments and Ventures Group. He provides strategic and operational leadership across all of the divisions of the company, including the Brand Portfolio Group, Ad Sales, Distribution, Digital and International, in order to drive the company’s overall growth and value creation. Granville-Smith serves on the boards of A+E Networks Latin America and VICELAND. Prior to joining A+E Networks, Granville-Smith worked at J.P. Morgan and Bear Stearns, which was acquired by J.P. Morgan, for 23 years. Prior to that, he worked at Smith Barney in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group. At J.P. Morgan, he was a Managing Director and Head of the Media Group in the Investment Banking Division. Throughout his career in banking, Granville-Smith worked on a number of significant strategic and financing transactions for diversified media, cable network, cable distribution and telecommunications companies. Granville-Smith is a trustee of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York. He also serves on the President’s Advisory Council for the College of Brown University. Granville-Smith received an A.B. degree from Brown University. He resides in Manhattan with his wife and two children.
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About A+E Networks: A+E Networks is truly a global media company with joint ventures and channels all over the world.
Lily Yang
Chief Financial Officer of Strava
Lily Yang is the Chief Financial Officer at Strava.
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About Strava: Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community.
Patrick Downie
EVP & CFO of Sureal Music
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About Sureal Music: Connecting fans and empowering musicians for a better music experience for all.
Tyler Rubin
CFO of EQAL
Founder | Entrepreneur | Investor | Technologist While studying as an undergrad at Harvard, Tyler worked as a student researcher on the CDF experiment at the National FermiLab particle accelerator outside Chicago. After graduating cum laude with an A.B. in Physics, Tyler worked as an investor at an internal hedge fund for JPMorgan in New York, NY specializing in technologies and telecommunications equities and debt. Simultaneously, he significantly advanced his coding and engineering skill sets, which span development of complex communications, analytics, compliance, AI systems and frameworks. Tyler Co-Founded Tysam Networks with Sameer Parwani, and developed a social networking platform with his partners, launching college based social networking websites Funki.jp and iStudent.co.il in Japan and Israel. Tysam Networks merged with EQAL in early 2008 and Everyday Health acquired EQAL, a social media marketing company, in 2012 for $25M, to fuel Everyday Health’s push into more ad-funded video content on its own network of owned and operated sites and beyond. Tyler is the CFO/CTO of Grassp Health, a leading cannabis health care organization operating in Arizona and California, that is improving access to medical-grade cannabis products, education and services for patient communities. Grassp Health assembled a team of experts and partnered with the UC Institute for Prediction Technology at UCLA to research and identify ways technology can improve public health and safety. Grassp Health supports assisted living, memory care and hospice communities, improving the lives and end of life care of patients battling cancer, disabilities, immobility, dementia/alzheimers, aphasia and PTSD with formulated and dosed cannabinoid therapy. Tyler is also Co-Founder & CFO/CTO at Cphere, a next generation marketing communications platform powered by CompliantC™ AI. AI optimized MarTech with a patented data verification engine, analyzing proximity-based ad regulations with billions of precise audience synaptics to predict, model and personalize trusted product & shopping recommendations online. Scaling compliant brand connections with cannabis shoppers. Enhancing ROI and regulatory protections for global cannabis brands, while improving public health and safety for customers.
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About Cphere, EQAL, Grassp Health: EQAL is a media company developing technology-based digital media properties to help promote consumer brands and celebrities.
Bernie Bryan
CFO of LightSpeed Communications
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About LightSpeed Communications: LightSpeed is dedicated to revolutionizing how you connect and use the Internet.
Paula Croutch
Chief Financial Officer of eHarmony
Paula’s responsibilities include working closely in many capacities with the CEO and COO, building accounting teams and developing internal controls, policies and procedures. Paula has over 28 years of Finance and Accounting experience, most recently running her own practice providing consulting services to a variety of clients in the areas of Operations and Finance. Prior to joining eHarmony as CFO, Paula was a trusted advisor and consultant for the company in all areas of Finance for over nine years. From 1984 to 2002, Paula was with the firm Arthur Andersen, where she was a partner for seven years. Paula holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting and Finance from California State University, Northridge. She is a member of the American Institute, the California Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Ernst & Young Alumni Board of Directors and is the past Treasurer of the Wise Parent Association of Stephen S. Wise Elementary School and Special Needs Resource Center.
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About eHarmony: EHarmony is an online dating website that matches compatible singles with each other.
Vince Palasota
Chief Financial Officer of MeritBuilder
Vince Palasota is a serial entrepreneur and is known for successfully building companies and brands in the Animal Health industry for over 25 years. In true visionary fashion, he is notorious for being the catalyst in developing multiple ideas from a diagram on a napkin into thriving businesses. Through experience in territory sales with Pfizer Animal Health and National Sales Management with Agrilabs, Vince gained valuable knowledge of manufacturing, distribution and buying groups. Most importantly, Vince developed a mission to create profound ways to effectively brand and position products in every market channel. This mission lead to the creation of Med-Pharmex Animal health, where he served as CEO, and eventually to the founding of Cornerstone Animal Health. Outside of Animal Health, Vince has successfully built Incentive companies, sports training facilities, auto dealerships, and several internet marketing companies. A former member of Jackie Sherrill’s 12th Man Kick Off Team, Vince serves on the board of directors for the 12MKOT foundation and is active in many charitable organizations. He holds a Bachelors in Ag Economics from Texas A&M and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from The University Of Nebraska Omaha. He and his wife Tammie live in Denton, Texas and have three daughters Madeline, Whitney, and Annie Kay.
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About MeritBuilder: The MeritBuilder program allows individuals and corporations to send, received, collect, and display accolades, thank-yous and kudos.
Tom Fuelling
Chief Financial Officer of Spokeo
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About Spokeo: Spokeo is a search engine providing more than 18 million unique monthly visitors valuable data records about people.
Philip Varnum
Chief Financial & Administrative Officer of The Lemelson Foundation
Philip Varnum serves as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer, responsible for the Foundation’s finances, investments, IT infrastructure, and administration. Additionally, he manages the Foundation’s portfolio of Program Related Investments (PRIs). Prior to joining The Lemelson Foundation in 2007, Philip was with Portland State University Foundation for nearly ten years where he was responsible for accounting, investment, human resources, real estate and entrepreneurial functions. Philip earned an MBA degree from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
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About The Lemelson Foundation: Years of improving lives through invention
Bruce Worman
CFO of ScoreStream
Bruce Worman is CFO and founder at ScoreStream. Prior to this, he worked for Chumby Industries as the company’s chief financial officer. Bruce attended University of Chicago and took his master’s degree in finance. Also, he took BS in biology at University of California, Davis.
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About ScoreStream, ScoreStream: ScoreStream is a communication platform that allows fans to share information around sporting events with their family and friends.
Bryan Danocup
Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer of Realtalk
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About Realtalk: Meet new people in an innovative new mobile experience.
Bryan Danocup
Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer of Realtalk
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About Realtalk: Meet new people in an innovative new mobile experience.
David Clark
Chief Financial Officer of Spark Networks SE
David Clark is the Chief Financial Officer at Spark Networks.
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About Spark Networks SE: Spark Networks SE is a global dating company with a widening portfolio of premium & freemium apps.
Dan Joldzic
CFO & Co-Founder of DoggyBuddies (doggybnb)
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About DoggyBuddies (doggybnb): DoggyBnB is a friendship based dog sitting network
Kathy Ann B. Minnich
Chief Financial Officer of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania
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About Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania: The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP/NEP) is part of a state-funded economic development initiative.
Heather Mercier
Chief Financial Officer of ExpertVoice
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About ExpertVoice: ExpertVoice is a provider of an online marketing platform used to connect brands with influencers.
George Troutman
CFO of Manta
George Troutman is the chief financial officer of [Manta](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/manta), an online community for small businesses that facilitates connections and promotional activities. He previously held the same position at Pinnacle Data Systems. Troutman holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Capital University.
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About Manta: Manta is an online community for small businesses, facilitating connections and promotional activities.
Steve Smith
CFO of More Bass
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About More Bass: More Bass is a social music platform built on AI framework and designed for artists and fans to listen, interact, promote and discover.
Tzu Ngai
CFO of IThanks
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About IThanks: Ithanks is a website that allows people across the globe to send small tokens of gratification.
Nan Li
Chief Financial Officer of Sixians Technologies
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About Sixians Technologies: Sixians Technologies develops mobile applications for the social networking and entertainment sectors.
Fang Bao
Co-founder and CFO of Space
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About Space: Space is a private social network, which helps people store private moments with their close ones.