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This list showcases the top California based CEO’ operating in the Internet of Things 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.
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.
Abraham King
Chairman and CEO of Immortal Machines
Abraham King is a co-Founder and CEO of Immortal Machines, a stealth mode startup headquartered in Palo Alto. Immortal Machines is building the next generation Cloud platform for Fortune 500 enterprises. Earlier, he was an entrepreneur in Aerospace and Defense working in partnership with Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Raytheon. King’s prior work is used by the U.S. Navy to build mission critical integrity verification platforms in Submarine Combat Systems, and by the U.S. Air Force to build Situational Awareness Systems to autonomously manage real time complex networks of Space based assets and Ground Control Systems. King was one of the creators of CERN’s Planet scale Cloud platforms — the pioneering Cloud fabric behind Large Hadron Collider, spanning across forty nations — usage of which has resulted in multiple Nobel Prizes. He led the international group which created the original technology blueprint in the United States, and later held multiple leadership and executive roles. King began his career with U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, and European Organization for Nuclear Research — working on Artificial Intelligence, Planet scale Distributed Computing, Cryptography, and Supercomputing.
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About Immortal Machines: Immortal Machines is building the next generation Cloud platform for large enterprises and Fortune 500 corporations.
Marcy Boyle
Co Founder, CEO of Hot Bit VR
Marcy Boyle is the CEO and co-founder of Hot Bit VR, a upcoming webVR marketplace of experiential social shopping. Hot Bit VR has been featured on ZDnet, Entrepreneur, Fox News, and listed as one of the “30 Best Virtual Reality Companies to Change Your World Soon.” She and her co-founder’s VR experiences have been featured in art galleries, universities, conferences, and festivals including FIVARS in Toronto and VRUK in London. Hot Bit VR was selected for the first class of the AR/VR/XR accelerator at the Green Screen Institute, and Silicon Valley’s Women’s Startup Lab. Prior to working in VR, she co-directed the feature film, NOBODY CAN COOL, which was released internationally. Marcy is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University and is a member of Women in VR, Women in Film, and on the Board of the Alliance of Women Directors.
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About Hot Bit VR, Oculus: An experiential marketplace in virtual reality.
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.
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
Jaxon Klein
CEO, Co-Founder of Keyo
Jaxon Klein is an American businessman, entrepreneur, investor and startup advisor. Klein is currently CEO of Keyo, Inc., where he is a co-founder and former CTO. Prior to his role at Keyo, Klein founded two companies in hosting technology and web services.
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About Keyo: We place people’s identities in the palm of their hands.
Raullen Chai
CEO, Co-Founder of IoTeX
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About IoTeX: IoTeX is the leading decentralized network to power billions of machines at scale, drive the machine economy (machinefi) applications.
Shaun Cooley
President & CEO of Mapped
Shaun Cooley is the Founder and CEO of a Mapped, a Los Angeles based startup in the Internet of Things (IoT) space. In his prior role as VP.CTO for Cisco’s Internet of Things (IoT) Business, he was responsible for Cisco’s long-term IoT technology strategy. This included shaping product architecture, security, privacy, and technology partnerships, as implemented by Cisco’s IoT business, advising governments on IoT regulation, driving Cisco’s participation in IoT related standards bodies and consortia, and championing innovation to solve existing or anticipated industry needs. Before taking on the role of CTO for IoT, Shaun was a Distinguished Engineer, responsible for the security of Cisco’s collaboration infrastructure, cloud, and endpoint technologies. Shaun is particularly focused on ensuring security is either transparent or extremely usable – something that is typically overlooked in enterprise products. Prior to joining Cisco, Shaun was a Distinguished Engineer for Norton, by Symantec, where he was a driving force in Norton’s shift from utilities to security. Over his 18-year tenure, Shaun contributed to the creation and advancement of offerings in the Norton portfolio, including Norton Internet Security, Norton 360, Norton One, Norton Antispam, Norton’s cloud management platform, and Norton Home, a consumer IoT security offering – a product portfolio that produces over $2 Billion in annual revenue. Shaun has over 25 years of industry experience, holds a master’s degree in computer science from University of Illinois, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He is named inventor on 120 issued United States patents with over 100 more pending. He is an active angel investor and a start-up mentor through Acceleprise SF and advisor for Deep Angels. Shaun was previously a director of the Open Connectivity Foundation and former board member of Attivo Networks.
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About Mapped: Data infrastructure for IoT
Drew Perkins
Co-Founder and CEO of Mojo Vision
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Brady Brim-DeForest
CEO of TheoremOne
Brady Brim-DeForest is the Chief Executive Officer of Theorem.
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About Codex, Halmos Ventures, International Academy of Web Television, International Academy of Web Television, TheoremOne, TheoremOne: We are an engineering and innovation firm. We solve complex business problems through optimization of process, technology, and culture.
Charles Prober
CEO, Board of Directors of Tile
Charles “CJ” Prober is CEO of Tile. He is an entrepreneurial leader who has a broad mix of operational, strategic and transactional experience with a strong track record of success over the past 20 years. I have a passion for building and operating consumer experiences that are at the cutting edge of hardware, media and technology.
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About Tile: Tile creates devices connected to a mobile app, helping users locate their personal items.
Nick Weaver
Co-Founder and CEO of eero
Nick Weaver is Co-founder of eero inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Nick Weaver is an Associate at Menlo Ventures. Nick Weaver joined Menlo in 2012 and focuses on investments in mobile, consumer internet, digital media, and enterprise software. Prior to this, Nick Weaver worked at McKinsey & Company and advised technology and private equity clients on ecommerce, go-to-market strategy, and acquisitions. While at Stanford, he was involved Stanford Student Enterprises and helped found StartX (formerly, SSE Labs).
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About eero: Eero offers a Wi-Fi system for household use.
Larry Illg
CEO of EdTech of Prosus
Larry Illg is responsible for all of Naspers’ forward-looking teams, including research and strategy, along with M&A, ensuring Naspers spots and seizes opportunities to grow or acquire new and disruptive platforms.
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About Prosus, Prosus & Naspers: Prosus is a consumer internet group and a technology investor that operates and invests in markets with long-term growth potential.
Nick Sutardja
CEO of Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology
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About Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology: The Sutardja Center supports new venture teams with mentoring, network connections, and Delta prize awards.
Krishna Kumar
CEO & Founder of App Orchid Inc
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About App Orchid Inc: The App Orchid platform helps enterprises build AI fueled apps for the energy, utilities, Insurance and healthcare industries.
Vaibhav Nadgauda
CEO of App Orchid Inc
Vaibhav Nadgauda is a partner at Moneta Ventures. Prior to joining Moneta, Vaibhav was President of the SAP Business Unit at KPIT, managing a global portfolio of over $100 Million in revenue and a team of over 1,800 employees. He was co-founder and partner at Sparta Consulting, where he served as Executive Vice President and played a key role in growing the company to $100+ Million in five years. He was Vice President of Corporate Development and Global Delivery at Fujitsu Consulting, a Fortune Global 500 company, leading a team of over 1700 consultants globally. Vaibhav started his career 21 years ago at Siemens. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Electronics and a Master’s Degree in Computer Management, both from the University of Pune.
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About App Orchid Inc, Moneta Ventures: The App Orchid platform helps enterprises build AI fueled apps for the energy, utilities, Insurance and healthcare industries.
Alan Chan
Co-Founder & CEO of Joy
Alan Chan is the Cofounder & CEO of Joy (https://joy.co)
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About Joy: Joy is the first Smart Photo Album – an all-in-one hardware, software and cloud solution for families to organize and relive their memories.
Suman Kanuganti
CEO, Founder of Personal AI
I am a creator, entrepreneur, father and husband. I love robots, technology, and humans. I create things that solve meaningful problems, see aira.io and luther.ai (current). I have a desire to learn, college in engineering, a master’s in robotics and a master’s in business.
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About Personal AI: Personal AI is on a mission to organize the human mind and make it interactive and useful.
Vivek Ravisankar
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of HackerRank
Vivek Ravisankar is the Co-Founder and CEO at HackerRank, a platform that helps programmers hone their skills and connect with companies. HackerRank is the leading player in the programming talent assessment space, and the company is growing. Prior to HackerRank, Ravisankar used to be a part of the Kindle team at Amazon, India. HackerRank is the first company to be accepted by Y-combinator from India.
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About HackerRank: HackerRank, the developer skills company, helps businesses attract, evaluate and hire the best technical talent from around the world.
Matt Murphy
President & Chief Executive Officer of Marvell
Matt Murphy is President and Chief Executive Officer of Marvell Technology. He has led the company since joining in July 2016 and also serves as a member of company’s Board of Directors. In his role as CEO, Matt is responsible for leading new technology development, directing ongoing operations and driving Marvell’s growth strategy. Prior to joining Marvell, Matt worked for Maxim Integrated, where he advanced through a series of business leadership roles over two decades. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President of Business Units and Sales & Marketing, overseeing all product development and go-to-market activities. In prior roles, Matt led the company’s communications, data center, and automotive business groups, all of which experienced significant growth under his leadership. Matt earned a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College, and is also a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Aayush Phumbhra
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Nectar
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About Nectar: Nectar develops an IoT solution for the hospitality and consumer packaged goods industries.
Eric Allen
CEO & President of LISNR
Eric Allen President former CTO (Japanese conglomerate), CEO (2 Exits);former Gracenote GM running $250M business unit in audio fingerprinting.
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About LISNR, LISNR: LISNR enables secure and seamless data transmission using the most advanced ultrasonic data technology
Joseph Huang
CEO of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Ben Jorgensen
Co-Founder and CEO of Constellation Labs
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About A-Five Meats, Constellation Labs, Ittoryu GOZU, Lattice Exchange: Constellation Labs is a blockchain microservice operating system based company.
Michael Winn
CEO and Co-Founder of DroneDeploy
Michael Winn is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DroneDeploy, a cloud-based drone platform that provides automated flight safety checks, workflows, real-time mapping, and data processing.
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About DroneDeploy: DroneDeploy is a cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform to help businesses get things done.
Andy Bane
Chief Executive Officer of Element Analytics
As CEO of Element Analytics, Andy oversees the vision and growth of Element Analytics. Previously, he held executive roles at enterprise software companies, from VC-backed startups to private equity-backed growth plays to business units of large-cap publicly traded companies. He served as EVP & Chief Strategy Officer for ABB Enterprise Software; was EVP of Product Mgmt. and CMO at Ventyx, a Vista Equity Partners company, acquired by ABB for over $1 billion; and was SVP of Product Management and Marketing at P2 Energy Solutions. Andy earned his BA at University of Colorado, Boulder. He’s passionate about helping industrial organizations reach new levels of asset performance by using big data to solve complex problems.
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About Element Analytics: SaaS provider transforming IT/OT data into contextualized, graph-based models to support diverse analytical workloads and data governance.
Hugo Fiennes
Founder & CEO of Electric Imp
Hugo Fiennes is CEO and Co-founder of Electric Imp, an innovative and powerful Internet of Things-based cloud service and hardware platform that makes it simple to connect devices to the Internet. Hugo began developing hardware and software for early ARM-based computers in the late 1980s and has been building useful and successful things ever since. After designing many MP3 players for Rio, Hugo led Apple’s hardware team through the first four generations of the groundbreaking iPhone, and was then an early advisor to Nest Labs, architecting the hardware for their first thermostat product before starting Electric Imp in 2011. He graduated first honors from University of Warwick in Coventry, England with a degree in Computer Systems Engineering.
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About Electric Imp: Electric Imp provides a secure IoT platform, connecting cloud services with the real world
Matthew McRae
Chief Executive Officer of Arlo
Matthew McRae is the CEO of Arlo.
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About Arlo, Cove Fund, Okapi Venture Capital, Unlock Venture Partners: Arlo provides security and video monitoring solutions for homes.
Gabriel Halimi
Co-Founder & CEO of Flo Technologies
Gabriel is a former law partner turned corporate operations executive, with extensive startup experience, including in business development and brand marketing.
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About Flo Technologies: Flo prevents water damage and unnecessary water waste in homes with its Flo by Moen smart home water monitoring and leak protection system.
Sara Spangelo
CEO of Swarm Technologies
Dr. Sara Spangelo is the co-founder and CEO of Swarm, the company that is developing the world’s lowest-cost global communications network with breakthrough satellite technology and ground hardware for customers in remote locations. Before starting Swarm, Sara worked on small satellites and autonomous aircraft at the University of Michigan and was a lead systems engineer at both NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and Google X. Her expertise is in modeling and optimizing satellite constellations to maximize impact and business opportunities. Sara holds a PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and in 2017 was a Top 32 Canadian astronaut candidate.
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About Swarm Technologies: Swarm enables global connectivity with the world’s most affordable satellite network.
Sanjay Sharma
CEO of Roambee
Sanjay Sharma is a strategic thought leader with an impressive 17+ years of entrepreneurial experience building technology startups from the ground up. As CEO of Roambee, he is responsible for leading the company’s vision, driving its worldwide business growth, and increasing the company’s value. Sanjay has successfully co-founded and led two successful Silicon Valley technology startups – KeyTone Technologies, which was acquired by Global Asset Tracking Ltd and Plexus Technologies, which became an ICICI Ventures portfolio company. He has also been a part of the engineering teams at EMC, Schlumberger, and NASA. Sanjay has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bombay, and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota State University.
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About Roambee, Roambee: Better Supply Chain Visibility & Intelligence
Iryna Korolenko
Founder and CEO of iSALON Beauty App
The founder of iSALON, a businesswoman and entrepreneur, fashion model and world-traveler, Iryna Korolenko is a portrait of the modern Renaissance woman. Born in Ukraine, she balanced passion and professionalism, ambition and sophistication from an early age, modeling internationally by 16 while prioritizing higher education. After receiving postgraduate degrees both in international economy and psychology, Iryna began a career working for global corporations, negotiating multi-million dollar contracts. By seamlessly navigating between the worlds of business and beauty, from airline to fashion runways, she has gained a worldview unique among her peers. Seeking new opportunities, Iryna packed a single suitcase and moved to the United States in 2014. Despite having no support network, she paved her way in an unfamiliar environment, and continues to trailblaze her singular career workingwith prominent designers and global brands both as a model and businesswoman. In boardrooms and at photo shoots, presentation matters, but it doesn’t have to be inconvenient. It was during a commute in traffic that Iryna realized it was smarter, safer, and simpler to have beauty services delivered directly to her door. Any modern professional will recognize the importance of quickly connecting with services wherever they are, whenever they are – and with iSALON, you can. Iryna is based in California but continues to pursue her passion exploring new places and meeting new people, always looking forward to new challenges and discovering innovative ideas. A consummate Capricorn, culinary dilettante, and classic cinema enthusiast, she most appreciates the simple things in life, especially her French bulldog, Blu.
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About Coleman Research, Fohr, GLG, iSALON Beauty App, Kelly Moore Paints, Look Model Agency, RED HOT MONDE: Delivering Beauty to Your Doorstep
Slim Souissi
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ospitek Inc.
Dr. Slim Souissi is the co-founder and CEO of OSPITEK, a leading HealthTech company that develops digital AI-IoT software for improving patient experience and surgical center productivity. He is also the founder and CEO of MIOTIV, a developer of IoT platforms specializing in the development of bespoke SAAS platforms for the automotive and the healthcare industries . He is the former president and COO of Novatel Wireless. He began his career at Motorola in ’94 and made key contributions to the architecture FLEX paging data networks. In 1997, he lead the architecture of the company’s location based services platform. In 2000, Dr. Souissi joined Novatel Wireless to lead the Software Defined Radio program. He was promoted to CTO and VP of engineering in 2002. Dr. Souissi guided Novatel Wireless through the worldwide expansion of the mobile broadband market which culminated at a company valuation of more than $800M and an annual revenue of ~ $500M. Dr. Souissi and his team invented the award winning MiFi mobile hotspot creating a global market category worth tens of billions of dollars. Dr. Souissi is the holder of several MiFi essential patents asserted against ZTE and Apple. MiFi was picked by Time Magazine as one of the greatest/most influential gadgets of the century. The company was named by Forbes as one of the top five most innovative technology companies in America. Dr. Souissi was awarded the distinction of being part of ExecRank’s “Top CTO Rankings” of America in 2013 and 2014. Dr. Souissi holds a MSEE degree from Ecole Central de Marseille, a MS degree in DSP from Supelec, France, a MSEE and a Ph.D from Georgia Tech. He was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni of Georgia Tech. Dr. Souissi is a published IEEE author and holds 60 US patents. He is the recipient of the distinguished innovator award from Motorola and the J.D. innovation award from Novatel. He served on the advisory boards of Nextivity, TAM and Zyray Wireless.
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About Miotiv Inc., Ospitek Inc.: SaaS Company – Healthcare Technology
Chaohao Wang
Co-founder & CEO of Timecros
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About Timecros: Digital life sharing
Mark Levitt
Co-Founder and CEO of Trixta
Four-time SA Open chess champion, with many years history in Chess commerce, including: publishing, software and retail business. Levitt was also an early investor & CIO of search engine marketing company www.incubeta.com, and a founding member of TEIM Ventures.
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About ChessCube.com, Trixta, Trixta: Trixta’s low-code tools revolutionize how teams build software – faster, better, with fewer developers
Charles Michael Yim
Founder and CEO of Breathometer
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About Breathometer, CMY Ventures, Cohabit Labs, Inc., Cointopia, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, VitaBowl, Walt Disney Television: Breathometer develops a breath analysis technology that helps people make smarter decisions and improve their lives.
Christopher Nguyen
President & CEO of Arimo
Christopher Cuong T. Nguyen joinedFulbright University Vietnam as Board Member in 2018. Christopher Nguyen is co-founder & CEO of Adatao, a Big Data/Machine Learning enterprise startup. Christopher is a former engineering director of Google Apps, a recipient of the Google Founders’ Award, a Stanford PhD who co-founded two enterprise startups with successful exits, and was a professor and co-founder of the Computer Engineering program at HKUST. He graduated from U.C. Berkeley summa cum laude. Christopher has extensive experience building technology companies that solve enterprise business challenges.
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About AITOMATIC, Arimo, Mobivi: Arimo specializes in the fields of big data, machine learning, business analytics, visualizations, and data intelligence.
Nadir Ali
CEO of Inpixon
Nadir Ali leads Inpixon with a collective two decades in enterprise software, business analytics, and information technology. Mr. Ali first served as Vice President of Strategic Programs at Sysorex from 1995 to 1998, wherein he ushered their transition to Vanstar and managed over $1 billion in multi-year contracts. This marked his trajectory into mergers and acquisitions totaling $150 million. He then shifted gears to Isadra Inc., an e-commerce software start-up, as VP of Finance and Marketing. Before stepping into Sysorex Consulting Inc. as President, he spent three years as Managing Director of Tira Capital. For over 15 years, his executive-level roles at Inpixon (formerly Sysorex) tapped into the $12 billion industry of indoor positioning and data analytics, growing to $23 billion by 2021. A University of California Berkeley 1989 alum, Mr. Ali earned a BA in Economics.
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About Inpixon: Inpixon, an indoor data company, specializes in capturing, interpreting and giving context to indoor data to deliver actionable intelligence
Zach Supalla
Founder & CEO of Particle
Zach Supalla is the founder and CEO of Particle, an IoT startup that’s making it easier to build, connect and manage internet-connected hardware products deployed at massive scale. Supalla earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and an MEM (masters in engineering management) from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern. Before Particle, Supalla worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, advising Fortune 500 companies on strategy, operations and product development. He is a graduate of HAX, the world’s first, and most prolific hardware accelerator.
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About Particle: Particle provides hardware and software tools to help users prototype, scale, and manage IoT products.
Simon Segars
CEO of Arm Holdings
Since joining Arm as one of its first employees, Simon has driven technical and business innovations to help transform the company into the leading architect of the most pervasive compute technology the world has ever seen. Simon led the development of early ground-breaking Arm processors – the Arm7 and Arm9 – powering the world’s first digital mobile phones. He played a key role in developing industry standards, and his engineering work led to him being granted several embedded-systems patents. He became vice president of engineering in 2001, and before being named as Arm CEO in July 2013, he held several other strategy positions including global head of sales. He was personally responsible for expanding the company’s U.S. business and strengthening its leadership and relationships in California’s Silicon Valley, where he still lives with his family. Simon helped steer the company through the 2016 acquisition by SoftBank, and, in June 2017, was elected to serve on the SoftBank board. He also sits on the boards of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), the Electronic System Design Alliance (ESD Alliance), TechWorks and is a non-executive director at Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Simon earned his BEng in electronic engineering from the University of Sussex and an MSc in computer science from the University of Manchester.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Meirav Oren
CEO & Co Founder of VERSATILE
Meirav Oren is the CEO and Co-Founder at VERSATILE.
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About VERSATILE: VERSATILE uses machine learning and AI to optimize construction and industrial processes.
Raghu Bala
Founder and CEO of NetObjex, Inc.
CEO, NetObjex Inc based in Southern California. Formerly with Yahoo, Infospace, Primedia, Source Interlink Media, PwC, and with 3 successful startup exits. Wharton MBA in Finance, MS in Computer Science from RPI, Ex-Columbia University Adjunct Lecturer, published author and major conferences including IoT India Congress, Google IO, and more. Bala has significant domain expertise in the media industry having led digital operations for 100 brands including MotorTrend, HotRod, Import Tuner, Automobile, Recoil, Shutterbug, and Slam. His responsibilities included managing digital assets across multiple mediums including web, mobile, video/YouTube channels, and social media. The portfolio of digital assets managed had a total visitor profile with monthly statistics of over 16M unique visitors and 100M pageviews. Bala also has deep expertise in search engine advertising and audience conversion from his stints at Infospace and Yahoo. Bala has been working on IoT since 2011 and has deep expertise in end to end IoT in multiple domains.
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About : NetObjex’s Matrix Digital Asset-as-a-Service (DAaaS) platform enables enterprises to manage their digital assets using IoT, AI, and DLT
Yichun Zhang
Founder and CEO of OpenResty
Yichun is founder and CEO of OpenResty Inc, creator of the OpenResty open source web platform, and a contributor to the NGINX, LuaJIT, and SystemTap open source projects. He previously worked on large distributed software systems based on NGINX and OpenResty at Cloudflare, Taobao, and Yahoo! China.
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About OpenResty: OpenResty is a full-fledged web platform.
Amit Narayan
Founder / CEO of Autogrid
Amit Narayan is the Founder and CEO of AutoGrid, Inc. From 2010 to 2012, he was the Director of Smart Grid Research in Modeling & Simulation at Stanford University, where he continues to lead an interdisciplinary project related to modeling, optimization and control of the electricity grid and associated electricity markets. Prior to founding AutoGrid, Dr. Narayan was the Vice President of Products at the publicly traded company Magma Design Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), where he led the product development and product management teams responsible for Magma’s flagship product in the design implementation area. Over one third of all semiconductor chips used in consumer electronic devices — such as smart phones, blue-ray players and video games — were designed using products developed by Dr. Narayan’s team at Magma. Prior to joining Magma, Dr. Narayan founded Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. (BDA), a venture-backed company in analog and radio-frequency semiconductor design software and served as its founding CEO and later Vice President of Engineering, responsible for all research and product development activities, as well as customer engagements. Under Dr. Narayan’s leadership, BDA saw its products adopted by over 100 semiconductor companies in the world (including 20 out of the top 25). For his work at BDA, Dr. Narayan’s received the EDN’s “Innovation for the Year” award in 2006.Dr. Narayan received his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur and Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley. He has published over 25 papers about design automation, holds seven U.S. patents and is an active advisor to several startup companies in the Bay Area.
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About Autogrid, Berkeley Design Automation: AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.
Cem Koc
Founder & CEO of Ronotic
Entrepeneur since 2000. Cem has developed business strategies for the efficient and effective use of technology and always has an eye on emerging technologies and trends. Cem tends to be an outgoing thinker and naturally has an easy time persuading others. Confident and decisive, Cem is likely to take bold action and articulate ideas to build momentum around the projects that his pursues.
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About Ronotic: Solar Powered Streetlights, CleanTech Infrastructure
Sridhar Iyengar
Founder & CEO of Elemental Machines
A serial entrepreneur in connected medical devices and wearables, Sridhar is focused on strategy and management at Elemental Machines. Previously, Sridhar was a founder and director of Misfit, makers of elegant wearable products, which was acquired by Fossil in 2015. Prior to Misfit, he founded AgaMatrix, a blood glucose monitoring company that made the world’s first medical device connecting directly to the iPhone. AgaMatrix shipped 15+ FDA-cleared medical products, 2B+ biosensors, 6M+ glucose meters, with partnerships with Apple, Sanofi, and Walgreens. Sridhar holds over 30 US and international patents and received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar. Beyond Elemental Machines, Sridhar has been known to run 13.1 miles on occasion and has sometimes been spotted on stage behind a wall of drums.
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About Elemental Machines: Smart lab platform delivers powerful, data-driven insights that improve R&D, laboratory operations, and manufacturing outcomes.
Nikhil Jain
Co-Founder & CEO of ObEN
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About ObEN: ObEN is an AI company that is building a decentralized AI platform for intelligent avatars.
Dan Mondor
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Inseego
Dan Mondor was appointed CEO of Inseego Corp. in June 2017 and named Inseego’s Chairman and CEO in August 2018. Mr. Mondor has over 35 years of telecommunications and media technology experience with global Fortune 500 and privately held corporations. Mr. Mondor has received numerous industry awards for innovation and market impact and was named by ExecRank as a top Micro-Cap CEO for driving shareholder value. Prior to joining Inseego, Mr. Mondor provided corporate strategy and M&A advisory services through his private consulting firm. Previously he was President and CEO of Spectralink Corporation, a private-equity owned global company that designs and manufactures mobile-workforce products for global enterprises, including Android powered Wi-Fi smartphones. Mr. Mondor was President and CEO of Concurrent Corporation (Nasdaq: CCUR), a global company that designs and manufactures IP video delivery and real-time Linux software solutions for global service providers, military, aerospace, automotive and financial service industries. Previously, Mr. Mondor was President of Mitel Networks, Inc., a subsidiary of Mitel Networks Corporation (Nasdaq: MITL), a global company that designs and manufactures business communications systems and mobile communications technology to serve the enterprise and wireless carrier markets. Prior to that, he held positions of increasing responsibility in general management, marketing, and sales during his 16 year career with Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT). At Nortel, Mr. Mondor was Vice President of Global Marketing of the Optical Internet business during a period of hyper-growth to become a $10B dominant market share leader. Mr. Mondor also served as VP and General Manager of several Nortel business units that designed and manufactured products for the global enterprise and service provider markets. Mr. Mondor holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manitoba, and executive education from the Cornell Graduate School of Management and Duke Fuqua School of Business.
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About Inseego: Inseego specializes in providing enterprise SaaS solutions, IoT, and mobile solutions.
Faizaan Ghauri
Chief Executive Officer of WRLD
Faizaan Ghauri is the CEO of eeGeo, a 3D mapping platform for mobile, virtual and augmented reality. Faizaan is also Vice President of Strategy for NetSol Technologies. He leads a 100+ team of designers, developers and artists as co-founder of IFDS, a digital studio focused on Virtual and Augmented Reality as well as Mobile App Development. Prior to IFDS, Faizaan spent four years on the Product team of Vroozi, an eCommerce platform for Fortune 500 companies. Faizaan currently lives between Los Angeles, London and Lahore. He is a passionate evangelist and investor for the Pakistani tech community. He sits on the steering committee of Nspire, a Pakistani incubator focused on promoting disruptive startups abroad. He is an aesthete with a keen interest in fashion and music. The original plan was to be a poet. It still is.
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About Nspire, WRLD: A 3D cloud-based platform of real-world environments to create digital twins.
Venkat Mattela
CEO of Redpine Signals
Venkat Mattela is Chief Executive Officer of Redpine Signals, Inc. He has over 30 years of engineering and management experience in the semiconductor industry and drives company’s strategy, execution and R&D. Prior to Redpine, he was at Network Media Platforms Group of Analog Devices as Director and was responsible for the product, strategy and business development for media wireless connectivity solutions (WLAN, WMAN). He also led the VLSI development from concept engineering to release of multiple industry leading networking silicon products resulting in a multi-million dollar product line. Prior to joining ADI, Mr. Mattela was at Infineon Technologies as Director and was responsible for micro-architecture and design of TriCore MCU-DSP processor. He led the team to take the architecture to multiple silicon implementations. Mr. Mattela started his career at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India in January 1983 and held various engineering positions at LSI Logic, LMSI and CMC Ltd. Mr. Mattela has a Master’s Degree in Computer Sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India and holds 11 US patents.
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About Redpine Signals: Redpine Signals is a wireless systems company with unique chipset and system level products for wireless networks.
Roderick de Rode
Founder & CEO of Spinn
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About Spinn: Spinn makes wifi connected coffee machines that brew coffee using patented centrifugal technology.
Akash Takyar
CEO of LeewayHertz Technologies
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About LeewayHertz Technologies: LeewayHertz is a blockchain development company, providing scalable and robust blockchain solutions to enterprises and startups.
Patrick Maloney
Founder | Chief Executive Officer of Inspire
Clean Energy Entrepreneur and Investor
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About Inspire: Consumer technology platform that powers cleaner, more efficient, and more sustainable homes.
Ted Myers
CEO of Totum Labs
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About Totum Labs: Totum enables the worldwide tracking and monitoring of billions of assets using their constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) nanosatellites.
Patrick Lo
Co-Founder and CEO of NETGEAR
Patrick Lo is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Netgear.
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About NETGEAR, NetgearStore – India: Netgear designs, develops, and markets networking products for home users and small businesses worldwide.
Mahesh Veerina
President & CEO of Cloudleaf
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About Cloudleaf: ParkourSC is a logistics and supply chain company that specializes in digital transformation, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical.
K. B. Chandrasekhar
CEO of Exds
K.B. Chandrasekhar (“Chandra”) founded Jamcracker in 1999, and was also co-founder and Chairman of e4e Inc., a business process outsourcing company. In the mid-1990s, Chandra founded Exodus Communications, which he led to become the leading provider of enterprise hosting services. The company went public in 1998 in one of the most successful IPO’s of the late 90’s, and in 1999 Chandra was honored as the Ernst & Young Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year.
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About e4e, Exds, Jamcracker, Matrimony.com: Exodus is a leading provider of Internet system and network management solutions.
Noyan Berker
Founder & CEO of Mimiq
Noyan Berker is the Founder & CEO at Smart Mimic .
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About Mimiq: Mimiq Inc. (formerly Smart Mimic) is a Silicon Valley company that develops fifth-generation, long range, connected consumer devices.
Todd Greene
CEO of PubNub
Todd Greene is the co-founder and CEO of PubNub. As an entrepreneur who has founded and successfully sold companies across the software spectrum, Todd helps shape the PubNub vision of revolutionizing the way people interact online. Todd most recently was CEO of Loyalize, an Audience Participation company successfully sold to Function(x) (FNCX), a Robert F.X. Sillerman company, where he designed the first-ever massively multi-user Social TV mobile and web applications licensed to companies like Viacom and Yahoo. Todd previously was founder and CTO/VP Products of CascadeWorks, a company providing Services Procurement solutions to Texas Instruments, Charles Schwab, and ABN Amro, and acquired by Elance. After working with companies like GE, SGI, and Quantum while a consultant at Price Waterhouse, Todd joined NetDynamics (sold to Sun Microsystems in 1998) to help create a truly game-changing product: the first application server built for the Internet.
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About PubNub: PubNub Data Stream Network is a secure global Data Stream Network that enables mobile and web developers to build and scale real-time apps.
Jack Dangermond
Founder, CEO, and President of Esri
Jack Dangermond is the founder, CEO, and president of Esri.
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About Esri: Esri is the global market leader in GIS, pioneering problem solving to help you see what others can’t. We build ArcGIS.
Nancy Xiao
CEO of Mason
Nancy Xiao is the President at Mason.
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About Mason: Smarter from start to finish with Mason.™
Tolga Tarhan
CEO of Kibsi
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About Kibsi: Kibsi is an end-to-end, fully integrated environment designed for building computer vision applications
Joy Weiss
President & CEO of Tempo Automation
Joy Weiss, currently President of Dust Networks at Analog Devices, has held executive leadership positions over the past 35 years at a variety of private and public technology companies. Joy was CEO of Dust Networks, a pioneer in industrial wireless sensor networking, when it was acquired by Linear Technology in 2011, and she has served on the boards of several private companies in Silicon Valley. She is currently on the board of Vigilent and Tempo Automation. Joy is also the Chair of the board of Playworks, a national non-profit based in Oakland, CA. Joy holds a BSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Analog Devices, InkSpace Imaging, Tempo Automation: Tempo Automation is transforming the way companies innovate and bring new electronic products to market.
Honghao Deng
Chief Executive Officer of Butlr
Honghao Deng (zh:邓鸿浩) is an award-winning innovator and computational designer creating the field of responsive context-aware architecture with the integration of IoT and AI. He holds a Master of Design Technology with Distinction at Harvard GSD. He is the Co-founder and CEO of Butlr Technologies Inc. He formerly was a researcher at City Science Group, MIT Media Lab. Honghao has won multiple awards in the field of smart city technology, including Architizer A+ Award in Smart Building Technology, Time Magazine 100 Best Inventions, Red Dot Best of Best, Core77 Award, Gold and Platinum A’ Design Award, iF Design Award, Fast Compay Innovation by Design, World-Changing Ideas, and 1st Prize Future Cities Contest. His research is published on UIST, SIGGRAPH, CHI, TEI, DIS, and ISWC. His works have been covered by Financial Times, TechCrunch, World Economic Forum, Domus, CCTV, Wallpaper, and the National. He is recognized on Forbes 30 Under 30 List 2022. https://www.forbes.com/profile/butlr/?list=30under30-manufacturing-industry&sh=1c1cf30c68e7
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About Butlr: AIoT intelligence Platform for People Sensing
Soner Haci
CEO and Co-founder of BEAD Technology
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About BEAD Technology, INESS, PONS: BEAD creates digital models of buildings by using real-time data and AI.
Nitin Gupta
Founder & CEO of FlytBase
Nitin did his B.Tech from IIT Bombay and MS in Aerospace Engineering from University of Maryland, USA. Nitin has worked with multiple startups and with Samsung electronics before founding NavStik. He has extensive background in aerospace control systems, robotics and automation. As the CEO of NavStik, he helps set the vision and strategy for the company, and ensure that NavStik delivers value to all its stakeholders: team-members, customers and investors.
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About FlytBase, NavStik Autonomous Systems: Enterprise Drone Automation Platform
George Minassian
CO-Founder & CEO of Crossbar
Dr. George Minassian has been a co-founder and CEO of Crossbar since 2010.A seasoned veteran of the semiconductor memory industry, Dr. Minassian brings Crossbar 25 years of experience in systems, logic design, new business development, and product development. Over his extensive career, Dr. Minassian has a proven track record of developing commercially successful, leading-edge products. From 2002 to 2010, Dr. Minassian held a variety of positions at Spansion, a leading innovator of Flash memory solutions, most recently as vice president of System and Software Engineering where he led the $1.2 billion Flash Memory business targeting the cellular wireless market segment.While at Spansion, he developed and established new industry standards in emerging technologies such as PISMO and achieved a successful track record for large-scale product development and management. From 1999-2002, Dr. Minassian was director of Wireless Engineering at Advanced Micro Devices, a microprocessor leader, where he developed the industry’s first CMOS RF process and complete 802.11b/a chipset and reference designs.Dr. Minassian holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.
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About Crossbar: Crossbar is a startup company pioneering a new class of non-volatile resistive RAM (RRAM) memory technology.
Osh. Agabi
Founder & CEO of Koniku
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About : Koniku merges synthetic biology with silicon to build machines that detect smells. We cyborgs capable of detecting smell.
Jonathan Cobb
CEO of Ayla Networks
Jonathan comes to Ayla from the Bay-Area office of ARRIS, a UK company where he was senior vice president of consumer solutions. Previously, Cobb was president, software and services, at Pace, a public UK consumer-electronics company that ARRIS acquired in 2016. After graduating from Cambridge University with a master’s degree in computer science, Cobb began his career at IBM, then moved into executive consulting, operations and professional services roles at several companies, including Motive, ON Networks, and 2Wire. He lives in Los Gatos.
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About Ayla Networks: Ayla Networks’ Internet of Things (IoT) platform-as-a-service (PaaS) delivers industry-leading device management and application enablement.
Jessika Lora
Founder and CEO of CarForce
A management consultant by training and Stanford BS and MS graduate with 10+ years of automotive and e-commerce experience. Previous GM of ebay’s Vehicles C2C business and Head of Automotive Corp Dev, managing strategy and operations for a $7.3B division and responsible for double-digit growth on ebay’s $1.6B vehicles C2C sector.
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About CarForce: CarForce is a multi-brand enterprise software platform that delivers real-time vehicle health insights using EDGE computing and ML
Duncan Greatwood
Chief Executive Officer of Xage Security
Most recently, Duncan was an executive at Apple, leading search-technology projects and products. Prior to Apple, Duncan was C.E.O. of Topsy, the pioneer in social media search and analytics acquired by Apple in 2013. Prior to Topsy, he was founder and C.E.O. of PostPath, the email and security company acquired by Cisco in 2008. Previously, Duncan held sales and marketing Vice President roles at Virata/Globespan/Conexant, as well as earlier engineering and marketing positions at Madge Networks. Duncan holds a B.A. (Mathematics) and M.Sc. (Computer Science) from Oxford University and an M.B.A. from London Business School.
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About Xage Security: Xage Security is an information technology company that offers blockchain-protected security platform for Industrial IoT.
Cleve Adams
Chief Executive Officer of Aquicore
Cleve Adams is the CEO at Aquicore.
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About AirPatrol Corporation, Aquicore, Trestles Group International: Aquicore is an information technology company that offers a cloud-based software designed for asset operations platform for the CRE sector.
Charlene Consolacion
CEO & Co-Founder of Biig
Charlene Consolacion co-founded the World’s First Smart Lockbox for Cars: The BiigVault, transforming the automotive industry by introducing a secured and smart lockbox into vehicles, enabling a wide-array of on-demand automotive services such as in-car trunk delivery. Charlene is constantly innovating in the dynamic and high-tech sphere. This patented system is easy to install, allowing customers to use their smartphones to control, monitor a wide range of connected car capabilities, and access on-demand services.
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About Biig, Phrame: BiigVault: The Smart Lockbox for Cars
Akshita Iyer
Co-Founder and CEO of Ome
Akshita Iyer is the Co-Founder and CEO of Inirv.
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About Ome: Ome reinvents the way people live through smart home technology.
Ed Meyercord
CEO & President of Extreme Networks
Meyercord serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Extreme. He joined our Board of Directors as an independent director in October 2009 and served as Chairman from March 2011 through August 2015. Prior to assuming an operating role at Extreme, Meyercord was Chief Executive Officer and Director at Critical Alert Systems, LLC, a software-driven, healthcare information technology company, that he co-founded in July of 2010. Previously,, Meyercord served as CEO, President and Director of both Cavalier Telephone & TV, a privately held voice, video and data services company with an extensive fiber network; and Talk America, Inc., a publicly traded company that provided phone and internet services to consumers and small businesses throughout the U.S. Meyercord was also a Vice President in the investment banking division of Salomon Brothers (now Citigroup). He previously served on the board of Tollgrade Communications, Inc.
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About Extreme Networks, Extreme Networks: Extreme Networks delivers the best wired/wireless networking experience for your staff, customers, and users.
Joseph(Yi) Yuan
CEO of Nonda
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About Nonda: nonda makes consumer connected car devices.
Sharjeel Noor
Founder & CEO of Workerbee Technologies
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About Workerbee Technologies: Workerbee is an on-demand platform that enables quick and secure completion of human intelligence tasks.
Mark Palfreeman
CEO of Nixplay
CEO at Nixplay and Nixplay Signage.
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About Nixplay, Nixplay Signage: Nixplay is the no.1 selling Smart Photo Frame. Nixplay Signage is a complete Enterprise Digital Signage Solution.
Jon Sobel
CEO & Co-Founder of Sight Machine
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About Sight Machine, University of Michigan: Sight Machine provides analytics platform that helps address critical challenges in quality and productivity throughout the enterprise.
Ann Greenberg
Founder and CEO of Entertainment AI ™
Ann Greenberg is a serial entrepreneur and inventor. Ann’s new venture, Entertainment AI™ (Sceneplay, Inc.) is developing groundbreaking, patented systems using AI and Blockchain to automate media creation, distribution and analysis. In 1998, Ann co-founded Gracenote, the world’s largest entertainment data company, and the first crowdsourced company. Gracenote helps consumers to discover and engage with relevant, personalized content across platforms—from smart TVs, to smartphones and the streaming media in their cars. Gracenote was acquired by Nielsen for $560M in 2017. Prior to founding Gracenote, Ann co-founded ION, an early digital studio who worked with David Bowie, Brian Eno, Todd Rungren, The Residents, Primus and leading technology companies. Ann also ran marketing for Edward R Pressman Film Corporation.
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About Entertainment AI ™, Fanpulse: The Smart Content Company – Entertainment AI merges human and machine creativity to engage a new generation.
Sylvia Kang
Co-Founder & CEO of Mira
Sylvia Kang is the founder and CEO of Quanovate, the company behind Mira.
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About Mira, Quanovate: The first FDA and CE registered comprehensive women’s health and chronic disease monitoring platform with 99% of accuracy
Stephanie Horbaczewski
Co-founders & Co-CEO of Vody
Stephanie Horbaczewski is the Co-Founder, President and CEO of StyleHaul. With nearly a decade of experience working with iconic brands like Saks Fifth Avenue, Horbaczewski established StyleHaul in 2011 with the vision of translating the fashion and beauty editorial space to digital, social and multi-platform content. Since launching the company alongside online video industry magnates Allen and Aaron DeBevoise, Horbaczewski has expanded the business internationally and executed successful rounds of funding. Stephanie holds a BA in Classics from Trinity College and a JD/MBA from Suffolk University.
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About RezVen Partners, Vody: Vody leverages the latest technology in big data, natural language processing, and machine learning.
Graham Hine
President and Chief Executive Officer of ePlant
Graham Hine is the President and Chief Executive Officer of ePlant.
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About ePlant: EPlant develops solutions for growing plants and trees using Internet of Things devices and cloud Artificial Intelligence.
Vatsal Shah
Founder & CEO of Litmus Automation
Vatsal Shah is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Litmus Automation since July 2013, a startup with a vision of enabling things connectivity to business applications through an IoT platform ‘Loop’, a totally unexplored arena. Along with staying on toes with all tech movements in the valley, Vatsal plays several roles as a leader, engineer, strategist and always a learner. Previously, Vatsal has worked with Rockwell Automation as a Design Engineer, which became the cradle for this startup. Being a social enthusiast, Vatsal makes a point to attend events and meetups relating to opensource, M2M, connected solutions or Internet of Things. Vatsal earned his M.S. in Global Entrepreneurship from Em-Lyon (France), Zhejiang University (China) and Purdue University (USA) jointly and his B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Nirma University, India.
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About Litmus Automation: Litmus provides the solution to transform critical edge data into actionable intelligence that can power maintenance.
Kevin Yu
Founder & CEO of SideChef
Kevin Yu joined SideChef as Founder & CEO in 2013.
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About SideChef: SideChef is an online platform that provides step-by-step recipes for new and amateur cooks.
Yoav Toussia-Cohen
CEO of DoiT International
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About DoiT International: We tackle complex problems of scale using our expertise in resolving problems, coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and system design.
BOIAN SPASSOV
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Locbit
Boian Spassov is the Founder and CEO of Locbit.
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About Locbit: Locbit is a company that helps companies and people connect their devices inside their buildings.
Elhay Farkash
Co-Founder and CEO of Zira
Elhay Farkash is the CEO of Zira. He is also the CEO and co-founder of Lightapp Technologies.
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About Lightapp Technologies, Zira: Zira is a business automation platform that connects machines, people, and processes.
Brett Jones
CEO & Co-Founder of Lightform
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About Lightform: Lightform designs software & hardware for projected visuals.
Steve Poizner
Co-Founder, CEO of oneNav
Steve Poizner has launched, grown, and sold three tech companies in Silicon Valley; managed a portfolio of a dozen start-ups as an SVP for Qualcomm; worked at the highest levels in state and federal government; and volunteered for a year as a public high school teacher. A few of his key accomplishments include transforming the mobile phone market by inventing a way to integrate GPS into handsets thereby saving tens of thousands of lives and enabling a new multi-billion-dollar location-based services sector. While working as a White House Fellow, he helped develop a post-9/11 Homeland Security plan for the National Security Council. As the elected CA Insurance Commissioner, he modernized California’s Department of Insurance, resulting in multi-billion dollars in cost savings for consumers. Mr. Poizner was inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame in 2014.
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About Alliance for Southern California Innovation, oneNav: OneNav provides a mobile positioning system intended for smartphones, wearables, and IoT tracking devices.
Eythor Bender
Co-Founder and CEO of UNYQ
Eythor Bender, the CEO/Co-founder of UNYQ has worked in the prosthetics and bionics industry for 20+ years including leadership roles at two successful startup exits including CEO at Ekso Bionics (IPO) and President at Ossur (IPO), the manufacturer of the prosthetic legs used by ‘blade runner’ Oscar Pistorius in the Olympics.
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About Singularity University, UNYQ: UNYQ is a global medical device company with industry-leading innovative mass customized orthopedic products
George Khasin
Co-Founder & CEO of Pine Park Health
George Khasin is the Co-Founder & CEO at Pine Park Health.
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About Pine Park Health: Pine Park Health works with medicare advantage plans, senior living communities, and providers to improve health outcomes for seniors.
Jeffrey Tinsley
Founder and CEO of MyLife
As a serial Internet entrepreneur, Jeffrey founded MyLife.com in 2002 and is the company’s CEO and Chairman. He is responsible for the company’s overall direction and strategies toward building the leading social site to help members find and maintain personal AND work connections, all in one place as they define the Personal Relationship Management (PRM) category. Through his direction, MyLife.com has grown consistently to more than 60 million registered members, is adding more than 2 million per month, prompting VentureBeat to write the recent article entitled, “Is MyLife the biggest social site you’ve never heard of?” The company has received many accolades, and Jeffrey himself was recognized as Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009. Previously, Jeffrey was a founder and CEO of GreatDomains.com, the world’s leading secondary domain name marketplace. The company was acquired by publicly-traded VeriSign for $100 million. Jeffrey is also involved in a number of private Internet companies as an investor and advisor.
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About MediaPass, MyLife, MyLife: MyLife provides the leading Reputation Platform, making consumers safer & marketplaces more trusted.
Bud Broomhead
CEO, Founder of Viakoo
Bud Broomhead brings to Viakoo, Inc. two decades of executive experience in the technology sector, leading innovative teams at Sun Microsystems and for privately-held startups in challenging CEO, COO, and GM roles in the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Broomhead is a frequent presenter and panelist at security and technology events and conferences in both the U.S. and international venues, called upon for his expertise and knowledge of the industry and trends. Mr. Broomhead is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, with a degree in Earth Sciences.
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About Viakoo: Vulnerability management for unmanaged & IoT Devices; firmware patching, certificate management, password enforcement, and service assurance
Omer Davidi
CEO & Co-founder of BeeHero
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About BeeHero: BeeHero is a developer of beehive technology platform intended to maximize crop yields through pollination.
Salvador Nissi Vilcovsky
Founder & CEO of Memomi
Salvador Nissi Vilcovsky is a serial entrepreneur and interaction design expert. Prior to founding MemoMi, Salvador founded and exited three successful network systems integration companies. An recognized leader in experience-based design, Salvador has 15 years of international, executive-level management experience, specializing in rapid product development. He completed the ACSE Program at MIT Sloan School of Management, a MA in Design from Domus Academy, and BA in Business from the University of Manchester.
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About Memomi: Memomi is a smart mirror software that transforms the luxury shopping market.
João Barros
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Veniam
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About Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Streambolico, Veniam: Veniam is a technology firm that is advancing mobility’s future by enabling the Internet of Moving Things.
Donovan Janus
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of 17hats
World traveler, pilot, motorcyclist, and entrepreneur. Coming from a long line of business owners, Donovan had his first paper route at age 9, and officially started his first company the day he turned 18. He managed the Netherlands’ largest small business website, and has been helping business owners become more successful for nearly 20 years, all while cooly maintaining a domineering streak as undisputed foosball king of 17hats.
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About 17hats, ExposureManager: 17hats is the complete system that helps automate, organize, and optimize small business management for freelancers and entrepreneurs.
Rachel Olney
Founder and CEO of Geosite
Rachel Olney is the founder and CEO of Geosite Inc.
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About Geosite: Business operations platform that links the power of spatial data and analytics to business operations, incident management, and planning.
Satyaveer Paul
Founder & CEO of woobly
It’s a journey with no end and limitations. It’s dreaming and converting them to reality, moving inch by inch, building it brick by brick, and cherishing every part of it. It’s the challenge & the process that makes the Journey filled with greatness. I strongly spread clarity is power; if you are focused on what you want, your brain acts as a server mechanism on how to get there. From finding paths going zero to one or having a never give up attitude of Balboa, I have worked hard and built-in strategies & teams that can help me reach my bulls-eye goals in Life. ► As a passionate learner, I have forge ways to implement all that I have learned, and I continuously strive to adopt and follow the world’s best business process by working closely with the world’s best business minds, all to build a World-class brand. So Let’s woobly… We enable luxury restaurants to transform the dining experience and increase their operational efficiency by 40% and 3x retention. I love reading books, parenting my kid, playing sports with my kid, and meeting enthusiastic people chasing their dreams.
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About woobly: Woobly enables ultra-luxury restaurants to deliver impeccable dining experiences.
