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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 Founder operating in the Information Services space. If you think a Founder 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.
Jonathan Manzi
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Beyond Protocol
Jonathan Manzi is the CEO and co-founder of Beyond Protocol, the company developing a new internet based on a universal platform that enables inter-device communication. He is considered a global expert in frontier technology, specializing in building multiple successful businesses in divergent industries. Prior to Beyond, Manzi left Stanford University, where he presided as the Chair of Entrepreneurship and co-founded a non-profit for youth entrepreneurship, to co-found and serve as CEO of ink.
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About Beyond Protocol, Ink: Blockchain, cybersecurity, IoT, payment
Sam Lessin
Co-Founder of Fin.com
Sam is currently the co-CEO of Fin and a General Partner at Slow Ventures. He was formerly a vice president of product management at Facebook from 2010 to 2014, where he managed the People, Places, and Things product group and the Identity product group. Prior to joining Facebook Sam founded drop.io, a file-sharing platform that was acquired by Facebook in 2010. Before drop.io Sam was an associate at Bain and Company. In his spare time Sam enjoys skiing and kite-surfing. He writes a column at The Information, where he interns.
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About Fin.com, Slow Ventures, SocialGreat, Thimble: Fin.com is a work insights platform that provides cross-applications and enterprises data insights for CX and operations teams.
Michael Perone
EVP, Co-Founder of Opensense
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About 345 Partners, Opensense, Switch9, Inc.: Everyday email, evolved.
Amit Gupta
CEO & Founder of Opensense
Amit spent most of his career in high technology, media, and infrastructure. He co-founded SenderGen in 2013, and spearheaded development on the company’s industry-leading enterprise email signature marketing platform. In 2018, SenderGen became Opensense, where Amit serves as co-founder and CEO. Prior to SenderGen, he co-founded Affle Limited which is a mobile media company with extensive operations in the Asia Pacific. While there, he was responsible for driving new product initiatives and helped to source and complete Microsoft’s strategic investment in Affle. Affle’s flagship product and campaigns later won a top global award by the Mobile Marketing Association. Prior to Affle, Amit worked at Bloomberg New York, and subsequently at Bloomberg London helping to plan and implement major new projects such as “Bloomberg Anywhere” that helped to drive $500M+ in new revenues annually. While there, he also designed and implemented highly scalable system architectures that were used to support millions of users. Systems integration is his specialty. He is a technology enthusiast and likes to get his hands dirty with new projects. He also has spent time at various high technology companies developing virtual reality applications, medical imaging algorithms, neural networks and financial trading systems. Amit holds a B.S. in Computer Science (Honors) from the Johns Hopkins University (USA).
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About Opensense: Everyday email, evolved.
Bobby Narang
EVP, Co-Founder of Opensense
Bobby co-founded SenderGen in 2013, where he led sales and marketing for the company’s industry-leading enterprise email signature marketing platform. In 2018, SenderGen became Opensense, where he serves as co-founder and VP, Sales. Prior to SenderGen, Bobby was sales lead at Intralinks (NYSE: IL), where he was responsible for sales to the largest firms in the financial services industry, as well as selling directly into the C-Suite at firms within the Fortune 1000. As a highlight, In 2013, Bobby secured Intralinks first full enterprise agreement at a major investment bank in New York, marking a significant win for the organization. Prior to Intralinks, was in sales at Yext, where he was responsible for generating new business within a dozen different SMB verticals. Additionally, he served in a Business Development role where he successfully spearheaded the launch of six new vertical-focused product lines. Bobby has a passion for evangelizing cutting-edge technology solutions that disrupt “the old way of doing things.” Bobby holds a BSBA with a concentration in Finance from Boston University.
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About Opensense: Everyday email, evolved.
Valery Vavilov
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Bitfury Group
Seasoned entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in information technology and business management. Original founding member of BitFury. Assumed the role of BitFury CEO in 2011. Prior to that, held numerous technology and business leadership positions. MS in Computer Science, Riga Transport & Telecommunication University.
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About Bitfury Group: Bitfury is the leading full service bitcoin and blockchain technology company.
Valery Nebesny
Founder and CTO of Bitfury Group
Founder and CTO of BitFury Group.
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About Bitfury Group: Bitfury is the leading full service bitcoin and blockchain technology company.
Nathan Resnick
CEO and Founder of Sourcify
Nathan Resnick is the CEO of Sourcify, a platform that makes manufacturing easy. In the past, Nathan has brought dozens of products to market, ran three ecommerce companies (sold one), and been a part of projects on Kickstarter raising over seven figures. He writes for media outlets like Entrepreneur, The Next Web, Business.com, and more. Nathan also used to live in China and speaks Mandarin.
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About Bubble Hotels, Business 2 Community, Entrepreneur Media, HuffPost, Social Media Today, Sourcify: Sourcify is a manufacturing platform that directly connects customers with factories overseas.
Genevieve Ryan Bellaire
Founder & CEO of Realworld
Genevieve Ryan Bellaire is the Founder and CEO of Realworld, a company that provides a simple way to navigate adulthood and its life moments, with help from your community. Genevieve has had a broad array of professional experience across business, law, and government. An attorney by profession, she received her JD/MBA from Georgetown University, and worked on strategic partnerships at Goldman Sachs until leaving to found Real World Playbook. Genevieve received her B.A. in Politics-International Relations from Princeton University, where she held numerous campus leadership roles and graduated with Honors in her department. Beyond her work in the entrepreneurial world, Genevieve is passionate about women’s empowerment, education, and national security. She currently serves as a member of the Pencils of Promise Leadership Council, the Acumen Fund Young Professional Committee, and the Washington Institute for Business, Government, and Society.
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About Realworld: The #1 platform to navigate adulthood
Max Cartellieri
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of AlphaSights
Max Cartellieri is an entrepreneur with 20 years’ experience founding, building, and growing businesses focused on the knowledge economy. In 2008, he co-founded AlphaSights, an information services firm and leader in knowledge search that now has >500 employees across nine global offices and is regularly recognised as one of the fastest growing companies in the world. Top professionals rely on AlphaSights to connect them rapidly and intelligently to experts around the world who have the precise knowledge needed to help clients improve decisions, sharpen thinking, and drive business forward. As Co-CEO, Max is focused on developing new ways for AlphaSights to add value to top tier clients and on ensuring the company remains an unrivalled launchpad for graduate talent. Prior to AlphaSights, Max founded Ciao AG in 1999 which became Europe’s leading price comparison and product review service and was ultimately acquired by Microsoft in 2008. Earlier on he held roles at McKinsey & Company and BC Partners. Max graduated from the LSE with a BSc in Economics and an MSc in Accounting & Finance. He later earned his MBA from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
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About AlphaSights: AlphaSights helps today’s business leaders succeed by providing them with fast, flexible access to deep industry knowledge worldwide.
Jonathan Hirsch
Founder of Syapse
Jonathan Hirsch is the Founder and President of Syapse, a software company transforming healthcare by bringing omics into routine medical use. At Syapse, Jonathan works closely with diagnostic and healthcare providers, helping translate customer problems into software solutions. Jonathan is an Advisory Board member of the SXSW Accelerator, a mentor for UCSF Lean Launchpad for Healthcare course, and a member of the Steering Committee of Free the Data!, an effort started by Genetic Alliance and UCSF to crowdsource the interpretation of cancer genes. Earlier in his career, Jonathan worked in Neuroscience Commercial Development at Abbott Laboratories, where he developed strategies to fund drug development through partnerships and private equity financing. His research at the Center for Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Chicago helped establish the effect of exercise on promoting hippocampal neurogenesis and combating Alzheimer’s disease. Jonathan received an M.Sci. in Neuroscience from Stanford University, and an A.B. in Biology and Political Philosophy from the University of Chicago.
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About Syapse: Syapse is a real-world evidence company dedicated to extinguishing the fear and burden of serious disease by advancing real-world care
Lily Xu
Underrepresented Founder Startups of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Jacob Orrin
Co-Founder and COO of Merit
Jacob Orrin is the COO and Co-founder of Merit. Merit’s verified identity platform brings visibility, liquidity, and trust to people-data, giving organizations the clarity to make better-informed decisions, engage with individuals effectively, and pursue their mission efficiently. Merit works with trusted private, state, and municipal organizations to solve critical real-world problems in sectors such as workforce development, emergency services, licensing, education, and defense readiness.
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About Merit, Merit: Merit develops a verified identity platform to help organizations in managing personnel data.
Faraz Sayyed
Founder of VIVID Technologies
Omer Khan is one of the co-founders for Vivid technologies. He has over 10 years of experience working with several blue chip telecom companies and banks, including AT&T, Barclays, Telenor, Apple and BNYM. He has been project managing and leading the telephony infrastructure that runs a business of more than $200 M. His last engagement was for Barclays UK where he was leading the Contact Center infrastructure engineering team responsible for implementing speech recognition IVRs. In recent past, Vivid technologies has been incubated by Microsoft Ventures, UK and now a part of acceleration program in Silicon valley (Blackbox). Omer has also published research papers on SIPs weaknesses and how to mitigate them. He has also been a speaker at Black Hat, Chase and HITB Malaysia. Interestingly Omer is not only a techy/co-founder but also a part-time musician who has played with mainstream bands (Noori, MHB, EP) in Pakistan and a half baked writer. He has assisted in scripts for 2 feature films in Pakistan (Khuda key liye, Bol).
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About Living Amsterdam, Living Amsterdam, Notion Technologies, systemini internet technologies, VIVID Technologies: VIVID Technologies are transforming the traditional customer service experience.
David S. Kidder
Co-Founder and CEO of Bionic
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About Alt Option Return, Alt Option Return, Bionic, GoodAdds Foundation, Maxwell Health, New to Big, The Intellectual Devotional: Bionic ignites growth revolutions within the world’s largest companies as they face disruption.
Roy Malkin
President & Founder of Venture Aviator
Roy Malkin have Fortune 500 experience in Developing and Managing Global Business across 20 markets – including USA, Europe, Japan, Russia, Ukraine. He’s currently concentrating on global IT Development and company strategy. He’s also involved in launching multiple startups in big data, e-commerce, new media / internet markets.
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About OffrBox, Venture Aviator: Venture Aviator is a Custom Software Development Company based in New York and California, and specializes in web and app development.
Manoj Ramnani
Founder and CEO of SalesIntel
Manoj Ramnani is the founder and CEO of SalesIntel.io and CircleBack, Inc. He was formerly the CEO of Dub Labs. Manoj holds a master’s degree from The George Washington University – School of Business.
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About CircleBack, SalesIntel: SalesIntel is the top provider of accurate and affordable sales and marketing contact data.
Matthew Milner
Founder, CEO of Crowdability
Matt is a Media & Technology executive with a Wall Street background, and a history of entrepreneurial success. A descendant of Russian immigrants, Matt’s ancestors arrived penniless in the New World and survived by peddling clothes on pushcarts. His great grandfather eventually scraped together enough capital to start a business selling an innovative new product: socks with elastic. With that one small business, he was able to provide for his growing family. Initially, Matt didn’t follow in his family’s footsteps of entrepreneurship. He headed to Wall Street — to global investment banks such as Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers — to learn how to invest and profit from the financial markets. By the time he was 30, however, he heard the call to start his own company. His first business struggled. Matt burned through his savings and eventually failed. He started a second company that also struggled initially, but this time, he figured out how to “pivot” and change course — and eventually, this company was acquired for a small sum. Relying on this small bankroll and the lessons from his failures and successes, he launched his third startup, a social media company. Finally, he struck gold. Hearst, the global media conglomerate, acquired the company for millions. After joining Hearst’s team to help launch and grow their online businesses, he further codified his rules for building successful early-stage companies. In addition to his work at Hearst, he became a mentor to young technology companies, helping them avoid the struggles that he himself encountered. He also started a venture capital fund and became an investor. In 2013, thrilled by the JOBS Act and the promise of equity crowdfunding to allow a broader range of people to invest in startups, Matt teamed up with Wayne Mulligan to found Crowdability. He wanted to share the knowledge he’d acquired over his career — from his years on Wall Street, to his experiences building, mentoring and investing in startups — to show ordinary citizens how to invest and profit from startups. Growing up, Matt heard inspiring stories about how his great grandfather provided for the family thanks to the power of small business and a little bit of innovation. With Crowdability, Matt aims to spread similar stories — and the power of startups — to everyone. Matt holds a B.A. from Cornell University, and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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About Crowdability: Crowdability is the source for data, research and education on the emerging equity crowdfunding industry.
Nigel Kneafsey
CEO & Founder of Options Technology
Nigel Kneafsey is founder and CEO of Options. He first launched Options in 1993 to provide outsourced IT services to the investment banking industry in Europe. Options quickly expanded its client base to traditional and alternative asset management firms, and brokerages. In 2000, Nigel developed and launched of the Options PIPE platform, Options’ global private cloud services platform. Designed to minimise what he viewed as systemic inefficiencies in the financial sector’s IT implementation practices, the Options platform was the first, comprehensive infrastructure-as-a-service platform for financial services firms. Since 2000, Options has expanded into North America and Asia and now provides private cloud services to to over 200 firms globally.
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About Options Technology: Options is a global leader in financial technology managed services and IT infrastructure products.
Steve Miller
Founder & Chairman of Omicron Media
Steve Miller is the Founder and Chairman Omicron Media, Inc.
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About Omicron Media: Omicron Media is a Provider of software and hosting services
Ken Kalopsis
Co-Founder + Vice-Chair of Startech.Com
Ken Kalopsis is co-founder of StarTech.com and as the company’s most senior ambassador, he maintains strong partnerships with key customers. Ken also spearheads StarTech.com’s global customer expansion so you will frequently find him at airports and hotels around the world. As a key member and contributor to the Executive team, Ken provides critical input and direction to StarTech.com. Having been actively involved with all aspects of the company throughout the years, he knows the business inside and out – with a particular focus in sales and operations. As a member of TEC Canada, Ken provides insights into company best practices and continuous improvement. Ken has a longstanding record of community involvement. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Grand Theatre Foundation and the Greater London International Airport. He also served as Executive Director of the Canadian Economic Development Assistance for South Sudan (CEDASS) after serving as a director for the previous five years. Ken earned a degree in History & Political Science from The University of Western Ontario.
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About Startech.Com: StarTech.com operates as a manufacturer of hard-to-find connectivity parts.
Eric Schmidt
Co-Founder and CEO of Glue Up
As a leader in the global tech industry, Eric is focused on developing customer-centric products and transforming the way professional communities build and enrich relationships. He has incubated multiple tech startups within the software, mobile, and environmental industries, and has worked with venture capital and private equity investments in the United States and China. He also founded China Entrepreneurs — a community he built into a 20,000+ member network. Eric is an elected member of AmCham China’s Board of Governors. In 2004, sponsored by Nike and Phillips, he traced Marco Polo’s route, cycling 100 days from Beijing, China to Venice, Italy. Eric holds an M.S. and a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has been featured in media such as the BBC, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Barron’s, CCTV, China Daily, and numerous other outlets.
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About Glue Up: Glue Up is an all-in-one engagement management CRM for associations, chambers of commerce, event organizers and marketing professionals.
Steven Gottfried
Founder & CEO of Equip ID
Steven Gottfried is a co-founder of ReTool Ventures, and EquipID. He is also the Chairman of UtilizeCore. Prior Steven was the CEO of ServiceChannel, and Executive Managing Director of ServiceChannel Ventures (SCV). Steven has more than three decades of experience in facilities maintenance-focused technology and entrepreneurship. Previous to founding ServiceChannel, Steven founded and sold, ServiceTechnologies Inc., an enterprise resource planning solution designed for service contractors. Steven was also CEO at Capital Electronics, Inc., another company he founded and sold to Emcor in the late 80s. Collaboratively, Steven and Serge have raised 100s of millions in capital from prestigious venture capital firms. Most recently, they raised 54m from Accel to fuel ServiceChannel and EquipID from Contour Ventures.
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About Equip ID, ReTool Ventures: Equip ID connects mechanical equipment to the digital world using NFC tags to deliver equipment-specific data and supportive content.
Jahan Khanna
CEO & Co-Founder of Firemaps
Jahan leads Sidecar’s technology vision. As a University of Michigan Student, Jahan was the lead programmer on the “Magic Bus Project,” a transit application that tells passengers how long they’ll wait for the next bus. This school project became Shepherd Intelligent Systems, a transportation software company for public transit, taxi, limo, school, and shuttle bus fleets that is still used by the University of Michigan today. In 2011, Jahan, Sunil and Nick came together to create Sidecar. Under Jahan’s leadership, the engineering team has developed a dynamic, intuitive and scalable platform that has matched more than 250,000 shared rides to date. In the winter of 2011 Jahan found himself stranded when he left a party in the Marina District of San Francisco and couldn’t find a cab. He grabbed a ride home with a pizza delivery guy and gave him $20 for helping him out. Just like that, an idea was born.
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About Firemaps: Firemaps operates a wildfire management platform that offers home defense plans.
Jordy Leiser
Co-Founder & CEO of Stella Connect
Jordy Leiser is the Co-Founder and CEO of StellaService, the customer service measurement and ratings company. Prior to founding StellaService, Jordy worked in investment banking at JPMorgan, where he worked on leveraged buyouts and other transactions for private equity-backed consumer retail brands. After seeing firsthand the value of great customer service for retailers – both from the business and consumer perspectives – Jordy teamed up with longtime friend and college roommate John Ernsberger to create a robust system for measuring and rating the customer service performance of online retailers. Jordy and John officially launched StellaService in March 2010. Jordy has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, CNN, NPR, New York Times, Fox Business, Forbes, Reuters, TIME, Ad Age, WWD, Internet Retailer as well as other TV and print media nationwide. A Colorado native, Jordy graduated magna cum laude from Bucknell University with a degree in Economics and Political Science and completed the year-long General Course at the London School of Economics
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About Stella Connect, StellaService: Stella Connect is a customer feedback and quality management platform built specifically for customer service teams.
David A. Steinberg
Founder & CEO of Zeta Global
David Steinberg is currently CEO, Chairman and Co-Founder of Zeta Global, a company known for its reputation as a top-tier big data marketing technology company. Previously, as CEO of CAIVIS, Mr. Steinberg acquired several small companies including those with focuses in big data, customer acquisition (programmatic) and CRM, to form XL Marketing (now Zeta Global). Prior to founding CAIVIS, Mr. Steinberg founded InPhonic, the largest seller of wireless phones and communications products and services on the Internet, with annual revenue in excess of $400 million. InPhonic was #1 on Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies in 2004, the year it went public on the NASDAQ. Mr. Steinberg also served as chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Cellular, a business-to-business and retail wireless communications provider, and Sterling Communications, a communications telemarketing company. Mr. Steinberg was named the Greater Washington Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for communications in 2002. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Faster Cures of the Milken Institute, and the Greater Washington Sports Alliance as well as the Board of Trustees of Washington & Jefferson College. Mr. Steinberg holds a B.S. from Washington & Jefferson College.
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About Caivis, Sol systems, Zeta Global: Zeta offers technology and marketing services to help brands acquire, engage, and retain customers.
Raymond Kurzweil
Founder and CEO of Kurzweil Technologies
Ray Kurzweil is a noted futurist, author, inventor, and executive. He has been described as “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison,” and PBS included Ray as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America,” along with other inventors of the past two centuries. Ray was the principal developer of the first CCD flatbed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray is the recipient of the $500,000 MIT-Lemelson Prize, the world’s largest for innovation. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Technology, the nation’s highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. And in 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame, established by the U.S. Patent Office.
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About Google, Kurzweil Technologies: Kurzweil Technologies offers solutions such as pattern recognition, AI, algorithms, signal processing, and simulation of natural processes.
Amir Khan
President , CEO & Founder of Alkira
Amir Khan brings decades of experience in the networking industry and has a proven track record of forming teams to deliver products in both the Enterprise & Service Provider space. Prior to vIPtela, Amir was senior director of product management at Juniper Networks with P&L responsibility for Juniper’s Enterprise routing portfolio comprised of MX & M series. At Juniper, Amir led Juniper’s foray into the Enterprise routing space with focus on Data-Center, Campus and Wide Area. Under Amir’s leadership, Juniper grew its Enterprise business to multiple 100s of millions of dollars in 3 years. Prior to Juniper, Amir was at Cisco and led their IOS routing software, Desktop switching and NG wiring closet strategy. Amir has also held multiple leadership positions in product management and marketing at Procket (core routing), Nortel (Accelar & Passport) and Bay Networks. Amir has a MS degree in Computer Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an avid squash player and has completed a Triathlon.
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About Alkira: Alkira offers a hybrid/multi-cloud network with network services, visibility, and governance.
Aart Geus
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Synopsys
Since co-founding Synopsys in 1986, Aart de Geus has expanded Synopsys from a start-up synthesis enterprise to the world leader in electronic design automation.
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About Synopsys, Tinfoil Security: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Pranay Kapadia
Co-Founder & CEO of Notable
Pranay Kapadia is a VP of Product at Blend Labs.
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About Notable: Notable is an AI-powered health start-up that automates and digitizes every physician-patient interaction.
Adam Ting
Co-Founder & CPO of Notable
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About Notable: Notable is an AI-powered health start-up that automates and digitizes every physician-patient interaction.
Justin White
CTO and Co-Founder of Notable
Justine White is the Co-Founder & CTO at Notable.
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About Notable: Notable is an AI-powered health start-up that automates and digitizes every physician-patient interaction.
Lalit Singh
President & Co-Founder of Vareto
Founder, angel investor, and former COO at Udacity and HPE.
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About Vareto: Strategic Finance Platform for finance and executive teams
Mitchell Green
Founder and Managing Partner of Lead Edge Capital
Mitchell Green is a Managing Partner and Partner at Lead Edge Capital, LLC. He also founded Lead Edge Capital, LLC. He serves as a Senior Analyst at Eastern Advisors LLC. Mitchell Green primarily invests in public and private companies in the consumer, internet, software, and digital media sectors in Asia and the U.S. He joined Eastern Advisors LLC in 2008. Prior to founding Eastern Advisors Private Investments, Mitchell Green was an investor and Analyst at Bessemer Venture Partners and he worked at UBS Investment Bank in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group. He has a decade of technology and consumer venture capital/ growth equity investing and operating experience. He is a formerly nationally ranked alpine ski racer. Mitchell Green holds an M.B.A. degree in Marketing from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Williams College.
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About Lead Edge Capital: Lead Edge Capital is a growth equity and buyout firm focused on software and internet related companies.
Scott Booth
Founder of Lead Edge Capital
Scott V. Booth serves as a Founder and Special Advisor at Lead Edge Capital, LLC. Scott Booth serves as the Founder and Managing Partner for Eastern Advisors, LLC and Managing Partner at Eastern Advisors Capital Group Ltd. He was a Portfolio Manager at Kingdon Capital. Scott Booth serves as an Advisor at Fyrfly Venture Partners. He serves as a Director of OrderGroove, Inc., Banks.com Inc., and fisoc, Inc. He served as the Chairman of Remark Media Inc since December 14, 2011 and its Director since December 17, 2009. He holds M.I.A. in International Economics and Finance from School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University in 1994 and a B.A. in History from Holy Cross College in 1991 where he was awarded a Watson Fellowship.
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About Eastern Advisors, Lead Edge Capital: Lead Edge Capital is a growth equity and buyout firm focused on software and internet related companies.
Jessie Zeng
Founder & CEO of Choosy
Jessie Zeng is the founder of Choosy.
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About Choosy: Choosy is an on-demand social shopping platform where users influence every collection to match their favorite style inspirations.
Mo Zhou
Co-Founder, President & COO of Choosy
Mo Zhou is a co-founder at Choosy.
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About Choosy: Choosy is an on-demand social shopping platform where users influence every collection to match their favorite style inspirations.
Kevin Wang
Co-Founder of Nervos Network
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About Nervos Network: Nervos Network is the Multi-asset, Store of Value Blockchain.
Samir Housri
CEO & Co-Founder of The Mednet
Samir Housri the CEO & Co-founder of theMednet. Under his leadership theMednet has become the largest online physician network in Oncology and one of the fastest growing in medicine. Samir’s career spans nearly 20 years in digital media that spans operations, technology and strategy. Most recently he was part of the investment team at Rho Ventures where he sat on multiple boards and deployed over $50M in capital. Prior to that, he was part of EMI Music’s global business development team where he drove the launch of EMI’s ad-supported video platform. He was also involved in all aspects of digital content licensing and distribution, including contract negotiations, technical implementation and monetization. Prior to EMI, Samir served as a management consultant with Bain & Company where he worked on strategy for technology and media clients. He started his career as a software engineer for Major League Baseball and was a key member of the team that built MLB.com.
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About The Mednet: The Mednet is a physician-only community for expert answers to real world clinical questions in oncology.
Nadine Housri
Co Founder & Chief Medical Officer of The Mednet
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About The Mednet, Yale University School of Medicine: The Mednet is a physician-only community for expert answers to real world clinical questions in oncology.
Dwayne Lafleur
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ezoic
Dwayne Lafleur is an entrepreneur, hands-on technologist, founder and CEO of venture-backed start up Ezoic Inc. Previously, Dwayne founded Cubics, the first display ad network for Facebook app developers. The ad network was unique, because it used anonymous demographic data to target advertising to Facebook app users (and launched in 2007, prior to Facebook’s own ad targeting system). After selling Cubics to Adknowledge Inc in 2007, the social display division grew to serve more than 500 million ads per day. Dwayne continued to innovate within the company including spearheading the use of cloud computing architecture to handle the huge volume of ads being served within Facebook apps; becoming Amazon’s biggest AWS customer at the time. As founder and CEO of Ezoic, Dwayne has once again founded a business that is technically interesting, a first of its kind and can scale to a large online market. He is originally from Alberta, Canada and now lives with his family in San Diego, CA.
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About Ezoic: Ezoic is a website optimization platform for digital publishers and website owners powered by true machine learning.
Rajesh Surana
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Visionary RCM
– Rajesh founded VRCM in 2006 with a vision to build a services company specializing in healthcare RCM and medical coding services. -Prior business experience in healthcare and information technology, with array of cross functional skills and an internati
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About Visionary RCM: Visionary RCM is a HIPAA compliant, knowledge centric organization, specializing in Risk Adjustment solutions.
Dhruba Borthakur
Co-Founder & CTO of Rockset
Dhruba Borthakur is CTO and co-founder of Rockset, responsible for the company’s technical direction. He was an engineer on the database team at Facebook, where he was the founding engineer of the RocksDB data store. Earlier at Yahoo, he was one of the founding engineers of the Hadoop Distributed File System. He was also a contributor to the open source Apache HBase project. Dhruba previously held various roles at Veritas Software, founded an e-commerce startup, Oreceipt.com, and contributed to Andrew File System (AFS) at IBM-Transarc Labs.
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About Rockset: Rockset is a computer software company that offers a cloud data infrastructure.
Venkat Venkataramani
CEO & Co-Founder of Rockset
Dhruba Borthakur is CTO and co-founder of Rockset, responsible for the company’s technical direction. He was an engineer on the database team at Facebook, where he was the founding engineer of the RocksDB data store. Earlier at Yahoo, he was one of the founding engineers of the Hadoop Distributed File System. He was also a contributor to the open source Apache HBase project. Dhruba previously held various roles at Veritas Software, founded an e-commerce startup, Oreceipt.com, and contributed to Andrew File System (AFS) at IBM-Transarc Labs.
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About Rockset: Rockset is a computer software company that offers a cloud data infrastructure.
David Karandish
Founder & CEO of Capacity
David Karandish is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of AFCV Holdings & he attended Washington University in St. Louis in 2001.
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About Capacity, Forbes Technology Council, Prepare.ai: Capacity is an AI-powered helpdesk that automates support for customers and employees.
Aaron Skonnard
Co-Founder and CEO of Pluralsight
Aaron is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he serves as the Chief Executive Officer. Aaron has spent years developing course materials and teaching professional developers throughout the world. He has presented at many popular developer conferences like PDC, TechEd, and VSLive! Microsoft recognized Aaron as an MVP in the “Connected Systems” developer community for eight years. Aaron has written numerous books, articles, and whitepapers including the Essential XML Quick Reference (Addison Wesley, 2001), Essential XML (Addison Wesley, 2000), and his popular columns in MSDN Magazine. Aaron lives in Utah with his wife Monica and five children Michelle, Michael, Nathan, Gisela, and Emma.
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About Pluralsight: Pluralsight is a technology learning platform for software developers, IT admins, and creative professionals.
Zach Lloyd
Founder / CEO of Warp
Zach Lloyd is the Founder and CEO of Warp. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder and CTO of SelfMade.
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About Warp: Warp is a developer of a Rust-based coding terminal designed to make teams productive at coding and application development.
Anastasia Leng
Founder & CEO of CreativeX
Anastasia Leng is Founder & CEO of CreativeX.
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About CreativeX: CreativeX is a developer of a smarter visual communication platform.
Tom Serres
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Animal Ventures
Founder of Rally, Founder of Animal Ventures, Managing Partner at Warburg Serres. Spending my days investing in legendary founders.
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About Animal Ventures, Rally, Warburg Serres Investments: Partnering your company with the hottest startups and emerging tech companies coming onto the market.
Ted Price
Co-Founder & CEO of GovInvest
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About GovInvest: GovInvest helps governments visualize and understand complex actuarial data.
Brett Koetsier
Co-Founder of GovInvest
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About GoDaddy, GovInvest: GovInvest helps governments visualize and understand complex actuarial data.
Jasmine Nachtigall
Co-Founder & President of GovInvest
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About GovInvest: GovInvest helps governments visualize and understand complex actuarial data.
Stephen Smith
Co-Founder & CEO of Kitman Labs
Stephen is co founder of Kitman Labs, the worlds most advanced athlete management platform. Stephen holds a Higher Diploma in Human Physiology and Health Science, a BSc (Hons) in Sports & Exercise Rehabilitation and an MSc in Football Rehabilitation. He worked with Leinster Rugby as a Sports Injury Rehabilitation Coach within the Strength & Conditioning Department between 2008-2014. Stephen founded Kitman Labs in 2012 and now lives in Palo Alto, CA where he focuses on expanding Kitman Labs in elite US sports. His areas of expertise include injury prevention, rehabilitation and analytics and he has a strong interest in the use of technology and emerging trends in sport science to further enhance sport science and medicine.
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About Kitman Labs: Kitman Labs is a sports analytics platform that generates insights to help professional athletes perform better.
Stuart Popejoy
Founder and CEO of Kadena
Stuart Popejoy is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kadena LLC. He was the Executive Director for the New Products Division at JP Morgan.
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About Kadena: Kadena provides a hybrid blockchain platform, including the only sharded and scalable layer-1 PoW public network.
William Martino
Founder & President of Kadena
Will Martino is the Founder and President of Kadena.
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About Kadena: Kadena provides a hybrid blockchain platform, including the only sharded and scalable layer-1 PoW public network.
Alec Guettel
CFO and Co-Founder of Knowable
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About Knowable: Knowable provides legal services.
Carlos Watson
Co-Founder & CEO of OZY Media
Carlos Watson co-anchors MSNBC 2 p.m. news program from NBC headquarters at 30 Rock. A Harvard grad, he got his start in politics, serving as campaign manager and chief of staff for Florida Representative Daryl Jones and managing Bill Clintonâs 1992 Election Day effort in Miami-Dade County. While at Harvard, he also worked with Senator Bob Graham, DNC Chair Ron Brown, and Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez. After graduating from Stanford Law, where he edited the Law Review, Watson joined the business world, advising Fortune 500 companies as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. He later struck out on his own and co-founded Achieva College Prep Services, which helped thousands of high school students prepare for college and was written about in Time and Forbes, among others. Watson sold the firm to the Washington Post/Kaplan in 2002.
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About Achieva.com, OZY Media, The Stimulist: OZY Media is a premium media and entertainment for curious people — across TV, events, podcasts and news.
Jim McKelvey
Founder & CEO of Invisibly
Jim co-founded Square, where he now serves as a Director. Jim is also a General Partner at FINTOP Capital and Green Visor Capital. He serves as a Director of the St. Louis Federal Reserve and as a Trustee to Washington University in St. Louis. Jim’s first venture was co-founding Mira Digital Publishing in 1990, which is a leader in electronic publishing for scientific conferences. In 2013, he founded the LaunchCode Foundation, currently bringing free computer education and jobs to 5 US cities. In addition to his businesses and philanthropy, Jim is a glassblowing artist and co-founded one of the nation’s top glass centers, Third Degree Glass Factory. He has published two books on computer programming and one on glassblowing. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.
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About Arch Grants, FINTOP Capital, Invisibly, LaunchCode, Mira Smart Conference, Square, Third Degree Glass Factory, Washington University in St. Louis: Invisibly puts the power of your data back in your hands.
Ryan Westwood
Founder & CEO of Simplus
Ryan Westwood is Founder & CEO at Simplus Board Member for Information Technology & Consumer Product Companies
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About DirectPointe, Simplus: Simplus is a Platinum Salesforce partner specializing in quote-to-cash implementations.
Isaac Westwood
Co-Founder & COO of Simplus
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About Simplus: Simplus is a Platinum Salesforce partner specializing in quote-to-cash implementations.
John Lawton
Co-Founder of Simplus
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About Simplus, Simplus: Simplus is a Platinum Salesforce partner specializing in quote-to-cash implementations.
Jeroen Cappaert
CTO & Co-Founder of Spire Global
Mechanical/Electrical/Aerospace engineer, passionate about space and astronautics. Currently Lead satellite payload and avionics engineer and co-founder at Spire Global Inc. in San Francisco. Previous work and research includes high-enthalpy flow simulation, computational mechanics and fluid dynamics, spacecraft avionics and payload design, geo-engineering, and low-thrust astrodynamics at institutions such as NASA Ames, Von Karman Institute, International Space University.
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About NASA Ames Research Center, Spire Global: Spire Global is a space to cloud data analytics company utilizing satellites to provide maritime, aviation, and weather tracking.
Chris Bruce
Founder & CEO of BlockJoy
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About BlockJoy, Helium: BlockJoy is a venture-backed Web3 infrastructure company that enables to run their own blockchain nodes on any infrastructure they prefer.
Vishal Malik
Founder and chief executive officer of Gemini Solutions
Vishal has over 12 years of prior experience in starting and managing various technology firms. Vishal started Gemini in 2012 with a vision to create a financial services focused technology company. Since then, through his able leadership and focused steering, Gemini has come a long way with offices in India, USA and UAE offering services for multiple industries. Prior to Gemini, Vishal started his entrepreneurial stint with EduTru, an education technology firm that has various products in school management, test prep and virtual classrooms. Vishal also mentors many budding entrepreneurs. He was honored by the State of Missouri for his contributions as an entrepreneur and on a lighter note, for the promotion of Cricket in St. Louis Area, USA. He is an alumnus of IIIT Hyderabad.
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About Gemini Solutions: Gemini Solutions provides information technology-related consulting services.
Jonathan Bullock
Co-Founder & Managing Director of LX
Jonathan Bullock is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of LX. He is involved in business advisory projects focused on the tech and investment sectors, including supporting numerous tech start-ups and spin-outs, either directly or through their VCs, PE, or corporate investors. He holds a BA and MEng from Cambridge University in Engineering and Management.
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About LX: LX offers an AI-powered personality survey that promotes personal development for individuals, teams, and leaders.
Dora Nagy
Co-Founder and Managing Director of LX
Dora Nagy is the Co-Founder of LX and the Chief of Staff to the CEO of Kheiron Medical. She started my career at Google as an APMM (Associate Product Marketing Manager), rotating between roles and countries for 3 amazing years working on B2C and B2B initiatives, events, and scaled marketing programs.
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About LX, SaveSarah: LX offers an AI-powered personality survey that promotes personal development for individuals, teams, and leaders.
Stepan Pachikov
Founder, board member, СEO of Evernote
Stepan Pachikov is the Co-Founder of ParaGraph Intl., Parascript, Evernote Corp. among other software companies which contributed heavily to the development of Handwriting recognition and VRML technologies. From 1989 to 1997, Stepan worked at the ParaGraph Intl. in Moscow, Russia; a company which dealt with handwriting recognition software for the Apple Newton. In 1992 Stepan opened the US branch of ParaGraph in Silicon Valley, CA, where he created and distributed software called Calligrapher for handwritten input on tablets and touchscreens. From 1997 to 1998 Stepan served as Vice President and established a Pen&Internet division of Silicon Graphics. Stepan earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Moscow State University in 1975.
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About Evernote, Parascript: Evernote is a suite of software and services that allow users to capture, organize, and find information across multiple platforms.
Jon Watte
Founder of Observe
Jon Watte is a co-founder at Observe Inc.
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About Observe: Observe provides performance management tools based on a versatile observability platform.
Bharath Krishnamoorthy
Co-Founder & CEO of Axle
As CEO, Bharath applies his entrepreneurial intuition and enterprising spirit to oversee company sales, fundraising, and business expansion. He previously worked as a Mergers & Acquisitions and Investment Funds lawyer at one of the top 10 firms in the world. Bharath led business development for a real estate investment firm, and graduated with honors from both Columbia Law School and James Madison University.
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About Axle, BusBot: Axle helps freight brokers grow faster by automating their back-office and providing fast & affordable working capital.
Shawn Vo
Co-Founder & CTO of Axle
As CTO, Shawn directs Axle’s technology strategy and develops the products that make up the company’s services. Additionally, Shawn is no stranger to working with financial technology. He previously worked for two other fintech startups: one that was acquired for over $1B and another where he reported directly to the CTO. Shawn graduated from the University of Virginia with two majors and three concentrations.
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About Axle, BusBot, Forbes Technology Council: Axle helps freight brokers grow faster by automating their back-office and providing fast & affordable working capital.
Sridhar Vembu
CEO and Founder of Zoho
Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of [Zoho Corp.](/organization/zoho) (formerly AdventNet Inc.), the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications. He co-founded AdventNet in 1996, and has been CEO since 2000. AdventNet has transformed itself from a modest beginning as a software company serving network equipment vendors to a be an innovative online applications provider. It has maintained growth and profitability, without needing outside capital. Prior to AdventNet, Sridhar worked as a wireless systems engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. where he was fortunate to work with some of the leading minds in wireless communications. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
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About Site24x7, Zoho: Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration, and productivity applications.
Wes Spencer
Co-Founder & Chief Information Security Officer of Perch Security
Wes Spencer is the Co-Founder & Chief Information Security Officer at Perch Security.
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About Murray State University, Perch Security: Perch provides everything needed to mount a cyber defense with curated community intelligence and participate with your sharing community.
Tom Kielty
Founder, President & CEO of Connectivity
For the last 35 years Tom has held CEO, CIO and COO positions in large, global corporations as well as small, technology-driven venture backed companies. A seasoned, innovative executive and entrepreneur, Tom also has a successful track record of leading strategic change and turnaround initiatives. Tom is as strong in strategic assessment as he is in operational execution, while building trust and collaborative relationships along the way. Throughout his career Tom has repeatedly served as the trusted, senior point person for leading the charge in solving complex challenges, especially in technology and operations arenas. Tom is a high energy leader with a keen ability to assess businesses and do what’s required to catalyze growth.
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About Connectivity: A strong internal belief language service providers.
Shadiah Sigala
Co-Founder & CEO of Kinside
CEO and cofounder of Kinside, the modern child care benefit.
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About Kinside: Curated child care marketplace accessible only through employers
Abe Han
Co-Founder & CTO of Kinside
Abe is from Vancouver, Canada, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Interactive Arts & Technology. Since then, he has worked professionally as a UX Designer / Information Architect, as well as developing Web, Mobile, & Multimedia Software for 8 years.
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About Kinside: Curated child care marketplace accessible only through employers
Tianyue Yu
Chief Development Officer, Co-Founder of Quanergy Systems
Tianyue Yu co-founded Quanergy and serves as the Chief Development Officer. She has a strong technical foundation with extensive experience in high-resolution imaging, 3D laser scanning and microfabrication, high throughput sensing, nanotechnology, and advanced electronics materials. She oversees the company’s product design, architecture, engineering, and construction to ensure the successful implementation of the product roadmap. Prior to founding Quanergy, she had various roles at established technology companies as well as startups from principal scientists to leadership positions building cross-functional teams, and leading technology development and commercialization. She started her career at Affymetrix on sensor miniaturization and high-resolution imaging. She holds more than 15 patents in sensing, nanotechnology, and system design. Dr. Yu earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University with a concentration on nanomaterials and nanotechnology and a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China.
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About Quanergy Systems: Quanergy is a developer of solid state sensors used to offer smart sensing services for self-driving cars.
Cenk Sidar
Co-Founder & CEO of Enquire AI
Cenk has been global risk executive for 12 years before launching GlobalWonks as the CEO. He has worked extensively assisting top financial institutions, multinational corporations, risk management firms, and legal firms operating in high-risk regions. Cenk holds an MA degree in international economics and international relations from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, a postgraduate degree in European studies from SAIS’s Bologna Center in Italy, and a BA degree in business administration and international relations from the Istanbul Bilgi University.
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About Enquire AI, Sidar Global Ventures: An insights software company that provides enterprises a comprehensive toolkit to easily discover and leverage expert knowledge in real time
Bassam Tabbara
Founder and CEO of Upbound
Bassam Tabbara serves as Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Upbound, Inc. He served as Chief Technology Officer of Quantum Corporation.
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About UPBOND, Upbound: Upbound is an infrastructure management platform that runs, scales, and optimizes services across multiple cloud environments.
Cindy Warner
Founder/Chair of the Board of 360ofme
Technologist meets Strategist. Cindy is one of those all too rare individuals that started her career as a technologist and evolved it into a sought after strategist, all while retaining her technology chops, still able to code to this day. She started her career as a developer, moving onward to a process analyst, business analyst then strategist. On that path, she became known as one of the best technology enterprise architects for Global 1000 companies, due to her ability to match enabling technologies to the thorniest of business problems, beginning with design, and moving all the way through development and execution. From a business perspective, Cindy began her career in the back office, developing distribution systems, then moved into the front office, working on customer facing solutions for the past 18 years. She is a subject matter expert in the area of helping organizations connect with their markets more effectively and efficiently. What do others say about Cindy you may ask? The words used to describe her would be “wicked smart, endless passion, intense, curious, and empathetic”. She is a leader others love to follow, as evidenced by those that have followed her to no less than three career stops. Through the years Cindy has been blessed to work for some of the greatest brands in the world including FEDEX, Ernst & Young, Salesforce, PwC and IBM. Each time she has come to these companies to build something. Most would say they leverage her keen vision to help develop a model for their future, enabled by technologies. That is a key strength of hers. While a corporate citizen for much of her career, she is also an entrepreneur, owning a 1938 diner for 12 years whose revenues have grown 400% during her ownership. She has also been a board advisor to many other technology startups including Apcera, InfoReady, ArdentCause, and others. In her spare time she pursues balancing the gender inequity of women in tech, as the President of a 700 member non-profit, Michigan Council of Women in Technology. Cindy believes that her extensive knowledge of technology, exceptional leadership, passion for whatever she pursues, adaptability, and keen market vision, make her a fabulous candidate to try her hand as an entrepreneur at this point in her career
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About 360ofme, Michigan Council of Women in Technology: Personal Digital Asset and Insights Platform
Mark Thiele
CEO and Co-Founder of Edgevana
Mark Thiele has a 30 plus year career as an IT executive, building global infrastructure for companies like HP, VMware, Brocade, Gilead & Ericsson. Over the last five years, he has become a globally recognized name in the Edge space, where he is an active practitioner, content contributor and speaker. As the CEO for Edgevana, Mark is working on simplifying access to global infrastructure resources, including data centers, edge compute, and network. Mark is also very involved in the industry, he is co-founder of Data Center Pulse, former Chair for the IDCA Technical Committee, Board member for the Cloud Native Compute Foundation, and is currently an advisor/board member to a number of startups
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About Apcera, Data Center Pulse, Edgevana: Edgevana is a global marketplace for automating data centre procurement process.
C Brian Fox
President & Founder of Confirmation
Brian Fox, CPA, MBA, is recognized as the creator of Electronic Confirmations and he received the first six patents granted on electronic audit confirmations. Brian is the President and Founder of Confirmation.com and former Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University. He is also one of the founders and a Board member of Rivio.com, a joint-venture between the AICPA and Confirmation.com. Brian was named one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting,” is a five-time winner of the accounting profession’s “Top 40 Under 40 CPA in America,” and was named as an Entrepreneur of the Year in Nashville. He was also recognized as one of Nashville’s “40 Under 40” and as one of Nashville’s Emerging Leaders in its inaugural class. Prior to Confirmation.com, Brian was in Dallas where he worked in audit for Ernst & Young LLP and in mergers and acquisitions for PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Brian completed his MBA at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management with a dual concentration in Finance and Electronic Commerce and received a BBA in Accounting from Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business.
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About Confirmation, Rockmont Investments, Thomson Reuters: Confirmation is the leading digital platform and global network for confirming financial data.
Peter Louis Johnston
Founder & CEO of Kalo
Peter Johnston is the founder and CEO of Kalo, the world’s leading freelancer management platform used by clients including AirBnB, Google, Popsugar and The Economist to manage over 70,000 freelancers globally. As a Design Lead at Google, Johnston relied heavily on freelancers and found that much of his time was spent coordinating with little time left for design. Frustrated by these processes, he set out to improve them and so created Kalo.
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About Kalo: Kalo provides an online platform that enables businesses to manage their external workforces.
James Shinn
Co-Founder of Predata
James Shinn is the Advisor at Red Six Solutions.
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About Predata: Predata uncovers predictive behavior by applying machine learning techniques to online activity.
Michael Jansen
Chairman, Founder & CEO of Cityzenith
Michael Jansen is a sought after Smart City industry leader and public speaker with numerous awards and accolades to his credit, and has been featured on CNN, CNBC, and myriads of business, technology, and AEC publications worldwide, including Architectural Record, ENR, Business Week, Domus, Contract Magazine, et. al. In 2007, Michael was awarded Building Design + Construction Magazine’s prestigious “40 Under 40” award honoring top CEOs in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry under the age of 40. An impassioned architect, urbanist, and entrepreneur, Michael founded Satellier in 2004, a CAD and BIM production services company backed by venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. Under his leadership, in just four years Satellier experienced explosive growth from a team size of 10 to over 450 and fundamentally changed the way AEC firms deliver services. In 2010, Michael assumed the helm of Cityzenith to pursue his dream of transforming life in cities all over the world. Michael was educated as an architect at Yale and Cambridge; earned a Fulbright scholarship; studied art and architecture in China and India; speaks four languages and has traveled to more than 80 countries; designs high-end, exotic furniture, and is an avid guitar player.
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About Cityzenith: Cityzenith is a technology startup that provides data visualization platform software and applications for IoT and Smart Cities.
Mathias Wengeler
Founder and CEO of Atheneum
Mathias has an extensive due diligence experience with L.E.K. Consulting in Munich and Boston, during which he worked on over 80 private investment transactions across Europe and the Americas. His prior work experience includes major investment banks in London, as well as Oliver Wyman in Munich and Dubai. Mathias holds a triple Master‘s degree in International Management from ESCP-EAP Grande École in Paris and a Basis doctoral in Economics from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.
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About Atheneum: Atheneum is a knowledge sharing platform that offers corporations access to up-to-date market insights for better business decisions.
Rahul Sahgal
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of Annik
Rahul is the founder and CEO of Annik, one of the leading Data Analytics outsourcing companies in India. Having spent 10 years in the US working with some of the Global Leaders in Market Research, he started the company upon his return to India. Initially providing software development services, he started offering data services in 2002 after which the company quickly grew from less than 20 to over 200 in a couple of years. Today, with over 1000+ employees, Annik is recognized as a pioneer in the KPO space. Having grown up in different countries and having attended various international schools, he has an appreciation for different cultures. He is fluent in English, Hindi and French. Rahul holds a Master’s Degree in Physics from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA and a Bachelor’s Degree in the same subject from Hindu College, University of Delhi.
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About Annik, LiquidHub, QoreNext: Annik, now LiquidHub Analytics, is the global data management and analytics solutions wing of the customer engagement solutions firm.
Seth Brickman
Co-Founder, Head of Product and Operations of Nicolette
Seth joined Nicolette out of his belief that we are all here for a purpose bigger than ourselves and helping patients and providers partner in healthcare helps accomplish that. Seth is a veteran of the US Navy and has been a senior executive at several companies including Microsoft and Holland America cruise line.
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About Nicolette, Qcash Financial: Nicolette operates as a patient empowerment company.
Phil Martie
Co-Founder, CEO of Nicolette
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About Nicolette: Nicolette operates as a patient empowerment company.
Deepak Savadatti
Founder & Chief Operating Officer of BlueDot
Deepak Savadatti is Founder & CEO at RIFFIT.
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About BlueDot, Punch’d Energy, RIFFIT: Our mission is to identify the most promising technological innovations at NASA & National labs
John Chendo
President & Co-Founder of Access Information Management
As President of Access, John leads the company’s corporate development and acquisition team and oversees Access’ international business. Prior to joining the Access executive team full-time in 2009, John was a Principal at Housatonic Partners and has served on the board of directors for Access since co-founding the business in 2004. John has 20 years of financial management and acquisition experience, including management roles in software and services industries, private equity investing and investment banking. John also serves on the boards of the records and information management companies OASIS Group of Europe and ZircoDATA of Australia, as well as Mercury Roadways, an outsourced logistics business. John spent ten years as a director at ProService, a human resource administration outsourcing company, guiding the company through its private equity sale in 2017. John also serves on the Advisory Board of the Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley, his alma mater.
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About Access Information Management: Access Information Management provides records management storage and destruction services as well as document management software.
George Stoitzev
Founder of BlueReceipt
George Stoitzev currently works as the Founder of BlueReceipt.
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About BlueReceipt: BlueReceipt develops a Shopify plugin that uses text marketing to boost revenue.
Pete Cashmore
Founder & CEO of Mashable
Pete Cashmore is the founder and CEO of Mashable, the leading source of news, information & resources for the Connected Generation. Pete founded Mashable in 2005 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland when he was 19. His passion for sharing how web tools and social networks were transforming human interactions and reshaping cultures drove him to create Mashable. Always an entrepreneur, Pete has continued to push Mashable to evolve from a tech blog to a global media company built around technology. He leads Mashable’s strategy and his innate sense of the web and its community, are core to the company’s operations and future growth. He has been described as the “Sage of Media” and considered one of the most influential voices of his generation– on and offline. Pete was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2012. He was featured on Forbes 30 under 30 list, named one of Ad Age’s 2011 influencers, and was named a Young Global Leader by The World Economic Forum.
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About Mashable: Mashable is a media company for the connected generation and voice of digital culture.
Pankaj Kulshreshtha
Founder & CEO of Scienaptic
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About Scienaptic: Scienaptic Systems provides big data analytics and related solutions through its platform.
Rory Cutaia
Founder, Chairman, Pres. & CEO of VERB Technology Company
Rory originated the concept of bBooth and the idea that it could be used as a revenue-generating casting vehicle for TV shows. Rory created the Company’s business plan and marketing strategies, financed its start-up costs, including all research and development, then assembled a world-class management team of successful Hollywood, entertainment, and technology veterans to execute his vision to disrupt the talent discovery and fan engagement industries. Keenly focused on building shareholder value, Rory provides the vision and leadership for his management team and sets the goals and objectives for the Company’s growth and expansion. A successful serial entrepreneur, Rory’s previous endeavors include Founder, Chairman and CEO of telecom technology icon, The Telx Group, which he built and sold in 6 years for approx. $250M, returning 18x invested capital to early investors; and Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Allied Fiber, a new nationwide fiber-optic network, being deployed along railroad rights-of-way; among other successful endeavors.
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About VERB Technology Company: VERB Technology Company specializes in business-focused interactive video webinars, CRM, sales, and marketing applications.
Sriram Vishwanath
President and Co-Founder of GenXComm
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About BrilliantMD, GenXComm, The University of Texas at Austin: GenXComm enables true full duplex for next generation communications infrastructure.
Stephen Gartside
Co-Founder of GenXComm
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About GenXComm: GenXComm enables true full duplex for next generation communications infrastructure.
Sabeer Bhatia
Co-Founder of ShowReel
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About Biscuit, InstaColl, Live Documents, Sabse Technologies, ShowReel, Stealth Startup, Stealth Startup: With ShowReel you can create, share and track video resumes. Create professional video resumes that make you stand out of other job seekers.
Frank Selldorff
Founder & CEO of Acorio
Frank Selldorff is CEO and founder of Meteorix. An accomplished veteran of the IT consulting industry, with a sharp focus on innovation, Frank founded Meteorix in January of 2011 because he believes Workday’s technology is revolutionary and that the opportunity exists to change the way services are delivered. A true entrepreneurial leader, adept building high performing teams, Frank drives the company’s unwavering commitment to both customer and employee success. In addition to his role at Meteorix, Frank is also founder and Chairman of Momentum Equity Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies with the potential to become industry leaders in the information technology sector. Prior to Momentum, Frank was founder and co-CEO of Reach Internet Incubator, whose portfolio of companies includes success stories BrandMuscle, BlackSmith Applications, BrainShark and netNumina (later acquired by Keane). In 1992, Frank founded Breakaway Solutions, a full-service Internet provider, and served as its chairman, president and CEO through 1998. Under his direction, the company was recognized as one of the nation’s fastest-growing technology companies, ranking No. 73 on the 1998 Inc. 500 and on Deloitte and Touche’s Fast 50/500 from 1996-1998.
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About Acorio, Meteorix: Acorio helps customers to maximize the return on their investment in ServiceNow.
Hassan Miah
CEO and Co-Founder of Robin8 Inc
Hassan Miah has nearly three decades of experience in the entertainment industry, which began when he was based in Los Angeles working as a Partner in KPMG Peat Marwick where he was an entertainment and business valuation consultant. He then moved to Creative Artists Agency (CAA), where he served as the head of new media and began to expand into the digital space, which was still in its infancy. Since then Hassan Miah has been able to combine his passion for new media and entertainment to create services that help music and video fans. He was the CEO of Xing Technology Corporation, the first consumer MP3 recording company. He is the Founder and CEO of UrFilez (www.urfilez.com), a cloud-based digital music company with proprietary recommendations technology. He also spent time at the Intel Capital, where he was the Managing Director of Media & Entertainment.
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About One Llama Labs, Inc, Paybby, Radio One Llama, Robin8 Inc: influencer search engine and marketplace, Robin8, an influencer search engine and marketplace.
Miranda Tan
CEO & Founder of Robin8 Inc
Tan has over 10 years experience in PR and marketing. Prior to MyPRGenie, Tan was the president of Excite Media Group, where she specialized in PR and marketing for start-ups and fast growth companies including McKinsey & Company, National Imaging Associates (acquired by Wellpoint), MindTree Consulting, Cognizant Technology Solutions, NYU, Opinion Research Corp and Peoplesoft (acquired by Oracle). Prior to Excite Media Group, Tan founded ExcitePR, a $2 MM hi-tech PR agency. Tan merged ExcitePR with a $15M PR and marketing firm in Silicon Valley. Tan has a BS from Cornell University and a JD from St. John’s University School of Law. She is admitted under the New York Bar.
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About Robin8 Inc: influencer search engine and marketplace, Robin8, an influencer search engine and marketplace.
Dhiraj C Rajaram
Founder & CEO of Mu Sigma
Dhiraj is responsible for the organization’s vision and strategic direction, building teams, aligning organizational resources to a customer centric vision and delivering profitable growth. Dhiraj has built Mu Sigma from ground up, during which time he executed activities that included raising seed and growth capital for the venture, securing key Fortune 100 customers, incubating a delivery unit and hiring key leadership members. Before Mu Sigma, he advised senior executives across a variety of verticals as a strategy consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Dhiraj holds an MBA from the University of Chicago. He also received an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University.
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About Mu Sigma: Mu Sigma offers management consulting services designed to provide decision sciences and big data analysis.
