Joe Hyrkin

Operating Advisor

Joe is a CEO Coach, Tech Advisor and Investor and has more than 30 years of experience in start up and growth technology leadership globally covering stints in Silicon Valley, New York, Asia, and Europe, from early stage through to IPO including two exists to leading global digital platforms.

Joe served as the CEO of Issuu, a massive digital publishing and content transformation and distribution platform for over 11 years, leading the company to a successful 9 figure exit in July of 2024.

Prior to Issuu he served as CEO of Wordnik/Reverb, an early stage NLP driven content recommendation engine and as  interim CEO of SingleFeed, a profitable e-commerce feed optimization product which was acquired by Alibaba.

In 2010, Joe completed a role as EIR with Trinity Ventures, focusing on next generation social commerce, community, crowdsourcing and social media.

Before Trinity, Joe held roles that included: SVP of Sales and BD at Gaia Online,  BD for Multimedia Search & Flickr at Yahoo!, VP, Strategic Accounts and Asia Pacific at publicly listed company, Virage Inc, a provider of video search and publishing software, Sina.com(creator of Weibo) and The Economist Group Asia Pacific.