Juozas, or Joe as friends call him, is an entrepreneur based in New York City. He is currently leveraging his years of online retail experience as founder of Marketplace Pulse, an eCommerce intelligence firm. His unique perspectives on business and technology have been featured in many of the world’s leading publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, and The Information.
Adam Shahbaz is the Vice President of Strategy for Helium 10. He is responsible for building out Helium 10’s partner ecosystem and strategic relationships. Adam has held executive leadership roles in multiple ecommerce and advertising companies focused on growth marketing, sales leadership, analytics, and business development. He’s worked with some of the largest brands on the planet implementing cutting edge growth strategies, but most recently he has aligned his focus with his passion for small business. As the son of a small business owner and Lebanese immigrant, Adam is keenly attuned to and intrinsically driven by the needs and unique challenges of entrepreneurship. Adam combines this passion and depth of experience with a focus on maximizing customer value.
When he’s not doing all of that, he’s spending time with family, raising his newborn daughter, or trying to find time to go outside and go surfing, rock climbing, or play a highly competitive game of Spikeball.
Adam holds a B.A. from USC in Los Angeles, and an M.A. from the New School in New York. He lives in Santa Monica, CA
David Spitz is responsible for leading ChannelAdvisor in its mission to provide retailers and branded manufacturers with the software and services needed to successfully sell their products via online sales channels.
Before joining ChannelAdvisor, David founded and successfully exited multiple venture-backed software companies. He was most recently an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Aurora Funds, a venture capital firm with more than $200 million under management. Prior to Aurora, David was president of Avesair, a mobile marketing company that was acquired by Inphonic. Previous to Avesair, David was co-founder and CTO of Netsation, a network management software company acquired by Nortel Networks.
David received a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego.