Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Austin based CEO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Jason Chicola
Founder, CEO of Rev.com
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About Rev.com: Rev’s speech-to-text services are powered by artificial intelligence and perfected by a community of skilled freelancers.
Ryan Rafols
Founder & CEO of Newchip
Engineer, army veteran, and founder of 3 startups. Ryan graduated at 15, founded his first startup at 17 and has 10+ years experience building international teams, 7+ years in public and private sector fundraising, corporate boards, working with regulators and lobbying.
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About Astralabs, Newchip: Newchip is a global Remote Startup Accelerator.
Lloyd Armbrust
Chief Executive Officer of OwnLocal
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About Armbrust American, OwnLocal: OwnLocal offers a platform that automatically transforms data and offline advertisements into multichannel online marketing campaigns.
Joe Liemandt
CEO of Trilogy
Joe Liemandt is the founder of ESW Capital.
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About ESW Capital, Trilogy: Trilogy offers enterprise-class software and service solutions targeted to the automotive industry.
Greg Mercer
Founder and CEO of Jungle Scout
Greg Mercer is the Founder and CEO of Jungle Scout.
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About Downstream, Jungle Scout: Jungle Scout is a platform for finding, launching, and selling products on Amazon.
Matt Cohen
Special Projects Consultant, Office of the CEO of Woven Planet Holdings
Matt Cohen is the Special Projects Consultant at Woven Planet Holdings.
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About Capital Factory, Woven Planet Holdings: Woven Planet Holdings develops technologies designed to achieve zero casualties and provide mobility for all.
Nathan Sportsman
Founder and CEO of Praetorian
As the Founder and CEO of Praetorian, Nathan is responsible for championing the vision, maintaining the culture, and setting the direction of the company. He also holds the additional duties of CTO where he is responsible for overseeing the innovation and development engine of the company keeping the firm well positioned to defeat the ever evolving cybersecurity threat. Prior to bringing in professional management to help run the company, Nathan managed the day-to-day operations of the firm from its 2010 beginnings as a bootstrapped start-up to its current YoY hyper-growth. Since Praetorian’s founding, Nathan has successfully instilled a “customer first” mentality that has become part of the DNA of the company which has led to unprecedented customer satisfaction reviews as reflected in a historical net promoter score of 86%. This reputation for delivering value to the customer has resulted in a three year growth rate of 214%. Under Nathan’s leadership, the company has earned national recognition on the Inc. 5000 list multiple times, the Cybersecurity 500, CIO Top 20, and locally on Austin’s “Fastest 50” growing firms. Prior to founding Praetorian, Nathan worked in various technical roles at industry-leading companies such as Sun Microsystems, Symantec, and McAfee. His experience has cross cut most industry sectors, and customers have ranged from Wall Street and Silicon Valley to government intelligence agencies and renowned educational institutions. Nationally recognized as a leader in the cybersecurity field, Nathan is a frequent public speaker, is a contributing author to the world’s best-selling computer security book, Hacking Exposed, is a U.S. patent holder, and has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin (nationally ranked #5 for Computer Science and Engineering). Nathan holds a BS in electrical & computer engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
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About Praetorian: Praetorian is a cybersecurity company whose mission is to make the world safer and more secure.
Kevin Thompson
President and Chief Executive Officer of SolarWinds
Kevin Thompson brings nearly 20 years of corporate finance, strategic planning and management experience to the NetSuite board. Thompson currently serves as president and chief executive officer at SolarWinds, a leading provider of Windows-based network management, network monitoring and network discovery software applications. Prior to SolarWinds, Thompson was senior vice president and chief financial officer at SAS, the largest privately held software company in the world. Before that, he was chief financial officer, treasurer, and an executive vice president of Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHT), the world’s leading provider of Linux and open source solutions to the enterprise. Earlier in his career, Thompson served as a partner in the Global Technology Industry Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he managed operations, debt and equity offerings, and mergers and acquisitions for public and private technology companies.
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About Samanage, SolarWinds: SolarWinds develops a technology that manages IT infrastructures.
Brent Bellm
Chief Executive Officer of BigCommerce
Brent is the Chief Executive Officer of BigCommerce. A retail and ecommerce veteran of 20 years, Brent has served in a variety of executive leadership positions, successfully growing industry-leading companies including HomeAway and PayPal.
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About BigCommerce: BigCommerce is a SaaS provider for merchants running online businesses.
Lisa Su
Chief Executive Officer of AMD
Dr. Su is AMD’s President and Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. or AMD, a leading semiconductor manufacturer. Previously she served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from July 2014 to October 2014 and Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global Business Units from January 2012 to July 2014. Prior to joining AMD in January 2012, Dr. Su served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Networking and Multimedia at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. from 2008 to 2011 prior to that, as Chief Technology Officer from 2007 to 2008. Dr. Su also spent 13 years with IBM in various engineering and business leadership positions; and was a member of the technical staff at Texas Instruments in the Semiconductor Process and Device Center. Ms. Su also serves as a director of AMD.
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About AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Jonathan Lonsdale
Co-founder, CEO of Ender
Jonathan Lonsdale is the Co-founder and CEO at Ender.
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About Ender: Ender is a real estate company that helps owners of rental homes to more efficiently handle day-to-day operations of property management.
Rob Taylor
Co-Founder & CEO of Convey
Rob has two decades of experience on founding teams and early stage operations, including four venture backed businesses and two IPOs. Rob currently serves as Co-Founder & CEO of Pivot Freight, a SaaS software company helping companies that ship freight manage their supply chains. Previously, Rob was President of BlackLocus, a SaaS software company focused on pricing and assortment intelligence for retail and acquired by The Home Depot in late 2012. Prior to BlackLocus, Rob was one of the early execs at TrueCar, Inc, an auto pricing and buying service disrupting the way cars are bought and sold, where he started and scaled Truecar.com. Rob was also a founding team member of Pricelock, another disruptive software company helping companies and individuals protect against fuel and commodity price volatility. Rob lives in Austin, TX with his wife Renee and toddlers Jack and Grant. Rob’s passion outside of family and startups is road cycling in Texas hill country.
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About BlackLocus, Capital Factory, Convey: We leverage unique intelligence to transform customer delivery into a competitive advantage for the world’s largest retailers.
Bill Boebel
Founder & CEO of Pingboard
CEO and founder of Pingboard.
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About Capital Factory, Pingboard: Pingboard is a real-time, collaborative org chart that makes it easy to organize teams and workforce planning.
Manish Patel
Founder, CEO of RealYields
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About Arrive Logistics, Mighty Equities, RealYields, SeedSumo, Springdale Ventures: RealYields is an intuitive and relevant real estate financial analysis on the web.
Travis Oliphant
CEO & Co-Founder of OpenTeams
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About NumPy, OpenTeams: OpenTeams is a web platform for open source contributors to get recognition for their work.
Mance Harmon
CEO & Co-founder of Hedera Hashgraph
Mance is an experienced technology executive and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of strategic leadership experience in multi-national corporations, government agencies, and high-tech startups, and is Co-Founder and CEO of Hedera Hashgraph. His prior experience includes serving as the Head of Architecture and Labs at Ping Identity, Founder / CEO of two tech startups, the senior executive for product security at a $1.7B revenue organization, Program Manager for a very-large scale software program for the Missile Defense Agency, the Course Director for Cybersecurity at US Air Force Academy, and research scientist in Machine Learning at Wright Laboratory. Mance received a MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, and a BS in Computer Science from Mississippi State University.
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About Hedera Hashgraph, Swirlds: Hedera Hashgraph is a public distributed ledger for building decentralized applications.
Chuck Gordon
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Storable
Chuck Gordon is CEO @ SpareFoot.
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About Storable: Storable is a provider of self-storage management software used to help storage operators increase efficiency and improve profitability.
Chris Richter
Co-Founder & CEO of FloorFound
Chris is a 15 year veteran startup sales leader and entrepreneur with a proven track record of success with high profile, VC backed B2B SAS and enterprise software companies. Chris has expertise across eCommerce and Social Media and developing market opportunities for companies in the media, financial services, retail, CPG and manufacturing verticals. Chris was an early employee and sales leader with companies including Webify, Bazaarvoice and the Founder of Socialware which has become the market leader in the social media compliance solutions category.
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About FloorFound: FloorFound is a developer of an e-commerce software platform that facilitates returns and resales of oversized products for retailers.
Jeffrey DeCoux
CEO and Founder of Hangar Technology
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About Hangar Technology: Hangar is a software technology company enabling robotics across industry.
Michael Ward
Chief Executive Officer of AnthemIQ
Mike Ward is the Chief Executive Officer at AnthemIQ.
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About AnthemIQ: We build technology that helps Commercial Real Estate brokers manage their deals from search to signed lease.
William Hurley
Founder & CEO of Strangeworks
William Hurley “whurley” is founder and CEO of Strangeworks, a quantum computing startup based in Austin, Texas. Whurley’s career has spanned over 25 years, founding startups such as Honest Dollar and Chaotic Moon Studios, as well as working in technical leadership roles for Apple, IBM, and Goldman Sachs. Prior to founding Strangeworks, Whurley was managing director at Goldman Sachs which he came to through the acquisition of Honest Dollar; a fintech startup that offers a retirement savings platform that simplifies and brings transparency to the investment products available for a range of consumers. Whurley is dedicated to fostering collaboration and establishing unified metrics and standards across the quantum computing community. He partnered with StackOverflow to create the world’s largest community of quantum computing developers, and currently serves as the Chair of the Quantum Standards Working Group at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is leading the development of the first quantum commuting standards, PAR7130 “Standard for Quantum Computing Definitions” and PAR 7131 “Standard for Quantum Computing Performance Metrics for Performance Benchmarking”. Whurley is committed to making quantum computing more accessible and improving quantum literacy. His latest book, “Quantum Computing For Babies,” offers simple explanations of quantum computing for the youngest audiences and is one of the best selling books on quantum computing. His upcoming book, Endless Impossibilities, continues his mission of improving quantum computing literacy and helps readers understand the potential of quantum computing. Whurley is a regular contributor to TechCrunch and regularly speaks around the world on the potential power and impact of quantum computing and what quantum needs to succeed. He has received numerous awards and recognitions including being named a 2018 Eisenhower Fellow, the 2012 International Genius Grant recipient, and an IBM Master Inventor. Whurley is an advocate and works on a range of issues he cares about, including diversity and equality. Whurley is a founding partner of UN Women; ‘EQUALS’: The Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age bringing together partners across sectors to bridge the gender gap in technology by championing equality of access, skills development, and career opportunities.
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About CERN & Society Foundation, Ecliptic Capital, Eisenhower Fellowships, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Strangeworks: Strangeworks makes the power of quantum computing accessible to everyone all in one place. Learn more at http://quantumcomputing.com
Jon Fry
Founder & CEO of Lendflow
Founder & CEO at ChannelGrowth
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About ChannelGrowth, FoodEagle, Lendflow, Quickline Credit: Lendflow makes it easy for software companies to embed lending services into their product.
Ravi Parikh
CEO / Founder of RoverPass
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About Code Galaxy, RoverPass, StoryBuilt: RoverPass develops a reservation management system software to make reservations online and track the availability of the site.
Ben Doherty
Chief Executive Officer of Sunroom Rentals
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About Sunroom Rentals: Find, tour & apply for any apartment or home
Adam Moore
CEO & Co-founder of SpaceCraft
Adam Moore is Co-CEO & Co-founder at SpaceCraft.
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About SpaceCraft: SpaceCraft provides web-based software for small business owners to create and manage websites.
AJ Bruno
Founder & CEO of QuotaPath
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About QuotaPath: Spreadsheets don’t scale. Let’s automate your sales commissions processes and provide sales reps with the transparency they need to succeed.
Peter Bonanni
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Muxy
Peter Bonanni is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at Muxy.
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About Muxy: Muxy provides tools to make live broadcasters and brands successful at reaching millions of viewers.
Brandon Metcalf
CEO & Founder of Place
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About Blueprint Advisory, Place: Place Technology is a developer of strategic finance software for SaaS companies.
Saurav Agarwal
Co-Founder, CEO of SIERA.AI
Saurav has worked at Qualcomm Research developing multiple patents for autonomous drones. He has won the prestigious Qualcomm Padovani Fellowship for his work along with National Innovation Awards and NSF I-Corps.
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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.
Lyal Avery
Founder & CEO of PullRequest
Lyal Avery is the founder & CEO of PullRequest, a Google-backed platform that combines automation with a network of on-demand reviewers to improve and simplify the code review process. Lyal Avery’s career as a leader in the technology industry spans over 18 years, with multiple exits across Vancouver BC, San Francisco CA, and Austin TX. Previous to PullRequest, Lyal cofounded Playerize, a payment and distribution platform for mobile and social games (exited to TSE:PER in 2015).
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About PullRequest: PullRequest’s code review as a service helps development teams ship code faster, with improved quality and lower costs.
Bill Moore
Founder/CEO of Zello
Bill is CEO of Zello, founder and director of TuneIn, and an early stage angel investor. Zello is social radio with 55 million anonymous users enjoying live public conversations from around the globe. NPR, PBS, BBC, CNN and Fox Business have covered Zello’s role as the most popular app for activists in Turkey, Egypt, Venezuela and Ukraine. While CEO of TuneIn thru 2011 Bill’s team created a platform to organize the worlds radio, created a top 50 overall app across 100 countries and won embedded deals powering BMW, Sonos and product lines across auto, mobile and connected device. Bill closed the funding with Sequoia Capital, moved the team to Palo Alto and returned to Texas.
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About Zello: Frontline workers save the world everyday. We build technology for them.
Raymond Kaminski
Co-Founder and CEO of ibble
Successful Entrepreneur, exceptional Engineer and proven Business leader within the Space Exploration and FinTech industries. Career spanning the NASA Space Shuttle & International Space Station Programs, Honest Dollar acquired by Goldman Sachs within 1yr of the product release, COO of HyperSciences launching rockets for NASA, and CEO of ibble revolutionizing fintech.
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About ibble: Ibble is the social video app for users to spark conversations and ignite new ideas with other people.
Greg Stock
Chairman & CEO of Zenoss
Chairman & CEO at Zenoss.
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About Manugistics, Zenoss: Zenoss is the leader in Software-Defined IT Operations™, ensures the the world’s largest organization”s IT services & apps are always on.
Vinay Bhagat
Founder and CEO of TrustRadius
Vinay is an entrepreneur passionate about tackling big problems. Vinay conceived TrustRadius after experiencing challenges when buying enterprise solutions at his last company. In 1999, Vinay founded Convio, the leading Software as a Services platform for nonprofits. In April 2010, Convio became a public company, and was acquired in May 2012 for $325 million. Prior to Convio, Vinay was a Director at Trilogy Software and a Consultant at Bain & Company in London, Hong Kong and Kiev. He holds an MBA Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar, an MS Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University, and a MA Engineering Information Sciences from Cambridge University with First Class Honors. When he’s not working, Vinay loves playing with his kids, swimming and the occasional squash game.
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About TrustRadius: TrustRadius is a provider of an online review site used to offer business technology and software reviews.
David Wilson
Founder & CEO of JamKazam, Inc.
David Wilson is a serial entrepreneur based in Austin, Texas, with exits as an executive across a wide variety of technology startups to Google, eBay, Cisco, GameStop, Worksoft, and more. David loves to create and build products and companies that change the world in positive ways. His strengths functionally include product management, product marketing, marketing communications, business development, operations, strategy, fund raising, and general management. David has experience and proven success in both consumer and enterprise markets, spanning software, hardware, and Internet ventures. David earned his bachelor’s degree with majors in economics and computer information systems, graduating summa cum laude from Baylor University in 1987. He earned an MBA degree from Stanford University in 1992.
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About GameStop, JamKazam, Inc.: Disrupting the $8B music lesson marketplace with unique technology platform that lets musicians play live in sync from different locations.
Brian Cruver
Founder & CEO of AlertMedia
Cruver is the Founder & CEO at Alert Media. He is a Co-founder at Xenex.
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About AlertMedia, Marketdriver Ventures, Xenex: AlertMedia provides a critical communications platform and monitoring services to enterprise customers.
Joe Rohrlich
CEO of Top Hat
As Chief Revenue Officer, Joe leads the global Sales, Marketing, and Client Success teams at Bazaarvoice. These teams are responsible for developing and growing client value across a range of industries and regions. Previously, Joe was General Manager of Bazaarvoice EMEA, leading the company’s strategy and growth across Europe. He initially joined Bazaarvoice in 2010 to establish and grow the firm’s CPG offering, and went on to lead the Client Success practice globally. Prior to Bazaarvoice, Joe led account management at a Procter & Gamble-owned marketing consultancy. He has consulted on digital marketing strategies with brands ranging from Pampers to Sprint to Newell Rubbermaid. Joe holds a BA from the University of Michigan and is teaching his wife and two children to be avid Michigan sports fans – Go Blue!
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About Bazaarvoice, Top Hat: Top Hat’s interactive software helps college professors quickly activate classrooms by engaging students over their own devices.
Alex Davern
CEO of National Instruments
Davern serves as executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer at National Instruments. Prior to joining National Instruments in 1994, Davern worked for Pricewaterhouse-Coopers in Europe and the United States. Davern holds a bachelor’s degree in business studies and a post-graduate diploma in professional accounting from University College Dublin.
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About National Instruments: National Instruments Corporation manufactures and supplies measurement and automation products.
Jeff Haynie
Co-Founder & CEO of Pinpoint.com
Jeff was co-founder and CEO of Appcelerator before the Axway (NYSE:AXW.PA) in January 2016. Jeff is a long-time serial entrepreneur, angel investor, technologist and blogger. Previously, Jeff was Co-founder and CTO of Vocalocity, a software provider in the communications arena and before that, CTO of eHatchery, a digital incubator and off-shoot of Bill Gross’ idealab!. Jeff has worked on numerous standard committees such as IETF and W3C as well as core contributor to a number of important open source technologies such as JBoss and OpenVXI. Jeff served with distinction in the U.S. Navy.
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About Pinpoint.com: A collaborative workspace that is free from distraction so you can create, share, and work together no matter where you are.
Peter Li
CEO, Co-Founder of Atlas Wearables
Founder of Atlas Wearables.
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About Atlas Wearables: Atlas Wearables is a fitness-technology company that designs products to enrich the fitness experience both in and out of the gym.
Jack McDonald
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Upland Software
Jack McDonald is Founder, Chairman of the Board, and CEO of Silverback Enterprise Group. Founded in 2010 and backed by Austin Ventures, a $3.9 billion venture capital firm, Silverback acquires and builds industry-leading enterprise software companies. In the past 15 months, Silverback has completed four acquisitions and its PowerSteering Software subsidiary is today the largest cloud software company in the enterprise project and portfolio management (PPM) market, with over 800 active enterprise customers and more than 250,000 active users in 50 countries. Prior to Silverback, Jack was Chairman of the Board and CEO of Perficient, Inc., a leading information technology consulting firm, from 1999-2009, where he led a team that grew the business from startup to a publicly traded (NASDAQ: PRFT) $250 million revenues award-winning industry leader with operations in North America, Europe, China and India. Jack is a serial entrepreneur and a winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He is actively involved in the Austin civic and nonprofit community and currently serves as chairman elect of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, chairman of PeopleFund, a community development loan fund for low-income entrepreneurs, and serves on the Board of Directors for KIPP Austin Public Schools, a network of seven nonprofit schools serving more than 2,000 students in east Austin. Jack previously served as Chairman of the Greater Austin Technology Partnership and Chairman of Texas Emerging Technology Fund for the central Texas region, as well as on the Board of Peoples Community Clinic, which provides high quality healthcare to more than 10,000 low income central Texans.
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About Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, Upland AccuRoute, Upland Software: Upland Software (Nasdaq: UPLD) is a leader in cloud-based tools for digital transformation.
Chris Ripley
Co-Founder and CEO of Smarter Sorting
Chris Ripley is the co-founder and CEO of Smarter Sorting.
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About Smarter Sorting: Smarter Sorting helps companies know more about consumer products to make, market and move them better.
Bryan Burkhart
Founder and CEO of Worksmith
Bryan Burkhart is founder and CEO at H.Bloom. Under his strategic leadership, H.Bloom has developed into a recognized luxury floral brand with a rapidly growing national presence. Bryan has extensive leadership and management experience gained through more than a decade in the software industry. He began his career in sales at Trilogy Software, in Austin, Texas. Later he served as Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Callidus Software, Inc., where he was responsible for all revenue and managed the company’s sales operations globally. Bryan joined Callidus when it was a start-up and helped grow the company to over $100 million in revenue and an IPO in 2003. Bryan graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Entrepreneurial Management. Bryan is a weekly contributor to The New York Times with a blog about team-building, talent development, and leadership.
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About Worksmith: Worksmith is a store experience management platform provider that helps brands adapt to the new world of retail.
Scott Brighton
CEO of Aurea Software
Scott Brighton is the CEO of Aurea Software. He has a master’s degree in Business Administration at Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business.
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About Accept Corporation, Aurea Software, Aurea Software, Jive Software: Aurea helps global businesses accelerate digital transformation through unlimited access to the world’s first business software library.
Sri Rao Boddapu
Founder and CEO of Arctic
Sri Rao Boddapu is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Arctic.Sri is a renewed leader, President of Esolvit Inc, Cloudsolvit Inc, Voice of Big Data, Technozant and Inforide Technologies. Sri is a great motivator.
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About Arctic: Arctic is an analytics and predictive insights employment platform that connects job seekers, hiring agencies, employers, and recruiters.
James Vaughan
Co-founder and CEO of Value Voting
Entrepreneur and investor with experience in politics, energy, and real estate. Over the years I’ve specialized in advocacy strategy, energy law, and real estate finance. My concentrations have varied based on the tasks at hand. Currently, I’m focused on political advocacy, send me a message if you want to talk politics, I’m always looking for new ideas on how to improve our political system.
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About Value Voting: Value Voting develops political targeting software for advocacy groups.
Wayne Roberts
CEO of Abrigo
Wayne Roberts is a transformational leader and builder of high growth technology companies and teams. He joined Abrigo as CEO in 2016 when the company was still called Banker’s Toolbox, and led its resurgence by driving next-generation products and services, unleashing a powerful company culture, generating impressive organic growth, and leading multiple acquisitions to make Abrigo the Enterprise Risk Management partner of choice for America’s community financial institutions. Earlier, he was chief operating officer at Accruent, the leading provider of software solutions in the commercial real estate management market, and also held senior leadership roles at Rackspace, Dell, Trammell Crow, and Accenture. A native of Austin, he is also a proud graduate of Texas A&M University, where he earned a BBA in business analysis and research and an MBA in finance.
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About Abrigo: Abrigo provides market-leading compliance, credit risk, and lending solutions to enable its customers to think bigger.
Antonio Arocha
CEO & Co-Founder of Nuve
After graduating from the University of Texas with a double degree in computer science and government, Antonio was driven to use his background and computer science degree to help solve a real world problem that would benefit society. He started working on Nuve, which was accepted into IBM’s SmartCamp (Mexico) in 2012. Antonio won that competition and Nuve began receiving recognition from local incubators in Austin. Currently, Antonio is leading the company towards unrivaled success in asset protection and with a broader vision related to the Internet of Things.
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About Nuve: Nuve is a software company that develops and delivers asset management and fraud prevention solutions.
Dan Cornish
CEO & Founder of Cosential
Dan oversees Cosential’s strategic direction. He’s grown the company for more than 20 years, providing the marketing and business development expertise needed to build the industry’s leading solution. Previously, Dan spent eight years as the President of Cornish Productions, where he created marketing presentations for architecture, engineering and construction firms. He is also known for his photography of the Statue of Liberty’s restoration in the 1980’s.
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About Cosential: Cosential provides cloud-based CRM and proposal automation solutions for architecture, engineering and construction firms.
Matt Hawkins
Co-Founder and CEO of Hoss
Matt Hawkins is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hoss.
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About Hoss: Hoss is an enterprise software company that helps teams make better API-driven products by tracking and managing the APIs they consume.
Eric Kavanagh
CEO of Inside Analysis
Eric has more than 20 years of experience as a career journalist with a keen focus on enterprise technologies. He designs and moderates a variety of New Media programs, including The Briefing Room, Information Management’s DM Radio and Espresso Series, as well as GARP’s Leadership and Research Webcasts. His mission is to help people leverage the power of software, methodologies and politics in order to get things done.
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About eWEEK.com, Global Association of Risk Professionals, Inside Analysis, The Bloor Group, The Bloor Group, United Nations: Inside Analysis is a web-based multimedia to deliver vendor-neutral education.
Dayne Myers
Chief Executive Officer of TalonX
Dayne Myers is co-founder and CEO of TalonX, a startup company whose mission is to help address the severe shortage of cybersecurity talent through automation and analytics solutions and managed services.
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About Imagine Sports, TalonX: TalonX is a software and services company helping organizations automate security and provide actionable insights.
David Fuller
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Artificial
David Fuller is the Chief Service Robotics Strategy and R&D officer for KUKA North America. In his role, David is responsible for driving the integration of key IT technology from the cloud, web, and mobiles spaces with the traditional core of KUKA’s operating technologies (OT) in industrial robotics, service robotics, and emerging areas of emphasis such as healthcare and healthcare logistics. David has held previous roles spanning from a professional software engineer to global Vice President of SW R&D with areas of emphasis such as the integration of I/O, deterministic buses, processors and FPGAs and their application within test and measurement in particular. David holds more than 30 patents and was jointly awarded the prestigious 2011 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Technology Innovation from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST). He graduated cum laude from Texas A&M University in 1995 with a Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering.
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About Artificial, KUKA Robotics: Artificial is a software company that develops a lab automation platform.
Arlo Gilbert
Founding CEO of Osano
Visionary High Growth Technology Leader with a deep understanding of developing new technologies and marketing them to consumers in industries including credit card processing, telecommunications, and digital health. Track record of envisioning, developing, and delivering new B2B and B2C products across a wide range of industries. Experienced at conceiving new ideas, communicating value proposition to the marketplace, and building organizations that meet customer and market demand for new products. Skilled at leveraging technology and engaging it at a commercial level to rapidly grow new companies. Adept at assessing constantly evolving market conditions and rapidly pivoting company strategy to ensure profitability and growth.
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About Meta SaaS, Osano: Osano is a provider of a data privacy compliance suite that aids businesses in complying with privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.
Richard Bagdonas
Chief Executive Officer of ReplyAll Health
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About Mindful Appy, Operation Turkey, ReplyAll Health, Twinedge: When someone important to you is in a health crisis, you can help. Give them the power to update everyone with one text.
Matt Flake
President & CEO of Q2ebanking
Matt currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of Q2 and is a member of the Board of Directors. He has been with Q2 since its founding in 2005. During his tenure at Q2, he’s been a significant contributor to the growth and strategic direction of the organization. With more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, including sales and banking operations, Matt is intensely determined to help regional and community-focused financial institutions compete with the Mega and money center banks. He is a recipient of the esteemed EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award in the Central Texas region and was an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year National finalist. Matt received his degree from Baylor University and is currently a member of the Dell Children’s Hospital Board of Trustees.
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About Q2ebanking: Q2ebanking designs virtual, mobile and voice banking applications for financial institutions.
Alex Nataros
CEO of Leap Computing
Alex Nataros is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at LEAP Computing.
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About Leap Computing, Robotics Networking and Automation Inc.: Leap Computing is a software and hardware company that provides graphically accelerated
Scott Abel
Founder, President & CEO of Umuse
Scott Abel is the co-founder and CEO of Spiceworks. In January 2006, Scott Abel co-founded Spiceworks, the world’s network for IT. More than 4.0 million IT professionals use Spiceworks to connect with peers, research the latest products and services and connect with over 2,700 technology companies. Scott Abel is a serial entrepreneur with more than 30 years in the technology industry, including seven years working for Steve Jobs. He co-founded Motive, which achieved numerous company milestones, including generating over $100M per year in revenue, navigating a successful an IPO in 2004, and inking customer deals with 40 of the world’s top broadband providers. Before joining Motive, Scott was vice president of Worldwide Professional Services for NeXT Software (acquired by Apple), where he built NeXT’s consulting organization from the ground up. He grew the organization into a $14 million business in just over two years. Previously, Scott held various business and software development positions at Apollo Computer, Motorola, Tracor and Applied Research Labs. He is an InformationWeek Magazine “Top 15 Innovator and Influencer” and holds a BS degree in Physics from the University of Texas, Austin.
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About Umuse: Umuse is a stealth mode startup that try to bring order to the chaos that has become workplace communication.
Renji Bijoy
Founder, CEO & CTO of Immersed
Renji Bijoy is the Founder & CEO/CTO at Immersed
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About Immersed: We immerse distributed teams into the same VR workplace to maximize productivity.
Sabina Bharwani
Founder and CEO of Hello World
Sabina Bharwani is the Managing Director of Innovation Strategy & Partnerships at Teach For America, where she manages a multi-million dollar fund focused on the rigorous application of improvement sciences and is charged with stewarding bottom-up and top-down innovations through rapid cycles of learning and iteration. Included in her portfolio is the oversight of three national programmatic priorities – teacher training and development, classroom education technology integration, and achieving broader student outcomes. Sabina and her team manage contracts with EdTech companies and non-profits focused on STEM, Common Core, blended learning models, culturally responsive teaching and student data products. Prior to leading across multiple priority areas, Sabina was Teach For America’s Director of Education Technology, where she strategized daily with external technology vendors to research, prototype, build, execute, assess and refine education technology products through teacher classroom usage. Prior professional experiences include teaching 4th-6th grade at a high performing charter elementary/middle school, implementing the successful use of EdTech tools at the classroom level, and coaching teachers on pedagogical and curricular practices across all grades and subject areas. Sabina also completed a Fulbright scholarship at the BC Ministry of Education in Canada and Mexico’s Secretaría de Educación Pública (Secretariat of Public Education), where she led comparative quantitative research on intersections between student drop-out rates, attendance, test scores, family engagement and school leadership between indigenous and urban communities within respective countries. Sabina holds an M.P.P. from Harvard University, an M.S. in Education & Development from the Relay Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. in mathematical economics from Rice University.
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About Hello World: Hello World is a computer science enrichment program taught by software engineers, AI architects, data scientists.
Kent Savage
Founder & CEO of Icon.me
As Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FameCast, Kent brings more than 25 years of experience as a veteran entrepreneur within the internet and digital media arena. Prior to founding FameCast, Kent served in founding and value creating CXO capacities with NetSpeed (Acquired by Cisco), NetPliance (IPO), TippingPoint (Acquired by 3Com) and Digital LifeStyles Group. Kent currently serves as a Director for Innovo Group (INNO), a NASDAQ traded fashion denim company. He has been recognized as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist and has been the guest on CNBC Squawk Box, CNN Financial News, Fox News with Neil Cavuto and Silicon Spin. Kent holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business from Oklahoma State University and a MBA from Southern Methodist University.
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About Icon.me: Icon is an employee engagement and brand advocacy software service designed for small to large enterprises.
Evan Baehr
Founder & CEO of Teneno
Evan is the Cofounder/President of Able, an Austin tech company that funds the Fortune 5,000,000. He is the author of Get Backed, the #1 selling book from Harvard Business Press. He’s an honors graduate Princeton, Yale, and Harvard Business School.
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About Teneno: Teneno is a leading provider of simple, secure and affordable networking-on-demand solutions for Small and Medium Sized Businesses.
Jim Eustace
Founder & CEO of Bound
Jim has 20 years of experience in enterprise digital marketing. He was the founder and CEO of VM Foundry – a digital marketing services and technology firm (acquired by the W2O Group in 2012) with clients that include MasterCard, Dell, EMBRAER, Purdue Pharma, Honeywell, MLB, MTV, Nike and the NFL. Jim leveraged his understanding of the market to conceive Get Smart Content and authored the company’s patent covering targeted content serving.
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About Bound: Bound provides a website personalization platform that delivers powerful insights by combining data on known and anonymous web visitors.
Mohit Tiwari
Co-Founder, CEO of Symmetry Systems
Mohit Tiwari is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, His current research focuses on building secure systems, all the way from hardware to system software to applications that run on them. Tiwari and his team have designed and built the first secure processor that obfuscates all digital signal outputs, including even addresses to physical memory. This processor, implemented on a Convey FPGA-based server, can be used as a root of trust in datacenters where an attacker (a malicious employee, for example) has physical access to confidential computation. They are also working on a platform where users can control their privacy while using applications that span mobile and datacenter machines. We have prototyped an OS-level mandatory access control system that enforces policies across Android and server-side Linux machines, and developed a simple design pattern to express rich functionality in privacy preserving applications.
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About Symmetry Systems, The University of Texas at Austin: Symmetry Systems is a platform that detects, responds, and protects against data breaches.
Seyi Fabode
Co-Founder and CEO of Varuna
Seyi Fabode MD at VestedWorld.com, Asha Labs Inc. Formerly SparkCognition.com. Prior to this he was the VP of Innovation for the Clean Energy Trust and was CEO/Co-founder of Power2Switch acquired by Choose Energy (KPCB portfolio company). Mr Fabode’s work focuses on tech, energy and the impact on consumers.
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About Omega Grid, Varuna: Varuna provides alerts, recommendations, and predictions to help water utility leaders to effectively manage a water system.
Eric Johnson
Founder & CEO of membersy
Eric Johnson is the Founder & CEO of membersy.
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About membersy: Membersy is a digital health company that creates thoughtfully designed membership programs to make dental care more approachable.
Gary Garofalo
Co-Founder and CEO of LoudCrowd
Gary Garofalo is the CEO and Co-Founder at LoudCrowd.
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About Degree Analytics, LoudCrowd: LoudCrowd is a SaaS company redefining the way brands invest and interact with their customers as a tool for growth.
Douglas Lenat
Co-CEO of Cycorp
CEO at Cycorp.
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About Cycorp: Cycorp develops enterprise software products using logic-based machine reasoning.
Allen Gilmer
Co-founder, Chairman & CEO of Drillinginfo
Prior to co-founding Drillinginfo in 1999, Allen Gilmer was an independent oilman for 7 years, co-founding three profitable E&P companies. He began his oil patch career with Marathon Oil Corporation, as a geophysicist working in Research, Seismic Acquisitions, and South American exploration. Allen is active in all aspects of Drillinginfo’s new product development and is widely recognized for his industry leadership and vision. He holds several patents in the field of multi-component seismology. He received his BA in Geology from Rice University and his MS in Geology from University of Texas at El Paso.
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About Drillinginfo, Enverus: Drilling Info accelerates workflows and business critical decision processes in oil and gas industry.
Derrik Deyhimi
Founder, CEO & President of Iconixx Software
Derrik Deyhimi currently serves as Chairman and CEO of Iconixx Software. Mr. Deyhimi has been in the compensation industry, helping companies incent their workforce to perform, since 1997. Mr. Deyhimi has built multiple successful and profitable technology software and services companies throughout his career. Mr. Deyhimi has led organizations as large as $100MM in revenues with over 600 employees worldwide. He has successfully stepped in and turned around financially troubled organizations and has successfully launched many start-ups. Formerly, Mr. Deyhimi led Iconixx Corporation as its Chairman and CEO. In this capacity, Deyhimi brought strong leadership and vision to the organization and more than 20 years’ experience profitably growing both software and services companies. Under his leadership Iconixx was awarded the FastTech 50 award in both 2005 and 2007.
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About Iconixx Software: Iconixx is a provider of sales compensation software designed for compensation management.
Trey Allison
Co-Founder and CEO of Kronologic
Trey Allison is the Co-Founder and CEO at Kronologic.
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About Kronologic: Kronologic develops a calendar monetization platform that converts sales leads into meetings.
David Zakariaie
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Senseye
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About Civil Air Patrol, Senseye: Senseye is a Neurotechnology company
Eric Goldreyer
Co-Founder & CEO of Bulb
Goldreyer graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in business. After graduating, Goldreyer went into account management at Southwestern Bell, with responsibility for multi-million dollar customers including Texas Instruments and Exxon. A consummate entrepreneur, Goldreyer left Southwestern Bell to start BedandBreakfast.com in 1995. He grew the company into a top specialty lodging brand, and expanded its offering through the acquisition of several websites and lodging software companies. Goldreyer sold the company to HomeAway in 2010. Since then, he has invested in and advised several Austin-based Internet startups. In 2012, Goldreyer co-founded The Rockcliff Group to more actively invest in and manage a variety of technology and hospitality ventures with TurnKey Vacation Rentals being one of the first investments.
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About Bulb, FunAir, Sage Hill Inn & Spa, TurnKey Vacation Rentals: Bulb is the world’s easiest and most beautiful digital portfolio.
Devin Reimer
CEO of Owlchemy Labs
Devin Reimer is CTO (Chief Technology Owl) of game studio Owlchemy Labs, creators of the multi-platform VR title ‘Job Simulator’ and ‘Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality’. With many years of Unity and game development experience, Devin has led the creation of multiple VR launch titles on the HTC Vive, Oculus Touch, and PlayStation VR, ensuring Owlchemy maintains its reputation of bringing award winning content to new platforms. After 6 years in business as an indie game studio releasing games on PC and mobile, Owlchemy has transitioned to a VR-exclusive content studio.
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About Owlchemy Labs: Owlchemy Labs is a creative game studio with a passion for polished and unique games and VR experiences.
Jeffrey J. Guy
Co-Founder & CEO of Sevco Security
J.J. Guy is co-founder & CEO of Sevco Security. Sevco is an enterprise security company helping IT and Security Operations Teams operationalize asset management. Before Sevco, J.J. CTO of JASK, the first cloud-native SaaS SIEM, acquired by Sumo Logic in 2019. J.J. was also part of the founding team of Carbon Black, where they created the first endpoint telemetry platform, which Gartner later branded Endpoint Detection and Response. Carbon Black’s telemetry enabled the industry to operationalize detection and response as part of day to day operations at a speed and efficiency not possible with traditional DFIR tools. Before Cb, he spent 12 years with various federal teams doing offensive network operations where he built his security foundation in vulnerability research, exploitation, enterprise networks and software development, . He’s been preaching about the inevitability of compromise since 2002. He’s excited the rest of the world final recognizes the problem so he’s no longer “that crazy government guy.”
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About Sevco Security: Sevco Security is a provider of cybersecurity services and products for cyber experts.
Mark McClain
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of SailPoint
In his role as CEO, Mark brings to bear over 20 years of experience developing and leading innovative technology companies. Under Mark’s direction, SailPoint has grown from a collection of fresh ideas into a publicly recognized leader in the identity management software market. Mark directs and drives the overall vision and strategy for SailPoint, which is underpinned by his commitment and passion for building top-performing teams, creating a collaborative and innovative work environment, and focusing continuously on the needs of customers. Teaming is a concept that Mark promotes throughout the company: teaming with forward-thinking customers to understand their needs, with partners to ensure customer success, and ultimately within SailPoint to develop innovative, market-leading solutions. Mark is passionate about maintaining the spirit of teamwork even as SailPoint grows its employee base and its global presence to offices around the world. Mark has a successful track record building and growing ground-breaking identity management companies. In 2000, he founded Waveset Technologies. In its first three years, Waveset experienced rapid growth under Mark’s leadership, with revenue growth of 250 percent year over year. His leadership quickly took the company from small start-up to industry leader, ultimately leading to its acquisition in 2003 by Sun Microsystems, where Mark served as vice president of software marketing. Mark’s career also includes diverse experience in international sales and marketing with Hewlett-Packard and IBM/Tivoli Systems.
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About SailPoint: SailPoint is an identity and access management provider that helps organizations deliver and manage user access from any device.
Mark McClain
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of SailPoint
In his role as CEO, Mark brings to bear over 20 years of experience developing and leading innovative technology companies. Under Mark’s direction, SailPoint has grown from a collection of fresh ideas into a publicly recognized leader in the identity management software market. Mark directs and drives the overall vision and strategy for SailPoint, which is underpinned by his commitment and passion for building top-performing teams, creating a collaborative and innovative work environment, and focusing continuously on the needs of customers. Teaming is a concept that Mark promotes throughout the company: teaming with forward-thinking customers to understand their needs, with partners to ensure customer success, and ultimately within SailPoint to develop innovative, market-leading solutions. Mark is passionate about maintaining the spirit of teamwork even as SailPoint grows its employee base and its global presence to offices around the world. Mark has a successful track record building and growing ground-breaking identity management companies. In 2000, he founded Waveset Technologies. In its first three years, Waveset experienced rapid growth under Mark’s leadership, with revenue growth of 250 percent year over year. His leadership quickly took the company from small start-up to industry leader, ultimately leading to its acquisition in 2003 by Sun Microsystems, where Mark served as vice president of software marketing. Mark’s career also includes diverse experience in international sales and marketing with Hewlett-Packard and IBM/Tivoli Systems.
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About SailPoint: SailPoint is an identity and access management provider that helps organizations deliver and manage user access from any device.
Joel Trammell
Founder & CEO of Khorus
Joel Trammell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Khorus, CEO and Chairman at iGrafx.
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About Khorus, Lake Austin Advisors, Lone Rock Technology Group, MGR360, Texas CEO Media: Khorus specializes in the fields of corporate strategy, leadership, analytics, and performance management.
Stewart Alpert
CEO of Eloquent Cloud
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About Eloquent Cloud: Cloud Services Provider
Chris Dillie
Co-Founder, President & CEO of ESO
Chris was the co-founder of ESO and has been with the company since its 2004 inception, first as Vice President of Marketing and Sales and now as President and CEO, a position he has held since 2009. He brought 13 years of EMS experience and a solid business background to ESO, having served in roles ranging from EMS manager to founder of a real estate company that bought, sold and managed properties. Chris designed the first several versions of the ESO ePCR software, and his vision continues to be the driving force behind the development of new products to meet the changing demands of the healthcare market.
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About ESO: ESO is a computeer software company that develops a software intended to improve community health through the power of data.
Jonathon Kovar
CEO of The GoodLooking Company
Jonathon Kovar received his Doctorate of Jurisprudence from the University of Houston and founded HealthTrust Software, now The GoodLooking Company in 2009. He is a health care attorney who has assisted hundreds of home health agencies, physicians, DME providers, hospices, therapy providers, and outpatient clinics to become more compliant and efficient by utilizing technology to streamline and enhance the documentation process. He has worked with agencies facing ZPIC audits and state Medicaid investigations. He has taught seminars on HIPAA compliance, documentation and billing strategies, and advanced technology utilization. For over a decade, Jonathon has been an advocate for healthcare providers. Since receiving his doctorate, the company has helped thousands of administrators and clinicians grow their businesses, increase their compliance and lower their cost of service. Now residing in Austin, Texas, Jonathon helps politicians, healthcare providers, and other public figures to draft legislation, create comprehensive legal strategies, and bring health and healing to people in need.
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About The GoodLooking Company: The GoodLooking Company offers software that organizes and oversees all of your paperwork, processes, and people in one place.
Jeff Sunshine
CEO of Expert Knowledge Networks
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About Expert Knowledge Networks: The first comprehensive SaaS solution focused on connecting and engaging the various participants within an “innovation ecosystem.”
Cole Crawford
CEO of Vapor IO
Cole is the Chairman of StackingIT and CEO of Vapor IO. He is the former Executive Director of the Open Compute Foundation. He is an industry recognized thought leader and co-founder of OpenStack. He worked with the US Government on the standard definition of Cloud Computing. He is a sought after public speaker who sits on multiple technical advisory boards for cloud and hardware related companies. He was also the founding storage project chair for the Open Compute Project.
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About Vapor IO: Vapor IO develops and provides a nationwide network solution for the edge, combining edge exchange, edge colocation, and edge networking.
Jory Hatton
CEO and Co-founder of ClaraPrice
Jory Hatton is a serial entrepreneur, software architect, and Health IT expert with a professional background in consumer SaaS products and Enterprise APIs. His core expertise lies in agile software development, product development, and technical leadership, leading platform builds that pair stability and scalability with a great user experience. As a key stakeholder within executive leadership teams, he has led early stage software companies through rapid phases of growth, revenue, partnership, and acquisition. Previous accomplishments include TechCrunch Battlefield, Rock Health Best New Startup, and Austin Startup A-List.
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About ClaraPrice: ClaraPrice helps Hospitals boost revenue and ratings with innovative price transparency solutions.
Adi Mishra
CEO and Co-Founder of LightArrow
CEO & Co-founder at LightArrow (mobile apps for business/productivity). Entrepreneur, team builder, investor, optimist. Adi is currently leading the team at LightArrow, an Austin-based startup that builds next-gen mobile apps for business and productivity. The apps span across areas with the biggest impact: CRM, Cloud Integrations, Calendars, Inboxes & Social Big Data, Projects, Finance, Assets, Metrics/Analytics, Collaboration and much more. All the apps are built on the company’s iOS and Mac based LightArrow App Engine, which provides enterprise class core technologies and cloud integrations for its entire line of apps. More about the technology: http://lightarrow.com/products/lightarrow-app-engine Aimed for the enterprise, small businesses, and individuals alike, the apps utilize 3rd party cloud services to give users complete solutions for the Mobile-and-Cloud driven post-PC era.
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About LightArrow: Austin-based startup that builds next-gen mobile apps for business and productivity: Calendars, CRM, Big Data, Projects, Finance, and More.
Juan Rodriguez
CEO of FlashParking
Mr. Rodriguez directs the planning, management of product development and overall strategy of the company. Prior to Flash Valet, Mr. Rodriguez held positions ranging from Sr. Director of International Technical Operations to Vice President of Retail Networks at MPower Labs, Inc and Rev Worldwide, Inc (MPower Group companies). He led efforts to launch financial and mobile payments services to the world’s unbanked populations in over 10 countries. In 2005 Mr. Rodriguez co-founded Klevernet, LLC (acquired by MPower Ventures) an online insurance portal that bridged the gap between local insurance agents and internet insurance shoppers. Before insurancebyagents.com, Mr. Rodriguez held senior-level technical positions at Terremark Worldwide, Inc. and CACI, Inc. His responsibilities included managing development, implementation and maintenance of business-critical applications, ERP/CRM, and business intelligence systems.Mr. Rodriguez served with distinction as a noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Army and received numerous meritorious citations while stationed at the Pentagon. Mr. Rodriguez attended Strayer University in Washington, D.C., where he received a BS in Computer Information Systems.
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About Flash Valet, FlashParking, Klever Logic: FLASH develops parking technology to enable parking assets to transform into next-generation mobility hubs.
Lanham Napier
CEO & Builder of BuildGroup
Lanham Napier is Co-CEO at Build Acquisition Corp.
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About Build Acquisition Corp., BuildGroup: BuildGroup is a software holding company that selectively invests in leadership teams with staying power.
William Amelio
Chief Executive Officer of Avnet
William J. Amelio served as the chief executive officer and president of CHC Group Ltd. (NYSE: HELI), a global helicopter services provider, from 2010 to 2015. Previously, he served as president and chief executive officer of Lenovo Group Limited and as senior vice president/president for the Asia-Pacific / Japan region of Dell, Inc. Additional experience includes leadership roles at NCR Corporation, Honeywell International, Inc. and IBM Corporation. William Amelio and his wife Jamie founded and continue to lead Caring for Cambodia (caringforcambodia.org), a non-profit organization that works to educate the children of Cambodia through building schools, training teachers and providing for basic human needs. He holds a master’s degree in management and is a Sloan Fellow of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. William Amelio earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and honorary doctorate in engineering from Lehigh University. As a member of Avnet’s board of directors, William Amelio serves on the Compensation Committee and the Audit Committee.
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About Avnet, DoubleCheck Solutions, Stanford Graduate School of Business: Avnet is a global technology solutions compnay.
Eric Simone
Founder, CEO of ClearBlade
Eric Simone is the Founder and CEO of ClearBlade, Inc. a rapidly growing Enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) software company focused on building IoT solutions for enterprises across different industries. Prior to starting ClearBlade, Eric was the founder and CTO of Compete Incorporated, which sold to Perficient Inc. (PRFT) in May of 2000. Earlier in his career, Eric achieved success in senior engineering, product and sales positions at IBM and Johns Hopkins Hospital. Eric has a degree in Computer Science from Purdue University and is a recognized Distinguished Alumni. Eric resides in Austin, Texas with his wife Toni and 2 sons, Xander and Dexter.
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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.
Wil Oxford
Founder, CEO of Anametric
Wil is founder and CEO of Bra-Ket Science, a spin-out from Southern Methodist University pursuing photonic quantum storage and logic devices. Wil received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science from University of North Carolina in 1987, where he was a John Motley Morehead Scholar. His dissertation project was one of the world’s first tabletop E-beam testers for commercial ICs. After graduating, Wil went to Apple’s Advanced Technologies Group in Cupertino CA, where he worked on advanced DSP algorithms as well as mixed-signal IC designs for personal computer use. Among other things, Wil was responsible for the architecture and design of the audio subsystems for Apple’s award-winning multimedia computers and some components of Apple’s QuickTime multimedia software suite. In 1995, Wil moved to the joint Apple/IBM/Motorola Design Center in Austin, TX, where he was part of the team that produced several generations of PowerPC CPU designs. After Apple, Wil joined LifeSize Communications, where he developed breakthrough video and audio conferencing products. Wil was the primary designer of the LifeSize Phone; the world’s most advanced conference telephony system. He led a team of audio and manufacturing engineers to design and ship this ground-breaking product in less than 18 months from the day that he joined the company. LifeSize was acquired by multimedia giant Logitech in 2009. After LifeSize, Wil founded Rubicon Labs, Inc. and spent the next dozen years developing Rubicon’s Zero-Knowledge IoT security platform. His work resulted in both commercial products as well as a number of publications in the IoT security area. Rubicon’s IoT security platform is currently being used to provide secure identity services scaling over a wide range from very low-power edge devices to high performance server farm applications. Wil left Rubicon in 2017 to found Bra-Ket Science. He is the holder of 40 issued US patents, several foreign patents and has many more still pending.
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About Anametric: Anametric is developing new technologies and devices for chip scale quantum photonics, with a focus on cybersecurity
Alex Ramirez
Co-Founder & CEO of CognitOps
Alex Ramirez co-founded CognitOps in 2018 after successfully building a Warehouse Execution Software company, Reddwerks, which was acquired by Dematic in 2015. Before Reddwerks, Alex helped Accenture and HighJump Software build warehouse management systems. Alex has spent over 20 years in the warehouse technology space and has helped countless organizations get the most out of their supply chain investments. In his CEO role, Alex serves the team by owning strategy, customer success, HR, and fundraising.
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About CognitOps: CognitOps specializes in the fields of SaaS, warehouse management, predictive analytics, and machine learning.
Utz Baldwin
Chief Executive Officer of Plum
Utz is a senior executive with over 25 years of entrepreneurial and leadership experience in the consumer electronics industry. Having led operational and strategic projects, Utz has built a reputation as a visionary leader who knows how to “connect-the-dots” and build consensus to innovate. His experience includes a thorough understanding of organizational decision-making and implementing strategic change while developing corporate momentum and operational success. He recently held the position of Chief Executive Officer at the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association and has been considered to be the voice and face of the connected home industry for the last decade.
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About Builders Digital Experience, Plum: The Plum Lightpad is the most advanced WiFi light dimmer available.
Luke Quanstrom
Founder and CEO of Ontic
Lukas Quanstrom is working as Founder and CEO at Ontic.
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About Ontic: We believe businesses around the world can be safer by serving intelligence to those who protect.
Maleka Momand
Co-Founder & CEO of Esper
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About Esper: Esper provides a platform for governments to create and manage public policy from a single dahsboard.
Balaji Sreenivasan
Founder & CEO of Aurigo Software
Balaji Sreenivasan founded Aurigo Software in 2003 and has played a key role in product definition, customer success and capital raise. As CEO, Balaji works closely with customers, industry experts and partners to identify new markets and drive innovation.
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About Aurigo Software: A cloud-based capital program and project portfolio management software for infrastructure and private owners.
Will Mitchell
CEO of Rabbet
Will Mitchell is Co-Founder at BumperCrop.
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About Rabbet: Rabbet is an intelligent construction finance platform using data to bring trust, transparency, and matchmaking to home renovation.
Phillip Bogdanovich
CEO of Cipher Skin
Entrepreneur, Startup Executive, occasional runner, Living in #ATX.
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About Cipher Skin: Cipher Skin captures vital data within and around any object and translates it into actionable insights users can trust.
Scott Francis
Founder & CEO of BP3 Global, Inc
Scott Francis is the Founder & CEO at BP3 Global.
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About BP3 Global, Inc: BP3 gives people faster ways to get things done. Digital Process Automation Experts.
Angela Hood
Founder/CEO of ThisWay
CEO & Founder of ThisWay Global
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About ThisWay: ThisWay offers an unbiased candidate matching engine to identify top qualified candidates for every job.
Michael W. DeLaGarza
Founder, President, CEO and Chairman of CipherLoc
Michael W. DeLaGarza is Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman. Michael started CipherLoc Corporation in 2006 and MedPay USA, L.L.C. in 1998. His prior experience includes working as CIO/CTO for Texas Regional Hospital Systems, a rapidly growing group of acute care hospitals in Texas Michael was instrumental in launching the companies Central Business Office (CBO) in Houston, Texas. This included migrating the four different hospital operating systems into a new in-house web based HIS system resulting in a huge cost savings and improved revenue. During Michael’s tenure the hospital systems revenue more than doubled from $125,000.000 to over $260,000.000 while I.T. cost dropped by 40 percent. After three years with Texas Regional Hospital Systems, the hospital system was sold for $220,000,000 to a national hospital chain. Michael also owned and operated a chain of outpatient diagnostic radiology imaging centers in the north Texas. The “Centers for Diagnostic Medical Services, Inc.” grew from one outpatient center in Duncanville, Texas in 1991 to over ten in 1998 with revenues exceeding $40,000,000. Michael has extensive experience running publicly traded companies; Michael was previously the CEO and President of two small caps public.
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About CipherLoc: CipherLoc is designed as an Internet of Everything (IOT) based solution and it does not reside on the end user’s computing device.
Paul Snow
CEO of Factom
Chairman of the Texas Bitcoin Conference, Inventor of the Factom protocol and a co-founder of Factom Inc., Paul has spent 30+ years writing compilers, interpreters, protocols, and rules engines. An early adopter of Bitcoin, he organized Passing Bitcoin Around the World in 2013, a stunt highlighting the speed at which value can be exchanged around the world. He continues to run meetups, speaks, and even testifies before Congress about Bitcoin and crypto technology.
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About Factom: Factom, Inc. is a blockchain innovations company providing blockchain as a service platforms.
