digital-signage
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David Weinfeld
David Weinfeld is the co-founder and CEO of Screenverse, a New York-based ad management and monetization company for digital screens in the physical world. Launched in April 2020 at the start of the pandemic, Screenverse now represents more than 100,000 digital out-of-home screens, from billboards and urban panels to Walmart pharmacy displays and digital jukeboxes. Before Screenverse, Weinfeld was Vistar Media's first supply sales hire, where he grew the partner network from 30 to over 120 global media owners. In 2024 the company raised $10.5 million from Volition Capital.
Marlow Nickell
Marlow Nickell is co-founder and CEO of Grocery TV, the largest in-store retail media network for U.S. grocery. From a University of Texas physics degree and a stint at McKinsey, he took the unusual path of writing the original software himself before running the company that now puts screens in over 6,500 grocery stores reaching roughly 95 million shoppers.
Michael Mathieu
Michael Mathieu is CEO and board director of Vistify, Inc., a Santa Ana-based restaurant technology company whose vMenu platform lets QSR and fast-casual brands design, schedule, and sync digital menus in under an hour. Montreal-born and a City College of New York economics grad, he previously led video-ad network YuMe through IPO preparation, ran SET Media (later Conversant), presided over Freedom Communications' interactive arm, and founded Mecka in the NIL space. He joined Vistify in October 2024 and closed a Series A led by Craveworthy Brands and Branded Hospitality Ventures in mid-2025.
John Marshall
John Marshall is the President and CEO of Userful, the software company that swapped racks of proprietary AV hardware for a browser and a network cable. Named CEO in October 2018, he pivoted a video-wall vendor into a software-defined platform for enterprise-wide operational awareness, the Userful Infinity Platform, now used by hundreds of enterprises across control rooms, command centers and digital signage. A Northwestern and University of Michigan graduate with 25-plus years leading wireless, IoT and networking startups, he ran Userful to 50% year-over-year enterprise sales growth in 2024 with 80% of revenue flowing through a global channel of roughly 100 partners. Off the clock he is a former backcountry guide and adventure racer turned birder.
Jim Williams
Jim Williams is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of MustHaveMenus, a Bend, Oregon-based platform serving 10,000+ restaurants, hotels, and food service businesses with cloud-based menu design, digital signage, and menu management tools. Before MustHaveMenus, he sold email-marketing startup MarketHome to ClickAction for $15 million in 1999, co-founded church-tech platform Sharefaith (acquired by Ministry Brands in 2018), and made an early angel investment in HotelTonight (acquired by Airbnb in 2019). An English major who started his first business at age 11, Williams embodies the accidental founder: perpetually optimistic, deeply curious about design, and committed to building software that solves genuinely unglamorous problems.
Jutta Friedrichs
Jutta Friedrichs is a German-born designer and co-founder of Soofa, the Cambridge, MA company that makes solar-powered digital signs for city sidewalks. Before Soofa she ran the MÜ furniture studio in Shanghai, co-founded Xindao's in-house design team, won two Red Dot Awards, an iF Design Award and an Elle Decoration Award, and earned a Masters at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She mentors at the Harvard Innovation Lab and works at the seam of hardware, human-centered design, and the civic public realm.
Egor Belenkov
Egor Belenkov is the founder and CEO of Kitcast, a digital signage platform built first and foremost for Apple TV. A Ukrainian serial entrepreneur who started building companies in his early twenties, he ran business development at Mac software maker MacPaw before launching Kitcast, which now powers screens for brands like Disney Studios, American Eagle, The New York Times and Delta Dental across roughly 60 countries. He preaches a future where signage is smarter, more personalized and simple enough for anyone to run without a technician.
Garrett Dodge
Garrett Dodge is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rockbot, the business media platform that powers music, TV, digital signage, and advertising for nearly 50,000 brick-and-mortar locations across North America. Founded in 2010, Rockbot has grown into a $9.2M revenue company serving major brands including Planet Fitness, Walmart, Shake Shack, and JetBlue, backed by Google Ventures, Universal Music Group, and others. Dodge holds a B.A. from Middlebury College and an MBA from MIT Sloan, and previously helped build Caesars Entertainment's Innovation Team before channeling that experience into reimagining how physical spaces use media to engage customers.
Malcolm McRoberts
Malcolm McRoberts is the Chief Executive Officer of Mood Media, the world's leading in-store media solutions company, which reaches over 150 million consumers daily across 500,000 business locations in 140+ countries. With more than 30 years of executive-level management experience spanning Fortune 500 companies like Deluxe Corporation and NCR, McRoberts joined Mood Media in January 2021 following Vector Capital's acquisition of the company. Under his leadership, Mood Media acquired Vibenomics in 2023 - the leading in-store ad network technology provider - and subsequently partnered with Stingray Advertising to create the largest U.S. in-store retail media network, reaching over 800 million monthly shoppers.
Stan Richter
Stan Richter is co-founder and CEO of signageOS, the company that built a unification layer between digital signage hardware and the CMS platforms that run on top of it. Founded in Prague in 2016, signageOS solves the fragmentation problem that has plagued digital signage for decades - dozens of SoC operating systems, dozens of manufacturers, no common API. Richter turned that chaos into a business, bootstrapped growth to global scale, raised $4.2M from Reflex Capital, relocated to San Francisco, won the 2025 Outstanding Individual award at the Global Digital Signage Awards, and in January 2026 unveiled Supra - an encrypted edge-streaming platform that extends the usable life of existing hardware by two to five years.