Daryl Hatton, CEO/Founder of FundRazr - Sponsifi and ConnectionPoint, and Christian Cotichini, CEO/Co-founder of HeroX discuss innovation, crowdsourcing and the latest trends and developments in rewards, incentives and online platform engagement.
A Journey Into the Emotions of Software Developers
VanFUNDING 2016: Unlimited potential of crowdsourcing (fireside chat)
1. Daryl leads the innovative social commerce
company ConnectionPoint, producer of the
award winning global crowdfunding platform
FundRazr and the innovative sponsored cause
marketing crowdfunding system Sponsifi.
He has founded multiple tech start-ups & helped
bring one to a successful NASDAQ IPO in 1999.
As a social media guy and frequent public
speaker, his Twitter tagline goes like this:
#KingOfGastown, entrepreneur, cardiac survivor,
foodie, whisky nut, philosopher, mentor, father
and friend.
Daryl Hatton
Founder & CEO
2. Christian Cotichini,
Co-Founder and CEO
With over 20 years of experience leading startup and high
growth technology companies, Christian Cotichini is an
active angel investor and mentor to startup entrepreneurs.
With successful start ups from the mid-1990s to the new
millenium , Christian founded Absolute Software, a leader in
computer security and asset management and then moved
on to found MAKE Technologies, a platform for the
transformation and modernization of its clients' legacy and
mission-critical software systems. MAKE was sold to Dell
Computers in 2012.
In 2013, Christian joined HeroX as co-founder and CEO.
4. HeroX delivers significant advantages vs. existing methods. Many incentive challenges are custom
made one-offs using a labor intensive approach. Often more that 100% of the prize amount is spent
to run an incentive challenge.
The HeroX.com platform simplifies and automates most of the process – proven to reduce project
costs by 5-10x.