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This list showcases the top United States based CTO’ operating in the Internet of Things 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.
John Bicket
CTO of Samsara
John is responsible for Samsara’s disruptive technology that makes operating thousands of sensors simple and secure. Prior to co-founding Samsara, John co-founded Meraki, where he was CTO and VP of Engineering.At Meraki, he built a cloud-based platform combining analytics, big data, and security that transformed how customers deployed and managed enterprise networks. Starting Meraki out of his Ph.D. research at MIT, John and his team built integrated hardware, software, and cloud-based infrastructure that fueled continued 100% annual sales growth. Meraki’s platform scaled to connect millions of network devices across over 140 countries. After Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion, John led Meraki as Cisco’s fastest-growing cloud product. John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University and an S.M. in Computer Science from MIT.
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
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Ben Calderon
CTO Hardware, Operations and Support of Samsara
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Arie Trouw
CEO & CTO & Founder of XYO
Ten years before Elon Musk wrote his first line of computer code, another young prodigy from South Africa was busy writing software on his TRS-80 Model I. In 1978, at the age of 10, Arie Trouw started developing software on the TRS-80 Model I, moving on to Atari, Apple, and PC. He then ran a series of bulletin boards centering on game-theory modification. Arie is an accomplished serial entrepreneur with a rich history of technological breakthroughs and business successes involving multiple 8-figure exit events. He is a strong believer in decentralization and the creation of the integrated owner/user model. Arie founded XY in 2012 (incorporated as Ength Degree, LLC before it was converted to a C Corporation in 2016). He currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Prior to starting XY-The Findables Company, Arie was CEO and Chairman of Pike Holdings Inc and Chief Technology Officer of Tight Line Technologies LLC. He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the New York Institute of Technology. Fun Fact: He is a member of one of the first Afrikaans speaking families to emigrate to the US from South Africa in 1976.
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About XY Labs, XY – The Persistent Company, XYO: XYO is a decentralized crypto-location oracle network aiming to provide accurate location data from cars to smartphones.
Jean-Paul Martin
CTO (co-founder) of Alarm.com
Jean-Paul Martin, one of our founders, has served as our Chief Technology Officer since March 2000. Prior to joining us, Mr. Martin served as a Software Architect with MicroStrategy Incorporated. Mr. Martin has also served as Chief Technology Officer of Media Cybernetics Inc., which provided image processing and analysis software used in medical, industrial, forensic and remote sensing applications. Mr. Martin holds a B.Sc/M.Sc in Electrical Engineering and Robotics from the Universite Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III, France).
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
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
Nadir Izrael
Co-Founder and CTO of Armis Security
As co-founder and CTO, Nadir Izrael guides the technology vision behind Armis to protect the new connected or IoT devices in and around the workplace. He co-founded the company in 2015 with its CEO, Yevgeny Dibrov. Prior to Armis, worked at Google as senior software engineer. Before Google, Nadir spent six years in the Israeli army, specifically in unit 8200, where he designed and programmed software projects and systems, serving as team leader and attaining the rank of captain.
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About Armis Security, Cyberstarts: Armis Security offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network.
Amos Schallich
CTO & Co-founder of eero
Amos Schallich is a co-founder of eero inc. and serves as its Vice President of Engineering-Software. Amos Schallich previously worked at Tagged and BigTent, where he focused on backend server development and scaling. He studied large-scale distributed systems at Stanford.
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About eero: Eero offers a Wi-Fi system for household use.
Rob Lawson-Shanks
CTO & Co-Founder of LifeFuels
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About LifeFuels: LifeFuels is changing the way consumers approach hydration and nutrition by empowering them to create personalized beverages on the go.
Sharon Zhang
CTO & Co-Founder of Personal AI
I am a scientist, a creator, and a builder. I believe in data, innovation, and humans. I am passionate about people and about technologies that evolve alongside humanity. I have pursued expertise in artificial intelligence for over the past decade, building NLP products that impact the lives of patients, employees, and everyday people. I strive to build companies that move the world forward – embracing the principles of original thinking and humane AI. And that is why my partners and I are creating Human AI Labs (hu.man.ai).
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About Personal AI: Personal AI is on a mission to organize the human mind and make it interactive and useful.
Amir Ansari
Co-Founder & CTO of Prodea
An inventor and serial entrepreneur, Amir Ansari brings more than 16 years of experience to Prodea Systems, where he serves as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to co-founding Prodea Systems, Amir served in the intelligent IP division of Sonus Networks(Nasdaq: SONS), a provider of IP-based voice infrastructure products. There he was responsible for providing technical guidance and direction in deploying one of the industry’s first soft switches in a carrier network. Amir joined Sonus via its acquisition of Telecom Technologies, Inc., where he was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. There Amir led efforts to design and deploy the INtelligentIP (INIP) Softswitch, the most robust and scalable product of its type. Telecom Technologies’ client list consisted of Fortune 500 companies such as WorldCom, Qwest Communications, Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, and AT&T. Under Amir’s stewardship as Chief Technology Officer, Telecom Technologies earned recognition as one of Inc. Magazine’s 500 fastest-growing companies and Deloitte & Touche’s Fast 500 technology companies. Amir is a member of the XPRIZE Foundation’s Vision Circle and its Board of Trustees. Together with his family, he was a title sponsor for the Ansari XPRIZE, a $10 million cash award for the first non-governmental organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks. Amir is actively involved with several non-profit organizations that strive for social development. He has co-authored numerous technical papers and filed several U.S. patents in the areas of voice over IP and multimedia services. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from George Mason University.
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About Prodea: Prodea provides multi-service, multi-screen platforms for the residential Internet of Things, delivering digital services globally.
Keith Bentley
Chief Technology Officer of Bentley Systems
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About Bentley Systems: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
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.
Wyatt Meldman-Floch
Co-Founder & CTO of Constellation Labs
With over five years of experience as a Software Engineer & Data Scientist in Silicon Valley, Wyatt Meldman-Floch is the CTO and Co-founder of Constellation Labs. Prior to co-founding Constellation Labs, Wyatt contributed to the Graphic User Interface of the Kepler spacecraft’s light curve data and the implementation of Shannon entropy for non-human communication for NASA. He also served as a data engineer for Radius Intelligence and Rally Health, a platform engineer for Zignal Labs, and as the Lead Backend Engineer for Arrived.us. Wyatt holds a B.S. in Physics and in Mathematics from The College of William and Mary.
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About Constellation Labs, Lattice Exchange: Constellation Labs is a blockchain microservice operating system based company.
Alec Rooney
CTO and Co-Founder of Minim
Alec Rooney is the Co-founder and CTO at Minim.
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About Minim: Minim (NASDAQ: MINM) was born as a networking company and now delivers intelligent software to protect and improve the WiFi we depend on.
Nicholas Pilkington
CTO, Co-Founder of DroneDeploy
Nicholas Pilkington is the founder of DroneDeploy, a platform for simple managed drone operations. Originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, he completed degrees in computer science, maths and information systems at Rhodes University. After graduating he started a Ph.D in machine learning at the University of Cambridge (Magadalene College) on a Nelson Mandela Rhodes University Scholarship. While at Cambridge Nicholas co-founded MyMoneyDog and Curious-Orange as well as the South African Bitcoin Exchange, Bitx. He currently resides in SOMA, San Francisco.
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About DroneDeploy: DroneDeploy is a cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform to help businesses get things done.
Andrei Oprisan
CTO of OneScreen.AI
Andrei Oprisan is a technology professional with experience managing high performance engineering teams, direct software engineering experience, and a technology consulting background. He has experience managing multiple technical platforms and migrating to newer ones when needed, with experience scaling an engineering organization in a high-growth environment, both as remote contractors and co-located, full-time employees. He puts his strong consensus building skills, negotiation, and decision-making skills, coupled with sound judgment, to good use to help grow teams, while being able to both code and mentor and lead engineers at the technical level. Currently at Wayfair, Andrei leads the global sales research and development department, across product, engineering and design functions. We’re focused on building Wayfair’s moat through sales agent driven sales, provinding a higher touch, personalized and vertical integrated experience for B2B and specialized B2C sales. He is part of Wayfair’s senior executive leadership team and reports to the CTO. Previously as a VP of technology for Global Retail Markets for the US market at Liberty Mutual, Andrei led a customer centric transformation of digital teams, leading all digital customer facing properties and assets for Liberty Mutual and Safeco brands, and oversees the 250 person strong Boston Tech Hub that he built out. At HubSpot Labs, the startup incubator within HubSpot, he helped engineering efforts to build the largest marketing community platform, among other R&D projects. At MRM McCann / Optaros, a full services digital commerce consulting group, Andrei was engaged in mobile application development and web eCommerce projects, including development of a multi-language, multi-currency solution for a large European retailer and contributing to engineering efforts in the areas of advanced hosting and platform techniques.
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About OneScreen.AI, Oprisan, Inc.: The world’s first Market Network for real-world media. Performance marketing meets out-of-home on the internet of places.
Ben Longmier
Co-founder & CTO of Swarm Technologies
Dr. Ben Longmier was previously the Founder and CEO of Aether Industries (acquired by Apple in 2015). While at Apple, Ben led an Aerospace R&D effort for several company objectives. Prior to working at Apple, Ben was a tenure track Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. Ben holds a PhD in Engineering Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA-JSC.
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About Swarm Technologies: Swarm enables global connectivity with the world’s most affordable satellite network.
Joseph Callahan
CTO & Co-founder of SmarTECHS
Joseph M. Callahan is founder and CEO of Ciright Systems, Inc. and Ciright Digital Media. With over 25 years experience in developing mobile applications and technologies, Joe is an Internet of Things (IoT) expert and true visionary. As a serial entrepreneur, perpetual innovator and inventor with a passion for outside the box problem solving and technology, he has helped countless businesses leverage the power and scalability of the leading, flexible, nimble open platform and mobile technologies. When he is not reading or on the river rowing, he can be found spending time with his wife and son or traveling to visit his daughters.
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About Ciright Systems, SmarTECHS: SaaS – Delivering context relevant work and safety instruction for technicians in the field
Patrick Wilbur
Co-founder & CTO of Hologram
Patrick Wilbur is CTO @ Konekt.
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About Hologram: Hologram provides a platform to connect devices to any network with cellular connectivity, and offers software for monitoring an IoT fleet.
Tong Zhang
Co-Founder & CTO of Timecros
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About Timecros: Digital life sharing
James Penney
Chief Technology Officer of Device Authority
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About Device Authority: Device Authority is a global leader in Identity and Access Management (IAM) for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain.
Michael Cirello
CTO of OkCupid
Mike Cirello is the Co – Founder & CTO of Silver Living. Mike CirelloAfter graduating from Cornell, Mike started his career as a developer on the Microsoft Office team. He spent a few years writing super-secret code for Raytheon’s missile defense systems, and he has worked for startups in Seattle, San Francisco, and New York City. Most recently he was the VP of Engineering for Oyster.com, an online hotel review site. As Silver Living’s CTO, he is responsible for product management and engineering of the site. Mike enjoys working on products that help people solve difficult problems. He started Silver Living to build something that can give families an important tool to guide them through a difficult time in their lives. He lives on the banks of the Hudson River in New Jersey with his wife Christine and their baby boy.
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About OkCupid: OkCupid is an online dating website that uses quizzes and multiple-choice questions to find a match for the user.
Rajeev Singh
Chief Technology Officer of Autogrid
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About Autogrid: AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.
Cliff Click
CTO of Cratus Technology, Inc.
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About Cratus Technology, Inc.: CRATUS provides the all-in-one AI – IoT SaaS platform for enterprise operations.
Julie Cullivan
CTO & CPO of ForeScout Technologies
As Senior Vice President of Business Operations and Chief Information Officer, Julie brings over 25 years of systems and programs experience in enterprise high tech companies to FireEye. Most recently she was Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing Operations at Autodesk, where she led the global rollout of new CRM, eLearning, and lead management systems, and evaluated new technologies and tools to improve productivity and optimize resources. Prior to Autodesk, Julie was senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales Operations at McAfee, where she led the global sales and channel operations functions to drive go-to market strategies, best practices, systems, process, and productivity across five geographical theatres. Julie has also held executive roles at EMC, Asera, and Oracle. She received a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Santa Clara University.
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About ForeScout Technologies: ForeScout Technologies provides enterprises and government agencies with agentless visibility and control of devices.
Joe Scalisi
Founder & CTO & Chief Innovation Officer of SkyBell
Joe is the creative genius and inventor behind SkyBell and its entire suite of products, which won a CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award in 2014. Joe holds 110 patents in Technology and is currently ranked at 241 of 1.5 million IoT patent holders. The video doorbell and related home security products is one of the hottest segments of the IoT space. Joe’s innovations have disrupted many markets dominated by industry giants. Joe’s patented technology has been or is used by Apple, AT&T, US Air Force, Honeywell, ADT, Alarm.com, Nest, Amazon and Comcast.
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About SkyBell: SkyBell HD is making homes and neighborhoods safer with a Video Doorbell that sends live video of your front door to a smartphone.
Scott Hanson
Founder & CTO of Ambiq Micro
Scott Hanson is an expert in ultra-low energy and variation-tolerant circuits. He championed the development of Ambiq Micro’s SPOT Platform at the University of Michigan along with Ambiq Micro co-founders Dennis Sylvester and David Blaauw. Since Ambiq Micro’s inception, Scott has guided Ambiq Micro’s product development efforts and new technology development efforts. He speaks widely on energy-efficient circuits at trade-shows and conferences and has more than 30 publications and 7 patent filings on related topics. He received his Ph.D., Master’s, and Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Michigan.
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About Ambiq Micro: Ambiq Micro is a semiconductor manufacturing company that develops mixed-signal solutions for wireless electronics.
Mark Merrill
CTO of NETGEAR
Mark Merrill is the CTO at Netgear.
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About NETGEAR, NetgearStore – India: Netgear designs, develops, and markets networking products for home users and small businesses worldwide.
Jay Theodore
CTO of Esri
Jay Theodore is the CTO at Esri.
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About Esri, Esri UK: Esri is the global market leader in GIS, pioneering problem solving to help you see what others can’t. We build ArcGIS.
Kevin Huang
CTO & Co-Founder of Backbone Labs, Inc.
Kevin’s engineering skills and passion form the foundation for the technology that powers Backbone Labs. He began his career as a consultant implementing and integrating enterprise systems where he learned the intricacies of automated systems. He then moved to the world of software engineering, helping develop various applications for companies and consumers. Outside the office, Kevin enjoys following hockey (go Sharks!) and MotoGP.
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About Backbone Labs, Inc.: Identify at-risk behavior in the workplace and recommend actions to promote and maintain overall back-related wellness.
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.
Ryan Margoles
Co-Founder & CTO of Notion
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About Notion: Notion is a smart self-monitoring system that empowers home-owners to be proactive in protecting their spaces, people, and possessions.
Pep Gubau
Executive Chairman, CTO & Co-Founder of Aizon
Pep is an IT entrepreneur and has been working in IT for the last 25 years, being pioneer in Linux adoption in the 90s, cloud in the 2000s and big data in the last years. Although having a theoretical economics and maths profile, his early career was as a software developer for the chemical industry. He later was CTO & COO of an IT consulting firm, leading a team of more than 200 engineers until 2003 when Pep created his first IT company with a clear core principle: customer centric focus. Two more followed. In 2013 Pep started thinking on the next thing to work on. bigfinite is the result of this initial spark that immediately caught fire in Pere and Toni. Pep is Economist (University of Barcelona) with an engineering background.
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About Aizon: Aizon is a cloud-based SaaS platform that helps optimize industrial processes in biotech and pharma.
Nathan Oostendorp
CTO & Co-Founder of Sight Machine
Nathan Oostendorp is the CTO of Sight Machine, he co-founder the company in 2011. Nathan started his career as a controls engineer at Donnelly Corporation (now Magna Mirror) where he worked on PLC programming, computer vision, data acquisition, and robotics for a major automotive supplier. In 1996 he co-founded Slashdot.org, a major tech news blog which was the center of the Linux and Open Source Software movement. During this period he spun off several other successful open online communities including Everything2.com (an early precursor to Wikipedia) and PerlMonks.org, the central hub for the Perl programming Language. He also created the first Open Source advertising and analytics platform. He then joined SourceForge.net as the site architect and ushered it through a period of growth where it became a top 100 website globally, and hosted several hundred thousand software projects. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Hope College in Holland Michigan, and an MSI in Information Science from the University of Michigan.
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About Sight Machine: Sight Machine provides analytics platform that helps address critical challenges in quality and productivity throughout the enterprise.
Elom Tsogbe
CTO of Nuve
Elom began his career as an Electrical Engineer for Cisco Systems in San Jose, CA. Later, he continued his career as a Lead Engineer at Schlumberger in the Southern US region. As Nuve’s co-founder, he enjoys difficult-to-solve technical problems and has extensive experience designing and testing products for rugged environments. His passion for technology led him to invent several products, which he has patented. Elom received his Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Texas in Austin.
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About Nuve: Nuve is a software company that develops and delivers asset management and fraud prevention solutions.
Stephen A. Ridley
CTO of Senrio
Stephen Ridley has more than 10 years of experience in software development, software security, and reverse engineering. His original research on embedded device vulnerabilities has been featured on NPR, SecurityWeek, Wired and numerous other publications. Prior to his current work at Senrio, Stephen Ridley was Principal Researcher at Xipiter and served as the Chief Information Security Officer of a financial services firm. Prior to that, various information security researcher/consultant roles (Matasano Security, et al), Senior Security Architect at McAfee. Earlier in his career, Stephen was a founding member of the Security and Mission Assurance (SMA) group at a major U.S. Defense contractor where he did vulnerability research and reverse engineering in support of the U.S. Defense and Intelligence community.
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About NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Senrio: Providing visibility, insight & awareness of network embedded devices (IoT) to support enterprise-wide security and safety.
Jon Lech Johansen
CTO, Co-Founder & CEO of doubleTwist
Jon Lech Johansen is doubleTwist’s co-founder and CEO. His background is in digital media interoperability, having worked on the reverse engineering of proprietary systems such as DVD CSS that prevent consumers from enjoying media they’ve legally acquired. Prior to co-founding doubleTwist Jon worked for DoubleTwist Ventures and MP3Tunes, a digital music startup in San Diego. He is a self-taught software engineer whose passion is making technology accessible to ordinary users through polished and intuitive user interfaces. Jon received the EFF Pioneer Award in 2002 and was profiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal at the age of 21.
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About doubleTwist: doubleTwist is a digital media company that allows its users to send photos and videos to others.
Kevin Karsch
CTO & Co-Founder of Lightform
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About Lightform: Lightform designs software & hardware for projected visuals.
Paul Bakoyiannis
Co-Founder & CTO of Cylera
Paul Bakoyiannis is CTO at Cylera.
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About Cylera: Cylera is a healthcare IoT cybersecurity and intelligence company used to protect healthcare organizations.
John Miller
CTO and Co-Founder of Hi Marley
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About Hi Marley: Hi Marley is a developer of an artificially intelligent-based SMS texting platform designed to bridge the conversation.
Ofer Saban
Co-Founder, CTO of Memomi
Ofer Saban is a Co founder & CTO at Memomi Inc.
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About Memomi: Memomi is a smart mirror software that transforms the luxury shopping market.
Ben Bromhead
CTO of Instaclustr
Ben Bromhead is the CTO of Instaclustr where he is responsible for working closely with his engineering team and customers to build highly available, scalable applications on top of Cassandra. Instaclustr is the only multi-cloud, self service Cassandra as a Service provider in the world and is dedicated to provider world class support.
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About Instaclustr: Instaclustr is the open source as-a-service company, delivering reliability at scale. 24x7x365
Thomas Cheng
Co-Founder & CTO of Brava Home
Thomas Cheng is the co-founder and COO at Brava Home Inc Prior to his current role, he worked as advisor, head of hardware, at August Home, Inc., as technical co-founder at Streetline Networks, and as an engineering consultant at Dust networks. Cheng, through his businesses, has also won various awards including Global Entrepreneur of the year from IBM, Technology innovation award in transportation from the Wall Street Journal, and 10 most innovative companies in transportation from the Fast Company magazine.
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About Brava Home: Brava Home is an IoT and domestic automation company that integrates technology and design to enable joyful experiences in the home.
Rui Costa
Chief Technology Officer of Veniam
Rui Costa is the CTO of Veniam, and Founder of IEEE Academic.
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About Veniam: Veniam is a technology firm that is advancing mobility’s future by enabling the Internet of Moving Things.
Alexey Panyov
CEO and CTO of Navigine
PhD in Physics and Mathematics. More than 10 publications and reports on specialized conferences.
More than 15 years of working experience in software development for mobile complexes navigation and over 10 years of leadership experience.
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About Navigine: Software platform for precise positioning and online-to-offline attribution.
Aditya Bansal
Cofounder & CTO of Kinetic
As a child, Aditya was a constant source of consternation for his parents due to his tendency to dismantle every electronic object in the house.Years later, aided by a PhD from Purdue, he creates electronic solutions to common problems.
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About Kinetic: Kinetic develops wearable devices connected to cloud-based software in order to reduce workplace injuries for the industrial workforce.
Shekar Tippur
Chief Technology Officer of Cyclops Medtech
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About Cyclops Medtech: Medtech startup working on clinical and wearable diagnostic and rehab products for neuro vestibular disorders using eye tracking technology.
Dale Dell’Ario
Founder and CTO of Ario
Dale is the Founder and CTO of Ario, a company he started as a result of his interest and work in lighting, and the realization that the environment created by built spaces can and should be as dynamic as nature. Prior to Ario he was a mechanical engineering consultant developing products for commercial and medical companies. Before that his design career included nearly 20 years with medical companies, Olympic Medical, and SpaceLabs medical, building photo therapy and monitoring products in the roles of mechanical engineer, project manager, program manager, and engineering manager. He contributed to the development of commercial and computing products in similar roles for Hinds-Bock Co,, Ridge Computers, and Hewlett-Packard. His technical expertise lies in Product and Industrial design, and includes design management, engineering analysis, and regulatory compliance. Personal interests include lighting as functional art sculpture, home building, small land owner forestry, and yoga.
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About Ario: Ario creates circadian lighting solution that makes it easy for people to lead healthier lives.
Konstantin Kladko
Co-Founder & CTO of SKALE Labs
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About SKALE Labs: SKALE Labs is a blockchain scalability platform that provides high speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts.
Nezare Chafni
Founder & CTO of Chui: The World’s Most Intelligent Doorbell
Founder at Chui: The World’s Most Intelligent Doorbell.
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About 500 Startups, Chui: The World’s Most Intelligent Doorbell, Trueface: First product – Intelligent doorbell that uses facial recognition and proprietary tech to make the front door a gateway to a connected home.
Srdjan Marinovic
Co-Founder and CTO of SignalFrame
Srdjan Marinovic is the Co-Founder and CTO at SignalFrame.
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About SignalFrame: SignalFrame is a software company that maps and relates wireless signals to power a new class of graph-based proximity services.
Timothy Axness
Chief Technology Officer of Kwant.ai
For the past two decades, Timothy Axness has led the development of RF solutions for all generations of wireless communications, from fixed wireless to WCDMA/LTE, including InterDigital Communications’ SlimChip™ 2G/3G modem targeting M2M applications. Tim is an expert in all phases of development: system architecture, hardware design, test/verification, system integration, and factory launch. Recently, Tim led the development of a family of next generation GSM/WCDMA/LTE network extenders featuring integrated antennas, echo cancellation, and remote management to enable cellular operators to monitor and optimize network extender performance. The remote management system featured an MQTT interface with SMS back-up over 2G/3G, geo-fencing, loss of power alert, and android-based app for customer satisfaction.
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About Kwant.ai, Pansofik: Increasing Productivity and Safety in Construction Site using IoT and AI
Tim Burke
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Arch Systems
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About Arch Systems: Industry 4.0 machine data and AI platform for electronics manufacturers
Matthew Joyal
CTO & Co-founder of Pillar Technologies
Co-founder & CTO at Pillar Technologies, Inc.
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About Pillar Technologies: Pillar is a real-time risk management platform for general contractors.
Brian Sathianathan
Co-Founder/Chief Digital Officer/CTO of Iterate.ai
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About Iterate.ai: AI-Powered Innovation Software Ecosystem for Large Enterprises
Andy Rosenbaum
CTO of iMovR
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About iMovR, Treadio.com: Manufacturer of technology-enabled standing desks and treadmill desks
Sastry Malladi
CTO, co-founder of FogHorn
As CTO of FogHorn, Sastry is responsible for and oversees all technology and product development. Sastry is a results driven technology executive with deep technology and management experience of over two and half decades. His areas of expertise include developing, leading and architecting various highly scalable and distributed systems, in the areas of Big Data, SOA, Micro Services Architecture, Application Servers, Java/J2EE/Web Services middleware, and cloud Computing to name a few. Prior to joining FogHorn as CTO, Sastry was Chief Architect of StubHub, an eBay company where he led the technology architecture transformation and also spearheaded the Big Data initiatives and data driven decisions. Sastry was also a key technology executive at eBay that lead the technology re-platforming effort from its monolithic architecture to the distributed, and scalable service oriented architecture that it is today enabling the business growth. Prior to joining eBay, Sastry was co-founder and CTO of OpenGridSolutions, Founding member and Architect at SpikeSource, and an Architect at Oracle. Sastry has also worked at many other companies in his career early on. Sastry frequently speaks at many technology conferences, contributed to many standards and has several patents under his belt. He holds a Masters degree from I.I.T, Kharagpur, India.
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About FogHorn: FogHorn is a developer of “edge intelligence” software for industrial and commercial IoT application solutions.
James Fazio
CTO of Flume
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About Flume: Flume eliminates water waste and protects homes by helping homeowners and communities with real-time water usage data.
Kenny Tay
Founder and CTO of Flair
Kenny Tay is the Founder and CTO at Flair.
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About Flair: Flair makes smart vents and wireless thermostats and advanced software for residential heating and cooling.
Susan Gao
Co-Founder & CTO of EMQ Technologies
Susan co-founded EMQ as a CTO and VP engineering. Prior to EMQ, she founded Ryedoo,a LBS provider company acquired by LeEco in 2016. Susan has over a decade industrial experience in Silicon Valley’s high-tech companies such as Apple, Amazon as an engineering manger, a tech leader and a software engineer. She holds several U.S. patents and owned her M.S. of CS from Stanford Univ; M.S. of EE from Stevens Inst. of Tech.
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About EMQ Technologies: EMQ is an open-source IoT data infrastructure software provider in the 5G Era.
Brett Chouinard
Chief Technology Officer of Altair
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About Altair, Datawatch Corp: Altair Engineering, Inc. provides enterprise analytics, engineering, and on-demand computing software technologies. Its technology.
James Dagg
CTO, Design & Simulation Solutions of Altair
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About Altair: Altair Engineering, Inc. provides enterprise analytics, engineering, and on-demand computing software technologies. Its technology.
Brian Parsonnet
CTO of Seeq
Brian expertly guides Seeq’s vision for product strategy and intellectual property. Brian has more than 30 years of expertise in engineering technology innovation. Prior positions include co-founder of Ice Energy and IE Technologies, as well as Vice President of Technology for Honeywell Loveland, and Honeywell Industrial Fellow for Product Strategy. Brian has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University, and a M.S. in the same from Columbia University. He has founded successful start-ups in software, hardware, and services in a diverse set of industries. Additionally, he holds patents in robotics, software, thermal storage and SmartGrid technologies, with particular expertise in the integration of control, monitoring, diagnostics and knowledge capture for large distributed systems.
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About Seeq: Seeq is a software company that accelerates industrial process analytics for process manufacturing data.
Aaron Allsbrook
CTO of ClearBlade
Aaron Allsbrook, ClearBlade CTO and product visionary for the ClearBlade Platform and EDGE brings decades of application tooling development and runtime experience to the emerging technologies in the Internet of Things. Early on, Aaron engineered software at IBM building scalable performant platforms for developers to design, develop, and execute modern workloads. As a practitioner, Aaron began working in the field with enterprises to enable cutting edge solutions while leveraging existing technical assets. Today he provides a depth of expertise necessary to understand the challenges, opportunities and transitions required for large Enterprises to engage with the IoT.
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About ClearBlade: ClearBlade is an edge computing software company enabling enterprises to rapidly engineer and run secure, real-time IoT applications.
Lior Meller
Chief Technology Officer of SPREO
Lior Meller is a leader in indoor positioning algorithm technology. He has over 20 years of proven experience in the field of software development. Lior specializes in navigation technology, while working as the head of the core development team at Telemap (which was acquired by Intel). Lior created a GPS navigation application at Telemap, creating the foundation of knowledge for his work at SPREO.
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About SPREO: SPREO is a developer of a cloud-based indoor mapping platform used for indoor positioning.
Ka Suen
Co Founder and CTO of Chai Energy
Founder at Chai Energy
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About Chai Energy: Chai is an energy education and technology development company that helps customers save energy in their homes.
Justin Rigling
CTO of Rigado
Justin engineers clever solutions to complex problems, keeping products simple and cost effective. He has experience in low power wireless systems, battery power systems, USB, Bluetooth Low Energy, sensors and many digital communications systems. Justin also manages a talented team of engineers at Rigado that quickly execute quality work to prove product concepts or prepare product designs for manufacturing. Recent work includes wearable technologies, mesh networked toys, smartphone connected devices, and kiosk systems.
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About Rigado: Rigado’s Enterprise IoT solution powers Bluetooth applications such as asset tracking, smart lighting, and sensing and monitoring.
Mike Linton
CTO and Co-Founder of Parsyl
Co-founder & CTO at Parsyl.
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About Parsyl: Parsyl helps shippers understand, mitigate, and insure risks to goods as they move through the supply chain.
Bob Baxley
Chief Technology Officer of Bastille Networks Internet Security
Dr. Bob Baxley joined Bastille Networks in 2014, after spending more than six years as a research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) where he most recently served as the Director of the Software Defined Radio Lab (SDRL). From 2012 to 2014, Dr. Baxley served as an Associate Editor for Digital Signal Processing. He has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed papers and is the inventor of 5 issued patents. Dr. Baxley received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees all in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech. His master’s thesis, entitled Analyzing Selected Mapping for Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction in OFDM, won the Georgia Tech university-wide Sigma Xi Award for best MS thesis in 2005. While completing his MS degree, Dr. Baxley received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award, which provided full funding for his PhD studies. As a PhD candidate, his research focused on signal processing for communications applications. He was awarded the Grand Prize in the SAIC student paper competition for his work in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveform optimization in 2007. Dr. Baxley was also recognized for his PhD research in 2008 with the Georgia Tech Center for Signal & Image Processing Outstanding Research Award. Dr. Baxley is a member of the Association of Old Crows and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
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About Bastille Networks Internet Security: Bastille Networks Internet Security provides threat detection and security for the internet of things.
Dr. William Parrish
Co-Founder & CTO of Seek Thermal
Dr. William Parrish is the Co-Founder and CTO of Seek Thermal.
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About Seek Thermal: Seek Thermal engineers, designs, manufactures, and markets thermal imaging products and sensors.
Elliot English
CTO of Pilot AI
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About Pilot AI: Software-based deep learning computer vision on commodity embedded platforms
Peter Carlson
Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder of HydroPoint Data Systems
Peter Carlson co-founded HydroPoint and has 15 years of experience building IT product and services using distributed data systems and scalable Software-as-a-Service solutions for the small to medium enterprise and Fortune 500 markets. Before HydroPoint, Peter was VP Engineering at Shaman Corporation, providing industry-leading, award-winning IT data services. Prior to Shaman, Peter held environmental management positions at UC Berkeley.
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About HydroPoint Data Systems: HydroPoint Data Systems develops various irrigation system controllers for residential and commercial landscape applications.
Andy Zheng
CTO / Co-Founder of Omnee Inc.
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About Omnee Inc.: Omnee delivers real-world, predictive analytics so mall operators & brands can create better experiences for consumers.
Lewis Wight
Chief Technology Officer of Meshify
Lewis is the CTO / President of Meshify and has implemented dozens of controls projects at Meshify and integrated over 100,000 IoT device to the Meshify system. Through this experience he envisioned and created the Meshify hardware + cloud software IoT controls solution. He leads the business vision, mobile app development, wireless network protocol and embedded devices firmware design. Prior to founding Meshify, Lewis was the lead 3D Computer Designer in SolidWorks on special projects for Chevron Phillips and Power Valves. Additionally, Lewis worked for the U.S. State Department Overseas Building Office with Level 3 (TS) Security clearance.
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About Meshify: Meshify develops electronic device management software for cross-platform measurement, monitoring, and control.
David Wentzloff
Co-Founder & Co-CTO of Everactive
David Wentzloff co-founded Everactive in 2012, where he is currently co-CTO. Everactive produces data intelligence for the physical world. Operating without batteries, the company’s always-on wireless sensors deliver continuous cloud-based analytics at a scale not possible with battery-powered devices.
David received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1999, and MS and PhD degrees from MIT in 2002 and 2007, respectively.
He is also a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Faculty Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan.
There, his research focuses on ultra-low power radio integrated circuits for self-powered systems and mm-scale sensors. He has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals, including the first sub-100nW wakeup receiver.
He serves on the program committees for the IEEE RFIC and ISSCC conferences.
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About Everactive: In collaboration with its partners, Everactive delivers the most scalable and cost-effective digital transformation solutions. The company’s proprietary low-power energy harvesting and wireless technology enables completely batteryless and always-on Internet of Things systems. Specifically designed for harsh industrial settings, Everactive devices provide continuous insight into asset health across a range of equipment and throughout entire plants and facilities. The company has offices in Silicon Valley, Ann Arbor, and Charlottesville. For more information, please visit: www.everactive.com.
Benton Calhoun
Co-Founder & Co-CTO of Everactive
Ben Calhoun is a co-CTO and co-founder at Everactive, where he is responsible for technology direction and development.Dr. Calhoun is a renowned expert and frequent speaker on the topic of ultra-low-power systems-on-chip (SoCs) and Sub-Threshold circuit design.
He has published over 100 peer reviewed papers and 2 books: Design Principles for Digital CMOS Integrated Circuit Design, NTS Press 2012, and Sub-Threshold Design for Ultra Low-Power Systems, Springer 2006.
His specialization in ultra lower power circuit design has led to pioneering work on wearable body sensors, including the first demonstration of an integrated SoC for body sensor networks (BSNs) that is completely self powered, running from energy harvested from body heat. Dr. Calhoun is also a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Calhoun received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from MIT, where he and Dr. Wentzloff first began their collaboration.
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About Everactive: In collaboration with its partners, Everactive delivers the most scalable and cost-effective digital transformation solutions. The company’s proprietary low-power energy harvesting and wireless technology enables completely batteryless and always-on Internet of Things systems. Specifically designed for harsh industrial settings, Everactive devices provide continuous insight into asset health across a range of equipment and throughout entire plants and facilities. The company has offices in Silicon Valley, Ann Arbor, and Charlottesville. For more information, please visit: www.everactive.com.
Jonathan Chu
Co-founder & CTO of Verdigris Technologies
Jonathan Chu is a Co-Founder of Verdigris Technologies, Inc. and serves as its Chief Technology Officer and Director.
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About Verdigris Technologies: Verdigris Technologies is a SaaS-based platform that develops artificial intelligence in order to optimize energy consumption.
Alex Neskin
co-founder & CTO of Petcube
Tech entrepreneur
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About Petcube: Petcube is a worldwide leader in pet cameras & software, connecting pets to the internet and giving them a voice.
Bob Wall
Chief Technology Officer of Tumble
Bob Wall is the Chief Technology Officer of Tumble.
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About Tumble: Tumble offers a modern laundry experience to tenants.
Ekate Kuznetsova
Founder & CTO of Token Transit
Ekaterina Kuznetsova is CTO & Founder at Token Transit
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About Token Transit: Token Transit is a provider of a mobile ticket booking application intended to help riders pay for transit via a mobile application.
Stephen Balkum
Chief Technology Officer of PureWRX
Stephen manages and architects all of the technology desires of PureWRX, from the software platforms to the hardware lab. He has been leading best-of-breed teams for decades and knows the difference between a technology company and a business that needs enabling technology. By using modern software development methodologies in cooperation with the business, Stephen leads teams that stay in constant communication with the business, and thus, repeatedly deliver to its needs. An entrepreneur at heart, Stephen has focused on growth businesses in a broad spectrum of technology. Most recently, Stephen managed the software engineering department at BuildASign.com. In two short years, per developer productivity of his 13 member team increased 40%. Stephen was also VP of Technology for Coro Health offering targeted streaming media for residents in elder care communities. From 2001-2008, Stephen was Vice President of Technology with Callaway Golf Interactive. Stephen grew its technology department from the launch of Callaway Golf Pre-Owned, through the company’s purchase by Callaway Golf, and managed the technology for all of the company’s direct to consumer offerings. Prior to Callaway Golf Interactive, as 212 Studios’ Director of Engineering, Stephen Balkum led the development of 212’s patent-pending Storekeeper System. Storekeeper’s use of Balkum algorithms employing AI technology constituted a revolution in database management and reporting systems. Previously, Stephen led the development team of the award-winning Jack Nicklaus 5 containing the most realistic 3-dimensional characters and scenery ever developed for a golf simulator. Stephen earned a BS in Astronomy from the University of Texas. As a member of the department he focused on infrared spectroscopy research. With data from McDonald Observatory and the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, he developed algorithms to reduce 10’s of thousands of images of the same stellar object to a single, super-high resolution image. These methods were published in multiple scientific journals.
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About PureWRX: PureWRX is a channel-friendly platform for IT hardware manufacturers that creates and captures revenue opportunities from the market.
Syed Zaeem Hosain
CTO & Founder of Aeris
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About Aeris, iFAST: Aeris is the only cellular network designed and built exclusively for machines.
Michael Kuehl
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Losant
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About Losant: Losant is a developer platform designed to help people build complex connected solutions.
Jeffrey Sieracki
Co-Founder and CTO of Reality AI
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About Reality AI, University of Maryland College Park: Reality AI offers a complete engineering environment for Edge AI / Tiny ML product development using sensors.
Parth Darji
Co-founder, CTO of Etho
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About Etho: Etho is an all in one augmented reality voice command assistant for motorcycle riders.
Ethan Kan
Co-founder and CTO of MODE
Ethan Kan joined Mode as Co-founder in 2014.
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About MODE: MODE provides a scalable data infrastructure that collects data from the physical world to help businesses improve their operations.
Anshuman Das
Cofounder & CTO of Labby
Physicist by training. Fascinated by light. Find it rewarding to apply and translate my research in improving lives and creating impact. Previously Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab
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About Labby: Labby converts a smartphone into a high-tech food/beverage analytics lab
Ashok Seetharam
Co-Founder and CTO of PAXAFE
Ashok Seetharam is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of PAXAFE.
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About PAXAFE: PAXAFE builds smart packaging IoT that aggregates critical supply chain data and enables intelligent shipping insurance.
Kumar Vishwanathan
EVP & CTO of Privafy
Kumar Vishwanathan serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Privafy. Prior to Privafy, he served in senior roles at Verizon where he was part of the core founding team for Verizon Labs.
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About Privafy: Privafy redefines data-in-motion security and delivers protection in an easy-to-use cloud-native service.
Umer Ilyas
Co-Founder and CTO of Cowlar
Umer Ilyas is CTO at Cowlar.
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About Cowlar: Cowlar is a Fitbit for Dairy cows.
Todd Carper
CTO/Advisor of Drone Aviator
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About Drone Aviator: Drone Aviator is a seed-stage software development firm providing technology solutions to the emerging drone industry.
Kieron Gillespie
Chief Technology Officer of Atmosphere IoT
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About Atmosphere IoT: Atmosphere offers IoT solution builders the fastest and simplest way to build, connect, and manage complete sensor-to-cloud solutions.
Brandon Rumberg
Founder & CTO of Aspinity
Brandon has 10 years of experience with the full stack of low-power sensing: from integrated circuit (IC) design, to embedded systems and signal processing, to software development kit (SDK) creation and system integration. He created Aspinity’s analog-processing IC and software tools, and is an expert at developing analog-processing algorithms. He has been awarded 3 patents, has developed and taught 3 engineering courses, and has authored 20 publications—including a Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, 2015. He received a Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University.
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About Aspinity: Aspinity offers neuromorphic all-analog integrated circuit technology that can replicate the functionality of digital signal processors.
Mitch Moody
CTO of Anyone Home
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About Anyone Home: Anyone Home is a software and services company that focuses on engagement in the multi and single-family rental housing market.
Charles Yang
Founder and CTO of MCube
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About MCube: mCube offers a complete portfolio of motion sensor hardware and software solutions for its clients.
Shivakumar Mathapathi
CTO of Xtrans Solutions
Shivakumar Mathapathi is the Co-Founder and CTO of Dew Mobility. He is the Team Lead for Global City team challenge hosted by National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST USA). Shivakumar has over 25 years of experience in product development, design and faculty. Mathapathi is a seasoned technologist, entrepreneur, instructor and practitioner on the Internet of Things (IoT) with extensive experience as lead faculty, lab-practice and mentorship in executing smart city, smart agriculture, assisted living and other IoT related projects. He has designed study programs and academic syllabus for The IoT course, a Masters curriculum (4 units) taught at Santa Clara University and California Polytechnic State University. He led capstone design project at Cal Poly (part of California State University) to design and develop IoT cloud platform needed for smart city. Mr. Mathapathi has contributed to build the ecosystem and establish innovation pathways for the OpenIoT project, a blueprint and awarded Open Source project in the Internet of Things for smart Cities sponsored by the European commission. He is focused on academic research and Innovation and he is involved in architecture design and development of smart city projects such as smart trash monitoring, Flood monitoring and smart trail traffic monitoring Mr. Mathapathi is also a team lead for Global City team Challenge (GCTC) project hosted by the National Institute of Standards and technology (NIST) under the Department of Commerce, USA. GCTC team comprises of Sonoma State University, Santa Clara University, City of San Leandro, City of Galway (Ireland) and City of Rohnert Park, CA. He is invited speaker for several IoT conference and workshop). He is the reviewer of multiple IEEE papers on IoT. Recently his paper was accepted by Linux Foundation- Open Networking Summit and Open IoT conference.
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About Xtrans Solutions: Xtrans Solutions enables organizations to improve their competencies.
Jeff Mathews
Founder / CTO of Copper Labs
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About Copper Labs: Copper’s patented data solution provides utilities with real-time grid intelligence without the need for extensive (and expensive) overhauls
Paul Dix
Cofounder & CTO of InfluxData
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About Errplane, InfluxData: InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB, the open source time series database.
Liang Heng
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Roadstar.ai
Liang Heng is Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Roadstar.ai.
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About Roadstar.ai: Roadstar.ai empowers cars and trucks with artificial intelligence, so as to make transportation safer, more enjoyable, more efficient.
Dr. Kyle Rupnow
CEO / CTO of Inspirit IoT
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About Inspirit IoT: Inspirit IoT is a computer hardware that provides solutions in machine learning to cloud, server and edge devices.
