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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 Infrastructure 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.
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.
Steve Jang
Founder & Managing Partner of Kindred Ventures
Steve Jang is a venture capital investor and technology entrepreneur. Based in San Francisco, Steve serves as founder and a managing partner of Kindred Ventures. As a generalist early stage venture fund, Kindred’s mission is to invest in brilliant and dedicated founders at the earliest stages of building their startup and, ultimately, our collective future. Over the past 12 years, Steve has backed over 100 companies across different theme areas, including Uber, Coinbase, Postmates, Tonal, Color Health, Zymergen, and Blue Bottle Coffee. Since 2009 and up until IPO, Steve has also served as an Advisor to Uber since the founding of the company, up through initial product launch, global expansion, and then IPO. Steve also serves as an Advisor at Expa, a startup studio based in SF and NY, mentoring startup teams on product development, team building, and company growth. Most recently as an entrepreneur, Steve served as co-founder of Bitski, a digital wallet and storefront service for NFTs. Previously, he was co-founder/CEO of SoundTracking, a popular mobile music service that was Apple’s Best iPhone Music App of 2011 and was acquired by Rhapsody in 2014. Prior to these startups, in 2005, he was the co-creator and founding team member of the world’s first and largest on-demand music streaming service which reached over 100 million monthly unique users before its eventual acquisition by MySpace. //Investment Theme Areas of Interest// * Online Marketplaces * Decentralized Systems and Crypto * ClimateTech & Sustainable Systems * Digital Health and Wellness * FinTech * Social Consumer Media * Developer/Creator Tools * Future of Work * Software-enabled Hardware //Representative Portfolio Companies Include// Marketplaces/Market Networks: Uber (IPO), Postmates (acq. by Uber), Poshmark (IPO), StyleSeat, Italic, Reserve (acq. by Resy), Drip (acq. Kickstarter), GrandSt (acq. by Etsy), RangeMe (acq. by ECRM) Decentralized Systems & Crypto: Coinbase, dYdX, Zora, CoinTracker, Mina Protocol, Bitski, Computable, Nervos Network, Origin Protocol, Harbor, Radar Relay, Set Protocol, Messari, Rarebits Health & Wellness: Tonal, Color Health, Heartbeat Health, Forward, Enso, Breathometer Sustainable Systems/Climate Tech: Zymergen, Linear Labs, Replenysh, Mootral, Connora Systems FinTech & LegalTech: Atrium, Bloom Credit, Coinbase, Catch Benefits Developer/Creator Tools: Red Planet Labs, Northflank, Optic, Anjuna Future of Work: Bravado, Torch, Braintrust, Fountain, Catch Food Innovation & CPG: Taika, Blue Bottle Coffee, Fort Point Beer Consumer/Social Media: Clubhouse Frontier Tech: Humane
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About Bitski, Kindred Ventures: Kindred Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund that supports startup companies.
Gaston Taratuta
CEO, Founder of IMS Corporate
Gaston Taratuta founded IMS in 2005 and now oversees all IMS sales teams and manages the company’s strategic direction. He has more than thirteen years of experience in online advertising and began his career as sales manager of Brazil’s Universo Online (UOL), advancing to President of its subsidiary UOL-E Corp. Gaston is fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese. He holds a Master’s degree in international marketing from Florida International University and has participated in graduate programs at Stanford University. Gaston is based in our Buenos Aires office.
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About Aleph Holding, IMS Corporate: IMS is a digital marketing & communications company that partners with businesses seeking to expand in Latin America
Grant Miller
Founder & CEO of Replicated
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About Replicated: Replicated provides a platform for delivering and managing Kubernetes applications in any environment.
David Aninowsky
Founder of Vultr Holdings Corporation
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About Constant, Vultr Holdings Corporation: Vultr, the Independent Cloud, provides developers and businesses with powerful cloud infrastructure at an unbeatable price.
Vivek Kumar
Co-Founder and President of ProKarma
Vivek Kumar serves as the President of Prokarma, Inc. Mr. Kumar has more than 15 years of IT industry experience. He has provided leadership in the management, and delivery of e-Business technology, and services. He is involved with building e-procurement solutions since the last 7 years, and has tremendous knowledge of procurement functions. Mr. Kumar is responsible for leading the growth of the organization through revenue improvement with existing customers, increased market penetration, and development of new products and markets. He is ultimately responsible for corporate profitability and establishing policies, procedures and strategies consistent with the values and integrity of the organization.
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About PK Global, ProKarma: ProKarma is a provider of IT services, business consulting, and enterprise applications harnessing emerging technologies.
Jeff Miller
Co-Founder of ProKarma
Jeff has held senior positions in IT marketing and sales for over 25 years. He has vast experience in managing, mentoring and building sales and marketing teams. He has ably managed 50+ person sales teams generating over $110 million in revenue for a large private IT consulting firm. He has an extensive background in generating new business, securing customer loyalty and forging strong relationships with business partners. Jeff is responsible for developing the company’s sales plans including objectives, strategy, resources and budget. He ensures that plans match corporate guidelines for target markets, client relevance and ROI. His direct responsibilities include sales management; planning and execution of client specific sales strategies; building of the customer base; managing customer relations, business planning, demand creation and fulfillment.
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About ProKarma: ProKarma is a provider of IT services, business consulting, and enterprise applications harnessing emerging technologies.
Michael Stark
Founder & General Partner of Crosslink Capital
Michael co-founded Crosslink Capital. He oversees all the Firm’s investment activities. Michael also serves as Portfolio Manager for the Partners and Emerging Growth Long/Short funds and all of the Firm’s Crossover Funds. Michael joined Robertson Stephens in 1983 where he served as Director of Research and equity analyst covering the semiconductor and software industries. Prior to that he was at Intel Corporation.
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About Crosslink Capital, Northwestern University, University of Michigan: Crosslink Capital partners with founders that are market disrupters and category creators typically at the Seed-Series A stage.
Edward Wang
Co-Founder of VMware
Dr. Edward Wang, Co-Founder and serves as Principal Engineer of Vmware, Inc. Dr. Wang has 10+ years of high tech industry experience. Prior to joining VMware, he worked as a principal engineer at VXtreme and Mindcraft and has consulted extensively on UNIX software projects. In 1993, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Usenix for his contributions to the development of Berkeley UNIX. He also helped to neutralize the infamous Internet Worm virus by discovering and describing one of its key mechanisms. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer science and a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Anurag Goel
Founder and CEO of Render
Founder and CEO at Render.
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About Render: Render provides a cloud for developers and startups to host all their apps and sites.
Peter Winzer
CEO and Founder of Nubis Communications
Peter Winzer currently works as CEO and Co-Founder of Nubis Communications. He previously worked at Nokia Bell Labs as Research Director.
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About Nubis Communications: Nubis Communications is a startup providing services to the electrical and electronic manufacturing industries.
Guilhem de Valicourt
Co-Founder and Director of Photonic Integration of Nubis Communications
Guilhem de Valicourt currently works as Co-founder and Director of Photonic Integration. He previously worked at IPG Photonics as Principal – Integrated Photonic Engineer.
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About Nubis Communications: Nubis Communications is a startup providing services to the electrical and electronic manufacturing industries.
Edward Woodford
Co-Founder and CEO of Zero Hash
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About Zero Hash: Zero Hash is a B2B digital assets-as-a-service technology platform that offers turnkey solutions such as NFTs for its clients.
Rubin Gruber
Founder and Board Member of Verivue
Rubin Gruber is a well-known successful entrepreneur, having founded many innovative companies in the telecommunications, data communications and digital networking areas over a span of forty years. In 2007 he co-founded Verivue (acquired in 2012 by Akamai: AKAM), a company providing infrastructure products that support on-demand television and movies as well as content delivery networks. Before Verivue, Gruber co-founded Sonus Networks (NASDAQ: SONS), the leading provider of infrastructure equipment supporting IP Voice telephone networks around the world. Earlier, Gruber founded VideoServer, Inc (NASDAQ: VSVR), a leading provider of multimedia communications servers. Before VideoServer, Gruber served as Senior Vice President BBN Communications Corporation, where he introduced a new generation of packet-switching equipment in support of mission critical applications. Gruber also founded Davox (NASDAQ: DAVX, acquired Aspect and renamed Aspect), a leading supplier of outbound call-center systems. In the mid 1970’s, he founded Cambridge Telecommunications (CTX), which was the first company to incorporate microprocessors in communications equipment and an early supplier of packet network access equipment. CTX was acquired by GTE. Gruber served on the Boards of all the companies he founded, as well as a number of other private companies, including GreenVolts, a leading supplier of Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) Solar Systems, NetDevices (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent), Brix Networks (acquired by EXFO), 2Wire (acquired by AT&T, Telmex and Alcatel) and others. Gruber was a member of the board of directors of the International Softswitch Consortium, the International Packet Communications Consortium, and he was one of the founding members of the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium where he was awarded the Pioneer award. He was named to the Massachusetts Telecom Hall of Fame. He holds a B.Sc. from McGill University and an MA in mathematics from Wayne State University.
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About Metrika, Verivue: Verivue provides digital content delivery solutions to help network operators distribute and control IP-based media traffic.
Jonathan Roberts
Founder & Partner Emeritus of Ignition Partners
Jonathan Roberts is a founder and partner of Ignition. He invests in business application and services companies and represents Ignition as director on the boards of DocuSign, AVST, HyperQuality, Spoken Communications and Earth Class Mail. Prior to Ignition, Jonathan spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as general manager of the Windows CE Intelligent Appliance Division, where he was responsible for developing new WinCE products, product marketing, business development and long-term planning for the Windows CE platform, as well as the retargeting of the Microsoft’s PocketPC effort. Jonathan led the marketing and business efforts for Windows 3.1, 3.11, Windows NT 3.51, NT 4.0, BackOffice 1.0, Windows 98 and NT 4.0 on the Desktop, and finally all of Windows CE including embedded, Pocket PC, Auto, Phones, Set-top, Games, etc. Jonathan received his BA in history from the University of Washington where he was also student body president.
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About Ignition Partners: Ignition Partners is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity.
Brian Herlihy
Founder & CEO of Black Rhino Group
Brian founded Black Rhino in 2012. Mr. Herlihy has over seventeen years of infrastructure development experience and has built valuable relationships across the African continent in telecommunication, chemical processing, energy and infrastructure. He has been involved in over US$7 billion of project finance-related deals in Africa in 2007. He founded SEACOM (www.seacom.mu), a US$600 million submarine fibre-optic network company that was the first cable to connect East and South Africa to Europe and Asia. He holds an MSc (Development Studies) with a concentration in African Economics and a BA (Economics and Philosophy) from the London School of Economics and Boston College, respectively. He served as CEO of SEACOM from 2007 until 2012 and remains as a Director of the Board. Prior to SEACOM, he was the lead developer on a US$5 billion alumina refinery in Guinea (www.guineaalumina.com). He was elected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2011.
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About Black Rhino Group: Black Rhino Group provides energy, infrastructure, and communication developments and investments across the African continent.
David Richards
Founder, Chairman, President & CEO of WANdisco
David is CEO, President and co-founder of WANdisco and has quickly established WANdisco as one of the world’s most promising technology companies. Since co-founding the company in Silicon Valley in 2005, David has led WANdisco on a course for rapid international expansion, opening offices in the UK, Japan and China. David spearheaded the acquisition of Altostor, which accelerated the development of WANdisco’s first products for the Big Data market. The majority of WANdisco’s core technology is now produced out of the company’s flourishing software development base in David’s hometown of Sheffield, England and in Belfast, Northern Ireland. David has become recognised as a champion of British technology and entrepreneurship. In 2012, he led WANdisco to a hugely successful listing on London Stock Exchange (WAND:LSE), raising over £24m to drive business growth. With over 15 years’ executive experience in the software industry, David sits on a number of advisory and executive boards of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. A passionate advocate of entrepreneurship, he has established many successful start-up companies in Enterprise Software and is recognised as an industry leader in Enterprise Application Integration and its standards. David is a frequent commentator on a range of business and technology issues, appearing regularly on Bloomberg and CNBC. Profiles of David have appeared in a range of leading publications including the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Pieter De Leenheer
Founder of Collibra
Pieter De Leenheer is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and computer scientist. He is Chief Technology Officer at Zenoptics, an analytics catalog and governance software company. Previously, Pieter founded Collibra, a unicorn software venture, that spun off from his data governance research at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Pieter writes, teaches and advises on computing and management aspects of data innovation. He serves as expert to several national governments and the European Commission. Pieter has held academic positions across the globe, including Harvard Business School, Columbia University, San Diego Supercomputer Center, VUB Brussels and VU University of Amsterdam. He lives in New York City with his wife and three daughters.
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About Collibra, ZenOptics: Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation.
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.
Shmulik Fishman
Founder, CEO of Argyle
Shmulik Fishman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Argyle, the leading employment data platform that provides companies access to user-permissioned records in real-time. With a solution that enables coverage of the majority of the US labor market, companies across industries leverage Argyle for frictionless, automated verification of income and employment (VOIE) and direct deposit change. Shmulik started Argyle in 2018, with the backing of Bain Capital and Checkr, after experiencing the complexity of work verification in his previous venture STRATIM, which he founded in 2014. At STRATIM, Shmulik acted as the Chief Operating Officer, raising $42M in venture funding and sold in 2018 to NYSE listed KAR Global (NYSE: KAR). Prior to STRATIM, Shmulik worked on the S1 team at Adap.tv during its IPO that was subsequently acquired by AOL. Shmulik has an undergraduate degree from Hampshire College where he became a philosopher by training and a storyteller by practice. While earning a business degree at Columbia University, a chance meeting catapulted Shmulik into the world of machine learning, setting him on a path of disrupting today’s employment and income verification space. When not writing, sitting on panels, keynote speaking, and conjoining fragmented networks, you can find Shmulik falling down the rabbit-hole of Wikipedia, in awe of our collective wisdom and communal capacity.
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About Argyle: Argyle provides a consumer-controlled, software gateway to employment records.
Yuri Frayman
Co- Founder & CEO of CAST AI
Yuri Frayman has a unique cross-disciplinary background. He has deep operating experience as a serial venture capital – backed entrepreneur across four very successful ventures. As a serial entrepreneur, Yuri has helped lead four venture-backed companies to successful exits for his investors. Specialties:Global Entrepreneurship, Global Go-to-Market, Strategic Marketing, Raising Venture Capital, Angel Investing, Sales, Open Innovation, B2B Social Media, Mergers and Acquisitions, Senior Advisory and Board of Director roles.
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About CAST AI, Zenedge: AI-driven cloud optimization platform that slashes cloud cost, optimizes DevOps, and automates disaster prevention.
Shawn Wilkinson
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Storj
Shawn Wilkinson is the founder and CSO at Storj Labs.
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About Storj, Storj, Storj: Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure.
John Quinn
Founder and CRO of Storj
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About Storj: Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure.
Wally Ibrahim
Technical Co-Founder and CTO of Aloi
Wally Ibrahim is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Aloi. He has 20+ years of tech experience as consultant, sales engineer, and founder. Strong background in platform architecture and APIs.
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About Aloi: Connect the world’s cloud applications with Aloi.
Tommy Skinner
Co-Founder of Aloi
Co-founder at Aloi // connecting e-commerce software
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About Aloi: Connect the world’s cloud applications with Aloi.
Tom Drummond
Founder & Managing Director of Heavybit
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About Heavybit: Heavybit is the leading investor in dev-first companies with an unrivaled track record helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
James Lindenbaum
Founder of Heavybit
James is a hacker and serial entrepreneur with a background in product development, user experience design, platform marketing, and cloud technology. He is one of the founders of Heroku, an advanced platform for application development and deployment. James is known as an “OCD perfectionist”, and is chiefly responsible for the look and feel of Heroku’s brand and products. Following Heroku’s acquisition by salesforce.com, James founded Heavybit, a San Francisco-based community and program for developer-focused businesses. He speaks regularly about cloud technology, entrepreneurship, and design, and is an advisor to and investor in many technology companies.
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About Heavybit: Heavybit is the leading investor in dev-first companies with an unrivaled track record helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
Jack Lu
Founder & CEO of Wanchain
Founder of Wanchain. Graduated from Peking University and MBA fromThe Ohio State University. Blockchain entrepreneur and technical expert. Cofounded Factom in 2014. Founded Wanglutech, which brings Blockchain technology to a greater range of applications.
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About Wanchain: Wanchain is a unique public blockchain with inter-chain transactions and privacy protection.
Bob Friday
CTO / Co-Founder of Mist Systems
Bob is CTO and co-founder of Mist, a pioneer in smart wireless networking for the smart device era.Bob started his career in wireless at Metricom (Ricochet wireless network) developing and deploying wireless mesh networks across the country to connect the first generation of Internet browsers. Following Metricom,Bob co-founded Airespace, a start-up focused on helping enterprises manage the flood of employees bringing unlicensed Wi-Fi technology into their businesses. Following Cisco’s acquisition of Airespace in 2005, Bob became the VP/CTO of Cisco enterprise mobility and drove mobility strategy and investments in the wireless business (e.g. Navini, Cognio, ThinkSmart, Phunware, Wilocity, Meraki). He also drove industry standards such as Hot Spot 2.0 and market efforts such as Cisco’s Connected Mobile Experience. He holds more than 15 patents.
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About Mist Systems: Mist built a wireless platform for the Smart Device era that delivers intelligent wireless network products that leverage machine learning.
Marshall Aronow
Co-Founder & CEO of MetTel
Marshall Aronow is a co-founder of the company and has served as CEO since 1996. Under his leadership, the company has achieved profitability and consistent growth of over 15% by expanding services and footprint. Previously, he was a finance specialist and managing partner of JDK Partners, a Manhattan-based hedge fund that specialized in technology and telecommunications. Prior to that, he was a member of both the Chicago and New York Mercantile Exchanges.
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About MetTel: MetTel integrates telecom and technology in innovative ways that breathe life into your business and drive it forward.
Peter Hunn
Founder & CEO of Clause
Peter Hunn is Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Clause, Inc. The Accord Project (now a Linux Foundation project) from Clause, Inc. is the leading organization for the development of techno-legal standards for smart legal contracts and distributed ledger applications in the legal industry. Peter is also an angel investor in early stage startups.
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About Accord Project, Clause, Substrate: Clause is a digital contracting platform connecting agreements to trusted systems, verifying data, and accelerating actions.
Stan Fry
Founder of Collision Communications
Stan Fry is recognized as a pioneer and expert in optical character recognition and imaging scanning technology whose contributions have helped shape the development, conceptualization, design, and creation of dozens of hardware and software imaging products. Currently, Mr. Fry serves as Chairman of numerous company boards and his own companies hold nearly 1,400 patents in various technologies. In 1996, he co-founded Flashpoint Technology, Inc. and has been its Chief Executive Officer since 1999. He is the Founder of PictureWorks Technology, Image Software, Pixami, Collision Communications, Concert Technology, Scenera Research and RetroReflective. He served previously as a Director for Research and Development of Wang Laboratories until 1995. In addition, Mr. Fry has held multiple patents and developed the first commercially available scanner.
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About Collision Communications: Collision Communications develops advanced multi-user detection, MIMO.
Jared Fry
COO + Co-Founder of Collision Communications
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About Collision Communications: Collision Communications develops advanced multi-user detection, MIMO.
Karthik Ranganathan
Co-Founder & CTO of Yugabyte
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About Yugabyte: Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.
Kannan Muthukkaruppan
Co-Founder & President of Yugabyte
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About Yugabyte: Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.
Mikhail Bautin
Co-Founder & Software Architect of Yugabyte
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About Yugabyte: Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.
Martin Mao
Co-Founder and CEO of Chronosphere
Martin Mao is the founder and CEO of Chronosphere.
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About Chronosphere: Chronosphere develops a scalable, reliable, and customizable monitoring solution built for cloud-native applications.
Rob Skillington
Co-Founder and CTO of Chronosphere
Rob Skillington is the Co-Founder and CTO at Chronosphere.
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About Chronosphere: Chronosphere develops a scalable, reliable, and customizable monitoring solution built for cloud-native applications.
Soumyadeb Mitra
Founder & CEO of RudderStack
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About RudderStack: RudderStack provides a customer data infrastructure solution for developers, data analysts, and product teams.
Catheryne Nicholson
Co-Founder & CEO of BlockCypher
As co-founder and CEO of BlockCypher, Catheryne has decades of experience in software product management, product marketing, environmental & energy, and defense. Catheryne is an engineer, entrepreneur, mother, and former U.S. Naval Officer. She has built large-scale commercial software platforms in education, energy and emissions management, CRM, and defense systems for companies such as BlockCypher, MommaZoo, C3, Siebel Systems, and Northrop-Grumman. She graduated from the U.S Naval Academy and Stanford University and holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering, a MS in Environmental Engineering, a MBA, and is a registered PE in Mechanical Engineering.
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About BlockCypher: BlockCypher is a cloud-optimized platform powering blockchain applications reliably and at-scale.
Matthieu Riou
Founder & CTO of BlockCypher
Co-founder of BlockCypher and software architect with 15+ years of experience working on complex platforms at banking, software and Saas companies. Former Apache Software Foundation member and VP with extensive open source development experience. He’s founded and mentored various open source projects, from distributed databases to build tools. Matthieu has developed many software systems at MommaZoo, C3, Intalio, BEA, Reef, BNP, and Societe Generale. Matthieu knows 10+ programming languages and all tools ranging from Lisp to Java and Node.js. He holds a BS and MS in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Ecole des Mines d’Ales.
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About BlockCypher, Joyent, MommaZoo, The Apache Software Foundation: BlockCypher is a cloud-optimized platform powering blockchain applications reliably and at-scale.
Gaurav Rewari
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Numerify
Gaurav is a co-founder and CEO of Numerify. Most recently, Gaurav was Vice President of Product Management and Strategy at Oracle of a $2.5 billion Business Analytics business that included the Hyperion, Oracle BI and Siebel Analytics product lines. During his tenure, his team furthered Oracle’s industry leading position in analytics, and measurably advanced its BI Platform market share through the acquisition of Endeca and the introduction of the Exalytics in-memory Analytics machine, a product with one of the fastest ramps in Oracle’s history. Gaurav started his career as the first product manager at MicroStrategy where he rose to become VP/GM with responsibility for MicroStrategy’s Product Management, Professional Services & Analytical Applications divisions. He was part of a management team that grew MicroStrategy from single digit millions in revenue through its IPO and into a $200M+ BI products leader. Before Oracle, Gaurav was co-founder & CEO of FirstRain, a venture-backed leader in SaaS search-based market intelligence. Outside Numerify, Gaurav enjoys going on nature treks in the San Francisco bay area with his wife and children. Gaurav holds BS, MS & EE degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received the Tau Beta Pi prize for Engineering Excellence, the Robert A. Boit prize in Humanities and was nominated to the Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society.
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About Numerify: AI-powered IT business analytics for the Global 2000
Srikant Gokulnatha
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Numerify
Srikant is a co-founder and Chief Product Officer for Numerify. Before founding Numerify, he was a Vice President of Product Development at Oracle where he was responsible for the development of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications as well as the development of BI based content for the Oracle SaaS Applications. Prior to Oracle, he headed up product management for MicroStrategy’s business intelligence products and served as a strategy consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. Outside Numerify, Srikant spends his time playing and coaching soccer, going on hikes with his family, and volunteering for various school district committees. He is a renowned home cook and his children think he makes the greatest humus in the greater Saratoga area. His collection of masks from around the world has been known to scare young children. Srikant received his MBA with the highest honors and as a Palmer Scholar from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering.
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About Numerify: AI-powered IT business analytics for the Global 2000
Sadanand Sahasrabudhe
Co-Founder & Chief Architect of Numerify
Sadanand is a Co-founder and Chief Architect of Numerify. Prior to Numerify, he held leadership positions in engineering, product management and solutions consulting at multiple Business Intelligence and Analytics companies. Early in his career, Sadanand was a key architect on the team that built the industry-leading analytical engine at MicroStrategy. He has designed products and implemented analytics solutions for large commercial enterprises and government agencies. When not working, Sadanand enjoys playing racquetball and following (almost) all sports. He is also a wine lover and an eternally struggling cook. Sadanand holds B.E. and MS degrees in Computer Science from the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India and Virginia Tech respectively.
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About Numerify: AI-powered IT business analytics for the Global 2000
Bassem Hamdy
CEO & Co-Founder of Briq
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About Briq: Briq is a financial forecasting and data intelligence platform for the construction industry.
Ron Goldshmidt
Co-Founder – COO and Head of Fintech of Briq
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About Briq: Briq is a financial forecasting and data intelligence platform for the construction industry.
Greg Bentley
CEO & Founder of Bentley Systems
Greg joined his four brothers at Bentley Systems in 1991. Previously, he founded a financial trading software firm, which became part of SunGard Data Systems, Inc., an S&P 500 company on whose public-company board Greg served from 1991 through 2005. He holds an M.B.A. in finance and decision sciences from Wharton. Greg is a trustee of Drexel University, where he also serves as chairman of the advisory board for the Pennoni Honors College, and a trustee of the National Building Museum.
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About Bentley Systems: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
Assaf Resnick
Founder & CEO of BigPanda
Assaf Resnick is CEO and founder of BigPanda, a data science platform for automating IT event correlation. BigPanda brings order to the alert chaos of large and fragmented IT Operations environments. Prior to founding BigPanda, Assaf was an investor with Sequoia Capital from 2005-2011. He lives in California with his wife and two beautiful kids.
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About BigPanda: BigPanda offers a platform that helps IT Ops, NOC, and DevOps teams detect, investigate, and resolve IT incidents faster and more easily.
Weili Dai
Co-Founder & President of Marvell
Weili Dai is one of the most successful women entrepreneurs in the world today. Widely considered a technology visionary, she is the only woman co-founder of a global semiconductor company, and since it began in 1995, she has helped Marvell’s rise to become one of the top semiconductor companies in the world. Dai’s business acumen, strategic thinking, product leadership, endless passion and personal network have contributed greatly to Marvell’s fast rise to success. Her close relationship with her customers and the foundation of the trust shared with them has given her a strong reputation for professionalism and integrity throughout the technology industry.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Jarrod Yuster
Chairman, Founder and Co-CEO of Pico
Jarrod has over 20 years of experience in institutional trading. Prior to founding Pico, Jarrod served as Global Head of Electronic Trading at Merrill Lynch, where he oversaw the business from its inception and was responsible for sales, trading, risk, execution service, product development and quantitative analytics for these products worldwide. Before his work on Wall Street, Jarrod served as a product engineer, performing semiconductor research at Intel.
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About Pico: Pico is a provider of technology services for the global financial markets community.
Pouria Sanae
Founder & CEO of ixlayer
Pouria Sanae is the Founder and CEO of ixLayer.
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About ixlayer: ixlayer develops a telehealth platform that provides an infrastructure for payors, providers, and government partners to scale testing.
Vahid Kowsari
Founder & CTO of ixlayer
Vahid Kowsari is the Co-Founder and CTO at ixLayer Inc.
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About ixlayer: ixlayer develops a telehealth platform that provides an infrastructure for payors, providers, and government partners to scale testing.
Chris Nguyen
Co-Founder of LogDNA
Chris Nguyen is the Co-Founder and CEO at LogDNA.Prior to founding LogDNA, he founded two other companies: TeamSave, which is a white label e-Commerce platform that provides sales, technology, and customer support for the social commerce and digital coupons space for two eBay Classified Group portfolio companies and JobLoft, which was acquired by onTargetjobs. Chris also held various leadership positions at onTargetjobs ranging from Vice President of Product, Vice President of E-Commerce and General Manager of online personals site. Chris received his Bachelors of Commerce degree from Ryerson University with a major in Information Technology Management. He has been recognized through many awards for his accomplishments and leadership, including: Impact.org’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year; and received Ryerson University’s Isadore Sharp Alumni Achievement Awards. He was a board member of Ryerson University’s Accelerator Seed Fund from 2012-2014.
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About LogDNA: LogDNA offers a log management solution that provides DevOps teams an aggregation of all their system and application logs on one platform.
Lee Liu
CTO & Co-Founder of LogDNA
Lee Liu is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at LogDNA. Prior to founding LogDNA, he was a Co-founder and CTO of TeamSave, where he developed the core web architect that handled over 4 million monthly visitors, 500K+ eCommerce transactions, and was responsible in sending over 1 billion+ campaign emails. Before co-founding TeamSave, he also held leadership positions at onTargetjobs with responsibilities of Vice President of Research and Development and Vice President of Information Technology at portfolio company Hospitality Careers. He was also a Co-Founder and CTO at JobLoft, a unique approach to location-based job mapping along with SMS-based push notification that was acquired by onTargetjobs in 2007. Lee filed a technology patent for his location based mapping algorithm. Lee received his Bachelors of Commerce degree from Ryerson University with a major in Information Technology Management. Lee has received Ryerson University’s Isadore Sharp Alumni Achievement Awards.
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About LogDNA: LogDNA offers a log management solution that provides DevOps teams an aggregation of all their system and application logs on one platform.
Clint Chao
Co-Founder & General Partner of Moment Ventures
Clint Chao is a founding General Partner of Moment Ventures. Moment is a Palo Alto based early stage VC firm investing in the Future of Work: startups bringing technology into and across other industries to transform the business or labor operations in areas such as logistics, food, oil & gas, education, healthcare, construction and more. Clint has invested in companies including Flowspace, Pod Foods, Swing Education, Validere, TARA AI, Netsil (acq by Nutanix), Skyward (acq by Verizon), and Payable (acq by Stripe). Prior to Moment, Clint was a co-founding Managing Director at Formative Ventures, an early-stage VC firm. During his time at Formative, Clint invested a third of the fund’s capital in early-stage technology startups, focusing on software infrastructure, web services, cloud computing applications and advanced semiconductors. Clint’s investment and board leadership experience include Mashery (acq by Intel), SOASTA (acq by Akamai), Silicon Clocks (acquired by Silicon Labs), Vungle (acq by Blackstone) and Zyray Wireless (acquired by Broadcom). Clint is an experienced technology executive who brings more than 20 years of start-up operating experience including marketing, sales and business development to Formative Ventures. Prior to co-founding Formative Ventures, Clint served as the first Vice President of Marketing, Sales and Business Development at SkyStream Networks (acquired by Tandberg TV), a leading provider of video routing solutions. Under his leadership, SkyStream became the worldwide leader in MPEG routing solutions to the broadcast, networking and enterprise markets. Prior to joining SkyStream, Clint served as Senior Director of Marketing at C-Cube Microsystems where he was responsible for marketing for the PC Division, a group he co-founded and grew to run rates exceeding $50M in sales annually. Clint began his tenure at C-Cube as the first Salesperson for the company, where he created the company’s sales representation network around the country. While there, C-Cube became the dominant supplier of digital video and imaging compression chips to the consumer electronics, computing and communications markets. Before joining C-Cube, Clint held numerous sales and sales management positions at Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector, where he was recognized as one of the company’s top salespeople. Clint earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Formative Ventures, Moment Ventures, PANTASTIC: Moment Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the future of work.
Ammar Hanafi
Co-Founder & General Partner of Moment Ventures
Ammar Hanafi joined Alloy Ventures as a general partner in 2005. At Alloy, he focuses on investments in communications and IT infrastructure, as well as internet-enabled consumer and enterprise applications and services.Operating experience:Ammar has over a decade of financial and operational management experience in the communications and technology industry. He previously served as vice president of new business ventures at Cisco Systems, where he led new product efforts in the enterprise datacenter market. From 2000 to 2002, he was vice president of corporate business development, and in that capacity, he was responsible for Cisco’s acquisitions, acquisition integration, investment, and joint venture activity on a global basis. He joined Cisco in 1997 as a member of the Corporate Business Development Group. During Ammar’s tenure at Cisco, he helped the company complete over 100 investment and M&A transactions, including 50 successful acquisitions and over $750 million in venture capital investments. Leveraging his deep industry expertise, he helped lead Cisco into a number of major new businesses, including optical networking and integrated voice and data infrastructure and applications.Prior to Cisco, Ammar held leadership positions at PanAmSat Corp., a global satellite services provider, and the investment banking firms of Morgan Stanley and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.Ammar received a BS in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University (1988) and an MBA from Stanford University (1995). Current board seats:Ammar serves on the board of directors of 3Leaf Systems, YouSENDit, Retrevo, Mavenir Systems, GigaOM, Qwaq, Infineta Systems and Moxsie. He also led Alloy’s investment in Cortina Systems. Ammar also serves on the board of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, a non-profit.
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About Alloy Ventures, Moment Ventures: Moment Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the future of work.
Kenny Williams
Co-Founder & Lead Engineer of Compute Software
Kenny Williams joined Compute Software as Co-Founder & Lead Engineer in 2017.
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About Compute Software: Compute Software is a cloud optimization platform that maximizes cloud cost savings, performance, and Engineering productivity, all at once.
Kenny Williams
Co-Founder & Lead Engineer of Compute Software
Kenny Williams joined Compute Software as Co-Founder & Lead Engineer in 2017.
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About Compute Software: Compute Software is a cloud optimization platform that maximizes cloud cost savings, performance, and Engineering productivity, all at once.
Daniel Hayes
Lead Director & Co-Founder of Freethink Media
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About Freethink Media: Freethink Media is a creative media company for the people and ideas that are changing their world.
David Crawshaw
CTO and Co-Founder of Tailscale
David Crawshaw is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Tailscale.
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About Tailscale: Tailscale is a developer of a corporate VPN alternative, aiming to make private networks easier to build and maintain.
Phil Tee
Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO and Herd Leader of Moogsoft
Phil Tee is Chairman and CEO of Moogsoft. He made an indelible mark in information technology by co-founding Omnibus Transport Technologies Limited (OTT) in 1993 to build and market Netcool/Omnibus. OTT was folded into Micromuse (Nasdaq: MUSE) in 1994 and Netcool/Omnibus became the company’s flagship product. This technology continues to be the in the core of the management support systems in the world’s largest networks in the form of IBM Tivoli Netcool. In 1997, Phil founded Riversoft (LSE: RSFT) to solve the problem of root cause analysis; the technology acquired by Micromuse and the software subsequently became part of the IBM Tivoli Netcool suite. Phil then went on to lead Njini, producing a revolutionary and early data and storage software layer with data de-duplication and information lifecycle management (ILM) capabilities. The company’s technology was acquired by Riverbed (Nasdaq:RVBD). In 2008, Phil founded Promethyan to gestate multiple startups concurrently. Two Promethyan children of note include Prelert and RiverMuse.
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About Moogsoft: Moogsoft is a provider of AIOps solutions that help IT teams work faster and smarter.
Benjamin Hindman
Founder of D2iq
Ben Hindman is one of the creators of Apache Mesos, a platform for building and running resource-efficient distributed systems at scale. Ben started working on Mesos as a PhD student at Berkeley before he brought it to Twitter where it runs on thousands of machines. An academic at heart, his research in programming languages and distributed systems has been published in leading academic conferences.
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About D2iq: D2iQ offers elastically run containers and data services at scale, with complete hybrid cloud portability.
Alex Gellman
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Vertical Bridge Holdings
Alex Gellman is the CEO & Co-Founder at Vertical Bridge.
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About Vertical Bridge Holdings: Vertical Bridge is a private owner and manager of wireless communication infrastructure.
Bernard Borghei
Executive Vice President Of Operations & Co-Founder of Vertical Bridge Holdings
Bernard Borghei is the Executive Vice President Of Operations & Co-Founder at Vertical Bridge.
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About Vertical Bridge Holdings, Vertical Bridge Holdings: Vertical Bridge is a private owner and manager of wireless communication infrastructure.
Daniel Odio
CEO & Founder of Armory
Daniel Odio is CEO and co-founder of Socialize, Inc.Socialize is a cloud-based, turn-key social service distributed through APIs and SDKs with a focus on mobile integration. There are massive communities of users hiding inside each mobile app. Socialize is the first platform to leverage each app interest-graph, turning on the lights and letting passionate users rally around the app’s core content. Socialize also created AppMakr, the largest Do It Yourself mobile app creation platform for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone apps. AppMakr is used by brands like PBS, Newsweek, PGA TOUR, Harvard Business Review, US Congress, MacLife, Accenture and thousands of others. Over 1.5% of all apps in the iTunes App Store were created using AppMakr. Previously, Daniel earned his Series 22 & 63 securities licenses and real estate broker’s license to start Cardéa Commercial Real Estate Advisors, a commercial real estate brokerage specializing in tax-efficient real estate investments, and DROdio Real Estate, Inc, a residential real estate brokerage. Daniel also served on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Association of REALTORS and his real estate endeavors were featured on the cover of the The Wall Street Journal Marketplace section in July 2004. Prior to real estate, Daniel was the VP, Sales of AcceleratedServers, a Beowulf supercomputing cluster company whose customers included the Department of Defense and Paramount Pictures.Daniel has been featured on CNN, CNBC, TLC, Forbes, BBC and many other publications for his innovative use of technology in industries ranging from real estate to computer servers and mobile phones. Daniel was a member of General Electric Technical Leadership Program. Daniel worked for GE in Latin America, including Brazil and Argentina. Daniel graduated from the University of Virginia with a BS in Commerce, speaks Spanish and Portuguese, and resides in San Francisco, CA with his wife.
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About Armory: Armory is an enterprise software company commercializing the open-source continuous delivery platform, Spinnaker.
Balaji Parimi
Founder & CEO of CloudKnox Security
Balaji Parimi is Founder and CEO of CloudKnox Security, a Cloud Security company that empowers organizations to manage identity privileges across private and public cloud infrastructure. Prior to founding CloudKnox, Balaji was VP of Engineering and Operations at CloudPhysics, Staff Engineer at VMware, Architect and Technical Lead at 8X8, and Senior Software Engineer at Quality Call Solutions.
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About CloudKnox Security: CloudKnox develops a multi-cloud permissions management platform that protects critical cloud infrastructure resources and identities.
Eric Zachs
Co Chairman and Founder of Torrecom Partners
Eric Zachs is Co-Chairman and Co-Founder of MCM; formerly President and COO of Message Center Beepers (sold to Airtouch in 1995); Managing Partner of Bantry Bay Ventures; Chairman of Shanxi Taiyue, a coal trading and transportation company in China.
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About Torrecom Partners: Torrecom is a leading developer, owner and operator of wireless infrastructure in Latin America with operations in Mexico, Central America
Behrooz Abiri
CTO and Co-Founder of GuRu
A hardware hobbyist and International Physics Olympiad gold medalist – Behrooz has always been an avid inventor. He’s spent his life studying, learning, and exploring emerging technologies. His work at GuRu stems from a wish to share miraculous technology with the world at large. At GuRu, Behrooz is responsible for the ongoing development of core technology and system architecture. Under his leadership, GuRu’s millimeter-wave technology has been developed into an accessible consumer product. Before GuRu, Behrooz helped develop system design and architecture in Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech.
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About GuRu: Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
Florian Bohn
CEO & Co-Founder of GuRu
Florian has always felt compelled to understand the way the world works. His curiosity moved him to study Electrical Engineering at Caltech (B.S. Cum Laude), to receive an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech. At GuRu, Florian is thrilled to be building technology that will enrich people’s lives on a global scale. He is also proud to be building a community of passionate and like-minded engineers at the organization. As a co-founder and CEO at GuRu, Florian brings years of technology experience. At Axiom Microdevices, he helped define and implement high-frequency RF integrated circuits which have shipped more than 400 million units. At Agilent Laboratories (formerly HP Labs) he worked on clock and data recovery circuits as well as novel test and measurement systems. As a Caltech Lead Scientific Researcher, Florian guided engineering and operational aspects of implementing the microwave system at Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative.
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About GuRu: Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
Durga Gokina
CTO, Co-Founder of Macrometa
Building innovative products and teams.
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About Macrometa: Macrometa specializes in developing real-time stateful server-less applications.
Amiram Shachar
Founder & CEO of Spot.io
Amiram Shachar is CEO & Founder of Spotinst.
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About Spot.io: Spot automates cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity and optimize costs.
Ricardo Oliveira
Co-Founder & CTO of ThousandEyes
Ricardo is the co-founder and CTO of ThousandEyes (www.thousandeyes.com), a network intelligence startup based in San Francisco. Ricardo is also the creator of Cyclops (http://cyclops.cs.ucla.edu), a platform to detect attacks to the Internet routing infrastructure, like the one that brought youtube.com down in Pakistan in 2008. Ricardo is a technologist at heart and a believer in the importance of simplicity and good design in any product. He is also a caffeine junkie. Ricardo received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Engineering Faculty of Porto University (FEUP), Portugal in 2001, the M.S. degree in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles in 2005, and the PhD degree in Computer Science from UCLA in 2009. During his PhD he did several internships, including AT&T Labs, Thomson and Juniper Networks in Silicon Valley. During his PhD he developed research in inter-domain routing, network security and Internet topology. He is the main author of several patents and dozens of papers in international conferences and journals, including ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS and IEEE Transactions on Networking. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE. In 2009 he was the recipient of the Cisco Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award and the Edward K. Rice Outstanding Doctoral Student Award.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Mohit Lad
Co-Founder & CEO of ThousandEyes
Mohit Lad received a Ph.D. from UCLA where he worked on building systems for Internet routing fault diagnosis and security. Mohit built Link-Rank, tool for visualizing routing dynamics. His work on route hijacking led to PHAS, one of the first systems to detect and alert on routing security problems. Mohit spent a year at Nokia building tools for analyzing the quality of Nokia’s mobile services. Since January 2010, Mohit has been involved in Thousand Eyes, a company he co-founded with Ricardo Oliveira.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Moti Rafalin
CEO, Founder and Chairman of vFunction
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About vFunction: VFunction allows enterprises to tackle application modernization and accelerate digital transformation.
Richard Li
Founder/CEO of Ambassador Labs
Richard Li is cofounder and CEO of Datawire.
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About Ambassador Labs: Ambassador Labs is making it easy for developers to build resilient microservices.
Alexander Klizhentas
Co-Founder & CTO of Teleport
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About Teleport: Teleport enables engineers to quickly access any computing resource anywhere.
Ev Kontsevoy
Co-Founder & CEO of Teleport
Ev Kontsevoy is the CEO & Founder at Gravitational.
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About Teleport: Teleport enables engineers to quickly access any computing resource anywhere.
Taylor Wakefield
COO & Co-Founder of Teleport
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About Teleport: Teleport enables engineers to quickly access any computing resource anywhere.
Zachary Rosen
Co-Founder & CEO of Pantheon
Zack Rosen is the CEO & Co-Founder at Pantheon.
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About California YIMBY, Chapter Three., Covid Act Now, Mission Bicycle Company, Pantheon: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
David Timothy Strauss
Co-Founder & CTO of Pantheon
Will it scale? This is the guiding question for Pantheon CTO David Strauss, whose all-for-one-and-one-for-all improvements to web infrastructure have made the largest content sites in the world more scalable and secure, while saving developers thousands of hours in manual updates. If you’ve ever deployed an enterprise website, chances are you’ve benefited from one of the tools he’s developed. After co-founding Four Kitchens, a successful web development shop, David found himself gravitating away from custom client work and toward infrastructure solutions. Large clients like Creative Commons, Internet Archive, The Economist, and Wikimedia had already benefited from his scalability and database optimization work. Now he wanted to use this expertise to improve websites for everyone. When the opportunity to build an all-in-one website platform came along, he knew he needed to be a part of it. In addition to his role as Pantheon CTO, David also co-maintains the systemd/udev layer that runs on most of the world’s Linux systems, serves on the Advisory Board for the Drupal Association, contributes to the infrastructure and security teams at Drupal.org, and leads the development of Pressflow.
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About Pantheon, The Fedora Project: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
Matt Cheney
Co-Founder of Pantheon
The creation, dissemination and consumption of information is one of the world’s most important processes. A formally trained librarian and traveler to over 85 countries, Matt Cheney has seen first-hand the global importance of this flow of information and the critical role that open-source technology can play in enabling that flow. Over the past eight years, Matt has been active in the open source community, helping organize events that empower developers (BADCamp, Drupalcon SF), contributing code to the Drupal project that modernizes the end user experience (Panels, Panopoly), and co-founding a website consulting company that works directly with clients to share their information with the world (Chapter Three). He co-founded Pantheon to make freely available development and hosting tools which makes it easier for everyone to launch and run websites. Technology should be an enabler — not a barrier — and Matt’s hope is that Pantheon can make the web better for everyone. When he isn’t working at Pantheon, Matt helps to run a fixed-gear bicycle shop called Mission Bicycle, travels the world, and cooks vegan food using cutting-edge molecular gastronomic techniques.
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About Pantheon: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
Josh Koenig
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Pantheon
When a developer tells Josh Koenig how happy they are, that the drudge work has been automated and now they can handle more and larger projects, he knows it’s only a matter of time. Open source just took one step closer to world (or at least world-wide-web) domination. As Co-Founder and Head of Developer Experience, Josh believes the clues to Pantheon’s destiny are in its developer DNA: best practices, modular architecture, high performance are key for all websites whether it’s a personal hobby project or a major enterprise launch. And Josh believes all this should be easy and fast. Developers need tools that let them tackle more and bigger projects with less stress and worry, and that’s what he works on As a very early Drupal adopter (user #3313), Josh was part of the team that drove the first high-profile public Drupal use-case with the Howard Dean campaign in 2003. He went on to found the Drupal Dojo, an online learning community for developers, and to co-found the premiere Drupal agency in San Francisco, Chapter Three. Demand for open source website technology is high and getting higher, but the the lack of readily available services presented too many challenges for widespread adoption. Developers and organizations didn’t need big support contracts to build faster, more scalable websites — they needed better tools to do it themselves. Today, Josh lives for the spark in a developer’s eye when they realize “there’s a best practice for that,” and it’s already built into Pantheon, the professional website platform.
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About Chapter Three., Pantheon: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
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.
Halbert Nakagawa
CTO & Co-Founder of Machine Zone
Founder and CTO (Games) at MZ (Machine Zone, Inc.
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About Machine Zone: Machine Zone develops applications and games for users of social networks and mobile devices.
Michael Sherrill
Co-Founder & Creative Director of Machine Zone
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About Machine Zone: Machine Zone develops applications and games for users of social networks and mobile devices.
Amir Elichai
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Carbyne
Amir Elichai is the Founder & the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Reporty Homeland Security. For more than 12 years, Amir has repeatedly demonstrated his capabilities as a transformational leader – combining business acumen with strong financial discipline, deep operational insights and organizational management. He is a growth-focused, results-oriented, and solutions-focused leader with proven history of bringing analytical insights and pragmatic solutions to key business challenges. Amir is a former Israeli Army officer who served in a different positions in the special elite forces and the intelligence corps. He earned his LLB & BA from IDC.
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About Carbyne: Carbyne is the leader in mission-critical contact center technologies, connecting the dots between people, enterprises, and governments.
Rick Nucci
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Guru
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About Guru: Guru is a knowledge management solution that keeps customer-facing teams up-to-date, consistent, and confident.
Aaron Henshaw
CTO & Co-Founder of Bison Trails
Aaron is a Grand St. Co-Founder and application engineer. He handles back-ends and makes the company’s websites look exactly like they’re designed. He always makes my day by saying, “I don’t know whether I’m looking at the test build, or your Illustrator file.” Sailing from Miami, Aaron brought beach chillax and warm sunshine with him. A renowned chef (at least in the office), Aaron hosts numerous dinner feasts for friends and families. He’s good at all sports but pool (Shocking!), and boasts that he could easily beat Dustin at ping pong. He delights in kale juice, Brooklyn Kitchen, and plans parties that the cops even love when they show up
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About Bison Trails: Bison Trails allows the user to run secure infrastructure on multiple blockchains.
Joe Lallouz
CEO & Co-Founder of Bison Trails
Joe Lallouz is the chief executive officer of Bison Trails.
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About Ambush Capital, Bison Trails: Bison Trails allows the user to run secure infrastructure on multiple blockchains.
Jeremy Baker
Co-Founder and CTO of Zipline
Jeremy Baker is a developer and entrepreneur who has been involved in web design, online product development, and technology startups since 1997. He has designed and developed a wide range of projects — from small, innovative sites and tools to high-traffic business applications, from the server level all the way up to the business design level. As a Senior Prototyper at Yahoo! Inc., he developed tools and programs across the company, including an innovative Prototyping and Experimentation tool that was subsequently pushed out to nearly every Yahoo! property, and which won him the Yahoo! SuperStar award in 2010. Jeremy was also a regular guest speaker at universities worldwide as part of Yahoo!’s HackU program. Jeremy is a regular speaker on topics surrounding innovation and creativity. And his work and ideas have been featured on TechCrunch.com, Mashable.com, NYTimes.com, and other high profile publications. He is currently a co-founder of a well-funded enterprise software company based in San Francisco, CA. He also runs SupporterWall.com, an innovative online fundraising tool. Jeremy speaks English, French, and Spanish and has lived in Vancouver, San Francisco, Melbourne, and Mexico City. He and his wife currently call Vancouver, Canada home.
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About SupporterWall, Zipline: Zipline is the operations platform that powers retail’s most complex work.
Melissa Wong
CEO & Co-Founder of Zipline
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About Zipline: Zipline is the operations platform that powers retail’s most complex work.
Renat Khasanshyn
Founder of Altoros
Renat Khasanshyn is CEO of Altoros and Venture Partner at Runa Capital. Renat is a subject matter expert on database infrastructure software and Cloud Foundry PaaS . Altoros brings Cloud Foundry-based ”software factories” and “data lakes” into organizations through training, deployment, and integration. With 250+ employees across 8 countries, Altoros is behind some of the world’s largest Cloud Foundry & NoSQL deployments. Renat Khasanshyn is also founder of Apatar, an open source data integration toolset, founder of Silicon Valley NewSQL User Group and co-founder of the Belarusian Java User Group. He studied Engineering at Belarusian National Technical University.
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About Altoros, Atomica, Etherisc, Runa Capital: As a Kubernetes Partner and certified service provider, Altoros helps companies to deliver easily scalable and upgradable apps.
Thomas Barrack
Founder & Executive Chairman of Colony Capital
Thomas J. Barrack, Jr. is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Colony Capital, Inc. Prior to founding the Colony Capital business in 1991, Mr. Barrack was a Principal with the Robert M. Bass Group, the principal investment vehicle of the Fort Worth, Texas investor Robert M. Bass. Prior to joining the Robert M. Bass Group, Mr. Barrack also served in the Reagan administration as Deputy Undersecretary of the Department of the Interior. Additionally, in 2010 French president Nicolas Sarkozy awarded him France’s Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur. From June 2010 to February 2020, Mr. Barrack served on the board of directors of First Republic Bank, a full service bank and wealth management firm. From January 2016 through June 2017, Mr. Barrack served as co-chairman of the board of trustees of Colony Starwood Homes (NYSE: SFR), a leading single-family rental real estate investment trust. From January 2014 to May 2016, Mr. Barrack served on the board of directors of Carrefour S.A., a French multinational retailer and the second largest retailer in the world. From January 2006 to April 2013, Mr. Barrack served on the public board of directors of Accor, S.A., a major global hotel group listed on Euronext Paris. Mr. Barrack has also served on the public board of Challenger Financial Services Group Limited, a diversified financial services organization listed on the Australian Securities Exchange from November 2007 to October 2010. From August 1994 to September 2007, Mr. Barrack served on the board of Continental Airlines, Inc., one of the largest passenger airlines in the United States, including as a member of its Corporate Governance Committee, Executive Committee and Human Resources Committee. Mr. Barrack received a Bachelor of Arts in 1969 from the University of Southern California. He attended law school at the University of San Diego and the University of Southern California, where he was an editor of the law review, and received a Juris Doctor in 1972 from the University of San Diego. Mr. Barrack is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Jurisprudence degree from Pepperdine University and a Trustee at the University of Southern California.
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About Colony Capital: Colony Capital operates as global digital infrastructure, real estate, and investment management firm.
Mark Levitt
Co-Founder and CEO of Trixta
Four-time SA Open chess champion, with many years history in Chess commerce, including: publishing, software and retail business. Levitt was also an early investor & CIO of search engine marketing company www.incubeta.com, and a founding member of TEIM Ventures.
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About ChessCube.com, Trixta, Trixta: Trixta’s low-code tools revolutionize how teams build software – faster, better, with fewer developers
Scott Savitz
Founder and Managing Partner of Data Point Capital
Scott Savitz is the Founder and Managing Partner of Data Point Capital, an investment fund focused on the internet. Scott is a strong advocate of entrepreneurship and innovation, especially where it aims to raise the bar on the consumer experience. Scott is also the founder and former CEO of Shoebuy.com. Scott founded Shoebuy in 1999, and served as its CEO through its sale to IAC. Under his guidance, Shoebuy grew on average over 55% a year becoming one of the largest online retailers in the country, with over 1 million products and $3.5 billion in inventory available for sale, serving over 8 million visitors a month. Between the sale of Shoebuy in 2006 and Scott retiring from the company in 2011, Shoebuy tripled revenues and grew bottom line faster than top-line. Scott owns and is Chairman of Smart Lunches (www.smartlunches.com), a fast growing internet meal service for schools, daycare and camps. He also serves on the boards of Bluestem Brands, SimpleTuition, Kitsy Lane, Two Ten, and MITX, and serves as an Advisor for Olejo Stores and On The Spot Systems, Inc. He also serves on several committees focused on fostering growth and a more robust economy including the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and Co-Chair of 12 X 12. Scott received a B.A. in English from the University of Colorado and currently resides in Boston, MA. He is a frequent industry speaker and has received numerous awards and accolades including Ernst & Young’s New England Entrepreneur of the Year.
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About Data Point Capital: Data Point Capital is a venture capital fund focused on the internet. The fund is non-stage specific and is made up of business executives
Ali Jelveh
Founder & Chief Revolutionary Officer of Protonet
Ali Jelveh is Co-Founder and CEO of Protonet. The German-Iranian software engineer previously was amongst the first developers at XING and studied physics. He’s on a mission to transform the Internet from centralization in the cloud to a state of distributed infrastructure and independent users. Ali is also the initiator of the Free Your Data campaign, which opts for a new kind of transparency law in Europe. When he isn’t working, he spends his time thinking, planning and simulating.
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About Protonet: Protonet provides a cloud-based social project management and collaboration platform.
Zach Supalla
Founder & CEO of Particle
Zach Supalla is the founder and CEO of Particle, an IoT startup that’s making it easier to build, connect and manage internet-connected hardware products deployed at massive scale. Supalla earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and an MEM (masters in engineering management) from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern. Before Particle, Supalla worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, advising Fortune 500 companies on strategy, operations and product development. He is a graduate of HAX, the world’s first, and most prolific hardware accelerator.
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About Particle: Particle provides hardware and software tools to help users prototype, scale, and manage IoT products.
Vladimir Lounegov
Co-Founder, CEO of Mbanq
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About Mbanq: Mbanq builds digital banking technology that enables you to create a better bank for your customers
JP La Torre
Co-Founder & CEO of Caylent
JP La Torre is the Co-founder and CEO of Caylent, which provides DevOps managed service and consulting for software teams running containers and Kubernetes. Early crypto adopter. Co-founder and CEO of Vulcan Mines, a provider of turnkey crypto mining solutions. Southwest Director and founding board member of Blockchain & Crypto Mining Association (BCMA).
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About Caylent: Full spectrum AWS Cloud Native and DevOps consulting partner
Christian Selchau-Hansen
CEO & Co-Founder of Formation
CEO / Co-Founder at Formation
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About Formation, The Bay Citizen: Formation distills customer data into uniquely tailored experiences; we orchestrate physical & digital exchanges into one seamless journey.
Brian Barlow
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners
Brian D. Barlow is a Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (“SIP”).
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About Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners: Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners applies innovative technology to urban infrastructure systems.
