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We find people who will love your product.Whether you need users, customers, or super shareable content, Magnific is here to put rocketfuel in your business.We provide content and viral marketing services to businesses around the world. We’re selective about the clients we take on. We love startups, social media, and amazing content. We’re looking to meet interesting businesses with great ideas.

Scott Lahman is an entrepreneur and executive who anticipates and leads major trends in the video game and mobile industries. Scott is best known as founder of mobile gaming groundbreaker, JAMDAT Mobile, which he founded with Zack Norman and Austin Murray in March 2000 (long before games could even be played on most phones). JAMDAT not only became the industry’s runaway market share leader, but it also influenced many aspects of the app business as it exists today, including platform revenue splits, technology and deployment approaches, gameplay paradigms, and the platform SDKs themselves. In fact, the team at JAMDAT developed the first ever games for Apple’s iPod Click Wheel, a harbinger for what would come later with the iPhone and App Store. JAMDAT had a successful IPO in 2004, and was acquired by Electronic Arts in 2006 for $680 million.

As CEO of Hooch, Lin and his co-founders pioneered the Hooch App, the first membership cocktail app where members pay $9.99 a month and receive One Drink Every Day. Winner of Anheuser-Busch/InBev's SxSW Startup competition and Top 25 winner in Richard Branson's Extreme Tech Challenge, Hooch is available at hundreds of bars and restaurants in NY, LA, Austin, Dallas, Miami, and soon to be in HongKong, SF and more.Lin graduated with honors from Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. He was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year award, followed by a tenure as the youngest adjunct professor at CMU, developing its 1st set of credited courses on Web Publishing.

Born and raised in a 4th generation farming family from Mexico, Pablo brings over 10 years experience in the fresh-produce industry. After growing up around the family farm, Campos Borquez, a premiere supplier of fresh asparagus and grapes to the United States and Canada, Pablo went on to work for The Giumarra Companies, managing grower relations in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and the United States. Pablo returned to the family farm as Chief Financial Officer then went on to complete a Cornell University MBA — it was during his time at Cornell that ProducePay was founded and launched. Pablo is named to the 2015 Ag 40 Under 40 list and enjoys eating asparagus, of course.

Melinda Moore is an award-winning marketing executive, entrepreneur and angel investor. Currently chief marketing officer at equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdfunder, and co-founder of the esteemed female business community, Tuesdaynights. She has led digital strategy and integrated marketing campaigns for some of the world’s most prominent cause-related and consumer brands, including: Credo Mobile, Ford, LIVESTRONG, Netflix, Obama for America, Sony, USA Networks and YouTube.

Donald LeeChief Marketing Officer "Ride or Die. I got you." Lee co-founded Combat Flip Flops in Kabul, Afghanistan. After 3 combat tours as an airborne Ranger Lee returned to his roots in the online space. Prior to joining the Army in 2002 Lee was a digital ninja. Lee specializes user acquisition / monetization and direct response marketing. In the off time, you can him find coaching his sons travel baseball team, churning out savory treats on a BBQ, or crafting digital pranks on the rest of the Combat Flip Flops crew.Matthew GriffinMOS: 13A Field Artillery Officer Stryker Company Fire Support Officer 2002-2003 Ranger Rifle Company Fires Support Officer 2003-2005 Field Artillery Intelligence Officer 2005-2006 Griff is a 2001 United States Military Academy graduate commissioned into the Field Artillery. Between 2003-2005, Griff deployed four times to Iraq and Afghanistan with 2d Ranger Battalion as a Company Fire Support Officer. He planned and participated in over 100 special operations direct action missions

Katarina Van Derham is a successful model, actress, entrepreneur and publisher. As a model, Katarina has graced the cover of over 60 magazines worldwide and appeared in over 600 major media outlets including the Time Square jumbotron, CNN, FOX, and NBC. She appeared in 21 national and international print and TV commercials and has been voted one of the 100 sexiest women in the world by magazines on 3 different continents. Katarina made history by being the only St. Pauli Girl spokes model who got re-elected. As an actress, Katarina played opposite Bob Saget in the TV show Entourage. She also plays one of the lead roles in the upcoming movie Unbelievable alongside Nichelle Nichols, Tim Russ and Gilbert Gottfried. Katarina also appeared in movies 15 minutes, Redline, shows CSI and Monk, and music videos for Bobby Brown, Ja Rule, Andy, Big and Rich, among others.

Exposed to design and travel from a young age, Jessica Hendricks was born in Paris and grew up outside Manhattan with eyes glued to the cases in her mother’s jewelry shop. Fascinated by indigenous cultures and spirituality, Hendricks traveled to Cambodia to teach English during the summer after her Sophomore year at NYU Tisch. She was mesmerized by the tangled synthesis of both the beautiful and heartbreakingly violent past of this small Buddhist country in the wake of genocide, and the reality of human trafficking. Combining her love of jewelry and philanthropic spirit, Jessica was inspired to create a collection to celebrate this unique community, and connect courageous women across the globe. Hendricks and The Brave Collection have been featured by Vogue, Glamour, Refinery29, CNBC, MSNBC. Hendricks made the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Retail & Ecommerce, and was invited to the White House as one of 60 young entrepreneurs to witness President Obama’s speech encouraging support of Emerging Global Ent

Clark Benson, CEO Clark Benson is the founder and CEO of Ranker, the leading digital media company for opinion-based, crowdsourced rankings on just about everything.Launched in 2009, Ranker is Benson’s fifth startup. Ranker creates editorial lists to vote on about virtually every topic, and the 20million+ monthly audience’s opinions shape the rankings. Prior to Ranker, Benson’s company, eCrush, an early social network for teens, was bought by Hearst Corporation in 2006.

Carlos Herrera is an avid entrepreneur who thrives on conceptualizing innovative solutions geared to help the day-to-day routines performed by humans each day and creating businesses around them. He has a diverse set of working experiences in the technology sector all dealing with the development of autonomous systems and robotics. Carlos is an outspoken leader for innovation and has led many real-world autonomous systems to market.

Christina Flach is a celebrity makeup artist, founder and CEO of PRETTY GIRL Makeup, represented by Look Artists Agency in San Francisco. Ms. Flach has extensive experience in commercial print, advertising, fashion, beauty, TV and film. She also writes about beauty and fashion for weekly magazines. Her work is inspired by her love and obsession with beauty, fashion and art. Her goal is to always make her client look and feel beautiful.Pretty Girl Makeup offers the highest quality lipsticks, lip gloss, blushes, bronzers and eyeshadows that have that extra wink of fun names as Rich Husband and Private Jet and Day at the Spa.It celebrates everything that is fabulous about being a Pretty Girl or a part of our life that is a little fantasy mixed with a bit of luxury! I have worked hand in hand with industry experts to produce the highest quality product available, combining vitamins, minerals, and essential oils that give you that long lasting lip gloss effect to get you through a long board meeting, cocktails out

Dr. Scot Refsland is the founder and CEO of RotorSports, producers of the US National Drone Racing Championships and the Inaugural 2016 World Drone Racing Championships in Hawaii with over 40 countries participating. Scot has a Ph.D. in Virtual and Augmented Reality and a BA from University of Southern California. He is particularly interested in the intersection of drone racing, eSports and mixed reality technologies.

Mr. Kate started in 2011 as a simple blog with the goal of celebrating life through a more creative lens. We were the little train that could, as we worked hard to find innovative ways to develop and nurture an online community and built it into what is now millions of viewers around the world who all celebrate our philosophy of Because Why Not?Mr. Kate is now a leader in the creative lifestyle movement, producing and distributing high quality home, style and beauty content and products through innovative production and syndication partnerships with major digital and traditional media players, brand and licensing deals with Fortune 500 companies, and a literary deal with Harper Collins publishing. Mr. Kate has won a number of awards, including Webby and W3 Awards for excellence in our field, and we continue to dream bigger as we grow our global fanbase

Jason combines his background in tech and finance to build creative companies in digital media. He has 12 years of experience including former CFO at TheRedPin, Fuel Industries and NeuLion (previously JumpTV).Giftagram is reinventing the act of gifting with a user-friendly app that makes it easier to send a gift. Our simple platform gives retailers access to a mobile marketplace and users access to a community of leading local and international brands in lifestyle and design. We believe in sending gifts to celebrate occasions big or small, and for no reason at all because our goal is to inspire everyone to experience the good ol’ fashioned feeling that comes from giving and receiving a gift.

Kalpesh Kapadia’s career spans 15+ years in the US + 5 years in Asia, primarily in technology & finance. Prior to co-founding SelfScore he was one of the foremost analyst/investors in Wall Street’s tech sector. In 2004 he was ranked the #1 analyst in the US across all sectors by the Wall Street Journal. In 2005 he founded Equanum Capital & successfully managed it through 2012. In ’07 & ’09, Equanum Funds were one of the best managed global equity funds in Barrons.com & Asiahedge rankings. He earned an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University & an MS in Industrial Engineering from NJIT. He came to the US over 20 years ago as a young student & struggled to establish his credit profile. Through SelfScore, he plans to ease the challenges for this deserving but underserved population.

Nommery is a mobile-friendly site that gathers awesome people for shared meals at great restaurants.Melisa founded and is currently managing one of the most successful dining communities in the world. Initially started as a hobby group on MeetUp, our foodie community now spans 15 cities in America with 25,000+ members. Our flagship group, the San Francisco Foodies, enjoyed 2,000+ events in its first four years.Strong background in operations and sales from management positions in wholesale food distribution and small businesses.Graduated from UC Berkeley with a self-designed major, Sustainable Food Business, which covered business, economics, agriculture, nutritional science and environmental science, policy, and management, with strong direction from Michael Pollan.

Jon Ferrara, has been recognized for pioneering innovation in the customer management category. Prior to founding Nimble, LLC. Ferrara was the creator and co-founder of the award winning customer management product GoldMine. In 1999, Goldmine got acquired by FrontRange and Ferrara left to pursue other interests. During those years, Ferrara continued to watch the CRM market. He saw that most of the CRM products that were serving small businesses moved up market (and became more costly and complex) or fell by the way side, leaving the market underserved. It was at this point that he decided to create the next generation CRM product for small businesses, Nimble.

Andy Cunningham An entrepreneur at the forefront of marketing, branding, positioning and communicating “The Next Big Thing,” Andy Cunningham has played a key role in the launch of a number of new categories including video games; personal computers; desktop publishing; digital imaging; RISC microprocessors; software as a service; very light jets; and clean tech investing. She is an expert in creating and executing marketing, branding and communication strategies that accelerate growth, increase shareholder value and advance corporate reputation. Andy came to Silicon Valley in 1983 to work for Regis McKenna and help Steve Jobs launch the Macintosh. When Steve left Apple to form NeXT and acquire Pixar, he chose Andy’s public relations agency, Cunningham Communication, to represent him. She continued to work with Steve for several years and has developed marketing, branding and communication strategies for game-changing technologies and companies ever since. Andy graduated from Northwestern University and lives

Rosie O’Neill Bio Rosie O'Neill is a newbie entrepreneur with a major sweet tooth. In August 2012, she launched her first company, Sugarfina, a luxury candy boutique featuring the finest candies from around the world, beautiful packaged and presented. Sugarfina opened its first retail boutique in Beverly Hills in November 2013 and now has 15 stores in major cities across the U.S., including New York, Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco and Vancouver. Named one of the world’s most beautiful candy shops by Architectural Digest, Sugarfina is disrupting the sweet space at retail with an innovative store design and experience. Before candy, Rosie played with dolls for 7 years as Director of Marketing for Barbie at Mattel, where she led a global business unit that sold more than 50 million Barbie dolls annually. She received her MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA in Communication Studies from UCLA. Her favorite candies are Champagne Bears, Peach Bellini and Fuji Apple Caramels.

On the drive home from adopting Barkley, a 2-month-old rescue beagle, my mom and dad bought dog treats at a pet food outlet. When we opened the bag, the smell sent us all scurrying, our puppy included. That's when I decided I was old enough (10) to know that my new best friend needed a better biscuit! I visited veterinarians, and began testing different flavor combinations, and experimenting in the kitchen with my mom. I found the most wholesome ingredients I could, and created my first batch of homemade treats, and this time, Barkley ate them up! I began pedalling my biscuits by bike to other dog owners in my neighborhood. Soon I had two- and four-legged fans howling for more. That's how Ry's Ruffery was born – a labor of love dedicated to creating my all-natural dog treats that pet owners would love to give as much as their furry friends would love to devour them. I think you and your dog will agree they are the very best, paws down!