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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 United States based COO’ operating in the Art space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Nicholas Warner
COO of SentinelOne
Nick leads the global sales organization and is responsible for driving the company’s revenue growth. Prior to joining Cylance, Nick led the Advanced Technology Group at Intel Security, and also served in sales leadership roles at Websense.
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About Cado Security Ltd, Noetic Cyber, SentinelOne: SentinelOne delivers autonomous endpoint protection that prevents, detects, and responds to attacks across all major vectors.
Robert Gunn
COO of Pryon
Robert Gunn has more than 22 years of senior management experience in high technology companies and a proven track record in technology startups. Prior to joining Serus in 2004, Robert was president and CEO of PhysicianAccess.com, an e-health company that developed the first Internet-based application to address the clinical, business and patient needs of private practice physicians. Prior to PhysicianAccess, Robert was an original member of the board of directors at Cobalt Networks, Inc., a leading Internet and intranet server company. As an advisor to the CEO during the company’s formation and as Vice President of Sales, he was responsible for the creation of worldwide marketing and sales strategies. Cobalt was purchased by Sun Microsystems in November 2000 for $2 billion. In addition, Robert has held executive-level sales and marketing positions at Micronics Computers, a leading supplier of advanced system boards and multimedia peripherals, and TriQuint Semiconductor, a leading manufacturer of integrated circuits for cellular phones and wireless networks.
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About Pryon: Pryon is an AI company focused on enterprise knowledge management.
Nini Moorhead
COO and Cofounder of Vannevar Labs
Nini Moorhead is the co-founder and COO at Vannevar Labs.
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About Vannevar Labs: Machine learning products for the country’s most critical national security problems
Chief Operating Officer of Clearstep
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About Clearstep: Clearstep is a platform for health systems to provide a complete and digital front door experience.
Roger Liu
Chief Operating Officer of Kneron
Roger obtained a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has 20+ years of semiconductor and AI industry experience. Roger was the former VP for R&D in Sentelic Corp, and also served as COO in Milkyway Silicon Technology.
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About Kneron: Kneron develops an application-specific integrated circuit and software that offers artificial intelligence-based tools.
Charlie Newark-French
Chief Operating Officer of Hyperscience
Charlie is the Chief Operating officer at HyperScience. HyperScience is an enterprise software company that has built a market leading machine learning solution to automate document processing. Previously he was an investment Partner at Fusion Global Capital, a growth stage venture capital fund focused on Enterprise Software. He began investing in the venture space in 2012. Notable Investments include: RingCentral (NYSE), The Trade Desk (NASDAQ), VeloCloud (VMware), Instart Logic, and Barefoot Networks (Intel). In 2014 Charlie took the role of President at Fuze, a 120 person video-conferencing software start-up, where he helped scale the organization and lead the company through its acquisition by ThinkingPhones. Charlie joined Fuze’s acquirer, ThinkingPhones (rebranded as Fuze), in a sales leadership capacity. Charlie began his career in London with McKinsey and Company before moving to Vodafone’s Internet Services Division. Charlie has worked with start-ups across the world, including companies in San Francisco, London, and Kenya. Charlie holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics and Management from the University of Oxford. Charlie began his career in London with McKinsey and Company before moving to Vodafone’s Internet Services Division. Charlie has worked with start-ups across the world, including companies in San Francisco, London, and Kenya. Charlie holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics and Management from the University of Oxford.
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About Fusion Global Capital, Hermes Growth Partners, Hyperscience: Hyperscience is a technology company that develops AI-based enterprise software designed to automate office work processes.
Jake Sussman
Co-Founder & COO of Evisort
Jake Sussman is a co-founder and COO at Evisort.
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About Evisort: Evisort is an AI-powered contract management platform that provides visibility into any document.
Jason Miller
Chief Operating Officer of Point72 Ventures
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About Point72 Ventures: Point72 Ventures is an every-stage global VC fund focused on fintech, deep tech, and enterprise investments led by Steven A. Cohen.
Julie Skaff
Chief Operating Officer of Viz
Julie is Head of Operations at OODA Health.Prior to OODA she served as the Vice President of Implementation & Account Management at Grand Rounds, Inc. She managed the growth in their customer base to more than 80 direct customers. Prior to Grand Rounds, Julie was the Director of Implementation at Castlight Health, where she led the strategic implementation group. Julie has also worked in Booz & Company’s Global Health Practice and served Senator Dianne Feinstein as an aide for taxes, budget, and commerce. Julie has an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a BA from Northwestern University.
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About Viz: Viz is a medical imaging company that helps optimize emergency treatment using deep learning technology.
Paul Walborsky
Founder & COO of AI.Reverie
Paul Walborsky is the Founder at AI.Reverie .
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About AI.Reverie: A leading provider of synthetic data to train machine learning algorithms.
Darren Morris
COO and Co-Founder of Gradient Cyber
Darren Morris is the Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Gradient Cyber.
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About Gradient Cyber: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
Mukund Ramachandran
COO of Dynamic Yield
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About Dynamic Yield: Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions.
Winnie Lee
Chief Operating Officer of Appier
Winnie Lee is the Co-Founder and COO at Appier. Prior to joining Appier, Winnie was an immunologist for 10 years. Receiving her PhD from Washington University and her MS from Stanford University, Winnie has authored a number of publications in top-tiered journals, including four Nature papers, and her research work has received close to 1000 citations accumulatively. During her leisure time, Winnie enjoys shopping, swimming, traveling and learning new things.
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About Appier: Appier is a Taipei-based startup providing an AI powered platform to brands and retailers to help increase customer engagement.
Hayley Leibson
Co-founder and COO of Lunchclub
Hayley Leibson is a serial venture-backed consumer tech startup founder, product manager, and writer. Hayley Co-founded a16z-backed startup Lunchclub and Y Combinator-backed startup Neverland.
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About Forbes, Lunchclub, Neverland: Lunchclub utilizes AI to match people for one-on-one video meetings.
Nadya Thorman
Chief Operating Officer of CENTURY Tech
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About CENTURY Tech: CENTURY is the award-winning artificial intelligence teaching and learning platform for schools, colleges and universities.
Charu Noheria
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Practically
Charu Noheria is a Co-founder and Chief Operating Office at 3RDFLIX Visual Effects Pvt. Ltd.
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About Practically: Practically is India’s first experiential learning app designed to make learning immersive for students of classes 6-12
Mark Cranney
Chief Operating Officer of Skydio
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About GTMFund, Skydio: Skydio uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.
Colleen Theis
Chief Operating Officer of The Orchard
As COO, Colleen oversees all client-facing departments for the company’s global digital and physical distribution business, including Client Relations, Acquisition & Retention, Sales & Marketing, and Film, TV & Advertising. She also oversees the UK and European teams. Prior to joining The Orchard, Colleen was Senior Vice President, International of ADA Global. She spent 12 years in London, expanding her international marketing role with Rykodisc and Palm Pictures. Colleen got her start in the music industry in Elektra Records’ international department. She is the proud owner of a ridiculously huge and eclectic record collection (with a particular focus on the New Romantic era) as well as a tattered and tattooed passport, having traveled to some countries no longer found on modern maps in the pursuit of music
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About The Orchard, TVT Records: The Orchard is a music distribution, marketing and sales company for artists and labels to distribute content to digital and mobile outlets.
Jewel Li
COO of AutoX
Jewel Zhuo Li is the COO of AutoX, a startup creating full-stack A.I. software solution for autonomous driving. An expert in A.I. and machine learning, Dr. Li was a postdoc researcher at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and received her PhD from the University of Delaware.
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About AutoX: AutoX is a self-driving car startup that offers AI drivers to enable universal access to transportation for the people.
Toby Simpson
Co-Founder & COO of Fetch.AI
Toby Simpson is a producer of the successful a-life Creatures series of games and early developer at Deepmind. His thirty years’ experience in software, ten as a CTO, are now focussed on crypto-economics.
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About Fetch.AI: Fetch.AI develops a decentralized network for digital representatives to find, communicate, and trade with each other.
Christian Cerda
Chief Operating Officer of iRobot
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About iRobot, SimpliSafe: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Claire Bruce
Co-Founder & COO of Vivun
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
COO of Gramener
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About Gramener: Insights delivered as Data Stories : Analytical Custom Solutions delivered rapidly , Assets: Platform,Process & People.
Brandon Tseng
Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder of Shield AI
Brandon Tseng is Shield AI’s Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to founding Shield AI, Brandon proudly served in the US Navy for seven years. As a Navy SEAL, he served two deployments to Afghanistan and one to the Pacific Theater. Previously, he was the Assistant Chief Engineer aboard the USS Pearl Harbor (LSD-52) and deployed to the Persian Gulf. Brandon earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy and his MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Shield AI: Building the world’s best AI pilot.
Matthew Ko
Co-founder and COO of DeepScribe
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About DeepScribe: DeepScribe is an AI-driven platform for medical record-taking.
Scott Chesrown
Chief Operating Officer of K Health
Scott Chesrown is the COO of K Health and Co-Founder of [Vroom](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vroom-com#/entity). Chesrown holds a bachelor’s degrees in Business and Spanish from the [University of San Diego](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-san-diego-2#/entity) and Master’s degree in Engineering from [Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rose-hulman-institute-of-technology#/entity). He also holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and PhD in Leadership Studies from [Gonzaga University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gonzaga-university-2#/entity). Chesrown lives in New York, United States.
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About K Health: K Health is a data-driven digital primary care system that uses AI to deliver personalized primary care.
Keith Armstrong
Co-Founder & COO of Abe AI
Keith is the COO of Abe.ai, a bot for your money. Previously he worked as a microfinance consultant in South Africa and helped grow startup ecosystems around the world with Startup Weekend. He’s passionate about helping everyday people be better with money.
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About Abe AI: Abe builds conversational banking solutions for progressive banks.
Kathryn Rungrueng
COO of Flowcast
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About Flowcast: Flowcast provides an AI platform that automates and powers lender credit decisions.
Yuansong Liao
Co-COO/Chief Scientist/VP Analytics / Senior Analytics Manager of Opera Solutions
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About Opera Solutions: Opera Solutions provides advanced analytics software solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from Big Data at scale.
Marc Chesley
COO of Paradox
Marc Chesley is the Chief Operating Officer of Paradox.
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About Paradox: Paradox is an AI company that helps companies capture and screen candidates, improve conversions, and answer all candidate questions.
Dan Wright
President & COO of DataRobot
Dan Wright is the Chief Executive Officer of DataRobot.
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
David Letourneau
COO of LiveArt Holdings
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About Basin Logistics, CARGGO, LiveArt Holdings: LiveArt provides a set of tools and real-time data to help be a more informed art collector.
Monica Jonas
Chief Operating Officer of WorkFusion
Monica leads account management for WorkFusion. She was previously SVP of Global Business Operations for Viacom Media Networks, and before that she held technology management roles at Tacoda Systems, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, PBS, AARP, and NASA Space Station Freedom Program Office. Monica’s more than 20 years’ experience in media and technology operations includes development of project management frameworks, managing capital and expense budgets, building strategic partnerships with vendors, and designing sourcing solutions.
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About WorkFusion: WorkFusion offers automation solutions to enterprises to help them reduce costs and up-skill workforces.
Raphael Tehranian
Co-Founder and COO of Altana AI
Raphael Tehranian is the co-founder and COO of Altana Trade.
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About Altana AI, Cleantech Group, Suncor Energy: Altana is an AI partnership that uses global economic data to make trade safer, more efficient, and more profitable.
Chris Kontes
Founder & COO of Balto
Chris Kontes is a co-founder and COO at Balto.
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About Balto: Balto is a real-time guidance platform that increases conversions and decreases ramp time for contact centers.
Maximiliano Casal
Co-Founder & COO of Nowports
Co-founder Nowports (YC W19 & YCG S20), a Logistics & trade SaaS platform. Max is a Software Engineer with more than 9 years of experience in different projects. Persistent, methodical & innovative.
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About Nowports: Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that automates the supply chain processes of Latin American companies.
Stephen Coakley
COO & President of Babel Street
Stephen Coakley is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Babel Street, a company that provides actionable intelligence by persistently monitoring and analyzing a variety of data sources. Babel Street serves governments, higher education, and a wide spectrum of the business sector. Prior to Babel Street, Stephen was the Founder and Principal of Horizon Services, a government contractor that rose to #312 on the Inc 500 Fastest-Growing Companies List, with $8M in revenues and 150 employees. Steve’s philosophy is that he wants to work with very smart people doing something they all can be incredibly passionate about. Otherwise, it’s time to reinvent.
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About Babel Street: Babel Street provides real-time situational awareness and intelligence on global topics of interest.
Will Mapes
COO of RoboTire
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About RoboTire: RoboTire automates vehicle maintenance by combining robots and computer vision.
Aceil Halaby
Co-Founder & COO of Bloomer Health Tech
Aceil Halaby is the co-founder and COO at Bloomer Health Tech.
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About Bloomer Health Tech: Bloomer Tech uses everyday fabrics and machine learning for personalized detection, monitoring, and treatment of chronic diseases.
Kevin Farrelly
Co-founder & COO of Random Forest Capital
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About Random Forest Capital: Investing more intelligently in credit via AI and Machine Learning
Ross Blum
Chief Operating Officer of Skyline Robotics
Ross Blum is the chief operating officer of Skyline Robotics. He is a former Chief Operating Officer at Quidd and Chief Administrative Officer at pingmd. Ross is a registered attorney in the State of New York, holding a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He also received an M.S. in sports management from Georgetown University and a B.S. from Babson College.
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About Skyline Robotics: Skyline Robotics specializes in automating all real estate maintenance work at heights.
Preet Virk
Co-Founder and COO of Inorganic Intelligence
Preet Virk currently works as Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Inorganic Intelligence. He previously worked at MACOM as SVP, GM Networking BU.
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About Inorganic Intelligence: Celestial AI develops data center and edge AI computing solutions.
Kyle Giffin
Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer of LatchBio
Kyle Giffin is a Co-founder at Latch Bio.
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About LatchBio: Latch Bio builds and disseminates free to use data infrastructure for the the biocomputing revolution.
Ryan Fukushima
Chief Operating Officer of Tempus
Ryan Fukushima serves as Chief Operating Officer at Tempus. Prior to Tempus, Fukushima was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Vice President at Lightbank, focusing investments on enterprise software and launching businesses. Earlier he was at Hyde Park Venture Partners, where he concentrated on enterprise investments in the Midwest. Before landing in Chicago, Fukushima worked predominantly as an engineer, designing and implementing backend systems for Cisco and VMware. Fukushima has received a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from California Polytechnic University and holds an MBA from the Ross School of Business at University of Michigan, where he was a Zell Scholar.
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About Tempus: Tempus is a technology company advancing precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence in healthcare.
Mayank Patel
Co Founder, President & COO of Accrete
Co-Founder, President & COO Accrete.ai.
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About Accrete: Accrete AI enables organizations to solve novel classes of real world information complexity problems by scaling tacit knowledge.
Varun Nagaraj
COO of Bidgely
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About Bidgely: Bidgely leverages the power of AI to optimize utility customer engagement and is the choice of leading utilities
Vikhyat Chaudhry
Co-Founder, CTO and COO of Buzz Solutions
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About Buzz Solutions: Buzz Solutions provides AI-based actionable insights and predictive analytics for asset fault detection and inspection of power lines.
Kiryl Trembovolski
Co-Founder and COO of Behavox
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About Behavox: Behavox is an AI-driven platform that enables you to aggregate, analyze, and act on your entire organization’s data.
James Felton Keith
COO of Accrue
James Felton Keith is currently President of The Data Union. Affectionately known as JFK, he is an award winning engineer and serial-entrepreneur that defined data as a natural resource in the book Personal Data: The People’s Asset Class. JFK has incubated the data industry via his founding of the Data Trade Association and Personal Data Week conferences. He has either written or influenced all of the global cyber policy over the past 10 years. A serial-entrepreneur, he has founded 12 companies of which 5 were successful. Most notably: Cyberfense, Accrue.com, Slay TV, and the LGBT Chamber. His expertise is in the ethnography of technology, or the study of the culture of tech. Over the past 20 years between 4 continents he has been obsessing about economic inclusion, and how to get equity in the hands of the people who have increasingly less, while the world becomes more productive from their input. JFK was the 1st Black representative of the LGBT community to run for US Congress. He says “it’s necessary to have the mind of a CEO and the heart of a Social Worker to solve real people problems”. James has been appointed to the cabinet of Elected Officials, taken over for and advised CEOs, Academics, and Non-profiteers. Keith currently serves on advisory boards at Rutgers University and the Democratic National Committee. He is a frequent keynote at global venues like the United Nations, Future Tech Congress, Money 20/20, and Hope Global Forums to name a few. Most recently he was honored as an IBM Global Entrepreneur, one of the UN’s International Young Leaders Assembly members, the United Kingdom’s Technology & Investment Financial Technology Delegation, the US Department of Homeland Security’s Commitment to Diversity, and multiple 40 under 40 notices.
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About Accrue, Cyberfense, NTGR8, nuOctave, Stall Talk: Accrue is a financial analytics company that builds deep learning technology.
Suhas Ahuja
Co-Founder, COO of SIERA.AI
Suhas is an experienced entrepreneur with multiple successful exits in the high-tech sector. Suhas leads all of Stocked Robotics’ sales and business development operations globally.
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About SIERA.AI: SIERA.AI is a mobility tech company that helps warehouses and factories increase safety and efficiency of their industrial vehicle fleets.
David Werry
Founder, President & COO of Well
David Werry Co-founder, President & COO at Well
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About Well: Well is a health technology company that provides access to trusted health partners.
Chun Wu
Co-Founder and COO of iCarbonX
Chung Wu is Co-founder and COO of iCarbonX. Dr. Wu joined the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in 2003. As the global Partner and Managing Director, Dr. Wu led her team to assist tens of multinational and domestic companies to formulate corporate strategy and improve business management. Early 2015, Dr. Wu joined the Beijing Genomics Institute as the Chief Operating Officer, overseeing manufacturing, marketing, and sales globally. Dr. Wu received B.S. degree in biology from Peking University and Ph.D. in genetics from Yale University.
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About iCarbonX: iCarbonX is a China-based artificial intelligence platform for health data company.
Nevin Raj
COO & Co-Founder of Grata
Nevin Raj is a co-Founder and serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Grata.
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About Grata: Grata is a business-to-business search engine for finding and targeting private companies.
Maria Karaivanova
COO & Co-founder of WhyLabs
Maria Karaivanova is the COO and co-founder of WhyLabs, the AI Observability company. Previously, she was a Principal at Madrona Venture Group investing in SaaS, ML/AI, and cybersecurity and a CxO & Head of Business Development at Cloudflare (NYSE: NET).
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About WhyLabs: WhyLabs is the AI observability and monitoring company.
Sofia Elizondo
Co-Founder and COO of Brightseed
Sofia Elizondo is the Co-founder and COO at Brightseed.
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About Brightseed: Brightseed features artificial intelligence that reveals powerful compounds hidden in nature.
Ben Hsieh
Co-Founder and COO of Synapbox
Ben Hsieh is the co-founder and COO of Synapbox. He is a former director at Nest.vc.
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About Synapbox: Synapbox is a startup that uses AI-powered tools to understand consumer engagement towards Ads.
Vincent Luciani
Co-Founder and Global COO of Artefact
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About Artefact: Artefact is a digital agency celebrating the long overdue marriage of marketers and engineers.
Michael Saltzman
Co-Founder & COO of EvolutionIQ
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About EvolutionIQ: Leading the artificial intelligence transformation for insurance carriers. AI Guidance for Disability and General Liability Carriers.
Kaan Ersun
COO of Solvvy
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About Solvvy: Solvvy is a machine learning startup that reinvents the customer experience by delivering a better self-service platform.
John Singleton
Co-Founder & COO of Watchful
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About Watchful: Watchful automates the process of distilling, scaling, and injecting subject-matter-expertise into machine learning models.
Sarah Sanders
Co-Founder, COO & Board Member of Native
Sarah Sanders is a co-founder at Native AgTech, a B2B platform designed to democratize agricultural data. Previously, Sarah was a territory account executive at Toast. Sarah Sanders holds a bachelor of business administration degree in management from the University of Kentucky.
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About Native: A platform using A.I. to understand consumer preferences and helping companies create products that people love!
Michael MacDonald
COO of Claim Genius
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About Claim Genius, Nasdaq: Claim Genius features a real-time photo AI platform that generates auto repair estimates instantly.
Simon Smith
Co-Founder & COO of Inky
Simon Smith is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Operations Officer at Inky. Prior to joining Inky, Simon was VP of Software Operations at ITA Software and managed the team responsible the for SaaS and data operations, a purview involving hundreds of servers and 24/7 support. Simon’s infrastructure handled millions of travel search queries per day, and serviced virtually all major US airline and travel intermediary websites. Prior to ITA, Simon managed a Computer Sciences Corporation team that performed vulnerability analysis for the US Air Force. Simon holds a Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree from Texas A&M University.
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About Inky: Inky is a cyber-security company that secures email against phishing.
Jing Xue
Co-Founder & COO of DecorMatters
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About DecorMatters: Building the world’s first blockchain-based creativity ecosystem for the trillion dollar home renovation industry
Gabrielle Haddad
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Sigma Ratings
Gabrielle Haddad is the Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Sigma Ratings, Inc., the world’s first non-credit rating agency. Gabrielle began her career as an M&A attorney at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in NYC. She subsequently spent several years as an executive at The Global Fund, a Geneva, Switzerland based international financing institution, where she worked on risk and governance issues in over 30 country portfolios across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Her passion for international development, technology and innovation led her to return to the US and to spend a year studying at MIT, where she met her co-founder and launched Sigma. Gabrielle has an undergraduate degree in Finance from Villanova University, a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School and an M.B.A. from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
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About Sigma Ratings: Sigma Ratings is an AI-powered non-credit rating agency focused on quantifying company-level non-credit risks.
Rahul Siddharth
COO Co-Founder, Board of Verifcient Technologies
Rahul Siddharth is the Chief Marketing Officer of Verificient Technologies. As CMO, Rahul is responsible for the overall branding and marketing strategy, while also supporting our business development efforts. His background experiences in creative consulting, print design, emarketing, web 2.0 strategies, multimedia design, motion graphics, rich-media design, photography, digital video production, advertising, copywriting, marketing, art directing, and project management. Rahul has won seventeen Creative Excellence Awards while working at SCG Creative, Grey Advertising, Bernard Hodes Group (Omnicom), Jack Morton Worldwide (IPG), Zoecom, RSVPdesign, Bayard Advertising and One Source. He has an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design and a BS in Marketing from Fairfield University.
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About Alignkraft, Proctortrack Pro, RemoteDesk- Employee Monitoring Software, Siddharth Creative Group, Verifcient Technologies: Trusted Identity-as-a-Service (TIaaS), platform for identity verification and authentication.
Francis Toglia
COO and Co-Founder of Fluid Power AI
Francis Toglia currently works as Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder at Fluid Power AI, Inc. He previously worked at Scuderia Corsa Ferrari and Rio Tinto Autonomous Haulage
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About Fluid Power AI: Fluid Power AI is installed on a hydraulic system to monitor its health status and predict failure in real-time.
Max Ball
Founder and COO of Lofty AI
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About Lofty AI: Lofty AI lets you invest in tokenized rental properties for only $50 and sell any time
Julien Penders
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Bloomlife
Co-Founder & COO at Bloomlife.
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About Bloomlife: Women’s health company combining clinically validated wearables with data analytics to improve birth outcomes.
Omar Haroun
Co-Founder & COO of Text IQ
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About Sportaneous, Text IQ: Text IQ is a B2B SaaS company deploying AI to uncover and contextualize sensitive data across privacy, security, legal, and compliance.
Todd DiRoberto
Co-Founder and COO of Weedguide
Todd DiRoberto is the CEO at Atlas Investment Ventures, LLC.
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About Atlas Investment Ventures, Atlas Marketing Partners, Weedguide, Wge: Artificial Intelligence Driven Vertical Search Engine Platform for Cannabis
Travis Noll
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Just Appraised
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About Just Appraised: Just Appraised uses AI to drive automation for local government assessors, helping them provide fair and equitable assessments to taxpayers.
Ruth Brown
Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder of Kasisto
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About Kasisto: Kasisto’s enables financial institutions to service, engage, and acquire customers.
Ankit Vyas
COO of IQM Corporation
ANKIT VYAS, is an Industrial designer with more than 5 years of business experience. His engineering background helps him execute the concepts into reality. He is a vision oriented innovation enthusiast, value focused decision maker and a sustainable ecosystem believer. He carries a life centric approach towards any problem & solutions. After designing several industrial products, Ankit set off on a mission to design a solution that would make the world actually a better place. At Oizom, Ankit is trying to discover the hidden patterns and correlations of the environment with a data driven approach. He imagines a future where they will have a complete understanding and command over their environment.
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About Cosire, IQM Corporation, Oizom: Leveraging AI and Big Data to Nudge Swing Voters toward active decisions on election.
Kris Qiu
Co-Founder/COO of IQM Corporation
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About IQM Corporation: Leveraging AI and Big Data to Nudge Swing Voters toward active decisions on election.
Gart Davis
Co-Founder/COO of Spoonflower
Gart Davis is the co-founder of [Spoonflower](http://www.spoonflower.com), a web site that allows crafters to print custom fabric and sell their designs. From its launch in 2002 until January 2008, Davis was president and chief operating officer of Lulu.com, a self-publishing site founded by Bob Young. Prior to Lulu he served as VP of Operations at Prosoft, a training company, and as CEO of the Chapel Hill Group, an Internet education and strategy group. He has a BA from Cornell University.
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About Spoonflower: Spoonflower is an online community built around fabric and textile design offering custom fabric, wallpaper, gift wrap and decal printing.
Jonathan Wu
Chief Operating Officer / Chief Financial Officer of Jobscan
Previously a consultant with Oliver Wyman Consulting, Jonathan specialized in their media, technology, and strategy practice groups. He has extensive experience with value driven business designs, disruptive product launches and B2B2C strategy. In his free time, Jonathan enjoys traveling around the world, meeting new people and cooking. His goals in life include: visiting all 7 continents before he is 30, learning how to cook in paris, and training with the shaolin monks in china.
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About Jobscan: Building the best tools for job seekers with AI
Art Amador
Founder & COO of EquBot
Art Amador CFP® is the COO and co-founder of EquBot. Art brings more than a decade of experience in the investment management industry. Most recently, he spent 8 years serving as a Vice President at Fidelity Investments, where he was responsible for over $1.3 billion in assets. In 2012, Art was recognized as Fidelity’s #1 consultant in the U.S. He holds the professional designation of Certified Financial Planner, an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and a BS in Financial Services from San Diego State University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and #1 in his major.
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About EquBot: EquBot AI with Watson helps global investment professionals deliver better outcomes through custom AI portfolios as a service (PaaS).
Erin Brockman
Chief Operating Officer of Ordergroove
As the COO of Ordergroove, Erin is focused on accelerating revenue growth, building and scaling a world-class team and culture, and ensuring strong value delivery for clients. She is directly responsible for Ordergroove’s Client Services teams, including Client Development and Client Solutions, Subscription Marketing, Human Resources as well as companywide Operations. Prior to Ordergroove, Erin served in leadership roles at Yodle for 6 years, first as SVP of Client Services and then as Chief Human Resources Officer, where she helped scale Yodle’s marketing automation SaaS business from start-up to $160M+ in revenue, 50,000 customers and over 1,200 employees. Previously, Erin was Vice President of Operations and Customer Service at Yahoo! HotJobs for 8 years where she successfully led the transition from high-growth start-up to an industry-leading media and recruitment solutions business. Before Yahoo!, Erin held management positions at a number of high tech start-up organizations and spent several years in Change Management consulting at Accenture. Erin is a graduate of Cornell University with a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations. She lives in Tribeca with her husband, John, and baby Grayson where they enjoy trying out all the great restaurants in their neighborhood.
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About Ordergroove: Ordergroove transforms brands & retailers from episodic transactions to recurring revenue via frictionless, recurring customer experiences.
Aaron Favara
COO of Refraction AI
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About PICKUP, Refraction AI: Refraction AI is a robot delivery startup offering food delivery service from restaurants to customers through its self-driving robot REV-1.
Jerry Kuang
COO of HistoWiz
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About HistoWiz: HistoWiz provides automated histopathology for biomedical researchers.
Gary Ellis
Co-Founder, President & COO of Remesh
Gary Ellis serves as a co-founder and COO at Remesh.
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About Remesh: Remesh offers an AI-powered platform that enables users to have live conversations with their customers at scale.
Josh Conviser
COO of Booxby Inc.
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About Booxby Inc.: A.I. to monetize stories
Nathan Kropp
COO & Co-Founder of Contactability
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About Contactability: Lead Management and Marketing Automation
Pieter Doevendans
Co-Founder, COO of Ava
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About Ava, Kairos Society: Ava empowers 400M deaf & hard-of-hearing people to have accessible in-person conversations, anytime, anywhere.
Thomas Van Swearingen
Co-Founder & COO of Quirk.ai
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About Quirk.ai: Quirk develops creative enterprise bots to have natural discussion utilizing NLP, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and A.I. techniques.
Cindy Chin
President, Chief Operating Officer (COO) & Co-Founder of CLIPr
Cindy Chin is an entrepreneur, venture strategist, and cultural ambassador of the arts and sciences. As CEO of CLC Advisors, LLC, she is an advisor and board member to founding startup teams, opportunity scout for VCs, investors, and LP partners, a supporter of global entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems, strategic thought leader, and a sought-after speaker. She recently founded CLIPr Co and is the COO. Cindy is also a NASA Datanaut, an open data innovation program to promote data science, coding, and gender diversity. The NASA Datanauts program operates within the Office of the CIO at NASA Headquarters. She is also a mentor in the Google Launchpad Mentor Program, Stanford University’s Technology Entrepreneurship and undergrad programs, and a member of the faculty of the Startup Executive Academy of Silicon Castles in Salzburg, Austria. Cindy is passionate about social impact, smART cities, public-private sector partnerships and building great companies. She achieves this by defining strategies for building multidisciplinary global ecosystems, accelerators, outreach, and innovation phases of ventures, alternative revenue generation and sustainability. Gender parity and diversity are factors for consideration.
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About CLC Advisors, CLIPr, Google, Howard University, NASA, NASA International Space Apps Challenge, National Geographic, The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), University of Applied Science Salzburg: CLIPr is a video analysis and management (VAM) platform using AI and machine learning for videos
Caleb Cross
COO of Adla
Caleb Cross was a Co-Founder and CMO of the New York-based fintech company, ScholarMe. ScholarMe is a website where students in high school and college can build a plan to pay their college tuition and then apply for all their financial aid (FAFSA, scholarships and student loans) directly on the ScholarMe website.
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About Adla: Adla is a clothing company that provides an artificially intelligent styling service.
Brad Kayton
COO & Co founder of Zome Energy Networks, Inc
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About World Energy Consortium, Zome Energy Networks, Inc: We use machine learning algorithms to virtualize, control and scale device power loads on the energy grid.
Michael Suswal
Co-founder & COO of Standard Cognition
Michael Suswal is the Co-Founder & COO of Standard Cognition.
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About Standard Cognition: Standard Cognition provides an autonomous checkout tool that can be installed into retailers’ existing stores.
Malo Bourgon
Chief Operating Officer of Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Malo Bourgon oversees MIRI’s day-to-day operations and program activities. Before becoming COO, Malo worked for MIRI as a program management analyst, helping implement many of MIRI’s current systems, processes, and program activities. He also co-chairs the committee on the Safety and Beneficence of Artificial General Intelligence and Artificial Superintelligence of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems. Malo joined MIRI in 2012 shortly after completing a master’s degree in engineering at the University of Guelph.
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About Machine Intelligence Research Institute: The MIRI is focused on developing the mathematical theory of trustworthy reasoning for advanced autonomous AI systems.
Qingsong Zhu
COO of Insilico Medicine
Qingsong Zhu, Ph.D. is the Chief Operating Officer of Insilico Medicine, Inc., a company that utilizes advances in genomics, big data analysis, and deep learning for in silico drug discovery and biomarker development for aging and age-related diseases. Dr. Zhu received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from Kansas State University. Prior to joining Insilico Medicine, he had his postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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About Insilico Medicine: Insilico Medicine develops an AI platform for drug development to treat cancer and age-related diseases.
Jake Witherell
Chief Operating Officer of Schell Games
Jake Witherell is Chief Operating Officer of Schell Games, where he oversees the operations and business development efforts of the company. Finance, marketing, legal, human resources, IT, and facilities management are among the departments he manages in this position. Jake has over 20 years of experience in founding, managing, advising, and investing in companies within the technology, telecommunications, retail, and business services industries. He was previously a co-founder and Managing Partner of M Park Capital, a private investment firm focused on acquiring and operating lower middle market companies. Prior to M Park Capital, Jake served as Chief Operating Officer of a division of PGi (NYSE:PGI), a leading global provider of collaboration software and solutions. Prior to PGi, Jake held the position of Chief Operating Officer of Netspoke, Inc., an integrated web and audio conferencing service provider. Netspoke was twice named to the prestigious INC 500, a list of the fastest growing private companies in the United States. Before Netspoke, Jake was co-founder and President of iMeet, Inc., an internet communications service provider. There he grew it into a $10MM company and oversaw its successful merger with audio conferencing provider Netspoke, Inc. Jake also was the VP of Marketing and Business Development at internet start-up SneakerLabs, Inc. Recently Jake was appointed to the Pennsylvania Early Learning Investment Commission (ELIC), a group that advocates for quality early childhood education and care. He currently serves on the board of the Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art and HeartPrints Center for Early Education. In the past, he has been a Director of iMeet, Netspoke, and M Park Capital. Jake holds a BA in Economics from Tufts University and an MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. He also earned a certification from the Entrepreneurial Management Program at Carnegie Mellon University.
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About iMeet, Inc., Schell Games: Schell Games is a full-service game design and development company. Transforming play.
Sankar Lagudu
Co-Founder & COO of RFPIO Inc.
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About RFPIO Inc.: Revolutionary RFP software that enhances collaboration and fosters a truly efficient response process. Allow your team to thrive with RFPIO.
Dwight Linden
Founder / COO of ENTROPIX
Serial entrepreneur with international experience creating and building up companies. • CEO and co-founder of Russian vacation rentals internet portal • CEO Russian online travel portal • CEO and co-founder of logistical services start-up (Successful exit 3 years after launch) • Certified Scrum Master • Program/Project Manager with wireless, software & IT experience in US & Russian markets. • Experience in telecommunications start-up as part of upper management team. • International business management experience • Bi-lingual (Russian/English)
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About ENTROPIX: Advanced Computational Imaging Systems
Devon Edwards
COO of Catalia Health
Devon Edwards is the COO at Catalia Health.
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About Catalia Health: We create the Mabu personal healthcare companion to help patients with chronic disease and collect data to healthcare providers.
Shaokang Wang
Co-founder and COO, Data Modeler of Infervision
Shaokang Wang is the co-founder,COO, and data modeler. Before starting Tuixiang, he worked as a data scientist in the Anthem Marketing Solutions, responsible for business and market analysis. He got his master degree of statistics at the University of Chicago.
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About Infervision: Infervision is an AI high-tech company that uses deep learning technology and computer vision to help diagnose cancers.
Prateek Sachdeva
Co-Founder & COO of Invisible AI
Before launching Invisible AI, Prateek led the Data Infrastructure team at Luminar Technologies. Prateek deployed the infrastructure necessary to support a fleet of self-driving cars and filed five patents in the process. He previously graduated with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. Learn More | https://invisible.ai
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About Invisible AI: Invisible AI is a next-generation computer vision company.
Keita Funakawa
COO of Nanome
As a scientifically minded artist, Keita grew up in Tokyo then moved to Honolulu where he attended middle and high school. As the lead programmer for his high school robotics team, he led his team to two time (2009,2010) state championships at the East Oahu VEX robotics competitions. As an award winning filmmaker, his film Foliage: Roots of the Tree Barrel won the 2014 HIFF (Hawaii International Film Festival) student showcase and was named San Diego Surf Film Festival’s Emerging Filmmaker. During my undergraduate career, after reading about Mt.Gox in late 2013, I found a new passion for cryptocurrencies and blockchain which made me switch my degree from Computer Science to Management Science (Quantitative Economics). Being the Assistant Curator for the UC San Diego Film Festival, I was exposed to VR since 2014. When I first experienced the google cardboard and the HTC vive, I decided that I could no longer be a painter when photography just got invented, sort of speak. This led me to learn as much as I could about VR. At the Festival I met Steve, who told me about his idea for Nanome (formerly NanoVR) in April 2015. Nanome is a software company that democratizes Science to accelerate innovation using Virtual Reality and Blockchain Technologies.
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About Nanome: Nanome is a virtual reality software company that offers a collaborative XR software platform for molecular design.
Bill Davidson
Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of autonomous_ID
Bill Davidson, Executive Vice President, and Chief Operating Officer, is an action-oriented leader with over 20 years of operational experience and a diverse background covering all aspects of business. In this role, his responsibilities include the following: corporate strategy, business segment management (consumer, small business, enterprise, and commercial), IT, marketing, communications, sales and marketing operations, customer care, facilities, and human resources. Bill’s extensive work with multinational, operationally-focused organizations (public and private) allows him to consult on topics regarding international “best practices”. He is adept at programmatic and operational analysis with a continuous focus on opportunities for improved process controls, resource allocation, and cost management. Bill has a talent for finding innovative solutions to challenging problems that focus on maximizing efficiency and profitability. In 2011, he was tasked with accelerating the transformation and growth agenda of manufacturing firm through the advancement of key global business units and transformational business opportunities. Bill developed an aftermarket service contract business model which included: defining transformational business model, financial sustainability, implementation strategies and benchmarks, change management, and organizational structure resulting in $1M in increased revenue, increasing to $3M by year three. In 2010 he developed a new model of repair part supply chain management enabling management of inventory, transportation, distribution, and redistribution of parts across operational installations spanning thousands of miles and achieving and overall turnaround time improvement of 45%; solution subsequently became the standard model. Bill earned a Master of Business Administration from Purdue University, Master of Human Resources Management from Villanova University, and a Bachelor of Science in Business and Stayer University. Bill is certified in Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Phillips ROI Methodology, MBTI, Situational Leadership, and currently resides in Chicago, IL.
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About autonomous_ID: autonomous_ID is world leaders in biometric identity, wellness, health, and insurance technology.
Michael DePalma
Founder, President & COO of Hu-manity.co
Founder/CEO at Pensare, LLC.
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About Hu-manity.co, Pensare, Pensare, LLC: Hu-manity.co is a technology company that empowers consumers, corporations, and countries transition to a consumer-inclusive data economy.
