Meet the team

Founders

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  Net Kohen

  Co-Founder & CEO

  link.me/net

  Net co-founded Linkme in 2019 with Val Share, his childhood neighbor from Aventura, Florida. He started building Minecraft servers at 13, moved into web and app development, and founded NXTGEN in 2018 before Linkme. He is a member of the Forbes Technology Council.
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  Val Share

  Co-Founder & COO

  link.me/val

  Val co-founded Linkme with Net and runs the company’s day-to-day operations. The two had already built an event app together, and the hassle of swapping contact details at those events became the idea behind Linkme. His goal: people saying “give me your Linkme” instead of “give me your number.”
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  Dre Medici

  Co-Founder & CMO

  link.me/dremedici

  Dre joined Linkme as a co-founder to drive user acquisition and now leads marketing. A Miami serial entrepreneur, he is also CEO of Grow With Us Agency, a social media growth agency, and co-founded the restaurant Luna Pasta e Dolci. He keynotes The Business Show US 2026 on growing organically on social.

Leadership

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  Dan Lansman

  Managing Director

  link.me/dan

  Dan brings more than two decades of South Florida marketing leadership to Linkme. He co-founded 1 Touch Marketing in 2003, served as President and a board director of Options Media Group after it acquired the company, and went on to lead BMI Elite and co-found Site Impact. He started his career at Equifax Marketing Services and holds a B.S. in Business and Economics from Florida State University.
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  Ytzhak (Juan) Garfunkel

  Chief Technology Officer

  link.me/garfunkel

  Ytzhak leads engineering at Linkme, where he scaled the platform from 10 million to 200 million monthly visitors. His team builds and runs the iOS, Android and web apps along with the infrastructure behind Post to All, Automations, Monetize and Linkme AI. Coding since age nine, he also completed a postgraduate program in AI and Machine Learning at Caltech.
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  Kedem Baraness

  Chief Business Officer

  link.me/kedem

  Kedem joined Linkme to lead partnerships and hospitality, building the creator, brand and venue relationships that put Linkme in front of new audiences. He now oversees business development across the company. Before Linkme he ran his own marketing agency. His motto: ABC, always be closing.
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  Benya Schwartzman

  VP Business

  link.me/benya

  Benya joined Linkme in 2025 as Head of Growth for the marketplace and now leads the business side of the platform. He came from running organic social content campaigns for businesses and creators, where he concluded that social content is the new infrastructure of attention. He writes about building a digital identity on purpose.