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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 Washington based CEO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Nathaniel Fick
CEO of Endgame
Nate Fick is CEO of Endgame. He has more than a decade of experience in the security community, and is an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, where he focuses on defense and intelligence technologies. Before joining Endgame, Nate was CEO of the Center for a New American Security, a national security research organization. He served as a Marine Corps infantry officer, including combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. His book about that experience, One Bullet Away, was a New York Times bestseller, a Washington Post “Best Book of the Year,” and one of the Military Times’ “Best Military Books of the Decade.” He graduated with high honors in Classics from Dartmouth College and holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School and MBA from the Harvard Business School. Nate serves as a Trustee of Dartmouth and a Director of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, and he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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About Bessemer Venture Partners, Endgame, Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation: Endgame’s endpoint protection platform protects the world’s data from advanced attacks.
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Charles Besson
Chief Executive Officer of Questel
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About Questel: Questel specializes in intellectual property and innovation management solutions.
Tom Davidson
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of EVERFI
Tom Davidson picked the “CEO” slip out of the hat at a recent EverFi staff party and has yet to be fired by the Board of Directors. Davidson ran for the Maine State Legislature while a senior at Bowdoin College in 1994 and spent the better part of three terms working to bring education technology to students in the Pine Tree State. As Chairman of the Utilities and Energy Committee, Davidson led a successful effort with Governor Angus King to provide laptops to every Maine seventh grader as well as to create a major expansion of the wiring of schools and libraries across the State. After deciding that he needed to tell his children one day that he actually once earned a paycheck, Davidson left the Legislature in 2000 and began investing in early-stage technology companies in the education and social media spaces. He was a Venture Partner with Village Ventures, a network of venture capital firms across the U.S. Davidson graduated from Bowdoin College devoid of any academic honors of any consequence.
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About EVERFI, GrowthSpur: EVERFI is an education technology company that provides learners of all ages education for the real world.
Samir Diwan
Cofounder/CEO of Polly
CEO/Cofounder at Polly
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About Polly: Polly is a survey platform that makes it simple for anyone to engage with colleagues, capture feedback, and make more data-driven decisions.
Phil Gordon
Founder and CEO of Prompt.io
Phil Gordon is CEO and founder of Jawfish Games, the industry leader in real-time multi-player tournaments for mobile and web. Phil is best known as a professional poker player. He hosted 42 episodes of Bravo’s Celebrity Poker Showdown, has appeared at 7 World Series of Poker final tables, and has won a World Poker Tour tournament. Phil has authored four books that have sold nearly 400,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into 12 languages. Phil currently resides in Newport Washington with his wife and two boys, Xander and Zachary.
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About Prompt.io: Prompt.io is a simple, scalable solution for communicating with customers in their preferred medium messaging.
Jon Roskill
CEO of Acumatica
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About Acumatica: Acumatica is a provider of cloud business management software that empowers small and mid-size businesses to unlock their potential.
Gabe Newell
President & Owner & CEO of Valve Software
Gabe Newell is the President & Owner & CEO of Valve Corporation. Gabe held a number of positions in the Systems, Applications, and Advanced Technology divisions during his 13 years at Microsoft. His responsibilities included running program management for the first two releases of Windows, starting the company’s multimedia division, and leading efforts on the Information Highway PC. Then he started Valve. His most significant contribution to Half-Life, the company’s debut title, was his statement: “C’mon, people, you can’t show the player a really big bomb and not let them blow it up.”
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About Steam, Valve Software: Valve is an American entertainment software and tech company developing video games and other related technologies.
Derek Streat
CEO of DexCare
Derek Streat is the Chief Executive Officer at DexCare.
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About DexCare, IROC (Improving Renal Outcomes Collaborative), Seattle Children’s, SpringRock Ventures: DexCare provides a Platform-as-a-Service offering to manage health system capacity and demand across all lines of care.
Dan Kanninen
Partner and CEO of STG Group
Dan is an established political voice in the beltway, featured frequently on MSNBC, CNN, FOX news and FOX business, as well as being on the record in publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Politico. Dan Kanninen has spent more than 15 years in influential positions at all levels of government and politics, playing key roles in policy making, campaigns, and political management. He has advised presidential candidates, cabinet members, governors, major private sector CEOs, non-profits and coalitions, and foreign heads of state. He is a Partner and CEO of the political and public affairs consulting firm STG. Dan played a critical role in President Obama’s 2008 election as the State Director in Wisconsin after working in leadership positions in Wisconsin, Ohio and North Carolina during the primaries. Dan served the re-elect by overseeing the northeastern United States (a nine state, $20 million operation including the critical battlegrounds of New Hamp- shire and Pennsylvania) from Chicago headquarters before leading the Virginia operation as Senior Advisor, turning that state blue for just the second time since 1964.
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About STG Group: STG Group is a provider of mission-critical technology, cyber, and data solutions.
Scott McFarlane
Founder & CEO of Avalara
Scott co-founded Avalara in 2004 and today is responsible for the vision and strategic direction of the company. He has a long history of advancing ideas that shake up the status quo, going back to his college days when he partnered with his roommate to launch Lifecycle, the most popular computerized exercise bike of all time. Since then Scott oversaw development for AIRCOA, the largest independent hotel company in the U.S., and he has led and developed several companies including MetaInfo, a pioneering internet software firm that was ultimately acquired by Check Point.
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About Avalara: Avalara develops a platform that automates the major steps of tax compliance, all in the cloud.
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.
Adam Selipsky
CEO of Tableau
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About Amazon Web Services, Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Geoff Osler
CEO and Co-Founder of S!NG
Geoff Osler si the Co-Founder and CEO of S!NG. Prior to co-founding ClearSign, Geoff Osler was Director of Partner Marketing for Adobe Systems, Inc. where he was responsible for worldwide programs with membership in excess of 10,000 developers, service providers, and certified training centers. Geoff has managed marketing teams in Europe, Asia and the Middle East in addition to the United States and Canada. Prior to Adobe, he was co-founder and marketing director of Crosstree Systems Inc., the developer of Target, one of the world’s first daily, industry-specific email news services. In 1994 at Science and Information Technology, Ltd., Geoff was part of the team that created MAPS, one of the first software systems to enable web-based image searching and content management. Geoff concluded agreements placing MAPS at some of the world’s leading publications including The Times of London, The Daily Mirror and The Economist. From 1992 to 1994, at the beginning of the shift to a free market, Geoff was a senior manager at Apple Computer in Warsaw, Poland with responsibility for product localization and securing exclusive distribution agreements with leading U.S. software and hardware manufacturers.
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About S!NG: S!NG is a hesitation-free idea-sharing platform providing new groundbreaking technology services targeted for the music industry.
Arif Kareem
President/CEO of ExtraHop
Arif Kareem has been the Chief Executive Officer and President at ExtraHop Networks, Inc. since July 26, 2016 and December 15, 2016 respectively. Mr. Kareem served as President of Fluke Networks. During his tenure, he realigned and expanded the Fluke Networks’s product portfolio to provide greater visibility across networks and cloud applications, improve the end-user experience and increase business value. He also oversaw the acquisition and integration of Air Magnet and ClearSight Networks. He joined RadiSys Corporation in July 1997 as Vice President of Telecom Business Unit and served as its Vice President and General Manager of Telecommunications Division since October 1997 and Senior Vice President since October 2000. Since February 2002, Mr. Kareem served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Business Development and Corporate Marketing at RadiSys Corporation. From 1980 to 1997 Mr. Kareem held various engineering and marketing management positions at Tektronix, Inc. before serving as General Manager of Tektronix’s Telecom Product Line and subsequently General Manager of the Communications Test Business Unit. Mr. Kareem holds a B.S.E.E. and an M.S.E.E. from Lehigh University and an M.B.A. from the University of Oregon.
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About ExtraHop: ExtraHop helps organizations to stop advanced threats with security that can’t be undermined, outsmarted, or compromised.
Anthony Huang
Co-founder & CEO of Possible Finance
Anthony Huang is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Possible Finance.
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About Possible, Possible Finance: Possible Finance provides financial tools needed to manage day-to-day lives.
Chris Spanos
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Urgently
Chris Spanos is the Co founder and CEO of Urgent.ly. He is the Advisor of Startups. Prior to this, he worked as General Manager at Repair.com. He was the Founder & CEO of SeniorChecked. He worked as General Manager, Vice President, Director, International Product Management, Sr. Manager, Brand Development and Marketing Consultant at AOL LLC. He worked as Award Winning Producer at Independent Film Producer. He was the Consultant to CEO of 1-800 Members/DHL. He worked as Consultant to President at VidiSolutions. He served as Consultant to VP Product Management at RealNetworks. He worked as Consultant to U.S. Director of Business Development at Moonfruit. Before that, he worked as Consultant to VP of Broadband at Starwood Hotels & Resorts.
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About Pax Momentum, Urgently: Urgently features a roadside assistance industry to the benefit of global brands and roadside assistance professionals.
Matt Ford
Founder & CEO of CommerceJet
Matt Ford is co-founder and CEO at CommerceJet.
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About CommerceJet: Think of CommerceJet as command central for omnichannel e-commerce.
Reggie Aggarwal (CEO and Founder)
Founder & CEO of Cvent
Reggie Aggarwal is the CEO and Founder of Cvent, the leader in meetings, events and hospitality software. A lawyer by trade, Reggie founded Cvent in 1999 as a two-person startup, with the goal of making meeting planning easier for his peers in the business community. Reggie was named the #1 SaaS CEO by The SaaS Report in their 2019 Top 50 SaaS CEO list and Entrepreneur of the Year for the Washington, DC area by Ernst & Young. He was also named the most admired CEO in the Washington, DC area by the Washington Business Journal, one of the 100 most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, and a rising star by Forbes Magazine. He has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes and Business Week. He has also been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, the BBC and several other popular news shows.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
Jeffery Hawn
Chairman and CEO of Quest Software
Jeffrey Hawn has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2015. Hawn is currently Chairman and CEO of Vertafore, a provider of software and solutions to the insurance industry. Prior to joining Vertafore, Hawn served as Chairman and CEO of The Attachmate Group, a software holding company, from May 2005 to November 2014. Prior to that, he was an Operating Partner of JMI-Inc., a private equity firm, a role he assumed in April 2004. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of Operations for BMC Software, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise management solutions, from July 2000 to March 2004 and as a partner with McKinsey & Company, a leading management consulting firm, from July 1990 to July 2000. Hawn received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Southern Methodist University and an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. Hawn served on the board of Pervasive Software Inc. from February 2003 until April 2013, the board of Vignette Corporation from November 2001 until July 2009 and numerous private company boards.
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About Attachmate, CD&R LLP, Quest Software: Quest Software is a software manufacturer that develops, manufactures, and supports software used by IT professionals.
Rick McGeer
CEO and Co-Founder of engageLively
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About engageLively, US Ignite: Jupyter Hubs as a Service, with built in presentation, visualization, interaction, and a built in point-and-click chart editor
Joe Roets
CEO and Founder of Dragonchain
Joe Roets is a successful Software Architect with experience as CIO, CTO, and Senior Vice President in many industries. For over 25 years at such companies as Disney, Lockheed Martin, Sprint, FBI, DoD, and createTank, he has spearheaded new technology programs and led software teams large and small. He has contributed to blockchain and cryptocurrency projects since 2010 at Overstock, Coinbase, Symbiont, and the Walt Disney Company. Most recently, he founded the Dragonchain Blockchain Platform (open sourced from Disney).
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About Dragonchain: Dragonchain is the most flexible platform for hybrid blockchain solutions. Dragonchain is used by enterprises and developers to build blockchain applications, and connect their logic with distributed ledger technology. Benefits include increased automation, provide trust and proof, maintain transparency, enable chain of custody, and ensure privacy, with unparalleled security.
Glenn Gore
CEO of Affinidi
Glenn Gore is working as a Glenn Gore at Affinidi since November 2020 and previously worked as a Director, Lead Solutions Architect at AWS. As the head of Architecture for Amazon Web Services, Glenn is responsible for managing a regional team, creating architectural best practices and working with customers on how they use the cloud for business transformation. In this role, Glenn oversees architectural best practices across APAC, regional input into the AWS roadmap and supporting customers that are making strategic investments with AWS.
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About Affinidi: Affinidi specializes in creating and sharing digital identities, credentials and data for individuals & organizations.
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.
Mark Bishof
President & CEO of Clarabridge
Mark Bishof is a seasoned CEO with a track record of creating high performance organizations, shaping new markets and delivering world class solutions and results. – Served as CEO of Flexera Software. – Held senior executive positions at IBM, Deloitte Consulting, Macrovision, Crossworlds Software, and Booz Allen Hamilton. – Serves as a Board Director of Infogix and Pace Harmon, and is a Board of Trustee member of The Nature Conservancy (Virginia Chapter).
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About Clarabridge: Clarabridge is a Customer Experience Management platform that provides insight from customers.
Bill Richter
CEO of Qumulo
Bill Richter is President of the Isilon Storage Division of EMC. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect, and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted, and cost-efficient way. As the leader of EMC’s Isilon Storage Division, Richter oversees all aspects of Isilon’s business including worldwide sales and services, channel strategy, product development, marketing, strategic business and financial initiatives, IT and technical support. The division’s portfolio includes a range of industry-leading scale-out NAS storage products, all driven by the groundbreaking OneFS Operating System. Prior to his current role, Richter was the CFO of Isilon Systems, a role in which he successfully defined and implemented strategies for rapid sales growth, operational scale and dramatic market expansion. After EMC acquired Isilon in 2010, Richter led the business integration of Isilon Systems and EMC and, since 2011, served as the VP of Finance and Business Operations for EMC’s Mid-range storage products (the Isilon and Unified Storage Divisions). Before joining Isilon in 2007, he held senior leadership positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Amazon. The Los Angeles-native graduated from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business with a bachelor’s degree in Finance. He currently serves on the Board of the Washington Technology Industry Alliance.
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About Madrona Venture Group, Qumulo: Qumulo provides a file data platform for multi-cloud environments with large scale file data.
James Legg
President & CEO of Thycotic
Responsible for day-to-day operations, James creates and executes growth strategies and initiatives designed to propel Thycotic to the next level. James has amassed over 25 years of managerial and sales experience in guiding technology companies to accelerated, sustained growth. Most recently, he served as EVice President and GM of Unitrends, Inc., after serving as CEO of PHD Virtual, acquired by Unitrends in 2013. Previously, he served as Vice President of worldwide sales for Idera Corporation, and was Vice President of sales at NetIQ Corporation, having come there via the acquisition of PentaSafe Security Technologies, a remote access, vulnerability assessment and intrusion detection solution provider.
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About Thycotic: Thycotic protects companies from cyber attacks with innovative technologies that secure privileged accounts across the modern enterprise.
David Leeds
Founder & CEO of Tango Card
Experience starting, scaling, and managing large enterprise businesses. FiberTower: Cofounder, SVP Strategy, Sales, and Marketing. Stanford GSB MBA (2000), University of Vermont/Univ. of Copenhagen BSBA (1991).
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About Tango Card: Tango Card bundles simple technology, great rewards and expert service to help companies get the most out of their reward programs.
Lief Larson
Co-founder & CEO of Engage
Lief Larson is the Founder and CEO of Engage, Inc., the creator of the Engage platform that serves clients ranging from The PGA Tour to Mutual of Omaha Mortgage, and designed the Salesfolks.com marketplace launch in 2019. Larson was also the co-founder of Jenny Life, Inc. a venture-backed insurtech start-up that built the world’s first native mobile apps (Apple AppStore & Google Play) for the end-to-end purchase of life insurance without without the need for a medical exam. Larson is a software and human factor engineer with over 20 years’ experience in human-machine dynamics, including eight years in self-service kiosk systems and fifteen in web-based applications, platforms, and SaaS. He has been working in web-based marketing and social media sciences since 2004. He was previously named #8 on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 10 American Entrepreneurs Under 30 list. Lief founded and grew KIOSK.com into one of the world’s largest providers of interactive self-service terminal technology solutions, and subsequently navigated the business to a successful sale. During his tenure in that industry he also built the industry publication and premier industry event. In 2004 Lief was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Kiosk & Self-Service industry association and was inducted into their Hall of Fame. Lief is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship and has been a mentor to over 200 entrepreneurs during the last two decades, including through programs at the Carlson School of Management, TiE Global, Project Skyway, and the Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship. Larson attended the University of Wisconsin (MC) and the University of Minnesota (TC).
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About Engage, Green Bay Packers, Jenny Life, Salesfolks: Engage provides a real-time sales management platform for communication and live chat.
Dean Tribble
CEO of Agoric
E. Dean Tribble, Agoric CEO, designed the negotiation process and contract for the first smart contracting system, AMiX. As a Principal Architect at Microsoft, he designed the Midori distributed object-capability operating system. As founder and CTO for Agorics (acquired by Microsoft), he developed the brokerage information system for Schwab’s active traders, the WebMart system for electronic contracts, and the first electronic check project by the FSTC for the DoD. As CTO of VerifyValid and VP of Deluxe, his echeck systems have carried billions of dollars.
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About Agoric: Agoric provides a framework for programming smart contracts securely and with ease, beyond anything available today.
Zig Serafin
CEO of Qualtrics
Qualtrics Adds Microsoft Executive as COO to Continue Exponential Growth and Global Expansion Ahead of IPO SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Qualtrics, provider of the world’s leading insight platform, today announced the appointment of veteran Microsoft executive Zig Serafin as the company’s chief operating officer. Serafin will relocate from Washington to Utah, to lead operations during a time of rapid growth and international expansion for Qualtrics. “We are excited to bring an industry luminary of Zig’s caliber on board as we continue growing aggressively,” said Ryan Smith, co-founder and CEO of Qualtrics. “Qualtrics is scaling at an incredible rate and there’s no better person to help us add a new level of operational efficiency than Zig. He brings a wealth of experience developing products, scaling complex organizations, and building amazing teams.” “This has been a very long and selective search and Ryan and I feel we’ve found the perfect partner in Zig,” said Jared Smith, co-founder and acting COO of Qualtrics. “Qualtrics is passing 1,200 employees, expanding product lines, and has started IPO planning. Zig is a phenomenal operator and will bring considerable experience leading cross-functional teams on a global scale. We couldn’t be happier about having him join our team.” Prior to joining Qualtrics, Serafin spent 17 years at Microsoft leading large teams and building multi-billion-dollar product lines. Most recently, Serafin was a corporate vice president with responsibility for Office 365 Skype for Business, which is used in 1.2 billion meetings per year in over 90 countries. Serafin also helped spearhead the development of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence platform and personal assistant, Cortana, which today services more than 130 million monthly active users. Serafin previously served as general manager of Microsoft’s Tellme Networks. “I’m thrilled to join one of the world’s most promising SaaS companies at a very exciting time,” Serafin said. “Few cloud companies make the leap to becoming a true enterprise platform, and Qualtrics has established itself as exactly that, growing at an extraordinary pace while remaining cash flow positive. I’m eager to bring my perspective and expertise to bear at Qualtrics and partner with Jared and Ryan.” Qualtrics is experiencing dramatic growth and international expansion ahead of a planned IPO. In the past three years, the 14-year-old private company has opened U.S. offices in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington D.C., as well as international offices in Dublin, Ireland, London, U.K., and Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, Australia. Last month, Qualtrics opened a new, 150,000-square-foot headquarters in Provo, Utah, which Forbes dubbed “tech’s boldest new headquarters.” Qualtrics also recently won a slew of high-profile accolades, including inclusion on the prestigious Forbes 2016 Cloud 100 list and CEO, Ryan Smith, was listed at #12 on Fortune’s 2016 40 Under 40 list of “the most powerful, influential, and successful young people in business.” About Qualtrics: Qualtrics is a rapidly growing software-as-a-service company and the leader in customer experience management. More than 8,500 enterprises worldwide, including two-thirds of the Fortune 100 and 99 of the top 100 business schools, rely on Qualtrics technology. Our solutions make it fast and easy to capture customer, employee, and market insights in one place. These insights help our clients make informed, data-driven business decisions. Global enterprises, academic institutions, and government agencies use Qualtrics to collect, analyze, and act on voice of the customer, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, 360-degree reviews, brand, market, product concept, and employee feedback. To learn more, and for a free account, please visit https://www.qualtrics.com/. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/qualtrics-adds-microsoft-executive-as-coo-to-continue-exponential-growth-and-global-expansion-ahead-of-ipo-300346370.html
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About Qualtrics, Qualtrics, SAP: Qualtrics is a single system of record for all experience data, managing customer, product, employee, and brand experiences on one platform.
Mohit Bhende
CEO and co-founder of Karat
Mohit “Mo” Bhende co-founded Karat with the goal of unlocking opportunities. Interviews change lives by connecting people to organizations where they can find their purpose, grow, and change the world. And yet, while there are millions of interviews happening every year, interviewing has never been recognized as its own discipline. In fact, the vast majority of people conducting interviews receive no formal training in how to conduct them, which limits opportunities for organizations to grow and employees to thrive. Mo encountered this challenge firsthand as a Microsoft executive trying to rapidly scale engineering hiring for XBOX. Even the world’s biggest tech company was having a hard time conducting interviews with the quantity, quality, and consistency needed to meet hiring targets. So, with co-founder Jeffrey Spector, Mo set out to unlock the business and career opportunities that are limited today by professionalizing interviewing to make every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable. They built the world’s first and only interviewing cloud and established the profession of Interview Engineering with Karat’s global network of interviewers. Today, Karat helps organizations unlock hiring opportunities by conducting technical interviews on behalf of clients like Indeed, Robinhood, Roblox, and Peloton. Karat’s unique business model reclaims significant engineering time, generates clear and objective hiring data, and provides candidates with a flexible and responsive experience. Prior to Karat, Mo cultivated his passion for hiring and talent development as an executive at Microsoft. At Microsoft, Mo closed $700M+ in business development and M&A deals for XBOX. Earlier in his career at Microsoft, Mo managed the company’s $200M Corporate China Fund and was based in Beijing. Mo holds an MBA from Wharton, an Master of Philosophy from Cambridge – where he studied as a Gates Scholar – and a BS with Honors from Penn State. He has served on Penn State’s Alumni Board and loves to ski, travel and spend quality time with his wife, children and family.
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About Karat: Karat develops an interviewing cloud platform to solve the multi-decade global shortage of software engineers.
Stefan Kalb
CEO and Co-Founder of Shelf Engine
Stefan Kalb is the CEO and Co-Founder at Shelf Engine.
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About Shelf Engine: Shelf Engine is a provider of an automated prediction engine that predicts the perfect amount of perishable goods to order.
Roy Kapani
Chairman and CEO of Systems Engineering Associates (SEA)
Mr. Kapani has over 20 years’ experience in the information technology industry. He founded ECS in 2001, with one contract and a handful of employees. Beginning in 2004, Mr. Kapani began hiring strategic personnel, and the company began to double in size at a rapid pace. He infused his beliefs in the corporate culture by creating a professional services firm focused on excellence, discipline and process. His management style places an emphasis on customer satisfaction and methodologies to ensure the highest levels of quality. Mr. Kapani was the Chief Executive Officer until he promoted George Wilson in February 2014. Mr. Kapani previously held executive leadership positions with Computer Based Systems, Inc. (CBSI), and AverStar. Mr. Kapani holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Maryland College Park. He earned his Master of Business Administration in Finance from George Washington University. Mr. Kapani is on the Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation Board and the National Cathedral School Board. He is also an active member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and the Economic Club of Washington, DC.
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About ECS Federal, Systems Engineering Associates (SEA): Systems engineering associates corporation is a veteran-owned business focusing on systems engineering.
Robbi Katherine Anthony
Founder and CEO of Euphoria.LGBT
RKA has worked on a slew of other technology projects prior to Solace resulting in national media attention, multiple entrepreneurship competition victories, and numerous product launches.
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About Euphoria.LGBT: Euphoria.LGBT builds technology solutions that restore agency and dignity for transgender individuals going through gender transition.
Joshua Crossman
Founder, CEO of Magnify
Joshua Crossman leads Chef’s Customer Succes, Services, and Operations teams, including Customer Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Success, and Business Operations. Joshua has 20 years of experience at the intersection of technology and services. Prior to Chef, Joshua lead Client Services, Strategy, and Customer Sales for BrightEdge, a leading marketing SaaS platform, helping the company grow by nearly 10X to over $75M in less than 5 years. He was Vice President and General Manager of the Technology and B2B business unit at Quinstreet, where he oversaw several acquisitions and revenues double. Joshua also spent 8 years at McKinsey and Company, where he was a leader in their technology sales and marketing practice. He graduated from Duke University with honors, and serves on several non-profit boards. He lives in Seattle with his wife and four children.
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About Chef Software, Magnify: Magnify is a post-sales orchestration platform that uses AI and machine learning to optimize and automate the customer lifecycle.
Diego Oppenheimer
CEO & Co-Founder of Algorithmia
Diego Oppenheimer is co-founder and CEO of Algorithmia. Previously, he designed, managed, and shipped some of Microsoft’s most used data analysis products including Excel, Power Pivot, SQL Server, and Power BI. Diego holds a Bachelors degree in Information Systems and a Masters degree in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Algorithmia: Algorithmia is a machine learning model deployment and management solution that automates the MLOps for an organization.
Jon Schneider
Co-founder and CEO of Stealth Mode Startup
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About Stealth Mode Startup: Our vision is to empower DevOps and application developers and change how modern software applications
Denise Tayloe
Chief Executive Officer of Privacy Vaults Online, Inc., d/b/a PRIVO
Denise Tayloe co-founded PRIVO in early 2001, inspired by the opportunities and challenges of implementing the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which became effective in 2000. Denise has become a subject matter expert, recognized leader and authority in permission and identity management, has been an invited speaker on the subject at conferences regarding identity and children’s privacy issues across the globe, and has been published in numerous publications. Denise has more than 20 years of experience in business development, sales, finance, and the development of companies providing business and technology related services. She was a senior auditing consultant with Arthur Andersen for small business and developing tech companies. She completed her CPA after graduating Magna Cum Laude from George Mason University with a degree in Accounting and Finance. Outside of work, Denise can be found hanging out with her dog Nuckles, riding her motorcycle and watching football with the guys.
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About Privacy Vaults Online, Inc., d/b/a PRIVO: The leader in minors privacy, customer identity and permission management.
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
Dave Hanley
Founder & CEO of Tomorrow Ideas
Dave Hanley is CEO of Tomorrow, which helps families make long-term financial and legal decisions together for the first time, in an easy-to-use app designed to protect their futures. He is an accomplished CEO, digital entrepreneur, and social advocate. Prior to founding Tomorrow, Dave founded Banyan Branch, a leading social media marketing agency, which was acquired by Deloitte Digital. Prior to Banyan Branch, Dave was VP of Marketing at Shelfari, the social network for book readers, which he helped grow to more than 2 million members in 18 months, before it was acquired by Amazon. He also served as Director of Product Management at RealNetworks, where he oversaw the launches of Rhapsody.com and Rhapsody’s Web services program. Earlier in his career, Dave worked in economic development with NGOs and banks in Asia and Latin America that were implementing and assessing microcredit programs, including time as a Fulbright scholar. Dave was selected to the prestigious World Economic Forum Young Global Leader program, where he is an active participant and advisor. Dave is an adoring husband, loving father of four children, adventure traveler, and spirituality seeker. He holds an MBA from Stanford University and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in public policy from Brigham Young University.
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About Tomorrow Ideas: Tomorrow Ideas develops an application that helps in protecting family’s financial future.
Luis Ceze
Co-founder and CEO of OctoML
Luis Ceze serves as Venture Partner at Madrona Venture Group. He is a leader in computer systems architecture, machine learning, and DNA data storage. He’s also a co-founder of Corensic, a UW spin off backed by Madrona, and has worked informally with Madrona’s team for several years.
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About Madrona Venture Group, OctoML: OctoML offers an acceleration platform that helps engineering teams deploy machine learning models on any hardware.
Brandon Torres Declet
Founder & CEO of Measure
Brandon is widely considered a leading thinker and entrepreneur in the drone industry. He co-founded Measure, an aerial intelligence company, in June 2014 and, as CEO, grew the company to the top 5% of drone firms by revenue. Brandon began his career in the private sector supporting the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. In public service, he has served in senior level positions for the NYPD, the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees, and the House Homeland Security Committee. Brandon served on the FAA Drone Registration Task Force, and he authored the largest Section 333 exemption ever granted by the FAA. In 2018, Brandon was appointed as a Senior Advisor to Oxford University’s Centre for Technology and Global Affairs and named by Washingtonian Magazine as a 2018 and 2019 Tech Titan. Measure was recently recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the 2019 Frost Radar Best Practices Award for Growth Excellence in the Drone Services Provider market.
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About Measure: An aerial intelligence company offering world-class software for drones and drone data analysis.
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.
Jay Sunny Bajaj
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Digital Management
Jay Sunny Bajaj is Digital Management, Inc.’s (DMI) Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer. Sunny was raised in the technology industry, where both of his parents independently built successful IT services businesses. In 2002, he leveraged his deep understanding of the industry to found DMI. Under Sunny’s leadership, DMI has grown to become a recognized leader in enterprise mobility, big data analytics, strategic consulting, managed services, application development and cybersecurity. The company continues to experience dramatic growth, with an expanding client base that includes all fifteen U.S. Federal Departments and hundreds of Fortune 1000 commercial clients. DMI has received accolades for its growth, innovation and outstanding client service. The company has been honored as one of the top 5,000 fastest growing private companies in the country by Inc.com for the last seven years and was also recognized as one of the Top 50 Best Places to Work in the Greater Washington Area by the Washington Business Journal. Growing more than 900 percent in the past three years, and employing more than 1,500 professionals, DMI recently received Inc. Magazine’s Hire Power Award and was ranked as the 9th largest private job creator in the U.S. in 2013. Sunny is a multi-year winner of the Washington SmartCEO Future 50 award. In 2009 and again in 2010, he was honored as a Smart100 CEO, an exclusive group of 100 top-performing and highly respected CEOs in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region. Sunny earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Maryland. Prior to founding DMI, he worked at e-business pioneers AppNet and CommerceOne, as well as Goldman Sachs.
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About Digital Management: Digital Management provides mobile solutions and services that include enterprise mobility and cyber security.
Maria Colacurcio
CEO of Syndio
Maria Colacurcio is the vice president of marketing for [Smartsheet.com](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/smartsheet). Before joining Smartsheet.com, Maria was at Microsoft Corporation where she developed marketing campaigns for the 2005 launch of Visual Studio and SQL Server. Prior to Microsoft, she managed all prospect and customer marketing initiatives for Onyx Software Corporation. Prior to Onyx, Maria led the marketing team at NetReality, a Bay area firm which was acquired by Allot Communications. During her tenure, she launched international marketing operations as well as key branding and advertising initiatives. Source : [SmartSheet.com](http://www.smartsheet.com/aboutus/management)
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About Syndio: Syndio is a technology company that helps companies measure, achieve, and sustain workplace equity.
Jeremiah Lowin
Founder & CEO of Prefect
Jeremiah Lowin is the Founder and CEO of Prefect.
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About Prefect: Prefect is a workflow management system that helps to eliminate data flow problems for companies’ data teams.
Jeffrey Chapman
CEO of Babel Street
Jeffrey Chapman is the Chief Executive Officer of Babel Street, a firm specializing in software solutions for multilingual text analytics and media monitoring. Before founding Babel Street, Mr. Chapman served as a senior executive at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he developed financial strategies concerning the government overhaul of domestic capital markets and terrorism finance regulations. Prior to his Treasury appointment, he co-founded, led and sold a software and consulting company formed to meet post-9/11 needs of the homeland and national security. Mr. Chapman is a former intelligence officer and decorated combat veteran. He is an alumnus of the United States Naval Academy and holds graduate degrees from the University of Virginia and Harvard University.
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About Babel Street: Babel Street provides real-time situational awareness and intelligence on global topics of interest.
Kathy Warden
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Northrop Grumman
Kathy Warden is corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman’s Information Systems sector, a leading global provider of advanced solutions for defense, intelligence, civil agency and commercial customers. Warden is a member of the company’s Corporate Policy Council. In this role, Warden oversees large-scale, mission-critical systems and complex hardware and software products within the U.S. and internationally in areas such as command, control and communications; cybersecurity and identity management; homeland security; health, public safety and enterprise infrastructure; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and ground systems. Most recently, Warden was sector vice president and general manager, Cyber Intelligence division Northrop Grumman Information Systems. Warden has extensive experience in operational leadership and business development in government and commercial markets. Previously, she was vice president for the Cyber and SIGINT business unit in the sector’s Intelligence Systems division. She joined Northrop Grumman in 2008 as vice president, Strategic Initiatives, where she was responsible for ISR market strategies including key growth campaigns in cyber and intelligence information sharing. Prior to joining the company, Warden was vice president, Intelligence Systems at General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, where she led the Intelligence Systems business unit. Previously, Warden was a senior vice president at Veridian Corporation where she led a business unit delivering ISR capability in support of space programs and led strategic pursuits with the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. Earlier, Warden was a principal in a venture Internet firm where she consulted with Fortune 500 companies on Internet use to expand their business models, and led development teams to deliver e-publishing, e-commerce and e-marketing solutions. Warden spent nearly a decade with General Electric Company working in commercial industries. She began her GE career as a systems engineer and later served as corporate auditor, strategy and merger and acquisitions director, and director of the global services operating unit of GE Information Services. Warden has a bachelor’s degree from James Madison University and a master’s degree in business administration from George Washington University. She served as an advisor in the mid-1990s to the Internet Advisory Council formed under former Vice President Al Gore. She served as chair of the Executive Mosaic Cyber Group in 2011-2012. She is the Northrop Grumman Information Systems executive chair for the University of Maryland school systems and oversees the Northrop Grumman University Cyber Research Consortium. She is a member of AFCEA International and serves on the executive committee for the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems, cyber, C4ISR, and logistics and modernization to government and commercial customers worldwide.
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About Northrop Grumman: Northrop Grumman is a global security company providing solutions for sectors such as aerospace, electronics and technical services.
Nick Fajt
CEO & Co-Founder of Rec Room
Nick Fajt is the CEO & Co-Founder of Against Gravity.
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About Rec Room: Rec Room is an online universe that enables users to play and create games with friends.
Lee E. Mikles
CEO and President of Pendrell Corporation
Lee E. Mikles is President, Interim Chief Executive Officer, Director of Pendrell Corp. Mr. Mikles has served as our Interim Chief Executive Officer and President since November 2014. He has served as a director of FutureFuel Corp., a manufacturer of custom and performance chemicals and biofuels, since 2005. He also served as Future Fuel’s Chief Executive Officer from 2005 to January 2013, its president from 2005 to January 2015, and its principal financial officer from 2005 to 2008. He served as chairman of Mikles/Miller Management, Inc., a registered investment adviser and home to the Kodiak family of funds, between 1992 and 2005 and was chairman of Mikles/Miller Securities, LLC, a registered broker-dealer, between 1999 and 2005. Mr. Mikles has served on the boards of directors of Pacific Capital Bankcorp., Official Payments Corporation, Coastcast Corporation, Nelnet, Inc., Imperial Bank and Imperial Bancorp.
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About Pendrell Corporation: Pendrell Corporation, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Pendrell Technologies, Inc., provides corporate intellectual property solutions
Sunny Gupta
CEO of Apptio
Sunny is the co-founder, President and CEO of Apptio, responsible for company vision, strategic direction, planning and execution. Sunny’s enterprise software career spans more than 20 years with roles in general management, strategic marketing, product management and business development. Before founding Apptio, Sunny was Executive VP of Products at Opsware and was responsible for all of Opsware product businesses up to its acquisition by HP for over $1.6 billion. Demonstrating his passion for pioneering innovative solutions to complex enterprise technology problems, Sunny co-founded iConclude and created the IT runbook automation market. Sunny served as the company’s CEO, serving customers such as ACS, Alaska Airlines, Glaxo Smith Kline and Halliburton, until its acquisition by Opsware. Previously, Sunny held senior leadership roles in Products, Business Development and Engineering at Mercury Interactive, Rational Software, and IBM. Sunny earned a BS in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina, was selected as a Top 40 CEOs under 40, and was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year in 2012.
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About Apptio: Apptio is a provider of SaaS-based Technology Business Management (TBM) solutions for managing businesses in the IT field.
John Sercu
CEO of TA Group Holdings
John Sercu is the CEO at TA Group Holdings.
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About Bookwalter Winery, TA Group Holdings: TA Group is a veteran-owned company provides mentorship, shared operations and scalable processes.
Mike Kubzansky
CEO of Omidyar Network
Mike is a partner at Omidyar Network, where he leads research and analysis to help the firm and others in the field direct resources to efforts with the potential for scale and social impact. Mike’s work spans the firm’s five global initiatives–Consumer Internet & Mobile, Entrepreneurship, Financial Inclusion, Government Transparency, and Property Rights, as well as broader trends and developments in philanthropy and impact investing. Based in Washington D.C., Mike brings Omidyar Network nearly 25 years of experience in both the private and public sectors, in addition to deep expertise in strategy, impact investing, and business at the base of the pyramid (BoP). Before joining Omidyar Network, Mike spent more than 10 years as a consultant at Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte). In 2007 he co-founded and led the Monitor Inclusive Markets practice. He and his team analyzed more than 1,000 innovative market-based approaches to poverty that serve BoP customers, suppliers, and distributors across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Mike also led many sector-based research and consulting efforts in financial services, health care, agriculture, water, energy, livelihoods, and impact investing for a range of commercial, donor, and investor clients. His work has been published in several prominent environments including Harvard Business Review, Brookings Institution, USAID, and reports by major U.S. foundations. In between stints at Monitor, Mike worked for the World Bank for more than five years, as part of the East Asia management team and directing the Bank’s flagship innovation grant program, Development Marketplace. Earlier in his career he worked in global telecommunications Mike earned his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree with honors from Brown University.
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About Omidyar Network: Omidyar Network is an investment firm.
John Ayers
CEO of REDLattice Inc.
John is the CEO and Founder of REDLattice. Previously, John worked for several Silicon Valley companies to include Speedera Networks, Nine Systems, and Zaplet. He also worked for SAIC. He attended the University of Virginia receiving a BA in American Studies, Duke University receiving an MBA, and Harvard’s Kennedy School’s National Security Program.
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About Aratana Therapeutics, REDLattice Inc.: We’re a group of obsessed engineers and developers living at the bleeding edge of technology and security.
Matthew Calkins
CEO of Appian
Matthew Calkins has been CEO & Chairman of the Board since founding Appian in 1999. He has been recognized as an Innovator by InformationWeek, Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, and a top entrepreneur by the Washington Post and the Washington Business Journal. Matt worked at MicroStrategy (MSTR) from 1994-1999, serving on the board from 2005-2014. As a board game designer and player, he won “Wargame of the Year” and finished third in the 2012 World Boardgaming Championships.
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About Appian: Appian provides a low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful applications.
Robert Wensley
CEO of KORK
Improving the world one day at a time with technology.
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About InvestorLift, KORK: Building the worlds #1 consumer data platform.
Praveen Seshadri
CEO & Co-Founder of AppSheet
Over Praveen’s career, he has pursued the “dream” of declarative end-user programming in various incarnations. In a previous life, he was a CS professor at Cornell. And in another, he was a partner engineering manager at Microsoft in the SQLServer and Bing teams.
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About AppSheet: AppSheet is the intelligent no-code platform for business apps.
Dan Wasyluk
Co-founder and CEO of Blockchain Foundry Inc.
Dan Wasyluk is the founder of HashtagTV. He is a full front-to-back end developer. Dan has experience in a variety of coding languages and technologies. His career has focused on User Interface Development and User Experience. He also has experience managing teams both in a professional capacity and in a startup capacity. Dan has brought several products to market both on his own and with a team.
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About Blockchain Foundry Inc., Snipt.org: Blockchain Foundry is a blockchain software development company.
Michael Corkery
President & Chief Executive Officer of Deltek
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About Deltek: Deltek is an enterprise software and information solutions provider for professional services firms and government contractors.
Eben Frankenberg
President & CEO of Echodyne
Eben Frankenberg has over 20 years of experience starting and growing technology companies. Prior to founding Echodyne, he spent 9 years at Intellectual Ventures – 4 years creating and overseeing IV’s spin-outs: TerraPower, Kymeta and Evolv Technologies as well as IV’s Lab and Global Good, and 5 years as the COO. Prior to IV, Eben spent 10 years at Onyx Software leading Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and the Americas as Onyx went from basement start-up to IPO in 4 years, and grew from 7 to 800 employees. He started his career as a geophysicist in oil exploration and has an AB from Dartmouth College and a MS in Geophysics from Stanford University.
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About Echodyne: Echodyne develops and manufactures meta-materials-based radar technologies.
Rand Fishkin
Founder & CEO of SparkToro
Rand Fishkin is CEO of SparkToro and author of Lost & Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World. He previously co-founded Moz and Inbound.org. He enjoys pasta, cocktails, income equality, dismantling the patriarchy, and, most of all, his marriage to award-winning author Geraldine DeRuiter.
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About SparkToro: SparkToro is a software company offering a search engine to discover any target audience’s influential publications, channels, and people.
Vincent Lopez
Founder & CEO of LCA Vantage
Vincent Lopez is the founder & CEO of LCA Vantage Healthcare d/b/a Parker Health an innovative biotechnology company advancing healthcare into the next century. At Parker Health he is the chief visionary leading strategy & government affairs working closely with Congress and the National Coordinator for Health information Technology office to inform their results to economize spending, minimize legacy technology costs and inefficiencies, enhance patient care, and deploy the latest healthcare technology.
He is the founder of the Lopez Foundation, Inc., a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit. In 2015, he was nominated to the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) Board of Governors by Governor Tom Wolf (D-PA), He’s the former student body president of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and chairman of the PASSHE Board of Student Government Presidents. He completed a Fellowship with an emphasis on STEM education in minority communities (7th Ward, Washington, DC), with then-President Obama’s Organizing for Action. He has worked for the US. Department of Homeland Security.
A native of Sacramento, California, Mr. Lopez was raised in Arlington, Virginia. He studied at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in English. He’s an avid golfer, and a fan of Formula 1 racing, horse racing, and fishing.
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About LCA CORP, LCA Vantage, The Lopez Foundation,Inc.: Electronic Health Records, Remote Physiological Monitoring, Biometrics, FHIR Complaint, Health Subscriptions
Alessya Visnjic
CEO & Co-founder of WhyLabs
CEO and co-founder of WhyLabs.ai. Engineer, entrepreneur, explorer.
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About WhyLabs: WhyLabs is the AI observability and monitoring company.
Shariq Siddiqui
CEO and Co-Founder of Veeve
Shariq Siddiqui is a technology entrepreneur and CEO of Veeve. Prior to Veeve, he spent a decade at Amazon as Head of Product Management leading several high-profile initiatives including Amazon’s Alexa Identity Platform, Amazon Identity and Payments & Amazon Home Services. As a serial entrepreneur, he founded NYCWAY – a hyperlocal app which was acquired by BMW Interactive in 2009.
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About Veeve: Veeve is a computer vision startup that provides in-store cashier-less checkout solution.
Sameer Gulati
Founder & CEO of Ordway
Sameer’s track record designing many of the world’s leading ERP and financial billing systems equipped him with the knowledge and desire to found Ordway. As one of the first Product Managers at Zuora, Intacct, and Workday, to product leadership at First Data, Sameer developed a deep understanding of the heartbeat of a business – billing and finance. An entrepreneur at heart, Sameer is also an active angel investor including investments in UrbanStems, Social Tables, TrackMaven, and Advantia Health. Throughout the excitement, strains, and challenges of building enterprise-level products, he constantly reminds his colleagues to “win or learn.”
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About NextGen Venture Partners, Ordway: Ordway is a smart billing and revenue automation platform for growing businesses.
Nikesh Parekh
Co-Founder & CEO of Suplari
Nikesh Parekh is a product leader in social media, performance media, lead generation and Saas solutions, particularly in the real estate industry. Nikesh Parekh is currently the VP of New Ventures at Trulia, which was recently purchased by Zillow for $2.5Bn. As VP of New Ventures, Nikesh manages Trulia’s rentals, mortgage and new construction businesses and is one of three revenue owners at the company. Previously, Nikesh was CEO of ActiveRain and the EVP of Product at Market Leader. Market Leader is the leading provder of Saas solutions to the real estate industry and was purchased by Trulia for $380m in 2013. At Market Leader, Nikesh managed products from CRM, social media and consumer web sites like RealEstate.com. ActiveRain is the largest blogging network and professional social network in real estate. ActiveRain was purchased by Market Leader in October of 2011. Prior to ActiveRain and Market Leader, Nikesh was CEO of a cleantech company called Bio Architecture Lab that had developed technology to convert seaweed into low cost sugars for biofuel and renewable chemical development. Bio Architecture Lab raised $35m in financing in a very challenging financial environment and built a 40 person company located in San Francisco and Chile. For five years, Nikesh was an executive at one of the leaders in online marketing for the real estate industry called HouseValues. Nikesh helped grow the company to 600 employees, 2 locations, and nearly $100m in revenue over a five year period. Nikesh joined in 2002 and ran product, business development, consumer marketing, and corporate development. In 2005 and 2006, I started and ran our mortgage division.
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About Suplari: Suplari focuses on leveraging machine learning to help enterprises change the way they manage their suppliers and costs.
Erik Wittreich
CEO of Ridgeline International
Erik Wittreich is an experienced Leader/Army Green Beret with a track record of developing complex strategies, executing long-term innovative plans, analyzing international trends, and managing high-profile client relationships. Wittreich maintains a reputation for building and growing cross-cultural teams to thrive during high-pressure situations in both military and corporate settings. Pat Tillman Scholar and Sloan Fellow at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Key specialties include: ● Managing Operations ● Strategic Planning ● Lifecycle Planning ● Qualitative/Quantitative Analysis ● Global Alliances ● Contingency Planning
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About Ridgeline International: Technology, Digital Signature Management
Michael Dering
CEO & Founding Partner of Dering & Estrada
Mr. Dering has over 25 years experience in successfully managing and growing technology firms. Mr. Dering specializes in supporting both the executive management team and the board of emerging growth companies. Mr. Dering often provides both CEO mentoring services as well as help with a company’s growth and strategic direction. Mr. Dering is an active board member and consultant for a number of very successful high tech companies in the greater mid-Atlantic region. Prior to forming D&E, Mr. Dering was President and CEO of ServiceBench. ServiceBench experienced rapid growth by developing innovative “Service Management On-Demand” solutions, attracting prestigious new customers and expanding internationally. As a result, ServiceBench was recognized by Deloitte as one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America. ServiceBench was sold to NEW in January 2008. Prior to ServiceBench, Mr. Dering served as President and CEO of CrossAccess Corporation, a multi-national venture-funded software infrastructure company that focused on integrating corporate business functions with new e-business applications. Prior to joining CrossAccess, Mr. Dering served as President and CEO of two publicly traded Bell & Howell companies. Under Mr. Dering’s leadership, Bell & Howell Mail and Messaging Technologies (MMT) doubled its profits and grew its revenue to $500 million while cultivating a broad customer base that included telecommunications carriers. At Bell & Howell Publishing Services (PSC), Mr. Dering launched its European operation and implemented a focused sales program that resulted in increased market share. Previously, Mr. Dering had a 20-year career at TAB Products Company, a $170 million publicly traded manufacturer of information storage and retrieval solutions for office environments. He initially served in a variety of sales and marketing positions, and, in his last five years, was TAB’s President and CEO, helping turn around the company and making it the dominant industry leader. Mr. Dering holds multiple board positions including 3PillarGlobal, Valencell, HelloWallet, Fishbowl, Bridgeborn, Washington Management Group/CCS, StrikeIron, The Royalty Exchange and MindShare. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
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About Dering & Estrada, eTrans Systems, Valencell: Dering & Estrada is a consulting firm providing project management, software development, and other services to businesses.
Don Pickering
CEO of Olis Robotics
Don Pickering has been a long time pioneer of Internet, enterprise applications and big data technology. As CEO of BluHaptics, Don is responsible for strategic planning, partnerships, business and corporate development. In 2010, he launched OneOcean (now Clipcard) dedicated to cloud software and data exchanges for sea floor data, and raised $8 Million for the company. Prior to this he architected some of the industry’s most successful companies, including early Internet innovator Cosmix (acquired by USWeb in 1997), online outdoor retailer Altrec.com, and multivariate optimization company Widemile (acquired by Webtrends in 2009).
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About Olis Robotics: Olis Robotics gives operators the ability to intuitively control complex robotic systems.
Jennifer Sunshine Steffens
CEO of IOActive
As its CEO, Jennifer Steffens spearheads all aspects of IOActive’s global business operations and drives the company’s strategic vision. Jennifer brings a wealth of industry and business experience to the company, having been an early member of several successful startups. Recognized as one of the top leaders in information security, Jennifer is an active member of the Executive Women’s Forum, the Information Security Systems Association and the Open Web Application Security Project. Lauded by Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Information Security Magazine, and many more, she received SC Magazine’s Reboot Leadership Award for Top Management in 2017 and CV Magazine’s IT Security CEO of the Year 2018. She serves as a judge for the TechTrailblazers and DUO Women in Security awards and is a frequent speaker at events around the world. Earlier in her career, she held leadership positions at ground breaking companies such as Sourcefire and NFR Security. Prior to joining IOActive, Jennifer came to Seattle to help startup GraniteEdge reinvent itself. While there, she led initiatives to restructure the company and developed a product strategy that ultimately led to a successful acquisition.
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About IOActive: IOActive is a security consultancy with a global presence and deep expertise spanning hardware, software, and wetware.
Farley Mesko
CEO & Co-Founder of Sayari Labs
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About Sayari Labs: Sayari Labs is a provider of financial intelligence and supply chain risk solutions for analysts and investigators.
Calista Redmond
CEO, RISC-V International of Linux Foundation
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About Linux Foundation: The Linux Foundation builds sustainable ecosystems around open source projects to accelerate technology development and industry adoption.
John Case
CEO of Unify Square
John Case is President and CEO of Unify Square. A seasoned leader and technology executive, John spent 18 years prior to joining Unify Square working at Microsoft, holding management roles in both sales and marketing. Most recently at Microsoft, John spent four years as Corporate Vice President leading the global marketing, product management, and business teams for Office and Office 365. During that period he led the rollout of Skype for Business and enterprise voice in the cloud. Prior to Office, he spent four years as Vice President in the Microsoft Worldwide OEM Division in both Marketing and Sales. Previously, John oversaw product management, sales, and marketing worldwide for all Microsoft developer and designer products, including multiple versions of the .NET Framework, Visual Studio, and Silverlight. John also worked in the Windows Server product management team and was part of the team that launched Windows 2000.
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About Unify Square: Unify Square provides software, cloud managed services, and consulting for global Microsoft Skype for Business enterprise deployments.
Aziz Virani
CEO, CLEAResult of Unify Square
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About : Unify Square provides software, cloud managed services, and consulting for global Microsoft Skype for Business enterprise deployments.
Matt Ehrlichman
Founder, CEO of Porch Group
Matt Ehrlichman Currently launching a new tech start-up, Matt Ehrlichman is lining up the founding team, finalizing financing, completing accelerator acquisitions, and will be announcing shortly. Prior, Ehrlichman was the Chief Strategy Officer at Active Network responsible for 85% of the P&L. Ehrlichman led the company’s technology business units and managed the company’s technology growth and earnings goals, marketing operations, business development, international operations, and mergers and acquisitions. Ehrlichman joined Active Network in the start of 2007, and helped to grow the company’s revenues from $65 million in 2006 to $420 million and a 2011 IPO. Before joining the company, Ehrlichman was co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Thriva, which was acquired by the Active Network in March 2007 for $60 million. Ehrlichman attended Stanford University where he received both his Bachelor of Science degree in entrepreneurial engineering and Master of Science degree in management science and engineering.
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About Porch Group: Porch Group is a vertical software company reinventing the home services industry.
Josh Lospinoso
CEO of Shift5
Dr. Josh Lospinoso is CEO at Shift5, Inc. An entrepreneur who served 15 years in the US Army, Josh has spoken at a wide range of conferences, published over twenty peer-reviewed articles, authored C++ Crash Course (No Starch Press, 2019), and co-founded RedOwl, which Raytheon acquired in 2017. He keeps a blog and is an active contributor to open-source software. Lospinoso holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Oxford and is a Rhodes Scholar.
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About Shift5: Shift5 is a cybersecurity company that provides hardware and software solutions to defend operational technology (OT) platforms.
Prem Kumar Kandalu
Founder & CEO of Cloud IQ Technologies
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About Cloud IQ Technologies: Cloud IQ Technologies offers you a portfolio of IT Cloud Management services.
Cory Siskind
Founder and CEO of Base Operations
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About Base Operations: Base Operations uses AI to aggregate and visualize threat data to help companies keep their people and operations safe around the world.
Free Wortley
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of LunaSec
Free Wortley is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of LunaSec.
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About LunaSec, Refinery: Open Source data security platform to help you protect your most sensitive data.
Fahim ul Haq
Co-Founder and CEO of Educative
Fahim ul Haq is the Co-Founder & CEO at Educative
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About Educative: Educative provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers with pre-configured developer environments in the cloud.
Graham Covington
CEO & Founder of Engaging Networks
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About Engaging Networks: Engaging Networks is the technology used by many of the world’s leading charities to power their digital strategies.
Allison Magyar
CEO, Founder & President of Hubb
Allie Magyar is a skilled entrepreneur and technology maven with over 15 years of experience driving successful technology enabled service companies. She founded Hubb to build a technology solution that directly addressed the needs of meeting planners as they manage the overload of information for their event content. As CEO of Hubb, she is responsible for directing the company’s strategic direction with an emphasis on key partnerships, integrations, and growth. Allie is also passionate about driving positive corporate culture and her companies have won several regional awards such as “Healthiest Workplace” and “Most Philanthropic”. Allie combines her real-world experience in marketing, sales, partner relationship building, and show production with a strong vision for the technology-enabled future of event management. She is an experienced speaker who has spoken at conferences such as CEMA, Event Tech Live and ACT-W Portland. Allie is CMP certified, a board member for TAO (Technology Association of Oregon), a member of Vistage, a two-time Inc. 5000 award winner, and was listed on the 2013 Collaborate 40 Under 40 in the meetings industry and the 2017 Portland Business Journal’s 40 Under 40. She was named a 2017 Top Woman Entrepreneur by Smart Meetings Magazine and, in 2018 was an EY Pacific NW Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.
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About Hubb: The Hubb Platform makes virtual, in-person and hybrid events with powerful attendee engagement tools that bring brands to life.
John Lauer
CEO of Zipwhip
John is an Internet and mobile veteran with 20 years of corporate management experience. At 21 years old, his first entrepreneur endeavor was Rootlevel, a web application development company that built GM.com and Ford.com.He then founded Simplewire, one of the mobile industry’s first text messaging aggregators which was acquired by Qpass in 2006 and rebranded as OpenMarket. John stayed on board with OpenMarket for a year and a half as VP of Sales driving revenue from $5M annually to $500M. John is also known for throwing the most elaborate Halloween party in the state of Washington. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlauer12
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About Chilipeppr, Zipwhip: Zipwhip features software that helps people businesses have more effective conversations by text-enabling existing phone numbers.
Stephen Willey
Founder, CEO, Director of Innovega Inc.
Steve previously co-founded Microvision and Pro.Net Communications and served as President and Corporate Director. He served as CEO of AirIQ Inc., Business Director at CREO Inc. and General Manager of MDI International. During his career, he has developed a clear understanding of how to commercialize game-changing and disruptive new technologies. Steve holds Masters degrees in engineering and business.
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About Innovega Inc.: Innovega provides technology and reference designs for contact lenes enabled AR/MR/VR Smart Glasses
Logan Soya
Founder & CEO of Aquicore
Prior to founding Aquicore, Logan worked extensively in the IT and Telecom industries and has delivered numerous complex multi-million dollar management systems both domestically and internationally for high-profile global telecom and media operators. Logan also helped start a research initiative based on highly secure Quantum Encryption. Logan Soya received a BS in Physics, an MS in Systems Management and has his MBA from Georgetown University and London Business School. During his MBA at Georgetown he worked with Foundation Capital, a top-tier Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm. Logan has always had a passion for energy and is excited to take some of the best practices in IT and Telecom management systems to create better building energy management.
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About Aquicore: Aquicore is an information technology company that offers a cloud-based software designed for asset operations platform for the CRE sector.
Rebecca Enonchong
Founder and CEO of AppsTech
Rebecca Enonchong is founder and Chief Executive Officer of AppsTech, a leading global provider of enterprise application solutions. She is cofounder and Chair of ActivSpaces (African Center for Technology Innovation and Ventures), a tech incubator in Cameroon and Board Chair of the Afrilabs Foundation, a network of 50 tech hubs in Africa. She also cofounded ABAN (African Business Angels Network) and CAN (Cameroon Angels Network). She is an advisor to Venture Capital for Africa (VC4Africa), the largest online community dedicated to entrepreneurs and investors building companies in Africa. She has been a board member of award winning social enterprise Salesforce.org since 2002.
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About AppsTech, Salesforce: Enterprise Application Solutions
Nikola Mrvaljevic
CEO and Co-Founder of STRIVE
Nikola Mrvaljevic is the CEO and Co-Founder of Strive Tech.
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About STRIVE: STRIVE is the only data platform proven to optimize muscle performance for elite athletes and teams.
Ali Moloo
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of myDigitalOffice
Ali Moloo is the co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of myDigitalOffice.
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About myDigitalOffice: myDigitalOffice is an easy-to-use hoteliers data visualization, process automation, and performance management software.
Demetri Themelis
Co-Founder and CEO of Knock
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About Knock: Knock is a software-as-a-service platform that provides sales and marketing services for residential property management companies.
Barry Crist
CEO of Chef Software
Barry Crist has more than 20 years of experience in driving enterprise customer success and adoption with both open source and DevOps software solutions. Prior to joining Opscode, he was an Executive-in-Residence at Ignition Partners, an Opscode investor. He was previously CEO of Likewise, a company with a strong open source to enterprise go-to-market model that had wide industry reach including OEM agreements with VMware, Dell, HP, Riverbed, and EMC.Likewise was acquired by EMC Isilon in September 2012. Prior to Likewise, Crist served as Vice President of the Application Management group at Mercury, now a division of HP, where he grew North American sales from less than $1 million to more than $75 million. Crist led enterprise sales organizations at Network Associates (now McAfee) and was in various sales, technical, and international roles at Apple.
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About Chef Software: Chef is a continuous automation platform powered by community and open source software engines.
David Greschler
CEO and Co-Founder of NOMAD Technologies
David Greschler comes from a background of startup success. He founded and sold two startups (including Softricity, which was acquired by Microsoft). With a background rich in technology, he previously worked at the MIT Media Lab and The Computer Museum. David believes that even a small shift in technology has the power to change the way people have done things for years. His first startup changed the way people delivered software – this time he’s changing the way people deliver spectacular customer service.
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About NOMAD Technologies: The NOMAD platform helps companies measure, act and improve customer experience.
Yousef Javadi
Co-Founder, President and CEO of LTN Global Communications
Javadi is a co-founder of LTN and its President and CEO. He is an accomplished entrepreneur and executive leader in both telecom services and IP technology. Javadi brings over 25 years of experience at starting, growing, and running global businesses. Most recently, Javadi was President of NexTone Communications, a privately held provider of software products. Earlier, Javadi was President of Sprint International, where he ran all of Sprint’s businesses, alliances, and relationships outside of the U.S. Under Javadi’s leadership and direction, Sprint built its next generation global Internet backbone. Prior to that, he held increasingly important corporate executive positions, including: head of the billion dollar North American operations of Primus Telecom; president of a wireless messaging unit at G.E. Capital; and vice-president of global sales and marketing at OTI, a start up satellite company that was sold to MCI. Javadi holds a B.Sc and M.Sc in Engineering from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About LTN Global Communications: LTN provides IP-based video transport solutions focusing on the quality and reliability of videos delivered over the Internet.
Marc Pinotti
Co Founder & CEO @UnifyCloud LLC of UnifyCloud
VP – Business and Development with successful track record of launching numerous Startups, as well as rapidly growing businesses within Fortune 500 companies. Two of the startups were successfully acquired, spin-out was acquired, as well as multiple successful startups within Microsoft, Qualcomm and Lexmark International.
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About CloudAtlas, UnifyCloud: UnifyCloud ensures customers successfully migrate to the Cloud while maintaining Cost Control, Compliance and Cybersecurity.
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO of QuantConnect
Co-Founder of QuantConnect, Algorithm Fund, StockTrack.org.
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About Leverage, QuantConnect: We inspire, empower & educate a community of quants, providing world class infrastructure for them to design and market their trading ideas
You Mon Tsang
Founder & CEO of ChurnZero
Before assuming his current role as CEO of OutMarket, Tsang held positions as CMO and senior vice president of product at Vocus. Prior to Vocus, he was CEO of Engine140, a company Vocus acquired and subsequently integrated into its product portfolio. A serial entrepreneur, Tsang also founded and was CEO of Biz360, a market intelligence company that helped Fortune 500 companies compile and analyze media content. He founded Boxxet, a consumer content aggregation engine with 4 million unique visitors a month, as well as Milktruck LLC, an Internet pioneer in offline browsing and “push” software. Tsang holds a Bachelor of Arts in urban studies from Yale University and an MBA from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.
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About ChurnZero: ChurnZero is customer success software for growing SaaS and subscription businesses.
Kevin Jackson
CEO of GovCloud Network
Kevin L. Jackson is a globally recognized cloud computing expert, Thought Leader, Industry Influencer and Founder/Author of the award winning “Cloud Musings” blog. He has also been recognized as a “Top 100 Cloud Computing Influencer and Brand” (Onalytica 2017), a “Top Federal IT Blog” (FedTech Magazine 2015,2016). Internationally recognizable firms that have sponsored blog posts authored by him include Cisco, Microsoft and IBM. Mr. Jackson has also been featured in podcasts and online video with Dell, IBM, Intel Corporation and National Public Radio. In May 2018 he was awarded an Information Security Leadership Award for his work in the US Federal Government Sector by the President, International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2. Mr. Jackson’s commercial experience includes Vice President J.P. Morgan Chase, Worldwide Sales Executive for IBM and Engility Corporation Director Cloud Solutions. Recently he served as part of a team responsible for onboarding mission applications to the US Intelligence Community cloud computing environment (IC ITE). Publications include, “GovCloud: Cloud Computing for the Business of Government” (Government Training Inc., 2011), “GovCloud II: Implementation and Cloud Brokerage Services” (Government Training Inc, 2012), “Practical Cloud Security: A Cross Industry View” (Taylor & Francis, 2016), and “Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions” (Packt, 2018). Mr. Jackson also delivers online training through Pluralsight.
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About (ISC)2, AT&T, GC GlobalNet, GovCloud Network, IBM, Intel Corporation, International Training Consortium, LinkedIn, Packt, Pluralsight, SourceConnecte, Supply Chain Now, The Social Movement, Total Network Service, Tulane University School of Professional Advancement, wikibooks.me: GovCloud Network helps it’s clients better leverage the global and parallel nature of cloud computing.
Franck Rougier
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Kirio Inc
Franck Rougier is a passionate entrepreneur and tech evangelist who founded Kirio to serve the construction industry. Kirio, Inc. is a Seattle based IoT hardware and software manufacturer designing, developing, and deploying the Kirio Smart Home and Energy Management System. Franck earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic University, and his Master Degree in Sensor Based Robotics and Controls from New York University. Previously, Franck was president at Blue Helios Inc., a software development consulting company serving the alternative investment industry. He also worked in the supply-chain management (PKOH) and financial (BAC) industries.
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About Kirio Inc: Kirio is an intelligent software platform that uses a deep learning algorithm to deliver true home automation, efficiency and comfort.
James Walter
Founder and CEO of Finagraph
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About Finagraph: Finagraph provides best-in-class financial intelligence on demand for lenders, accountants, consultants and business owners.
Robi Ganguly
CEO & Co-Founder of Apptentive
Early on, Robi learned about customer experience as a paperboy for The Seattle Times. From there he instructed Tae Kwon Do, learning that 7 to 14 year olds are some of the toughest customers on Earth. As a bag boy (nee’ Courtesy Clerk) for Olson’s Food Stores he learned the value of a simple conversation and taking the bags out for each and every customer. “How you leave them is how they leave,” his store manager repeated and it hit a chord. Years later, whether it was working for Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown advising companies like Ameritrade on their M&A strategy or helping WebEx pioneer and popularize the SaaS business model, Robi was lucky to always be close to customers in his roles. At Yahoo!, he spent his time with teams in product, design and sales, working closely with global CPG brands. Robi constantly found that global business leaders were yearning for deeper, more direct customer relationships and that they were convinced that advertising had to change. In 2011, Robi founded Apptentive with the goal to help brands around the world give each of their customers a voice. Outside of Apptentive Robi enjoys running, cooking for his wife and friends, reading, and is a long-time board member at the Developer Alliance.
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About Apptentive: Apptentive’s mobile customer experience software helps the World’s largest Consumer companies collect and act on 100x feedback at scale
Robert Wahbe
CEO of Highspot
Robert Wahbe is the co-founder and chief executive officer at Highspot.
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About Highspot: Highspot is an AI-fueled sales enablement platform that helps companies worldwide improve the performance of their sales teams.
Mark Marron
President & CEO of ePlus
Marron joined ePlus as senior vice president of sales in 2005, and was promoted to COO in 2010 and to CEO and President in July 2016. A 30-year IT industry veteran, Marron served as senior vice president of worldwide sales at NetIQ, and was general manager of worldwide channel sales for Computer Associates International, Inc. He has extensive sales and operations experience both domestically and internationally. Marron holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Montclair State University.
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About ePlus: ePlus is an technology solutions provider of professional & managed services for cloud, security, data center, and digital infrastructure.
