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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CTO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Abhay Parasnis
CTO & EVP of Adobe
Abhay Parasnis is the chief technology officer and executive vice president of [Adobe](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/adobe-systems#/entity), a software company that provides digital marketing and media solutions. Previously, he was the senior vice president of the same company. Parasnis served as the president and chief operating officer of Kony before he joined Adobe. Parasnis holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and telecommunications from College of Engineering, Pune. He resides in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Daniel Griffin
Co-Founder and CTO of MainStreet
Daniel Griffin is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of MainStreet. Prior to that, he was the Founder of Peak Podcasting.
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About MainStreet: MainStreet is a financial platform that helps startups and small businesses discover and claim tax credits and government incentives.
Justin J. Moses
CTO of Synthetix
Justin is a software engineer from Australia, having moved to NYC back in 2010. He’s been working as a software engineer since the Dotcom days, most recently as Director of Engineering at MongoDB before joining Synthetix as CTO full time in 2018.
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About Synthetix: A cryptoasset-backed network that enables the creation of on-chain synthetic assets.
Chris Ostrowski
Chief Technology Officer of Dutchie
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About Dutchie, Function: Dutchie provides an all-in-one technology platform that powers dispensary operations.
Laurent Perrin
CTO and Co-Founder of Front
Laurent Perrin is the CTO and co-founder at Front.
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About Front: Front is the leader in customer communication that brings teams together to offer tailor-made service at scale
Adam Marcus
Co-Founder and CTO of B12
Adam is a co-founder and CTO of B12. Previously, he was Director of Data at Locu, a startup that was acquired by GoDaddy. He has written widely on crowdsourcing and data management and processing, including co-authoring a book, “Crowdsourced Data Management: Industry and Academic Perspectives.” Prior to that, he completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT. His dissertation is on database systems and human computation. He is a recipient of the NSF and NDSEG fellowships, and has previously worked at ITA, Google, IBM, and FactSet. In his free time, he builds course content to get people excited about data and programming.
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About B12: B12 offers website building, contact management, online scheduling, payments, invoicing, and SEO services.
Conrad Irwin
Co-Founder & CTO of Superhuman
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About Superhuman: Superhuman is a software platform that weaves social insights into a workflow.
Reid Williams
Co-Founder & CTO of TravelBank
Reid Williams is CTO at TravelBank. He is an entrepreneur and full stack technologist. Prior to joining TravelBank, Reid worked at Parature as senior software engineer. Reid Williams holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems specializing in systems integration from DeVry University and a master’s degree in Information Systems Technology from The George Washington University – School of Business.
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About TravelBank: TravelBank is the modern all-in-one business travel and expense management platform.
Elad Kolet
Co-Founder & CTO of Lively
Elad is a technology leader with more than 15 years of experience in software engineering. Most recently Elad ran the North America Solutions Engineering team at Facebook where he managed a team of 32 full-stack engineers responsible for building Facebook’s advertising products. Prior to working at Facebook, Elad worked as an Engineering Lead at Microsoft, driving the development of Windows Azure. Before Microsoft, Elad was a Senior Software Engineer at RiT technologies LTD., where he designed and built network products used by large corporate clients including Goldman Sachs UK and Morgan Stanley UK. Elad was raised in Israel and spent four years as a software engineer in the Israeli Intelligence Corps’ Unit 8200, an incubator of tech talent whose alumni have gone on to found numerous technology companies. Elad earned his BS in Computer Science from the Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Yaffo.
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About Lively: Lively’s mission is to democratize, simplify and de-stigmatize the adoption and use of technically advanced hearing aids.
Mickey Alon
CTO and Founder of Gainsight PX of Gainsight
Mickey Alon is the founder and CTO of Gainsight PX (previously Aptrinsic), the Product Experience Platform. He is a serial entrepreneur focused on designing, building and launching innovative products that help drive business outcomes. Before joining Gainsight through the acquisition of Aptrinsic, Mickey was Global VP of Engineering where he led the global engineering and product management for their web personalization and predictive content solutions. He is also the CEO and Co-Founder of Insightera, a personalization and predictive analytics software, which was acquired by Marketo in 2013. He also co-authored Mastering Product Experience in SaaS – a book on delivering personalized product experiences with a product-led go-to-market strategy.
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About Aptrinsic, Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Steve Ellis
Chief Technology Officer of SmartContract
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About SmartContract: Smart Contracts verify an execute themselves by monitoring external data sources.
Mark Russinovich
CTO, Microsoft Azure of Microsoft
Mark Russinovich is Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s global enterprise-grade cloud platform. A widely recognized expert in distributed systems and operating systems, Mark earned a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He later co-founded Winternals Software, joining Microsoft in 1996 when the company was acquired. Today he remains the primary author of the Sysinternals tools and website, which include dozens of popular Windows administration and diagnostic utilities. Mark is a popular speaker at industry conferences such as IPExpo, Microsoft Ignite and Build, and RSA Conference. He has also authored several nonfiction and fiction books, including the Microsoft Press Windows Internals book series, as well as fictional cyber security thrillers Zero Day, Trojan Horse and Rogue Code.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Jose Valls
CTO Process Mfg. & Energy of Microsoft
Jose Valls is Microsoft CTO Process Manufacturing and Energy, including O&G, Power & Utilities. Jose started his career as software engineer, and he has 34 years’ experience in Automation Solutions and IIoT focused on Industrial manufacturing in process industries like Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities, Refining, chemicals, petrochemicals, Metals & Mining and Buildings Automation. He has a strong international background having serve in executive lead roles in Europe, South Asia, Latin America and USA. Jose joined Microsoft in 2014 working as IoT Solution Architect and IIoT Strategist leader responsible to build strong engagements with partners and support countless engagements, solutions and digital transformations. He is based in Redmond, Washington State. Jose is focusing on Microsoft technology and cloud platform for Microsoft’s largest customers in the energy industries in today’s markets conditions. His years of experience in the energy industry makes him valuable resource is several advisory boards and chairman of councils with key partners. His technical experience provides him with unique insights into the highly engineered technologies Microsoft provides to its Partners and customers.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Dave Campbell
Chief Technology Officer, Cloud & Enterprise of Microsoft
Dave Campbell helps formulate, implement and communicate Microsoft’s cloud strategy. Over the last five years he has focused on the Azure platform and Microsoft’s Big Data strategy. Since joining Microsoft in 1994, he has primarily focused on data management challenges and held a variety of product development roles within the SQL Server team. Campbell has over 25 years of enterprise software experience.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Sarah Novotny
Open Source Wonk, Azure Office of the CTO of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Lorraine Bardeen
VP and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) WW Enterprise and Commercial Industries of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Kay Williams
Azure Office of the CTO – Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Kay is a Principal Program Manager in the Enterprise Open Source Group at Microsoft. Her team works to accelerate the pace of innovation on Linux in Azure. Kay spends her time collaborating across teams to design, develop and contribute new features to Linux; to simplify Linux configuration and deployment (including containers); to benchmark and tune performance; and to partner with support and customers to provide the best possible Linux experience. Kay has over 25 years’ experience including 13 years at Microsoft and 13 years in Linux-based startups.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Kevin Scott
CTO of Microsoft
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About Microsoft, Sequoia Capital (SSF): Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Jeffrey Snover
CTO for Modern Workforce Transformation of Microsoft
Jeffrey is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell. He joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction across Microsoft’s management technologies and products. He has over 30 years of industry experience with a focus on management technologies and solutions. He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a variety of cloud, management, and language topics.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Raghu Ramakrishnan
CTO for Data of Microsoft
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About Microsoft, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Victor Bahl
Technical Fellow & Chief Technology Officer, Azure for Operators of Microsoft
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About Microsoft, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Victor Bahl
Technical Fellow & Chief Technology Officer, Azure for Operators of Microsoft
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About Microsoft, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Steven Tamm
CTO of Salesforce
CTO, salesforce.com, directing technical product strategy across all clouds and divisions. Previously CTO for CRM Appilcations and Technical Architect for Force.com Checkout at salesforce. Prior to salesforce, he worked at Open Text, SAP Markets, and Calico Commerce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Charlie Isaacs
CTO for Customer Connection of Salesforce
Charlie Isaacs has a track record of R&D leadership, starting with GTE (Verizon) where he served as VP of Engineering/Operations and headed a group of over 200 engineers working on Government and commercial applications. Following GTE, Mr. Isaacs held R&D leadership positions at Answer Systems (acquired by Computer Associates), Broad Daylight (sold to Primus Knowledge, then ATG and then Oracle), and CTO and CCO at Kana Software, Inc. and then Alcatel-Lucent/Genesys Global Innovations Group where he filed several Mobile patents and guided several Customer Service applications. Charlie joined Salesforce in 2012 and is VP and CTO for Customer Connection. Charlie’s primary role is to incubate IoT projects for Salesforce Customers; he evangelizes and speaks worldwide about IoT and Customer Service. Mr. Isaacs holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA from California Lutheran University.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Peter Wang
Co-Founder & CTO of Anaconda
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About Anaconda, Anaconda: Anaconda is a data science platform and the foundation of modern machine learning.
Jeremy Suriel
CTO & Founder of Kustomer
Jeremy is a seasoned tech founder with a deep knowledge and expertise in software development & architecture.Jeremy was Co-founder and Chief Architect of Assistly. Previously he was a Co-founder of eAssist, then a Co-founder & CTO at Goowy Media which was acquired by AOL.
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About Kustomer: Kustomer is an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM platform specializing in customer service.
John Bicket
CTO of Samsara
John is responsible for Samsara’s disruptive technology that makes operating thousands of sensors simple and secure. Prior to co-founding Samsara, John co-founded Meraki, where he was CTO and VP of Engineering.At Meraki, he built a cloud-based platform combining analytics, big data, and security that transformed how customers deployed and managed enterprise networks. Starting Meraki out of his Ph.D. research at MIT, John and his team built integrated hardware, software, and cloud-based infrastructure that fueled continued 100% annual sales growth. Meraki’s platform scaled to connect millions of network devices across over 140 countries. After Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion, John led Meraki as Cisco’s fastest-growing cloud product. John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University and an S.M. in Computer Science from MIT.
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Ben Calderon
CTO Hardware, Operations and Support of Samsara
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Larry Ellison
Chief Technology Officer of Oracle
Larry Ellison is executive chairman of Oracle Corporation and chief technology officer. He founded the company in 1977 and served as CEO until September 2014. He also races sailboats, flies planes, and plays tennis and guitar.
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About Lawrence Investments, Oracle, Oracle Corporation Japan, Tako Ventures: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Peter Mattis
CTO and VP of Engineering of Cockroach Labs
I am a cofounder of Cockroach Labs where I work on a bit of everything, from low level optimization of code to refining the overall design. I was thrust into file systems early in my career at Inktomi and then learned the true meaning of scalability while working on Gmail and Colossus at Google. Before stepping into the office in the morning I will have nursed my CrossFit addiction and dealt with the chaos of a three kid morning routine. You can set your watch by my daily departure at 5:30 pm to have dinner with my family.
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About Cockroach Labs: Cockroach Labs is a software company that develops a cloud-native SQL database for modern cloud applications.
Robert Conrad
CTO of Crunchbase
Robert Conrad has been serving as Head of Engineering at Crunchbase since October 2015.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Shlomo Dalezman
CTO/Co-Founder of Intello
Shlomo is CTO/Co-founder of PlatformWatch. He previously was a Senior Full Stack Engineer at The Muse.
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About Intello: Intello’s SaaS operations platform enables companies to discover, manage, secure & optimize their SaaS applications
Robert Osborn
TitleChief Technology Officer, Global Governments of ServiceNow
Bob Osborn is Chief Technology Officer – Federal for ServiceNow. Bob is an accomplished senior executive who has held many high level IT leadership positions, including director of Logistics IT for the U.S. Army G4, Deputy J6/CIO for U.S. Transportations Command, Deputy CIO at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and CIO of the National Nuclear Security Administration. He has led major IT and organizational transformations throughout his career and is a thought leader recognized across the public sector market. As a user of ServiceNow, Bob led ITIL based Enterprise Service Management standardization within the Department of Energy. Bob also served as a United States Marine Corps officer for 27 years.
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About ServiceNow: ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations.
David Bill
CTO of Freestyle
David Bill is the CTO at Freestyle Capital.
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About Burning Man Project, First Round Capital, Freestyle: Freestyle is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology companies.
Arie Trouw
CEO & CTO & Founder of XYO
Ten years before Elon Musk wrote his first line of computer code, another young prodigy from South Africa was busy writing software on his TRS-80 Model I. In 1978, at the age of 10, Arie Trouw started developing software on the TRS-80 Model I, moving on to Atari, Apple, and PC. He then ran a series of bulletin boards centering on game-theory modification. Arie is an accomplished serial entrepreneur with a rich history of technological breakthroughs and business successes involving multiple 8-figure exit events. He is a strong believer in decentralization and the creation of the integrated owner/user model. Arie founded XY in 2012 (incorporated as Ength Degree, LLC before it was converted to a C Corporation in 2016). He currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Prior to starting XY-The Findables Company, Arie was CEO and Chairman of Pike Holdings Inc and Chief Technology Officer of Tight Line Technologies LLC. He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the New York Institute of Technology. Fun Fact: He is a member of one of the first Afrikaans speaking families to emigrate to the US from South Africa in 1976.
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About XY Labs, XY – The Persistent Company, XYO: XYO is a decentralized crypto-location oracle network aiming to provide accurate location data from cars to smartphones.
Alex DeNeui
Co-founder and CTO of Coda
Before founding DocVerse, Alex spent 3 years at Microsoft where he drove SQL Server’s web strategy. His efforts led to the creation and shipping of several technologies including services like SQL Server Data Services. Prior to Microsoft, he founded a Kleiner Perkins-backed enterprise software company delivering IT automation services. He graduated from MIT with a degree in computer science.
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About Coda: Coda is a document collaboration platform that brings data and teams together.
Roy Duvall
Chief Technology Officer of Calendly
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About Calendly: Calendly is a modern scheduling platform that helps individuals, teams, and organizations automate meeting by removing the back and forth.
Michael Egorov
Co-founder & CTO of NuCypher
Michael Egorov is the Founder & CEO at Curve Finance.Michael is a physicist and scientist from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. A bronze medalist in the 2003 International Physics Olympiad, he studied ultra-cold atoms as a post-doc.
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About Curve Finance, LoanCoin, NuCypher: NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
Travis Brodeen
Co-founder & CTO of Newchip
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About Newchip: Newchip is a global Remote Startup Accelerator.
Don Prodehl
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice president Technology of EVERFI
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About EVERFI: EVERFI is an education technology company that provides learners of all ages education for the real world.
Jon Brelig
Co-Founder, CTO of Cascade
Jon Brelig is the Co-Founder and CTO at Cascade.
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About Cascade: Cascade helps operations teams automate their data workflows.
Kevin Cho
CTO/Co-founder of AWAIR
Kevin Cho is a Founder & CTO at Bitfinder.
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About AWAIR: Awair’s mission is to empower people worldwide to breathe safely through cutting-edge indoor air quaity monitoring.
Jessica McKellar
Founder and CTO of Pilot
Jessica McKellar is a founder and the CTO of Pilot, a bookkeeping firm powered by software. Previously, she was a founder and the VP of Engineering for a real-time collaboration startup acquired by Dropbox, where she then served as a Director of Engineering. Before that, she was a computer nerd at MIT who joined her friends at Ksplice, a company building a service for rebootless kernel updates on Linux that was acquired by Oracle. Jessica is also a former Director for the Python Software Foundation and PyCon North America’s Diversity Outreach Chair. For her outreach efforts in the Python community, she was awarded the O’Reilly Open Source Award in 2013.
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About Pilot: Pilot is a platform that offers bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for growing businesses.
Ankur Bulsara
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Scopely
Ankur Bulsara co-founded Scopely, Inc. in 2011 and serves as its Chief Technical Officer. Ankur Bulsara oversees all aspects of technology and engineering at Scopely. He has experience in building large-scale and robust systems used by millions of people across multiple platforms. Ankur Bulsara has over 10 years of experience in technology, development, and architecture. He was the Founder of Brainwave Software Inc. While consulting, he held several different positions with his clients, including Architect of Revenue and Inventory Optimization at uSamp, Architect/Lead Developer at Internships LLC, and Architect at Freedom Speaks. Since 2007, he was the Lead Software Developer on Myspace’s Developer Platform, where he was responsible for the developer website and the portal dashboard for developers to create and managed Myspace apps. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Cornell University.
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Vlad Vendrow
CTO of RingCentral
Vlad Vendrow is the co-founder and chief technology officer of RingCentral, where he is the key architect of the RingCentral cloud phone solution. In this position, he is responsible for enabling RingCentral’s innovation while maintaining overall design to ensure the scalability and availability of the RingCentral solution. Prior to RingCentral, Vendrow served as the director of engineering at Ring Zero Systems and Motorola. His accomplishments include leading the development of the Ring Zero phone and fax communications software that shipped over 25 million copies worldwide. Vendrow has been granted more than a dozen patents in the areas of unified communications, fixed-mobile convergence and cloud services. He holds a master’s degree in computer science and applied mathematics from Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Eric Tang
Chief Technology Officer of Livepeer
Co-founder and CTO at Wildcard
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About Groupon, Hyperpublic, Livepeer, Wildcard: Livepeer develops and operates a platform for decentralized live video broadcast on the Internet.
Chris Smoak
Co-founder, CTO of Atrium LTS
Chris Smoak is the Co-founder and CTO at Atrium LTS.
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About Atrium LTS, Volume11 Media: Atrium builds products and services to help automate legal workflows, innovate new processes, and help firms identify new clients.
Dmitri Cherniak
Founder and CTO of Chargehound
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About Chargehound: Chargehound is a comprehensive chargeback solution that makes handling disputes easy.
Adam Perry-Pelletier
Co-founder & CTO of Housecall Pro
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About Housecall Pro: Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners.
Aditya Jami
Chief Technology Officer of Meltwater
Aditya Jami is the Chief Technology Officer of Meltwater, responsible for overall technical strategy and overseeing the company’s AI & Data science initiatives across all product lines. He works very closely with the CEO on acquisitions, and leads their architectural integration. During Aditya’s tenure, he has been responsible for leading the transformation of underlying media intelligence technology into an expanded, data science platform – Fairhair.ai – which powers Meltwater’s products across multiple business lines. Prior to joining Meltwater in 2016 as Senior Director of Engineering, Aditya has created and led several efforts to translate his expertise in the fields of artificial intelligence and Big Data for end-to-end products and platform offerings, including: Yahoo, Netflix, Stanford, Cornell and a startup he co-founded, Predict Effect.
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About Meltwater: Meltwater is a media Intelligence & social listening tools for measuring, managing and magnifying corporate reputation.
Shabd Vaid
Co-Founder, CTO of Strikedeck
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About Strikedeck: Strikedeck is building a revolutionary Customer Success automation solution to deliver an outstanding customer experience.
Jakob Ehrensvard
CTO & Co-Founder of Yubico
Built his first computer at the age of 15, self-employed software and hardware engineer since 19, designed the security system for Sweden’s largest nuclear plant at 25. Leading inventor of the YubiKey and FIDO/WebAuthn standards.
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About Yubico: Yubico offers USB and wireless authentication solutions.
Mark Wheeler
CTO of DeepMap
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About DeepMap: DeepMap is accelerating safe autonomy by providing the world’s best autonomous mapping and localization solutions.
Shaul Kfir
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Digital Asset
Shaul is a software engineer with a background in research cryptography, implementing Zero Knowledge Proof protocols for Secure Computational Integrity and Privacy (SCIP). He served as CTO for two previous startups in Tel Aviv. Prior to his involvement in cryptography, Shaul served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Israeli Navy, leading diverse professional teams across challenging environments. Shaul was also a team member of the SCIPR cryptography lab and a visiting scientist at MIT CSAIL.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Lincoln Wallen
CTO of Improbable
Lincoln is chief technology officer for DreamWorks Animation, the global family entertainment company, a position he has held since 2012, having joined the company as head of research and development in 2008. Prior to this, Lincoln served as chief technology officer for the mobile business of Electronic Arts, Inc., a leading interactive entertainment software company. He has held senior positions at Criterion Software, MathEngine plc and is a non-executive director of the Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics & System Engineering. Lincoln is also an advisory board member of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and a member of the STEM Advisory Committee of the National Academy foundation. Lincoln was formerly a lecturer and reader in computation at the University of Oxford.
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About Caltech, Improbable: Improbable is a UK-based games technology company that is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help problems.
Jeff Kowalski
SVP, CTO & VP; Senior Director, Worldwide Subscription Programs & Engineering of Autodesk
As a member of the senior executive team, Jeff Kowalski is responsible for shaping Autodesk’s long-term technology vision and driving innovation across the company. He and his team are responsible for shaping Autodesk’s technology and innovation strategies, developing emerging technologies into customer capabilities, and exploring and enhancing the big ideas that are important to Autodesk. A seasoned entrepreneur, he has earned a reputation for facilitating a rich diversity of technical, business, and entrepreneurial ideas from diverse sources, including engineers, technologists, marketers, policy experts, and others. The Office of the CTO includes Autodesk Research, dedicated to innovation and discovery to help solve some of the world’s most complex design problems. The team openly collaborates with researchers at leading universities around the world though exploration of areas critical to Autodesk’s future. Corporate Strategy and Engagement, which develops Autodesk’s corporate strategy and creates thought leadership content and conversations at the intersection of design, technology, business, and societal issues. Autodesk Labs, which connects the latest Autodesk technology with early-adopter customers. Prior to being named CTO in 2006, Kowalski served as Senior Director of Autodesk’s Worldwide Subscription Programs, and directed product development within Autodesk’s Collaboration Services Division. He also served as Software Architect, directing the development of 3D Studio MAX, HEIDI, and the AutoCAD graphics system. Kowalski joined Autodesk in 1993. Kowalski holds a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, and a Master’s degree in computer science, both from Cornell University. When not CTO-ing, Jeff enjoys playing music and spending time with his family in Berkeley, California.
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About Autodesk, Singularity University, Tempo Automation: Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
Nisim Tal
Chief Technology Officer of DoubleVerify
Nisim is responsible for DoubleVerify’s global technology, software engineering, information security, infrastructure and corporate IT. Prior to joining DV, Nisim led global R&D teams for the Nielsen Company and built data mining, machine learning, content classification, reporting and analytics products to measure social presence for brands. Previously, he held key leadership positions at Buzzmetrics (acquired by Nielsen), as well as SAP, Cadence and Bullunz. Nisim brings over 15 years of online media, marketing and advertising experience, through a variety of technology leadership roles. Nisim obtained his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Academic College of Tel Aviv, where he graduated cum laude.
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About DoubleVerify: DoubleVerify is a software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics.
Bilal Aijazi
CTO and Co-Founder of Polly
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About Polly: Polly is a survey platform that makes it simple for anyone to engage with colleagues, capture feedback, and make more data-driven decisions.
Michael Klett
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Chargify
Michael is a former hardware engineer who designed circuit boards for Alcatel, and parts of the XBOX 360 CPU for IBM. After his adoption of Ruby on Rails, Michael left the hardware world in 2007 to pursue web development full-time. He launched his own company, Web Advocate, to create custom e-commerce sites and content management systems, and ran it for two years. Now, as co-founder & Technical Lead of Chargify, Michael leads all of Chargify’s development. He derives particular enjoyment from working on applications that help entrepreneurs. Michael holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Engineering from NC State University. In his free time, Michael enjoys playing soccer, snowboarding, and putting together puzzles with his daughter.
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About Chargify: Chargify is a subscription billing software service that offers a recurring billing and subscription management space.
Roy Feintuch
Cloud CTO of Check Point Software Technologies
Roy Feintuch is the Cloud CTO @ Check Point.
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About Check Point Software Technologies: Check Point Software Technologies provides and protects customers from cyberattacks.
Bo Zhu
CTO of BlinkAI
Bo Zhu’s current work centers on the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to accelerate high-fidelity image acquisition and reconstruction for imaging modalities across the physical and life sciences. Bo is a cofounder of BlinkAI, and a postdoctoral research fellow in Radiology at Harvard Medical School and in Physics at Harvard University, based at the A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his S.B. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT where his research at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) introduced the fusion of Doppler ultrasound and acoustic features for multimodal speech recognition, producing robust performance in noisy environments. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at MIT through the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, where his graduate research focused on the development of switchable MRI contrast for molecular imaging to significantly boost imaging sensitivity of injectable contrast agents. As a postdoctoral research fellow, Bo proposed AUTOMAP (Nature 2018), which rethinks the conventional image reconstruction signal processing pipeline with a fully automated deep learning approach, resulting in significantly improved images even with rapidly scanned low-quality raw data, and sets up a flexible computational foundation for accelerating the future development of novel image acquisition strategies and unconventional hardware designs.
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About BlinkAI: BlinkAI designs and develops artificial intelligence based application software to extract sensor information.
Tom Dixon
CTO of Yext
Tom serves as Yext’s Chief Operating Officer, supervising engineering and development of the company’s product portfolio. Prior to joining Yext, Tom founded justatip.com and co-founded Intwine. He also served as CIO of Datran Media during its acquisition of Intwine. Tom holds a degree in philosophy from Princeton University.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Karan Zaveri
Chief Technology Officer of 24/7 Software
Karan Zaveri leads 24/7 Software’s distributed global engineering teams, building scalable, reliable infrastructure and easy-to-use applications. Karan is responsible for driving the delivery and development of 24/7 Software platform’s long-term technology vision, as well as driving innovation across the company. An engineer and entrepreneur from an early age, Karan sold his first software at age 16. He has more than 12 years of experience in developing complex, scalable and distributed web applications. Prior to 24/7 Software, he was the founder of Computing Objectives, a Philadelphia- and India-based services company serving several Fortune 500 clients. Throughout his life as an engineer and entrepreneur, he has worn many hats and has vast knowledge in various facets of business including new business incubation, venture investing and building global, distributed engineering teams. Karan graduated with a BS, Computer Applications from Nagpur University, India. Karan’s insatiable curiosity sends him down a variety of Wikipedia and tech blog rabbit holes. When not CTO-ing, Karan enjoys exploring the myriad of cuisines available in his hometown of Miami, Florida.
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About 24/7 Software, New World Angels: 24/7 Software is a leading provider of operations management software solutions for operations centers.
John Roese
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Dell EMC
John Roese is Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. As EMC’s CTO, Roese leads EMC’s Corporate Office of Technology, which is responsible for defining the company’s technology vision and strategy. In his role, he works directly with EMC’s executive team and leading technologists to shape EMC’s technology strategy as the company embarks on its next phase of growth and leadership across three of the most transformative trends in IT: Cloud, Big Data and Trusted IT. Roese has more than 20 years of industry experience, including executive leadership of large scale, complex, global R&D organizations. His extensive systems background includes technical expertise in a wide range of related disciplines including storage, servers, networking, hardware design, silicon development, software design, systems and applications. He joined EMC in October 2012 from Huawei Technologies, where he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of the North American R&D Centers, responsible for advanced technology development across the entire product portfolio, including cloud computing and consumer technology. Before that, he held a series of senior leadership positions including CTO at Nortel Networks, Broadcom Corporation, Enterasys Networks, Inc. and Cabletron Systems. Roese earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. He holds more than 18 pending or granted patents in areas such as policy-based networking, location-based services and security. He has served on numerous boards, including ATIS, a leading ICT standards organization, OLPC, which aims to empower the world’s poorest children through education and access to a low-cost laptops, Blade Networks, now part of IBM System Networking, Pingtel, which delivers Unified Communication solutions and Bering Media, which focuses on location-based advertising.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Stephen Belair
Co-Founder & CTO of Xockets
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About Xockets: Xockets builds hardware and software acceleration into appliances for Big Data processing.
Eric Detterman
Chief Technology Officer of Green Key Technologies
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About Green Key Technologies, LexPredict: GreenKey is the voice-driven collaboration platform for financial markets: enhancing compliance and enabling sophisticated data analytics.
Kenneth Duda
Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Software Engineering of Arista Networks
Kenneth Duda is a pioneer in high-performance networking software and lead architect of Arista Networks EOS, a stateful modular operating system for all Arista Networks products. He is also the co-author of network virtualization specifications including VXLAN with VMware and NVGRE with Microsoft. From 2005 to 2008, Ken was also the Acting President of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista Networks, Ken was the CTO at There.com, where he played a lead role in designing a real-time 3-D distributed system that scaled to thousands of simultaneous users. Ken was also the first employee of Granite Systems and led the software development effort for the Catalyst 4000 product line after the acquisition by Cisco. Ken has 3 simultaneous engineering degrees from MIT and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Raaj Rajmangal
Chief Technology Officer of RelPro Inc.
Raaj Rajmangal is a Chief Technology Officer at RelPro, Inc
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About RelPro Inc.: RelPro offers businesses with leads, insights, and advisory services to establish and develop professional relationships.
Vic Cekvenich
CTO – COO of Apakau
I am a seasoned tech executive and entrepreneur with a proven track record of success. I have over thirty years experience combining a strong technical background and business leadership. I believe that technology must be developed solely to achieve business objectives and to satisfy market demands. I believe innovation happens with small and elite teams of superstars rather than with armies of mediocre players. I also believe that creating an environment of high innovation requires a culture of high-output based on merit; a place where people are rewarded for taking good risks.
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About Apakau: Apakau’s Cloud Proxy is an intelligent, edge-based networking solution that stops (DDoS) attacks against dynamic data.
Dave Brace
CTO of Detective
Dave Brace is Director of Technology at Buzz Referrals.
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About Buzz Digital (formerly Buzz Referrals), Detective: Detective is a digital adoption platform that automates the sales research process.
Dave Brace
CTO of Detective
Dave Brace is Director of Technology at Buzz Referrals.
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About Buzz Digital (formerly Buzz Referrals), Detective: Detective is a digital adoption platform that automates the sales research process.
Thor Muller
Cofounder & CTO of Origin.al
Thor is a technologist and serial entrepreneur, having founded five start-ups, including Get Satisfaction, a pioneering social platform connecting customers to products and brands. Prior to Off Grid Electric, he served as Get Satisfaction’s original CEO and later as its CTO, growing the business to serve over 70,000 customer communities. In 2012, he published a New York Times bestselling book, “Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business.” Thor is an alumnus of the University of Iowa.
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About Department of Reckless Abandon, MyVillage, Origin.al: Origin.al is a new way to represent a user’s work—projects and examples in real time.
Dario Vergara
CTO & Co-Founder of LendingFront
Formerly SVP of technology for OnDeck. Most recently, VP of Technology for Bonobos, the largest apparel brand ever built on the web in the US.
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About LendingFront: Small business lending software platform for banks and other financial institutions
Anirudh Pandit
Head of Americas Communication, Media and Technology Solution Engineering| Office of CTO of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Rupesh Ramachandran
Regional Executive – Office of the CTO of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft, MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Jake Morgan
Senior Director of Solutions Engineering – RCG – North America; Office of the CTO of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft, Open Web Application Security Project: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Dan Miller
CTO of hiQ Labs
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About hiQ Labs: hiQ Labs is a data science company, informed by public data sources, applied to human capital.
Amine Anoun
Co-Founder & CTO of Evisort
Amine Anoun is the co-founder and CTO of Evisort. Prior to that, he served as a data scientist at Uber.
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About Evisort: Evisort is an AI-powered contract management platform that provides visibility into any document.
Pere Monclus
VP & CTO Network and Security BU of VMware
Pere Monclus is the VP & CTO of Network and Security BU at VMware. Additionally, Pere Monclus has had 1 past job as the Founder and CTO at PLUMgrid.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Andrew Babakian
Principal Engineer, Networking & Security – Office of the CTO, Global Field of VMware
Andrew Babakian is a principal engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Tom Hite
Sr. Director, Accelerated Co-Innovation Engineering (ACE), Office of the CTO of VMware
Tom Hite is the Sr. Director, Accelerated Co-Innovation Engineering (ACE), Office of the CTO at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Jason Hsieh
IT CTO of VMware
Jason Hsieh is the IT CTO at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Joe Kinsella
CTO, CloudHealth of VMware
In his role as Chief Technology Officer and Founder of CloudHealth Technologies, Joe Kinsella focuses on CloudHealth’s vision to enable organizations to realize the full potential of cloud computing without having to sacrifice cost, availability, continuity, or service level. He sees CloudHealth bringing the cloud to the enterprise in a new paradigm of cloud adoption with IT service management for the cloud. Joe has 20+ years of experience in delivering commercial software for both startups and large enterprises. He was previously VP of Engineering at the Amazon-backed cloud archiving company Sonian, where he developed and managed large scale cloud infrastructure spanning multiple public clouds. He was also a managing director at Dell, where he led global engineering teams delivering multiple software as a service (SaaS) products. Joe was also Vice President of Engineering at SilverBack Technologies, where he helped pioneer remote management software, acquired by Dell in 2007. He is an advisor to the University of Massachusetts Boston Entrepreneur Center, and blogs at High Tech in the Hub.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Constantine Polychronopoulos
VP and CTO, Telco/NFV of VMware
Constantine Polychronopoulos is Vice President and CTO of the Telco/NFV business unit at VMware driving the company’s innovations in the NFV, SDN and telco cloud infrastructure domains. Previously, he served as Vice President and CTO, at Citrix Systems responsible for the Bytemobile product line, the SDN/NFV strategy, and for the expansion of the Netscaler ADC, into the service provider markets. In 2000 he founded Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in wireless network optimization and data services, which he grew to about 350 employees and over 160 mobile network operator customers, before it was acquired by Citrix Systems in 2012. At Bytemobile he served on the BOD and was the CTO, responsible for all products (establishing and leading development teams in four sites), expansion strategy, M&A, go-to-market planning and led sales in several strategic accounts. Among his many innovations were the first streaming video optimization platform, deployed in more than 100 operator networks world-wide, novel analytics solutions, and a framework that enabled Bytemobile to optimize encrypted traffic. Before founding Bytemobile he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and director of the Center for Supercomputing R&D, where he directed the research of more than 70 PhD and MS students, and conducted research that produced novel solutions for compilers, operating systems and networking protocols, including the first cloud computing platform in 1999, the Computational Network Federations. Dr. Polychronopoulos’ research results have been used in commercial software and hardware systems by Intel, Cray, Silicon Graphics, Convex, HP, and other high performance software and networking system vendors. He holds 10 patents and has published more than 160 research papers on multithreading compilers, OS, distributed and cloud computing, wireless networks and mobile computing. Seven of his publications have received “Best Paper” awards at ACM and IEEE conferences. He has consulted extensively for many software and hardware companies including Intel, IBM, Silicon Graphics, HP, Kubota, NKK etc. Dr. Polychronopoulos has received various awards and recognitions including the 1989 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award by President George Bush, the 1998 Bodossaki Foundation Award in Engineering, and was named a Pascal Chair at the University of Leiden in 2000 and a Fijitsu Endowed Professor at the University of Tokyo in 1992. In 2015 he was named one of the 50 innovators of the Computer Science Dept. of the University of Illinois, and in 2010 was named among the “Power 50” in wireless industry by Wireless Today magazine in the UK. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, his MS in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and his BSc in Math/CS from the University of Athens.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Nicola Acutt
Vice President, Sustainability Strategy – Office of the CTO of VMware
Nicola Acutt, vice president of sustainability strategy, office of the chief technology officer, at VMware.
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About The Aspen Institute, VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Marc Fleischmann
CTO of VMware
Marc Fleischmann is the CTO at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Greg Lavender
SVP & CTO of Cloud Architecture of VMware
Greg Lavender serves as senior vice president and CTO of Cloud Architecture at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Dennis Moreau
Senior Engineering Architect for CyberSecurity and Compliance – OCTO of VMware
Dennis Moreau is a Senior Engineering Architect at VMware, focusing on security innovation in highly dynamic utility computing environments. Moreau has over three decades of experience in the representation, visualization, analysis and control of complex system behavior and security. He has been a Sr. Technology Strategist at EMC/RSA, a founder/CTO of Configuresoft (now a VMware technology), the CTO Baylor College of Medicine, and a tenured Computer Science faculty member, with research sponsored by NASA/Jet Propoulsion Laboratories, Bell Laboratories, IBM, the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine and the National Science Foundation. He holds a doctorate in Computer Science and speaks regularly at security conferences worldwide.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Amanda Blevins
Sr. Director & Chief Technologist, Office of the CTO of VMware
Amanda Blevins, Chief Technologist in the Office of the CTO at VMware, ensures the success of customers and partners through customer intimacy, field engagement, and unifying R&D. She leads the Office of the CTO Global Field and CTO Ambassador Programs to bring innovation and change to VMware. She has successfully run programs that develop stronger partnerships with VMware customers and programs that enable VMware employees on technology, trends, and customer experiences.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Simon Kofkin-Hansen
CTO, IBM Cloud of VMware
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About IBM, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Richard Brunner
CTO, Server Platform Technologies of VMware
Richard Brunner is a principal engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Ray O’Farrell
EVP & CTO of VMware
Ray O’Farrell joined VMware in April 2003 and leads engineering efforts companywide, bringing more than 20 years of software development and leadership experience. During his tenure at VMware, O’Farrell led the VMware ESX Storage teams during the early development of the ESX platform and has held a variety of engineering positions, including several months as acting general manager for the VMware vSphere product division. Prior to VMware, O’Farrell managed teams of up to 1,000+ that developed compilers, development tools and operating systems focused on real-time, embedded and DSP systems at a number of companies including Industrial and scientific Imaging (Ireland), Ashling Microsystems (Ireland), Improv systems (United States) and Microtec/Mentor-Graphics (United States), where he spent 10 years in various roles including principal engineer and senior director of engineering. O’Farrell holds a bachelor of engineering in electronics and a masters of engineering in computer science, both from the University of Limerick in Ireland.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Niran Even-Chen
Principal SE, Office of the CTO, Global field of VMware
Niran Even-Chen is a principal systems engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Mitesh Pancholy
Principal Architect & CTO Ambassador of VMware
Mitesh Pancholy serves as principal architect at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Christos Karamanolis
Fellow, CTO Storage & Availability of VMware
Christos Karamanolis joined VMware in 2005. He was appointed as a VMware Fellow in 2016 for his overall contributions to storage virtualization. He currently serves as the chief technology officer of the Storage and Availability Business Unit where he is in charge of strategy and technical product roadmap. Christos was one of the original vSAN architects who envisioned and developed the product, currently the fastest growing business in VMware’s product portfolio. He is still actively involved in the architecture and development of the product. During his tenure with VMware, he has worked on the ESXi storage stack and led a number of projects including VMware’s vSphere Replication, Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-Based Management. He also works with strategic industry partners to architect storage and data protection features and APIs that enable a rich product ecosystem for VMware customers.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Jad El-Zein
Principal Architect, CMBU Office of the CTO of VMware
Jad is a Principal Architect in VMware’s CMBU’s Office of the CTO. As Principal Architect, Jad focuses on driving strategy and vision of VMware’s Cloud Management and emerging technologies. Jad has over 19 years of experience in IT, including an 11-year tenure with Lockheed Martin Corp, and has spent much of the last 9 years focusing on datacenter optimization and emerging cloud technologies.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Anoop Jalan
Staff SE, CTO Ambassador of VMware
Anoop Jalan is a Staff SE, Team Lead, and CTO Ambassador with VMware, and has been with VMware for more than ten years. Anoop has more than 20 years of experience in IT. He has worked as an architect, a consultant, an engineer, a trainer, developer, an author, and probably a few other things that he has since forgotten (including a VERY brief stint as a sports writer). Anoop holds a number of industry certifications and speaks regularly at local regional and national events.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Joel Leichnetz
Director, Business Development; Office of the CTO of VMware
Joel Leichnetz serves as director of business development at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Salim AbiEzzi
Director R&D, IoT OCTO of VMware
Salim AbiEzzi, Ph.D., is Director of R&D in the Industrial Standards Office (INSO) at VMware. Salim represents VMware on IoT consortia and standard groups. He is a founding member of the EdgeX Foundry and a member of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). In his 34+ year career, Salim led a wide variety of technology development projects including at Sun Microsystems and Microsoft with dozens of publications and patents. Related to IoT, Salim was the founding chairman of the UPnP consortium in the fall of ‘99, leading it for four years into a successful international organization, today with more than two billion certified devices.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Chris Gully
Staff System Engineer, Office of the CTO of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Rafael Brito
Application Platform Architect – Office of CTO of VMware
Rafael Brito serves as an application platform architect at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
