Trevor Sumner

CEO at i-Genie.ai

Speaker

Trevor Sumner is a NYC-based entrepreneur with multiple successful exits, early stage investor and advisor. He is the CEO of i-Genie.ai, which synthesizes hundreds of billions of Google Searches, online reviews, social and video posts to provide next generation consumer insights, brand equity tracking, market trends and product R&D ideas for the most iconic consumer products companies such as Unilever, Coca-Cola, Kenvue, Clorox and more.

He served as the Head of AI and Data Platform Products at Raydiant, the leading in-store experience platform. Raydiant acquired Perch, where Mr. Sumner served as CEO. Perch won numerous Clio, Digi, Edison, Fast Company and retail design awards and was named one of the 15 tech companies to watch by Forbes. Mr. Sumner has been named a Top 100 Retail Industry Influencer from Rethink Retail, a Top 50 Retail Technology Thought Leader by Retail Tech Innovation Hub and the Most Influential CEO in Visual Merchandizing by Corporate Vision.

Trevor has been an investor, advisor and operator for cutting-edge technology companies for 20+ years with multiple successful exits and is a regular contributor to business and technology publications such as Inc, Forbes, and TechCrunch. He runs a small, early-stage investment and advisory firm called Summoner that has a portfolio of several dozen startups and is a lead mentor in the prestigious ERA Accelerator in New York City.

Trevor is a native New Yorker, an avid fisherman (he caught a 600 lb Black Marlin), an amateur chef and an adventure scuba diver, who has dived on every continent including Antarctica.