LEADERSHIP TEAM
Zinrelo is led by a highly experienced management team with over 50 years of experience from companies such as America Online, Sun Microsystems, Synopsys and LSI Logic. Key executives at Zinrelo are serial entrepreneurs with several successful startups that they have taken to exits. The management team includes pioneers in single sign-on and online wallet technologies with deep expertise in social media, online retail, strategy, productization, execution, sales and business process setup.
ADVISORS
We are fortunate to have these advisors who bring a depth of experience and breadth of knowledge.
CEO | COO | CMO | Private Equity/VC CEO Director | Middle-market | Start-ups | Turnarounds
CEO & President at SmarterHQ
Caviar Lead at Square
Enterprise Chief Marketing Officer At Farmers Insurance Group Of Companies
President & Chief Business Officer, Co-Founder
Entrepreneur Turned Investor/Advisor
Co-Founder & Ceo At Next Force Technology
Engle Saez
CEO | COO | CMO | Private Equity/VC CEO Director | Middle-market | Start-ups | Turnarounds
President and Chief eCommerce Officer at Ashford.com; Exec. VP and CMO, FundersClub Inc.; SVP Marketing, Starbucks Coffee Company; SVP and CMO, Eddie Bauer Inc.; CMO, Blue Nile Engle Saez is President and Chief eCommerce Officer at Ashford.com , leading global online retailer of luxury watches and fine jewelry. Prior to joining Ashford.com, Engle spent 25 years growing consumer brands in the retail space, operating in executive management roles for some of the world’s most recognized brands, including: Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at FundersClub, Inc.; SVP of Marketing and Category Management at Starbucks Coffee Company; President, Sperry Top-Sider; SVP and Chief Marketing Officer, Eddie Bauer, Inc.; President, Esprit Footwear and Accessories; Chief Marketing Officer, Blue Nile; Director of Marketing, Timberland Footwear Company; SVP, G.H. Bass & Company, Inc. Engle also founded two startups: AtlanticRancher, a men’s rugged outdoor apparel company and Zovo, a women’s intimate apparel brand. Engle studied architecture at Taliesen, The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and holds a degree of Bachelor of Arts equivalent in Architecture.
Michael Osborne
CEO & President at SmarterHQ
Michael Osborne is a serial entrepreneur and C-level executive focused on leadership and scaling teams. Michael is CEO & President at SmarterHQ. Michael also serves as an advisor and board member to a number of startups, he has helped found and launch Handshakez, an engagement platform for B2B sales people and account management.
Previous to starting Handshakez Michael served as Chief Revenue Officer of Bazaarvoice (Nasdaq: BV) for over six years, from their first year of business through their IPO in February of 2012. Over his years at Bazaarvoice Michael grew the revenue run rate of the company from sub $1m to over $130m and expanded operations into Europe and Asia. Previous to Bazaarvoice Michael was Director of Client Services at Coremetrics for four years, helping to scale and grow the install base while managing top-of-class retention rates.
Earlier in Michael’s career he spent three years at Trilogy Software in the partner management and pre-sales groups working with Financial Services organizations. Hailing from Carnegie Mellon with an Electrical and Computer Engineering degree, Michael’s expertise is in sales leadership, achieving growth goals, and building and motivating world-class teams of sales and service people coupled with a strong understanding of how online businesses operate.
Gokul Rajaram
Caviar Lead at Square
Gokul Rajaram is the Caviar Lead at Square. He was Co-Founder and CEO of Chai Labs, a semantic technology startup he grew to profitability and a multi-million dollar annual revenue run-rate before its acquisition by Facebook.
Gokul is also considered as the ‘father of AdSense’ for his pioneering work on the AdSense product during his tenure at Google. Gokul has an MBA from MIT Sloan, a MS in CS from UT Austin, and a B. Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur where he received the President’s Gold Medal for being Class Valedictorian.
Mike Linton
Enterprise Chief Marketing Officer At Farmers Insurance Group Of Companies
Chief Marketing Officer, Farmers Mike Linton is the Chief Marketing Officer for Farmers Insurance Group of Companies. Mr. Linton is also member of the Board of Directors of Peet’s Coffee & Tea, a coffee roaster and retailer, as well as Capella Education Company, a public E- learning company. Mike was the Chief Marketing Officer at eBay, an online auction company, from December 2006 to March 2009. Prior to this, Mr. Linton was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Best Buy Companies from January 1999 through August 2006. Mike holds a B.S.B.A. in Marketing Research from Bowling Green State University, and a M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Gaurav Suri
President & Chief Business Officer, Co-Founder
Gaurav has extensive entrepreneurial experience in building consumer-focused technology businesses, including start-ups as well as new businesses for established Internet leaders.
Gaurav is President & Chief Business Officer, Co-founder at Health IQ. He was also head of Commerce Sales, Emerging Businesses at Google Inc. after Google acquired Like.com where Gaurav was Executive Vice President for Sales & Business Development. Previously Gaurav was VP, New Business Development for NexTag, the leading comparison shopping search engine for Products & Services. Prior to that, Gaurav worked at AOL as Vice President AOL Products, Partner Platforms.
Gaurav received an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a B.S. in Economics with honors from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mark Goldstein
Entrepreneur Turned Investor/Advisor
Mark Goldstein is an entrepreneur turned investor/advisor with 23 years of experience in entrepreneurship and an online retail expert with proven success in building companies in the retail, loyalty management and financial industry. Prior to Zinrelo (formerly ShopSocially), Mark Goldstein has led several successful startups, CEO of Impulse Buy (acquired by Inktomi), CEO of Bluelight (acquired by Kmart), CEO of Home Account (acquired by Freedom Financials) and Chairman of Loyalty Lab (acquired by TiBCO).
Siva Kumar
Co-Founder & CEO at Next Force Technology.
Siva Kumar is currently the Cofounder & CEO at Next Force Technology. Prior to this Siva was the Cofounder and CEO at TheFind, Inc. a shopping search engine. To-date, Siva Kumar has founded eight venture funded start-ups. He is also an adviser and investor in several startups focusing on the convergence of eCommerce and social networking.
INVESTORS
We are backed by some of the top venture and angel investors including Valhalla Partners, Dr. Ashish Gupta, Inspovation Ventures, Vish Mishra, Raman Khanna and executives from Google, Apple and other top technology companies.