Boardroom Media (CFO News)
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 Marketplace 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.
Lauren Cooks Levitan
Co-founder & CFO of Faire
Lauren Cooks Levitan is the Chief Financial Officer of Faire. Previously she was the CFO at Fanatics and prior to that, she was a founding partner of Moxie Capital. Levitan was the managing director for specialty retail equity research at [Cowen and Company](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cowen-and-company#/entity) before she joined Moxie Capital. Previously, she was a managing director at [Robertson Stephens](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/robertson-stephens#/entity). She has also worked at [Gymboree](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gymboree#/entity), [Crate & Barrel](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/crate-and-barrel#/entity), and [Goldman Sachs](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/goldman-sachs#/entity). Having completed her secondary education at Glenbrook North High School, Levitan obtained her bachelor’s degree from [Duke University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/duke-university#/entity) and master’s degree from [Stanford University Graduate School of Business](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stanford-graduate-school-of-business). Levitan lives in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Faire, Fanatics: Faire is a company that helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores.
Mike Peregrina
CFO & Co-Founder of Homie
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About Homie: Homie is the future of home buying and selling. Customers save thousands of dollars—we’re not focused on commissions. #wegotyourback
Gregory Robinson
CFO, COO & Co-founder of The Mom Project
Greg is the COO/CFO of The Mom Project. In this role, Greg focuses on scaling The Mom Project Marketplace, Finance and Legal capabilities. Before co-founding The Mom Project, Greg spent 5 years in Private Equity Operations for L-Catterton, the largest consumer focused private equity fund in the world, where he was COO/CFO of their portfolio company, PatientPoint. Before L-Catterton, Greg was with Alvarez & Marsal focusing on turnarounds and consolidations in Europe; as well as Manager of FP&A for start-up first-class only, Eos Airlines. Having come from a family with four sisters and strong female role models, Greg believes that it is important that men, as well as women, play an active role in creating an inclusive, stronger, and more productive workplace.
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About The Mom Project: The Mom Project is a digital talent marketplace helping women remain active in the workforce.
Ben Dusastre
Co-founder & CFO of ProducePay
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About ProducePay, ProducePay, UCLA Anderson School of Management: ProducePay is an agriculture fin-tech start-up providing financing, analytics, and marketplace tools for the fresh produce market.
Neda Etemad
CFO of BigRentz
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About BigRentz: BigRentz is an online construction equipment rental marketplace with over 2,500 partners with 8,500 rental yards.
Kevin Lynch
CFO and Fund Administrator of Cava Capital
Kevin is responsible for financial reporting and assisting with investor communications. Kevin has 13 years of private equity experience as CFO and over 20 years of financial reporting experience in the financial services industry. His prior CFO engagements, either on a full time or outsourced basis, include AlpInvest Partners, Wall Street Technology Partners, Annex Capital, Equinox Capital, PJSC-JOSS Real Estate Partners and Atlantic Medical Capital. In addition, Kevin was Controller of Kleinwort Benson Holdings, Inc., Vice President of financial reporting for Credit Suisse First Boston and an auditor for KPMG. Kevin is a CPA and holds a BS from Fordham University.
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About Cava Capital, Colle Capital Partners, Freedom 3 Capital, Wall Street Technology Partners: Organic Development Stage (Cava Studio) through Early Growth.
John Wagner
Chief Financial Officer of EverQuote
John serves as our chief financial officer and is responsible for all aspects of finance and administration for NuoDB. John has nearly twenty years experience in financial management for various technology companies and enjoys facilitating the growth of emerging companies.John most recently served as Vice President of Finance for Carbonite, where he played a key role in the cloud backup provider’s 2011 initial public offering and subsequent transition to a public company. Prior to Carbonite, John served as Controller of Constant Contact, a provider of software-as-a-service marketing solutions to small businesses. While with Constant Contact, John led its financial operations and accounting team during the company’s dramatic revenue growth from $20 to $220 million and its 2007 initial public offering. John also served as Chief Financial Officer for Salesnet, a customer relationship management software-as-a-service company, leading the company through its sale to RightNow Technologies. John began his career with the firm of Arthur Andersen and also served as Accounting Manager of Mirror Image Internet, a content delivery network provider. John is a Certified Public Accountant and holds an undergraduate degree in accounting and information systems from University of Massachusetts’s Isenberg School of Management and an MBA from Boston University.John and his family spend much of their summer on Cape Cod and the islands. He is passionate about small powerboats and also subjects his family to several long sailing cruises each summer.
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About EverQuote: EverQuote is an independent insurance marketplace and is a free service that helps consumers compare quotes on auto insurance.
Arman Panjwani
CFO of LawnStarter
Arman Panjwani is the CFO at LawnStarter.
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About LawnStarter: LawnStarter is an online marketplace that provides lawn maintenance and outdoor services for consumers and lawn care professionals.
Russell Sprole
CFO of Full Harvest
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About Full Harvest: Full Harvest is the first B2B marketplace for ugly and surplus produce.
Cameron Way
CFO of Onvia
Cameron Way joined Onvia in August, 1999, became Chief Accounting Officer in 2003 and was named Chief Financial Officer in 2008. At Onvia, Way provides financial and operational leadership in growth management, corporate development and strategic planning. Prior to Onvia, his early career was spent with the public accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from September, 1994, to August, 1999. His professional focus was on companies in the high tech and investment services industries, and he was involved in a number of initial public offerings. Way holds a bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California.
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About Onvia: Onvia is the leading provider of sales intelligence and acceleration technologies for the business-to-government (B2G) marketplace.
Andy Greenstein
Chief Financial Officer of Purch
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About Purch: Purch is a digital publishing and marketplace platform uniquely positioned at the intersection of content, commerce and customer.
Peter Biere
Chief Financial Officer of IZEA
I employ entrepreneurial style and scaling expertise to help create enterprise value. Beyond ensuring the numbers are correct, I support value creation through strategic planning, investment efficiency, and disciplined cash management. I have served as a CFO, GM, COO, and interim CEO for startups, emerging growth, and mid-market companies, achieving successful exits, including buy and sell-side M&A, one IPO, and several turnarounds. I strive to be a servant leader/mentor who builds trusted relationships with leadership teams, Boards, and Investors.
* Global, C-Level Executive in Technology / SaaS / IT Retail
* Operations / Strategic Assessments / Business Development
* Venture Capital / Private Equity / Public – Ownership & Funding
* Team Leadership / Mentoring / Training / Talent Identification
* Accounting / Finance / Cash Flow / FP&A / Reporting
* M&A / Negotiations / Due Diligence / Integrations
* Turnarounds / Startups / IPO’s / P&L / Exit Positioning
* Investor-Board Relations / Banking / Procurement
* Forecasting / Budgeting / SEC-SOX-GAAP Compliance
* Contracts / Legal / Corporate IT / System Conversions
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About IZEA: IZEA creates marketplaces that connect brands with influential content creators and publishers at-scale.
Steve Doctor
EVP, Chief Financial Officer of Ingo Money
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About Ingo Money: Ingo Money is a disbursement marketplace that digitizes the paper check.
Scott Visner
Chief Financial Officer of Whiz Tutor
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About ASV Development, Compass, GV Properties, Vizion, Whiz Tutor: A mobile marketplace for students to find on demand, background checked, in-person tutors.
David Barclay
Chief Financial Officer of DigniFi
David Barclay is the Chief Financial Officer of DigniFi.
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About DigniFi: DigniFi is a fintech marketplace company that connects consumers with lenders to help finance large automotive repair costs.
Peter Rieman
COO and CFO of Itembase
COO at Retail Solutions.
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About Itembase: Itembase is an e-commerce API integration platform that helps service providers connect with marketplaces.
Philippe Heilberg
Co-Founder, President, COO & CFO of Arbol
Philippe brings decades of senior executive experience in commodities and emerging markets. He has been investing in assets across emerging markets including Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union region since 2001. Philippe is an ex-partner at the commodities trading unit at AIG, one of the largest insurance companies in the world. He is a contributor to the discourse on blockchain technology including published articles. In addition, Philippe has been a member of the NY Board of Trade Commodity Exchange and is former President Circle member of Asia Society. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. Summa Cum Laude and MBA.
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About Arbol, dClimate: Arbol is an InsurTech platform for parametric products that pay quickly and fairly covering external risks such as unexpected weather.
Todd Esposito
Chief Financial Officer, US President of Lime&Tonic
Todd has 20+ years of financial services experiences in both large and start up organizations. He has primarily held Chief Financial Officer roles in various retail and financial service organizations around the world.
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About Lime&Tonic: L&T is the mobile go-to dining resource for making occasions remarkable. A marketplace linking mass affluent customers and merchants.
Usama Ashraf
Chief Financial Officer of Prosper Marketplace
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About Prosper Marketplace: Prosper Marketplace is an online lending platform that connects people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions.
Adam DeWitt
President and CFO of Grubhub
Grubhub’s Adam DeWitt joined Reverb’s board of directors in 2017. DeWitt, who has served as CFO of the nation’s leading online and mobile food-ordering marketplace for six years, helped Grubhub’s annual revenues grow from $22 million to an expected $675 million in 2017 and led the company through one of the most successful initial public offerings of 2014.
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About Grubhub: Grubhub is a online and mobile food ordering and delivery marketplace dedicated to connecting diners with local restaurants.
Jennifer Walsh
Chief Financial Officer of Shapeways
As the CFO of Return Path, Jennifer manages the company’s global financial strategy, providing vision and leadership that moves the business forward. From driving core operations to pursuing new business opportunities, Jennifer is always looking for innovative ways to improve and grow Return Path’s financial and corporate functions. Jennifer has over 15 years of experience planning and implementing financial and operational initiatives at major media and professional services companies. Prior to Return Path, Jennifer led finance and operations at maslansky + partners, an Omnicom Company, where she revolutionized their pricing model and dramatically improved profitability. Jennifer also served as Vice President of Finance at Time Inc, then a Time Warner company. Jennifer held many leadership positions during her tenure at Time Inc., where she led teams, brands, and divisions through dramatic industry-wide and internal change. Jennifer holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
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About Shapeways: Shapeways offers 3D technology solutions to enable the automation, innovation, and digitization of product development.
Sebastiaan Bal
CFO of Connecthing
Sebastiaan Bal currently works as the CFO for Connecthing. He previously worked at Thauris as the CFO.
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About Connecthing: Connecthing is a marketplace that connects energy sellers and buyers in order to create long-term value and speed up the energy transition.
Jack Preston
Chief Financial Officer of Restoration Hardware
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About Restoration Hardware: Restoration Hardware is one of the most innovative and fastest-growing luxury brands in the home furnishings marketplace.
Mow Wong
CFO/COO of SixPlus
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About SixPlus: SixPlus is an online marketplace for corporate event professionals to book private dining spaces in restaurants and hotels across the US.
Kirk Inglis
Chief Financial Officer of ApplePie Capital
Kirk Inglis brings over 20 years of experience in financial services and technology with a deep expertise in consumer lending. His career includes senior finance and operating roles with Calypso Technology, Prosper Marketplace and Providian Financial Corporation. Mr. Inglis served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial for Prosper Marketplace, a peer to peer lending marketplace that uses technology to allow investment in unsecured consumer loans. Mr. Inglis was instrumental in developing Prosper’s business model and bringing it to profitability. In addition, he led the effort to get approval for the innovative business model with the SEC through an S1 registration process. Mr. Inglis also served in a variety of roles with Providian Financial Corporation, a leading credit card issuer. His roles included leading a team to executed strategic transactions to raise capital and liquidity, managing Providian’s debt buying and collections operations, serving as CFO of their internet lending operations and managing the company wide FP&A function. Mr. Inglis also served as CFO of Calypso Technology, a leading global provider of technology solutions for the capital markets industry. He began his career as a Treasury Analyst with First Tennessee National Corporation. Mr. Inglis holds a BA in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the University of Memphis. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
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About ApplePie Capital: ApplePie Capital is an alternative financing software platform designed for franchise businesses.
Eduardo Altamirano
CFO of Capitalizarme
Eduardo has +20 years working in the technology and financial sectors. His experience includes having worked at Capria Venture as Chief Investment Officer, as well as in the investment banking divisions at Credit Suisse and UBS, and also as CFO of Healt Warehouse, a small-cap publicity-listed online pharmacy in the United States. Today, he is the CFO of Capitalizarme and in this role he oversees strategic and operational finance as well as investor relations
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About Capitalizarme: The one-click real estate marketplace for first-time investors.
Iqbaljot Walia
Chief Financial Officer of PocketInns Inc.
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About PocketInns Inc.: The first of a GenNxt decentralized accommodation rental marketplace built around the blockchain technology.
John Wyman
CFO of Outside360
John Wyman is the chief financial officer at Outside360. Previously, John has served HIT as CFO for over three years.
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About Outside360: Outside360 is a marketplace that helps outdoor enthusiasts connect with adventure providers and recreation opportunities.
John Wyman
CFO of Outside360
John Wyman is the chief financial officer at Outside360. Previously, John has served HIT as CFO for over three years.
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About Outside360: Outside360 is a marketplace that helps outdoor enthusiasts connect with adventure providers and recreation opportunities.
Loren Kallevig
Founder, CFO of HomeOpenly
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About FeaturePics, Inc., HomeOpenly, The International Institute of Sustainable Transportation: HomeOpenly helps our users to make the opportunity of homeownership transparent, affordable, and an open experience.
Derek Brown
Chief Financial Officer of Togally.com
Chief Financial Officer at Togally.com
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About Togally.com: Togally is the easiest way to find top rated local photographers for any reason/occasion. It’s like oDesk for the photography industry.
Michelle Esterman
Chief Financial Officer of Altisource
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About Altisource: Altisource Portfolio Solutions S.A. (NASDAQ: ASPS) is a premier marketplace and transaction solutions provider.
Cole Sears
Chief Financial Officer of Vuevent Inc.
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About Vuevent Inc.: Vuevent allows event organizers to craft their own custom event experience with a marketplace full of robust tools and features
Cole Sears
Chief Financial Officer of Vuevent Inc.
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About Vuevent Inc.: Vuevent allows event organizers to craft their own custom event experience with a marketplace full of robust tools and features
Kellie Goldstein
Advising CFO of Audience Awards of AudPop
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About AudPop: AudPop is a video marketplace connecting creators to businesses
Laree Hartman
CEO, CFO & Founder of StudentStock
CEO & Founder of StudentStock.
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About StudentStock: Stock photography marketplace for students
Gwenevere Johnson
CFO of ZiaHub
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About ZiaHub: Streamlining the process of buying a home.
Jim Burke
CFO of Dealstruck
Jim Burke is a CFO at Dealstruck, Inc.
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About Dealstruck: Dealstruck is the best place for small businesses to finance growth.
Greg Wolff
LLC Manager and CFO of AdKiosks (DBA of adFreeq, LLC)
Greg is a former accountant with over 30 years as a successful business builder and angel investor. Greg is founder and president of Marathon Building Environments. He is co-founder and CFO of EveryEventGives.
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About AdKiosks (DBA of adFreeq, LLC): AdKiosks are Powerful Online Marketplaces you place Inside Your Online Ads anywhere you advertise.
Kyle Brown
CFO/CIO of Cater Nation
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About Cater Nation: Cater Nation is a growing and profitable online B2B food ordering marketplace for drop-off catering.
Claris Smith
Chief Financial Officer of NigerianNation
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About AfricanPlanet, NigerianNation: NigerianNation is a Nigerian e-commerce company operating online marketplaces for both international and domestic trade.
Chris Moschella
CFO of Kindwave
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About Kindwave: We are a Miami, FL based tech startup.
Jesus Gomez
Chief Financial Officer at Stost of Stost
Founder and Chief Financial Officer at Stost
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About Stost: Stost is a peer-to-peer marketplace where a host with extra storage space connects with renters who need it.
