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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based CTO’ operating in the Mobile space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Tommy Krul
Founder & CTO of Super Evil Mega Corp
Previously at Riot Games, Gazillion, Factor 5 and Guerilla Games, Tommy is the architect of the Super Evil engine and technology approach.
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About Super Evil Mega Corp: Super Evil Megacorp is developing core games for tablet, mobile, and emerging platforms.
Li Fan
CTO & Head of Engineering of Lime
Li Fan is the CTO at Lime. She was previously head of Engineering at Pinterest. Prior to this, she held senior engineering roles at Google for eight years. Fan also worked at Baidu as VP of search.
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About Lime: Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
Timi Ajiboye
CEO & CTO of Buycoins
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About Buycoins: Buycoins is a cryptocurrency exchange that allows Africans buy and sell cryptocurrencies instantly using their local currency.
Bobby Murphy
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Snap
Bobby Murphy is the co-founder and CTO of Snapchat, Inc., a popular ephemeral messaging application that he and friend Evan Spiegel created in 2011. Bobby oversees the company’s engineering and product development.
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About Snap, Toyopa Group, LLC: Snap operates as a privately-owned multinational camera company focusing on multinational technology and social media.
Mitja Simcic
Co-Founder Chief Technology Officer of GlobaliD
Building and empowering people with portable, user controlled identities. Entrepreneur since college. Computer Science and MBA background.
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About GlobaliD, Kupi, Qloud.io: Create and manage your own portable, digital identity with globaliD.
Jerome Fodor
CTO of TOOTRiS
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About TOOTRiS: TOOTRiS is a technology platform that allows parents affordable access to high-quality Child Care, anytime, anywhere.
Parag Chordia
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of HOOKED
Parag Chordia is the director of the Georgia Tech Music Intelligence Lab, and CTO of Khush. Parag is Chief Scientist at Smule. He is the former director of the Georgia Tech Music Intelligence Lab, a research institute funded by the National Science Foundation to build intelligent systems that are musically creative. Parag was recently the recipient of the competitive NSF CAREER Award for his research in music prediction. He received a PhD in artificial intelligence and music at Stanford University and a BS in Mathematics from Yale. He has extensive experience managing commercial software development, and is also the founder of BolRecords, an Indian classical music record label. Parag is an actively performing Indian classical musician and electronic music composer.
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About HOOKED, Telepathic: HOOKED is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation.
Sriranjan Manjunath
CTO & Head of Engineering of JioSaavn
Sriranjan Manjunath (Sri) is the CTO of Saavn, India’s leading music streaming service. Sri joined Saavn in 2010 and helped build out its infrastructure and create initial versions of its products. He has since led various engineering teams within Saavn and currently oversees all of its engineering efforts including product development, infrastructure and operations. Prior to Saavn, Sri was a lead engineer at Yahoo focussing on building scalable backend systems.
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About JioSaavn: Saavn is a music streaming service for Indian, Bollywood, and International content.
Ankur Bulsara
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Scopely
Ankur Bulsara co-founded Scopely, Inc. in 2011 and serves as its Chief Technical Officer. Ankur Bulsara oversees all aspects of technology and engineering at Scopely. He has experience in building large-scale and robust systems used by millions of people across multiple platforms. Ankur Bulsara has over 10 years of experience in technology, development, and architecture. He was the Founder of Brainwave Software Inc. While consulting, he held several different positions with his clients, including Architect of Revenue and Inventory Optimization at uSamp, Architect/Lead Developer at Internships LLC, and Architect at Freedom Speaks. Since 2007, he was the Lead Software Developer on Myspace’s Developer Platform, where he was responsible for the developer website and the portal dashboard for developers to create and managed Myspace apps. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Cornell University.
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Adam Perry-Pelletier
Co-founder & CTO 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.
Zheng Bu
Chief Security Officer; CTO of International Business Group of Didi
Zheng Bu is co-founder and President at Stealth Mode Startup. He also co-founded 421 Capital and FireEye Inc., and NSFOCUS. Zheng also worked at McAfee as Director of Threat Research and at Intruvert Inc. as a Senior Security Engineer. He also became a Research Assistant at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Zheng Bu is a trusted advisory to VCs and Start-up CEOs. He is a thought leader and speaker in security research and intelligence community. He lives in Santa Clara, California, United States.
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About Didi, Stealth Mode Startup: Didi is a mobile platform that offers app-based transportation services.
Oskar Bruening
CTO & Co-founder of Peek
Oskar Bruening is Co-founder & CTO of Peek.com. He loves travel and exploring cultures and their histories. He knows 6 languages, amongst them ancient Greek and Korean. Oskar got his engineering start at the age of 14, leading to a B.Sc. and a M.Eng. from MIT in EE/CS. He was the director of engineering and founding employee at ccLoop/Pipewise and built serious software at VMware and Vontu/Symantec. On the side he is deeply passionate about art and design, thanks to growing up in an artist’s family and a second education at the San Francisco Studio School.
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About Peek: Peek is a booking software and marketplace for delightful things to do such as wine tours, watersports, skydiving, and art classes.
Mehmet Yavuz
Co-Founder and CTO of Celona
Mehmet Yavuz is the Co-Founder and CTO of Celona.
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About Celona: Celona accelerates adoption of digital automation and critical apps on enterprise wireless.
Vic Cekvenich
CTO – COO of Apakau
I am a seasoned tech executive and entrepreneur with a proven track record of success. I have over thirty years experience combining a strong technical background and business leadership. I believe that technology must be developed solely to achieve business objectives and to satisfy market demands. I believe innovation happens with small and elite teams of superstars rather than with armies of mediocre players. I also believe that creating an environment of high innovation requires a culture of high-output based on merit; a place where people are rewarded for taking good risks.
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About Apakau: Apakau’s Cloud Proxy is an intelligent, edge-based networking solution that stops (DDoS) attacks against dynamic data.
Reshef Mann
Co-Founder & CTO of AppsFlyer
Reshef Mann is Co-Founder & CTO at AppsFlyer.
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About AppsFlyer: The world’s top brands use AppsFlyer to build great products, create exceptional experiences, and preserve customer privacy.
Dave Pickles
CTO of The Trade Desk
As Chief Technology Officer and founder, Dave Pickles oversees all engineering and technology at The Trade Desk. Pickles has spent his entire career building real-time Internet delivery systems. At the internet telephony startup CallWave, Inc, he was involved in building all back end components of the system: client session management services, telephone call handling services, customer registration services, B2B integrations with all major telephone carriers, and complex high performance database systems (including a custom billing and CRM system) In 2007, Pickles joined AdECN, Microsoft’s recent exchange acquisition at the time. He wrote code and led a team that in under seven months built the complete Federated Exchange, enabling real-time bidding. After release, Microsoft publishing assets slowly ramped production traffic while hardening the system, handling performance testing of 30B daily impressions. With the exchange complete and ready for prime time, Pickles left to help found The Trade Desk and build its platform.
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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.
Tim Stonehocker
CTO of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Mukund Balasubramanian
Chief Technology Officer of Photon
Mukund Balasubramanian is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Photon. His strategic technology agenda is the driving force for mobile presences developed by over 25% of the Fortune100 companies. As a trusted technology advisor, CIOs seek his advice on technology direction, design and architecture of enterprise-class mobile and digital presences. Mukund oversees and guides one of the largest pool (over 1500) of trained digital and mobile consultants in the world. He was previously the Vice President of Product development at webMethods (NASDAQ: WEBM), which acquired Infravio for $40mn, where he was the founder and CTO. Infravio was the leading Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) registry and governance company. He has served as an active member and adviser to several standards organizations such as XML schema, W3C Web services architecture and Open Source web services. Mukund has a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
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About Photon: Photon is a technology corporation that provides Strategy Consulting, Creative Design, and Technology Services to global enterprise.
Tom Berry
Co-founder & CTO of Carbon Health
Tom is co-founder and CTO at Carbon Health. Prior to Carbon, he built web apps and data pipelines at Twitter and co-founded eyewear startup coolbeams. He’s happy to play a small part in putting the healthcare system on the solid technological footing it deserves. Tom received his Engineering degree at Stanford University with a focus in product design.
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About Carbon Health: Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers a virtual care experience.
Claire Hough
Chief Technology Officer of Carbon Health
Claire Hough is VP of Engineering at Apollo.
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About Carbon Health: Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers a virtual care experience.
Michael Wiemer
VP Eng / Co-Founder and CTO of Mojo Vision
Michael Wiemer is the Co-Founder and CTO at 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
Avnish Chauhan
Co-Founder, EVP, & Chief Technology Officer of Mobileum
Avnish is a co-founder of Roamware and is responsible for the company’s Roaming business, New Business Initiatives and the Mobile Financial Services business. Prior to Roamware, Avnish served as Vice President – Technology Solutions at US Interactive through its acquisition of SoftPlus. At SoftPlus, Avnish held cross-functional responsibilities helping design, build, sell and implement the Cross Roads 2001 award-winning solution across telecom service providers around the globe. Before SoftPlus, Avnish worked at Citicorp Software, where he led technology support teams for some of the projects in CitiGroup. He was also responsible for setting up and leading the Performance and Capacity Planning lab for Citicorp CEEMEA in London. Avnish has over 18 years of experience in the IT industry.
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About Mobileum: Mobileum provides voice and data roaming solutions and mobile financial services.
Brian Gaffney
Chief Technology Officer of Parsable
Brian Gaffney is the Chief Technology Officer of Parsable.
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About Parsable: Parsable offers a connected worker platform for industrial workers with modern digital tools to improve productivity, quality and safety.
Michael Flynn
CTO & Co-founder of Recharge
Michael Flynn currently works as the CTO and co-founder for ReCharge. He previously worked at Sponsumo as the founder.
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About Recharge: Recharge offers subscription management software for e-commerce businesses.
Satish Raghunath
CTO / Co-Founder of Twin Prime
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About Twin Prime: Twin Prime, a company that came out of stealth this week
João Almeida
CTO of OpenNode
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About OpenNode: OpenNode offers accessible way for e-commerce businesses to process bitcoin payments.
Tushar Vaish
Co-Founder and CTO of Spinwheel
Tushar Vaish is the Co-Founder and CTO of Spinwheel.
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About Spinwheel: Transform how your business and your customers see, understand, and act on debt with our industry-leading debt APIs and drop-in modules.
Harry Robertson
Co-founder & CTO of Liftoff
Co-founder & CTO at Liftoff
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About Liftoff: Liftoff is a mobile app marketing and retargeting platform which uses post-install data to run true CPA-optimized campaigns.
Javier Gonzalez
CTO of HUMBL
As CTO at Tickeri, Javier manages operations, engineering teams, and oversees all technical development of the main Tickeri platform and its multiple services and products in order to connect music fans with their favorite Latin artists.
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About HUMBL, Tickeri: HUMBL provides merchant services software which is being developed to accommodate the migration by governments to digital forms.
Anders Bjoras
Co-founder & CTO of Storygize
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About Storygize: Storygize is a native technology platform designed to empower digital media buyers to achieve maximum results with minimum effort.
Aber Whitcomb
CTO and Co-Founder of Jam City
Aber Whitcomb is co-founder and CTO of Jam City, where he oversees the software architecture underlying the company’s global gaming and analytics platform. Director and Co-founder at Core Scientific.
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About Core Scientific, i/o Ventures, Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Andrew Mackenzie-Ross
Founder & CTO of HappyCo
Andrew Mackross is the Founder & CTO at HappyCo.
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About HappyCo: HappyCo is taking traditional paper based processes out of the dark ages.
Daniel Undurraga
Founder & CTO of Cornershop
Mr. Daniel Undurraga is Founder & CTO at Cornershop.
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About 0BS, Cornershop: Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.
Dhruvesh Patel
Chief Technology Officer of VOLANSYS TECHNOLOGIES
Dhruvesh has 20+ years of diverse experience building embedded software and systems for IoT, Multimedia, Networking, Wireless, Semiconductor, Telecom and Industrial Automation products. At Volansys, as Chief Technology Officer, Dhruvesh is responsible for steering business towards new technologies, formulating robust technology-centric business strategies, and leveraging technical innovations to address complex challenges. Dhruvesh has held variety of senior leadership roles in both, technology and management since 2001 and has served global markets including U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and India. He has worked with large corporations, as well as SME’s and start-up and has been endorsed for bringing to the table discrete solutions. His passion lies in envisaging cross-domain technology applications that open up diverse avenues for business and is adept at implementing those. Driven by this passion, Dhruvesh founded Xzadium Technologies in 2013, a product design & services company offering broad-based engineering services using a variety of client-partnership models for delivery. Within a span of 2 years, Xzadium gained the reputation of a trusted partner especially among small and medium sized product companies for covering entire product life cycle as well as its sustenance. Dhruvesh holds a master’s degree from IIT, Delhi, one of the most prestigious platforms for thinkers, innovators and learners alike.
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About VOLANSYS TECHNOLOGIES: VOLANSYS is a Digital Transformation and Product Realization company offering an integrated portfolio of IoT services, solutions and IPs
Zhen Peng
Founder, CTO of Leia
Zhen has always been enthusiastic in adopting technologies to enrich life, bringing wow moments to the everyday through nano-photonics. At Leia Inc., Zhen is leading the efforts in nano-fabrication to implement it’s core technology in mass production, putting his fingerprint on a product that can truly make an impact in people’s life.
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About Leia: Leia is an experience platform offering 3D Lightfield products and software applications.
Neil Kim
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Marvell
Neil Kim is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Marvell Technology. In this role, Neil oversees Marvells advanced technology and process development efforts. Prior to joining Marvell in 2017, Neil served as the Executive Vice President of Operations and Central Engineering at Broadcom, where he was responsible for all centralized engineering development, global operations and procurement. During his 17-year tenure at Broadcom, he also held a variety of senior management positions in engineering. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2000, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Western Digital. A holder of 33 patents, he earned his BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Yaniv Kopelman
Networking CTO, Sr. Director of Marvell
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Thien Tran
CTO & Co-Founder of Honeydue
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About Honeydue: Honeydue is a mobile app for couples that offers tools to share information on respective account balances and spending.
Elliot Kroo
Founder and CTO of Getaround
Elliot Kroo is the CTO and Founder of Getaround.
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About Getaround: Getaround is a peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace that enables car owners to rent out their cars.
Simon Ratner
CTO & Founder of Proxy
Simon Ratner, CTO & Co-Founder Simon Ratner is the co-founder and CTO of Proxy, a company on a mission to empower all people with a digital identity signal that’s universally accessible, secure and private. At Proxy, he strives to create technologies that revolutionize the way we experience the physical world while empowering people to maintain complete control of their identity, data, and privacy. Before Proxy, Ratner was the co-founder of Inporia and Omnisio, which was acquired by Google, and an engineer at Jive Software, Youtube, and Sensory Networks. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, as well as dual Bachelor’s degrees in Software Engineering and Biochemistry from the University of Sydney.
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About Proxy: Access More, Share Less. Proxy designs and builds privacy-first, human-led, identity technologies. With Proxy ID, your world is now open.
Jason Meltzer
Co-Founder & CTO of Papaya
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About LA CTO Forum, Papaya, SightCine: Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.
Yun Fu
Co-Founder, CTO of Otter.ai
Yun is CTO and Co-Founder of Otter.ai. Previously, Yun was Head of Infrastructure in Particle Media Inc, Director Engineering in Alohar Mobile, and Principal Engineer in Yahoo. Yun held a number of patents in mobile technologies, distributed systems and information retrieval. Yun has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University.
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About Otter.ai: Otter.ai improves business team productivity by providing an app to capture, share and recall all of your meeting notes.
Ofer Shaked
CTO of Earnin
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About Earnin: Earnin gives people access to their pay directly from their smartphones, whenever they need it
Zachary Goldberg
Co-founder, CTO/COO of Lynk Messenger
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About Lynk Messenger: Lynk Messenger is a hyper-local messaging application that lets its users to chat with friends nearby for free.
Harlan Crystal
Founder, CTO of Pocket Gems
Harlan Crystal is the Co-founder and CTO of Pocket Gems, a leading developer of mobile games and entertainment. Harlan oversees the company’s technology initiatives and lead development on WAR DRAGONS, Pocket Gems’ first game with 3D graphics and synchronous multiplayer over mobile networks. Before founding Pocket Gems, Harlan was VP of Engineering at Smartleaf. He has hacked for many stage startups in the computer vision, compilers, embedded-realtime, bioinformatics and financial software.Harlan holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Cornell University.
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About Pocket Gems: Pocket Gems’ mission is to be one of the world’s great creators of innovative interactive entertainment on mobile.
Behrooz Abiri
CTO and Co-Founder of GuRu
A hardware hobbyist and International Physics Olympiad gold medalist – Behrooz has always been an avid inventor. He’s spent his life studying, learning, and exploring emerging technologies. His work at GuRu stems from a wish to share miraculous technology with the world at large. At GuRu, Behrooz is responsible for the ongoing development of core technology and system architecture. Under his leadership, GuRu’s millimeter-wave technology has been developed into an accessible consumer product. Before GuRu, Behrooz helped develop system design and architecture in Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech.
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About GuRu: Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
Valentin Podkamennyi
Co-Founder and CTO of Datamart
Co-founder and CTO at Datamart, MS in Informatics, previously Senior Software Engineer at Google, specializing in Software Development and Architecture Design.
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About Datamart, Towards Data Science: Datamart is a global full-service software development company that offers technical consulting and software engineering services.
Miguel Carranza
Co-Founder and CTO of RevenueCat
Miguel Carranza is the CTO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat.
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About RevenueCat: RevenueCat is a mobile subscription toolkit that makes it easy to build and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.
Halbert Nakagawa
CTO & Co-Founder of Machine Zone
Founder and CTO (Games) at MZ (Machine Zone, Inc.
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About Machine Zone: Machine Zone develops applications and games for users of social networks and mobile devices.
Justin Santamaria
Co founder & CTO of Future
Justin Santamaria is the co-founder and CTO at Future Research.
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About Future: Future offers one-on-one digital training with fitness coaches at home, the gym, or on-the-go.
Alan Messer
Chief Technology Officer of MOJIO
Alan Messer has been a worldwide leader in advanced software and intelligent services for connected consumers for more than 20 years. Alan is the CTO of Mojio and leads InnovationShift, where he works with autonomous, automotive, consumer and IoT companies, helping define or revise their technology strategies. Formerly, he was Vice President of Software and Innovation and CTO of Global Connected Consumer Experience at General Motors. Alan was also Vice President of Advanced Software Technology at Samsung Electronics. Currently, he also serves several industry organizations in advisory or board roles, including the Microsoft AI Advisory Council and the DAV Alliance.
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About MOJIO: Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS provider of choice to build and scale connected mobility services.
Shane O’Neill
Chief Technology Officer of Prodege
Shane joined Prodege in September 2013 as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining Prodege Shane was the Chief Technology Officer for Accumen. Shane was on the founding team and oversaw all technology efforts to bring Accumen from startup to a business responsible for 32 labs in three states. Prior to joining Accretive, Shane served as Chief Technology Officer at Fandango, Comcast’s online ticketing business, where he had direct responsibilities for Fandango, Movies.com and the oversight of Daily Candy and SWIRL technology groups. He played a critical role growing both revenue and profits, building a world class organization and preparing the company for an acquisition. Shane identified key areas to improve website engineering, performance and availability driving total traffic growth more than 500% and helping Fandango’s average monthly users grow from 6 million to over 20 million. Under Shane’s leadership, Fandango was capable of taking over 500,000 transactions a day, while connecting to over 1600 theater locations. Today, Fandango is one of the top 20 traffic websites and top 5 mobile ecommerce sites. Prior to joining Fandango, Shane worked in a variety of technology roles in companies ranging in size and maturity from start-ups to those in the Fortune 500. Most recently he served as the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President for Synapse Group, Inc, a TimeWarner company, focusing on enterprise architecture, application development and new product offerings. There, O’Neill built highly customizable systems in order to acquire customers for some of the largest brands in the publishing industry, including Time, Newsweek, and People. These systems were capable of handling 20 million billing events per month helping drive growth from $30 million to $350 million in revenue over the course of 6 years. Before Synapse, Shane held positions at Warnaco Group, Inc, a large apparel manufacturer, and Owens Corning. He worked on a variety of projects for both companies building web applications which increased efficiency in the sales process and created greater visibility into customer behaviors and the financials of the company through advanced reporting technologies. Shane started his career developing technology solutions for ExpressBill, now a WebMD company. He currently serves as an advisor to the Board of Directors for Insureon.com and MoviePass. He was also an advisor to treatful.com and AXYS Innovations.
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About Prodege, Swagbucks: Prodege is a cutting-edge marketing and consumer insights platform that leverages its global audience to power its business solutions.
Jorgen Birkler
Founder & CTO of InsideMaps
Jorgen Birkler is Founder & CTO at InsideMaps.
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About InsideMaps: InsideMaps is a smartphone and tablet app that enables anyone to easily create photorealistic 3D models and virtual tours of their homes.
Masoud Jalali
Co-Founder and CTO of Fintor
Masoud received his Ph.D. in machine learning and mechanical engineering from UC San Diego. He has extensive experience in data science, machine learning, product management, and real estate. After Masoud’s last exit from the startup he Co-founded in the AI and computer vision industry, he wanted to make real estate more accessible and efficient with technology for the new generation. He is currently the co-founder at Fintor.
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About Fintor: Fintor is a platform for buying and selling fractional equity shares in real estate properties.
Drew Wingard
CTO, Board Member & Co-Founder of Sonics
Dr. Drew E Wingard co-founded Sonics in September 1996 and has served as Chief Technical Officer, Secretary and Director since 1997. Dr. Wingard has currently been awarded 30 US patent during his time at Sonics. From 1994 to 1996, Dr. Wingard led the development of advanced circuit and CAD methodology for MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. Dr. Wingard co-founded and worked at Pomegranate Technology from 1992 to 1994, where he designed an advanced SIMD multimedia processor. Dr. Wingard has served as the secretary and a director of the OCP-IP, and currently serves on the board of directors for Accellera Systems Initiative. Dr. Wingard received a B.S. from the University of Texas, Austin and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in Electrical Engineering.
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About Sonics: Sonics supplies on-chip communications solutions for home entertainment, wireless, networking and mobile devices.
Stuart Parmenter
CTO of One Medical
Stuart Parmenter is the Chief Technology Officer at One Medical.
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About One Medical: One Medical is a members-only technology platform offering an array of concierge medical services.
Nathan Esquenazi
Co-founder and CTO of CodePath
I’ve been working professionally at early-stage startups for the last 10 years developing for web, mobile and desktop across many platforms. I have always been passionate about education, actively tutoring in college, holding workshops for students and volunteering to teach practical technical skills to those that want to learn them. I am passionate about open-source and I am the creator and maintainer of the Padrino ruby web framework.
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About CodePath, Miso: CodePath is a nonprofit increasing diversity in tech by transforming CS college education.
Rick Harrison
Co-Founder / CTO of Meadow
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About Meadow: Meadow builds connected cannabis retail, delivery, eCommerce, CRM, and marketing software for California’s legal cannabis industry.
Adam Rowell
Cofounder & CTO of Lucid
Stanford PhD and entrepreneur converting human vision to computer vision.Adam develops image processing and 3D graphics in any language onto any device. After his previous startup, he worked on building software for military vision and radar systems under highest pressure and conditions.
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About Lucid: AI platform extracting insights out of images and videos to serve the best content to convert users
Dmitry Fink
Founder/CTO of Bugsee
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About Bugsee: Bugsee is a mobile software kit that adds information to computer crash reports.
Hari Subramanian
Founder & CTO of Appify
In his role as VP of Engineering at ServiceMax, Hari provides the technology leadership and direction for product engineering. He manages the ServiceMax global engineering teams; and works with ServiceMax’s global PS teams and strategic customers on product enrichment initiatives. Hari has more than 22 years of experience providing architectural and functional solutions in ERP, CRM, and Service Chain Management Applications for organizations across the globe such as Hewlett-Packard, Singapore Telecom, John Hancock, Agilent Technologies, Coherent Lasers, and many other large enterprises. Hari brings a deep understanding of a variety of technologies ranging from document imaging to workflow management to database and web development to SaaS applications. Hari has a Technology Degree in Electrical Engineering from Madras University, India.
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About Appify: Appify is a no-code business apps platform for the modern workforce.
Darpan Saini
Co-Founder & CTO of Cloud Lending
Darpan holds a master’s degree in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He has previously worked with global technology companies such as IBM and Oracle in the application development division for over 4 years.He co-founded Cloud Lending Solutions with Snehal and has been closely involved in every aspect of product strategy since the inception of the company, be it design, development, delivery and customer success. He is focused on creating business value through disruptive technologies such as cloud computing and mobility.He is a passionate programmer and has also worked as a researcher in programming languages at the Carnegie Mellon University.Darpan has been a critical team member in building an agile product line made for forward looking financial institutions incorporating the S.M.A.C (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud) technologies.
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About Cloud Lending: Cloud Lending is a company that develops software for the financial lending industry.
Ethan Sutin
Co-founder/CTO of Squad
Ethan has been coding since he was 6 years old and is passionate about the intersection of social cognition and computer science. He spent 4 years as the lead engineer at Harvard’s Implicit Bias Project. His career spans low-level programming languages for container security to front-end mobile development at GoGrid, Sysdig and Code for America. Ethan holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of Missouri and a pursued a Master’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of Virginia (incomplete). Follow Molly on TwitterGet FeaturedSend Feedback
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About Squad: Acquired by Twitter in 2020. Hang out with friends in audio and video rooms.
Chris Fanini
Founder & CTO of Weebly
Fanini is the co-founder and chief technical officer of Weebly, a tech start-up based out of San Francisco. Weebly is an extremely simple and powerful way for anyone to create a website, blog or online store. More than 20 million people have created a website with Weebly, and 12 percent of the U.S. population visits a Weebly website every month. Chris grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and attended Pennsbury High School. While in high school he started a web hosting company, followed by one of the area’s first wireless ISP’s, which provided high-speed internet and voice services to small businesses who couldn’t get access to Cable or DSL. Chris went on to study IST at Penn State, then moved to San Francisco with his co-founders to start Weebly. Chris has a passion for technology, infrastructure, and the web. He’s an avid snowboarder, angel and real estate investor, and hours away from obtaining his private pilot’s license.
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About Weebly: Weebly is a consumer service that lets people create a website, blog or online store.
Hung Tran
Founder/CTO of Got It AI
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About Got It AI: Democratizing Conversational AI: TrueNLP™ based Self Discovering, Self Training & Self Maintaining AI in the cloud
Darren Cheng
Co-Founder & CTO of Thanx
Darren is a born-and-raised East-Coaster, currently enjoying the West Coast life. He joined Thanx as employee and engineer #1 in 2011 and has enjoyed cultivating the codebase from its inception to what it is now. Darren received his BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth.
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About Thanx: Guest engagement that delights!
Cha Li
CTO/Co-Founder of FetchyFox
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About FetchyFox: The Digital Marketplace and AI Intelligence Platform for public spaces, like airports.
David Wyatt
CTO of PixelDisplay, Inc.
Built first company 1993 in Taiwan, learning Mandarin on the fly, developing computer hardware/software, before coming to the US through an Intel acquisition. Track record for creating valuable IP (around 200 patents filed), leading teams delivering platform-wide innovations, aligning co-travellers and tackling the ecosystem challenges to successfully launch industry leading products that transform sectors. Including those shipped by Apple, Asus, DELL, HP, Intel, Lenovo, NVIDIA, Sharp, Sony, and more. David has a passion for addressing challenging problems from a fresh perspective, with cross domain solutions, building cross-functional/cross-industry collaborations, to make it happen. But finds the challenge of mapping an idea, into a breathtaking new business model, can be when innovation is most disruptive. Specialties: IoT, Display Technologies (Color, HDR, LCD, OLED, MicroLED TCON, Panel), Security & Cryptography, FinTech & Payments, Computer Architecture (CPU, GPU, Memory & IO), Wireless/NFC, Fuzzy & Convolution Neural Net AI/ML and more.
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About PixelDisplay, Inc.: Imagine light in all colors, as bright and dark as the real world. Imagine Mobile HDR, IoT, AR/VR display devices, running days not hours.
ShivaKumar Chandrasekaran
Co-Founder & CTO of Dentulu
Founder and member of the Board of Directors for CA Infotech India Private Limited, has served as President and CEO since the division’s inception in 2005. Shiva is a proven leader whose entrepreneurial spirit has led him to successfully create and sustain high level of competition and market fluctuations. Currently Shiva is running successfully his operations in various IT enabled services around the globe. Dentulu being his new venture.
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About Dentulu: Dentulu is a provider of teledentistry and mobile dentistry technology solutions to existing non-profits around the world.
Stephen Dawson-Haggerty
CTO and Co-Founder of Comfy
Stephen Dawson-Haggerty is a 5th-year Ph.D. student in the LoCal group working on data collection architecture and infrastructure for a future where time series data from transducers is ubiquitous. He has a background in embedded sensing and networking, conducting large-scale deployments of wireless sensors in (and on) forests, volcanos, and currently commercial buildings. He is the principle developer of blip, the low-power IPv6 networking stack for the TinyOS operating system.
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About Comfy: Comfy connects people, places, and systems through one intuitive workplace app.
Jasbir Singh
Founder, Head of Strategy, CTO & Growth Marketing of Wavespot
As a Founder and CTO, Jasbir manages Wavespot’s product roadmap.
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About Pronto Networks, Wavespot: Wavespot is a social relationship management service for local businesses.
Ryan McCaughey
Chief Technology Officer of Antenna79
Dr. Ryan McCaughey joined Pong in June 2011 and is the Chief Technology Officer for the company, where he leads the technical team that designs and tests the Pong technology. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Manchester (UK) for his thesis on Laser Stimulation of Nerves. He also received a Masters in Physics with Technological Physics from the University of Manchester. Dr. McCaughey grew up in Northern Ireland, before moving to the United States in 2007 for a research position at the Beckman Laser Institute, University of California, Irvine, where he researched laser surgery of the bones in the ear. In 2009, Dr. McCaughey joined the International Foundation for Science, Health and the Environment (IFSHE) in Los Angeles, where he worked on development of a plasma centrifuge for isotope separation and the genesis of the technology that became the foundation for Pong Research Corporation. Dr. McCaughey is the author of 4 peer-reviewed journal articles. In his spare time Ryan enjoys playing and watching sports, including soccer, rugby and gaelic football. Ryan’s perspective on what motivates him daily about being part of the Pong team: “Pong is the perfect opportunity for me to use by physics background to develop a technology that has a direct benefit to people’s lives.”
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About Antenna79: Antenna79 is a consumer electronics company that design and market products with built-in antenna technology.
Khaled Gomaa
Chief Technology Officer of elmenus
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About elmenus, Konnecti.com: Elmenus is an online food discovery platform that provides its users with digitized restaurant menus from food carts to hotel restaurants.
Manicka Babu
Chief Technology Officer of Kiip
As Chief Technology Officer for Prosper Marketplace, Manicka is responsible for leading the company’s engineering and information technology teams. This includes all application development, technology operations and mobile development. Manicka brings more than 20 years experience overseeing the development of scalable technology systems. Prior to Prosper Marketplace, Manicka was VP of Engineering at Auction.com where he rebuilt and launched a technology platform that processed $26 billion in real estate transactions and oversaw the development of the company’s API, mobile apps and international websites. Prior to Auction.com, Manicka was VP of Engineering at Martini Media Inc. where he oversaw all technology initiatives for the company and launched the Big Data Audience Management Platform. Earlier in his career, he served in management roles at Coupons.com and Covansys, a global consulting and technology services company. Manicka has filed eight patents for his work at Coupons.com and Martini Media related to advertising, digital coupons and security technologies. Manicka holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Bharathidasan University.
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About Kiip: Kiip is a rewards network and mobile application that offers rewards from brands and companies for virtual achievements.
Phil Monroe
CTO and Co-founder of Sell with AMI
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About Sell with AMI: Sell with AMI is an app that empowers social sellers to grow their business connections from anywhere.
Albert Wang
Cofounder & CTO of Cellabus
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About Cellabus: Cellabus is a Mobile Device Management and Application Platform for Education that helps schools manage large number of disparate devices
Tom Buscher
CTO of StoryCloud, Inc
Tom Buscher has 20 years of experience designing and developing software for computing systems for 99.999% or better uptime. Before joining Analog Analytics and StoryCloud, Tom was Software Architect at Continuous Computing, where he was responsible for the company’s upSuite line of continuous-availability and real-time file-replication middleware. Earlier, at AT&T Bell Labs, Tom designed numbering, routing and call-detail recording plans for the AT&T long distance network, and led the development team that created the first AT&T core network component based on commercial off-the-shelf computer technology. Tom holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics from the University of London in addition to two US patents and 11 patents pending.
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About Analog Analytics, Continuous Computing, StoryCloud, Inc: StoryCloud is the leading provider of low cost deposition reporting and legal video services.
Derek (Deyang) Zhao
Co Founder and CTO of Buddy AI
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About Buddy AI: Buddy AI
Grant George
CTO & Co-Founder of Set The Set
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About Set The Set, UnitedMasters: Request songs for your upcoming concerts!
Kavodel Ohiomba
Chief Technology Officer of BallerTV
Kavodel Ohiomoba is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer at FieldVision. He is a former Sales Engineer, Enterprise at Mixpanel, Inc. and Software Engineer at MOCAP Analytics. Mr. Ohiomoba studied at Stanford University.
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About BallerTV, FieldVision: Live video, replays & highlights from the nation’s top amateur sports.
Daniel Parkes
Chief Technology Officer of Emodo
Daniel Parkes is the CTO at Ericsson Emodo.
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About Emodo, Ericsson Ventures: Emodo transforms data into results for mobile network operators.
Keith Hoerling
Founder & CTO of Dimension Software
Keith Hoerling is the CTO // Founder of big brands such as Dimension Software and WeedMaps
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About Amaze, Dimension Software: Dimension Software is software architecture, engineering & creative design firm that grows businesses
Skinner Cheng
Co-Founder & CTO of Ava
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About Ava: Ava empowers 400M deaf & hard-of-hearing people to have accessible in-person conversations, anytime, anywhere.
Ketu Patel
Co-Founder, CTO of Rockbot
Ketu dreamt up Rockbot at his hometown bowling alley, Porterville Lanes. He’s a huge music nerd but isn’t afraid to admit the first tape he ever owned was C+C Music Factory’s seminal classic, “Gonna Make You Sweat”. When he’s not furiously coding and picking 5+ upvote jams on Rockbot, Ketu likes to snowboard and be disappointed by Cal football.
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About Rockbot: Rockbot is a streaming media platform for businesses including TV, background music, mobile app and digital signage applications.
Jeson Patel
Founder & CTO of Snowball
I like to build stuff!
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About Snowball, SocialDeck: Snowball is a universal inbox for all of your messaging apps
Evgeny Nasonov
CTO of Diffco
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About Diffco: Mobile apps and AI solutions development for Startups and Enterprises
Andy Burke
CTO of Hone
Andy is a full-stack developer with experience in web, mobile, gaming and social. An experienced technical leader focused on data-driven development, metrics and iteration, Andy thrives in start-up environments. He is also active in the open source and Los Angeles developer communities
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About Hone: Content marketing and native advertising technology company.
Mayank Jain
CTO, Co-founder of Kumu Networks
Prior to co-founding Kumu Networks, Mayank was a graduate student at Stanford University where he and his colleagues created the self-interference cancellation technology that led to Kumu’s formation. Mayank authored more than 50 patents and publications that have been cited more than 3000 times. Mayank has an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and a BTech from Delhi University. His past experience includes stints at Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and Texas Instruments.
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About Kumu Networks: Kumu Networks develops full-duplex technology, allowing a radio to send and receive signals simultaneously using a single frequency channel.
Artem Pasyechnyk
Co-founder/CTO of Canix
CTO/Co-Founder @ Canix. Engineer & Manager @ Facebook (Internet.org, Mobile Financial Services). Realtime Systems Engineer at PagerDuty. Waterloo SE ’14
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About Canix: Canix builds ERP software for cannabis companies
Ian Fischer
CTO & Co-Founder of Apportable
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About Apportable, Google: Apportable allows iOS applications to run on Android devices automatically, without requiring extensive changes to the original code.
Ram Prayaga
CTO of mPulse Mobile
Ram has a passion for solving difficult technology challenges. He brings over 20 years of engineering and project management experience to mPulse. Ram spearheads our product and development teams.
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About Advizo, mPulse Mobile: mPulse Mobile, the leader in mobile health engagement, drives improved health outcomes and efficiencies by activating healthcare consumers
Peter Kuhar
CTO & Founder of Azumio
Peter co-founded Azumio after his first app, Instant Heart Rate, hit the top charts. Now he’s working on new technologies. Before Azumio he worked on low power wireless mesh networks and voice noise reduction.
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About Azumio: Azumio is a venture-backed company that develops a suite of fitness apps for smartphones.
Jim Woodroffe
CTO of Survey.com
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About Survey.com: Survey.com empowers it’s customers with data and technology to offer targeted solutions to their specific retail challenges.
Andrew Zeck
CTO & Founder of Saucey
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About Saucey: Saucey is an e-Commerce company which handles the fastest, easiest and most reliable on-demand alcohol delivery service.
Jonathan Kalbfeld
Chief Technology Officer of Ubiquity
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About Ubiquity: Ubiquity is focused on delivering next generation IP-based content and services for mobile, tablet, and professional/lifestyle screens.
Ayyappan Sankaran
Co-Founder & CTO of YuMe
Ayyappan Sankaran is the Co-Founder and CTO of YuMe, Inc.
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About YuMe: YuMe is a provider of digital video brand advertising solutions that drives inventory monetization and more.
Mubarak Muyika
CTO, President & Founder of Zagace Inc.
CTO & President at Zagace
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About Zagace Inc.: To make SMB(small-medium business) cloud software services basic and accessible to all
Fredric Newberg
Co-Founder, CTO of Embrace
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About Embrace: Embrace is the only observability and data platform built for mobile that empowers companies to deliver optimal mobile experiences.
Michael Steuer
Chief Technology Officer of Playsino
Michael Steuer joined MAKE as CTO in 2017.
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About American Technion Society, LA CTO Forum, MAKE, Playsino: Playsino is free-to-play social gaming company.
Maxime Pruvost
Co-Founder and CTO of Acquire App
Maxime Pruvost is the Co-Founder and CTO of Acquire App.
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About Acquire App: Sell a curated selection of products through stunning checkout pages with embedded checkout.
Reza Qorbani
Co-Founder & CTO of Qualia
Reza has gained more than a decade of experience in developing Mobile App and SaaS solutions for multiple software companies. He has extensive experience in architecting, designing and developing enterprise-grade software solutions for web, desktop and mobile with scalability and user experience in mind. Reza is responsible for overseeing all Qualia software development, from real-time bidding systems to Big Data processes. His specialty is in understanding how code can solve business problems at scale. Reza holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Software Engineering.
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About 01Gravity, 01Guru, Qualia: Qualia’s is delivering high quality, transparent, audience intelligence.
