Best Startup
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 CEO’ operating in the Business Intelligence 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.
Jeff Seibert
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Digits
As Senior Director of Product at Twitter, Jeff has led the company’s consumer, developer, and publisher facing products, including Twitter for iOS, Android, and the Web, Fabric, Crashlytics, Answers, Digits, Twitter Kit, TweetDeck, Twitter’s Publisher Platform, and Gnip. Previously, Seibert was Twitter’s Director of Developer Platform where he led Fabric, the company’s suite of mobile developer tools, as well as its enterprise Data Platform and Content Syndication efforts. Seibert was the co-founder and CEO of Crashlytics, an award-winning crash analysis service for iOS and Android apps. Crashlytics was acquired by Twitter in 2013 and has become an essential piece of the mobile developer toolchain – today powering over a million apps across well over two billion devices worldwide. Seibert co-founded Increo in 2007 and served as its COO and lead architect until its acquisition by Box in 2009. He subsequently oversaw the integration of Increo’s document preview and annotation technologies into Box’s cloud content platform. Seibert gained experience at Apple in both marketing and engineering capacities and led Stanford University’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders seminar series as Co-Coordinator. He was selected as a Mayfield Fellow in 2007 and received a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008. Seibert is a frequent presenter on both entrepreneurship and technical topics and has lectured at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and Tufts, as well as keynoted Twitter Flight, AppsWorld, AnDevCon, EclipseCon, and others. Find him on Twitter at @JeffSeibert.
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About Digits: Digits is building financial technology so powerful.. you’ll think they stole it from the future
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Michael Bloomberg
Founder and CEO of Bloomberg
Michael R. Bloomberg is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who served three terms as Mayor of the City of New York. In 1966, Michael R. Bloomberg was hired by a Wall Street firm, Salomon Brothers, for an entry-level job. When Salomon was acquired in 1981, he was let go from the firm. Then with a vision of an Information Technology Company, that would bring quality to the buying and selling of financial securities, Michael R. Bloomberg launched a small startup in a one room office. Today, Bloomberg Company is a global company that has more than 15,000 employees and offices in 73 countries around the world. During his occupancy as Mayor, from 2002 through 2013, he turned around a broken public school system by raising standards and holding schools accountable for success. Michael R. Bloomberg’s economic policies helped New York City experience record-levels of private-sector job growth often in formerly depressed neighborhoods. His passion for public health led to new strategies that became national representations, including a ban on smoking in all indoor workplaces, as well as at parks and beaches. Michael R. Bloomberg launched pioneering anti-poverty efforts, including the Young Men’s Initiative and the Center for Economic Opportunity. He launched national bi-partisan coalitions to combat illegal guns, reform immigration, and invest in infrastructure. In addition to Bloomberg Philanthropies’ five areas of focus: public health, arts and culture, the environment, education, and government innovation, Michael R. Bloomberg has continued to support projects of other importance to him, including his university, Johns Hopkins University, where he served as the chairman of the board of trustees from 1996 to 2001. The university’s School of Hygiene and Public Health, the largest public health facility in the U.S., is the Bloomberg School of Public Health in recognition of his commitment and support. He has donated more than $2.4 billion to a wide variety of causes and organizations. As chair of the C40 Climate Leadership Group from 2010 to 2013, Michael R. Bloomberg drew international attention to cities’ leading role in the fight against climate change. In 2014, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Michael R. Bloomberg to be U.N. Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change where he will focus on helping cities and countries set and achieve more climate change goals. Michael R. Bloomberg attended Johns Hopkins University till 1964, and later he attended Harvard Business School from where he obtained an MBA.
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About Bloomberg, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bloomberg TV, United Nations: Bloomberg provides news, data, analytics, and communication services for the global business and financial world.
Christopher Bergh
Founder, CEO & Head Chef of DataKitchen
Christopher Bergh is a Founder, CEO, and Head Chef of DataKitchen. As CEO, he oversees the Product, Engineering, Implementation, Services, Sales, and Marketing teams. DataKitchen’s mission is to provide the software, service, and knowledge that enables every data analytics team to successfully implement DataOps. Chris and his fellow co-founders started DataKitchen because they envisioned a world where every data professional and his or her data team no longer felt powerless or frustrated by failed and painfully slow projects, but instead were excited and energized by their ability to deliver high-quality, on-demand insight. In 2013, the trio of founders launched DataKitchen and built their own end-to-end DataOps software platform to do just that. Chris is an industry-recognized expert on DataOps. He is the co-author of The DataOps Cookbook and The DataOps Manifesto as well as a speaker on DataOps at many industry conferences and with media outlets. Chris has more than 30 years of research, software engineering, data analytics, and executive management experience. At various points in his career, he has been a COO, CTO, VP, and Director of Engineering at various tech startups, which were acquired by IBM Unica or Model N. Chris holds an M.S. from Columbia University and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About DataKitchen, DataKitchen: DataKitchen is a DataOps software company that helps organizations deliver more data products faster with lower errors that customers trust.
Sanjit Biswas
CEO of Samsara
Sanjit Biswas is the Founder and CEO at Samsara. He is a former CEO and a co-founder of Meraki, where he managed day-to-day operations from inception through the $1.2 billion acquisition by Cisco in 2012. He now serves as the Vice President and General Manager of the Cisco Cloud Networking Group, headquartered in San Francisco. Sanjit has been recognized as a TR35 honoree by MIT Technology Review, Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and has received awards for academic research in computer networking.
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Evan Cummack
CEO of Fin.com
CEO @ Fin.com.
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About Fin.com: Fin.com is a work insights platform that provides cross-applications and enterprises data insights for CX and operations teams.
Jager McConnell
Chief Executive Officer of Crunchbase
Jager is the CEO of Crunchbase. He joined the company as it became a venture-backed startup in enterprise data. Prior to joining Crunchbase, Jager spent 11 years at Salesforce in various roles across sales, marketing, and product development.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Courtney Puckett
Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer of Crunchbase
Courtney served as Office Manager at Crunchbase from September 2017 to February 2019, from which she served as Executive Assistant until August 2019, since which she has been serving as Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Andrew Gazdecki
Founder and CEO of MicroAcquire
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About Altcoin.io, Bizness Apps, MicroAcquire: MicroAcquire is a startup acquisition marketplace that helps startups find buyers and get acquired.
Ashutosh Garg
CEO & Co-Founder of Eightfold
Ashutosh Garg is the CEO and co-founder of eightfold.ai and a true guru of all things AI, with 10 years of information retrieval, machine learning and search experience. Previously, he was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of BloomReach. Prior to that, he was at IBM research. He is also a prolific publisher/inventor, with a book on machine learning, 30+ papers, and 50+ patents. Ashutosh holds a BTech from IIT-Delhi and a PhD from U of Illinois UC. Ashutosh has numerous awards, including best thesis award at IIT Delhi, IBM Fellowship and outstanding researcher award at UIUC.
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About Eightfold: Eightfold is a developer of a talent intelligence platform used to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
Aykut Karaalioglu
Founder & CEO of Mobile Action
Aykut Karaalioglu is the founder of Mobile Action, a company specialized in mobile discovery and optimization. He also co-founded Marro.ws, a clipping tool for intellectual people, and Shoppe, a shopping application. Karaalioglu holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Bilkent University. He obtained his master’s degree from Santa Clara University. Karaalioglu currently lives in San Francisco, California.
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About Mobile Action: Leading mobile intelligence company empowering app marketers to thrive in the market.
Vibhore Kumar
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Unscrambl
18+ years of industry and research experience designing enterprise systems. 10 patents, 30+ publications.
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About Unscrambl: An augmented intelligence company that is creating AI-powered cognitive agents for the enterprises.
Aaron Frazin
Founder and CEO of Detective
Aaron Frazin is the Founder and CEO of Detective.io.
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About Detective: Detective is a digital adoption platform that automates the sales research process.
Riddhiman Das
Founder and CEO of TripleBlind
Riddhiman Das is the Founder and CEO of TripleBlind.
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About TripleBlind: TripleBlind is a private data sharing company developing a cryptographic platform to share, leverage, and monetize regulated data.
Manoj Ramnani
Founder and CEO of SalesIntel
Manoj Ramnani is the founder and CEO of SalesIntel.io and CircleBack, Inc. He was formerly the CEO of Dub Labs. Manoj holds a master’s degree from The George Washington University – School of Business.
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About CircleBack, SalesIntel: SalesIntel is the top provider of accurate and affordable sales and marketing contact data.
Oren Kaniel
Co-Founder and CEO of AppsFlyer
Oren Kaniel is the CEO & co-founder of AppsFlyer, the market leader in Mobile Attribution Analytics. Oren holds a BA in Computer Science, Cum Laude, from the Technion, and an MBA from IDC, as part of an exchange with the Wharton Business School.
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About AppsFlyer: The world’s top brands use AppsFlyer to build great products, create exceptional experiences, and preserve customer privacy.
Joseph Quan
CEOa and Founder of Knoetic
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About CPOHQ, Knoetic, Twine: Knoetic is the all-in-one platform built for Chief People Officers. Powerful people analytics & the world’s #1 CPO community (CPOHQ).
Maury Blackman
President & CEO of Premise Data
Maury Blackman is CEO of Premise Data. Blackman is a tech executive with more than 25 years of experience leading high growth enterprise software companies. His industry experiences include government, construction, public safety, geospatial information, GPO’s, sharing economy services, and drone software. Blackman joined Premise in 2017; under his leadership the company has seen 661% revenue growth. In November 2020, Premise was named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, a list of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America. Premise is the 35th fastest-growing company in the Silicon Valley region and is 182nd on the overall list. Before joining Premise, Blackman was CEO at Accela, a civic tech company aimed at moving citizen transactions from city hall to online and mobile services. He joined the company in 2000 as the VP of Sales and Marketing and then assumed the role of CEO in 2007. To support strategic initiatives and growth, he raised more than $300M in financing from family offices, private equity, and senior debt. The capital from these raises was deployed to build out an enterprise offering, expand internationally, and execute an M&A strategy that closed 10+ acquisitions in 24 months. Prior to joining Accela, Maury worked for Investools (NASDAQ:IEDU) where he served in several executive positions from 1993 to 2000. At Investools, he first joined as an Account Executive and was later appointed Vice President, Business Development charged with selling data and content to brokerage firms and internet service providers in the nascent dot-com era. In this capacity, he built a dynamic portfolio of accounts that included Charles Schwab, Fidelity, AOL, and Netcom Online Communications. For his accomplishments at Accela, Blackman was recognized by Government Technology as one of its Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers in 2015. In 2016, Ernst and Young awarded him the prestigious Northern California’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Maury holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Houston and was a commissioned field artillery officer in the United States Army, serving on both active and reserve duty for 10 years. Maury maintains an active lifestyle and is an eleven-time Ironman finisher, including the 2008 and 2013 Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona.
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About Premise Data: Premise is a data and analytics platform powered by a global network of on-the-ground contributors, data science, and machine learning.
Frank Bien
CEO & President of Looker
Frank Bien is the CEO and President at Looker. Frank brings more than 20 years of experience in business intelligence, big data, analytics, and data storage to expand Looker’s reach and capabilities. Frank is the former VP of Business Development for Greenplum (acquired by EMC) and former SVP for Virsto Software (acquired by VMware) and now serves as Looker’s President.
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About Google, Looker: Looker is a an enterprise platform for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics.
Amir Orad
CEO of Sisense
Amir Orad is the CEO of Sisense. He has held various executive roles for different companies including NICE Actimize, RSA Security, Cyota, and IDF. Amir holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science/management from Tel Aviv University and an MBA degree from Columbia University – Columbia Business School.
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About LimitScreen Inc, Sisense: Sisense is the leading AI-driven platform for infusing analytics everywhere.
Josh Lefkowitz
CEO of Flashpoint
Josh Lefkowitz executes the company’s strategic vision to illuminate the Deep and Dark Web and deliver unparalleled insights to customers, empowering them with the industry standard in intelligence from these areas of the Internet. He has worked extensively with federal, state,and local authorities to track and analyze terrorist groups. Mr. Lefkowitz also served as a consultant to the FBI’s senior management team and worked for a top tier, global investment bank, where he gained experience with Fortune 500 companies and ultra high net worth individuals.
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About Flashpoint: Flashpoint is the globally trusted leader in actionable threat intelligence.
George Sivulka
Founder & CEO of Hebbia
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About Hebbia: Hebbia is a cutting-edge ML productivity tool that supercharges knowledge workers.
Michael Saylor
Chairman & CEO of MicroStrategy
Michael J. Saylor is an American entrepreneur, executive, inventor, author, and philanthropist. He was born to a military family in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1965 and spent his childhood living on various U.S. Air Force bases around the world. By his teenage years, his family had settled at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio—the birthplace of aviation and home of the Wright brothers. He graduated from high school first in his class, served as both class marshal and valedictorian, and was voted most likely to succeed by his peers. Mr. Saylor attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on a full Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship. While at MIT, he was a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity, and obtained dual degrees in aeronautics and astronautics as well as science, technology and society. In his free time, he played guitar in a rock band and learned to fly gliders. Mr. Saylor became fascinated by the application of computer simulation technology to public policy and business strategy, eventually writing his thesis “A Mathematical Model of a Renaissance Italian City State” while studying system dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In 1987, Mr. Saylor graduated with highest honors from MIT. Having already successfully completed flight officer training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, where he learned to fly, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. He joined the Air Force Reserve and began a career in consulting, with a focus on constructing computer simulations to support strategic decision-making at companies such as DuPont, Dow, and Exxon. In 1989 at the age of 24, Mr. Saylor combined his passions for technology, business, and the use of computer simulations to launch MicroStrategy. The company was founded on his vision of helping enterprises deliver intelligence everywhere. By harnessing the power of graphical operating systems and client server computing, and pioneering a new approach to business intelligence called relational online analytical processing (ROLAP), the company grew steadily, going public in 1998 (NASDAQ: MSTR). Under his leadership, MicroStrategy has emerged as a global leader in enterprise analytics and mobility software, serving thousands of organizations around the world. Mr. Saylor is a named inventor on more than 40 patents. In addition to being credited as the inventor of relational analytics, he led MicroStrategy into the fields of web analytics, distributed analytics, mobile analytics, cloud computing, mobile identity, and IoT. He was also the creator and founder of Alarm.com (NASDAQ: ALRM), one of the first home automation and security companies, and Angel.com (sold to Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories for $110 million in 2013), one of the first cloud-based interactive voice response service providers. Mr. Saylor is the author of the book The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything, published by Perseus Books in 2012. The book anticipated the impact of mobile, cloud, and social networks on worldwide political and economic development, along with the rise of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google as transnational technology leaders that would destabilize the status quo across most industrial and political domains. The Mobile Wave appeared on both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal Best Seller lists. In 1999, Mr. Saylor established The Saylor Foundation, which has donated millions to philanthropic causes including children’s health, refugee relief, education, environmental conservation, and support for the arts. The foundation runs the Saylor Academy (Saylor.org), which offers free college education and continuing professional development courses to students worldwide. To date, it has provided free educational services to more than 225,000 students. In both 2015 and 2016, Mr. Saylor participated in the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy. Mr. Saylor travels 175,000 miles per year to more than 60 cities and 25 nations to share his perspectives of enterprise analytics and mobility with technology and business audiences. Throughout his travels, he engages companies, organizations, and governments to discuss the ways that MicroStrategy can help them realize the vision of intelligence everywhere.
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About MicroStrategy: MicroStrategy provides enterprise software for business intelligence, mobile intelligence, and network applications.
Amjad Hussain
Chair & CEO of Algo
Amjad is an entrepreneur at heart. He founded Algo where he is the CEO during the day and AI building blocks designer at night. He has built a passionate team of domain experts, AI architects, scientists and software engineers with deep industry knowledge of manufacturing, distribution and retail. Algo is an always on full stack enterprise class AI platform with deep learning, augmented reality and workflow automation at its core. Algo has a conversational business analyst bot as its main user interface. Algo is rapidly growing and creating tremendous net new value for its customers world-wide. Amjad is an Honors Electrical Engineering & Computer Science graduate and a senior member of IEEE. He earned his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from UMIST, in the United Kingdom with a focus on artificial intelligence and an MBA from MIT. Amjad is an applied researcher and practitioner in the field of natural language understanding and deep reinforcement learning. He has completed flagship management programs at Harvard and Stanford. Amjad was recognized in the Crain’s ‘s ’40 under 40’ program for his pioneering work in advanced analytics.
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About Algo: Enterprise AI powered Supply Chain Planning platform delivered by a Virtual Business Analyst named Algo.
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.
Satyen Sangani
CEO & Co-Founder of Alation
Satyen Sangani founded Alation in July 2012, since which he has been serving as its chief executive officer. He spent nearly a decade at Oracle, ultimately running the Financial Services Warehousing and Performance Management business where he helped customers get insights out of their systems. Prior to Oracle, he was an Associate with the Texas Pacific Group and an Analyst with Morgan Stanley & Co. Mr. Sangani holds a Masters from the University of Oxford and a Bachelors from Columbia College, both in Economics.
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About Alation: Alation offers a machine learning data catalog to help people find, understand, and trust data across their organizations.
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.
Russ Heddleston
Co-founder & CEO of Dropbox DocSend
Russ is the Co-founder and CEO of DocSend, a service for securely sending and tracking documents that has over 9,000 customers. He was previously a product manager at Facebook, where he arrived via the acquisition of his startup Pursuit.com, and has held roles at Dropbox, Microsoft, and Trulia. Russ holds a BS/MS in Computer Science from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Dropbox DocSend: Dropbox DocSend is a secure document sharing and tracking solution that helps companies share business-critical documents with ease.
Deepak Anchala
Co-Founder and CEO of Slintel
Deepak Anchala is the Co-Founder and CEO of Slintel.
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About Slintel: Slintel captures technographic-powered buying intent to help companies identify potential buyers in their target market.
David Wilkinson
CEO & Founder of HASH
Founder and CEO of HASH; interested in market failures (and solving them in practice). Previously founded a blog network and software development consultancy/product studio.
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About HASH: HASH enables real-time modeling and simulation of complex systems
Carmine Di Sibio
CEO of Ernst & Young
Carmine is responsible for global business performance, day-to-day operations of the organization and executing a global strategy in the market. In his role, he brings together geographies, service lines and markets functions to provide exceptional service to our clients. Carmine is Senior Advisory Partner for many of our largest financial services clients.
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About Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Tomas Puig
CEO / Founder of Alembic
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About Alembic, Test Kitchen Capital: SaaS, Marketing, Analytics
Jeremy Levy
Co-Founder & CEO of Indicative
Mr. Jeremy Levy co-founded Indicative, Inc. in 2013 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Levy co-founded meetMoi, LLC and served as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Levy oversaw meetMoi’s technical architecture and engineering. Prior to meetMoi, he worked for Morgan Stanley, where he helped design and build the content management, workflow and trade approval systems. He has over 10 years of experience in the full life-cycle of software development ranging from design to execution. Prior to meetMoi, Mr. Levy served as software architect working in industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to finance. He worked for Pfizer, where he designed and implementED its Intranet portal for its 12,000 person sales force. He began his career as a developer at Joltage, an infrastructure services business. Mr. Levy holds a BS from Syracuse University.
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About Deciding by Data Podcast, Indicative: SaaS company that provides behavioral analytics solutions.
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
Bhavuk Kaul
Founder & CEO of Plate IQ
Co-Founder & CEO at Plate iQ.
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About Plate IQ: Plate IQ saves restaurants time and money by automating their invoice processing and accounts payable.
Robert LoCascio
Founder & CEO of LivePerson
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About LivePerson: LivePerson provides real-time intelligent customer engagement solutions that help companies enhance the relationship with their customers.
Alexander Rinke
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Celonis
Alexander Rinke Co-CEO and Co-founder Celonis Alexander Rinke is the co-CEO and co-Founder of Celonis, the leader in the leader in turning process insights into action for business transformation. Under his leadership Celonis has been named by Gartner as the “clear market leader” in the process mining category, as well as becoming one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies and one of only 242 “unicorns” in the world valued at $1B. Alexander was listed on the Forbes 30 under 30 list of top achievers under the age of 30 in 2015 and was recently appointed to the Forbes Technology Council. He is a frequent speaker on topics of how to accelerate and operational change that achieves productivity and an exceptional customer experience. Alexander studied Mathematics at Technical University of Munich and École Polytechnique in Paris.
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About Celonis: Celonis provides an Execution Management System that helps companies in running their business processes.
Zach Kelling
Founder and CEO of Hanzo
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About Hanzo: Hanzo enables businesses to launch and operate blockchain networks, develop decentralized applications and deliver compelling experiences.
Eric Gundersen
CEO of Mapbox
As CEO of Mapbox, Eric coordinates product and business development. Eric is passionate about open data and building open source data visualization tools focused on speed and design. Prior to Mapbox, Eric co-founded Development Seed. Eric is a recognized expert on open data and open source software and has been featured in publications including the New York Times, Nightline, NPR, and others. He holds a master’s degree in international development from American University in Washington, DC, and has dual bachelor’s degrees in economics and international relations.
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About Mapbox: Mapbox is a location data platform for mobile and web applications.
Dan Streetman
Chief Executive Officer of TIBCO
Dan Streetman is the Chief Executive Officer at TIBCO. He is a former Executive Vice President for Global Sales and Marketing for BMC Software, Inc. Dan joined BMC in 2015 as senior vice president for Strategic Sales and Operations, which included sales to global outsourcing and system integrators and the federal government, as well as the Sales Operations, Inside Sales, Channel, and Best Practices groups. Prior to joining BMC, Dan was senior vice president of alliances and channels for Salesforce. He previously led sales, consulting, marketing and operations for several leading companies, including C3 Energy, Hanson McClain, Amdocs, and Siebel Systems. Dan honed his leadership skills during his service as an Airborne Ranger-qualified infantry officer. He served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and is the recipient of a Bronze Star Medal and the General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award. Dan serves on the advisory boards of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, the Wounded Warrior Project, VetsInTech and several technology companies. He serves as an executive sponsor for BMC’s community partnerships with veterans organizations. An avid athlete, he has completed multiple Ironman triathlons and enjoys guiding visually impaired marathon runners each year in the Boston Marathon. Dan was a distinguished graduate and regimental commander of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and he earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Efstathios Maroulis
Founder and CEO of Jarvis Analytics
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About Henry Schein One, Jarvis Analytics, Mesasix: Jarvis is a business intelligence (BI) platform that is a leader in end-to-end data analytics solutions for dental support organizations
Dave Stamm
CEO of Uptick
David Stamm brings over 25 years of technology experience to the Enkata team. Prior to joining Enkata, Dave co-founded Clarify Inc. in 1990, which in 1994 became the first public company in what is now known as CRM. After Clarify was acquired by Nortel Inc. in 2000, David held several Board of Director positions at technology companies and served on the advisory boards of several venture capital funds. Prior to founding Clarify, Dave co-founded Daisy Systems Corporation in 1980, a computer-aided engineering hardware and software company. David Stamm holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and holds a patent on single-chip microprocessor technology.
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About Uptick: Uptick is the Next Generation Intelligent Customer Success Platform
Fredrik Thomassen
CEO & Founder of Superside
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About Superside: Superside is an always-on design company that delivers great design at scale to Enterprise teams.
Mathias Wengeler
Founder and CEO of Atheneum
Mathias has an extensive due diligence experience with L.E.K. Consulting in Munich and Boston, during which he worked on over 80 private investment transactions across Europe and the Americas. His prior work experience includes major investment banks in London, as well as Oliver Wyman in Munich and Dubai. Mathias holds a triple Master‘s degree in International Management from ESCP-EAP Grande École in Paris and a Basis doctoral in Economics from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.
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About Atheneum: Atheneum is a knowledge sharing platform that offers corporations access to up-to-date market insights for better business decisions.
Saurabh Sharma
Founder & CEO of Indus Insights
Saurabh is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Indus Insights. He is part data scientist, part management consultant, and part business manager. He has more than a decade of experience in creating value through the use of data-driven approaches. Prior to starting Indus Insights, Saurabh worked as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company, advising senior management across a variety of verticals, including CPG and hi-tech. Saurabh also has considerable experience in the consumer finance industry through his stints at Capital One and HSBC, where he drove multiple initiatives in the fields of direct marketing analytics, product development, credit policy & risk analytics, non-traditional underwriting, and account management. Saurabh is regularly quoted by national and international media as a subject matter in payments, analytics, and consulting. He holds an MBA (with honors) from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Saurabh received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, and is a CFA charterholder. He is also an aviation enthusiast, and is a certified pilot.
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About Indus Insights: Indus Insights is a specialized consulting firm that assists organizations in leveraging analytics to drive business performance.
Abhishek Begerhotta
CEO of Hotelsoft
Abhishek is the founder and CEO of 314e, a successful Healthcare IT consulting company based in Northern California. Abhishek has worked in Healthcare IT since 1996 when he was a programmer for IBM. He still pretends to write code, though his colleagues are quick to point out that they haven’t seen a line of it. Abhishek has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. He is interested in energy efficient cars, ping pong and is a mathematician by training.
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About 314e Corporation, Hotelsoft: Software solutions and services to independent and chain scale hotels.
Deidre Paknad
Co-Founder & CEO of Workboard
Deidre Paknad is co-founder and chief executive officer at Workboard.
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About Workboard: Workboard provides an enterprise results management platform designed to automate business reviews.
Kerry Wang
Co-Founder & CEO of Searchlight
Kerry Wang is the Co-Founder and CEO of Searchlight. She was a Course Assistant for From Play to Innovation at Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford ( d.school ). Kerry received a Hastorf Award for Outstanding Service in Human Biology and The Leader Award. Ms. Wang holds a master’s degree in computer science and a bachelor’s degree with distinction in Human Biology – Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Human Behavior at Stanford University.
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About Searchlight: Searchlight is a people-centered Talent Intelligence Platform that helps companies build and retain winning teams.
DeVaris Brown
Co-founder, CEO of Meroxa
DeVaris Brown is the CEO and co-founder of Meroxa. Prior to founding Meroxa, DeVaris was a product leader at Twitter, Heroku, VSCO, and Zendesk.
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About Meroxa: Meroxa is a real-time data platform as a service that enables customers at any level of expertise to build pipelines in minutes.
Rem Darbinyan
CEO and Founder of SmartClick
A serial entrepreneur, angel investor, seasoned advisor, author, and keynote speaker with an investment portfolio of 40+ startups. Being an entrepreneurial executive myself, I founded SmartClick, which builds deep tech innovations based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. As a customer-driven product leader, I’ve been dedicated to building technologies that are innovative and bring new value to the market. My 20+ years of technology industry expertise and executive management experience in scaling products from conception to large-scale ROI have been proven at both startups and large enterprises alike. My mission is to help companies thrive in this fast-changing world using technologies powered by Artificial Intelligence. Through active involvement in the IT community in Armenia, I’m well known for discovering and mentoring high-potential entrepreneurs, evaluating investment opportunities, and helping newly developing startups. As for my academic degrees, I hold a Master’s Degree in Business Risk Management and a Bachelor’s Degree in Financial Planning.
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About ProDiagnose, SmartClick, SmartPush: SmartClick is a full-service software provider delivering artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions for Enterprises.
Mike Capone
CEO of Qlik
Capone leads Qlik’s mission to be a leader in the Analytics Economy as CEO. Mike has first-hand experience in leveraging the power of data through analytics to transform businesses and entire industries. In addition to his extensive experience in high-growth SaaS companies, Mike was recently the COO of Medidata Solutions, a publicly-traded provider of SaaS analytics solutions to the Healthcare, Life Sciences and Pharma markets. There he played a significant role in the company’s product development, data science, professional services and go-to-market operations, accelerating its strategy to provide a comprehensive cloud platform that leverages data and analytics to transform clinical trials. Prior to Medidata, Mike held senior leadership positions at ADP including Corporate Vice President of Product Development, CIO, and SVP & General Manager of ADP’s global outsourcing business. He was also head of product development and technology operations for ADP, one of the world’s largest B2B cloud services providers, delivering critical services to over 600,000 companies and 39 million of their staff members worldwide. Capone holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Dickinson College and a master of business administration degree in finance from Pace University.
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About GlobalView Software, Qlik: Qlik simplifies the way people use data by making it a natural part of how they make decisions.
Toby Scammell
Founder & CEO of Womply
Toby Scammell is the founder and CEO of Womply, a technology company that helps small businesses attract, engage, and retain more customers. Mr. Scammell founded Womply in 2011 after seeing first-hand how underserved America’s small businesses were by technology. Today, he leads the strategic vision for many of the company’s core functions and works closely with all members of Womply’s executive team, with a particular focus on the intersection of product development and go-to-market activities. Under Mr. Scammell’s leadership, Womply has acquired more than 100,000 paying small business customers, become the leading software partner to America’s credit card processing industry, raised $50 million in growth funding, and expanded to hundreds of employees across offices in San Francisco; Portland, Oregon; and Lehi, Utah. Mr. Scammell is a serial entrepreneur with a strong business background. Prior to founding Womply, he co-founded Feastery, where he spent over a year solving customer acquisition and loyalty problems for restaurants in San Francisco. Before that, he was a successful associate consultant at Bain & Company, one of the world’s top management consulting firms. During high school and college, Toby started and ran a variety of small online businesses including a Costco-delivery service and company that sold advertising to local restaurants, bars, and lounges. Mr. Scammell graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in international relations, with an emphasis in global business.He is an active angel investor and advisor to a variety of startups.
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About Womply: A local commerce platform that provides apps, APIs, marketing, and financial tools for over 500,000 American businesses.
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.
Ryan Bednar
Co-founder & CEO of RankScience
Ryan Bednar is Co-founder and CEO at Rank Science.
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About RankScience: SEO Split Testing Platform & Services for Data Driven Companies
Brandon Metcalf
CEO & Founder of Place
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About Blueprint Advisory, Place: Place Technology is a developer of strategic finance software for SaaS companies.
Michael Lovett
Founder & CEO of Vagabond Vending
Michael is responsible for managing the commercial operations of the company. He brings a decade of entrepreneurial spirit and experience in IT services, software and international partnerships. Prior to CirrusWorks, Michael founded and currently serves as Chairman of Vagabond (www.vagabondvending.com), a mobile software and cellular electronics firm based in Washington, DC. Michael was an early employee at Core Communications, where he conceived and launched Critical Network Productions, a telecom systems integration business unit which became the impetus for Swisscom’s acquisition of Core in 2006. At Swisscom (www.swisscom.ch), Michael led the global enterprise solutions group and expanded Swisscom’s operations into Asia, India and the Middle East. Michael is co-author of our principle patents at CirrusWorks.
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About Vagabond Vending: Vagabond delivers real-time business intelligence to the palm of an operator’s hand to make a leaner, smarter and more profitable business.
Daniel Dietzel
Chief Executive Officer of APHRODITE
Once you free your mind about a concept of harmony and of music being correct you can do whatever you want”” – Giorgio Moroder
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About APHRODITE: Creating turn-key next gen Business Intelligence software.
Ken Tighe
CEO of Hybrent
An experienced technology entrepreneur and investor, Ken has started and successfully exited several software companies over the last 25 years. Ken was the former CEO of CareFusion (NYSE:CFN) and helped scale the business from start-up to its acquisition by Cardinal Health in 2006. Ken is a director of early stage venture funds India Venture Partners and Militello Capital.
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About Hybrent: Hybrent is committed to improving the current state of healthcare by providing groundbreaking technology
Mitesh Gala
CEO of Altametrics
Mitesh Gala is the Chief Executive Officer of Altametrics.
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About Altametrics: Altametrics is a provider of web-based enterprise solutions specifically for the restaurant industry.
Ray Zhou
Cofounder, CEO of Affinity
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About Affinity: Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform built to expand and evolve the traditional CRM.
Jeff Nelson
Founder & CEO of Cinchapi
Jeff Nelson is the founder and CEO of Cinchapi, an intelligent data platform out of TechSquare Labs that provides real-time analytics and machine learning to help businesses gain insights faster to drive dynamic outcomes. He has flexed his tech muscles at MailChimp and Ionic Securityworked, and worked as a developer in Chicago, St. Louis, New York and the Bay Area before settling in Atlanta. Nelson is also the co-founder and CTO of media site, Blavity, where he curates perspectives on black experience. He holds a B.S., Computer Science, from Washington University in St. Louis.
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About Blavity, Cinchapi: Cinchapi is a technology startup that offers real time intelligence for business critical data generated by humans, machines and devices.
Michael Koehler
President & CEO of Teradata
Michael Koehler is the President, Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors at Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) since September 2007. Michael led the successful spin-off from NCR Corporation in 2007 and has since led Teradata to a continuing record of strong financial performance and technological innovation. Michael began his career with NCR Corporation in 1975, and held a number of leadership positions that contributed to Teradata’s rapid growth as NCR’s data warehousing business. Before heading Teradata as Senior Vice President in 2003, Michael was Vice President of Teradata’s Global Field Operations, where he developed a world-class sales force and professional services organization. Before the Teradata Division was formed in January 2000, Michael was Vice President of NCR’s Americas Retail Division and Vice President of NCR’s Worldwide Retail Industry Marketing group where he was responsible for driving enterprise data warehousing into the retail market, where much of Teradata’s early success originated. Michael currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at Hertz Global Holdings, Inc., and its subsidiary, Hertz Corporation. Michael holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Delaware.
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About Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Corey Pierson
Co-Founder & CEO of Custora
Corey Pierson is the co-founder of Custora, a predictive marketing analytics platform for online retailers based in New York City. Prior to Custora, Corey earned an MBA from Wharton and worked as a business designer at IDEO. He’s also a huge Philly sports fan and an amateur Vitamix chef.
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About Custora: Custora is the leader in advanced customer analytics for the retail industry.
Quimby Melton
Co-Founder & CEO of Confection.io
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About Confection.io: Privacy-First Data Generator
Stephen Russell
CEO & Founder of Prism Skylabs
Steve Russell is a Silicon Valley veteran with 15 years of experience in building and managing disruptive content networking, video search, and video intelligence technology companies. Steve is CEO and Founder of Prism Skylabs, the global leader in visually understanding and optimizing offline commerce. Its unique cloud service transforms any video camera into a visual merchandising, auditing, and business intelligence tool that can be accessed from any device. Prior to Prism Skylabs, Steve served as the CEO and Chairman of 3VR, the world’s leading video intelligence company, which he founded in 2002. In less than 10 years, Steve took 3VR from a small group of engineers working in his basement to an industry leader serving global customers including Wells Fargo, T-Mobile, GAP, Hilton, and many more of the world’s leading brands. Before 3VR, Steve was VP and GM of the Content Networking group at Internet search giant Inktomi. In 2000, Inktomi Acquired eScene Networks, a consumer video management platform company he founded. In addition, he also served as managing partner at USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) and President of a pioneering Silicon Valley ISP. Steve is an early investor and advisor to a number of companies across the video intelligence, social media and analytics spaces, including StumbleUpon, LongTail Video, MesmoTV, Qumu, OpenDNS and UberCab, among others. He also sits on the Board of the Center for Secure Information Technologies and is an active speaker and writer, posting frequently on his blog, InHardFocus.com, which explores the many intersections of technology and society. Steve holds 11 patents and was named #8 in the American Venture’s Top 40 under 40™ list. He Studied Economics and Computer Science at Stanford University, where he graduated with honors and distinction and was the recipient of the university’s Anna Laura Meyers prize for outstanding research.
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About InHardFocus.com, Prism Insights Fund, Prism Skylabs: Prism is a cloud-based video intelligence platform that transforms video cameras into powerful business tools.
Josh James
CEO/Founder of Domo
Joshua G. James is the founder and CEO of Domo, a software-as-a-service company he launched to fix the fundamental problems he saw in the traditional business intelligence market. Before founding Domo, he was the CEO of web analytics firm Omniture, Inc., which he co-founded in 1996 and took public in 2006; and from 2006-2009, he was the youngest CEO running a publicly traded company. Omniture was the number one returning venture investment out of 1,008 venture capital investments in 2004, as well as the number two performing technology IPO of 2006.Omniture was also the fastest or second fastest-growing public company for three consecutive years. Josh later facilitated Adobe’s $1.8B acquisition of Omniture in October 2009. Josh was named 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Brigham Young University’s Technology Entrepreneur of the Decade, and was also recognized by FORTUNE magazine as one of its “40 Under 40″ top business executives in 2009 and named #1 in “40 Under 40: Ones to Watch” in 2011. He serves as a member of the Young Global Leader community with the World Economic Forum. Josh is on the boards of Demand Media, a NYSE-traded company; Rakuten, one of the leading e-commerce companies in Japan; and Save The Children. Josh attended Brigham Young University.
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About CEO.Com, Domo: Domo designs and delivers an executive management platform as a service to help executives manage their business.
Shion Deysarkar
CEO & Founder of Datafiniti
Shion Deysarkar is the CEO and founder of [Datafiniti](https://www.datafiniti.net). Prior to Datafiniti, Shion was CEO of [80legs](http://www.80legs.com), where he managed business and product development. Before joining 80legs, he founded a predictive software firm called EXC. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from CMU and a MBA from Rice.
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About Blue Squad, Datafiniti: Datafiniti is a data company that provides businesses with a wide variety of information on retail products, properties, and companies.
Thiago Costa
Co-Founder & CEO of Toric
Thiago da Costa is the Co-Founder & CEO at Toric
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About Stealth Startup, Toric: Toric is a data-platform that enables anyone to integrate, transform, model and visualize data, without writing code.
Christina Apatow
CEO/Co-Founder of FetchyFox
Christina is obsessed with building the future and solving complex problems. She speaks on AI, digital transformation, customer experience, and human centered design. Christina is elected to the Airport Council International Steering Group for Marketing and Customer Experience. Prior to FetchyFox, Christina was VP Client Solutions for API.AI/DialogFlow (exit Google 2016) where she helped build the successful AI company. Christina led BD, sales and served as the main technical point of contact for the company from their launch in September 2014. Christina also worked at Lockheed Martin in Ballistic Missile Defense, Satellite Systems and VR. She has a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and is deeply passionate about painting, and Jiu Jitsu.
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About Airports Council International – Aci World, FetchyFox: The Digital Marketplace and AI Intelligence Platform for public spaces, like airports.
Pankaj Chowdhry
Chief Executive Officer of FortressIQ
Pankaj passionately believes in AI’s ability to improve the human experience, and looks forward to a world bereft of mundane tasks, where people get to focus on being their best selves. Before founding FortressIQ, he was the CEO of ThirdPillar systems, where he designed and delivered lending platforms for commercial banks, processing billions of dollars in transactions. ThirdPillar was acquired by Genpact, the world’s largest BPO company, where Pankaj went on to hold serveral senior management positions, culminating as a founding member of the company’s AI lab in Palo Alto, California.
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About FortressIQ: FortressIQ defines security, insights, and governance in enterprise business automation and AI.
Gabriel Aronovich
Co-Founder,CEO of ALTSPACE
Gabriel Aronovich is Co-Founder and CEO at ALTSPACE.
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About 2G Realty, ALTSPACE: AltSpace is a better co-working experience. We help businesses collaborate and grow. Come join us.
Parsa Rohani
Chief Executive Officer, Founder of Neudesic
As the leader of the executive team, Parsa is responsible for the vision, direction and investment decisions of the company. Parsa’s vast experience with Microsoft solutions and products, coupled with his design, deployment and implementation skills, gives Neudesic the agility and strength necessary to succeed. Prior to co-founding Neudesic, Parsa worked at Microsoft for ten years as an architect within the company’s services division. He provided extensive and in-depth technical direction to Microsoft’s most strategic partners and customers. He also served in managerial roles and served as the Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Planning for a network storage company. His technical expertise ranges from advanced hardware design and computer vision to the development of coarsely integrated, distributed computing architecture for a variety of applications and industries. Parsa earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. He currently resides in Laguna Beach, Calif.
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About Neudesic, PriceSpider: Neudesic is a Microsoft Gold Certified and Managed Partner with a proven track record of providing reliable, effective solutions based on
Alex Li
CEO of Kubit
20 years of building software products with most recent 10 years in mobile consumer space. Leader, cultivating world-class engineering team from ground up.
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About Kubit: Transparent Product Analytics with No-ETL Integration and Self-Service Optimization
Jalal Nasir
Founder, President and CEO of Pixalate
Jalal Nasir serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Pixalate.
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About Pixalate: Pixalate is an intelligence platform and real-time fraud protection provider to Advertisers and Fortune 500 companies.
Luis Sanz
CEO of Carto
Based in Olapic’s New York headquarters, Sanz serves two roles as Chief Operating Officer and as head of technology and product development. Sanz’s deep technical background fueled the development of Olapic’s proprietary predictive algorithm, Photorank™ that analyzes dozens of different aspects of an image to determine its likelihood to trigger a purchase. Raised in Zaragoza, Spain, Sanz earned a Master’s Degree in electrical engineering from University of Zaragoza, completing a thesis in Active Noise Control using Machine Learning. Sanz also holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York, where he co-founded Olapic in 2010. Prior to founding Olapic, Sanz was a consultant for Accenture, working for aerospace/defense projects in Europe and also worked for Ericsson, responsible for all support teams for the Billing Gateway and Service Provisioning departments across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Sanz and his Olapic co-founders have been recognized by the Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurial Initiative Fund at Columbia Business School and were recipients of the E-cademy Award. Sanz is sought after by media and conferences for his expertise in image recognition and digital imaging technologies.
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About Carto: Carto is a platform that turns spatial data into an efficient delivery route, better behavioral marketing, and strategic store placements.
Tim Harsch
CEO & Co-Founder of Owler
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About Owler: Owler is a business information and insights platform that provides company data and real-time news updates on various companies.
Rob Ashe
CEO of Cognos
Robert Ashe, is the former President and CEO of Cognos Inc., having joined the Company in 1984. He was appointed President in 2002, and CEO in 2004, and held both roles until IBM acquired the company in 2007 for $4.9 billion, IBM’s largest software acquisition to date. From 2010 until 2012, he served as IBM’s General Manager of Business Analytics. Prior to becoming President and CEO of Cognos, Robert held several senior executive roles at the company including Senior Vice President of Application Development Tools, Senior Vice President of Products, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Customer Services, Chief Corporate Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Robert is a director of ServiceSource International, Inc, MSCI Inc., Shopify, and Halogen Software Inc. He has been a Member of Technology Advisory Board of Bridge Growth Partners LLC as well as an advisor to Mistral Venture Partners. He holds Bachelor of Commerce in accounting from University of Ottawa and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.
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About Cognos, IBM: Cognos provides business intelligence and performance management software solutions for organizations.
Cy Scott
CEO & Co-founder of Headset
Cy Scott is the CEO & Co-founder of Headset.
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About Headset: Headset is a data-driven tech company that provides a cannabis market and business intelligence solution for the cannabis industry.
Joseph Noonan
Founder, President & CEO of Revulytics
Joseph Noonan brings a wealth of expertise in guiding software companies to success. Prior to founding V.i. Labs, Joe was most recently senior vice president of worldwide sales, services and business development at Authentica Inc. Before Authentica, Joe served as senior vice president of worldwide sales and services at Eprise Corp., a publicly traded Web content management company, and was instrumental in the successful sale of the company to Divine, Inc. Joseph Noonan was also president and CEO of Upspring Software, a software development tools company, and successfully completed the sale of the company to MKS Systems. Joseph Noonan also spent five years at Wall Data Inc., a highly regarded publicly traded software company. During his tenure at Wall Data, Joseph Noonan managed a sales team that grew sales from 35 million to 150 million and played a major role in the successful acquisition of Wall Data by Net Manage. Joseph Noonan has also held key management positions at both Memorex Telex Corp. and Burroughs Corp.
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About Revulytics, Vee24: Insight into who’s using your software and how they’re using it.
Keith Teare
CEO of SignalRank Corporation
Keith Teare is a Founder and CEO at SignalRank Corporation. Previously he was Executive Chairman at Accelerated Digital Ventures Ltd – A UK based global investment company focused on startups at all stages. He was also previously founder at the Palo Alto incubator, Archimedes Labs. Archimedes was the original incubator for TechCrunch and since 2011 has invested, accelerated or incubated many Silicon valley startups including InFarm, Miles, Quixey; M.dot (sold to GoDaddy); chat.center; Loop Surveys; DownTown and Sunshine. Teare has a track record as a serial entrepreneur with big ideas and has achieved significant returns for investors. History (a) Founding shareholder of Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch (acquired by AOL in Sept 2010) (b) RealNames Corporation, founded in Palo Alto in 1998. Teare was founder and CEO. The company created a multi-lingual naming system, with distinct national namespaces, sitting on top of the DNS. It used natural language keywords, mapped to URIs to allow native language navigation. Teare raised more than $130 million in venture funding and filed for an IPO (led by Morgan Stanley, with Mary Meeker as lead analyst) in 1999. After negotiating a world-wide agreement to include RealNames in the Microsoft browser in early 2000, the company had an implied valuation of more than $1.5 billion. By 2002, it was responsible for over 1 billion keyword navigations per quarter. It had agreements in Japan, China and Korea, and was responsible for supporting the nascent multi-lingual DNS system run by Verisign. (c)The EasyNet Group: Founded in 1994 as one of the first ISP’s in Europe, Teare was CTO and co-founder. It went public on the AIM exchange in London in 1996 and was trading at a valuation of more than $1 billion by 1999. In 2007, it was acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s B Sky B, where Teare’s co-founder, David Rowe is still CEO of the division. In 2010, via management buyout, it is once again an independent company. (d) Co-founder of edgeio corporation in 2005 (acquired by Looksmart in 2007) (e)Seed funder of NetNames (Acquired by NetBenefit in 2001), (f)Founder of Clerkswell (formerly cScape), a leading UK systems integrator (acquired by NetB2B2 in 2001). (g) Co-founder of CYBERIA, the world’s first Internet Cafe (h) Founding board member of fotopedia, a company founded by Jean-Marie Hullot, former CTO of Apple’s applications division. Teare studied for his BA and unfinished PhD at the University of Kent in the UK. He is on the university’s US alumni board. He is also a Smithsonian-Computerworld Laureate for his contribution of RealNames. RealNames remains part of the Smithsonian permanent collection. Teare is the author of “The Easy Net Book”, published by International Tompson in 1996; and “Under Siege”, published by Penguin in 1988. He writes regularly for TechCrunch and published ‘That Was The Week’ newsletter (https://thatwastheweek.com).
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About Archimedes Labs, Infarm, SignalRank Corporation: SignalRank is a FinTech that allocates capital to seed stage managers leveraging data analytics
Eduardo Toloza
CEO & Founder of SatisFactor
Entrepreneur, CEO / CIO /CTO – Project/IT Manager – Full Stack Web Developer.. Ambassador at MIT Professional Education
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About SatisFactor: SatisFactor is a tool in spanish to measure the loyalty of a customer to a company. We offer surveys via Web & Email.
Peter Bailis
Founder and CEO of Sisu
Peter Bailis is the founder and CEO of Sisu Data, a data analytics platform that helps users understand the key drivers behind critical business metrics in real time. Peter is also an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he coleads Stanford DAWN, a research project focused on making it dramatically easier to build machine learning-enabled applications. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, for which he was awarded the ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award, and an AB from Harvard College in 2011, both in computer science.
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About Sisu: Sisu is a decision intelligence engine that delivers insights and monitors metrics for businesses to make the right business decisions.
Pat Patel
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of Intelliswift Software
Pat Patel founded Intelliswift Software in 2001, since which he has been serving as its president and chief executive officer.
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About Intelliswift Software: Intelliswift Software provides information technology services and solutions.
Roman Stanek
Founder & CEO of GoodData
Roman Stanek is the Founder and CEO of GoodData. Roman Stanek is a passionate entrepreneur and industry thought leader with over 20 years of high-tech experience. His latest venture, GoodData, was founded in 2007 with the mission to disrupt the business intelligence space and monetize big data. Prior to GoodData, Roman was Founder and CEO of NetBeans, the leading Java development environment (acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999) and Systinet, a leading SOA governance platform (acquired by Mercury Interactive, later Hewlett Packard, in 2006).
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About GoodData: GoodData is an analytics company that provides access to business reporting, dashboards, and ad hoc analytics to customers.
Jonah Lopin
Co-Founder & CEO of Crayon
Jonah Lopin is the CEO and co-founder of Crayon. Prior to Crayon, Jonah was VP Customer Success at HubSpot, joining as an early employee and scaling the team over six years to thousands of customers and hundreds of employees. Jonah has also built and launched social and mobile apps and served as a consultant in the Strategy & Operations group at Deloitte Consulting. Jonah has lived and worked in China, where he focused on entrepreneurship and non-profits. He holds a BA from Cornell and an MBA from MIT Sloan.
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About Crayon, FriendFlair, Tapbooty: Crayon is an intelligence platform that helps businesses track, analyze, and act based on market movements.
Rahil Sondhi
Founder/CEO of PopSQL
Rahil Sondhi is the founder and CEO of PopSQL. Prior to this, Rahil spent more than four years with Instacart as a tech lead and as a senior software engineer. Rahil Sondhi holds a degree in Marketing Management from the University of Toronto at Scarborough.
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About PopSQL: PopSQL is a modern, collaborative SQL editor for teams.
Osama Elkady
Co-Founder and CEO of Incorta
Osama has more than 25 years of enterprise software experience. Prior to co-founding Incorta, he was Vice President of Oracle Applications Development. For two decades Osama developed and helped bring to market Oracle’s enterprise applications and business intelligence tools. He holds multiple patents related to data management and has invented new approaches to mobile strategy and information discovery.
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About Incorta: Incorta develops an analytics platform designed to speed up business data ingestion.
Karim Hijazi
Founder & CEO of Prevailion
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About Prevailion: Prevailion is a compromise intelligence company on a mission to discover active compromises in your network and your partners at scale.
Adam Treiser
Founder & CEO of Arjuna Solutions
Adam Treiser is the Lecturer at The Johns Hopkins University.
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About Arjuna Solutions, The Johns Hopkins University: Arjuna Solutions is an advanced technology company based in Washington DC
Enrico Palmerino
CEO and Founder of Botkeeper
Enrico Palmerino is the Founder and CEO at botkeeper. He is also the Founding Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners, Advisor of DealSyte, and Investor at TBT Group, Inc. Prior to botkeeper, Mr. Palmerino is a former CEO & Board of Directors at ThinkLite LLC and Managing Director at SmartBooks Corp. Enrico graduated from Babson College with a bachelor of science in Quantitative Methods, Strategic Management, and Entrepreneurship,
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About Botkeeper: An intelligent bookkeeping automation platform powered by human-assisted AI, purpose built for accounting professionals.
Nathan Henderson
Chairman & CEO of BILT
Mr. Henderson is the chairman and CEO of BILT Incorporated, a SaaS company he co-founded in 2015. Under his leadership, BILT has grown from an idea to improve assembly instructions to a consumer experience revolution fundamentally changing the way consumers interact with the brands and products they buy. BILT’s 3D interactive Intelligent Instructions® connect users to manufacturers and provide a dramatic increase in positive customer sentiment (NPS) while reducing product return rates and customer support costs. Prior to BILT, he spent 17 years at SAP where he filled various roles to include: consulting project manager, applications consultant, SRM product manager, global lead for partner programs and senior director for business growth initiatives. As the senior director for enterprise mobility, he built mobile applications for some of the world’s greatest companies. He also drove sales and the positioning and packaging of all mobile applications across North America. Mr. Henderson graduated from Brigham Young University with a BS in manufacturing engineering technology and the Thunderbird School of Global Management with an MBA in international business.
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About BILT: BILT is a mobile app that provides 3D interactive intelligent instructions for assembly and installation.
Digvijay Singh Lamba
Founder and CEO of Lore IO
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About Lore IO: Lore IO eliminates ETL and automates the process of unifying data across dozens of disparate systems.
Sravan Vellanki
Chairman & CEO of Accscient
As Chairman and CEO, Sravan Vellanki sets the strategic vision and direction for ACCSCIENT and its portfolio of companies. He also leads the firm’s continued global expansion and investment in high growth technology and services sectors. He brings 25 years of exceptional business and technical management expertise in the areas of business strategy, planning, technology, and team building, in addition to 15 years of Mergers & Acquisition experience to ACCSCIENT.
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About Accscient: An Atlanta, Georgia-based provider of information technology staffing.
Tomas Kratky
Founder & CEO of MANTA
Tomas Kratky is Founder & CEO at Manta Tools
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About Charles University, Czech Technical University in Prague, MANTA, Profinit: MANTA is the central hub of all data flows, allowing information users to understand where, how and what about their information assets.
Andrew Konya
Co-Founder, CEO of Remesh
Andrew is a physicist by training and began a Ph.D. program in Chemical Physics at Kent State University with a focus on theoretical modeling & supercomputing. Through his research, Andrew became interested in artificial intelligence and has spent the past eight years applying AI and machine learning algorithms to a wide range of problems from material science and bio-sensing to peacekeeping with the United Nations. In 2014 he co-founded Remesh with the goal of using AI to turn a live audience into a conversational representative intelligence.
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About Remesh: Remesh offers an AI-powered platform that enables users to have live conversations with their customers at scale.
Connor Tomkies
CEO of SupportNinja
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About SupportNinja: SupportNinja is an outsourcing solutions for the worlds leading startups.
Joel Beal
Co-Founder and CEO of Alloy
Joel Beal is the CEO and founder of Alloy.
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About Alloy: Alloy equips consumer goods brands to adapt quickly to change by aligning execution and planning to real-time consumer demand.
Ossie Cohen
CEO of PICKL
Ossie is the Co-founder & CEO of PICKL, which he started by teaching himself how to build a prototype after winning 16 awards servicing many #1 CPG Brands in the Natural Products Sector. He feels it’s important to be part of something greater than oneself, and realize all components support each other, whether working autonomously or in participative culture. He believes in doing 1 thing really well. 1 hamburger. 1 Ice cream cone.
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About : Hyper-local human brand insights: On demand data from shoppers.
Quinlan Eddy
CEO & Co-Founder of OneCloud, Inc
Quinlan Eddy began his career in financial and consolidations systems at Citibank as a financial analyst in Singapore where he pioneered the use of Essbase for Citicorp as a corporate standard. He joined Arbor Software in 1994, prior to its IPO and subsequent merger with Hyperion Solutions. In 2004 he founded Star Analytics focused on the Oracle Hyperion product suite. In 2013, Star Analytics exited to IBM and in 2017, Quinlan co-founded OneCloud, an iPaaS technology delivering automation & integration solutions in the BI and EPM space. Quinlan holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Vermont.
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About OneCloud, Inc: OneCloud is an iPaaS technologythat enables integration, data transformation, and automation of applications and processes.
Hersh Tapadia
Co-Founder & CEO of Allstacks
Co-Founder and CEO at Allstacks
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About Allstacks, Ravioli Labs: Allstacks is a Value Stream Intelligence platform for software organizations.
Maneesh Sagar
Chairman & CEO of RS Metrics
Serial Entrepreneur, Purpose Driven VC, Advisor, and Coach. VC @ Connecticut Innovations / Global Tech Banker @ Elara Capital. Founder of Thynk Ventures, Columbia & NYC early stage VC, investing in AI, IoT, Machine Learning, and Process Automation. Co-Founder NeuVis (acq by IBM Rational) where I raised over $80 million and grew the company to over 350 employees. At Huntington House, I created the first online #sustainable development marketplace. At MondoWindow, I setup the worlds first browser based moving map #IFE company, and at Sirl.io, we are making retail searchable. Investing experience includes Managing Director at Connecticut Innovations, where I invested in Mobile, Enterprise Software, Marketing Automation, and IOT. Investments and Board advisory roles include BrainScape, CircleHealth Link, Fandistro, Generate, Kaptur, and JumpDrive. CT Innovations investments include Frevvo, Keisense (acq by Nuance), NetKey (acq by NCR), ROI (acq by Revionics), ShopText (acq by Anomaly), and SmartEquip. Other exits – Premise (acq by Eclipsys) and SilverSky (acq by BAE Systems). Also on the BOA of HigherOne (NYSE:ONE) which was a 150X return. I have also undertaken a number of non-profit leadership roles, and as an active alumnus of Columbia Business School, have helped over 1000 students and alumni to succeed in startup and investing roles and furthered the goals of the school to expand and deepen relationships with top employers in India, Silicon Valley and NYC. I am a Founding Career Coach at CBS, where I teach classes on startups, Venture Capital, conduct industry panels, advise students and alumni one-on-one, and leads global trips. I also advise the Lang Entrepreneurial Center, W. Edward Deming Center and judge the Columbia Venture Competition. I’m a Charter Member of TIE Silicon Valley & New York, Columbia Venture Community, Columbia Lion Labs, and Yale Entrepreneurial Society and a mentor to the New Museum Incubator.
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About Columbia University in the City of New York, Elara Capital, RS Metrics, Thynk Ventures: RS Metrics is the market-leading company for satellite imagery and geospatial analytics for businesses and investors
Tom Aley
CEO & Co-Founder of Aidentified
Tom has spent his career being a founder of several startups, a corporate venture investor for an $8 billion media company, a public company executive, and an active board member for 11 companies. He has been involved in the funding and exiting of over 20 startups to corporations including IBM, SAP, News Corp, Informatica, Akamai, and Dun & Bradstreet. Tom is a founder and Board Member at Position A Partners, an outsourced corporate strategy consulting firm. Prior to this, Tom was the President and CEO of Reach Analytics, as well as a Board Member. Prior to this, Tom was an SVP at Dow Jones/News Corp. Tom came to Dow Jones in 2008 when it acquired Generate, a software/analytics company he founded in 2004 and was its President and CEO. Prior to that, Tom was a founding partner at Reed Elsevier Ventures, the investment arm of the $8 billion media company. Tom co-lead investments in early stage technology companies including Siperian (exited to Informatica), Inxight Software (exited to SAP), Netli (exited to Akamai), Nextpage (exited to FAST) and iPhrase Technologies (exited to IBM). Tom is an active investor and also sits on the Board of Directors of Weather Analytics, Airfusion, and Acustream. He was also an investor and on the Board of Directors of Netprospex, which was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet.
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About Aidentified: Aidentified identifies wealth events across millions of executives and surfaces these insights through the M2 Platform in real time.
