Startup = Growth. Make it happen
Wealthfront is coming to Boston, and we'd like to meet you. Join us for a discussion on growth, product, and market success with Adam Nash, Wealthfront CEO (formerly at LinkedIn, eBay, Apple, and Greylock Ventures.) We'll provide the drinks and snacks, and you come ready to represent the Boston tech scene. This is Silicon Valley meets Boston, and we want to be friends.We are also lucky to have 2 "lightning talks" from some of the best growth practitioners in Boston. We'll hear from Jeff Steeves, who led acquisition marketing at Wayfair.com and Zorian Rotenberg, head of Sales and Marketing at Insight Squared.
Thanks to Paypal for hosting our group, and please RSVP for yourself and a guest accurately— there is limited space and we'd like to order enough to drink.
Speakers
Adam Nash
CEO of Wealthfront
@adamnash
Adam Nash, Wealthfront's Chief Executive Officer, is a proven advocate for development of products that go beyond utility to delight customers. Adam joined Wealthfront from Greylock Partners, where he was an Executive-in-Residence. Prior to Greylock, he was VP of Product Management at LinkedIn, where he built the teams responsible for core product, user experience, platform and mobile. Adam has held a number of leadership roles at eBay, including Director of eBay Express, as well as strategic and technical roles at Atlas Venture, Preview Systems and Apple. Adam holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Jeff Steeves
Former VP Marketing, Wayfair
@jsteeves
Jeff Steeves is a Boston based entrepreneur and the former VP of Marketing at Wayfair.com. He joined Wayfair in 2009, and was responsible for Customer Acquisition, Loyalty, and Retention programs and helped grow the business to nearly $1B in sales. Prior to joining Wayfair, Jeff was a venture capitalist with Fidelity Ventures and Prism VentureWorks where he focused on investments in software, Internet, and digital media.
Zorian Rotenberg
VP Sales and Marketing, Insight Squared
@zorian
Zorian leads Sales and Marketing for Insight Squared. He is a 4X startup exec, most recently the CMO at AppAssure Software which was acquired by Dell. Zorian was previously a VP at Veeam Software where he founded and managed the global Inbound Marketing & Demand Generation Group, the CEO of StarWind Software, and led sales and business development at Acronis Inc.
Hosted by Wealthfront & Next View Ventures
Wealthfront is the largest and fastest-growing SEC-registered, software-based financial advisor. Our mission is to provide access to the same high quality financial advice offered by major financial institutions and private wealth managers, like tax-loss harvesting, without the high account minimums or costs. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and has received over $30M in funding from investors including DAG Partners, Index Ventures, Greylock Partners & Social+Capital Partnership.
NextView Ventures is a Boston based seed fund focused on funding transformative internet and mobile businesses. The NextView team is composed of former operators and entrepreneurs turned venture capitalists from Ebay, Paypal, LinkedIn, About.com, Spark Capital, and Venrock.
Venue and refreshments provided by our sponsors ebay and Venturefizz!
