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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">As part of our Inside Look series, we'll be visiting another hot NYC company that's disrupting and setting industry trends for online wholesale.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">This month, we'll be visiting the newly constructed offices of <A HREF="http://www.boxed.com" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Boxed.com</A> - a venture backed tech startup that is making waves and is known as the "Costco of mobile apps". </SPAN><BR STYLE="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ff0000;"><BR STYLE="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ff0000;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">We'll hear from Boxed's CEO, Chieh Huang, and also employees in business development (2 MBAs), operations, and analytics. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Topics include:</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.6em;">- What life is like at Boxed and in the tech startup space in general<BR></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; white-space: pre-wrap;">- What problems they're solving now<BR>- The experience of transitioning from MBA or corporate environments into a start-up<BR>- Plans for the company's latest round of funding ($6.5 million).</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Space is extremely limited for this event, so act quickly. Free of charge; however, if you miss the event without providing notice, you will not be considered for future TAP exclusive Inside Look company visits and events. Please sign up for the waitlist if tickets are not available, as additional spots may become available.</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN>Short bios of the panelists:</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: underline;"><STRONG>Chieh Huang</STRONG></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em;"></SPAN></P>
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<P>Chieh Huang is the CEO of Boxed, one of Forbes' Most Exciting Startups.Previously, Chieh was the Director of Zynga Mobile New York where his team launched the #1 hit game, What's the Phrase. Chieh was also the CEO ofAstro Ape, a venture-backed mobile gaming company later acquired by Zynga pre-IPO. Inanother life, he was an attorney at a large international law firm,representing major sports leagues and private equity funds.</P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: underline;"><STRONG>Michael Chen (just graduated Yale MBA)</STRONG></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em;"></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN>Michael spent two years in investment banking in the consumer retail, high-tech, and bio-tech space. He was at a hedge fund for three years, investing in tech, mining, and biotech, before going back to graduate school. Currently, Michael focuses on data analytics and retention at Boxed.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: underline;"><STRONG>Jackie Harman (just joined from Amazon)</STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN>Jacqueline Harman is the Director of Acquisition at Boxed Wholesale. Jackie manages new customer marketing campaigns at Boxed - a mobile commerce startup enabling customers to buy wholesale goods conveniently through their app on mobile and tablet devices, as well as on their site <A HREF="http://boxed.com/" REL="nofollow"><SPAN>Boxed.com</SPAN></A>. Previously, as the Associate Director of Marketing at Quidsi (a subsidiary of Amazon), Jackie led marketing efforts for <A HREF="http://soap.com/" REL="nofollow"><SPAN>Soap.com</SPAN></A> and <A HREF="http://vinemarket.com/" REL="nofollow"><SPAN>Vinemarket.com</SPAN></A>, and prior to that spent 7 years at American Express across their Commercial Card and OPEN organizations. Jackie has a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and received her MBA from Columbia University.</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em;"></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: underline;"><STRONG>Ludivine Ni</STRONG></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em;"></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN>Ludivine is an Operations Manager at Boxed and works on developing Boxed's fresh products and perishables line of business. She holds a Master of Science in Operations Research from Columbia University and before that, studied engineering in France, her home country</SPAN></P>
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