Eamonn Bulanadi, Community Manager & Lead Sales

NVSTly is a free, interactive social investing platform where traders track, share, and copy trades in real time. It features in-depth stats, global leaderboards, broker integration for auto-tracking, and a fast-growing Discord community, empowering retail investors with data, insights, and social-driven strategies. Available for stocks, options, futures, forex, & cryptocurrency markets.

Briefly describe the nominated individual: history and past performance (up to 1,250 characters):

Eamonn joined NVSTly in early 2023, taking on a hybrid role that spanned community management, technical onboarding, and sales outreach. With a strong background in both retail trading and community engagement, he quickly became the bridge between our product team and the traders we serve.

Early on, Eamonn helped define how we positioned NVSTly to Discord communities - crafting our first bot documentation, designing onboarding flows, and personally demoing features to community leaders. He established the groundwork for our Discord growth strategy, which remains our most effective acquisition channel.

Before July 2023, Eamonn had already onboarded dozens of key Discord servers and built relationships with influencers and signal providers that brought in some of NVSTly's most active users. He also played a key role in refining our messaging and feature set by relaying user feedback to the product team, contributing directly to improved activation and retention.

His ability to communicate both technical functionality and community value made him the ideal lead for sales engineering - and set the foundation for his high-impact performance in the months that followed.

Outline the nominee's achievements since July 1, 2023 that you wish to bring to the judges' attention (up to 1,500 characters):

Since July 1, 2023, Eamonn has led NVSTly's technical sales outreach and community growth with outstanding results. As both our Community Manager and lead sales engineer, he has become the front line for engaging new users, onboarding communities, and translating NVSTly's technical capabilities into real-world value for traders.

Eamonn has personally reached out to hundreds of trading-focused Discord communities, as well as individual finfluencers, social traders, and signal providers across Discord and social media. He explains the value of NVSTly's real-time trade sharing, deep performance analytics, and community leaderboard features - and walks each prospect through setup, use cases, and integration with their existing systems.

His outreach and hands-on onboarding have directly resulted in:

• Over 1,000 new users attributed to his efforts
• Hundreds of Discord servers adopting the NVSTly bot
• Dozens of paid user conversions, including premium feature activation and brokerage-linked accounts

He has also collected continuous feedback from the field and worked with the product team to prioritize improvements that make onboarding smoother and better tailored to the needs of power users and signal providers.

Eamonn doesn't just sell the product - he ensures it fits. His technical knowledge, user-first mindset, and relentless outreach have made him an irreplaceable part of NVSTly's growth engine and a model for how sales engineers can scale early-stage adoption through high-touch, high-trust engagement.

Explain why the achievements you have highlighted are unique or significant. If possible compare the achievements to the performance of other players in your industry and/or to the organization's past performance (up to 1,500 characters):

Eamonn's achievements are especially significant because he has driven technical sales success in a way that is uncommon for early-stage startups - where teams are lean, products are evolving rapidly, and there's little to no ad budget or established brand recognition.

Unlike traditional sales engineers working with structured enterprise pipelines or polished products, Eamonn is operating in the fast-paced, trust-sensitive world of trading communities. Despite this, he has successfully onboarded hundreds of Discord communities, converted over 1,000 users, and directly influenced dozens of paid upgrades - all through personalized, hands-on outreach and deep technical understanding of NVSTly's offering.

Where other platforms in our space typically rely on aggressive influencer deals, affiliate payouts, or ad spend to drive growth, Eamonn has earned adoption through genuine relationship-building and trusted education. His ability to explain technical features like brokerage integration, trader stats dashboards, and real-time alerts to non-technical audiences (often skeptical signal providers or finfluencers) sets him apart.

Compared to his own early performance, Eamonn's impact since July 2023 has been exponential - more than doubling his outreach results, while also improving the quality of communities brought into the NVSTly ecosystem.

His work proves that sales engineering isn't just about explaining features - it's about creating lasting value and trust through technical clarity and user empathy.

Reference any attachments of supporting materials throughout this nomination and how they provide evidence of the claims you have made in this nomination (up to 1,500 characters):

While we've included strong supporting materials to validate Eamonn's contributions, it's important to acknowledge some limitations in attribution.

Unfortunately, there is no system-level way to track exactly how many Discord servers Eamonn has successfully invited NVSTly's bot into. The bot's backend does not log server origin attribution by inviter, so we're unable to provide exact server counts tied to his outreach. However, the overall growth in Discord bot installations and total users on the NVSTly platform shows a clear, sustained increase aligned with his outreach efforts since July 2023.

The user referral count shown in the attached image reflects only first-hand referrals - users who signed up directly through Eamonn's unique invite links. This metric does not include second-order referrals (i.e., users who were invited by his referred users), which we know to be a meaningful portion of NVSTly's viral growth.

To provide additional evidence:

• We've included a combined growth chart showing increases in both user signups and Discord bot server count since 2023.
• We've also attached a collection of ratings and reviews from app stores, top.gg, and Disboard. While these do not mention Eamonn by name, they reflect overall product satisfaction and user trust - which his outreach and support have directly contributed to.

Together, these materials provide meaningful, albeit conservative, evidence of the scope and impact of Eamonn's work.