Geoff is CEO & co-founder of The Meet Group, a social dating and livestreaming company. He's also co-CEO and GM of video for the parent company ParshipMeet Group. He successfully transitioned the company from 90% advertising revenue in 2016 to 60%+ user-pay revenue while dramatically expanding revenue by investing heavily in livestreaming video.

The Meet Group and ParshipMeetGroup comprise Meetme, Tagged, Skout, Growlr, eHarmony, Parship and Lovoo.

Geoff joined the dating industry in 2005 and pioneered one to many video. vPaaS is now available to other dating apps, like POF who have it integrated. 

Geoff is an IDEA Ten Year Club member and is an Innovation Fellow of Columbia Business School's Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurship Center.

He graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Economics.

Mark runs Courtland Brooks, an agency-consultancy  focusing on strategy, marketing and bus dev for Internet dating and online social communities. He's served POF, Meet Group, and 120+ companies since 2005. Prior to this, he worked with Friendster and ran an adventure club in Silicon Valley. Mark has been quoted in press 288 times (18 times in WSJ). 

He heads IDEA.gp (since 2007) & OSCA.gp, hosts LTR, and the executive news summary services Online Personals Watch (since 2004) and Very Social Network (since 2006).  He also  owns Matchmaker.com.

Mark is a grad of Harvard Business School (PLD, 2014) and London School of Economics (Exec. MSc Behavioral Science, 2017).

Mark helps dating and social leaders connect, learn and share for an even more effective and prosperous future.

Karima joined happn in 2017 as General Counsel, and is CEO & President since July.  

happn helps singles find the people they’ve crossed paths with in real life and gives them a second chance at a first impression!  It is the first geo-localized real time dating app and has 100+ million users worldwide.  happn launched in 2014.

Karima heads a team of 120 people in Paris.

Prior to happn Karima was an in-house lawyer for Solocal Group and DailyMotion, and Microsoft, and a Board Member at Beewake. 

For ~20 years Jeff has dedicated his career to helping people control their information and reputation online.

His newest technology platform, RealMe is a turnkey solution to protect people using dating apps and other online marketplaces.

Prior to founding RealMe, Jeff founded several other successful business ventures, including MyLife, GreatDomains, RealtyTracker and MediaPass.

Mariko is a seasoned serial entrepreneur with a track record of building technology businesses from concept to maturity.

Mariko received the Forbes Japan Women Award (most influential women in business, 2019) and is listed in 55 Women in Global Leadership (2016) by Forbes Japan.

Quipper, an e-learning mobile app company which Mariko co-founded, was sold for $40m in 2015.

She is now CEO and founder of EastMeetEast, North America’s largest dating / live-streaming app for Asians.

Adam has spent 8 years of his career working with leading dating companies. First he worked with The Meet Group, then after some time in consulting he joined Magic Lab as the MD of Chappy. Then he started S'More. "Imagine a dating app that starts with getting to know a person before swiping on them. Where character is considered before physical attributes."

Prior to dating he worker at Meltwater News, CNN, and Sony Music.  Adam studied Management at Harvard.

Arish is an experienced Silicon Valley founder, CEO and investor.

The last 20 years of his career were a very successful entrepreneurship story. Prior to  co-founding Swell, he also co-founded Skava, an enterprise e-commerce software which was acquired by IT giant Infosys for $120M in 2015.

 Swell (www.swell.life) is a social audio app that lets you quickly and easily talk about anything on your mind. 

Bill has led SD Ventures investments for over a year, with the Cupid Media ($51m) acquisition being his largest acquisition in that time.

Prior to SD Ventures, Bill spent 11 years as Chief Revenue Officer at The Meet Group & myYearbook.  Prior to that, he was Director of Advertising for Scholastic, and spent a couple years at Doubleclick.  Bill is a master of digital revenue, and social.

Social Discovery Ventures comprises Dating Group  and SDV Labs. Dating Group has Int'l and traditional dating: Dating.com, Anastasia date, Cupid Media, Dil Mil and others.  SDV Labs is the innovative group.  Some of the brands in SDV Labs are iFriend, XOXO, Magnet, MetaDating, and Tubit.

Monji is the co-founder of Matter,  an audio-first dating app that helps people make meaningful connections through audio conversations. 

Before co-founding Matter, Monji spent almost four years working at McKinsey & Co. He worked with investors and corporates to solve some of their most challenging yet exciting and forward-looking problems that often arose from changes in technology and innovation.

At Matter, Monji leads product strategy and loves to obsess with the underlying psychology and user behavior to get the product experience right.

OneRep.com helps consumers protect themselves online by scrubbing their personal information from Google and privacy-breaching websites.

Mark comes from a strong background in the Identity Theft Protection and Consumer Credit world, having spent numerous years at Experian, including working on FreeCreditReport.com and ProtectMyID.

Mark spent 15 years working in the Fintech/Financial Services industry including at Envestnet:Yodlee, supporting many different consumer fintech offerings.

Mark is the former CMO of Gooten, a smart supply chain solution, as well as the former CMO of Wrench, the market leader for on-demand car care.

He is Executive Director of the UCLA Venture Capital Fund, supporting innovation by young entrepreneurs.

Peter created and operates Christian Filipina, a premium international dating site that allows serious men and women with a history or interest in the Philippines to meet safely, directly, with no intermediary.

Peter has been highlighted by the BBC for fighting fraud in the online dating industry.

He is also a co-founder of Honestdatingsites.org, an international alliance for honest dating sites.

Mark Owen is the Founder of Events and Adventures, a members-only social club for single adults that has tens of thousands of members in various cities throughout the US and Canada. 

Events & Adventures takes its members to every kind of social gathering where they find companionship and even love.

Mark has worked in the industry running E&A for 34 years now, making him our longest termer in the IDEA Ten Year Club.

After graduating with a degree in political science, Amanda spent 15 years managing local, state, and federal campaigns.

As a master’s candidate at Harvard Extension School, she became fascinated by the capacity of game theory to explore human behavior and the applications of game theory to location based dating.

David has spent the last 23 years working on a variety of innovative ventures—including JavaNet, Broadvoice, and Free​Conference​Pro—that have provided internet-based services to at least a million subscribers to date.

Moses is the founder and CEO of one of the top destinations for casual online dating OnlineBootyCall.com. 

Prior to setting up the company in 2003, Moses worked as a software engineer for AboveHealth, where his database architecture work gave him the essential technical background to successfully build and launch Internet ventures.

Lisa founded the Global Love Institute (previously known as Matchmaking Institute) in 2003 to set a code of ethics and strict quality standards in the matchmaking industry. She also runs the Global Love Conference. 

Lisa has been a matchmaker for 22 years.

Prior to being a matchmaker Lisa trained in social work at Uo Michigan, and Dramatic Literature at NYU.

Jamie co-founded Lunch Actually in April 2004, together with his wife, Violet Lim. Lunch Actually is SouthEast Asia’s biggest dating group. He helped expand the businesses from Singapore to Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Thailand and broadened the range of products to include Dating Websites and Apps.

Jamie is the business mechanic behind the business who has helped build up the systems and products from nothing to ensure that the matches and operations are efficiently accomplished, and quality is assured. He loves to improve things and strive for the perfect system in all his businesses.

Specialties: Start-Ups, Fund Raising, Product Development, and Building Systems

Swell is a voice-based social platform that launched at SXSW in 2021. Prior to Swell, Phil led Client Services at Skava which powered 10 of the top 30 retailers' mobile websites. Skava was acquired by Infosys in 2015 for $120m.

Phil led growth initiatives at BigCharts.com (acquired by CBS Marketwatch for $166m) and became the main line of revenue for CBS MarketWatch and went on to dominate the financial information licensing space (then acquired by Dow Jones for $520m).

Phil is always looking at ways of how technology can influence and change the way we look at the world and solve our problems. Phil also owns and runs a small horse racing operation and is a licensed professional boxing judge.

Neil has been an innovator in television and digital media since 1981. He worked as SVP of AOL from 1995-2001 and joined  Reunion.com in 2005.

He heads business development for the new RealMe product which is being tailored to the needs of the dating industry.

Jessica Alderson is the CEO of So Syncd, the dating app that matches compatible personality types, which she co-founded with her sister, Louella. She is also the UK lead for Women in Tech.

Prior to setting up So Syncd, Jessica worked as an equity research analyst for five years at Morgan Stanley.

Cliff founded SNAP Interactive and ran it for 11+ years from 2005 to 2016.  He was an early pioneer in social dating, and SNAP (STVI) was the first publicly traded company in the social media space.  Under Cliff's leadership, Snap's social and online dating apps attracted over 100 million users and $100m in total revenue. 

He lays his story in his book "Explosive Growth" which describes his technique for growing to 100m members, and the mistakes he learned from, along the way.  

Prior to SNAP, Cliff was an Analyst at Lehman after graduating from Cornell in Applied Economics.

After SNAP, Cliff was on the Board at Bumble.  He is returning to the social space soon and is "working on an exciting idea in the messenger space."