Jonathan Spier is CEO of LeadCrunch, with 20+ years of experience in building category-leading companies, including two prior successful roles as a venture-backed CEO at NetBase and PLAE. At LeadCrunch, Spier has built on the company's early market momentum by accelerating go-to-market and new product development. In his 15 years as a venture-backed CEO, Spier has established his companies, PLAE and NetBase, as leaders in their respective categories, resulting in sustained market leadership, growth, and value creation. Under his leadership, PLAE was a pioneer in the emerging direct-to-consumer business model, building a thriving customer community and a best-in-class digital marketing engine. Under Spier's leadership at NetBase, the company developed the world's most advanced and most scalable natural language processing (NLP) technology, defining the market for Social Media Analytics, the category it still leads today. Spier holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science with honors from UC Berkeley and an MBA with honors from the Harvard Business School.
