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Nick Mattar
Marketing Consultant@Marketing 1080
Verified
Nick Mattar is a marketing consultant helping bring companies to the forefront of the digital world. He has taught digital marketing for nearly ten years at the collegiate level and wrote Content Marketing Strategies: Planning, Creating, and Distributing Content in 2021. He is also a business owner, recently focusing his work on generative AI platforms, helping businesses utilize this new technology to save time, money, and resources.More...
Karen Baker
President@Boathouse Group Inc
Verified
Noted by Forbes, as one of “3 Women Breaking The Glass Ceiling In The Male-Dominated Tech Industry”. Honing 25 years of experience inspiring marketing innovation and advancing the redesign of corporate organizational programs, projects, and performance-related initiatives in the public, private, and academic sectors.More...
Akshay Gandhi
Founder and Principal@Thread Ventures
Verified
Akshay’s experiences with leading teams, building institutional systems and processes, and driving B2B sales processes position him effectively as an investor and operator. Prior to founding Thread Ventures, Akshay was a Senior Vice President at Olive Tree Holdings, an institutional real estate private equity platform, and a Partner at Olive Tree Ventures. At Olive Tree, Akshay was the first employee and responsible for the leading the firm’s capital events (equity recapitalizations, restructurings, refinancings, dispositions) process on over $1bn in transactions. He was responsible for creating several systems and processes around the firm’s capital markets, transaction management and underwriting efforts.
Akshay partnered with the firm’s founders and principals to launch Olive Tree Ventures (“OTV”) and TrueRate Services (“TrueRate”). Olive Tree Ventures is a taking an active and operational approach to venture capital investing in real estate and construction technology. In his former capacity as a Partner at OTV, Akshay partnered with early-stage founders to successfully build targeted B2B sales systems that multiplied revenues within 12-18 months. Similarly, he was actively involved in the seed and scaling of TrueRate, a tech-enabled commercial real estate capital markets and investment sales platform.
Outside his experiences at Olive Tree, Akshay has also been an active investor in real estate, hospitality, and technology businesses. Akshay has an MS in Real Estate Finance from NYU and a BBA in Finance and International Business from The George Washington University.More...