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 Information Technology 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.
Sherri Douville
Chief Executive Officer of Medigram
Sherri Douville is CEO & Board Member at Medigram and is a sought-after speaker and author in mobile medical technology, other healthcare related industries, leadership, risk management, mobile security, and governance. Ms. Douville is honored to strategically build, grow, and lead multi-disciplinary, multi industry teams at Medigram and in the market to solve the leading cause of preventable death –a delay in information. Ms. Douville is co-chair of the technical trust and identity standard subgroup for the healthcare industry for clinical IoT through IEEE and UL and has been published and quoted in both mainstream and industry media such as CIO.com, the San Jose Mercury News, NBC, Becker’s Hospital Review, ThisWeekinHealthIT and HITInfrastructure.com. Other industry leadership has included serving on the board of the NorCal HIMSS and teaching continuing education credit in mobile security for CISSP, the information security certification. She is co-author for a number of technical articles and papers, a forthcoming Springer book chapter on Engineering Trust in Clinical IoT and is the lead author and editor for the #1 hottest new release in medical technology and medical informatics on Amazon, and the #1 BookAuthority ebook in the world for healthcare in 2021, Mobile Medicine: Overcoming People, Culture, and Governance (Taylor & Francis). Ms. Douville led the development of this industry guide to mobile computing in medicine and built the international, multi industry, multi disciplinary team behind it. Prior to her current work in the mobile medicine, privacy, security, health IT and AI industries, Sherri worked in the medical device space consulting in the areas of physician acceptance and economic feasibility for medical devices. Prior to that, she worked for over a decade with products addressing over a dozen disease states at Johnson & Johnson and was recognized for industry thought leadership there by McGraw-Hill and won a number of awards. Ms. Douville has a Bachelor of Combined Science degree from Santa Clara University and has completed certificates in electrical engineering, computer science, AI and ML through MIT. She advises and serves startups, boards, and organizations including as a member of the Board of Fellows for Santa Clara University and an advisor to the Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business Corporate Board Education initiatives, the Black Corporate Board Readiness Program, LatinX Corporate Board Readiness Program and an advisory board member to the Women’s Corporate Board Readiness Program.
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About Digital Directors Network, Medigram, Taylor & Francis Group: Medigram provides instant insight to save lives and make hospitals millions on iOS, Android, & the web. It is a full stack system.
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Neha Singh
Co-Founder & CEO of Tracxn
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About Tracxn: The largest data platform of Startups
Immad Akhund
CEO & Founder of Mercury Technologies
Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury.
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About Mercury Technologies: Mercury is the banking stack for startups.* FDIC-insured accounts, debit cards, currency exchange, APIs, 3rd party integrations & more.
Terry McGinnis
Chief Executive Officer of Online Shop
Terry McGinnis originally born in Lithuania to an American father and Lithuanian mother is a British-American entrepreneur best known for being the founder and CEO of British-based Online Shop, as well as being co-founder of Miami and Los Angeles based venture capital and asset management company, Veriaty.
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About Beyonk, Online Shop: Online Shop offers the recent and innovative items at the most competitive rates from UK and EU-based sellers.
David Moss
Co-Founder and CEO of StrongBlock
David Moss is a blockchain expert, keynote speaker and strategic advisor. He has the distinction of holding two prominent roles in the creation of EOS, the decentralized blockchain operating system: as SVP of Technology Operations at Block.One leading EOS technology development; and directing the EOS mainnet launch with the worldwide Block Producer community. Previously David was the founder of a technology and management consultancy for Fortune 100 companies, the founder of a predictive crowd analytics platform, the founding CIO of Edmunds.com, and President of an entertainment production company working with top international artists for major label and television networks.
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About StrongBlock: StrongBlock is a team of highly experienced blockchain, governance, security, and database technology experts.
Richard Socher
CEO of you.com
Richard Socher is the CEO and Founder of you.com.
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About you.com: You.com is a search engine that helps users find what they’re looking for by prioritizing real results.
Dhruvil Sanghvi
Chief Executive Officer of LogiNext
Dhruvil is one of the co-founders LogiNext. He has worked with elite organizations like Deloitte,Ernst & Young and Tata Group and studies at Carnegie Mellon and Nirma University.
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About LogiNext: Enterprise SaaS for Home Delivery and Transportation Businesses to Automate End to End Operational Process
Shlomo Zalman Bregman
Founder & CEO of Alpha Tribe Media
Shlomo Zalman Bregman (born June 27, 1977), is an American rabbi, attorney, media personality, and digital marketing expert. He is the CEO of Alpha Tribe Media and the Founder of the Jewish Executive Learning Network. Also know as “Sam,” he is a regular Commentator on Fox News and Fox News Radio. Today, he is best known for building massive social media followings and communities that accelerate his clients’ influence. Sam has been labeled a “social media star” by outlets such as the Huffington Post and his work has been featured hundreds of times in major media publications such as Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Inc., Fast Company, BuzzFeed, Yahoo, Bloomberg Radio, Reader’s Digest, MSN, Medium, and by American Express, Microsoft, the United States Air Force Academy, and on some of the top-ranked Entrepreneur and Business podcasts in iTunes.
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About Alpha Tribe Media: A full-service digital agency specializing in building massive social media followings & communities that accelerate our clients’ influence.
Eric Yuan
Founder & CEO of Zoom
Eric Yuan founded Zoom in 2011 to deliver happiness and bring teams together in a frictionless video environment. Zoom’s video-first unified communications platform continues to dramatically transform the way leading global enterprises communicate. Under Eric’s leadership, Zoom was one of the highest-performing tech IPOs of 2019. Prior to founding Zoom, Eric was corporate vice president of engineering at Cisco, where he was responsible for Cisco’s collaboration software development. Eric was one of the founding engineers and vice president of engineering at Webex. Between 1997 and 2011, he grew his team from 10 engineers to more than 800 worldwide and contributed to revenue growth from $0 to more than $800M. Eric has been named one of the Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech by Business Insider. In 2018, he was named the #1 CEO of a large US company by Glassdoor and EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California (software category). In 2019, he was added to the Bloomberg 50 as a leader who changed the game in global business. Eric is a named inventor on 11 issued and 20 pending patents in real-time collaboration.
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About Zoom: Zoom is a software company that offers a communications platform that connects people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing.
Steven Galanis
Co-Founder & CEO of Cameo
Steven Galanis is the CEO of Cameo, the world’s leading marketplace for personalized video shoutouts. He launched the company in 2016 with co-founders Martin Blencowe & Devon Townsend after seeing a personalized video message taped by a prominent NFL player congratulating a friend on the birth of his son. To date the company has sold over 75,000 Cameos and seen over 4,500 athletes, actors, and influencers join the platform. He was named to Chicago Inno’s 2018 “50 on Fire” list. He is LinkedIn alum who previously worked as a trader on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and founder of two film investment companies where he produced movies featuring stars such as Bruce Willis and Robert De Niro. Outside of work he is an avid Chicago sports fan and serves on the Board of Directors for Habitat for Humanity Chicago. Steven is a 2010 graduate of Duke University where he majored in History.
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About Cameo: Cameo is a marketplace where fans can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people.
Ryan Rzepecki
founder and CEO of Social Bicycles
Ryan Rzepecki was the founder and CEO of NYC-based JUMP Bikes (acquired by Uber in 2018), focused on developing innovative solutions for urban transportation. Early in his career, Rzepecki worked as a planner in the bikes division of New York City’s Department of Transportation. During that time, he worked extensively to bring bike facilities to more New Yorkers. It was this experience that led him to design a high-tech bike share model that he entered in the Copenhagen Design Competition. By 2010, he founded the company under its original name Social Bicycles, and set out to realize his vision of using bicycles as a smarter, cleaner, and more fun mode of urban transportation. His company pioneered “smart bike” technology, allowing bike share to go dockless and become more accessible and convenient for riders. In 2013, Rzepecki was named one of the 100 Coolest People in Tech by Business Insider and one of the Top 100 City Innovators Worldwide by UBM’s Future Cities. He received his master’s degree in urban planning from Hunter College of the City University of New York and his bachelor’s degree in marketing and international business from Pennsylvania State University.
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About Social Bicycles: Social Bicycles provides a scalable bikeshare technology.
Paul Black
CEO of Allscripts
Paul Black serves as Allscripts Chief Executive Officer. Paul was appointed CEO in December 2012 after having served on Allscripts Board of Directors for eight months. As Chief Executive Officer, Paul leads the direction of the company and its global commitment to delivering an Open, Connected Community of HealthTM.
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About Allscripts: Allscripts provides healthcare information technology solutions.
Kishore Ganji
Founder and CEO of Astir It Solutions Inc
Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures.
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About Addepar, Astir Analytics, Astir It Solutions Inc, Astir Ventures, Hyderabad Angels, Sysnet Technologies: Astir is an information technology company that assists businesses with all of their technology needs to help them gain productivity.
Ajay Banga
President & CEO of Mastercard
Ajay Banga is president and chief executive officer of MasterCard and a member of its board of directors. Banga is a member of President Obama’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. He is chairman of the U.S.-India Business Council and a member of the U.S.-India CEO Forum. He is a fellow of the Foreign Policy Association and was awarded the Foreign Policy Association Medal in 2012. Banga serves on the Executive Committee of the Business Roundtable, and is vice chair of the Financial Services Roundtable as well as the Business Council. He is a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Economic Club of New York. He serves on the board of overseers of the Weill Cornell Medical College and on the board of governors of the American Red Cross, the New York City Ballet, and the Partnership for New York City. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Moscow School of Management (Skolkovo). Banga is a past director of Kraft Foods and has also served on the board of trustees of the Asia Society, the New York Hall of Science, and the National Urban League. Prior to MasterCard, Banga was chief executive officer of Citigroup Asia Pacific. During his career at Citigroup, he held a variety of senior management roles in the United States, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He also oversaw the company’s efforts in microfinance. Banga began his career at Nestlé, India, where for 13 years he worked on assignments spanning sales, marketing and general management. He also spent two years with PepsiCo, where he was instrumental in launching its fast food franchises in India as the economy liberalized. He is a graduate of Delhi University and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
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About Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Michael Miebach
CPO & Chief Executive Officer of Mastercard
Michael Miebach is chief product officer for MasterCard. In this role, he leads the development, commercialization and management of the company’s global core products offerings, which include consumer credit and debit, commercial, prepaid and loyalty solutions. Miebach is also a member of the company’s Management Committee. Prior to assuming this role in January 2016, Miebach was president of the company’s Middle East and Africa region, focused on driving the evolution of payments and delivering increased value to MasterCard stakeholders. He joined MasterCard in 2010 from Barclays Bank PLC, where he was the managing director for Middle East and North Africa, responsible for the bank’s corporate, commercial and consumer business in the region. He also served as managing director for Barclays Africa. Prior to Barclays, Miebach held several senior-level positions over 13 years at Citibank in Germany, Austria, UK and Turkey. His experience spanned cards and consumer finance, corporate and investment banking, operations and financial control. He is a member of the Accion board of directors, providing insight and guidance to the organization as it works to support the two billion adults across the world lacking access to formal financial services. Miebach also is a member of the G-20Y Association Advisory Board. Miebach holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Passau in Germany.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Lars Albright
Executive Vice President data and services, Global merchant loyalty ( CEO Session M) of Mastercard
Lars is a proven entrepreneur with extensive experience in the mobile and digital media industries and currently working as Executive Vice president in mastercard.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Leemon Baird
Founder & CEO of Swirlds
Leemon is the inventor of the hashgraph distributed consensus algorithm, and is the Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Hedera. With over 20 years of technology and startup experience, he has held positions as a Professor of Computer Science at the US Air Force Academy and as a senior scientist in several labs. He has been the Co-Founder of several startups, including two identity-related startups, both of which were acquired. Leemon received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and has multiple patents and publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in computer security, machine learning, and mathematics.
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About Hedera Hashgraph, Swirlds: Swirlds enables developers to build applications that rapidly achieve consensus, resulting in fair.
Jiajun Zhu
Co-Founder and CEO of Nuro
Jiajun Zhu is a co-founder of Nuro. he used to be the principal software engineer of Google. He eraned his master’s degree ta University of Virginia and his bachelor’s degree at Fudan University.
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About Nuro: Nuro develops and operates a fleet of electric self-driving vehicles that are built to deliver assorted local goods.
Avishai Abrahami
Co-Founder & CEO of Wix
Avishai Abrahami is our Co-Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2010 and was our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director since October 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Avishai was the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Arel Communications & Software Ltd., a private Israeli company specializing in communication technology. In 1998 he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a private company which develops software for managing data centers, and he served as its Chief Technology Officer from 1998 until 2000 and its Vice President of Product Marketing from 2000 until 2003. In 1993, he co-founded AIT Ltd., a private Israeli software company, and served as its Chief Technology Officer until the company’s sale in 1997. Avishai served in the Israeli Defense Forces’ elite computer intelligence unit from 1990 until 1992.
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About Utsav Kraft, Wix: Wix provides a platform for the development of cloud data services for millions of registered users worldwide.
Arie Trouw
CEO & CTO & Founder of XYO
Ten years before Elon Musk wrote his first line of computer code, another young prodigy from South Africa was busy writing software on his TRS-80 Model I. In 1978, at the age of 10, Arie Trouw started developing software on the TRS-80 Model I, moving on to Atari, Apple, and PC. He then ran a series of bulletin boards centering on game-theory modification. Arie is an accomplished serial entrepreneur with a rich history of technological breakthroughs and business successes involving multiple 8-figure exit events. He is a strong believer in decentralization and the creation of the integrated owner/user model. Arie founded XY in 2012 (incorporated as Ength Degree, LLC before it was converted to a C Corporation in 2016). He currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Prior to starting XY-The Findables Company, Arie was CEO and Chairman of Pike Holdings Inc and Chief Technology Officer of Tight Line Technologies LLC. He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the New York Institute of Technology. Fun Fact: He is a member of one of the first Afrikaans speaking families to emigrate to the US from South Africa in 1976.
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About XY Labs, XY – The Persistent Company, XYO: XYO is a decentralized crypto-location oracle network aiming to provide accurate location data from cars to smartphones.
Robert Nishihara
Co-Founder and CEO of Anyscale
Robert Nishihara is a fourth-year PhD student working in the UC Berkeley RISELab with Michael Jordan. He works on machine learning, optimization, and artificial intelligence.
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About Anyscale, UC Berkeley College of Engineering: Anyscale accelerates the development and productionization of any AI app, on any cloud, at any scale — with Ray.
Andrew McCollum
CEO of Philo
In 2014, Andrew McCollum became CEO at Philo, an entertainment-focused OTT streaming service that launched nationwide in November 2017. Before assuming the role of CEO, Andrew served on Philo’s board, mentored Philo’s co-founders, and was one of the company’s first investors. Prior to Philo, Andrew was on the founding team of Facebook, and the social design of products has been a persistent interest. After Facebook, Andrew was an Entrepreneur in Residence at two of Philo’s investors, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Flybridge Partners. He continues to be an active early-stage angel investor and advisor.
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About Philo: Philo offers an entertainment-focused streaming service nationwide.
Joshua Motta
Co-Founder & CEO of Coalition
Joshua Motta is the CEO and co-founder of Coalition.
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About Coalition: Coalition operates as a cyber insurance and security company that helps businesses manage and mitigate cyber risks.
Zack Kanter
Founder & CEO of Stedi
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About Stedi: A platform of developer-focused building blocks for business integrations.
Miriam Rivera
CEO, Co-Founder & Managing Director of Ulu Ventures
Miriam co-founded Ulu Ventures, where she is the Managing Partner. Ulu is an early stage angel fund focused on IT investments and has made 30 investments in the last three years. She is also the co-founder and co-president of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs.
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About Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs, Ulu Ventures: Ulu Ventures provides early-stage investments to enterprise cloud and smart data companies.
David Friend
Co-founder, President & CEO of Wasabi Technologies
David Friend is the co-founder and CEO of Wasabi, a revolutionary cloud storage company. David’s first company, ARP Instruments developed synthesizers used by Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin and even helped Steven Spielberg communicate with aliens providing that legendary five-note communication in Close Encounters of the ThirdKind. Friend founded or co-founded five other companies: Computer Pictures Corporation – an early player in computer graphics, Pilot Software – a company that pioneered multidimensional databases for crunching large amounts of customer data, Faxnet – which became the world’s largest provider of fax-to-email services, Sonexis – a VoIP conferencing company, and immediately prior to Wasabi, what is now one of the world’s leading cloud backup companies, Carbonite. David is a respected philanthropist and is on the board of Berklee College of Music, where there is a concert hall named in his honor, serves as president of the board of Boston Baroque, an orchestra and chorus that has received 7 Grammy nominations. An avid mineral and gem collector he donated Friend Gem and Mineral Hall at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. David graduated from Yale and attended the Princeton University Graduate School of Engineering where he was a David Sarnoff Fellow.
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About Wasabi Technologies: Wasabi is a hot cloud storage company delivering cost effective and secure cloud storage solutions.
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.
Arthur F. Muldoon
CEO & Co-Founder of ArcSpan Technologies
Arthur Muldoon is CEO and Co-founder of ArcSpan Technologies. Previously, he was co-CEO of Amnet US and the CEO and Co-founder of Accordant Media, a leading technology-driven programmatic media specialist company. Accordant Media was acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network in 2016. Over the past 20 years, Art has carved out a digital media career launching innovative solutions to help marketers achieve better audience engagement. Earlier, Art was SVP, Global Data Platforms at Aegis Media; SVP of Client Services and Analytics at BzzAgent; and General Manager, Client Services, Avenue A | Razorfish. Art also led the launch of an e-commerce business at Corbis Images in Seattle and was a corporate strategy consultant in the Media, Entertainment and Telecoms group at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Los Angeles. Earlier, Art was a Corporate Finance Analyst at Lehman Brothers in NYC, focused on high tech. Art holds a BA from Trinity College (CT) and an MBA from the Kellogg School, Northwestern University. He resides in New York City with his wife and two young daughters.
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About ArcSpan Technologies: ArcSpan Technologies is a B2B audience data technology company building an enterprise-class addressable audience data monetization platform.
Omri Lavie
CEO of Orchestra Group
Omri Lavie is a Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor, focused on technology.
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About CommuniTake Technologies, Founders Group, Kaymera, Orchestra Group: Orchestra have created a broad cyber security platform by acquiring a variety of cyber companies and rolling them up into a unified solution
Patrick Nagle
Founder and CEO of Rehab.com
Patrick Nagle is a leading expert on digital strategy and has been featured in major media including Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, CBS News, Forbes, New York Times, and Fox News. Nagle was the first investor and CEO of RateMyProfessors.com, an review site for college students. RateMyProfessors.com was acquired by Viacom’s MTV Networks on January 17, 2007 for an undisclosed sum. In addition to RateMyProfessors.com, Nagle purchased RateMyTeachers.com from California-based Mister Message, LLC on April 2, 2008. RateMyTeachers.com was acquired by an undisclosed private equity group in 2018. At the time of its sale, RateMyTeachers.com reached 20,000,000 annual users. Patrick Nagle is currently the Founder and CEO of Rehab.com, LLC.
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About Rehab.com: Rehab.com connects patients with providers who care.
Jeffrey Markley
founder and CEO of Markley Group
Jeffrey Markley is the founder and chief executive officer of [Markley Group](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/markley-group#/entity). Throughout his career, Markley has completed over 500 real estate transactions for major national and international mission-critical clients as well as appeared in over 50 major publications. He has also been cited many times in the [Wall Street Journal](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wall-street-journal#/entity) as the leading real estate developer in the telecommunications and datacenter industries. Markley has studied at the [University of Georgia](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-georgia-2#/entity). He lives in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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About Markley Group: New England’s largest and longest operating multi-tenant, mission-critical telecommunications and data center facility.
John Van Siclen
CEO of Dynatrace
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About Dynatrace, NetMechanic: Software intelligence to help DevSecOps teams across every industry tame cloud complexity and accelerate digital transformation
Daniel Demetri
Founder & CEO of Trellis Technologies
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About Trellis Technologies: P&C insurance data services
Dylan Macalinao
co-founder and CEO of Saber Labs
Dylan Macalinao is the Founder and CEO at Saber Labs.
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About Pipe, Saber Labs: Saber Labs is the cross-chain stablecoin and wrapped assets exchange on Solana.
Pavel Golubev
Chief Executive Officer of Stack (by Appodeal)
Pavel Golubev is the Chief Executive Officer at Appodeal Stack.
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About MaritimeAI, Stack (by Appodeal): Stack is the natural progression of a vision that emerged back in 2014.
Amit Gupta
CEO & Founder of Opensense
Amit spent most of his career in high technology, media, and infrastructure. He co-founded SenderGen in 2013, and spearheaded development on the company’s industry-leading enterprise email signature marketing platform. In 2018, SenderGen became Opensense, where Amit serves as co-founder and CEO. Prior to SenderGen, he co-founded Affle Limited which is a mobile media company with extensive operations in the Asia Pacific. While there, he was responsible for driving new product initiatives and helped to source and complete Microsoft’s strategic investment in Affle. Affle’s flagship product and campaigns later won a top global award by the Mobile Marketing Association. Prior to Affle, Amit worked at Bloomberg New York, and subsequently at Bloomberg London helping to plan and implement major new projects such as “Bloomberg Anywhere” that helped to drive $500M+ in new revenues annually. While there, he also designed and implemented highly scalable system architectures that were used to support millions of users. Systems integration is his specialty. He is a technology enthusiast and likes to get his hands dirty with new projects. He also has spent time at various high technology companies developing virtual reality applications, medical imaging algorithms, neural networks and financial trading systems. Amit holds a B.S. in Computer Science (Honors) from the Johns Hopkins University (USA).
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About Opensense: Everyday email, evolved.
Gerard Williams III
Chief Executive Officer of Nuvia
Gerard Williams III is the CEO of NUVIA. Prior to co-founding NUVIA, he was a Senior Director at Apple and Chief CPU Architect for nearly a decade with responsibilities for a range of leading-edge CPUs and SoCs across a broad array of devices. Before joining Apple, Gerard spent over 10 years at ARM, as an ARM Fellow, and serving on the ARM Architectural Review and Technical Advisory Boards. While at ARM, he served as a technical advisor for the ARM architecture and CPU development to many key ARM partners. Gerard began his career with tenures at Intel and Texas Instruments. He holds 38 patents to date with multiple pending and holds an MSEE from the University of Missouri Rolla and a BSE from Arkansas State University.
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About Nuvia: Nuvia develops processors intended to create high-performance silicon design for a compute-intensive world.
William Brown
President & CEO of L3 Harris Technologies
William Brown, 52, is our Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer. William Brown joined Harris in November 2011 as President and Chief Executive Officer and was appointed Chairman in April 2014. Prior to joining Harris, William Brown was Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development, of United Technologies Corporation (“UTC”). Earlier, he served five years as President of UTC’s Fire & Security Division. In all, William Brown spent 14 years with UTC, holding U.S. and international roles at various divisions, including Carrier Corporation’s Asia Pacific Operations and the Carrier Transicold division. Before joining UTC in 1997, he worked for McKinsey & Company as a senior engagement manager. He began his career as a project engineer at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. William Brown has been a member of our Board since December 2011. William Brown serves on the board of directors of the Fire Department of NYC Foundation and the board of trustees of both the Florida Institute of Technology and Florida Polytechnic University. He is a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and is an appointee of the United States-Brazil CEO Forum.
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About L3 Harris Technologies: L3 Harris is a proven leader in tactical communications, geospatial systems, air traffic management, avionics, and space and intelligence.
Jeffrey Byun
CEO, Co-Founder of BLADE
Jeffrey Byun is the CEO of BLADE – a new cryptocurrency derivatives exchange. Previously, he was the CEO of OrderAhead – a mobile ordering/payments startup that was acquired by Square. Prior to that, Jeffrey was a fixed income trader at Morgan Stanley and BofA Merrill Lynch. Jeffrey is a graduate of MIT and Penn.
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About BLADE: BLADE is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange
Valery Vavilov
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Bitfury Group
Seasoned entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in information technology and business management. Original founding member of BitFury. Assumed the role of BitFury CEO in 2011. Prior to that, held numerous technology and business leadership positions. MS in Computer Science, Riga Transport & Telecommunication University.
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About Bitfury Group: Bitfury is the leading full service bitcoin and blockchain technology company.
Ian Heidt
CEO & Co-founder of Housecall Pro
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About Housecall Pro: Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners.
David Kopp
Chief Executive Officer of Healthline Media
David leads the Healthline Media team. His 25 year career spans publishing, digital advertising, consumer services, and clientside marketing for both big brands (Disney and Yahoo!) as well as more entrepreneurial ventures. David believes that people need better tools, education, and support in order to achieve good health, and he’s confident that Healthline’s purpose-driven team will make the world stronger and healthier. He also talks a lot about sugar: if you want to live a long, healthy life, minimize your sugar intake.
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About Healthline Media: Healthline Media is the 2nd largest and fastest growing consumer health publisher in the world, reaching 85 million people a month.
Andrew Adams
CEO of Headway
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About Headway: Headway is a mental healthcare system provider that helps patients connect with therapists and submit insurance claims online.
Vinayak Ramesh
Co-Founder and CEO of Ikigai Labs
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About Ikigai Labs, Stealth: Ikigai helps analysts and operations teams automate data-intensive business, finance, analytics and supplychain operations within clicks.
Chris Bevilacqua
Co-Founder & CEO of Simplebet
Chris is the Co-Founder of Bevilacqua Helfant Ventures and is a sports, media, and tech investor with investments in companies such as StubHub, ActionX, Viagogo, Lyft, Airbnb, SpaceX, Unscriptd, and ThePostGame. He was previously the Chairman & CEO of CAA Sports Media Ventures, a joint venture between CAA and Evolution Media Capital. Prior to that, he was the Founder of CSTV, which was acquired by CBS in 2006 and is now CBS Sports Network.
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About Simplebet: Simplebet turns every moment of every sporting event into a betting opportunity.
Pepper Rutland
Founder and CEO of MMR Group
Pepper Rutland utilizes his adroit leadership in construction management and technology to oversee some of the most innovative industrial projects in North and South America. He founded MMR Group in order to provide a wide variety of services, including but not limited to electrical construction, instrumentation installation and technical services, power distribution, and communications networking. Pepper Rutland founded the company in 1991 and it has led to massive success ever since, earning numerous nods from Engineering News-Record, one of the most elite publications of the construction industry. In 2017, MMR Group was awarded numerous honors within their industry. Recent awards and special recognition include being named 6th on ENR’s Prestigious Top Specialty Contractors List for the second consecutive year, being recognized as the 7th largest Electrical Contractor in the nation by EC&M Magazine, being given the Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance 2017 Craft Workforce Development Award, and also being named an “Accredited Assessment Center” and “Accredited Training Sponsor” by The National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER). MMR Group has enjoyed having a prestigious reputation within their industry, and these awards only serve to show their great commitment to customer satisfaction and excellence in the field. A believer in giving back to his community, Pepper Rutland supports his alma mater Louisiana State University by advising its construction management program and donating over a million dollars to the school’s engineering program through MMR Group. As a result of his contributions and continued support of the university, Pepper Rutland received an honor from LSU, which named a football stadium gate after his family. Pepper also serves as a board member of one of LSU’s scholarship foundations. Pepper’s donations have allowed LSU to update engineering and computer laboratories throughout the College of Engineering. The donations give students access to more advanced technology, 3-D building simulation and information modeling studios to arm students with the tools necessary to have successful careers in the construction industry. Pepper always looks for ways to help people who need extra support or guidance, and he founded the nonprofit Miracle League at Cypress Mounds to help children with disabilities be able to play baseball. In addition to these successes, Pepper is also a published author, and has penned both a scholarly piece on construction and a book on the changing energy industry. Adding to his successes, some of Pepper’s published pieces include the aforementioned co-authored construction book, “Construction Defaults: Rights, Duties and Liabilities – Role of the Completing Contractor”, which was published in the Wiley Law Library in 1989. Aspatore Books has also published one of Pepper’s pieces; a book called “Refining your Tactics Weathering A Turbulent Economy in the Energy Industry.” Pepper is an avid reader of the Wall Street Journal as well as the New York Times. Today, Pepper Rutland stays connected to his community and his peers at LSU through his blog. Pepper utilizes content marketing to offer information to his readers. Contact Pepper to learn more about his impact on his community, his philanthropic efforts and LSU. In 2017, MMR Group was awarded numerous honors within their industry. Recent awards and special recognition include being named 6th on ENR’s Prestigious Top Specialty Contractors List for the second consecutive year, being recognized as the 7th largest Electrical Contractor in the nation by EC&M Magazine, being given the Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance 2017 Craft Workforce Development Award, and also being named an “Accredited Assessment Center” and “Accredited Training Sponsor” by The National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER). MMR Group has enjoyed having a prestigious reputation within their industry, and these awards only serve to show their great commitment to customer satisfaction and excellence in the field. A believer in giving back to his community, Pepper Rutland supports his alma mater Louisiana State University by advising its construction management program and donating over a million dollars to the school’s engineering program through MMR Group. As a result of his contributions and continued support of the university, Pepper Rutland received an honor from LSU, which named a football stadium gate after his family. Pepper also serves as a board member of one of LSU’s scholarship foundations. Pepper’s donations have allowed LSU to update engineering and computer laboratories throughout the College of Engineering. The donations give students access to more advanced technology, 3-D building simulation and information modeling studios to arm students with the tools necessary to have successful careers in the construction industry. Pepper always looks for ways to help people who need extra support or guidance, and he founded the nonprofit Miracle League at Cypress Mounds to help children with disabilities be able to play baseball. Everyone is always a winner and the founding members of the league believe that just because a child has a disability does not mean that they are not able to do the activities they love. The Miracle League hosts a new league each spring and fall and has seen rapid growth in the number of players as well as the number of volunteers each season. In addition to these successes, Pepper is also a published author, and has penned both a scholarly piece on construction and a book on the changing energy industry. Adding to his successes, some of Pepper’s published pieces include the aforementioned co-authored construction book, “Construction Defaults: Rights, Duties and Liabilities – Role of the Completing Contractor”, which was published in the Wiley Law Library in 1989. Aspatore Books has also published one of Pepper’s pieces; a book called “Refining your Tactics Weathering A Turbulent Economy in the Energy Industry.” Pepper is an avid reader of the Wall Street Journal as well as the New York Times. Today, Pepper Rutland stays connected to his community and his peers at LSU through his blog. Pepper utilizes content marketing to offer information to his readers. Contact Pepper to learn more about his impact on his community, his philanthropic efforts and LSU.
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About Miracle League at Cypress Mounds, MMR Group: A world leader in Electrical & Instrumentation Construction, Maintenance, Management, and Technical Services.
CEO of NEON
Pranav Mistry is an Indian computer scientist and inventor. He is the Global Vice President of Research at [Samsung Research America](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/samsungs-research-and-development-center). Prior to that, he was employed as the vice president of [Samsung Electronics](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/samsung-electronics); a research assistant and PhD candidate at [MIT Media Lab](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mit-media-lab); a visiting researcher at [Japan Science and Technology Agency](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/japan-science-and-technology-agency); a researcher at Microsoft Research, [NASA](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nasa-2), and [Carnegie Mellon University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/carnegie-mellon-university); the Director of India Incubation Team at [Microsoft](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/microsoft); and a research assistant at [Indian Institute of Technology](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/indian-institute-of-technology-bombay). Mistry is best known for his work on SixthSense, Samsung Galaxy Gear, and Project Beyond. His research interests include wearable computing, augmented reality, ubiquitous computing, gestural interaction, machine vision, collective intelligence, and robotics. Mistry obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from Gujarat University. He also holds a master’s degree and PhD in media arts and sciences from [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-mit). He is fluent in Hindi and English. Born on May 14, 1981, Mistry currently lives in San Jose, California.
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About NEON, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Research America: NEON is an Artificial Human technology company that offers realtime interactive conversational services for mobile and web.
Eric DeMarco
President & CEO of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions
Eric DeMarco is President and Chief Executive Officer of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:KTOS). Eric DeMarco joined the Company in November 2003 as President and Chief Operating Officer, and assumed the role of CEO in April 2004. Since joining Kratos, Eric DeMarco has been instrumental in leading the Company’s efforts to grow and build, both organically and through strategic acquisition, a leading Product and Technology Based National Security focused business. Prior to Kratos, Eric DeMarco was the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Titan Corporation, which was later acquired by L-3. Under his leadership, Titan grew from approximately $150 million in annualized revenue to $1.5 billion, with a backlog of over $4 billion. Eric DeMarco efforts were instrumental in creating one of the largest government information technology companies in the United States. Before Titan, Eric DeMarco served in a variety of public accounting positions primarily focusing on large multinational corporations and publicly traded companies. He holds a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration and Finance, summa cum laude, from the University of New Hampshire.
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About Kratos Defense and Security Solutions: Kratos Defense & Security Solutions provides mission critical engineering, IT services, and war fighter solutions.
Brett Granberg
CEO of Vannevar Labs
Brett Granberg is the CEO of Vannevar Labs.
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About Vannevar Labs: Machine learning products for the country’s most critical national security problems
Saket Modi
Founder & CEO of Safe Security
Saket Modi is the Co-founder and CEO of Lucideus, an enterprise cybersecurity platforms company. A computer science engineer by education, he founded Lucideus in 2012 while in his final year of engineering. Incubated from IIT Bombay and backed by Cisco’s former Chairman and CEO John Chambers, Lucideus today protects the digital infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies around the world with its cyber risk measurement and mitigation platform called SAFE. Saket is a part of Fortune Magazine’s 40under40, Entrepreneur Magazine’s 35under35, Forbes Magazine’s 30under30 lists among others. The Government of India awarded him with the title of “Champion of Change” in 2017.
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About : Safe Security is a cyber risk management startup that helps organizations mitigate cyber risk in real-time.
Ken Tarkoff
Chief Executive Officer of Syapse
Ken Tarkoff is a health technology veteran with deep experience in facilitating physician, health system, and health plan relationships. Before joining Syapse, Ken most recently served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager at RelayHealth Intelligence, a data and analytics business owned by McKesson, and as Chief Operating Officer of RelayHealth before the company was acquired. Previously, Ken held leadership positions at Xign Corporation, Questium, and Vivra Specialty Partners. Ken holds an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and a BA from Amherst College. Ken enjoys spending time with his wife and two high-school-age kids, one of whom is currently making her college decisions. He also enjoys watching his son play water polo or going out for a few rounds of golf when he has the time.
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About Syapse: Syapse is a real-world evidence company dedicated to extinguishing the fear and burden of serious disease by advancing real-world care
Caithrin Rintoul
Co-Founder/CEO of Provender
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About Provender: Provender is an online platform that enables farmers to create direct-trade associations with buyers.
David P. Rowland
Interim CEO of Accenture
David Rowland is Accenture’s chief financial officer with responsibility for the company’s Corporate Controllership, Treasury, Tax, Investor Relations, Client Finance and Commercial Directors, Finance Operations, Corporate Development and Transaction Services and Strategic Planning & Analysis functions. Mr. Rowland is a member of Accenture’s Global Management Committee and serves on the board and as Audit Committee chair for Avanade, a joint venture of Accenture and Microsoft. Prior to being named CFO in July 2013, Mr. Rowland served for more than six years as Accenture’s senior vice president—Finance, with responsibility for the company’s Finance Field Operations organization, which includes client finance, country controllership and group finance activities. Earlier in his career with the company, Mr. Rowland held a number of finance leadership positions including managing director—Finance Operations and finance director for Accenture’s two largest operating groups, Communications & High Tech and Products. Mr. Rowland began his career with Accenture in 1983 in the Consulting group and spent several years serving clients across a variety of industries. He has served on a number of management committees and has also played significant leadership roles in a number of company-wide initiatives, including the global implementation of the SAP enterprise software system. Throughout his professional career, Mr. Rowland has served on several civic and charitable boards. He currently serves on the Advisory Board for the College of Management at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Rowland holds a bachelor of science degree in industrial management from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Tomer Kagan
Co-founder & CEO of Merit
Tomer Kagan is the CEO and Co-founder of Merit. Merit’s verified identity platform brings visibility, liquidity, and trust to people-data, giving organizations the clarity to make better-informed decisions, engage with individuals effectively, and pursue their mission efficiently. Merit works with trusted private, state, and municipal organizations to solve critical real-world problems in sectors such as workforce development, emergency services, licensing, education, and defense readiness. Passionate about improving people’s lives using science and technology, Kagan has served on the board of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and worked with the National Science Foundation’s futurist project. He has also spoken at the World Economic Forum, Mobile World Congress, and other premier events, and has been named one of Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30.” He holds a bachelor’s degree in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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About Merit: Merit develops a verified identity platform to help organizations in managing personnel data.
Michael Dell
CEO of Dell
Michael Dell is chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Technologies, an innovator and technology leader providing the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform IT and protect their most important information. With revenues of $94B and 130,000 team members, Dell Technologies is one of the world’s largest IT companies serving the needs of global corporations and governments to small businesses and consumers. The company’s unique structure allows innovative, fast-moving startups to co-exist with, and leverage, the global reach and trusted reputation of the large enterprise. Michael’s story started when he founded Dell Technologies with $1000 in 1984 at the age of 19. Notably quoted as saying that “technology is about enabling human potential,” Michael’s vision of how technology should be designed, manufactured and sold forever changed the IT industry. In 1992, Michael became the youngest CEO ever to earn a ranking on the Fortune 500. Known and admired for his astute business vision and bold moves, Michael took Dell Technologies private in 2013, setting the stage to architect the largest technology deal in history with the combination of Dell, EMC and VMware in 2016 and the subsequent relisting of Dell Technologies on the public markets in 2018. Michael continues to serve as chairman of the VMware board of directors following the spin-off of VMware from Dell Technologies in 2021. In 1998, Michael formed MSD Capital, a private investment firm that exclusively manages the capital for the Dell family. And in 1999, he and his wife, Susan Dell, established the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation to accelerate opportunity for children growing up in urban poverty in the U.S., India and South Africa. Michael is an honorary member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and is an executive committee member of the International Business Council. He is also a member of the Technology CEO Council and the Business Roundtable. He serves on the advisory board of Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing, China and on the governing board of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India. He is a board member of Catalyst and also served as the United Nations Foundation’s first Global Advocate for Entrepreneurship. Michael is also the author of two books, Direct from Dell and Play Nice But Win.
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About Dell, Dell Technologies, Dell Technologies Capital, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, SecureWorks, VMware: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Derek Belch
Co-Founder and CEO of STRIVR
Derek Belch is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of STRIVR.
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About STRIVR: STRIVR is an information technology company that specializes in virtual reality, customer experience, and athlete performance.
Ankur Singla
Founder & CEO of Volterra
Ankur is the founder and CEO of Volterra. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of Contrail Systems, which pioneered telco NFV and SDN technologies and was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2012. Contrail is the most widely deployed networking platform in Tier 1 telco mobile networks (AT&T, DT, Orange, NTT and Reliance JIO), and is used in many SaaS providers’ cloud deployments (Workday, Volkswagen, DirecTV). Prior to Contrail, Ankur was the CTO and VP Engineering at Aruba Networks, a global leader in wireless solutions. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
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About Volterra: Volterra is a distributed cloud services company.
Jake Dunlap
CEO of Skaled Consulting
My passion and continued focus is in building organizations and sales / outreach processes. Over the past 10 years, I have led and developed high performing sales and operations organizations in professional sports, advertising, and SaaS organizations. My mission is to build large scale, flat organizations that do not rely on one person at the top to drive success. In addition, replacing the “blocking and tackling” nature of account management with interesting, new ways to think about continued client engagement. Specialties: Extensive US and International experience working with Global 2000 executives on human resources, brand, marketing, and real time decision making. Building initial client experience, operations, and sales processes/organizational structure for start ups
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About Skaled Consulting, Stage 2 Capital: Skaled is a modern sales-consulting firm that helps startup and established companies scale more efficiently.
Stephen Murphy
CEO of Genesis Global
Stephen graduated with a 1st in BSc Computer Science and has held senior business & “C-level” technology positions for some of the worlds leading investment banks including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, HSBC & BTG Pactual. During his career he has lived in São Paulo, New York, Hong Kong & London. Stephen has managed teams of over 250 people, technology budgets over $100 million and supported business lines with over $500 million of revenue. Stephen also led from a client perspective key multi-million dollar contracts negotiations with major software vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle, SunGard, Murex, Calypso, Charles River and Fidessa.
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About Genesis Global: Genesis Global is a low-code technology platform that helps financial institutions build new applications.
Anthony Tassone
CEO and Founder of Green Key Technologies
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About Green Key Technologies: GreenKey is the voice-driven collaboration platform for financial markets: enhancing compliance and enabling sophisticated data analytics.
Nader Shwayhat
CEO of Green Key Technologies
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About Green Key Technologies: GreenKey is the voice-driven collaboration platform for financial markets: enhancing compliance and enabling sophisticated data analytics.
Jayshree Ullal
President & CEO of Arista Networks
As President and CEO of Arista for over a decade, Jayshree Ullal is responsible for Arista’s business and thought leadership in cloud networking. She led the company to a historic and successful IPO in June 2014 from zero to a multibillion-dollar business. Formerly Jayshree was Senior Vice President at Cisco, responsible for a $10B business in datacenter, switching and services. With more than 30 years of networking experience, she is the recipient of numerous awards including E&Y’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2015, Barron’s “World’s Best CEOs” in 2018 and one of Fortune’s “Top 20 Business persons” in 2019. Jayshree holds a B.S. in Engineering (Electrical) and an M.S. degree in engineering management. She is a recipient of the SFSU and SCU Distinguished Alumni Awards in 2013 and 2016.
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About Arista Networks, StorSimple: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Cory Baldwin
Chief Executive Officer of sensemetrics
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About sensemetrics: sensemetrics is the IIoT company transforming sensor data into real-time business intelligence to enable productivity and safety solutions
Cory Baldwin
Chief Executive Officer of sensemetrics
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About sensemetrics: sensemetrics is the IIoT company transforming sensor data into real-time business intelligence to enable productivity and safety solutions
Tony Velleca
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of CyberProof
Tony is CyberProof’s CEO and is CISO at UST Global. Tony previously co-founded and was CTO at huddle247.com, rated by PC Magazine as one of the top virtual workspace solutions in 2000. He previously worked for Boeing and Rolls-Royce, Inc. focusing on conceptual design and optimized propulsion systems for next generation aircraft. He holds a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from University of California, Irvine.
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About CyberProof, UST: CyberProof is a security services company that intelligently manages your incident detection and response requirements.
Bob Bradley
CEO of NewsBreak
Bob Bradley has spent the last 25 years honing his business development skills and serving as an executive leader in the media, entertainment, and technology industries. He has held both domestic and international positions with well-known organizations, such as Qualcomm, Scripps Networks Interactive, Disney/ABC Broadcast & Cable Networks Group, Landmark Communications, Discovery Networks, and Group W Satellite Communications.
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About Active Media Project, NewsBreak: NewsBreak is a programmatic merchandising platform for the retail industry, specializing in convenience store merchandising
Michael Heltzen
Chief Executive Officer of Cardea Bio
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About Cardea Bio, Nanomed: Cardea is developing a new generation of (bio)technology infrastructure based on proprietary biology-gated transistors.
Herman DeBoard
CEO & Founder of Huvr Inc.
Successful Entrepreneur, built major technology projects working with Sony, Universal, Warner, EMI and more. Products have been distributed in Target, Best Buy, Fry’s Electronics and many more.
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About Huvr Inc.: Huvr is a global virtual marketplace that helps to connect human walkers to virtual travelers to explore the world in real-time.
Kenneth Tuchman
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TTEC
Kenneth D. Tuchman sees the world from the customer’s perspective. In 1982, fed up with the way businesses were operating customer care as a burden and a cost center, he founded TeleTech to transform the way companies deliver the customer experience. With his innate understanding of the power of data and technology to connect customers directly with brands, Tuchman saw the customer experience revolution on the horizon and built a company to lead it. His perspective on the importance of the customer as a strategic asset fuels TeleTech’s culture of technology innovation and operational excellence. With a holistic approach that integrates strategy, process, technology, and execution capabilities, TeleTech helps its Global 1000 clients turn the complexities of customer care into a seamless competitive advantage that delivers customer loyalty and long-term sustainable economic growth.
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About TTEC: TTEC is one of the technology and services innovators that provides end-to-end, digital CX solutions.
Stephen DeAngelis
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of Enterra Solutions
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About Enterra Solutions, Massive Dynamics, Princeton University: Enterra Solutions is a developer of enterprise management software to solve complex challenges for industry, government, and science.
Anton Bernstein
Co-founder & CEO of Highrise
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About Highrise, Lux Group, Pocket Worlds: Highrise is a creative mobile community where people create avatars, express themselves, and make friends.
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.
Avrum Elmakis
Founder and CEO of CLMBR
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About CLMBR, TDBBS: CLMBR offers a vertical climbing machine, featuring a large-format touch display with on-demand classes.
Daniel Jablonsky
President and CEO of Maxar Technologies
Dan Jablonsky joined DigitalGlobe in 2012 and currently serves as our Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Prior to DigitalGlobe, Dan was an attorney at Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, Schreck and led global legal teams while at Flextronics International LTD, a global multi-billion dollar technology supply chain company. Mr. Jablonsky holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from U.S. Naval Academy, a Juris Doctor from the University of Washington School of Law, and is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. Additionally, Mr. Jablonsky served as a Surface Warfare Officer and Nuclear Engineer in the U.S. Navy.
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About DigitalGlobe, DigitalGlobe, Maxar Technologies: Maxar Technologies provides integrated space infrastructure and Earth intelligence.
Dhaval Chadha
Co-Founder & CEO of Justos
CEO at @Justos • Formerly CEO @Vivo (acquired) • Head of Latam @ClassPass • @Harvard University
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About Justos, NFX, Pipa, Stealth Startup: Justos is disrupting the insurance market in Latin America.
William Freiberg
CEO of Crux
Will Freiberg is CEO of Crux Informatics, a leading data engineering and operations platform. He is a technology executive and entrepreneurial leader with significant cross-functional expertise across sales, product, business development, customer success and strategic initiatives. Most recently, he was Co-CEO at D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere), a platform that simplifies and automates the difficult tasks needed for enterprise Kubernetes in production at scale. During his six-year tenure at D2iQ, he held various leadership positions and led the company through hypergrowth as the company helped define the cloud native container industry. Previously, Will was Founder and CEO of eCommerce startup Tipping Basket, and worked in the Venture Capital and Technology Practice of Gunderson Dettmer, the M&A Group at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, and started his career as an analyst at Bank of New York Mellon. He is a CEO mentor and an early-stage investor in a variety of new technology spaces, including an advisor to Iterative.ai and a Board Member at Trilio.io. Will holds a BS from the University of Pittsburgh and a JD from Columbia Law School.
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About Crux: Crux help companies scale their most critical data delivery, operations, and transformation needs.
Harry O’Hanley
CEO of ABL Space Systems
Harry O’Hanley is the founder and CEO of ABL Space Systems.
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About ABL Space Systems: ABL Space Systems specializes in building rockets to launch satellites.
Chris Beals
CEO and President of Weedmaps
Christopher Beals is the chief executive officer of Weedmaps. Prior to being CEO, he first serves as the company’s president and general counsel from 2015 until his appointment in March 2019.
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About Weedmaps, WM Technology: Weedmaps is the world’s first marijuana technology and media brand.
Bradley Miles
CEO and Co-Founder of Roll
Bradley previously led research for CoinDesk, the world leader in news and information on digital currencies, and architected their State of Blockchain report and spotlight study on ICOs. He is the CEO of Turing Advisory Group, a sell-side advisory firm for token sales with an emphasis on research and best practices. Bradley is the best selling author of #BreakIntoVC: How to Break Into Venture Capital and Think Like an Investor and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Techstars in New York City.
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About Roll, Techstars: Roll is building blockchain infrastructure for social money on Ethereum.
Simon S. Lee
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of STG Group
Mr. Simon S. Lee emigrated to the United States from South Korea in 1979. Beginning his career as an engineer, Mr. Lee performed in senior technical positions with various technology firms in the DC area. By 1986, Mr. Lee founded STG as the Software Technology Group to address the growing demand for high quality, information technology (IT) support services.
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About STG Group: STG Group is a provider of mission-critical technology, cyber, and data solutions.
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.
Jeff Green
CEO of The Trade Desk
Jeff Green is founder and CEO of The Trade Desk, Inc., a demand-side platform that powers the desks of the world’s most advanced buyers in online advertising. Green built The Trade Desk as second-generation demand-side platform, positioning it at the center of online advertising’s trading future by offering efficient, transparent technology. Since its inception in 2009, the company has grown on pace with the now-$3B RTB industry, having been included as an alpha partner in Facebook’s launch of the Facebook Exchange, and having been recently being named one of OnMedia’s “35 [Private Companies] to Watch.” By focusing on the technology of the buy-side, Green has shaped The Trade Desk into one of the fastest growing companies in ad tech. He was a finalist for the Ernst & Young 2013 Entrepreneur of the Year award for Greater Los Angeles. Prior to The Trade Desk, Green founded AdECN, which he built in 2004 as the world’s first online advertising exchange. As COO, he led all strategy, product, and business development. AdECN was acquired by the Microsoft Corporation within three years of launch. At Microsoft, Green not only oversaw the AdECN exchange business, but also all reseller and channel partner business. Additionally, he advised the all-up strategy for the Online Services Division. In 2009, Green left to launch The Trade Desk. Green has also played a leadership role in the ad tech industry, having served on the Networks and Exchanges Quality Assurance Guidelines Committee for the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) from 2011-2012. Green led working groups that established rules and best practices for acquiring inventory, and set data transaction standards.
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About The Trade Desk, Trade Desk Inc.: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Andy Gaur
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Compunnel Digital
Andy Gaur is Compunnel’s CEO and he founded Compunnel Software Group, Inc. in 1994. With his entrepreneurial drive, value-based leadership and focused approach, Andy has evolved the successful, profitable business to continually meet changing market and customer demands with effective technology, learning and staffing solutions over nearly 20 years. His extensive IT market knowledge and expertise in business growth strategy have turned Compunnel into one of the fastest growing software and consulting organizations, serving Fortune 1,000 companies and bringing in over $100 Million in annual sales. In 2013, Andy has embarked on a focused growth strategy to take Compunnel’s successful technology solutions business to the next level in the IT market. Responding to customer and market demand, he will achieve this by expanding the company’s service offerings in specialized areas of IT and its overall business footprint through several targeted acquisitions. Andy earned a Bachelors of Science from Rutgers University.
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About Compunnel Digital, iEndorseU, InfoPro Learning, Riaenjolie: Compunnel Digital Software Group IT consulting and staffing, custom business application development, eLearning and enterprise applications.
Akin Jones
CEO & CO-FOUNDER of Aella
Akin Jones is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Aella Credit.
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About Aella: Aella helps africans get credit, invest, get health insurance, and make payments.
Daniel Michaeli
Founder & CEO of Glia
Dan Michaeli is the CEO and Co-Founder of SaleMove, where he is responsible for everyday strategy and shaping business direction. A proponent for customer-centricity, Dan is the driving force behind SaleMove’s mission to meet or exceed the in-person customer experience online. Prior to SaleMove, he served as a consultant working with several top enterprises on pricing strategy. Dan is originally from Guatemala and is a proud graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Glia: Glia is a digital customer service provider connecting online retailers with customers through voice, video, and collaborative browsing.
Alex Cyriac
Cofounder & CEO of Lively
Alex Cyriacis the co-founder and CEO of Lively – a modern HSA platform for individuals and employers.Previously, Alex was the Head of Operations at JustworksInc., a payroll, benefits, and compliance tech company in New York City (who over $50M raised in venture capital). Alex led all of Justworks’ operations from day 1including state licensing, regulatory compliance, benefits infrastructure, workers compensation management and underwriting, accounting & finance, and legal. Alex holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Alex Lives in San Mateo, CA with his wife Jenita.
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About Lively: Lively is a modern Health Savings Account (HSA) platform for employers and individuals.
Ranjan R Reddy
Founder, CEO of Bureau
Ranjan R Reddy is the Founder and CEO of Bureau.
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About Bureau: Bureau secures mobile-first enterprises against new age cyber risks.
Jeff Arnold
Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Sharecare
Jeff Arnold is Chairman and CEO of Sharecare, a comprehensive health and wellness engagement platform that provides people with personalized resources to help them live their healthiest lives. Arnold co-founded Sharecare in 2010 with Dr. Oz, and in partnership with Harpo Productions, Sony Pictures Television and Discovery Communications.Previously, Arnold was Chairman and CEO of HowStuffWorks.com, which he sold to Discovery Communications where he served as Chief Digital Strategy Officer, and Chief Architect of The Curiosity Project until December 2011.At 28, he founded and served as CEO of WebMD, the first healthcare company to harness the power of the Internet to empower consumers, healthcare institutions and physicians to find trustworthy medical information. In recognition of his superior achievements and contributions to the advancement of nursing and healthcare, he was inducted into the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, as an Honorary Member. Arnold also has received honors from the World Economic Forum; the Technology Hall of Fame of Georgia; and Ernst & Young, who named him Entrepreneur of the Year, Southeast Region. Chairman of Forbes Travel Guide, Arnold also has served on numerous boards for public, private and charitable organizations.
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About Sharecare, WebMD, WebMDCorp: Sharecare is a health and wellness engagement platform providing consumers with information, programs and resources to improve their health.
Max Paltsev
CEO & Founder of Service Fusion
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About Service Fusion: Service Fusion provides a suite of management software applications to HVAC, plumbing, electrical, IT and many other service businesses.
Steve Goodman
CEO & founder of Restless Bandit
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About Restless Bandit: Restless Bandit transforms workforce data into workforce decisions.
Bjoern Zinssmeister
CEO & Founder of Templarbit
Bjoern is the Co-Founder and CTO of Design Inc. He is best known for his work with building community platforms like Match and Synack. Bjoern has spent more than a decade as a software engineer and built two venture backed startups from the ground up. Prior to Design Inc. Bjoern worked as a mobile lead for Match Group (Match, Tinder, OKCupid) and was instrumental in helping Match establish their labs office in San Francisco prior to their IPO and acquisition of OK Cupid. Bjoern went on to lead engineering at YCombinator backed Userfox, which was later acquired by Adroll. In September of 2013 Bjoern joined Synack as their Director of Engineering and helped to build up their engineering team from the ground up, helping the company to grow and raise successful A and B rounds. Originally from Germany, Bjoern graduated from the Trier University of Applied Sciences with a degree in Computer Science before moving out to San Francisco to pursue his work with startups.
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About Templarbit: Templarbit protects applications from malicious activity.
Serge Shilnov
CEO & Founder of reOrder Technologies
Sergey has been involved in digital development projects for more than 15 years. With a background in Fintech and Marketing, Sergey was an early adopter of technologies related to the Digital Securities space. Sergey has launched 2 software and infrastructure companies in the digital space in the past 5 years and has help roles in a New York based startup involved in the development of two distinct projects: a strategy & marketing platform for STO offerings that could be used as a mobile App by any individual; and the development of self-service POS terminal for restaurants and retail sector, for easy use by both vendors and consumers. For the past three years, Sergey has been particularly interested in developing a better on-line platform to bring better quality STO’s to market, and his passion has been in developing a crypto currency that could truly be used in place of fiat currency for day-to-day human transactions such as buying groceries and eating in restaurants. To this end, Sergey has developed a substantial amount of IP in the form of both detailed knowledge and planning, together with bringing a large number of low cost, high value programmers, to create both a complete STO underwriting platform, AND all of the required elements to launch a global “consumer coin” that could be used from a mobile-app between customers and vendors for multiple transaction in the same way we use cash, debit cards, or credit cards today.
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About DigiMax, NeuraLoom, reOrder Technologies: reOrder Technologies Inc is a US Company, aimed to automate the restaurant industry in order to increase the economic efficiency
Gaurav Suri
CEO of Arcesium
Gaurav Suri is the CEO of Arcesium. Gaurav was formerly a Managing Director and Head of Information Technology and Software Development for the D. E. Shaw group. From 1996 until Arcesium’s launch in 2015, he focused on developing proprietary software associated with the D. E. Shaw group’s investment management activities and building out the firm’s software development operations in Hyderabad, India. He also oversaw the D. E. Shaw group’s office in Hyderabad.
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About Arcesium: Arcesium is provider of middle- and back-office technology and services to alternative asset managers.
Kevin Leland
Founder & CEO of Halo
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About Halo, Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Village Global: Halo is a market network that moves science forward by connecting companies directly with scientists for research collaborations
Kurt Lin
Co-Founder, CEO of Pinwheel
Kurt Lin is a Co-Founder and CEO at Pinwheel.
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About Pinwheel: Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform building the income layer that will power a fairer financial system.
Xavier Hawk
Founder CEO of Phireon
Xavier Hawk is an entrepreneur, block-chain expert, permaculture design expert, complementary currency consultant, renewable energy advocate, artist, and humanitarian. Key highlights in Xavier’s career include founding Permacredits, a vanguard digital currency whose main architecture provided solutions for a range of economic based challenges, while fostering growth in the clean energy, sustainable housing, and regenerative agriculture sectors. The success of Permacredits led to Xavier becoming C.E.O. and founding partner of Hermes Global Partners- alongside the chief architect of the Euro’s convergence and exchange mechanisms, Bernard Lietaer. A keen speaker and advocate of sustainability projects, humanitarian causes, and complementary currencies, Xavier has shared his vision and expertise across a range of key media platforms around the world, including; magazines, radio and television.
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About Phireon: Phireon is a decentralized autonomous corporation that supports regenerative businesses around the world.
Sumir Meghani
Co-Founder & CEO of Instawork
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About Instawork: Instawork is the on-demand staffing app for gig workers and hospitality businesses.
Charles Meyers
Chief Executive Officer & President of Equinix
Charles J. Meyers is the President and the Chief Executive officer at Equinix. He joined Equinix in 2010 as President, Equinix Americas, leading the company’s largest P&L through a time of significant growth and strong operating performance. Mr. Meyers then served as the Chief Operating Officer at Equinix, where he led the Global Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Customer Success teams. For the past year, he was President, Strategy, Services, and Innovation (SSI) leading Equinix’s strategic business teams including Corporate Strategy, Technology Innovation, and Product Management and Engineering. Under Mr. Meyers’ leadership, SSI worked to optimize the company’s position as a cloud enabler, identify key growth areas, and evolve our services portfolio in response to market, competitive and technology trends. Mr. Meyers has built a distinguished 25-year career in the high-tech industry. Before joining Equinix, Mr. Meyers served as Group President at Verisign where he led a P&L portfolio including the company’s Security, Communications and Mobile Messaging businesses. Prior to Verisign, Mr. Meyers held various executive positions at Level 3 Communications, including Group Vice President of Global Marketing, President of IP and Data Services, and Senior Vice President, Softswitch Services. During his tenure, Mr. Meyers helped Level 3 emerge as a premier global provider of Internet and VoIP services.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Peter Ferris
Sr. Vice President, Office of the CEO of Equinix
Pete Ferris serves in the Office of the CEO at Equinix. Peter has held several senior-level positions with Equinix since July 1999 and was appointed Sr. Vice President of Global Partner Programs and Strategic Customer Development in 2013. From 2010 to 2013, he served as Chief Sales Officer. From 2007 until 2010, Mr. Ferris served as President, Equinix U.S. where he was responsible for strategy and growth of the company’s operations throughout the region. Prior to that, he served as the Vice President of Sales for Equinix. Mr. Ferris has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Equinix, he held senior management positions at Frontier Global Center, Genuity and MFS Datanet. Mr. Ferris holds a degree in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and lives in San Francisco.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Dan Pinto
Co-Founder and CEO of FingerprintJS
Dan Pinto is the Co-Founder and CEO of FingerprintJS. He also was also the Co-Founder and CTO of Machinio.
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About FingerprintJS: FingerprintJS provides an application programming interface designed for fraud detection on the modern web.
Weiting Liu
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Codementor
Weiting Liu is the founder & CEO of Codementor, a live help marketplace for developers. Weiting is a serial entrepreneur and an alumnus of both Y Combinator (YC ’07 SocialPicks, ’12) and Techstars (Seattle ’13 Codementor).
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About Arc.Dev, Codementor, Global Social, Peeridea: Codementor is an online marketplace connecting developers with experts for on-demand 1:1 help via screen sharing, video, and text chat.
