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The CEOs who work with High-Growth CEO are always doing something amazing. Here are some of their recent accomplishments:

Congratulations to High-Growth CEO Forum Member Tanya Bakalov and HelloTeam for the 2025 Inc. Female Founders 500 Recognition!

• • • • A heartfelt congratulations to High-Growth CEO Forum Member Tanya Bakalov, CEO of HelloTeam, for being named to Inc.’s 2025 Female Founders 500 list! Your exceptional leadership has driven 375% company growth, secured $10 million in funding, and saved organizations $4 million through your innovative workplace software platform. It’s inspiring to see your dedication to empowering organizations and fostering outstanding company culture recognized!Read more here.

        Way to go, Tanya and team!

Congratulations Gene Fay for creating a win/win for Customers, A10, ThreatX. So exciting to see you at the helm of the emergent new company Run Security! 

• • • • As Gene wrote – “A10 has acquired some of the assets of Threatx including the brand, TX Protect Product and our incredible customer base. The A10 leadership team has been fantastic to work with and I could not be happier to see the WAAP business become a part of this great company. With this transaction closing, we will officially launch Run Security and our eBPF based solution will be renamed RS Prevent. Congratulations on the next chapter as Chief Executive Officer at Run Security inc!

Congratulations to High-Growth CEO Forum Member Mike Greene and Hi Marley for the 2024 NEVY Award Win!

• • Well-deserved congratulations to our High-Growth CEO Forum Member Mike Greene, CEO of Hi Marley, for winning the Hottest Tech Startup 2024 NEVY Award! It is wonderful that your customer dedication, emphasis on building an amazing culture, truly visionary leadership and you and your team’s hard work have been recognized by the community!  Go Mike and team!
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Celebrating a great outcome for founder and CEO Dan O’Malley and his Numerated Team and the financial services industry!

• • • • Join us in congratulating High-Growth CEO Forum member Dan O’Malley for the sale of his company, Numerated, to Moody’s Corporation. This milestone is a testament to Dan’s visionary and consistent leadership and the Numerated team’s dedication as they revolutionized the financial services industry with cutting-edge lending technology.  Well done!
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    Congratulations to High-Growth CEO Forum Member Ignacio Galiana and Verve Motion for Being Named the 2024 Top Robotics Company of the Year!

  • Your dedication to innovation, safety, and excellence in robotics with your SafeLift exosuit and Verve Logic analytics is paying off! It’s inspiring to see your hard work and visionary leadership celebrated in New England’s thriving startup ecosystem. Go Ignacio and the Verve Motion team!
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  • Congratulations to High-Growth CEO Forum member Andrew Lau for this well-deserved recognition from Forbes! Watch his full interview with Forbes’ Editor, Maggie McGrath.

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  • Expert in Entrepreneurship, Powerhouse Jodi Gernon Joins High-Growth CEO!

  • January 17, 2024 – High-Growth CEO, a premier leader in CEO peer groups, coaching, and planning resources for high-growth technology CEOs, is excited to announce the addition of Jodi Gernon to its team.
  • We are thrilled to announce that Jodi Gernon is joining High-Growth CEO! Her vision and proven expertise in fostering entrepreneurial talent to scale enterprises is in complete harmony with our mission to help great entrepreneurs build great companies! Jodi is joining our other fabulous leaders to build and grow our High-Growth CEO Forums, Coaching and Planning Services.
  • Jodi Gernon’s illustrious career is highlighted by her role as Director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. Here, she was instrumental in steering entrepreneurs towards success in their ventures. Her rich operational experience spans from thriving startups to established giants like Pepsi and GE.
  • Jodi’s knowledge, honed as an Entrepreneur in Residence at HBS and coupled with her roles on advisory boards and as an angel investor with TBD Angels, render her an invaluable addition to our team. Her academic achievements, including an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering from WPI, perfectly complement her professional expertise.
  • Jodi’s deep insights, pattern recognition and unwavering commitment to and joy she gets from helping founders and CEOs succeed will significantly benefit our community’s ability to navigate the complex and ever-evolving high-growth tech landscape.

• • • We also salute our members and alums who are nominees for The NEVY Awards. The New England Venture Capital Association and Dell Technologies will present the winners for each category on December 8, 2022. This award recognizes and celebrates the top innovators, investors and companies in the New England region.

      Hottest Startup: Hi Marley, CEO Mike Greene; JobGet, CEO Tony Liu; ThreatX, CEO Gene FayCompany of the Year: Jellyfish, CEO & Founder Andrew Lau; Klayvio, CEO & Founder Andrew Bialecki

      Companies of the Decade: Hubspot; Rapid7

      Well-deserved congratulations and best wishes to each of you!

Earlier this year

• • Well-deserved accolades for High-Growth CEO Forum Member Mike Green as Hi Marley lands on three of Built In’s Honor Lists: Boston Best Places to Work, Boston Best Small Companies to Work For and Boston Best Paying Companies.
  • Congratulations to High-Growth CEO Forum Member Andrew Lau and the Jellyfish team who recently raised $71 million in a Series C round! Great Job!
  • So great to see HelloTeam’s stellar 2021 Growth and great positioning for 2022! The company is helping solve the great resignation retention crisis by delivering modern software designed to provide an engaging employee experience, wherever they work.
  • How awesome to see High-Growth CEO Forum alum, John Belizaire ring Nasdaq’s closing bell in February! Especially because Soluna is on a critical mission to make renewable, affordable energy the world’s primary power source, using computing as a catalyst. Go John!