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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based CEO’ operating in the Big Data 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.
Sherri Douville
Chief Executive Officer of Medigram
Sherri Douville is CEO & Board Member at Medigram and is a sought-after speaker and author in mobile medical technology, other healthcare related industries, leadership, risk management, mobile security, and governance. Ms. Douville is honored to strategically build, grow, and lead multi-disciplinary, multi industry teams at Medigram and in the market to solve the leading cause of preventable death –a delay in information. Ms. Douville is co-chair of the technical trust and identity standard subgroup for the healthcare industry for clinical IoT through IEEE and UL and has been published and quoted in both mainstream and industry media such as CIO.com, the San Jose Mercury News, NBC, Becker’s Hospital Review, ThisWeekinHealthIT and HITInfrastructure.com. Other industry leadership has included serving on the board of the NorCal HIMSS and teaching continuing education credit in mobile security for CISSP, the information security certification. She is co-author for a number of technical articles and papers, a forthcoming Springer book chapter on Engineering Trust in Clinical IoT and is the lead author and editor for the #1 hottest new release in medical technology and medical informatics on Amazon, and the #1 BookAuthority ebook in the world for healthcare in 2021, Mobile Medicine: Overcoming People, Culture, and Governance (Taylor & Francis). Ms. Douville led the development of this industry guide to mobile computing in medicine and built the international, multi industry, multi disciplinary team behind it. Prior to her current work in the mobile medicine, privacy, security, health IT and AI industries, Sherri worked in the medical device space consulting in the areas of physician acceptance and economic feasibility for medical devices. Prior to that, she worked for over a decade with products addressing over a dozen disease states at Johnson & Johnson and was recognized for industry thought leadership there by McGraw-Hill and won a number of awards. Ms. Douville has a Bachelor of Combined Science degree from Santa Clara University and has completed certificates in electrical engineering, computer science, AI and ML through MIT. She advises and serves startups, boards, and organizations including as a member of the Board of Fellows for Santa Clara University and an advisor to the Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business Corporate Board Education initiatives, the Black Corporate Board Readiness Program, LatinX Corporate Board Readiness Program and an advisory board member to the Women’s Corporate Board Readiness Program.
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About Digital Directors Network, Medigram, Taylor & Francis Group: Medigram provides instant insight to save lives and make hospitals millions on iOS, Android, & the web. It is a full stack system.
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Neha Singh
Co-Founder & CEO of Tracxn
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About Tracxn: The largest data platform of Startups
Amol Deshpande
CEO & Co-Founder of Farmers Business Network
Amol is CEO and Co-Founder of the FBN network and has a passion for helping feed the world and helping farmers. Amol has spent the better part of his career in and around agriculture at start-up companies, large companies, such as Cargill, and most recently as a partner at Kleiner Perkins Cau feld & Byers. Amol has a chemical engineering degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from Cornell, where he was a Park Fellow.
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About Farmers Business Network: FBN is an AgTech and commerce platform that helps its members make confident decisions to ensure the economic viability of their farms.
Jager McConnell
Chief Executive Officer of Crunchbase
Jager is the CEO of Crunchbase. He joined the company as it became a venture-backed startup in enterprise data. Prior to joining Crunchbase, Jager spent 11 years at Salesforce in various roles across sales, marketing, and product development.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Courtney Puckett
Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer of Crunchbase
Courtney served as Office Manager at Crunchbase from September 2017 to February 2019, from which she served as Executive Assistant until August 2019, since which she has been serving as Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Tyler Bosmeny
Chief Executive Officer of Clever
With a background in startups and technology, Tyler spends his time at Clever working with innovative educational software companies. Prior to his current role, Tyler was Vice President of Sales at PaperG, ranked by Forbes as one of the top 100 most promising companies in America. Tyler holds an MA degree in Statistics and a BA degree in Applied Mathematics, both from Harvard. He is a native of Tucson, AZ, and currently resides in San Francisco.
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About Clever: Clever is a digital learning platform designed for K12 schools and used by 22 million students and teachers.
Alok Aggarwal
Chairman, CEO and Chief Data Scientist of Scry Analytics
In February 2014, Alok founded Scry Analytics, a company that codifies different kinds of workflows in various industries and uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining as well as statistical analysis to improve their efficiency with respect to timeliness, quality, money earned, customer experience, compliance and aggregated risks. He received his B. Tech. from IIT Delhi in 1980 in Electrical Engineering and his Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1984. After, he joined IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center in New York. Since then, he has published 104 research articles and has been granted eight patents from the US Patents and Trademark Office. During 1984 and 1993, he also won two innovation awards from IBM. Futhermore, during 1984 and 1996, Alok served as a program chairman for a number of conferences, including Symposium on Theory of Computing, Foundations of Computer Science, and Symposium on Computational Geometry. He also served as a Chairperson of the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing and was on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal of Computing, Algorithmica, and Journal of Symbolic Computation. Finally, during the fall of 1988 and 1989, he was on sabbatical from IBM and taught two courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and supervised two Ph.D. students.
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About Scry Analytics: Using Big Data Science and Analytics to Improve Work-flows.
Jonathan Matus
Founder & CEO of Zendrive
Jonathan Matus Prior to Redpoint, Jonathan Matus spent 6 years at Facebook and Google, where he’s been focused on various mobile and speech-recognition projects. At Google, one of the early Android team members, Jonathan managed product marketing for the platform’s software releases and device launches globally. During his tenure, the OS grew from zero to global best-selling mobile platform. In his role as Head of Product Marketing in Asia Pacific Jonathan lived in Tokyo and jumpstarted regional device launches and relationships all over Asia. Jonathan received the Google Founders Award and Android Founders Award in recognition for his contributions.
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About Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Doreen Bloch
CEO & Founder of Poshly
Doreen Bloch is the CEO & Founder of Poshly Inc., a data analytics company focused on consumer intelligence. Inc. Magazine named her one of the 30 Under 30 CEOs of 2015, and she is the winner of L’Oreal’s NEXT Generation Women in Digital Award. Doreen is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (Class of 2010), where she was awarded the Jack Larson Fellowship for Entrepreneurship & Innovation for her work founding BARE magazine, one of the nation’s first collegiate fashion publications. She was a three-time Yahoo! Inc. intern during college, and after graduation she worked at SecondMarket, where she helped on auctions for shares of pre-IPO companies, including Facebook Inc. Doreen is also the Author of “The Coolest Startups in America” published February 2012, and a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council. Her work is regularly featured by publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Inc., ForbesWoman, Feministing, Women 2.0, and more.
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About Makeup Museum, Poshly: Poshly is the consumer intelligence company that specializes in the fields of internet, data, consumer packaged goods, and technology.
Ken Tarkoff
Chief Executive Officer of Syapse
Ken Tarkoff is a health technology veteran with deep experience in facilitating physician, health system, and health plan relationships. Before joining Syapse, Ken most recently served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager at RelayHealth Intelligence, a data and analytics business owned by McKesson, and as Chief Operating Officer of RelayHealth before the company was acquired. Previously, Ken held leadership positions at Xign Corporation, Questium, and Vivra Specialty Partners. Ken holds an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and a BA from Amherst College. Ken enjoys spending time with his wife and two high-school-age kids, one of whom is currently making her college decisions. He also enjoys watching his son play water polo or going out for a few rounds of golf when he has the time.
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About Syapse: Syapse is a real-world evidence company dedicated to extinguishing the fear and burden of serious disease by advancing real-world care
Pavan Sondur
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Unbxd
The co-founder and CEO of Unbxd, Pavan Sondur is the architect of its global growth story. Pavan was previously a developer at NetApp and Gluster, where he built GlusterFS, its multi-petabyte open source file storage system. Pavan is passionate about technology, the internet and consumer behavior. Pavan’s views on the e-Commerce industry are frequently covered in the international media.
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About Unbxd: Unbxd is an e-commerce product discovery platform that connects shoppers to the products they are most likely to buy.
Parin Dalal
Co-Founder & CEO of Xockets
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About Xockets: Xockets builds hardware and software acceleration into appliances for Big Data processing.
Mark Weidick
CEO of hiQ Labs
Mark Weidick is the CEO at hiQ Labs.
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About hiQ Labs: hiQ Labs is a data science company, informed by public data sources, applied to human capital.
Ted Krantz
Chief Executive Officer of App Annie
Ted has over 25 years of senior-level experience leading high-growth sales organizations across the technology industry. Most recently he served as CRO for global marketing software provider Kenshoo, where he led global sales and customer operations for three years. Prior to Kenshoo, he held senior-level sales positions at SAP and PeopleSoft. Ted holds an M.B.A, International Business and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas.
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About App Annie: App Annie is a mobile data and analytics platformthat delivers data and insights to succeed in the app economy.
William Freiberg
CEO of Crux
Will Freiberg is CEO of Crux Informatics, a leading data engineering and operations platform. He is a technology executive and entrepreneurial leader with significant cross-functional expertise across sales, product, business development, customer success and strategic initiatives. Most recently, he was Co-CEO at D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere), a platform that simplifies and automates the difficult tasks needed for enterprise Kubernetes in production at scale. During his six-year tenure at D2iQ, he held various leadership positions and led the company through hypergrowth as the company helped define the cloud native container industry. Previously, Will was Founder and CEO of eCommerce startup Tipping Basket, and worked in the Venture Capital and Technology Practice of Gunderson Dettmer, the M&A Group at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, and started his career as an analyst at Bank of New York Mellon. He is a CEO mentor and an early-stage investor in a variety of new technology spaces, including an advisor to Iterative.ai and a Board Member at Trilio.io. Will holds a BS from the University of Pittsburgh and a JD from Columbia Law School.
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About Crux: Crux help companies scale their most critical data delivery, operations, and transformation needs.
Maury Blackman
President & CEO of Premise Data
Maury Blackman is CEO of Premise Data. Blackman is a tech executive with more than 25 years of experience leading high growth enterprise software companies. His industry experiences include government, construction, public safety, geospatial information, GPO’s, sharing economy services, and drone software. Blackman joined Premise in 2017; under his leadership the company has seen 661% revenue growth. In November 2020, Premise was named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, a list of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America. Premise is the 35th fastest-growing company in the Silicon Valley region and is 182nd on the overall list. Before joining Premise, Blackman was CEO at Accela, a civic tech company aimed at moving citizen transactions from city hall to online and mobile services. He joined the company in 2000 as the VP of Sales and Marketing and then assumed the role of CEO in 2007. To support strategic initiatives and growth, he raised more than $300M in financing from family offices, private equity, and senior debt. The capital from these raises was deployed to build out an enterprise offering, expand internationally, and execute an M&A strategy that closed 10+ acquisitions in 24 months. Prior to joining Accela, Maury worked for Investools (NASDAQ:IEDU) where he served in several executive positions from 1993 to 2000. At Investools, he first joined as an Account Executive and was later appointed Vice President, Business Development charged with selling data and content to brokerage firms and internet service providers in the nascent dot-com era. In this capacity, he built a dynamic portfolio of accounts that included Charles Schwab, Fidelity, AOL, and Netcom Online Communications. For his accomplishments at Accela, Blackman was recognized by Government Technology as one of its Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers in 2015. In 2016, Ernst and Young awarded him the prestigious Northern California’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Maury holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Houston and was a commissioned field artillery officer in the United States Army, serving on both active and reserve duty for 10 years. Maury maintains an active lifestyle and is an eleven-time Ironman finisher, including the 2008 and 2013 Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona.
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About Premise Data: Premise is a data and analytics platform powered by a global network of on-the-ground contributors, data science, and machine learning.
Spenser Skates
CEO and Founder of Amplitude
Spenser Skates is the CEO and Co-Founder of Amplitude.
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About Amplitude: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
Ryan Atallah
Co-Founder & CEO of Spindle (www.spindle.app)
As co-founder and CTO, entrepreneur and engineer Ryan Atallah sold his natural language analytics startup Cleargraph to Tableau for $30 million in 2017; after which Tableau was acquired by Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), where Ryan served as a senior Software Engineer Manager overseeing the NLP-powered Ask Data product now featured in Tableau’s offerings. He departed to co-found intelligent No-Code enterprise data applications platform Spindle (www.spindle.app) with his twice-cofounder Carson Kahn. Spindle is now backed by Accel Partners (Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian, Facebook), Caffeinated Capital (IFTTT, Notion, Airtable, Vercel), and diverse Fortune 100 executives who share in its mission to give teams data superpowers.
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About Spindle (www.spindle.app), Tableau: An intelligent Decision Analytics platform for generating apps that simulate the ROI of business decisions without statistics or code.
Noah Horton
CEO & Co-Founder of Unsupervised
Noah Horton is the CEO and Co-Founder at Unsupervised. He is recognized by Inc.com as one of the Top 30 Entrepreneurs under 30, Noah Horton was the CTO and Co-Founder of Involver. He is a seasoned software architect and executive with expertise in marketing, social networking, online video, advertising, and massively distributed systems. After completing a Double Major in Mathematics and Computer Science, he joined Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems. He has filed more than 25 patents and published articles on development techniques in widely read publications, including the Java Developer’s Journal. At Microsoft, Noah was a Developer Evangelist for the company’s Fortune 500 accounts. He was later the Program Manager for P2P protocols in Windows, and a member of the 9-person Networking Architecture Committee, which was charged with setting the technical direction of Microsoft’s entire Networking division. Before co-founding Involver, Noah was the software architect at NeoEdge Networks, an in-game advertising business. Among other things, he was responsible for designing many of the company’s ad products.
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About Unsupervised: Unsupervised is an automated analytics platform provider that finds hidden insights in complex data.
David Richards
Founder, Chairman, President & CEO of WANdisco
David is CEO, President and co-founder of WANdisco and has quickly established WANdisco as one of the world’s most promising technology companies. Since co-founding the company in Silicon Valley in 2005, David has led WANdisco on a course for rapid international expansion, opening offices in the UK, Japan and China. David spearheaded the acquisition of Altostor, which accelerated the development of WANdisco’s first products for the Big Data market. The majority of WANdisco’s core technology is now produced out of the company’s flourishing software development base in David’s hometown of Sheffield, England and in Belfast, Northern Ireland. David has become recognised as a champion of British technology and entrepreneurship. In 2012, he led WANdisco to a hugely successful listing on London Stock Exchange (WAND:LSE), raising over £24m to drive business growth. With over 15 years’ executive experience in the software industry, David sits on a number of advisory and executive boards of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. A passionate advocate of entrepreneurship, he has established many successful start-up companies in Enterprise Software and is recognised as an industry leader in Enterprise Application Integration and its standards. David is a frequent commentator on a range of business and technology issues, appearing regularly on Bloomberg and CNBC. Profiles of David have appeared in a range of leading publications including the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Drew Perkins
Co-Founder and CEO of Mojo Vision
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Steve Hilton
Co-Founder & CEO of Crowdpac
Steve Hilton is co-founder and CEO of Silicon Valley political crowdfunding and data start-up Crowdpac. He also teaches at Stanford University’s Institute of Design (d.school), and is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller More Human – Designing a World Where People Come First. Steve was previously Senior Advisor to UK Prime Minister David Cameron, where he helped lead the implementation of the British government’s domestic reform program. Prior to the 2010 General Election, as David Cameron’s head of strategy, Steve is credited with helping to develop the ideas associated with the modernization of the British Conservative Party. Before working in politics, Steve was co-founder of Good Business, a corporate responsibility consulting firm, and The Good Cook, an award-winning London restaurant. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and young family. And 12 chickens.
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About Crowdpac: Crowdpac is a non-partisan political crowdfunding startup using technology and data to help citizens engage in politics.
Guy Zyskind
Founder & CEO of Enigma
Guy is a long time tinkerer, most comfortable sitting at the intersection of entrepreneurship and research, and he is deeply passionate about decentralization. Prior to Enigma, Guy was a graduate student at MIT researching and teaching blockchain technology. Guy has authored several academic papers, most recently on privacy and the blockchain, including the Enigma whitepaper (downloaded over 100K times) and “Decentralizing Privacy: Using Blockchain to Protect Personal Data” which has received over 200 citations. Previously, Guy led the development of several start-up companies. Guy holds a M.S. from MIT and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University.
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About Enigma: Enigma shares and analyzes encrypted data.
Chris Farmer
Partner, Venture & CEO of SignalFire
Chris is the Founder & CEO of SignalFire, an early stage venture capital fund. He focuses on investments in consumer Internet, software and mobile with particular emphasis on seed stage investments and working with Entrepreneurs-In-Residence to launch new businesses. Previously, Chris was a Partner with General Catalyst Partners where he led the firm’s successful seed investment activities and served as a Venture Partner on the firm’s main fund. Previously, Chris was a Vice President with Bessemer Venture Partners where he led investments in digital media & mobile companies. Prior to BVP, he was a consultant with Bain & Co where he advised on large scale technology buyouts. Prior to Bain, Chris spearheaded the successful turnaround of Skybitz, a wireless enabled SaaS company, where he led Product Management, Finance & Business Development. Earlier in his career, Chris founded an investment advisory firm for angel investors & private equity funds and served as a Venture Advisor to an early stage venture capital fund where he led investments in SkyBitz and Applied Semantics (acquired by Google). He started his career on Wall Street in the private equity group of Cowen & Company. Chris received a BA in International Relations & Business from Tufts University & the Fletcher School of Diplomacy. He has been published in Harvard Business Review, Institutional Investor, The Journal of Private Equity and other leading publications.
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About SignalFire: SignalFire is a venture capital firm that invests in seed stage companies and breakout companies.
Isaac Silverman
CEO & Founder of Daydream
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About Daydream: Democratizing the financial model. Stealth.
Krishna Gade
Founder & CEO of Fiddler AI
Krishna is the co-founder and CEO of Fiddler Labs, an enterprise startup building an Explainable AI Engine to address problems regarding bias, fairness and transparency in AI. At Facebook, he led the team that built Facebook’s explainability feature ‘Why am I seeing this?’. He’s an entrepreneur with a technical background with experience creating scalable platforms and expertise in converting data into intelligence. Having held senior engineering leadership roles at Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and Microsoft, he’s seen the effects that bias has on AI and machine learning decision making processes, and with Fiddler, his goal is to enable enterprises across the globe solve this problem.
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About Fiddler AI, Pinterest: Fiddler is a purpose-built ML performance monitoring platform powered by Explainable AI to validate, explain, monitor, and analyze AI.
Michael Babineau
Co-Founder & CEO of Bloomberg Second Measure
Co-Founder of Second Measure.
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About Bloomberg Second Measure: Bloomberg Second Measure analyzes billions of anonymized credit card transactions to answer real-time questions on consumer behavior.
Brendan Playford
CEO of Pngme
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About Pngme: Pngme, they believe everyone deserves equal access to finance.
Tim Sweeney
Co-Founder & CEO of Inflammatix
Tim Sweeney, MD, PhD is the co-Founder & CEO of Inflammatix, Inc., which focuses on using robust informatics and machine learning to derive novel HostDx™ diagnostics based on ‘reading’ patterns in the immune system. Inflammatix’s first tests are focused on diagnosing acute bacterial and viral infections and sepsis. The company is funded by Khosla Ventures, Stanford-StartX Fund and the U.S. government’s DARPA program. Tim Sweeney completed his MD and PhD at Duke University, after which he was a surgery resident at Stanford. While training as a surgeon, he became frustrated with the limitations of current diagnostic tools for infection. During his residency, he completed a postdoctorate MS in Biomedical Informatics, mentored by Dr. Purvesh Khatri. Together they designed the custom informatics algorithms for sifting through heterogeneous ‘big data,’ which formed the core technology on which Inflammatix is based.
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About Inflammatix: Inflammatix develops novel molecular diagnostics for acute infections and sepsis that work by reading the immune system.
Deborah Kilpatrick
Chief Executive Officer of Evidation Health
Deborah Kilpatrick is the Chief Executive Officer of Evidation Health.Prior to this role, she served as the Chief Commercial Officer of genomic diagnostics company CardioDx. Earlier in her career, Deborah held multiple leadership roles at Guidant Corporation, including Research Fellow, Director of R&D, and Director of New Ventures in the Vascular Intervention Division. She serves on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. Deborah is a co-founder of the MedtechVision Conference, now held annually in Silicon Valley. She holds BS, MS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering with a bioengineering focus from Georgia Tech.
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About Evidation Health, MedTech Women: We enable and empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes.
Matt Cox
Co-Founder & CEO of Beacon AI
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About Beacon AI: Beacon AI focuses on applying deep aviation and AI on public, commerical, and private fleets.
Fangjin Yang
Co-Founder and CEO of Imply
Fangjin Yang is a co-author of the open source Druid project and a co-founder of Imply, a data analytics startup based in Silicon Valley. Previously, he held senior engineering positions at Metamarkets (acquired by Snapchat) and Cisco Systems. Fangjin holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering and a MASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Krishna Kumar
CEO & Founder of App Orchid Inc
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About App Orchid Inc: The App Orchid platform helps enterprises build AI fueled apps for the energy, utilities, Insurance and healthcare industries.
Vaibhav Nadgauda
CEO of App Orchid Inc
Vaibhav Nadgauda is a partner at Moneta Ventures. Prior to joining Moneta, Vaibhav was President of the SAP Business Unit at KPIT, managing a global portfolio of over $100 Million in revenue and a team of over 1,800 employees. He was co-founder and partner at Sparta Consulting, where he served as Executive Vice President and played a key role in growing the company to $100+ Million in five years. He was Vice President of Corporate Development and Global Delivery at Fujitsu Consulting, a Fortune Global 500 company, leading a team of over 1700 consultants globally. Vaibhav started his career 21 years ago at Siemens. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Electronics and a Master’s Degree in Computer Management, both from the University of Pune.
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About App Orchid Inc, Moneta Ventures: The App Orchid platform helps enterprises build AI fueled apps for the energy, utilities, Insurance and healthcare industries.
Josh Mackanic
Founder & CEO of CivilGrid
Energy industry leader, experienced in organizing and leading multidisciplinary teams to implement large capital infrastructure programs and change initiatives. At PG&E, developed solar power plants on the largest utility owned solar program in the nation, and successfully led the integration of safety automation technology new to natural gas utilities across the country.
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About CivilGrid: Local intelligence for global construction.
James Crawford
Chief Executive Officer of Orbital Insight
James Crawford has two decades of experience leading innovative software projects: empowering farmers with climate data at the Climate Corporation, working to get a commercial robot on the moon at Moon Express, making the world’s books searchable at Google, and managing robotics at NASA Ames Research Center. At Orbital, he’s using software expertise to create a whole new source of market data for all kinds of industries.
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About Orbital Insight: Orbital Insight builds SaaS technology to understand what happens on and to the Earth with AI and machine learning
Kevin E. O’Brien
Chief Executive Officer of Orbital Insight
Kevin leads all commercialization strategy and activities for Orbital Insight, as well as leading financial oversight, reporting and strategy. Prior to his role at Orbital Insight, Kevin was the Regional Director for the Americas, Global Banking & Brokerage, for FactSet Research Systems. Kevin joined FactSet in conjunction with the acquisition of Revere Data, LLC, where he was President and CEO. Originally trained as a software engineer, Kevin earned a BBA in Management Information Systems from James Madison University. He earned an MBA in Innovation, Strategy & Information Technology from the EDHEC Business School in Nice, France.
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About Orbital Insight: Orbital Insight builds SaaS technology to understand what happens on and to the Earth with AI and machine learning
Tarun Thakur
Co-Founder & CEO of Datos IO
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About Confidential (In stealth mode), Datos IO: Datos IO provides enterprise-class recovery solutions for scale-out databases and cloud databases.
Mark Ellis
Co-founder & CEO of Liftoff
Mark Ellis is a co-founder and CEO at Liftoff.
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About Liftoff: Liftoff is a mobile app marketing and retargeting platform which uses post-install data to run true CPA-optimized campaigns.
Raunak Bhinge
CEO, Managing Director & Founder of Infinite Uptime
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About Infinite Uptime: Infinite Uptime is an industrial IoT solution provider for improved quality and productivity in the engineering and processing industries.
Andrew Kitchell
CEO & Co-Founder of Lyric
Andrew Kitchell is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Lyric and Wheelhouse. He is a former CEO & Founder at Beyond Pricing and Founder, Product Design at 30 Words. Mr. Kitchell studied at Duke University.
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About Lyric, Wheelhouse: Lyric is a tech and data-powered real estate and lifestyle hospitality company for the modern business traveler.
Felix Orwa
Founder/CEO of SOTE
Felix Orwa is the Founder & CEO of Sote. He is a former professional pilot.
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About SOTE: Sote is building the digital logistics infrastructure and largest B2B marketplace for Africa.
Ian Coe
CEO and Co-Founder of Tonic.ai
Ian Coe is the CEO and Co-Founder at Tonic. For over a decade, Ian has worked to advance the use of data by removing barriers impeding teams from answering their most important questions. As an early member of the commercial division at Palantir Technologies, he led teams solving data problems in industries ranging from financial services to the media. At Tableau, he continued to focus on analytics, driving the vision around statistics and the calculation language. As a founder of Tonic, Ian is directing his energies toward synthetic data generation to break down traditional data silos, protect customer privacy, and drive analytic efficiency.
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About Tonic.ai: Tonic mimics your production data to create safe, useful, de-identified data for QA, testing, and development.
Sean Knapp
Founder, CEO of Ascend.io
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About Ascend.io: Unified Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering with the Data Automation Cloud
Tomas Puig
CEO / Founder of Alembic
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About Alembic, Test Kitchen Capital: SaaS, Marketing, Analytics
Mayank Bawa
CEO and co-founder of Aster Data Systems
Mayank has always believed in the importance of data, analytics and applications in helping people make better decisions. Prior to founding WorkSpan, he founded Big Data pioneer Aster Data Systems, acquired by Teradata in 2011 where he served as Co-President of Teradata Aster division. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and B.Tech from IIT Bombay.
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About Aster Data Systems, WorkSpan: Aster Data provides big data management and analysis solutions for businesses that handle data-driven applications.
Noga Leviner
Co-Founder & CEO of PicnicHealth
Noga was inspired to create Picnic after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and struggling to keep track of her own health data. She had previously co-founded Lumni USA, where she raised and deployed the first US investment fund to help underserved students access low-risk, equity-style student loan products. She has been a regular speaker and consultant on financial innovation for the underbanked and, more recently, an advocate for patient data access in the healthcare system. Noga has a BA from Stanford where she studied Human Biology and Economics. She can regularly be found spacing out while trying to meditate.
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About PicnicHealth: PicnicHealth helps patients easily access their medical records and gives them the opportunity to contribute data to medical research.
Kalpesh Kapadia
Co-Founder and CEO of Deserve
Kalpesh Kapadia is the Co-Founder and CEO at Deserve.
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About Deserve: Deserve offers fair credit products for young people and a cloud-based credit card platform for businesses.
Peter Platzer
Co-founder & CEO of Spire Global
Peter Platzer is the Chief Executive Officer of Spire Global, Inc. He cofounded the company in 2012 with a vision to provide satellite-powered data from any location on earth. Platzer is now regarded as one of the pioneers in launching small form factor satellites into space. He has been widely recognized for his visionary leadership and was named a White House Champion of Change in 2013. Platzer was also named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2015 in acknowledgement that Spire’s technology is poised to have a significant impact on business and society. Prior to launching Spire, Platzer trained at CERN and the Max Planck Institute before turning to business with the Boston Consulting Group in Germany, Singapore, and Thailand. Platzer spent nearly a decade on Wall Street as a quantitative trader before leaving finance in 2011 to focus on high frequency and high accuracy data in space. He advised on space commercialization at NASA Ames’ Space Portal while completing an MSS from the International Space University. Platzer co-created and launched CareerTeams at Harvard Business School and currently serves as a Career Coach for students and alumni. Platzer received an MS in Physics from the Technical University of Vienna and an MBA from Harvard, where he was a Baker scholar.
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About Harvard Business School, NASA Ames Research Center, Spire Global, The Boston Consulting Group, The Rohatyn Group: Spire Global is a space to cloud data analytics company utilizing satellites to provide maritime, aviation, and weather tracking.
Derek Steer
CEO of Mode Analytics
Derek Steer is the CEO of Mode, a new startup enabling data scientists to share and discover work. With Mode, analysts are more productive and connected, both publicly within the data community and privately within organizations.Before co-founding Mode in 2013, Derek was an early member of Yammer’s Analytics team. There, he built tools to identify strong leads and customers at risk of attrition within a pool of freemium users. Derek has also worked in antitrust economics and on the Monetization Analytics team at Facebook.
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About Mode Analytics: Mode Analytics is a developer of a collaborative analytics platform used to make data-informed decisions.
Joseph Huang
CEO of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Emad Hasan
Co-Founder & CEO of Retina AI
Emad is an problem solver, business consultant and an engineer.
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About Retina AI: Retina uses artificial intelligence to turn enterprise data into insights.
Michael DeCesare
CEO and President of Exabeam
Michael DeCesare is the CEO and president of Exabeam, a leading security analytics and automation company. Prior to Exabeam, he was CEO and president of ForeScout Technologies, a company that offers Global 2000 enterprises and government organizations the ability to see devices. He was previously the president at McAfee. DeCesare served as the senior vice president of worldwide field operations at EMC Software Group before which he held the same position at EMC Documentum. He also worked as the EVP of worldwide sales and alliances at Oracle. DeCesare holds a bachelor’s degree from Villanova University.
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About Exabeam, ForeScout Technologies: Exabeam helps security teams outsmart the odds by adding intelligence to their existing security tools.
Diaz Nesamoney
Founder, President & CEO of Jivox
Diaz Nesamoney founder of Jivox has had two prior successful ventures. He was previously co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly Diaz Nesamoney is an accomplished technology entrepreneur who founded three successful technology companies, all harnessing the power of data to power enterprise and consumer applications. Currently Diaz is Founder, President, and CEO of Jivox, a company that provides a technology platform for data-driven personalized advertising and marketing. He was previously Co-founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly traded company in 1999. Informatica pioneered data integration software as a category and is now the market leader with more than $1 billion in revenue and a $5 billion market capitalization. Before founding Jivox, he founded Celequest and served as its CEO until early 2007, when the company was acquired by Cognos/IBM. Celequest introduced the market’s first business intelligence and analytics appliance, a disruptive innovation that led to its acquisition. Diaz holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India and is the holder of seven technology patents. Diaz is also the author of the first book on using data and technology to personalize digital advertising.
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About Jivox: Jivox offers a cloud-based, data-driven omnichannel platform that personalizes digital advertising and marketing experiences at scale.
Gordon Campbell
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Cornami
Gordon Campbell brings a wealth of experience and expertise in founding, building and successfully launching a wide range of technology-based enterprises. He has repeatedly taken early stage concepts from start-up to high volume revenue and profits, creating over $5 billion of market value in the process. Mr. Campbell began his career as Intel’s first Corporate Marketing Manager moving into managing one of the company’s largest divisions. He left Intel to found SEEQ Technology, which became a leading manufacturer and the developer of the industry’s first Ethernet chip. Following SEEQ, Campbell founded and became Chairman and CEO of CHIPS and Technologies, the world’s first fabless semiconductor company. CHIPS and Technologies was instrumental in pioneering the PC-compatible computer marketplace that early customers such as Hewlett-Packard and Dell now dominate. As a result of his success at CHIPS and Technologies, Mr. Campbell was named Inc. Magazine’s 1989 “Entrepreneur of the Year”. In his 40-year career, Mr. Campbell has also served on the Board of Directors for 3COM, Bell Micro, and Palm, and has founded, invested in, and been involved with a number of highly successful start-ups, including CHIPS and Technologies, 3dfx Interactive, Cobalt Networks, HotRail, NetMind, PortalPlayer and Resonate. In honor of this repeated success, the FSA named Mr. Campbell as the 2007 recipient of the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award.
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About Cornami: Cornami is a high-performance computing company that develops break-through computing architecture for real-time environments.
Ari Tuchman
Co-Founder & CEO of Quantifind
Ari Tuchman is Co-founder and CEO of Quantifind. He received his doctorate in atomic physics from Yale University focusing on Bose Einstein condensation. He was awarded a Director of Intelligence fellowship and served as a DARPA technical lead for a quantum metrology effort to design ultra-precision navigation sensors. Ari’s work on precision measurement and signal processing has spanned applications ranging from low field battlefield MRI to optimizing creative messaging for Hollywood movie releases.
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About Quantifind: Advanced AI solutions for financial risk management
Andy Bane
Chief Executive Officer of Element Analytics
As CEO of Element Analytics, Andy oversees the vision and growth of Element Analytics. Previously, he held executive roles at enterprise software companies, from VC-backed startups to private equity-backed growth plays to business units of large-cap publicly traded companies. He served as EVP & Chief Strategy Officer for ABB Enterprise Software; was EVP of Product Mgmt. and CMO at Ventyx, a Vista Equity Partners company, acquired by ABB for over $1 billion; and was SVP of Product Management and Marketing at P2 Energy Solutions. Andy earned his BA at University of Colorado, Boulder. He’s passionate about helping industrial organizations reach new levels of asset performance by using big data to solve complex problems.
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About Element Analytics: SaaS provider transforming IT/OT data into contextualized, graph-based models to support diverse analytical workloads and data governance.
Angela Antony
Founder and CEO of Scoutible
Angela Antony is the Founder and CEO of Scoutible, the world’s first game-based hiring platform, which uses machine learning to track soft skills through gameplay and uncover the best candidates for a job. Angela spent nine years at Harvard, focusing her psychology, business, and law degrees on labor market issues across society. After Harvard, she worked at the White House under Obama as part of the National Economic Council, during which time she was writing a book about her Harvard research titled Invisible Handcuffs, which ultimately became the primary research underlying Scoutible. Scoutible was recently named one of Inc Magazine’s 8 Most Innovative Startups of the Year and Angela was named to Inc’s Female Founders 100 list.
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About Scoutible: Scoutible is a video game-based hiring platform.
Dan Streetman
Chief Executive Officer of TIBCO
Dan Streetman is the Chief Executive Officer at TIBCO. He is a former Executive Vice President for Global Sales and Marketing for BMC Software, Inc. Dan joined BMC in 2015 as senior vice president for Strategic Sales and Operations, which included sales to global outsourcing and system integrators and the federal government, as well as the Sales Operations, Inside Sales, Channel, and Best Practices groups. Prior to joining BMC, Dan was senior vice president of alliances and channels for Salesforce. He previously led sales, consulting, marketing and operations for several leading companies, including C3 Energy, Hanson McClain, Amdocs, and Siebel Systems. Dan honed his leadership skills during his service as an Airborne Ranger-qualified infantry officer. He served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and is the recipient of a Bronze Star Medal and the General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award. Dan serves on the advisory boards of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, the Wounded Warrior Project, VetsInTech and several technology companies. He serves as an executive sponsor for BMC’s community partnerships with veterans organizations. An avid athlete, he has completed multiple Ironman triathlons and enjoys guiding visually impaired marathon runners each year in the Boston Marathon. Dan was a distinguished graduate and regimental commander of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and he earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
John-Michael Scott
CEO of GreenData.IO
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About BloxNexus, Future Think Labs, GreenData.IO, MonstRpreneur, NoLoBlox, Sandalwood Ventures: Venture Builder bringing Corporations & Startups expertise in startup mindset & operational execution, creating the Data Driven Enterprise.
Nancy Yu
Co-Founder & CEO of AllStripes
Nancy previously led Corporate Development at 23andMe, the largest consumer genetics company. She worked on 23andMe’s next generation sequencing platform, drug discovery strategy, and business development programs. Before that, she worked on Wall Street as a biopharma investment banker. Nancy began her career doing genetics research at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s passionate about bridging the gap between patients and industry to make drug R&D cheaper, faster, and better.
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About AllStripes: AllStripes is a healthcare technology company that accelerates drug development and research for the treatment of rare diseases.
Clark Benson
CEO & Founder of Ranker
Clark Benson is a serial entrepreneur with 5 startups under his belt including an internet exit eCrush (primary site was http://www.espin.com) to Hearst in 2006. Ranker is his current startup and he also funded the seed round. Benson’s other startups have been in the music industry. 2 of them have been merged into Almighty Music Marketing (http://www.almightymusicmarketing.com) which his partner Joel Oberstein runs. He has also been an angel investor, in Jumpcut/Miravida which sold to Yahoo! in 2006.
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About Ranker: Attracting more than 30 million monthly unique visitors worldwide, Ranker is the leader in fan-powered rankings on just about everything.
Amiram Shachar
Founder & CEO of Spot.io
Amiram Shachar is CEO & Founder of Spotinst.
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About Spot.io: Spot automates cloud infrastructure to ensure performance, reduce complexity and optimize costs.
Craig Boundy
CEO Experian North America and Experian Consumer Services of Experian
Craig Boundy joined Experian in November 2011 as Managing Director of Experian UK and Ireland. Additionally, he is responsible for Sales Effectiveness and Vertical Markets globally. Prior to joining Experian, he was CEO of Logica in the UK, having joined Logica in 2008 as CEO Global Operations. Before this, Craig was at Cable & Wireless, where he was Chief Operating Officer (COO) of its business in Europe, US and Asia. Before Cable & Wireless, he was Sales Director and then COO at Energis. His early career was with BT. Craig attended Lancaster University in the UK, graduating in management studies and German.
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About Energis, Experian, Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Anand Babu Periasamy
Co-Founder, CEO of MinIO
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About Gluster, H2O.ai, MinIO, Treasure Data: MinIO offers high-performance, S3 compatible object storage for multi-cloud architectures. Software-defined, cloud-native + 100% opensource.
Amit Walia
Chief Executive Officer of Informatica
Amit Walia is the president, products & strategic ecosystems, responsible for Informatica’s product & market strategy, product management, product development, user experience, cloud operations, strategic ecosystems strategy, and partnerships with strategic ecosystems. Previously, Amit was the executive vice president and chief product officer. Since joining Informatica in 2013, Amit has led the company’s product organization, delivering products and solutions to extend our leadership in our core markets and establishing our leadership in new areas of Enterprise Cloud Data Management. This has led to Informatica firmly establishing its leadership in key growth areas such as Master Data Management, Intelligent Cloud Services (iPaaS), Big Data Management, Enterprise Data Catalog, Data Governance, and Data Security. Amit has led Informatica’s innovation in Artificial Intelligence through the launch of CLAIRE. Under his leadership, Informatica is ranked as a leader in all the 5 Magic Quadrants related to its markets. Prior to Informatica, Amit worked in leadership positions across a variety of functions at Symantec, Intuit, and McKinsey & Company. He spent the earlier part of his career working for Tata Group and Infosys Technologies in India. Amit holds a Master of Business Administration with honors in strategy and economics from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Additionally, he received his Bachelor of Science with honors degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Varanasi.
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About Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
William Lansing
CEO of FICO
William Lansing is the Chief Executive Officer and a Member of the Board of Directors (February 2006) at FICO since January 2012. A 30-year veteran of the technology industry, William Lansing most recently served as Chief Executive Officer and President at InfoSpace, a position he held from February 2009 to November 2010. Previously, William served as Chief Executive Oficer and President of ValueVision Media. William also served as a Partner of General Atlantic Partners, a global private equity investment firm. Prior to his work at General Atlantic, William served as Chief Executive Officer at NBC Internet, an integrated Internet media company. William has also held several leadership positions in organizations including Fingerhut Companies, General Electric, Prodigy and McKinsey & Company. William has served as a Member of the Board of Directors at FICO since February 2006 and he has served as a Member of the Board of Directors of other public companies, including Digital River and RightNow Technologies. William holds a B.A. degree from Wesleyan University and a J.D. from Georgetown University. William resides in California with his wife and three children. In his off time he enjoys snowboarding, running, mountain biking and traveling.
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About FICO: Fair Isaac Corporation enables businesses to automate, improve, and connect decisions to enhance business performance.
David Yang
Co-Founder, CEO of Yva.ai
David Yang, Ph.D., Co-founder Yva.ai, Founder and Chairman ABBYY, member of Band of Angels, Silicon Valley based serial entrepreneur specializes in AI, founded 12 companies. Dr. Yang is a globally recognized thought leader, speaker and advisor in the areas of AI, Artificial Neural Networks, People Analytics, employee surveys, HR metrics, HR strategy, talent measurement, workforce analytics, performance management and Organizational Change. He’s the Founder & Chairman of the Board of ABBYY – world leading developer of AI, Content Intelligence, Text Analytics with 1200 employees in 14 offices in 11 countries. More than 50 million users and thousands of enterprise customers in 200 countries rely on ABBYY’s solutions including: PwC, McDonalds, Xerox, Toyota, Yum!Restaurants, Deloitte, PepsiCo, Volkswagen, UCSF. World leading RPA vendors, including UiPath, BluePrism, Robiquity among others rely on ABBYY’s AI technologies. Currently Dr. Yang is dedicated to Yva.ai, the company that develops a real-time Ethical AI People Analytics, Continuous Engagement and Performance Management Platform which helps organizations save millions of dollars by predicting resignations of key employees, identify opinion leaders, Toxic Managers and Conflicts. Yva’s neural network was trained to predict resignations with up to 86% accuracy analyzing corporate communication (tested on historical data blind tests). Dr. Yang created Cybiko, world first hand-held wireless communication computer for teenagers; co-founded iiko, new generation AI powered restaurant and hospitality industry solution; co-founded Plazius, a customer loyalty and mobile payment platform; founded a number of creative art-based ventures, including: FAQ-Café studio, DeFAQto; co-founded Ayb Educational Foundation and Ayb School. Dr. Yang also a frequent keynote speaker and author of numerous patents and scientific publications. The World Economic Forum in Davos named him as one of the top 100 World Technology Pioneers.
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About ABBYY, Band of Angels, Findo, iiko, Platius, Yva.ai: Predictive People Analytics Platform
Jeffrey Brewer
President & CEO of Bigfoot Biomedical
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About Bigfoot Biomedical: Bigfoot Biomedical is a medical device company changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes.
Jacob Eiting
CEO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat
Jacob Eiting is the CEO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat.
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About RevenueCat: RevenueCat is a mobile subscription toolkit that makes it easy to build and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.
James Norman
CEO / Co-Founder of Pilotly
James Norman is the Founder & CEO at Pilotly .James Norman is a serial entrepreneur who at the age of 16 built his first online company, an aftermarket automotive e-commerce site called MJH Sound.com. While previously he may have been known as a visionary in automotive product planning, over the past 9 years in the media and entertainment industry he has become a thought leader in over-the-top media and consumer video consumption behaviors. In 2008, James founded Ubi Video, one of the first aggregators of all things streaming video. After a MVPD offered to acquire Ubi’s technology, he moved on to develop GroupFlix, an a-la-carte streaming service. By cleverly bundling EST content, allowing users to select the shows they love in a low monthly subscription, GroupFlix was the first viable a-la-carte TV model. His latest venture, Pilotly, is a consumer insights platform that enables content creators to get feedback from audiences at scale. Today, the platform provides insights to the NBCUniversal family, Ovation TV, OtterMedia and others. James earned his BSE in Electrical Engineering from University of Michigan and is a proud member of the 500 Startups family. He was given the OTT Genius Award by the OTT Executive Summit in 2014. He has also been recognized for excellence in special automotive projects by Mazda Design North America and Sony Gran Turismo
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About Black Operator Ventures, Pilotly, Transparent Collective: Enabling content creators to get feedback from audiences at scale
Kunal Agarwal
CEO & Co-Founder of Unravel Data
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About Unravel Data: Unravel is radically simplifying the management and of big data applications and systems.
Simon Yencken
Founder & CEO of Fanplayr
Simon Yencken is the CEO & Founder at Fanplayr Inc.
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About Blackbird Ventures, Dokio, Fanplayr, Moda Operandi: Convert browsers into buyers with real-time offers & messaging responding dynamically to shopping behavior
Gregor Freund
Co-founder and CEO of Versal
Gregor is CEO and co-founder of Versal (launched in June ’13), an open publishing platform for anyone to create amazingly interactive online courses. Gregor has been a technologist and entrepreneur for over 20 years. As founder and CEO of Zone Labs (acquired by Check Point Software in 2004), Gregor invented the personal firewall and created a holistic internet security solutions (ZoneAlarm) installed by hundreds of millions people worldwide. Previously, Gregor joined former Borland CEO Philippe Kahn as a founding engineer at Starfish Software (acquired by Motorola). Starfish developed much of the core IP for device synchronization in the wireless industry. Earlier in his career, Gregor founded Borland’s first independent development and distribution companies in Italy and Germany. After being acquired by Borland, Gregor moved from Munich to Silicon Valley to join the company as a principal software architect. He holds 15 patents covering mobile, security and general Internet technologies.
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About Versal: Versal is a new way for anyone to create interactive online courses and share them with the world – no coding required.
Kerry Wang
Co-Founder & CEO of Searchlight
Kerry Wang is the Co-Founder and CEO of Searchlight. She was a Course Assistant for From Play to Innovation at Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford ( d.school ). Kerry received a Hastorf Award for Outstanding Service in Human Biology and The Leader Award. Ms. Wang holds a master’s degree in computer science and a bachelor’s degree with distinction in Human Biology – Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Human Behavior at Stanford University.
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About Searchlight: Searchlight is a people-centered Talent Intelligence Platform that helps companies build and retain winning teams.
Chad Rigetti
Founder & CEO of Rigetti Computing
Chad Rigetti is the founder and CEO of Rigetti Computing, a full-stack quantum computing startup based in Berkeley and Fremont, Calif. The company’s product, Forest, is the world’s first full-stack programming and execution environment for hybrid classical-quantum computing. Founded in 2013, Rigetti has raised over $70 million from investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Vy Capital, and has over 50 patent applications on file. Chad holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Yale University and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Regina.
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About Rigetti Computing: Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company that designs and manufactures integrated circuits.
DeVaris Brown
Co-founder, CEO of Meroxa
DeVaris Brown is the CEO and co-founder of Meroxa. Prior to founding Meroxa, DeVaris was a product leader at Twitter, Heroku, VSCO, and Zendesk.
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About Meroxa: Meroxa is a real-time data platform as a service that enables customers at any level of expertise to build pipelines in minutes.
Christopher Nguyen
President & CEO of Arimo
Christopher Cuong T. Nguyen joinedFulbright University Vietnam as Board Member in 2018. Christopher Nguyen is co-founder & CEO of Adatao, a Big Data/Machine Learning enterprise startup. Christopher is a former engineering director of Google Apps, a recipient of the Google Founders’ Award, a Stanford PhD who co-founded two enterprise startups with successful exits, and was a professor and co-founder of the Computer Engineering program at HKUST. He graduated from U.C. Berkeley summa cum laude. Christopher has extensive experience building technology companies that solve enterprise business challenges.
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About AITOMATIC, Arimo, Mobivi: Arimo specializes in the fields of big data, machine learning, business analytics, visualizations, and data intelligence.
Nadir Ali
CEO of Inpixon
Nadir Ali leads Inpixon with a collective two decades in enterprise software, business analytics, and information technology. Mr. Ali first served as Vice President of Strategic Programs at Sysorex from 1995 to 1998, wherein he ushered their transition to Vanstar and managed over $1 billion in multi-year contracts. This marked his trajectory into mergers and acquisitions totaling $150 million. He then shifted gears to Isadra Inc., an e-commerce software start-up, as VP of Finance and Marketing. Before stepping into Sysorex Consulting Inc. as President, he spent three years as Managing Director of Tira Capital. For over 15 years, his executive-level roles at Inpixon (formerly Sysorex) tapped into the $12 billion industry of indoor positioning and data analytics, growing to $23 billion by 2021. A University of California Berkeley 1989 alum, Mr. Ali earned a BA in Economics.
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About Inpixon: Inpixon, an indoor data company, specializes in capturing, interpreting and giving context to indoor data to deliver actionable intelligence
Wared Seger
CEO & Co-Founder of Parrot Analytics
Operating at the intersection of science, technology and entrepreneurship. Author of the world’s first quantitative thesis on founder succession in technology firms. 2017 Variety 30 Under 30 Hollywood Leaders. 2018 Broadcasting & Cable 40 Under 40 Media Execs / 2018 NYC TV Week Awards. Bringing to life The Wisdom of Crowds.
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About Parrot Analytics: Parrot Analytics is a data science company that measures and predicts global demand for content, across all platforms, around the world.
David Perry
CEO & Co-Founder of CARRO
Currenty the CEO & Co-Founder of www.GetCarro.com. Previously Perry was the the CEO and co-founder of Gaikai, the pioneer of game streaming holding the fundamental patents in the space. Gaikai was the first and only acquisition in this sector being acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment for $380M. Gaikai’s game streaming technology is now fundamental in the Sony PlayStation. In 2008 Perry became the Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Acclaim.com, one of the first advocates introducing free-to-play gaming to the western markets, Acclaim was subsequently acquired by Playdom & Disney. Prior to that, Perry founded Shiny Entertainment (a video game development company acquired by Interplay, then again by Atari) known for making hits like Earthworm Jim, MDK & the Matrix games. After 37 years in the business Perry remains one of the best known Video Game Industry veterans, with multiple #1 hits and he was awarded the Development Legend award in 2012. Perry was awarded a Doctorate in Engineering from Queens University, Belfast and a Masters in Game Development from Westwood College. He was one of the longest serving members of the Game Developer’s Conference Advisory Board, and has spoken at TED, E3, Hollywood and Games, Stanford, MIT, USC, UCI, UCLA, DICE, GTC, GDC, AMD, MGS, Digital Hollywood, What Teens Want, 3D Gaming Summit, EurekaFest, The Cove, Casual Connect etc. TAGS: Influencer Marketing, Advertising, Video Games, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Shopify, Tools, Technology, Financing, Funding, Content, Creator, Creators, Celebrities, Press, Media, Influencer & Influencers.
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About Carro, CARRO: The eCommerce Network where modern brands sell more, by working together.
Chajianl Shivakumar
CEO and Co-Founder of Urban Engines
Shiva is the CEO and Co-Founder of Urban Engines. Prior to Urban Engines, from 2001 through 2010, Shiva was a Vice President and Distinguished Entrepreneur at Google, helping to build AdSense, Search Appliances, Cloud Apps, and research and development centers across the world. With a deep interest in open data, Shiva created Sitemaps.org to surface Web data with an industry-first collaboration between Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. Shiva has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he was awarded the Arthur Samuel Best Thesis Award.
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About Urban Engines: Urban Engines combines big data and spatial analytics to improve urban mobility.
Fang Cheng
CEO of Linc Global
Fang Cheng is co-founder and CEO of Proximiant, Inc. Previously, she co-founded Touchco, and served as COO. Fang also had mutli-year experience working as hedge fund manager and had a Ph.D. in bioinformatics from New York University.
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About Linc Global, Touchco: Linc Global’s Customer Care Automation platform helps brands differentiate with real-time automated services and customer experiences.
Toby Scammell
Founder & CEO of Womply
Toby Scammell is the founder and CEO of Womply, a technology company that helps small businesses attract, engage, and retain more customers. Mr. Scammell founded Womply in 2011 after seeing first-hand how underserved America’s small businesses were by technology. Today, he leads the strategic vision for many of the company’s core functions and works closely with all members of Womply’s executive team, with a particular focus on the intersection of product development and go-to-market activities. Under Mr. Scammell’s leadership, Womply has acquired more than 100,000 paying small business customers, become the leading software partner to America’s credit card processing industry, raised $50 million in growth funding, and expanded to hundreds of employees across offices in San Francisco; Portland, Oregon; and Lehi, Utah. Mr. Scammell is a serial entrepreneur with a strong business background. Prior to founding Womply, he co-founded Feastery, where he spent over a year solving customer acquisition and loyalty problems for restaurants in San Francisco. Before that, he was a successful associate consultant at Bain & Company, one of the world’s top management consulting firms. During high school and college, Toby started and ran a variety of small online businesses including a Costco-delivery service and company that sold advertising to local restaurants, bars, and lounges. Mr. Scammell graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in international relations, with an emphasis in global business.He is an active angel investor and advisor to a variety of startups.
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About Womply: A local commerce platform that provides apps, APIs, marketing, and financial tools for over 500,000 American businesses.
Ashfaq Munshi
CEO of Pepperdata
Before joining Pepperdata, Ash was executive chairman for Marianas Labs, a deep learning startup sold in December 2015. Prior to that, he was CEO for Graphite Systems, a big data storage startup that was sold to EMC DSSD in August 2015. Ash also served as CTO of Yahoo, as a CEO of both public and private companies, and is on the board of several technology startups. Ash attended Harvard University, Brown University, and Stanford University.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Pepperdata, Terabitz: Pepperdata products provide observability and continuous tuning for the big data analytics stack.
Jack Moses
Co-Founder & CEO of LevelChanger
Jack Moses is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor. He is the Co-Founder and VP Marketing of Grand Junction Networks (the pioneer of “Fast Ethernet”), which was acquired by Cisco in 1995 for $348 million. Prior to leading Grand Junction Network’s marketing efforts, Jack worked as a Marketing Executive at 3Com where he oversaw product and marketing for the company’s core computer networking and ethernet technologies. Jack attended Yale University for his undergraduate studies, where he received his B.S. in Economics, and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (GSB), where he received his MBA in Marketing.
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About LevelChanger: Real-time scoring, stats, and analytics for wrestling teams.
Arman Eshraghi
Chief Executive Officer of Qrvey
Arman Eshraghi is a serial entrepreneur presently serving as Founder and CEO at Qrvey. Arman’s professional career includes founding four B2B software companies while also serving as an advisor to startups and entrepreneurs. He is a member of Mindshare and the Forbes Technology Council and also a board member of INCspire. When he’s not working on his own startup or advising other startups, he can be found sharing his thoughts on leadership, entrepreneurship and technology on Linkedin, Medium and Forbes.com. Arman currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his family of three. For fun, Arman maintains an unusually large board game collection and sometimes designs his own strategy games, drawing inspiration from everything, especially from the nature around us.
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About Qrvey: Qrvey simplifies business analytics on AWS and moves analytics beyond just visualizations to include your entire data pipeline.
John Dillon
CEO of Aerospike
John has more than 30 years of experience building high-growth technology companies, and a passion for empowering developers creating next-gen applications in the cloud. His engineering background, deeply ingrained sales DNA, customer-first approach make him a remarkable leader. “I’m a serial entrepreneur and engineer at heart, and I carry that perspective with me in my role as CEO. I’m fascinated with analyzing business models, solidifying the areas that work and tackling the challenges that slow growth so companies can maximize their full potential.” John previously held CEO roles at Engine Yard, Hyperion Solutions, Navis and Salesforce.com. Earlier in his career he was an engineer at Electronic Data Systems and held sales management roles at Oracle as the relational database management company grew from $100M to $1B. John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and an MBA from Golden Gate University. He served on active duty in the United States Navy as an officer in the nuclear submarine service for five years and retired as a commander.
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About Aerospike: Aerospike is an information technology company that specializes in real-time NoSQL data solutions for any scale.
James Donelan
Founder, CEO of Trace Data
James brings more than 20+ years of technology and software engineering leadership experience across enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, big data, machine learning, web and mobile. He’s lead technology and engineering at a number of successful hyper growth technology companies, ranging from early stage startups to IPO companies such as MuleSoft, Amplitude, Lithium, Epiphany, Charles Schwab and Compaq. An engineer by heart he loves building stellar product engineering teams and creating innovative and disruptive products.
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About Trace Data: Data observability for a connected world. Trace Data helps companies understand, monitor and secure their data.
Adrian Ionel
CEO, Co-founder & Chairman of Mirantis
Adrian Ionel is the CEO of Mirantis, and its co-founder as an OpenStack company. He joined in 2009 and initiated the company’s investment in OpenStack in 2010. Since then the company grew from five to over one hundred customers, becoming the OpenStack market leader and one of the most respected brands in cloud infrastructure. Adrian leads Mirantis’ vision and strategy, and the company’s overall development rooted in a culture of customer intimacy, engineering excellence and risk taking as its foundation for long-term prosperity.Prior to Mirantis Adrian was CEO, Chairman and co-founder of eOnline, (now part of Xerox), VP and General Manager EMEA at Qualys (NASDAQ: QLYS) and Venture Partner at Trident Capital. He earned a MSEE degree from the University of Erlagen-Nuernberg and spent his early years in R&D and product management. A Romanian by birth Adrian lived in the UK, Germany and Japan and settled in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1995. Outside work he loves trail runs, power yoga, spending time with family and the occasional mountain biking ride.
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About Mirantis: Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds. We provide a public cloud experience on any infrastructure.
Mikael Berner
CEO of Edison
Mikael Berner is a serial entrepreneur and leader driving innovation in the technology industry. He holds nine patents in wireless technologies. He has previously held leadership roles at Nuance Communications, BeVocal, and Siemens.
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About EdCaliber, Edison, Flatter World: Edison Software is a consumer technology company creating artificial intelligence to transform the way people communicate.
Rob Emrich
Founder & CEO of The Mobile Majority
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About Alliance for Audited Media, The Emrich Foundation, The Mobile Majority, YPO: We help brands realize the full potential of mobile.
Nikhil Jain
Co-Founder & CEO of ObEN
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About ObEN: ObEN is an AI company that is building a decentralized AI platform for intelligent avatars.
Andrew A. Radin
CEO & Co-Founder of Aria Pharmaceuticals
Andrew A. Radin is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of twoXAR, a company dedicated to transforming how large biological datasets are harnessed to accelerate the identification and validation of new medicines. Andrew developed the company’s proprietary algorithm and leads product development. Prior to co-founding twoXAR, Andrew held Chief Technology Officer roles at several early stage companies where he managed teams as large as a hundred technologists distributed around the world. Andrew studied biomedical informatics in Stanford University’s SCPD graduate program and holds Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in computer science from Rochester Institute of Technology.
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About Aria Pharmaceuticals: Aria Pharmaceuticals is a artificial intelligence-driven biopharmaceutical company.
Adam Wilson
CEO of Trifacta
Adam Wilson is CEO of Trifacta and has over twenty years of experience in leadership roles focused on data integration and analytics. Under his leadership, Trifacta has become the global leader in data wrangling, serving thousands of companies worldwide. Prior to Trifacta, Adam was GM of Informatica’s ILM division where he grew revenues more than 400% in five years. Prior to that, Adam served as SVP of Product Management & Marketing for Informatica’s flagship data integration products, helping the company expand beyond ETL and grow product revenues to more than $800M.
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About Trifacta: Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate pipelines.
Anil Kaul
CEO of AbsolutData
Anil Kaul is a prominent figure in the field of Analytics and Market Research. He has a PhD in quantitative marketing from Cornell University. Before starting Absolutdata, Anil worked at Personify and McKinsey & Company. He has published articles in leading management and academic journals such as McKinsey Quarterly, Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research and International Journal of Research in Marketing. He has also been invited as a speaker at McKinsey & Co., Dartmouth, Cornell, UC Berkeley, Yale, Columbia and New York University. Anil is also an avid hiker, having recently climbed a 20,000 foot peak in Ladakh, India.
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About AbsolutData, Infogain Corporation: AbsoluteData offers analytics-based solutions.
Alexandre Hadade
CEO & Co-Founder of Birdie
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About Birdie, Endeavor: Birdie helps companies drive business growth with real-time AI powered insights from millions of consumer data points.
Brian Bell
CEO of Split Software
Brian Bell is the CEO of Split Software.
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About Split Software: Split Software is a feature delivery platform that powers engineering teams to build impactful products.
Sijie Guo
Founder and CEO of StreamNative
Sijie Guo is the founder of StreamNative. StreamNative is an infrastructure startup focusing on building cloud native event streaming systems on Apache Pulsar. Previously, he was the tech lead for the Messaging Group at Twitter, where he co-created Apache DistributedLog, and worked on push notification infrastructure at Yahoo. He is also the VP of Apache BookKeeper and PMC Member of Apache Pulsar.
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About StreamNative: StreamNative offers an streaming platform based on Apache Pulsar that enables companies to access enterprise data as real-time streams.
Kristy Gannon
CEO of Fluxx
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About Fluxx: Fluxx is a cloud platform that provides innovative grants management software solutions for funders and doers.
