Mark Ghermezian

Founder & CEO

2021 - Current

Our mission is to combine software with capital to enable businesses to scale with the technology they love.

Founder & GP

2021

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Co-Founder & CEO

2022

Conversation First Lifecycle Marketing

Chairman of the Board

2023

Innovating to improve recruiting, onboarding & credentialing in Healthcare 💊🩺

Board Member

2022 - 2023

Strategic Advisor

2019 - 2022

Co-Founder

2008

Braze (formerly Appboy) is a customer engagement platform that delivers messaging experiences across push, email, apps, and more. Braze is built specifically for today’s mobile-first world and tomorrow’s ambient computing future. Braze is set apart as the platform that allows for real-time and continuous data streaming, replacing decades-old databases that aren’t built for today’s on-demand, always-connected customer. With data, technology, and teams working together in unison, the Braze platform makes marketing more authentic, brands more human, and customers more satisfied with every experience. Braze is a venture-backed company with hundreds of employees. Offices are located in New York City, San Francisco, London, and Singapore. Most recently, we’ve received the Digiday Signal Award for Best CRM, in addition to being named a “Top 10 Upstart” by Business Insider, a Cloud100 Rising Star in Forbes, and #21 in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 List. Learn more at Braze.com

Co-Founder & Executive Chairman

2017 - 2018

As Executive Chairman, and on a full time basis, I continue to be part of the Braze executive team. With a focus on doubling down on the areas of incredible growth we experienced while I was CEO for over 8 years. As we grow past 200 employees with offices in New York, San Francisco and London, maintaining the culture we created since Braze’s inception will continue to be a focus of mine. Our humbleness with each and every customer big or small will be a key component of our growth. I will work closely with our customers, to better understand their needs, long term objectives and how we can better serve them to build long term relationships with their customer base. I will support and empower our employees and members of the board to help execute on our vision. Achieving our revenue goals, continuing to innovate, lead the market with our product, and building a company where each and every partner, employee, and customer love being part of will be my number one focus. Braze is the leading lifecycle engagement platform for marketing, growth, and engagement teams. We empower brands to humanize connections with customers, resulting in better experiences and increased retention, lifetime value, and ROI. With Braze, the world's largest enterprise and digital-first brands in dozens of countries on six continents seamlessly gather and manage actionable customer data, allowing them to reach their audience with targeted, personalized cross-channel messaging experiences. Braze has been named a Digiday Signal Award Finalist for Best Marketing Automation Platform, a VentureBeat Omnichannel MMA “Best Bet,” and was selected by Forbes as a Cloud100 Rising Star. Learn more at braze.com.

Co Founder & CEO

2008 - 2017

As CEO of Braze, we built Braze from the ground up, from an idea to becoming a prominent player and leader of Mobile CRM/Lifecycle Marketing. We assembled the best team in the industry across product and engineering to sales, operations, marketing and customer success. Our organic growth and reputation in the market is cultivated on the culture I have continued to press upon the entire organization. The genuine and pure humbleness of every single one of our employees, has allowed us to create the best in class platform used by hundreds of global brands today. Including Tinder, Soundcloud, iHeart, GAP Inc, 1800-Flowers, Capital One, and Domino's Pizza. As CEO we experienced eight consecutive quarters of record growth, while raising over $43MM from the leading venture capitalists including Battery Ventures. With over 180 employees, Braze is headquartered in New York, with offices in San Francisco and London. In January 2017 and on a full time basis I transitioned to Executive Chairman of Braze.

Board Member

2016

Strategic Advisor

2018

Executive Strategic Advisor

2021

Co-CEO

2020 - 2021

American Dream, developed by Triple Five Group, will provide guests with an entirely unique experience. The property offers a curated mix of unparalleled entertainment, retail and dining. American Dream is approximately 3 million square feet and projects 40 million+ visitors annually. When complete, the destination will include over 450 retail, food and specialty shops, complemented by over 15 entertainment offerings. Attractions open now include the fully-enclosed Nickelodeon Universe Theme Park, Big SNOW American Dream – North America’s only indoor snow park, and The Rink – an NHL-regulation sized ice rink. Future entertainment will include DreamWorks Water Park; Merlin Entertainments’ Sea Life New Jersey and Legoland Discovery Center; Kidzania; live Performing Arts Theater; 300-foot tall Observation Wheel; The Dining Terrace with over 15 full-service restaurants and the world’s first and only Munchie’s Food Hall. For more information visit www.americandream.com or follow us on Instagram @americandream.

Founding Investor

2015

Founding Investor

2014