Matt Blumberg is a multi-time founder and CEO of technology businesses over the last 30 years. He is currently CEO of Markup AI, the global leader in AI-powered content governance for the enterprise. Previously, he was the founding executive of the MovieFone.com division of 777-FILM (acquired by AOL), Chairman & CEO of Return Path (#2 on Fortune Magazine’s “Best Companies to Work for” list and later acquired by PSG/Validity), Chairman of Path Forward, a nonprofit whose mission is to empower women to restart their careers after time spent focused on caregiving, and Chairman & CEO of Bolster, a disruptive platform for executive search. Matt has served on a number of boards – public, private, and nonprofit. 

Matt is also the author of 3 books: Startup CEO: A field guide to scaling up your business (based on his popular blog on entrepreneurship, StartupCEO.com), Startup CXO: A field guide to scaling up your company’s critical functions and teams, and Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors, all published by Wiley & Sons.  He also hosts a podcast for CEOs and CXOs called The Daily Bolster and a passion project podcast about American History called Country Over Self.